{"id":153629,"date":"2025-03-04T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T03:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/the-bachelor-recap-grant-sends-home-dina-after-not-meeting-her-family\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T03:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T03:00:41","slug":"the-bachelor-recap-grant-sends-home-dina-after-not-meeting-her-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/the-bachelor-recap-grant-sends-home-dina-after-not-meeting-her-family\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bachelor Recap: Grant Sends Home Dina After Not Meeting Her Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"157.25863860743\">\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ????><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ????><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3905308\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:83.285714285714%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Grant Ellis.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Disney\/Anne Marie Fox<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>The Bachelor<\/em> officially made it to hometowns, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/grant-ellis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Grant Ellis<\/strong><\/a> went from meeting too many family members to count to one family opting not to show up at all.<\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while there is a family that refuses to film for <em>The Bachelor<\/em> (more on that later), but it seemed like there wasn\u2019t one Pasarosa missing when Grant met<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/the-bachelor-season-29-contestant-juliana-pasquarosas-family-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> Juliana<\/strong>\u2019s parents, sister,<\/a> aunts, uncles, cousins and dog Charlie in Newton, Massachusetts. Hell, the guy who yelled her name on the street at the beginning of the date probably made it in time for the family cheers.<\/p>\n<p>While Juliana\u2019s dad briefly made it seem like he was going to be a tough guy to win over, it\u2019s clear he is down for whatever will make his daughter happy. Juliana\u2019s mom was another easy sell, listening to Grant talk about his \u201clone wolf\u201d tattoo with only a slight amount of judgment in her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>During a chat with her sister, Juliana declared \u201cI know he\u2019s my guy\u201d and Grant returned the favor when he revealed he was \u201cfalling for\u201d her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like it could be a fit for me,\u201d he told Juliana before he had to leave. Juliana set Grant off with a \u201cbye, boyfriend\u201d and seemingly a ticket to the final three.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article\" wp_automatic_readability=\"12.8165374677\">\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/bachelor-grant-describes-connections-with-juliana-litia-dina-and-zoe\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Bachelor Grant Was &#8216;100 Percent&#8217; Sure He Found His Wife by Hometowns<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tDespite how it may seem, Grant Ellis was confident during his stint as The Bachelor. So confident, in fact, that when Us Weekly asked our latest cover star if he could give a percentage regarding how certain he was that he had found his wife ahead going into the hometown dates, he said: \u201cI, honestly, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Grant went to New York City to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/the-bachelor-season-29-contestant-zoe-mcgradys-family-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see <strong>Zoe<\/strong><\/a> next, heading straight to an engagement photo shoot that ended with Zoe in a full-on wedding gown. While the twosome make a ridiculously good looking couple (and I guess the point of the date was to introduce Grant to her job as a model), it felt slightly out of place as hometowns are the time to ditch the anatics and get real.<\/p>\n<p>Once they changed out of their wedding fits, Grant prompted Zoe to do just that. Fans previously saw Zoe speak about being adopted and growing up as a Black woman in a predominantly white neighborhood. She explained on Monday\u2019s episode that Grant will not be meeting her parents, revealing she cut ties with her \u201cadoptive parents\u201d one year ago. While she didn\u2019t get into many details, Zoe didn\u2019t seem confident she would be mending the relationship anytime soon while applauding Grant for making amends with his father after his struggles with substance abuse.<\/p>\n<p>When Grant does spend time with Zoe\u2019s sister, her aunt, uncle and some friends, there is a slight concern that Zoe hasn\u2019t received a one-on-one date yet. No one pushes Grant too hard, though, and he leaves Zoe thinking that she has made big strides in the relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Grant\u2019s first real <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/bachelor-grant-ellis-on-how-he-ended-up-so-torn-between-his-final-2-excl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">test comes with <strong>Litia<\/strong>\u2019s family<\/a>, as he\u2019s the first person she\u2019s brought home to meet her family who isn\u2019t Mormon.The Garr family quickly rivals the Pasarosa family in size with 40 relatives \u2014 including her parents and brothers \u2014 coming out to meet the Bachelor for a get-together complete with \u201cdirty sodas.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.8746736292428\">\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/who-has-been-eliminated-from-grant-ellis-season-29-of-the-bachelor\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Where the Cast of Grant Ellis&#8217; Season 29 of &#8216;The Bachelor&#8217; Stands<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tGrant Ellis is narrowing down his list of potential partners as he hands out roses on The Bachelor season 29. Grant was crowned the lead of The Bachelor after Jenn Tran sent him packing on season 21 of The Bachelorette in summer 2024. Ahead of his season premiere in January 2025, a trailer showed host [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While Litia\u2019s parents tell Grant that he doesn\u2019t necessarily have to be Mormon to be with their daughter, Us is plotting for Grant and Litia to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/secret-lives-of-mormon-wives-season-2-what-to-know-about-hulu-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before that, however, they will have to get through fantasy suites. While Litia told her grandfather, \u201cI think that I love him,\u201d she also told her mother that she will not sleep with Grant and does not want him to be intimate with anyone else on the show.