Joey Graziadei’s journey to seek out love on “The Bachelor” got here to an in depth throughout Monday evening’s dramatic finale.
Graziadei proposed to Kelsey Anderson, a junior undertaking supervisor from New Orleans, Louisiana, through the season 28 finale of “The Bachelor.”
The episode additionally noticed the 28-year-old tennis professional saying goodbye to Daisy Kent, an account government from Becker, Minnesota.
Season 28 of “The Bachelor” kicked off in January with Graziadei assembly 32 girls trying to find a connection.
Graziadei and Anderson linked throughout their one-on-one date in Spain over their love for journey in addition to over the significance of household.
Throughout their date, Anderson opened as much as Graziadei concerning the impression that her mother, who died from breast most cancers, has had on her life. With the potential of an engagement on the finish of her journey on the present, Anderson informed Graziadei on the time that being on “The Bachelor” was “onerous typically to consider my mother not being there at my marriage ceremony.”
However Anderson informed Graziadei that main as much as “The Bachelor,” her mother had despatched her “indicators” within the type of butterflies, which she mentioned was her approach of her mother “reassuring” her to embark on this journey to seek out love. Anderson added that her dad additionally mentioned that discovering love this fashion was one thing her mother would do.
Graziadei was touched by Anderson’s story and their love continued to blossom thereafter.
Graziadei, who was the runner-up on Charity Lawson’s season of “The Bachelorette,” mentioned he felt like his story “wasn’t completed” after his time on “The Bachelorette” and was “excited” to seek out his individual because the Bachelor.
“These final couple years have been actually large for me, and I have been engaged on myself, and I feel that is most vital in having the ability to discover your individual is to be prepared your self, and I really feel good,” he mentioned.
Forward of the proposal, each Kent and Anderson met Graziadei’s household and had ultimate dates with him. Whereas Anderson’s week main as much as the proposal was reassuring, with a particular date on the spa, Kent wasn’t feeling as assured, particularly after she informed Graziadei that she liked him and he didn’t say it again.
On the day of the proposal, Kent visited Anderson in her resort room to see how she’d been feeling and her emotions about her not being the one Graziadei chooses had been affirmed when Anderson informed her concerning the expertise she had with Graziadei on their ultimate date.
In a novel second, Kent and Anderson arrived in the identical automotive collectively to the seashore the place Graziadei was set to suggest. Kent walked onto the seashore first and informed Graziadei how she knew that she wasn’t the one. After sharing a heartbreaking goodbye, Kent mentioned within the automotive that she was happy with herself for the way she gave this expertise “my all.”
“If I can love the fallacious person who a lot, think about how I might love the precise individual,” Kent mentioned.
When Anderson walked onto the seashore, Graziadei informed her he liked her, obtained down on one knee and proposed. She mentioned sure and he gave her his ultimate rose.
In the course of the “After the Last Rose” ceremony, Graziadei and Kent met for the primary time for the reason that day she left the seashore, and Kent informed him that she was joyful for him. She additionally shared when she first sensed that she wasn’t the one he was going to decide on. In the long run, she informed Graziadei that she “can’t wait to observe” him and Anderson develop and that she’ll “all the time look again and smile” on this expertise.
Now that they’re engaged, Graziadei shared his pleasure about spending the remainder of his life with Anderson.
“She is a light-weight, one thing about Kelsey is exclusive,” he mentioned. “She offers power absolutely in her personal approach. I don’t understand how I’m going to have a boring day of life along with her by my facet.”
Anderson added that they’re hoping to maneuver to New York collectively.
“I really feel just like the luckiest man on the earth,” Graziadei mentioned. “I can’t wait to see what comes subsequent.”