Joey Graziadei’s journey to discover love on The Bachelor comes to a conclusion March 25 with Season 28’s final rose ceremony. Will he get engaged? Or does the suspenseful finale teaser sign heartbreak for Graziadei?“You’re never going to see it coming,” host Jesse Palmer mentioned.There was insanity lengthy earlier than the final episodes in March, with the 28-year-old tennis teacher from Pennsylvania selecting Daisy Kent and Kelsey Anderson as his final two girls throughout the fantasy suites episode on March 11.In a promo for the finale, Graziadei mentioned in a voice-over, “Today I woke up and I truthfully felt the weight of all this. This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do, and I’m still afraid that this might not work out.”Fans have been going crazy over the clip, questioning what it’d imply and who he will in the end select.“I can’t even tell you if there was a choice,” Graziadei told Us Weekly after the “Women Tell All” taping in March. “I have a level of excitement because I am ready to get to being back to Joey again. Joey, the Bachelor, has been so fun, but this is a lot it — it’s a lot to go through. It’s a lot to take in from time to time, and I’m just ready to have the answer and everything be out there, whatever happened, whatever people think, all these different theories, I’m ready for it to all be [put] to rest.”ABC declined to remark to Yahoo Entertainment.The Bachelor host Jesse Palmer and Joey Graziadei at the “Women Tell All” taping. (John Fleenor/Disney)What do followers suppose occurred?There has been hypothesis that Graziadei picked a selected contestant, who will go unnamed (no spoilers!), as a result of they had been sharing pictures with related backdrops on their social media accounts back in February. Are the sleuths onto one thing?“Obviously anything that comes out like that, I can’t really speak on it. I know people are really trying to figure out what’s going on,” Graziadei instructed Us Weekly.Fans are additionally wanting to the finale teaser to back up their theories. In it, Kent seems to have doubts about her reference to Graziadei.“I just felt like something was, like, a little off with us,” she mentioned on digital camera. “And it shouldn’t feel this way.”Even earlier than the season premiered in January, Palmer called the Season 28 ending an “unprecedented shocking first in Bachelor history.”Dave Neal, host of the Bachelor Rush Hour With Dave Neal podcast, is skeptical the lead-up to the finale will be “a giant payoff.”“People have mentioned, ‘Oh, maybe he drops the ring in the sand and can’t find it,” he told Yahoo Entertainment. My guess is, it is happy and it’s just a little bit of a messy way to get there.”Daisy Kent, left, and Kelsey Anderson. (John Fleenor/Disney)That being said, he understands that the Bachelor Nation is hungry for clues about which woman Graziadei chooses.“You’ve got [fans] that are tracking Airbnb accounts from producers’ credit cards,” he explained. “What you see every year is it’s easy to find confirmation bias when you look for something. If you want to look for reasons why he chose Daisy, you’ll find it and vice versa with Kelsey. So, the show has done a really good job this year of not blatantly spoiling it.”Going into the finaleGraziadei has been praised throughout his season for the way he’s dealt with being the Bachelor.That contains the girls who competed for his affections too. The eradicated Season 28 contestants had nothing however good issues to say about their ex throughout the “Women Tell All” episode, which aired on March 18.Neal agrees.“I thought Joey was really great at listening and he did the impossible, which is make every woman feel special, even though he had to do that to 25 of them,” he mentioned. “There was not one real controversial dumping and that does say a lot about someone. … Everyone he sent home had nice things to say about him. I can’t think of the last season that’s ever happened.”Graziadei’s season wouldn’t be the success story it’s with no forged of girls that turned extraordinarily in style on social media, most notably Kent and Maria Georgas, who noticed their followers grow substantially all through the course of the present’s run.Palmer with Georgas in the scorching seat at the “Women Tell All” episode. (John Fleenor/Disney)Graziadei’s season is credited with revitalizing the franchise, simply as Gerry Turner and his contestants did with The Golden Bachelor.Graziadei’s fantasy suites episode was not solely the most-watched episode of the season up to now, according to Variety, but it surely additionally reached a bigger viewers than any episode of The Bachelor, The Bachelorette or Bachelor in Paradise since the finale of Clayton Echard’s season in 2022, Nielsen information exhibits.Bachelor co-showrunner Claire Freeland instructed IndieWire that the sequence of occasions that unfolded throughout Graziadei’s final rose ceremony allowed producers to strive one thing new.“We felt like we had an opportunity to not just make the change for the sake of making a change,” Freeland mentioned. “We had what we needed to back it up.”The Bachelor airs March 25 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and streams the subsequent day on Hulu.