Married at First Sight groom Richard Sauerman has addressed speculation that he will be appearing on American spin-off of The Bachelor – The Golden Bachelor.
Richard, 62, revealed relationship expert Mel Schilling was the first to suggest the idea following the reunion episode of MAFS.
‘Mel turned to me and said, “Richard you better get ready for a call” and I said “what do you mean?”’ he told Yahoo.
‘She goes they’re looking for a Golden Bachelor that’s what she said to me… I knew they had a Bachelor in America who’s 72 and breathed new life into the whole series. But I thought about that, and I thought, yeah right,’ he added.
The Golden Bachelor premiered in the US in 2023 and follows senior citizens looking for love.
Richard further revealed that if the opportunity arose, he would consider a ‘conversation’.
‘It’d be a conversation. Of course I’d consider it. I don’t think I’d be right for the Bachelor. I’m too rogue, I’m just not refined enough. (But) I’d always have a conversation,’ he said.
Richard was paired with Andrea Thompson, 51, on the Channel Nine dating experiment, but the couple decided to go their separate ways.
Looking back at his journey on the program, Richard admitted there was one comment he wished he had never made.
He memorably shocked his co-stars with a racy remark about his sex life with Andrea during intimacy week.
He said: ‘We did intimacy week the week before intimacy week. We gazed, we hugged, we f***ed, we s***ed, we did everything, we did the whole lot.’
‘I wouldn’t have said that “we kissed, we licked…” comment at the commitment ceremony during intimacy week,’ Richard told Woman’s Day of his regret.
His comments come after Andrea lifted the lid on her marriage to Richard behind closed doors after sensationally quitting the experiment in March.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Mail Australia, she said she decided to end things with Richard because the couple’s constant fighting started to make her ‘feel crazy’.