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This is Trista on the Almost Famous Podcast, and I am just here solo.

I'm bringing you the fourth most shocking,

or should I say, number four in the most shocking Bachelor Nation moments of 2025.

So we've been counting down the most shocking Bachelor Nation moments,

and this is number four.

This moment was not only shocking,

but I feel like we talked about it forever afterwards, like months and months and months afterwards.

And if you haven't guessed by that, because I guess there are a lot of shocking moments this

year, but the number four most shocking moment this year was

Golden Bachelor Mel Owens podcast comments before his season even started. Okay, on April 22nd,

Mel Owens was announced as the lead of season two of the Golden Bachelor.

Right off the bat.

We didn't know a whole lot about Mel because he wasn't from Jones season,

but he was a professional athlete.

So people may have connected with him over that,

but we didn't know him as a, as someone who had already been in Bachelor

Nation. And of course, that's how most of us get to know each of the leads. Most of, of

Bachelor Nation fans were expecting for it to be somebody from previous season because like I said,

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