This is why ‘Golden Bachelor’ Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist really split, contestant reveals
All that glitters isn’t golden.
“The Golden Bachelor” couple Gerry Turner, 71, and Theresa Nist, 70, shocked the world when they called it quits after just three months of marriage.
Now, another show alum, Susan Noles, is revealing what allegedly happened.
During SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show with Julia Cunningham,” Noles said about Turner, “I’ve gotta support this man a little bit. I feel like he got the wrong end of it. Theresa decided not to move and not to quit her job. He got frustrated. Who can blame him? I mean, I would’ve never said I would move to that place wherever that is in the middle of nowhere.”
Nist is a financial services professional from Shrewsbury, New Jersey. Turner is a retired restaurateur from Indiana. Both of them have grandchildren.
Before their breakup, the former couple told ET in December that they both planned to move, after tying the knot.
“On the first date, he spoke to me about possibly moving to the Charleston area. I said, ‘Well, wow.’ I have a son who lives in South Carolina. I said, ‘That would work,'” Nist said. “It wasn’t until the Fantasy Suite that the conversation came back to that and we realized South Carolina is probably where we’re going.”
Turner also caused controversy during the show when a story emerged alleging that he lied about not dating after his wife’s death.
Shortly before the “Golden Bachelor” finale on Nov. 30, a woman, who went by the name of Carolyn, told the Hollywood Reporter that Turner flirted with her for three months after his wife passed, and he asked her to move in with him in 2018.
Their relationship, however, fizzled out in 2019 when Turner allegedly dumped her after she gained 10 pounds mere months before his high school reunion.
“I’m not taking you to the reunion looking like that,” Carolyn claims Turner told her.
Turner denied the accusations, saying that he doesn’t “have time to think about some of the other stuff.”
“I guess I haven’t really looked at it as how accurate it is,” Turner told the New York Times, adding he’s only given the article a “cursory look.”
“I’ve more looked at it in terms of timing, and how it really doesn’t fit with all of the positive things that are going on in my life right now.”
Another “Golden Bachelor” alum, Kathy Swarts, also appeared on the radio show to defend Turner.
“Gerry’s a nice guy. Theresa’s a lovely lady. S–t happens. Sorry. It does,” she said.
“We like them both, but yeah. You know, I’m sorry. You know someone a month or six weeks and these things happen.”
She added, “I think they got caught up in the moment. We watched them fall in love. They bonded that first night, on that date. It was real.”
ABC has already announced the next star of the show, the first “Golden Bachelorette” — 61-year-old grandma Joan Vassos from Maryland, who appeared on Turner’s season.
“The Golden Bachelorette” will air on ABC in the fall.
