Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia’s Season 19 of ‘The Bachelorette’: Everything We Know

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Two Bachelorettes are better than one! For season 19 of the ABC dating series, Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia will embark on a journey to find love — at the same time.Host Jesse Palmer announced the news during the After the Final Rose special that aired following the finale of Clayton Echard‘s season of The Bachelor in March.

It marks the first time in Bachelor Nation history that two leads will appear for the entirety of a season.Bachelorette viewers immediately began to wonder how the process will work, but even the new leads don’t know. “Everyone keeps asking,” Gabby, 31, said during a March interview on Good Morning America. “We just got thrown in.

But I have faith and a lot of trust and I love Rachel to death and I know we’re gonna have each other’s backs the whole way, so there’s really not a doubt in my mind that it’s gonna end up well.”The ICU nurse and Rachel, 26, were both finalists on season 26 of The Bachelor, but their romances with Clayton, 28, fell apart after he confessed that he fell in love with both of them as well as Susie Evans.

Gabby and the flight instructor both agreed to give the former football player another chance, but he later revealed that he couldn’t stop thinking about Susie, also 28, during the fantasy suites episode.Both Rachel and Gabby didn’t hold back during After the Final Rose, telling Clayton they felt that he couldn’t possibly have been in love with all three of his finalists. “You told me that I was the first person that you said ‘I love you’ to in six years.