The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Engagement Ready

Episode Date: November 28, 2024

Blake Horstmann and Giannina Gibelli are here and they're spilling all about their recent engagement! From how he started planning over a year ago to her always keeping her nails ready for when he put a ring on it, the happy couple share their perspectives on the time leading up to the special moment and even give some details on their upcoming weddingSee 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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available now listen to wisecrack on the iHeart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts this is the ben and ashley i almost famous podcast with iheart radio hey guys welcome to the almost famous podcast we have gianina jabelli and did she say right did i say it right and blake hortzman on the podcast they're here celebrating their engagement. They got engaged. Is the last week? Is that true time?

No, so it was October 30th. So a couple weeks ago. October 30th, so you kept it secret for a little while and you just announced it last week. Yeah, yeah. We got engaged in the election happen. Yeah, we were like, you know what? Yeah, you're like, yeah, I'm just going to be quiet for a couple weeks.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. We actually probably could have used some refresher to the timeline, actually, during that. I want to dive in right away with this because it is such a special moment for the two of you. Blake, I had texted you this and I mean it. How, I mean, you guys have been together now for how many years? Almost three. Three years next month, yeah.

Okay, and you obviously have a beautiful child together who is such a joy to watch. And so you're like very, your lives are very intimately entwined at this point. To say the least. Yeah. And you are, you know, you haven't proposed yet. So you're planning this. proposal for a year yeah for a year yeah he was planning it or i was pregnant oh that's a good little tidbit to throw in there yeah um yeah ben so like basically yeah i was

uh i had first started august of 2020 who is that right no no 23 August of 22 or 3 is my first visit to Brilliant Earth. And, like, I knew at that point, I was like, oh, this is a good start. You know, I was like, let's just like, I had no idea what took that. Because, I mean, picking out, I mean, I've always picked out a ring before, but it's nothing like in real life. You know what I mean? Like, they just have the rings there and you just kind of pick one.

So this was like, I get to customize it. I knew I had asked her long before, like, what she wanted as far as like an oval cut, all that fancy stuff, you know. He literally just, like, randomly texted me when I was, like, at the nail salon one day. He goes, so what kind of do you want? And I was like, the nail salon of all places. I know, random. Right.

I know, prepping. Yeah. He's like, so what kind of ring you want? And I'm just sitting there, you know, like, scrolling, like, when you're, you know, at the nail salon, and then I was like, oh, what? I called my cousin. I was like, what kind of ring do I want? Like, I don't know.

It's like, you want this cut, you want the prongs, you want this, you want that. I was like, you know, like something like this, like a little, like a little oval, something. Little little. Little. Yeah. And I was like nonchalant. I was like, this will do. And then that's it.

That's literally all he, we ever talked about it. He did not want to go ring shopping with me. I wanted to be a surprise. So I like, yeah, I wanted to be like a legit surprise. Yeah. Um, so I didn't, I, that was it. And then I didn't ask her again. I didn't ask for, I asked for your ring size at that point, but I didn't ask again.

Like I just, I was like, okay. I got what she wants and now I'm gonna see if I can pick out the ring that she really loves and for a whole year I was like oh my god

this man has like a random picture that I took off Pinterest like fuck like is this even I mean I guess it is what it is and then for a year

I was just like I don't know when this is going to happen so I got that's what I wanted yeah so I got engagement nails

for like a year straight that's so stressful yeah fucking French tip white chrome for like a year sweat it out

I was like, oh, my God, I can't wait to be done. Oh, my goodness, you guys, I have so many questions from this now. All right. So, Blake, when she found out she was pregnant, were you, like, ever thinking, oh, I got to get the rate, like, let's hurry up and get the ring on the finger before we come out with the pregnancy? Or are you, like, let's wait until after the baby then? Did this change your timeline of proposal? Yeah, so a good question. I basically kind of, like, told her, I was like, listen, we can get engaged tomorrow.

We can get married tomorrow if that's something you want. And she was just kind of like... And I was like, no. She was like, we don't need to rush it. Like, you know, we're in it for the long haul. Like, we know, you know. So she was basically like, I want to be... Well, obviously, you were incredible.

Like, she ended up having an incredible pregnancy and, like, felt like she was glowing. But we didn't think it was going to be like that. So she was like, I want to be hot again. So if you would get you when you get... I want to feel good. I want to feel like myself. I mean, for me...

