Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist Disney/John Fleenor
Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist were being shielding their property when they determined to get married.
Gerry, 72, and Theresa, 70, tied the knot in January just four months just after Bachelor Country supporters viewed their televised engagement on the September 2023 finale of The Golden Bachelor. Having said that, 3 months later, the pair identified as it quits.
Speaking with Fantastic Early morning America on Friday, April 12, Gerry and Theresa confirmed that they have a prenuptial arrangement in put and “they remarkably suggest it to many others,” in accordance to ABC News’ Juju Chang.
Whilst phrases of the pair’s arrangement have not been publicly disclosed, they each individual accumulated many property and salaries in advance of they tied the knot. While Gerry is now retired, he went on The Bachelor as a restaurateur who owned several establishments in Moline, Illinois. A bombshell éxposé by The Hollywood Reporter in December 2023 claimed that Gerry exaggerated and misrepresented his job, which he subsequently denied.
“The business I owned was extremely a great deal like the Cadillac Diner that Theresa and I went to on the pretty initial day,” Gerry informed Katie Couric Media later that month, referencing his initially Golden Bachelor one particular-on-one particular. “I bought burgers and fries and shakes, and it was a really successful business enterprise.”
He continued: “And the feedback about what I did later on in lifetime, I did all those immediately after I retired. I retired at 55, and I was incredibly delighted giving again to the community and executing issues that were worth a little something to other folks.”
Gerry marketed his Iowa-primarily based travel-in franchise, known as Mr. Speedy, in 1985 and retired to Indiana with late wife Toni Turner, exactly where they constructed a lakefront property. Considering that retiring, Gerry also did upkeep get the job done.
“I indicate, jeez, I didn’t work as a handyman for the dollars,” he extra to Katie Couric Media. “I did it since I knew I was doing a thing great for persons who desired support.”
Theresa, meanwhile, has labored in finance for 17 many years and holds six securities licenses. According to her LinkedIn bio, she serves as a senior compliance officer for a regional firm in her indigenous New Jersey. All through her physical appearance on Golden Bachelor, Theresa explained that she was in the beginning a continue to be-at-dwelling wife through her relationship to her late husband, Billy Nist. Subsequent their union, she bought herself stock which led to a vocation as a working day trader.
On top of that, Theresa has a property in New Jersey, which is wherever she’s ongoing to are living through her 3-month relationship to Gerry, who is based mostly in Indiana. The pair had been thinking about going in with each other prior to their separation.
“We appeared at residences in South Carolina, we regarded New Jersey, and we just looked at dwelling soon after dwelling, but we under no circumstances acquired to the stage the place we designed that final decision,” Theresa pointed out on GMA.
