{"id":200405,"date":"2025-10-21T18:29:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/susan-noles-and-kathy-swarts-compare-mel-owens-to-gerry-turner\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:29:19","slug":"susan-noles-and-kathy-swarts-compare-mel-owens-to-gerry-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/susan-noles-and-kathy-swarts-compare-mel-owens-to-gerry-turner\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Noles and Kathy Swarts Compare Mel Owens to Gerry Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It may have been two years since <strong>Kathy Swarts <\/strong>and<strong> Susan Noles<\/strong> appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/gerry-turner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gerry Turner<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s season 1 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/golden-bachelor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Golden Bachelor<\/em>,<\/a> but they can\u2019t help throwing shade at their ex \u2014 and comparing him to season 2 lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/mel-owens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mel Owens.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During a September episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-ben-and-ashley-i-almost-famous-podcast\/id1238355247?i=1000728910624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cAlmost Famous\u201d<\/a> podcast, Susan, 67, noted that Gerry, 74, and Mel, 66, are \u201cnight and day\u201d different. Kathy, for her part, quipped that she wants to meet Mel and \u201csweep him away\u201d from his \u201csuitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not too late to break them up,\u201d Kathy, 72, continued, to which cohost <strong>Ashley Iaconetti<\/strong>\u00a0asked, \u201cAre you talking about Mel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m certainly not talking about Gerry,\u201d Kathy replied.<\/p>\n<p>After Kathy\u2019s candid remark, Ashley pointed out that she appreciated the twosome admitting that the season 1 lead, who hailed from Indiana, was \u201cnot the hottest commodity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me just break this down Ashley really quick,\u201d Kathy continued. \u201cYou can have a lawyer, a football player, a guy who can string together sentences, or you can go pick cotton in a corn maze in Indiana. I don\u2019t know. What do you want to do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Susan and Kathy were cast on the show, the pair claimed that they were not informed of Gerry being the lead until the \u201clast minute.\u201d After news broke that he was the Golden Bachelor, Susan shared that her phone was \u201cblowing up\u201d from loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy friends were [asking], \u2018Are you still going?\u2019 I go, \u2018That\u2019s mean. Yes, I\u2019m going,\u2019\u201d Susan recalled, while Kathy added, \u201cYou know what my daughter said? My daughter said, \u2018Mom, I\u2019ve known you my whole life. You really think you\u2019re moving to Indiana? It\u2019s never happening.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll eat corn on the cob,\u201d Kathy continued. \u201cThat\u2019s as close as I want to get to a cornfield. Thank you very much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kathy and Susan also recalled their fellow contestants\u2019 alleged reactions when learning that Gerry lived on a lake in Indiana, which they believed to be an embellishment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then the girls in our room saying, \u2018He called that a lake? It\u2019s a pond,\u2019\u201d Susan said, while Kathy added, \u201cHe said he lives on a lake. It\u2019s like a swan boat, paddle wheel thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the playful jabs, the duo noted that they are still on good terms with Gerry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/susan-noles-reacts-to-gerry-turner-and-theresa-nists-split\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/susan-noles-reacts-to-gerry-turner-and-theresa-nists-split\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Susan Noles Reacts to Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist\u2019s Divorce<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tGolden Bachelor star Susan Noles put in her two cents about Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist\u2019s shocking divorce announcement, saying \u2018they have their reasons, I\u2019m sure\u2019 During a joint Instagram video on Friday, April 12, with fellow cast member Kathy Swarts, Noles, 67, told fans \u201cdon\u2019t give up on the idea of meeting somebody on [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe love him. We\u2019re good friends, but hey, it is what it is,\u2019 Susan said, to which Kathy added, \u201cI don\u2019t love him anymore. No, he\u2019s perfectly fine. He\u2019s got a new girlfriend. Actually, I wish him all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Kathy and Susan ultimately did not find The One in Gerry, he ended up engaged to <strong>Theresa Nist<\/strong>. The couple tied the knot in 2024 before calling it quits months later.<\/p>\n<p>Gerry, who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/the-golden-bachelor-gerry-turner-is-engaged-to-lana-sutton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced his engagement<\/a> to <strong>Lana Sutton<\/strong>, is set to chronicle his time on <em>The Golden Bachelor<\/em> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/golden-bachelor-gerry-turner-to-expose-reasons-for-divorce-in-book-excl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new memoir <em>The Golden Years<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(out November 4). In the book, Gerry claimed he told second runner-up <strong>Faith Martin<\/strong> that he felt \u201ctrapped\u201d ahead of exchanging vows with Theresa \u2014 later telling <em>Us Weekly<\/em> that he \u201cfelt like [he] was doing the right thing\u201d by continuing to go through with the marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just didn\u2019t feel overjoyed about it,\u201d Turner explained in his <em>Us<\/em> digital cover story. \u201cSo much of the book is about how I felt at certain moments, and that\u2019s only a momentary truth\u2026 I had second thoughts, but I don\u2019t think [they] were exaggerated from anyone\u2019s normal second thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Theresa, meanwhile, shared that she wished Gerry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/golden-bachelors-theresa-reacts-to-gerry-saying-he-felt-trapped\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handled the situation differently.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt makes me very sad to think that he felt empty and trapped,\u201d Theresa told <em>Us<\/em> in an exclusive statement. \u201cI wish he had said something and just ended it. But at least now I understand why he was so hurtful to me so many times. And I will say this. Those in glass houses should not throw stones. I do wish him all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Golden Bachelor<\/em> airs on ABC Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/susan-noles-and-kathy-swarts-compare-mel-owens-to-gerry-turner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may have been two years since Kathy Swarts and Susan Noles appeared on Gerry Turner\u2019s season 1 of The Golden Bachelor, but they can\u2019t help throwing shade at their ex \u2014 and comparing him to season 2 lead Mel Owens. During a September episode of the \u201cAlmost Famous\u201d podcast, Susan, 67, noted that Gerry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-200405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}