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“I go home alone!” insists Bachelor host Osher Günsberg

He's good-looking and single but Osher Günsberg insists there are no fringe benefits on The Bachelor.

TEN winter party 047He’s good-looking, single and surrounded by two dozen beautiful women but Osher Günsberg insists there are no fringe benefits filming The Bachelor.

“I’m there to do a job and then leave!” he recently told TV Tonight.

“I am single, but I’m also a professional.

“I’m not Jeff Probst, I’m Osher Günsberg. I go home alone at the end of the shoot!”

Jeff Probst, of course, famously dated a Survivor contestant, before they ended up splitting.

Günsberg,  formerly known as Andrew G, is back at TEN after 3.5 years to host The Bachelor. Aside from a stint hosting Photo Shoot for the ABC, his recent work has been US based.

“I’m back at TEN and I’m thrilled. Not only back in Australia, I’m back at TEN!” he said.

“The Australian Bachelor is everything you possibly wish it could be and more. We have 25 amazing, smart, sassy, beautiful women in a room and the most eligible man in Australia and we are following a love story.

“Everybody is there because they’re looking for love and we’re following this guy who really wants to find someone to fall in love with. It’s great!”

That guy is the very dashing chiropractor Tim Robards, whom Günsberg openly describes as “a very good catch.”

“We knew within the first 2 hours of shooting the arrivals when the ladies arrived, that we had a show. We’re going to break Twitter the first night we air. People will just not be able to stop talking about what we’re making,” he insists.

“People will love the girls, and they will love him and they will just love to tweet about it. It’s going to be fantastic.”

But how many of the girls are looking for their 15 minutes of TV fame?

“I haven’t seen any of that, I know that they’re genuinely looking for someone to fall in love with.”

During his US stay, Günsberg’s highest-profile gig was hosting Paula Abdul’s Live to Dance for CBS. Yet despite his years in the US (which actually date back to 2005) he’s lost none of his Aussie accent. These days he knows how to fake it as required.

“I’ve done entire jobs as an ‘American’ and only after we’ve wrapped with 3 days of shooting do I go back to ‘Australian’ and people lose their minds. They don’t even know, and I’m really happy about that. I’m a switch-hitter when it comes to accents!” he laughs.

Günsberg is not alone in returning to the TEN stable, with his former Australian Idol co-host James Mathison coming to TEN’s new breakfast show Wake Up.

“James will surprise everyone. He is the smartest man I’ve ever met. He reads a book a week, he’s a remarkably intelligent man with such a brain on him, there’s no better person for that job. When I first heard they were going to rejig the show, I thought ‘They’re getting Jimmy. There’s no way they can possibly do it and not get Jimmy!’” he insists.

“Mark my words, as soon as Jim gets on air everyone else will scramble. He will excite morning TV.”

The Bachelor is coming soon to TEN.

13 Responses

  1. Good on you for helping out, bicks357. It amazes me that people can be so helpless/lazy that they spend a couple of minutes asking someone else to do the research instead of spending that time jumping on Wikipedia or the guy’s website.

  2. On his official site he says he was born and raised Andrew but changed it after a series of events (meeting a shaman in Israel who told him he should change the energy around his name, then meeting a cameraman called Osher in 2009, then going through tough times with divorce and the end of Idol). He says he made the decision to change his name to Osher on his 38th birthday… which would make it 2012 I suppose.

  3. @Annette – I thought that odd too.

    I wonder if he had an Anglicised version of his name forced upon him by a TV network, manager, or agent. Maybe he was unhappy about it but went along with it for the sake of his career, and only now feels that he’s in a position to revert back to his real name.

    James Tobin is another, didn’t he go by the name Jesse Tobin for a while?

  4. Annette: He’s actually been using it ahead of Andrew for several years. News Ltd. has a story on it if you’re interested. Branding is important yes, but not if it means we berate someone over personal choices.

  5. A lot of innuendo from him lately. Is that intentional? Being a “switch hitter” and “openly” describing another bloke as a very good catch.

  6. There is being positive about what you are doing and then there is being utterly delusional.

    Lets face it, he didn’t exactly set the US alight, This Bachelor show will probably crash & burn, and brekky on 10 is gonna be a long haul

    …..and the name change/switch mid-career is a huge error

  7. Whats with all the name changes for this guy .andrew g, andrew gunsburg, now oscher .whats going on should have asked him david. Too confusing

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