The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Crossing Reality Shows with Tammy Ly

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

She once was looking for love on "The Bachelor," and now, she's helping people find their dream homes on "Million Dollar Listing." Tammy Ly shares what it was really like crossing over from one reality show to the other, including how she navigated the crazy drama and getting ghosted on both shows.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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screen. I was just like, ah, gotcha. This technology's already. solving so many cases. Listen to America's Crime Lab on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is the Ben and Ashley I, Almost Famous Podcast with IHart Radio. Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. Today, we have someone you haven't heard of in a while, but she is back, and she's on a show that is very popular.

You saw her during Peter Weber season. it's Tammy Lee. Hello, everyone. Hello. Tammy, when I met you at Women Tell All, we like had a great girl moment and I was like, wait a second, you're so not a villain.

I know, I remember that moment too because I was going through the trenches back in the day. So I appreciate your help with that. But it was good. I think that the show obviously makes people look and feel are not our best sometimes. And I was also young and I'm a whole different person now I feel like. So how did this happen?

It's been five years since Peter's season and now you're on a million dollar listing, L.A. Are you, how did they find you? Do they know you from the show? Or is this a totally fresh thing? It's a totally fresh thing. I joined Tracy Tudor's team here in L.A. two years ago when I got my license in California and I started being. really back and forth between New York and Los Angeles.

But, yeah, so I joined and we just film, and it's so different than filming The Bachelor because we get to have our cell phones and we can touch our mics and we can talk to producers. And it's just, they just film us working and going through our daily lives. And it's so different than filming The Bachelor because you're just, you know, restricted, no phones, you don't know what time it is. So it was such a like a 360 of different ways of filming. But it's a different show, so. So does it feel like kind of a nine to five job where, you know, you put your mic on in the morning,

you take it off at night and you just kind of go about your actual job while filming? Like how much of it is not, you know, we don't like to use the word scripted, but maybe a little staged? It's actually not staged. Some of the things we wish it was more staged because it would get more, you know, realistic timelines of, how buyers and sellers work with each other. But it's, we have set filming days and we tell them

what listings we have active and what's going on between the other agents and they kind of coordinate when we're going to film and what we're going to be filming. But we're just going through the motions as if we were working. If that makes sense. Really? So it's as if you're just being filmed doing a realtor job.

Yeah. Then how does the drama, would you, you say that like when you're just doing a regular job as a realtor, would you say that drama occurs like that or is it because the personalities in your company? I would say both. We're a pretty badass girl group and we are very sassy and we work with other agents. And I think, I mean, I've been doing this for eight years now. The Los Angeles real estate agents are a different animal. Like it is a drama. Some people won't show each other houses because they don't like each other. It's just wild. That is so interesting. Tell us about that just like the housing market

right now. What's the status? Is it a good time to buy? Is it a buyer-sellers market? I don't know. I've been out of the buying game for a couple of years now, but I'm always interested. Our realtor will tell you that it's a great time to buy and sell. After last month, LA obviously got hit with a ton of fires. It was very sad. And we were so busy out of nowhere. Um, seven days into the new year, you know, a lot of families lost their homes. So we were trying to find all of our clients, um, temporary housing. What are they going to do with their house? Try to figure out their insurance with them.

And then try to find them maybe a potential more permanent home for the next two to three years while they rebuild. There's just so much going on. Like we had an influx like the night of the fires like 20, 30 people reaching out to us trying to help them relocate. And everyone wants to stay on the west side because that's where their whole lives are, but they can't really live. Yeah. The fires were still going on. So it was just really hectic and crazy. It was very sad.

A lot of my clients, you know, have nothing, you know, and it was very heartbreaking. I'm so, so sad. And now is there like a, you guys just have, you don't have enough places for these people to live now, right? So they're all moving further east in? That, they're moving to O.C. They're moving to San Diego. There's just, it's the wild, wild rest right now. I mean, we're getting a ton of.

of inventory in, but it's still not enough for all the people that lost their homes. 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 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. My name is Everyone say hello, Ed. From a very rural background myself, my dad is a farmer and my mom is a cousin, so like it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club?

I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. Well, 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now.

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a good game with Sarah Spain on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. Now, you were a realtor when you were on The Bachelor. You've been a realtor for eight years now. Yeah. Did it help or hurt your business being on The Bachelor? You know, it's so funny.

So I was newly a realtor probably for a couple of years when I had my first show. And I obviously became the villain at some point. And people from like Kansas, the Midwest, they were like leaving reviews about me saying that I'm a bad real estate agent. It was really funny. I mean, it's funny to laugh out about right now. But it was really traumatizing during that time because I'm like, people are like, with my business.

