‘The Golden Bachelor’ Trailer: Gerry Turner Breaks Down In Tears As He Recalls His Wife’s Death

Falling successful emotion ne'er gets old. A brand-new teaser trailer for The Golden Bachelor aired during The Bachelorette play 20’s Men Tell All episode connected August 14 and gave america an affectional look at Gerry Turner’s past. The 71-year-old recalls marrying his precocious schoolhouse sweetheart, Toni, whom helium was joined to for 43 years.

Gerry Turner gets affectional successful ‘The Golden Bachelor’ trailer. (ABC)

After they retired, Gerry and Toni bought their imagination house. They closed connected it connected June 6, 2017. Just implicit a period later, Toni would beryllium gone. Gerry remembers however Toni’s information “got worse implicit a mates of weeks.” Turns out, she had a bacterial corruption that infected her kidneys and liver.

“I took my woman to the exigency country connected July 7, and she passed distant connected July 15,” Gerry says successful the trailer arsenic helium breaks down successful tears. He goes connected to say, “It volition beryllium 6 years since she passed away. No 1 is going to regenerate Toni. But the emotion of my daughters and my granddaughters pulled maine retired of a acheronian spot.”

Gerry adorably practices for his roseate ceremonies with his daughters and granddaughters successful the teaser. “I anticipation astatine the extremity of it I find the idiosyncratic that I’ll walk the remainder of my beingness with, that volition implicit our family,” Gerry tells his loved ones.

Gerry Turner is the first-ever Golden Bachelor. (ABC)

The widower has already had 1 large emotion successful his life, and helium wants to acquisition that again. “I privation to autumn successful love. I truly privation to find my person, who tin enactment maine successful my spot erstwhile I request it and marque maine grin astatine it,” an affectional Gerry admits successful the trailer. “The idiosyncratic who tin laic down beside you astatine nighttime [and] not person to accidental anything, and you tin consciousness it. That’s love. That’s what I want. And I cognize that person’s retired there.”

The Golden Bachelor does not person a premiere day yet. The bid is expected to premiere this autumn connected ABC.