The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Sexy Dancer with Leslie Fhima

Episode Date: August 1, 2025

Golden Bachelor superstar Leslie Fhima is back from Paradise, and she’s hanging in Lake Tahoe with Ben for the Almost Famous Pickleball Tournament! Leslie reveals why she was disappointed when she hit the sand in Paradise, we get an update on her relationship with Gerry Turner and whether she plans on reading his upcoming memoir, and we get her take on those controversial comments from Golden Bachelor Mel Owens. Plus, Leslie shares the story of how she has the most intimidating ex-boyfriend in Bachelor history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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most famous podcast coming to you from gorgeous Lake Tahoe. Today I'm pumped to have someone on the pod who we got to love on the Golden Bachelor. And now she's on this season of Paradise. It's Leslie FEMA. Hello. I cannot wait to talk to you. Before I do, I got to tell you about where we're at. We're at a Verbo right now in Lake Tahoe.

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probably before you got there. Yeah, he left before I got there. Keem is what we're calling right now a young inn. A youngen. Yep. We asked to Kim a simple question. Would you have dated any of the Goldens. And he said, of course that Leslie, she's a batty, I think was his words. Oh my.

Leslie, how does that make you feel? Oh, first really good. You're going to look a little shocked. Like you look like, are you blushing? I am.

I'm like, wow. Okay. Thank you, Hakeem. Too bad that you left before I got there. He's adorable and funny.

And I was kind of sad. A lot of people weren't there that I was looking forward to. Obviously, I loved everybody that was there. But yeah, I was like, where is Hakeem? Where is Susie? Where, you know, everywhere, where are you? But, um, you know, my rule is I would never date anyone younger than my oldest child who is going to be 39 in two days. Okay. And actually, I've never dated anyone a few years older than him. So, um, but that is kind of a running joke with me and my friends. So sorry, Hakeem, but thank you so much. That was a big compliment. Yeah. One of the things he quoted in his response to us was, uh, if she was good enough for Prince, she's good enough for me.

Uh, so we're going to dive into this Prince talk. It's kind of been talked about, rumored about you've been open about saying that the song, sexy dancer, uh, was written in a lot of parts about you. Can we dive into this print stuff a little bit more? Didn't we do that like a year ago though? I don't remember it and I would like to do it again if he did. No, I'm just kidding. So the deal is it really is quite simple. My cousin, Bobby Z, was his drummer in the revolution. But before that, they were very good friends. They met. They became fast friends. And, you know, Bobby introduced me to him. really before he was, well, not before he's Prince,

because he's always Prince, but before, like, his first album came out and Bobby would take him around because he hadn't gotten his license yet or something, I don't know, they were just always together. And I was dancing in a fashion show. And Prince, you know, we kind of liked each other. I mean, we were 17.

And so he took Prince to watch me dance in the fashion show, and he said, you're a sexy dancer. And so basically, he told Bobby, you know, people don't believe me. I'm not dragging my cousin into it. You can call him. You can text him. But again, I don't want to drag my cousin into it. But he said to Bobby that the song I'm writing is about Leslie.

She's a sexy dancer. So, you know, when it came out, it's got five words, sexy dancer want your body. That's all it says. It's not a deep song. How does it make you feel to listen to? Um, you know, I hadn't listened to it for a really long time. And then when we had a free day on Golden Bachelor, one of the producers took their phone out and says, I have a song I want to play it. I'm like, oh my God. You know, but it was kind of funny. And so I, no, it's not something I listen to every day, you know, but, um. But if you need to get hyped up. I mean, you know, it's been so long. And we, we did have some memories. I mean, I was in the ice follies. And he would then he became prince and he had his first album we did kind of date a couple years so like 17 to 19 basically and um but back then there was no cell phone so he'd write me letters and he'd have

all this artwork on it and so all my friends from the ice valleys we'd sit around at night with their glasses of wine and i'd read the letters to my friends because it was very they were very provocative it was like story time you know yeah yeah so he was good with words is that what you're saying oh yeah He's good with ours. Do you have these letters still? The weird thing is, so fast forward many years, I moved to California, I moved to L.A. And I drove out there with, I had a little, you know, you know, Volkswagen convertible. And I had all the letters in a big plastic bag.

