Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner signs with Gersh
EXCLUSIVE: Gersh on Tuesday announced the signing of Indiana native Gerry Turner, who won hearts last fall as the first lead of ABC’s The Golden Bachelor.
A 72-year-old businessman and television personality, Turner became the star of the network’s senior-focused spinoff The Bachelor after the tragic death of his wife Toni in 2017. He married his lover me. high school at age 22 and then moved to Davenport, IA, where he worked as general manager for a corporation that owned five restaurants. Gradually acquiring the group, he held various roles in the food industry, including Purchasing Manager, Sales Coach and General Manager for several food distributors. In addition, he wrote for various trade publications and served as a speaker for distributors in later years.
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After retiring in 2007, Turner returned to school to earn his mediator certification, then conducted mediation for small claims court, divorce, civil rights and workplace conflict resolution. . He returned to the dating industry last year with the support of his family and a boost in ABC’s ratings, helping breathe new life into the network’s flagship reality series for more than two decades.
After achieving the largest cross-platform audience for any season premiere in the Bachelor franchise over the past three years, The Golden Bachelor continues to bring ABC the highest 35-day average audience for any season. period of unscripted programming in the past 5 years. The show also set a streaming record for ABC in its first 35 days on Hulu, and is expected to launch additional spin-offs — perhaps The Golden Bachelorette?
At the end of his season, Turner became engaged to Theresa Nist, a financial services professional in New Jersey. The couple tied the knot on ABC’s live special earlier this month.
Turner is one of Gersh’s high-profile recent replacement signings, which this week announced Cineflix Productions as a new client. These come after the agency acquired A3’s Digital and Alternatives division earlier this month, as part of an ongoing global expansion plan.