Gerry Turner shares photo of his ‘Blended Family’ with Theresa Nist
Golden bachelor‘S Gerry Turner and his fiancée, Theresa Nisthave a lot to celebrate these holidays.
“It’s going to be quite a Gerry Christmas with Theresa and our blended family,” Gerry, 72, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, December 9.
In the photo, Theresa, 70, posed next to her daughter, Jen Woolstonher daughter-in-law, Amanda Nistand Gerry’s two daughters, Jenny Young And Angie Turner. All the women posed on a staircase, while the younger generation wore a red sweatshirt that said ‘A Very Gerry Christmas’, with Theresa’s in pink.
The post comes just weeks after Gerry and Theresa made history when they became the first Golden Bachelor couple to get engaged during the season 1 finale. During the After the last rose Specially, the couple also announced their plans to tie the knot on television Golden wedding via ABC on Thursday, January 4.
As for why the couple is keen to get married so soon, Gerry explained that their age played a role in the decision.
“We are old! Think about it this way: if you’re 20, you can wait a year because that could be three percent of your remaining life,” he explained in November on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast. “When you’re in your 70s, a year can be 10 to 20 percent of the time you have left.”
The blended family of Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist
Courtesy of Gerry Turner/InstagramGerry also added that he and the New Jersey native “didn’t want to delay something” that they “really felt was right.” Theresa noted that the couple plans to start their life together “just outside” the Charleston, South Carolina area.
“He’s always had this thought for the past two years and no one really knew,” Theresa said. “It was all like, ‘Are you moving to Indiana?’ But I didn’t move to Indiana and I have a son and a daughter and I live four minutes away from my daughter and my three grandsons, and I have a son who lives in South Carolina.
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A day prior to the couple’s happy ending, a report on Gerry’s past relationships was published by The Hollywood Reporter and claimed that he had dated a handful of women since the death of his first wife, Toni in 2017. One of these women, who went by this name Carolyn the article claimed that Gerry had fat-shamed her.
“My only answer is that I have so many positive things going on in my life right now,” Turner responded when asked about The Los Angeles Times report in November. “I have the wonderful love of Theresa, my partner. I don’t have time to think about comments like this. I like to look ahead.”