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Luke Pell or Chase McNary? It's Looking Like the Next Bachelor Will Be...

Exclusive: JoJo Fletcher, Jordan Rodgers and Chad Johnson sound off on who should be ABC's next leading man

By Tierney Bricker Aug 03, 2016 4:55 PMTags
Watch: JoJo & Jordan Think Luke Should Be the Next "Bachelor"

And the next Bachelor is...

While ABC has yet to announce which of JoJo Fletcher's men will be the new Bachelor, multiple sources tell E! News that it's down to Luke Pell and Chase McNary. And when we chatted with JoJo and her fiancée Jordan Rodgers, they both had a pretty good idea of who will be handing out roses in season 21: Luke, the 32-year-old war veteran from Burnet, Texas, who made it to the final four before JoJo shocked viewers by sending him home just after he told her he loved her for the first time. 

"It seems to be America's vote," Jordan said, while JoJo added, "Can I just tell you the heat I got for sending him home?! It was to be Luke, right? I think it has to be!"

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We also posed the Luke vs. Chase question to Chad Johnson, The Bachelorette's resident bad boy, and he was in agreement with the happy couple. "I'm sure it will be Luke,' Chad told E! News' Carissa Culiner. "Luke played his cards right. He didn't say anything bad, he didn't say anything, really anything, he was just kind of there. He just sat there and looked pretty." 

Still, don't count Chase, the second runner-up from Denver, out just yet, as JoJo said, "They're both so deserving of it."

But Luke seemed ready to take on the gig when we spoke with him at the Men Tell All special. "The process worked for me," he said. "JoJo kind of allowed me to love again, it was something I hadn't done in awhile prior to our relationship.  I'm at a place now where I'm excited to be in love again. I think that if that comes up and that's in the future for me, I couldn't be more excited to find it."

And whether it's Luke or Chase, JoJo had some advice for ABC's next leading man: "Really trust yourself," she offered up. "It's going to seem like you may have no one on your side, but to really just follow your heart and do the best you can."

To hear more from JoJo and Jordan, watch our chat with them above, and to hear Chad talk about his idea for his own dating show (seriously), press play on the video below. 

Watch: Would Chad Johnson Ever Consider Being "The Bachelor?"
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