Joan Vassos, Gerry Turner
Disney/Gilles Mingasson; ABC/Brian Bowen SmithJeanne Vassos And Gerry Turner continued to stay in touch after leaving his season of The golden bachelor.
“We are still very good friends,” said Vassos, 62, in the episode of Wednesday January 22. “Two Jersey J” podcast. “We stay in touch.”
Vassos left the show, broadcast in 2023, to take care of his daughter who had just given birth. Turner, 72, finally finished his season by being engaged to Thérèse NistWith whom he married in January 2024. Three months later, We every week announced the news that Turner asked for divorce the same day they revealed their separation on Hello America.
When asked if she thought Turner could have wanted to give Their relationship another blow After his separation from the NIST, 71, Vassos replied: “I will not comment.”
Although we do not know exactly when Turner would have tried to reconcile with Vassos, she continued to play the role of the very first protagonist of The Bachelorette d’Orbroadcast in 2024, and accepted a proposal for Chock Chapple In the final of season 1. While Vassos and Chapple, 61, plan to say “yes” in the future, the two men are not in a hurry to walk in the aisle.
“I think we may have all learned a lesson from Gerry and Theresa, namely that it was perhaps too fast and that they probably don’t want to make this error again,” said Vassos. “I’m certainly in a hurry to get married. In fact, I’m really very happy at the moment, but I have nothing to do.
Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos was just as shocked as the rest of the world when Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist announced their decision to divorce. “I was surprised. I loved looking at their trip. I saw them falling in love, “said Joan, 61, in CNN in an interview published Tuesday, May 14.” I thought, just like (…)
Chapple, for his part, has the same state of mind When it comes to their next wedding. In an Instagram story of January 14, Chapple said that we “asked the couple all the time” when they planned to exchange their wishes.
“Today, at lunch, someone said:” (20) 25? ” “, Recalls Chapple. “And I said: ‘Maybe at the end of (20) 25 or (20) 26.'”
Chapple has shared that he and Vassos continue to “get closer” while “having a lot of fun together by simply getting to know each other”. He added: “It is therefore well spent time.”
For the moment, the couple is looking for a Place in New York Live near their children from the East Coast. (Joan shared four children with her late husband Jean VassosWhile Chock welcomed two children with his ex-wife Heather.)
“This first year, obviously, we have to somehow understand life. Chock has a company in Kansas. I have children and grandchildren and Maryland. I do not leave Maryland, but he has bonds in Kansas, “said Vassos. We. “We know that we are going to spend time in Maryland and Kansas, but then we have this really fun plan because we both always dreamed – and we are finally at this strange stage of life where we have achieved this Dream – that we live in a big city and, more specifically, we always wanted to live in New York.