Cindy Dishes on Her Relationship with Mel Owens, Plus: A Sneak Peek into Her Hometown Visit
Spilling the tea…
Bachelor Nation is getting to know Cindy as she looks for love with Mel Owens on Season 2 of “The Golden Bachelor.”
Cindy was chosen as one of Mel’s final three women, and next week he’ll get to meet her family as they head to Hometowns.
But for now, Cindy is dishing all about her relationship with Mel on “Bachelor Happy Hour” and sharing a sneak peek into what we can expect from her Hometown visit.
Sharing more about her connection with the Golden Bachelor, Cindy revealed, “Mel and I would start a conversation and within a breath would be covering 10 topics. Our relationship is absolutely effortless. When he was named as the Golden Bachelor, my oldest daughter was the first one to discover it and she texted me immediately and called me and said, ‘Mom, I think they picked him for you.’”
Cindy went on, saying, “Mel is uniquely designed to be in a relationship with me and so I was not surprised with this, and I leaned into it. And early on, I knew enough about him and I needed to explore the chemistry. Check, check. Now we’re looking at compatibility; it’s going very well…There’s no question that he and I are aligned and had easy, effortless, deep conversations.”
“He was very intentional with our time together and every little moment,” Cindy stated before sharing why meeting her family is so important for her.
She said, “Sometimes I believe that my family for sure and my friends are the best mirror for me. And knowing that he would have a chance to see where I live, to see why I live here, this was a big, bold change in my life. And it’s important that the man that I find myself with understands that I’m fully capable of making big, bold moves. And seeing and meeting my family. Because everybody says your kids are special and they are, but my family is unique and my son-in-laws tell me it’s a lot. And so I needed them to meet Mel and to help me be my mirror. And to look at him and reflect him into our lives. And then I also needed Mel to see my family and where I live and my lifestyle, so it was an important next step… My kids haven’t met a man in years.”
Cindy also confessed that being with Mel “feels like a combination of home and vacation,” and gave a sneak peek into what viewers can expect from her Hometown visit.
“Having Mel in Austin, it’s very exciting,” she teased. “Let’s just say, the chemistry continues and he does have some great interactions with my most treasured people. And he finds a couple party favors along the way. A little bit of drama. Just remember, it’s super important that my family falls in love with him too… There is no other option. Mel has to ask permission. He will have to ask permission to marry me by these people that he doesn’t know. And it is surreal because they haven’t spent the hours with him that I have… So they’re going in with blind faith and it should be an episode for sure that everybody wants to see.”
Hear the rest of Cindy’s interview in the full episode of “Bachelor Happy Hour” below!
Blackhawks activate forward Landon Slaggert from IR
The Chicago Blackhawks have activated forward Landon Slaggert from injured reserve. Slaggert missed the first five games of Chicago’s season with a lower-body injury. He took warmups before the team’s Friday night matchup against the Vancouver Canucks, but won’t play, as he continues to ease back into the lineup.
Slaggert operated on Chicago’s third line throughout the team’s training camp. He seems well set on solidifying that standing once he’s back to full health, after clinging onto a lineup spot through the second half of last season. Slaggert recorded just six points and a minus-seven in 33 NHL games last season – far below the 25 points and plus-nine he posted in 39 AHL games. But despite that, his hard-drive and grinder style stood tall on a fairly undersized Blackhawks team.
Slaggert racked up 92 points in 136 NCAA games between 2020 and 2024, then turned pro with the Blackhawks at the end of the 2023-24 season. He’s since appeared in 49 NHL games and scored 10 points, while filling a bottom-six role at left wing. Should his training camp role stick, Slaggert will soon return to a line with Jason Dickinson and Ilya Mikheyev. That move would free up Ryan Donato to move back into the team’s top-six. Donato has just two points in five games this season, after posting 31 goals and 62 points in 80 games last year. Promoting him back into the top-six and backing him with a dirty-nosed winger like Slaggert could be the first step to getting Donato back to that lofty scoring.
