Two Bachelorettes is better than one! Season 19 of the ABC dating series. Gabby Windey Rachel Recchia will embark on a journey to find love — at the same time.
Host Jesse PalmerThe news was announced during the After the Final RoseSpecial that aired immediately following the conclusion of Clayton Echard‘s season of The BachelorMarch. This is the first time in Bachelor Nation history, that two leads will be on the entire season.
Bachelorette viewers immediately began to wonder how the process will work, but even the new leads don’t know. “Everyone keeps asking,” Gabby, 31, said during a March interview on Good Morning America. “We just got thrown in. But I have faith and a lot of trust and I love Rachel to death and I know we’re gonna have each other’s backs the whole way, so there’s really not a doubt in my mind that it’s gonna end up well.”
Season 26 of the ICU Nurse Finalists was won by Rachel, 26. The BachelorHowever, their romance with Clayton, 28-year-old, ended when Clayton confessed to having fallen in love with them both. Susie Evans. Gabby and the flight instructor both agreed to give the former football player another chance, but he later revealed that he couldn’t stop thinking about Susie, also 28, during the fantasy suites episode.
Both Rachel and Gabby didn’t hold back during After the Final Rose, telling Clayton they felt that he couldn’t possibly have been in love with all three of his finalists. “You told me that I was the first person that you said ‘I love you’ to in six years. I had no reason to ever doubt you,” Rachel told him. “So did you tell me that you were in love with me because you wanted to sleep with me?”
The Bachelorette alum denied her accusation, but the Florida native said she didn’t really think he was in love with her before the duo’s night in the fantasy suite.
“That was a surprising comment,” Clayton exclusively told Us Weekly After the finale aired. “I don’t want to take that away from her. … I said, ‘No.’ And she said, ‘Well, I don’t believe it.’ There’s nothing more I could say besides, ‘OK,’ at that point. If there’s one day down the road that she wants to have a candid conversation and talk more in-depth about the entire thing, I would certainly give that to her. I think I do owe it to both of them — if they would like to — but if they don’t want to hear anything else come out of my mouth, they shouldn’t feel that they need to give me that ability to explain myself.”
Clayton was told by Gabby that Clayton made it seem like he forced women to compete for his affection in a way that was not normal. Bachelor season. “Watching it back, everything is so muddled, and you are clearly pitting us against each other,” the Colorado native said. “It really seems like a competition, which I had expressed to you that I didn’t want to be a part of.”
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