‘Golden Bachelor’ Finale: Gerry Turner is engaged to Theresa Nist

Gerry Turner being engaged Theresa Nist during the season 1 finale of The golden bachelor on Thursday, Nov. 30.

“When I woke up this morning it was hard. I had really mixed feelings, and I got to the point with the questions I had been asking myself: How did I get here? And is she the right girl? I came to the realization that you are not the right person for me to live with,’ Gerry told Theresa and pretended before getting down on one knee. “You are the person that I am can not live without. Theresa, I love you 1000 percent. I will never stop believing that I choose you every day. Will you marry me?”

Gerry, 72, proposed to Theresa, 70, after breaking things off with second place Leslie Fhima at an emotional moment.

Before the romantic proposal, Theresa told Gerry she was ‘madly in love’ with him. “I have the feeling that for us life is not over yet, that the best is yet to come. I think you are the most wonderful man in the world. Now that I’ve found you, I never want to let you go. I want to spend the rest of my life with you,” she added.

Ahead of the final, Gerry told both Theresa and Leslie, 64, that he loved them. After Theresa’s birth date, Gerry confessed his feelings for her to the cameras. “When I started this journey, I wanted to find love. And for the first time since 1968, I know I’ve fallen in love again,” he said, although he waited until the couple’s fantasy suite date to share the revelation with Theresa. “This is the love I’m looking for.”

Gerry told exclusively We weekly in September that after filming he no longer believed he was completely “in love” with multiple women.

“In retrospect, I realized that at that particular moment, whenever it was, the setting was such that, ‘Yes, it was easy to look at someone and say you loved them,'” he explained at the time. “But once you get through it and look back, you realize there’s really only one person who really meets the standard in all the situations you want.”

The following month, Gerry announced that he was initially hesitant about getting engaged on the show, but changed his mind.

“While I was dating [before the show]I was looking for the person I would spend the rest of my life with, regardless of label,” he shared Us in October. “And as I got closer and closer to the process that started on the show, I really started to realize that I did want to get married, that I wanted that commitment, that two-way street. And so when I started the show, that was my goal.

As for how he thought his late wife, Toni, would feel about how his journey ended, he speculated that she would be “excited” about the “good conclusion,” adding, “I was happy with how it turned out expired.’

Before popping the question to Theresa, Gerry was going through a difficult breakup with Leslie. “He fell in love with several women at the same time in different ways,” says the presenter Jesse Palmer teased Us earlier this month. “Throughout the season [the goodbyes are] easily the hardest part. And I think that’s usually true for most of the leads, but I think people are really going to see an emotional farewell in the finale that they just haven’t seen yet. It’s pretty intense.”