Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
Speaker 1: with on our radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome Almost Famous.
Speaker 3: We're here today breaking down every headline that we know
Speaker 3: of in Bachelor Nation. We've done some deep diving this
Speaker 3: week to find out what is exactly happening.
Speaker 2: Ashley's with us today.
Speaker 3: Obviously the big news right now, Ashley, as we're starting
Speaker 3: to see teasers, we got some cast members announced for
Speaker 3: this upcoming season of Paradise.
Speaker 2: It's going to be the tenth season. Ashley. Your thoughts
Speaker 2: after seeing the cast.
Speaker 4: It's kind of the thoughts that I have every year.
Speaker 4: The guys still have yes every year?
Speaker 2: Oh you always have this? Oh, yes you do. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's the guys are going to have a great selection
Speaker 4: of ladies to pick from, and the.
Speaker 5: Girls guys that are on par with what you would
Speaker 5: see if you open the door of a new bar.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody has ever done disagreed with you
Speaker 3: on that. Okay, I really don't.
Speaker 2: Uh, why do you think that is?
Speaker 3: I mean, let's let's talk about that for a second.
Speaker 3: I mean, coming off of each show, we felt that
Speaker 3: way about gen season, so I'm and I think most
Speaker 3: fans did so. I am shocked to see so many
Speaker 3: contestants from Gen season show up to Paradise. I felt
Speaker 3: like they would be kind of for lack of a
Speaker 3: better child, Yeah, exiled, Like, hey, yeah, you're you're not
Speaker 3: going We're not going to be highlighting you any longer.
Speaker 3: You're obviously not bringing in the viewership.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The person that won from your season obviously, like you know,
Speaker 3: didn't stand out. But yet we see so many of
Speaker 3: her contestants.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was weird. So all we have is the
Speaker 4: first first sand So these are the people that are
Speaker 4: going to be like in the beginning of episode one.
Speaker 4: It may not even be like all of episode one.
Speaker 4: So we have well we did a whole episode, but
Speaker 4: we didn't. But Trista Fielden for us. Very sweet, Thank you, Trista.
Speaker 4: Go back and listen to that episode. She went through
Speaker 4: them all but quickly. Alex, who we all liked from
Speaker 4: Grand season, Bailey also memorable from Grand season. Brian from
Speaker 4: Gen season. Don't remember him. I'm just gonna do, like
Speaker 4: off the top of my head, like do I remember them?
Speaker 5: Do I not remember them? Do I have to think hard? Dale?
Speaker 4: Of course, Dale is gonna be the most memorable of
Speaker 4: everyone because he was the one who left with Claire.
Speaker 4: He's only thirty six now. He was very young during
Speaker 4: Claire season. Hickem hilarious, great facial expressions from Gen season.
Speaker 4: Jeremy from gen Zeason, remember him too? He was fourth,
Speaker 4: he was he made it to hometowns. Just from Joey season.
Speaker 4: I do remember her. She has brown hair right now,
Speaker 4: so you may not remember her at first glance. Jonathan
Speaker 4: also quite memorable from jen season justin glaze. All of
Speaker 4: Justina from Katie's season also had such a public relationship
Speaker 4: with Susie. We we know, we can say we know
Speaker 4: that Susie is coming, but she's definitely gonna be one
Speaker 4: of those people that come on to the Sand a
Speaker 4: little bit later for drama effect. Of course, because they
Speaker 4: hold back a lot of people for drama effect, you
Speaker 4: don't get all the A listers in the first Sand group.
Speaker 4: Then we have Kat who got engaged to John Henry
Speaker 4: last season of Paradise. We do love Kat for a
Speaker 4: dramatic moment. Kyle from Katie season, don't remember him at all.
Speaker 4: Lexi gorgeous girl from Joey's season. She was the one
Speaker 4: who talked about her struggle to maybe not be able
Speaker 4: to have kids?
Speaker 5: Was it PCs?
Speaker 4: I forget what she has, but she has a bad
Speaker 4: and Jimmy Trio's as bad. I remember that Ricky from
Speaker 4: Jen season. I do remember his face, but I don't
Speaker 4: remember his storyline with him Sam. I remember he was
Speaker 4: kind of a where we weren't sure if he was
Speaker 4: a dick, but he sure had his dickish moment during
Speaker 4: Gen season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but kind of still a question if he was
Speaker 3: or not because it was really against Devin.
Speaker 5: Oh he was against holy crap.
