G erry Turner weighed in on the controversial list of demands ABC’s new Golden Bachelor Mel Owens recently shared, saying it’s “fair game” to criticize the new bachelor as he would be making a “huge mistake” with this approach.

It’s a pretty cold outlook for a show explicitly created for “senior men and women looking for love.” There’s no specific age range required to be on the show, but most states define “senior” as over the age of 65 — which, again, Owens himself is. In the show’s first season, no contestant was younger than 60, and the oldest were 75.