Shannon Beador Says She Inquired About Being the Golden Bachelorette but Decided to Do Love Hotel Instead

Shannon Storms Beador once considered finding love on The Golden Bachelorette.

On the Oct. 31 episode of The Viall Files podcast, the Real Housewives of Orange County alum, 60, revealed that she was interested in taking part in the ABC franchise until Bravo mogul Andy Cohen offered her a place on the upcoming dating series, Love Hotel.

When host Nick Viall asked if she'd ever considered becoming the Golden Bachelorette, she revealed that she had actually reached out to a few Housewives producers who also work on The Bachelor shows.

"I said, what about me being the Golden Bachelorette?" the reality star recalled. "And then I said, I know you're gonna use somebody from the past or whatever. You know, we just kinda put it out there."

Everything changed when Cohen called with an "interesting idea" and pitched her Peacock's upcoming reality dating series, where singles will vie to win the hearts of four of Bravo's biggest bachelorettes.

"They asked me to join the show, The Love Hotel. So I kind of am a Golden Bachelorette on the Love Hotel," she said, adding how she'd love to meet Joan Vassos, the first ever female senior lead of the ABC show. "I just feel like we have a lot of stuff in common. But, in her show and in Love Hotel, you get story because we're older. Like, it's not just like we're young and dating. "

"It's like we have story and issues, and we're all single for a reason. So we all have triggers and all that sort of stuff, so it's good," Storms Beador added.

In July, sources told PEOPLE that Love Hotel would star Storms Beador, Luann de Lesseps (The Real Housewives of New York City) and Real Housewives of Potomac O.G.'s Gizelle Bryant and Ashley Darby.

Filming was set to take place in September in Cabo San Lucas with the women being offered a diverse dating pool, insiders said at the time. The show is expected to air sometime next year.

Storms Beador was last linked to John Janssen, who she dated for 3½ years, starting in summer 2019. In late 2022, he called off their romance and again in September 2023, after briefly reconciling, not long after her arrest for an alleged DUI and hit-and-run.

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Janssen then began dating Storms Beador's RHOC costar, Alexis Bellino, with whom she has a rocky history. In 2018, her ex-husband, Jim Bellino, sued Storms Beador and Tamra Judge for defamation. 

Throughout season 18, the two had tension after Janssen sued Storms Beador for $75,000 that he alleged was a loan, though she denied the money was borrowed.