The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Paradise Guest List

Episode Date: July 8, 2021

Ben and Ashley have an Almost Famous Special Report on the confirmed cast for season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise. Who was the biggest surprise?? What do you think will happen on the beach?And we hear this season includes some drama we’ve NEVER seen on The Bachelor before… what does that mean?? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee 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.

Now, 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. 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.

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This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcasts with IHartRadio. Special report. Almost Famous is back. Ashley, why are we here? The season seven Bachelor in Paradise cast was released in short. And it's going to premiere on August 16th. And should we run through the list? Yeah, but real quick, when you say, you're our expert here. So when you're covering the story and you're saying in short, what are you meaning by this? Okay. That means that we have the photos and the cast of who's going to be there day one. Because this isn't all the cast. It's not, huh? There's a lot more girls and there are guys. Okay. And I know. know of rumors of people who are not shown let's give an example like piper yeah uh we know that

brandon brandon um he was what was he third place on tasha season yeah he is on this original cast list but piper is not and if you guys remember they were spotted together numerous times like dating like dating dating back in may uh so right before paradise shot and they um but but piper's not on this list so my assumption is that these two they did the old classic started dating and thought that they could get together on paradise as like oh oh we're just meeting um yeah yeah oh we flirted before we we talked a little bit but but but but maybe we'll solidify things here in paradise okay i think that's going to create some drama so do we believe Piper shows up to Paradise.

Oh, yeah. Piper's going to be that girl that comes like, she's probably, I would say that she was going to walk down like during the first week, but actually I think they want to build the drama. People are probably going to be asking Brendan out. And he's going to have to give an other girl Rose before Piper comes. And that's going to just be juicy. Juicy.

Okay, Ashley, it's time to run down the list of the most recent. It's almost been two years. since we've seen Paradise. That's wild. The newest Bachelor in Paradise list. Take it away. All right. First we have Abigail.

Then we have Brendan. Then we have Deandra from Peter's season. I don't remember her making a big splash there. Then we have Ivan from Clarentia season, fourth place. Gessania from Matt's season. You know, she was always involved in the drama. Then we have Joe Amablay, grocery store Joe, the only one to come from a season.

Oh, there's one other. Okay. I was going to say he's the only guy to come from a season outside of Claire and Tasha. Oh, yeah, outside of Clare and Tasia season on the original cast. So he's like a little bit more of a veteran. Then we have Carl Smith from Katie's season. Carl, of course, we know, started some drama early on in this season and was eliminated. Then we have Kelsey Weir from Peter's season.

Kenny, the boy band manager from Claire and Tasha's season. Mari, the pageant girl from Matt's season. Marissa Gunn from Peter's season, Marissa. Do you remember Marissa? I don't. I'm looking at their pictures here. I think she had to be an early exit because I don't remember her. Okay.

Then we have Natasha Parker from Peter's season. You know, she's been out there a lot because she is one of Joe's co-hosts on. What's their podcast called? Clickbait. Clickbait. Then we have Noah Earb. He was on Tasia's season. We know, no, we know, what was Noah's thing?

He had the mustache that was shaved. Oh, and he was the one with, he got annoyed with Mr. Harvard. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So then we have Serena Chu of Matt's season. Serena Chu. Oh, Serena. Okay.

Yes, from Matt season. Um, then we have Serena Pitt from that season. And then we have to Joanne Hawkins. Juan Hawkins from Colton season. So the only other like more veteran from a past season coming on. And then we have Tammy. We know Tammy was a little villainous on Peter's season. Victoria Larson, Victoria, the Victoria from Matt season.

And then Victoria, Paul from Peter's season. Okay. So that's the list that we have right now. Ashley, to continue this conversation, is there anybody on the original list that you are disappointed to not see? Bree. I would agree.

One of my favorites of all time and she's not on the list. I would also say we don't see Dr. Joe on here. Yeah, he could come. He could come. We don't know. this but from the original cast he's not there i wanted to see as much of him as possible uh in addition to that uh i'm i mean this is this feels like a good original cast now we always know that the the sleepers that come in week one week two are the ones that kind of shake things up

and they're always kind of the the ones that are more shocking maybe more memorable and known but this is a good a good first cast a little bit of tidbit of information Victoria Larson has blonde hair in this picture. She's changed her hair color. I know. She's going blonde. It's big. Yeah, if you look at her Instagram, which I can't because I'm blocked.

Oh, well, well, let's see if I can. She's got some, she's got a new look going on. Yeah, I'll have to look. She's real high glam. I'll have to look to see if I, if I still have access. Ashley, is there anybody here that you're shocked to see on the original cast? No. What are you talking about?

