The castofBachelor in Paradise’s upcoming seventh season is expanding.
ABC announced Tuesday that four men from BacheloretteKatie Thurston’s currently airing season have made their way to Paradise. Aaron Clancy, Connor Brennan, Tre Cooper and James Bonsall are joining the summer spinoff for its premiere episode. Additional cast members will be announced throughout the season.
The four season 17 contenders were cut from the competition during Monday’s episode ofThe Bachelorette. In a surprise move, Thurstonsent Brennan homebefore the second half of their one-on-one date.
“It’s hard for me because, I don’t know, I just feel like with us, I want it to feel like you are someone I could walk away with at the end of this,” she told him. “And it’s like the most heartbreaking thing, because I remember how I felt when we first meant … You’ve done nothing wrong in this.”
Connor Brennan.ABC
Aaron Clancy.ABC
James Bonsall.ABC
Tre Cooper.ABC
ABC unveiled theinitial season 7 castearlier this month. Many of the recruited stars hail fromMatt JamesandPeter Weber’sBachelorseasons, as well asTayshia AdamsandClare Crawley’s doubleBachelorette season, includingAbigail Heringer(James) andIvan Hall(Adams and Crawley).
Several contestants from otherBachelorandBacheloretteseasons are also heading to the beach, includingBachelor in ParadisealumJoe AmabileandThe Bachelor’s Natasha Parker.
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On Amabile and Parker’s joint podcast with Adams,Click Bait with Bachelor Nation, the season 7 starsteased how “intense” the experience was.
“I wasn’t expecting to be [an] original cast [member],” Amabile, who metexKendall Longon the show’s fifth season, recently said. “I forgot all of whatParadiseis about, and it is a wild ride in this season. [It] is insane, it really is.”
Parker said she leaned on Amabile during filming. “I will say that multiple times, I went over to Joe — Joe was like ourParadiseguru because he had been there before,” she said. “I’m like, ‘Joe, is this what happens?’ He goes, ‘It wasn’t like this my season. It wasn’t like this my season!'”
ABC has tapped a rotation of stars — includingLance Bass,Tituss Burgess,Lil JonandDavid Spade— to guest-host the upcoming season ofParadise.Wells Adams, who previously competed onBachelor in Paradisebefore becoming the show’s bartender, will alsoserve as the master of ceremoniesfor the rose eliminations. He will also step in to guest-host an episode.
Bachelor in Paradisereturns on Aug. 16 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
source: people.com
