Let their rosy journey start! After Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia have been named joint leads of The Bachelorette earlier this month, their season is already underway.
“The journey has begun… #TheBachelorette (s),” govt producer Mike Fleiss tweeted on Saturday, March 26, alongside a snap of the few of the women’ suitors nervously ready on the enduring Bachelor Mansion sofa.
The showrunner, 57, wasn’t the one member of the crew documenting the primary evening. Jesse Palmer, for his half, gave Instagram followers a behind-the-scenes tease of his late-night internet hosting dates.
“Alright, it’s about 7 a.m. [and] the longest evening in tv is formally over,” the 43-year-old former soccer participant — and Bachelor season 5 lead — defined through a Sunday, March 27, Instagram Story video. “Night time 1 is within the books for Rachel and Gabby. Their journeys are formally underway! Can’t wait so that you can see it.”
The Canada native beforehand confirmed that each Gabby, 31, and Rachel, 26, would costar on The Bachelorette season 19 throughout the After the Last Rose particular on March 15. The ICU nurse and the flight teacher rose to fame as finalists on Clayton Echard’s season. After each ladies met the 28-year-old Missouri native’s dad and mom, he despatched them residence to rekindle his reference to Susie Evans, who left one episode prior. Gabby and Rachel’s twin look marks the primary time the present featured two Bachelorettes all season lengthy. (Kaitlyn Bristowe and Britt Nilsson briefly shared the gig earlier than their contestants selected the “Off the Vine” podcast host, 36, as the only lead.)
“Everybody retains asking. We simply acquired thrown in,” Gabby mentioned throughout a joint interview with Rachel on Good Morning America earlier this month. “However I’ve religion and loads of belief and I like Rachel to loss of life. And I do know we’re gonna have one another’s backs the entire manner, so there’s actually not a doubt in my thoughts that it’s gonna find yourself properly.”
The ABC franchise teased the women’ potential suitors earlier this week, together with a pair of twins and a person initially tapped for Clare Crawley’s 2020 season. Whereas the present execs had but to expose additional particulars of the brand new season, they denied that the Florida and Colorado natives would compete towards each other.
“I like Gabby and Rachel however there’s no manner this doesn’t pit these two towards one another,” one fan tweeted in March. “Each man is gonna be requested the identical query ‘who do you want extra!’”
Fleiss replied: “Not true! You’ll see…”
The Bachelorette season 19 premieres on ABC Monday, July 11, at 8 p.m. ET.
Scroll under to see snaps from Gabby and Rachel’s first evening as Bachelorettes:
