‘Golden Bachelor’ inspired older adults to seek romance, busted dating stereotypes
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MINNEAPOLIS – Laura Davis had never watched “The Bachelor” or its many iterations. But the 63-year-old Minneapolis resident tuned in for “The Golden Bachelor,” starring daters with hearing aids.
Her hope didn’t spring from Gerry Turner, the weepy 72-year-old widower at the reality TV show’s center. It came from the women. Those daring, darling women, some of whom “didn’t think they would ever be able to actually have feelings for a man again,” said Davis, who was briefly married in the ’80s. …