ABC's new " Golden Bachelor" Mel Owens has a cutoff age, revealing that any female contestant age 60 or over will be voted off the island.
"It's blind up until they get out of the limo. But they asked me, 'what's your preferences?' So, I just said 45 to 60, just being honest," Owens, the former NFL veteran-turned-lawyer and father , shared in a June 4 interview with "In The Trenches," a podcast hosted by Jon Jansen for the University of Michigan Athletics.
"And then the process went, and I was selected, right? And then we had lunch with the executive producer. I said, 'you know, if they're 60 or over, I'm cutting them,'" the 66-year-old said. "Oh Mel, you can't, you know, this is not the 'Silver Bachelor.' It's the 'Golden Bachelor.' He goes, but they're going to be hot, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it."
The age range for the 22 contestants that participated in the inaugural "Golden Bachelor" season was between 60 and 75. The show's lead, Gerry Turner, was 72 at the time and went on to marry Theresa Nist, 70, before the couple split in April 2024.
Owens, who was announced as the show's lead in late April, insisted that he knew nothing about the women themselves, other than that they would be "beautiful."
Owens, 66, was "born and raised in a close-knit Midwestern family in Detroit," but later moved to Michigan to play college football as his "athleticism shone through from an early age."
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