Sidelining Your Entire Life for a Reality Show is Surprisingly Complicated in Your 60s
A second contestant on The Golden Bachelor has self-eliminated because she has stuff to deal with back home.
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It was a tense week for The Golden Bachelor, a dating show for folks looking to find love in their final act, and not just because the subreddit enacted a moratorium on discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this third episode of the inaugural season, alliances were formed, patience was tested, and really ugly earrings (that are a blatant product placement) were gifted on solo dates.
Two big “dramas” unfolded this week in the mansion, which is still housing the women in bunk beds. The more predictable of the two was that Kathy from Austin, Texas felt that tiny Theresa was showing off about her connection with bachelor Gerry and decided to tell him as much. “People aren’t necessarily very nice,” she told the unceasingly chipper bachelor. He responded with something along the lines of “my brain cannot comprehend how woman be mean?” in the most charming Midwestern accent you’ve ever heard.