Bachelorette Jenn Tran Admits She 'Got It Wrong' About 1 Frontrunner, Tells Another Man She's Falling for Him

Jenn Tran said “goodbye” to three men for good before heading to Hometowns.

On the Aug. 12 episode of The Bachelorette, Jenn, 26, and her seven remaining suitors returned to the United States and posted up in Seattle so the physician assistant student could decide whose families she wanted to meet.   

FIRST ONE-ON-ONE

First, Jenn embarked on a Wicked themed one-on-one date with Marcus. She wore a pick dress and he wore a green letterman jacket and they hopped in a trolley to ride down a yellow brick road. Kelsey Anderson and Daisy Kent from Joey Graziadei’s season awaited Jenn and Marcus, 31, and explained to the couple that they’d be traveling around the Emerald City — in this case, Seattle — and completing tasks to get to know one another better.

During the first part of their travels, Jenn and Marcus played This or That. Choosing spicy over sweet led them to have to eat peppers, and picking playful over passionate meant they had to engage in a public pillow fight.

Next, Kelsey, 26, and Daisy, 25, drove Jenn and Marcus in a pedal cart to former Bachelorette Charity Lawson, who gave the duo a wand to pop balloons on a balloon wall. Inside the balloons, prompts such as “share your proudest moment” awaited Jenn and Marcus. The balloon wall also gifted Marcus a video from his sister Gabriella and Jenn a letter from her mom.

Jenn and Marcus closed out the day by going up in an air balloon. “Let your love defy gravity above the city,” OG Bachelorette Trista Sutter told Jenn and Marcus before they took off.

Heading into the evening portion of the date, Jenn worried about “investing too much too fast into Marcus,” she told the cameras.

They had dinner at the Seattle Mariners’ stadium T-Mobile Park, where Marcus opened up about growing up in foster care.

“My sister, when we were young when, we were kids, were kind of born into a pretty rough situation,” Marcus explained to Jenn. “We had parents who couldn’t like really take care of us. They were a bit like, just like, unstable. They weren’t fit to be parents. They brought us to daycare one day and just like never came back for us. And uh, that was the start of a very rough chapter in my childhood. I had to take on the role of looking after my sister. We lived in a foster home together.”

The army ranger veteran said that the foster care experience “made me feel like there was like, something wrong with me.”

Jenn assured, “There’s nothing wrong with you, nothing.”

Then Jenn took Marcus up into the stands to give him a rose. “I want you to know that you’re worthy to me,” she told him.

GROUP DATE

For the last group date of the season, Jenn took Spencer, Jonathon, Sam, Devin and Grant to the radio show Love On Air Seattle, where franchise alums Jason and Molly Mesnick joined them.

The hosts asked the men to choose which word they would use to describe the upcoming Fantasy Suites. Sam, 27, said “aggressive,” which confused everyone. Then Sam gave another perplexing answer about how he felt about Jenn.   

“To say that I’ve been doing nothing but falling in love with you from the first time we had a conversation, would be, yeah, that would be a lie,” the contractor said. “I didn’t know if you would be able to show love the way that I knew how to and it literally took you giving a toast to all of us saying, ‘Cheers to a ferocious love.’”

The hosts decided to keep Sam around to have a one-on-one conversation with Jenn in order to get to know her better.

Jenn asked Sam about his first impression of her and he admitted he thought “this girl is not my type” and “I thought The Bachelorette was going to be Daisy or Maria.”

When Sam said he could see himself with Jenn long term because of her selflessness, she pressed him on how he knew she was selfless. “You’re either selfless or you’re full of s---, one or the other,” Sam said.

Jenn proceeded to ask Sam, “Do you feel like you really know me?” Sam responded by kissing Jenn, citing physical touch as his love language.

At the afterparty, Grant, 30, told Jenn he was falling in love with her and she told Devin, 28, as much. But she still felt confused about where things stood with first impression rose recipient Sam.

When Jenn sat down with Sam, she asked him why he wanted to be with her specifically. After stalling for a bit, he blurted out, “Because I love you.”

“Where the hell is this coming from?” Jenn asked in an on-camera interview. To Sam, she said, “I think we just need more time to get there.”

Jenn decided not to give out a group date rose because “I want to be 100% with where I’m feeling,” she told the men.

SECOND ONE-ON-ONE

Jeremy scored the final one-on-one, during which he and Jenn checked out Pike Place Market. They got their palms read and Jeremy, 29, caught some fish behind the counter.

“You make it real easy for me to be myself,” Jeremy said to Jenn.

Over dinner, Jeremy spoke with Jenn about the importance of his Jewish heritage.

“I don’t expect you to convert, I don’t need you to convert but eventually, I do want kids,” the real estate investor said.

Jenn said she did Shabbat dinner with her Jewish friends in Miami. “I’m just like, really open to a lot of different things,” she continued. “But I also am Buddhist.”

Their different religions didn’t bother Jeremy. “The idea of Jewish-Buddhist kids sounds fun,” he said to Jenn.

Jenn ended their date by giving Jeremy a rose. “I really couldn’t be happier,” he told the cameras.

ROSE CEREMONY

Before the rose ceremony, Jenn wanted to talk to Sam one more time, so she paid him a visit at his hotel room.

“I’m sorry for the way that that date went,” Sam said to Jenn. “I’ve been trying to walk this fine line of being vulnerable and also protecting my feelings in the same breath. But the only way for me to see it was to fall in love again.”

Jenn still felt confused and told Sam she thought he said “I love you” by accident.

“I meant to say it,” Sam assured.

Sam repeated the phrase again as he and Jenn went back and forth talking about the meaning of love and what he believed made them work as a couple.

“I can’t do this,” Jenn declared. “I can’t sit here with someone who says that they love me but doesn’t even really want to get to know me and understand me and see me.”

Sam thought Jenn hadn’t been hearing her, but to The Bachelorette, he reminded her of previously bad relationships.

“I’ve closed this chapter in my life already, I’m done,” Jenn said to Sam. “I’m done with it.”

With that, Jenn hugged Sam and left him to pack his bags and head home.

“That is not what love is,” Jenn told the cameras. “I really pride myself on reading people well and being intuitive and I am so mad that I got it wrong. It was a relationship in which it was mainly physical. He didn’t really try to get to know me.”

At the rose ceremony, Jenn informed the remaining men that she sent Sam home. “I do have to do the impossible tonight and send two of you home,” she continued. “And I want you to know how sorry I am that I have to do that.”

Jenn extended roses to Jonathon and Devin meaning Spencer and Grant wouldn’t be heading to Hometowns.

Spencer, 30, took the departure especially hard, since his relationship with Jenn marked the first time he saw a real future with someone since his last engagement ended. The pet portrait entrepreneur called his mom to tell her the news.

“It just sucks,” Spencer said to his mom through tears. “Like I couldn’t be happier for someone that she’s finding her person but I wish it was me.”

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