The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Blind Date with Giannina Gibelli

Episode Date: September 12, 2024

Ashley catches up with Giannina Gibelli and is asking ALL the spicy questions!  Giannina compares her Love is Blind experience with how things go on The Bachelor, and we find out once and for all which “method” works better for finding love! Plus, she spills everything on their wedding plans, how she hopes Blake Horstmann will propose, and how they’re handling parenthood!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So this one will be with Blake's girlfriend and the mother of his child and love is blind alum, Giannina Jebeli. I did it. You have been brought up with a G.I.G.R. name. so how um how is that because like our kid is hayden haybon yeah congrats so it yeah so how does so was it like do people like it like when you're in high school is it like a fun name to like you know no in the hallway 100 yeah i mean definitely when i mean we we also did like a age but yours is very yeah like it's a little rhyme um no if they can't say my name, they just go Gigi.

Yeah, Gigi. Yeah, Gigi. Or, um, I mean, my brother's name was very similar. So, right now, like, his wife calls him G. Blake calls me G. So we both turn around at the same time. So, you know, it's the never-ending thing with my name. But yay, you had your baby.

Yes. It feels so good for him to be out of me. Out and about, huh? Yeah, it's great. Wow. So you guys brought baby to Napa. We did. And did you also bring him to Italy?

Um, no, we haven't been to Italy yet. That wasn't me. Okay, whoops. I was just going based off a landscape looking places. Oh, really? You have been taking him on plans, though. Oh, yeah. Um, he's been, he's been coming out.

Um, I just, I'm not comparing my baby to my dog, but they're, they're similar in the sense of like, I took my puppy, um, like right away, travel. traveling with me like everywhere right and now they're amazing right like they're just i mean at least georgia my dog she's everyone's just amazed at how good she is on planes and so i was like i think this could apply so with heath we've just been taking him whenever whenever we can he's been on four trips now um and he's doing pretty well and so i just i hope that somehow he it's like learned behavior and we're like conditioning him so that he he does well on planes for for a while She's like six months now?

Four and a half. Four and a half. Okay. Well, I don't want to bring it down. I know. It's that later half of the first year that the planes start getting a little bit more difficult. Yeah. Right now, you feed them during takeoff.

They're full. They sleep. It's great. Yeah. When they're a little more cognizant of the world around them, the planes get difficult. But then they get easier again when they decide that they like snacks and iPads. Ah, yeah. It's like this little.

roller coaster and it's all going to be all very interesting um but at least now we're able to bring him um and he does you know he he likes to be he's like made for the streets like he likes to go out like he'll fall asleep and like you know noisy restaurants yeah and so we're just like okay like let's just kind of you know nurture this um and i it makes it a lot easier for me too because that way like i'm not suffering without him like i can enjoy my time here and that exactly how i've always been people who just stay home with their young ones i'm like i don't can't do that right i like to go take them out and honestly i feel like sometimes it's easier or maybe it's probably easier for me mentally to take them out uh-huh because i just the

cabin fever will get to me no 100% yeah it's like yeah it's physically kind of like sometimes hard to wrangle yeah i get that but i don't know i want to like live my life life and not be down to the house exactly and like it's you know making them a part of your life rather than like completely changing your life to you know yeah be be just their mom so we're we're doing it we are going to take him to spain in two months so we'll see how he does on a nine hour plane ride yeah damn that's a hard one that's a hard one yeah not too excited but i'm excited for the trip but not for the flight maybe a red eye is a good idea the red eye yeah and we're going to do stop in miami first because if we do like from

Denver i mean you know anything from west coast it's like 10 plus hours 12 hours i can't do that he can't do that oh no no no i couldn't do that at all i would absolutely always stop on the east coast yeah heading over to the atlantic headed over the ellenic um all right so you guys let's talk about parenting for a second yeah where do you when when they're he does grow up a little bit what who do you imagine being the disciplinarian do you find yourself not being able to say no or being stern because that is my problem like i dawson gets away with a lot because even when i'm like no no no no i'm never like yeah yeah and and jared will be a little bit hard yeah he'll be a little bit harder on him and then sometimes we'll argue

about how we handle those situations. So how do you see it in your future? Yeah, I feel like we should get on the same page with that as well. I also think it's because they're boys. So like the dads can be harder on the boys. And like, I don't know, me. He has me wrapped it on his finger. Like, I think I've said no, like a little sternly, like twice.

