“Golden Bachelorette” Joan Vassos has some new bling on her left hand. The inaugural lead of the ABC show helping seniors find love concluded her season by giving Chock Chapple her final rose, who proposed to her with a Neil Lane ring. Vassos — a school administrator who has four children and two grandchildren — previously competed for love on Gerry Turner’s first-ever season of “The Golden Bachelor .
” Though she seemed like an early frontrunner, she left during the third week to help her daughter who was having a medical emergency. In Vassos’ groundbreaking “Golden Bachelorette” season, she narrowed down the field of 24 contestants, all while grappling with her own grief after losing her husband of 32 years, John, in 2021 to pancreatic cancer. Chapple, Vassos’ final pick, was married for 12 years, and shares two kids with his ex-wife.
The insurance executive was later engaged to another woman, Kathy, with whom he spent nearly a decade and who died from a brain tumor in 2022. While Vassos and Chapple’s chemistry was undeniable, and he even got the first one-on-one date, their journey almost came to a tragic and abrupt conclusion when Chapple’s mother died during filming. Chapple left the mansion and visited his family; however, he soon returned, saying in a confessional, “There was no way I was not coming back.
.. I’ve got a unique opportunity that very few people in the world do with a great woman.
” Their connection remained strong as Vassos re.
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