The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Bachelor News Roundup!

Episode Date: July 28, 2020

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How have you been? I've been great. I know you weren't here last week when we had Michelle Money and Ashley Spivey on. I heard it was incredible. It was a really good one. I almost went in depth with Michelle. It almost got there. What stopped it, you think? The fact that she only had 20 minutes. Fair. Fair. You know what? Michelle Money is one of those names that is legendary. It feels like in the Bachelor franchise. Absolutely. Honestly, she's been around for a while. I mean, I don't know. What season was she on? Well, Brad's season, so that was, that, you were 20, so he must have been 15.

Yeah. So, I mean, it's been a bit. She stayed around. She's obviously someone from the franchise we keep in touch with, and we always enjoy hearing from. But Ashley, yeah, thanks for covering last week. I was actually on a camping trip up in the Teton's. And so I was up in the mountains away from all people because that feels like the, the one, thing we can do right now. And I actually, if you saw my Instagram, I had something that never happens. It feels like up there. It happens more than what I understand, but you never get as close as I did, not on purpose. But a grizzly bear, I was taking a hike and a grizzly bear literally crossed in front of us at about like 25 yards. That is insane. I went there with Beckettilly in October and in the middle of the road was a big bison or a moose. And I could. And I

I could not believe how freaking big these wild animals are. They're like completely majestic and so different than what you would imagine them looking like. So how big and tall was the bear? Like was the bear taller than you? Because you're six four. It was a grizzly. It was a baby grizzly. There were three of them.

Yeah. The mom was a lot bigger than me if she stood up. The baby wasn't as big. But it actually like scratched its back on the pole in front of me, like did a little wiggle thing and took off. I saw moose, I saw deer that look like elk, I saw elk like, Ashley, I'll tell you, I live in Denver, and I love Denver dearly. But anybody listening to this, if you ever get a chance to visit the Teetons, it is a majestic experience. We had a great time, but I'm back, we're back. Ashley, we have a lot of hot topics to cover today.

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I don't write songs. God writes songs. I take dictation. I didn't even know you've been a pastor for over 10 years. I think culture is any space that you live in that develops you. On a recent episode of Culture Raises Us podcast, I sat down with Warren Campbell, Grammy winning producer, pastor, and music executive to talk about the beats, the business, and the legacy behind some of the biggest names in gospel, R&B, and hip-hop. This is like watching Michael Jackson talk about thoroughly before it happened. Was there a particular moment where you realize just how instrumental music culture was to shaping all of our global ecosystem. I was eight years old, and the Motown 25 special came on.

And all the great Motown artists, Marvin, Stevie Wonder, Temptations, Diana Raw. From Mary Mary to Jennifer Hudson, we get into the soul of the music and the purpose that drives it. Listen to Culture raises us on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. this week in trending bachelor topics yes once again i'll say it for the 12th consecutive week in a row the bachelor continues to fill us with hot topics somehow some way but the first one here is one that uh is sad for me to even read um it's sad for many reasons and i'll explain why but we'll let ashley carry uh cover the story first um our host chris harrison uh announced that He's grateful for his time with Regis Philbin in his tender tribute.

This according to popculture.com. Obviously, Regis Philbin had passed away this week. Yeah, so of course, Chris and Regis were both at separate times, the host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. And Chris developed quite a personal relationship with him. He tweeted, we throw this word around too much, but Regis Philbin was a legend. He was a true gentleman and I'm glad I got to know and I, and I, he was a true gentleman, I'm glad I got to know.

And a TV host I admired and was honored to follow. Much like Arnold Palmer, everyone has a great Regis story and I'm grateful to have mine. I wish I knew what that story was, but I also respect him keeping that private and close to his chest. Ben, do you have a Regis story? I do. I've never, well, I've never met him in person. um but you know kathy lee has became um a distant friend i can't i'm not going to like call her a close friend but i was on the today show a few times with her and and i've met her and passing at a few

events and she's always been gracious and great and that was always a kind of a dream for me because i grew up watching regis and kathy on um television and i remember those mornings with my mom being so excited for whatever reason i was home and she'd be drinking her coffee and i'd be sit on the couch and be watching the two of them interact how good they were interacting with them with each other and uh the guests and honestly like if you show like tell me a name that kind of like memorializes my childhood it's regis philbin because he was just that he just was that person that like you love to like and you love to like hear and learn from his laugh uh i can still here to this day. And so even from somebody that's never met him in person, I would still,

like, I would still say I have those Regis stories just because he was such a part of my life as a kid. Yeah. When you think about a voice that, like, fills your home and makes it feel cozy, and that is just, to me, like, Ruggis's voice. He's one of those people. It's kind of like Ryan Seacrest, uh, Ruggis, who else? Chris Harrison. Chris Harrison. Chris Harrison. Yeah, and I remember, well, I remember on Saturday when it happened, I was like, my grandma in heaven is going to be very excited about this new member of heaven. Yeah, it's true, Ash. And so our thoughts are with his family. And just like, I don't know, in times like this and maybe it's just me.

