The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Reality and Chill with Blake Horstmann and Giannina Gibelli

Episode Date: February 6, 2023

Ben is hanging out with one of our favorite reality tv couples: Blake Horstmann and Giannina Gibelli! They take us through their first date, if they felt love at first sight, and why Ben’s family has a deep connection to Blake’s house. Plus… find out if Blake and Giannina will walk down the aisle anytime soon!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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this is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast with IHartRadio Welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast We have a very special guest today Blake and Gianina Welcome Thank you for having us Thank you for pronouncing my name right Did I pronounce it right?

You really did. Do some not? Nobody does ever No, it's been like my life's Yeah my life's mission Probably give people to pronounce it right Well, okay, here's a question for you. Is it okay if I call you G for the rest of the podcast? It is, actually.

Yeah, we have permission. Okay, perfect. Hey, it's a big year for you, too. You just moved to Colorado, G, and Blake, you've been in Colorado for a while. We're not far from each other. I know that you've been up to a lot, and you just made the move. How's the move to Denver being been so far? Oh, boy.

Babe, you start. It's been extremely stressful. Full. Moving cross-country is horrible. It's a lot. And it's not easy moving from beach side to a mountain side. If you are a beach. In January, yeah.

In January. Well, not to bore the audience, but we did, we're sitting right now in Carmel by the sea in California. We all left Denver on the same flight. It was negative 10 when we left Denver. Nobody wants to hear about the weather, but it was cold. Cold. Cold. So that's, I mean, that's had to be different because you were living in

Miami before Denver, correct? I was living with Blake for like a year unofficially and now I live with him officially but yeah, I grew up in Florida and I like to just live in a bikini and not care about whether it's negative 10 degrees if I want to just enjoy the outside. So yeah, it's been a lot different. My wife has accepted the fact that fashion is no longer maybe an opportunity and a possibility so she just wants to be one. There you go, babe. See if she's accepted it? You need to accept it.

You shut your mouth. It's always a possibility. I really, I'm really intrigued and interested in your relationship because you've just now celebrated one year. So it's fairly, I mean, in today's like standards, it's a fairly new relationship, but you two have moved quickly. As you said, you've been living in Denver. off and on for the last year, and you've been together for a year.

So I want to start with the two of you by asking, why did you feel like this was a important enough and serious enough relationship to say, I want to move to a new city with this man so quickly? Okay, so I guess I'll go first. You go first. I've been in trying relationships in most of my 20s, and I felt like after all of the trials and tribulations that this was something that felt like it was worth moving again cross country towards he feels like home um and there's nothing that makes me feel otherwise like

when i i can't be away from him i have to be next to blake and he is something that makes me feel like I'm safe and I, I don't know, there's just, there's no, there's no words. Like, there really isn't. And that's what I was looking for. I put my everything into a storage unit in Miami where I thought that I was going to live in. And I traveled around the world, thinking that I was going to live in Europe for a couple of years. And in that time, I met Blake, and now I live in Denver. I ruined her dreams, you know? I ruined her whole Europe, like, life.

You didn't ruin my dreams, baby. You made my dreams come true. Because this is literally what I was, I was asking the universe, hey, I want to find my roots. I want to find my home, and you are my home. So then, I mean, that's really sweet. But when was it for you that Blake started to feel like home? I mean, again, I want to take the timeline here.

This is a good question. I think the timeline is very important. I mean, I met you, G, as we talked about earlier, because my puppy, who I talked about on the podcast and who interrupts the podcast very often, Waylon was born inside Blake's home while you two were shooting the show that you met on. And you came home to that,

Blake. And the first time I went to meet Waylon, when he was newly born, you were there. And so as soon as, and you know, as soon as the show was really done filming, you had already started to say, hey, this is a place I want to spend time. I know at that point in time you started to spend more and more time there. So this happened very quickly where you said, Blake, we just kind of met on this show, which as we know in the Bachelor world doesn't usually work out. But you already felt connected enough to say i want to start staying here so when were those feelings starting to increase for you and why did blakes feel so much more comfortable than maybe past relationships i think because i had gone through such a ringer and felt like oh this is something that's

going to be my end all and it wasn't that when i met blake it just felt right um so we met on a show where we live together and we've always lived together um so when it moved on from reality tv situation ship to real life situation ship and he took it was honestly on you babe like you took the initiative to be like come and be with my family on christmas and come integrate into my life that i felt very confident in that and i didn't hesitate um to be a part of your life that that I just felt like it was a very real coming from a TV show to a reality, like actual like real life situation that I wanted to to give it a real shot again. And I think a real big part of me was that I didn't want to be bitter about my past.

