She’s a reality TV star best known for a string of controversies following her time on air.
And a famous Australian Bachelorette has stunned her fans with an unrecognisable throwback photo on Thursday.
Taking to Instagram, the 34-year-old showed her followers a picture of herself sitting up in bed as a child, along with the caption, ‘an actual photo of me though’.
So can you guess who the former reality-turned-media star is?
That’s right, it’s the star of the second season of The Bachelorette Australia, Georgia Love.
A famous Australian Bachelorette has stunned her fans with an unrecognisable throwback photo on Thursday. So can you guess who she is?
The trip down memory lane comes after Love revealed her surprising new career move last month.
Georgia announced in September that she’s landed as a radio newsreader in the mornings for KIIS FM in Melbourne.
Taking to her Instagram account, the former TV newsreader shared a selfie of her smiling while sitting behind the microphone in the studio.
‘Always been told I’ve got a face for radio! Exciting and super fun new gig taking to the airwaves to bring Melbourne your news on KISS 101.1,’ she wrote in her caption.
Love’s announcement was met with countless support from her friends and fans in the comments.
The girl in the picture is actually Bachelorette Australia star Georgia Love. Seen here recently
‘Congratulations and exciting new beginnings!’ one user wrote.
‘Congratulations I’ll be listening out for that familiar voice, added another.
Love has jumped around a number of high-profile media jobs in the last two years.
She began her career in journalism at WIN News, before her profile skyrocketed in 2016 when she was cast on Channel 10’s The Bachelorette.
Love has jumped around a number of high-profile media jobs in the last two years. She began her career in journalism at WIN News, before her profile skyrocketed in 2016 when she was cast on Channel 10’s The Bachelorette
She went on to become a casual reporter for Ten Eyewitness News in Melbourne, later rebranded 10 News First, but was let go due to budget cuts in early 2021.
The role was what she described as her dream job, before jumping ship to rival network Channel Seven in February 2021.
But Love’s TV career came to a grinding halt seven months later after she made headlines for all the wrong reasons.
She went on to become a casual reporter for Ten Eyewitness News in Melbourne, later rebranded 10 News First, but was let go due to budget cuts in early 2021
The role was what she described as her dream job, before jumping ship to rival network Channel Seven in February 2021
In September 2021, Love posted a video to her Instagram account asking whether a cat was on the menu at a Chinese restaurant after seeing the animal in the window.
‘Shop attendant or lunch?!’ she captioned her post at the time. She also posted a similar ‘joke’ about pets and Chinese restaurants in 2013.
Critics claimed the footage was offensive and perpetrated a harmful stereotype about Chinese people.
Love deleted the video an hour later and apologised for causing ‘offence’, but at the time denied the post had any racist ‘insinuation’.
Georgia sparked backlash in September 2021 for sharing footage (above) of a cat behind the window of an Asian restaurant and writing: ‘Shop attendant or lunch?!’
Following a workplace investigation, Seven alerted staff via email later that week that Love had been ‘counselled’ and reassigned to an off-camera role ‘effective immediately’.
Last month, Love finally addressed the scandal after staying silent in the wake of the backlash.
Speaking to Stellar magazine, the media personality called out cancel culture while also apologising for her actions.
Instagram account Aussie Influencer Opinions discovered another of Love’s posts from February 2013 in which she made a similar joke about pets and Asian restaurants
‘I hate the term cancellation. To think that we have the ability to cancel somebody – whether that means from their industry, their job, their family and friends. We don’t have the ability to do that,’ she said.
Love said cancel culture is unfair because people aren’t afforded the opportunity to defend themselves in the ‘heat of the moment’.
She also lamented about the fallout from the scandal, telling the magazine: ‘I had my dream job. I felt so lucky every day to be doing what I loved and what I had dreamed of for so long.
‘So to have lost that on-air job – I stayed working at Seven, but I was taken off air in the fallout – was probably the hardest thing for me, because I’ve always put a lot of emphasis and focus on my work and my career.’
Georgia and husband Lee Elliot were later called out for promoting tourism to Saudi Arabia.
The Middle Eastern country has been condemned globally in recent years for its abuse of human rights on its people.
Georgia’s profile skyrocketed in 2016 when she was cast on Channel 10’s The Bachelorette (pictured on the show with now-husband Lee Elliott)
