"[Jesse] is obviously the host, so he sees everything, and when he was younger, he was the Bachelor. "[He told me] to stay focused and know what's going on around you," Mel recalled. I had breakfast with him a lot," he noted.Mel claimed he didn't date much after his divorce from Fabiana Owens. "Fabiana claimed in early July that Mel's season is going to be a disappointment. "Good luck," Fabiana told the Daily Mail, warning Mel's cast of senior bachelorettes.