The only person who should have been surprised was Guy, his final competitor. Wichitan Chock Chapple was clearly the front-runner from early on, and it never seemed to change, despite clever editing and Bachelorette Joan Vassos repeatedly crying with worry over winding up alone (when she was not crying with worry about moving on from her late husband).

Joan has to throw Guy overboard first. And in true Bachelor Nation fashion, she'll try to wring out every ounce of drama to keep us through the commercial breaks. On his way to his Golden Bachelorette, Chock looks at the Neil Lane engagement ring for Joan ...

If Pascal Ibgui was offered the role as the Golden Bachelor, he would have one big request. “They will have to lower the age,” the Golden Bachelorette star, 69, exclusively told Us Weekly at the show’s Men Tell All episode taping.