Joan Vassos on Bachelorette Reunion for Taylor Frankie Paul’s Season

Taylor Frankie Paul was welcomed to Bachelor Nation by numerous acquainted faces.

Final month, Joan, 62, was joined by a number of former Bachelorettes together with Rachel Lindsay, Trista Sutter, Hannah Brown, Kaitlyn Bristowe, Becca Kufrin, Katie Thurston, Rachel Recchia, DeAnna Pappas, Ali Fedotowsky, Andi Dorfman, Charity Lawson, Tayshia Adams, Desiree Hartsock, JoJo Fletcher, Emily Maynard and Ashley Hebert for a reunion seemingly filmed for the upcoming season 22 of The Bachelorette, which premieres in March and stars Taylor, 31.

“It was loopy,” Joan instructed Us Weekly throughout a current interview with fiancé Chock Chapple, pegged to their partnership with Encourage. “It was like, ‘Oh my God.’ I really feel like I do know them, like, I’ve watched all their seasons, however by no means met so a lot of them in particular person. I’m longing for Taylor. She is a genuinely good human who’s unapologetically herself.”

With Taylor wrapping filming earlier this month, she has been formally added to the notorious Bachelorette group chat too.

“I bear in mind I used to be leaving Tahiti [after filming my season], I used to be in a layover in California, and I used to be sitting there and began getting all these texts on my telephone, saying ‘Welcome, Joan. That is so and so from season no matter,’” Joan recalled, telling Us that the group chat remains to be lively. “It facilities round life occasions, like, any person’s pregnant, any person’s getting married, ‘Comfortable Thanksgiving’ — simply what you ship to your shut pals. You’ve this group of folks that have executed this bizarre factor that you simply’ve executed. It’s a novel group.”

Whereas chatting with Joan and Chock, there have been different Bachelor Nation-related headlines we inquired about — together with the way forward for the Golden franchise after Mel Owens’ season 2 introduced in lackluster scores.

“Golden is tough. From what I perceive, it’s arduous to search out males,” Joan mentioned. “So there’s numerous us girls out right here which can be in our 60s and 70s which can be searching for companionship and our particular person, and so they have a a lot tougher time discovering males. I feel Mel on paper was nice. I feel the cameras have been arduous for him, and so I need to give him grace and say, ‘It’s not for everyone. It’s arduous.’ Typically individuals by no means get snug. And perhaps that was him. I feel that he and Peg appear to be an ideal couple, and I maintain my fingers crossed, and I hope they work out.”

Joan believes the franchise “could also be taking just a little totally different route,” beginning with the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star.

“Taylor Frankie Paul will not be the healthful woman that they usually forged,” she mentioned. “So I feel perhaps they’ll do one thing totally different with Golden. Perhaps they’ll discover any person extra within the limelight.”

The primary season of the senior present resulted in a three-month marriage of Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist. Their breakup lately made headlines once more when Gerry wrote a ebook about their relationship, which prompted a backwards and forwards between the exes within the media.

“I’m unhappy by the entire thing,” Joan mentioned. “Their breakup wasn’t good, but it surely had taken a backseat, you realize, was not within the information anymore, and that simply introduced all of it again as much as the floor.”

One story instructed by Teresa included how Gerry as soon as joked about hiding her physique in a shed throughout a visit to his native Iowa.

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“Conversations like, ‘That’s the place I put you if I murdered you.’ That was simply humorous. I feel it was mentioned in jest, after which it simply received blown out. I’m simply unhappy by the entire thing. Truthfully, I really feel like we ought to be extra dignified and at our age, we shouldn’t be doing this to one another, and I’m sorry that it went down that [way].”

Joan and Chock, in the meantime, have been engaged since 2024, however instructed Us that they haven’t any plans to tie the knot simply but. Presently, they’re celebrating the vacations in New York Metropolis, which is when Chock stopped by to indicate off his Encourage Sleep Distant, a handheld system to show his Encourage implant on/off.

“I used to be affected by sleep apnea, and I’ve efficiently had the implant put in, you’ve gotten a lot extra vitality whenever you use Encourage sleep remedy,” he mentioned. “It simply actually modifications your life. And as you grow old — numerous us don’t sleep eight hours a day — however you get six to seven hours. You don’t get interrupted sleep.”