The Golden Bachelorette's Joan Vassos Reveals If She Still Wants To Get Engaged After Mark Anderson's Red Flags

The Golden Bachelorette's Joan Vassos opened up about whether she still wants to get engaged at the end of the season. After Joan left The Golden Bachelor season 1 due to personal matters, she got a second chance when ABC cast her as the lead of The Golden Bachelorette season 1. She's been navigating the process in a healthy manner, even when sending fan-favorite Mark Anderson home. She also had to deal with Chock Chapple leaving and returning, which almost felt like a flashback to her Golden Bachelor experience. Now there's three men left: Chock, Guy Gansert and Pascal Ibgui.

The Wrap shared a clip from the next episode of The Golden Bachelorette, in which Joan excitedly announces that she and her final three men are traveling to Tahiti for the overnight dates. "I am so happy, it's indescribable," she exclaims. As footage plays of Joan getting on a flight and traveling on a boat to Tahiti, her voiceover describes the experience as "paradise."

At the end of the clip, Joan opens up about the possible outcome of starring on The Golden Bachelorette. Almost every season of a Bachelor franchise show ends with an engagement, and Joan is still hopeful for that, despite having some doubts recently. She said, "My biggest hope is that my heart and my head come together and that, in a couple weeks, this ends with an engagement."

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Joan Doesn't Need An Engagement To Be Happy

Joan's premature departure from The Golden Bachelor wasn't her fault; she knew she needed to be with her daughter at that moment in time after she had a baby. There was never any guarantee that Joan would get the chance to come back to the franchise for a do-over. Now that she has, she's making the most of the very short filming schedule and discovering what she wants in a relationship at this point in her life.

Before The Golden Bachelorette premiered, Joan made some comments that suggested she didn't need the season to end in an engagement to consider the experience a success. She could easily see herself picking Chock, Guy or Pascal, and staying in a committed relationship with them without getting engaged and married. Now, according to this preview clip, it appears her intention is to get engaged.

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Joan Recently Lost Her Confidence

After a quick marriage and sudden divorce from The Golden Bachelor's Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist, Joan shouldn't feel obligated to get engaged if she doesn't feel comfortable going down that path. After eliminating Mark, she started to feel doubts and a lack of confidence ahead of the next rose ceremony. As she gets closer to the end of the season and choosing one man, hopefully, her confidence returns and she feels proud of her eventual decision.