And like he looked at me like, whoa. Like I didn't think that was going to come out. of you and I'm like well I also haven't slept but there's that but um no he I think Blake will definitely at least with Heath be the disciplinarian um and then if we end up having a girl then like I could see me me being a little bit more stern with her I don't know why it's easier um also like he like he's he's our first so like I just no like I don't want to say no to him I don't want to and he's such a sweet baby like he's just learning like I'm not and this is how it goes He's definitely too young for this, you know, but in a year.

Yeah, in a year. I don't know. I don't know. I think I'll just, we'll cross that bridge when we get there. But it's definitely turning out to be like Blake saying, like, well, you know, one day you're going to have to. And I'm like, but I don't want to. Oh, okay. So, yeah, you guys are going to be us.

Yeah. And you can foresee it based on how you guys disciplined the dog. Oh. Because that's exactly how we were. Really? No. My dog's crazy. So we just are both kind of like, Georgia, stop. So I don't know. There was like times where Lois would have like she ate the Christmas, like she ate lights off the Christmas tree and stuff. And he's the one that'll yell at her. And obviously she doesn't know what she's doing. She's just a little girl. Yeah. So don't yell at her. Please. No, you got to rub her nose in it a little bit. Exactly. I won't do it. I won't do it. I can't even do that.

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And we didn't know what to expect in the morning. Nobody tells you anything. Listen to shock incarceration on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We were at dinner yesterday, and I was telling Jared, I was like, I miss being like on The Bachelor. I miss the adrenaline rush of taping the show. Do you ever have that craving? And do you, yeah, you do? No, I mean, I, every single time, you know, projects come up and this, this and that, we do, I'm in front of the camera, I'm just like, I love this shit.

Like, it's like, it's, it's great. It's like one of the best feelings in the world. And that's why, like, I won't, I won't say no. I love it so much. I felt like we would be the same on that. Yeah, you miss it? Yeah. Yeah, I was watching The Bachelorette this week, and for some reason, I had, like, a flashback of being in the interview room.

Uh-huh. I was like, I miss being in the interview room. I kind of miss being part of a little bit of drama. Yeah. Because our lives right now is just like, oh, we're in happy relationships with kids. Right. So. Just like, it couldn't be any further from where we started on the shows.

Yeah. I mean, we did the show so that we could be here, right? Essentially. Oh, yeah. 100%. So it's like. I don't want to actually go back. But I would like to go in a time machine and be back for a couple hours.

Right, right, right, right. And just like, savor it, kind of make a little bit more drama. No, I want to just keep doing TV. Like, I miss it. Like, if anything. But now having a kid, I'm like, okay, but how would I act? And like, would I censor myself or how, I don't know. I feel like that would be something that.

how would you be different I don't know I just depends on the show right like if it's like a challenge show I don't really care right it's a challenge show like that's that's just very different if it's a show about like let's say like our lives are involved or anything like that

yeah I mean that's a fine line I don't I ask myself all the time I'm like I don't know how like these Kardashians are doing it I guess just because they they all go to therapy they all have like all the security in the world you know all this stuff so that they feel I guess secure in that sense

but if you're not if you haven't been on a TV show for the past 15 years that's hard it's hard to like just shove your your personal life in there again and like with so much to lose that's it's a hard it's hard I mean not that we're doing anything like that but it's always it's always fun to think about like

well I would definitely do TV again 100% but it would have to be like a tutor or like a traitors like a traitors or I understood exactly what you're talking about because it takes place in a tutor oh yeah it's like the same thing but yeah what about you

do you ever see yourself going back there I don't know what it would be right but I would yes but yes I would always be excited at the opportunity and you're right it probably is more appropriate for it to be more of a challenge show. I would love them to do Bachelor meets Amazing Race or something like that.

I just don't understand why they haven't done that with the couples. They haven't done anything with couples. It doesn't make any sense. Just utilize what you have in the couples because people, based on Instagram following, are even more interested in the couple's lives than the single's lives. Yeah, 100%. And like, it's such low. They're out there on Hulu, and they could do it.

Why haven't they done anything like that? I don't know. I've already kind of like talked to them. Right, right, right. Why not? All the pitches, all the things. Like, do you know what you have? Like, it's, what is it?

