The Bachelorette alum Tayshia Adams has revealed whether she'd be open to appearing on a Bachelor spinoff again or just dating a man from the pool of Bachelor Nation alums.
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"I think I'm good, respectfully," Tayshia told Entertainment Tonight. "Respectfully, I think I'm good. I think I'm good."
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Tayshia said she moved to New York and has been enjoying life and working, and, although she's still single, she apparently has no interest in looking for love on Bachelor in Paradise's eighth season this year.
Tayshia joked about how she's "looking at the beaches of more, like, Cabo [San Lucas] these days" rather than Sayulita, Mexico, where the series is filmed.
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"I think I'm done," Tayshia noted. "I need a little upgrade."
Following her split from The Bachelorette Season 16 winner Zac Clark, Tayshia shared, "[I'm] doing my own thing [and] coming back to my center."
Tayshia said she's living her "best life," which includes having hosted the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted, an honor that she called "very surreal."
Tayshia suggested she may have had her eyes on a man or two in the audience at the awards show.
"I have picked certain people to be here so that way I can possibly say hello," Tayshia quipped.
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Tayshia, who co-hosted two seasons of The Bachelorette, Seasons 17 and 18, after starring on the series herself for Season 16, hinted in early May that Zac, whom she announced her split from in November 2021, wasn't good enough for her.
"I still want marriage and to start a family more than anything... [I'm] waiting to be in a healthy supportive relationship while simultaneously being a successful woman; a cohesive unit, not one or the other," Tayshia told a troll in the comments of one of her Instagram posts.
She added, "I want to build an empire, I want to go after my dreams and I want my partner to be supportive of that as they follow their own dreams as well. I want a relationship where we cheer each other on. None of that has changed."
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After Tayshia slammed the troll for confusing her focus on her career with putting marriage on the back burner, she wrote, "Maybe applaud me for not settling, staying to true to myself, going after my dreams and working on myself in the interm to be the best version of me for the right person."
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Tayshia and Zac got engaged when her The Bachelorette season wrapped filming in August 2020. Their engagement aired on the Season 16 finale that aired on ABC in December 2020.
Tayshia's representative announced in late November 2021 that Zac and the former Bachelor Nation podcast host had decided to part ways and end their engagement, and Tayshia first publicly mentioned the split and called herself "heartbroken" while co-hosting The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All for Season 18, which aired in early December.
In late March, Tayshia told Us Weekly that she was "absolutely" in no rush to jump into the dating pool again following her difficult breakup with Zac.
In fact, Tayshia told the magazine of her dating life at the time, "It's pretty nonexistent for me right now."
"I really have no desire [to date]... Maybe [in] a year from now," she said, suggesting she's doing just fine on her own.
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Tayshia -- who admitted she doesn't like dating apps and hadn't looked through her DMs from men on Instagram -- explained, "My main focus right now is myself, my career, my mental health, my happiness, my family, my friends and really just becoming my own [person], and I'm really happy with that."
But Tayshia knows what she wants, as she told Us that she hopes to one day find a man who is "strong, supportive, kind, ambitious, and empathetic."
For Zac's part, a source told Us in late February that he's also doing "fine" after his split from Tayshia and they've both been trying to move on with their lives.
"He hasn't started going on dates but is open to it," the source revealed.
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The 36-year-old addiction specialist's friends have been "trying to help him move on" from Tayshia by pushing him to join an exclusive dating app like Raya.
But Zac is allegedly reluctant to meet a new woman since he's a public figure now and his dating life will be splashed across headlines.
"He gets excited about the idea of dating again but has trust issues from being in the spotlight," the source shared.
"His biggest fear is getting close to someone, breaking up, and then that girl sharing with the world about their relationship."
Zac wants to "build that trust with his next partner," especially because his breakup with Tayshia was highly publicized late last year.
An insider also claimed earlier this year that Tayshia and Zac were "still in communication" because there were "some lingering matters" that hadn't been resolved yet, such as projects they had been working on together.
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"It seems like there isn't closure yet," the insider alleged, adding however that there "isn't any bad blood between them."
Tayshia and Zac haven't revealed any details about their split, but Us reported late last year the former couple "couldn't fully commit to each other" due to their busy schedules and they "eventually realized it wasn't going to work and their relationship ran its course."
When Tayshia brought up her breakup on The Men Tell All for Michelle Young's The Bachelorette season last year, she called the time "really tough" and "very heavy" for her. She said she was still very much in love with Zac.
Rumors Tayshia and Zac had ended their engagement and decided to part ways first broke in mid-November.
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A source told Life & Style at the time that Tayshia and Zac were "on a break" after Tayshia had been spotted multiple times filming one of her former podcasts without her engagement ring earlier in the month.
"They're definitely taking some time apart to figure things out," a source told the magazine at the time. "It doesn't look good."
Tayshia's representative confirmed to People several days later, "Tayshia Adams and Zac Clark are no longer a couple."
The split came as a big surprise to fans considering Tayshia and Zac had put on a united front on November 7 when they ran the New York City Marathon together, and Zac gushed about his then-fiancee on Instagram the following day.
Zac called the world "a better place" with Tayshia in it and praised her "humility and courage" as well as "heroic" run with chronic knee and back pain.
And ahead of the big race, Zac told People that he was excited things were about to calm down for Tayshia and himself.
"We're really looking forward to kicking back after we get done and really spending some time here in New York," Zac said.
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"With our schedules and how everything's worked out, we're just super excited to take advantage of what's here and eat some good food and explore a little bit and make sure that she really feels like she knows New York."
Following their televised engagement in 2020, Tayshia decided to move to New York City to be with her man, but she also kept her own place in California.
In a February 2021 interview with Marie Claire, the previously-divorced The Bachelorette star revealed she had decided to keep her own place "for peace of mind" since this is "not [her] first rodeo."
Prior to starring on The Bachelorette 16 in 2020, Tayshia competed on The Bachelor's 23rd season, which aired in early 2019.
Colton eliminated Tayshia during his round of overnight Fantasy Suite dates.
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