The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Destination Paradise

Episode Date: May 18, 2025

SPOILER ALERT! Ben and Ashley have seen leaked footage from the new home of Bachelor in Paradise, and we have ALL the tea!   Find out if the Goldens can keep up with the young Bachelor contestants when it comes to partying, and we reveal the biggest surprise ex flame to hit the sand!   This is your sneak peek at what’s coming on Bachelor in Paradise, only here on The Almost Famous podcast!   Follow The Almost Famous Podcast on InstagramSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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. Hello, it's Daniel Fischel. Writer Strong. And Will Ferdell from PodMeets World. We are back in Las Vegas and giving the people what they want, a full week of Y2K content. Tell me why. Well, for the Backstreet Boys residency at Sphere, of course.

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This is the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast with IHeartRadio. Hey, everybody's almost famous podcast. We're here today. to start talking about some Paradise updates. Obviously, Bachelor in Paradise, as we know, is filming. We have some leaked footage that we're going to talk to you all about. So here's, I guess, what we should do, being respectful of our listeners. If you don't want to hear who we know is on the beaches of Paradise,

if you don't want to hear any of the leaked secrets from Paradise, turn this episode off now, but still rate us five stars. Give us a great review and tell us that you're very thankful that we don't give spoilers out but this is going to be a spoiler episode we don't know who's dating who yet we have some some ideas so we're not going to talk about that but we do know who's on the beaches of paradise so with that let's dive in ashley here's where i want to start a lot of the reason that we know who's on paradise already is because it feels like it sounds like and i think it's true that there are like vacationers families hanging out in the same resort is where paradise is filming

that. Does that feel weird? That's a little weird because normally we would just do dates at Vodonta and people were staying there. But the location in which the date was happening was closed off. This is kind of like a free, this is great for us if you want spoilers. Because this video that we got that we found on Reddit, thank you, Redditors. They, it's a video that one of the guests took, I'm supposing. And in it, we are getting. some additional cast that we can kind of confirm as part of the series. Do you guys want to know? If you don't want to know, press pause, as Ben said before. All right, so here we go. This is who we see in this video. Yes, this is who we see in the video. Dale, Claire's ex, Dale.

Let's sit on this one for a second. Dale, the biggest shocker out of the whole list to me is Dale being there. one um you know his experience on the show wasn't great and it but i mean it kind of feels like a redemption story you could come from it uh paradise does that for people but he it seems to me that he has disassociated himself complete with the show since his time on the show am i wrong um yeah i feel like he also yeah he hasn't really involved himself but i really also find that he's the kind of guy. Maybe this sounds judgy.

That, like, if they were going to call him and they wanted him back, he would see the opportunities that could come with it. Sure. That's not judgy because I, like, freaking did it myself. Oh, it's very true. Yeah, you said, I was going to say, I was about to say, Ashley, I think that's what you did. Actually, you said yes, four times.

But it is a redemption moment for him, right, to come on to show that, like, he actually is somebody, interested in pursuing a relationship with somebody from the show that he's interested in dating that he is an actually like kind human those are all things he can show from being on paradise in a more relaxed set but it is shocking that he is there and i do think he will be a headliner contestant during the season okay more more things from this video jonathan from jen season not shocking not shocking he is there um if you guys don't know who i'm talking about you guys know I'm talking right.

Jonathan Johnson. His name is Jonathan Johnson, which is not much different than Hayden Haven. Yeah, he is there. He was, in my opinion, probably the most requested guy to be on Paradise from Jen Season, I think, from Jen season. I mean, I think that his social media is cringy. And it's okay if you hear this, Jonathan.

But I loved him. But I loved him on the show. Yeah. You loved him on the show. I do think he's the most requested. now let's be honest though i'm not this does not go against jonathan i think he'll do great in paradise i think he will find somebody in paradise it's not a great title to have when you're the most requested person from a season that had very few people that anybody ever wanted that is so very true

another takeaway i have from this video is that we have the goldens and the youngans together makes me think that they're doing more shooting together than separately separately but who the heck knows. Um, this video is of Gary, a big jolly Gary. He is in the middle dancing with a whole bunch of salsa dancers. And so I can't confirm that these people are in the cast, but these are who the redditors are suspecting that they're spotted. Cat, who we saw from the last season, Jess. Um, we know Jess, Jessica, blonde one from, um, who dated Blake. Just Gerard.

Yes, yes. I know that she was highly requested amongst the men, so I'm not surprised to see her there. Perisa. No. Jill, Jill Chen, who we all know in love as my crying friend. Alex from this past season.

Bailey from this past season. And then the men would be Jeremy. Okay, we know Jeremy, was he the runner? He was in the fourth, fourth guy. yeah for Connecticut hometown or New York hometown on Jen season Jonathan Andrew Andrew Spencer Andrew Spencer big announcement no that's a big one to sit on too is that a second or third time in that would be second okay Dale and then somebody's saying maybe Brian from Jen season I don't remember oh my goodness other okay and then the and then the older cast

the Goldens. People are thinking that they're seeing Natasha, Kathy. We all know Kathy's in there. Leslie. We know Leslie's in there. And then we're seeing maybe Jonathan, Gary, which we know, Keith, Charles King, and Jack. So excited to see Charles. Yeah, me too. Charles King. I hope he finds love. I mean, I really hope he finds love. This is great. Great to hear that he could be there. This is great. Yeah. December 29th, 1975, LaGuardia Airport. The holiday rush, parents hauling luggage, kids gripping their new Christmas toys. Then, at 6.33 p.m., everything changed. There's been a bombing at the TWA terminal.

