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Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome to a headlines edition of the Almost
Speaker 2: Famous podcast filling in for Ben is Zachary Reality. We
Speaker 2: had to get this headlines in today Tuesday, March eleventh,
Speaker 2: because there are some crazy bachelor headlines out right now,
Speaker 2: including the one that really made us get on the mic.
Speaker 2: Deanna Pappas has been arrested after a showdown with her
Speaker 2: ex husband Steven Stagliano, and we may not have the
Speaker 2: entire story here, but we do want to get out
Speaker 2: the facts that we have. So they seem to be
Speaker 2: going back and forth a bit. Stephen is claiming that
Speaker 2: she is an alcoholic. First, his mom was picking up
Speaker 2: their children and Austin to take him to school, and
Speaker 2: she's alleged that she smelt alcohol on on Dianna's breath.
Speaker 2: This is part of a narrative that Deanna says they're
Speaker 2: trying to perpetuate. She said that often she feels like
Speaker 2: he's trained their daughter Addison to kind of survey the
Speaker 2: house for alcohol.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 2: Just this week what happened was a physical altercation between
Speaker 2: Stephen and Deanna, in which Stephen wanted to This is
Speaker 2: all legend, Okay, this is all It seems to be
Speaker 2: Deanna's side the story. What happens is he picks up
Speaker 2: the kids, particularly to think of the situation.
Speaker 4: It was their daughter.
Speaker 2: Addison says, come close to me, I want to smell
Speaker 2: your breath, and then she's like no. She turns around
Speaker 2: heads into the garage and she hears him following her
Speaker 2: into the garage.
Speaker 3: She closes the door, locks it, and then she goes.
Speaker 3: She calls the police.
Speaker 2: In the midst of this, he does get his hands
Speaker 2: on her, pushes her against a wall, and somehow once
Speaker 2: the police arrive, they arrest Diana. This is why we're
Speaker 2: not really sure if we have all the facts here.
Speaker 2: But Dianna was put behind bars and got out the
Speaker 2: same day with twenty thousand dollars in bond. And Deanna
Speaker 2: is trying to get a restraining order against Steven that'll
Speaker 2: keep him one hundred yards away from her.
Speaker 3: That's what we got. That's what we got. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you're.
Speaker 2: Asking for I don't know if I'm asking for opinion either,
Speaker 2: because let's also add that Deanna is saying, I'm not alcoholic.
Speaker 2: He's coaching our daughter to look out for alcohol in
Speaker 2: the home, to literally sniff out alcohol and try to
Speaker 2: alienate her away from me. So yeah, So the restraining
Speaker 2: order that was she trialed was on the seventh, so
Speaker 2: we'll see there's a hearing later this month. I don't
Speaker 2: know should we give opinion on this.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think the main takeaway from this is
Speaker 5: that the children should not be involved or in the middle.
Speaker 5: It seems as any type of like whatever it's called, like,
Speaker 5: they just should not be involved to sway, or they
Speaker 5: shouldn't be aware of how bad it is between their parents,
Speaker 5: because it sounds like the kids are kids. So I
Speaker 5: think that hopefully this is a wake up call for
Speaker 5: Steven and Dianna, who probably have been fighting for a while,
Speaker 5: that like this could be a rock bottom moment for
Speaker 5: them where they could really look at whatever they arguing
Speaker 5: about and just be like, all right, this is the
Speaker 5: last time. It's gone way too far. Now the kids
Speaker 5: are involved, Now they're going to be more aware. So
Speaker 5: let's just try and co parent amicably and not be
Speaker 5: near each other. Let's just not talk to each other.
Speaker 5: Let's get someone in between, maybe your mom and I
Speaker 5: also hope that Deanna is you know, honoring the rule
Speaker 5: of not drinking in front of the kids, if that's
Speaker 5: the rule that they both agreed on.
Speaker 2: Also worth mentioning that they did settle their divorce in
Speaker 2: June of last year. We will have the base on this, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so we'll up base on this soon, all right. Next up,
Speaker 2: baby lion Dyke number four. Ari and Lauren are having
Speaker 2: their fourth baby.
Speaker 4: I may have known one of this a little while ago.
