The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Breaking News: The Bachelorette That Could’ve Been

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

Everyone is wondering what’s going on with The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise, but only Ben and Ashley have the tea! We’re sharing exclusive behind the scenes info on what was planned for the canceled season of The Bachelorette, and we know some major changes coming to Paradise that will totally transform the show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, luckily, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend's been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone.

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It's the almost famous podcast. We are here today with breaking news. Yes, breaking news. We found out about this news at about 11 o'clock Eastern time last night and decided to jump on first thing this morning to discuss some updates. that we have found out regarding paradise and also like what was happening with the bachelorette season obviously it's been announced that it's not happening now but what led up to this moment so we're here to discuss all the insider secrets that we have gathered along with making some assumptions that actually to date actually uh and i'm i'm going to sound like our current president when i say this um we've been very right on our assumptions like we're people are are talking about us and saying like Ashley a bit are making really good assumptions these

days. Yeah. We're so good at what we do. We're so good at what we do. We're so good at what we do. We could exclusively reveal some of the planning of the dates that were happening right up until the show was canceled. So our sources are saying that about 75% of the dates were planned. Like they were scouting locations in Europe. We were hearing that Greece and Portugal were in the mix. And there was going to be an I-heart podcast-related date. The hope was apparently that we, Ben and I, were going to be part of a date with a lot of the other I-heart hosts like Jenna Kramer, Cheryl Burke, Jenny Garth, Kevin McHale, and Jenna Uskowitz, just to name a few. And the date was not like fully set in stone yet, but the planning process was in full swing with one of our producers.

And there was going to be a winner on this day. It was going to be a competition date. And the winner was going to go with The Bachelorette to the IHeart Radio Music Awards and Walk the Carpet. March 17th is when the awards was supposed to be. And then we found out that this was just not going to happen. So it was way more shocking than something to the production than I think we all assumed. Okay. So let's let's do our analytical diagnosis of what we know so far.

So it was in the planning process. So this decision was not made a year ago. It was not made post-even Jen season. This decision was made in a moment's time based on something that happened. We'll get more into that here in a little bit. This also, to me, Ashley, does not seem like a money decision. That this decision was not, I mean, money always is involved, right? If they thought they were going to make a Buku amount of bucks having the money.

this season air. They would have found a way for it to air, but it doesn't seem like to me this was the reason that the show didn't happen because, and I say this, because they weren't just now like after Jen season and seeing the ratings and kind of understanding how, you know, the Bachelorette and The Bachelor were being viewed. They didn't just decide, hey, let's stick in L.A. Like, let's do an L.A. season. Let's make it as cheap as possible. Let's not travel. Let's do some like maybe like U.S. stuff where we can drive or like quick, easy flights. They were still considering an international experience. So money to me doesn't seem like the culprit. And so now we have to ask ourselves the question, what did happen? We have a little bit of information on from our inside source on possibly what did happen.

Ashley, let's talk about some of the people they were considering to be the lead of this next season. Okay, so there are two girls from grand season that were being considered. But here are the juicy, here's the juicy news. We're pretty certain that Maria, Maria

from Joey's season was a frontrunner. As we thought that she was a frontrunner to be the bachelorette during Jen's season, the source says that they don't know exactly what happened, but they couldn't make Maria happen. And that's why the show didn't get picked up because they just didn't think that they had a, I'm assuming that they didn't think

they had a strong enough lead that was going to get enough ratings. They also say that the Bachelorette didn't get picked up because the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, the show that they sometimes have play after the Bachelorette, it seems like they may have wanted that more. What do you mean wanted it more? Like if they couldn't get the Bachelorette they wanted, they were like this is probably going to be better for the time slot or perform better for the time slot. So let's pause here. The Secret Life of Mormon Wives is now what we assume going to hold a prime time slot on ABC, which is owned by Disney on Monday nights instead of The Bachelorette. Yes. And again, it is an assumption that it's being replaced with the Bachelorette because it's the

same demographic, same type of age group wants to watch this. show as the Bachelorette and they couldn't make the Bachelorette, the person they wanted work. Let's also say that our sources were saying that they were thinking about also giving Rachel Rechia a redo. They said that her name was floated around, but there is a reason that she couldn't do it and we can't reveal that at real time. But we do know the reason. We do. I was going to say, we personally do and we will tell you soon enough. But production and fans love Rachel and I would have love to see Rachel

