The very first Golden Bachelorette, Jeanne VassosI found her happily ever after Chock Chapple.

Joan met 24 men on the ABC reality show, which premiered in September 2024, and eventually accepted a proposal from Chock on the beaches of Bora Bora.

“From our first date at Disneyland, I thought I saw a future with you and this is the first time I’ve imagined a future with someone else in a very long time,” Joan told Chock during the final rose ceremony, airing November 2024. “And then tragedy struck your family and your mother died and you had to leave. I wanted you to leave but I was really afraid that you wouldn’t come back and that’s when I realized that I couldn’t do this trip without you.

Before the shock I got down on my knees and proposed to Joan, she gushed, “I’ve been waiting for this moment in this incredible place to tell you that I love you and want to spend the rest of my life with you.”

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September 2024

While Jeanne gave his first impression increased has Keith GordonChock still left a lasting mark. “He was cute,” she said in the first episode, recorded in the summer of 2024 and broadcast in September, after Chock got out of the limo and asked her to try a spoonful of his “Chock soup -a-noodle”.

Joan chose Chock for the first face-to-face meetingwhere the couple spent a day at Disneyland. During date night, Joan and Chock connected over their shared experience of losing a loved one. (Joan’s late husband, Jean Vassosdied of cancer in 2019, while Chock’s late fiancée, Kathydied of brain cancer after nine years together.)

October 2024

In the middle of his journey on The Golden BacheloretteChock learned that his mother had died after battling stage four cancer. During an October 2024 episode, he left the series to be with his family before returning to continue his romance with Joan. Hold introduced Joan to her family in Kansas during his visit to his hometown, where they paid tribute to his late mother.

While reflecting on her relationship with Chock, Joan gushed Us every weekthe cover story“We started talking and never stopped. It was so simple – to the point where the producers said, “Hey, enjoy the atmosphere. You just talk to each other.

November 2024

Chock popped the question to Joan with a Neil Lane diamond during The Golden Bachelorette finale, broadcast in November 2024. Joan and Chock told We that they plan to have an engagement party in Los Angeles before heading to New York, where they go looking for an apartment.

“This first year, obviously, we have to kind of figure out life. Chock has a business in Kansas. I have children and grandchildren and Maryland. I’m not leaving Maryland, but he has obligations in Kansas,” Joan said. We. “We know we’re going to spend time in Maryland and Kansas, but then we have this really fun plan because we’ve both always dreamed of it — and we’re finally at this weird stage in life where we’ve realized this dream – that we live in a big city and, more specifically, we always wanted to live in New York. So Chock surprised me and said, ‘I want us to find a place.’