Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 2: It's Almost Famous podcast. We are here with Bachelor headlines. Obviously,
Speaker 2: it's been a bit We're coming off of the holiday
Speaker 2: season where everybody seems like they have an away message
Speaker 2: on their emails or nobody's answering phone calls. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you weren't spending your holidays listening to the Almost Famous podcast,
Speaker 2: but we are here to talk with you now as
Speaker 2: we lead up to this next season of The Bachelor
Speaker 2: Grants season of The Bachelor. We're very excited for it.
Speaker 2: It is still our off season, but the headlines don't stop.
Speaker 2: Ashley's here with us today to break down some of
Speaker 2: these headlines. A huge headline here recently that has gotten
Speaker 2: people talking Ashley is this bachelor in Paradise is Michael A.
Speaker 2: Remember Michael A, the dad Gush's over girlfriend after teasing romance.
Speaker 2: The quote is meant to be here with us.
Speaker 3: Wow, we are so high for Michael. If you guys
Speaker 3: remember he was with Daniel Maltby and the ending of
Speaker 3: their relationship was a little bit controversial. But Michael has
Speaker 3: found someone that could be could be the one, he
Speaker 3: said on Instagram he kind of like hard launched this
Speaker 3: this week through a couple Instagram posts, but he said
Speaker 3: that they met in two thousand and one and they
Speaker 3: became instant friends. She's so so pretty. I don't know
Speaker 3: how they were just friends for so long, but he
Speaker 3: said four years. They stayed exactly that way, just as friends,
Speaker 3: always there for each other at any hour, sharing laughs
Speaker 3: when life got tough, offering support when it was needed
Speaker 3: the most. And there's something special about being friends first.
Speaker 3: It sounds obvious, but I never truly experienced, you know,
Speaker 3: that friend's first thing until he met her. He said,
Speaker 3: this is the first time in a long time that
Speaker 3: he's been able to feel unconditional love and be able
Speaker 3: to give it in return. And he's also just floored
Speaker 3: by how bonded His son, who's eight now, is bonding
Speaker 3: with her. So. Her name is Jade Marie Chapman, and
Speaker 3: she's got quite a little Instagram following herself. She's got
Speaker 3: one point one million followers. She is in the skincare
Speaker 3: aesthetics business. She's obviously very successful at what she does.
Speaker 3: I'm curious to know how they met so long ago.
Speaker 3: We will find out, I'm sure eventually.
Speaker 2: Next headline is this. This is one I even hesitate
Speaker 2: to bring up because it feels unnecessary to keep talking about.
Speaker 2: It's kind of waning, I think on audiences, and I
Speaker 2: just don't think it's a story anymore. I now think
Speaker 2: it's a thing, like it's just gonna be the thing,
Speaker 2: and it's a weird thing.
Speaker 3: It's a weird thing.
Speaker 2: Devin is still and still is capitalized every letter shading
Speaker 2: Jin the TikTok video is very especially since he asked
Speaker 2: for them both to move on and she did move on,
Speaker 2: but he's still not moving on.
Speaker 3: Very very weird. So he was out at a club
Speaker 3: around New Year's maybe he was New Year's Eve, and
Speaker 3: they you know how they come through the club with
Speaker 3: signs when they like bring you a bottle. Well, this
Speaker 3: sign said new Year, same ship, and the real sign
Speaker 3: that's like what the hell it says Jen? Ain't it
Speaker 3: same year? Same Like what? This is the strangest thing ever.
Speaker 3: And he was out with one of his fellow Bachelor
Speaker 3: A contestants, Brian Oughts at the time, like why does
Speaker 3: he have any sort of why does why does Jen
Speaker 3: grind his gears like this?
Speaker 2: It's just a it's a very odd it's very odd behavior,
Speaker 2: almost like, hey, I wish this was gonna be more
Speaker 2: of a thing than it is, because it's not a
Speaker 2: thing anymore. Like I don't think anybody's thinking very often
Speaker 2: about Devin.
Speaker 3: I truly kind of forgot his name a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2: It's very weird. Speaking of not weird things and very
Speaker 2: sweet things, Joey and Kelsey are spending Christmas with her
Speaker 2: dad and his girlfriend, Barbara Allan Woods.
Speaker 3: So, as we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Barbara
Speaker 3: Allan Woods played the mom on Onedrey Hill, and he's
Speaker 3: been dating her, as we kind of got teased over Halloween.
Speaker 3: So they had a couple's costume during Halloween, and then
Speaker 3: they posted a picture over Christmas of how they were
Speaker 3: dancing in front of the tree, and the caption of
Speaker 3: it said in good company. It's been very obvious that
Speaker 3: they've been dating, and Kelsey and Joey pretty much confirmed
Speaker 3: this because he said, you know, we spent Thanksgiving with
Speaker 3: my family and we're spending Christmas with her family. And
Speaker 3: who was there at Christmas Barbara Allan Woods. It's pretty cute.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that they wouldn't have met if it weren't
Speaker 3: for his appearance on The Golden Bachelor. So one of
Speaker 3: those tales that we love.