Speaker 2: So we don't really know. Yeah, we don't really know.
Speaker 2: Now we'll wait for Paradise.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Spencer Gen season, Yes, I think he was like
Speaker 4: fifth or something. Remember his face. I know that a
Speaker 4: lot of girls asked for him to be there in Paradise.
Speaker 4: Zoe from Grand season, remember her? She was second runner up,
Speaker 4: which sounds like pageants speak, But you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: And that's it.
Speaker 4: So I guess there's really a few don't remember them,
Speaker 4: but there are definitely a few randoms and there's a
Speaker 4: few a lesteners. I would say that Jonathan Dale and
Speaker 4: Justin are probably your A list. Maybe Kat be sorry
Speaker 4: to qualify people by listeners, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I do know you mean, I I'm
Speaker 3: surprised to see the casting not bring out people more
Speaker 3: like justin Glade.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of them out there. I felt like
Speaker 2: they could have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I loaded the beach up with some guys and
Speaker 3: girls from the past that people were more connected to.
Speaker 3: Especially I mean, I know you said that you don't
Speaker 3: get a lot of people on first beach.
Speaker 2: I think it was important.
Speaker 3: I think it's very important for Paradise to start out
Speaker 3: really hot right now with that first episode where people
Speaker 3: are engaged, intrigued and watching people they.
Speaker 2: Know, especially Ashley.
Speaker 3: And here's my twist as we kind of go on
Speaker 3: to the second part of this, I'm surprised they didn't
Speaker 3: bring out people from the past Bachelor and Bachelorette because
Speaker 3: it seems like Paradise, Jesse Palmer, Wells, Hannah Brown are
Speaker 3: all really kind of teasing this.
Speaker 2: Golden's being there.
Speaker 3: And I know you asked Hannah if there was going
Speaker 3: to be any flirtation between the Bachelor Bachelorettes and the Goldens.
Speaker 3: It felt like that would be more likely if they
Speaker 3: would have brought out people from the past who are
Speaker 3: maybe closer to forty Now.
Speaker 5: Oh, can you think of any more on the top
Speaker 5: of your head? I have one. Wow, the time my
Speaker 5: head came quick J. P. Rosenbaum. He would have been
Speaker 5: he would have been big.
Speaker 4: It would have been an older ish generation where people
Speaker 4: would be like excited to see him date Ashley post divorce,
Speaker 4: first Bachelor divorce and the divorce ends up on Paradise
Speaker 4: and in between the age of the Goldens and the
Speaker 4: young'ins see.
Speaker 3: And then there's the guy even Desire who left Desire
Speaker 3: you know during her season Brooks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love Brooks. I think Brooks my being in
Speaker 5: a relationship in that case.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm not keeping track of all these people, but there
Speaker 3: are some people you could think of that have maybe
Speaker 3: been on Paradise in the last few years that they
Speaker 3: could have brought back that would have been really fun
Speaker 3: to watch.
Speaker 2: But they didn't. So Ashley.
Speaker 3: The next headline is kind of is still teasing this
Speaker 3: idea that the Goldens and the Bachelor and Bachelorettes are
Speaker 3: going to be mingling. When you asked Hannah a little
Speaker 3: teaser into that episode you did with her about flirting
Speaker 3: between the two parties.
Speaker 2: What did you say?
Speaker 5: She did her big Hannah Brown smile.
Speaker 2: Where did you pick up on?
Speaker 5: To me? My interpretation was that there's flirting but no relationship.
Speaker 3: Okay, so yeah, Do you think the show actually wanted relationship.
Speaker 2: Or is this just for conversation's sake?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: I definitely think they wanted the conversation out there. I
Speaker 4: think there was a reason that last week there were
Speaker 4: headlines about Jesse wanting it to happen, and then there
Speaker 4: was some reaction from past cast that was like, sir, no,
Speaker 4: that would not be in good taste.
Speaker 3: Well, the big news this week and a massive congratulations
Speaker 3: to the two of them. They are sweet kind We've
Speaker 3: been around them multiple times during almost famous events. They're very,
Speaker 3: very genuine people. Zach Shallcross and Katie Bigger are now married.
Speaker 3: This is a Texas wedding. It was not a super
Speaker 3: like publicized event. There was not a lot of lead
Speaker 3: up to this. It came as a shock to many,
Speaker 3: but Ashley, they are now married and we cannot be happier.
Speaker 4: So happy love this And to everybody who said that
Speaker 4: Zach was a lame bachelor choice, well look it was
Speaker 4: meant to be.
