Golden Bachelorette star Joan Vassos experienced her incredibly personal Brat Pack moment many thanks to her overall look in St. Elmo’s Fire.
The Bachelor Nation star, 61, disclosed she was a qualifications actor in the 1985 John Hughes film — while teasing her celebrity crush.
“I appreciate Rob Lowe. I feel he’s so freaking handsome, and he’s amusing, and he’s a good actor,” Joan advised Entertainment Tonight in an interview released on Thursday, June 20. “I was really an additional in a motion picture that he was in, so I achieved him in person. I have liked him because I was 21 decades outdated. I was in St. Elmo’s Hearth. You can see me, like, in a break up 2nd as an extra.”
52 minutes into the film, cameras catch Joan riding on a bicycle previous a fraternity property as Lowe’s character, Billy Hicks, sits exterior. St. Elmo’s Fireplace and other legendary coming-of-age flicks in the ‘80s, like The Breakfast Club, attained a cult subsequent. Many of the films’ stars, such as Lowe, now 60, Molly Ringwald and Demi Moore have been grouped collectively and referred to as the Brat Pack.
St. Elmo’s Hearth was filmed in numerous locations, such as Washington, D.C., and all-around Joan’s house state of Maryland, which could be how she turned connected with the background acting gig. Soon after her look in the ‘80s flick, she did not go on to go after a career in performing. The truth star now works in alumni relations for a college in Bethesda, Maryland.
Joan is the to start with-at any time Golden Bachelorette following appearing in the debut season of The Golden Bachelor, which starred Gerry Turner. She left in the course of 7 days 3 because of a family members emergency involving her daughter, who experienced just presented beginning. Joan is a widower, and her late husband, John, died in 2021 at age 59 soon after a fight with pancreatic most cancers.
As she prepares to meet up with the contestants vying for a rose, Joan teased that in addition to Rob Lowe, Kevin Costner is also her style.
“I adore Kevin Costner. Given that Yellowstone, I just assume he is the rugged, alluring man,” she explained. “Kind of reverse of Rob Lowe, who’s type of polished. He is so darn handsome.”
Although some of present day biggest A-listers received their start off in the ’80s, many of their well-known contemporaries in the “Me” ten years are living quieter, additional very low-profile life today. From Tom Cruise, who bravely donned these tighty whities in Dangerous Business, to the boys and women of the Brat Pack, simply click through to see which stars obtained their large breaks in the 1980s — and see where by they finished up!
Appears to be apart, Joan is looking for a “family man” who is aware how to treat a lady.
“My father was the top gentleman. He opened doorways, carried everything, hopped up when a lady walked in the place, was often polite, never ever cussed, just was this kind of a gentleman. I am hunting for a gentleman,” Joan claimed. “There is some thing about that that is so charming and endearing to me.”
She continued, “I’m also wanting for any person that has a little sense of experience. I worked my complete lifestyle having to this place in lifetime, and had prepared on possessing all all those adventures with John.”
Joan has “really missed” planning a long term with a person following the demise of her spouse, adding, “I am all set for somebody that has a very little feeling of adventure and completely ready to have some entertaining. You only get to do this once. You only get to live the moment. It is a huge globe and I’m all set to see it. I experience like I gotta get going.”
