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Joey Graziadei’s Dad Was “Let Down” By The Bachelor’s Daisy Kent
“I was a little concerned.”
Joey Graziadei’s dad had reservations about Daisy Kent. Speaking on the May 9 episode of the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, Nick Graziadei recalled meeting the Season 28 finalist, revealing that he was “let down” by her.
“When we first met Daisy, sat with Joey, we talked. … The body language was just OK. Then [we] had the conversation with her. I was let down a little bit because I was like, ‘OK, hmm, not what I saw with Charity,’” he said, referring to Joey’s previous relationship with Charity Lawson on The Bachelorette Season 20.
Nick then recalled his solo conversation with Daisy, in which he suggested she should be more open with his son. “When I left, I’m thinking, ‘Well, I hope I didn’t make him change his mind — and I think it will be Kelsey — but did we make him rethink this?’” he said. “So that was what I was a little concerned about.”
His first meeting with Joey’s now-fiancée, Kelsey Anderson, went differently. Revealing that she “lit up the room,” he continued on the podcast, “I’m like, ‘OK, finally.’ I’m like, ‘Thank God I saw this.’ That’s really what my response was.”
Nick’s intuition proved correct. In The Bachelor finale, Joey proposed to Kelsey in the final rose ceremony. Comparing their relationship to a “very strong flame,” Joey told her, “There is nothing difficult about choosing you, and I can’t wait another minute to tell you that I love you.”
Daisy’s Dramatic Exit
Before the proposal, Daisy took matters into her own hands and eliminated herself after realizing that Joey would likely give Kelsey his final rose. “I do love you,” she told him in the finale. “But the thing is, you’re not going to choose me.”
During the After the Final Rose special, she told host Jesse Palmer that she was “not ready” to lead the next season of The Bachelorette, as many viewers had predicted.
“I’m healthy and I’m happy and I haven’t had those two things in a really long time,” she said. “And so, right now, I know it’s a time for me to focus on the things I love, and the people I love, and so right now, no. I’m not ready. And that’s OK, and I’m really proud of myself for realizing that.”
Daisy later dropped several hints that she was dating someone new, and a source claimed to Us Weekly that she’s now in a relationship with someone she knew at college. “He reached out to her first, and it’s been going really well,” the insider said, claiming that the new couple have “been traveling all over recently.”
