LOS ANGELES -- The inaugural season of "The Golden Bachelorette" has come to a close with an engagement and a happy couple! Joan Vassos said "yes" when Chock Chapple proposed on a Bora Bora beach. It was a secret they had to keep for months, and they told On The Red Carpet they're happy to finally share their love with the world. "It feels really good.
You know, we finished filming in August, and so we have been like a secret for a long time," Vassos said. "Very few members of our family and friends knew, but other than that, it's just been between the two of us, which is a little bit like, something that's really good for your relationship, that it's just the two of us. There's no outside noise, but the fact that now we get to meet each other's friends and family and have, you know, that part of our life starting, it feels really good.
" Chapple, who got the first one-on-one date when Vassos invited him to Disneyland, said he was all in the minute he stepped out of the limo on night one. "I was smitten with Joan right then," he said. "And then Disneyland, I never sweated it.
I mean, we talked the whole time. It was like we'd been a couple for 3-5 years." Their bond grew throughout the season and in the final days, Joan knew where her heart was and she sent Guy home before he could meet her family.
On Wednesday's "After The Final Rose," the two revealed they'd had several secret meetups, where they could relax and really get to know each other as the world was watching their l.
