When The Golden Bachelorette 's first season arrived on the 2024 TV schedule , it was difficult for Golden Bachelor fans like myself to not feel rather burned after Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist got married on a live wedding special in January before turning around and announcing their divorce less than four months later. Now, Nist is explaining the key reason why things didn't work out between them and it highlights (yet again) a big issue I think Bachelor Nation needs to address: location, location, location! Why does the ABC show keep assuming people won't have problems traversing the U.S.
after pairing up? It's clearly broken up couples a few times over. And, when Nist spoke openly about what happened between herself and Gerry Turner while on the The Ben And Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast , she shared how she thinks it's "very difficult ask" for anyone, especially seniors, to move geographic locations when they have kids and grandkids, and it totally echoes what I've been thinking to myself about the series. Here's what she said: The plan was to move to the area of Charleston, South Carolina.
We were looking at homes virtually. I wasn't ready. I was still working full time, I have a home, I wasn't ready to sell my home until we found a home and we never got to a point where we found a home, and by the time we didn't find a home, Gerry came up with the idea of doing six weeks there and six weeks here, and I truly wanted to have our home together.
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