Fantasy Suite is usually the only time a Bachelor or Bachelor the couple is spending time away from the cameras on the set of the show. But now Joey Graziadei has revealed what he and Charity Lawson discussed during their private dinner on her season Bachelor.
When asked by host Jason Tartick on the June 10 episode Trade secrets podcast whether he and Lawson, 28, talked about “career, money [or] what the future would look like” in any way, Graziadei, 29, revealed that they did.
“It’s important to understand what you’re trying to see what’s next because I think whenever you come into this world, you have to question what it’s going to be like to be in a public relationship,” the tennis pro said. “And that conversation naturally revolves around, well, what do you want to do with all of this?”
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Graziadei added that while he and Lawson, who later became engaged to Dotun Olubeko, didn’t have a “deep conversation” about those logistics, he felt it was important to bring it up at all if he and the therapist had any chance of success after the show.
“You’d be a fool not to at least have that conversation to see, like, what do you want to do?” Graziadei said.
The Philadelphia native went on to lead the season with 28 Bachelor, which he ended with his engagement to Kelsey Anderson. Graziadei told Tartick, 35, that he and Anderson, 26, talked for at least an hour in the Fantasy Suite about how they envisioned the future of their relationship.
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Joey Graziadei and Kelsey Anderson at the New York premiere of ‘IF’ at the SVA Theater on May 13 in New York City.
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Anderson said she said she was “open” to living their lives publicly “as long as it doesn’t ruin our relationship.”
“What I remembered was, ‘I’m going to be open to whatever this brings, but as soon as we start doing this for other people, I want out. Like, I’m not doing this unless it’s for us,’ Graziadei said.
Anderson went on to reveal that she had since quit her job as an assistant project manager due to her and Graziadei’s travel schedule.
“I had to quit my job. We were so busy,” she told Tartick. “I felt like it wasn’t fair to my job, you know, juggling all of this and not being able to focus on the project at hand. So I ended up quitting. My boss was very nice about it all and said, ‘If you ever want to come back, please let us know.’ ”
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Anderson said she was comfortable quitting because Graziadei offered to help her financially if she needed help.
“Joey was partly like, no matter what, like, ‘I’ll help you if you need help in any way,’ which, you know, gave me a little bit of financial security because I was like, ‘Oh my God. Will I just ask, what am I going to do these next few months?'” Anderson said, adding that “Joey is my security blanket.”
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Kelsey Anderson and Joey Graziadei on ‘The Bachelor’ season 28.
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Still, Anderson has expressed interest in returning to a career in project management one day.
“I always want that security blanket and I want that career for myself, whether it’s full-time or part-time,” she said. “Because, yeah, with the opportunities that come. But I would say, if I don’t like it completely after six months, I’d probably quit. Six months to a year.”
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Graziadei suggested that he may continue to work in the tennis industry in the future.
“Tennis has given me so much,” he said Talk to me about money Author. “I think I’d be crazy if tennis wasn’t part of my life, but it’s also something I can always look back on because I put so much energy into it.”
Graziadei threw out sports broadcasting as an additional career option, but admitted that “I still have no idea what I’m doing.”
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