Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist, who met and fell in love on the inaugural season of “The Golden Bachelor,” a spin-off of ABC’s hit reality dating series “The Bachelor” that featured a cast of senior citizens, are separating just three months after tying the knot in a televised ceremony aired live on ABC. “Theresa and I have had a number of heart-to-heart conversations, and we’ve looked closely at our situation, our living situation, and so forth, and we’ve kind of come to the conclusion—mutually—that it’s probably time for us to dissolve, um, our marriage,” Mr. Turner explained.
The former shared two daughters with his late wife, Toni, who passed away in 2017 after 43 years of marriage, while the latter shared a daughter and son with her late husband, William, to whom she was married to for 42 years before his passing in 2014. “One of the things that I think fate played a hand in is the possibility of where we might wind up living,” Mr. Turner told the publication.
“For the last couple of years, when my family gets together, I’ve talked about moving to South Carolina, and it’s an idea I’ve toyed with,” he described. “And then in conversation with Theresa, a private moment, she’s saying, ‘Well, yeah, my son lives near Charleston in South Carolina.’” “And all of a sudden it’s like, there’s a big problem that is gone,” Mr.
Turner continued. “The issue of compromising on where to live and how to reconcile families and all o.
