“THE GOLDEN HEARTBREAK”: Joan Vassos Reveals She and Chock Chapple Are OVER, Sparking Rumors About What Destroyed Their Post-Show Romance
Millions of viewers tuned into the Golden Bachelorette season finale in November 2024 to watch Chock Chapple propose to Joan Vassos. The two have a unique relationship where they live their lives apart. Joan Vassos just shared a heartfelt message that left fans wondering if her engagement to Chock Chapple is off. Keep reading to find out more about what’s going on.
Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos Shares Heartfelt Thanksgiving Message
Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate our loved ones and reflect on what we’re thankful for. Golden Bachelorette star Joan Vassos took to social media to share a heartfelt message of gratitude. Fans first met her as a contestant on Gerry Turner’s season of The Golden Bachelor.
She later found love with Chock Chapple on The Golden Bachelorette. Joan Vassos said at the start of the video that it was Thanksgiving morning, and she was thinking about life and how thankful she was. She added that life doesn’t always turn out the way you expect. Hers hasn’t.
“No one is responsible for making you happy about yourself,” Joan Vassos, 62, advised. She then launched into thanking the “amazing” people in her life, including her family, friends, and social media followers.
Joan Vassos continued to heap praise on her fans who connect with her on social media. She let fans know that she reads their comments, but doesn’t always respond with words, but sometimes does by clicking the ‘like’ button.
She ended the video by wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. But Joan Vassos didn’t mention her fiance, Chock Chapple, in the video once. Did they quietly split up?
Fans Think She Broke Up With Chock Chapple
Golden Bachelorette fans noticed the glaring absence of Chock Chapple in the list of people Joan Vassos was thankful for. The senior couple lives thousands of miles away and only sees each other every few weeks or longer. He lives in Wichita, Kansas, where he serves as the president of an insurance agency. Meanwhile, Joan Vassos lives in Maryland.
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Fans flooded the comments with questions about Chock.
- “From what you’re saying, I think you aren’t with Chock anymore. Things don’t always work out but I wish you love in the future.”
- “No mention of Chock, are you no longer together?”
- “I feel like the mentioning every one else besides him is pretty telling”
- “This sounds like a single woman.”
This wasn’t the first time fans suspected that Joan Vassos and Chock Chapple had broken up. The Golden Bachelorette star quickly shut the previous rumors down immediately. She has yet to respond to the new speculation about their relationship.
One Bachelor Nation fan speculated that the breakup wasn’t recent. “I think they’ve been broken up since before ATFR but showed up together because they didn’t want people to know,” they wrote. Joan Vassos and Chock Chapple attended the After the Final Rose for Mel Owens’ season of The Golden Bachelor earlier this month.
Several fans noted that Joan Vassos looked like she had been crying a lot in her recent social media posts. Stay tuned for more on this developing story.
Jeff Lewis Responds to Lala Kent Calling Him Out Over Comment About Sober Fan, Addresses If He Was RHOC Finale Caller & Where He Stands With Andy Cohen After “[Screwing] Up” BravoCon Panel
Jeff Lewis offered an update on where he stands with Andy Cohen on his radio show, days after they suffered yet another falling out at BravoCon.
As the 55-year-old Flipping Out alum also reflected on his comment about Monica Garcia, 42, being on food stamps, reacted to being called out by Lala Kent, 35, over a comment he made to a sober fan, and shared if he was the Real Housewives of Orange County finale caller, he said that while Andy, 57, did get mad, they are now in a “better” place.
“[We’re] much better … I have no problem saying, ‘I’m sorry,’” Jeff shared on the November 21 episode of SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Live. “We have an 18-year friendship … I have a lot of love for Andy … I didn’t give a sh*t what 5,000 people thought of me that I don’t know. I don’t care.”
According to Jeff, he was “really upset” that he hurt Andy and “f*cked up his day.”
“I screwed up his panel, and that was what I was really most upset about … I was aggressive. I was negative. I was, I got frustrated with him. I am sorry,” he explained.
As for his comment about Monica being on food stamps, Jeff clarified that he “insinuated” she was on food stamps before seemingly doubling down.
“Five kids and no job? That’s a lot. Kids are expensive. Can I tell you? I can’t afford to have five kids. If I can’t afford to have five kids, she certainly can’t afford to have five kids,” he noted. “I was making a joke, which was an inappropriate joke, and it didn’t land very well.”
“[But] my whole point of that was saying, ‘What happened to hiring affluent women?’ That’s what I was saying to Andy … that was the first example that I brought up,” he added.
Moving on to his interaction with a BravoCon fan who was in recovery, Jeff said his comment about the convention not being the place for a sober person was “taken out of context.”
“He was very long-winded, and he could not read a room, and he was a downer. He killed the vibe … People are taking what I’m saying out of context … what happened was, I said, ‘Do you think, now that you’ve fallen off the wagon, you were in recovery, do you think BravoCon is a good place to be?'” he explained. “I don’t know. I’m not in recovery, but I would think there would be a lot of temptation to drink, and that’s why I said that, and yes, it was snarky, and maybe it was insensitive, but I did say that.”
Regarding Lala specifically, Jeff wondered why she didn’t contact him directly before calling him out on Instagram.
“I must’ve talked to her for 30 minutes at JSX before we flew to Vegas. I thought we were friends. If she has a problem, call me. We’ll talk about it,” he encouraged.
Also on his radio show, Jeff clapped back at the suggestion that Shannon Beador, 62, put him up to the phone call seen on the RHOC finale in which a mystery person accused Tamra Judge, 58, of being behind a series of leaked stories.
“Have I ever hid behind anybody? I would not do that because I don’t believe it anyway,” he stated.
