Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner Is ‘Confident’ Late Wife Terri Would Be ‘Very Pleased’ About the Show
19.07.2023 - 18:23
/ usmagazine.com
Gerry Turner is making it easy for Bachelor Nation to fall in love with him.
The 71-year-old star of the upcoming Golden Bachelor gave his first podcast interview on Wednesday, July 19, opening up to Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt about accepting the gig — and how his late wife, Toni, might feel about the show.
“I think she would be very pleased. I have a picture of her in my walk-in closet, so every night I’m in there and I see her picture. It’s the only one now that I have in the house and in the mornings, I see her picture and you know, we talk,” Gerry explained. “I’ll make a brief comment — or sometimes that talk is silent. But here, lately, in the last couple of months, you know, my question for her is always, ‘So what do you think of this? Am I doing the right thing?’ And I really have strong positive feelings about it. I think she would be very happy.”
ABC named Gerry the first senior Bachelor earlier this week.
“I think she’s probably seen me fail at a number of attempted relationships and dating, and I really think she would approve of this,” he continued. “It’s positive, it’s energetic. It’s a way of communicating and finding the connection with a number of people, but specifically one special person and pretty confident.”
Gerry and Toni shared two daughters: Jenny and Angie. The high school sweethearts moved from Indiana to Iowa after Gerry retired in 2017 — the same year Toni fell ill and died.
On Wednesday, he explained to Joe and Serena how the show is already bringing joy into his life.
“I have a neighbor whose husband passed away last November, and we were outside last Saturday. They were having a memorial for him. She’s 80 years old and was feeling kind of bad. And, literally, it was six years ago on that Saturday