After The Golden Bachelor‘s Mel Owens revealed he plans to chop ladies over 60, his predecessor is urging him to rethink.
Gerry Turner just lately shared his recommendation for the star of Season 2, following Owens’ admission that he’s solely in search of ladies aged “45 to 60” on his upcoming season of the ABC relationship present spin-off, which returns Sept. 24.
“I believe it might be unlucky, and I actually suppose he could have a change of coronary heart on this,” he instructed Fox Information. “I believe he’ll see the grace and allure of ladies who’re over 60 and the arrogance they carry, and I believe he’ll have a change of coronary heart.”
Turner added, “The people who I met in my season, I am going via them, and it’s like, they’re all a present. To have gotten to know them… Every certainly one of them [brought] some distinctive traits to the present, distinctive traits to life. The age factor… ignore the quantity, cope with the individual.”
Through the spin-off’s first season in 2023, the ladies competing for Turner ranged from ages 60 to 75.
Owens, 66, beforehand stated on the MGoBlue podcast that he instructed producers of the present, “In the event that they’re 60 or over, I’m slicing them.”
“This isn’t The Silver Bachelor, that is The Golden Bachelor,” added Owens, a lawyer who beforehand performed for the Los Angeles Rams, noting that the producer instructed him: “However they’re going to be sizzling. Don’t fear about it, don’t fear about it.”
Owens follows 72-year-old Turner, who was the primary main man within the inaugural season of The Golden Bachelor. Turner discovered love with Theresa Nast, whom he married in January 2024. The couple introduced their divorce three months later, following his most cancers prognosis.