After getting engaged at the finale of The Golden Bachelor, Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist are beginning their lifestyles together in a new city: Charleston, South Carolina.
“One of the issues that I feel fate performed a hand in is the opportunity of the place we may finally end up dwelling. For the remaining couple of years, when my family will get in combination, I’ve mentioned moving to South Carolina, and it’s an concept I’ve toyed with. And then in conversation with Theresa, a non-public moment, she’s announcing, ‘Well, yeah, my son lives near Charleston in South Carolina,’” Gerry, 72, told People in a tale revealed after the Thursday, November 30, finale of the ABC sequence. “And swiftly it’s like, there’s a large downside this is long past. The factor of compromising on where to live and how to reconcile families and all of that is, it’s no longer a subject.”
Gerry, who's from Iowa, has been dwelling in Indiana after retiring to the Hoosier State with his spouse, Toni, ahead of she died in 2017. Theresa, for her phase, hails from New Jersey.
Both Gerry and Theresa have children (and grandchildren) who they hope will consult with them. “We need to have a space that’s so inviting that everyone would wish to come. Maybe a pool so they all want to come and feature a laugh,” Theresa said.
“Our daughters, they’re like sisters now,” Gerry added, to which Theresa agreed: “My daughter says, ‘Thank you for giving me two more sisters.’ She has a sister-in-law already but now, two extra sisters.”
Gerry shared his two daughters, Jenny and Angie, with Toni, while Theresa shared son Tommy and daughter Jen with husband Billy, who died in 2014 when they had been married for Forty two years.
“I checked out Jen and it used to be like, ‘This could be my very own daughter,’” Gerry told the hole. “I literally used to be having the ones thoughts, because she was once so sort and she or he was so delicate to the situation, to her mother and to me. The complete dynamic simply labored.”
Members in their households were in attendance at the are living After the Final Rose taping on Thursday and can spend extra time together for Hanukkah later this month.
“We’ll have a holiday dinner in conjunction with everyone,” Gerry informed People.
The Turner and Nist families may also come in combination for Gerry and Theresa’s upcoming nuptials, which will likely be captured for a televised wedding ceremony special, set to air on ABC January 4, 2024.
“We’re going to do it as quickly as we will be able to because, at our age, we don’t have numerous time to waste. As quickly as we can put together a wedding plan, we’re getting married,” Gerry stated all through Thursday’s AFR.
Earlier within the night, Gerry sat down with his runner-up, Leslie Fhima, who accused him of blindsiding her by selecting Theresa after telling Leslie she was once The One.
“The maximum essential factor I fell in love with used to be your integrity. And because of your integrity, your phrases supposed so much to me. I didn’t take them for granted. I took them and I put them in my center, OK?” Leslie stated. “And everybody is aware of what you mentioned on digicam. But most effective you and I understand it was mentioned in [right through the] overnight. And I'd never share that with anyone. It’s our non-public time. But the ones phrases gave me A hundred percent certainty that I was your woman. … And your phrases simply supposed such a lot to me, and that’s why I was blindsided. Because I wasn’t positive how it modified or what came about.”
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Gerry apologized and attempted to give an explanation for his movements. “I’m so sorry, Leslie. I’m so sorry. And after I came onto the show, my head was once in a position to cross in the course of the process [and] ship folks house,” he stated. “You had been the person I believed was my individual till I all of sudden knew you weren’t. And you requested, otherwise you discussed, you don’t know the place it went unsuitable. It didn’t actually cross mistaken, Leslie. It just was once higher with any individual else. It was once the precise person in every other path.”
Leslie responded by pronouncing that she doesn’t essentially settle for Gerry’s apology, but she “perceive[s] it” and desires him and Theresa the most efficient.
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