Speaker 2: That yes, me, No, I didn't know from them, so
Speaker 2: they're his vasectomy reversal was obviously successful.
Speaker 3: I did know back in September that.
Speaker 2: Ari got his vseectomy reverse at one of our friend's weddings.
Speaker 4: It was the talk of the place.
Speaker 3: Everybody was like, wait, you got it reverse? Was that painful?
Speaker 3: He said it was a four hour surgery and it
Speaker 3: was still not a guarantee.
Speaker 2: After the four hour surgery, and we're like, after twins,
Speaker 2: you know, after Alessie and followed by a set of twins,
Speaker 2: you guys are ready to do it again. And they
Speaker 2: were like, you'll understand once your kids are in school,
Speaker 2: because when they're in school, you're home all day and
Speaker 2: you're like, oh man, now I miss that that phase
Speaker 2: of crazy we're like, okay, maybe maybe we we'll get it.
Speaker 3: So very happy for them.
Speaker 2: Congratulations, this is this was their wish.
Speaker 5: Well and this is also big news because now it's
Speaker 5: they will become the most the most child full. Yes,
Speaker 5: they will be the Bachelor Nation couple with the most kids,
Speaker 5: breaking the record of four, which no one has ever
Speaker 5: done before. Sean Loh and Catherine are right behind them
Speaker 5: with three. Jaden Tanner as well with three, but Ari
Speaker 5: and Lauren will be breaking new barriers with their fourth childs.
Speaker 3: Good stat there, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: All right then, Katie Thurston, she's been really updating us
Speaker 2: a lot on her health journey.
Speaker 3: Of course, we know that she has breast cancer.
Speaker 2: Right now, but before she undergoes the chemotherapy that she
Speaker 2: needs to do for that, she is freezing her eggs
Speaker 2: and right now she is telling us all the details
Speaker 2: about that. The average age, an average cost of freezing
Speaker 2: your eggs is twenty four thousand dollars. It's technically she
Speaker 2: has it twenty four three and forty nine dollars, and
Speaker 2: she is getting a discount of fifty percent the itemized
Speaker 2: receipt that she showed that her insurance will pay the
Speaker 2: insurance will pay a remaining eleven thousand dollars. Yes, so
Speaker 2: these are her daily shots, broken down by cost. And
Speaker 2: as someone with breast cancer, she said a lot of
Speaker 2: my fertility treatments will be covered by the State of
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 4: So that's interesting and that's great.
Speaker 5: I like how she's being transparent too, because I think
Speaker 5: these are things that people don't know, Like they don't
Speaker 5: know how insurance works, how you know medical things work.
Speaker 5: And you know, she is in a very precarious situation,
Speaker 5: so her being open about it is only going to
Speaker 5: help so many people because she does have such a
Speaker 5: large following. So I feel bad for her, but I'm
Speaker 5: glad that she's being transparent. I wish she got paid
Speaker 5: more for the show. I mean, she was the bachelorette,
Speaker 5: so if only, you know, she could have got more
Speaker 5: money that came along with that. They don't maybe they
Speaker 5: don't pay their leads enough.
Speaker 3: They certain they don't pay their leads too much. But
Speaker 3: she was also on.
Speaker 2: F Boy Island with as being one of the girl leads,
Speaker 2: and she probably made more through being a lead there.
Speaker 2: And she also is talking about motherhood. She said that
Speaker 2: it was something that she didn't think that she wanted.
Speaker 2: She said, one day you think you don't want kids,
Speaker 2: and then one day you meet the man of your
Speaker 2: dreams and you would do anything to make sure that
Speaker 2: we can start a family in the future.
Speaker 4: That's oh, that's super sweet.
Speaker 2: And she said that for those of you who aren't
Speaker 2: familiar with fertility treatment, here's a typical day. I'm taking
Speaker 2: three pills a day to keep my estrogen down, a
Speaker 2: shot in my stomach in the morning, and two shots
Speaker 2: in my stomach at night. And she has to go
Speaker 2: to the clinic, you know, for blood draws and ultrasounds
Speaker 2: and all of that. She's in the second week leading
Speaker 2: up to their egg retrieval. She just says she's feeling
Speaker 2: tired and that her sleep and dreams are crazy.