And it... I didn't... I don't know how to word this. So I'm not like... traumatized to the sense where from love is blind where I think he's going to tell me not at the altar but because of that experience I did want some things to just kind of be like this is how I've always wanted it to be you know instead of having that experience of like knowing when I was getting engaged seeing you know no not seeing that person through the fucking wall like having this

super generic ring be picked out for me like I wanted something to feel like you know how I was envisioned it. So that's why I was like, you know what, there's no rush. Let's just take it one step out of time. Again, like, I didn't know if I was going to feel good during my pregnancy. It was one of those things where I was like, I've always envisioned myself just being in a happy mood. Let's let's just kind of keep that moment sacred and between us. And I mean, literally we met what October, no, December 2021 and one of the first conversations we had. I was like, I want to get married in Croatia. And, like, we already knew that we were going to get married.

Yeah. We knew that this was going to happen. So, again, it was just like a, let's just keep this. Yeah, we're going to do it on our timeline. We didn't want to rush anything. We just want to do it on our timeline. So, yeah, it worked out perfect. It worked out great.

Heath was there. Yeah, that was really special, too, was to have Heath there for the photos and for the moment and everything. It was really special. And he'll be, you know, we'll look back and be like, look, you were there when you're, you know, Yeah, and he'll be at the wedding. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The ring bearer and all that fun stuff. 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 Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, my name is Enya Eumanzor.

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as part of the MyCultura podcast network on the IHHHHon. Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I want to flash back and then get back to the timeline we're on right now. I want to flash back to the two of you. And this question is for both of you to answer individually. Obviously, you were thinking about a proposal and getting married before you knew that Heath was going to be entering into this world with the two of you. you. What was the moment or is there a moment where you remember going, I'm going, I want to marry

this person? That's a good question. I'll answer first. This is about you. So, both of you. Yeah. Oh, mine's easy. For me, there wasn't like an exact moment of like, oh, there wasn't that for me. I think it was just when she moved in. Because like in my past relationships, I've had some long relationships were like, they moved in and then it was like, whoa. I was like, we can't put it together. We cannot cohabitate. So I think it was, I already knew I loved her, you know, all that kind of stuff. And then she moved in.

And then it was, it was smooth. And it was like, she did, you know, she like, it wasn't like, oh, like, I don't how to explain it. Like, it wasn't like she was like, oh, my house now. You know, it was like, not in that sense. It was like, she made the house better. She made, like, I could see a future with her after it was like, okay, we can cohabit. She made the house better.

I wish Jared would acknowledge this. it was a battle now give me a great care i only lived here for like a month before she moved in so i hadn't made it mine yet really but no she did she turned the house into a home right that's what that's what yeah that's what a you did for sure so yeah and that says and then i was like okay like we can live together like this i can see this like future because in the past that was like that was kind of a hard thing for me to cohabitate so so yeah that was kind of like that was kind of like that was his trauma yeah yeah my past trauma and relationships were like once i lived with a girl it was like oh god You can't do this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we clicked in that sense. So that was, that was kind of like what it was for me for sure. For you? Yeah. What was it for you? Uh, I, so he invited me for Christmas two weeks, like, after the show. So we'd already been, like, dating for three weeks.

And it was, like, it was January where I was in here. I was in this house, and everything just felt so like, like, I was meant to be here. I was just like, whoa. And I got on a call with my manager. And they're like, so, like, how's it going, blah, blah? And I was like, I'm going to marry him. That was in January. January of 2021.

Oh, 2021. Two. No, 22, yeah. And then I had to tell Netflix no for a perfect match, like a month later. And at that point, I had to marry him. So, like, I already. I was just like, this solidifies it for me. You know, it's not just like a thing that I'm saying, like, this kind of, this just tells me, like, I don't want to look anywhere else, even though I have this, like, amazing opportunity to do it.

And so, yeah, it was like that time frame. And then after that, I was just like, yeah, I guess I'm in Colorado now. I'm going to marry. If I remember correctly, though, and I could be thinking about this all wrong, when you first came out to Colorado, this was not a you're moving, but then you just never left. like I remember this there's like a plan of like hey she's going to come spend like a month and it's going to be great but you know she lives in Miami and then it was like five months and then all of a sudden it was a year yeah yeah I like she went home twice the first year like a week here week there and that's it I went home twice to repack yeah to re-pack and then

