Nick Viall & Natalie Joy - Bachelor 21 - Discussion - #2

Nick Viall talked about his future with Natalie https://t.co/lQHnwzJIb0

— Bachelor Nation (@bachnation) June 9, 2022

'Bachelor' Nick Viall, 41, says starting a relationship with Natalie Joy, 23, gave him anxiety because of their age gap https://t.co/dSkhaBgnUg pic.twitter.com/nWD2bSrQfZ

— Yahoo Entertainment (@YahooEnt) June 9, 2022

I'm happy he appears to be in a good place right now.

The anxiety article is very good and I can totally see what he went through.

Copying this from NYT Aug 3, 2022

Nick Viall Gets His Roses
The former “Bachelor” star has (almost) left the franchise behind as he doles out advice on his podcast and on paper.

LOS ANGELES — In 2014, during “After the Final Rose,” a live TV special that followed “The Bachelorette” finale, the season’s runner-up Nick Viall turned to the bachelorette, Andi Dorfman, and said: “If you weren’t in love with me, I’m just not sure why you made love with me?”

The backlash was immediate. “I definitely wish I didn’t say it,” Mr. Viall said in an interview in June. “I’ve learned to accept that I said it, owned that I said it and learned from saying it.”

“It’s definitely a butterfly effect,” he said. He’s not proud of that moment of forthrightness, but if it hadn’t happened, he may not have appeared on three additional seasons of “Bachelor” franchises: the Kaitlyn Bristowe-led “Bachelorette,” “Bachelor in Paradise” and, finally, as, actually, “The Bachelor.”

Would he have starred in a redemption arc in which he introduced meta-commentary about the shows within the shows themselves, and then on his relationship podcast, “The Viall Files?” “He’s very honest, which is something that you don’t see,” said his friend Rachel Lindsay, contrasting him with others in the world of “The Bachelor.” “People are so often trying to be like another lead.”
Mr. Viall said that he prided himself “on being self-aware.” “I don’t want to be the butt of a joke or whatever,” he said. “The good news from me, from a reality TV standpoint, I can’t not be myself.” Without that inability to not be himself, would Mr. Viall be publishing “Don’t Text Your Ex Happy Birthday,” a book of dating advice that comes out Oct. 4?

When we talked in his modern home in Los Angeles, Mr. Viall, 41, expressed very few regrets aside from his confrontation with Ms. Dorfman. One is having the “Viall” in the title of “The Viall Files” rhyme with “file,” rather than how his surname is actually pronounced: Vy-AHL.

Mr. Viall’s home is filled with art, some of which he is more knowledgeable about than others; he chose many of the modern pieces himself, but when I asked about a reproduction print of a painting by Gustav Klimt, Mr. Viall said, “Pardon me?” It emerged the more classic works were furnished by his girlfriend, Natalie Joy, a 24-year-old model and surgical tech who works for a plastic surgeon who specializes in eye lifts.

Mr. Viall lives in the Valley Village neighborhood, where a surprising number of reality television alumni have settled, including many cast members of the Bravo reality show “Vanderpump Rules.”

https://www.nytimes.com/issue/todayspaper/2022/08/03/todays-new-york-times

I think it is great that Nick is taking advantage of so many opportunities that have opened up for him. Hope his book does well! That being said -- I don't necessarily look to him for dating advice. I am surprised that he is putting a book out about it. IMO.

Although he was 0–4 on The Bachelor, @viallnicholas28, 41, has been unusually successful in remaining relevant since. This summer, @EmiliaPetrarca met Viall in his living room in Los Angeles to find out if his advice can be trusted

Photos by Brad Torchiahttps://t.co/LJDZwH9N6R pic.twitter.com/XwueQg6HjD

— The Cut (@TheCut) September 1, 2022

I never listened to Nick’s relationship advice podcasts since I don’t think he is qualified, and I got the impression that he would be even more full of himself on those.
This rant, and the commentary from the Game of Roses podcast, are absolutely hilarious though.


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This was a response to a caller with a quite unrelated problem btw. He drags other leads and contestants for how they keep talking about their experience on the show, but he seems to be more hung up on the past than any of them. I thought he and Kaitlyn were OK now.
Someone on Reddit pointed out that this happened at a time when his current GF was still too young to drive. I wonder how she feels about it.

My advice: Don’t buy a relationship advice book from this man!
All JMO

The full rant: https://youtu.be/JN6vvA8kxig?t=1955
The callers problem: https://youtu.be/JN6vvA8kxig?t=1134

.@viallnicholas28, a guy who is famous for not finding love on The Bachelor, has somehow written a great dating advice book.@DaveHolmes writes: https://t.co/CNE2cC5syV

— Esquire (@esquire) October 5, 2022