'The Bachelorette' 's Gabby and Rachel Send 1 Man Home After He Expresses 'Calculated Thoughts'

Mar. 15, 2025

This post contains spoilers from Monday’s episode ofThe Bachelorette.

Videographer Logan, 26, went first, performing The Worm as his talent and answering Rachel’s question about how his exes would describe him. “Stubborn — that’s a good word — honest and kind,” he said.

Quincey wore a Borat-style mankini, prompting Rachel, 26, to ask, “Do you feel like this is something you could feel regularly?”

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A couple of the men juggled, one did a headstand and another spun a basketball on his finger. Meatball poured a jar of sauce on his bare chest and ate it. Jacob offered up mortgage advice and somehow, “I was into it,” Rachel told the cameras.

Chris, 30, dribbled a basketball and had everyone clap and stomp along.

Of course, “I was a little disappointed,” Rachel said during an interview. She spoke to some of the other men aboutHarry Potterand visiting all 50 states, which did not reassure her.

“It definitely wasn’t going the way I expected it to,” Rachel continued. “It really feels like these guys are just having friendly small talk conversation that you would have with your cousin.”

RACHEL’S ONE-ON-ONE

For her first one-on-one date as Bachelorette, Rachel invited Jordan V. to take a zero-gravity flight with her.

“Zero gravity terrifies me,” the drag racer, 27, admitted to the cameras.

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But after embarking on the flight with Rachel, he felt like they formed a bond. “I think today up in zero gravity, we really really found a connection,” Jordan V. said in an on-camera interview. Rachel agreed that they had a “playful chemistry.”

Jordan V. used the dinner portion of their date to open up about his family and his connection with his two younger siblings.

“We went through a tough situation when we were younger,” Jordan V. explained. “I mean, my parents got divorced when I was 13 years old. A lot of things kind of went through me. I kind of had to take care of my little brother and sister. A lot of communication ran through me and it forced me to grow up very quickly.”

Rachel appreciated the honesty but felt unsettled. “Jordan, he is so perfect. He’s exactly what I’ve asked for and he’s here for me,” she told the cameras. “He’s being honest. But the more the day’s progressing, the more I just know there is something missing and the more I feel it, the more I’m pushing it down.”

Rachel stepped away from the table with Jordan and consulted with a producer. “I don’t want to be the one that sends an incredible guy home,” she lamented.

But back with Jordan, she did exactly that. “I truly could not have asked for a better person to spend this incredible day with,” Rachel told Jordan V. “But there is just something that is missing for me tonight and for that reason, I don’t want to bring you into next week knowing that I don’t know if I can truly get there with you.”

“For me, it would be a dealbreaker if we got down to the final four, which I plan to be in, and we go in the Fantasy Suite and we have this sexual experience and then the person who I’m most interested in decides that she’s going to have sex with multiple people and feel it out,” the mentality coach, 30, told the guys. “That would be the situation where I would go, okay, I’m out. There’s no chance.”

Quincey later confronted Chris about the statement, but Chris said, “I hold true to this.”

Nate called Chris “manipulative.” “It’s just a form of control that a lot of men just don’t realize that they do that damages good women,” the electrical engineer, 33, said.

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GABBY’S ONE-ON-ONE

COCKTAIL PARTY

Rachel entered the cocktail party feeling uncertain.

“I definitely had a more rocky start to the week,” she told the cameras. “I definitely thought at this point I would have more guys I was extremely ready to further a connection with and right now, I’m at square one with a lot of them. What if they don’t like me?”

Then Rachel played a basketball carnival game with Tyler, who said he owned similar games on the Jersey Shore, and they kissed.

Just as Rachel started to feel better about the night, Quincey, Jordan and Hayden approached her. “I wouldn’t want you to not know something,” life coach Quincey, 25, told Rachel.

Then Jordan launched into what Chris said earlier aboutFantasy Suites.

“Chris was talking to a few guys this week about Fantasy Suites and his whole talk was, ‘If I make the Fantasy Suites and if they had slept with anyone, I would walk out and leave,'” he said to Rachel. “And so, I asked a simple question, would you bring this up before? And he couldn’t answer the question.”

Obviously, Rachel did not like what she heard. “To hear that being brought up before I have a conversation with someone is truly almost my biggest fear,” she said in an on-camera interview.

“I think it’s an appropriate thought,” Chris responded. “Because the reality is, if I were going to be able to find love, I tend to think all the way through to the end and be able to work it backwards from there.”

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Chris said he wanted “the opportunity to meet with you all individually and speak with you” but realized that probably wouldn’t happen.

“I’m going to agree with her,” Rachel said.

“We were discussing what happened this week and that was brought up,” Jordan explained. “And we felt like they need to know what was talked about that night.”

“That’s all that needs to be said,” Nate declared. Finally, Chris left — for real.

The Bacheloretteairs Mondays (8 p.m. ET) on ABC.

source: people.com