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As she prepared to lead the debut season of “The Golden Bachelorette,” former “The Golden Bachelor” contestant Joan Vassos said she knew she would sometimes do things that would make her four adult children cringe.
Vassos shared her first kiss of the season with one of her suitors during the September 18 premiere, and she doesn’t apologize for it.
In a September 16 interview with Fox News, Vassos recalled a conversation with her kids. “I said I wouldn’t kiss anybody. … We all knew it was a lie,” she said.
Joan Vassos Says Her Kids Find Some Aspects of the Show ‘Super Embarrassing’
Vassos said during her Fox News interview that her kids felt pretty good about her decision to do “The Golden Bachelorette.”
After seeing “The Golden Bachelor,” where the episodes portrayed the cast members fairly positively, Vassos’ family felt “a little less worried about me” than they might have otherwise, she said.
However, Vassos admitted “they were very adamant” about their opinions when it came to kissing and fantasy suites. She acknowledged they found that type of televised content “super embarrassing for them.”
In addition, Vassos admitted she promised her kids she wouldn’t kiss anybody. However, she quipped, “We all knew it was a lie. So, oh well.”
As People noted, Vassos has four grown kids, whom she raised with her late husband John. Allison, Erica, Nicholas and Luke, along with her grandkids, are her top priority. She self-eliminated from “The Golden Bachelor” in 2023 to support a daughter struggling with postpartum depression, telling “Golden Bachelor” Gerry Turner, “I got a text this morning, and I think I need to go home and be a mom right now. So as much as I don’t want to leave — and I don’t want to leave our journey — I got to be a parent.”
Extra shared tidbits from Vassos on September 17, and she reiterated the fib she told her family. “My kids were so worried about me kissing men on TV,” she admitted.
Vassos revealed she “pretended” she wouldn’t kiss any of her men. She noted, however, “Like, you have to kiss. It’s part of the journey.”
“They’re like, ‘You’re old, you shouldn’t be kissing on TV! It’s gross, Mom!'”
Despite that, Vassos admitted, “I kissed a lot of them.”
She laughed and added, “Oh God, that’s gonna be a sound bite, isn’t it?”
‘The Golden Bachelorette’ Star Kept an Open Mind About Kissing
Vassos told Us Weekly, “I had no hard, set rules” about kissing. “My kids certainly would’ve wanted me to say that I did [have rules set]. I may have promised ’em I wouldn’t kiss anybody on night one, but I think you need to kiss people! I’m sorry.”
She explained, “There’s a physical part of a relationship if you wanna end up with a person that’s not just your friend [who really is] your person for life.”
She admitted, though, “I didn’t think it would happen much.”
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Vassos said her kids were “terrified” about the fantasy suites.
“I’m just gonna have to tell them, ‘Just close your eyes, this could get bad for you,'” Vassos quipped.
But she told Extra, “I didn’t want to have a physical relationship with more than one person, so I kind of took that off the table. [We] did Fantasy Suites but it was all about like an emotional connection and learning things about each other off-camera, but I didn’t do the physical thing.”
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