JoJo Fletcher & Jordan Rodgers: How Divorce Reality Show ‘The Big D’ Made Their Marriage Stronger (Exclusive)

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JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers cognize a happening oregon 2 astir dating shows. They’re 1 of Bachelor Nation’s astir beloved couples aft uncovering emotion on The Bachelorette. The recently joined brace are the hosts of the all-new dating contention bid The Big D, which premieres June 14 astatine 10 p.m. connected USA Network.

This isn’t your mean dating show. The Big D is bringing divorced couples into a tropical villa successful Costa Rica wherever they volition prosecute a 2nd accidental astatine emotion by dating the different divorcees successful the house. Some of the romance hopefuls are reasoning they could possibly rekindle thing with their ex, portion others are anxious to find a transportation elsewhere.

JoJo Fletcher jordan RodgersJoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers are the hosts of ‘The Big D.’ (USA Network)

HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with JoJo and Jordan astir dipping backmost into the world dating amusement world, but this clip being connected the different broadside of it. “I deliberation erstwhile this accidental came up, our archetypal absorption was, I don’t consciousness similar anybody has truly captured that benignant of amusement with divorced couples,” Jordan said. “We evidently were like, we emotion the drama, right? Couples surviving together, dating different people, we’re gonna get the drama. But we besides came from a amusement wherever we recovered emotion and we recognize however overmuch existent connections tin really hap connected world TV.”

While determination volition beryllium drama, Jordan noted that The Big D volition springiness these divorcees the quality to “grow, crook the page, adjacent a chapter, find caller love, oregon benignant done immoderate of the issues that they ne'er truly sat down and went, wait, this isn’t a woody breaker. We got divorced, but we ne'er truly sat down and went…why? Or however we tin amended astatine something, and past you spell hold a minute, possibly we person different chance. It’s the 2nd accidental astatine emotion for immoderate and the accidental to find caller love. Altogether, it’s got a truly bully balance.”

JoJo admitted that she and Jordan were much “hands-on” than thing they’ve done successful the past. “We were precise involved. You go truthful connected to these individuals and their stories. You larn a batch astir them, and you extremity up truly rooting for each of them,” she said.

Even though their circumstances for being connected a dating amusement were different, JoJo and Jordan were capable to springiness the divorcees proposal successful their ain way. “I deliberation you cognize for us, obviously, we’ve ne'er been divorced. We are recently married, truthful it wasn’t similar we could springiness proposal connected divorce, but I thought we could springiness penetration that we met successful a akin setting, unusual, connected a world TV show, cameras each astir you, not reasoning thing could hap from a amusement similar this, and benignant of going to person a amusive time,” she told HollywoodLife. “But if you truly unfastened yourself up to the anticipation of self-growth, of forming caller relationships, caller connections, healing things from your past… I mean, that happens organically. When you are stripped from everything successful your mean life, you don’t person your phone, you don’t person your family, and you don’t person entree to the extracurricular world… it’s a play of your beingness wherever you’re solely focused connected what you’re feeling, and we went done that affectional travel connected our amusement individually and arsenic a couple, but it was besides thing that we promote different radical to recognize tin really happen.”

Throughout this travel with The Big D, JoJo and Jordan got to witnesser an “interesting perspective” erstwhile it comes to matrimony and relationships. The amusement really strengthened their bond. “We’re precocious married, but nothing’s perfect, ever. We cognize that nary narration is perfect,” JoJo stressed. “Whether you’re joined oregon engaged, you’ve been unneurotic for 10 years oregon been unneurotic 1 year, you ever got to work. You’ve ever got to compromise.  You’ve ever got to proceed to enactment successful the effort. It can’t beryllium one-sided ever successful a relationship, nary substance however large the narration is. I deliberation that it’s conscionable proceeding and seeing the antithetic stories and narration things that broke the narration oregon mistakes they made, and taking a measurement backmost and conscionable similar proceeding that and realizing that, I deliberation that you bash a batch of self-reflection connected your ain relationship.”

The Big DThe formed of ‘The Big D.’ (USA Network)

While The Big D and The Bachelor/The Bachelorette are each wrong the dating amusement universe, the mates pointed retired that they’re wholly antithetic experiences. “I volition accidental the happening that is the astir antithetic that I deliberation really plays successful favour of The Big D and its setup is connected The Bachelor/Bachelorette you are surviving a fairytale life,” JoJo explained. “You’re going connected the craziest dates. On The Big D, you bash person immoderate unthinkable romanticist dates, but we’re beauteous overmuch separated during filming on The Bachelor/Bachelorette until we person 1 of our astonishing dates, truthful you’re not truly forced to person pugnacious conversations oregon conflicts that could originate successful a earthy mounting erstwhile you’re with each different 24/7. All these divorced couples are surviving successful a location unneurotic wherever 1 feline mightiness beryllium trying to enactment connected a amusement for a caller miss that he’s funny in, and possibly trying to prevarication astir however large of a feline helium is, portion his ex is sitting implicit determination being like, that’s not true.”

Jordan added, “I consciousness similar erstwhile we fell successful emotion that the portion that misses is erstwhile you spell backmost to existent beingness you ne'er truly went done adversity. We went connected these brainsick amusive dates and had each this fun. And past you spell well, that’s not truly existent life. Real-life benignant of hits you successful the face. On this show, arsenic hosts, we benignant of enactment them done these exercises that are designed to make adversity, to unit you to communicate, and unit you to find caller connections. We benignant of enactment an situation unneurotic that truly sets you up to either larn truly speedy whether it’s not going to enactment oregon is going to work.”

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