Richie’s declaration of love for Alex sees The Bachelor watched by 1.324m

Last night’s finale of The Bachelor, in which bachelor Richie Strahan shocked audiences by choosing single-mum Alex Nation over Nikki Gogan, saw 1.324m metro viewers tune in for the finale decision.

The rest of the finale was watched by 1.103m, which was up on the launch of the season which attracted 882,000.

Last night’s episode was up on last year’s finale of The Bachelor which saw an average of 1.228m tune in to see Sam Wood choose Snezana Markoski. The Bachelor finale in 2014, which saw Blake Garvey propose to Sam Frost, grabbed 1.374m metro viewers.