Perhaps the real winner of Bachelorette is the new Bachelor we found along the way
One of Bachelorette star Charity Lawson's exes has been tapped as the new Bachelor
White smoke—and a trail of rose petals—means we’ve got a new Bachelor on our hands. The 20th season of The Bachelorette concluded on Monday, and this season’s leading lady Charity Lawson made her ultimate decision about the man with whom she wants to spend the rest of her life (or at least the immediate aftermath of the popular reality dating show upon which they both appeared, as is often the case with Bachelor Nation couples). Per tradition, the closing of a Bachelorette season is marked by the crowning of a new Bachelor star, and this finale was no different.
Not every Bachelor is the Bachelorette runner-up—many of them have been men chosen from outside the franchise entirely—but in this case, ABC didn’t look very far for its new romantic hero. In an extremely emotional decision, Lawson gave her final rose to Dotun Olubeko, ending things with Joey Graziadei (who, for what it’s worth, her family much preferred). Per Variety, Graziadei was gracious but took the breakup hard, crying in his car and wondering, “When is it going to happen for me?”