Like I didn't want to close myself from past relationships, whether it be like a reality TV show or just past relationships in general because I had a relationship. before reality TV, you know? I want to just to be open and when you invited me to Colorado and had me meet your family as our first date and I never left and we both felt the exact same way, I think it was just like, okay, like this is real, this is something that's worth giving a shot. and I don't know you just kind of like turned everything upside down

like we both felt the exact same way I feel Blake what do you think you know I'm interested now with you because your situation maybe was a little different you went on the show I talked to before you went on the show you didn't know what to expect out of this show that you were going on it was a whole new experience for you you come back

with somebody and then you know from my own personal experience I know now you know when I was living in my house alone. You know, you start to get really comfortable living in a house alone. You come back from the show and all of a sudden, somebody else is in your house with you, sharing the space with you. What made you feel like this is somebody I want around and that I'm okay sharing the space with them? And I want to share the space with them. Yeah. So I remember when I came back from the show, like you talked, we chatted before the show. I told him, you know, I told you Ben, I was going on

the show and I didn't know what to expect. And it was just like it wasn't a dating show. And it was more of a competition show and I was like I was just desk like I'm not going to meet anybody I don't want to meet anybody and I ended up meeting G and I remember coming back from the show and you know you know this like when you get back from a show it's just detox right you just sleep for days like you're just trying to catch up on sleep and just trying to reacclimate to where you are and it was about two days I didn't I slept for two days and G hadn't heard from me in two days and I remember being like there was a moment where I was like I miss her. her. And I remember feeling that. And I was like, I miss her. And I ended up texting her. And she was

like, oh, I thought this was like, I thought we were broken up. Like, I thought there was just a showmance, you know, because it had been two days of me just sleeping in my bed. And it turned out, like, her family had caught COVID. And she was like, I'm going to spend Christmas alone. I was like, no, you're not. Come to Denver. And so, yeah, literally, our first real, quote, unquote, date was with my family over Christmas. And it was just like we, like she kind of talked about. we ended up living together during the show, right? It's very different than Bachelor. We're all in the same villa.

We spent every night together since like maybe a second or third night on the show. So it just felt natural and it felt like it just wasn't weird for her to then come to my house and live with me, which is weird to say, but it didn't feel weird. And so it's just the whole time we've always been together, it's just been very easy. It's there's no, yeah, it's not hard work. It's just a relationship and I've never really had that, you know, and I've never had a relationship where I've like I needed to work at or I don't need to work at all the time so this is kind of the first time that it happened

and listen I had this great house my dream house and having you know a girlfriend move in or not well you did kind of move in for the first like on and off for the first year it's a lot like any man or woman

for that matter it's a lot to have somebody move in near space and we've yeah it's not easy and we've had our ups and downs where it's like oh you want me to throw away my shirt from 2006 when I won the, you know, I won the, like, bowling league when I was, you know, it's like, no. But then, you know, you come to the decision. It's like, is this, is this t-shirt worth like my relationship? And you have to come to those conclusions. You have to come to those realizations of like, do I give up half my closet for the girl I love? Or do I, you know, fight

this? And then it becomes incredibly difficult to have a relationship. So there's things you have to give up in order to please a woman. Yeah, you have to compromise. Relationships are all about compromise so we've done that and honestly I don't like I want to like cover her ears right now and I want to like mute her microphone but my house looks a thousand times better since she moved it's not easy to admit it's not easy to admit it is not easy to admit but it's been a blessing and occurs but more of blessing than a curse for sure well you just said it and I wasn't going to put words in your mouth but you said you said you know the person you love um I think all of us would love to know when that feeling happened for the two of you. When did you first say it? When did you

first feel it? What brought you to that point? I'm going to start with Blake because I feel like, gee, you would have a really good, easy time answering this. And I feel like I want to start with Blake on when he started to feel this and know that this is something worthwhile. So this is actually a great question because I love it. Yeah, this is a good question because we're going to have very different answers just because of what I didn't well we'll let her answer her later but for me I knew I've been through a lot on bachelor right I've been through a lot in public I should say and so for me I was not I was determined not to fall in love fast which is a weird thing you know like I had fallen in love fast a lot and I was somebody who was like a hopeless romantic

