Fans have seen Bachelorettes optimistic about finding their future husband on Night One of the ABC dating show — but Clare Crawley is in a different league. The Sacramento-based hairstylist declared just hours after beginning her Bachelorette journey that she thought she had found her match, and it seems it might be with Dale Moss.
The 32-year-old former football player made quite an impression on Clare, who appears smitten with him in promos for her season. An explosive trailer released on Monday shows Clare in bed with Moss, while the other men wonder whether she really knows him. null
“I knew the Dale that was in front of my face,” Clare told ET’s Lauren Zima on Tuesday. “Who he is to my face, that’s what I care about. … I’m sure there’s a lot of stuff that he shared with me, that a lot of guys shared with me, that they didn’t share with the other guys.”
Clare and Dale’s connection was so clear from the get-go that host Chris Harrison actually asked Clare if she wanted to meet the rest of the guys who hadn’t yet made limo entrances. She said she did — but also told ET she had “a lot of conversations” with producers about her interest in Dale. null
“Definitely a lot of conversations are had behind the scenes of like, ‘This guy caught me off guard on that,’ and ‘That guy is a hard no,'” she said. “You can already tell [on Night One] who has your attention and who doesn’t.”
Clare’s physical and emotional connection with Dale was “electric,” she described — adding that it was something she’d never felt before so instantly.
“That was something that you can’t really anticipate with anybody, you don’t know,” she shared. “[But I didn’t know] like, was he feeling that? Are we on the same page?”
“Usually in my experience as relationships goes, there’s always somebody that’s ahead of the other person,” Clare said. “It’s really rare that you connect on that same page at the same time, so it was just — it was one of those magical things that I guess just happens.
