THERE seems to be trouble in paradise for Golden Bachelor Mel Owens and the woman he made a life commitment to on his season finale, The U.S. Sun can exclusively reveal.
As fans gear up to watch the emotional season finale on Wednesday, the golden couple has apparently been battling a rocky road behind the scenes.
Former NFL player Mel, 66, documented his journey to find love this year on ABC’s second season of The Golden Bachelor.
After connecting with a group of beautiful ladies, Mel has narrowed down his final two to Cindy Cullers, a retired biomedical engineer from Austin, Texas, and Peg Munson, a retired firefighter and bomb technician from Las Vegas, Nevada.
Tonight’s finale, which will also include the live After the Final Rose portion, will show Mel giving a ring to Peg and vowing to spend the rest of his life with her, The U.S. Sun previously reported.
However, their engagement hasn’t been all sunshine and roses, as a production insider claimed that the couple is already enduring issues.
“Mel and Peg are already having problems. She’s a social butterfly and loves to be extroverted and outgoing.
“He can hang, but he’s much more demure. She’s go, go, go, and he’s calm and slower paced. He prefers nights at home, and she prefers nights on the town.
“They connect over foundational things like family and morals, but personality-wise, they clash, and there’s already been cracks in the relationship,” the source spilled.
The insider claimed that there was a weekend getaway for the couple scheduled for October in a “secluded space” that would give them privacy from being caught in public, but ultimately, it did not happen.
However, the couple has since seen each other, so the relationship remains ongoing.
Despite any recent tension with the pair, they plan to come out as a “united front” on stage during the live After the Final Rose segment.
“They don’t want the fans to get a whiff of any problems as that will just add to it,” the source added.
There were a lot of questions at the beginning of the season about whether Mel would pop the question or not by the end of this journey.
“He was more difficult in the beginning, which is why everyone had doubts, but he really did allow himself to be vulnerable to the process.
“And because of that, he had a storybook ending, and producers are elated with the outcome.
“Execs were terrified he wouldn’t get down on one knee and convinced throughout most of the season it was looking like he wouldn’t,” a source previously said.
However, when things ended up working out with Peg, even though it wasn’t an official proposal, it was a “huge relief” to production.
“Everyone is thrilled, if not even surprised, behind the scenes.”
The insider went on to explain that if Peg and Mel opt to get hitched, ABC has “already made arrangements” for a televised wedding that will be “similar” to the one they threw for the first Golden Bachelor, Gerry Turner.
However, it’s unclear when, or if, Peg and Mel will make it down the aisle.
Mel’s season finale airs on November 12th at 8 pm ET on ABC.
It’s the last person anyone would expect.
General Hospital keeps throwing suspects at us in the Who Shot Drew mystery. Was it Willow? Michael? Portia? Nina? Jacinda? They all have good reasons to do it. (Most of the audience feels the same.) But there is one person who has the best reason to want Drew gone. And, so far, no one has considered them….
Key Takeaways
You’d think, what with gaslighting Willow (Katelyn MacMullen), taunting Michael (Rory Gibson), harassing Portia (Brook Kerr), and trying to steal Monica’s (Leslie Charleson) house — not to mention swiping Tracy’s (Jane Elliot) luggage (SO mature) — Drew (Cameron Mathison) would have no time to be making his daughter Scout’s (Cosette Abinante) life miserable. And if you ask Drew, it’s not Scout he’s trying to make miserable, it’s her brothers, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) and Rocco (Finn Carr). And her grandmother, Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn).
Drew is throwing out restraining orders, right and left, to keep them all away from his little girl. For her own good, of course.
Well, Scout isn’t appreciating his efforts. She hasn’t said much about it to Drew. Probably because the poor girl has already lost her mother, Sam (Kelly Monaco).
Drew has isolated her from most of her family. Scout doesn’t want to risk losing her father’s life, too. While he’s alive, that is. If Scout is forced to live with only Drew, it would be nice if he didn’t hate her. On the other hand…
On the other hand… if Scout didn’t have to live with Drew… if he were, say, dead… why, that would be a whole other story! If Drew were out of the way, Scout could see her brothers. And her grandma. And her aunts. And basically anyone she wanted, without fear that Drew might remember that they snubbed him in an elevator once by letting the door shut in his face, and now he has a score to settle.
Could Scout have been the one to shoot Drew? Maybe because she heard about this girl in Salem, who shot her uncle… and got away with it, scot-free.