The Golden Bachelor star Gerry Turner has revealed that he and girlfriend Lana Sutton are already looking for their fantasy house together.

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One year after filing for divorce from his The Golden Bachelor winner, Theresa Nist, Gerry went public with his new romance and also made it Instagram official.

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Gerry met Lana Sutton, a retired school teacher in her 50s, on Facebook in March, and he already seems smitten with the blonde beauty.

Gerry told People that while he anticipates Lana will be spending more time at his Indiana lake house this summer, they've already started checking out properties to share in the future.

"We've done a little bit of the fantasy house shopping," Gerry revealed, "which has been nice trying to figure out if at some point we decide we want to buy a house together, if our styles and our tastes are the same."

Gerry added, "And it turns out, yeah, they are pretty much the same."

Gerry, who starred on The Golden Bachelor after the death of his late wife Toni, proposed marriage to Theresa during The Golden Bachelor finale that aired in late 2023.

Gerry and Theresa, a New Jersey native, quickly got married in January 2024 for a televised special on ABC, but three months later, Gerry announced their split.

Gerry and Theresa's divorce was finalized in June 2024, and according to the retired restaurateur, distance played a big role in the demise of their relationship.

Following his breakup with Theresa, Gerry told the magazine, "I wanted to find someone who, worst case scenario, I could travel two hours and see, or that she could travel two hours to be with me at my house. And that's mission accomplished with Lana."

Gerry admitted he accidentally missed Lana's first Facebook message because he had completely shut himself off to the idea of dating long distance again.

"I ignore most of it, knowing that so many people will send a Facebook message and they're 100 or 1,000 miles away. That was a contributing factor on how I missed her first message," Gerry explained.

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But once Gerry read that Lana is "an Indiana girl" who grew up about 20 minutes from where Gerry lives, he "instantly" felt "connected" to her.

Gerry noted how he and Lana have similar "Midwest values and perspective on things," and he added how her sense of humor fits "very nicely" with his own.

Ever since Gerry and Lana began dating two months ago, they've apparently been on the move.

Gerry boasted about how the couple has traveled somewhere new "pretty much every weekend" together since March.

Gerry and Lana's stops have included North Carolina to meet her parents as well as Indianapolis and St. Louis.

"Her level of adventure and mine are very similar," Gerry gushed.

Gerry -- who previously said he wants to live big after his 2024 diagnosis of an incurable bone marrow cancer -- shared how the pair will be taking off to Wimbledon in London and explore Paris in July 2025.

"We talked about it for a couple weeks and we decided to pull the trigger, so we're going!" Gerry said.

But Gerry said he also enjoys more quiet days with Lana in Indiana, where they hit golf balls and can walk to restaurants.

"We walk three and a half or four miles, have a beer and an appetizer, walk three or four miles back. That fills up an afternoon pretty well," Gerry shared.

"[At a restaurant], we'll look at a dessert menu before we look at a dinner menu."

The Golden Bachelor's Season 1 star joked about how he and his girlfriend are "both ridiculously addicted to desserts." 

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Gerry recently admitted he's never really believed in love at first sight -- until now.

"There's a feeling of comfort, there's a feeling of peace," Gerry continued.

"I really feel like I can be myself around Lana and it's not a problem. There's a lot of those tangibles that make it work, but the intangibles of the feeling is really huge. I'm really in a happy place."

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