Bachelor Nation will soon be back in primetime in the 2025 TV schedule , with the upcoming premiere of The Golden Bachelor Season 2. Gerry Turner's search for love on the small screen last season ended in divorce rather than a happily-ever-after. The showrunner vowed that Season 2 leading man Mel Owens isn't going to be like the second coming of Gerry , and that's pretty easy to believe after Owens generated controversy over the summer. Now, ABC is hyping Season 2 with ads during commercial breaks, and the cuteness might win me over... if only I'd forgotten about those ageist comments from 66-year-old Owens.

I sat down to watch Dancing with the Stars live on ABC on September 16, which meant sitting through commercials. I tuned most of them out, but my ears perked up whenever

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