Real estate developer and former Bachelorette JoJo Fletcher will be stepping in for Chris Harrison, who will be missing the show for the first time in eleven years. She is being dropped in to do a handful of episodes while the popular television show host heads into quarantine to ensure the safety of other people on the set.

Harrison will be quarantined as a safety precaution after he left the set of The Bachelorette's upcoming season. Fletcher, who was a part of the Season 12 of ABC's reality TV dating game show about four years ago, will act as a substitute for Harrison while he remains under quarantine, sources involved with the production process have told Variety. 

ABC and Warner Bros. TV have remained tight-lipped about the change, living up to the reputation for not commenting on the casting rumors related to The Bachelor franchise, particularly the studio and the network refrain from making themselves available for comments when the shows are in production.

Harrison left the set to drop his son off at college. He took to Instagram on Aug. 12 to tell his 1.2 million followers on the social media app that he has dropped "the big man off at college." Keeping in line with the stringent safety precautions on the set of The Bachelorette during the pandemic, even Harrison will not be allowed to join in the cast and crew without first undergoing a multi-day quarantine.

Touted as the most dramatic season of The Bachelorette, Season 16 hasn't even finished filming yet. Clare Crawley was, reportedly, slated to replace Tayshia Adams after falling for one of her men, and reports about host Chris Harrison getting replaced in the show citing quarantine has added more drama, at least for two weeks, until he returns to take over his hosting duties.

The current season of the show is being filmed in Palm Springs, California. The castmates have been holed up in a rented-out resort in a bid to keep production safe. The Bachelorette was the first show to resume filming in the United States after the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered the entire industry.

The show makers were able to head back into production because they fully quarantined the entire production team. The cast and crew members have been living on-site at the rented-out resort, and each member was tested for coronavirus before they entered the venue with temperature checks and another regular testing.

If sources are anything to go by, Harrison will be back to host the season finale. Fletcher will be filling in for a few episodes in the middle of the season. The host replacement was first reported by Us Weekly.