Prior to meeting his new girlfriend, Gerry Turner‘s closest feeling to love at first sight was on The Golden Bachelor — but not with his winner, Theresa Nist.
Speaking about his unnamed new love on the Tuesday, April 15, episode of the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast, Turner, 73, revealed his connection has been strong since the moment they met.
“I hate to say it because I know I’m going to get baseballs thrown at me. It was almost the first time I saw her,” Turner said when asked how he knew his new relationship was becoming more serious. “It was the look that she gave me. It was like, all of a sudden, I was consumed by this look and I had this actual physical feeling and I pushed it off. I go, ‘That was silly, that’s ridiculous.’ And with every encounter that feeling has instantly come back with her look and it’s like, ‘Damn, this is pretty awesome.’”
After cohost Joe Amabile asked whether Turner had felt those feelings with any women on his season, the former lead replied, “I think the closest to that was when Faith played the guitar and sang to me on I think it was the first night she got the first impression rose. That would be the closest to it. … The whole love at first sight thing, I have never been in on that. And all of a sudden, here I am, I really feel like I’m experiencing that.”
Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner Reveals He’s Dating Someone New
Despite his strong feelings, Turner ultimately sent home Martin, 62, and proposed to Theresa Nist in the season 1 finale of The Golden Bachelor in 2023. Turner and Nist, 71, tied the knot the following year, but split months later. While reflecting on his relationship with Nist, Turner shared that he’s unsure whether “anything went wrong.”
“We’ve had conversations, and I think our mutual deep devotion to our families kind of reared its head in conversations, and we started trying to find that common ground, the commonality of where we could share a life and where we could share a home and so forth,” he explained. “Her being a brand new grandmother and me having gone through the loss of a spouse and feeling the support of my daughters, it almost created a situation where we recognized fairly quickly that we weren’t going to find that spot where we could be together. And I think more than anything that was it. And I really feel like there was a mutual admiration and respect and empathy in both ways that we kind of understood the other person’s situation.”
Disney/John & Joseph PhotographyWhen asked whether he thinks he would still be with Nist today if they were from the same location, Turner replied, “That’s a difficult hypothetical question.”
“Based on what I know and based on the experiences that we had back then. If you eliminate that huge obstacle, I can see no red flags,” he said. “I still don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t have worked out. But we were also so new to the relationship that we may not have uncovered that layer of the onion that could have been a problem yet. So it’s hard to answer that, really.”
Turner, who revealed his diagnosis with an incurable cancer in December 2024, admitted that he “withdrew” from Nist.
“I felt like, maybe, I was a source of bad feelings and the negativity that came out of the show and so forth,” he said. “So I kind of avoided talking to her, and not out of you know, ill will or being combat of it all, just I thought it was better if we gave each other space. Maybe I was wrong with that and now I intend to go a different direction with it.”
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