Zach Shallcross is lastly revealing what occurred within the fantasy suite with Rachel Recchia throughout The Bachelorette season 19.
Zach, 28, filmed a TikTok video on fiancé Kaity Biggar’s account after a fan requested him to set the report straight about his evening with Rachel, 28.
“I’m sorry guys, it’s anticlimactic, actually,” Zach started within the Saturday, August 17, video. “We simply weren’t suitable in any respect. Like, we each couldn’t actually see a future with one another and why simply go to the subsequent week attempt to determine it out then? We each knew it wasn’t it, so.”
After his admission, Zach had nothing however reward for his ex. “Rachel’s superior,” he mentioned. “We’re all nonetheless mates to at the present time, however yeah, nothing thrilling sadly. Sorry.”
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Whereas vying for the affections of Rachel throughout The Bachelorette season 19 in 2022, Zach made headlines for his rocky in a single day date. After spending the evening, Zach didn’t assume he was seeing “the true Rachel” however as an alternative the “Bachelorette model.”
“I felt just like the ‘considerations with the age half’ was a whole blindside,” Zach mentioned. “It’s type of onerous to wrap my head round it. I did actually love you. I noticed a future with you, however I have to go.”
After Rachel mentioned she wished she may’ve “gotten there” with Zach, he left the collection, and she or he handed out roses to Tino Franco and Aven Jones. Whereas reflecting on his elimination, Zach mentioned that Rachel’s response “felt so chilly.”
“I believed, possibly, that I meant extra,” Zach mentioned within the automotive. “One of many issues I fell in love with was she made me really feel, like, particular. And I cared for her and I query if any of that was actual or if that was simply an act.”
Zach and Rachel got here face-to-face throughout a dwell section of the finale, the place he apologized for “making you are feeling like I referred to as you out to your character.”
“That’s the very last thing I wished. I used to be type of in shock and disbelief in what was occurring between us. I’m so sorry,” he mentioned on the time, to which Rachel replied, “That was actually onerous for me to look at again.” Rachel added that her emotions for Zach have been “actual.”
When host Jesse Palmer requested for extra perception into their in a single day date, Zach famous that it felt “instantly off” between him and Rachel. “It began off very early within the fantasy suite … and it was simply off. [We’re] two very completely different individuals,” he mentioned.
Rachel ended the present engaged to Tino, however the pair referred to as off their engagement after the present wrapped when he confessed to kissing another person. Zach, for his half, was named the lead of The Bachelor season 27. He popped the query to Kaity within the 2023 finale.