The Golden Bachelorette Cast 2024 & Joan’s Contestants

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By Sarah Parker

The first Golden Bachelorette cast is here, and it includes at least one familiar face to Bachelor Nation. There are 24 contestants in The Golden Bachelorette Season 1 cast. The lead of the first Golden Bachelorette season is Joan Vassos, a 61-year-old Private School Administrator from Rockville, Maryland, who went home in Week 3 of The Golden Bachelor with Gerry Turner. 

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Joan self-eliminated in Week 3 to be with her daughter, who had a medical emergency. Before The Golden Bachelorette, Joan was married to her husband, John Vassos, for 32 years. John died in 2021 of pancreatic cancer. He was 59 years old. Joan is also a mother of four and a grandmother of two. She was announced as the first Golden Bachelorette in May 2024. 

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“I did not want to spend my life alone, so I knew that I had to take action, but my heart wasn’t there at all,” Joan told CNN at the time of why she applied to be on The Golden Bachelor. “I was saying to my friend, ‘How in the world do you date now? Look around this restaurant. Everybody here is a couple. Everybody my age is married. All my friends are married.’” Once she got home, Joan saw a casting call for The Golden Bachelor on TV. “I was like, ‘The universe is talking to me,’” Joan said.

Who’s in The Golden Bachelorette cast? 

Notable contestants in Joan’s Golden Bachelorette cast include Gary Levingston, the godson of singer Tina Turner; Guy Gansert, the ex-husband of Nevada Senate member Heidi Gansert; and Mark Anderson, the father of The Bachelor Season 28 winner, Kelsey Anderson, who is engaged to former Bachelor Joey Graziadei. Meet Joan’s entire Golden Bachelorette cast ahead.

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