Telling It Like It Is with Mel Owens
The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
3.8 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Ashley have talked to Cindy Cullers and Peg Munson, but there’s one person left to go full circle on The Golden Bachelor season two… the man of the hour, Mel Owens.
Mel holds nothing back when asked how he felt about Cindy leaving early, and he gives us all the details on why him and Peg click so well and what they've been up to since filming wrapped.
Plus, Ashley asks about why Mel's first marriage wasn't covered much on the show!
You won’t want to miss this exclusive Almost Famous interview with the second Golden Bachelor!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | This is the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast with IHartRadio. |
| 0:10.4 | Hey guys, welcome to the almost famous podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Today we have someone very big in the franchise that we haven't had on the podcast yet. |
| 0:17.5 | It is Mel Owens. |
| 0:19.1 | He's been a little bit of a controversial figure as the lead of |
| 0:22.1 | the Golden Bachelor. And now we have him and we have a lot of questions that we're excited to ask him. |
| 0:32.2 | Hey, Mel, it is so nice to meet you. We wanted you to come on our podcast, but you were the one who reached out and you certainly showed interest in our DMs that you wanted to come on. |
| 0:47.6 | Why is it that you wanted to come on our podcast? |
| 0:49.4 | You guys are famous for having the Bachelor show, right? |
| 0:53.3 | It's not really a you know, a bachelor |
| 0:55.4 | show unless it's on your, on your podcast, right? You've been doing here for, for a decade. |
| 1:02.0 | 10 years. Yeah, decade, 10 years, you know, so. No, yeah, it's crazy. It's not complete unless |
| 1:08.8 | we're on your show. And plus, you know, you had, you had Cindy on, you had my girl on. So this is like maybe sort of completes the circle. |
| 1:20.0 | Well, it sure does. Who else from your season should we have on? Who would be a good interview? |
| 1:26.2 | You should probably have Peg on again. |
| 1:29.7 | She did such a great job. |
| 1:32.6 | Well, outside of the people we've already had, who? |
| 1:33.2 | No one. |
| 1:34.3 | No one. That's it. |
| 1:35.3 | No one. |
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