The Bachelor couple Joey Graziadei and Kelsey Anderson have confirmed they're well aware they accidentally spoiled the end of Season 28 with their photos on social media.
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Joey, 28, and Kelsey, 25, accidentally unveiled their relationship to the world back in February when they had posted Instagram Stories and TikTok videos -- on their respective accounts -- from the same house during one of their "Happy Couple" visits arranged by The Bachelor production team.
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Although Joey and Kelsey had posted pictures with different very backgrounds, many fans recognized that all the pictures were from the same house. Fans therefore had theories that Joey and Kelsey were engaged.
Joey said "bravo" to the spoiler sleuths who had figured out his final-rose recipient well ahead of The Bachelor's Season 28 finale on March 25, and Kelsey noted, "Y'all are good," during a joint interview with Entertainment Weekly.
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"We tried our best [to keep our relationship a secret]," Joey told EW.
Joey's The Bachelor season wrapped filming right before Thanksgiving in November 2023, and so he and Kelsey had to hide their relationship from the public for about six months.
"I was in front of a white wall," Joey recalled of the photos that spoiled his ending.
"[Kelsey] went outside. We are shocked that they put two and two together. We will never underestimate them ever again."
Joey and Kelsey told Us Weekly in a separate interview that they had made a big effort not to give away the fact they were spending time together in February.
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"We were at a house together that weekend. We were trying to be very smart with what our backgrounds were. Yeah, it was a slip up, [but] we were shocked that people found out that it was the same background in the house," Joey explained.
"I think anyone would be -- because there was not a lot of context. But yeah, those rumors [about us spoiling my season] were correct."
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Joey and Kelsey had many eyes on them prior to The Bachelor airing their engagement, but now their relationship is going to be under a microscope.
"I think that we know where we are at and we don't need reassurance from people that don't actually know us," Kelsey told Us.
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Joey acknowledged that all of the attention is still "new" to them and they're going to have to get used to fans constantly questioning the status of their relationship.
"We'll figure out how to navigate that day by day," Joey shared.
"It's something that we're trying not to focus on too much because we got so many other things that we're excited about that we do want to focus on."
The pair previously told People that they'd like to focus on the "little things" together and just have fun.
"There's dance classes, pottery classes, grocery shopping -- little things together and the big things. I'm just excited to do life together and just run to the store together," Kelsey gushed to the magazine.
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Joey is also looking forward to seeing the world with Kelsey and just being "a normal couple."
Not only did the world guess that Joey had chosen Kelsey as his winner at the end of his The Bachelor journey, so did his runner-up, Daisy Kent.
Daisy predicted that Joey was going to dump her at the Final Rose Ceremony, and so she essentially beat him to the bunch and gracefully bowed out of the competition.
Daisy shared her suspicions with Kelsey and then approached Joey at the Final Rose Ceremony prepared to part ways.
"I do love you, but the thing is, you're not going to choose me," Daisy told Joey.
She continued, "I know that you know I'm not your person. And as much as that hurts, umm, I know you said you want what's best for me, and so I'm going to do what's best for me -- and I'm going to go."
Joey cried and confirmed that Daisy's gut instinct was correct, and once he and Daisy said goodbye, he was able to reunite with his true love, Kelsey, at the Final Rose Ceremony.
Kelsey, at that point, knew Daisy had already left and wasn't The One for Joey.
"I love you," Joey gushed to the bachelorette.
"There is something about you. You have this infectious energy that makes me smile. It's a feeling I've never had before.... We've built a very strong flame, and the only reason I know why that flame will never go out is because you're my light."
Joey said he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Kelsey, and then he proposed marriage to her.
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During the live After the Final Rose special, Kelsey and Joey were gifted a trip back to Jasper, Canada, and Joey gushed of his fiancee, "I now have my 'forever,' and I'm the luckiest guy there could be... I don't know how I'm going to have a boring day of life with her by my side."
Joey and Kelsey are now planning a long engagement, although they intend to move to New York City and live together this summer.
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