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Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia are staying mum about what happens during their fantasy suite dates.

The two reality stars, who are both looking for love as co-leads on this season of The Bachelorette , stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday night where they were asked by guest host Anthony Anderson about "what goes down" behind closed doors on their overnight stays.

"Well isn't it to the imagination?" Windey, 31, teased. " Fantasy ?"

Recchia, 26, took a more practical response to the question, clearing up misconceptions that viewers have about the long-running ABC dating competition show's most iconic milestone.

"I feel like what a lot of people don't know is [the fantasy suite is] your one time off-camera to talk to them, and it's the first time you're really having a conversation that's not in front of a camera," she told Anderson. "So it's so important, however you choose to use it."

Both Windey and Recchia have a notable history with the fantasy suite. On the last season of The Bachelor , where they were vying for Clayton Echard 's heart, they were each intimate with him during their individual fantasy suite dates — causing Susie Evans, who was with them among the top 3, to leave the show.

Though Echard had told all three women they loved him, he wound up breaking up with Recchi and Windey and pursued a relationship with Evans , but she turned him down and left. Evans then reached out to him post show and they got back together before the live "After the Final Rose" episode. They're currently still together.

Asked by Anderson how last season was, Recchia joked it was "a loaded question" before explaining how the experience prepared them both for The Bachelorette .

"I feel like we both went through so much on our last season," she said. "We grew so much, so to be able to have this opportunity has been so amazing after everything we went through. But you know, we feel so ready for it, so we're excited."

"It was a journey like it all is and we grew empowered and we're grateful to have our own," added Windey.

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This is the first time in the franchise that two bachelorettes will be looking for love at the same time, and the ladies told Anderson they found out about this venture "with the rest of the world."

"As it was announced, we both looked at each other and realized what was happening," said Recchia. "I thought it was going to be Gabby this whole time, I really did."

Jimmy Kimmel Live! airs weeknights at 11:30 p.m. ET on ABC. The Bachelorette airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

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Nick Viall wants The Bachelorette (well, one of them, anyway) to remember that the show is about the journey to love — not necessarily about who comes out on top.

"I honestly think Rachel, I mean, she seems great, but I think she's prioritizing all the wrong things right now," Viall told PEOPLE Every Day host Janine Rubenstein.

Viall, who was featured as a contestant on seasons 10 and 11 of The Bachelorette , season 3 of Bachelor in Paradise, and starred in season 21 of The Bachelor , said that Recchia's focus on Logan admitting he was more interested in Windey in this week's episode shows the series' current run is one of the "more realistic seasons as it relates to, like, modern dating."

"You think about: You go on dating apps and you're, you're swiping right [to indicate interest]. And every time you swipe right and you don't get an immediate match, there's this sense of rejection," Viall said. "And oftentimes we will focus on the rejection rather than the connections that we're making. And it seems like that's what Rachel is focused on."

Viall pointed out that it seems Recchia has developed a connection with Tino, to whom she did give a rose by the end of the episode because he "continues to be extremely vulnerable with me and is able to open up with me even when it's really hard."

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Viall also told Janine Rubenstein that he thinks Rachel would benefit from viewing rejections as "clarity, rather than disappointment," given how the season has turned out so far.

"At the end of the day, this is not a popularity contest," Viall said. "This is not about finding 10 guys that you're into or five guys you're into. It's still about finding one person."

"I think we have to remember that, like, this show is not about to see who can be the most popular, who can get the most 'swipe rights' on a dating app," he added. "It's about who you can find love with, with just a single person."

Viall also spoke about his upcoming book Don't Text Your Ex Happy Birthday , which he said he started writing during the pandemic at the encouragement of his editor. It was born from Viall's weekly dating advice sessions he holds on his Instagram page on Sundays.

The advice in the title stems from the fact that, if you do reach out to an ex on the birthday, it's actually "never to be nice," Viall said.

"It's usually to remind them that you're still there," Viall continued. "Either if you broke up with them, you just wanna say, Hey, I'm still here. I want you to think about me. It's a goal to try to like get back in and have a conversation. It's almost never really intended for what people say it is, especially shortly after breakup."

"I mean, listen, if you wanna text your ex five years after you broke up, because you've developed some sort of friendship, you know, fine," he added. "But I think shortly after a breakup, it's, uh, usually an excuse to talk to them. And it's not really intended for the genuine happy birthday."

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In a throwback clip from the Channel 4 game show, Rachel Riley donned a tight-fitting pink number and marked the occasion by going braless.
In turn, eagle-eyed viewers noticed that the daytime TV beauty was sharing a hint of nipple and all before the watershed.
The cheeky ensemble has even amassed quite the following online with over 285,000 admirers viewing the awkward blunder from 2015 on YouTube.
Though, Rachel’s been at the centre of several classic Countdown catastrophes in her time, including a particularly filthy gaffe just last week.
Player Neil flashed a smirk as he offered up the word "fapped" which, for the uninitiated, is the past tense of fap - to masturbate.
Unlike those watching at home, the stars of the long-running program, including host Nick Hewer, failed to acknowledge his shocking suggestion with many taking to Twitter to comment.
Following the 2014 iCloud leak, which saw private pictures of celebrities emerge, it became known by many as The Fappening.
Rachel and fellow Countdown star, Dictionary Corner’s Susie Dent, chose to swiftly “move on”, which didn’t go unnoticed by fans.
Countdown airs weekdays at 4.30pm on Channel 4.
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