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The Golden Bachelor is the adjacent spinoff in The Bachelor franchise. The upcoming bid was announced by ABC connected May 16 and it volition premiere successful the fall. Gerry Turner is the older man who is looking for emotion connected The Golden Bachelor. Gerry is simply a 71-year-old retired restauranteur from Indiana. His woman died successful 2017. After implicit 2 decades, The Bachelor franchise is yet including older contestants and giving them a accidental astatine uncovering love.
We’ve got the latest updates connected The Golden Bachelor below. From the premiere date, to the premise of the show, here’s what you request to cognize astir the spinoff.
The Golden Bachelor (Photo: ABC/Christopher Willard)
The Golden Bachelor Premiere Date
The Golden Bachelor volition premiere successful the autumn of 2023. The amusement volition aerial connected ABC Mondays astatine 10 p.m. ET, pursuing the two-hour episodes of Dancing with the Stars. The amusement volition besides beryllium disposable to watercourse connected Hulu the adjacent day. This was each announced astatine the Disney Upfronts successful New York City connected May 16. Before The Golden Bachelor arrives, play 20 of The Bachelorette (starring Charity Lawson) and play 9 of Bachelor successful Paradise will air.
Who Is The Golden Bachelor?
Gerry Turner (Photo: ABC/Brian Bowen Smith)
ABC announced the antheral who is starring The Golden Bachelor on July 17. Gerry is 71 years aged which makes him the oldest pb prima of a Bachelor franchise show. ABC said that Gerry “is often engaged hosting barbecues, playing pickleball, cheering connected his favourite Chicago sports teams, four-wheeling, and spending clip with friends and household astatine restaurants and section haunts.” Gerry has 2 daughters and 2 granddaughters. He was joined to his precocious schoolhouse sweetheart Toni for 43 years until she got sick and died successful 2017.
Gerry Turner (Photo: ABC/Brian Bowen Smith)
The harvest of pistillate contestants who volition beryllium romancing Gerry haven’t been revealed yet. The stars connected The Bachelor shows are typically successful their 20s and 30s, but they’ll beryllium decades older for the caller spinoff. Jesse Palmer — the big of The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and Bachelor successful Paradise — is expected to besides big The Golden Bachelor.
Jesse Palmer hosts ‘The Bachelor’ franchise (Photo: ABC)
What Is The Golden Bachelor About?
ABC released the authoritative longline for The Golden Bachelor when the bid was announced. It reads, “After much than 20 years of fostering young emotion connected The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and Bachelor successful Paradise, The Golden Bachelor showcases a full caller benignant of emotion communicative – 1 for the aureate years. On this all-new unscripted series, 1 hopeless romanticist is fixed a 2nd accidental astatine emotion successful the hunt for a spouse with whom to stock the sunset years of life. The women arriving astatine the mansion person a beingness of experience, surviving done love, nonaccomplishment and laughter, hoping for a spark that ignites a aboriginal afloat of endless possibilities. In the end, volition our Golden antheral crook the leafage to commencement a caller section with the pistillate of his dreams?”
The Golden Bachelor has been successful the works since astatine slightest 2020, erstwhile ABC enactment retired a casting telephone for elder citizens looking for love. However, plans connected the bid stalled owed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rob Mills, an enforcement for ABC’s unscripted programming, addressed the elder national bid successful an interrogation with Variety in July 2020.
“Some of the casting interviews we got, they were conscionable truthful touching,” Rob said. “It’s specified a antithetic mode of doing ‘The Bachelor’ due to the fact that these radical are conscionable astatine a wholly antithetic spot successful their lives. There is an absorbing happening astir radical who person deed the different extremity of the spectrum, who’ve lived their lives, they’ve raised their kids, immoderate person been widowed oregon divorced and possibly immoderate person ne'er been successful love. We thought that would beryllium an absorbing dynamic done the ‘Bachelor’ prism.”
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