I just came back and but you were so sweet like you always I remember like on the show you were just like yeah I can't wait for you to like come and see my house and you know I can just like envision you cooking like in the kitchen and then I remember um your roommate was like leaving and you're like yeah like we can play house now like you said the words and I was just like oh my god like we're on the same page it was so sweet because like you know like you can tell if like a guy like wants to or not and he never told me like oh hey I got a gig like you should leave you should leave like he was like yeah like do you want to come or do you want to stay like he was never like this is a good time for you to go home like never said anything like that so i was like all right

cool like we're on it yeah i'm here i'm on the same page not to go further back in time but when you guys first met on all-star short did you feel like a love at first sight feeling those are any moment during the filming where you're like i i could marry this person So I had like this, I was all in because, you know, I made sure to like be in the moment and he made me feel fantastic. Like I'd never clicked with somebody like that where it was like so genuine. I had like butterflies every single time I saw you. But in my head, I was like, I have this dating show coming up.

So like this is just going to be the sweetest, shortest, shortest relationship ever. and and I just made sure to be like, you know, like, save her every second of it. And then I told him about it while we were still there. And the way that- She told me filming it just wrapped and we were like in the like hotel, you know, after it wraps and they're doing like ITMs like passing. And she told me. I was like, I have this dating show.

And the way that you reacted, I knew that I wasn't going to do it. How? Like, how did he react? So sweet. Like, you expect. someone to be like, oh, like, you used me, but why didn't you tell me? Like, you just led me on and now you're going to break my heart and all this shit. He was so, he was, he was sad. He was just so sad. He just went, oh, like, I really thought this was something. And I was like, it is.

I'm not going to do it. I promise. But it was just the way. And he was so, and I left for like a couple hours, you know, to like really think about it. And I just come back in the room and he's just like laying down like so fucking depressed and I was like this man loves me it's like it's kind of even I kind of surprised myself the way I react I think because I had been in the industry you know in this world for a few years at that point like I understood the opportunity so I wasn't going to be like you or me you know what I I mean or I wasn't going to be like you know like that's it we're breaking out it was just kind of one of the things where I was like listen if you go on the show we're not

together like I'm not going to be the boyfriend back home yeah but you said that but I did say it like a month later but I was like if this is something you feel like you know maybe I'll still be here when you get back because I was like that one we do have such a strong connection but yeah I was super sad I remember being like super sad and disappointed

but at the same time like when we were filming I remember thinking like like this is great like she were clicking like I remember waking up every morning and sitting at the breakfast table and like she'd always come out like a runway and she'd come out and her like you know how her clothes you know her style she'd come out of her style

I just like oh my gosh you know every day every morning but I also do remember thinking like that she was like not necessarily holding back but there was you were going in with the therapist a lot I remember like secret panic attacks and I was like just live in the moment like whatever you know is in the future hasn't happened yet and I was like yeah you're right

you're right but I remember like as soon as I met you and I've said the story before but when you're saying like love at first sight I look back at it now and I'm like that's what it was because like you walked down to the beach and it was just like me and like three other people there. And I remember, and I was like, why do you look so familiar? And he's wearing like this like white shirt with like blue flowers on it, like, 2018 Blake. You know what I mean? It's like a little tight. Yeah. He's like, you know, he's like walking out and blah, blah, blah.

And he looks so familiar. He goes, I'm from The Bachelorette. And like the biggest Blake smile. And I was just like, oh, fuck. And like, I felt like this like feeling in my stomach. And I was like, not the bachelor guy of like red flag the bachelor's yeah like i i felt her like literally like that moment i was like yeah you're in it so cute yeah the it's always interesting to me too though because you we've established that you guys you don't only have this this past on the show but then you've worked through stuff and you've came together and you've been living together and you have a son together and all these crazy things that have brought your lives together blake i want to hear you though as you got ready to propose the feelings and the emotions that came about in you

to propose to somebody that you knew i would assume was going to say yes i was pretty sure just give us a perspective of still just how hard that is to propose oh my god ben you asked the question that i've been dying to ask the entire episode because i watched your guys youtube video about how nervous you were like Blake I was shocked you have a child together to me that is the ultimate engagement right I know I know and I just

have to say this because Blake and I texted about this and I don't want to put words in his mouth it's just different like I don't know like it's just different so I want to hear Blake knowing that you have a child together knowing that she was going to say yes

