Nick Viall Is ‘Optimistic’ About Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia’s Joint ‘Bachelorette’ Season: ‘It Will Be Wild’

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Hoping for the best. Nick Viall is looking forward to Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia‘s joint Bachelorette season — as long as the show doesn’t affect their friendship.“[I] can’t wait to see two Bachelorettes.

Don’t know how that’s going to go, but I’m sure it will be wild,” the “Viall Files” podcast host, 41, told Us Weekly exclusively at the Elton John 2022 Oscars Viewing Party in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 27.Nick also added that he hopes the show’s producers “know better” than to make the two leading ladies compete with one another during their season because he enjoyed seeing Gabby, 31, and Rachel, 26, develop a close bond during Clayton Echard‘s season of The Bachelor. “I don’t think it’s going to be a good look for anyone to pit them against each other,” the longtime Bachelor Nation member continued. “I hope and expect to see a lot of camaraderie and … a sisterhood between the two [women].

I’m sure there’ll be drama and there will be ways to kind of elicit that, but I’m optimistic that it won’t be in any way Gabby versus Rachel.

That’s my hope.”Host Jesse Palmer announced that both the ICU nurse and the pilot had been chosen as the Season 19 Bachelorettes during the live After the Final Rose special earlier this month.