The Bachelor’s Christina Mandrell Had Brief Cameo in Taylor Swift’s ‘Fifteen’ Music Video

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Not her first foray into the spotlight! While Christina Mandrell impressed Zach Shallcross upon The Bachelor premiere, eagle-eyed fans noticed she already has a special connection to Taylor Swift.After watching the content creator, 26, introduce herself to Shallcross, 26, on the Monday, January 23, premiere, Swifties noticed that she looked very familiar.

A then-teenaged Mandrell can be spotted at the end of Swift’s “Fifteen” music video.“Fifteen” — which was released in 2008 on her Fearless album— followed Swift, now 33, and bestie Abigail Anderson as they started high school, navigating classwork, making friends and dealing with first love and heartbreak.

In the final scene, a grown-up version of the “Anti-Hero” performer returns to the academic facility. There, she sees a pair of teen girls chatting — just like she and Anderson, now 32, used to do before class started.

Mandrell, for her part, portrayed one of the teen girls.“Apparently I look at Zach the same way I look at Taylor Swift,” the single mom — who shares daughter Blakely, 6, with a former partner — quipped via Instagram on Wednesday, January 25, sharing throwback footage from the music video. “New Conspiracy theory, first I stared at Taylor, then stared at Zach, which inevitably leads to me crying on the STAIRs