The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - A Bachelor Idol with Juan Pablo and Camila Galavais

Episode Date: March 29, 2024

If you watched American Idol this season, you probably noticed a return from a Bachelor Nation superstar! Ben and Ashley are hanging out with season 18 Bachelor Juan Pablo Galavais and his daughter, aspiring singer Camila! We hear all about Camila’s audition for American Idol, and she shares some memories from when her dad was The Bachelor! Plus, find out what Juan Pablo REALLY thinks about his daughter being in the spotlight on ABC!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And now you're back on ABC, but this time it's American Idol. And this is so exciting. Your audition aired on Sunday, and now you're going to Hollywood. And we're very, we're very happy for you. Congratulations on that. That's a good. Was that your goal just to like make it three? round one yeah so like get like the the okay from like the judges was like my goal basically

yeah you're 14 so it's your first year oh you're 15 now okay yeah so was this your first year of eligibility for american idol right yeah i'm an american idol a huge fan i don't watch the show anymore i'm gonna have to tune in for you but i used to in like the 2000s on my license plate it said heart idol like the actual license plate was a heart with idol so this is a big this is a big deal yes yes yes or did you grow up watching the show yeah i would watch sometimes like on tictock or like on youtube but not like i would watch it like on a bc yeah okay so why american idol and not the voice or another competition show i don't know because my dad just told me oh american idol so i was like oh okay well uh to be honest with you like

The story is basically one of the producers from the show, you know, from The Bachelor or Rob Mills, so ABC King, yeah. ABC, so we had a conversation. We chat it once in a while to see how is everything doing or whatever. And he asked me, so how is Camilla? I say, well, she's big. Is she into sports or whatever? She likes to sing all day or whatever.

Oh, my gosh, really. So I send her a song that she recorded. like a little demo and he was like we gotta get her an american idol so i said well she's too young still she's 13 so oh let me see and he checked obviously the the age limit and stuff like that so when it was time for her to do it uh we'll just say okay camilla would you like to do it and she said yeah that i like to do it so basically that's how it came out through the show and do it and then we did the casting and it was a zoom casting kind of thing and then that's when she you know,

performance stuff like that. And she wanted, they want her to do the show, singing in front of the shows, yeah. So you didn't have to wait in line for 24 hours and camp out at an arena.

Well, at least we got some perks still, you know? Seriously. Very nice. Seriously. The, well,

Paul, I want to dive into you a little bit. So obviously it has been 10 years since you've been on the Bachelor. We did get to know you both through that experience. I think last time we talked to you, you were doing social media management. Am I right?

Well, that's what, it's funny because that's what Cabilla said. She was nervous. So basically what I do, I manage singers and songwriters. And since a couple of years ago, a little bit before a pandemic, I started doing soccer as well. So I'm an agent for soccer players and I do music and entertainment, you know, management. So that's where I am right now. So you obviously have a taste for talent. So you knew that she was really a really good singer.

Obviously biases probably play into a little bit. I want to know when you both walked into the first audition outside of the Zoom. So the first live audition as a dad, what was your thought? Like what was going through your head or the emotions? Okay. I'm going to tell you first. I'm going to let her explain to you how it happened because it's, you know, you see it on the show and basically that was it but i was waiting with her mom outside yeah so i entered the

audition room and they like asked me like oh like your name whatever and then they asked me if anyone in my family was like in the industry whatever like yeah my dad and then they asked i was like oh my dad he was in the bachelor and they go oh like that's what you see on tv and that he was outside with my mom and then when i like he was like oh bring him in so i was like okay so i go and i get him and that's when he like goes into that's what i came in So basically, obviously, I got to talk a little bit with them. You know, I knew Luke Brian from a NASCAR, Daytona 500, 2014. He performed and we met and stuff like that.

And through my head was like, okay, well, we're here. She, you know, it's time for her to show her stuff. And obviously, I didn't know that I was going to stay or listen to. I would just, oh, they call me. She ran and it's dad, they want to meet you. So I say, okay, fine. So I went there, spoke a little bit with them, and that's what she says, well, will you like your father to be there or whatever? She said, yes, so I'll sit down.

