Is The Bachelorette's Rhys a 'slime ball'?

He’s made a name for himself on The Bachelorette as a poet, a model and a self-confessed “Deep Guy”, but is Rhys Chilton really who he says he is?

The 29-year-old spoke to TV Week about how his on-air persona is all an act in an effort to protect himself from the producers' editing, while a source close to the Queenslander has called him a "slime ball".

“I’m super-strategic about all that,” he told TV Week. “I think the best protection in a show like this is to, instead of letting them paint you how they want, give them something else.

“So, instead of them going, 'Oh, we don't have a character for Rhys - we'll make him into the a**hole of the group,' I'm giving them something on a platter: the romantic, deep guy who's really good-looking and has a good chest!”

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Meanwhile, a girl claiming to know the brunette has dished on why she thinks he’s not on the show for the right reasons.

“He’s a slime ball,” the woman told NW. “He doesn't want anything [serious] - he wants booty calls.”

But she's not the only lady who has spoken out about the occasional topless waiter.

South Australian Cass Fowler told Woman's Day about her flirty encounters with The Bachelorette contestant on social media.

“He kept sending me shirtless photos and asking me to do the same,” she told the mag. “He’d send me completely nude ones, then after a while it suddenly stopped.

“I sent him a normal Snapchat and got one back of a female saying 'He’s got a girlfriend, back off!' Then he blocked me on Facebook and was obviously two-timing us."

However, Rhys told The Daily Mail that it's BS.

"She [Cass] follows me on Instagram," he said. "That's the only place I know her from."

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