After more than a month of speculation within Bachelor Nation, “Bachelor” Season 28 runner-up Maria Georgas is confirming the rumor that she turned down “The Bachelorette.”
Georgas, a 29-year-old executive assistant from Ontario, Canada, who was introduced as one of 32 women vying for Joey Graziadei’s heart earlier this year, spoke with Alex Cooper about ” Call Her Daddy” on Wednesday’s episode of the podcast to open up about his love life and his experience on “The Bachelor.”
“I was offered the role. It was mine until I said no,” she said. “It became very overwhelming to the point where I had to refuse.”
“I just wasn’t ready,” Georgas added.
Cooper revealed that last month, Georgas was supposed to come on the podcast to promote her announcement as the next “Bachelorette.”
USA TODAY has contacted ABC for comment.
Each year, producers and studio executives interview several potential contestants — usually contestants from the most recent season — who could become the next lead on “Bachelor” or “Bachelorette.”
On March 25, after Graziadei’s engagement to Kelsey Anderson was revealed on “The Bachelor’s” finale, the franchise announced that Jenn Tran, a 26-year-old physician assistant student from Miami, Florida, would be next protagonist of “Bachelorette”. She will be the first Asian American to play this role in the show’s 22-year history.
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Maria Georgas says she ‘wasn’t mentally prepared’ for ‘The Bachelorette’
Georgas detailed why moving forward with “The Bachelorette” wasn’t in his best interest.
“When everyone around me was so supportive of me in this position and everyone wanted this for me, I took a second. I ask myself, why am I not happy? Why am I not excited by that ?” she says. “I had to realize that it just wasn’t my time (and) I was like, ‘Guys, respectfully, I have to decline. I have to step back.’ I wasn’t in the right frame of mind for that.”
Georgas indicated that doing the series wouldn’t be the best for her mental health, especially since she struggled filming Graziadei’s season.
“What people saw on their screens is only half of what I experienced at home,” she said, referring to the conflicts she had with some of the others candidates. “I was so anxious during all of this.”
She continued: “It’s so isolating to be in there. And I would have to give up my phone (and) my freedom – not my freedom, but having to be alone in there, I just wasn’t into it. “I wasn’t mentally prepared for that.”
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The reality star, however, couldn’t be happier that Tran is the show’s next lead.
“Jenn, however, was the perfect choice,” Georgas told Cooper. “She’s the most perfect bachelorette in my eyes. I couldn’t think of anyone better to do this. She was so ready for this, and that was enough for me to say, ‘Yeah, it’s not my time .’ “
As for her future in the franchise, it seems that, for now, fans shouldn’t expect to see her in another “Bachelor” show anytime soon.
She’s “so single,” but there’s “no ‘paradise'” in her future, referring to ABC’s summer spinoff show “Bachelor in Paradise.”
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