'The Bachelor': Clayton on Why Gabby and Rachel 'Deserve' to Be the Bachelorette (Exclusive)

Hoping for the best. Nick Viall is looking forward to Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia‘s joint Bachelorette season — as long as the show doesn’t affect their friendship.

Not exactly a shock! Tayshia Adams revealed when she and Kaitlyn Bristowe found out about Jesse Palmer hosting The Bachelorette, telling Us Weekly exclusively that they were given a heads-up.

Let their rosy journey begin! After Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia were named joint leads of The Bachelorette earlier this month, their season is already underway.

Wait a minute! Connor Brennan set the record straight on his future with Bachelor Nation, denying any involvement with season 19 of The Bachelorette.

Bye-bye, Bachelorette! Tayshia Adams is speaking out after it was confirmed that she will no longer cohost the ABC dating show — at least for now.

Exciting news for The Bachelorette fans!

Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia are ready to hand out the roses! On Wednesday, ABC released the names, photos, ages and hometowns of 35 men who may appear on the upcoming season of , which will feature two leading ladies for the entirety of their journey.The men in question, who range in age from 23 to 36, hail from across the U.S., with 12 potential suitors calling California home. Also of note is the fact that two of the men, Joey and Justin Y., appear to be twins.

Twins, two Bachelorettes and 30 other men walk into the mansion, what could go wrong? Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey are both set to star as the Bachelorette on season 19 and ABC has released the first look at their potential suitors.

her "Off the Vine" podcast.  "I saw at the end of the ['Bachelor' Season 26] finale that Jesse was announcing the two 'Bachelorettes,' and he said he was going to be by their side for that. So I guess, spoiler alert: I'm not coming back."Kaitlyn, a former "Bachelorette" lead, co-hosted back-to-back seasons of the reality TV show with fellow former franchise lead Tayshia Adams.

This upcoming season of The Bachelorette – which for the first time will feature two leads, Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia – will be hosted by Jesse Palmer.

Her side of the story. Kaitlyn Bristowe spoke out for the first time about not returning to host The Bachelorette for season 19.

Kaitlyn Bristowe has mixed feelings about not hosting the next season of . On the latest episode of her podcast, the Bachelor Nation star reacted to the news that she and Tayshia Adams will not be returning to host the show's next season.After Kaitlyn and Tayshia led Katie Thurston and Michelle Young's seasons of the show, Jesse Palmer, who hosted Clayton Echard's season of , will guide co-Bachelorettes Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia through their journey.«I think Jesse's amazing.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentBachelor Nation got whiplash this week from the season finale of “The Bachelor” Season 26 — which went from breakup to makeup to another breakup and another makeup to a dual breakup, all ultimately for leading man Clayton Echard to end up with contestant Susie Evans, who had actually left the show the week before the finale.If that sounds confusing, it’s because it is.Never, since the two decades its been on-air, has the dating show seen such a change-of-heart from its lead than it did this season: Echard told three women (Evans, Gabby Widney and Rachel Recchia) that he was in love with them, also admitting to sleeping with two of them.After being left alone and single in the final episode, which filmed roughly four months ago, Echard ended up walking away with Evans, despite her turning him down in the shocking finale. And in last night’s “After the Final Rose” episode, instead of a proposal, Evans confirmed she was his girlfriend, accepting Echard’s final rose — but not before he was reamed out by Widney and Recchia on live television with both women calling him selfish, manipulative and thoughtless.

Susie Evans had a hard time watching her beau reunite with his exes. The morning after the season finale of , Clayton Echard's final pick told ET's Denny Directo that watching the medical sales rep's conversations with Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia was «heartbreaking.»During the two-part season finale, Clayton reeled from Susie's decision to leave the show, after learning that he'd been intimate with and was in love with multiple women.Clayton came clean to Gabby and Rachel about the same thing, and convinced them to stay and meet his parents, but ended up breaking up with them when he couldn't get Susie off of his mind.Those splits led Clayton to have awkward live conversations with Gabby and Rachel on Tuesday's episode, both of which Susie watched from the wings as she waited to make her couple debut with the Bachelor himself.«It was really tough,» Susie told ET. «We obviously knew those conversations were coming.

For Clayton Echard, hindsight is 20/20 is an understatement. The season 26 Bachelor and Susie Evans got real about watching the finale episodes of the ABC show together, including his messy splits from Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey.

Sucks to suck, Clayton Echard! But you were so s**tty in your run on the reality TV juggernaut this season, we actually appreciate you for breathing new life into The Bachelorette now!

The Bachelorette, coming this summer. "After unwaveringly supporting each other through a devastating dual breakup in the season 26 finale of , fan favorites and fierce women Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia will stand by each other's side yet again as they set out on a journey to find love," ABC said in a press release.Here's everything to know about the new Bachelorette Gabby Windey, a 31-year-old ICU nurse looking for love, who has coincidentally dated two Bachelor Nation . Season 19 of The Bachelorette premieres Monday, July 11, on ABC. She's an ICU nurse. She works as a registered nurse in the medical ICU at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital.

The Bachelor due to her instant deep connection with from the very start. But as the journey went on, things took a turn for the worse when Clayton told three women, including Rachel, that he was in love with them despite knowing he could only give one his final rose."After unwaveringly supporting each other through a devastating dual breakup in the season 26 finale of The Bachelor, fan favorites and fierce women Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia will stand by each other's side yet again as they set out on a journey to find love," ABC said in a statement.Rachel's path to love will continue on The Bachelorette on July 11. Here's some things to know about our new Bachelorette Rachel Recchia.She's a flight instructor and commercial pilot.

The most dramatic season yet? Clayton Echard‘s Bachelor journey came to a shocking end on Tuesday, March 15, and even former ABC stars couldn’t see the twists coming.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentSPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead, if you have not watched Clayton Echard’s finale of “The Bachelor,” which aired March 14 and 15 on ABC.After replacing Chris Harrison as host of “The Bachelor,” Jesse Palmer has inked a deal to return as host of the franchise’s female-led series, “The Bachelorette,” which will return with its 19th season this summer.“The Bachelorette” Season 19 will make history in a franchise first with two leading ladies: Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia, both finalists from Clayton Echard’s season of “The Bachelor.”On Echard’s dramatic season finale, which aired on Tuesday night, Windey and Recchia faced a dual breakup, shocking viewers who sounded off on Twitter about Echard’s decisions. Over the last few episodes, Echard told both women he was in love with them, in addition to admitting to sleeping with both of them in the fantasy suites.