have her own season. She's so likable. I really, really love that girl. But there's something else exciting that's happening for her. So, okay, what we know so far is Maria, Rachel, two girls from grand season

were being considered for the lead of The Bachelorette. It sounds like from our source that Maria was the front runner, that it felt like the powers that B really wanted Maria to be the, lead of this season. And it almost seems to me, based on the information we have, that they

couldn't make it work with Maria for whatever reason that was. And as a result, they had to pull the plug on the show because somebody that had a lot of influence over the show was fairly stuck on this Maria storyline and said, if we're not going to do Maria, it's not worth doing. Maybe we could say stubborn on the Maria thing. Like if you're not, if you're not having Maria, not having anyone. And it sounds like that, I mean, based on the information we have, that seems like the reason that this season maybe isn't happening because the ratings have not been good enough,

even though I think there has been great seasons. I still go back to, I think the show took a massive hit with the men that were cast for Jen's season. I think Jen did a great job. I think we've seen Jen really thrive outside of the role of The Bachelorette, but the men on her season, I think, really hurt the show. And because the show decided to kind of do the don't ask, don't tell, we're not going to really talk about it strategy, I think the show is in a really tough place. I don't believe it's going away, though.

I will say that. I don't think the show is gone forever. And neither do the people at ABC. They say that they think that the show will come back. They skip Paradise last year and now it's back. And they're going to just do the same thing with Bachelorette, just like a little reboot time. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Wait a minute, Sam, maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit.

Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor, and they're the same. age. And it's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because

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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. Now, they're also saying that if they were going to do The Bachelorette, they were going to bring some familiar faces to the cast, like we're hearing Sam from Jen season. And Sam, well, Sam, oh, Sam, which one was the one that was, like, attractive at first, but then then like turned there was a couple sams you might actually be right one i really remember was the one that was like oh he's suave and then it was like uh he's like kind of ugh yeah so we're

actually i'm assuming we're talking about that sam what an interesting choice to bring him back maybe it is a little bit of redemption moment because we do remember him having the conflicts with devon and kind of people picking devon's side and then obviously that came out so maybe they felt like sam got a raw into the deal because he was expressing something that now all of us seem to agree with. Good thinking. Wow. We were so Tim Devon, or at least I was. We all were.

Okay. Yeah. Until the end. And now we're not. All right. Now, what I have heard about Maria and... Okay, I pause here because I just... I have a hard time believing that anyone wouldn't want the role.

If being asked to be the lead of this show, I can't believe. Maybe it's just from my own, like, I could never imagine turning down the show. But I have a hard time believing that anybody would. I know that Daisy truly did because Daisy, one, really felt like she didn't have the personality for it. And I can, I can see that. but also majorly, Daisy was rekindling things with her former flame. Now, Maria, like she has said over the past year,

that she was asked to do the show and then she decided not to do it. I've heard another reason. I've heard from people close to production that they did want her to be The Bachelorette. they were like having her do like lots of filming and then in the midst of this filming they're basically like this girl is too difficult to work with we can't do an entire season with her it'll be a wreck and now they're floating the idea then they were floating the idea of maria again

and again Maria from our source is saying she wasn't willing to do it do you believe that Maria wouldn't want to be the bachelorette no I mean I think there would be it matter what life circumstances were going on. You know, obviously with Daisy, you brought it up. She wasn't confident taking the role and she was falling in love. It matters kind of what Maria's dating life is like and what her personal life looks like now outside the show. And honestly, I'm not an expert of that.

I really don't know. So I would be surprised if somebody was single. I'd be surprised if somebody had agreed to go on the other show that they wouldn't be at least intrigued to go on and become the lead because. if you really are someone looking for love or you're someone looking to promote the fact to the world that you're looking for love. Being the lead is a really great opportunity for that.

Now, the show knows Maria. She showed her personality through that first show that she was on. It's why people fell in love with her. It's why she is somebody we know and talk about to this day. The show had to know. This is why I have a hard time with it. Who she is and who she was and how she would be to work with. And if they wanted that fiery season,

if they wanted that mix between a Caitlin Bristow kind of season where somebody's going to say what they're thinking, they're going to do what they feel like, they're going to push back a little bit against production, and it makes for a great watch, then Maria would be a tremendous choice. It would shake things up a lot.

