Joan Vassos Defends Golden Bachelorette Men After Martha Stewart Diss

Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos is defending her suitors!

After Martha Stewart said she wouldn’t appear on The Golden Bachelorette because the male contestants weren’t “hot enough,” Joan, 61, slid into the entrepreneur’s DMs to put her straight.

“I DM’d her last night. I don’t know if she’s read it yet but I did,” Joan told Access Hollywood in an interview that aired Tuesday, October 22. “I said, ‘Dating is hard out there and I had a great group of guys.’ She doesn’t know ‘em like I know ‘em. I got to know the inside of them as well as the outside, and both are wonderful.”

“The team did a great job of picking them. What they’re about and their backstories, they’re all so wonderful,” the private school administrator added of her 24 suitors. “They are there for a reason. When they got out of the limos that first night, every single one of them did something memorable and made me want to get to know them more.”

“I guess Martha Stewart didn’t watch or didn’t see what I saw in them. Maybe you have to be in person? They are special guys,” Joan went on. “I feel like everyone’s falling in love with them. I’m like, ‘What’s wrong with you, Martha?’”

The Golden Bachelorette star said she is waiting for a response from Stewart, 83, and even floated the idea of inviting the businesswoman to the show’s finale.

Stewart dismissed taking on the Golden Bachelorette mantle during a Sunday, October 20, appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.

Stewart said she isn’t interested in the show “at all” and when host Andy Cohen asked if she would be interested in appearing on the series, she replied, “Absolutely not.”

“$1,000,000 an episode, Martha?” Cohen inquired, to which Stewart quickly shut down. “No, the guys aren’t hot enough,” she said.

Stewart’s pal Snoop Dogg defended her stance, adding, “It ain’t about money, it’s about how hot the guys are.”

Although Joan’s suitors might not be to Stewart’s standards, the first-ever Golden Bachelorette recently gushed about her crop of men in an interview with Us Weekly.

“This group of men — I am so shocked about how open they are with their feelings and how willing they are to talk to each other,” Joan shared in Us’ latest cover story. “That never has been my experience with men. I feel like whenever there’s a group of men, they talk about sports: their golf game and how their baseball team is doing. Or even about their businesses. They rarely talk about their feelings and it was amazing how quickly these guys felt comfortable with each other.”