told the Los Angeles Times. “Winning the Academy Award [and the Directors Guild Award for 1971’s ‘The French Connection’] was an enormous honor.
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Gerry Turner is TV’s most eligible bachelor.
The 71-year-old is the “Bachelor” franchise’s first “Golden Bachelor” for its spinoff series, hoping to prove love can bloom at any age.
Described “always a romantic”, Turner is ready to “put himself out there and find a love that will stand the test of time in his golden years.”
Who is Gerry Turner?The reality star is a retired restaurateur and doting father and grandfather who is currently living the dream by a beautiful lake in Indiana.
He keeps busy most of the time with hosting barbecues, playing pickleball, cheering on his favourite Chicago sports teams, four-wheeling and spending time with friends and family at restaurants and local haunts in Indiana.
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A “Bachelor” franchise pioneerAs the dating franchise’s first senior-aged bachelor, Turner hopes to set a precedent and be a role model for people entering the dating market again in their golden years.
He’s positive about his chance, telling “Good Morning America” he has “nothing to lose” and teased the idea of getting married again.
“I wouldn’t discount it!” he told the hosts in a cheeky response.
Lost loveThe upcoming show won’t be Turner’s first rodeo, as he married his high school sweetheart Toni in 1974.
After 43 happy years together, Toni fell ill and passed away in 2017.
“I have her picture on a dresser in my closet. Every morning I give her the nod, ‘So what do you think about this?’ For a while it was like, I was having a hard time figuring out if she would be okay. But we always told each other when one of us goes, we want the other one to be happy,” he told “Good Morning America”.
With the support of his family, six years after her
told the Los Angeles Times. “Winning the Academy Award [and the Directors Guild Award for 1971’s ‘The French Connection’] was an enormous honor.
Michaela Zee The musical adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ “The Notebook” is officially heading to Broadway. Preview performances will begin Feb. 6, 2024, at New York’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, with the show’s opening night set for March 14.
A new stage musical adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel The Notebook will arrive on Broadway this spring, with music and lyrics by multi-platinum singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson and a book by playwright and This Is Us writer/producer Bekah Brunstetter, producers Kevin McCollum and Kurt Deutsch announced today.
Brown family has been gracing our TVs for more than a decade now, living out plural marriage on TLC's. But in the wake of recent splits, separations, and drama, polygamist Kody Brown and his wives and exes have an even more complicated family dynamic that before. (And that's saying something for a father of 18).
Ariana Grande has moved on following her split from husband Dalton Gomez — with a fellow Ozian!The actress and singer is dating co-star Ethan Slater, a source confirmed to ET on July 20.«Ariana and Ethan recently started dating. They have a lot in common and have a lot of fun,» the source shared at the time.
Ariana Grande has moved on following her split from husband Dalton Gomez — with a fellow Ozian!The actress and singer is dating co-star Ethan Slater, a source confirmed to ET on July 20.«Ariana and Ethan recently started dating. They have a lot in common and have a lot of fun,» the source shared at the time.
Tina Knowles and Richard Lawson have separated after eight years of marriage.
Tina Knowles and Richard Lawson have separated after eight years of marriage.Tina filed for divorce on Wednesday, reports, who obtained the court documents. Tina reported cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for divorce.According to the docs, Tina listed the couple's date of separation as Tuesday. She is also asking for the court to restore her name to Celestine Knowles.Beyoncé and Solange Knowles' mom and Richard have reportedly been living separately and eagle-eyed fans were quick to notice that Tina has not been by Richard's side as he's been promoting his latest film,.
Audiences will soon watch 71-year-old Gerry Turner embark on his journey toward a second chance at love in ABC’s new series The Golden Bachelor.
A drive-in movie theatre in the US has announced a week of events celebrating Taylor Swift, in an effort to finally convince her to acknowledge that it is its screen that appears in the lyric video to her 2020 single ‘This Is Me Trying’.Drive-in 32 in Greenville, New York inadvertently ended up in the lyric video thanks to a short piece of stock footage that the venue had seemingly been unaware of until it was used by Swift’s team.“Somewhere during the winter of either 2018 or 2019, an overseas-based freelance photographer entered our property without permission and began filming”, the cinema’s management explain in a new Instagram post. “He then placed that footage with Shutterstock advertising [it] as ‘abandoned upstate NY drive-in theatre’”.“Someone in Taylor’s creative team purchased a $75 license from the stock agency for the footage, enlarged it, slowed it down, stitched together fourteen loops of the original eleven second clip and then added the lyrics on our screen”, they go on.
Ariana Grande has moved on following her split from husband Dalton Gomez — with a fellow Ozian!The actress and singer is dating co-star Ethan Slater, a source confirmed to ET on Thursday.«Ariana and Ethan recently started dating. They have a lot in common and have a lot of fun,» the source shared. «They didn't start dating until both were broken up with their significant others.
Ariana Grande has moved on following her split from husband Dalton Gomez — with a fellow Ozian!The actress and singer is dating co-star Ethan Slater, a source confirmed to ET on Thursday.«Ariana and Ethan recently started dating. They have a lot in common and have a lot of fun,» the source shared. «They didn't start dating until both were broken up with their significant others.
Gerry Turner is making it easy for Bachelor Nation to fall in love with him.
Whoopi Goldberg walked off the set of ABC’s The View during a heated discussion about selfies yesterday (July 18).The actor was moderating the roundtable for the show’s ‘Hot Topics’ discussion, during which the panel was discussing Miranda Lambert pausing a recent concert to scold an audience member for taking selfies during her show.Co-host Sunny Hostin said that she was “going to take as many selfies as I want if I paid $757 for tickets” (via Entertainment Weekly), to which the Sister Act star replied: “You know what? Stay home.”“If you’re going to spend $750 to come to my concert, then give me the respect of watching me while I do my thing, or don’t come.”After Hostin insisted that she likes to keep memories of concerts on her phone, Goldberg got up from her seat and said: “Turn on the television, girl.”As the Oscar-winning actor walked towards the audience and was asked by Hostin where she was going, she replied: “I’m leaving y’all!”Approaching an audience member, Goldberg added: “I want to take a picture with this marvellous woman, who is 91. So, we’re going to do a selfie.
UPDATED, 12 PM: Showtime has released the official trailer and key art for Season 6 of Lena Waithe’s critically acclaimed drama series The Chi. New challenges await Kevin (Alex Hibbert), Jake (Michael Epps) and Papa (Shamon Brown Jr) and the rest of the Chi fam in the upcoming expanded season. Season 6, which is split into two parts of eight episodes each, premieres its first half on August 4 streaming on Paramount+ and on demand, followed by its linear debut at 9 p.m. Sunday, August 6.
ABC said in a press release.“The Golden Bachelor,” which will air this fall on Mondays at 10 p.m., centers on “one hopeless romantic” who will be “given a second chance at love in the search for a partner with whom to share the sunset years of life.”“It’s never too late to fall in love again,” Turner told Good Morning America.Turner was married to his high school sweetheart, Toni, for 43 years. They have two daughters, Angie and Jenny, as well as two granddaughters, Charlee and Payton.
The first-ever “Golden Bachelor” star has been announced.
Gerry Turner, a 71-year-old grandfather from Indiana, is set to star in The Golden Bachelor, ABC newest iteration of The Bachelor franchise set to premiere in the fall.
Who has been chosen as The Golden Bachelor? His identity has been revealed!
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.