. >> reporter: and had a brief engagement to canadian benoit from "the bachelor winter games" in 2018. joining us now for this highly anticipated season, the star of "the bachelorette," clare crawley. clare, good to see you. i have to start by you just tell me, are you currently in love? >> ah, i am in love with life right now. things are really good. it's good not being in quarantine. i'll tell you that. >> you know that's not what i meant, clare. i find that people oftentimes when they are in love, they have a hard time hiding it. it's usually, robin, just written all over their faces. >> that's right. that's right. >> so are you having a difficult time hiding anything from us this morning? >> no. you know what, everybody keeps asking me are you happy? are you happy? and i keep telling everybody, like i was happy going into this, so whatever came about it, i'm happy now, so things are -- things are well on my end. >> oh, yeah, reading that face there, clare. look, i'm giving you a hard time here, but talking about the -- i guess the rose carrying elephant in the room is that you hav