Jenna Johnson Reveals Candid Thoughts About Joey Graziadei

Whereas Jenna Johnson and Joey Graziadei have resonated with followers and with the judges, the professional dancer is admitting that she was a bit disillusioned when she came upon she was partnered with “The Bachelor” alum.

On a current episode of “The Ben and Ashley I Nearly Well-known Podcast,” Jenna Johnson opened up about her preliminary response to being paired with Joey Graziadei on the ABC dancing competitors present.

Anticipating to accomplice with an athlete, Jenna admitted she was stunned and a bit disillusioned when she discovered she could be dancing with the previous “Bachelor” star as an alternative of former NFL participant Danny Amendola, who has been paired with Witney Carson.

“Joey is aware of this, I’ve been trustworthy with him,” she admitted on the podcast. “I feel individuals suppose that we all know who we’re gonna have for a bit bit, that’s not the case. They actually prefer to make it a secret so it’s an genuine response.”

Jenna added, “However I had a sense as a result of I heard his title within the combine, and so I used to be a bit unhappy as a result of I’ve been promised — not promised — however I’ve by no means had a soccer participant. Via my time on the present I’ve by no means had a soccer participant.”

Jenna, who’s married to “DWTS” professional Val Chmerkovskiy and welcomed their son, Rome, in January 2023 went on to say, “So I type of heard Danny [Amendola, former NFL wide receiver] was going to be concerned and I used to be like, ‘That is my 12 months. I’m gonna get the NFL man.’”

After sharing her candid ideas with co-hosts Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti, each fellow “Bachelor” alums, she revealed that she is blissful to be paired with Joey as “he is likely one of the most real people I’ve ever met.”

“I feel we simply linked actually simply and shortly and we now have a lot enjoyable,” she mentioned, including that it’s “such a pleasure to work with him.” “He is a type of annoying folks that’s freakishly good at the whole lot,” she mentioned with fun. “You simply wish to punch him.”

“It’s been so superior being his accomplice,” she concluded.

Jenna’s current feedback come after the previous “Bachelor” star revealed that he had requested to be partnered with somebody in “a healthy relationship” to keep away from any romantic rumors as he simply turned engaged to Kelsey in the course of the season 28 finale of “The Bachelor.”

“[I am in] such an ideal place in my life with the whole lot that Kelsey and I’ve constructed that I didn’t wish to have a distraction,” he mentioned on the “Nearly Well-known” podcast. “It was one thing I considered coming in. I needed to be in a scenario the place I used to be comfy that I didn’t have to fret about quite a lot of this noise. So, I requested after I bought on the present to be paired with somebody that was in a profitable and wholesome relationship.”

“I didn’t need there to be any probability of noise on this as a result of I do know that comes with the present and the territory typically,” he added.

Regardless of Joey and Jenna each being in critical relationships with different individuals, followers nonetheless speculated that one thing greater than a friendship was blossoming, which did not come as a lot of a shock to Jenna and Joey.

“We knew coming in as a Bachelor Nation factor,” Joey shared. “I feel it is comprehensible that persons are listening to my relationship all the time, and it was one thing that Kelsey and I talked about. I made certain earlier than doing this that she was comfy with placing that into the world once more.”

“I feel that we had been extra stunned that individuals could not step away and perceive the scenario of the connection I used to be in, the connection that Jenna was in. We had been type of hoping that individuals could be a bit bit extra conscious of that, however we weren’t essentially stunned,” he added.

“Dancing With the Stars” airs on ABC and Disney+ on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.