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Joan Vassos Fears She Might ‘Leave With Nobody’ After Hometown Dates in ‘Golden Bachelorette’ Preview
Things didn’t go exactly the way Joan Vassos planned during hometown dates on The Golden Bachelorette. In a preview for the show’s Wednesday, October 23, episode, the leading lady began worrying that she might end her journey for love alone.
“The conversations are not what I expected,” Joan, 61, said in the sneak peek. With tears in her eyes, she later added, “Now I might leave with nobody.”
While previews are always edited to not give the full storyline away, it seems like Joan had a tough conversation with Pascal Ibgui’s eldest daughter Natalie. “Your father is the one I worry about,” Joan said at one point, although it’s not shown who she was talking to. Natalie was later seen saying, “He is not going to pick you.”
Meanwhile, Chock Chapple asked Joan, “So is this real?” while Guy Gansert wondered, “Should I guard my heart?” The quick clip also showed Pascal’s son, Max, telling the salon owner, “One thing I want for you is to finally find the one.” Plus, Jordan Heller’s daughter pointed out to him, “You’ve never come up and been like, ‘I am so in love with someone’ [before].”
Pascal, 70, Guy, 66, Chock, 61, and Jordan, 61, are Joan’s final four men who received hometown dates. After she meets their families, she will have to eliminate one of them and decide which three she wants to take to fantasy suites week.
The Maryland native previously opened up about why she decided to do things differently in the fantasy suites and asked for there not to be a bed during the overnights. Instead, she used the time behind closed doors to have deeper conversations because she did not want to be physically intimate with more than one man.
“The men were also very respectful about that and kind of liked the idea,” she shared. “They thought it was a good idea. I’m not judging anyone else the way they did it, just for me, that was the way to do it.” She also added that her focus in the fantasy suites was “emotional intimacy.”
One thing Joan has also been insistent about is that she will not move away from her family to be with a man. However, she was optimistic about the possibility of being in a long-distance relationship with her future partner.
“When I have something great going on, my person could come be with me and vice versa,” she said. “We’ll spend two or three weeks with each other every month. I know this sounds aspirational, [but] you can make it work. The logistics shouldn’t be what stops you from being together.”
Her declaration came after distance played a factor in Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist’s relationship following season 1 of The Golden Bachelor. The two got married after the show but split just three months later when they couldn’t agree on a place to live. Although he initially considered moving to her home state of New Jersey and they even discussed both of them relocating to live in South Carolina, they wound up not being able to compromise.
The Golden Bachelorette airs on ABC Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
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