A Golden Snitch? Gerry Turner Spills More PART 2
The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
3.8 • 14K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Ashley continue to spill the tea with original Golden Bachelor, Gerry Turner! Gerry shares his unfiltered opinions on the current Golden Bachelor, Mel Owens, and his thoughts on the rumors that this could be the final season of the show.
Gerry pulls back the curtain on a conversation with contestant Faith the night before his wedding, and he gives more clarity to his comments that Theresa "should be nervous" about his new book.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | This is the Ben and Ashley I almost famous podcast with Iheart Radio. |
| 0:10.0 | We are back with Gary Turner. |
| 0:12.8 | Right now we want to focus on this season of The Golden Bachelor and how he thinks Mel is doing as a lead. |
| 0:21.1 | So let's dive back in. |
| 0:22.6 | Gary, you are always going to be the Golden Bachelor. |
| 0:26.9 | And with the season that is, and we're going to talk about this season a little bit here |
| 0:32.4 | towards the end if you don't mind, but this season is not helping your case to kind of remove yourself from |
| 0:38.9 | the Golden Bachelor title. You will be known as the Golden Bachelor probably because of the lack of |
| 0:44.1 | you know, everything this season. Are you able to give that up? I mean, even as you get married |
| 0:51.3 | again, and even as you enter in this relationship, you mentioned that |
| 0:56.5 | you like to be retired, that this pursuit of fame felt unfulfilling and not really worth the time |
| 1:03.3 | to stay relevant. |
| 1:04.9 | You'll always be the Golden Bachelor. |
| 1:06.4 | Is that something that you're okay with, or does that remind you of less happy times oh no i'm i'm i'm pretty |
| 1:13.8 | happy to have that title um you know just to separate two things i love it when uh people come up to me |
| 1:22.1 | and they want pictures and they want to talk briefly and so forth they get to share in the fun of the show. I really find that |
| 1:29.8 | very exciting. The minute they walk away, I'm still Gary Regular Joe walking on. I'm okay with |
| 1:37.1 | not pursuing additional attention, whether it's on social media or TV appearances or anything else. |
| 1:46.0 | I've turned down a number of things because I enjoy being retired. |
| 1:51.7 | But I also enjoy being the Golden Bachelor. |
| 1:54.1 | It's a strong responsibility. |
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