Joe Amabile early-stage glioma is now the reality he said he is facing after an MRI found a blueberry-sized lesion on his brain. He said the lesion looks to be a glioma, and surgery is already on the calendar for two weeks from now.
At 40, he described the finding as something that arrived fast enough to leave little room for denial. He wrote that the past month has been “a lot of ups and downs to say the least,” and added, “It’s been a wild couple weeks. Definitely wasn’t expecting this.”
Amabile said doctors caught the tumor in a really early stage, which is the clearest reason this update matters now. He said the next step is a craniotomy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, with the goal of removing the tumor and testing it.
Mayo Clinic glioma context
The word glioma covers more than one kind of brain tumor, and the Mayo Clinic says gliomas can be non-cancerous or cancerous. That distinction is not cosmetic; it is the difference between a broad label and the pathology that will follow after surgery.
Amabile said he is trying to remain hopeful and is “doing my best to stay positive during this time and am lucky to have a lot of support from family and friends.” He also said, “I’ve gone back and forth about what I wanted to share on social media but ultimately this is now part of my life now, so might as well. Onto a new journey.”
Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt
The public disclosure lands differently because Amabile is not only a former reality TV lead; he is also one of the more recognizable faces to come out of The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise. Known as Grocery Store Joe, he previously appeared on Becca Kufrin’s season of The Bachelorette and on two seasons of Bachelor in Paradise, later getting engaged to Serena Pitt and moving on to their own podcast, Not Married To This.
What follows now is medical, not televised: the craniotomy, the pathology on the removed tissue, and the answer to the one question that still matters most, which is what specific type of glioma this turns out to be.
