Who Went Home Tonight on ‘Bachelor’ Week 6 Amid Maria's Meltdown?
Eliminations get more heart-wrenching each week as Bachelor star Joey Graziadei narrows the list of ladies competing for his final rose.
On Monday night's episode 7, Joey picked his Top 4 women who will get hometown viisits.
Joey's journey with the final six women began at scenic Jasper National Park in Alberta. The show continued in Canada after last week’s stint in Montreal.
Jenn Tran, Maria Georgas, Kelsey Toussant, Daisy Kent, Kelsy Anderson, and Rachel Nance loved the romantic outdoorsy location, but were nervous about the week’s importance.
Joey had to wrestle with Maria having a meltdown as he decided which ladies’ families he would be meeting during the upcoming hometown visits.
The tennis pro, 28, shared two one-on-one dates and one group date.
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Read on to find out more about the pivotal episode!
Who got the first one-on-one date tonight?
A date card revealed Daisy would get private time with Joey, and Jenn cried.
Joey looked forward to seeing the blonde who had been his first one-on-one date of the season.
He was falling for Daisy but was worried that she hadn’t shared her feelings with him yet.
“I want to make sure we’re on the same page,” Joey said in confessional.
They rode horses by a lake and then shared sexy hot tub time.
The two talked about their family and kissed, but Daisy told cameras, “I’m not like, in love with him yet.”
Over dinner, Daisy admitted to Joey, “I really, really like you.” Would she feel even stronger? Daisy said, “Am I there yet? No.” But she added, “I can see myself falling in love with you.”
The hunk told cameras the conversation was “scary,” however, he told Daisy, “I appreciate your honesty about it.”
Daisy explained that because of her Lyme disease that had caused her to lose her hearing, she’d had tubes in her chest and even used a catheter.
Her family had taken care of her, and she would always need that kind of commitment from her man.
Daisy reminded Joey marriage was “in sickness and health.”
The account exec’s relatives would have “big questions for you,” she warned The Bachelor.
Joey replied, “I’m accepting all sides of you. I can be that person.”
He gave her the date rose, confirming he would meet her family!
Daisy said in confessional, “I’m falling. I think it’s happening.”
Which gals would go on the group date?
Kelsey T., Maria, Rachel and Jenn would share a date with Joey, which meant that Kelsey A. won the coveted final one-on-one time.
Jenn stormed out of the room in tears.
The group date was tense, as the women were taught how to be lumberjacks and some performed better than others.
They chopped wood, threw axes at targets, and rolled logs.
Maria failed at the contests and resented not being able to connect with Joey in the group setting.
Jenn stole him for some kissing which bugged the other three.
During the party afterwards, Jenn told him how insecure she felt but Joey reassured her and she believed he might meet her “complicated” family.
Kelsey T. told Joey her feelings about him were really strong but shrugged to cameras that the decision was in his hands.
Rachel said to Joey that her family would adore him.
How did Maria cause havoc?
In her private chat with Joey, Maria told him, “I’m not cut out for this.”
She complained that she would possibly be going into hometowns without Joey being completely hers.
He shot back, “You always discredit what we have.”
She fumed, “It doesn’t sit right with me. I don’t know if I can do this anymore.”
“I didn’t expect this. I’m shocked,” Joey told Maria, who stuck around after a big feud earlier in the season.
“It’s not my job to force it,” Joey said. “So, is this it?”
Maria walked out of the room and cried.
Joey didn’t know if she’d return. He dropped the F bomb, muttering that the whole situation was messing with his head!
But Maria came back.
“I think out loud,” she explained to him. “I don’t like seeing you with the other women. I think it go the best of me.”
The Bachelor said he accepted that tumultuous side of her. But it also frightened him.
“You have to start believing it can be you. Do you still want to be here?” he asked.
Maria nodded yes.
The brunette beauty said she wasn’t going to kiss him, but then she did.
“You’re all over the place, woman,” Joey sighed.
Who received the group date rose?
Nobody!
After his tussle with Maria, Joey told the group, “Tonight, I cannot give out this rose. I need more time.”
The gals were disappointed.
What happened during Joey’s one-on-one with Kelsey A.?
Joey and Kelsey A. went shopping and shared hot cocoa and cookies in Jasper and learned from locals that a “polar bear plunge” event would be taking place.
They decided to participate and jumped into a freezing cold lake in their swimsuits!
The two kissed in the water and retreated into a hut to cuddle some more.
Over dinner, Kelsey A. told Joey she hoped he would meet her father and four siblings.
The pretty junior content manager explained that before her mother passed away, she wasn’t that close to her dad because he worked constantly.
But he became “the person I run to” for everything.
Kelsey A. cried and Joey wiped her tears away as she continued that her father “really stepped up. He lost the love of his life and had five kids.”
Joey spoke about how his own dad was supportive as he often doubted himself.
It was a no-brainer for Joey to award Kelsey A. the date rose.
“It’s easy to sink into our conversations,” he told her. “I want to meet your dad.”
What happened before the rose ceremony?
With Daisy and Kelsey A. both holding date roses, the other four women were on the chopping block.
Host Jesse Palmer announced that Joey had canceled the usual pre-ceremony cocktail party.
After the ladies lined up to see which two women he’d send home, Joey asked Maria for a private talk.
He wanted to make sure that Maria truly wanted to stay and she said she did.
“We have a very strong physical and emotional connection,” Joey noted in confessional.
Who went home?
Joey handed roses to Rachel and Maria, meaning that Jenn Tran and Kelsey Toussant had to leave in the vans.
Kelsey T. said nothing as she departed in tears.
However, Jenn cried and fumed, “I wasn’t enough. That’s not fun.”
According to Jenn, “We would have been so happy.”
But it wasn’t to be -- and Joey’s season 28 final four are Daisy Kent, Kelsey Anderson, Rachel Nance, and Maria Georgas.