Joan and Chock additionally nonetheless stay aside—her house is in Maryland, whereas Chock resides in Kansas—although Joan maintains that the space hasn’t had a destructive impact on their relationship. “He nonetheless has a enterprise in Kansas that’s in all probability going to be happening for not less than one other yr, perhaps slightly longer. He’s attempting to get it to a degree the place it may possibly run by itself or he can promote it, and it’s not there but,” she says. “Proper now, we’re doing a extremely good job of seeing one another, however not dwelling collectively. We see one another about each 10 days for 4 or 5 days at a time. We now have plans for the subsequent two months to see one another. Dwelling collectively doesn’t appear to be an enormous situation. I do know all people looks like once you stay aside that places a pressure on the connection, however that hasn’t been the case for us in any respect. We’ve seen one another a ton. The saying that absence makes the guts develop founder, it actually does.”

Joan and Chock even have but to lock down their anniversary date after celebrating a number of firsts on The Golden Bachelorette. “I believe perhaps it’s the day we bought engaged, which was at first of August,” she says. “I might suppose that was our first main dedication. I do know the day we met was on the present. I assume folks would may name that the primary date or perhaps Disneyland was actually our first date. However I really feel just like the engagement was the day after we actually began dwelling our life collectively.” 

As for Season 2 of The Golden Bachelor, Joan hasn’t heard something about who the subsequent lead can be after Season 1’s Gerry Turner. Nonetheless, she theorizes that casting for the brand new Golden Bachelor remains to be happening due to what number of contestants from her Golden Bachelorette season at the moment are in relationships. 

“A singular factor occurred after our season. After my season, a number of the fellows have girlfriends,” she says. “I believe this was completely because of the nice relationships they fashioned with one another and being extra assured up to now.  Mark does, Jonathan does,  Charles does, Christopher does. Lots of the fellows have paired off already, which takes them out of the operating to be the Golden Bachelor. I might not be utterly shocked in the event that they went forward and forged a very completely different particular person.”

Whereas Joan predicts that ABC will forged an unknown for the Season 2 Golden Bachelor, she hopes that the community will contemplate males from her season who didn’t get as a lot display time. “There are a number of guys who America didn’t get to know very effectively who can be wonderful and are nonetheless single,” she says. “You don’t know that a lot about Dan or Greg or Keith. Possibly they weren’t matches for me, however they’re wonderful guys. I might love in the event that they selected any individual from this season. I’m simply not optimistic they’re going to as a result of I’m watching Grant’s season, and I hold seeing the casting name that claims they’re taking purposes for women and men. It makes me suppose they’re perhaps on the lookout for a distinct man. I’m shocked by the best way it’s worded on the TV.” 

Joan additionally confirms that none of her mates from The Golden Bachelor have been formally approached for a Golden Bachelor in Paradise, although she has heard “rumblings” that the present is within the works. “I’ve heard it from producers and different folks. There are rumblings speaking about it,” she says. “For my part, they should wait slightly bit longer, as a result of they solely have one season of males and one season of ladies. I’m simply unsure there’s sufficient folks to do a superb Bachelor in Paradise, until they resolve to carry new folks in, which isn’t one thing they’ve ever executed earlier than. The issue with Golden is that they solely do one a yr, and in order that makes it onerous to get a sufficiently big forged.” 

Whereas Joan received’t be on the primary season of Golden Bachelor in Paradise, on condition that she’s engaged, she’s hopeful that she’ll be on actuality TV once more sooner or later. “I might like to do Dancing with the Stars, so I hope I get requested to try this. That’s a typical ask, however not a given,” she says. “I’m an enormous fan of Traitors, so I might like to be on Traitors. I’m placing that out within the universe proper now. It’s an outstanding present. It’s hilarious, and I really like the entire scheming and thriller. It appears so enjoyable.”

Would she wish to be a traitor or a trustworthy? “I wish to be a traitor,” she says. “I’m not a very sneaky particular person. I’m brutally, weirdly sincere, however I believe that will be difficult for me and one thing enjoyable to do.”

Within the meantime, Joan is targeted on her partnership with Aspercreme, a model she’s used for years. (She’s particularly a fan of the spray and roll-on.”

“I’m lastly at a time in my life the place I’ve a number of free time and I get to do the issues I really like, however generally it takes a toll,” she says. “Like I’m taking part in with my grandkids and I’ll take my grandson to the park and provides him a piggyback trip residence, after which my elbow hurts the remainder of the evening. Aspercreme is simply a simple product to make use of. I’m taking one thing you apply on to wherever your ache is. It doesn’t simply uninteresting the ache. It utterly eliminates it. Different merchandise scent like a sweet cane once you’re executed, and this one is totally odor-free, so you should utilize it anytime and anyplace, and no person is aware of you’re sporting it. At this age I don’t wish to decelerate, however I additionally don’t wish to be in ache, and it offers me the most effective of each worlds.”