Forward of its Season 2 premiere on Sept. 24, ABC has unveiled the crop of ladies who’ll be competing on The Golden Bachelor. This 12 months’s solid might be vying for the love of Mel Owens, a 66-year-old retired NFL player-turned-lawyer.
Alongside the Instagram captions “The GOLD customary 🌹💛” and “All that glitters is… GOLD 🌹✨,” the official Bachelor Nation account shared particular person photographs of this season’s solid. Starting from 58 to 77 years previous, the 23 ladies who will seem on Season 2 of The Golden Bachelor come from varied cities and all walks of life.
Over the summer time, there was hypothesis as as to whether or not ABC would transfer ahead with Owens because the Golden lead after he mentioned on a podcast that he’d robotically eradicate ladies over 60 years previous. In an August interview with Glamour, Owens publicly addressed his ageist feedback.
“I apologized to the ladies on the present. Once I first walked in, I addressed it. I apologized to them. I mentioned, ‘It was unfair, insensitive. I need to earn it again. Simply give me the possibility.’ And hopefully, these final two weeks I earned a few of that again,” he advised the journal.
As for why he agreed to go on The Golden Bachelor regardless of desirous to solely date ladies below 60, Owens claimed he didn’t know something concerning the typical age vary of the present’s contestants. The primary season of The Golden Bachelor, which starred 72-year-old Gerry Turner, featured contestants that had been between 60 and 75 years previous.
“I’m considering, to me, the age vary was 45 to 60. That’s my age vary. I’m considering that’s the gold years for me. My reference, once more, was after I was courting at 39, 40. I hadn’t dated in 26 years, so I had no clue. And that’s why I mentioned that remark. I didn’t know. I didn’t know,” he mentioned.
The controversy started in June, when Owens appeared on the “MGoBlue” podcast for his alma mater, the College of Michigan. It was throughout this dialog that Owens revealed what he was searching for in a companion.
“They ask me, ‘What’s your choice?’ So I simply mentioned 45 to 60, simply being sincere,” Owens mentioned on the podcast. “After which we had lunch with the chief producer. I mentioned, ‘You recognize, in the event that they’re 60 or over, I’m reducing them.’”
When requested about his bodily “sort,” Owens mentioned he was all for ladies who prioritize their well being and don’t have any synthetic physique elements.
“They requested me, ‘What’s my profile?’ Effectively, [the women] received to be match, as a result of I’m staying in form and figuring out and stuff. And I advised them, ‘Attempt to avoid the factitious hips and the wigs, you already know, that sort of stuff, proper?’” he mentioned.
Under are the 23 ladies competing for Owens’s affection:
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Alexandra, 67, a luxurious yacht gross sales consultant from Miami
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Amy, 63, a full-time mother from Brief Hills, N.J.
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Andra, 77, a retired federal employee from Los Angeles
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Carla, 62, a former mannequin from Los Angeles
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Carol, 63, a household supervisor for MLB participant Freddie Freeman from Villa Park, Calif.
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Cheryl, 66, a retired IRS worker from Englewood, Colo.
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Cindy, 60, a retired biomedical engineer from Austin, Texas
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Debbie, 65, a health skilled from Denver
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Diane, 71, a librarian from Wasilla, Alaska
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Gerri, 64, a house care company CEO from Rockville, Md.
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Lily, 72, a retired elementary college trainer from Pacific Palisades, Calif.
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Lisa, 66, a state park worker from Marion, Ohio
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Maia, 58, a school sports activities advisor from Malibu, Calif.
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Monica B., 62, a flight attendant from Huntsville, Ala.
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Monica P., 60, a beauty dentist from Birmingham, Ala.
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Mylene, 61, a on line casino VIP host from Las Vegas
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Nicolle, 64, a yoga teacher from Miami Seashore, Fla.
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Peg, 62, a retired firefighter and bomb tech from Las Vegas
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Robin, 63, a wealth adviser and winery proprietor from Napa Valley, Calif.
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Roxanne, 62, a long life nurse from Austin, Texas
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Susie, 62, a realtor from Del Mar, Calif.
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Terri, 71, a beauty dentist from Houston
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Tracy, 62, an inside designer from Lafayette, La.