and I wanted like I was just always like I'm going to fall in love I'm going to fall in love I'm gonna fall off, but with her, I did it different. I was like, I'm going, like, I don't, even if I feel it, I'm not going to say it. Like, I am determined to not be that person who falls in love again fast. Like, I wanted to protect myself. I wanted to protect her. I just didn't want to put ourselves in that situation again. So as much as I loved her pretty quickly, I would say, I mean, I'm not going to put exact date on it,

but I would say, honestly, after, we've actually talked about this. It was after she came to Denver. my family and everything was like she got along with my family and then it was like we are in the real world and i still feel this way i did i did love her but it took me months it took me months to say because as much as i didn't want to fall in love as quick you know as the bachelor i in a weird way i so wanted to be as weirdly special right i wanted this moment to be like you know we talk about this like like candles everywhere and we're in a hot tub in the middle of that like i wanted this crazy thing. And so I just kept holding off like, no, it's going to come like this weird moment of like

everything coming in and then finally, was it like that? We were just in bed one night. We were just in which we referred to as our safe space, right? We travel a lot and our bed is like our safe space. We're watching Netflix. Like Netflix and chills like our safe space. And I remember I just looked at her and she was like laying on my chest. I just looked at and I was like, I love you. And then it was like this moment of like, oh my God. It was like such a relief to me to feel that like weight, right, a pressure of like this got to be perfect. And it didn't. It doesn't need to be perfect. And so it was just like it was relief off me.

And then she had been waiting a little while. Like I'd almost said it a couple times. So it was like a relief for her too. You know, it was just like, we knew we felt it to like actually say it out loud. It was like a big moment for us. So I want to say it was probably like June. It's like six months in. I think five, six months in.

Hi. My name is Enya Yumanzoor. And I'm John. 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. My name is Ed. 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

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Hello, Puzzlers. 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 who say that you were given all the answers believe in... I guess they would be Kenspiracy theorists. That's right. Are there Jeopardy Truthers? Are there people who say that it was rigged?

Yeah, ever since I was first on, people are like, they gave you the answers, right? And then there's the other ones which are like, they gave you the answers and you still blew it. Don't miss Jeopardy legend Ken Jennings on our special game show. week of the Puzzler podcast. The Puzzler is the best place to get your daily word puzzle fix. Listen on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Gee, before we get to you, I want to dig into this just a little bit. So, Blake, you feel like, would you say if this is accurate?

Tell me if I'm not. but because of your history not only in the bachelor but outside of the bachelor it made you hesitant to step in and communicate that you were in love with somebody like that like your time on the bachelor and the bachelorette or i guess on the bachelorette really and in paradise and all the storylines and all the things that you went through made you mentally put a lot more pressure and like maybe even like confuse yourself a little bit on when you should and how you should communicate to G that you loved her. Yeah, exactly.

I mean, and people often forget this. Like, I've had relationships before the show. And, like, we all have had relationships before the show. And even before the show, like, I had been told, I love you too soon. Like, somebody had told me they love me too soon. And I just didn't want to make that. Like, I wanted to make sure that this was the one. And I've talked about this before I met G.

I was like, the next person that I go public with, like, she, like, this is it. You know, and so I just wanted to make sure that this, like, I didn't want to rush anything. I rushed into a lot on national television. I was like, I'm just not going to do it, you know? And so I was just determined to wait and make sure. And so when I was sure, it still took me months, but when I was sure, like, it was like, okay, like, I'm going to do this. So that's, that's kind of what I felt like my mind frame in at the time. That's interesting.

This is it? I have goosebumps. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Gee, what about for you? I knew you right away. Really? Explain.

Yeah. I've always had like this very innate feeling of who I actually like, like have love for. So I knew I had love for Blake. Like as soon as I met him essentially like even before I said I love you. I knew I loved him as a person. And then on the. show actually he did this like very chivalrous moment where I was supposed to go on this thing called exile island so yeah the show real quick is all star shore for those of you that want to watch it's

all star short it's a competition show and everything yeah also yeah all star shore where you compete for money and you're in it's not a love show but it's a show where you um like drink and hang out and like you have like all these fun people around um and if you fail out of show then you're supposed to go to like this horrendous like situation called exile island where you're supposed to like fend for your life and try to like fiddle like figure out this riddle and this like puzzle and if you don't then you kind of like stay in this horrible situation where you're either like in this um i i never went so yeah she didn't go yeah basically you're right like so basically if you fail during competition you lose you have to go to exile island which is like you sleep on like

a fucking fishing boat or you sleep like on the beach you sleep in the forest like it's just a very a nightmare come to life exactly you don't want to go exactly you don't want to go not as comfortable as the other house right exactly exactly not even comfortable it's like literally your nightmare come yeah yeah it's brilliant um and so i got hurt during my exile challenge where i was supposed to like if i failed then i would go to the exile island and i got very hurt and i had to go to the er And then Blake, like, took my place. And it was just like this very chivalrous, like, moment. He took your place on Exile Island.

