Caila Quinn: The REAL Reason She Was Dumped for JoJo Fletcher as the Next Bachelorette

Last week, it was a foregone conclusion that Caila Quinn, this season’s third runner-up on The Bachelor, would be selected to star next season as The Bachelorette.

But during The Bachelor season finale on Monday, host Chris Harrison dropped this bomb:

The next Bachelorette will NOT be Caila, but JoJo Fletcher.

The audience was shocked. It had just made sense that Caila would be The Bachelorette. 

After all, the show has a history of choosing the third runner-up, plus Caila’s Filipina heritage would help the franchise address attacks that the show wasn’t diverse enough. 

In fact, it seemed Caila had already secured the gig as she was seen filming her intro package for the show in her home town of Hudson, Ohio earlier this month.

Apparently, the show’s producers had a change of heart at the last minute and ultimately went with JoJo, the one bachelor Ben Higgins loved, as it were, only second most.

“It was nothing against Caila, but JoJo’s storyline was just so compelling,” a source told E! News.

“After seeing how she fell in love with Ben and then had her heart broken, there was no doubt that everyone’s going to be rooting for her as Bachelorette.”

While fans initially believed Caila was pissed at being passed up for the job (couldn’t blame her), the source insisted that she had no hard feelings.

Caila even Instagrammed this photo of herself with JoJo and Lauren Bushnell, this year’s winner:

“Congratulations to these beautiful girls!” she wrote in the caption. “From dancing in our pjs in the Mansion to Mexico City mimosas, can’t help but smile at all of the fun memories. Sending love as the journey isn’t over, it’s only just beginning.”

Classy.

We’re not sure exactly what’s ahead for Caila, but she is is reportedly planning a move to New York City.

Since the Big Apple is notoriously the hardest place to find love on the planet, we assume she’ll be focusing on her career.

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Caila Quinn: PISSED at Losing The Bachelorette Gig to Jojo Fletcher!

Caila Quinn had her heart broken a second time in one season of The Bachelor last night as ABC pulled the rug out from under her.

Having finished third on Ben Higgins’ season, she was cut loose after an overnight date, only to be tapped as The Bachelorette. Until …

Chris Harrison named JoJo Fletcher The Bachelorette in front of a live studio audience, despite Caila having previously landed the gig.

Or so we were led to believe. Was it all just a red herring? Did fans get played – and was Caila a pawn in producers’ plans to do so?

According to the Oracle of The Bachelor Spoilers, Reality Steve, the show pulled a 180 on Caila just a few days before Monday’s finale.

It looked fairly certain that the 24-year-old Caila got the job, given that a camera crew was seen filming in hometown of Hudson, Ohio.

Given her multi-racial heritage, and the fact that The Bachelorette role usually does not go to the runner-up, but another top-four finisher?

Us Weekly, TMZ and other media outlets ran with the story that the half-Filipino beauty would be handing out roses this May on ABC.

Not so fast, it turned out. Just two weeks after viewers saw her get her dumped by Ben Higgins, the show dispatched Caila once more.

Producers apparently had a change of heart about who would start filming earlier this month, which means in the past two weeks tops.

Caila Quinn reportedly found out on Thursday that she wouldn’t be getting her own “journey” to find love, and she is “not happy” whatsoever.

According to Steve, much of her disappointment is based on missing out on a “huge opportunity to build her brand,” for what it’s worth.

As for Jojo, she’s the first woman who made the top two on The Bachelor to be named The Bachelorette since Emily Maynard in 2012.

Emily, of course, won the final rose that year, but was tapped as The Bachelorette after ending her brief engagement to Brad Womack.

Prior to that, you have to go back to DeAnna Pappas in 2008, when she was dispatched on the finale by … Brad, who picked no one.

Everyone else since then has been a top three or four finisher, so the 11th hour Jojo Fletcher pick caught a lot of people by surprise. 

Think ABC made the right call? Discuss!

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Caila Quinn: Confirmed as The Bachelorette?

When we last saw Caila Quinn on the latest season of The Bachelor, she was in tears, having been sent home by Ben Higgins despite a night in the fantasy suite.

When you next see Caila Quinn, however, she may also be in tears.. of the happy variety!

According to Us Weekly insider, the former Bachelor suitor will be the next star of The Bachelorette.

ABC is yet to confirm this rumor, but the aforementioned tabloid says Quinn was recently spotted in her hometown of Hudson, Ohio “filming her Bachelorette intro package.”

If this report is accurate, Quinn would become the 12th Bachelorette in network history.

No premiere date has been announced for the upcoming edition of this beloved franchise.

As The Bachelor spoilers predicted long ago, Quinn advanced to the final three of Ben’s ongoing season.

She confessed her love to Higgins on the February 29 installment, but he still selected Lauren Bushnell and JoJo Fletcher as his two finalists.

“With Caila, I just couldn’t say it,” Higgins told the camera of his inability to drop the L Bomb back. “There’s just something missing.”

Quinn initially responded to her dumping with a bitter accusation, telling Ben he lied to her and fed her “lines” throughout their time together.

But then she jumped out of the network-sponsored SUV and confronted Higgins one final time before leaving the show for good.

“I think I needed to hear that from him and just have that genuine moment, and that last hug felt like enough for me, so it was good,” Quinn later explained to ABC News.

Are you excited to watch The Bachelorette online this summer and see Caila Quinn as the lead? Will you be rooting for her to find a husband?

We sure will!

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