Clare Crawley's season of The Bachelorette should be canceled. As each day passes, it becomes more apparent that filming this show is going to be more trouble than its worth.

It's a shame that the coronavirus happened during the year that Clare was announced as The Bachelorette. Her selection was refreshing, following a string of younger leads who clearly weren't ready for marriage. Clare was a contestant on Juan Pablo's season, and her diatribe against him when he dumped her at the final rose ceremony lives on in Bachelor lore. She returned for Bachelor In Paradise a couple of times, notably chatting up a raccoon and leaving without love. Her appearance on Bachelor Winter Games was the closest she got to a husband, but her engagement to Benoit ended. She seemed the perfect candidate for The Bachelorette, someone clearly ready to embrace and lean into everything the show entails but not afraid to speak her mind. Ill-intentioned men would stand no chance up against Clare.

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Despite all that Clare would bring to a season, it seems disrespectful at this point to proceed with a season of The Bachelorette with everything going on in the world. Seasons of reality TV have been put on hold. Concerts and sporting events have been postponed or downright canceled. Any big event planned throughout the summer that involves a gathering of people appears unlikely to happen. And yet, Chris Harrison refuses to throw in the towel.

Chris Harrison

Reality Steve reported last week that the season still plans to film, under drastically different circumstances than usual. For one, the filming will take place in July, when the show is usually wrapping up on television. There will be no traveling to exotic locations and no hometown dates. There may be no hugging. Seriously. This plan will require everyone - contestants, crew, Clare, Chris - to be tested for coronavirus. Given the fact that there remains a lack of tests in this country, the allocation of a scarce resource to a large group of people to shoot a reality TV show where 20-plus men date one woman sounds ridiculous.

This isn't fair to the contestants. It's not fair to the viewers. Most of all, it's not fair to Clare, who doesn't deserve a watered down version of what she signed up for. Of course, it's impossible to make the requisite trip to [insert name of the most romantic locale in the world here], because COVID-19 isn't going away. As great as Clare would have been on The Bachelorette, she doesn't need this. And if she's single in 2021, no doubt The Bachelorette would have her back. And The Bachelor doesn't need The Bachelorette to air this summer. Even though Bachelor In Paradise and Bachelor Summer Games won't happen, Listen to Your Heart appears to be on track to be just as much of a hit as the other spinoffs. Unlike other less shows less entrenched in the zeitgeist, The Bachelor isn't in danger of being wiped out by a pandemic. It's time for Chris Harrison and company to do the right thing and cancel The Bachelorette.

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