I'm shocked to see Joe. Grocery Store Joe in the original cast. Did you really not know who's going to be there? I knew who was going to be in Paradise at some point. I didn't know he would be there week one. I feel like he was somebody that would come down later. I thought there would be a whole Kindle Joe kind of showing up at the same time. I just, I'm shocked to see him there from the beginning.

They're definitely, if they're going to play that storyline, they're not going to come at the same time. It's going to be very much like Jared and me, where somebody is settled and finding somebody before. the other person comes down. Very interesting. Well, I'm looking forward to Paradise. Ashley, as Paradise is coming upon us, August 16th, on ABC, what are you most looking forward to? What have you missed in the last two years?

Like the sense of humor, the sense of self-awareness, just lightheartedness. I think that's where The Bachelor, I mean, The Bachelor of Paradise excels. And I think it's always just like fun to have so many different love storylines. Yeah. Well, speaking of those storylines, who here do you see in the original cast potentially being a good couple? This is hard. I want to just brush on the fact that there's a couple huge Bachelor stars that aren't here that like maybe I'm not surprised now aren't there because like I've spoken to them about their reasoning.

But like Hannah Ann, Victoria Fuller, I don't think Madison would ever do it, but like still, you know. Madison Pruitt, yeah. There's not a lot of big guy names. Like, Ivan and Joe are the biggest guy names. Brendan. Brendan, okay, yeah, yeah. So there's three. Yeah.

But the girls don't have a lot to choose from that first week. Oh, actually, the guys. Okay, so the guys are going to choose the first week because there are way more girls than guys. Yeah. So out of this group then, what do you see? Maybe Brendan and Abigail. Let's go with Brendan and Abigail. They're both like shy and sweet. I like that couple. What about you? I'm all for it. You know, I've been a fan of Ivan's since he was on the show. And I would love to see Ivan with somebody like a Natasha Parker or even like Amari. Um, somebody, you know, I can see with yeah, Natasha, I was thinking, you know, somebody who, uh, Ivan's a sweet guy. He's very open. I think they're both, uh, fairly vocal. You would, you know, it would be great to see him, uh, with Abigail. But I do think the Abigail like Brendan thing kind of makes a lot of sense. They're kind of together in this picture anyways. They just look cute. Um, and then Joe, it would be, here's, here's something that'd be really interesting for me. This is the storyline I'll watch

I don't think it probably ever plays out But Joe and Natasha So they do a podcast together Stop, that's the most unrealistic thing You think? Yeah, they've known each other for like a year But what if like secretly behind the scenes Joe's like this Natasha is awesome

We co-host together She's incredible Well, we're both single We're both in the beach If we're going to give it a shot, why not now? Who knows? I don't know Anything could happen

You don't like that story, huh? No. Okay. Does it creep you out? No, it's not that I don't like it. It's not that I don't like it. It's just like I feel like we can pair Joe up with somebody else. Okay. Maybe Serena, maybe, yeah, I'd say from this list, Serena, make the most sense for him. Okay. Well, if you're going to, because you know a lot about Paradise, it's kind of your bread and butter. But if there's some people that you're like, hey, I hope to see Walk Down the Stairs week one or two to really shake things up.

Who were those cast members? Okay. We need Kendall. Yeah, we need Kindle. Like, that's an amazing storyline for me, but also, like, potentially heartbreaking. Then I want to see, I definitely want to see Dr. Joe. And then I really, I don't know if he's going to, like, stir things up, but, you know. And then I'd want to see Brie. Yeah, I agree.

Brie, Dr. Joe, Kindle, from Katie's season. Oh, yeah. So there could be people in the original. cast from Katie season that's not up there yeah i mean carl is up here now uh so we have car so only eliminated people but i i think her top four is going to be really strong i'm hoping a couple of them choose to go to paradise because i don't you know i think we're going to be like on the edge of our seats i'm thinking the michaels of the world and also the greggs yeah like i want gregg to be in the original cast if any of those dudes aren't the next bachelor or if they're not with katie it would be it'd be

incredible to see them walk down the stairs uh i mean can you imagine somebody better for paradise than andrew like fun loving honest yeah he'd be really good like huge smile on his face all the time paradise just feels like it would be his jam like it would be awesome for him yeah i see him there um i mean gregg would be huge but i also feel like katie's top four in our heads are all going to like hold out for the chance of being bachelor but i guess colton kind of proved that way of going about things wrong. Yeah. Because you could still go to Paradise and become The Bachelor.

Why not? Actually, it may increase your odds. It might increase it. I mean, Nick Vile came from Paradise to be the Bachelor. Colton did the same thing. It feels like a trend at some level. And hey, it doesn't hurt you, at least at this point. And it doesn't completely separate you from the opportunity of it.

