The Bachelor's Christina Mandrell's Connection to Taylor Swift

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Long unrecorded Christina Mandrell's music video cameo.

Nothing gets past the Swifties, and the season 27 premiere of The Bachelor was nary different, arsenic erstwhile contestant Christina introduced herself to Zach Shallcross, Taylor Swift fans realized they had seen her before—in the Grammy winner's 2008 euphony video for her deed azygous "Fifteen." 

In fact, successful a Jan. 25 TikTok, a idiosyncratic edited unneurotic a video featuring the 26-year-old connected the ABC dating amusement earlier cutting to her quality successful the euphony video, successful which she stands nether an umbrella successful a schoolhouse uniform, chatting with a person earlier starring disconnected into the camera.

And Christina was speedy to poke amusive astatine herself, posting a footage from the Taylor video on with a changeable of herself connected The Bachelor starring intensely astatine Zach

"Apparently I look astatine Zach the aforesaid mode I look astatine Taylor Swift," she captioned the Instagram post. "New Conspiracy theory, archetypal I stared astatine Taylor, past stared astatine Zach, which inevitably leads to maine crying connected the STAIRs." 

Her followers filled successful the blank space of the remark conception with their excitement.

Bachelor Nation member Amanda Stanton wrote, "If this was me, I would ne'er ever unopen up astir it btw lol," portion different idiosyncratic added, "Lol this is epic."

And though Christina has yet to uncover however the casting went down, Taylor has antecedently spoken astir the inspiration down the song, which was disconnected her 2008 medium Fearless.

"I wrote it astir the travel that my best friend, Abigail, who, you know, we're inactive tight," the "Lavender Haze" singer told iHeartRadio in 2021. "We met successful freshman year of precocious schoolhouse and we some had these trials and tribulations and lessons and adventures and mishaps and heartbreaks and glorious excitements and fto downs."

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Taylor noted that she wanted to "tell the communicative of being 15, benignant of done the lens of a friendship."

"You spot what these 2 radical spell done unneurotic arsenic friends and connected their own," she continued. "It inactive gets me, this song, due to the fact that those were each existent insecurities of similar walking successful your freshman twelvemonth and reasoning like, 'Where americium I going to acceptable in, successful this monolithic water of people?' Like, 'Where's my locker? How bash I acceptable successful here?' You're like, 'Who americium I going to be?' That's a question that we inquire ourselves a batch done the people of life, but I deliberation ne'er much than erstwhile we're 15."

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