Will we finally see real people, in all of their messy, funny, loving glory, find romance?
MSNBC Columnist
Let’s set the scene: The lighting is warm. A rose sits on a table. The opening piano chords of JVKE’s “Golden Hour” play in the background.. “Florida wants to retire and move to him.” The camera pans up, and we see the subject of these proclamations: a handsome, bronzed gentleman with a slightly weathered face, a full head of hair and visible hearing aids.
Who is this man? He’s 72-year-old retired restaurateur Gerry Turner, and he is set to make his debut Thursday night as the first-ever “Golden Bachelor.” Turner is a girl dad, a pickleball enthusiast and a widower who was married to his high school sweetheart for 43 years. And he might be just what “The Bachelor” needs to burnish the franchise's rapidly disintegrating cultural relevance.
If “The Bachelor” franchise is to be resuscitated, it’s going to be done by a group of utterly fabulous older adults. You might not expect a septuagenarian grandfather to be the draw that gets a mass of lapsed"Bachelor" fans — as well as those who never thought they’d engage with the franchise — to tune in to ABC. And yet I've seen what can only be described as palpable excitement, both online and among people of all ages in my life, at the prospect of watching Turner take a shot at finding love among a group of single women between the ages of 60 and 75.
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