BOASTFUL BACHELOR PADS EGO!

GERIATRIC gigolo Gerry Turner has gone totally Hollywood, thanks to his starring role on the groundbreaking new dating show The Golden Bachelor, and sources reveal his friends are pleading with him to come back down to Earth!

"The more famous Gerry's gotten, the more stuck up and bigheaded he's become," huffs a spy.

The retired restaurateur, 72, is the first silver fox to hunt for love on ABC's Bachelor spinoff for the Golden Years set - and sources snitch his sudden popularity has seriously puffed up his ego. 

"Gerry's strutting around like he's a gift to all women and wants to be driven in limos and eat at the finest restaurants.