Golden Bachelor’s Kathy Swarts Will Only Date Divorced Men

Kathy Swarts has 1 golden rule when it comes to courting.

Although talking with cohost Susan Noles and visitor star Nancy Hulkower on the Wednesday, Could 1, episode of the “Bachelor Happy Hour: Golden Hour” podcast, Swarts, 70, exposed why she’ll hardly ever date a gentleman who’s never been married.

“I’ve dated a several males that have in no way been married and honestly, I won’t do that yet again,” the Golden Bachelor alum mentioned. “[They’re] very egocentric, due to the fact it is constantly been about them. But not having kids, you never know, there may be a rationale they did not have little ones if they were being married. So that does not trouble me as significantly. But I will not [date someone who hasn’t been married].”

Even though she has a prerequisite for a opportunity romantic spouse, that does not suggest Swarts doesn’t entertain some of the suitors that try out to get her attention.

For the duration of an appearance on Jana Kramer‘s “Whine Down” podcast in December 2023, the actuality character opened up about some of the individuals who have slid into her DMs because showing up on The Golden Bachelor.

“I’ve had 4, and 1 was a 32-calendar year-aged, quite fantastic-looking dude. And I did have to issue out to him that I have young children more mature than he is,” joked Swarts, who has 3 youngsters and two grandchildren. “Then I had a 40-12 months-previous baseball participant, identical take note as the first dude. And then I experienced a daughter reach out on behalf of her father.”

And while she appreciated the matchmaking daughter, she disclosed that she “never heard” from her father. She did, nonetheless, obtain a flattering compliment from a male “in his late 50s” who reached out to a mutual pal about her.

“He claimed, ‘She’s so pretty, she may well be far too younger for me,’” she recalled, noting that she’s going to borrow the sentiment as a potential pickup line: “You’re as well young for me, but, Alright, let us check out it.”

Bachelor Country supporters fulfilled Swarts on year 1 of The Golden Bachelor, starring Gerry Turner. Although she was eradicated through 7 days four, she sparked some drama with eventual winner Theresa Nist, 70, in the course of her time on the relationship exhibit following she accused Nist of bragging about her relationship with Turner, 72.

“I sense like you are dismissing me, like, ‘He and I are heading off into the sunset. Go pack since you are likely dwelling.’ Which is how you’ve made me sense in some cases,” she stated to Nist, who commenced to cry. “When you say matters like, ‘[We] have a large connection,’ I consider which is the form of things that seems possessive, territorial, and [like], ‘Get the hell out of my way, he’s mine.’” Which is not a fairly image, Theresa.”

Just after the episode aired, Nist mirrored on the instant through Instagram, composing that she hardly ever believed she “was going to come across myself associated in drama.”

She included, “That is so not who I am. I just imagined that I was equipped to be open and genuine with a new mate about how I was experience.”

Turner went on to propose to Nist in the finale, and the two tied the knot in a televised ceremony in January even so, the pair announced their split just three months later.

“Theresa and I have had a amount of heart-to-heart discussions and we have looked closely at our condition — our residing problem — and we’ve variety of come to the conclusion mutually that it’s time for us to dissolve our relationship,” Gerry claimed on Excellent Early morning The united states in April, incorporating that it’s “best for the pleasure of each of us to live apart” and be near their families.