Katie Thurston's The Bachelorette premiere has been announced by ABC.
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The Bachelorette released its first promo Wednesday on Instagram of Katie wearing a purple leather skirt, a white sleeveless shirt and black heels.
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Katie was all smiles as she held onto a rose and the song "My Kind of Crowd" by Benj Heard played in the background.
ABC had announced Katie's cast of 34 potential bachelors last month, just a few days before filming began on March 22.
According to Reality Steve spoiler blogger Steve Carbone, The Bachelorette's upcoming season is in production at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, where the show's cast and crew will remain all season long amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The Bachelorette alum Blake Moynes was recently spotted filming on the set of the ABC reality dating series after failing to find love with both Clare Crawley and Tayshia Adams on the show's sixteenth season last year.
Bachelor Nation's Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti confirmed on April 1 that Blake was on location in New Mexico while Katie searches for the love of her life, Us Weekly reported.
"A lot of you were speculating because of his silence on social media over the last week or so that perhaps he joined the season," Ashley said on the April 1 episode of her The Ben and Ashley I: Almost Famous Podcast.
"We here exclusively have got the pictures to prove it. We did it. We confirmed it."
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And Ben joked at the time, "Ashley crawled underneath the gate, walked through the resort, grabbed a couple of iPhone photos and came back to the studio just to give us this update."
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELORETTE' COUPLES NOWThe pictures reportedly showed Blake wearing a mask and talking to cameras as he was surrounded by a camera crew.
"If he's just been spotted now, if he's entering late, he's not entering too late," Ashley reasoned of Blake's arrival considering the first cocktail party filmed on March 22, according to Us.
"He's probably entering after the third Rose Ceremony. I would say this looks like he's going onto a one-on-one or he's just entering."
If the third time is NOT the charm, Ben predicted Blake would be a "perfect" addition to the Bachelor in Paradise Season 7 cast this summer.
"I think he'd be great at it," Ben noted of the wildlife manager from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Blake was reunited with Tayshia at The Bachelorette resort considering she is hosting the show's seventeenth season with Kaitlyn Bristowe after longtime host Chris Harrison "stepped aside" from his hosting duties due to a controversial Extra interview in which he had defended The Bachelor contestant Rachael Kirkconnell's racially-ignorant and racially-insensitive actions in the last several years.
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Katie, a 30-year-old bank marketing manager from Lynnwood, WA, was announced as The Bachelorette's next star on The Bachelor: After the Final Rose special for Matt James' season in March.
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"Honestly, I've seen this work before; why can't it work for me?"
Katie was eliminated from Matt's season before hometown dates but made a lasting impression on Matt and viewers with her raunchy humor. She also put an end to bullying in the house and took pride in being unapologetically herself.
(Matt's The Bachelor runner-up Michelle Young will be starring on The Bachelorette's eighteenth season, which will air in Fall 2021 after Katie's season wraps on television).
ABC also confirmed Bachelor in Paradise will be returning this summer with a brand new season.
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