Jonathan Johnson
Jon Kopaloff/Getty ImagesJonathan Johnson maybe have an idea what he is looking for Bachelor in Paradisebut he kept his options open.
When asked on the Saturday, January 25, episode of “lightweights” podcast whether he hoped anyone would be on the beaches of Mexico, Johnson, 28, simply answered “No.”
“There’s a reason for that,” Johnson said. “I know people used to have a problem with DMing people, talking to people. I don’t want bad blood, I want no anger hanging over my shoulders. I don’t wanted any pressure to be put on me before I could do it myself.
Johnson shared that he hopes to enter the spinoff show with a “clean slate and an open mind,” adding that he thinks “whoever is here, is here.”
“If someone is excited to meet me, they might say it’s weird. I’d be more than happy to talk to them,” Johnson said. “I want to go in with an open mind and meet someone, a clear slate.”
Johnson continued, “Obviously I’m sure I’ve heard who it is but I don’t want to dig deep, message them, find out everything I think I already know and come up with an idea. that idea. I want to come in and just say, ‘Who are you?'”
Jonathon Johnson and Jenn Tran
Amanda Edwards/Getty ImagesIn Johnson’s view, that’s what he’s looking for Jen Trantime of The Bachelorette different from what he was looking for Bachelor in Paradise. (Tran, 27, eventually married the Devin Strader during the season finale, but revealed during the live After the Last Rose they are special it’s called stopping.)
“I’ve done a lot of growing up since then with what I wanted and what I needed,” Johnson explained. “I think in this world, a lot of people are missing the sauce a little bit or drinking the Kool-Aid, whatever you want to say. I want someone who this life and this energy does not affect. Like, I want them to be on it because it’s a fun, cool, experience but like is just a very real person and not take life too serious because I don’t. I want someone I can live with like that to live.”
Jonathon Johnson was with Bachelorette Jenn Tran when she sent him packing, but he wasn’t ready then. When cohost Joe Amabile asked if Jonathon, 28, was ready to get down on one knee after their hometowns, the second runner-up admitted that he wasn’t there yet. “No, not at all. No, not at that point,” (…)
Right now, Johnson said he’s trying not to think Bachelor in Paradise. “It’s hard to get excited about that because it makes that time until then feel so long if I keep thinking about it all the time. Like, ‘Oh, I can’t wait until June or July or whenever— a.’ “
Johnson explained that he was still dating until he was leaves for Bachelor in Paradise — unless a special someone comes his way.
“I tell anyone who’s going to be like, ‘Hey this is my plan, like, I’ve already said yes I plan on going on this show. But if something feels absolutely right, I’m not going to turn it down . I’m not just going to give up my life because it’s (a) show in front of me,'” Johnson said. “But I let them know that was my original plan so they could choose whether to go ahead with it or not.”
Johnson noted that he has a “fear” that someone will see him as a “commodity” on the show and not recognize the real him.
“Someone’s going to see me as, like, just a product or they’re going to be like, ‘Hey I want to know who you are,'” Johnson said. “Someone might be like, ‘Oh I want to date him because he’s, like, a potential product.’ I don’t see myself that way, I just see myself as, like, a normal guy who’s just on a dating show to have fun and just looking for love.
