Joan Vassos has dropped some hints about the identities of her Final 4 The Golden Bachelorette suitors.
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When asked how that compares to her Final 4 men on The Golden Bachelorette, Joan shared on a recent episode of the "Trading Secrets" podcast, "Okay, let me think about that. So my Final 4 -- all of my Final 4 were guys that I liked upfront."
Fans can therefore probably safely assume that Joan had chemistry right off the bat with the men who made it far on her season.
"They made good first impressions, but not necessarily because they did anything epic," Joan teased.
"In fact, one of them didn't make a great first impression and I liked him just because he was really nervous."
Based on the Night 1 limo entrances, Joan may have been referring to Jordan Heller, a 61-year-old sales manager from Chicago, IL, who had fumbled his words upon meeting Joan and later called his introduction "atrocious."
Joan graciously assured Jordan at the first cocktail party that "everybody's mind goes blank when you step out of that limo."
Jenn elaborated of her Final 4 men on Jason's podcast, "So there was somebody who, even though he didn't do his speech as he had planned or he felt uncomfortable and you could tell that he was really, really nervous -- that made me like him maybe even more."
Joan said she had "a lot of empathy" for her bachelors as they made their first impressions on-camera.
"I know how incredibly nervous I was when I was in the limo," Joan noted, recalling her time on Gerry Turner's The Golden Bachelor season last year.
"So I kind of gave them passes on the first impressions. I didn't want to make that a big part of it because I'm not sure if you are your true, awesome self when you're coming out of that limo under that high-stress situation."
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Joan therefore noted she was four for four with her Final 4 bachelors in terms of feeling a connection with them pretty immediately on her season.
Joan has also teased her The Golden Bachelorette ending recently.
Joan shared with Us Weekly, in a vague manner, that while she "found a lot of love" on her The Golden Bachelorette season, there are "all different kinds of love."
And when asked to spill more details about how her journey concluded on The View, Joan said, "I feel like everybody's journey is completely different, including mine."
Joan added, "Mine ended in a unique way, but the way it ended makes me very happy."
The 61-year-old private school administrator and mother from Maryland went on to share, "I feel like life does that to you. It turns out the way that it's supposed to, and I feel like my journey really did."
But Joan couldn't get away with that response when talking to several curious women.
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Joan's The Golden Bachelorette season premiered on September 18 with 24 bachelors competing for her heart, but she is quickly narrowing down her pool of men.
In a preview of what's to come on The Golden Bachelorette, Joan appears to say, "I love you," to Mark Anderson, and she tells the cameras, "I've only been in love with one person -- more than one now."
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When Us had asked Joan earlier this month if she could confidently say that she found love on her season, Joan admitted it was a "hard question" to answer.
"The journey ended exactly like it should," she told the magazine at the time.
"I feel like every one of these men are going to be in my life forever. We shared really, really intimate things about our lives and we are bonded. So I think I found a lot of love actually this season."
Joan said she simply wanted to meet a man whom she could see "a future" with in "the real world" outside of The Bachelor bubble.
"I didn't want to go through all of this and be at the same place I was when I came to the mansion," Joan explained.
Joan lost her husband John Vassos to cancer in 2021 after 32 years of marriage, and she said her goal for starring on The Golden Bachelorette was to prove to senior women and men that dating "is still worth a try" and they're not invisible.
"Dating can be fun," she noted. "Dating can be fun, and finding love is worth the journey."
Joan shared that while she hoped to find a partner with whom she can spend the rest of her life, she wasn't necessarily banking on an engagement and returning home to her family in Maryland with a diamond engagement ring on her finger.
"I said all along I didn't need to leave engaged," Joan recently told People, noting, however, that she really wanted to leave the show "in a committed relationship."
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"This journey made me open to love. And I figured it out partway through the journey that I really wasn't there when I came, but I got there," Joan concluded.
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Click here to read spoilers about Joan's The Golden Bachelorette season and who finished as her Final 4 bachelors, Final 3 men, runner-up and winner.
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