While we always see “applications open” ads for our favourite reality TV dating shows, there’s usually a bunch of producers poaching behind the scenes finding cast too — and BINGE reality show FBoy Island Australia is no different.
For FBoy Island Australia Season 2, the show chose Krystal Thomas, Ally Woodfall and Nicole Mitrov as its leading ladies. So did they apply for the show or were they discovered?
The three ladies shared their process of getting on FBoy Island Australia 2024 with Chattr.
Krystal Thomas
Krystal was on The Bachelors just last year vying for Felix Van Hofe‘s attention. She made it quite far in the competition and was quickly a fan favourite simply for just being herself.
“I was actually asked to be on the show,” Krystal admitted to Chattr.
“[My] hat was already kind of in that world,” she explained of her previous stint on The Bachelors.
“The team reached out to me,” she added.
Because Krystal was still single when the FBoy Island Australia Season 2 producers reached out, she said it was a case of “why not?”
“Out of all the reality TV dating shows, [FBoy Island Australia] is the one that resonates the most with me.”
Krystal is not the only ex-Bachelor member with contestant Paddy Colliar and host Abbie Chatfield also sharing that badge.
Ally Woodfall
Ally’s connection to FBoy Island Australia Season 1 contestant Vernon Lyon was made clear in Episode 1. But did you know that producers actually didn’t know the link until the end of the casting process?
“Me being on the show and me getting on the show had nothing to do with him,” Ally clarified to Chattr.
Ally explained that she was casted through social media and that when her relationship with Vernon came out, producers were excited about the connection to FBoy Island Australia Season 1.
Nicole Mitrov
Nicole was approached to be part of the leading FBoy Island Season 2 cast via social media.
Nicole admitted to Chattr that while she’s been approached by casting agents before, it’s “never been the right time” for her.
She also explained that she didn’t necessarily love the idea of other reality TV shows where it’s about the women going after a man.
“That’s never really been my MO,” she told Chattr.
“When this [opportunity] came through I had just finished a situationship scenario. I was living my best single girl era but at the same time deep down I knew I wanted to find a connection with someone.”
Nicole said that when she had the phone call about FBoy Island, she realised it was something she could “get around”.
She made it clear that just because she was approached and she didn’t apply, the audition process was still “lengthy” for her.
“Just because you get asked to be on a show, doesn’t mean you’ve got it,” she explained to Chattr.
“I still had to do all the tests, all the background checks, the medicals — everything.”
Did the FBoy Island men apply to be on the show?
When we spoke to Nicole about how she was cast on the show, she alluded to some of the FBoy Island Australia men also being approached through social media.
There was also a casting booth at the 2023 TikTok awards where Abbie was one of the hosts for the night alongside Tony Armstrong and Kat Clark.
Nathan Giastis, one of the bartenders-turned-intruders, told Chattr that he was approached by producers because of social media too.
“Producers saw a reel, they loved it and [we] just went from there,” Nathan told Chattr.
Nathan has almost 60,000 followers combines across Instagram and TikTok — something that raised concerns for Nicole when Abbie showed her.
FBoy Island Australia streams Mondays on BINGE.
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