And I actually personally think she would have been a great choice to watch on television because it would be that raw, authentic, moments of like awkwardness type of season. Well, we all know that they have some decision-making issues sometimes when it comes to the lead. And this is no shade to any of the leads. I'm so sorry.

I don't want it to be interpreted like that. But I think we can all agree that there's been some skeptical choices there. And then I also think that this is no shade to Maria. I'm not saying like I don't believe her. but at the same time it would be very unique to turn this down based on all the other leads

that I've known in the past and their decision to take it. It would be a very interesting decision and we'd want to hear about it. Now, so we have all this information now gathered up. We have multiple people there considering for leads.

We have the decision to not do the Bachelorette. We've both agreed that we think the show will come back and so if people are out there stressing like, hey, what am I going to do on Monday nights? The Bachelor, it was something I've always enjoyed.

I can't believe it's not going to be on my television. I will say right now, my guess is the show will come back, and it will come back in a great way at some point soon. However, we don't have proof yet. I believe in the franchise. I do. We don't have proof yet that they can pause a show and reboot it successfully. We're going to get that proof

and get that data this year with Paradise because obviously Paradise took a year off. Well, technically, Ben, they did pause the Bachelorette in the 2000s. Totally different time. It was 100,000% of totally different time. I only think you can compare them. So we have a whole new, and we're going to switch over here to talk about Paradise.

We have a whole new production team, a whole new staff that is going to take over Paradise. It's going to be in a new location, with a new team producing it. It's been paused for a year. We have some information on how Paradise is actually going to look and work that really intrigues me

and makes me think all sorts of weird stuff. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious. Oh, wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot.

He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor, and they're the same age. It's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them.

I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend, really cheated with his professor or not. To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Have you ever wished for a change but weren't sure how to make it? Maybe you felt stuck in a job, a place, or even a relationship.

I'm Emily Tish Sussman, and on she pivots, I dive into the inspiring pivots of women who have taken big leaps in their lives and careers. I'm Gretchen Whitmer, Jody Sweetie. Monica Patton, Elaine Welterah. I'm Jessica Voss. And that's when I was like, I got to go. I don't know how, but that kicked off the pivot of how to make the transition. Learn how to get comfortable pivoting because your life is going to be full of them.

Every episode gets real about the why behind these changes and gives you the inspiration and maybe the push to make your next pivot. Listen to these women and more on She Pivots, now on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The U.S. Open is here. And on my podcast, Good Game with Sarah Spain, I'm breaking down the place. players, from rising stars to legends chasing history, the predictions will we see a first-time winner, and the pressure.

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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 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 Ross. 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. Do you think to start? this conversation off. Paradise is going to reboot in a successful way. I do. I think people are going to want to watch it again after a longer break than they've had in a very long time

between grand season and airing of Paradise. I believe the airing of Paradise will be back to its regular schedule programming. I believe it'll be a summer show, which I believe it should be. I think that the shooting schedule, especially with the cancellation of the Bachelorette or the pause on the Bachelorette is going to be earlier than it normally would be. I believe that it's starting to film in May that they'll be wrapping up in the early parts of June. And yeah, Ben is hearing that it's going to be happening in Puerto Rico. I have no idea where it's going to be happening. It's one of the two. I've been hearing the Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico. And I can't confirm either way, but that's what I'm hearing. And then I do feel like the core

Bachelor audience, they always say that they're most excited for Paradise. Even though, so many people come up to me, they're like, oh, well, Paradise is the most popular of all. And I was like, actually, technically, no. Like, it always will have lower ratings of the two main shows. It just seems that the fan base gets more, like, the core

gets more excited for it. We know that they're talking to people. I have people who have, well, I know they have spoken to. And, um, excited for how they compile this cast, especially that they have more cast to choose from than they normally do, being that they did skip that season. And we hear something crazy, guys. Freaking crazy.

We hear that the Goldens are going to be part of it in some way. Now, I hope that when we hear this, it's not them being like, oh, they're going to host dates. That would be lame. No, please have the Golden's dating in paradise. I know that not being ages when I say this, they're not going to be able to handle the conditions that we live in. Because as, As a 26-year-old, I had a hard time living in those conditions. But I hope that they have like this little side resort that the Goldens are mingling at because that would be prime TV. Can I ask the question that everybody's thinking?