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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?

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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. So we have the cast that we think or that we pretty much know is there because, I mean, as much of a spoiler, it's this is, as we said, there's people vacationing at this resort while the show is filming. So it's going to be impossible to hide these contestants. In fact, I think the show wants us to know who's going to be there, because I actually think from the looks of it, this cast is a pretty fantastic cast of people. I don't, though, Ashley, and maybe I'm crazy, and maybe I don't understand Paradise that well. I don't see, as I line up the cast side

by side, both Goldens and the contestants from The Bachelor and Bachelorette, I don't see any relationships. Well, they're standing off to the side of each other, right? No, I'm, yeah, but I'm just saying, like, in general, I don't see chemists, like, I know enough about these people. I feel like, to look at this list and be like, I don't know if these two people work. Oh, like, you can't couple any of these people that we've talked about? Not many. Maybe a few. We're not shipping anyone you're right i'm not like dying over like any possible partnerships here it's it's tough for me to see this and really ship anybody confidently well let's let's play a little game here let's andrew spencer who we feel like we know probably better than most um who which girl of these

potential girls do you see him possibly getting along with i mean i think jess like jess gerard would probably be the one that i go oh yeah that would make sense and i could see it working and being a lot of fun they're both bailey you know i say bailey you can see bailey Alex so you can see andrew with the whole cast i scratch the bailey comment Alex they're cute Alex yeah okay that's fair and that's really it ash it really is yeah that's all we got right now but it's okay we're gonna find out more soon i'm sure they'll announce uh at least the first beach as they like to call it the people that will be arriving and mingling first well i i think as as we close up here on our Paradise announcement, I want to know what you think Claire's thoughts will be

once she knows and sees that Dale is a part of this season. Do you think she'll have any emotions towards it, anger, frustration, excitement, maybe? I don't know. Okay. This is my thoughts for Claire. I think she's probably going to be like, of course he did. Of course he wants the attention. He was probably feeling neglected for a while and he's happy to have the spotlight back on him. She's probably frustrated that he will get attention, which is she thinks that he's not a good enough guy to receive. Like he shouldn't, doesn't deserve this chance back on the show. But I think she also knows that he will eventually show all of his cards. And this is what I have to say. Is it Claire's opinion? Is it my opinion? I don't know. That's the

opinion. But that's what you're feeling like, she may be thinking or what a reasonable human would be thinking. That's fair. Also, Ashley, we've talked about it before, but we're getting some statements from Walt Disney executives. We got a statement where somebody named Craig Irwich, he's the Disney Television Group president, was just talking to Rob Mills, who's Walt Disney's television unscripted head that the goldens are partying harder than the younger people do you think that's going to be a good thing a bad thing do you think that cultivates love amongst the goldens or do you think they're just down there having a great time and being very friendly with each other yeah they're staying up later than the younger cast that's interesting um this do i think

this is going to be a good i think that that is almost expected to me i think that when you get to their age they're like having a second wind at life and when you're the age of the you know the younger cast you're just like I'm getting to the age where I would like to find a partner and go to bed or yeah I cannot wait to watch Kathy and Nancy I wish Susan was there and some of our favorites I mean Kathy and Nancy on the beaches of paradise is going to be something that I'm so excited to tune into and I hope they're having a blast and I really do hope both of them find something very special coming out of it. That's what we have for you from Bachelor in Paradise.

Obviously, it is filming currently. It should be done filming by the end of the month. We'll hopefully get one of their two bartenders. I think actually Hannah is known as like the bubbly passer-outer. Wells is still your bartender. He'll be mixing the drinks and Hannah will be having them on a tray. Yeah, and that's, I don't know how that looks or works, but it seems to be a thing they wanted to do this season.

Either way. Until next time, I've been Ben. I've been Ashley. See you guys. Thank you. Follow the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcasts on IHeartRadio 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 her 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. Hello, it's Daniel Fischel, writer Strong, and Wilfridale from PodMeets World. We are back in Las Vegas and giving the people what they want, a full week of Y2K content. Tell me why. Well, for the Backstreet Boys' residency, it's fear, of course. We joke and say this is our second marriage,

but it takes a lot of communication. Plus, it's carrot top, baby. And finally, Ashley Simpson-Ross joins us to talk about her upcoming sold-out Vegas residency. Listen to PodMeets World on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. December 29th, 1975, LaGuardia Airport. The holiday rush, parents hauling luggage, kids gripping their new Christmas toys. Then everything changed.

There's been a bombing at the TWA terminal, just a chaotic, chaotic scene. In its wake, a new kind of enemy emerged, terrorism. Listen to the new season of Law and Order Criminal Justice System on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of the On Purpose podcast and today I'm joined by one of the greatest athletes of all time, Novak Djokovic. He's won 14 grand slams in a glittering career. Novak Djokovic. When you reach your 30, you start counting your days to your retirement.

I'm 38 this year. How long can I push my own limits? Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, my name is Enya Humanzor. 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, psycho babble. Yes, yes. Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you. Open your free IHeart Radio app. Search emergency intercom and listen now. This is an IHeart podcast.