It's like silver platter. Come on. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Do you and Blake compare your show experiences between love is blind and the Bachelor, like the behind the scenes? Like, oh, we did this or we did that or that brings me back to that moment.

or those producers and my friendships with them all the time i mean i think it's it's really nice too to have someone to talk to about it with because i mean if i was like with a wildling it would be which is what we call people that haven't been on shows i was like well am i supposed to know this word a wild wing wildling you know like on game with wildling like the wildlings oh okay i only watched through season three oh okay sorry well that's what me and Blake say if someone hasn't been on a show then it would be really hard to relate or you know talk to be able to like express like certain traumas or this or that and so anyway whenever a show comes on like we watched perfect match the other time or the other day and

none of us have obviously been on it and so it was really like an objective one to watch without feeling so triggered same production company same production company kinetic content yeah and then you know we we just kind of sit there and pick it apart. We're like, whoa, that was like such like a Frankenbite or like they totally edited that together. Wow, that's so unfair that they, you know, showed that facial expression with that voiceover. Like that wasn't. And then, you know, we also have, I mean, we think perfect match would have been like super

fun to do. And we're like, wow, that's so, that's so different. Like, I would love to do a show like that. And it's just fun. There's so many comparisons and so many, I mean, reality TV is all, you know, technically like the same plot but um i mean bachelor and love is blind at least my season was very different than like season and how everything you know producers and people were handling but wait how so because he they more hands off with you guys um it seemed to be more hands off i think i got a producer

that was just like she's doing it on her own let her create her own drama and then she would just kind of wrangle me back versus like trying to create things to get me triggered like my my partner is already doing that for me so I didn't I didn't get you know so much manhandled but and also the first season so a lot of a lot of things were still really unknown and I think everyone was just trying to like gain each other's trust versus like you know the bachelor's already like cooked delivered like Everyone already knows the formula, how to, you know, talk to this person, how to talk to that person. Yeah. So I was, I was very much hands off. I mean, as much as, you know, they were allowed to because I was already just spiraling on my own. Just doing it all for them. No, I know that like didn't have the greatest sign off from the Bachelor franchise. But do you guys ever like play with each other?

Like my original show is better than yours? All the time. All the time. So what material do you have? What is it? What do you say yours is better for? And what does he say his is better for? His is better for, let's see. Oh, the trips, 100%.

You guys have like the budget and the trips and everything's just like very glitz and glam as, you know, as much as having 35 people can be. Um, and ours is better for, I think like, you have cubbies. Yeah. We have, we have a lounge. We have a chair. This is it. This is love is blind.

Just turn the camera off. Um, and ours is really good for, I like to say it's just really great for, um, actually finding like, because in love is blind, if you find that person in the pods and you find them in, attractive in person, you hit the jackpot. Like that is your soulmate. Like, they have a very, very good ratio. And so I like that. And also, at the end of the day, when someone walks up to us and they're like, they either

want a picture from Blake or for me or sometimes both, you know, and, you know, we just kind of like always shove at each other's faces. Like, ha, ha, she likes me better. Like, she didn't really like you. So we just, we have fun. We have fun with it. And it's definitely, yeah, it's a little like inside, inside game we play. you've forgotten somebody that goes up and says like can I get a picture with you and they meant for Blake and then you're like trying to get in the picture you're like oh not me you don't know who I am or sometimes I'm just like I'll take it like I'll take it and they don't know who I am and then later on they'll DM him and be like oh my God I didn't know that was her I should take a picture with her I'm like it's okay I got you you got a good angle I'll always offer well you and Blake are not engaged

You've been together for how long? Almost three years. Okay. Do you want to get engaged? I would love to be engaged. Okay. At some point, I just didn't put any pressure on it from, for like even the beginning of the relationship, because I knew it was going to happen or I know it's going to happen at some point. Yeah, I just, it always felt very like, we had.

you know, baby names picked out, like, by our second month that we were together. And, like, we had, I told him my wedding, like, the wedding destination location that I've always wanted, like, right away. You know, it was very much, like, we knew, we know that this is going to happen at some point. And then we got pregnant and I was like, okay, well, let's just take this one step at a time. I didn't want to feel overwhelmed. And now I just, he's like, okay, well, so, you know, my, you know, do you want to, have like get married before we have another kid or I'm like let's just keep having kids like let's just keep

having babies I don't really care um so I've I feel good about that because I've just taken all the pressure off um and so um whenever he wants to he will and and that's our journey that's when it's meant to be um and it'll be it'll be beautiful we'll have her maybe heath will be there um everything will just kind of feel complete, I think, at that point. I don't know. Part of me for part of the reason why I just kind of like let go is because I went through love is blind. And because there was so much pressure to go to the altar, to get married, to do this, to do that, I don't want to feel even an inch of that because it, you know, it didn't end up well for me. So I really just want to let this, you know, take its own natural course and, and yeah, I think you love is

