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Sandra Mason and Charles King.
ABC; Disney/Ricky MiddlesworthSandra Mason a Charles Kingbudding romance marks the first Golden Bachelor a Golden Bachelorette cross – a Us is here for.
“I’m just going to leave THIS HERE for you all… 🌹+🌹 😊,” Sandra, 76, wrote via Instagram on Friday, January 17, sharing a reel from her first date with Charles, 62.
The reality stars met while attending Joan Vassos‘ Men Tell All episode, aired in November 2024. Sandra knew Joan because they were both contestants on season 1 of The Golden Bachelor.
Meanwhile, Charles competed for Joan’s final rose during season 1 of The Golden Bachelorette. (Joan got engaged Chock Chapple during the finale of the show.)
Sandra Mason met Gary Levingston in the Golden Bachelorette final. “What a great show!!!! I’m so happy for my sweet friend Joan and her handsome beau Chock Chapple ❤️ They were GLOWING 💍🌹,” the Golden Bachelor alum, 76, wrote via Instagram alongside a photo of her and Levingston at the finale, (…)
While Sandra and Charles haven’t found love on TVthey sparked a connection while on “Men Tell All,” and Charles later slipped into Sandra’s DMs. It wasn’t until the new year that the pair arrived went on a proper date while Sandra was in Los Angeles for the holidays. (Sandra is from Georgia.)
“Sandra and I spent some time together around New Year’s Eve. We had a really, really great time together,” Charles said BachelorNation.com on Friday. “The atmosphere was amazing. Sandra is an amazing woman.”
Charles, who hails from California, praised Sandra for her “elegant charm and simplicity.” He thrived because she was “classy” and “fun” and “funny.”
The two enjoyed a night out in Pasadena for their first date, eating at Houston’s, which was documented in Sandra’s Instagram post.
“I got home by about 3 in the morning! Aren’t older people supposed to be out after 10 pm?” teased Charles. “I told Sandra that the last time I got home that late was when I was in college. We had lunch and had a great chat.”
The portfolio manager He said the dinner date was their “moment.”
Several contestants from The Golden Bachelor and The Golden Bachelorette have captured the hearts of Bachelor Nation and become another generation of memorable faces from the franchise. After not finding The One in Gerry Turner’s OG Golden Bachelor, Joan Vassos was crowned the next lead in the series and ultimately got her happily ever after (…)
Sandra completely agreed with Charles’ assessment of the evening. “We had an amazing chat getting to know each other after lunch as well,” he told the outlet. “We talked about our future, our children, what we want in a relationship, the show, and much more.”
He called Charles “the last gentleman” and “a treasure.” Sandra added, “Charles is a chess player, not a checker. It’s so true. He is so sincere. A lot of men can appear like that and throw the charm on, but that’s not who he is, really who he is.”
Sandra Mason made the difficult decision to skip her daughter’s wedding day for The Golden Bachelor, and she doesn’t regret it. “My son-in-law said to me, ‘Mum, the ceremony is eight minutes. The marriage is forever.’ He said, ‘Go. Go!’ My daughter, she said, ‘Mom, I found my man, you find yours,'” Sandra, 75, (…)
Said Sandra, who is retired spend time with Charles was “one of the best dates I’ve had in a long time,” teasing that they also have sexual chemistry.
“Sometimes a hug isn’t enough, so we stepped into the lip-to-lip zone for a minute,” he revealed. “But a woman doesn’t say!”
While the pair have spoken since their date, they are not sure what comes next as Charles is set to move to South Africa for a few years to work.
“You never know what the future holds,” the two said, hinting that their love story might not be fulfilled.
