Overview

• ABC launches the new season on Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 8 p.m. ET with a two-episode premiere, with next-day streaming on Hulu.
• Twenty-three women ages 58 to 77 join the cast, featuring careers from luxury yacht sales and vineyard ownership to biomedical engineering and retired firefighting.
• Owens says he apologized more than 20 times on night one, addressing the women in groups and one-on-one after his comments about cutting contestants over 60.
• Contestants roast Owens on camera with pointed jokes he describes as tough, deserved, and funny.
• Jesse Palmer returns as host, as the former NFL linebacker turned lawyer and divorced father of two seeks a new partner.