Fans are calling out Golden Bachelor<\/i> lead Mel Owens <\/b>after the 66-year-old former NFL player sent home contestant Debbie Siebers <\/b>during the show\u2019s Wednesday, October 22 episode \u2014 after she opened up about the devastating suicide of her ex-partner.<\/p>\n
As Us Weekly<\/i> reported<\/a>, the emotional hometown episode showed Siebers\u2019 heartfelt confession about losing her ex after his battle with depression. Despite the moving exchange, Owens chose contestants Peg Munson <\/b>and Cindy Cullers <\/b>for his final two, sending Siebers home in tears. The decision immediately sparked backlash online.<\/p>\n One X<\/i> user<\/a> vented, \u201cMel is a terrible Bachelor. He\u2019s a cold fish \u2014 no emotion, sense of humor, affection. No wonder his wife left him! All he wants to do is watch football!\u201d<\/p>\n Another agreed, \u201cMy thoughts exactly! He shows no emotion whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n Another viewer simply called the entire season \u201ca sham.\u201d<\/p>\n The hits keep coming for Owens.<\/p>\n Star<\/i> readers will recall that the criticism follows earlier controversy over Owens\u2019 comments about only wanting women between the ages of \u201c45 to 60,<\/a>\u201d which some fans saw as dismissive of older contestants.<\/p>\n And as <\/i>Star<\/i> has reported<\/a>, the show\u2019s second season has seen viewership drop by more than half compared to Gerry Turner<\/b><\/a>\u2019s headline-making premiere in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source starmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NDZ\/starmaxinc.com\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency Fans are calling out Golden Bachelor lead Mel Owens after the 66-year-old former NFL player sent home contestant Debbie Siebers during the show\u2019s Wednesday, October 22 episode \u2014 after she opened up about the devastating suicide of her ex-partner. As Us Weekly reported, the emotional hometown episode showed Siebers\u2019 heartfelt confession about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2111993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22367],"class_list":["post-2111992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761279733_Golden-Bachelor-Mel-Owens-Slammed-After-Sending-Home-Woman-Who.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111994,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111992\/revisions\/2111994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2111993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging.starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MEGA1310162_001-scaled.jpg\")