Tayshia Adams Thought The GOAT Would 'Be the Easy Show' But Would Rather 'Be Bachelorette Again' (Exclusive)

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the premiere episode SKIN.

Tayshia Adams competed for roses at Bachelor and then shared them as The Bachelorette. But on SKINthings got a little more physical for the 33-year-old Adams.

“Competition is a whole different game,” she tells PEOPLE, adding that she has moved on SKIN to show “how strategic and smart” she can be.

Adams quickly proved that she could hold her own amidst a sea of ​​contestants who came from shows like Big Brother, Challenge and Survived, winning the first competition and being dubbed The GOAT in the first episode. Looking back, Adams thinks the win “knocked off my back” right out of the gate.

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“I didn’t think it would happen,” she says. “On Bachelor, you kind of want to make your first impression, and that’s where I came in with that. But if I did it again, I might have just finished second or third, because I had a target on my back.”

The win meant Adams got to pick the team captains for the second challenge — and had to cast the deciding elimination vote for Food Network star Jason Smith or Lapis Joey Sasso. Adams eventually chose Sasso, 30, to be the first out of the competition.

“I started to cry. I didn’t agree with that,” Adams recalls. “It was hard. I’ve been through some pretty heartbreaking goodbyes and tough decisions, and I didn’t expect it to be my first night.”

Tayshia Adams and Joey Sasso.

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Adams entered Bachelor Nation on Colton Underwood’s season and continued to look for love Bachelor in Paradise season 6. She then became the Bachelorette in season 16 after Clare Crawley ended her reign early. The California native got engaged to Zac Clark at the end of her season, but the two announced their split in November 2021. She went on to host the next season alongside Kaitlyn Bristowe.

Adams did not expect SKIN be just as stressful as her time at any of the Bachelor shows, even though she had an immediate ally in her colleagues Bachelor National alum Joe Amabile. “I’m like, ‘Oh, it can’t be that bad,’ except I cry every episode,” he jokes. “I thought this was going to be a light show! But I won’t lie. I would probably be a bachelor again.”

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SKIN however, Adams brought something positive in the form of new friendships with her co-stars.

“I’ve made a lot of friendships through the show,” Adams says. “To be honest, I don’t know if any of our paths would cross. This was the perfect show to make some connections with people that I wouldn’t have had the chance to do before.”

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The first three episodes SKIN now streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Freevee, with new episodes released on Thursdays.

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