blind. So in that case, do you expect a surprise engagement or do you think it's going to be one of those things where it's like, I'll go pick out a ring with you, we'll do a courthouse situation, like what do you, what do you think? Like, do you want a dream proposal? I want a dream proposal. I want it to be like totally off the cuff. I don't know what's happening. Because I, again, love is wine. I knew the hour, the minute, the day that it was going to happen, like, all of this. So I just want it to be like totally surprised. He doesn't want me to go pick out rings with him.

He already asked me. Like, he's like, what do you want? And I'm like, okay, well, like, I think this is pretty. And, you know, I wear a lot of jewelry. So he has an idea of what I like and all that stuff. But nope, he doesn't want me to know. And he doesn't want to let it. yeah he doesn't want to plan it or he doesn't want me to be in on the plan uh-huh which is

traditional surprise engagement so i don't know see when it happens i feel like it'll happen soon maybe he's gonna do a great job yeah i mean i know he'll do a great job he's very romantic Blake has yeah Blake does a really lovely romantic gesture um and he knows he knows he knows he knows how picky i can be yeah so it's gonna be good one how do you deal with being a mom and having him travel so often for his DJ gigs that's got to be hard you home alone with a baby yeah that was definitely like the if not the first thing that came into my mind um when we found out we were pregnant i was okay like how am i going to do this my family's in florida your family like you know mom was like an hour away and at the end of the day

like you're my partner in this um and i've you know i kept dating him knowing that this was going to be a part like his lifestyle for hopefully of a very very long time so i was always prepared it just not i just wasn't expecting it to be so soon um but we do have a live-in-a-pair which is like thank you jesus i love her she doesn't live here but i just i couldn't get anything done. No. I think often, truthfully, when I don't have her here, and it's just me, my, my Keith doesn't, they don't get brushed until mid afternoon. Right. You're just like, how can I? And you know, at the end of the day, it's like, it's like having your mom being there like your sister or your

cousin or someone that you trust. Like, it does take a village. And, and, you know, right now everyone has their own lives and needs to pay their own rent. So I brought in help. And I am so, so happy that I like I because I'm not someone that really asked for help and this wasn't about me. It was about like the health of my family. And it's just been like the best thing that we ever did. Like Blake and I are in a very happy place. The baby is in a very happy place. Like I even though I don't sleep like I at least can have like my skincare routine. You know. Exactly. And just like that's what summers for me as well. It's like right before I got on here, she went home sick today.

And I was like, okay, I have 10 minutes to brush my teeth and wash my face and do, and I'll put the serums on throughout my episode. That makes me like that makes me feel good about myself because when I don't do that, it's just I feel like I can't go and tackle the day. Same. I at least have my skincare routine. And even if, like, my hair isn't, and that's it. That's all I ask for.

And she, she helps me do that. She helps me, she helps me work. I never took a day off. Like I, I, I took a week. Right. Exactly. Like, I got overwhelmed after I didn't take a day off. And I was like, okay, let me just take, like, a couple days, like a week.

And then let me just go back at it. And it's at the end of the day, like, we're working for them, you know, so that they can have good lives. for sure um and if you need help ask for it and you're going to think yourself i totally agree yeah but the internet makes you feel like stupid for doing it and i just needing for needing help mm-hmm mm-hmm because i've said it openly a couple times and the internet is just you know it's always 50-50 i'm not i'm not i'm not i'm not gonna like you know you mean like your ds like yeah the dms the comments they're like but you have a nanny like you should be able to and i'm like

but but with my nanny i still get by right i get by with her i wouldn't that's all i'm still non-stop all day long i get maybe 45 minutes to watch tv in bed right well you have two now yeah that's yeah how's it going from one to two we were getting it down pat we were getting it down pat right as like you know and now and now we've added a new element because now when dawson goes to bed that's when the witching hour was with Hayden and it'll start so that has like eliminated all of me time. It's it's really been not that as difficult as I thought thus far but he is still in that like sleeping 24-7 mode.