<\/p>\n<p>As Grant prepared to say goodbye, the twosome exchanged \u201cI\u2019m falling for yous,\u201d but did not tap into the sex conversation just yet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3905309\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.714285714286%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3905309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/he-Bachelor-Recap-Grant-Admits-He-s-Falling-for-Juliana-and-Litia-Dina-s-Family-Opts-Out-of-Hometowns-inline.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"he Bachelor Recap Grant Admits He s Falling for Juliana and Litia Dina s Family Opts Out of Hometowns\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/he-Bachelor-Recap-Grant-Admits-He-s-Falling-for-Juliana-and-Litia-Dina-s-Family-Opts-Out-of-Hometowns-inline.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/he-Bachelor-Recap-Grant-Admits-He-s-Falling-for-Juliana-and-Litia-Dina-s-Family-Opts-Out-of-Hometowns-inline.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/he-Bachelor-Recap-Grant-Admits-He-s-Falling-for-Juliana-and-Litia-Dina-s-Family-Opts-Out-of-Hometowns-inline.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/he-Bachelor-Recap-Grant-Admits-He-s-Falling-for-Juliana-and-Litia-Dina-s-Family-Opts-Out-of-Hometowns-inline.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/he-Bachelor-Recap-Grant-Admits-He-s-Falling-for-Juliana-and-Litia-Dina-s-Family-Opts-Out-of-Hometowns-inline.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/he-Bachelor-Recap-Grant-Admits-He-s-Falling-for-Juliana-and-Litia-Dina-s-Family-Opts-Out-of-Hometowns-inline.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/he-Bachelor-Recap-Grant-Admits-He-s-Falling-for-Juliana-and-Litia-Dina-s-Family-Opts-Out-of-Hometowns-inline.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/he-Bachelor-Recap-Grant-Admits-He-s-Falling-for-Juliana-and-Litia-Dina-s-Family-Opts-Out-of-Hometowns-inline.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/he-Bachelor-Recap-Grant-Admits-He-s-Falling-for-Juliana-and-Litia-Dina-s-Family-Opts-Out-of-Hometowns-inline.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/he-Bachelor-Recap-Grant-Admits-He-s-Falling-for-Juliana-and-Litia-Dina-s-Family-Opts-Out-of-Hometowns-inline.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/he-Bachelor-Recap-Grant-Admits-He-s-Falling-for-Juliana-and-Litia-Dina-s-Family-Opts-Out-of-Hometowns-inline.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/he-Bachelor-Recap-Grant-Admits-He-s-Falling-for-Juliana-and-Litia-Dina-s-Family-Opts-Out-of-Hometowns-inline.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/he-Bachelor-Recap-Grant-Admits-He-s-Falling-for-Juliana-and-Litia-Dina-s-Family-Opts-Out-of-Hometowns-inline.jpg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Dina.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Disney\/Anne Marie Fox<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For his final hometown date, Grant met <strong>Dina<\/strong> in Chicago. <em>Us<\/em> almost choked when we relearned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/the-bachelor-season-29-contestant-dina-lupancus-family-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dina has 11 siblings<\/a>, thinking we hadn\u2019t seen anything yet despite Juliana and Litia\u2019s large showings. Dina subsequently revealed that her family did not want to film the series as her deacon father doesn\u2019t approve of the journey, revealing that they \u201copted\u201d out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that her family isn\u2019t here today is concerning,\u201d Grant admitted, before he headed to the pumpkin patch to meet her friends.<\/p>\n<p>The friend meet-up went well, with the girls definitely approving of Grant. However, things between Dina and Grant (or Zoe and Grant, TBH) certainly don\u2019t seem as far along as they do with Juliana or Litia.<\/p>\n<p>While Grant met up with season 28 Bachelor <strong>Joey Graziadei<\/strong> for advice (the long and short of it was \u201cgo with your gut\u201d), the final four girls got together to talk about the anxiety spirals of a rose ceremony \u2014 and learned that Dina\u2019s family backed out at the \u201clast minute.\u201d While she seemed concerned about it, Grant tried to spin it during his chat with Joey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Dina, her family, actually, didn\u2019t show up,\u201d Grant told Joey of the situation. \u201cAt first \u2026 it kind of rubbed me the wrong way. But I actually think that we tackled it together. We met her friends, we had a blast. We tackled that issue together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the rose ceremony, Litia, Juliana and Zoe got roses and Grant said goodbye to Dina.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.5\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"link-related article\" wp_automatic_readability=\"9.910447761194\">\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/bachelor-grant-ellis-family-guide-meet-his-mom-dad-sister\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">\u2018The Bachelor\u2019 Season 29 Lead Grant Ellis\u2019 Family Guide<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tBachelor Grant Ellis is not forgetting his roots while he looks for The One. \u201cThey\u2019re really supportive,\u201d Grant exclusively told Us Weekly of his parents and sister ahead of the season 29 premiere in January 2025. \u201cMy family has been through a lot together, and it\u2019s really crazy that we still support each other in [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cYou taught me what to look for in a woman. I was developing feelings for you,\u201d Grant said, thanking her for the time that they spent together.<\/p>\n<p>Dina noted how close she felt to him, but acknowledged that he clearly had stronger feelings for the other women. She kept it together on her limo exit and had <em>Us<\/em> screaming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/the-bachelorette-will-skip-a-season-and-is-unlikely-to-return-in-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bring back <em>The Bachelorette<\/em><\/a> and give Dina a shot! (If she can get at least one of the 11 siblings to show up.)<\/p>\n<p><em>The Bachelor: The Women Tell All<\/em> airs on ABC next Monday, March 10, at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/the-bachelor-recap-grant-sends-home-dina-after-not-meeting-her-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Ellis. Disney\/Anne Marie Fox The Bachelor officially made it to hometowns, and Grant Ellis went from meeting too many family members to count to one family opting not to show up at all. Every once in a while there is a family that refuses to film for The Bachelor (more on that later), but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}