‘Golden Bachelor’ Villain Nicolle Briscoe Says She’d Bring Big Ratings If Cast as Future Bachelorette

The Golden Bachelor season 2’s villain, Nicolle Kate Briscoe, shocked fans on Wednesday night’s episode when she made her pitch for a better reality TV gig after Mel Owens eliminated her.

As the beautiful blonde contestant left in the van, she boldly told the cameras, “Mel didn’t choose me, but maybe you’ll choose me for TheGolden Bachelorette.”

Now, Nicolle has exclusively revealed to Parade why she’s campaigning for the lead for the upcoming second season of The Golden Bachelorette, which is expected to follow Joan Vassos’ inaugural run.

Indicating she would love the challenge, the yoga instructor, 64, said, “I just think the experience of being the Golden [lead] is an intense experience. I think I would be an interesting candidate for that. Why would I want to do it? I don’t know. I would love the experience.”

Controversy swirled around Nicolle as the other women vying for Owens’ heart thought she wasn’t there for the right reasons. She was caught on camera admitting to wanting to use the show for self-promotion. Nicolle said she was “dating America” and wanted “Housewives status.” Her diss that the previous season’s Golden Bachelor contestants weren’t that attractive also made waves!

But now, Nicolle wants to look for love herself on ABC in a starring role. “I found it very enriching [to be a Mel contestant]. I would do it again in a heartbeat over and over and over. I would love the opportunity to be The Golden Bachelorette,” she said. “I would probably be more like a Mel sort of Golden Bachelor, maybe slightly less traditional maybe, but I would definitely love the opportunity to have 23 interesting men to get to know and I think I would bring a lot of heart and a lot of fun to the show.”

Plus, she has a ton of confidence, telling Parade if she’s the Golden lady choice, “I think viewership could be high because I am unexpected.”

As for viewers criticizing her comments on former football player Owens’ show, she shrugged, “I just have to lean into it. That train left the station. I had no idea I was going to have the ‘villain edit’ at all. I mean, I came away with it never thinking that. And the other girls have all told me, too, ‘You were never our villain.’ And so it’s a bit manufactured and the [show] editing is very slanted, but it’s okay. I said the things that I said, and I gave them a lot of material to go with, and I don’t regret any of it. I think that maybe I could have been smarter about it, but I know that everybody was talking about those things. I was the one kind of highlighted.”

Owens picked Peg Munson, Debbie Siebers, and Cindy Cullers as his final three on Wednesday night, and Nicolle claimed one of them is also a self-promoter!

“Peg, for instance, had a talent manager already lined up” when she joined the show, Nicolle asserted in her recent Parade interview. The yoga teacher claimed on her own Instagram, “I don’t have a huge following, 10,000 followers. At this point, I’m not trying to rev up a huge career but I would love to do some work I still enjoy. I still have to take care of myself. I’m a single woman. I have to pay my bills, pay my mortgage, all the things. I don’t think there’s anything wrong. I think you can look for love genuinely, and also I think you can genuinely find the love of your life, and also create a career you might love, and isn’t that what women’s empowerment is all about?”

If Nicolle gets her wish and is the Golden choice, fans might learn more about her two marriages that failed. In an earlier interview, she told Parade, “The first one, we were together for 30 years, since I was 19, and I just think we grew up together in a way. But we also grew apart by the time we were almost 50.”

Nicolle tried again with another husband and said, “The second [marriage] was more complicated. By the time you’re in your 50s, everyone has their own lives that have been built…and I think that I would say that our values were maybe not aligned.”

However, Nicolle noted that if she isn’t named the Golden Bachelorette, “I wouldn’t be devastated at all.” Also, she admitted, “It’s a long shot that they would take someone that they put in the villain edit as The Golden Bachelorette, but stranger things have happened.”