From Teddi Wright to Rachel Recchia, Jill Chin is weighing in on how her Bachelor besties are coping amid their respective heartbreaks.
22.09.2022 - 22:09 / usmagazine.com
New revelations rocking Bachelor Nation. Following the two-part finale of The Bachelorette, season 19 stars Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey are opening up about their dramatic endings — and clapping back at critics.
“A lot of the viewers think me and Gabby just wanted a ring and we just wanted to be engaged, but that’s not what we wanted,” the 26-year-old flight instructor told Variety on Wednesday, September 21. “We wanted commitment. We came into this show completely ready for that step in our life. … I was so open with the men that this is the goal that I wanted and I wanted someone to stand there with me at the end and be my life partner. It really didn’t have to do with a ring. It has to do with someone who was agreeing to go through their life with you and that’s what a proposal really stands for ultimately. What we wanted was commitment.”
While both women got proposals, it seems only Gabby got a commitment. The Dancing With the Stars contestant is engaged to Erich Schwer and the twosome are still going strong. Rachel, meanwhile, split from fiancé Tino Franco while the season was airing after he kissed another woman.
During the Tuesday, September 20, finale, fans watched Rachel and Tino argue over whether they were on a break when he cheated. Rachel has been adamant that their relationship never ended, while the general contractor repeatedly brought up the “bad place” their romance was in when his indiscretion happened.
“There was never a point where we were broken up. There was never a point where an engagement was called off. Did we have conversations saying: ‘We need to focus on dating, we need to really get to the core of this?’ Yes,” Rachel said on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast, which Gabby, Michelle Young and
From Teddi Wright to Rachel Recchia, Jill Chin is weighing in on how her Bachelor besties are coping amid their respective heartbreaks.
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Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior Correspondent You know how they always say this is the most dramatic finale in “Bachelor” history? Well, this really might have been it. “The Bachelorette” Season 19 began with leading ladies Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey both in seemingly happy relationships, with each only having one suitor left — for Rachel, it was Tino Franco; and for Gabby, it was Erich Schwer. Both women were hoping for proposals and they got them. But their fairytale endings were short-lived, as off-camera scandals soon ensued. Gabby and Erich weathered their storm of Erich texting one of his exes, who came forward on social media. The pair are still happily engaged. The same cannot be said for Rachel and Tino, who admitted to cheating on her after the season had wrapped production — of course, cameras followed the couple as they had one of the franchise’s most hard-to-watch conversations of all time. Needless to say, they are broken up.
Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey are reacting to Zach Shallcross being named the next Bachelor. ET's Rachel Smith spoke to the ladies the day after their season finale of aired, and they had only positive things to say about the next franchise lead.Zach vied for Rachel's heart during his run on the show, but the pair ended things after an awkward Fantasy Suite date. They later reunited live, in-studio, during which time Rachel called her ex «an incredible guy» and Zach said he wants «the best» for the pilot.«I'm really excited for him. I think Zach's a great guy,» Rachel tells ET. «It's a lot of pressure, but I think he'll step up to the plate.
Rachel Recchia is shocked by what Tino Franco was willing to discuss on live TV. Following Tuesday's season finale of , the pilot told ET's Rachel Smith what she was alluding to when she told Tino that they «both don't want to air out» the reason they were in a bad place before his cheating scandal, which was apparently revealed during a portion of their breakup argument that did not air on TV.«There are things that are fine to be aired on television and things that I think we are comfortable sharing with the world, and there are some things I think that are so deeply personal — like your own personal traumas — things that you only share with a partner who is that close to you,» Rachel tells ET. «To have something like that weaponized against you in front of a live audience, it really is just really shocking.» Rachel cryptically continues by stating that Tino «knows that things don't make it into a cut for a reason, maybe for both of us.»«It's definitely just something very personal,» she says.
Rachel Recchia and Aven Jones are open to all possibilities. ET's Rachel Smith spoke to the pilot the day after the live finale of , and the reality star revealed how things are going with her ex after his surprise appearance on Tuesday's episode.«We'll have to wait and see,» Rachel tells ET of what may come of her relationship with Aven.
Members of Bachelor Nation have a lot to say about Rachel Recchia‘s dramatic final moments on The Bachelorette!
As Bachelor Nation still reels from the Tuesday, September 20, season finale, one key question remains — will Rachel Recchia and Aven Jones date following her split from Tino Franco?
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Rachel Recchia‘s time as The Bachelorette has come to a dramatic end.
Rachel Recchia and Tino Franco's split than meets the eye. After breaking up over Tino's infidelity, the general contractor and the pilot reunited live on Tuesday's season finale of .During that conversation, which came after viewers saw a previously recorded breakup talk between the pair, Rachel alluded to the fact that there's a reason why their post-show life wasn't all good — even before Tino cheated.«We both don't want to air out why those things were happening,» Rachel told Tino.
Rachel Recchia and Tino Franco's engagement was short-lived. After the pair's engagement was shown on Tuesday night's season finale of , footage filmed during a so-called happy couple weekend revealed how things ultimately came to an end.The pair's romance goes all the way back to night one when Tino received Rachel's first kiss of the season and the first impression rose.«Right off the bat, I felt a connection with him,» Rachel told ET in July. «He was my type… and then we did have a kiss.
Rachel Recchia's journey may not be over. Moments after Tino Franco reunited with Rachel during Tuesday's live finale, her runner-up, Aven Jones, appeared on stage.As Tino sat by and watched, Aven walked out and told Rachel, «This is tough and you don't really deserve any of this… I was just wondering if you maybe want to get out of here and catch up?» «I would love nothing more,» she replied.With a stunned Tino and Jesse Palmer standing by, Rachel and Aven left the stage together.
Another Neil Lane diamond is going to the Bachelorette graveyard. Rachel Recchia and Tino Franco’s engagement blew up as season 19 of the ABC series was airing. The 26-year-old pilot and the 28-year-old general contractor split after she accused him of cheating on her.
Her final rose — for now. Moments after Jesse Palmer teased that Tino Franco is going to have to answer for his “indiscretions,” fans saw Rachel Recchia accept his proposal during the season 19 finale of The Bachelorette.
Drama with the future in-laws? Rachel Recchia only has one suitor remaining ahead of part two of The Bachelorette finale, but it hasn’t been smooth sailing with the Franco family — on or off screen.
Subtle shade? Several of Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia’s former suitors celebrated their Bachelorette friendship — with a seemingly pointed dig at finalist Tino Franco.
Gabby Windey has Rachel Recchia to thank for her gig. On the latest episode of SiriusXM's , Robert Mills, Senior Vice President, Alternative Series, Specials & Late-Night Programming, ABC Entertainment, revealed how the pilot pushed for her co-lead to compete on .«Gabby is actually on — and this is the God's honest truth — she's on because of Rachel,» Robert said. «When we were at CMA Fest in Nashville in June, we were having dinner and Rachel said, 'You have to put Gabby on.
Rachel Recchia. Following part one of 's two-part season finale, the sales executive appeared on the podcast and shared how the pilot made him feel like she was giving up on their relationship.In the episode, the pair called it quits when Aven revealed that he wouldn't be ready to propose at the end of the season, though he told her «wanted to continue our relationship and move forward.»«I definitely had a moment there when we were conversating that, because of the engagement aspect, she was kind of just quitting on us, she was giving up on us a little bit,» he said. [She was] not really giving us a chance to [say], 'Let's take a day and think about it.