And my car got repossessed, not because of my fault, but I'm not going to go into it. my car got repossessed but when I went to get my car everything was there but the bag of letters so you don't know where they're at we could like start a whole podcast on finding these letters again they would be worse something tell me about that but I to be honest wouldn't sell them I would like them back but I don't know where they are they could have been thrown out or burned or maybe they're on the internet somewhere I don't know but or maybe somebody that didn't want me to have them threw them out. That's a whole other podcast though. Anyways. I think we have an idea. Find the letters. Was there any other famous names that you were connected to back in the day?

I mean, you were a sexy dancer. I'm assuming that Prince wasn't the only one to recognize this. Well, I don't know because then really I went into the ice follies and, you know, all my friends in the ice follies would call me sex or dancer because I knew the song was about me. And I still have friends that call me that and they wanted me to make like hashtag sexy dancer i'm not going to do that i'm not going to capitalize on prints you know i'm just not doing that um but um no i mean you know just everyone knew me in the ice show as being the dancer and peggy fleming needed to do like a disco number and she was not you know she was so graceful and beautiful and so they had me teach her like disco moves on the ice you know because she was doing a back then there was disco you know and

And so we became fast friends. But yeah, so I, I've had some good experiences through my dancing. The good experience of led to your time on the Golden Bachelor, which is where we're going to go now. We're not going to stay in the Golden Bachelor long because obviously that time has come and gone for you. And we now are getting to watch you in paradise. But you were runner up on that season. How would you describe your relationship with Gary now? I really don't have a relationship with Gary if I see him we're fine we are very cordial I really only want the best for him and I did see him at Grant's finale and he told me he had a girlfriend and I'm happy for him I you know I just want everyone to be happy really in our age I mean it's like TikTok we all want to you know find our person and get on with our life so I'm happy for him obviously. if you would have asked me that September after the show

when I got home, you know, it was hard for me and I did have some dark days, but I, like always, I just picked myself up and moved on. So I only want the best. Do you wish it would have played out differently now? I mean, you're a little bit removed.

I remember speaking to you right after the show and it was this like, oh, I wish it could have worked kind of feeling. Now you see where your life is gone. you're removed from that experience, do you still wish that you and Gary could have maybe had a shot? You know, it's hard for me to say, Ben, because I really feel like everything happens for a reason.

And I don't know. I mean, Teresa and I are alike a lot, but we're very different, too. And so, you know, I don't know if one person's a better fit with somebody else versus whatever. But I think things happen the way they were supposed to. And now that I'm very far removed from it, I feel that it was best that, you know, I was not the last girl standing. How long did the feelings, like, continue after the show for you?

Well, so like I said, I had some bad, you know, times after the show because and then watching it back was hard. And the whole thing, the finale was very hard for me. I think after the finale, which was like the end of November, you know, like that December, I kind of like, you know, just kind of felt better. And then Teresa invited me to their wedding. And by the wedding, I really was fine. I really just wanted them to be happy. Because to be honest, we were really good friends in the house and we're good friends now.

And I love her to death. And whatever, you know what? Again, I thought, well, it was meant to be. You know, they're happy. They're getting married. So, you know. On my resume, I have that I got to dance with the sexy dancer at the golden wedding. We did tear it up, man.

We crushed it. It was good. They said, who's the best dancer here and who's the worst dancer here? Let's put them together and make them go. And they did. And there was no music playing. So we just kind of crushed it. I felt like we did great.

