The Bachelor alum Joey Graziadei is doing the happy dance in the wake of his Dancing With the Stars win, and it’s for good reason, as a source exclusively tells Life & Style that the Hollywood offers are already raining in and he’ll be raking in the big bucks in 2025 without a doubt.
“Joey has been one of the most all-around popular Bachelors in the history of the franchise and his win on DWTS just proves how much the audience loves him,” the source tells Life & Style. “People love his fiancée Kelsey [Anderson] too, and so far, things do seem to be going well for them. They haven’t set a wedding date yet because things were on hold while he did DWTS but they are living together and by all accounts very much in love.”
Kelsey, 26, and Joey’s love makes a lot of people happy, including the network bosses, who are “salivating over the numbers they can bring in with a wedding special, according to the insider.
“There’s a lot of excitement and talk about giving Joey and Kelsey some sort of spinoff of their own after they get married,” the source continues.
In addition to Joey’s buzzworthy engagement, the insider notes that his solo career is “exploding.”
“He’s got offers for appearances and branding deals pouring in,” noted the insider, adding, “His days of tennis coaching are definitely behind him.”
Joey, 29, instantly won over the hearts of Bachelor Nation when he appeared on Charity Lawson’s season of The Bachelorette in 2023, ending the season as her runner-up. The Pennsylvania native was given a second chance at finding his future wife when he was crowned the season 28 Bachelor.
Fans loved Joey as the lead just as much as they did when he was a contestant, and he gained popularity throughout his season. Joey proposed to Kelsey during the finale and they became a force of a couple.
The couple had a few months to soak in their major updated relationship status in the real world before relocating to Los Angeles after Joey joined the Dancing With the Stars season 33 cast.
Joey began the season with the massive support of Bachelor Nation as he performed on the dance floor with partner Jenna Johnson. The duo faced comments from viewers who pointed out how jealous they would be of the partnership if they were in Kelsey’s shoes. However, the New Orleans native quickly shut down the online chatter.
“So many people are like, ‘Kelsey, why is Jenna touching your man like that?’ And honestly, I don’t know… Maybe because it’s her job? Maybe because she’s a professional dancer and she has to touch him to dance? I don’t know, that’s my understanding of it,” Kelsey said in a video via TikTok on September 19.
She later added, “Do y’all remember how Joey and I met? We met on The Bachelor. He was dating 31 other women while he was dating me, and I won the Super Bowl ring.”
Needless to say, the camaraderie led Joey’s fanbase to a new demographic on Dancing With the Stars, which helped him and Jenna, 30, to win the mirrorball trophy during the finale.
Life & Style and other outlets caught up with Joey at the finale and learned his plans after being crowned the season 33 champion.
“We’re both in the process of starting to figure [wedding planning] out,” Joey said at the time, later adding, “[Kelsey and I] both said that we want it to be for us. So, that’s however you want to take that. We’ll figure out what it is, but it’s going to be for us, and we’re going to make sure it’s something special that we can look back on and do it just for us.”
