Mel Owens took it on the chin when his Golden Bachelor contestants decided to roast him over his now-controversial comments about age preferences in dating. "One of the dates was a roast. It was brutal," Mel, 66, told Glamour in an interview published on Friday, August 1. "They were killing me." The ABC star even revealed a few of the standout jokes. "I can't remember all of them, but one said, 'Oh, when Mel was walking with me, he was using me as a cane,'" he recalled. "And I'm from Detroit, right? [Another woman] said, 'Like a Detroit pizza, he's doughy, squishy, square and crusty.