Yeah, me too. I was feeling myself. I thought it was our best moment together. Mm-hmm. Gary's got a book coming out. Mm-hmm. If you're mentioned in it, how would that make you feel? And also, where you're going to read it?

Well, I mean, I have to be mentioned because I was a big part of that show and a big part of his journey. I think that I don't feel like I did anything where he is going to say something derogatory about me. So I'm okay, I think, with it. We had a great time. We laughed a lot. You know, he broke my heart, but everything's okay. So it's not like anything happened, you know, like I didn't do anything, you know, obviously. It was just, you know, it's his journey, his decision.

So I'm okay and I'm going to read it. I don't know. I have to see. I'm not sure. I'm interested in seeing what he says, so I probably will. 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. And it's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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He had some controversial age comments that kind of fired people up. He had said some things pretty much requesting or demanding in a lot of ways that the women that were cast on his season be below 60 years old. Right. What do you think about that? How do you feel about those comments and does it keep you excited to watch this season

or are you kind of turned off? I'm turned off. So many people are and that's a bummer because the show had a really easy ability to just like put somebody in that people would love. Yeah. And Golden should not be controversial.

no I mean especially the lead um that's what I loved about our show we I knew nothing about Gary we he was I saw him as the world saw him on you know good morning America when they announced him I didn't do any deep dive some of the other women did you know and they found out more about him I didn't want and I didn't want to know anything I saw him I wanted to go in there organically um he was you know he was actually like you're so young I'm like I'm young I'm 60 at that time I was 65 or 64 and he goes no but you know and so I love that part about him like he wasn't looking for that young girl yeah you know and young girl 64 but um but this mel owens I don't I if I was one of those women going on the show right now I think it'd be

really hard because part of the beauty of us I especially well I don't I don't know I don't try that heart. My hair is curly. It's curly. If I didn't have makeup, I mean, I'm just not that type of girl. And so I feel worried for these women that have to like, are they going to look okay? Are they, you know? And part of being, you know, a little bit older is you kind of just don't care. Yeah. I think my personal opinion is I do love the Golden Show. I do. And I love it for reasons that are complete opposite of what he was saying. I love the second chance at love. chance of love. I love the lack of controversial characters that we can celebrate every single person that walks through the door, including the lead. I like the innocence of dating later in life

where it is just just desire to be with somebody and just connect with somebody and share life with somebody. I think I'm nervous that those comments will lead us to feel very much like it's just another bachelor season with older contestants. I feel that. And, you know, I, And then sometimes it's hard to watch, you know, with the Goldens. I mean, of course it was hard to watch some of it. You know, I'm crying and this one, you know. But those were true emotions, really. And this, I just hope the women, I saw the women, they look gorgeous.

You know, hopefully they are confident with themselves. And just I want them to just, if I could give them advice, just be yourself. Because at the end of the day, you know, that's what this is all about. growing all just being comfortable in our own skin and you know so i i am in the strong opinion i would have rather had a golden lead be 80 years old and see that like dynamic play out yeah than i would to push it back to make everybody really pretty and put together i know i would have rather seen yeah like them go far further even in a different direction yeah i agree i agree with you But, you know, they had a chance maybe to get another lead, and they chose not to.

So I guess people are going to tune in out of curiosity. You hope. I hope. I mean, we hope so for sure. Yeah, I hope so. Now, we're going to switch gears to Paradise. You're obviously on Paradise right now as we speak. We talked about Hakeem's statements.

You have made it clear to this point. You wouldn't have dating a youngen if they were younger than your children, which I think was a tease going into the whole season was were people going to date younger or date older. Was there anyone you were hoping to meet before you got on the beach? Like anybody specifically when you got on the plane, you're like, I hope they show up, I hope they're there.

Well, it's a little bit hard because a lot of the golden bachelor men were in relationships. And so, you know, I hadn't met most, most of them and um i mean gary and i met already at the grants finale um i had met actually that's the only person i met but you know like i've i've i've hung out with jordan a little bit but he has a girlfriend and i hung out with pascal a little bit as friends you know but i'm too old for him so you know it's like um so there wasn't like one particular person but i thought they were going to bring in men that we hadn't met.

