Golden Bachelor’s Gerry Turner ‘broke promise to his family’ with show appearance
America will watch The Golden Bachelor’s Gerry Turner, 71, fall in love, but he already broke a promise to his family.
The Golden Bachelor’s star Gerry Turner has already broken a promise he made to his family concerning his time on the dating show.
Turner admitted he broke the promise while filming the first night of the reality TV spinoff series.
America will watch Turner, 71, get to know 22 women and fall in love with one, but his daughters and granddaughters were likely upset watching the first episode.
The Indiana native broke his promise of not kissing any of the women in the mansion on night one.
Turner told the New York Post (per Fox): “There was one. I promised my daughters and granddaughters that I would not kiss anyone on night one. And I failed. As I recall, I think I only failed once.”
However, Turner has “no regrets” about the moment he kissed Teresa.
He added to the outlet: “By the time the second and third nights rolled around, I feel like I kissed about every woman there. So, you know, there’s different levels of affection.”
Turner added to ET that he watched the episode back with his daughters and granddaughters.
When the kiss happened, he watched them have an “ick” moment.
Still, the retired restaurateur doesn’t regret anything about the show.
He continued to the New York Post: “In the beginning, shortly after the season ended and everything was put to bed, I felt like I had a few regrets. But now that there’s been a little time for me to sort through the facts and my feelings and so forth, quite honestly, I don’t think I would go back and change a thing.
“I’m really happy about how things have went.”
Turner also revealed the surprising “most difficult” part of the first night for him.
He explained: “I wasn’t actually nervous about the rose ceremonies. The most difficult part about that very first rose ceremony was trying to get enough information to make the first decisions. It was almost not a case of who’s right, but finding those who were definitely wrong for me. Wonderful women, all poised, intelligent. I loved each one of them. But that first night, it was about finding the ones that I knew just would not be right for me.”
He lost his wife suddenly in 2017 due to an undisclosed illness, and the pair were high school sweethearts, getting married in 1974.
“She got robbed. Every day that goes by, that’s the thought that I have,” Turner told Good Morning America. “I have her picture on a dresser in my closet. Every morning I give her a nod, ‘So what do you think about this?'”
He added: “For awhile 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 to be happy. She’s up there rooting [for me]. She’s saying, ‘Yeah, Gerry. Do this.'”