Speaker 5: Oh wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Like I said, I'm glad that she's being transparent and open,
Speaker 5: and a lot of us are really rooting for her
Speaker 5: and rallying for her. Like I sent her a nice
Speaker 5: message just to really like encourage her to get through this.
Speaker 5: It sounds like she had her whole life plans with
Speaker 5: this guy that she met and she's engaged, so hopefully
Speaker 5: she is able to just like get through this and
Speaker 5: that there is like a bright light at the end
Speaker 5: of the tunnel and that she could have that family
Speaker 5: she's always wanted and maybe before she even knows it
Speaker 5: could be you know, in a couple of years.
Speaker 2: And she was also talking about how, you know, if
Speaker 2: she has a successful egg retrieval and she gets like
Speaker 2: ten eggs, the viability of getting a baby from that
Speaker 2: to retrieval is maybe one or two successful embryos that'll
Speaker 2: transfer over and you.
Speaker 4: Know, become a baby one day.
Speaker 2: So so much goes into it and it all still
Speaker 2: feels up to, you know chance. Our final headline is
Speaker 2: justin Glaize, Andrew Spencer and Greg Grippo are taking a
Speaker 2: four year Friends of Rosary trip. They've been friends for
Speaker 2: four years now and they went to Putakana in the
Speaker 2: Dominican to celebrate this, which is very adorable.
Speaker 3: They are one of.
Speaker 2: The closest friend crews that I have seeing come out
Speaker 2: of this show, and it's adorable that they're that they're
Speaker 2: going away together, just the three of the guys, and
Speaker 2: they're recreating white lotus during their trip.
Speaker 4: They've been doing that.
Speaker 2: So congratulations to your very close friendship.
Speaker 5: This seems like the guys from Katie season have always
Speaker 5: been really close. I mean, just looking at this article,
Speaker 5: there's other articles of them like having more friends from
Speaker 5: their group, like Mike, Michael.
Speaker 2: Ah, Michael A. He should well, Michael A is great.
Speaker 2: But then also there was Mike from The Virgin and
Speaker 2: I love Mike the Virgin. He should be in Paradise
Speaker 2: for sure. And I would love to see all these
Speaker 2: three guys together in Paradise. I know that Justin and
Speaker 2: his relationship with Susie is up in the air, but
Speaker 2: it is good bachelor in Paradise fodder to have either
Speaker 2: him alone and us see him for both of them
Speaker 2: with heartbreak or both of them and being like, if
Speaker 2: you guys can't get through Paradise together, then you probably
Speaker 2: won't be able, you know, to resurrect this relationship.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean them taking boys trips all the time,
Speaker 5: like they must have just like gotten a lot of
Speaker 5: money from their influencing career and just you know, have
Speaker 5: all the time in the world, because it seems like
Speaker 5: they are taking trips together every other week. But for them,
Speaker 5: like they're just living their best life and they enjoy
Speaker 5: each other's company.
Speaker 3: I my guess is at a lot of places, a
Speaker 3: lot of resorts.
Speaker 2: A lot of events want these guys here because they're single,
Speaker 2: they're good looking, they're like the last Really, I feel
Speaker 2: like lovable bunch of single guys from the show, Like
Speaker 2: can you think in recent seasons like a guy group
Speaker 2: that is funny and charming the way that they are.
Speaker 5: No, and they're really good at TikTok too. They are
Speaker 5: always posting different sounds and stuff. I really want Greg
Speaker 5: to be the Bachelor. I feel like he is eligible,
Speaker 5: like he has a big enough name, so I would
Speaker 5: love them to make him the Bachelor. But if he's
Speaker 5: not gonna do it, like I would hope that he
Speaker 5: would at least do Bachelor in Paradise because yeah, he
Speaker 5: only gave us one season. He was only on Katie's
Speaker 5: season and then he came in at the end with
Speaker 5: Victoria there. But I don't know why he won't just
Speaker 5: go on the show, especially because he seems to really
Speaker 5: enjoy all the perks that come with it.
