Spoiler! Who is the 'Golden Bachelor' 2025 winner? Here's who Mel picks ahead of finale

The "Golden Bachelor" 2025 winner has been revealed, and Mel Owens reportedly gets engaged to one two women left on the "Golden Bachelor" season finale on Wednesday, Nov. 12, airing after the Nov. 5 "Fantasy Suites" episode.

Mel Owens, 66, the NFL-player-turned lawyer who found himself throughout Season 2 apologizing to the women over critical podcast comments, heads into the "Women Tell All" episode tonight, Oct. 29, 2025, with his Final 2: Peg Munson and Cindy Angelcyk Cullers. The contentious Nicolle, who

pushed a social media influencer career on the show and vowed to be the next "Golden Bachelorette," and third runner-up Debbie Siebers Owens will return for the sit-down episode tonight.

With just one two weeks left until the "Golden Bachelor" season finale, who does Mel pick? Who wins "The Golden Bachelor" 2025?

Who wins 'The Golden Bachelor' 2025?

Warning! Spoilers ahead for the "The Golden Bachelor" 2025 winner.

The "Golden Bachelor" 2025 winner is Peg Munson, according to Reality Steve, longtime spoiler sleuth and podcaster who has accurately predicted winners in prior "Bachelor" seasons. Mel Owens, 66, and Peg Munson, 62, are engaged, according to Reality Steve, whose real name is Steve Carbone. The popular "Bachelor" podcaster had little information throughout Season 2 on who Mel Owens had picked but revealed the spoiler

earlier this week on Instagram.

It’s hometowns’ week, and Mel’s journey takes him across the country to see his final three women in Las Vegas, Denver and Austin, Texas. With a potential engagement looming, meeting families and closest friends becomes more important than ever.

Are Mel and Peg still together?

Mel Owens, 66, and Peg Munson, 62, are engaged, per Reality Steve. However, whether or not they are still together post-filming of the season finale is not clear. More will be revealed on the "After the Final Rose" segment where the couple will appear live for the first time. That segment airs after the season finale on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025.

How accurate is Reality Steve?

In the past three "Bachelor" seasons, Reality Steve has accurately spoiled the winners before the season ends, sometimes earlier in the season, other times near the end. He never reveals his sources; but consistently He was spot-on when he revealed the engagement of "The Bachelor" Season 29 lead

Grant Ellis to Juliana Pasquarosa (they have since split), the engagement of "Golden Bachelorette" Joan Vassos to Chock Chapple (still together), and the Jenn Trann's engagement to Devin Strader, although that relationship

did not end well.

Who is Peg Munson?

Peg Munson is a 62-year-old retired firefighter and bomb technician. She worked with the Las Vegas Fire & Rescue for 22 years and now specializes in interior design and remodels, per her

Zillow account. She was married and has one daughter, Dakota. Learn more about Peg on her Instagram page: @peg__munson.

In the final week before hometowns, clarifying talks at a serene wellness retreat bring both insight and tension. Later, a magical one-on-one date under the stars deepens connections, and Mel must choose the three women whose families he will meet.

Who is the next Golden Bachelorette?

Could the next "Golden Bachelorette" be Cindy Angelcyk Cullers or Debbie Siebers? The next "Golden Bachelorette" may be revealed tonight, Oct. 29, on "The Women Tell All," as the show has sometimes done in prior seasons. However, don't hold your breath: Grant Ellis, the last "Bachelor," was announced as the Season 29 lead in a

press release, and Joan Vassos was announced as the franchise's first "Golden Bachelorette" at a Disney event.

The Last Of Us Part 3 quietly teased at long last

I admire those of you who are content to treat

The Last of Us Part II as the series’ conclusion.

Personally, I’ve always felt that there’s one chapter left to unfold.

Ellie has the time to explore what her immunity means now that she isn’t consumed by ideas of revenge, and I don’t think it's a coincidence that Abby has reunited with the fireflies.

I’m not going to attempt to predict a possible plot, but I do feel like their paths could cross once more.

While there’s no saying whether Abby will feature in a potential third game, it does seem that one is coming.

Neil Druckmann has been very coy about the whole affair.

He’s flitted between ‘I have an idea’ and ‘don’t expect a third game’ more times than I can count.

Honestly, I think he’s just been trying to deflect the question whilst he’s been promoting

The Last of Us’ second season, especially as he’s likely more eager for people to ask him about Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, Naughty Dog’s new IP.

Druckmann has finally relented though, opening up about a possible Part III.

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet looks great.

I need to begin by providing some context; in early 2024,

Grounded II: The Making of The Last of Us Part II finally dropped.

Druckmann had this to say: “For years now, I haven't been able to find that concept, but recently, that's changed, and I don't have a story, but I do have that concept that to me is as exciting as 1, as exciting as 2, is its own thing, and yet has this throughline for all three. So it does feel like there's probably one more chapter to this story."

It’s for this reason that fans have been so confused about his doubtfulness over the existence of the potential third game ever since.

Well, appearing on the Sacred Symbols podcast, Druckmann finally elaborated on exactly when he meant in

Grounded II.

“I meant what I said in the documentary. While I’m the caretaker of this franchise, it’s important that everything is of high quality. I don’t want to just make a lot of it. I want to be very thoughtful about everything we make,” he began (

via ComicBook).

“When we made a theme park thing, we teamed up with Universal and the best people to do that Halloween haunted house [attraction]. When we did the show, we teamed up with I feel with the best TV makers with HBO and we’re making the best version of that.”

He concluded, “If we were ever to come back to it, I want to make sure it’s a story worthy of The Last of Us. I love that world, I love these characters, with the right opportunity, with the right idea, yeah, I would totally jump at it.”

We know that Naughty Dog is working on Intergalactic and a secondary project led by Shaun Escayg.

I wouldn’t be surprised if when those two products shipped, The Last of Us Part III

took priority, but we’ll see.

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