A Bachelorette Exec Reveals the Second ABC Knew Clare Crawley Had to Be Replaced

Well, the moment you’ve been waiting for on The Bachelorette has finally arrived. It appears that in next week’s episode, we’ll see what happened that caused Clare Crawley to abruptly leave the show and be replaced by Tayshia Adams. To be clear, this hasn’t 100% been confirmed yet, but ABC seemed to imply as much in this promo for the new episode: 

Rumors of Crawley’s leaving The Bachelorette have been floating around the fandom for months now. If you’ve been watching this season so far, you know she’s fallen hard for contestant Dale Moss—so hard, in fact, that it’s almost as if there are no other contestants on the show. The inkling viewers have been getting  is that Crawley will leave her post as Bachelorette to be with Moss exclusively, and that’s when Adams jumps in. 

ABC exec Rob Mills opened up about this situation on Nick Viall’s podcast. Again, he doesn’t confirm the Adams rumor fully, but he does reveal when ABC knew Crawley’s season wasn't going according to plan and they needed to make a change. 

“This was the time when we started thinking, Oh my God, like we've really got to start thinking about this. When she didn't give out that rose and just gave it to herself,” Mills said, referring to the October 27 episode, when Crawley didn’t give a rose out on a group date. “At the time, it was sort of controversial.”

Viall chimed in with, “I felt like I saw that coming. It’s like, ‘Dale’s not on this date; I’m just not going to give a rose.’”

“Right. That was it,” Mills said. “That was it, that was when we started making the call.”

And Adams picked up. “You rang...?!,” she wrote on Instagram after the episode premiered, seemingly nodding to the fact that, yes, she’s about to take over as Bachelorette. 

We can't wait to see how this all plays out. 

Originally Appeared on Glamour