MASSIVE SPOILER: These Are Apparently the Top 5 Women on The Bachelor

This year's Bachelor top five appears to have already been leaked, after Daily Mail this weekend released paparazzi pictures taken at the mansion in Sydney in July.

The pictures, taken at the Bachelor mansion in Oxford Falls on Sydney's Northern Beaches, seem to show the women getting ready for a rose ceremony, just shy of the following week's hometown visits.

Thus, the final five women competing for Locky Gilbert's heart, if the pictures are to be believed, are early frontrunners Bella and nurse Irena, Izzy, who dared Locky to eat chillis in the premiere, intruder Kaitlyn from the bridal photoshoot, and a second intruder named Bec.

Yes, at least one more intruder is due to enter the show later in the season, Daily Mail also revealed. But there's no need to worry about the original girls at this stage - an intruder has never won The Bachelor, although Lana was the runner-up on Sam's season.

Still, Bec appears to be a contender, having featured in a first look promo for the series on a whitewater rafting date with Locky - the couple even kissed!

Will she be able to form a connection with Locky that beats his instant attraction to his first date and first kiss Bella? Or that measures up to feeling Irena's heartbeat in the season opener?

Only five women have left the show so far, so all we really know for sure at this point is that Locky says he's now very much in love with someone, telling PEDESTRIAN.TV ahead of the first episode, "I am head over heels in love right now and I wouldn't change it for the world."

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