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Golden Bachelor\u00a0Mel Owens\u00a0<\/strong>is down to the wire \u2014 and he\u2019s still figuring out whether\u00a0Peg Munson<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0Cindy Angelcyk Cullers<\/strong>\u00a0is The One.<\/p>\n While picking up where he and Cindy, 60, left off in Antigua after\u00a0the fantasy suite cliffhanger\u00a0about whether he\u2019s really ready to tie the knot again, Mel, 66, assured her that he enjoys her company.<\/p>\n \u201cI love spending time with you. I love being with you,\u201d Mel told Cindy in\u00a0Us Weekly<\/em>\u2019s exclusive sneak peek of the Wednesday, November 12, season 2 finale. \u201cYou\u2019re sharing, caring, smart, but it\u2019s a difficult situation. I am torn between you and Peg.\u201d<\/p>\n Cindy admitted that the sentiment was \u201chard\u201d for her to hear, as she\u2019s \u201cwrestled with trying not to shut down\u201d in the environment \u2014 but vowed to \u201cstill remain present\u201d and to \u201cstill remain open and vulnerable.\u201d Mel, for his part, shared that he appreciated her.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re a brave soul for sticking through it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to find a partner, but it could happen here, right?\u201d<\/p>\n The sit-down conversation came on the heels of the pair\u2019s boat excursion to swim with stingrays, where Cindy shared in a confessional that she hoped to better understand Mel\u2019s\u00a0\u201cplans\u201d for their hypothetical future\u00a0together.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve told him that I\u2019m falling in love with him,\u201d Cindy said. \u201cI have no idea if he feels the same way that I do.\u201d<\/p>\n Mel had shared a similar sentiment during his previous fantasy suite date with Peg, 62, where he wanted to lower her \u201ctough exterior.\u201d Peg, meanwhile, worried that Mel wasn\u2019t \u201cemotionally available.\u201d While initially remaining tight-lipped about their connection \u2014 telling Peg their romance was going \u201cgood\u201d and promptly changing the subject \u2014 he later admitted that he \u201creally\u201d likes her \u201ca lot.\u201d<\/p>\n The pair ultimately spent the night together \u2014 after kicking out the camera crew, of course \u2014 and Mel gushed the next morning that the date \u201cexceeded\u201d his expectations.<\/p>\n After Peg and Mel debriefed their night, where they opened up about their respective divorces, she gushed in a confessional, \u201cI feel like we understand each other better now. \u2026 All of my concerns definitely got answered last night.\u201d<\/p>\n Ahead of the finale episode, Mel exclusively shared in\u00a0his\u00a0Us<\/em>\u00a0cover story\u00a0that he created a pros and cons list of his suitors while making his final choice.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was tough, and I\u2019m just trying to figure out who is going to be the best fit for me, who I would enjoy,\u201d he told\u00a0<\/p>\n In Mel\u2019s perspective, the ending is an emotional one \u2014 and, in true Bachelor Nation fashion, not one to be expected.<\/p>\n \u201cYou won\u2019t believe how we get there, not mechanically, but how we get there emotionally,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s some movement and twists and turns.\u201d<\/p>\n Quick on the heels of famously sassy, phrase-turning R&B singer and reality TV star Tamar Braxton\u2019s announcement her recently released album, \u201cBluebird of Happiness,\u201d will be her last \u2014 at least for a while \u2014 and news that her husband, music executive husband Vincent Herbert, founder of Streamline Records, was legally ordered to pay Sony more than $3.7 million to settle a lawsuit over a 2013 advance, the couple hoisted their grandly proportioned and glamorously appointed Mediterranean mansion in Calabasas, Calif., up for sale at $15 million.<\/p>\n The Herbert-Braxtons, married in late 2007 after about five years together, purchased the 13,716-square-foot mansion inside the double-gated Estates at The Oaks enclave in April 2013 for $10.5 million and public records show since then there have been several notices of default filed and subsequently canceled against the two-acre spread that provides a total of seven bedrooms and nine full and two half bathrooms between the main house and poolside guesthouse.<\/p>\n Wrought iron and glass front doors open to an entry vestibule and foyer with black and white floral-patterned inlaid floor and a floating, wrought iron railed staircase that curves up to the bedrooms on the second floor. The main living and entertaining space makes a great sweep across the rear of the residence with gleaming wide-plank hardwood floors laid in a classy chevron pattern.<\/p>\n A central gallery with glossy grand piano is flanked to one side by a lounge with semi-circular sofa in front of an ornate fireplace and to the other by a \u201cchampagne bar\u201d modeled after The Dorchester Hotel in London with tufted velvet sofas and a stately wood-paneled ceiling.<\/p>\n Arched French doors open the vast space to an immense, stone-paved loggia with retractable canvas shade awnings and a bowling alley-length dining table that easily seats at least two-dozen al fresco diners. With elaborately carved cabinetry, granite countertops and a super-sized commercial-style range under a hand-hammered copper hood, the kitchen is open to a spacious informal dining area that, in turn, opens to a family room with fireplace and French doors to the backyard.<\/p>\n The three-story mansion\u2019s creature comfort also include a home theater, a game room, an office, a wine cellar with tasting room and, unsurprisingly, a recording studio along with an elevator, an camera-equipped security system, a gentlemen\u2019s lounge with authentic barber chair, a mirror-walled gym and a subterranean parking garage that will accommodate over a dozen cars. The mansion makes a U-shaped embrace around a broad and grassy courtyard with swimming pool and spa beyond which a soccer pitch-sized lawn gives way to a panoramic view over rugged ravines and undeveloped mountaintops.<\/p>\n Some of the other, equally sized and similarly luxurious estates in The Estates sections of The Oaks are owned by reality television\u2019s Kourtney and Khlo\u00e9 Kardashian, Michael Jackson\u2019s mother Katherine Jackson, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Jay McGraw, elder son of extraordinarily well-compensated TV therapist Dr. Phil McGraw, and his Playboy model wife Erica Dahm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Golden Bachelor\u00a0Mel Owens\u00a0is down to the wire \u2014 and he\u2019s still figuring out whether\u00a0Peg Munson\u00a0or\u00a0Cindy Angelcyk Cullers\u00a0is The One. 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