(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.)
Things got real Iowan on Episode 2 of ABC’s “The Golden Bachelorette.”
During a cornhole tournament, Jordan Heller, a senior sales executive from Chicago, revealed that he went to the University of Iowa. And during a barbeque dinner, Jonathan Rone showed off his Iowa skills while shucking the corn.
That wasn’t all, though. Both native Iowans — Rone and Dan Roemer — received group date roses, securing a spot for the next week before the rest of the contestants got a chance at the rose ceremony.
Jonathan Rone makes the first group date of ‘The Golden Bachelorette’ and receives a rose
The first group date of the season was a “senior prom.” Bachelorette Joan Vassos said that she wanted to bring the men back to a night of “firsts.”
The date included half the men, including Rone, who lives in Oakland, Iowa.
Rone recounted his high school experience, being the only student of color in a small high school. He never attended his own prom, after his date canceled on him the week before.