Mel Owens solely has another rose at hand out on season 2 of The Golden Bachelor.
The 66-year-old NFL player-turned-lawyer visited the hometowns of his closing three — Peg Munson (Las Vegas), Debbie Siebers (Denver) and Cindy Cullers (Austin) — on the Wednesday, October 22, episode of the hit ABC collection.
Peg, 62, was up first and her daughter, Dakota, was not afraid to grill Mel about his emotions for her mother.
“I'm not in love along with your mother – but — as a result of I don't know If I'm at that stage but,” Mel started. When requested if would “get there” with Peg, Mel admitted, “I don't know”
Dakota subsequently instructed the cameras: “I'm asking Mel some fairly direct questions, his responses aren't essentially placing me comfortable.”
“However when you don't get there with any of those ladies, are you going to say, ‘Would you continue to prefer to date after this?'” she requested Mel earlier than urgent: “The aim on the finish of that is you're purported to get down on one knee and suggest to somebody.”
“My aim is to search out somebody — that's the aim,” he replied. “No matter which means.”
When Dakota requested once more, “Are you really searching for somebody?” Mel tried to guarantee her: “If I wasn't critical about it, I wouldn't be right here.”
Mel traveled to see Debbie in Colorado subsequent, with the health skilled getting deep throughout their journey to Purple Rocks and revealing that her final relationship in her early 50s resulted in tragedy.
“I knew he had slightly little bit of melancholy, however he hid loads from me. Inside, possibly, six months, I simply began seeing this habits and it was fairly heavy. I had tried breaking apart with him a pair instances, however I may by no means as a result of I cherished him a lot,” Debbie defined to Mel. “It was like I couldn't dwell with him and with out him. I used to be utterly conflicted.”
Debbie and her then-boyfriend noticed his therapist collectively and she or he ended it with the skilled's assist. “The horrible factor is, he took his life,” Debbie recalled to Mel. “It altered me endlessly.”
Mel supported Debbie on the time, assuring her that there is no such thing as a approach she may have predicted what occurred along with her ex.
Mel's closing hometown date was with Cindy the place he met the retired biomedical engineer's three daughters. Whereas her son-in-laws had been extra all for speaking about faculty soccer with Mel, one in every of Cindy's daughters took extra of a cue from Peg's daughter Dakota.
“She's dated and she or he's had some actually nice guys, however they're simply not ‘the man.' It's actually necessary for her that no matter is subsequent is for the remainder of her lifetime. Do you see that with my mother? Is that type of the place you guys are at within the expertise?” she requested Mel.
“I don't know. I like your mother loads. I don't know what's going to unfold within the subsequent few weeks or months or no matter,” Mel confessed. “I'm letting it come naturally.”
Frightened that Mel was being slightly “tight-lipped” or “uncertain” about his future along with her mother, she admitted in a confessional, “I don't assume that he actually gave numerous straight solutions. I'm slightly bit apprehensive in regards to the long-term relationship that I do know my mother needs.”
Cindy, for her half, acquired emotional whereas informing her daughter about her robust emotions for Mel.
The Golden Bachelor star Carol Freeman-Branstine is explaining the rationale behind her determination to go away Mel Owens' season early. “It was a tricky determination, it actually was,” Carol, 63, solely instructed Us Weekly on the Golden Bachelor Gal's Brunch on Thursday, October 16. “I by no means actually been the one which leaves, so it was a […]
“I'm not going to huge L you until you're there with me,” she cautioned.
She later instructed Mel, “I simply need you to know I actually, actually am falling for you and I see the way you and I can forge one thing valuable transferring ahead.”
When it was time for Mel to choose his closing two, he started with a message for the three ladies.
“Once I first spoke with the group relating to the podcast, I had my very own private mea culpa,” he stated on the rose ceremony, referring to the feedback he made about casting ladies 45-60 earlier than the season began airing. “I believed that I needed a sure kind of girl and I nonetheless do they usually're proper right here earlier than me: stunning, achieved, sensible, non secular. However I've a really, very tough determination. It's not one which I take frivolously and I stand earlier than you humbled with an open coronary heart.”
Mel in the end gave roses to Peg and Cindy, sending an emotional Debbie house.
“It is rather upsetting however I knew coming into this that this was a chance. In fact I believed or hoped …” she instructed Mel by way of tears.
After Mel assured Debbie that she “touched my coronary heart in additional methods than one,” Debbie left Mel with a closing message: “Maintain these ladies, OK?”
The pair kissed goodbye twice earlier than Debbie went into the automotive.
“I put myself on the market in such a large approach solely to have one more disappointment,” she stated. “It's past painful.”
Whereas Mel's journey continues with the Ladies Inform All on Wednesday, October 29, he gave Us Weekly unique perception into making his closing alternative — which included making a professionals and cons listing — in his Us cowl story.
“It was robust, and I'm simply making an attempt to determine who's going to be the most effective match for me, who I might get pleasure from,” he instructed Us. “The hometowns are all nice. However there's that magnetism that pulls you in that course it doesn't matter what, and it's slightly bit extra towards one particular person than the opposite, so I went with my intestine.”
He added that the ending is emotional — and sudden.
“You received't imagine how we get there, not mechanically, however how we get there emotionally,” he stated. “There's some motion and twists and turns.”
The Golden Bachelor airs on ABC Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET.
