Joan and Chock likewise still live apart—her home remains in Maryland, while Chock stays in Kansas—though Joan preserves that the range hasn’t had an unfavorable impact on their partnership. “He still has a business in Kansas that’s probably going to be going on for at least another year, maybe a little longer. He’s trying to get it to a point where it can run on its own or he can sell it, and it’s not there yet,” she states. “Right now, we’re doing a really good job of seeing each other, but not living together. We see each other about every 10 days for four or five days at a time. We have plans for the next two months to see each other. Living together doesn’t seem to be a big issue. I know everybody feels like when you live apart that puts a strain on the relationship, but that hasn’t been the case for us at all. We’ve seen each other a ton. The saying that absence makes the heart grow founder, it really does.”

Joan and Chock likewise have yet to secure down their wedding anniversary day after commemorating numerous firsts on The Golden Bachelorette. “I think maybe it’s the day we got engaged, which was in the beginning of August,” she states. “I would think that was our first major commitment. I know the day we met was on the show. I guess people would might call that the first date or maybe Disneyland was really our first date. But I feel like the engagement was the day when we really started living our life together.” 

As for Season 2 of The Golden Bachelor, Joan hasn’t listened to anything concerning that the next lead will certainly seek Season 1’s Gerry Turner. However, she thinks that casting for the brand-new Golden Bachelor is still taking place as a result of the amount of candidates from her Golden Bachelorette season are currently in partnerships. 

“A unique thing happened after our season. After my season, a lot of the guys have girlfriends,” she states. “I think this was totally due to the great relationships they formed with each other and being more confident to date.  Mark does, Jonathan does,  Charles does, Christopher does. A lot of the guys have paired off already, which takes them out of the running to be the Golden Bachelor. I would not be completely surprised if they went ahead and cast a completely different person.”

While Joan anticipates that ABC will certainly cast an unidentified for the Season 2 Golden Bachelor, she really hopes that the network will certainly take into consideration guys from her season that didn’t obtain as much display time. “There are a lot of guys who America didn’t get to know very well who would be amazing and are still single,” she states. “You don’t know that much about Dan or Greg or Keith. Maybe they weren’t matches for me, but they’re amazing guys. I would love if they chose somebody from this season. I’m just not positive they’re going to because I’m watching Grant’s season, and I keep seeing the casting call that says they’re taking applications for men and women. It makes me think they’re maybe looking for a different man. I’m surprised by the way it’s worded on the TV.” 

Joan likewise verifies that none of her pals from The Golden Bachelor have actually been formally come close to for a Golden Bachelor in Paradise, though she has actually listened to “rumblings” that the program remains in the functions. “I’ve heard it from producers and other people. There are rumblings talking about it,” she states. “In my opinion, they need to wait a little bit longer, because they only have one season of men and one season of women. I’m just not sure there’s enough people to do a good Bachelor in Paradise, unless they decide to bring new people in, which is not something they’ve ever done before. The problem with Golden is they only do one a year, and so that makes it hard to get a big enough cast.” 

While Joan won’t get on the very first season of Golden Bachelor in Paradise, considered that she’s involved, she’s confident that she’ll get on truth television once more in the future. “I would love to do Dancing with the Stars, so I hope I get asked to do that. That’s a common ask, but not a given,” she states. “I’m a huge fan of Traitors, so I would love to be on Traitors. I’m putting that out in the universe right now. It’s a phenomenal show. It’s hilarious, and I love all of the scheming and mystery. It looks so fun.”

Would she wish to be a traitor or a faithful? “I want to be a traitor,” she states. “I’m not a particularly sneaky person. I’m brutally, weirdly honest, but I think that would be challenging for me and something fun to do.”

In the meanwhile, Joan is concentrated on her collaboration with Aspercreme, a brand name she’s made use of for many years. (She’s particularly a follower of the spray and roll-on.”

“I’m finally at a time in my life where I have a lot of free time and I get to do the things I love, but sometimes it takes a toll,” she states. “Like I’m playing with my grandkids and I’ll take my grandson to the park and give him a piggyback ride home, and then my elbow hurts the rest of the night. Aspercreme is just an easy product to use. I’m taking something you apply directly to wherever your pain is. It doesn’t just dull the pain. It completely eliminates it. Other products smell like a candy cane when you’re done, and this one is completely odor-free, so you can use it anytime and anywhere, and nobody knows you’re wearing it. At this age I don’t want to slow down, but I also don’t want to be in pain, and it gives me the best of both worlds.”