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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 the amusement volition beryllium a portion of ABC’s autumn lineup. 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. The premiere day for the inaugural play was announced and a caller promo was revealed by ABC connected August 21.
We’ve got the latest updates connected The Golden Bachelor below. From the premiere day 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 connected September 28. The amusement volition aerial Thursdays connected ABC astatine 8 p.m. ET. New episodes of Bachelor In Paradise play 9 volition aerial starting astatine 9:01 p.m. ET. The Golden Bachelor volition besides beryllium disposable to watercourse connected Hulu the adjacent day. Before The Golden Bachelor, play 20 of The Bachelorette (starring Charity Lawson) came to a close.
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 old, 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.
In the archetypal trailer, Gerry opens up astir losing his wife. “I took my woman to the exigency country connected July 7, and she passed distant connected July 15,” Gerry says arsenic helium cries. He adds, “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 stressed that helium wants to find a pistillate to walk the remainder of his beingness with. “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,” helium said. “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.”
Gerry Turner (Photo: ABC/Brian Bowen Smith)
In a caller promo released connected August 21, Gerry sat down with his daughters and granddaughter. “Dating connected this amusement is going to beryllium an altogether caller experience. What I anticipation is that I tin look astatine 1 of those women and cognize that I’ve recovered the close person,” helium said. When it comes to “modern dating,” Gerry’s granddaughter told him that helium needed to up his texting game!
Gerry told his household that helium hopes to “find that idiosyncratic that I cognize is the close one. I cognize you guys person ever wanted maine to beryllium blessed and that 1 idiosyncratic is retired determination determination that volition bash that.”
The harvest of pistillate contestants who volition beryllium romancing Gerry hasn’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. Gerry revealed to Variety that helium gave producers a “general scope of age” of women he’d privation to date. “I deliberation I said 60 to 70 but consciousness escaped to blur the lines,” helium said.
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 for 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.”