Speaker 2: I think he definitely would be the Bachelor, and yeah,
Speaker 2: we won't have a Bachelorette season to pick the Bachelor from,
Speaker 2: so it could be somebody like him from a previous season.
Speaker 2: But my opinion is that they would probably like to
Speaker 2: pull a Culton scenario, a Nick scenario with him. Have
Speaker 2: him go on Paradise, see how that unfolds him, remind
Speaker 2: people how much they loved him, and then if it
Speaker 2: doesn't work out, have him.
Speaker 4: Be the bachelor lead. I think that's the perfect scenario
Speaker 4: for everyone.
Speaker 5: I hope he does it because I think we'll we'll
Speaker 5: need some type of all star cast and we're gonna
Speaker 5: need some.
Speaker 4: Guys, need him as the star guy. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's so many amazing girls from the last few
Speaker 5: years that I know we're going to go go out
Speaker 5: there and want to, especially Joey's season and Grant season,
Speaker 5: and so I really hope that Grant and maybe Andrew
Speaker 5: and Justin will join him. I mean, Greg, maybe they'll
Speaker 5: join him in Paradise. We can get all three of
Speaker 5: them there.
Speaker 2: I think we need to do this, and I think
Speaker 2: we need to put Susie in there too.
Speaker 3: That would be so good.
Speaker 5: I think she could be down.
Speaker 3: Do you have insight about their relationship currently?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's over. It's not I think they're just friendly.
Speaker 2: Okay, So guys, what was happening was, of course they
Speaker 2: were together for about five months last year turned in
Speaker 2: turned a friendship, a really close friendship, into a romantic relationship.
Speaker 2: They broke up, and then it seemed as a couple
Speaker 2: months ago they were trying to possibly rekindle.
Speaker 4: Things, and you're saying that currently not rekindled.
Speaker 5: Not rekindled. I did see my girl Susie over the weekend.
Speaker 5: I saw her at a friend's birthday party. So yes,
Speaker 5: they're not together, they're just friends. And she didn't directly
Speaker 5: say she would go to Paradise, but it seemed like
Speaker 5: there could she could be open. So I would hope
Speaker 5: that she's never gone either. She's never been, so I'm
Speaker 5: helping she goes.
Speaker 4: Love it, Love it m h. And we'll know.
Speaker 5: We'll know if she's there, and will know who else
Speaker 5: is there because once it comes to May and we
Speaker 5: know when they go to film, we'll see who's you know,
Speaker 5: gone from their social media and stuff like that, so
Speaker 5: we'll be able to kind of tell and hear and
Speaker 5: maybe we can spoil at least who went, not what happens,
Speaker 5: but at least who went.
Speaker 4: Yes, good stuff.
Speaker 2: It seems like this Paradise season is going is one
Speaker 2: in which the cast really wants to be part of.
Speaker 2: I think in previous years, we've heard people be like,
Speaker 2: oh no, I don't want to do Paradise. Every thinks
Speaker 2: that they have like a chance at the lead. So
Speaker 2: a lot of the quote A listers won't go to Paradise,
Speaker 2: and now I think they're like, who knows what's going
Speaker 2: on for this franchise, Let's just take a week again.
Speaker 5: I would rather go to Paradise, you know, if you
Speaker 5: don't even know if you're going to be the lead,
Speaker 5: if anyone's really holding out for it, and even if
Speaker 5: you go to Paradise you can still be the lead.
Speaker 5: It seems like there's way less pressure on Paradise than
Speaker 5: there is on any of the other shows. So I
Speaker 5: think all the people should just go back do it
Speaker 5: a third time, like you have nothing to lose.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think people need to really remember that if you
Speaker 2: go to Paradise, it doesn't mean you can be the lead.
Speaker 2: Actually it might increase your odds of being the lead.
Speaker 2: And guys there you could yeah, and there's air conditioning
Speaker 2: maybe this year, so good, good, just do it.
Speaker 4: Have a great time, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, Zach, thank you so much for joining us again.
Speaker 2: Great headlines episode. Thanks for being our go to fill
Speaker 2: in Man. We appreciate you, and we'll thank you for
Speaker 2: having me sometime very soon.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'd love to come back. Thank you all so
Speaker 5: much for watching.
Speaker 2: Bye.
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