Speaker 2: It's amazing tale of love. Next headline is one that
Speaker 2: just maybe is as confusing to me as the Devin one.
Speaker 2: I would say Swifties are great fans. They're very supportive
Speaker 2: of Taylor Swift and they protect her very well. But
Speaker 2: this one needs to be explained to me. Bachelor Nations
Speaker 2: Amanda Stanton suggests Taylor Swift could be copying her style,
Speaker 2: and Amanda has gotten a lot of backlash from this.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people are very protective of Taylor, right. My friend
Speaker 3: sent me a TikTok about one girl seeing Amanda's instagrams
Speaker 3: and she was making fun of her for possibly thinking
Speaker 3: that Taylor was copying her. It's like, you guys, like,
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure Amanda, Well, she says she's partially kidding.
Speaker 3: Doesn't really mean that Taylor Swift is looking at her
Speaker 3: instagram and then using it as inspiration for her clothes.
Speaker 3: But Amanda has mentioned on Instagram over the past month
Speaker 3: or so about how Taylor seems to always wear something
Speaker 3: very similar to what she has posted herself wearing right
Speaker 3: after the fact, and it's like seven outfit's in a row,
Speaker 3: Amanda says, but yes, the internet has kind of come
Speaker 3: at Amanda, being like, how could you possibly think that
Speaker 3: our queen is using you as inspiration?
Speaker 2: Hey, I think it's sweet that fans love Taylor so much,
Speaker 2: and I also think it's a huge compliment to Amanda
Speaker 2: that she's wearing similar clothing, or that Taylor's wearing similar
Speaker 2: clothing to her. She's got great style. Speaking of Gray style,
Speaker 2: Maddie Pruitt gives glimpse into her beautiful baby shower. The
Speaker 2: quote is, we felt so loved. Yes, it was so adorable.
Speaker 3: They had like gorgeous little teacups, finger sandwiches adults. It
Speaker 3: was a huge tea party themed wedding, and she says
Speaker 3: their last big celebration before the baby's here. She felt
Speaker 3: so loved, and she's thanking God for all the amazing
Speaker 3: friends and being loved so well by all the people
Speaker 3: around her. The only person that we can say that
Speaker 3: was in attendance from Bachelor Nation is Kiara Norman.
Speaker 2: I know Maddie and Grant recently moved to Nashville, So
Speaker 2: if anybody's wondering he did, why, Yeah, this I mean
Speaker 2: I don't know if this baby shard took place in Nashville,
Speaker 2: but I know they have moved to Nashville and are
Speaker 2: settling down to start a family there. Bachelor in Paradise's
Speaker 2: Klin Bell and husband Dean are trying to start a family,
Speaker 2: but she admits it's harder than she thought.
Speaker 3: She said that it's on the vision board. She said
Speaker 3: that might sound weird, but I don't know, and I
Speaker 3: don't know if that's considered a goal, but it's an
Speaker 3: active thing that we're trying at, and it's harder to
Speaker 3: make a baby than I thought it would be. She
Speaker 3: said that she knows that everyone goes, oh, no, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna get you pregnant so easily, and she thought this herself.
Speaker 3: She's like, my mom got pregnant so fast with all
Speaker 3: of her kids, and I was like, this is going
Speaker 3: to be me too. However, she said that she's learning
Speaker 3: that that whole tracking your ovulation thing is a little
Speaker 3: bit trickier than she initially thought. She's still figuring out.
Speaker 3: She is going to the OBI this month. She got
Speaker 3: the mirror device, so you plug it in and you
Speaker 3: pian a stick and it tells you your LH levels,
Speaker 3: which is like the level that you need to see
Speaker 3: spike in order to you know, you guys can look
Speaker 3: it up if you haven't tried like this before. She said,
Speaker 3: It's just I was peeing on the other sticks and
Speaker 3: I was having a hard time. I was just trying
Speaker 3: to figure out, like, am I ovuli? Am I not?
Speaker 3: And Uh, this is where their life's at right now.
Speaker 3: I this hearing this makes me feel like I've got
Speaker 3: to reach out to them. I'm like, oh, you're going
Speaker 3: to join the kid to crew with us, And I
Speaker 3: knew this would happen. They're gonna both be such wonderful parents.
Speaker 3: But both of them went back and forth for quite
Speaker 3: some time and whether they wanted to be parents or not,
Speaker 3: and I remember they like alternated. There was like a
Speaker 3: time where she wanted to and he did it, and
Speaker 3: then vice versa. But they have come to a conclusion
Speaker 3: trying to have kids. I hope it goes well for them.
Speaker 3: I hope she gets pregnant whenever the time is right
Speaker 3: for them.
Speaker 2: Bachelorettes Andy Dorfmann details dramatic twenty eight hour labor with
Speaker 2: baby Harper.
