‘Golden Bachelor’ Gerry Turner reveals engagement to his ‘perfect match’ a year after public breakup

Gerry Turner’s journey is taking him down the aisle, again.

The “Golden Bachelor” alum, 74, announced he is engaged to Lana Sutton in an Instagram post on Friday.

“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 captioned his post.

The reality star shared a slew of pictures, including images on the beach with Sutton, who showcased her dazzling diamond.

“OMG! Congratulations! Wishing you both the most wonderful life, filled with love, good health, and laughs. 💍🍾🎉❤️,” one fan wrote beneath the shots while another chimed in, “Congratulations!!!!! You two are STUNNING together! And you both look so freaking happy! How could people not celebrate this?! She is gorgeous(!!!), just saying!”

Rounding out the sweet comments another social media user added, “Love is like this, sometimes it’s one catch, sometimes it’s several, at the end of the day you never give up on it ! Congratulations Gerry ! We have one life, enjoy it to the fullest 🙂.”

Sutton took to her own page to tell her followers the exciting news.

“BIG announcement……we’re ENGAGED!💍🎉❤️,” she penned. “The Golden Bachelor Season 1 led me to the man of my dreams…..Gerry Turner!!! I love you, Babe, more than I ever thought possible! We are perfect together! I am so proud of US as a couple. ❤️💍.”

Two weeks prior, the couple took a trip to Toronto, Canada.

Sutton posted on Instagram, “Had a wonderful trip to Niagara Falls on the Canada side! Loved every moment with @goldengerryturner ! Oh Canada 🇨🇦.”

In April, it was revealed that Turner was dating a retired school teacher named Lana, who also lived in Indiana, per TMZ.

That same month, the ABC vet told People that he and Sutton have traveled somewhere new “pretty much every weekend” since they began seeing each other in March.

The pair had even gone to North Carolina so Turner could meet Sutton’s parents.

The news of Turner’s proposal comes 15 months after he finalized his divorce from Theresa Nist, 72, in 2024.

The exes first got engaged at the end of 2023 on the “Golden Bachelor” before exchanging vows on a TV special in January 2024. But by April of that year, Turner and Nist announced in an interview with “Good Morning America” that they were divorcing.

In December 2024, Turner revealed he had been diagnosed with a blood cell cancer, Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, claiming it played into their breakup.

He also alleged that he and Nist each wanted to live close to their families in different states.

“When you are hit with that kind of news and the shock wears off after a few days or a few weeks and you regroup and you realize what’s important to you, that’s where you start to move forward,” Turner told People at the time. “And I hope that people understand in retrospect now that that had a huge bearing on my decisions and I think probably Theresa’s as well.”

In June, the New Jersey native revealed that the pair “absolutely” didn’t split over his cancer diagnosis.

“It was a zero factor, zero. Absolutely. I was just so surprised that he even said that,” Nist said on an episode of “The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast.” “I knew about the cancer a long time ago. And the way Gary presented it to me was that, ‘The doctor said that I’m going to die of old age before this cancer gets to me.’”

“He bluffed it off, like it really wasn’t that important,” she continued. “And he had no symptoms, and he still doesn’t. So we never had a conversation that said, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re sick. I can’t stay with you now. I have to leave.’ That never happened.”

“They interviewed him the day before they interviewed me,” Nist continued on the podcast. “And right before my interview, they contacted me, and they said, ‘Hey, we want to talk to you right now, because Gerry just came out and said that his illness was the reason you broke up.’ And I go, ‘What?’ I said, ‘No, it wasn’t that.’ There was zero conversation about that being in it.”

Although, at the time, the reality television vet felt maybe Turner believed what he was saying.

“If that was the reason, it was in his mind only, never discussed as a reason. He said it was a factor that weighed heavily into my decision. And I would imagine Theresa’s, too,” Nist confessed. “He just imagined. But it had nothing to do with it. Nothing. I would have never left my husband over in illness. I stayed with my husband, Billy. I mean, for years he was sick, and he passed away at home. He was in hospice. I mean, it was really pretty bad. But I would never leave … That’s just not me. That wouldn’t happen.”

But the finance whiz is all for her ex finding love again.

“I really am happy for him,” Nist, who’s also dating, expressed. “And if he had to find his person by going this circuitous route, then he did, then it was successful. He found someone that really suits him, and that’s wonderful. So I think it worked out the way it was supposed to work out.”

In September 2024, the influencer made it clear she had no hard feelings toward Turner.

“So Gerry and I have spoken,” Nist exclusively told The Post. “We don’t speak regularly. I would say I wish him all the best, and I can see that he has so many friends, and I’m so happy for him that he does.”