You don’t age out of falling in love! While the Bachelor and Bachelorette franchises have traditionally cast dental hygienists and personal trainers in their mid-20s, there’s no rule that says the sixty-plus crowd isn’t every bit as romantic, if not more. Since they have, you know, life experiences and fully developed personalities.
In The Golden Bachelor, the latest addition to ABC’s primetime lineup, a silver fox (we assume) will choose a woman for the next (uh, final?) part of his life. Per a press release, “On this all-new unscripted series, one hopeless romantic is given a second chance at love in the search for a partner with whom to share the sunset years of life. The women arriving at the mansion have a lifetime of experience, living through love, loss, and laughter, hoping for a spark that ignites a future full of endless possibilities. In the end, will our Golden man turn the page to start a new chapter with the woman of his dreams?”
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Second chance…is there a guy who was on the show twenty years ago and it didn’t work out and now he’s coming back, or are we reading too much into this? OR, WAIT, Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss just left the franchise…and is currently unmarried…if he set up this whole thing just to find a new wife, bravo.
Can only imagine what kinds of DMs the contestants will get when the show ends, the discourse it will spark…honestly, can’t wait.
No word yet on when the whole thing kicks off, but it will air Mondays at 10 p.m. ET, and we will be watching with a glass of wine in one hand and our phones in the other. What, like you’re not gonna text your mom during every commercial break?
