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Mel Owens is stunning — however not essentially shocking — the Bachelor Nation.

This spring, ABC introduced the brand new lead for The Golden Bachelor.

It seems that he has some fairly eyebrow-raisng standards for who he’s prepared to this point.

For one factor, the 66-year-old former athlete insisted, he’s dismissing anybody 60 or older. And that’s simply the beginning.

Mel Owens has some strict guidelines on his potential dates

In June, the titular Golden Bachelor Mel Owens spoke on the In The Trenches podcast.

“In the event that they’re 60 or over, I’m reducing them,” he declared, indicating that any potential girlfriends should be a minimum of 7 years youthful than he’s.

In keeping with Owens, he very bluntly informed producers that he solely wished ladies from ages “45 to 60 … simply being sincere.”

“This isn’t ‘The Silver Bachelor,’ that is ‘The Golden Bachelor,’” Owens quipped. For the document, he himself has white hair.

He added that there’s extra to it than relative youth.

“They’ve bought to be match, as a result of I keep in form and work out and stuff,” Owens insisted.

“And I informed [producers] to attempt to avoid the substitute hips and the wigs.”

The backlash has been swift

“Mel Owens & @ABCnetwork @GoldenBachABC can take their ageist BS & shove it!” tweeted one social media person.

“Beginning to clarify why he’s 66 and single,” one other identified.

“Wow, what an ass. Hopefully, nobody will watch,” remarked one other, including:

“Jogs my memory of those latest males who weren’t scorching complaining to me that girls don’t age nicely.”

Clearly, everybody has preferences with regards to the age of their companions.

Preferring a youthful associate (inside motive) shouldn’t be essentially immoral.

For probably the most half, persons are simply wired in another way. Anybody else bear in mind being in highschool and having a good friend who was into actors twice their age or older? There are all kinds of individuals on this world.

Nonetheless, we are able to acknowledge that society tends to uphold older males as “fascinating” whereas doing the alternative for girls.

We are able to additionally acknowledge that Mel Owens is coming throughout like a complete jerk.

Is Mel Owens a nasty match for ‘The Golden Bachelor’ lead?

When the Bachelor Nation spent years asking for a sequence like this, the concept of seeing a Child Boomer relationship an elder Millennial was not what that they had in thoughts. (Sure, a 45-year-old born in 1980 can be the eldest of us)

And may you think about being a lady in your forties making use of to be on The Bachelor, pondering that you just’ll be one of many older gals within the group? After which producers inform you that you just’ll be on The Golden Bachelor?

It is going to be fascinating to see if ABC and manufacturing humored Owens’ request to incorporate ladies who have been born after he turned 20. Audiences could have quite a bit to say about it. They already do.

Additionally? It’s All the time Sunny In Philadelphia spoofed The Golden Bachelor with Danny DeVito’s Frank Reynolds on this upcoming season. They probably couldn’t have imagined the actual lead coming throughout as simply as a lot of a creep.