Episodes
IT’S HERE!! BROOKE BLURTON’S SEASON OF THE BACHELORETTE IS HERE!! Our host Rose (Callaghan)’s guest is her friend and fellow comedian, Rose Bishop. On this ep of Friendship Rose, Rose is joined by her friend Rose to discuss who will and won’t receive Brooke’s rose (noticing a theme??). We talk about the new male and female contenders, this game changing bisexual season and Rose C also discusses her close personal friendship with Brooke. 🌹🌹🌹FRIENDSHIP ROSE SOCIAL...
Published 10/21/21
just thought i'd do a little update about how i'm not going to be recapping jimmy's season which basically ended up being a podcast and a little review of jimmy and some thoughts about things at the moment.... Actually quite enjoyed it lol. but yeah my life is too hectic rn to commit to a Bachelor who at this point just seems FINE, ya know?? Although I said that about Matt Agnew and now I miss him. At the end of the day I have to set boundaries for myself and I'm saving my energy for Brooke...
Published 07/24/21
ZOMGZ after enduring Bachelor in Paradise, The Bintang Bachelor Locky and a whole season of Australia’s Hottest Tradie we have finally made it to the end of the road for the Bachelor Franchise Australia Seasons 2020 - The Bachelorette Finale!! To dissect these last 2 episodes, our predictions, what went wrong and the piping hot tea that is the Aussie reality news cycle/instagram goss the day after the finale we have comedian Katherine Allan! The cement has barely dried on the foundations...
Published 11/06/20
*Cue Elton John 'I'm Still Standing'*🎶🎵It's week 4, Melbourne lockdown has ended, the sun is out and apparently we're part of the very small and exclusive club still watching this show!! Also, somehow it's Hometowns already?!? 2020, hey!! On this ep I'm lucky enough to have another returning guest - Hollywood superstar Liv Hewson! You may have seen them in Netflix's Santa Clarita Diet, Let it Snow and Before I Fall; American Korean comedy drama Dramaworld or the movie Bombshell, where they...
Published 10/30/20
Welcome to Week 3 where I’m joined by comedian, improv kween, Bach fanatic and current Newcastle resident Beth McMullen. In this ep we’re recapping ep 5 (halloween cheating party) and ep 6 (tough mudder wedding obstacle course). Due to covid reasons Beth is currently residing in the hot-bed of Bachelorette drama, Newcastle. Yes, the big smoke where Becky and Elly moved after leaving their home-town of Parkes and the location of the much spoken about Elly-and-Joey-romance. We discuss the...
Published 10/23/20
Joining me on this episode is my first ever returning guest, comedian Rose Bishop!! Welcome to week 2 of this show that i can only assume is going to go for 1 more week, considering how many men have been kicked off or have left. In this edition we discuss episodes 3 and 4 of The Bachelorette Australia, including a detailed analysis of several cast-members instagram accounts, the talent show, awkward dancing, water skiing, Elly and Becky’s undercover cousins, Rose does a 180 on Harry and...
Published 10/15/20
In this jam-packed season THE BACHELORETTE opener ep I’m joined by Hannah Story from Popsugar who writes FULL TIME about The Bachelorette and Junior Masterchef!!! Hello dream job?!?! At the time of recording she had already written 12 (TWELVE) stories just about this season of The Bachelorette and we’re only 1 week in!! She’s quite the reality TV expert, having done plenty of interviews with reality stars & writing articles for Punkee, The Music, Pedestrian and Junkee. Hannah is truly...
Published 10/14/20
Hey fam, just letting you know i absoutely am covering the new Bachelorette Australia season (DUh!) but i have had a hectic week with a death in the family, moving interstate, pending funeral and continuing to be pregnant so i'm gonna chill for a few days before i put that one out. thanks for understanding xo the great news is nothing can stop me from tweeting lol https://twitter.com/operation_rosie/
Published 10/08/20
Can you believe it WE HAVE MADE IT TO THE END!!! To celebrate the Bachelor Australia 2020 Finale is long-suffering Bachelor recapper Rebecca Shaw a.k.a Brocklesnitch on twitter.🌹 Bec writes the Bachelor recaps for Junkee, funnily named “All the Heterosexual Nonsense I Was Forced to Endure During Tonight’s Episode of the Bachelor” (Bec is a noted lesbian). Bec has lots of twitter followers because she is very funny and also created the twitter page @notofeminism which got made into a book!!...
Published 09/24/20
Omgz it’s HOMETOWNS!! To celebrate, I had my favourite socialist property reporter Jim Malo on the podcast. Jim writes very interesting articles about renting and interesting takes on property for Domain and of course it turns out that despite constantly tweeting about politics, socialism and property, is yet another closet Bachelor stan.🌹 In this ep, Bella, Irena, Izzy and for some reason also Bec (why r u still here gurl) are given the opportunity to introduce The Bintang Bachelor to their...
Published 09/23/20
Huge get this week on the podcast as Rose is joined by TV's own Charlie Pickering! Charlie - who is known for hosting ABC TV's The Weekly and Channel 10's The Project - has bravely risked his reputation as a political satirist and grown up ABC guy to talk about this true passion - The Bachelor TV Franchise. Charlie discusses why he is so into this show, which he has been watching since the US Bachelor first premiered in 2002, plus his deep love for Osher Gunsberg, who he believes is the the...
