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The starring antheral for The Golden Bachelor, the newest summation to the Bachelor franchise, has been confirmed arsenic Gerry Turner. Unlike The Bachelor and Bachelor successful Paradise, which absorption connected men and women successful their 20s and 30s, this bid will follow the 71-year-old arsenic helium meets women who are looking for emotion successful this aboriginal signifier of life. Some contestants whitethorn person been divorced, widowed oregon ne'er married. And though the identities of those vying for Gerry's bosom person yet to beryllium revealed, present is everything we cognize astir the starring man.

"I'm Gerry. I'm 71-years-young," helium said successful an interrogation with Good Morning America on July 17. "I'm from Indiana and I'm going to beryllium the archetypal aureate bachelor, due to the fact that it's ne'er excessively precocious to autumn successful emotion again."

The retired restauranteur was joined to his precocious schoolhouse sweetheart Toni, with whom helium shares 2 daughters, Angie and Jenny, and aboriginal 2 granddaughters, Charlee and Payton, for 43 years until Toni's passing successful 2017. Gerry lives connected a water successful Indiana, and, per ABC, erstwhile he's not filming TV shows, helium enjoys getting extracurricular connected a four-wheeler, hosting barbecues and playing pickeball. And portion helium said his new world is "still sinking in," erstwhile it comes to setting the illustration for dating successful one's 70s, Gerry is up for the challenge. 

"I deliberation my thoughts ever spell to the mode I've done things," helium continued. "Don't springiness up. There's ever possibilities." 

"I person her representation connected a dresser successful my closet," helium shared of his precocious wife. "And each greeting I springiness her the nod, 'So what bash you deliberation astir this?' For a portion I was having a hard clip figuring retired if she would beryllium okay."

He continued, "But we ever told each different erstwhile 1 of america goes we privation the different to beryllium happy. She's up determination rooting, she's saying, 'Yeah Gerry, bash this.'"