Tino Franco received Rachel Recchia's first kiss and her first impression rose, on The Bachelorette season 19, and he now reveals why he did not want to watch her and her co-Bachelorette Gabby Windey on Clayton Echard's season of The Bachelor. The 28-year-old general contractor from Playa Del Rey, California, caught the attention of the women when he drove up to the Bachelor mansion on a forklift. He jumped down to the ground saying, «Let me just say you two look 'forking' gorgeous.» Rachel told Gabby that he was her type and confessed to the cameras that she was «immediately attracted to Tino.»
Later in the night, during Rachel's one-on-one time with Tino, he brought her to the staircase in the mansion and told her that he wanted to give her a better memory of stairs. During Clayton's season, Rachel wept on the staircase in Reykjavik, Iceland, after Clayton broke her heart during «The Rose Ceremony from Hell.» Rachel appreciated Tino's thoughtfulness, and they shared their first kiss. Tino was the only man that Rachel kissed on premiere night, and she later gave him her first impression rose.
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On the Click Bait with Bachelor Nation podcast, Tino revealed that he did not want to watch Rachel and Gabby on Clayton's season because he knew that he was going to be a cast member on their season, and he did not want to watch them kissing Clayton. Tino got involved with the show when someone reached out to him through his DMs on Instagram, and he was «just looking for the right things, and it seemed like a spectacular way to maybe meet the love of my life.» He said that they had asked him to be on The Bachelorette when Clayton's season was airing and he thought
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