OG Bachelorette Trista Sutter Gives Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner Advice About Their TV Marriage – Gudstory

original bachelorette sad sitter knows a thing or two about getting married on TV, and she’s offering some tips for The Golden Bachelor‘S gerry turner,

“Just enjoy it,” Trista, 51, said. And! news on Friday, December 1 at KIIS FM’s iHeartRadio Jingle Ball. “Weddings are stressful, and weddings on television are even more stressful. So as long as you focus on each other and approach with intention, they’ll be great.

Trista got engaged to her husband Ryan Sutteron season 1 The Bachelorette in 2003. The couple got married during a televised wedding special titled Trista and Ryan’s wedding later that year. They went on to welcome 16-year-old son Maxwell and 14-year-old daughter Blakeslee.

Like Trista, Gerry, 72, made Bachelor Nation history earlier this year as the first Golden Bachelor. After weeks of hooking up with several women, Gerry proposed Theresa Nist during the show’s Thursday, November 30, season finale. host jesse palmer announced during the show after the last rose The special thing is that the couple will get married during a live wedding special in January 2024.

Trista guest starred in episode 4 The Golden Bachelor To help Gerry, Jessie and the upcoming Single lead Joey Graziadei Judge the contestants’ pickleball competition. He said I! That she used her time on the series to give Gerry some words of wisdom about understanding her many relationships.

“He was struggling a little bit, just, ‘I don’t know what to do,'” she explained. “And I said, ‘You don’t necessarily have to find someone you can live with – of course, you want to find someone you can live with – but you have to find someone you can’t live without. Can stay.”

Gerry repeated his comments during his proposal to Theresa, 70. “I realized that you are not the right person to be with me, you are the person I can’t live without,” he said before they met. Down on one knee.

Gerry’s happiness faced some backlash from fans, especially when it came to how he handled the split from the runner-up Leslie Fima, during AFRLeslie told Gerry that she felt “indiscreet” towards him after he confirmed to her that she was his final choice.

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“Sometimes I felt like a villain,” Gerry said of letting Leslie move on. good Morning America on Friday. When asked if she felt like he had given her “false hope”, she said, “I don’t really have any reaction to that, except that in that moment, that’s how I felt.”

Leslie shared her side of the story on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast on Monday, December 4, claiming that Gerry failed to keep promises he made to her during their private time in the fantasy suites. “He made plans with me [the] Future. He said something like, ‘Save the date, that’s what we’re going to do.’ I can’t wait for us,” she said. ,[In] Two more days, we’ll finish this job [and] Stay together, start our life. Did he say, ‘Will you marry me?’ There, no, but he said it all. I would have been happy just saying ‘I love you’, but he took it to a whole other level.

Trista, for her part, would love to see Leslie continue her journey of love as the first Golden Bachelorette. “She deserves her redemption story,” she told And! newsAdding further, “I think if they sign her up for it everyone is going to rally around her, and we’ll all be rooting for her.”

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