She’s never been afraid to speak her mind. And now, former The Bachelor Australia villain Leah Costa is lifting the lid on the lads in paradise.
According to the 25-year-old, finding love was the furthest thing from the guys’ minds while they were on the Fijian island.
“A lot of them were just there to stay in paradise and have fun,” Leah tells TV WEEK.
“It was frustrating, because I was genuinely there to find love.”
Leah desperately wanted to find love on the show.
As a result, the leggy blonde says she struggled to connect with any of the men romantically.
“The boys were very transparent with their roses,” Leah, who enjoyed dates with Davey Lloyd, Mack Reid and Grant Kemp, explains.
“They’d suck up to you, because they wanted to stay, whereas the girls used the roses for real.”
Speaking of the girls, Leah has something to say about one blonde in particular. Early on in the show’s run, Leah called out co-star Ali Oetjen for taking a different approach to paradise than the guys.
“Ali just wanted to find a husband,” Leah declares. “She had no interest in getting to know the girls or being friendly.”
“She just killed the group dynamic.”
She adds that people aren’t always how they seem on reality TV.
“How great it is that everyone’s getting to see a lot more of people’s true colours in paradise and now maybe people will understand why their [sic] were sides of people I clashed with on the bachelor and just how easy it is to only show one side of a person on television and that determines them either a GOOD or a BAD person in the public eye” she writes in an Instagram post.
“Newsflash just like real life your villains aren’t necessarily villains and your previously perceived nice girls aren’t always nice.”
With a few failed dates under her belt, feuds with her female co-stars and no constant love interest to speak of, will a fed-up Leah be the next to walk?
