Former NFL linebacker Mel Owens has reportedly donated his entire "Golden Bachelor" salary to youth sports.
According to the woman who got his final rose, Peg Munson, Owens didn't think twice about giving the money he earned from Season 2 of the reality dating show to charity.
The University of Michigan alum, 66 - who was a linebacker for the Los Angeles Rams between 1981 and 1989 - is a standup guy with "a lot of integrity," according to Munson, 62.
“Nobody knows a lot of things about Mel and that’s why I say you guys gotta have him on,” Peg, 62, told the “She’s All Bach” podcast on Monday, December 8.
“He donated his pay to the Detroit, Michigan Youth Football team. So his pay that he got for being the Golden Bachelor, he donated that. And a lot of people don’t know that about him either, so there’s a lot more to him that everybody … they don’t know," the retired Las Vegas firefighter and bomb tech gushed.
@shesallbach Replying to @lynreality According to Peg herself, his entire Golden Bachelor paycheck was donated #thegoldenbachelor ♬ original sound - ShesAllBach
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Inside Mel Owens' finale drama
Owens, who became a sports law attorney after his career in the NFL ended, gave Munson a Neil Lane diamond promise ring during the "Golden Bachelor" finale last month.
He explained his reason for not asking Munson to marry him in typical "Bachelor" fashion, telling the cameras he needed more time to get to know her in a natural setting.
The Season 2 runner-up, Cindy Angelcyk, abruptly left the show's season finale, after she decided that Owens wasn't ready for an engagement.
Prior to the show airing, the former Rams star received his fair share of hate after it was revealed that he told producers he wanted to see younger women - between the ages of 45 and 60 - cast on his season of the show.
He later apologized for the ageist comments saying they were "unfair" and "insensitive."
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