Joey Graziadei and Kelsey Anderson are stepping into a new phase of their relationship.
On Thursday, Dec. 5, The Bachelor couple revealed that they had moved into their first apartment together shortly after celebrating their one-year anniversary in November in a video posted to Anderson’s Instagram.
“A week ago we were celebrating Joey winning DWTS,” the Louisiana native wrote over a clip of herself with friends and family as Graziadei won the mirrorball trophy on Dancing with the Stars.
The video then transitioned to a shot of the couple standing over their kitchen counter and sharing their first meal in their new apartment.
“Today we are eating Sushi in our new place with no furniture,” she wrote over the second clip, before captioning the post, “For the big days and the regular days, I’ll be there ❤️.”
Graziadei and Anderson found love on season 28 of The Bachelor when Graziadei went down on one knee and proposed during the finale episode in March 2024.
In June, they opened up about their living situation during an episode of Jason Tartick’s Trading Secrets podcast, and revealed that Graziadei had moved in with Anderson and her roommates. After the show, he had been living with his sister before Anderson extended the offer.
“I was still working, and so I was like, you know, I gotta go back to my, like, I’m not quitting my job,’ ” she explained at the time.
“He was just living with his sister, so I was like, ‘You can move in with me.’ I have a very big room, and my roommates were all in. They’re like, ‘We can’t wait to get to know Joey,’ and it’s kinda like a New Girl situation,” she continued, referencing the Fox sitcom starring Zooey Deschanel.
Graziadei also called the decision a “no brainer” as he had press engagements in New York and Los Angeles and Anderson could continue to work her job as a junior project manager.
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“I do think people forget that in my situation, like, moving to my sister’s was strategic. Like, I was living in Hawaii. There’s no way I could be living there with the amount that I was gonna be doing with the press going from New York to L.A.,” he said. “So I was like, ‘I need to either go find a new place, or I have to get into a place that’s gonna let me be able to travel pretty easily on the mainland.'”
He continued, “It would have been wrong of me to be like, we need to get you out of what your life was because she dropped her whole life to be a part of this. And I knew that regardless of what was going to happen, my life was going to have to change and go somewhere else.”
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