So ask me in a few months when he's become a little bit more awake to the world. Yeah. Wow, you have like a new little. I know. It's so cute. And that's the thing like we were saying last night. when you have your first, I think like it's kind of exciting to see them grow up and you know, just like learn new things. But then I think with the second or at least for us,

the last, then you're like, oh, this is the last time we're going to have a newborn. Like I only have four weeks left of having a newborn. And like this is the last, every like milestone will be the last time you experience that. Right. So that that is probably going to be a little bit more like melancholy. Right, right, right. Oh, but you get to do it all over again. No, I'm not going to do it again after this. No, no, I mean, after this.

Yeah, this is it. Not after this. But, yeah, the first time, you're like, oh, I'm going to be able to do it all over again. Right, right, right. Oh, and they're going to be best friends at some point. I think so. Yeah.

I think they're already kind of best, well, Dawson thinks that Hayden is his best friend, but Hayden's like, can you please be quiet? He does. Like, let me chill out. Oh, he's obsessed. Oh, that's so cool. He all day, he has, like, these moments throughout the day.

where he like goes up to him and he's like pets him yeah he's like yeah and then like when he doesn't see him he where baby go yeah or baby go it's so cute yeah and every morning he asks where he is and it's adorable that's right there he's in his bed oh like let me see let me see it was so cute that's the best and you're like I made that yeah I don't know how I made it still it's still like you ever look at them and you're just mind boggle by the fact that like that's half of you like does not compute so often. No. And if I didn't have like the videos and like the memory to prove it,

I wouldn't even know. I'd be like, I did that. How? Yeah. How is that even possible? I don't know. It's all very surreal.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Props to you. Props to women out there because it's, it's different. It's very, it's a completely like outer body experience. I don't know how my mom did it.

Being a mom or giving birth? All of it. Just like, you know, and then like, and then you grow up and then like you're such like a shit to your mom or your parents and you're like, how did they do it? Because right now if Heath like turns away, if I'm going to give him a kiss, I cry. I was just like, I don't know. I'm going to do this for those in my life. I'm going to just, you know, collapse. I don't know.

I totally. I totally understand. Okay. Well, thank you so much for coming on. Before I let you go, is it weird like for weekends like this or. weeks like this where you like go and hang out with a whole bunch of bachelor nation uh do you does it feel like you're part of the crew or do you feel like an outsider and do they happen vice versa with blake and love is blind peeps right i think it's definitely yes to both um i've been to you know

a couple of these um get-togethers and when you guys talk about like i don't know like the mansion or the producers that you all know or things like that i'm just like yeah you know like I I don't relate it's like going to a high school get together with your spouse or your significant other exactly but as far as like um feeling like an outsider all the time no because when I this is actually really nice for me because I didn't have like a group really from love is blind um it's we filmed and then everyone kind of went their separate ways and then COVID happened and so and so I never really got that camaraderity of like Oh, you went through this too, you know? And so I, every time I, you know, get together with a couple of reality TV people, I just feel instantly, like, connected because we've all been through something like this and we're all living differently. And that's super nice.

But then he finally got a taste of it when he came to the Love is Blind season six reunion. And he was a little bit of a fish out of the water. And, you know, you kind of see him just kind of like. Like, oh, like, this is what she was talking about. Oh, this is who that is. And I was like, ah, you feel it now, don't you? So it's definitely. Yeah, but you're right.

Love is Blind is a little bit less of a group show. Mm-hmm. Right? You're a little bit more secluded. Well, now it is more just because you're, you were up to, what, season seven almost is about to come out. Oh, so like all the seasons together. You all socialize.

Exactly. And I, I never, I didn't have that for the longest time. Um, so now it's starting to be more of like a, yeah, like your own little, I mean, I always say Bachelor nation is a cult family. Exactly. The Pod Squad. Uh-huh. Yeah. The Pod Squad is what we used to call it. Yeah. And so it's definitely, yeah, it's same but different. Same, same but different. Everyone's super nice, though, that I've met, which is great. Um, yeah, everyone's, you guys are, are good people. Oh, thank you. Yeah, of course. I do love the Bachelor.

family it does you do have this camaraderie of just you know you didn't have to go through this experience side by side to really bond over it all right well thank you so much for coming and for joining everybody this weekend I have FOMO and I hope that I get to do one of these with you soon yeah same well for now enjoy the the many last that you have with your baby but yeah we have to I think, well, we have to see each other again soon because I've met you once a couple years ago. Yeah, long time ago. One time ago.

So we got to do it again. But enjoy your time. Enjoy your baby bubble. And we'll have fun for you. See you soon. Bye. Bye, darling. Follow the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast on IHartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

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