He took my place. And so I came back to the house. And I was like, okay, I'm ready to go to Exile Island. Like, I'm ready to, you know, like, claim my spot. And they go, no, Blake already took it. And I just kind of like, I don't know. I went into the feudal position. I was like, I can't believe he would do that.

Like, I love him. And it just came out. and everybody around me was like you what and I was like I love him and it was like the first time that I said it out loud even though I felt it like constantly ever since I met him but regardless

like when even though I said it on the show I didn't it took every fiber of my being to not tell him 50 times a day that I loved this man because I knew and so when he said it I was just like

I was expecting to like, um, break down in tears, but I just laughed. You did. She laughed. I just like, belted out in this laugh and I was just like, oh, this cute little laugh. Got you. Yeah, I was like, yeah, exactly. I was like, ha ha ha. I did it.

So it was just a, it was a very like, it was a very happy moment for me. And, um, and I was waiting for this guy to just. express and like confess his love to me but I knew I knew very early on before I met his family before we left on the show because I I had a show a dating show that I was going to do after I met him that I wasn't planning on falling in love on all-star shore and no matter what I knew that this was somebody that I was going to have a place in my heart for for a very long time and it turns out that I did. So she said no to that show, thank God.

Real awkward, but yeah. So it's a little bit like, I mean, it sounds like to me it's a little bit for you, like love at first sight. No. Not to show, like love like like like like literally, was it love at first sight with Blake? It was love at first.

Him wanting to express like genuine. not concerned but like you were just like very genuine you were very much like a gentleman compared to what I was used to in the whole like year that I was like single and you you cared for me and you showed like a genuine like love and the way that you like pursued me was like it was you whenever we hooked up and left the show together every single person that we were with on the show said this makes sense like I can't wait to see you guys like evolve and like become this and and do that together and I was like yeah I'm like I have another show after this like okay thank you this was love

lovely you know like let's call out the show mans for what it is but um everyone outside of us saw that this was something that made sense and it really did because we're we're just like soulmates honestly i always felt like you're my soulmate but i thought you were a temporary soulmate like a lifelong soulmate well a little bit of that doesn't make sense to me though because you had just said you were laying in the fetal position saying i love this man and that it took every fiber of your being to not tell him that right but yeah at the same time you believed it was a showman's you believe that this would end that you would go your separate ways and you'd still go on this show so explain that to me a little bit like where like what am i not getting at it like where am i

missing that the fact that you cared about him so much on the show but yeah you still believe this could end and that you would move on right i know so i mean there's a lot of like soulmates in your life that you feel like you come into your life and teach you something and then help you express the person that you're supposed to be at that time and then that you wish that they were that person for you to to help develop and because you feel so connected to them and I thought that I could have a moment with Blake but I didn't I hoped that he would be my person but if he wasn't then I would hold that special place in my heart and I would always cherish him and I would always hope that he would you know become a developer or learn something from me and and vice versa and

that's something that you always wish if you found someone that was very special and you felt like that they were going to um you know just hold a past like a special place in your heart I don't know I don't know how to explain it. Like people come and go in your life and you think that they're going to be like a chapter or they're going to be something that actually holds a place. And I wanted Blake to be somebody that held a special place. But I didn't expect him to be my forever, even though I wanted him to. I was ready to just kind of be like, hey, we did the same.