But when something passes, you know, that we care for so much, it's always nice. in a way to remember them in such a good way and that's how i feel about regis like it's like a celebration of his life of his impact uh on me and so i'm i'm celebrating regis but also sad he's gone he was a he was a very talented and an incredible host and so hey uh we're with you the almost from his podcast is thinking about you and thank you regis for your time spent on television well on to some bachelor topics uh to change gears a bit here uh Obviously, we announced two weeks ago, Ashley came out with the kind of breaking news

that The Bachelorette was going to start filming. Well, now we're getting headlines about this filming. The headline reads this. Who has already been cut from season 16 of The Bachelorette? An investigation. This is according to eOnline.com. So, Ben, when you weren't here last week, Ashley Spivey and I spoke about how the cast will not

consists of the 42 guys that we initially broke down. That is just way too much to handle as you even saluted to. Yeah. So once they brought all the guys down to Palm Springs, it looks like they eliminated a hefty amount. These guys will have

never met Claire. And a couple of them in this supposed group based on in some cases only Instagram being non-privatized. So basically, you know how when you go on the show,

you have to privatize your Instagram? Back in our day, did you even have an Instagram? Not when I did The Bachelor. Yeah, neither did Jared. But when I did The Bachelor, I did. Okay, so then when I was on Chris's season, I came up, I didn't make mine private for some reason because I heard that that wasn't good enough.

This was like the rumor. so I created a very weird username so I didn't have my actual name on there but I like was like Ash Nicole or something like that anyway you're supposed to make your Instagram private these days and there is a handful of guys who went from being private you know at the beginning of the week to public after filming was about to begin and some of these guys I am shot like honestly mind blunt Why? If they supposedly, if they supposedly aren't there anymore and never got to meet Claire, I'm shocked. One of them includes Chasin, which is the guy that I had on my show The Sutris.

Wow, really? Who is super handsome, 31 years old from San Diego, from what I know, a romantic and a gentleman. um Zach Jackson the 37 year old from uh where is he from Utah the 37 year old from I think Utah yeah that I was obsessed with and even went on record and tweeted would be the winner of this season wait that guy your favorite is gone I'm gonna win I'm gonna win I'm gonna win I'm gonna win our bet actually that's like what do you think's going on what would you speculate? I don't know. Part of me thinks that, like, they had friends reactivated or maybe they're trying to, the producers would like, go ahead and reactivate your Instagram just to

throw these fans who are doing deep, dirty detective work off the trail. We'll see if they have activity. These guys that I'm going to list right now, including Jason and Zach, have not posted on Instagram again, but have made their, their Instagram public. So, so. So, So it's Peter, I'm going to go with, is a very Greek last name. It's Peter G. By the way, this is a little bit of a spoiler, right? Like, we should. In some way, yes.

Because we're saying they never made the show. So, like, it's a spoiler yet it's not. Yeah. Because I don't know how they got eliminated, but it could be a big deal. Like, if we watched the show back, this could have been like a huge elimination night one. I guess that is correct. So Peter G is the guy who was from Boston. that we were like oh yeah he is a real estate advisor he's he has an MBA from northwestern he's an

MBA from northeastern he just seemed like he had his shit together and he is also been a limb supposedly cut um AJ who was uh oh AJ was the first guy that I said was a nerd bomber if you guys remember. But if you look at his Instagram, he, uh, he looks cuter. But I also will say his bio says future stay at home dad. Okay. Way to put the pressure on and way to set the standards early. I guess, hey, I'm always for prevent like preventive communication. So preemptive communication. So at least he's he's letting everybody know how he feels. feels early. Dale looks to be eliminated from the process, and he is an NFL athlete-turned-model and host.

He is also associated with the Special Olympics. I believe this was one of the guys that we said looked very friendly. Oh, no, this is one of the mind-boggling guys. This is that gorgeous black guy with the green eyes. From South Dakota? Yeah. Yeah, I think that, I think he is from South Dakota. Isn't this nuts?

