The Golden Bachelor’s Sunny Long reveals heartbreaking family tragedy – and the real reason she split from her partner of 15 years

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On the finale of The Golden Bachelor, Barry ‘Bear’ Myrden chose Sunny Long to continue a relationship with, finally finding love on the show.

The woman who won over Bear on the show has shared the story of a difficult family loss and how it led her to seek a relationship.

After her mother received a dementia diagnosis, the 58-year-old woman left her job and moved to South Korea to care for her. This decision ultimately led to the end of her 15-year relationship.

She explained to Mamamia that she understood why he felt the need to have his partner nearby, but she had been away caring for her mother, who is seriously ill. She knows their time together is limited.

Even though their relationship ended sadly, Sunny expressed happiness for her ex-partner, who is now with someone new.

After a suspenseful eight weeks, Barry ‘Bear’ Myrden found love with Sunny on the season finale of The Golden Bachelor, which aired Sunday.

However, there’s a surprising twist: the 61-year-old engineer who won almost missed meeting the person who presented him with the award.

Just after being chosen as the next Golden Bachelor, Bear left the show because he’d already fallen in love with someone else.

Interestingly, the person who originally tried out for the part was a Canadian who was living in Sydney.

According to a source, he was immediately offered the job, but he withdrew his application after starting a relationship with someone else.

According to the source, when Bear left before filming could begin, the show’s producers were left without a lead actor.

After seeing the other people who tried out, Bear really stood out, and they convinced him to return to the show, according to a source familiar with the production.

According to the source, the other possible bachelors were ‘spectacularly underwhelming’.

Bear is said to be ‘loving all the attention’ the show has brought him.

Woman’s Day reported that Bear, who claimed to be single since his wife Audrey passed away in 2014, was actually engaged to a wealthy woman named Jo Kinghorn. This contradicts what he stated on the show about his relationship status.

Someone who was at the couple’s engagement party in 2016 shared details about their troubled relationship, mentioning that Kinghorn’s friends often referred to Bear in a disrespectful way, calling him a ‘tosser’.

According to a source at Daily Mail, Bear spent the majority of the party flaunting the ski boat Jo gifted him.

What’s more, according to the insider, Bear didn’t cough up for Kinghorn’s engagement ring.

‘It should be known that the engagement ring was purchased by the bride-to-be,’ the source claimed. 

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2025-11-22 15:03