Bill Maher Says He Would Star On ‘The Golden Bachelor’ If ABC Did Away With The “Age-Appropriate Bulls***”: “Some of These Girls Will Leave Crying”
Bill Maher could see himself on The Golden Bachelor, provided that the show adopt a certain change.
The 69-year-old proposed his “great idea” to John Stamos while hosting him on Monday’s (Dec. 29) episode of his Club Random podcast, noting that he is “the correct age” to star on ABC‘s Bachelor spin-off.
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“I want to be The Golden Bachelor, but none of this age-appropriate bullshit,” he explained.
Stamos chimed in, “Oh, you want to have the younger [girls].”
“What I would actually [date]. That’s a funny show,” Maher said. “That’s a great fucking show.”
Maher teased of the pitch that “some of these girls will leave crying.”
“No, they will, because I’m gonna be real with them,” he said. “Not mean, just real. I’m gonna fucking straighten out their lives, as I have so many 20-year-old girls, [20]-ish girls, in my real life. I’m very good at it. I was never meant to be Sir Lancelot. I’m the king. I’m the old dude.”
According to TV Insider, Maher previously shared this idea while sitting down with David Spade and Dana Carvey on the Jan. 8 episode of their Fly on the Wall podcast, telling the two Saturday Night Live alums, “I think a great show would be one of us — mostly, probably, me — doing The Golden Bachelor, but — like our real lives — not with an age-appropriate woman.”
As noted by The Daily Beast, Maher has not been shy about his preference for dating younger women, as he told The Skinny Confidential’s Him and Her podcast in October that his “dating is not age-appropriate.”
“The people who are pissed off at that, fuck you,” he added at the time. “You do you, I do me. You do what works for you.”
The Golden Bachelor debuted in 2023 with Gerry Turner as the series’ inaugural lead. Mel Owens led this year’s sophomore season, and found himself in some hot water after his appearance on MGoBlue’s In the Trenches podcast, during which he said that he was “cutting” women over 60 years old. The 67-year-old ultimately apologized to the women, and ended up with 62-year-old Peg Munson, though they did not get engaged.
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