The Golden Bachelorette Premiere: Who Did Joan Vassos Send Home?

Joan Vassos prepared connected Wednesday nighttime for her 2nd changeable astatine existent love.

The first-ever Golden Bachelorette dubbed herself “the luckiest idiosyncratic successful the world” connected this show’s September 18 premiere, arsenic she accepted the pb relation three years aft her hubby passed away from pancreatic cancer.

Among the astir memorable suitors… Chock brought immoderate chickenhearted noodle soup; Kim arrived successful his Navy uniform; and Jack serenaded his imaginable aboriginal woman with a mentation of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.”

Joan Vassos holds a roseate connected the archetypal occurrence of The Golden Bachelorette. (ABC)

“This is simply a brainsick journey, but radical find emotion successful tons of antithetic ways,” Joan said to her radical of contestants wrong of the mansion. “Like, I don’t cognize if I’m being naïve, but I deliberation it could truly work, truthful I can’t hold to get this travel started.”

(Joan, of course, is being naive. It ne'er works. Just inquire the latest Bachelorette, Jenn Tran.)

The men past went up and made their transportation to The Golden Bachelorette.

“When I recovered retired it was you, I was 100 percent in,” Pascal told her, for example. “If it wasn’t you, Joan, I wouldn’t beryllium present today. I conscionable privation you to cognize that.”

Gregg and Joan, meanwhile, donned Hawaiian shirts and sipped tropical cocktails, portion Gil played tee shot with her and Charles K. and Joan raced successful motorized chairs.

“I conscionable privation to speech to her each nighttime long,” Charles K. said to the camera.

Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos with Pascal successful the play 1 premiere episode. (Disney/Gilles Mingasson)

Another suitor said helium got deed by lightning and needed 12 minutes of CPR to beryllium revived, portion yet different made meal for Joan and different wrote her a poem.

Joan Vassos cornhole with Keith and felt an contiguous connection. “

We person a batch of things successful common,” she said. “It’s exciting. I tin representation being with him.”

She past gave this aspiring hubby her archetypal content rose.

“This travel is scary and you conscionable made maine consciousness safe,” Joan told Keith. “You person this calm dependable and you’re conscionable like, this large teddy carnivore benignant of guy. I don’t know, it conscionable felt bully to me.”

Keith earned Joan’s archetypal content roseate connected The Golden Bachelorette. (Disney/Gilles Mingasson)

Cut to the roseate ceremony, wherever Joan told her fellas that she’d been “dreading this moment.”

“If you leave, you person already won,” she said. “You are present and you person shown the satellite that you person bosom and you person a consciousness of escapade and that you are looking for emotion and you’re doing it successful your aureate years. And you’re a large illustration to everyone.”

In the end, Vassos extended roses to Dan, Jonathan, Mark, Guy, Charles K., Gil, Gary, Pascal, Chock, Kim, Christopher, Gregg, Charles L., Jordan, Bob, Michael and Jack.

From there, a preview for the remainder of the play featured Joan saying “I emotion you” to Mark, arsenic good arsenic Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner making his instrumentality to inquire her:

“Have you considered the anticipation that your feline is not here?”