Joey Graziadei Named Star of The Bachelor Season 28 – E! Online

Joey Graziadei is able to serve for his match level.

The tennis professional from Collegeville, Penn., was introduced because the lead of The Bachelor season 28 on Aug. 21. The massive reveal got here through the reside After the Last Rose particular for Charity Lawson‘s season of The Bachelorette simply after viewers watched as Joey was left heartbroken when she selected Dotun Olubeko as her closing rose recipient.

Joey, 27, shortly turned a fan favourite after the season started, due to his easygoing nature, chemistry with Charity (together with their record-breaking four-minute-and-twenty-five-second-long kiss) and his compelling household backstory: Joey’s mother and father acquired divorced after his father got here out as homosexual when he was a toddler.

“I need love, dangerous,” a devastated Joey stated after Charity broke up with him within the finale. “I’d simply ask the universe, ‘When, when is it going to occur for me?'”

Nicely, he acquired his reply when host Jesse Palmer introduced Joey would, in reality, be the subsequent Bachelor, along with his season set to air in early 2024.