Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist were almost the first Golden Bachelor success story. Gerry got down on one knee and proposed to Teresa during the season 1 finale , which filmed in Costa Rica and aired in November 2023. “When I woke up this morning, it was difficult.
I had really mixed feelings, and I got to the point with the questions I had asked myself about, how did I get here? And is she the right girl? I came to the realization that you’re not the right person for me to live with,” Gerry said, taking a dramatic pause before getting down on one knee. “You’re the person that I can’t live without. Theresa, I love you 1,000 percent.
I’m never going to stop believing that every day I choose you. Will you marry me?” Gerry caught Theresa off guard with his fakeout on camera, but there was an even bigger twist that fans didn’t see. “I go through a small speech and I look at her and say, ‘But Theresa, you’re not the person that I can live with,’ and have a long pause,” he recalled during an interview with People in November 2023.
“And what I actually said was, ‘Theresa, you’re not the [right] person for me,’ which is much more harsh.” Theresa remembered “slinking away,” thinking it was actually a breakup speech. After the snafu, Gerry found the right words and said that “air went back into [Theresa’s] body.
” The twosome tied the knot in a televised wedding ceremony in January 2024, and while it appeared as though Gerry and Theresa fou.