Nothing off limits! Tayshia Adams came face to face with the men she has already sent home during the Monday, December 14, episode of The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All.
The first half of the episode showed fans who made it to hometowns week. Tayshia went on a one-on-one date with Blake, hoping to advance their connection. However, she quickly decided he was not her Mr. Right, so she eliminated him before the evening portion of their date. Blake was shocked, while Tayshia broke down in tears over hurting him.
The leading lady decided to say another difficult goodbye right away, heading to the men’s suite to break up with Riley. She didn’t want to involve his family in their relationship or lead him on knowing that she wasn’t in the same place as him. She felt like she let him down as he confessed he thought she was The One.
Tayshia canceled the cocktail party ahead of the rose ceremony, but before Chris Harrison — returning to his hosting duties — had a chance to announce the change, Bennett arrived. He told the other men that Tayshia invited him to the rose ceremony after his declaration of love.
However, his grand gesture was not enough, and Tayshia sent him home again during the rose ceremony. She also axed Noah, leaving Zac, Ben, Ivan and Brendan for hometowns. Noah was heartbroken and cried during his exit, and Bennett admitted to being confused by his double elimination.
After clearing up the unfinished business from the Tuesday, December 8, episode, Harrison moved on to The Men Tell All. Clare Crawley and Dale Moss, who got engaged earlier in the season after a whirlwind courtship, did not attend the reunion, although the former Bachelorette was brought up several times.
Yosef, Bennett, Noah, Blake and Riley were among the men to return to say their peace and put Tayshia in the hot seat about their missed connections. Although tempers flared as usual and some harsh words were exchanged, the reunion was filmed without an audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Noah felt Bennett’s gifts to him — including a book about emotional intelligence — were “conniving” in nature, but that did not stop him from reading the book, which he deemed good. Bennett made a jab in Noah’s direction at one point, telling him that he was deficient in all four areas of emotional intelligence despite previously informing him that he was only lacking three out of four.
Bennett later apologized to Noah for their feud, but Noah declined his mea culpa and said they would never be friends.
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Yosef returned to rehash his fight with Clare over the strip dodgeball group date, blaming her for escalating the conversation in the first place. Harrison gave him a chance to apologize, but he refused and claimed he had no regrets about standing up for the other guys after Clare humiliated them. When the host took it so far as to ask if he would approve of someone speaking to his daughter in the way he did Clare, Yosef retorted: “If my daughter did something like that, I would hope someone would call her out.”
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Tayshia shot down the rumor that producers planned for her to take over for Clare from the beginning. She joked that she wished it was a setup so she would’ve had more time to prepare herself for the journey.
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Harrison showed a deleted scene from Blake’s one-on-one date, during which he seemingly got an erection while a shaman waved a crystal over his body. “I was charged,” he explained.
Later in the episode, Tayshia admitted that she put up walls with Blake because of his lingering feelings for Clare when she arrived. She didn’t want to be blindsided if he couldn’t get over her predecessor.
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Tayshia appreciated Bennett laying his heart on the line when he returned, so she wanted to be respectful toward him by taking time to think about whether she should give him a second chance. Ultimately, her other relationships were stronger, so she sent him home again.
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Riley took his breakup with Tayshia hard, but she reassured him she didn’t end things because he opened up to her about his life. In fact, she encouraged him to keep being vulnerable with others.
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There was much debate about whether Noah came on the show just to start drama, which he denied, but Kenny took it one step further by accusing him of being a “party boy” and getting drunk. Noah then fired back at Kenny, alleging he displayed the same behavior.
The Bachelorette airs on ABC Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
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