Devoted – and obsessed – viewers of the HGTV House Hunters series know it’s where couples (occasionally a single and at least once a “trouple” of three people) search for homes, usually feuding to various degrees on what and where is the best place to live.
So, they would be loving to see the star of the hit ABC series Golden Bachelor and his new wife who were matched up on the show announcing just three months after their wedding they were calling it quits. The reason: they couldn’t agree on a house.
The show featured 70-something Gerry Turner selecting from among 22 semi-age-appropriate women, pictured above from the ABC website, and choosing 70-year-old Theresa Nist on the series finale on Nov. 30. It was followed, of course, by the Golden Wedding show on Jan. 4 when the two married.
So, no one could have expected that just three months later the couple would say they were divorcing for a reason near-and-dear to House Hunter fans. “We looked at home after home, but we never got to the point where we made that decision,” Nist told Good Morning America earlier this month about their failure to agree on a housing choice. She had originally planned to move to join Turner in South Carolina but instead Turner said “we just feel like it’s best for the happiness of each of us to live apart.”
On House Hunters there is almost always a happy resolution to the search as the participants select one of three choices and when revisited several months later express how “they couldn’t be happier” over their selection. There doesn’t seem to ever be a case of buyers’ remorse where the Hunters say on camera, “Oh my god, what a friggin’ mistake we made, this has turned out to be a terrible, terrible choice.”
Even though House Hunters is referred to as reality TV, clearly in much more real life the Golden Wedders came to a different conclusion. If only they had watched a few episodes of the show before they tied the knot they might have discussed the where-and-how-to-live issue in a little more detail. It might have made for less compelling television, sure, but maybe a happier ending.
What is clear is that the producers of House Hunters blew it by not filming their search for a home. Talk about truly real TV.
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