This is weird. Ashley, something's going on. Okay, see, this is what I'm telling you. Like, why are so many people that we thought were front runners didn't even make the first night? Supposedly. Allegedly. There's two paths here that I'll speculate, all right? One, Claire starts out rough when it comes to her judgment of men.

That's one, that she just got rid of, like, some of the best dudes right away. two I got three pass two is the producers are playing a big trick on us this is all a part of the show's plan is to get you and I talking about these guys leaving and they're still there hanging out having a great time or three they never made the show they never even walked foot into the show they're never even planned to be on the show and Claire had nothing to do with any of it just they never were there which would be almost as weird to me as clear letting these guys go night one there's this guy Robbie and he has pictures golfing, skiing in the wilderness, being super active, and he is a Butte. He is a QT and he was supposedly eliminated. I will say his profile could be a little bit leading to being there for the wrong reasons. He's been at the GQ Men of the Year party. He looks like he's done some acting and modeling. definitely modeling.

So who knows? A few shirtless picks in there. A couple shirtless picks. That's always a positive sign. Yeah. So maybe they were trying to eliminate wrong reasoners that first week. But the last two guys that I need to make mention of that you're going to freak out is Tyler Smith. Tyler Smith was the 36-year-old who is Granger Smith's brother.

and he was from Texas, and you thought he was in the top three of yours. What the heck? This is going to be a bad year for me. And then there was also Alex, the 28-year-olds, the very friendly looking at Colin's Youngblood, who was 30, and Tin Yang, who was 36. All of these guys, apparently not around. all of this we will never we're first off almost famous listeners we're never never going to tell you

who is eliminated from here on now so this is the last spoiler we're going to give this is not even a spoiler as much as it is just confusing to why these tremendous men are back on instagram did they sneak phones in uh did they are they back home is this a trick for the producers this is a mystery that we all need to solve together come on reddit you're good at all this stuff uh find out what's going on. We will never tell you again who's eliminated, but this is a mystery that we are going to dive in together on to find out what is happening. But to summarize the headline, from what we see, Claire has either released or the show never involved some of our favorites based on simply the pictures. Ashley, this next story is sweet. It's nice. Bachelor's Ari Lyndike Jr. gives

Lauren Burnham special ring. for going through what they're calling some of their darkest times, this according to Eon Line. Yeah, so it's been about two months since they announced that they had a miscarriage. So, you know, of course this is going to be a dark time for them. And Ari gave her a beautiful ring, an infinity diamond ring, that she says symbolizes that they will always have each other through the darkest times. And she says, if you've been here for the last couple months,

you'll know that we recently had a period of that. So I think it's safe to say he gets husband of the year. Yeah, he does. Really sad. It's sad. You know, he gets husband of the year. She gets wife of the year. This is tough on both of them, right?

I mean, it's so sad. And we hear about this often of these scenarios. And I'm sure, you know, unless you're in it, you don't know how hard it is. But here's one takeaway that I had after reading this article, Ashley. How cool is it? How spectacular is it that this show brought two people together who can support each other well and love each other well through the hardest times they've ever had? I mean, like these people, like Ari and Lauren are tremendous partners to each other. And isn't that what we all dream of in our marriages and in our relationships or just in our friendships, even, that we'd have somebody there beside us who lifts us up through the darkest moments?

Absolutely. And there's another bachelor couple going through a very similar thing. Ali Fittatowski opened up this week about her debilitating miscarriage. She had no idea it would affect her as hard as it did. She is one in four, and so is Lauren, of women who have lost a pregnancy. One in four will experience a miscarriage. Ali goes into detail on her Instagram about what that day was like. Like, and it's very traumatizing, she was in her bedroom and she passed the uterine sac.

And she said she just sat there for hours, just looking at it. And she said that she'll never be able to experience the pain of somebody who had a stillbirth or lost a baby at 20 weeks or somebody who has never been able to conceive and is still trying after years. but she said that she found it so shocking that her experience affected her as much as it did and that her husband is also surprised at how hard it's been for the two of them. It's, yeah, I mean, there's not really words you can put around it other than, you know, the hardest times it feels like, you know, even reading these articles is, I know there's people out there listening who have been through similar situations.