But I actually ended up helping my business. I think obviously. people know who I am now in my small town. And I have credibility now as well with, you know, my business and who I am. So I've had definitely people try to reach out to view homes just to meet me sometimes. But we do a whole vetting process now. So for safety precautions. Oh, okay. Well, that's great. We have seen as part of a million dollar listing some romance. how's your romantic life going? So, I didn't find love on The Bachelor or Bachelor in Paradise,

but I did find it through The Bachelor. My really good friends, Jason and Spencer, who are on Clarentatious season, I was close with them for a very long time during COVID and still kept up with them to this day. And I met my current boyfriend now through them. So they were both friends with him. Yeah.

So technically, The Bachelor did help me. There's lots of people who, have met that way. And I love that. I love fate stories. Do we see any of your boyfriend on the show? He's filmed a couple times, but they don't, they cut out so much. I mean, you know, TV. So I don't think I've seen him on any episodes. If you did, it might be like the side of his head. But he also works, like a very intense job. So he's such a, he's like a very normal person. He's an attorney. So he's always like working. He doesn't really go to my events with me or filming. Yeah. if you um would you say that being on the bachelor helped in your career at all besides like you know

people trying to get viewings with you would you say that like it gave you people like certain like insight into people um yes and no i mean obviously i'm not just your average real estate agent i've run on to be a couple times i mean trace is the same way though you know so people have reached out trying to talk to us and interested in properties just because it's tracy so i was I'd say, yeah. Who is your favorite client to work with? Like, what kind of person? I love my new families. A young couple with like maybe a kid or two who are trying to find like a bigger space for their growing family. I love those types of clients. I think it's really cool to see people growing into something that they thought was a dream. And at some point,

we were all 20 years old thinking, where are we ever going to have children? Are we ever going to have a home to, you know, build on? And it's very beautiful to see that. Can you give us a horror story now? Like what is, who's like the work? Can you think of the worst client you've ever had and give it to us anonymously? I love all my clients. I'll say that. But there's definitely the nightmares of people.

I've had a client where I lent them money to borrow. I should have done, I shouldn't have done that. I was young at the time. And I lent him money to empty out his house. And he like disappeared. And if I didn't sell this house, like I wouldn't have gotten paid. He had, he had like 10 liens on his home. So I think he didn't leave with anything.

Oh, good Lord. Mm-hmm. Oh, no. Okay, and because you're in L.A., any celebrity clients? Yes, a popular one. I don't know if I could say his name, but our team has worked with a bunch of celebrity clients. Okay. Do they tend to be more difficult or the same as your everyday client?

The same as your everyday client. You know who I was really struck on? I don't normally get like god-eyed like that, but I showed a house to Jimmy, Jimmy Garofalo. Is that his name? Oh, yeah, Jimmy Garapolo. This podcast tried to set me up with Jimmy Garoppolo during our first season. Oh, my gosh.

You know, of course, who doesn't love Jimmy? Who doesn't think he's super hot? And I was like, I want to date him. And the podcast, like, trip. Our producers kept trying to, like, find a way into that circle. it didn't work and I lived happily ever after besides that point. I really have this for a reason. I am not surprised that you had Googly eyes over that one.

I'm like, this man is large. And I'm like, oh my God, I love that. All right. Well, Tammy, we appreciate you being here. What a million dollar, million dollar listing is, I know it's on the streaming services. Is it released all at once? in episodes. It's in episodes I think every week on

Bravo and then you can watch it on Peacock. Yeah. All righty. Well, guys, check her out on that. You're currently on, right? We haven't picked up season 16, but I was on season 15 and a little bit of season 14. Okay, great.

Well, you guys, if they get picked up, which I'm sure they will, keep supporting Tammy and watching that show. All right, thanks, Tammy. You're welcome. See ya. Bye. Bye. Follow the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast on IHartRadio, or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

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 to. are gone.

Hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That seems inappropriate. Maybe find out how it ends by listening to the OK Storytime podcast and the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Every case that is a cold case that has DNA. Right now in a backlog will be identified in our lifetime. On the new podcast, America's Crime Lab, every case has a story to tell.

And the DNA holds the truth. He never thought he was going to get caught. And I just looked at my computer screen. You know, so it's like, ah, gotcha. This technology's already solving so many cases. Listen to America's Crime Lab on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's start with a quick puzzle. The answer is Ken Jennings' appearance on The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs.

The question is, what is the most entertaining listening experience in podcast land? Jeopardy Truthers believe in. I guess they would be conspiracy theorists. That's right. To give you the answers, and you still blew it. The Puzzler. Listen on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What would you do if one bad decision forced you to choose between a maximum security prison

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