thing I met you in a place in my life that I evolved and and grew into a person that I always wanted to be and I hope that we would kind of like help each other in a sense but if we didn't work out then no love loss but if we end up working out it would be magical and that's something that you you hoped you know whenever you hope for it you wanted that to happen You just didn't, you knew that no matter what, this was special. Exactly. Hi, my name is Enya Emanzor. 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 My name is Ed 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. On 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 Take Center Stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, Puzzlers. 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 Truethers. who say that you were given all the answers, believe in... I guess they would be conspiracy theorists. That's right. Are there Jeopardy Truthers? Are there people who say that it was rigged? Yeah, ever since I was first on, people are like,

they gave you the answers, right? And then there's the other ones which are like. They gave you the answers, and you still blew it. Don't miss Jeopardy legend Ken Jennings on our special game show week of The Puzzler podcast. The Puzzler is the best place. to get your daily word puzzle fix. Listen on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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 Welteroff. 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 hard-hitting questions are coming and i wasn't hard enough no no we got some fun ones coming our way and i feel confident enough to talk about them because we've been enjoying ourselves tonight with some stella rosa wine um stella rosa is incredible wine and uh as i said we're here in carmo by the sea which i can't think of a better place to have a glass of wine um than this area you got the

ocean you got an incredible town you've got incredible golf courses which you know we love um if you've never heard of stella rosa wine well you should uh and it's incredibly good it's semi sweet semi sparkling wine it's refreshing um it's best for me when it's chilled and uh another cool part about it is it has over 25 unique fruit flavors and innovations and it's real fruit so it's low calorie, naturally gluten-free, which is a big part of my life now with my wife, because she's natural, she's healthy, and she's gluten-free. So Cillor-Rosa wine is a big part of our household. It's a big part of this trip for us. And it has also given me the confidence, I feel like, to ask a few more questions here to the two of you that I got me spilling all my

secrets. I've been liquored up for the last seven hours with Cella Rosa, so here we go. happily happily um you know you uh gee i couldn't help but hear you say something about blake being your person and so i just want to ask you guys directly and you can answer it however you want together or not um is marriage in your future i knew that is this is he your person gee i guess maybe would be the way to answer this first and do you believe that this show all Star Shore and the last year of your life have led you to somebody that you want to spend the rest of your life with. So I propose to Blake like 17,000 times. How do you do that? Tell me more. Every single, I don't know, when I feel it, I just, we're laying in bed and I'm like, do you want to marry me?

Or we, you know, we're having a dinner and I'm like, do you want to get married? Or. How does the answer? And he just goes. like he just did there yeah he's just been giggling yeah he's just giggling in the background and he goes I want to ask you so I'm like yeah call the old fashion

but no I yeah I want to do the proposing number one but yeah I mean listen I like I've said a thousand times and I've said this publicly I've said this it was like the next time I'm going you know I'm really with a woman and I tell everybody and I quote unquote show everybody

like yeah like I'm confident in this relationship and this woman and in what we have So I feel very confident in this relationship and this woman and what we have. So that's, yeah, that's my answer to that. I feel like, yes, I'm very excited for this year and what, yeah, our relationship. Stop. You're excited for this year. Well, I'm excited for this year.

I'm excited to watch this now this year play out. And you both are very good at capturing your year. In fact, as we mentioned, you just did celebrate. a one-year anniversary, you went to Buena Vista, which is a place in Colorado, to celebrate. Why did you choose there? Yeah, it was so fun. So a year's kind of a long time in my dating history. Like, this is a new PR for me.

So I was like, I need to really, I need to really express how I feel to this moment. And it was going to be a special, special moment. So she had mentioned a bunch, like, we have some incredible hot springs in Colorado. And we mentioned, like, she mentioned. it a couple times. And I was like, okay, I need to find a private hot springs. There's a lot of public hot springs. I don't need to find a private hot springs. Well, I can be naked. Yeah, pretty much. And I obviously, like, I love the mountains. I grew up in the mountains of Colorado. So I love the mountains. I love, you know, cabin. I love this escaping into the mountains. And so, yeah,

we found this amazing hot springs in the mountains. It was a private hot springs. And it was perfect for us. Like, it was this cute little cabin that's over 100 years old. And it was just a really cool night for us like I think honestly I don't know how I'm going to beat the year anniversary I don't know how I'm gonna one up this anniversary yeah we made sushi together and it was like by the fire and sit out hours and hours in this hot springs in the middle of winter like it was it was amazing it was incredible I don't know how I'm gonna want up it now I have an idea what the shit yeah a wedding a wedding I got an idea it's a wedding I have I have yeah well I mean G, that also then begs the question,

do you want to wait another a couple months for this engagement to happen? Are you ready now? Yeah. I mean, I'm just saying, you know, next year anniversary, you could pop a ring, or you could do it beforehand. I would marry him in my living room.

Tomorrow? Tomorrow. Today, tonight? I am an officiant. Tell you what. I am a legal official. I want to have the best podcast ever. We can make this happen.