And I'm sure when somebody that we've seen on TV or somebody that we've watched and learned from or just kind of live life with, when they go through something similar, it helps us know that we're never alone, no matter what scenario. But I also think, like, reading this, just like the strength of these couples, of these humans, inspires me personally. I mean, I just, like, you're incredible people who I'm always learning from. And, yeah, it's just, and it's, I don't know. how do you feel like it's it's always impressive to me when through the hardest situations like this they also choose to open up to us and be vulnerable so that we understand that we're not alone and they also tell us their stories like i appreciate that oh yeah that's what i was going to say up until the past couple years barely anyone spoke publicly about miscarriages and as you can

hear with that stat one in four women experience it and i think it's super important that if you're willing to share to do so so that it can just bring comfort to other women who are experiencing it or have experienced it it's absolutely nothing to be ashamed of and that is one of the most prominent feelings these women have but it's really it's nothing you did it's just that it happens and it's it's it's a loss that you'll just you'll just That I won't be at, I don't know. I don't know. That's tough.

Well, let's just take a second and pause here. Take a little break. When we come back, we'll finish the headlines from Bachelor Nation. Hi, my name is Enya Jumanzor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom. If you're a crime junkie and you love crimes, We're not the podcast for you.

But if you have unmedicated ADHD... Oh my God, perfect. And want to hear people with mental illness, psychobabble. Yes, yes. Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you. Open your free IHeartRadio app. Search Emergency Intercom and listen now. The Super Secret Festi Club podcast season four is here.

And we're locked in. That means more juicy cheesement. Terrible love advice. Evil spells to cast on your ex. No, no, no, no, no, we're not doing that this season. Oh, well, this season, we're leveling up. Each episode will feature a special bestie, and you're not going to want to miss it. Get in here!

Today, we have a very special guest with us. Our new super secret bestie is The Diva of the People. The Diva of the People. I'm just like, text your ex. My theory is that if you need to figure out that the stove is hot, go and touch it. Go and figure it out for yourself. Okay. That's us.

We're in the head. That's us. My name is Curley. And I'm Maya. In each episode, we'll talk about love, friendship, heartbrates, men, and of course, our favorite secrets. Listen to the Super Secret Bestie Club as a part of the Mycultura podcast network available on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, I'm Janica Lopez, and in the new season of the Overcover podcast, I'm taking you on an exciting journey of self-reflection. Am I ready to enter this new part of my life?

Am I ready to be in a relationship? Am I ready to have kids and to really just devote myself and my time? I wanted to be successful on my own, not just because of who my mom is. Like, I felt like I needed to be better or work twice as hard as she did. Join me for conversations about healing and growth. Life is freaking hard. And growth doesn't happen in comfort. It happens in motion, even when you're hurting.

All from one of my favorite spaces, The Kitchen. Honestly, these are going to come out so freaking. amazing. Be a part of my new chapter and listen to the new season of the Overcumper podcast as part of the My Cultura podcast network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. The U.S. Open is here, and on my podcast, Good Game with Sarah Spain, I'm breaking down the players from rising stars to legends chasing history. The predictions will we see a first time winner and the pressure. Billy Jean King says pressure is a privilege, you know. Plus, the story.

and events off the court and, of course, the honey deuses, the signature cocktail of the U.S. Open. The U.S. Open has gotten to be a very fancy, wonderfully experiential sporting event. I mean, listen, the whole aim is to be accessible and inclusive for all tennis fans, whether you play tennis or not. Tennis is full of compelling stories of late. Have you heard about Icon Venus Williams' recent wildcard bids or the young Canadian, Victoria Mboko, making a name for herself? How about Naomi Osaka getting back to form?

To hear this and more, listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain, an IHeart women's sports production in partnership with deep blue sports and entertainment on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. I don't write songs. God write songs. I take dictation. I didn't even know you've been a pastor for over 10 years. I think culture is any space that you live in that develops you.

On a recent episode of Culture Raises Us podcast, I sat down with Warren Campbell, Grammy-winning producer, pastor, and music executive to talk about the beats, the business, and the legacy behind some of the biggest names in gospel, R&B, and hip-hop. This is like watching Michael Jackson talk about Thurley before it happened. Was there a particular moment where you realized just how instrumental music culture was to shaping all of our global ecosystem? I was eight years old, and the Motown-25 special came on, and all the great Motown artists, Marvin, Stevie Wonder, Temptations, Diana Raw.

