{"id":82329,"date":"2023-11-30T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=82329"},"modified":"2023-11-30T02:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T02:04:00","slug":"golden-bachelor-sob-story-a-lie-hes-been-dating-since-month-after-his-wife-died-dumped-woman-for-gaining-10-lbs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/celebrities\/golden-bachelor-sob-story-a-lie-hes-been-dating-since-month-after-his-wife-died-dumped-woman-for-gaining-10-lbs-report\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Golden Bachelor&#039; Sob Story A Lie?! He&#039;s Been Dating Since Month After His Wife Died &#8211; &amp; Dumped Woman For Gaining 10 Lbs: REPORT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bachelor Nation<\/strong> viewers know the story of\u00a0<em>The Golden Bachelor<\/em>.\u00a0<strong>ABC<\/strong> went older with their new spin on the dating show, and the very first star was\u00a0<strong>Gerry Turner<\/strong>, a hunky septuagenarian with a heartbreaking backstory.<\/p>\n<p>His wife of 43 years passed away back in 2017, and the poor guy just couldn&#8217;t bring himself to get back into that dating pool in all those years. No first dates in 45 years, and now he was finally going to try again &#8212; on national TV.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Season on &quot;The Golden Bachelor&quot; - THURSDAYS 8\/7c on ABC - Stream on Hulu\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xR5iqyjDRW4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Only&#8230; was that all BS??<\/p>\n<p>In a shocking expos\u00e9 on Wednesday,\u00a0<em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> claims Gerry DID date after his wife&#8217;s death. The woman (whom the publication codenamed <strong>Carolyn<\/strong>) was 14 years the widower&#8217;s junior at 52. Math not mathing there? That&#8217;s because this was in 2017. Yeah. Just a MONTH after his wife&#8217;s death! Not six freakin&#8217; years!<\/p>\n<p>According to her account, which came with receipts like text messages and other documents, Gerry dated her for over two and a half years! They even lived together, in that &#8220;dream&#8221; retirement home on the lake he bought for his wife, for the last year and nine months of the relationship. Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn told\u00a0<em>THR<\/em> she didn&#8217;t want to become a national story &#8212; but she was too hurt by being relegated to the &#8220;invisible woman&#8221; role. She was particularly galled when he fed contestants familiar lines. He texted her on September 2, 2017:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Damn, I go to bed at night thinking of you and wake up in the morning thinking of you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was three months after his wife&#8217;s death btw, for those keeping score. And he told\u00a0<strong>Leslie<\/strong> the fitness instructor on the show:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to have you with my morning coffee, I have to have you when I go to bed at night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just his thing, we guess. The morning and night line. Gross. Carolyn&#8217;s friend\u00a0<strong>Susan McCreary<\/strong> didn&#8217;t mind her name being used as she put this man on blast, telling <em>THR<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just can\u2019t believe this has happened to my girlfriend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Susan was particularly offended when he claimed he hadn&#8217;t kissed anyone in six years, something she knew was a flat-out lie:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I\u2019m like, <em>what<\/em>? He\u2019s got to know that people are paying attention to this show. I\u2019m just flabbergasted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The way the relationship with Carolyn ended is particularly despicable &#8212; not the type of thing we&#8217;re sure\u00a0<em>Bachelor<\/em> producers ever wanted coming out. She says they were planning on going to Gerry&#8217;s high school reunion. His 50th, we assume. As she was packing, he told her not to bother, she wasn&#8217;t invited. He brought up her weight, pointing and saying:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not taking you to the reunion looking like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn explained she had put on about 10 lbs recently due to stress. 10 lbs. And he was suddenly ashamed of her.<\/p>\n<p>As one might expect, that fight led right into their breakup. She says he kicked her out of the house and made her stay at a hotel as she finished out her two weeks notice at her job. Oof.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sneak Peek: The Dramatic Finale of The Golden Bachelor - The Golden Bachelor\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qCPIqmTEl8Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And Carolyn wasn&#8217;t the only one either! According to\u00a0<strong>Heather Lanning-Adams<\/strong>, who worked as a waitress at the\u00a0<strong>Shady Nook<\/strong> bar and restaurant near his home, Gerry worked his way through the ladies, bringing them all to his spot. She told <em>The US Sun<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He dated a couple of women. They weren\u2019t all long-term, but they&#8230; weren\u2019t short-term either&#8230; He was with a couple of women for a decent amount of time, but it just didn\u2019t work out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow. For all the fans who bought his aw, shucks heartbroken widower act, well, y&#8217;all aren&#8217;t alone either. We guess he&#8217;s been practicing it for a while on various women before deploying it on America. Gross.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/golden-bachelor-gerry-turner-sob-story-lie-dumped-woman-gaining-weight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bachelor Nation viewers know the story of\u00a0The Golden Bachelor.\u00a0ABC went older with their new spin on the dating show, and the very first star was\u00a0Gerry Turner, a hunky septuagenarian with a heartbreaking backstory. 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