Jenn Tran, Matt Rossi. Disney/Ramona Rosales ; Courtesy of Matt Rossi/Instagram
Jenn Tran’s ex boyfriend Matt Rossi is opening up about what he claims went down behind-the-scenes of his shock cameo on season 21 of The Bachelorette.
Rossi, 28 made his bombshell look on season 21 of The Bachelorette in an try and win Tran, 27, again after relationship off-and-on since 2020. On the time, host Jesse Palmer had shared throughout the episode, “I’m instructed that [Rossi] has flown himself midway around the globe to New Zealand on his personal dime simply to have a dialog with Jenn.”
Nevertheless, Rossi instructed a unique story on a Tuesday, February 4, episode of the “BachMakers” podcast when requested if he had truly fronted his personal cash for the journey to New Zealand, the place Tran’s season of The Bachelorette was filmed.
“Let’s say it was partially sponsored,” Rossi stated, earlier than including, “Closely sponsored. They tried to place me in coach however I upgraded it.”
Throughout the episode, Rossi additional spoke about his cameo on the present, saying “it was” a lot extra dramatic than it appeared on tv. Whereas Tran in the end despatched Rossi house, she initially invited him to a cocktail get together with the remainder of the contestants. Because of this, a number of of her suitors, together with Devin Strader, threatened to stop the present if she let her ex keep.
Devin Strader and Jenn Tran on ‘The Bachelorette.’ Disney/John Fleenor
“I feel that was truthfully one of many scariest issues I’ve ever executed in my life,” Rossi defined. “There was much more happening too behind-the-scenes that I used to be like, is that this protected to do? I bear in mind asking the producers, I used to be like, ‘Is that this a protected name?’ There was loads of alcohol flowing. , loads of feelings.”
Rossi added, “Jenn had talked about her poisonous ex and then you definitely hear of an ex exhibiting up with none context, so instantly you assume that’s me.”
He continued, “She’s talked about having a poisonous ex for some time. It was actually essential to Jenn, I knew that after we talked, she had some panic about it. She was like, ‘I don’t need individuals to assume that this was you.’ I do know who the ex is simply too and like, yeah, it was actually essential to her for it to be clarified.”
Tran, for her half, has acknowledged that she was really shocked by Rossi’s look on her season of The Bachelorette. “It’s not like we had been in Kansas or Connecticut. He flew to New Zealand,” she stated on an August 2024 episode of “The Viall Recordsdata” podcast. “And at first, once I noticed him, I believed to myself, ‘Wow, a pleasant face. I’m so excited. He have to be right here to provide me some recommendation or one thing.’ And really, in a short time, I used to be like, ‘This man will not be right here to provide me recommendation.’”
After Tran despatched him packing, Rossi took a second to inform her suitors that he had “come right here utterly by myself volition, however she let me know her future’s on this room.”
Bachelor Nation veteran Ashley Iaconetti, for her half, completely instructed Us Weekly in August 2024 that she was “shocked” to listen to Rossi had paid for his personal airplane ticket from the U.S. to New Zealand. “That’s not an inexpensive ticket,” she quipped.
“I feel that when your ex turns into the Bachelorette, you’ve an entire new glow and fascination about them, proper? ‘How did you let the Bachelorette go?’” she instructed Us on the time. “So, I can perceive his feeling of desperation and being like, ‘Wow, I’m such an fool. Why didn’t I lock this woman down once I may’ve?’”
