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Television franchise The Bachelor has had its fair share of dramatic moments the world over but Vietnam’s version this week may have taken the rose for best twist. During a rose ceremony, in which the eligible bachelor keeps or eliminates the female contestants vying for his affections, one of the women, Minh Thu, said she had fallen in love with a fellow competitor Truc Nhu instead. Subtitled video of the ceremony, which quickly went viral online, showed Thu telling bachelor Nguyen Quoc Trung: “I went into this competition to find love – and I’ve found that love for myself, but it isn’t [with] you. It’s [with] someone else.” She then asked Nhu to “come home with me”, after which the two women left the competition together.
What next? But it seems the contestants’ fling was short lived. Nhu finally decided to stay on the show after bachelor Trung spoke to her privately. Vietnam is one of Asia’s more progressive nations when it comes to gay rights and acceptance, so the same-sex courtship was not particularly novel to local viewers. The franchise has broadcast 100 different seasons in more than 30 different countries.
