Mel Owens signed up to star on the second season of ABC's The Golden Bachelor and shocked with his comments about the women he doesn't want on the show.

Mel Owens, a former NFL player — who was cast to follow Gerry Turner as the second Golden Bachelor — went on the In the Trenches podcast on June 4, where he was asked how much control he had over the women cast for his season.

Former NFL linebacker Mel Owen, 66, is set to follow in the footsteps of 72-year-old Gerry Turner as The Bachelor spinoff’s leading man. Although Turner found love, got married, and divorced in a whirlwind four months,