Published 09/18/20
In this jam-packed episode where stuff ACTUALLY happens, Rose is joined by none other than the father to her as yet-unborn child and man who is referred to as her “fiancé”, Nicholas Radford.🌹 Nick didn’t watch this show at all before he met Rose, but now he is blessed to be forced to watch 2 episodes of it every single week and is now one of a growing group of heterosexual men in long term relationships who are addicted to this franchise… Yet he keeps saying no to Rose’s firm suggestions...
Published 09/16/20
BIG FAT BONUS EPISODE for you today with none other than Niranga Amarasinghe!! The social media fave rose to prominence, strangely by being cut out, of not just one but TWO bachy seasons!! Last year he featured in Angie Kent’s season of The Bachelorette, receiving little screen-time before leaving the mansion, disappointing the many viewers that were stoked to see a non-white contestant. BUT - we were all excited and relieved when it was announced that this Sri Lankan Aussie Adonis would be...
Published 09/16/20
It’s ep 10 Rose is joined by comedian and former behind the scenes reality TV employee Nat Harris!! Nat talks about her time working in TV, including a stint as a driver on iconic Aussie reality program “The Mole”!!!! After a seemingly short stint episode-wise but possibly 2 months long IRL-wise, the girls are finally back in the mansion! We chat about Locky’s distinctly different reactions to being reunited with the Bachelorettes, Bella vs Irena (we MUST know if Irena messaged locky...
Published 09/10/20
In this edition Rose recaps ep 9 with professional Bachelor journalist Alicia Vrajlal of the Huffington Post! Alicia has been working as an entertainment journo for several years, covering loads of reality TV shows and digging up the dirt. Rose discovered Alicia a while back via the great reporting she has done on HuffPo about the issues with non-diverse casting we’ve seen on the Bachelor franchise and with Australian reality TV in general. 🌹🌹🌹 It’s all happening tonight as we sadly bid...
Published 09/09/20
This ep features superstar Hollywood actor and new Bachelor stan Liv Hewson! You may have seen them on Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet, Dramaworld and the Netflix xmas movie/queer romcom Let It Snow, or even at a comedy night when they are back home in Australia! We have finally made it to the zoom episodes and we discuss how baffled we are with how exactly they filmed this. Are these their real houses?? Are their camera people there? Are there producers? Do the producers and camera people have...
Published 09/03/20
Joining me on tonight’s episode to discuss the dreaded Coronavirus descending on the Bachelor mansion I have fellow comedians and newly minted Bachelor enthusiasts Katherine Allan and Rose Bishop. They also live together which is cute.  🌹🌹🌹 Tonight’s episode was shockingly very good and had lots of high stakes drama, including Osher’s announcement that the coronavirus is a thing that has been f**king up the world while they’ve been in the mansion, a psychic that told the girls things, a...
Published 09/02/20
In this ep Rose is recapping both eps 5 & 6 of Bach with the queen of Aussie recaps Jo Thornely! Jo is a writer and broadcaster who made a name for herself back in the noughties with her hilarious Australia's Next Top Model recaps that Rose and many others used to read religiously & now has a podcast and wrote a book called 'Zealot' which is about cults!! 🌹🌹🌹 Rose & Jo discuss the many huge incidents of these two eps such as yet another cocktail party where everyone loses their...
Published 08/28/20
Sorry guys, i was stood up by a contestant from the Bachelorette/Bachelor in Paradise last night *gasp* quelle horreur!! So that means I couldn't upload a podcast but don't you worry because tonight's guest is recap queen Jo Thornely and we'll be going over both episodes, llamas and all. I will also reveal ALL on who the contestant was and who the other contestant was who was going to jump in on the ep but got too drunk, lol
Published 08/27/20
On this episode I’m joined by my mate Bri Williams who is a fellow comedienne, improviser & PERTHONALITY!! She is also known for her work as a professional Bachelor/ette reacter thanks to her work on Channel 10’s The Bachelor Unpacked.🌹🌹🌹 Bri assisted me with unpacking this comparably jam-packed episode, which thankfully involved more than just a rose ceremony and cocktail party. This ep had multiple dates!! and a wet t-shirt/mud wrestling group date SORRY i mean professional grid iron...
Published 08/20/20
On this episode I wanted to get someone who is an expert on Survivor so who better than someone who was a CONTESTANT on Survivor and knows our bachelor Locky, Matt Tarrant! Matt is a professional Magician and Mentalist who went on Survivor in 2016 after being a huge fan of the show. As well as recapping the show with me he talks about auditioning, what goes on behind the scenes, what he reckons Locky is looking for (ROOTS💦💦) and why he a producers DREAM! He also gives us an insight into how...
Published 08/19/20
Rose recaps the second ep of The Bachelor Australia 2020 with former reality star Michael Beveridge! Michael was a cast-member on Big Brother in 2012 and has soooo much piping hot goss on what Bachelors and contestants get paid to go on the regular show as well as Bachelor in Paradise, finding a career after reality fame, running an influencer management company and looking after the influencer career of none other than wifey favourite and professional hot person Bella Varelis! Sorry about...
Published 08/13/20
Episode 1 of 'Friendship Rose' Bachelor recap podcast hosted by stand-up comedian and Bachelor Nation stan, Rose Callaghan! In this ep Rose is joined by writer, actor, improviser, podcaster and holder of a Bachelor of Arts (Hon) in TV theory, Kirsten Law! She was also the co-host of Rose and Kirsten's cult hit (citation needed???) podcast, Swipe Night. They also used to live together and harbour a deep resentment of season 2 Bachelor Blake Garvey. In this episode we meet all the gals for the...
Published 08/12/20