Speaker 5: He found his wife through it.
Speaker 4: And I think that they're gonna I think we're going
Speaker 4: to see them together for a very long time. I
Speaker 4: think yes. I think so too. I love yes forever.
Speaker 4: We get married for forever, and we're really happy for them.
Speaker 4: They actually had only nine people present at their wedding.
Speaker 4: They did allude to us when they talked to us
Speaker 4: a few months ago that it would be kind of
Speaker 4: an elopement. They did a cute little like wedding chapel celebration.
Speaker 4: They did it in front of the nine people at
Speaker 4: like this gorgeous little chapel. You can see the whole
Speaker 4: nine minute video via Bachelor Happy Hours or Bachelor Nation
Speaker 4: on Instagram. Everything was exclusive to Bachelor, so they kind
Speaker 4: of Bachelor definitely was like, Okay, we're gonna make this
Speaker 4: tiny and private, but we're kinda kind of bring back
Speaker 4: the we got married on air thing because every you
Speaker 4: can see like everything as if this was a mini
Speaker 4: televised event for them.
Speaker 5: It's very cute.
Speaker 4: They had this idea that they were going to do
Speaker 4: a bigger wedding and they came across this venue that
Speaker 4: they really liked, but they didn't end up signing the contract,
Speaker 4: and instead they decided to do a photo shoot at
Speaker 4: that venue before the after the intimate little chapel ceremony
Speaker 4: that you'll see it is quite perfect, and it is
Speaker 4: perfectly them. It's very tasteful and intimate, and they've never
Speaker 4: been like big public people, and I think this was
Speaker 4: just very much their style.
Speaker 3: It feels like their style. It feels so healthy. Their
Speaker 3: relationship has been healthy since the beginning. I mean, we've
Speaker 3: talked to so many contestants who are still friends with Katie.
Speaker 3: Obviously they get together still on these girls' trips, and
Speaker 3: they all talk about, you know, how funny it is
Speaker 3: to be around Zach, but also how perfect Katie and
Speaker 3: Zach are together. We would attest that this this actually
Speaker 3: feels like it goes. I mean, we obviously talk about
Speaker 3: them not winning the spotlight at least Zach definitely kind
Speaker 3: of staying away from it and not really buying into
Speaker 3: the batchel role, which is fine. That says a lot
Speaker 3: about him as a person that he just didn't like
Speaker 3: love the attention, and it almost feels like, oh, maybe
Speaker 3: the recipe for making a lot of these relationships work
Speaker 3: where you go away from the spotlight, you don't focus
Speaker 3: on the attention, and you focus on your relationship, and
Speaker 3: then you know, we've seen that with a few now
Speaker 3: work out.
Speaker 4: Katie and Zach are kind of definitely went for the
Speaker 4: right reasons. People, they truly had no intention on like
Speaker 4: doing anything with fame after the fact, they.
Speaker 3: Didn't, And it's great and we got to celebrate that.
Speaker 3: It's something very respectful and something very much appreciated because
Speaker 3: I can't say that I went down that path myself,
Speaker 3: but I see how their relationship became the priority choice
Speaker 3: in their life and what that did for them as
Speaker 3: a couple, and so congratulations to them. Into non marriage news,
Speaker 3: Dancing with the Stars, Sasha Farber and Gentrans split after
Speaker 3: nearly a year of dating.
Speaker 5: A year is a little exaggerated.
Speaker 4: We know that she broke up with even what's his name,
Speaker 4: and le know what, honestly, I don't even care that
Speaker 4: I just say what's his name because he doesn't need to. No.
Speaker 4: That happened in October, So like if she and Sasha
Speaker 4: became a thing in November during Dancing with the Stars,
Speaker 4: it's been more about half a year.
Speaker 5: But thanks for the drama. Yeah, so they are going
Speaker 5: to remain very good friends. They never actually confirmed confirm
Speaker 5: their romance.
Speaker 4: They just teased a lot of chemistry and a lot
Speaker 4: of flirtation on their social media. It's probably the best
Speaker 4: that they never came out officially, put a lot less
Speaker 4: pressure on it. It was more fun and light hearted,
Speaker 4: and he was coming out of a marriage and she
Speaker 4: was coming out of a very public breakup.