what still did it feel like so yeah i mean i was i was shocked at how nervous it was i wasn't nervous like picking out the ring i was super excited when i got the ring which was like probably about six weeks i think before the pros it was like it was like burning a hole in my pocket like i just wanted to show her because i knew she would love it so much i was so excited but then when i fully started to plan plan at all which was probably about three weeks out four weeks out something like that um i started to get so nervous i was like i knew she was going to say yes we have a child together like we had already you know plan this future together. But I don't know what it will. I think some of it was kind of she spoke to it a little

bit. She had been, you know, engaged. She had been more or less proposed to. You did the proposing too. But I knew that that wasn't how she envisioned it, you know. I knew that it was like, I felt a lot of pressure. Like, I felt a lot of pressure. I wanted it to be perfect for her. So the building up to it was like a lot. And I couldn't believe when I, the two days leading up to we were in Madrid, I was like shaking. Like, I was like, freaking. You know, like, my heart was founding. And then when we were at the park in Madrid, I was, like, had the, like, you know, ring in my back pocket. And I was, like, running through all these scenarios in my head.

Like, what if I, like, drop it? Like, what if I, you know, what if I, like, fumble it? I was just, like, freaking out. And, like, even getting it on the knee, like, my leg was shaking when I was getting down on knee. Everything was shaking. I don't remember what I said. Thank God it's on camera because I completely blacked out. But it was just once it, like, obviously, I was looking forward to it.

and I loved it, but once it was over, like, it was kind of a big relief, probably a lot like a wedding to be, you know what I mean? It was just kind of like, okay, we're engaged. She loves the ring. Thank God. It was like one of those moments of like, yeah, yeah. And she said yes before I showed her the ring, which I think is a good sign. You know what I mean? It's a ring for success. I didn't even think about it. Yeah, yeah. So she started kissing me and I was like, no, no, no, like, look at the ring. I was so excited. And I was like, ooh. Yeah, yeah, her reaction was amazing.

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. Hi, my name is Enya Umanzor. 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. Hi, I'm Jenna Lopez. And in the new season of the Overcomfit podcast, I'm taking you on an exciting journey of self-reflection. Am I ready to enter this new part of my life? Like, am I ready to be in a relationship?

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I'll never forget just, like you said, those nerves, that confusion, the wild thoughts. Gee, did you have any idea that this trip was going to be the trip that you got proposed on, proposed to on? Go ahead. Be honest. I thought every trip was going to be the trip that would be proposed. It was going to be, but I ended up getting pregnant instead. So I've been waiting for this for a while. So to say I was like, I was, again, my nose were done.

Like, I was, I was ready for it to happen since he asked me about the ring. Well, no, but then you got pregnant, you wanted to wait. Yeah, since you asked me with the ring last year. So anyway, so yeah, and so then I was pregnant and I wanted to wait. Wait, so I knew that after I had Heath, like any moment between that till like now could have been in it. So, but I, I like lost anticipation after a while. Like I didn't put pressure on any of it. I was just like, if it happens here, it happens here.

If it doesn't, it doesn't because I didn't want to like come home from a beautiful trip and be like, ruin this gorgeous trip. So at this point, I was just like, listen, wherever you choose, I know that here. been that he knows me and that he wanted it to you know make it this this moment between us and like this beautiful perfect thing um because neither of us had that um so wherever wherever he was going to do it I knew that it was going to be like perfect and it was um and it was what of those love love that some of my family was there I love that it was a place that I've grown up going like my family lives in Madrid and I've been to that part like a hundred times but I haven't been to that part that that part was new but it was just it was perfect because it wasn't like you know being here at

home it was but it had that nostalgia again I'm just I'm just really happy that you did that there yeah yeah I was like I was like doing because obviously we went to Paris after and I was like do I do I do in Paris you know in front of the Eiffel Tao I was like it's a little cliche but I was like it could be fun it could be cute but then when we realized you're going to stay in Madrid for a couple days I was like perfect and then I contacted her mom to get her cousin's number and to figure it out you know the language barrier was really interesting when i was planning it i was like trying to you know i was texting in my translate app and then copying pacing into what's happened well and that's also a thing too because i was like no it can't be madrid because like he doesn't

he doesn't know anybody he doesn't know how to like if it were if it were one of the trips in the united states then then yeah maybe you could like pull some strings and get this or that but i was like madrid he has zero contact so i didn't ever think that you would talk to my family and even when he said let's go for a walk with a photographer through a park so we do that is a good question photographer like we do shit like that all the time yeah yeah we've been in so many photo shoots yeah yeah it's a lot of because a lot of glass ash they're like well this is so staged like why do you know what I mean well in our industry like we take photos you know what I mean and yeah it's not that weird yeah exactly we had to like like family photos in a while since he

got bigger. So I used it as exactly that. I was like, you know what? Like, let's do something cute in Madrid. Like, and her cousin. So her cousin is a photographer. So that was the other thing. I was like, well, your cousin's photographer, let's do it.

