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At long last, ABC has revealed its first Golden Bachelor: Gerry Turner, a 71-year old grandfather from Indiana, will be the first senior to find love in the latest offshoot of The Bachelor. The widower, whose first name is pronounced “Gary,” says that as he steps up to the plate, he’s falling back on a long-held core belief.
“Don’t give up,” Turner told Good Morning America in an interview Monday. “There’s always possibilities.”
Turner, a blue-eyed pickleball enthusiast and retired restauranteur, spent 43 years married to his high school sweetheart, Toni—with whom he shares two daughters, Angie and Jenny. On GMA, Turner said that his late wife died six weeks after she began her retirement in 2017. “Every day that goes by,” Turner told GMA, he thinks that his wife was “robbed.”