Golden Bachelor Split: Turns out, It Is Just as Messy as the Original

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The Golden Bachelor split.When I saw the on April 12 that ’s Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist were divorcing only three months after their televised wedding, I had to laugh.

Yes! Now we’re talking.It’s not that I hate love. I just don’t watch reality TV for it. And while the franchise—which I’ve watched off and on for most of its 20-year run—is ostensibly about two soulmates finding each other, I’ve been around long enough to know the truth.

The Bachelor franchise is about drama.It’s been an interesting few years for the now-staple of unscripted television. In the late 2010s, the series entered what I’d call an “influencer boom.” For a , women who went on the show for “love” were coming away with 1 million plus Instagram followers, many of whom like , , and even runner-runner ups like were able to make influencing their full-time careers.Good for them, but bad for the series.

Fans began to complain that many of the contestants were going on the show for followers rather than true love, calling it an “influencer factory.” The Bachelor, they complained, was anything but But The Golden Bachelor, they said, was a breath of fresh air.