The Golden Bachelor's Susan and Kathy Dish on Theresa, and What Gerry Really Wants

Glamour: Why do you think you both bonded so much?

Susan Noles: We were like blood sisters from the moment we said hi. I think it was laughter.

Kathy Swarts: I think we were both born to the same mother in a different lifetime. We just laugh at the same things, and see things the same way.

Susan: And we’re both very caring people with big hearts. We’re funny.

Kathy: Zip it, Susan!

We’ll get to that in a minute! But Susan, as I was watching the last episode, it felt like the other women needed Gerry, whereas you were taking the opposite approach. Did you go in with any sort of strategy to not get too caught up unless it was reciprocated?

Susan: I went in because I truly want to fall in love with someone, and that was my hope. After being there and getting to know him, we definitely landed on the best friend page. He confided in me, we shared things, I made him laugh, and I was comfortable with that. I really was. I was falling in love with all those women on there, and making such good friends, including him. So I think that’s why I felt okay in the end.

Kathy: I really think the friendships were what made the experience for me.

I’d love to see a show with you both, or with Nancy and April as well—the ASKN group. Would you be open to that?

Susan: We’re thinking a spinoff of the modern day Golden Girls. But it will be the modern day ASKN girls—April, Susan, Kathy, and Nancy.

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Have you decided which one of the Golden Girls you are?

Susan: I can flop around, I think.

Kathy: I’m pretty much Dorothy. Although I am a caring person, I have the dry wit and come out with the one-liners, like her.

Susan: And Nancy is definitely Betty White’s [Rose].

And April is so Blanche.

Kathy: There is no question. April wrote the book on being Blanche.

Susan: And I am?

Kathy: You’re a bit of everything.

Susan, you have the kindness of Rose, but the intelligence of Dorothy with the nurturing of Sophia through her cooking. There’s a mix of everybody.

Susan: You have not seen my flirty side yet!