The Bachelorette star Tayshia Adams has confirmed that her relationship with fiance Zac Clark has come to an end and they've split up.
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"Tayshia Adams and Zac Clark are no longer a couple," a Tayshia representative confirmed to the magazine.
Last Friday, a source had told Life & Style that Tayshia and Zac were "on a break."
"They're definitely taking some time apart to figure things out," the source explained about the couple, who got engaged on the 2020 season of The Bachelorette. "It doesn't look good."
According to Life & Style, speculation that Tayshia and Zac had broken up first surfaced when sharp-eyed viewers noticed Tayshia wasn't wearing her engagement ring during the last two episodes of "Bachelor Happy Hour," the Bachelor podcast she co-hosts with Becca Kufrin.
Tayshia was also reportedly spotted without her engagement ring while attending the premiere of the House of Gucci movie in Los Angeles on Thursday, November 18.
Her film-premiere appearance also occurred three days after Tayshia had posted a cryptic "Trust the process" tweet on November 15.
The couple's relationship, however, seemed to be strong and thriving in early November.
On November 7, Tayshia and Zac participated in the New York City Marathon together, and Zac gushed about his love the following day on Instagram.
Not only did Zac call the world "a better place" with Tayshia in it, but he also wrote, "The untold story about @tayshia is one of humility and courage. She would never tell the world how truly inspiring her performance was yesterday at the @nycmarathon but I will."
"Leading up to Sunday she did dozens of interviews where she could have talked about her chronic knee/back pain or her inability to train due to her insane schedule but instead she talked about her charity of choice, @worldvisionusa, and how grateful she was for all the support from family, friends, fans and strangers," he continued.
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Zac claimed Tayshia "is allergic to excuses" and "could have bailed at anytime in the past four months" but chose to stick with her training.
"Her PR team would have handled it, but that is just not who she is. She said she was going to do something and she did it. No one will remember her 'time' but the fact that she went out and ran... this race in 4 hours and 40 minutes is heroic and shows the power of believing in yourself," Zac gushed.
"I will be forever grateful to have had a front row seat to her performance yesterday."
Ahead of the big race, Zac told People that he was looking forward to spending some quality time with his fiancee once things settled down.
"We're really looking forward to kicking back after we get done and really spending some time here in New York," Zac said.
"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."
Tayshia and Zac got engaged when her The Bachelorette season wrapped filming in August 2020, and Zac sweetly getting down on one knee aired on The Bachelorette's Season 16 finale on ABC in December 2020.
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"It's been a wild ride so far with our lives going a million miles an hour but how lucky are we to have had an amazing week together at the place where it all started AND we were to able to renew our wishes a year later?! WILD Happy to have you by my side, Clarky."
"143, #happydaythatimetyou," she also added, including a heart emoji.
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Speculation that Tayshia and Zac had broken up also surfaced in March when Tayshia was similarly seen without her engagement ring on, however she subsequently denied the couple had split.
"There's all these weird rumors circulating around that I'm not wearing my ring and that Zac and I are broken up. I don't know what is happening," Tayshia said on Instagram Stories at the time.
She added, "I was in [Los Angeles] for a hot minute and was able to finally drop off my ring and get it sized."
Tayshia reportedly followed up her video with a post on her Instagram Story that read, "Not gonna lie, I don't like getting DMs putting this weird energy into the universe lol. I love that there's so much love & support around our relationship but please don't put unnecessary rumors/pressure on us."
Around that same time, Zac had to reassure fans that his mother accidentally stopped following Tayshia on Instagram and there wasn't a falling out or intentional slight on his mom's part.
Tayshia selected Zac over her runner-up Ben Smith on the finale of her season of The Bachelorette, and the couple got engaged at the Final Rose Ceremony that aired on ABC on December 22, 2020.
Following their engagement, Tayshia and Zac enjoyed the holidays together and then Tayshia decided to move to New York City to be with her man.
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In a February 2021 interview with Marie Claire, the previously-divorced The Bachelorette star revealed she had decided to keep her own place in California "for peace of mind" since this is "not [her] first rodeo."
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"We're both passionate, driven, busy human beings. And with that, we need to remind ourselves to work each other into it and we've done [that]."
Zac had continued, "So yeah, a couple months after, there were some ups and downs, of course, and, like, well-documented, but at the end of the day, it's all good right now."
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