The Golden Bachelor couple Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist have reunited and enjoyed a date night on the red carpet amid news they're still living in different states.
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Gerry sported a navy blue suit and pattern tie, while Theresa looked beautiful in a leopard-print skirt and white ruffled blouse.
This red carpet appearance marks the couple's first public outing since their unique living situation made headlines.
Gerry and Theresa have yet to move in together, even though they got married several months ago.
Gerry and Theresa fell in love on The Golden Bachelor and got engaged during the season finale, which aired right after Thanksgiving in November on ABC.
The lovebirds got married in a live televised special in Palm Springs, CA, on January 4, but according to TMZ, they have been living apart.
TMZ reported on April 1 that Gerry is still living at his lake house in Indiana while Theresa hasn't left her native New Jersey.
Sources told TMZ that Gerry and Theresa are undecided on where they want to live and view moving as a big, time-consuming hassle. They also both live close to family in their respective states.
Gerry and Theresa reportedly have no plans to change their living arrangements any time soon as Theresa continues to work as a senior compliance officer at a financial advisory office in New Jersey.
Gerry and Theresa are therefore long-distance spouses who visit each other frequently. They even managed to attend the live The Bachelor: After the Final Rose special for Joey Graziadei's season on March 25.
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After the couple got engaged on The Golden Bachelor, Gerry and Theresa told multiple media outlets that they planned to have a fresh start by moving to South Carolina together.
"For the last couple of years, when my family gets together, I've talked about moving to South Carolina, and it's an idea I've toyed with. And then in conversation with Theresa, a private moment, she's saying, 'Well, yeah, my son lives near Charleston in South Carolina,'" Gerry told People in December 2023.
"And all of a sudden, it's like, there's a big problem that is gone. The issue of compromising on where to live and how to reconcile families and all of that is, it's no longer an issue."
Theresa gushed at the time about how she wanted to build a big home with Gerry so their children and grandchildren could visit and have plenty of room to stay.
And then Gerry drove 10 hours with his dog to visit Theresa in New Jersey on January 9.
Gerry -- an Iowa native who has been living in Indiana since 2017 -- and Theresa tried new restaurants together, and they even recreated their first The Golden Bachelor date with a trip to a diner.
Gerry and Theresa were asked if they were still planning to move to Charleston together during a January 16 appearance on the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast, which is co-hosted by Bachelor in Paradise spouses Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt.
Theresa shared, "We're still going to look there, yeah, absolutely... We're going to consider New Jersey, but it's probably going to be outside of Charleston. So that's the plan!"
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Theresa said she and Gerry were thinking about going to Italy, a trip ABC had gifted them, in May or June of this year.
Gerry recently gushed on the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast about how he was "1,000 percent convinced" in Costa Rica -- in the final days of filming The Golden Bachelor -- that Theresa is the right woman for him.
"That's when I felt like I had the final sentence of the final chapter written," Gerry noted.
When the Los Angeles Times previously asked Gerry if he'll continue to seek stardom or just live a quiet life with Theresa post-show, Gerry replied, "I don't think those two things are mutually exclusive."
"I can have a great, quiet life with Theresa and still look at the aspirations and ambitions that may be out there," he elaborated in December.
"But I will say this, I am absolutely going to savor every moment until I get to that altar and say my 'I do's.' I want every single moment to be as joyful for her as it is for me, and I never want to look back and feel I hurried through anything. We'll deal with the aspirations after that."
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Gerry gushed about how he had been feeling pure "joy" since The Golden Bachelor finale.
Gerry concluded that he and Theresa "just make a perfect pair" and they're "better as a couple than [they] are individually."
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