66-year-old “Golden Bachelor” star Mel Owens has acknowledged that his recent comments about only dating women younger than him were “insensitive.”

The former NFL player turned lawyer and star of ABC’s forthcoming sophomore season of “The Golden Bachelor” came under heavy fire in late June when he went on a sports podcast and said he told “Bachelor” producers that he only wanted them to find women between the ages of 45 and 60 . “If they’re 60 or over, I’m cutting them,” he recounted telling one producer. “This is not ‘The Silver Bachelor,’ this is ‘The Golden Bachelor.’”

“They’ve got to be fit, because I stay in shape and workout and stuff,” Owens added in the same interview about his dating requirements. “I told them to try to stay away from the artificial hips and the wigs.”

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