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Clare Crawley from Juan Pablo’s season of the Bachelor
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LOL, Claude beat me to spoiling the identity!
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Clare will turn 39 on March 20th, making her the oldest Bachelorette in the history of this franchise.
Filming was supposed to start today but has been postponed due to the coronavirus.
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It looks like this season will start filming in July but in under 1 location per quarantine format.
There are fueling rumors on the upcoming Bachelorette season:
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‘The Bachelorette’ Casting Shakeup Expected for Upcoming Season
As if shooting “The Bachelorette” under quarantine wasn’t enough drama, ABC’s female-fronted reality show has been rocked by more real-life twists that will play out on-screen in the upcoming season.
Over the weekend, rumors began to swirl that “The Bachelorette” lead, Clare Crawley, would be replaced by “Bachelor” alum, Tayshia Adams, when a Reddit user posted that Crawley had fallen in love with a contestant early on and refused to continue filming.
While both ABC and Warner Bros. TV have declined to comment about the on-set bombshell, sources say tabloid and blog reports that have surfaced over the weekend are not all entirely accurate.
However, insiders have clued Variety in on the fact that there is some validity to the rumors that Crawley and Adams could swap in the leading lady position during the season. In other words, Crawley — the woman who was originally cast as “The Bachelorette” for Season 16 — will not be completely replaced, and her dramatic storyline will air during the season.
“It’s shaping up to be a very interesting season creatively with lots of twists and turns,” a production insider tells Variety.
Even if Crawley had fallen in love with a contestant early on throughout filming, a cast member cannot make the decision to depart the show on which they are under contract. However, if the production team believes a cast departure could benefit the storyline, the switch could certainly happen.
Adding more fuel to the fire, late this weekend, Crawley briefly liked a tweet about Adams becoming “The Bachelorette,” before un-liking the post on Twitter. “Bachelor” cast members are not allowed to have their phones during the duration of the shoot, so Crawley’s social media interaction brings about questions of her whereabouts. Moreover, Variety hears that texts were not going through to Adams’ phone this past weekend, which could indicate she is, indeed, on-set.
The off-screen rumor mill has always fueled “The Bachelor” franchise with tabloids and bloggers publishing tons of stories, while each season is in production — some that are true, and many that are not true. In this case, the Crawley and Adams rumors surely keep the upcoming season in the headlines, which could explain why the network and studio are not providing any comment, let alone denying the various reports. ABC typically declines to comment on any production rumors, regarding the franchise.
Variety has learned that no sort of announcement is expected to be made, at this time, and the drama will be saved for the season when it airs this fall.
Should Adams become the second star of Season 16 of “The Bachelorette,” she would bring more diversity to the long-running dating show franchise that has suffered years of criticism for its lack if diversity, but has cast its first-ever Black male lead, Matt James, for the upcoming season of “The Bachelor,” which is planned to air in early 2021.
Adams, who is mixed-race, first appeared as a finalist on Colton Underwood’s season of “The Bachelor,” and then went onto the sixth season of summer spinoff, “Bachelor In Paradise.”
Production on this season of “The Bachelorette” was shut down in mid-March, as the coronavirus pandemic began to spread in the U.S., halting virtually all production in Hollywood. Production is now four weeks in, as the cast and crew are essentially quarantined in a bubble at a Southern California resort, which has been completely rented out just to film the ABC series. Sources indicate that the Crawley drama occurred as production had just about hit the halfway point.
Source: https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/the-bachelorette-season-16-clare-crawley-tayshia-adams-1234723727/
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The Bachelor host Chris Harrison to miss show for the first time in 11 years
Former Bachelorette JoJo Fletcher will step in for Harrison temporarily during the upcoming season of The Bachelorette.
Season 16 is already the most dramatic season of The Bachelorette EVER — and it hasn't even finished filming. Not only was Clare Crawley reportedly replaced by Tayshia Adams after falling for one of her men, but now a source close to production confirms to EW that host Chris Harrison will take a two-week break from the show, as first reported by Us Weekly.
Harrison recently dropped off his son, Joshua, at college in Texas. (Up until recently, Joshua helped his pops film segments of The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever from their California home.)
Once Harrison returned to California, where the The Bachelorette is currently filming, he was required to undergo a 14-day quarantine as part of the production's safety precautions against the coronavirus pandemic. While Harrison is isolating, season 12 Bachelorette Joelle "JoJo" Fletcher will take over his hosting duties.
This will be the first time that Harrison has missed an episode of The Bachelor or Bachelorette (or Bachelor Pad or Bachelor in Paradise) since 2009, when he was not present for one rose ceremony during Jillian Harris' season of The Bachelorette. That episode was filmed in Spain, and it saw the departure of infamous Bachelor Nation villain Wes "Love Don't Come Easy" Hayden. Harrison was not there to utter the all-important line "Gentlemen, Jillian, this is the final rose tonight" — and I am still traumatized about it, rose lovers.
ABC has not yet announced a premiere date for the upcoming season of The Bachelorette.
Source: https://ew.com/tv/the-bachelor-chris-harrison-break-jojo-fletcher/