And then she ended up perfect. Yeah, yeah. So everything ended up pretty much perfect. And photographer that she actually, you know, whatever you call it. And we were going to cancel that too because it was like raining and you like, no one was making a big deal about it. So it was just like, all it was like panicking inside. You know, she was like, maybe we should do it.

The other day, I was like, no, I was like, no. There are a lot of things that happened. But it worked out. Yeah. Like, how did you hide the ring when you're flying over there? So I put it, I just put it in my backpack that I literally kept on me at all times. I was just like, I'm going to, yeah, I didn't want to put it anywhere else. I put in my backpack that was on me at all times.

And then, yeah, because I was worried about that. I was like, what if? And we actually had, I think God, I didn't put it in my check or my carry-on because we actually had to check our carry-ons before. So I had to, yeah, I know. Excuse me, I just have to grab one thing before we've checked it. I don't know what I would have done. Honestly, I would have, oh, God.

And now that I think about it, I was like, oh, where's your charge? You're like, it's in my, I'll go get it. Yeah. She was going to reach you my backpack. I was like, I'll get it. I'll get it. Hey, to close out here, because I know we only have a few minutes with you, a couple rapid fire questions.

How is he? Just in general, how's he doing? He's the best. He's doing, he's growing, like, crazy learning. He's scooting. now, he's mobile. So our life's mobile now. He's crawling. He's eating really

well. He says mama all the time. Yeah, he says mama. No data yet, but we had mama. But he's fantastic. Yeah, he's been great. Yeah, get ready, Ben. Yeah, you know. We're in it. The second one, Ash, how's two? How's having two? It's not as bad as you, it's different.

You love to hear that. It's like, I described it on Instagram a couple days ago, people said this is the perfect description. The actual parenting of two at the same time is not that difficult. It's kind of like the invisible load and just the fact that you like never have time to yourself. It's your own personal lifestyle that's different, harder. Yeah. But like the parenting is easier. Yeah. I feel that that sounds awesome. I don't know when you guys are talking about. I'd love to have no time to myself.

This is just great. Zero time to yourself. So you look. And final question for the two of you, you're going to get asked from everybody, and we don't want to be cliche or generic. But now that you are engaged, the future, the next step is a wedding. What are you guys thinking? Well,

we've already got a date and a venue. We got it all picked. I'm ready to go. Yeah, yeah. You had the venue plan beforehand. You knew. Yeah, yeah. We literally had the whole thing planned already.

Yeah, pretty much. I was looking around one day because I had a friend that got married. I'm not. I had a friend that got married in the area that I wanted. And I saw that she worked with this, like, company. It's planning, this planner. And I was like, oh, let me just, like, see to see if this is something that can happen. And I, you know, reached out with a couple of questions.

And then one thing, like, led to another. And I was like, yep, this is it. Yeah, it was like happened. So we are, like, we still have to go next year and visit it and do the trajectory of what our guests are going to experience to see if this is like you know feasible but i mean i find it hard to believe that like i literally found it on a random like wednesday like a month before i proposed so like it was all kind of like fell into place yeah and so i'm just like huh so when things happen like that it's all meant to be so yeah i think we're good yeah well see hopefully it doesn't change

if not oh we're so happy for you guys this has been so fun genuinely just like smiling watching you tell this story for the past half an hour I love it it's the best yeah congratulations just celebrate it's awesome um and just to wrap what are you doing for thanksgiving um we're hosting yeah we're hosting a lot of people at the house for the first time so yeah and my oven doesn't want to work yeah we're having oven issues so we're stressed out a little I'm hoping that this turns out well but she's gonna be cooking for the next three days Literally, I'm hanging up and I'm going to go like chop of vegetables.

Oh, that's amazing. I start making breads and like pies. An incredible backyard. Ben, next, we're actually, I think we're going to do an engagement party in the backyard. So. Yeah. We'll do that engagement party here.

It'll be fun. Well, hey, this has been the almost famous podcast. Absolutely just heartwarming episode. Until next time, I've been Ben. I've been Ashley. And the two of you are? Engage! Yay, let's go.

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