And the ultimate rose goes to… Kelsey Anderson.
The most recent bachelor, Joey Graziadei, 28, has chosen Kelsey Anderson, a junior project manager from Recent Orleans, to be his fiancée within the (*28*) Season 28 finale on Monday.
“It’s been seemingly easy at times, and I do know there’s a variety of tough decisions through this journey, and that’s what makes today really difficult,” Graziadei told Anderson through the proposal.
“But there’s nothing difficult about selecting you, and I can’t wait one other minute to let you know that I adore it,” he gushed over his emotional bride-to-be.
The pair has passed through ups and downs throughout the show, including group and solo dates, relationship doubt — and many tears.
After “The Bachelor” host and former Bachelor (Season 26), Jesse Palmer, gave viewers a dramatic sneak peek of the season’s finale, viewers of the show had no idea who Graziadei was going to select ultimately.
“Like I said, you’re never going to see it coming,” Palmer said to a room of shocked fans through the “Women Tell All” episode.
Anderson, who grew up in Germany on a U.S. military base, was first introduced to viewers when she stepped out of the limo with a voodoo doll.
“So I’m from Recent Orleans, Louisiana. And so I brought something, in order that regardless of what, you’ll fall in love with me,” Anderson said while showing a small Graziadei voodoo doll.
During fantasy suite week, Graziadei and Anderson shared time alone on a small boat exploring Tulum, Mexico.
“The way in which that Kelsey makes me feel is different,” said Graziadei. “She has this light and energy that I just feel so lucky once I’m round her.” He even went on to say that he could picture a future along with her and told her that he was falling in love along with her.
All that took a turn when Anderson began to doubt herself while Graziadei was on his other two dates.
Anderson stopped by Graziadei’s room and left him a note, saying that they needed to talk. “It was a conversation that needed to be hand before going into the Rose Ceremony,” Anderson said during episode 8.
With doubt clouding her mind, Anderson wanted to let Graziadei know the way hard it was not seeing him day-after-day and the way much she missed him when he was not there.
“Once I do get to that time of considering something so bad can occur, I shut down,” he said. “It makes you query all the pieces.”
She replied: “If I could do it once again, I’d have wrote the letter in a different way.”
Graziadei’s runner-up, Daisy Kent, meanwhile, is an account executive from Becker, Minnesota.
Kent has been an advocate for hearing loss, partly because she has Ménière’s Disease, which may cause an individual to get dizzy and have trouble hearing.
The 25-year-old received a cochlear implant last yr after losing her hearing, which she believes could have been triggered by Lyme disease.
Kent said that she didn’t dated anyone since getting her implants.
“And so I’m super nervous. But I feel like Joey has an enormous heart. He seems very real. And I’m excited to meet him,” Kent said during her introduction in the primary episode.
In the course of the hometown visits, Kent told Graziadei that she was falling in love with him, and he reciprocated the identical feelings.
“Once I discuss her, I light up because I actually get excited to see her. And to get more time along with her,” he said on the time. “She has made me feel that something can proceed to grow.”
Graziadei first captured the hearts of TV audiences when he was forged on “The Bachelorette” in 2023.
He was the runner-up after “Bachelorette” Charity Lawson ended their relationship through the season’s finale.
“I never thought I’d get to the purpose of preparing to get engaged to someone and worry about it not being me,” Graziadei said after watching the episode. “I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.”
Before going on a dating show on national television, the tennis coach told The Post that he stayed off of dating apps and took a more traditional approach to meeting women.
“I’m not a dating app guy. My entire life I’ve all the time been [meeting women through] mutual friends, trying to find people through natural situations. I all the time felt very uncomfortable trying to do those apps. I believe my overall hours have to be lower than every week on certainly one of those things,” Graziadei said.
After nine weeks of group dates, crying, blind-sided departures, and an unexpected finale, Graziadei found the girl he wanted to spend the remaining of his life with.