From Mary Mary to Jennifer Hudson, we get into the soul of the music and the purpose that drives it. Listen to Culture raises us on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We're back with some headlines from The Bachelor World. So start out with weddings and love. Bachelor Nations Kevin Wint and Astrid postpone their wedding due to COVID, this according to Us magazine. So Astrid posted to Instagram on Wednesday saying, well, y'all, time to give you a wedding update. We've decided to postpone to November 2021. Weirdly enough, we're actually okay with it.

She continues to say, with everything going out in the world, uncertainty ahead, and so many changes happening in our lives, parentheses, more on that soon. We realize it was time to take a step back and reevaluate our priorities. priorities. She also said as much as I was disappointed at first, mostly because we won't get married on Friday the 13th anymore. It's been a great reminder as to why we're getting married in the first place. I wouldn't want to tackle 2020 in the rest of my life with anyone else on my side. 2020 is our year, Kevin, to all the 2020 brides, keep your head up. Now you have more time to grow out your hair, which I completely relate to. P.S. shout out to my planner.

uh, Kimberly Hensley events. You're the real MVP. Thanks for Q&Me. Same throughout at all. Let's go back to those parentheses. What do they mean? I mean, I don't want to allude anything, put out any fake news, but so many changes happening in our lives, more on that soon. I mean, it sounds like she might be pregnant,

especially if they're postponing to November 2021, have a couple months to recover, get settled with a new baby. Well, that'd be big news. That's big news. That's big news. But, you know, maybe we shouldn't speculate and we'll just stay tuned. Well, it's big news because another bachelor couple, the Bachelorette's Ben Zorn's, fiancé, Stacey, is pregnant and expecting their first child.

This according to Us magazine. Oh, very, very related. so they were supposed to get married this weekend, but instead they announced that they were having a child. They said they didn't want to wait to conceive until after they're married because one, they don't know when they'll be able to have that ceremony at this point

and because she was told that it was going to be very difficult for her to conceive, so they didn't want to waste any time. And they started, they started trying, and they conceived pretty much right away, which was a very pleasant surprise for them. They did not expect that, especially what the doctors were telling her. So congratulations to those two.

That's so exciting. It is exciting. And we know Ben Well, he's been a big friend of the podcast. He was actually on Caitlin Bristow season, if you don't remember of The Bachelorette. And he has found love. He is engaged and now announced this week

that they are pregnant with their first child. One of the friends of the podcast, Becca Martinez, you know what? She has recently become a mom, now a mom of two. And then she announced that she's interested in fostering or adopting kids, which is incredible. This according to Us Magazine. Yeah, she is going to take a fostering class,

and she wants to have up to five or six children. But Becca is so young that it's very, very possible, and she could even take a break. like she wants to. She said she's going to give her body a pregnancy break. So don't expect her to be popping out any kids anytime soon. She went as far into detail as to say that she's going to get on a type of birth control more effective than the pullout methods. And since that doesn't seem to work out well for them or it does seem to work out well for them,

but it doesn't seem to prevent pregnancy for them. Yeah. And then to say that she's going to foster or adopt kids, I mean, just any time that is said or happens, like Adam's just it's awesome what a thing this we got to celebrate her and you know her partner and anybody out there fostering or adopting like that's really cool yeah it's really cool it definitely takes a special person the uh the love stories don't stop uh or at least the like stories don't stop i don't know where they're at in their relationship but the bachelor's victoria fuller says she's so happy oh my voice crack there and i quote dating chris souls and i quote again he's a

one that according to the people.com so she's finally opened up about her relationship to people they met in april and it was through kelsey weir from her season she said for her to reach out to him that he was a good guy that he seemed single and uh victoria flew out there to iowa and she said it's so quiet there it's a great place to get to know someone and focus on each other she said it wasn't awkward that they had never met before and then they were flying to each other to like have a quarantine session together she said it felt very natural and that she loves the fact that their relationship has no like strict timeline on it that they are just easy breezy not um you know not rushing to make like take the next step in anything they're just enjoying

each other and uh yeah she i was going to say she's planning on moving still and they're okay with long distance she's going to move to either Nashville or New York uh or L.A And I know that when it's not COVID times, Chris kind of splits his time between L.A. and in Iowa. So we'll see what she decides there. I might be over analyzing this. But you know what's kind of cool about this relationship so far? That they've been really private? Yes.

