Tayshia Adams Is at La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs: 5 Things to Know About the ‘Bachelorette’ Addition

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Tayshia Adams Is at La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs: 5 Things to Know About the ‘Bachelorette’ Addition

Another shot at love for Tayshia Adams? Season 16 of The Bachelorette is shaking things up. While ABC has yet to publicly comment on reports that Tayshia, 29, is replacing Clare Crawley as the season 16 lead, a source confirms to Us Weekly that Tayshia is in fact at La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs, California, where the show is currently filming. A second insider previously told Us that producers recently contacted contestants who were not picked for Clare’s final lineup. “Last weekend, producers reached out to backup Bachelorette contestants who had been vetted for Clare’s season but were ultimately not cast to film at La Quinta [Resort],” the insider said. “When producers reached back out, out of the blue, it was very apparent that something had happened with production.” Clare, meanwhile, was named the season 16 lead in March. After delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, the cameras didn’t start rolling until July 18. A source now tells Us that season 16 will feature both of the women. Speculation that Tayshia was taking over for Clare began after Life & Style magazine reported she secretly traveled to the Palm Springs location. The hairdresser added fuel to the fire when she “liked” (and later “unliked”) a tweet about Tayshia scoring the role. “I’m sure many would be thrilled with Tayshia, too!!” the post “liked” by Clare read. [jwplayer AmqqfaA9] While Tayshia has subsequently gone dark on social media — another sign she is filming the show — she previously revealed she was open to the opportunity of being the Bachelorette. "I have to say, anything that comes my way, I am ready for. I am ready for love!" she told Entertainment Tonight in February 2020. "No matter where life takes me, I am open to all opportunities, and I don't think that this is where my TV presence will end. I would love to still interact with a lot of people in a beautiful way." And while several members of Bachelor Nation showed their support for Tayshia at the time, not everyone was convinced. Most notably, Nick Viall quipped that Tayshia “is a lovely human,” but “she would also have [viewers] in bed by 8:30.” Scroll through for everything you need to know about Tayshia:

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Tayshia Adams Is at La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs: 5 Things to Know About the ‘Bachelorette’ Addition

Another shot at love for Tayshia Adams? Season 16 of The Bachelorette is shaking things up. While ABC has yet to publicly comment on reports that Tayshia, 29, is replacing Clare Crawley as the season 16 lead, a source confirms to Us Weekly that Tayshia is in fact at La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs, California, where the show is currently filming. A second insider previously told Us that producers recently contacted contestants who were not picked for Clare’s final lineup. “Last weekend, producers reached out to backup Bachelorette contestants who had been vetted for Clare’s season but were ultimately not cast to film at La Quinta [Resort],” the insider said. “When producers reached back out, out of the blue, it was very apparent that something had happened with production.” Clare, meanwhile, was named the season 16 lead in March. After delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, the cameras didn’t start rolling until July 18. A source now tells Us that season 16 will feature both of the women. Speculation that Tayshia was taking over for Clare began after Life & Style magazine reported she secretly traveled to the Palm Springs location. The hairdresser added fuel to the fire when she “liked” (and later “unliked”) a tweet about Tayshia scoring the role. “I’m sure many would be thrilled with Tayshia, too!!” the post “liked” by Clare read. [jwplayer AmqqfaA9] While Tayshia has subsequently gone dark on social media — another sign she is filming the show — she previously revealed she was open to the opportunity of being the Bachelorette. "I have to say, anything that comes my way, I am ready for. I am ready for love!" she told Entertainment Tonight in February 2020. "No matter where life takes me, I am open to all opportunities, and I don't think that this is where my TV presence will end. I would love to still interact with a lot of people in a beautiful way." And while several members of Bachelor Nation showed their support for Tayshia at the time, not everyone was convinced. Most notably, Nick Viall quipped that Tayshia “is a lovely human,” but “she would also have [viewers] in bed by 8:30.” Scroll through for everything you need to know about Tayshia:

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1. She’s Divorced

Tayshia was previously married to her first love, Joshua Bourelle. They split in October 2017 after less than two years of marriage. Their divorce was finalized in April 2018.

“I felt a lot of pressure to make sure that my marriage worked, so at the same time, I made sure to do everything I needed to do in order to know that I did everything I could at the end of the day. It definitely was scary to tell my parents it’s just not working out,” she told Dean Unglert on his “Help! I Suck at Dating” podcast in 2019. “Before my divorce, I really wasn’t open with my parents about every single thing that was going on in my relationship slash me in general. But, because of my divorce, I opened up a lot more and they are now my closest friends in a way.”

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2. She Made it to Fantasy Suites on Colton’s Season

While Tayshia made it to the final three on Colton Underwood’s season of The Bachelor, the former football player revealed in his book, The First Time, that she went to sleep after she realized “nothing was going to happen” by “two or three in the morning.”

He wrote, “I laid down next to her in my sweatpants and long sleeved shirt. I didn’t sleep all night.”

Underwood also claimed in the tell-all that he kept Tayshia after the hometown dates because he wanted to prove to front-runner Cassie Randolph that he wasn’t serious with anyone else including her friend Caelynn Miller-Keyes.

“I would’ve cut Tayshia, but I wanted to separate Cassie and Caelynn,” he wrote. “I knew their friendship had grown and thought it might be interfering with my relationship with Cass. If Caelynn went home, it might let Cassie see that I was more serious about her.”

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3. She Split from JPJ in October 2019

During her stint on Bachelor in Paradise season 6, Tayshia was in a love triangle with John Paul Jones and Derek Peth. While she picked JPJ, they split before they left the beach in Mexico. While they later reunited, it was over for good in October 2019.

“John and I had something incredibly special. We fell for each other in Paradise, and everything was a whirlwind after that,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “When the show ended, I truly went back to Maryland to see if what we had was something we could build on without cameras, a production crew, and without feeling any pressure: to simply figure things out on our own terms. But the reality was, we were living on opposite coasts, and working insane schedules that made it impossible to see each other and build a life with each other. We truly did the best we could, but at this time have decided that what is best for the both of us is to go our separate ways. We are the best of friends and will continue to remain in each other’s life because regardless of the situation, we make each other happy💕💕.”

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4. She’s a Phlebotomist

Before she joined the ABC franchise, Tayshia was working as a medical professional trained to draw blood.

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5. Tayshia’s Pre-Show Drama

Us broke the news in February 2019 that Tayshia was seeing a man named Chase Olswang before she left to film Colton’s season in September 2018.

“I moved some things around … before she ended up deciding to leave [for The Bachelor], because she still wasn’t really sure if she was going to go on the show or not,” Chase claimed to Us at the time. “She was still back and forth … she wasn’t sure. As it got closer, I could kind of see changes between us and I could kind of tell that she was leaning toward going. I don’t know all of the exact reasons for that. … There is an open line of communication. We’re there for each other if we need to be, but things have changed quite a bit since she’s come back.”