Yeah. Is there a world in which a cast member from The Bachelorette dates somebody from the Golden Show? Well, yeah, that's going to happen. I do believe if there's a world in which they do cohabitate hilariousness, there will be a guy that goes after Nancy. Is that hilarious? I mean, for me, like, hey, love is love is love, but like goodness gracious. Okay. So I think that a guy will probably make a move on like a Nancy, okay?

But I don't know that a Nancy would go and make a move back. Okay. Again, there's a side of me that would love to watch that happen. There's also a side of me that never wants to put anybody in the situation for that to happen. I love these golden women, the Susan's, the Nancy's, and the Jones, like, and like, I just, the Cathies of the world. Like, I just love those women. They have a soft spot in my heart. I really don't want to set them up for that.

I don't like it. Aw, Ben, that's, like, so sweet. I'm like, okay, give me TV. And you're like, no. Why? Because you think that they're going to get, like, heartbroken by, like, a 30-old? No, no, no, no. I think it's just going to get weird.

Okay. Well, I think that'll be a storyline because they'll want it to be a storyline, but I don't think that'll be a main. thing that'll be like an episode or two that's kind of supposed to be funny a couple things i want to mention because the bachelorette didn't get picked up uh all the audio video um all those people that work behind the scenes are are out of a job for those you know three months that they for the last 20 years consisted consistently had a job that's a it's a really tough position for them

to be in so we're thinking about them those are people that i care about that you care about that we know well. They, you know, have leaned heavy on having this job. And so there are people that are going to hurt outside of the viewership and the fans of the show. There are people that are going to suffer because the show isn't getting picked up. So we hope it comes back in a lot of ways for so many reasons, but also because of the people that work on the show. And going off that, Ben, why do you think they've hired a new crew completely for Paradise? I actually, and again, I'm making an assumption here, I don't know if it was a new crew as much as they've lost everybody else and they had to fill some spots.

You mean like some of our classics, they were just like, I can't do Paradise? They've moved on, they've done out of their things, they've outgrown it, right? I mean, for so many years it was the same faces, the same people that were doing Paradise. And I think those people now are taking steps in their career outside of this show. kind of has been a waterfall effect for many of them happening at one time. And so they had to find a way to get a team

to produce this show. I think it was like a clean slate though. I don't even think it was an option for maybe lower level producers to go and produce it. Again, I have no idea. I have no clue on what's happened. But I do know

that it's a new team. And so it will be a new look and feel. And that's exciting in a lot of ways. because it's always nice to have new creative voices in there. And it's also a little scary because we love the paradise that we saw and that we were familiar with. And things are going to be different. And we don't know how different, right?

Is Jesse going to be the host of it as well as going to be the bartender of it? Are they going to have the same intro music and the same intros that they've had since the beginning? What's the date going to look like? What's the living condition is now going to be, right? There is an element of paradise that we love because. of the resort that they were in was it looked great on television

and we also knew behind the scenes there were bugs crawling in the beds and I love that aspect of it. We did, we love that and we love that like they were so hot and sweaty and uncomfortable and it added to the chaos. I want to know are they going to be sleeping in air-conditioned rooms now?

Will there not be crabs in the toilet? There's honestly, part of me romanticizes that I met Jared in a situation like that. I kind of love that I had to like tough it out in every way. Yeah, you sweat it on them from the beginning. Well, it's going to be interesting to watch. We are excited for the future, but this is what we know about why The Bachelor isn't happening. It's the information we have on who they were considering. And then also what we know about

the upcoming season of Paradise that Ashley believes will be being filmed in May with, again, the Goldens and the Bachelor and Bachelorette contestants on the beach at the same time to what capacity we don't know. But we do know that right now it's rumored they're both going to be there. And I do know one more thing to add before we end this podcast. The change of location, I have heard again, everything is hearsay here, guys. So you can't hold anything against us. I heard that the ownership of the resort and, you know, it's a resort all year round.

they close for a bachelor and for their you know um was the creative department to come in and transform it for probably about two months of the year well the owner was like i don't lie i don't these new head producers not my fave don't love working with them when i sign on to the show i was working with these people and now all these people are gone and i don't like this new these new phases i don't Yeah, so that's why they've changed locations because the resort didn't want to work with production anymore. So much happening in The Bachelor World. This is the breaking news that we have for you today. I hope you have a great weekend.

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Wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, luckily, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, My boyfriend's been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now he's insisting we get to know each other,

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