While Gabby Windey enjoyed her experiences, two visits turned ugly for co-star Rachel Recchia, who rejected Tyler without meeting his family and then got confronted by Tino’s folks. Season 19 is the first of the hit ABC reality show in which two women look for husbands.
Who got Gabby’s first hometown visit?
As the episode began, Gabby planned to meet with the loved ones of her final three guys—Jason, Johnny, and Erich—while Rachel readied to see final four Zach, Tyler, Tino, and Aven’s families. Gabby joined Jason in his New Orleans hometown, where they strolled Bourbon street and listened to jazz music. Quiet Jason admitted he’d wanted to leave The Bachelorette early on, but decided to stick it out for her. Jason’s parents had separated, so they met his dad Michael first, who thoroughly approved of Gabby. Next, they visited Jason’s mom, Karen, and his sister, Kelsey. Karen told Gabby, “I feel something really good between you.” However, Jason told his mom privately, “I can’t see myself getting engaged….at this point.” Karen was concerned that Jason hadn’t told Gabby about that. “What would it be like without her?” she sobbed, worried her son could lose Gabby without a commitment. Clueless Gabby told the cameras, “I am head over heels for him.”
Who got Rachel’s first hometown visit?
The cameras followed Rachel as she met Zach in Anaheim, Calif., where they rode bikes and watched planes take off and land at an airport tarmac. In a previous episode, the two had both remembered watching planes with their dads when they were kids. At Zach’s family home, his father Chapman took the pretty flight instructor aside and said, “My son is enamored with you but he has an emotional side. I’m concerned about him.” Meanwhile, Zach informed his mother Megan he’d told Rachel he was falling for her. “I don’t want his heart broken,” Megan warned Rachel, while Chapman thought he’d likely met his son’s future wife. Zach raved, “Rachel’s the one!” after their hometown success.
Who got Gabby’s second hometown date?
Gabby joined Johnny in Palm Beach, Fla., and told his dad, John, how much charisma she saw in the young realtor. Mom, Elizabeth, sighed to the cameras, “He loves to be in love.” Johnny confided to his mother that he wasn’t yet ready to walk down the aisle. “It’s something she wants,” he said of Gabby. Still, his father John thought his son was ready to get engaged to Gabby at the end of the show!
What happened on Rachel’s second hometown visit?
The Bachelorette followed Rachel, who met Tyler in his Wildwood, N.J. hometown. They strolled Morey’s Piers amusement park, having fun with carnival games, bumper cars, and eating corn dogs. Tyler behaved like a lovesick puppy the entire time, causing Rachel to sigh to the cameras that things were getting “so serious.” After he introduced Rachel to his friends and cousins at a boardwalk pizza place, she got teary eyed and said in confessional, “I have other connections that are stronger.” But Tyler gushed, “I’m so happy.” A producer hugged Rachel as the day weighed on her. “I feel like a horrible person,” the reality show star said privately. “I’m freaking out.” While sitting on a bench together, Tyler told Rachel, “I am so in love with you.” She covered her crying eyes and then said to him, “I just feel like not a hundred percent confident. I don’t know if I’m ready to meet your family when I still have this little bit of reservation and I don’t know where it’s coming from. I just feel like there is something missing.” Disappointed Tyler told her he understood, then, alone, joined his waiting family back home. “She told me she wasn’t there yet….it’s tough. I loved her and I still do,” he explained to his shocked relatives.
Who got Gabby’s third hometown date?
Gabby’s final visit was with Erich and his family. The handsome real estate analyst’s father had been battling terminal cancer while his son was doing The Bachelorette. Gabby, an ICU nurse, chatted sympathetically with Erich’s fragile-looking father. Mom, Donna, told Erich privately, “We marry for life. Don’t take it lightly.” Gabby told his mother how much she cared for Erich. When they were alone, Erich stressed to Gabby that he’d sacrificed family time to pursue her and that he was falling in love. Gabby returned the sentiment.
How did Rachel deal with her third date’s parents?
After Rachel’s rocky time rejecting Tyler, she hoped things would go smoothly with Tino’s folks.
Dad, Joe, Mom, Sandy, and his little brother, Matteo, gathered in Santa Clarita, Calif. to evaluate Rachel.
Joe was blunt right away, asking her, “Aren’t there other guys?”
Tino bragged, “She’ll send the rest of the guys home and I’ll propose to her in a couple weeks.”
His dad wasn’t pleased, asking, “After two months?”
Tino replied, “When you know, you know.”
When Tino and Joe sat down for a frank talk, the father quizzed him, “Do you know enough about her?” also calling the show a “whirlwind” and “fairy tale” experience.
Tino sighed to the cameras that his father was skeptical about the situation.
While the two men spoke, Rachel and Tino’s mom chatted privately.
Sandy asked what she saw in Tino and Rachel replied, “He’s seriously so positive.”
But as The Bachelorette viewers know, Tino cussed to a producer when he didn’t get a group date rose the previous week!
“This is not real,” his mom insisted to Rachel about her “insulated bubble” on the show.
The flight instructor said in confessional, “She grilled my ass.”
Joe later implied to Rachel that their bond had developed awfully fast and told her, “We see it as this fairy tale thing. It’s nothing against you.”
Rachel told the cameras, “I almost cried.”
She told Joe she was expecting an engagement out of the show, and he noted, “This is your second go-around,” as Rachel had previously looked for love on The Bachelor.
“I’m really feeling like they hated me,” Rachel whined to a producer.
Later, she told the cameras, “I feel his dad is like, ‘I hope you do not come back here.’ ”
“I don’t know how I made it out of that house alive.”
She shared with Tino how tough his folks had been, but he insisted they adored her!
He also said, “I don’t want a future without you.”
Rachel confided, “I have been falling in love with you.”
A preview for next week revealed that Rachel will meet her fourth guy Aven’s family next week.
Who Went Home Last Night on Week 6 of The Bachelorette?
Tyler Norris
How many men advanced to week 8?
After last night’s elimination, six men are advancing to next week’s hometown dates.
