Bachelor Nation is days away from discovering out how Joey Graziadei‘s season of The Bachelor ends — and he’s prepared for the world to know whether or not he gave out the ultimate rose.
Throughout an interview after the Girls Inform All taping earlier this month, Us Weekly requested the 28-year-old tennis professional how he’s feeling going into the finale and whether or not he’s apprehensive about any backlash for the selection he made.
“I can’t even let you know if there was a alternative — you realize that!” Joey instructed Us with a smile. “However it’s all the time like I’ve a degree of pleasure as a result of I’m able to get to being again to Joey once more. Joey, the Bachelor, has been so enjoyable, however it is a lot it — it’s quite a bit to undergo. It’s quite a bit to soak up now and again, and I’m simply able to have the reply and the whole lot be on the market, no matter occurred, no matter folks assume, all these completely different theories, I’m prepared for it to all be [put] to relaxation. And I can type of know and have no matter it was be popping out after which we will simply type of transfer ahead.”
Joey solidified his closing two, Daisy Kent and Kelsey Anderson, on the March 18 episode of the ABC sequence. Within the preview for the finale, Joey is proven breaking down in tears as he notes nobody anticipated issues to go this manner.
“That was loopy. I didn’t anticipate that in any respect. I can’t assume that’s occurred earlier than,” he mentioned within the clip. “I don’t even know what to say. I do know I gave as a lot as I may. I’m sick of feeling like this. It feels unsuitable, however I don’t know what to do.”
Government producer Claire Freeland beforehand revealed that Joey’s closing rose ceremony formed the season and resulted within the concept to place among the emotional footage from the ending within the sequence premiere.
“We felt like we had a chance to not simply make the change for the sake of constructing a change,” Freeland instructed Indiewire in February. “We had what we wanted to again it up.”
Theories have subsequently run wild inside Bachelor Nation, with followers guessing that Joey’s first alternative quits, one among his contestants returns and extra.
“I do know that they’re actual feelings. I do know that from what I’m instructed, it’s one thing that hasn’t occurred earlier than, and I feel when you get to that time and also you observe the precise story line, folks will perceive what these tears imply and that’s the most effective I can say,” Joey beforehand teased to Us.
There was additionally hypothesis that Joey spoiled the ending when he and Kelsey A. had been sharing photographs with comparable backdrops in February.
“Clearly something that comes out like that, I can’t actually communicate on it. I do know persons are actually making an attempt to determine what’s occurring,” Joey instructed Us when requested concerning the principle. “Yeah, I can’t communicate to something that’s despatched as a result of it’s probably not one thing that I’m taking note of.”
The Bachelor finale airs on ABC Monday at 8 p.m. ET.