Turner announced his engagement to Lana Sutton on Friday, Oct. 3
Golden Bachelor alum Gerry Turner is engaged!
Turner, 74, announced his engagement to new girlfriend Lana Sutton in an Instagram post shared on Friday, Oct. 3. “We’ve got BIG news. The Golden Bachelor is OFF the market. I found my perfect match and she said ‘YES’. I Love this woman,” Turner wrote in the caption.
The post features photos of the couple spending time together by the beach as Sutton shows off her engagement ring, which features a round-cut diamond and diamond-encrusted band.
Two weeks ago, the couple shared photos of a recent trip to Toronto on Sutton’s Instagram. “Had a wonderful trip to Niagara Falls on the Canada side! Loved every moment with @goldengerryturner ! Oh Canada 🇨🇦,” she wrote in the post, in which the pair posed with the waterfall behind them.
In April, Turner told PEOPLE exclusively that he and Sutton have traveled somewhere new “pretty much every weekend” since they started dating in March, including to North Carolina to meet her parents.
“The first trip was to the Big 10 men’s basketball tournament, and then we went to a volleyball tournament in Indianapolis area, and then we went to St. Louis,” Turner shared at the time. “We went to a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game and now this trip to Charlotte — and that’s all in the first 60 days! Her level of adventure and mine are very similar.”
The couple’s announcement comes 15 months after Turner’s divorce from ex-wife Teresa Nist, who received his final rose on The Golden Bachelor in 2023. Turner and Nist later tied the knot in a televised ceremony in January 2024 that was officiated by franchise fan favorite Susan Noles at the La Quinta Resort and Club in La Quinta, Calif.
The former couple split 10 months later in November 2024.
In a November 2024 episode of Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti’s podcast, Almost Famous, Nist was asked if distance was really the reason behind her and Turner’s split.
“You really can’t know somebody in four weeks. I’ll just say that,” Nist said.
“I don’t wanna say any more than that,” she continued, though she did reveal that it was “not just the location thing” that prompted their divorce.
Turner lives in Indiana, while Nist lives in New Jersey. At the time of their divorce announcement, they said that they were “so dedicated” to their families that the distance became a problem.
In December, Turner announced that was diagnosed with an “incurable” and “slow-growing” form of bone cancer. Speaking on the April 15 episode of the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, Turner said that, despite the diagnosis, he “feels great,” and is optimistic about the future.
“I feel great,” he said. “Until I have any symptoms, there’s no treatment. So I go frequently for blood tests. I’m on, like, a six-month schedule now, and I feel optimistic because the doctor has said, ‘Well, when you turn 75, we’re going to have to go three-month increments.’ So it’s telling me that at least he expects me to live another couple of years to get to that. But the bottom line is I feel really good.”