Well, Ashley, we're going to ready start Paradise. It's a great cast. We want to announce it to all of you listeners because we know that you trust us. for your bachelor news, and this is big news. And we have more big news to get to. We're going to take a break when we come back. We're going to break down Bachelor headlines that have happened in the last, like, three and a half days.

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 okay. Storytime Podcasts 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, psycho babble. Yes, yes. Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you. Open your free. Free iHeartRadio app, search emergency intercom, and listen now.

What would you do if one bad decision forced you to choose between a maximum security prison or the most brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth? Unfortunately from Mark Lombardo, this was the choice he faced. He said, you are a number, a New York State number, and we own you. Shock incarceration, also known as boot camps, are short-term, highly regimented correctional programs that mimic military basic training. These programs aim to provide a shock of prison life, emphasizing strict discipline, physical training, hard labor, and rehabilitation programs.

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Everyone say, hello, Ed. I'm 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.

The 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. Listen to Wisecrack. crack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Dr. Joy Harden Bradford. And in session 421 of therapy for black girls, I sit down with Dr. Ophia and Billy Shaka to explore how our hair connects to our identity, mental health, and the ways we heal. Because I think hair is a complex language system, right, in terms of it can tell how old you are, your marital status, where you're from, you're a spiritual belief. But I think

with social media, there's like a hyper fixation and observation of our hair, right? That this is sometimes the first thing someone sees when we make a post or a reel. It's how our hair is styled. We talk about the important role hairstylists play in our community, the pressure to always look put together, and how breaking up with perfection can actually free us. Plus, if you're someone who gets anxious about flying, don't miss session 418 with Dr. Angela Neil Barnett,

where we dive into managing flight anxiety. Listen to therapy for black girls on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Bachelor Headline says this, Wells Adams, quote, I was shocked by the twists and turns of season seven of Bachelor in Paradise. This is according to us. Lots of quotes here. This is his fifth season doing Paradise.

he's been on so many episodes of the show but this may be one of his favorites thus far he says you get everything it's hot it's sweaty there are crabs everywhere the beach kind he's hopefully just the beach kind

and then he said there's love there's romance there's a lot of drama you got everything the drinks are bad the advice is worse but the bar is open and there's some twists and turns that I was shocked by and I never thought would happen on the show

and I think people are really really going to love this season he says that it starts out with drama and comedy but then there's a lot of really wonderful love he said the earth isn't healing until paradise is back and i can't that that's perfectly said he said i feel like we needed this for so long i'm just excited for everyone to experience it you know america gets to kind of show up at the gates of paradise and walk down those steps with us which is very nice and then he says People are really going to enjoy this season. If you were single during COVID,

and so else, he goes, and you didn't get laid for a year, basically, well, there's a lot of sexual tension built up in these cast members. So I think it'll translate quite nicely on television. Oh, my gosh. I think America feels the same way, too. If you're trying to make up for a lost time,

everyone feels like they got robbed of a year. So I think people are a little more prone to be bald and they probably would normally be on the beach which is nice said from the new host of the rose ceremonies wells adams it sounds like he's a host now he's really promoting this like he's he's out there um he's out there now well next uh headline and final headline of the last three and a half days this a big one the bachelorette claire crawley and dale moss here are engaged again six months after breakup This according to E.

Yes. Well, it's a close source to Claire. They told E News about it, said that they're engaged again, but a second proposal didn't happen. Claire has been wearing her ring for months and put it back on once Dale stepped up, and they decided to give their relationship another shot. But it's more of a promise and a commitment from Dale. There's no wedding planning at this time. They had a conversation over a month ago about their future.

and decided that they wanted to be engaged again. They aren't rushing anything and they aren't even living together permanently yet. I mean, let's celebrate that. That's been a rocky road. It's really awesome. It hasn't always gone smoothly. And that's to be expected, not shocking, because this whole thing's wild and weird. But the fact that they took some time away and they said, hey, we still want to give this a shot is something we should celebrate here.

And we are celebrating here. It's pretty awesome. Well, that's the headlines the last three and a half days along. with the list of cast members for the very first episode of Bachelor in Paradise. Get excited. It's coming again,

August 16th on ABC. It's the season 7 premiere, which is wild. We've had seven seasons and we took almost two seasons off. Hey, Ashley, have a great rest of the week. We're going to come back next Monday,

this Monday, I guess, with another breakdown of Katie's season. It's going to be exciting. It's going to be awesome. And we're going to be here for it. But until then, I've been Ben. I've been, I've been Ashley, almost forgot my name.

Bye. Holy moly. 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 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 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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. Everyone thinks they'd never join a cult.

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and how they get out. Trust me, new episodes every Wednesday on exactly right. Listen 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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