What I was going through my mind is like, well, I knew she was very nervous because I was outside with her. And she's so young at the time, she was still 14 when she did the audition that through my head was like, I hope she feels okay. She felt comfortable just by, you know, that she doesn't feel as nervous as she was before. But when I saw her on a stage, like, I mean, in front of me, I saw her a little more calm than what she was outside. She even a little cry before going into the audition because she was so nervous. Sometimes the nerves go away as soon as you walk into the room and see the panel or whatever. I just think about Bachelor auditions. How would you compare your Bachelor audition to her American Idol audition?

Ben. Wow. So one of the things that I told her also that, you know, I think it might help her a lot. It was when I played soccer, you know, if I didn't feel this nervousness or something in my stomach when I was going into the field, then maybe I wasn't, I was done with soccer, you know? So she will always have that. When I was on the show, obviously you get that. limo and you're like, oh shoot, I'm here. Let me see what I'm going to do. But for her, I think part of it was just being there and letting things go, right? Yeah, it was more of like me like letting it flow. So it wouldn't be like super like, so it wouldn't be like a forced audition. Like I didn't want it to look like I was like forcing myself to like, you know, do my best. I was just like whatever.

Like either way I'm super young. Like it doesn't matter. Mm-hmm. So, yeah. Now, Camilla, the, does any of the time on The Bachelor, like, do you remember, I mean, do you remember that well at all? Just too little. The only thing I remember was, like, ice skating in, like, this weird, like, rain that, like,

yeah, they created a ring here in L.A. So. I was curious to see if any of that, like, any of the attention from that to cameras, the interviews or whatever, like, prepped you for these types of moments. No, I felt like when I was doing. my my like interviews I was like more calm about it because I was like I've done this before like when I was super young and like also like with like the cameras and all of that it was like fine because I like also seen that before and like I kind of like being on camera like I don't know I like

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Listen to Family Secrets Season 12 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. so the judges are obviously all-star panel was there one that you were most wanting to get a yes from anybody that you were most excited to meet katie probably yeah she gave you a yes and so did luke brian now linel who i've met and he was one of like the sweetest celebrities i've ever met so warm he said no but he was also like you're so young that like you know you can always come back um yeah so is there a judge that is like on your side on the way through hollywood i feel like i feel like luke is on my side like he he in the in my audition he said that um that like if a producer grabs me

and i make a song like it's a hit and like i feel like he encourages me a lot because i'm still super young and like he's like no like you got this like you're going to be fine like and if and if you don't go through then it's fine like you're still super young you could do this because i think the maximum age is like 30 so i could do this 15 more times yeah i don't want you to do this no i don't think she wants it the way it's like i could still do it 15 more times so it doesn't matter if it's a nowhere yes because either way like it's in front of luke ryan leano ritchie and kiv's And Katie Barry. Yeah. And the other contestants, they're way older than me and they have like way more

experience. And it's like, I just feel like what I mostly wanted to get from like all of like the American Idol is like the experience and the friendships that come within. And just like having, it's like a family. Like to me, they're like a family. Like I still talk to a lot of the people there. Bachelor nation. Just like passionation. okay well I'm so glad you got that experience and I don't want to spoil it we we don't want to ask for spoilers or anything no so we'll leave the conversation at that as a as of somebody it likes I mean obviously I used to love American Idol I haven't seen I'm going to watch it because of you this season what okay you're saying this area is pre-taped but does it go live at some point yeah yeah and we don't know just we don't know if you make it to the live or not not like that's something the viewership right now doesn't know correct okay okay so that's weeks i mean obviously it plays every week um right now so we'll get to follow your journey along the way yeah i i i am like this is so cool to see a father and a daughter sit here and to here's a note that

you're saying one pablo that she felt more comfortable with you in the room such a big deal like i feel like if i was a singer which i'm not i would be more nervous if my parents sat in the same what that's what I was thinking like I would be more anxious about that like I would rather than not see it just in case I embarrass myself so I want to know what you guys have done in your relationship as a father and daughter to like make it a comfortable space where you're like I think she'll be better if I'm sitting here I mean every day it doesn't matter where I am like I could be in school and I will be singing like sometimes in school I'm seeing like my friends they're like can you like just shut up like we're tired like it's seven in the morning how do you have this

much energy and I'm like, it's a new day. And like, with my parents, like, all I do is seeing the car. Yeah. Like, one time we had, um, we had, uh, we did, we took a road trip to Orlando because we live in Miami. So it took a four hour drive and the whole four hours, I did not sleep, nothing. And we just sang the whole time. Wampapo, do you like listening to her for four straight hours? I like to play my music too, but just, but it is what it is, you know? But I do let you go. Yeah, once in a while, just a couple of songs. But it's funny because she jumps in the car every time I pick her up.

