“I’m not an extreme feminist,” Lismore mum Christina Sharman says when her daughter Izzy introduces her to Locky - this year’s star of TV show The Bachelor.

“I’m just an ordinary feminist,” Christina laughed.

It’s Wednesday night at Christina Sharman’s home and the champagne is flowing. The TV is turned on to The Bachelor, and Christina and her good friends are preparing to watch her and Izzy together on screen as Christina meets Locky for the first time.

Because 29 year old Izzy (who grew up in Lismore) made it through to the final four out of 22 women on the show - that meant Christina, as Izzy’s mum, got the chance to travel to Sydney and grill the bachelor on life, love and feminism.

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Love?

Christina knows that Izzy went on the show to raise her profile as a HR consultant and was not too invested in the ‘love’ outcome spruiked by the show’s producers.

“She didn’t put a foot wrong and I’m glad she didn’t get bitchy,” Christina said.

There’s a lot of laughing in the living room as Christina sees for the first time how she looks on the screen. There’s a lot of shots of her from a side angle, looking like she’s scowling at the bachelor.

Witchy

“They really want me to look witchy,” Christina says. “But we actually laughed a lot and had a good time. I wasn’t nervous and he put me at ease.”

Christina was to flown to Sydney for the meeting and put up in a Sydney hotel, with food paid for – except the food that was served at the house where her meeting with Locky was filmed.

“We never got to eat any of it,” she said, “It just looked good for the camera and was taken away – but I was hungry and ate a bit if it.”

What to wear?

Christina said she had to send pictures of what she intended to wear to the show’s producers before she even left Lismore.

“They don’t like dark colours and didn’t want me to wear my Doctor Martens boots,” she said. “So I bought a new pair of shoes for it.”

Christina said the girls get given clothes to wear – lots of nice dresses and cocktails frocks, which they get to keep after the show.

Hard questions

Christina had to give the questions she wanted to ask Locky to the producers of the show the week before the meeting.

Is this really love? What are your values in life? How do you feel about feminism? - all were on her question list.

After a week of being able to think about the answers, Christina is not really surprised when Locky still fails to answer the feminism question.

“I loved seeing her hit him with some hard questions,” Izzy said.

“She’s my precious best daughter,” Christina tells Locky.

“I want the world to see how awesome she is,” says Locky.

“Yeah, correct,” says Christina.

Then Christina asks the hardest question: “If my daughter doesn’t make it to the final cut, can we have a little bit of your sperm?”

In Christina’s lounge room, everyone is laughing now.

“I’m just thinking of myself,” Christina laughs. “The producers actually said we are the funniest parents who have been on the show yet.”

The rose ceremony

At the end of the show, Izzy is not given a rose by Locky - which means she is not one of the chosen final two women. There are teary goodbyes and Locky tells Izzy ‘this is really hard’ as he hugs her goodbye.

Izzy joins the chat

After the show finishes, Izzy joins Christina’s living room on a video call and chats to her mum. Now she has left the show and the episode has screened, she’s allowed to talk. Today she also featured on the TV show Studio Ten.

Izzy said there’s already someone else in her life that she met once she got back from Sydney and she and her new man have been watching The Bachelor together on TV.

“He’s been so supportive,” she said. “It’s been weird – it’s not a normal situation watching the person you are dating making out with someone else.

When asked about Christina’s sperm question, Izzy replied:

“Mum suggested I freeze some eggs and Locky is 6 foot 5 and tall - he said yes to the sperm.”

Dating scenes

With a TV camera and a producer in the room while she and Locky were on dates, Izzy said it wasn’t too awkward with the producer there and the camera.

In one scene, Izzy gets Locky to put on yoga pants and takes him through a yoga lesson, telling him her mum was a yoga teacher.

“I spent a lot of time on the mat as a kid,” she said.

Secrecy

Christina, sworn to secrecy until this week’s episode screened said she doesn’t know who the winner is yet. Tonight’s episode of The Bachelor will tell all.

Yoga classes

As well as being a nurse at Lismore Base Hospital, Christina is a yoga teacher. Now she’s allowed to talk about it, it is possible that her own public profile might be lifted a bit.

If you want to meet Christina, she teaches yoga at Inner Light Centre on Keen Street on Saturday mornings at 9am.