'The Golden Bachelor' star Gerry Turner says he has bone marrow cancer
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Gerry Turner, star of the inaugural season of ABC’s senior dating show 'The Golden Bachelor,' says he has been diagnosed with cancer.
Gerry Turner, star of the inaugural season of ABC’s senior dating show “The Golden Bachelor,” says he has been diagnosed with cancer.
Turner told People magazine in an interview published on Wednesday that he has a type of bone marrow cancer called Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia in March. Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia is a slow-growing type of cancer that begins in the white blood cells, according to the Mayo Clinic.
“Unfortunately, there’s no cure for it,” Turner said. “So that weighs heavily in every decision I make.”
The 72-year-old restaurateur said the diagnosis is among the reasons why he and Theresa Nist’s marriage, which was the subject of a television special, ended after three months earlier this year.
Turner said he learned of his diagnosis just as he and Nist, 71, “were trying very hard to find our lifestyle and where we were going to live and how we were going to make our life work.”
His desire to “continue on as normal as possible” meant spending more time with his family. As a result, finding a way forward with Nist “became less of a priority.”
The former couple got engaged on the November 2023 season finale of “The Golden Bachelor,” wed in January and announced their marriage was ending in April.
