Bachelor’s Elora Murger reveals how TV fame puts pressure on stars to ‘stay relevant’

Bachelor favourite Elora Murger has told how she completely lost her identity when she suddenly became famous after starring on her first reality TV dating show several years ago.  

A year on since her last stint on television (the 2019 season of Bachelor in Paradise), the Tahitian beauty says she is now learning to escape the trappings of instant fame and focus on herself.

Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, the 29-year-old said: ‘I lost my identity wondering who I was for a second… it was pretty intense.’ 

Elora rose to fame on Matthew Johnson’s season of The Bachelor in 2017, before appearing on two separate seasons of Bachelor in Paradise in 2018 and 2019.

The brunette stunner says when she moved to Sydney from Hawaii in 2017, she thought signing up for The Bachelor would be a fun way to start her life in Australia.  

‘I come across this reality show, and all the sudden you’re famous and gossip magazines write about you, and in Sydney it was pretty intense with paparazzi,’ she recalls.

Elora now has ‘I survived reality TV’ written in her Instagram bio, and she says it was a freeing experience letting go of the expectations and competitive nature associated with TV fame.

‘It was a bit, you know, we’ll [reality TV stars] go to the same events, and we’re all invited everywhere and are all looking at what each other’s doing. I’ve heard people be told: “you’ve got to stay relevant”,’ she explains. 

‘I was getting lost into staying on the same level, and to keep that high going. You kind of get lost and you don’t know what you want anymore,’ Elora admits of her own personal experience.

As a ‘survivor’, Elora says she has learnt to make long-term plans, keep her head out of the fame-game and focus on her own mental health.

‘It’s really important to remind yourself who you are that you don’t have to be like everybody else,’ she says.

Elora won’t be appearing on anymore reality dating shows, as she wed her fiancé-of-four-months Azriel Wratten at the end of January.   

Speaking of her decision to spend the rest of her life with Azriel, she told Daily Mail Australia: ‘It’s the best decision I’ve ever made of my life. He’s absolutely perfect. Above and beyond, he surprises me everyday. He’s amazing.’

While Elora has more than 71k followers on social media, thanks to her three separate stints on reality TV, she finds it refreshing that her partner isn’t on social media at all.

‘It’s really nice. It really feels like I’m living a really earthy and really rooted love. He doesn’t care about photos, he’s not trying to sell anything for a brand and yeah he loves his four-wheel drives and he loves to go out in the country and that’s what I grew up doing with horses. He’s just awesome.’