The Bachelorette spoilers have leaked out revealing when Clare Crawley's season will allegedly begin production and where filming will take place amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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Clare, however, teased last week on an episode of Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, "I found out maybe two hours ago actually when I'll be going down and the final day that I'm leaving so it's very, very soon!"
Warner Horizon Unscripted, which produces The Bachelorette, subsequently confirmed to Variety production on Clare's season of The Bachelorette will start soon, right after the men travel to an isolated location, get tested for the virus and wait out a quarantine period.
And Reality Steve spoiler blogger Steve Carbone reported on June 26 what the filming location will be as well as the dates cameras will start rolling.
"(SPOILER): I'm hearing that Clare, cast, & crew will arrive in Palm Springs, CA around July 9th/10th, everyone will be quarantined for a week, then filming will begin around the 17th," Carbone tweeted.
"The resort where the whole season will be filmed, I believe, is the Ritz Carlton Rancho Mirage."
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Carbone continued, "(SPOILER) Obviously plans can change, maybe stuff gets pushed back, but that is what I'm hearing as of the last couple days."
Carbone posted the booking calendar for the Ritz Carlton Rancho Mirage as of June 26, and it showed nearly two full months totally blocked off from prospective guests being able to book rooms.
The calendar was showing July 28 all the way through August 27 as "not available for check-in" dates.
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"Blocked off until end of Aug, which is when her season would be done filming," Carbone tweeted.
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELORETTE' COUPLES NOWOne of Carbone's followers then expressed annoyance ABC has yet to release the official cast of The Bachelorette bachelors and their bios for Season 16.
"They're not gonna do that until all the cast is in one place so they can do headshots, like any other season," Carbone replied.
Clare's potential 32 suitors were announced by ABC back in March, but due to the delay in production, men continued to apply and the casting process was extended.
The Bachelorette host Chris Harrison previously said Clare could end up with a totally different lineup of guys than initially expected because of their schedules.
Matt James, for instance, was plucked out of Clare's cast and promoted to star on The Bachelor's 25th season in 2021.
And Carbone apparently doesn't have much more information than that on casting and which guys will end up competing for Clare's heart when the show airs on Tuesday nights at 8PM ET/PT this fall on ABC.
"In terms of the cast, they released 32 guys that were set to be on her season back in March. Clearly not all of them will be back on. They did recast. How many? I don't know if it's 5, 10, half the cast?" Carbone wrote on Twitter on June 26.
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"I don't know who's being replaced from the original 32 (obviously besides Matt James), but they are skewing older from what I have," he added.
According to Variety, once The Bachelorette begins filming after a brief quarantine period, cast and crew will be tested regularly with routine temperature checks for the duration of the show in order to ensure everyone's health and safety.
"It will be a super safe paradise for everyone to shoot the show," a source said.
The entire The Bachelorette season will reportedly be filmed at one quarantined location with cast and crew living on-site, and visitors and members of the press will not be allowed to drop by.
"There is always robust care for our team, and that will be the case as they isolate and shoot the show. Production is going above-and-beyond the recommendations," another source said.
In addition to Clare's official cast of bachelors, fans are also still waiting for the premiere date of The Bachelorette's sixteenth season to be announced.
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The Bachelorette is reportedly the first major primetime show to resume production in the United States amid the global pandemic.
ABC reality chief Robert Mills said during an appearance on the On Air with Ryan Seacrest radio show earlier this month that producers were planning to start production on The Bachelorette "in about a month," which would mean mid-to-late July.
Clare was a 32-year-old from Sacramento, CA, when she was first introduced to Bachelor Nation on Juan Pablo Galavis' season of The Bachelor in 2014. She finished as his runner-up.
Clare then unsuccessfully continued to search for love on Seasons 1 and 2 of Bachelor in Paradise, which aired on ABC in 2014 and 2015.
Clare got engaged to French Canadian bachelor Benoit Beausejour-Savard on the reunion special for The Bachelor Winter Games, which aired in early 2018, but they broke up in April of that year.
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