Jenn Tran‘s journey for love has simply been dealt a significant curveball. On the July 29 episode of The Bachelorette, Matt Rossi, the main woman’s ex-boyfriend, traveled to New Zealand on his personal dime to vie for Jenn’s coronary heart as soon as extra.

After a fast vetting by franchise host Jesse Palmer, present producers led Matt to Jenn to have a dialog.

“I really feel each a bit of bit nervous, a bit of bit excited. We have been in love and I feel part of us will all the time be in love. For me, it is simply by no means been so robust,” he advised the cameras. “Me being right here is hopefully one step in the appropriate route proving to her how a lot she means to me and the way critical I am taking this.”

Matt started the dialog by revealing that he blew off two weddings he was imagined to attend with Jenn as a result of “it wasn’t the identical” with out her by his aspect.

“I could not go to the weddings with out you,” he stated. “I am not able to allow you to go and get engaged with out telling you that I nonetheless have actually robust emotions for you, now greater than ever.”

When Jenn pressed Matt on if he was able to get engaged, he was fast to reply, “I am able to do it.”

Jenn was left “confused” by the romantic gesture and puzzled why Matt did not declare his emotions earlier than she left for the present.

“I did say it. I did not say it as grandly as this, I assume,” he stated. “… I actually do love you… My intentions are to be with you. I wish to proceed this journey collectively… I might love to hitch you for me to show to you ways a lot you imply to me, to precise to you ways a lot I nonetheless strongly take care of you.”

With that, Jenn walked away to think about the scenario and what it will imply for her different suitors if she let Matt keep.

“It confuses me and it breaks me out of my head a bit of bit. There are individuals right here that I’ve actually robust emotions for and I’m afraid of what it’d fire up in a few of these guys and the way a few of them would possibly really feel about it,” she stated in a confessional. “However I additionally know Matt so much higher than these guys I simply met a few weeks in the past. He is somebody I care about. I’ve a tough resolution to make and I do not know the place my coronary heart is pulling me.”

In a preview for subsequent week’s episode, Jenn’s males are lower than happy by Matt’s arrival, with one saying he is “furious” and one other complaining that it is “not honest.”

Jenn, in the meantime, seems to be extra unsure than ever as she tells the cameras, “As a lot as I can see a future on the finish of this, I additionally see a future the place I find yourself alone.”

So who’s Matt Rossi? Learn on for all the pieces you’ll want to know concerning the 27-year-old insurance coverage government.

He beforehand spoke out about his relationship with Jenn

In a February TikTok, Matt had his canine, Kirkland, narrate the story of his relationship with Jenn.

“Once I was nonetheless a twinkle in my dad’s eye, he was a 24-year-old f**okay boy residing in Boston along with his three greatest associates,” Kirkland’s voice ver stated. “… He was painfully single, not too completely different than how he’s proper now, so he determined to go on this app known as Hinge, which he had by no means executed earlier than as a result of he was petrified of Craigslist killers.”

“So he discovered this actually cute, candy lady named Jenn. Completely out of his league. Someway she gave him an opportunity, they hit it off, and so they began courting,” he continued. “Issues began to warmth up, they obtained fairly critical, and Jenn was able to cool down along with her particular person, however my dad simply wasn’t there but. He was nonetheless, as I stated, a f**okay boy. Years handed, they stayed associates, and now my dad’s utilizing her for clout.”

He’s not Jenn’s poisonous ex

All through Jenn’s season of The Bachelorette, viewers have heard about Jenn’s previous poisonous relationship that made her really feel unworthy. Upon Matt’s arrival, Jenn was fast to substantiate that he’s not the ex to which she was referring.

Fairly, Jenn and Matt dated three years in the past for a number of months. They later reconnected as associates. When Jenn left for The Bachelorette, Matt advised Jesse, “I could not simply let her go.”

He has a giant social media following

Matt boasts greater than 50,000 followers on each Instagram and TikTok, thanks largely to his wiener canine. Throughout an look on the Nickle Up podcast in February, he opened up about his journey as a content material creator.

“I’m a man that lives in Boston that has a wiener canine,” he stated. “My content material is about life-style and leisure. It is there to offer you a take a look at life-style, however have amusing alongside the way in which. That is one thing that took me in all probability 9 months to determine and begin executing.”

He’s greater than an insurance coverage government

In the course of the podcast look, Matt revealed that, although he is in company America, he has an entrepreneurial mindset. He credit that to his dad and mom, each of whom moved to America from Italy and neither of whom was school educated.

“They each began their very own firms. My mother is a hairdresser, has a hair salon in Newton that she’s run for 30 plus years. My dad was serving to to help my grandparents, who opened an Italian restaurant up in Hampshire, after which was concurrently constructing out an actual property profession,” he stated. “I’ve all the time had this entrepreneurial ardour… [But] I obtained the school training. I went to enterprise college. I joined company America. I feel I’ve discovered so much, however I do not suppose that entrepreneurial spirit has gone away.”

He’ll change Jenn’s complete journey

When ET spoke to Jenn earlier this month, she teased how Matt’s shock arrival impacted her expertise on the present.

“It is a very pivotal second within the journey,” Jenn stated. “I feel that is all I will actually say to that. It was a giant second for me that shocked me and adjustments the trajectory of the remainder of the season.”

As for the tremendous tease second during which Jesse tells Jenn that “no Bachelorette has ever executed this earlier than” forward of her finale, she promised her season will finish in an sudden manner.

“The best way the journey simply performed out, there’s so many moments during which I discovered a lot about myself and have this big character improvement for myself primarily,” she stated. “By the top of it, it is positively an end result that is going to be a shock to my household, it will be a shock to the viewers. I am excited to observe it play out.”

Whereas Jenn would neither affirm nor deny if she’s engaged, she advised ET that she’s “very proud of the result” of her season.

“I discovered a lot about myself. It is actually, actually been such a journey of self-growth. I might say I discovered a ferocious love inside myself for positive,” she stated, earlier than noting of Bachelor Nation, “I am actually excited for them to observe me develop into a unique particular person. I’ve just a few bada** moments, just a few moments of actually simply placing myself on the market. I feel quite a lot of younger girls are gonna relate to me and relate to my story. That is what I am most enthusiastic about.”

The Bachelorette airs Mondays on ABC.

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