Nearly a year after Bachelor Nation fell in love with school administrator on ( and over her daughter’s medical emergency), our favorite Golden Girl is making her return to the ever-iconic for a “second, second chance” at finding love. Cue: Joan helming the first-ever season of which premiered on Wednesday. While fans of the show followed the 61-year-old’s latest journey kick off on screen, screen, Joan had her sights elsewhere this week: Disney’s on Broadway! Joan made her Broadway debut as the Fortune Teller in while celebrating her new Bachelor Leading Lady status, and she let come hang out with her during her theater fitting and rehearsal.
“I’m so lucky that I get to do this when there are people all over the world whose dream this is, and I get to be here one night because I was on this reality TV show,” Joan told “I’m also incredibly excited and a little nervous! I don’t usually get very nervous, but this is maybe one of the scariest things I’ve ever done.” As our Golden Bachelorette was fitted and prepped, she gave a full play-by-play of what filming limo entrances for the ABC series was really like and dished on the texts she or may not have sent executive producers about wanting to cast ’s dad. (Admit it: you would have, too! ̄_(ツ)_/ ̄ ) Read on for the convo.
The Golden Bachelorette I was actually on the phone [with ABC] about season stuff, and they said, “We have a surprise for you.” And when they finally told me, I was like, �.