Alas, rose lovers, it appears the extra males age, the extra they keep the identical.

Mel Owens, the 66-year-old NFL soccer participant who can be handing out roses because the second-ever star of The Golden Bachelor, admitted in a current interview that he doesn’t need to date ladies over 60.

Talking on the In the Trenches With Jon Jansen podcast on June 4, Owens — who, I'd prefer to reiterate, is 66 YEARS OLD — recalled a dialog he had with Golden Bachelor exec producers in regards to the sorts of ladies he wish to see solid on the present.

"[Producers] requested me, 'What's your preferences?' So I simply mentioned, '45 to 60,' simply being sincere," Owens mentioned. "The method ended and I used to be chosen, after which we had lunch with the manager producer. I mentioned, 'In the event that they're 60 or over, I'm chopping them.' [They said], 'Oh no, you’ll be able to't. This isn’t The Silver Bachelor, it's The Golden Bachelor.' He goes, 'However they're gonna be scorching, don't fear about it.'"

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Not solely does Owens, a widower and lawyer, want so far ladies who’re wherever from six to 21 years youthful than he’s, he additionally needs their our bodies to be in tip-top form, inside and outside. Owens revealed that he instructed producers that the Golden bachelorettes "gotta be match, as a result of I keep in form, I work out and stuff. And I instructed [producers], 'Attempt to steer clear of the bogus hips and the wigs,' that sort of stuff."

At press time, it was unclear whether or not Owens himself has retained each his authentic hips.

In the course of the interview, Owens defined the prolonged casting course of, together with his preliminary hour-long cellphone dialog with an government producer. After a sequence of callbacks, an exec producer came over Owens and his two sons at their house in Orange County, Calif.

"We heard a knock on the door… Open the door, and it's Jesse Palmer, who’s the host of the present, former soccer participant," Owens recalled. "He goes, 'Hey Mel, I used to be simply within the neighborhood and I assumed I'd cease in and say hello.' That's after they introduced to me that I used to be the Golden Bachelor."

After taking part in with the Los Angeles Rams from 1981 to 1989, Owens turned a lawyer specializing in staff' compensation accidents for skilled athletes.

Requested on the podcast why he selected to be the Golden Bachelor, Owens mentioned, "I prefer to strive new issues." His perfect girl, he continued, can even be "somebody who's a lifetime learner, and enjoys to like life."

The Golden Bachelor season 2 will premiere this fall on ABC.

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