Well, that’s that! Three months after their highly-viewed televised wedding, the inaugural Golden Bachelor, Gerry Turner and contestant-turned-bride, Theresa Nist have called it quits. Appearing on Good Morning America on Friday, the two revealed their split.

Turner shared: “Theresa and I have had a number of heart-to-heart conversations, and we’ve looked closely at our situation, our living situation, so forth and we’ve kind of come to the conclusion mutually that it’s probably time for us to dissolve our marriage.”

Nist clarified: “We have received so much love and support from so many people who watched The Golden Bachelor, and I don’t think we can tell you how many people told us that it gave them so much hope. We want none of that to change for anybody.”

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The couple kept under wraps exactly what caused the decision for them to part ways. However, Turner expressed, “I think we just feel like it’s best for the happiness of each of us to, to live apart.”

Gerry and Theresa said they would return the wedding rings that ABC purchased for them to use in the show. “I think that’s the rule,” cited Nist. Turner took a positive approach in an attempt to temper how bad the optics will be, expressing,”But, you know what? We don’t have to give back the memories.”

In addition, the two revealed that they did have a pre-nup in place at the time of their wedding. Now, ABC has a bit of clean-up to do as The Golden Bachelor was a ratings success for the network, and so too was The Golden Wedding special.

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With the theme that seniors can fall in love and find happiness with someone later in life, this is an awkward ending.  In fact, The Golden Wedding reached 7.13M viewers across linear and streaming platforms so clearly it had the audience rooting for Gerry and Theresa.

GMA’s Juju Chang, who conducted the interview, shared at the end of her taped segment that the dissolution of Gerry and Theresa’s relationship is a “head-scratcher.” Check it out below.  More of the interview will be shared tonight on ABC’s Nightline.

Then let us know, what you think about Gerry and Theresa divorcing? What does it say about reality-dating competitions at any age? Share your thoughts in the comment section.

ABC’s reality-series dating competition series, The Bachelor, is having one of its best seasons in years, in part, due to its likeable lead Joey Graziadei.

This past Monday night, during the annual “Women Tell All” episode, viewers witnessed not only the sniping eliminated contestants going at each other, but some very emotional drama.

During the special episode, the pick-up of the cliffhanger from last week played out which featured what did contestant Kelsey write Joey an urgent letter about, which got him somewhat spooked that he could be opening up to these women he is falling for, only for them not to feel the same.

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When they eventually talked, it turned out to be nothing like that. Kelsey Weier was expressing how much she was falling for Joey, and how hard it was to be away from him and to think of him being with other women. But, the doubt that crept into his head left Joey shaken. Later, in the rose ceremony, he chooses to keep Kelsey and Daisy eliminating Rachel.

When we come back on-stage during the “Women Tell All,” Rachel is siting with host, Jesse Palmer, and she is in tears. When she relived how she parted ways with Joey, she relates it was with tears of sadness and joy for her, because she could tell how much he cared for her.

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Later, with Graziadei now on-stage with her, Rachel revealed she had been the subject of hate by some fans of the show. Many were racist comments where people even took to TikTok to make videos insinuating they threw up every time she and Joey kissed.

Jesse Palmer added, “This season of ‘The Bachelor,’ the love for these women, for the most part, has been really remarkable. But for all the love that Joey and these women have received, there’s also sadly been a noticeable rise in hate on social media.” Joey, Jesse and Rachel hoped that by shining a light on the hate, it might make people think twice about posting hate-filled rhetoric or videos.

At the conclusion of the episode, when Joey exits the stage, Jesse plays a promo for next week’s season finale, which showed Joey in tears and getting in a limo and leaving the scene of where he he would propose. Did he propose? Was he rejected by one or more of the women? Was this all edited to make it look like something major happened, but it won’t quite live up to the hype? Stay tuned.

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ABC has reported that after three days of viewing on ABC, Hulu and digital platform, the episode became the most-watched multi-platform telecast in 2 years for the series scoring 6.26 million total viewers. The best since its March 2022 season finale. The ABC unscripted series also scored its 2nd highest-rated multi-platform telecast this season among Adults 18-49 (1.89 rating). 

In more numbers, The Bachelor went up +178% after just three days of multi-platform viewing (0.68 rating to 1.89 rating) and added an additional +2.44 million Total Viewers (3.82 million to 6.26 million).

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This season of The Bachelor delivered its 8th straight week of year-to-year growth in Total Viewers, as well.  On average, the series is up over its first 8 weeks last season by 14% in Total Viewers (4.09 million vs. 3.58 million). The ABC unscripted series ranked as Monday’s No. 1 broadcast series for the 8th time in 8 weeks among Adults 18-49 (0.80 rating).

Watch the moment host Jesse Palmer addressed ‘Bachelor Nation’ about hate spewed on the contestants below.

Now, let us know. Have you been watching this season’s ‘Bachelor’? What do you think will happen next week in the season finale where it looks like Joey is crushed? Let us know in the comment section.

Let’s set the stage! Kathie Lee Gifford was previously mentioned by Today Show’s Hoda Kotb and Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos as someone who would make a great lead for the upcoming dating-reality series competition, The Golden Bachelorette.

Then came the Wednesday February 28th episode of Live with Kelly and Mark, when the current ‘Bachelor’ leading man, Joey Graziadei was the guest.

During his interview, Kelly and Mark asked Graziadei what his thoughts were on Gifford becoming the first-ever ‘Golden Bachelorette’.

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Graziadei’s response was: “I will be honest… I have no idea who Kathie Lee Gifford is.” That prompted some boos and some laughs from the in-studio audience. Joey added, ‘I’m only 28! I’m sorry!”

In a response to a post on X featuring the faux-pas, Gifford reacted by saying: “I don’t expect him to know me. I’ve got shoes that are older than this kid is!”

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Gifford received the Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. She has also been in the chair occupied by Ripa on ‘Live’. From 1985 to 2000, Kathie Lee and Regis Philbin were the co-hosts of  the morning talk show. She then went on to co-host the fourth hour of Today in 2008 and continued till 2019.

When E! News asked Kotb about Gifford potentially getting the nod as the “Golden Bachelorette”, she shared, “By the way, she would be a 10 plus, and she’d get her choice of all the men, and you know how she is all flirty and cute.”

So, what do you think about Joey not knowing who Kathie Lee is? Could it possibly be that ABC would cast Gifford as the ‘Golden Bachelorette’? Comment below.

I don’t expect him to know me. I’ve got shoes that are older than this kid is ! https://t.co/oqgGLynnOI

— Kathie Lee Gifford (@KathieLGifford) February 28, 2024