Farmer Wants A Wife winner exposes major secret about finale: 'Obvious'
After eight weeks of romantic dates, shocking twists, and the occasional kiss, this year's season of Farmer Wants A Wife is finally coming to an end. Farmer Corey and Farmer Jack will both make their decision this week and choose which of their two finalists they would like to pursue a relationship with in the real world.
While many viewers have taken to social media to express their excitement over the upcoming two-part finale, one person who won't be tuning in is former contestant Olivia Benic. The 26-year-old, who found love with Farmer Matt Young on the show in 2023, tells Yahoo Lifestyle that she doesn't typically watch the final decisions because the girls '100 per cent' already know if they're 'the one'.
'Matt had already told me he was going to pick me,' she reveals. 'I'm sorry, but if you don't know if you're the final pick, you're not the final pick. The farmer will always tell you. I'm watching some of the girls this season, and I'm like, they know. It's obvious every year.'
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This comes after Claire Hampson shared that it is 'pretty obvious' who each of the farmers end up with as certain contestants have received the 'winner's edit'.
'The editing this season, I'm like, what have you done? It's awful,' she told Yahoo Lifestyle last month. 'Everyone's like, 'Oh, I've been watching' and I'm like, 'Don't, it's the worst season'.
According to Olivia, the remaining contestants from each of the farms get split into two groups ahead of the final decision. This allows the ladies to work out whether they're the winner or the runner-up based on who they're in a group with and how strong everyone else's connection is to their farmer.
'So if you're with a group of girls that you know are going to win, you're probably also going to win. And then if you're with the losers, you're part of the losers,' she explains.
Olivia says that on her season, all of the final girls stayed together in Sydney and were split up before the final decision.
'They moved half of us to one location and half of us to the other, and they travelled us all in separate cars, and we didn't know who was with who,' she recalls. "But then they accidentally mixed up me and Annabelle [Greenaway], so then they had to swap me and Annabelle, and she figured out that she was with the girls who weren't going to win because everyone talks to each other.
'So they made a big kerfuffle and Annabelle cried and cried for the two days prior to the final decision and knew that she wasn't going to end up with Matt.'
Regardless of whether or not you find love on Farmer Wants A Wife, Olivia says it's 'important' for the contestants to keep supporting each other, both on and off the show.
'It's all everyone's real life, and none of us are perfect, so just give each other grace and be kind,' she remarks. 'I didn't have a good relationship with Annabelle, for example, but I don't have any hatred for her. She is who she is, and she had feelings on the show.'
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She adds that her biggest tips for the new couples navigating their relationship in the public eye are to 'stay off social media and give each other grace'.
'Before the show even came on TV, Matt and I had a support plan in place because I was like, 'I have no idea how hard this is going to be. This is what I'm going to need from you, what do you need from me?'. So we kind of planned for the bad stuff before it would even happen, and that was helpful,' she shares. 'But I think you just need to be kind to each other.'
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