When Bachelor in Paradise returns as part of the 2025 TV schedule this summer, we already know there will be contestants from the Golden spinoffs joining the young singles on the beach. A handful of the Season 10 cast has even been confirmed, but one person we won’t see is Gerry Turner. The very first Golden Bachelor said he turned down the show, and now he’s opening up about the new love he’s found off-camera.
Gerry Turner initially said the reason he wouldn’t go on Bachelor in Paradise was because he’d already dated all of those women (a hilariously good point), but it seems there’s more to the story. The 73-year-old visited the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, where he spilled the tea on a new special someone in his life, telling the hosts (via US Weekly):
I hate to say it because I know I’m going to get baseballs thrown at me. It was almost the first time I saw her. It was the look that she gave me. It was like, all of a sudden, I was consumed by this look and I had this actual physical feeling and I pushed it off. I go, ‘That was silly, that’s ridiculous.’ And with every encounter that feeling has instantly come back with her look and it’s like, ‘Damn, this is pretty awesome.’
