Notice: This story incorporates spoilers from “The Golden Bachelor” Season 2, Episode 6.
After kicking off his journey on “The Golden Bachelor” with 23 senior girls, Mel Owens narrowed down his courting pool to only three girls forward of his hometown dates: Cindy Angelcyk Cullers, Debbie Siebers and Peg Munson.
“I acquired to know them extra every week and their personalities and kinds match mine,” Owens advised TheWrap. “It was a course of and however these are those that I believed matched up with me greater than anybody else.”
Because the main man ready to satisfy the ladies’s households, Owens approached the week with ease, hoping for connections with the relations to occur naturally. “That method I can get an actual really feel for a way they’re, particularly round their households,” Owens stated. “The relations get to ask you questions, and I get to ask the relations questions, so that you get an actual really feel for the particular person’s persona.”
Hometowns have been smooth-sailing till Owens’ journey to Austin, Texas, when Cullers’ daughters seen what they recognized as some hesitation from Owens’ aspect. Owens maintains he was “trustworthy and true to [himself]” and advised them precisely how he felt, saying, “I didn’t mislead them or lead them astray or say one thing that I didn’t imply.”
“I didn’t know what they have been telling their mom, so I didn’t know that on the time, however … these are their very own private emotions — they’re there to guard their mother’s pursuits and for the mother to get recommendation [but] on the finish of the day, it’s Cindy’s choice,” Owens stated. “I recognize their enter and the way Cindy acquired the knowledge from them.”
In the end, it wasn’t Cullers nor her daughters who ought to’ve been involved, as Owens handed Cullers and Munson his last two roses, sending Siebers dwelling. The choice was nothing in opposition to Siebers nor her household, in line with Owens.
“I actually take pleasure in Debbie’s firm, and I believe she’s actually a really great particular person — she has quite a lot of depth to her and he or she’s honest and trustworthy, and that was in all probability one of the crucial troublesome selections I needed to make on my journey,” Owens stated. “On the finish, you must undergo the method, and I simply had a deeper reference to the opposite two … there can solely be one and I had to decide on, and I simply thought I had a deeper reference to another person.”
With simply Cullers and Munson left, Owens stated he went into fantasy suites with the identical ease at which he approached hometowns.
“I’m not urgent anyone on something — we’re adults, and we would like solutions on either side,” Owens stated. “I simply let the dialog take it the place it went … I let it type of steer itself. And on the finish, I used to be glad with the consequence.”
“The Golden Bachelor” airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC and streams the following day on Hulu.
