Brooke Jowett calls for a culturally diverse Bachelorette in 2021

Locky Gilbert’s ex Brooke Jowett calls for a culturally diverse Bachelorette in 2021 – as the Survivor star reveals she was bullied for her skin colour

Locky Gilbert’s ex-girlfriend Brooke Jowett has called for Channel 10 to start casting more culturally diverse talent.

Speaking to HuffPost on Wednesday, the Australian Survivor star insisted that television has ‘a long way to go’ before it can reflect society’s true diversity.  

‘I would love to see a culturally diverse Bachelorette for 2021,’ she said in response to the network recently announcing Elly Mills and her sister Becky as this year’s  Bachelorettes.

Hoping for change: Australian Survivor’s Brooke Jowett has called for a culturally diverse Bachelorette in 2021

Brooke, who’s mother is Sri Lankan and father is Australian, told the publication that she was bullied online for her skin colour while appearing on Survivor in 2016 and 2019. 

‘During my Survivor experience, I have had a few mean Tweets about my colour which astounds me, I can’t believe some people are still so behind,’ she said. 

It comes just weeks after former Married At First Sight star Zoe Hendrix also lashed out at new Bachelorettes and compared them to ‘white bread’.

'I can’t believe some people are still so behind': Brooke (pictured), who's mother is Sri Lankan and father is Australian, told the publication that she was bullied online for her skin colour while appearing on Survivor in 2016 and 2019

‘I can’t believe some people are still so behind’: Brooke (pictured), who’s mother is Sri Lankan and father is Australian, told the publication that she was bullied online for her skin colour while appearing on Survivor in 2016 and 2019 

Loud and proud: Brooke's comment was in response to Channel 10 recently casting blonde sisters Elly Mills and her sister Becky as the Bachelorettes in 2020

Loud and proud: Brooke’s comment was in response to Channel 10 recently casting blonde sisters Elly Mills and her sister Becky as the Bachelorettes in 2020

Zoe said the show should have chosen a more diverse set of contestants.

The former reality star, who appeared on Channel Nine’s MAFS in 2015, shared a meme to Instagram, showing packets of white bread over the sisters’ faces and the caption: ‘Australian TV in 2020’. 

Alongside it, she wrote at length: ‘TWO blonde white thin straight women as the next Bachelorette was not what we had in mind when we said we wanted more DIVERSITY & REPRESENTATION! 

'Yikes! Is this meant to be groundbreaking television?' Former Married At First Sight star Zoe Hendrix (pictured) has also criticised the decision to cast Elly and Becky as The Bachelorettes

‘Yikes! Is this meant to be groundbreaking television?’ Former Married At First Sight star Zoe Hendrix (pictured) has also criticised the decision to cast Elly and Becky as The Bachelorettes 

‘Yikes! Is this meant to be groundbreaking television? Are we living on different planets? Why is it so hard in 2020 to cast a beautiful indigenous, Asian or black woman?? How about a lesbian or bisexual woman?’

Meanwhile, Bachelor in Paradise star Abbie Chatfield believes that Channel 10 should have picked someone racially diverse or gay. 

Speaking to WHO Magazine, ‘I was hoping it would be Brooke Blurton [from Nick Cummins’ season], she seemed like a good choice for racial diversity and also representing the LGBTQIA+ community, and she’s great,’ Abbie said. 

Wonder white: The former Married At First Sight star, who appeared on the reality show in 2015, shared a meme to Instagram on Friday, showing packets of white bread over the sisters' faces and the caption, 'Australian TV in 2020'

Wonder white: The former Married At First Sight star, who appeared on the reality show in 2015, shared a meme to Instagram on Friday, showing packets of white bread over the sisters’ faces and the caption, ‘Australian TV in 2020’

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