SPOILER: Does Maria win The Bachelor Season 28?
Warning: The Bachelor Season 28 spoilers ahead. Does Maria win The Bachelor 2024 and is she engaged to Joey? The answer is no. Maria does not win The Bachelor Season 28 and is not engaged to Joey, according to Reality Steve. Maria went home in fourth place after Hometown Dates. Joey’s final three were Daisy Kent, Kelsey Anderson, and Rachel Nance.
Maria went on five Group Dates; one Two-on-One Date; and one One-on-One Date on The Bachelor Season 28. She also went on a Hometown Date in Kleinberg, Ontario, Canada, where she’s from.
Maria went on her Two-on-One Date with Sydney Gordon. Maria and Sydney drama started on a Group Date in Week 3 after Madina Alam, a 31-year-old Mental Health Therapist from Johnstown, New York, expressed that she was self-conscious about her age considering she was one of the older contestants on The Bachelor Season 28. Maria made a comment about what Madina’s feelings, which Sydney heard. Sydney told Madina the comment Maria made, which Maria had an issue with.
In Week 4, Sydney and Maria went on a Two-on-One Date in Week 4 in Malta, where Joey heard each of their sides in their feud. During the date, Joey believed Maria’s side over Sydney. He gave Maria the date rose and Sydney went home.
So who does Joey pick as his winner on The Bachelor Season 28? Joey’s Bachelor 2024 winner is Daisy Kent, a 25-year-old Account Executive from Becker, Minnesot, according to Reality Steve. His runner-up was Kelsey Anderson, a 25-year-old Junior Project Manager from Leesville, Louisiana. His third-place finalist was Rachel Nance, a 26-year-old IC Nurse from Honolulu, Hawaii, who went home after Fantasy Suite dates.
Joey and Daisy are engaged and still together after The Bachelor Season 28, according to Reality Steve. Joey gave his final rose to Daisy at the Final Rose Ceremony in The Bachelor Season 28 finale in Tulum, Mexico, and proposed to her, which she accepted and they got engaged.
For Joey’s engagement, it’s almost certain the ring was designed by Neil Lane, a celebrity jeweler, who has created engagement rings for The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise since 2008. In a 2016 interview with Entertainment Weekly, former host Chris Harrison revealed that Bachelor Nation couples have to stay together for a certain amount of time, otherwise they have to return the free engagement ring to Neil Lane. “There’s some rule, after a certain number of years, you get to keep it anyway,” he said. “But after months… it goes back.”
Lane told StyleCaster in 2016 that he doesn’t know where the rings go, but that he designs them with the hope that the couple stays together. “I make rings hoping that people stay together forever, but after they get the ring, I don’t have a say in it, and what happens after that, I don’t know,” he said. “Where the ring goes, I have to say, I don’t really know. I just say it goes to ring heaven.”
