Golden Bachelorette’s leading lady Joan Vassos said yes to one of her final suitors in the season finale. Find out here whether she picks Guy Gansert or Chock Chapple—and if they’re still together.
Joan Vassos is ready to ride off into the sunset.
After all, the 61-year-old has officially ended her time at the helm of The Golden Bachelorette as an engaged woman. While Joan headed into the season finale with two finalists—Guy Gansert, 66, and Chock Chapple, 60—when it came down to a proposal, there was only one man Joan wanted to get down on one knee.
So in Bora Bora, she allowed Chock to do just that—though first, she gave him the words she’d withheld until the moment of the proposal.
“I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you,” she told Chock. “I want to wake up next to you in the morning and I want to kiss you when I go to bed at night.”
And when Chock did indeed go down on one knee—noting he’d been “waiting forever” to do so—Joan’s answer was an easy, “Of course I’ll marry you.”
As she noted, “We are living proof that no matter what life throws at you, there is still hope, even at our age. I never in a million years thought I’d feel love like this again.”
But while Chock received Joan’s final rose, there was another man in her bouquet with whom Joan had to be honest. And after Chock’s visit with Joan’s family, she knew that he was the one who had her heart—and that she’d need to let Guy go, before meeting her loved ones.
“I’m here to tell you that my heart belongs to somebody else,” she told the Reno, Nevada, resident. “And I care about you so, so, so, so much and I know we talked about being seen, and I want you to know that I saw you at every rose ceremony, I saw you at every date. I care so much about you. My heart belongs to somebody else now.”
And when Guy asked if there were any way she would change her mind, her answer was a gentle, “I love you, but I love you in a different way.”
During the After the Final Rose special, Joan and Guy came face to face once again for the first time since their breakup in Bora Bora, allowing the pair to get closure once and for all.
It was then that she told Guy that her feelings for him had been true, but that the pair had needed more time.
“It was really, really hard at the end to say goodbye to you because in any other situation, I would have been with you because we would have had more time,” she explained. “It was absolutely nothing you did. I have missed you. It’s been really hard to be away from you.”
But in that time, Chock and Joan have been enjoying the bliss of a new engagement. And the pair revealed in the finale that since filming ended in Bora Bora, the time they’ve spent out of the public eye has only brought them closer.
As Chock revealed of their time together, “We cooked, we played crosswords, I mean we did everything.”
“I couldn’t be happier and I want the world to know it,” he continued. “I want to tell the world, the fans, how classy Joan is and the respect she gave all the other guys.”
And for Joan, the post-show special allowed her to put her love back on display.
“This feels so good,” she explained. “I’m looking at our family and friends who we’ve never gotten to be with together, so it’s so nice to finally be able to share our love and our story and our future with them.”
And for an update on more of your favorite Bachelor Nation couples, keep reading.
Peg Munson & Mel Owens
Even before Mel Owen’s season of The Golden Bachelor kicked off, he was hit with a few penalties after going on the MGoBlue Podcasts With Jon Jansen and insisting, “if they’re 60 or over, I’m cutting them,” adding that he wanted them to “try to stay away from the artificial hips and the wigs.”
And while his forever teammate Peg Munson is a fellow sexagenarian, his connection with the retired firefighter and bomb tech is quite explosive, the former NFL linebacker praising her as “high-energy” to Glamour.
Though he didn’t take a knee during his November 2025 finale, the sports lawyer still offered up a Neil Lane sparkler, saying, “This represents our commitment to love, to give us time to figure out together what our future holds.”