Clare Crawley: Pandemic allowed The Bachelorette to recast "more appropriate" men

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More than half of the original cast was 10 years or younger than Crawley, who at 39 is the oldest-ever Bachelorette. While the production shutdown was stressful, Crawley says, "there were also honestly so many pros to it getting shut down...Producers were able to recast some of the guys and get some that were more appropriate for what I was looking for. I wanted a guy who was genuinely there for me. There was a lot of talk about, 'Oh, I'm the older Bachelorette, are these guys too young?' But it was also about: am I too old for them? It went both ways. So we were able to hone in on what everybody was looking for."