I thought they were going to go into some guys that had applied for Golden Bachelorette. Interesting. And that didn't get on the show because they had so many. Yeah. And that's, it was really our belief, not just mine, but a lot of us, you know, all, well, all six, it was seven of us. We thought that was going to happen. That would have been interesting.

It would have, like, increased a pool a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean, and then April picking Jonathan. like it's a double-edged sword. It was amazing. And I kind of wanted to do the same thing at that point because, you know, Natasha took Gary because she got called first. So I really didn't know who was going to pick. And so that was a great thing because we all love Jonathan. We all want him to have a second chance. I'd love as well. But then she kind of cannibalized us with the Goldens. Like now there's one more guy going home. so it was just yeah it was it kind of got messed up the right now as we're watching I think it's six women and three men yes right it's a very like it's double the amount of women yep it means that the goldens as we know them as we expect yeah it's going to be dwindled

down it's going to be harder and harder to find relationships we have seen you have a spark with Gary, but Gary seems to be a very hot commodity in Paradise. It's the moment he walked through the door or out of his car, looking back, looking currently, how real was that spark? And then I think the most interesting part of this that nobody's clarifying is he is a hot commodity. You had the first date with him that seemed to go well, but it feels like he's never around to invest into your relationship because he's always getting asked on dates. That is true. I felt like we had an amazing date.

It was so much fun. We just laughed and danced in the rain. And I felt very connected to him. And then he goes on a day with Nancy. And of course, Nancy gets to choose whoever she wants, you know. Again, I want everyone to find their person to be on their own journey and whatever. so I was happy for her, but then I'm like, okay, well, no, you know, like it was just, yeah, it's a little, it's a little, it was a little different. And I mean, Natasha gave him the

rose. So you kind of have this date, but then you don't get a chance to validate or catch up on, hey, are you feeling this too? Was this good? Was this not? It feels like, and to nobody's fault. Yeah. Nobody, you know, nobody's expected to be like, hey, let's wait for Leslie to figure this out. No, and I couldn't tell Natasha what to do. I mean, you know, that's, why would I tell her who to give a rose to? But what were your feelings as you stood there? I mean, at this point, as we're watching, you're on your own Luling Island now. We don't see you and Gary together.

We don't see you with anybody. I know. So how, like, how are you feeling in these moments as we watch the show? You know, it was a little, um, I had such a great time on Paradise and I didn't have, um, the feelings like I did on Golden Bachelor. cry. I didn't, you know, but I did feel like Natasha gave him the rose and, but I did tell him. I just, I said, I want you to know that if I was called first, I would have given you my rose because I wanted, and I told Kim that too.

I didn't want him to get the wrong idea. I said, Kim, I chose you because I feel like you add something to the group and, you know, basically I really didn't know give the rose to and, you know, because I was really frantic at that moment. moment. And so I'm like, I don't know who to choose. I don't know who to choose. There's a lot of things going through my mind. So I don't know. I mean, it was, it was difficult. It was difficult. But, you know, again, I'm kind of comfortable in my own scan. And if I go and I'm thinking, you know, there's now Gary has three women that he could choose from at the next row ceremony, which is next week. And I was thinking, if he doesn't choose me, I go home and it's all right. Like, I'm not going

home brokenhearted. I'm not going, you know, it's, I had a great time. I made amazing friends. I came back with like eight new daughters. I mean, I love those girls so much. So I felt okay with it. And I packed my suitcase, you know, and I was ready to go. We do see Kim, Captain Kim. he's very confident that you're going to give him the rose but we don't really know why he's so confident he's communicating that

it's like you guys have this thing that we're trying to catch up with his viewers we actually also see him read you a poem and be honest here what was going through your mind as he's reading you this poem also then when you're watching

his back seeing his confidence in your relationship well I don't obviously want to say anything bad about my my fellow bachelor people yeah you don't want to but you would if you wanted to oh my god so what's going through my mind is oi vee yeah and also he's pretty good at poems i write poems too but he's pretty good okay that's number two number three is i don't i saw him all day with that book and i kept thinking what is he writing what is he writing what is he writing and then I found out he was working on that poem all day.

