Hannah Ann Sluss Finally Addresses ‘Bachelorette’ Season 16 Theory After Katie Thurston, Clare Crawley Suggest She Wasn’t on Set

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Case (finally) closed? It’s been two years since Hannah Ann Sluss was spotted on the set of season 16 of The Bachelorette, but her potential role on Clare Crawley / Tayshia Adams’ season of the ABC show made waves again earlier this summer when Katie Thurston suggested that the woman seen at La Quinta wasn’t the Bachelor season 24 winner after all.“That was me.

The funny part of it is that, like, I don’t care. No one else cares. I think only a few people actually care. … It’s just not a big deal. … No one has to believe me at all,” Hannah Ann, 26, said on the Thursday, August 25, episode of the “Click Bait” podcast, calling the speculation “strange.”She continued: “But if that’s how someone wants to use their spare time, then go for it. … But I just thought it was funny because, like, no one actually knows the real reason why I was there.

So I that’s, like, the best part is people thinking they know the reason but they actually don’t.”Back in August 2020, Us Weekly broke the news that Hannah Ann was in Palm Springs, sharing photos of the reality star in a golf cart with a mask on due to coronavirus protocols.

Last month, Katie, 31, suggested that it was someone else in the golf cart.“Ok maybe not the ‘hottest tea’ but I laugh at y’all thinking you know who this is,” the season 17 lead wrote alongside the photo.Clare, who starred in the first half of season 16, then chimed in, “I was 10 feet away, I know exactly who that is hahah!”When Katie responded, “Thriving,” Clare added, “Just out here proving the point that not everything you ‘see’ is truth.”Bachelor Nation fans subsequently speculated that it was a producer on the show who resembles Hannah Ann, with the drama being dubbed “#Slussgate.”As viewers may recall, there