And like she's not even jumping in the car. He's asking, offer the cable, depends on the car. Or she's had the Bluetooth already. So she's just playing whatever she wants. Yeah. And she also, she gives me good songs too that I have for her. So, oh, that listen to this song by whatever. And I'm like, oh, that's a nice song right there.

Yeah. Good. And one thing I hate is that every time that we're listening to me, and we're having a good, he has to get on a phone call, so he stops everything. It happens. Damn, I hate phone calls in the car. To me, it's like my office once in a while when you're... Miami, it just becomes so much traffic, well, it would be really too.

So when I jump in the car, you know, because I work with people, that's the problem. As I work with people, it's not like I call whenever or, you know, sometimes I got to make a phone call to a soccer player that needs something or something like that. So she's like, are you going to pick up? And I say, I have to pick up the phone. I'm working right now. Well, one day, one day that might change when you have a new client that you're representing that sounds like it's not too far in the future.

You might. I'm going to get her a manager, man. Getting her a manager. Yeah. It's so cool to see. We wish you the best success. I am, I'm always like anxiously, nervously excited. but then again

you have 15 more times if like you don't win this season you have 15 more times that's ridiculous it's so awesome you have 15 more times until you get to the live round right because then when you hit it live then they don't let you come back anymore right

that's a good question I have no idea I think there's some caveat there so you just have too fan that's what I'm saying I don't know if they changed the rule since I have last watch but I wanted to ask you guys since Camila, are you a freshman or a sophomore in high school?

I'm a freshman in high school. Okay, so how is it with your peers that your dad was once the bachelor? Does it come up often? Yeah, like my friends, they like sometimes ask me and I'm like, I don't know. Like I was like 10. I was like five before. I was four. How am I supposed to like remember?

They're like, oh, but you don't remember like when you were? I was like, no. Like, I don't know. And like there's this joke that. like goes on with my friends with the guys mostly because my dad also plays soccer that they just start screaming in the middle of nowhere his name they're like Juan Pablo at least and like the whole class is quiet and then just someone says it and I'm like oh my god like no it's so weird it's weird it's nice to have a cool dad you'll appreciate it one day you probably appreciate it

now the awesome family dynamic it's so good to catch up with both of you again after yes so years. So here's my story as we close out. I was watching the television. The commercial came for American Idol because it was airing. And it was, I figured how they entered into it, but it was something like, and the recurrence of a bachelor. And it was playing when The Bachelor and I was watching, I was like, wait, what? Because I didn't know what was going on. I didn't know what they were talking about. And who's coming back again to be on the Bachelor or to be a part of the bachelor? But no, it was about the two of you. And I was happy to see that. So, wish you the best we'll catch up with you we'll continue along on the journey and one day

here's my guess actually i wonder if you agree one day when we uh are looking back on our time on the almost famous podcast i think we might have the most the potentially most famous person we've ever interviewed sitting with us today oh that i can't i can't wait to see what your voice will sound like when you're about 20 if that's what it sounds like at 14 that's great thank you good good good we'll see we'll see good luck to you I hopes, me too, to be honest with you. So we'll see how it goes. She's got to, you know, work.

I told this is not easy. People doesn't get there quick. She wants to be better than Ariana Grande. No, no. She wants to get a little lower than Ariana Grande. Well, you've got the look, too. It's just you have to practice. You have to do a lot of work.

There's a lot of responsibility. So, you know, and like luckily I'm in the industry. So I know exactly how it goes. So I think, you know, I try to hold back as much as I could for this. Yeah. But it was it was now. It was the time. So we'll see.

We'll take, we'll take a day at the time. Okay. We're fans here. Oh, thank you. We'll see you soon. Appreciate it. Thank you. Bye.

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