72-y.o. Golden Bachelor: Meet his dates

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I would do date Gerry. wait is it Gary  or Jeri? Oh, I'd date him hard, better then these...

Hi, I'm Grandpa Gerry. But you can call me Fabrizzio, the Golden Fox and geriatric lover.

America’s new most eligible bachelor, 72-year-old grandpa Gerry Turner, is a retired restaurateur who fills his days with pickleball. He’s about to date 22 women, one as young as 61, on national television (WSJ).

• Hollywood's The Golden Bachelor premieres tonight

ABC has high hopes for senior dating (Variety)

(WQ) It's a spectacle that will have bedrooms across the nation's old folks' homes retirement villas roiling with lust and provocative thoughts ("girl porn" romantic ideas sure to make married men groan, regretting they gave up the remote control because the game is on, and the power tools are getting cold in the garage and shed, and the lawn needs mowing, and there's a poker game over at Big Al's, and they're showing ESPN clips at the bar, and and...uh, help, there's got to be more to life than this garbage programming!)

Preview review

OMG, my work is never done.

The critics have seen it, and here's the problem: On the regular youthful version of the show with 20-somethings, if imbalanced young ladies come on and entertain us with their drama and humiliating loss of love after being drummed out, it's easy to imagine them meeting someone new the very next week. There's no reason for them to mope.

But here, in this golden years version, with all the silver foxes coming after the geriatric bachelor, if they're heartbroken, it's really easy to imagine that this was their last chance at true love or any love. They're hitting the wall, and now they're about to hit the ceiling as they get beat out by brighter, craftier, more cunning opponents. Will 60-year-old Nancy, Maria, or Joan win out because of their age...or will a crone rule the roost -- and the pickleball court -- and take the man chicken in hand as she does a man chicken walk in front of the other hens?

Will the Bidens be watching, Jill?