Despite how it may seem, Grant Ellis was confident during his stint as The Bachelor.
So confident, in fact, that when Us Weekly asked our latest cover star if he could give a percentage regarding how certain he was that he had found his wife ahead going into the hometown dates, he said: “I, honestly, was 100 percent sure because that’s what I came there for. I knew I was going to make things work.”
While the trailer makes it seem like Grant, 31, is down to the wire before he picks between his eventual final 2, he told Us that it “definitely wasn’t one hour” but “external factors” caused him to take a pause. The day trader and former basketball player also didn’t hesitate when explaining that he is actually a very decisive person.
“I’ve always been a really decisive person in terms of my career and everything in that field. … In high school, I was a star athlete and had to decide what college I went to, what major,” he said. Outside of that, Grant points to “times of difficulty” with his parents’ divorce and navigating “decisions I had to make that the outcome was a lot greater than the current situation I was living in.”
Grant’s parents will come back into play on the show, but first, Grant will meet the families of his final 4 on the March 3 episode.
“It’s really important when you’re married or with somebody to get along with their family — to fit in and to be a unit,” he said. “That was the goal: seeing the dynamic.”
The Bachelor airs on ABC Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.