The Golden Bachelor's Gerry Turner Is Engaged—And That's Not All
glamour.comis a bachelor no more! After narrowing the pool of 22 eligible women to just two finalists—Leslie Fhima, 64, and Theresa Nist, 70—ABC's first-ever Golden Bachelor has proposed.On the finale episode of the inaugural season of The , which aired on November 30, Turner, 72, Gerry proposed to , the retired financial services professional from Shrewsbury, New Jersey.But first, he had to let Leslie down, and when we say it was brutal, boy was it brutal.After Leslie's last date with Gerry, she felt something was off.
Even Gerry knew it, saying when you have a rhythm with someone, it made sense why Leslie felt something wasn't right. He returns to her hotel room and says, “When I left, you asked me if there was something I had to say to you…I've made a decision of how I want to go about this.
I've fallen in love with Theresa, and that's the direction I'm going to take.”Understandably, Leslie is devastated. “So everything you told me the other night was a lie?” she asks.
He says no, but she is adamant that it was. “At the time, that was the truth,” Gerry tells her. Leslie asks him where it went wrong, and he says it didn't. “You're both wonderful, but only one of you is right [for me].”As excruciating as this is to watch, at least Gerry told Leslie that night instead of making her wait until the next day.
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