Someone dug up the 'Golden Bachelor’s' past. Turns out it’s not as golden as it seems ...



“The Golden Bachelor” is yet another reality dating show, but unlike “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” both of which feature younger competitors, “The Golden Bachelor” stars 72-year-old Gerry (pronounced Gary) Turner as he searches for love again.

The show, which ended yesterday, has been wildly popular, partly because Gerry Turner, or perhaps Gerry Turner’s persona, has been well-received by the public.

But how authentic is this silver fox?

“They made him look so sympathetic – the sweetest,” says Allie Beth Stuckey’s producer Bri Shrader, who watched the show from start to finish.

However, according to recent reports, the real Gerry doesn’t exactly match up with his onstage presence.

The show portrayed Gerry in a sympathetic light, claiming he “[hadn’t] dated in 45 years because his wife died.” They called him a “retired restaurateur” and “[made] him seem like he was wealthy,” says Allie.

But it’s looking like Gerry’s traits were more rooted in dramatic effect than they were in reality.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, “these things aren’t really true.” Gerry is allegedly “not so inexperienced when it comes to dating,” and “he’s not a retired restaurateur.”

The report stated that “he has dated since his wife died.” In fact, “he began a three-year relationship pretty quickly after his wife died (one month after his wife died)” with a woman named Carolyn.

“According to the article, the relationship was confirmed through Carolyn's family, friends’ text messages, and even a background check confirming her address was the same as Gerry's for over a year,” reads Allie, “and then they broke up in October 2019 after reportedly Gerry told Carolyn he wasn't going to take her to his high school reunion looking like that because she had gained weight and told her to be out by January 1, 2020.”

“Also he is not a retired restaurateur,” Allie explains. “He last owned a restaurant in 1985 when he sold his Mr. Quick Hamburger drive-in franchise.”

After selling his restaurant, “apparently he was actually a maintenance man at a counseling office.”

“There's nothing wrong with that,” says Allie, “but I think it's interesting how ‘The Golden Bachelor’ people decided, ‘Well, that's not part of the persona that we want to build; that's not going to sell, we want someone who seems successful and wealthy.”’

To hear Allie and Bri's full analysis, watch the video below.


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Director Aaron Sorkin lashes out against cancel culture, says Twitter mobs are no different from the McCarthy era



Aaron Sorkin, famed screenwriter and director, hit out at cancel culture during a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter.

Sorkin made the remarks while interviewing about his forthcoming project, "Being the Ricardos," starring actors Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem.

What are the details?

In an article published on Thursday, Sorkin said that he believed there are parallels between cancel culture and McCarthy-era Hollywood.

"The bad guys during the blacklist, it wasn't just Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn," Sorkin said. "Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn would have been powerless if it wasn't for this other committee whose job it was, if the network wants to hire me on a television series, it was their job to tell the network whether that was OK, whether a guy who owned a couple of supermarkets on Long Island was going to be OK with the network advertising their product during my show."

He continued, saying that if media heads "told these groups to take a walk," things would have been very different.

"If the studio heads and network heads had told these groups to take a walk, and had just not listened to them, everything would have been fine," Sorkin reasoned. "And so, for instance, if we were to talk about Dave Chappelle for a moment, I certainly could make a rebuttal argument against a number of the points that he makes in his special, but I have absolutely no argument with Netflix and Ted Sarandos for putting it on their platform."

Sorkin also blasted Twitter mobs and said that canceling or banning things isn't contributing to healing a heavily divided culture — such as the one in which we live.

"What we need are more people to say no to — and that's what Twitter is, Twitter is that committee that says whether or not you can abuse someone, and they must be ignored," Sorkin added.

"I just strongly believe, and now more than ever when we're living in a frighteningly divided culture, that people talking to each other is the way out and that banning things isn't," he insisted.

What else?

Elsewhere during the interview, Sorkin said that his play, "To Kill a Mockingbird," was shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and said that important films and productions need to be preserved for the integrity of education and cultural evolution.

"My play, 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' had to shut down along with everyone else a year ago March, when COVID came along, and during that year and a half, five different school districts in the country banned the teaching of 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' along with 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and 'Of Mice and Men,'" Sorkin said. "And people will point out to me, 'Well, they use the N-word in To Kill a Mockingbird.' Isn't it better to have a discussion in class about this? Isn't it an opportunity to talk about that word and why that word is almost holy in its power?"

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