So I, you know, I always feel bad and I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. And I wanted him and I, that's why I was honest with him. I did actually say to him, I just want you to know I would have given Gary my Rose if I was called first, but I wanted you here, you know, so thank you so much. And, you know, but we are, I just only feel like friends. So I, you know, I try to nip in the butt. Yeah. I don't know how it got, I don't know how it got so confident, but I don't know. But, I mean, he's still there to potentially give you a rose this upcoming week, right?

Yes. So if Gary chooses somebody else, he is a backup plan. He's your backup plan. Well, yeah, he's my backup. But I didn't, okay, I just want to clarify, I didn't play that game. I didn't give a rose to someone who I thought was going to give a rose to. can't help it that you're the sexy dancer like you can't help it that two of the three guys are interested in you you don't play the game but it's just who you are there you can't help it it's it's too

bad i feel bad for you thank you that so many people are you know gaining you're you're gaining so many people's attention i mean you're you're batting a pretty good percentage you're at 66.66 percent of the guys in the group are interested. And that's because I'm 66.62 years old. No, that's fair too. 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 person? 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. Hello, it's Danielle Fischel. Writer Strong. And Wilfredel from PodMeets World. And we're bringing you Viva Las Content. That's right. We are back in Las Vegas, the city of Sin, and

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we had a lot of questions going into Paradise. And I think viewers had a lot of questions when it comes to the Golden's being there alongside of the Bachelor and Bacheloretic cast. What was this going to be? Was this going to get awkward and goofy and weird and chaotic? Or how is it going to intermingle? A lot of confusion.

I will say sitting here in the seat I do now, I've really enjoyed having the Golden's there. In fact, I think I enjoy watching them sometimes more than I do, the Youngens. It looks like the Goldens are having so much fun. And TV can tell a different story than the reality. So for the viewers, the listeners of the show, were the Golden's having as much fun as it seems on television?

Unequivocally, yes. Really? Yes. Why do you think that was? Because like I kind of touched on before, we don't care. We just want to have fun. We love each other. We may have an eye roll here and there, but it's not malicious.

You know, I love my roommate Kathy. She's great. Does she snore? no she doesn't interesting yeah good for i know well i did have my air pods in all night but but there was a calmness to the room when she was sleeping so yeah i could see that yeah but no i mean we just had so much fun and um i i can honestly say i had such a good time i will say that over and over i had i'm not saying i didn't have fun on golden bachelor you know but this was a completely different experience.

I've heard that so many times that Paradise is actually like fun. It was fun. And The Bachelor sometimes is very emotional and heavy. Exactly. Tiring. Tiring. I've heard Paradise is a blast. It's a blast.

And, you know, I guess it did help that we had air conditioning in our rooms. Maybe if it was at the old place, you know, Wells is going, I like the old place. I'm like, really? You rather not have air conditioning? And, you know, he's laughing. but I know I I had the best time and every morning I woke up and you know what my view was the beautiful beach and Dale Jonathan Jeremy and Brian all working out yeah and I'm like doing my Pilates and I'm just staring at him I'm like you know hey I'm not touching but I can look you can

look yeah I'm looking those dudes are just insane they look they look like they worked out every day yeah good for them the best line though of the whole for me i laughed so hard so i was sitting next to some of the guys keith and and and um and gary at the bar and one of them ordered a beer and so wells goes for it's beer and i'm like what of the day or the hour and he goes of my whole time doing this i said what he goes that these guys look like they have a carb i was laughing so hard i I just went, oh my God, this is crazy. And they're drinking rosé, you know?

