Tayshia Adams talks hosting ‘The Bachelorette’

Lots of eyes shall be on Tayshia Adams when she hosts the upcoming season of The Bachelorette. 

“The whole lot simply form of fell into place to the place the world wants one thing recent and new,” Adams stated on Tuesday’s version of Garcelle Beauvais’s Going to Mattress With Garcelle podcast. “And I believe that we’re going to present that this season. I believe that individuals are in search of change within the franchise. And I actually assume that that is one thing that they are going to be actually enthusiastic about.”

Adams, who’s acquainted to Bachelor viewers as a former contestant and the latest star of The Bachelorette, shall be taking up for Chris Harrison. The community introduced March 12 that Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe, one other former contestant, would change Harrison for the season following controversy over race on the ABC staple. The longtime host apologized after he defended contestant Rachael Kirkconnell’s racist conduct, one thing that appeared notably egregious due to the present’s historic lack of range.

Adams, who’s biracial, stated she’s shocked to search out herself starring on the present once more.

“It is so humorous as a result of if you happen to would’ve advised me I might be proper right here at the moment, I might have by no means thought that this may be my place,” she stated. “Simply because, you already know, The Bachelor is fairly conventional within the sense of … they’ve, like, their rhyme or cause.”

Adams starred within the season that started in October 2020, and he or she ended up discovering love with Zac Clark. They’re now engaged.

However earlier than coupling up with Clark, she competed for the guts of Colton Underwood, who got here out as homosexual earlier this month. She stated on the podcast that she “did not suspect it in any respect.”

The brand new season of The Bachelorette premieres June 7 at 8 p.m. on ABC.

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