The love games start right out of the limo on Joey Graziadei’s upcoming season of The Bachelor.
During Charity Lawson’s After the Final Rose special in August, Joey, 28, met hopeful Lea Cayanan, who received a mysterious card that would come into play when the season started filming.
In a Monday’s Bachelor premiere, Lea, 23, arrives at the mansion and can finally open her card — and the possibilities about whatever it might contain leaves the other ladies in a panic.
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“Lea’s envelope, I think it’s been freaking all of us out because it puts her a couple steps ahead,” executive assistant Maria, 29, says in an on-camera interview. “So, I am curious to see what it is.”
Sydney shared Maria’s worry.
“We’re all just like, what the heck is this thing?” the vintage store owner, 28, asks the cameras in the clip. “Is she going to be able to send somebody home? Is this like, a guaranteed rose? Like, what is this thing?”
Lea admits to the cameras that “having the card is definitely driving me crazy.”
“Everyone’s been like, speculating and guessing what it could be,” she says in an on-camera interview. “I’m just like, anxious to open it and see what it is. I’m really nervous. I definitely think it could be a little bit of a target on my back.”
Lea takes a seat by herself to finally open the envelope, and when she reads it, she remarks “oh my God!” and collapses her head into her hands.
Viewers will have to wait until Monday’s premiere to find out what the card says, but Joey has previously promised that during his season he “will give it my all and try to just enjoy the hell out of it."
“I feel more ready than ever to find my person,” he wrote on Instagram in August.
Joey made it to the end of 28-year-old Charity’s Bachelorette season and got dumped when she decided to accept Dotun Olubeko’s proposal.
“You just want to be fully committed to it all and understand that there’s a lot of things that are out of your control,” Joey said on Good Morning America of what he learned from his Bachelorette experience. “But what I’m taking in is just fully leaning into it and taking it for whatever it’s going to be.”
The Bachelor season 28 premieres Monday on ABC at 8 p.m. ET.
