Twists and turns are par for the course on reality shows like The Bachelorette, but the latest developments on its most recent season are a doozy as it appears that this season’s Bachelorette has been changed in the middle of the season.

E! Online reports that this season’s Bachelorette, Clare Crawley, has been replaced by former The Bachelor contestant Tayshia Adams. The replacement comes after Crawley has apparently fallen in love with one of her suitors ahead of schedule, so to speak.

Quoting a production insider, E! Online says the show will still begin with Crawley and will show how she ended up falling in love. Once that story is concluded, Crawley will leave and announce that Adams is the lead of the show.

Followers of the show were already speculating that something big was going to happen after Crawley’s Twitter account liked a post about Adams becoming the Bachelorette. The current season of The Bachelorette is still filming, so fans began to suspect that Crawley was off the show as participants’ phones are taken during filming.

ET Online also had other details of the current season, such as filming being confined to the Palm Springs’ La Quinta Resort & Club to ensure that health and safety measures against the coronavirus are being followed. The current season also has a larger pool of men, with 42 suitors that were supposed to vie for Crawley’s heart.

The website also collated Adams’s previous quotes about being the Bachelorette, especially as speculation was rife that she was in the running to be the star of the current season alongside Crawley.

Back in February, Adams said she could not say if she had been asked to be the Bachelorette but did say that she was ready for love and anything that came her way.

Aside from her appearance on the Colton Underwood season of The Bachelor, Adams had also participated in Bachelor in Paradise, where she ended up connecting with John Paul Jones. The two pursued a relationship outside of the show but split up October of last year. After the split, Adams said she would still be open to finding love on television again, maybe as the Bachelorette.

Crawley is far from being The Bachelorette’s most controversial contestant. Back in May, the titular Bachelorette of the reality show’s 15th season, Hannah Brown, was embroiled in controversy after using a racist slur on her Instagram account.

Brown had to release an apology on her Instagram stories after numerous Twitter users called out her actions, calling it “beyond impermissible” and disappointing.