The Bachelor Matt Agnew has found the woman of his dreams in Chelsie McLeod, meaning that villain Abbie Chatfield was sent packing, much to the delight of fans.
He told Chelsie: “I’ve never believed in such thing as the perfect woman until I met you. You encapsulate everything that I’m looking for in a woman.
“My biggest fear is opening up to that special someone, and having my heart broken into a thousand pieces.”
WATCH: Matt Agnew confesses love to winner Chelsie
He continued: “But coming into this experience, I promised I would throw caution to the wind and I’d overcome that fear.
“My heart is fluttering … and even though it could get broken into a thousand pieces, I feel the time is right to take the plunge, to take that leap and tell you how I feel. Chelsie, I love you.
“I love how you giggle when you’re nervous. I love that you go full nerd as soon as there’s some maths involved!
‘Above all else, though, I just love how you make me feel and you make me want to believe in fairytales, because when I’m with you, I feel like I’m living in one.”
Matt also presented Chelsie with a ring, but didn’t pull a Blake Garvey and get down on one knee.
Before walking up to hear her fate, Chelsie admitted to The Bachelor host Osher Gunsberg that she was incredibly nervous going into the final days.
“I can’t believe that I’m here now and I’m going to find out from Matt finally if he wants to be with me or not. There’s only two outcomes here, isn’t there?” she asked the host.
“So I’m hoping it’s a positive one but, yeah, the negative one scares me a lot. You know, Matt means a lot to me and I want a future with him. I think I’m worried that I showed Matt who I was too late in the process for him to make up his mind. Possibly too little, too late, yeah.”
The pair’s final date – a safari through the South African wilderness – was all kinds of romantic, and couldn’t have been a more perfect setting for Chelsie to realise what we’ve been able to see all along: that she is totally and completely in love with Matt.
“This moment is incredibly special with Matt and I know that I have to tell him exactly how I’m feeling. And it’s definitely playing on my mind. I’m just hoping that I can find the right time to tell him… before it’s too late.”
While Chelsie was nervous, it should come as no real surprise that before the final rose ceremony, Abbie was sure she was going home with the hunky doctor.
“I am feeling really confident right now. I feel like every moment we have together is just so great and, yeah, we’re perfect for each other. All I can see is myself and Matt and I’ve got tunnel vision,” she said.
“It couldn’t possibly not be me because of the way we are with each other. I know he has strong feelings for me so, like, I absolutely have his heart and I feel like we are so good together and there is no way that it wouldn’t be us at the end.”
“I’m honestly excited to get this over and done with and I am really looking forward to our future.”
WATCH: The moment Abbie breaks down after she gets dumped by Matt:
Abbie, 23, was furious when Matt told her he had fallen in love with someone else.
“I wish you’d sent me home so much earlier,” she said, before telling producers, “Get me the f**k away from him!”
Clearly heartbroken, she added: “I really don’t understand how? I don’t know what to say. This is completely heartbreaking. Completely, absolutely heartbreaking.”
Speaking to producers in the car after the dumping, Abbie said: “It’s OK. I’m so completely fine. I feel fine. I’m mostly just mad about the flight home now. I’m honestly not upset. It’s fine. I couldn’t even cry if I tried, right now.
“Maybe I don’t love him. Like, honestly, maybe I don’t love him, I’m not even upset. It’s OK. He’s chosen someone that will make him happy. Chelsie will make him happy.”
Minutes after the awkward rejection aired on Australian TV, Abbie issued the following statement:
“The only way I can describe this moment is complete and utter shock. I was numb. I couldn’t and didn’t want to feel anything,” she said.
“I had felt for weeks that what Matt and I had was real and I trusted him wholeheartedly when he told me how he felt about me.
“From hometowns, I forgot the cameras were there. It didn’t feel like we were filming a show at all, it felt like we had this real relationship built in a little bubble of The Bachelor and we would be out soon and able to live a normal life.
“Hearing Matt say ‘my heart is with someone else’ reminded me that we were filming and that Matt had to make a difficult decision, and he did not see in me what I saw in him.
“I felt silly for ever imagining Matt would love me. It was like emotional whiplash. I was so confused and it felt like I was in a dystopian reality.
“The second the cameras turned off, I sobbed. I screamed. I couldn’t breathe. I didn’t think think this would be how we would end. I spent weeks crying about this relationship that had almost no closure.
“I still haven’t fully healed from my relationship with Matt, but I know he and the gorgeous woman he is with are happy, and that’s all that matters.”
Chin up, Abbie. There’s plenty more fish in the sea!
