BEAR'S TRAGIC PAST REVEALED!

This isn't the first time the new star of The Golden Bachelor has shared his life with a TV audience!

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Barry “Bear” Myrden is setting screens alight with his search for romance on new reality show The Golden Bachelor, but this isn’t his first time on telly. Fourteen years ago, his heartbreaking original love story was revealed in a two-part TV series.

Looking very different, with jet-black hair and no moustache, Barry, now 61, and his late wife Audrey, who was then fighting a terminal brain tumour, opened their lives up to Aussie news show A Current Affair.

Audrey's last wish was to provide the comfort and security of a home to the three precious little boys she and Barry shared - and with the help of the show and hundreds of Sydney tradies, she was granted her wish.

The brave mum said the love exhibited by everyone who helped build their home gave her an “extra year of quality with my kids”, including spending what would be her last Christmas in their very own home.

“It gives me peace of mind knowing that the boys and Barry have a place of their own,” she said, fighting back tears in the 2011 feature called “Audrey's Wish”.