The Golden Bachelor’s Gerry Gets Emotional Over Late Wife: Watch

The Golden Bachelor’s Gerry Turner is able to fall in love once more — however retains late spouse Toni Turner near his coronary heart. 

“I married my high school sweetheart, Toni, in 1972. We had 43 wonderful years together. We had two daughters and I now have two wonderful granddaughters. We had a real typical but full life. Full of love, full of love, full of activity,” Gerry, 71, stated in a Monday, August 14, teaser that aired throughout The Bachelorette: Men Tell All particular. “As years went on, I retired and we had a plan. We had an idea of what our dream house was going to be, so when Toni retired the end of May in 2017, we bought that dream house.” 

Gerry shared the couple closed on their house only one month later — however issues went awry when Toni turned more and more unwell over the next weeks. 

“We went to the emergency room and she had a bacterial infection that infected her kidneys and infested her liver,” he defined. “And so I took my wife to the emergency room on July 7 and she passed away on July 15. Now every time I look at [the lake outside my house] I go, ‘This is her dream. This is what she deserves. Why am I standing here alone?’” 

This spring marked six years since Toni handed away. While nobody may ”ever exchange” his late spouse, Gerry shared that the love of his household “pulled me out of a dark spot” and he’s now prepared to seek out love once more.

“My dad is just such a fun guy. He’s so personable and lovable. He’s so kind and he has so much to give, he just deserves to find that in somebody else,” Gerry’s daughter Angie stated whereas reassuring her dad that he’ll discover somebody who makes him “happy.”

Elsewhere within the teaser, Gerry may very well be seen goofing round together with his youngsters, practising for upcoming rose ceremonies and opening up concerning the particulars of the Bachelor course of to associates at a bar. 

“I don’t know that they’ve even been chosen yet, but I have passed the STD and the drug test,” he quipped to friends, earlier than joking to cameras: “Best case scenario is I find out Helen Mirren is on the market and she’s really happy to be on The Golden Bachelor.” 

Gerry admitted that his largest worry is “remembering 25 names” when he first meets the contestants competing for his coronary heart. The senior model of the long-running ABC sequence is about to premiere this fall and can observe Gerry as he palms out golden roses to ladies between the ages of 60 to 70. 

“I hope at the end of it I find the person that I’ll spend the rest of my life with that will complete our family,” Gerry stated in Monday’s clip whereas holding again tears. “I want to fall in love, I want to find my person who can put me in my place when I need it and make me smile at it. The person who can lay down beside you at night, not have to say anything and you feel it. That’s love. That’s what I want. And I know that person’s out there.” 

While Gerry and his household are excited for this subsequent chapter of his life, there are just a few facets of the Bachelor course of that they’re hesitant about — the Fantasy Suites particularly. 

“I just think that a Fantasy Suite for someone of my age may look quite different. The activities could be quite different than for someone in their 20s and 30s,” Gerry informed Entertainment Tonight in an interview final month, sharing that it’s his household who’s most cautious concerning the in a single day dates. 

“[It makes] my daughters a lot more nervous than me,” he stated of daughters Angie and Jenny and granddaughters Charlee and Payton, including that an onscreen makeout is unquestionably not an possibility. “They said absolutely none of that. They said don’t do it,” he laughed. 

The Golden Bachelor is at the moment filming and is slated to premiere on ABC this fall.