Throughout ABC’s upfront presentation on Might 14, 2024, Ryan Seacrest revealed that Joan Vassos would be the first ‘Golden Bachelorette’ main girl!
Following the surprising information of Golden Bachelor couple Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist’s cut up, ABC is right here to fix our damaged hearts. In Might 2024, the community lastly introduced the main girl for the highly-anticipated spinoff sequence, The Golden Bachelorette.
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In step with custom, the golden-aged girl assembly 20 or extra potential husbands is somebody we already know — and whom Gerry mentioned goodbye to throughout his season. Nicely, who’s it? Hold studying to seek out out who will likely be taking heart stage on the inaugural season of The Golden Bachelorette!
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So, who’s going to be the ‘Golden Bachelorette’?
Throughout ABC’s upfront presentation at New York’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor on Might 14, Ryan Seacrest revealed that Joan Vassos would be the first Golden Bachelorette. The brand-new sequence, which debuts within the fall of 2024, will air on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. EST.
Regardless of being a frontrunner for Gerry’s coronary heart, the beautiful 61-year-old faculty administrator made the tough resolution to go away in Week 3 to be along with her daughter who had simply given start weeks previous to filming for The Golden Bachelor commenced.
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Joan additional defined her exit throughout the “Ladies Inform All” episode in November 2023, telling the viewers, “My daughter had a very severe case of postpartum melancholy, and … she wanted me. She wanted her mother, and I did not suppose twice. I knew I needed to be there; I heard it in her voice. I couldn’t get on the aircraft quick sufficient.”
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Joan hoped to return and rekindle her reference to Gerry, nevertheless it sadly “wasn’t within the playing cards,” she advised TheWrap throughout the taping of the “Ladies Inform All” episode.
Fortunately, the celebrities have aligned as a result of as the primary main girl of ABC’s The Golden Bachelorette, Joan will get one other likelihood at discovering the second love of her life — and we’re rooting for her each step of the best way!
Joan Vassos mentioned she’s trying to discover a “life associate” on ‘The Golden Bachelorette.’
In mid-Might 2024, Joan sat down with CNN to debate her upcoming journey as the primary Golden Bachelorette main girl. The blonde magnificence advised the outlet that whereas she is not speeding into marriage, she nonetheless hopes to seek out her “life associate” throughout her journey.
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“If it leads to engagement, I am open to that. I do imagine this course of works. I’ve seen it work for thus many {couples} on The Bachelor, so I imagine within the course of,” Joan defined. “If it leads to, ‘You and I are going to get to know one another higher within the outdoors world,’ that is excellent additionally.”
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She continued, “I most likely will not rush into a wedding straight away — and never solely due to what occurred with Gerry and Theresa. I believe it takes a while to essentially get to know someone. Out within the wild, in the actual world, you could spend a while there.”
Joan additionally disclosed that her 4 youngsters are her largest cheerleaders for locating love, however she’s going to by no means transfer away from her household for a person. She advised CNN, “I will by no means go away my household. They’re crucial individuals on this planet to me clearly, and I might anticipate that to be the identical for the person who I find yourself with as a result of household is so essential to me, that must be a key a part of their persona.”
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Joan can also be on a mission to shatter any and all stereotypes about life in your 60s.
Positive, society typically frowns on relationship after a sure age — however Joan is out to show that your 60s generally is a vibrant time for love and residing life to the fullest!
“I believe there’s cultures on this planet that revere the older individuals they usually suppose that they’ve data they usually have this expertise of life, and I do not suppose that’s tremendous true in our society,” she advised CNN. “So, I believe [The Golden Bachelor] confirmed the aspect of, we’re not outdated. We do not have canes. Some individuals on the present had listening to aids, however no person might even see that they had them.
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She elaborated, “Rising outdated now could be very completely different. We have been all very match, we exercised, we shared nice tales about elevating our children and we realized a lot from one another. There’s a number of data that we now have within us as a result of we have lived life.”
“In our tradition, I really feel like rising outdated isn’t a dignified factor,” Joan concluded. “You are simply purported to type of fade within the again, [and] take a backseat to the following technology. I am hoping that we alter that a bit of bit. We’re nonetheless enjoyable and energetic and we all know how one can use our telephones.”