In a move that left me scratching my head, the Bachelor producers gave Gerry Turner a cameo in The Golden Bachelorette, as he returned to give his friend, leading lady Joan Vassos, some advice. Gerry starred in the first-ever season of The Golden Bachelor, during which he initially stole hearts as a widower who was looking for the second great love of his life after his wife, Toni, had suddenly passed away six years earlier after 43 years together. Gerry found that love with Theresa Nist, who’d lost her husband of 42 years, Billy, nine years before.