'The Golden Bachelor': Meet 71-Year-Old Gerry Turner, the Spinoff's First Lead
is the first-ever Golden Bachelor! During Monday's episode of , the 71-year-old widower and father of two was announced as the inaugural leading man for 's upcoming senior spinoff series, .Describing himself as «71 years young,» Turner gushes, «It's never too late to fall in love again.»The Indiana resident was previously married to his high school sweetheart, Toni, who died in 2017 after becoming ill just six weeks after she retired. Gerry says that he has spoken to his late wife about his TV opportunity, saying on «For a while, I was having a hard time figuring out if she was OK… but we always told each other, when one of us goes, we want the other to be happy.