Gerry Turner and ex-wife Theresa Nist have reunited for the primary time since their now-contentious divorce through the Golden Bachelor season 2 finale.
Doing the Wednesday, November 12, dwell broadcast, host Jesse Palmer revealed that Gerry, 74, was within the crowd.
“Look who else is right here: Gerry, our first Golden Bachelor,” Jesse, 47, addressed the viewers. “[He's here] together with his new fiancée, Lana [Sutton].”
The digital camera then panned to Gerry and Lana sitting within the crowd, waving again at Jesse and the cameras.
“We wanna say congratulations on you each discovering love,” Jesse added. “Excited for you too.”
Jesse subsequently revealed that “so many Golden women and Golden males” had been additionally in attendance — sitting throughout the room. Theresa, 72, was noticed sitting subsequent to Gerry's runner-up, Leslie Fhima, and Mel Owens' castoffs from season 2. Jesse didn't additional deal with Theresa or Leslie's look.
Gerry famously obtained engaged to Theresa throughout season 1 of The Golden Bachelor, which aired in 2023. They tied the knot lower than a yr later however introduced in April 2024 that they went their separate methods after three months of marriage.
Gerry Turner and Lana Sutton. Courtesy of ABC
“Theresa and I've had a lot of heart-to-heart conversations. We've appeared intently at our residing conditions and we've sort of come to the conclusion mutually that it's time for us to dissolve our marriage,” Gerry stated on Good Morning America on the time. “The issues that strike me probably the most in our conversations it's been how devoted each of us are to our households. So, we have a look at these conditions and I believe we simply really feel prefer it's greatest for the happiness of every of us to dwell aside.”
Whereas Gerry and Theresa initially blamed their whirlwind divorce on lengthy distance, he later informed Us Weekly that extra factored into the choice.
“I consider [I was] made out to be a villain,” Gerry claimed to Us solely in an October cowl story. “Proper earlier than Theresa and I went on Good Morning America to announce that divorce, we agreed that we might defend one another, and I don't really feel like that occurred. I felt like I used to be taking the brunt of the state of affairs. And I am going, ‘No, wait a minute, that's not proper. It's 50/50.'”
Theresa Nist sits within the second row subsequent to Leslie Fhima. Courtesy of ABC
Gerry laid out extra claims about what went unsuitable in his My Golden Years memoir, even alleging that he felt “trapped” going into his and Theresa's wedding ceremony day.
Theresa, in the meantime, denied Gerry's model of occasions.
“It makes me very unhappy to assume that he felt empty and trapped,” Theresa informed Us in a press release final month. “I want he had stated one thing and simply ended it. However no less than now I perceive why he was so hurtful to me so many occasions. And I'll say this. These in glass homes mustn't throw stones. I do want him all the very best.”
Theresa later revealed that she remains to be harm by Gerry's claims.
“All I need is peace and pleasure and good issues in my life,” she stated on the“Pricey Shandy” podcast earlier this month. “I've been extraordinarily upset. Anytime I speak about something that I learn that he stated about any interplay we had, I simply go, ‘That's not the way it was.”
