Bachelor contestant set to quit the show: 'Didn't want to waste time'

A Bachelor contestant is set to leave the show this week after she realises she isn't all that interested in Jimmy Nicholson.

The contestant, who hasn't been named, spoke out about her decision, with Daily Mail claiming it is Tatum Hargraves.

"I genuinely came on the show for love and I wanted to give Jimmy a chance because sometimes I can be really quick to write people off," the contestant told TV Week.

"When things didn't progress between us, I didn't want to waste my time anymore. I just wanted to get on with life."

The bachelorette will apparently ask for a chat with Jimmy at a cocktail party and will tell him she wants to leave.

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"I was at the stage where I'd begun to form stronger connections with some of the other women," she added.

It's believed that this contestant's exit will spark a mass exodus with a number of women leaving the show.

It was reported last week, Tatum and Stephanie Lynch are two of the women who will leave the show earlier than we'd expect.

"Steph has a huge fight with another contestant... on camera and she says that she wants to leave, so he gets rid of her," a source told the Daily Mail.

Rebekah Modernel reportedly also has an off-camera "meltdown" that leads to her elimination.

"Beck had a meltdown and she was in a cupboard crying, she was just like "I want to go home, I want to go home, I want to go home," the insider added.

"We all knew that Beck was just f**king over it and that she was on the verge of walking out and that's when she was evicted."

But apparently, it was something that rumoured winner Holly Kingston says that upsets Rebekah enough to send her home.

The insider added that producers apparently felt as though they had no choice but to send the girls who didn't want to be there home to avoid any unexpected changes to their filming schedule.

It comes after Jimmy spoke to Yahoo Lifestyle and shared his thoughts on some of the contestants' "disappointing" behaviour.

Jimmy says that knowing what he knows now - including the fact that Stephanie has repeatedly said she "hates pilots" - he would never have given her one-on-one time.

"Watching the show back, I'm looking at it and I'm thinking, 'no don't do it mate! What are you doing?! Don't take her on this date!'," he admits.

"Now I've seen everything that everyone's said, and I think it's important to realise that I didn't know any of this kind of stuff.

"People might be like 'get rid of her, get rid of her', but I wasn't seeing what we're seeing now back then."

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