{"id":97965,"date":"2025-10-24T05:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/97965\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T05:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:14:10","slug":"i-did-not-see-that-golden-bachelor-elimination-coming-and-now-im-really-worried-about-the-end-of-mel-owens-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/97965\/","title":{"rendered":"I Did Not See That Golden Bachelor Elimination Coming, And Now I\u2019m Really Worried About The End Of Mel Owens\u2019 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spoiler alert! This reveals who was eliminated from the Hometowns episode of The Golden Bachelor, which aired on the 2025 TV schedule<\/a> on October 22. It can be streamed with a Hulu subscription<\/a> if you\u2019re not caught up. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to believe that Mel Owens\u2019 journey on The Golden Bachelor is close to coming to an end, but is the retired NFL player any closer to finding love? The 66-year-old attorney visited the hometowns of the three remaining women on Season 2 of the dating spinoff, and after a really unexpected elimination, I\u2019m officially concerned about how this story ends.<\/p>\n

Cindy Angelcyk, Debbie Siebers and Peg Munson made it to the Top 3 of The Golden Bachelor Season 2, and when Mel Owens paid visits to all of their families on the October 22 episode, I really thought Debbie\u2019s was the only one that went off without a hitch. She confided in him a tragic story of losing her partner to suicide, and then her family put their full support behind the relationship.<\/p>\n

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\"Debbie\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: John Fleenor\/Disney)<\/p>\n

That made it particularly devastating when the 65-year-old fitness professional was the one sent home at the end of the episode, as Mel Owens said:<\/p>\n

Debbie is genuine, and she deserves love. To say goodbye is very, very difficult. My heart doesn’t feel OK with it. It just doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

That makes me nervous about Mel Owens finding lasting love by the end of his season \u2014 and let\u2019s be honest, I was already skeptical of that<\/a> after his comments about not wanting to date women over 60<\/a> in the first place. He just seemed so unsure when visiting with Cindy Angelcyk and Peg Munson\u2019s families.<\/p>\n

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\"Mel\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: John Fleenor\/Disney)<\/p>\n

Peg\u2019s daughter Dakota had trouble coaxing much of anything out of Mel Owens when he traveled to Las Vegas, and she had to prompt him to explain why he thought she was great (\u201cI love her spirit.\u201d) and what he thought about her energy (\u201cWell it\u2019s alive, right?\u201d). Dakota looked further unimpressed when Mel said he wasn\u2019t in love with the 62-year-old and didn\u2019t know if he could get there. She told the camera:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m asking Mel some pretty direct questions. His responses aren\u2019t necessarily putting me at ease. \u2026 Mel\u2019s answers are not necessarily what I needed to hear for where they’re at in this process, nor do I think that that\u2019s what my mom deserves, and I wish he was more sure about where his feelings were at with my mom. That worries me. So yeah, I\u2019m a little skeptical.<\/p>\n

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In my opinion, he seemed marginally more engaged when visiting with Cindy Angelcyk\u2019s family in Austin, Texas, describing the 60-year-old retiree as intelligent and sophisticated. It didn\u2019t hurt that he learned she was a college football fan. However, when her daughter Sarah asked if he could potentially see himself with Cindy for the rest of their lives, he said:<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know. I like your mom a lot, right? But I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to unfold in the next few weeks or months or whatever. But I\u2019ll let it come naturally. \u2026 I\u2019m still getting to know her.<\/p>\n

She, as well, expressed that she couldn\u2019t get \u201ca lot of straight answers\u201d from him.<\/p>\n

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Typically at this point on any Bachelor franchise series, fans are freaking out over the lead saying \u201cI love you\u201d to multiple people<\/a>, so it\u2019s especially worrisome to me that he\u2019s hesitant to express much of anything to his final two women \u2014 and perplexing why he sent Debbie home after their successful Hometown date.<\/p>\n

It plays into my fear that Mel Owens simply has no interest in dating women his age, and this season was over before it started. For the record, I think Owens will propose \u2014 my guess is to Cindy, because they had an immediate connection on Night 1 \u2014 but as is so often the case with our Bachelor couples, it\u2019s not going to last.<\/p>\n

Will Mel prove me wrong? Tune in for the final episodes, airing at 9 p.m. Wednesdays on ABC, to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spoiler alert! This reveals who was eliminated from the Hometowns episode of The Golden Bachelor, which aired on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-97965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}