It's just a few words. Because I am an offici. Yeah. I mean, literally, I've done it before. Well, I mean, I think it's fun here to close this out. And this conversation with you two has been incredible. And it's really interesting and fun for me to know about your history and what's brought you this point.

Something we always like to do on the Almost Famous Podcast when we get new couples. We don't want to ask you questions that will pit you against each other. We really want to ask you questions that will bring the lights and maybe things that you don't tell each other as much as you should. And I know that in my own relationship. So, gee, I'll start with you. I'm not going to tell you one through five or one through three. But what is it about Blake that you love the most?

When you look at Blake, when you think about Blake, what is it that comes to your mind that makes you say, I love this man? So I can just... First thing, first thing. Okay, first thing, first thing. think I don't your energy is just delicious like you're somebody

that I like want to be around and then the way that you smile at like random things just makes me happy so I'm just happy when I'm around you where um when I'm sad you make me happy

that's cute John you're going to say smile you always talk about smile Blake, what about for you? You're stupid. You're stupid. What was the actual question? I was just thought of a bunch of cute shit, but I wanted to answer the actual...

When you think of G and you think of the reasons that you love her, like the reasons that when you think about her as a person, what makes you love her? So for me, and this was pretty immediate for me, I agree with the energy thing. Like, I was drawn to her, like, energy kind of, you know, like attracts good energy, attracts good energy, but for me, I mean, it's got to be your, like, confidence. Like, you're wildly confident. And I'm attracted to confident and strong women. And so right off the bat, I was like, there was just some, this aura about her that was just

like, I don't need you, but, like, I want you. And I loved that. It was one of those things that were like, I don't think. I think I need a man like I don't think I need you but I want you and I was very attracted to that so I loved the her like badass boss bitch energy that she gives off yeah she's some big dick energy so I love that about her good for you gee yeah I don't know about Blake but like at the same time super attractive I don't know about but you might be the only one in the room with that um quiet in the gallery please quiet the uh the uh that was awesome again this is um it's special to talk to the two of you um again as somebody that has seen your relationships at the beginning um is it exciting for the year ahead and what comes uh for the two of you and i'm glad we get to celebrate this weekend here um in such a beautiful area and it has been an incredible weekend so far we've

gotten to do a lot. And we've gotten to share, as I mentioned earlier, some incredible wine. And thanks to Stellarosa wines for helping us put this weekend on and giving us so much incredible, sweet, beautiful nectar to enjoy this weekend. If you're somebody out there that's a wine fan, Stellarosa wine is semi-sweet. It's semi-sparkling wine, so it has a little, nice little effervescent to it, 25 unique fruit flavors and innovations. It's, It's real fruit, low calorie, naturally gluten-free. It's not your typical wine brand. Cilorosa breaks wine stereotypes.

You can have red wine with chicken because it has that little sparkle. And that's something we enjoy in our own household. So, Blake and G. will end with this. With the year ahead, with things happening. Blake, I know you're busy DJing. What are you to, what's your plan? What are you looking forward to here in the next few months? What can people maybe follow you on to stay in contact with the two of you as a couple?

And then, you know, you two as individuals. Okay, I'll go. No, I mean, we have a big year. 23 is going to be a big year for us. You know, it's weird to think that a year ago, we met. And so we're a year in our relationship, but weirdly enough, like we've only been, you know, quote-unquote public for about six months. It's really not been very long. So we're excited for the year to come.

We've got some amazing trips planned. We're going to Amsterdam, Portugal for her birthday, going to Ibiza. We're doing a lot of really fun things this year. So, yeah, I mean, it's going to be a fun year for the two of us. We have some fun things. I have a lot of things that are going to pose some competition for you, Ben. Sorry. It's a coffee line.

I can tell you all about how to do it. Please, thank you so much. and how much work it actually takes. Yeah. Have fun. Yeah, good luck. I know. Just listening to it.

But yeah, there's a lot of fun, like, development, just personal and, like, remit. We have some fun opportunities. I can't say too much that I think are going to come this year that we're kind of in discussions about, which might be back on your TV again, but we'll see. We'll see. We'll see. So, but yeah, you can follow us. I'm Balakay.h on Instagram

and you are Gianina Jebeli G-I-A-N-I-N-I-G-I-V-E-L-I. I know, but it tastes good in your mouth. Just like Cilera-Rosal wine. Hey, thank you too for joining us. Thank you for catching us up on everything going on. We have a lot more fun to have

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