Kurt angrily confronts Carmen when she trains the wrestlers to use one of his moves on the TV show, but is talked down by Debbie and convinced to help out for the show's final episode. In Season 3, Big Kurt pays Carmen a visit and suggests for her to move to Arizona with the rest of the family. Patrick O'Towne Patrick O'Towne (Andy Umberger) is the CEO of Patio Town, an indoor/outdoor lifestyle store chain. He initially declines to sponsor GLOW due to his lack of interest, but Sam convinces him to reconsider when Ruth cuts a promo as Zoya the Destroya during the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Patio Town's new Calabasas branch. In Season 2, Patio Town withdraws its sponsorship of GLOW after Tammé hits Debbie with a breakable chair that is implied to be one of the store's products. Furthermore, Patrick is said to have been offended by the show's PSA on teenage pregnancy, as his mother was 15 when she gave birth to him. Gregory Gregory (Ravil Isyanov) is the cranky Russian manager of The Dusty Spur motel. When Ruth needs help in developing her Zoya the Destroya character, he takes her to a Russian Jewish family party. Fortunately, Ruth does not speak Russian and thus cannot understand what the family is saying about her. Birdie Howard Birdie Howard (Elizabeth Perkins) is Bash's mother. Upon discovering that Bash spent over $600,000 on investing on GLOW, she freezes his assets. After Bash brings in the GLOW wrestlers as mock speakers in Birdie's anti-drug fundraiser, Birdie allows him to use the Hayworth Hotel's ballroom for GLOW's pilot episode. Birdie returns in Season 3 to pay Bash and Rhonda a visit in Las Vegas. After taking Rhonda out to a shopping trip, Birdie facilitates a telephone conference between Bash and the family lawyer, who reveals that Bash's marriage has unlocked the $40 million inheritance from his late grandfather. Gary Gary (Marc Evan Jackson) is Birdie's butler who has worked for the Howard family for eighteen years. Bash brings the women to one of Birdie's parties in order to try to raise money from the guests to reserve a venue for the pilot, but is stopped by Gary. After letting Bash tell a sob story about the women being recovering drug addicts, a clearly skeptical Gary lets them in. In Season 2, Bash meets Gary at Birdie's house after his falling out