April 15, 2026 bachelor insider
Joan Vassos Reveals One of Her Final Four Men Was Almost Eliminated on Night 1
Spilling the tea.
Joan Vassos captured Bachelor Nation’s hearts as our leading lady on the very first season of “The Golden Bachelorette.”
Fans saw her fall in love and get engaged to Chock Chapple on the heartwarming season finale.
Since then, the two have been enjoying their time together and keeping followers updated with their lives on social media.
Recently, the pair has been sharing more about their “Golden Bachelorette” journey on a podcast. And Joan just revealed an unknown fact about one of the men on her season.
She confessed that on the first night of being the Golden Bachelorette, she wasn’t focused on who she would end up with.
She shared, “I’m gonna tell you something I’ve never said before. And that’s that I, the first night, you’re not really looking for who you’re going to end up with. You’re looking for the people you need to eliminate, which is really sad. And it’s not right but that’s how you go through night 1, because you have to make these really important decisions really, really quickly. And you have one night to make it.”
Joan continued, revealing that she almost sent home one of the men that made it to her final four.
“I had six, so I was really looking at — trying to figure out the six that I was going to not take to the next, you know, not give a rose to,” she said, “And it was little things. Like the one guy that I almost eliminated ended up in my final four. He was really, really nervous. And that’s not a reason to eliminate somebody, but I couldn’t get to know him because he was so nervous. He was shaking, he had sweaty palms, he couldn’t remember anything that he had planned to say, which is typical.”
Joan added, “Like my mind went blank when I was on ‘Golden Bachelor.’ I just rambled when I got up there, which a lot of people do. But he was almost not even able to talk, so thank God I kept him around, he ended up being really great.”
So interesting! We always love hearing from Joan and finding out more about her time as the Golden Bachelorette.
