The Bachelor alum Ben Higgins believes ABC could "have a really hard problem" on its hands with this new dual The Bachelorette stars format.

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Ben, who starred on The Bachelor's 20th season, admitted it's been "weird" watching The Bachelorette's nineteenth season starring Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia and he's certain he would never want to share a The Bachelor season with another man.

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"Maybe I'm very jealous, maybe I'm envious. You could say all the things [associated] and they would probably all be true, but it would just be uncomfortable all the time," Ben, 33, told Us Weekly in a video interview.

When thinking about dating the same women as another man on TV, Ben continued, "I feel like at some point, my confidence that is necessary when you're trying to figure this whole thing out would break."

"And then, I think if it wasn't Gabby and Rachel, I think [ABC] would have a really hard problem on their hands."

Given Gabby and Rachel became best friends during Clayton Echard's The Bachelor season, they've had open communication while getting to know the same guys on The Bachelorette.

Gabby and Rachel promised to put their friendship first at the start of the show, and they've faced adversity such as kissing the same guys and facing rejection.

Three men, for instance, dumped Gabby during a group date for Rachel, and three different guys rejected roses from Rachel during the third Rose Ceremony of the season in order to pursue Gabby.

And on the latest episode, Logan Palmer decided to switch "teams" and leave Rachel's lineup of men in order to join Gabby's group. Although Logan hurt Rachel and led her on, Gabby ended up giving Logan a rose at the season's fifth Rose Ceremony in Bruges, Belgium.

"I don't know if [producers] will [have a problem] because I think [Gabby and Rachel] are doing it really well, the best they can," Ben reasoned.

"But if it was me sharing this stage [with someone] like [Season 21 The Bachelor star Nick Viall], I feel like I'd be competing more with Nick more than I would be trying to figure out if this was going to work or not, which feels really hard."

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Ben acknowledged how he would especially struggle with rejection.

"I think it'd be hard," Ben reiterated. "There is just a competition."

"I don't care if it was my best friend. This was all cool with me until... they had their first one-on-ones... This feels uncomfortable. It feels like something I don't want to do. It's already weird enough the way it is."

Ben previously interviewed Gabby and Rachel on the "Almost Famous" podcast he co-hosts with Ashley Iaconetti and recalled, "I have to give them credit because they were telling us who they kissed and how the kiss was and who they're into and who they're not into. That's not me."

Gabby and Rachel have two more weeks of dates before hometowns, but Rachel has battled insecurities and questioned at times if she can even continue the process.

As for Ben, he first competed on Kaitlyn Bristowe's season of The Bachelorette in 2015 and finished in third place, and then he was selected by ABC to star on The Bachelor's 20th season, which aired in 2016.

Following Ben's The Bachelor season, he and his winner Lauren Bushnell starred on a spinoff, Ben & Lauren: Happily Ever After?, which aired on Freeform and featured them planning a wedding.

But Ben and Lauren called off their engagement and split in May 2017, and then Ben looked for love on The Bachelor: Winter Games in 2018 but realized he wasn't quite ready to date again just yet.

Ben became romantically involved with his now-wife Jessica Clarke in December 2018, and the couple went Instagram official in January 2019.

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They continued to make a long-distance relationship work, with Ben being in Denver most of the time and Jessica living in Nashville, where she attended esthetics school.

After Ben proposed marriage to Jessica in March 2020, they purchased their first home together in Denver in December of that year.

Ben and Jessica went on to marry in a "simple and beautiful" wedding ceremony at The Estate in Cherokee Dock near Nashville, TN, in November 2021.

Ben has said he and Jessica plan to expand their family, but they decided to start with a dog named Waylon.

Jessica has stayed by Ben's side even during the most difficult times, such as a "breakdown" last summer that left Ben soul-searching and reaching out to family and friends for support.

Ben previously admitted that he "lost" himself from being so wrapped up in fame and struggled to navigate life once attention from his The Bachelor appearance "started to fade."

Ben also said he and Jessica don't watch The Bachelor franchise together because it's not healthy for them and could cause problems in their marriage to bring up those memories.

For Lauren's part, the Season 20 The Bachelor alum is married with one child to country singer Chris Lane.  Lauren is currently expecting Baby No. 2.

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