Bachelor in Paradise star Timm Hanly defends Ciarran Stott claiming producers ‘stitched him up’

Bachelor in Paradise star Timm Hanly believes that his friend and co-star Ciarran Stott was given a rough deal on the show. 

Speaking to The Daily Telegraph on Monday, the 27-year-old claims the 26-year-old British export was ‘stitched up’ and encouraged by producers to pursue multiple women in Paradise.  

‘They would encourage [Ciarran] to go after different girls. They stitched him up,’ he claimed. 

‘They tried to get me to do it, I’m lucky I didn’t. They don’t give a f**k about us,’ he added. 

Timm added that he had an ‘uncomfortable’ time on the show and is unable to reveal why he really quit early. 

‘It was rubbish editing and it was all planned. It was uncomfortable to be there,’ he said. 

‘It wasn’t nice to be there, it wasn’t a nice holiday. It was f***ed. I wish I could tell you how I really left but I’m not allowed to.’ 

Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Channel Ten for comment. 

Ciarran told the Manchester Evening News in April he was convinced he’ll get a ‘villain’ edit on the show and feared his public image would be tarnished when it went to air.

‘I think I’ll go from the sweetheart of Australia to the bad boy of Australia so that won’t be good,’ he said.   

During his time on the show, Ciarran was embroiled in various hook-ups, first taking up with Jessica Brody, 30.  

When Kiki Morris, 32, arrived in Paradise, he quickly ditched Jess, with revelations coming to the fore that Ciarran and Kiki had met prior to the show and formulated a plan to hook up once Kiki arrived. 

Matters were complicated by his ex-girlfriend, Renee Barrett, 26, also appearing on the show, and harbouring the belief that she and Ciarran, who had split just over a week prior to filming, would reunite. 

Ciarran quit the show shortly before the final rose ceremony, taking Kiki with him – only for the pair to split two months later.    

Timm also mysteriously quit Bachelor in Paradise, along with love interest Brittany Hockley, 32, the pair vanishing off the program with little fanfare. 

It comes after Jamie Doran announced plans to sue Channel 10 and Warner Bros. over his unfair portrayal on Bachelor in Paradise, and is now pushing for a class action lawsuit.

The 40-year-old’s lawyer ‘has already started calling around to a bunch of other contestants from this season, and asking if they would be interested in joining Jamie’s fight for justice,’ reports the So Dramatic podcast.

Earlier this month, the FIFO worker announced on Instagram that he had begun ‘legal proceedings against Network 10 and Warner Bros. Australia’.