The Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner and his girlfriend, Lana Sutton, are engaged!
Turner, 73, introduced the information through an Instagram post on Friday, October 3. The publish featured a carousel of couple selfies with Sutton brandishing a glowing engagement ring.
“We've obtained BIG information,” the publish's caption learn. “The Golden Bachelor is OFF the market. I discovered my good match and she or he mentioned ‘YES'. I Love this lady.”
Followers flocked to the feedback part to ship properly needs to the newly engaged couple.
“👏👏 So joyful for each of you. Excellent alternative Gerry😍” wrote one follower, whereas one other added, “Congratulations! You look very joyful collectively! That's some bling she has on her ring finger 👏💍”
Turner revealed the id of his new girlfriend in April through a TMZ interview. He shared that he met Sutton after she slid into his DMs.
He shared that the romance was nearly over earlier than it even started when he ignored her first message.
Fortunately, Sutton continued and messaged him once more and revealed she grew up in an Indiana city 20 minutes from him — which sparked his curiosity.
“We've been collectively each weekend,” Gerry informed Individuals in April. “She's retired, so she's not tied down. On a second's discover, she might come right here or if I'm going there. There's no encumbrances with work, so there's simply an terrible lot of pluses which are serving to us alongside.”
Lana Sutton and Gerry Turner. (Photograph Courtesy of Gerry Turner/Instagram)
Previous to revealing Sutton's id, Turner confirmed on an episode of the “Bachelor Comfortable Hour” podcast in April that he was courting somebody new.
The brand new romance revelation got here a 12 months after Turner filed for divorce from Theresa Nist. (Turner and Nist met on The Golden Bachelor's season 1, turned engaged in November 2023 and married in January 2024 earlier than the divorce was filed in April 2024.)
“I'm courting somebody,” Turner shared on the podcast. “I believe at this level it's going properly. However I don't wish to say an excessive amount of and jinx it and I'm attempting to respectfully get to a degree the place there's an appropriate period of time from my divorce. Perhaps that's an quaint thought — perhaps it doesn't matter as a lot as I believe it does, however to be respectful, I sort of wish to sluggish roll this.”
Turner admitted that there was an immediate attraction between himself and Sutton.
“I hate to say it as a result of I do know I'm going to get baseballs thrown at me. It was nearly the primary time I noticed her. It was the look that she gave me,” he mentioned. “It was like, rapidly, I used to be consumed by this look and I had this particular bodily feeling and I pushed it off. I'm going, ‘That was foolish, that's ridiculous.' And with each encounter that feeling has immediately come again together with her look and it's like, ‘Rattling, that is fairly superior,'”
Nist, 72, informed Us Weekly in April that Turner knowledgeable her of his new relationship earlier than making it public.
“He mentioned, ‘I simply wanna let you recognize I met somebody.' I mentioned, ‘That's great. I'm so joyful for you.'” Nist solely informed Us on the time. “He goes, ‘I used to be afraid to inform you.' ‘Why would you be afraid? I solely need your happiness.' Like, if this was the best way it occurred for him to seek out his particular person to go on the present, get married, after which discover his particular person this manner, then it was meant to be.”
