After being eliminated from The Bachelor for refusing to take part in a face painting exercise with children, Alana Wilkie has announced she's pregnant.
The 26-year-old former Miss Universe Australia finalist from Perth announced via Instagram that together with her partner, Chris Billings, she is expecting her first child in June next year.
Billings, the man she also dated prior to competing for Blake Garvey's affection, also shared the happy news.
"Very excited to announce Alana and myself are expecting a baby June 2015! Exciting times," the amateur footballer and part-time model wrote along with a photo of the pair sitting in a playground holding a sign saying, "And then there were three".
The legal secretary was one of the first single ladies eliminated from the controversial series for failing to establish a "connection" with Garvey. Unlike the other contestants, she also asserted herself during a group date at a pre-school when she declined an opportunity to have her face painted.
"I think it's a talent to be able to stay clean around 25 children and I think it's good potentially when I am a mum, because I don't want to be playing with the children and getting dirty then going out shopping with like face paint all over me," she said before the ill-fated rose ceremony which saw her being shipped back to Perth and into Billings' arms.
Wilkie's appearance on the local spin off of the US dating show was the catalyst for a PR nightmare for Channel Ten.
Prior to Garvey proposing to Sam Frost, then retracting the sponsored engagement ring, Wilkie came close to spoiling the season when she breached a confidentially clause by posting a photo of her romantic reunion with Billings on Instagram.
Pregnancy rumours then plagued the show following the dramatic finale.
As the final episode went to air in early October, entertainment reporter Peter Ford, who regularly appears on the 2Day FM breakfast show, was promoting "exclusive details" of a "shock that has legal and moral implications for Network Ten and contestants" on social media.
"The reality TV bombshell set to rock Australia. It was meant to be about potential wedding bells not nappies," he tweeted.
The reality show's host Osher Gunsberg was equally coy during an interview promoting the finale on The Project.
"There's a major lockdown going on because of the magnitude of what happens," he said.
The Project host, Carrie Bickmore, then jokingly asked if viewers could expect to learn that "a Bachelor baby is on its way". Gunsberg refused to be drawn on the topic after an extended silence.
A woman who only wanted to be known as "Andrea" and claiming to have "inside information" called Southern Cross Austereo's Dan and Maz radio show before the final episode went to air and suggested a contestant was expecting a child.
Garvey and his new partner, contestant Louise Pillidge, are now living together in the real estate agent's Perth home.
