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The Golden Bachelor started with high hopes starring 72-year-old retired restaurateur and widower Gerry Turner. After going through multiple women, his heat finally set on 70-year-old Theresa Nist, proposing to her by the end of the season. They soon got married in a lavish Golden wedding, as fans from around the world watched it live.

Gerry Turner from The Golden Bachelor | Credit: ABC

However, as fate would have it, their short romance ended before it could bloom, leading them to divorce just three months after their nuptials. While the internet has long been blaming Turner as the villain, Nist’s latest update proves she has no care in the world for her broken marriage and is flourishing in her life.

Theresa Nist is Happy and Well After Divorce From Gerry Turner Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist on The Golden Bachelor | Credit: ABC

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Stand-up comedian Kenny DeForest, who was a fixture of the Brooklyn comedy scene and appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Late Show with James Corden and the Pete Holmes-helmed HBO series Crashing, died on Wednesday, Dec. 13. He was 37.

On Friday, Dec. 8, DeForest was on a rented bicycle at the intersection of Rogers Avenue and Sterling Place in Prospect Park when he hit an unoccupied parked car, a New York City Police Department spokesperson told NBC News.

He was then taken to Kings County Hospital, where he underwent neurological surgery to remove a piece of his skull in order to relieve pressure from cranial bleeding.

Ryan Beck, a fellow comic and close friend of DeForest’s, organized a GoFundMe amid the late comedian’s hospitalization. In the most recent update, Beck noted that DeForest’s final moments “included some of his favorite songs, stories of his childhood,...

Kenny DeForest, a popular stand-up comic who made appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Late Late Show with James Corden, HBO’s Crashing and Comedy Central’s Tales From The Trip, died yesterday at a Brooklyn hospital days after a Dec. 8 traffic accident in which his bicycle was struck by a motor vehicle. He was 37.

His death was announced by his friend and fellow comic Ryan Beck, who posted the news on a GoFundMe page that had been set up to assist with medical bills following the accident. According to Beck, DeForest had undergone neurological surgery to remove a piece of his skull and relieve pressure from a brain bleed.

“Kenny died on Wednesday December 13th at Kings County Hospital surrounded by his parents, family, and friends,” Beck wrote. “Kenny’s final moments included some of his favorite songs, stories of his childhood, and memories of his...