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Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner Signs With Gersh


EXCLUSIVE: Gersh on Tuesday announced its signing of Gerry Turner, the Indiana native who won hearts last fall as the first lead of ABC’s The Golden Bachelor. A 72-year-old television persona…

A 72-year-old television personality and entrepreneur, Turner came to star on the network’s senior-focused spin-off of The Bachelor following the tragic loss of his wife, Toni, in 2017. He married his high school sweetheart at 22 and subsequently relocated to Davenport, IA, where he worked as the general manager for a corporation that owned five restaurants. He re-entered the dating scene last year with the support of his family and wound up juicing ratings for ABC, helping to bring new life to its flagship reality series of more than two decades.

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