LAURA CHATFIELD 'ABBIE TOLD ME 'TO DO IT'

The Bachelor star's mum is trying her luck at getting a rose

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Six years after her daughter Abbie Chatfield waltzed into the Bachelor mansion to try and win the heart of astrophysicist Matt Agnew, her mother Laura is set to walk the same path on Channel Nine's new spin-off series The Golden Bachelor. And she's going in knowing her famous daughter is right there behind her.

"At first I thought she'd say, 'No, don't do it mummy," Laura, 65, tells Woman's Day of the moment she told Abbie.

"But then she went, 'Oh mum, you've got to do it, Australia is going to love you, and it's not like I could say no. I remember when she went on the show [in 2019] and she was standing there at the door, waiting for her taxi... and she turned to me and said, 'Mummy, I don't know if I can do this,' and I told her 'You've got to go, because if you're one of the few people in Australia that's chosen for anything, you have to go.'