{"id":84453,"date":"2025-10-17T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84453\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:15:08","slug":"australia-first-met-the-golden-bachelor-13-years-ago-under-heartbreaking-circumstances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84453\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia first met the Golden Bachelor 13 years ago under heartbreaking circumstances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before he was the Golden Bachelor, Australia first met Barry &#8216;Bear&#8217; Myrden 13 years ago in the most heartbreaking circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>He was a full-time father and carer for the love of his life Audrey.<\/p>\n<p>At 43, Audrey was diagnosed with a brain tumor and given nine months to live.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/a-current-affair\/familys-heartbreak-after-thieves-steal-11-year-olds-tailor-made-pram\/c49b8345-8eeb-4541-b019-6e761ae4ae0d\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Family&#039;s heartbreak after thieves steal son&#039;s tailor-made pram\ufeff\">Family&#8217;s heartbreak after thieves steal son&#8217;s tailor-made pram\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a9c43e41-3c6e-449d-8330-fe46adacd699.jpeg\"   alt=\"Australia first met Barry 'Bear' Myrden 13 years ago in the most heartbreaking circumstances.\"\/>Australia first met Barry &#8216;Bear&#8217; Myrden 13 years ago in the most heartbreaking circumstances. (A Current Affair)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What a cruel irony to give a young mum a beautiful family then take her away from them, especially my young babies,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Audrey had one wish\ufeff to get out of the family&#8217;s rental and into the security of a home the boys could call their own.<\/p>\n<p>With Sydney&#8217;s property market proving impossible, time wasn&#8217;t on Audrey&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/a-current-affair\/mans-quiet-country-home-turned-into-bat-cave\/4467e8da-0c68-4d79-aedf-708712b3683d\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Man&#039;s quiet country home turned into bat cave\ufeff\">Man&#8217;s quiet country home turned into bat cave\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/5dc6f25c-0a94-4313-8622-ca0444357cd2.jpeg\"   alt=\"Bear's life has been devoted to his three boys since his wife Audrey passed away.\"\/>Bear&#8217;s life has been devoted to his three boys since his wife Audrey passed away. (A Current Affair)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when A Current Affair viewers stepped in.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>And one of the biggest renovation rescue Australia has seen was still to come.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Within 10 days, the family not only had a new home but the property was decked out as well.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/a-current-affair\/inspiration-behind-hit-film-shares-new-challenge-for-cause-close-to-her-heart\/a5018f83-204d-44e2-94de-de2a7847249c\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Inspiration behind hit film shares new challenge for cause close to her heart\ufeff\">Inspiration behind hit film shares new challenge for cause close to her heart\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Audrey and Bear could move straight in with the kids and savour what little time they had left together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just went into survival mode,&#8221; Bear recalled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My life has \ufeffbeen pretty much devoted to my boys since my wife passed 14 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now it&#8217;s my time, she&#8217;d want me to move on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The boys are looked after, they&#8217;ve grown, she&#8217;d be very proud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full story in the player above.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before he was the Golden Bachelor, Australia first met Barry &#8216;Bear&#8217; Myrden 13 years ago in the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-84453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}