Bachelor ‘made play for barista’
A GOLD Coast barista has been embroiled in a scandal surrounding The Bachelor star Matty ‘J’ Johnson.
Former Palm Beach Currumbin High student Kiri Kennedy, 21, claims Matty J flirted with her behind jewellery designer Laura Byrne’s back during filming on The Bachelor.
In an interview with New Idea, Kennedy says Johnson, 30, stunned onlookers when he sent a worker over to ask her to hang around so The Bachelor star could meet her.
Kennedy says she was working at Plonk Beach Cafe on Sydney’s North Shore when cameras started rolling on Byrne and Johnson’s first date on the reality show.
“I was busy working when a person from the production team approached me and said, ’Matty is with his girl at the moment and can’t talk right now, but he would like you to hang around to meet him after she leaves’.
“I decided to leave when my shift finished because in all honesty it didn’t feel right to stay. All I know is that I would be very disappointed with him if I was in his new girlfriend’s shoes.”