‘The Golden Bachelor’ Producers Hopeful for ‘Bachelorette’ Spinoff: Who Would Be the Lead?
variety.comEmily Longeretta It sounds like “The Golden Bachelorette” could be right around the corner. When it comes to focusing on a female lead, “nothing would make us happier,” executive producer and showrunner Bennett Graebner said during a Producers Guild FYC panel for “The Golden Bachelor” on Monday night.
Newly engaged duo Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist, as well as executive producers and showrunners Claire Freeland and Jason Ehrlich were also on the panel in New York.
During the “Golden Bachelor” finale, Turner, 72, and Nist, 70, got engaged after he sent home a devastated Leslie Fhima. Following the breakup, viewers have rallied on social media for Fhima, 64, to become the first Golden Bachelorette.
At the panel at the Times Center, when “The Golden Bachelorette” was brought up, the audience began chanting different names from Turner’s season, including Fhima, Faith Martin, Ellen Goltzer, Joan Vassos and Sandar Masson.
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