Calling all single seniors!
On last night’s episode of “The Bachelor” Season 24, ABC announced that it was seeking unattached men and women over 65 years old to participate in a spinoff dating show for senior citizens.
“#BachelorNation, give us your Grumpiest Old Men, give us your Goldenest Girls. #TheBachelor,” wrote Robert Mills, ABC’s head of alternative programming, in a tweet yesterday. He adds, “To be clear, this is 65+.”
According to the show’s casting description, “The Producers of ‘The Bachelor’ are looking for active and outgoing single men and women IN THEIR GOLDEN YEARS for a new exciting dating show!”
The network hasn’t specified many eligibility requirements beyond that, other than “applicants must be legal US residents.”
For more on this new senior-centric “Bachelor” spinoff, listen to this episode of the Page Six podcast, “We Hear“
The recruitment ad for the senior-centric “Bachelor” spinoff comes just after the current season was criticized for its female contestants being too catty and immature, reports Showbiz CheatSheet. Indeed, only one contestant topped the age of 30, according to The Wrap.
Last month, Mills even hinted at the senior-targeting series in a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight.
“You see a lot of people talking about the age of contestants,” he said. “I think that’s something we’d probably look at and say, ‘Does it need to be aged up?’ ”
ABC has yet to announce the show’s name or air date.
This isn’t “The Bachelor’s” first spinoff series. Last month, ABC announced they were launching a musical iteration of the dating show called “The Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart” — an “American Idol” meets “The Bachelor” concept.