Iowan and first 'Golden Bachelor' Gerry Turner divorcing Theresa Nist after 3 months

The very first “Golden Bachelor” and Iowan Gerry Turner and wife Theresa Nist are getting a divorce.

The duo announced their split on “Good Morning America” on April 12.

The news comes just three months after they married on live television in Palm Springs, California — an event that brought out contestants from the “Bachelor” franchise and glimpses into Nist’s golden bachelorette party.

“Theresa and I have had a number of heart-to-heart conversations, and we’ve looked closely at our situation, our living situation, so forth and — and we’ve kind of come to the conclusion mutually that it’s probably time for us to dissolve our marriage,” Turner told Juju Chang on “GMA.”

Turner, 72, made Bachelor Nation history as the first leading man of ABC’s “The Golden Bachelor,” which will return with “The Golden Bachelorette” in September.

He proposed to Nist, 70, last year after a romance that included Nist arriving in a birthday suit (she was actually in clothes) to a drive in Southern California that took an unexpected turn when the convertible’s headlights malfunctioned.

“We have received so much love and support from so many people who watched ‘The Golden Bachelor,’ and I don’t think we can tell you how many people told us that it gave them so much hope,” Nist said on “GMA.” “We want none of that to change for anybody.”

Turner, who is from Iowa, spent a large part of his marriage with his previous wife of 43 years, Toni, in the Quad Cities before she died in 2017.

Paris Barraza is a trending and general assignment reporter at the Des Moines Register. Reach her at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @ParisBarraza.

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