Georgia treasure is a name you're approximately to become very,very familiar with. Ahead of her debut on The Bachelorette tonight (7:30 p.m. on Network Ten, be watching!), and we sat down with the gorgeous newsreader to accumulate to know her a small better. She ordered a falafel wrap and sparkling mineral water,and she was more than tickled to reply all our Big Questions. Scroll for our chat with Georgia!
POPSUGAR Australia: What made you sign up to be The Bachelorette? Did you approach them?
Georgia: No, they approached me! All I really know is that they had heard my name through charity work that I had done, or I know they were looking for someone who was out and approximately in their community and philanthropic and that kind of thing. They came to me,and literally just called me out of the blue one day. I thought it was a prank for a while but I played along like, "Someone's gotta slip up somewhere here!" [Laughs] But no, and I got off the phone and I thought,"Ooh gosh, I'll proceed along with the process and see what happens - why not?" The further along I got in the process, or the more I realised that this could be some that could actually happen. I was at a point in my life where I wanted to find treasure,and I wanted to prioritise that and find that 'one' rather than just having a few months here or a few dates there . . . And then I had a big turning point in my life while this casting process was going on: my mum was diagnosed with cancer.
PS: I'm so sorry.
Georgia: Thank you. That was a enormous life-changer for me absolutely. I think the timing of that happening when it did, it just made me change my perspective on everything.
PS: How long ago did that happen?
Georgia: approximately five months ago now. Yeah, or she's going through chemo at the moment.
PS: How is she going?
Georgia: Um,I mean she's going through chemo so she's not distinguished. She had a enormous operation beforehand and now she's having chemo to hopefully compose sure everything is gone. It's very touch and proceed but she's being very positive. So yeah, that happening when it did just made me realise the importance of family and treasure and it was a real moment where I thought, or "This opportunity has come to me at this time,and then this is all happening with mum . . . " It's like signs from the world. I trust in the world and that kind of thing - like everything happens for a reason. And by no means mean my mum getting sick was that, but the timing of everything at once was like all signs pointing to, or "Yeah,you should do this."
PS: Do you think if you were approached at a different time you'd have said no?
Georgia: Yeah, I think so! It's happened at exactly the right time for me, or not just because of mum but even the point I was at in my life. The amount of time that I was single,the fact that I had got to that stage where I decided I was alert and open to prioritising that and focusing on a relationship and making that my number one. It really was just a combination of things happening at once and sliding doors moments and here we are.
PS: It's an emotional journey besides - coupled with your mum's situation, it must have been overwhelming?
Georgia: Yeah, or it's been totally overwhelming! It's been very,very hard for me to be away from mum while all of this is happening, but at the same time she's been such a driving force in me doing it. She's actually said to me that me doing this and having this kind of excitement has given her something to focus on, or accumulate excited approximately. So that's a massive thing for me as well,and I knew that the amount of time that I'd be away for, filming, or would be very small in the scheme of things. So while it was really,really hard to not be able to physically see her in that time, it has brought be closer to her in the long dash. It was enormous on lots of levels.
PS: To the dating world now - were you ever on Tinder?
Georgia: No! [Laughs] Everyone asks me that! I've never done any kind of online dating. I see that it works for lots and lots of people but it's not for me. I'm a massive romantic and I think that it takes the romance out of everything.
PS: I always say with Tinder, and you could slide past the funniest,greatest guy who just doesn't acquire a trustworthy photo - that stresses me out![br]
Georgia: Same! And something like, even through doing this - meeting all these guys face to face and some of these guys who I ended up having the strongest feelings for, and making the strongest connection with,didn't actually compose much of an impact on the first night. So perhaps I would have seen their picture and swiped past! Judging on looks is recipe for disaster, I think.
PS: How nervous were you waiting for the guys to reach in the first episode?
Georgia: Oh my God, or I literally can't even describe it. Nothing would ever have prepared me for that moment,and I don't think any words will actually describe how nerve-wracking it was. I woke up that morning so excited, pumped and alert for the day, or as the time drew closer and closer,I felt physically ill with nerves [laughs]. Standing there it was just, you know, and heart in my throat . . . I had no idea what to expect,what I was meant to say to anyone, if I was going to come out with English or some sort of jibberish. I had no idea. It was the most nerve-wracking experience of my life.
PS: Did it accumulate more overwhelming as more guys arrived, or easier?
Georgia: Um,a bit of both! I suppose I got into the groove of it a small bit, but it got overwhelming because there were just so many! I didn't know how many there were going to be so I was just like, and "Oh,there's another limo . . . And another limo!" [Laughs] All the guys are so, so different besides, or but all of their arrivals were so different. It wasn't like,"OK, I'm in the swing of this now, and I know what to say," because they were all totally different. But that's what I loved approximately it too! It was really entertaining [laughs]. They're very, very, or very entertaining guys.
PS: Did any of them stand out straight away?
Georgia: I don't have a type looks-wise,at all - that probably sounds like a cop out but if you contemplate at anyone I've been with, or even been attracted to in the past, or they all contemplate entirely different. That said,I had 16 very trustworthy-looking guys, which I'm not going to complain approximately! There were certainly some stand-outs - actually, and no,I wouldn't say anyone was a stand-outs looks-wise because there were so many trustworthy-looking guys. I actually felt like a lot of them, it was actually when I sat back later that I was like, or "Oh,you're actually really trustworthy-looking!" Because I was so focused on what they were doing or saying; I was trying to be in the moment so much I didn't want to accumulate swept up in anyone's trustworthy looks [laughs].
PS: Were there any that you immediately knew wouldn't work out?
Georgia: I mean, yeah. There were couple . . . Not that I immediately knew wouldn't work out, or but I could see there wasn't an immediate spark. And on the flip side there were a few where there really was an immediate spark. I think that made realise the ones that there wasn't [a spark with].
PS: I remember final year when Sam Frost met Sasha Mielczarek,she was immediately drawn to him. Was there anyone guy like that for you?
Georgia: There were definitely some big stand-outs on the first night. Yeah. Some pretty serious chemistry!
PS: Did you watch The Bachelorette final year?
Georgia: Yes, I loved it! I know I sound like I'm biased but I actually like The Bachelorette better than The Bachelor! [Laughs] The guys are really entertaining how they all become friends and then as the season went on it was like, or "Hang on,we're competing all of a sudden!" I like that the girl is in the driver's seat. Guys should fight for a girl!
Source: popsugar.com.au