Baby steps for Soph and new beau Stu
BACHELORETTE Sophie Monk and winner Stu Laundy are considering IVF as a possible way to overcome the vasectomy Laundy underwent several years ago.
Monk announced the Sydney billionaire publican as her winner and Jarrod Woodgate as runner-up last night, overcoming her concerns Laundy may not be able to give her a child.
“(The vasectomy) doesn’t really matter because it can be reversed pretty quickly or regardless I could go freeze my eggs and chuck em over to wherever he’s got his sperm banked,” said Monk, 37, with her characteristic candour.
Laundy also confirmed he had “planned ahead” when undergoing his vasectomy a decade ago.
“We have two options but we haven’t really discussed them yet,” said the billionaire publican. “We should probably go out and have a meal first.”
With the glamour of tropical islands and helicopter rides now behind them, Laundy and Monk said they were looking forward to spending “normal” time together.
In the two months since the finale was filmed, the couple have only seen each other twice, when they were taken to remote country properties for a few days at each visit.
“We’ve only seen each other a couple of times, that’s it. And that’s hard for two adults, it feels like you’re in high school,” said Gold Coaster Monk.
“We were taken in separate cars to random butt-f--- places, to be honest. We’d hang out for two or three days but you can’t leave the house, so it’s a bit stir crazy.”
As for whether Monk and Laundy will be tying the knot anytime soon, plans are on hold until Laundy finalises his divorce from Rachel Laundy. “I am trying to finalise a divorce for my and my ex wife’s happiness and we’re very, very close ... I’m sure we’ll end up close friends,” he said.
But Monk is in no hurry: “You’ve got to remember you haven’t slept with anyone at that point, so to propose ... that’s why when I watched Blake (Garvey propose to Sam Frost) I was like, ‘how can you do that without having sex?”.
Meanwhile, crest-fallen Woodgate is still reeling after having his heart crushed – and he wants Monk to know, the door is still wide open.
“Right now if Sophie was to call me and say, ‘let’s catch up for a drink?’ I’d do it. Because I’m always going to be there for Soph, even if it works out or if it doesn’t,” said Woodgate, whom fans dubbed a “stage five clinger” for his obsession with the star.
“Just because we say ‘goodbye’ doesn’t mean we say ‘goodbye’ to our friendship.
“I’m still there for Sophie and I will be because it’s a heartbreak. I’m still very, very soft. It’s raw.”
Two months after filming the finale, Woodgate is “still processing” the events of that day on the Fijian sands.
“I had some tears. And we just stood there and we were looking at each other’s eyes, holding hands, and then we said our goodbyes,” he said.