'The Golden Bachelor' star Mel Owens opens up about engagement
The Golden Bachelor star Mel Owens has opened up about whether he was willing to get engaged at the end of his season.
After Cindy Angelcyk Cullers, Debbie Siebers, and Peg Munson -- who were all falling in love with
Mel, an attorney and former NFL player, then taped the Final Rose Ceremony in Antigua and chose a winner.
When asked if he got engaged, Mel suggested that he wasn't going to let the typical The Bachelor format dictate the finale outcome during an interview with Us Weekly.
"I told the producers, 'I'm here with an open heart and open mind,'" Mel shared with the magazine.
"But it's a two-way street. Just because I want to get engaged doesn't mean they want to get engaged. They might want to date, like, 'You're cool. Let's just hang out.'"
Mel admitted that during the final days of filming The Golden Bachelor's second season, he was still "contemplating" whether he was ready to get down on one knee and propose marriage.
"I like being married. I like the companionship, having a partner and shared experiences, but it has to be someone special," Mel explained.
Mel, however, prided himself on making logical and practical decisions on the show.
"In football, they're always trying to trick you. There's a lot of commotion going on, a lot of noise," Mel said.
"When things are crazy, I get really calm, and you can make decisions better."
If Mel does end up engaged, hopefully Bachelor Nation will be invested in his love story.
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"I feel like... by now, I should know something about him. I still know nothing!" The Golden Bachelorette star Joan Vassos complained during an episode of "The Ben & Ashley I: Almost Famous Podcast" earlier this month.
"He just doesn't open up... So I feel like we're going to run out of time, and we may get to the end of the season and not know Mel. And that's going to be a problem."
The podcast's co-host Ben Higgins suggested that Mel needs a moment of vulnerability, or an "emotional breakdown" of sorts, to connect with the audience.
Ben essentially hopes to see Mel sad over a particular exit or conflicted between bachelorettes.
"He says the right things. He listens to the ladies talk, they tell him how much they like him, and then he says, 'That's great. That means so much to me.' We don't know him at all," Ben complained.
"We don't," Joan agreed, "and we're going to run out of time."
Joan wondered if Mel simply "doesn't have it in him" to be expressive and let his walls down.
"[That] is what I'm afraid of, that we're just going to run out of time and he just isn't going to give that to us," Joan noted.
"Because we're getting pretty far along into this!... Things are going to get serious, really soon... and we know nothing about Mel!"
Joan repeated to Ben, "I'm just afraid he doesn't have it in him. He doesn't have anything to say!"
Joan and Ben discussed how The Golden Bachelor star seemed to focus too much on chemistry without diving deeper with his intelligent and sweet bachelorettes.
Last of Us star Bella Ramsey has ‘remorse’ for ‘humiliating’ Game of Thrones actor on set
Kit Harington has opened up about being deservedly “humiliated” by Bella Ramsey while filming Game of Thrones.
Ramsey, who currently stars in HBO video game adaptationThe Last of Us, appeared in the fantasy series when they were just 11, playing Lyanna Mormont, a character whose confidence belied her years.
In the show, Lyanna shared the majority of scenes with the heroic Jon Snow, played by Harington – and now, Harington has revealed how his “arrogance” on set led to a rather humbling moment, thanks to Ramsey.
The actor admitted that he initially thought it would be easy to act “opposite some child”, but swiftly discovered Ramsey had “a confidence and clarity that was quite unusual for a young actor”.
Harington revealed that Ramsey, who is now 21, mouthed his lines to him when it became clear he couldn’t remember them.
“I do remember you helping me out, and it being quite humiliating,” he said in a joint chat with Ramsey for
Ramsey said they had “remorse” for their actions, stating: “Now, I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, how awful.’
“But at the time, it came from a very innocent place of being like, ‘Kit’s struggling with his line, and I know it, so let me just mouth it to him.’”
When Ramsey acknowledged that he must have found it “annoying”, Harington disagreed – and said it made him want to improve.
“It wasn’t at all. If anything I was like, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to up my game. I came here not really being comfortable enough with my lines, in the arrogance of however old I was, thinking I’m just opposite some child. And then that child actor is wiping me off the screen.’”
He said he had “got a bit too comfortable in my Jon Snow-ness”.
Harington previously opened up about how the violent and intense “nature” of Game of Thrones “directly” led to a breakdown.
“I went through some mental health difficulties afterThrones, and during the end ofThrones, to be honest,” the actor told SiriusXM’s
“I think it was directly due to the nature of the show and what I had been doing for years.”
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