‘Golden Bachelor’s’ Nicolle Dishes on Who She Thinks Lacks Chemistry with Mel Owens

Bachelor Nation fans are getting to know Nicolle as she looks for love with Mel Owens on Season 2 of “The Golden Bachelor.”

Nicolle noticeably got cozy with Mel in the pool early on, leading to some tension and drama with the other women in the Mansion.

Now, she’s joining the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast to spill the tea on her journey and who she thinks lacks chemistry with the Golden Bachelor.

Reflecting on her time with Mel at the pool party, she shared that she felt their strong connection was obvious to the other women in the house.

“I was one of them, and I think it really upset a lot of women,” she expressed. “I had a great time at the pool party. I looked around and it didn’t look like anyone else was gonna go, so I just decided that it would be me. And so I jumped in the pool and made some other joke, a football pun about intercepting, and then I don’t know what happened. We just had a lot of chemistry and attraction that was really natural and that makes it a lot of fun.”

She went on, “I was aware though that other women were starting to stare at me… I sensed, you know how you sense an energy, like, ‘Oh, cold.’ But you know, I wanted to balance it because I was new in the house, we were all new in the house, and I wanted to be liked. I want to make friends, so I didn’t want to upset them too much. However, I will tell you, I could [not] have cared less what they thought.”

Nicolle also admitted that she was surprised by some of Mel’s choices at the Rose Ceremonies.

“I was so surprised by the outcome of every single Rose Ceremony,” she said. “I was surprised by who stayed and who he sent home that night. But you know what, it’s all about his chemistry with people, so it wasn’t my show to choose. But it was, just from observing it and being in it, I was very surprised every single Rose Ceremony.”

Nicolle then revealed who she felt had good chemistry with Mel and who didn’t.

“I was in the front section of women for sure… There were people in that section that I didn’t understand why they were in there, but they were,” she stated. “The people that I feel like had genuine chemistry with him or that I thought they actually went together, that they would make a good couple. I thought he and Carol made a lot of sense. She lives there, they’re both into sports for careers, etc. I think Cindy was a cute [choice], I think they had chemistry. [Debbie] I don’t get it, I don’t get it, but okay. I love Debbie, love her. But I don’t know. No comment. And Gerri, I feel like Gerri and he had a warmth that I really enjoyed watching.”

Tamra Judge Quits RHOC for Second Time This Season After Women Say She's the Least Trustworthy: 'I Hope You’re Happy'

Tamra Judge is at the end of her rope when it comes to her time on The Real Housewives of Orange County.

During the Thursday, Oct. 2 episode of Bravo’s hit series, Tamra invited some of the women over for a cake-decorating party. However, things quickly went from sweet to sour when Emily Simpson admitted that she and Heather Dubrow both named Tamra as the least trustworthy woman in the group while they were playing a game.

“My fear is, if I shared things with you that were really personal and you got mad at me in some circumstance, that you would go look something up,” Emily explained. “That's a legitimate fear.”

“That hurts my feelings,” Tamra said. “I am loyal to a fault. I'm always honest with everybody. What have I ever done to her that she would not trust me?”

“I’m f------ hurt by you,” she added as she walked away in tears.

Tamra returned a few minutes later and agreed to move forward with Emily, but revealed that there was another issue she had to address with Jennifer Pedranti.

After Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley brought up a rumor that Tamra had an affair with a famous mystery singer, which Tamra denied, she claimed his wife reached out with evidence that Jenn had recently followed him on social media.

“Does she want dirt, or does she want tickets?" Emily quipped before Tamra added: “I don't even follow [him]!”

Later that night, Tamra decided to confront Jenn, who said she simply followed him out of curiosity.

“You're my friend,” Tamra said. “I just wouldn't think to do that when you're going after people that don't like me all the time and trying to become friends with him like you did with Gretchen. This situation makes me wonder, like, 'What are you doing?’”

In her confessional, Jenn joked that she was “hoping that if I followed this guy and he saw my name, maybe he would say something,” but that “unfortunately” didn’t happen.

“Why did you feel the need, at 5:22, to follow him?” Tamra pressed.

When Jenn called her out for having a printed screenshot with a timestamp, insisting it wasn’t that serious, Tamra accused her of deflecting from the real issue.

“It's always an act with Jenn,” Tamra said in her confessional. “She gets caught doing something, she turns it around on you, like, ‘Why do you have to print it out? Why do you have to print it out?’ Well, bitch, because I'm old and I could see it better.”

Without reaching a resolution, Jenn walked away and joined the other ladies outside. Heather then went to check on Tamra, who brought up that she labeled her the least trustworthy.

“Heather, I'm done,” Tamra declared. “I thought that we were close, and for you to say that just hurts my feelings so bad that I just don't even wanna be in this group anymore.”

Heather acknowledged that she doesn’t trust Tamra with her feelings, but said it was because she doesn’t “want to hear what I’m saying.”

“At the lowest time of my f------ life, you were so aggressive with me and it hurt my feelings so bad that you don’t even know,” Tamra exclaimed, referring to their recent lunch where Heather was frustrated at Tamra’s lack of communication after she claimed to be quitting the show.

“I don't agree that I was aggressive to you,” Heather pushed back, accusing Tamra of not hearing her out when she opened up about her childhood struggles with her father. “The problem is, I tell Tamra my feelings, and she gets angry and says, ‘You're wrong.’ I mean, it's daunting, because if I can't be honest with you, how can we be friends?”

The two went back and forth until Tamra announced that she was quitting for a second time this season.

“It just makes me sad,” she shared. “I know I'm not perfect. I know I'm a good person, I'm not a liar, I'm not a cheater. So for them to say they don't trust me, that feels like it's an attack on my character, and it makes me just want to shut down.”

“This is a great example — you doing this, constantly quitting, getting so angry,” Heather pointed out.

Although she suggested they all work things out, it quickly became clear that the party was over.

“Have a great season,” Tamra shouted. “I'm done. Absolutely done. I hope you're happy with yourself.”

The Real Housewives of Orange County airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.

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