Speaker 3: So Andy Dorphin's journey and becoming a mom was very
Speaker 3: easy at first, she said. She said she was having
Speaker 3: her epidural and they were ordering dinner with her being
Speaker 3: like pretty much very much in the dilation phase, and
Speaker 3: their water broke. Everything was going well. I don't know
Speaker 3: why they're ordering dinner because like a lot of the times,
Speaker 3: they don't really let you eat dinner. They'll let you
Speaker 3: eat like little things like maybe a cracker and like
Speaker 3: popsicles and stuff like that. That's how it was with us.
Speaker 3: But anyway, she said, Eva Dura was in smooth sailing,
Speaker 3: and she felt like the baby was gonna be there
Speaker 3: within a few hours. And she says, those were our
Speaker 3: last famous words, because it was twelve hours later that
Speaker 3: she was still fully dilated but no baby girl. And
Speaker 3: then when it got to the point she pushed for
Speaker 3: ninety minutes and they had to do some rotational moves
Speaker 3: and such. I don't think that ninety minutes is very
Speaker 3: long for your first I think Dawson was about ninety
Speaker 3: minutes as well, maybe even a little bit more. And
Speaker 3: they had to put me into some different positions for him,
Speaker 3: different positions for Hayden too, But you know, sorry, Tami,
Speaker 3: Hayden was definitely a faster push session, but she said,
Speaker 3: even after doing New York City and La marathons, the
Speaker 3: pushing was by far the most exhausting thing that I've
Speaker 3: ever done in my entire life. Huh, I've never run
Speaker 3: a marathon, but that is hard to believe. I found
Speaker 3: the hardest thing about pushing to be the holding your
Speaker 3: breath for like ten seconds. I don't want to hold
Speaker 3: my breath. Can I just breathe through the push? Anyway.
Speaker 3: Her final round of pushing came close to four thirty am,
Speaker 3: and when the baby came, she was expecting to hear
Speaker 3: that cry that you see in the movies, you know,
Speaker 3: you kind of imagine it all, and then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, baby pops out and she was silent, and
Speaker 3: so that obviously sent her and her husband into a panic.
Speaker 3: They brought the baby over to the infant warmer bed,
Speaker 3: where an entire team of doctors and nurses, she said,
Speaker 3: rush into the room to help. And while they were
Speaker 3: very nervous, she says she knew that she was in
Speaker 3: good hands. She was able to hold baby Harper for
Speaker 3: the first time before they transfer her over to the
Speaker 3: NIICU for a short little stay over there, but overall
Speaker 3: healthy baby, healthy mom, well, actually sort of heavy healthy mom.
Speaker 3: She actually had to go back to the hospital a
Speaker 3: couple days after having Harper because she had one small
Speaker 3: and one large hematoma. You know, you don't really know
Speaker 3: how to expect your body to feel after giving birth,
Speaker 3: but Andy just said she had this gut feeling that
Speaker 3: something wasn't right, so she called her doctor and they
Speaker 3: told her to head over to the hospital and she
Speaker 3: had to have pretty much emergency surgery just six days
Speaker 3: I think after having Harper. And thank you for naming
Speaker 3: her Harper Hart because it makes us feel a lot
Speaker 3: less weird. After calling Hayden Hayden Haven to wrap up headlines, finally,
Speaker 3: after so much teasing, Jen Tran came out with her
Speaker 3: love her relationship with her Dancing with the Stars partner
Speaker 3: Sasha Fraber. We are very excited for the two of
Speaker 3: them and continue to look forward to their Instagram dances
Speaker 3: throughout the world. Wherever these two go, they dance and
Speaker 3: it's quite sweet. And I really like the way that
Speaker 3: this story ended for her, of course, because she had
Speaker 3: an awful bachelorette season, but like those stories that I love,
Speaker 3: that position of hers led her to being on Dancing
Speaker 3: with the stars and meeting this love so it all
Speaker 3: works out for a reason.
Speaker 2: Well that's all the headlines we have for you today.
Speaker 2: Bachelor Nation doesn't stop, even though it was a little
Speaker 2: holiday break, but we are back now with Almost Famous
Speaker 2: podcasts putting out new episodes each week, multiple times a week.
Speaker 2: We are doing a really fun thing that we've never
Speaker 2: done before. But I am excited for it, and I
Speaker 2: know Ashley is. Also. We're accounting to grant season of
Speaker 2: The Bachelor by interviewing past bachelor's as many as we
Speaker 2: can get, as many as we can find, I guess,
Speaker 2: and as many as the degree to come on and
Speaker 2: I have a conversation with us. And so if you're
Speaker 2: a fan of the show and you've watched previous seasons,
Speaker 2: look on the stream wherever you can find podcasts for
Speaker 2: a name of a former Bachelor to pop up. We're
Speaker 2: gonna get the down low on their life today, what
Speaker 2: they're up to now, maybe new love stories, and some
Speaker 2: insight into their season of The Bachelor and how it
Speaker 2: still affects them today. So make sure you tune into
Speaker 2: the Almost podcast wherever you can listen to podcasts. And
Speaker 2: until next time, I've been Ben.
Speaker 3: I've Been Ashley Zia.
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