Yeah, that's a great behind the scenes because he's not probably wrong. No. Like, people come on the show and they're, especially Paradise, you're shirtless all the time. Yeah. That I bet in his history, every single, like, person's like, I can't have a beer that's going to, like, blow my stomach out. Like, I'm drinking rosé and margaritas soda water. Wait, then the gold has come around. They don't care.

Yeah, the golds are like, we're having martinis, old fashions, everything fattening. Load us up. Yeah. Okay, the rapid fires. Okay. What's something that happened in Paradise or happened to you or anybody else that you didn't anticipate before you went down? I didn't anticipate being so welcomed by the group, especially the girls. I mean, for me, because I just love them so much.

I love every one of them. And that was kind of shocking to me. I was a little nervous about that. Yeah. If there's one couple that exists right now in Paradise. that we all know of based on where we're at in this season, who are you most reading for? Oh, well, I'm rooting for a lot of them, but I'm rooting for Spencer and Jess. Spencer and Jeff. Oh, yeah. That's a very solid relationship. Yeah. How would you sum up Paradise in three

words? Fun, fun, fun, fun. Perfect. One last rapid fire. As you're watching it back, do you regret anything that happened in Paradise that you were a part of? No, I didn't do anything. that my kids would be embarrassed of. So you don't wish you would have taken a body shot off of a young end? I do not. Correct. Or let them take a body shot off of you? Correct.

Okay, good. Final question. We're seeing teasers now for the money part of Paradise. Last week we got a bigger hint that it looks like the money is coming to play and there's games going to be played. Competition is going to be had. We're as viewers still getting used to this new paradise and now we added in this whole new wrinkle, the money is going to change things, no matter what. It does. It looks like it's a lot of

money. With what you can say, why would a viewer still be invested into the show knowing that everything's about to change? And for some critics, including myself, it feels like money is going to take away from the romantic side of paradise. I think that you just, to be honest with you, I'm just going to preface this by saying, I don't know how. it ended okay um but i i would say that um by the money might enhance some of these relationships but i feel like uh a few of these relationships are really strong and i don't think the money will matter it's just going to be an added benefit that's what i think you know do you like that money was involved i don't really have an opinion on that to be honest all of us the goldens i meant um we

could have cared. I mean, that wasn't like, we didn't go, oh my God, we got to win now. I mean, we could, you know, we're like, we want the youngans to win. Like, you know, who wouldn't want all that money? But, you know, I mean, they're starting their lives out and all that stuff. We, it, that didn't enter my mind for a second, really. Leslie, is there anything I didn't ask you that you want to share? Well, I'd like to ask you something. You can ask me anything. When are we going to dance again? Today, tonight. Well, no, I'm leaving. I know you're leaving. You got out of that one. I got out of that one.

It would be a dream. We should have last night. I know. We had the perfect, the perfect moment. I mean, the river. I know. A beautiful house. This place, by the way, Tahoe is like my literally, I have been here before once, but this is my new favorite place.

It's incredible. Yeah. The house that we're in, that Verbo is available on Verbo. It's absolutely spectacular. It's stunning. I jumped in the river last night out in front of the house. felt like a cold plunge. Yeah.

Came up by the fire, had a cocktail. We got the chat. Yeah. You look like you were pretty spent, though. I was pretty tired. The cold plunge really wiped me out. But I was relaxed.

And it's also just the relaxing setting of being in the pine trees and being in the river. It's great. It is beyond gorgeous. Leslie, thanks for joining us. We cannot wait to continue to watch you in Paradise. Thank you. Thanks for sharing the insights that you could and did. Also, I want to find these letters.

So if anybody's listening Hashtag find the letters That's a good hashtag That's not capitalizing on prints That's helping our show This has been the Almost Famous podcast I'm Ben And until next time

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