He succeeded where affable Adam Mesh and Beantown's Brian Worth couldn't. In the third round of NBC's Average Joe, former Air Force missile technician Nathan Griffen, of Tampa, got the high sign from Las Vegas model Anna Chudoba, leaving Rocky-the-jock to lick his chiseled wounds. But was this Cinderella story too good to be true? TVGuide.com chatted with Nathan about his big "W," his bigger ear studs and the even bigger shock about his current love life.
TVGuide.com: You got the big "W" for average Joes everywhere!Nathan Griffen: I definitely wouldn't consider it a "W" because it wasn't a football game, but I made it to the end, and that's an experience in and of itself.
TVGuide.com: Did the fact that a Joe has never won temper your expectations?Nathan: All I hoped to gain was the chance to meread more
Reality-TV history was made last week when Average Joe's Anna Chudoba chose Nathan Griffen, a former Air Force missile technician — need we spell it out any further, not one of the pectorally gifted hunks — to be her beau. But how did Anna fall for a third round of Joe's "Surprise, we're hitting you with geeks!" gag? Did NBC have a hand in her landmark decision? And are she and Nathan still an item? At least one of these answers will shock you.
TVGuide.com: Your NBC bio says you weren't familiar with Average Joe, so you never suspected you'd get a busful of misfits?Anna Chudoba: I took night courses for years at UNLV and never watched any reality show, so I had no idea. They told me that it was a dating game show, and that I'd have 20 guys competread more
