Chock Chapple has disclosed why he and The Golden Bachelorette star fiancée Joan Vassos can’t get married this summer.
The two, who got engaged on the hit ABC reality show last fall, haven’t set a wedding date, and Chock told Parade why in an exclusive interview.
Speaking on Tuesday at Hulu’s Get Real House event in Beverly Hills, Chock said, “Her son’s getting married in the summer, and then another [son 's] probably going to get engaged, so we’re like, ‘Let’s just put [a wedding] on hold for now.
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“Nick, her oldest, is getting married, and then she’s waiting, but she thinks Luke’s going to get engaged. I think they’ve been looking at rings, so it’s all good.”
Chock, 60, explained of devoted mother Joan, 62, “She’s like, ‘I don’t want to compete with my son’s wedding and a lot going on.’ Our schedule’s booked through October, so it’s just crazy busy.”
In fact, Chock was flying solo at the Hulu event on April 22, and told Parade Joan was in New York preparing to be a guest on Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live. “She’s so excited” to be on the Bravo talk show, he said.
But more important to Joan and Chock than media appearances are family events, and Chock is definitely going to be right by Joan’s side at her son’s wedding: “They’ve got the invitations out. We’re very much looking forward to it.”
Chock said Nick lives in Philadelphia, “and he’s talking about staying in Philadelphia or maybe getting transferred to Boston, so we’ll see what happens.”
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Joan, a widow, had four children with her late husband, John Vassos, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2021. She touched viewers as a contestant on Gerry Turner’s inaugural The Golden Bachelor season when she had to self-eliminate to take care of her daughter Erica, who was experiencing postpartum depression.
Erica recovered, and Joan soon got a starring role of her own on the first season of The Golden Bachelorette. Fans embraced the blonde beauty from Rockville, Maryland getting engaged to Wichita, Kansas-based insurance executive Chock. He proposed to Joan during the show’s finale in Bora Bora. Since then, Joan has told Parade why she and Chock haven’t been living together. In March, she said they wouldn’t cohabitate until they found a perfect New York home.
"Everybody looks at this like .... 'There's no way this can work because you're not together every minute,'" Joan said. "We don't feel the same way about it. We feel like we both have pretty rich lives in our 60s. You find somebody [at that time of life], chances are they have stuff going on. They have family or they have jobs or they have friend groups, or they have hobbies. So you might not need to spend every waking moment together or you might not need to live in the same city, and that's how we feel right now about it."
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And in an earlier interview this year, former private school administrator Joan had also told Parade, “Planning a wedding is just not on the schedule right now. It just seems like it would be an overwhelming thing to add to all that we’re already doing. And plus, we’re just really enjoying…getting to do all these things but also being at each other’s homes, meeting each other’s friends, getting to know each other’s families.”
At the Hulu party, Chock showed his support as ABC’s new Golden Bachelor, Mel Owens, was announced and updated Parade about his relationship with Joan: “We still talk two to three times a day [on weekdays], easy. Weekends maybe three or four times. She was in Wichita, and then we were just in the Dominican Republic, and I will go there [to Maryland] next week for a weekend for a bunch of birthdays, and the following week after that she’s going to be back in Wichita. So, we see each other at least every other week and it’s going very well. She’s a great lady!”
Chock admitted that fans are constantly asking them when they’re going to the Chapple – er, chapel. “As you get older, it’s really not that important,” he smiled. “We want to get married, but the timing just needs to be right.”
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