Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt are saying their goodbyes to the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast.
“For all our listeners, we’re kicking off 2026 saying, ‘See you guys later.’ We’re leaving,” Amabile, 39, said on the Tuesday, January 13, episode of the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast. “It’s been a while, but we’ve decided to stop doing ‘Happy Hour’ as the host.”
Pitt, 28, went on to explain that she and Amabile are looking forward to their next chapter and figuring out their next moves.
“Right now, we’re just starting off 2026 parting ways with this. You know what I mean? It just felt like more than anything, it just felt like the right time for us to close the door on this chapter,” Pitt shared.
Amabile, for his part, quipped, “You know what, I couldn’t do one more, ‘So how did you get on the show?’ I’ve probably done like 85 of those, maybe more, maybe 100. … The answer is always this, ‘Well I’ve never even heard of the show.’”
Pitt, who laughed at Amabile’s remark, explained that their decision to stop being cohosts was “less about what’s next” and more about being “the right time for us to close the door on this season of life and this opportunity, which we were so grateful for. But yeah, we were just ready to part ways with it.”
For Pitt, cohosting the podcast with her husband enhanced the communication in their relationship. (Pitt and Amabile, who initially met filming Bachelor in Paradise season 7, tied the knot in a courthouse in 2022 before getting married again in 2023.)
“When Joe and I got off the show, we were pretty intentional about keeping our businesses separate as much as possible,” Pitt shared. “We had a conversation about it. I was like, ‘I don’t want to be up in your stuff. I want you out of my stuff.’ So it was kind of the first time we really merged in a big way. I feel like it kind of honed our skill on how to work together.”
She continued, “I don’t think it changed our relationship. But I would say it changed that facet of our relationship and how we communicate and how we take criticism from each other in a business capacity. Because we do have different styles. I think people may be surprised I’m a little bit more intense than Joe is when it comes to business stuff, I think.”
Amabile and Pitt went on to introduce the new cohosts of the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast, former Bachelorettes Charity Lawson and Rachel Recchia.
“I don’t know if you guys know this, you might, but prior to Joe and I being on ‘Happy Hour,’ it was always two Bachelorettes that hosted this podcast,” Pitt explained, referring to former cohosts including Ali Fedotowsky and Rachel Lindsay.
Pitt continued, “So I feel like with you guys, we’re really going back to the roots of that. And you’ll have so much personal experience to share when covering [Taylor Frankie Paul’s] season.”
Amabile and Pitt explained that Lawson, 30, and Recchia, 29, were on their short-list for their replacements.
“You were exactly who we thought they would go with. When we were speculating, we were both just like, ‘It’s going to be Rachel and Charity. I guarantee it,’” Pitt said. “You were top of mind right away.”
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