Actually, you hit on the head because, you know, people in the Bachelor world, as soon as something happens in their life, it's an opportunity to create a story or a headline. Like, I get that, you know. but for them to be so quiet means that they're trying to make something actually real without, you know, getting the attention from it. And for me, that just shows that this could be something good. Yeah, me too. And as much as I want them to come on our podcast and really spill the goods, part of me is also really respecting the fact that they're taking the relationship seriously. And it's definitely not something that they're using to get attention. You know, we, in all honesty, we've asked them to come on the podcast.

and Chris is a friend. We know Chris well. Obviously, you were on his season and he's a friend of mine. And they've politely declined every time with not a lot of reason behind it, nor would I push and say, why not? Like, that's his deal. It just asked and they say no. And now I'm like, I just am pretty happy he said no, quite honestly.

Like, it makes me happy for him. Yeah. But you guys, don't do another podcast before ours. We're going to be so nice to you guys. We just want to celebrate you. Ashley, before we finish the hot topics, there is another. topic that you and I definitely wanted to talk about oh my god this one's so juicy who is this actually it is mike johnson who get this that week that claire kind of went silent on social

he went silent on social wait how did you know this this this this is what the fans have noticed that notice this too you actually don't act like you weren't watching this okay and then he emerged this week saying very suspect things like what come on give us some detail so he says i just got my phone back from a quarantine where what quarantine are we taking phones from each other if you're not in the bachelor exactly and then he goes i'm in a bubble right now and covid is extremely high on my radar used to say, I guarantee I've been tested more than most and

am taking higher safety precautions than most, which would allude to the multiple tests that these guys have had to take while in their hotel room down in Palm Springs. Wait, so either Mike Johnson is in some type of sports

bubble, because there's those bubbles going on. Okay. Or he could be, we're saying, I'm going to say this, you've convinced me, there is an 83.45% chance that Mike Johnson is on this season of The Bachelorette. But the thing is, he has been a little bit more active on social the past week. It didn't work out. Appearing in Hannah Ann's TikTok.

So that makes me wonder whether or not he's still in this process. Possibly he showed up the first week. He filmed a little bit. And then Claire eliminated him. But to add more fuel to the fire, Hannah-Anne is in a what looks like a production trailer during this TikTok. Which leads us to this headline from hashtag Bachelor Graham. And the question is, the headline reads this,

are Mike Johnson, Hannah-Anne Slews and Jesse James Palmer secretly filmed. This doesn't make any sense to me. Bachelor in Paradise, this after Buzz TV. Ashley, again, I'm going to repeat this because our listeners out there are going to be like, huh? Because that's the way I was. Yeah, me too. The headline reads this are Mike Johnson, Hannah Ann Slewes, and Jesse James Palmer secretly filming Bachelor in Paradise. All right.

So I know what they're, I know that this is kind of a headline for clicks, right? they are all in swimsuits but Jesse Palmer is engaged so he's not going to be the host of this I mean he's not going to be a part of the show he could be the host of this bachelor in paradise but I guarantee you Ben and especially producer Amy would know if they are producing a BIP on the side of Claire season and I think there would be more people off social media right now if that were the case it's not They're not filming Bachelor in Paradise. Looking at this, I'm thinking that they are possibly filming a cameo on Claire's season. Now, is Mike there for a cameo? Is Mike going to be there for a group date and then slyly ask Claire to stay a la Nick and Caitlin? Because that would make sense. The three of them there to have a little appearance.

And then I feel like for Mike. to join in. I mean, we always love the little bachelorette, bachelor appearances from the past favorites. That's always fun to see, fun to watch, fun to see them again. But how just awesome would it be for TV? If all of a sudden Mike Johnson comes walking through the door

and a group date appearance, the guy's jaws drop and he looks at her and says, Claire, I'm here to stay, baby. Yeah. And because Mike did, kind of Instagram, Hannah's TikTok. I'm not thinking it would be out of the question for producers

to allow him to have his Instagram for a minute or so to throw off Bachelor Nation. I do believe that they allowed Nick to post a little bit when he entered Caitlin's season. And if you guys are wondering what this TikTok is about, it's not leading at all in this direction. It's just them saying, do you want to it's a frozen a play on the frozen songs you want to build a snowman it's do you want to drink during the day

yeah it's a it's a nice little chicktire well uh actually this episode's been full of hot topics we're going to keep coming back with more hot topics week by week obviously clear season is being filmed right now we can confirm that uh we also can confirm that we know we know that 42 guys did not are still not there They might have started there. They're still not there. Yeah, there are 13 guys who showed Instagram activity this week. Well, we're going to track the activity. We're going to track Bachelor Nation stories.

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