Speaker 3: In two news, I was watching the Instagram stories today
Speaker 3: of people sharing their support with Vanessa Grimaldi. You'll remember
Speaker 3: her from Nick's season of The Bachelor. The headline is
Speaker 3: this Bachelor love. Vanessa Grimaldi shares she experienced a second
Speaker 3: miscarrier in a year. She's very emotional in her stories,
Speaker 3: as you would expect, and very thankful for the support
Speaker 3: she's been given.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're just so so sorry and so sad to Vanessa.
Speaker 4: She has had her, as Ben said, her second miscarriage
Speaker 4: this year, but the other one she was private about
Speaker 4: for three months, and she said that right now, being
Speaker 4: that she's like kind of doing a play by play
Speaker 4: of her feelings in lifetime on Instagram, so that she's
Speaker 4: had a whole different support system through all her following
Speaker 4: and so many women who have gone through this situation before.
Speaker 4: It's one in four pregnancies, not even one for women,
Speaker 4: one for pregnancies and in miscarriage, and it.
Speaker 2: Just feels like a stat we should look into a little.
Speaker 5: Bit, such a crazy stat. I wonder if it's always
Speaker 5: been like that.
Speaker 2: I don't think so so well.
Speaker 4: Now people are so public about it just feels like
Speaker 4: it's more often, you know, because it used to be
Speaker 4: such a quiet, silent thing, and you were supposed to
Speaker 4: expect to just deal with your grief. And I think
Speaker 4: that a lot of women are so grateful that right
Speaker 4: now it's being talked about. So she has Winston, who
Speaker 4: her two year old, and she's just like, I find
Speaker 4: so much comfort in him.
Speaker 5: I'm so grateful for him.
Speaker 4: Like I it makes me even more grateful for him. Basically,
Speaker 4: when going through this loss, said that her heart aches
Speaker 4: for the baby that she'll never get to meet, thinking
Speaker 4: about him as a newborn all the first like the
Speaker 4: sleepy snuggles, the little milestones, and she was imagining going
Speaker 4: through those moments again.
Speaker 5: And this is the second.
Speaker 4: Time she found out about a miscarriage through an ultrasound.
Speaker 4: She said that late adds an extra layer of grief
Speaker 4: when that's heavier and more complicated, harder to put into wards.
Speaker 2: Wow, we're thinking about Vanessa, and I think you said
Speaker 2: it best. It is.
Speaker 3: It feels very healthy that now somebody can speak about
Speaker 3: this publicly and feel less alone as they work through it.
Speaker 3: Next headline is Carlie Waddell reveals she's starting a new
Speaker 3: chapter with her family.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: So Carly moved into the house that she's currently in
Speaker 4: or just moving out of when she was going through
Speaker 4: the divorce with Evan. It's already like four years and
Speaker 4: for five yeah, for four and a half years, and
Speaker 4: now she's moving in with her fiance.
Speaker 5: They're so cute together. His name is Todd.
Speaker 4: You guys got to follow her on Instagram to see this.
Speaker 4: They are moving to Lebanon, Tennessee. Ben, how far out
Speaker 4: is that from Nashville.
Speaker 2: I have no idea. I don't think very far.
Speaker 5: I've never heard of Lebanon.
Speaker 2: The geography enough, Yeah, I don't know the geography.
Speaker 4: Okay, So if they are all going to live together,
Speaker 4: she says she gets to live their three best friends
Speaker 4: now instead of two, and then there's could be two
Speaker 4: dogs and the cat. She's saying goodbye to the house
Speaker 4: that made her a super moom. We know where she's
Speaker 4: so low parented or Charlie learned to walk, and we
Speaker 4: spent lots of Christmases and Easters and Halloween where we
Speaker 4: played dress up, fought tornadoes and loved really hard. We're
Speaker 4: really happy for Carly, Like I love seeing her with
Speaker 4: Todd on Instagram because like you can just the happiness
Speaker 4: is just like just it's so bright, so shining, and
Speaker 4: it's been like that for quite some time now. It's
Speaker 4: not like when Carly has her like month of happiness
Speaker 4: in Bachelor Paradise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great. It's really exciting to see. Congratulations to
Speaker 3: her on this next new chapter. Well, that's been all
Speaker 3: the headlines we have for you today. We're gonna also
Speaker 3: continue to dive in to any Bachelor in Paradise news
Speaker 3: coming your way. We will not be spoiling you, but
Speaker 3: we will be revealing what has been then revealed publicly
Speaker 3: that maybe you just missed in your headlines. But until
Speaker 3: next time, I've been Ben.
Speaker 5: I've been Ashley. Bye, guys, love you.
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