Cruise Control ; Meet 70-Year Old Gerald Ryan, a Professional Escort, Dance Guru and Star of a New Bbc Series.

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Whoever said the dating game gets easier with age? I expected lunch with Gerald Ryan, a carefully manicured 70-year-old ' professional perfect gentleman', who tours the world by cruise ship for free in return for giving dance lessons and waltzing older ladies, to be a pretty tame affair.

The star of an episode of Golden Years, a new BBC2 series about life after retirement, Ryan is shown reducing octogenarian widows to a state of bug-eyed flirtatiousness as he whisks them through the cha cha with lines such as, 'Well, you're just scrumptious. Lost a little weight?' Although his brief to entertain the 'gals' as he calls them stops short of having any 'intimacies', his tales match any of the romantic shenanigans played out among younger generations.

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Cruise Control ; Meet 70-Year Old Gerald Ryan, a Professional Escort, Dance Guru and Star of a New Bbc Series.

'Single men stay home, drink beer and go bowling,' he tells me. 'Single women go on cruises. The reason you have dance hosts like me is that cruises always have many more ladies on ...

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