The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - The Almost Famous Bachelor Gift Guide!

Episode Date: December 20, 2025

Ben and Ashley have you covered with the most dramatic last minute gift ideas for any Bachelor fan in your world!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Gabe Ortiz is a cop. His brother Larry, a mystery Gabe didn't want to solve until it was too late. He was the head of this gang. You're going to push that line for the cause. Took us under his wing and showed us the game, as they call it. When Larry's killed, Gave Must Untangle the Dangerous Past, one that could destroy everything he thought he knew. Listen to the Brothers Ortiz on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm investigative journalist Melissa Jeltsin. My new podcast, What Happened in Nashville, tells the story of an IVF clinic's catastrophic collapse

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Ashley and I are here with you today with Christmas around the corner. We put together the ultimate gift guide for the Bachelor Nation fan in your life. if you're struggling on what to get someone this year we've got you covered Ashley here is a secret about me no I do love gift guides oh my gosh man that's hilarious that is a surprise it is it's kind of shocked me over the last few years I used to think they were goofy and then I started looking at them you can get online and be like okay Google gift guide for your outdoors you know, friend, a gift guide for the woman in your life who has everything. Gift guide for and they pop up and they're helpful for me because as I've mentioned before, like gifts just

aren't a thing in my life very often. So I do think the Bachelor fan, if we're going to do a Bachelor cruise, we can 100% do a Bachelor gift guide. Oh, absolutely. If I was the status that I was in and fandom back before I was on the show, if somebody gave me a basket full of Bachelor-themed gifts, it would be the greatest gift ever and so personal. So we have a couple, if you want to put together something of the sort for the Bachelor fan in your life.

Ben, should you start with one of your gifts or one of, I'll start with one of mine. Yeah. Okay. We have this very adorable rose pajamas. pajama set from Nordstrom. It is $74, so

not super high, not super low. A nice and medium gift. It's incredibly soft. It's by room service. And it's Rose themed, but it's also got leopard inside, so it's not over the top themed.

It's really, really cozy. I think any time the holidays roll around, and I find something comfy and cozy, I know my wife will like it. Like, I just go with it. I don't know she can have enough cozy things,

and yet somehow my t-shirts still disappear into her drawers at times. I still have it packaged because I'm going to be giving it to The Bachelor fan in my life. I'm going to put together a little basket. I'm very excited for a couple of reality fan friends that we have. Okay, Ashley, I need you to,

to add my thing in there then. Oh, absolutely. It's the, it's a rose journal from the rifle paper company. Anybody that's a writer, and I think it's becoming more and more popular today as we're on our screen so much for people to kind of turn to writing words down again. We just kind of, I think it resets us. It brings us back. We get our thoughts out.

As you mentioned just a few episodes ago, you're a huge journaler. Oh, well, I, I, I, am not a huge journaler. I wish I was currently. I want to write down. My goal, 2026 goal, is to write down cute, funny things that the kids did throughout the day. That's fun. But I haven't journaled since Bachelor Days. Okay. Well, let's get you back at it. This is a rose embroidered journal from the rifle paper company. It's beautiful. So you can like display it. It doesn't have to be like hidden in a drawer unless you want your thoughts. to be hidden in a drawer.

It's, I mean, when I kind of look at this, it's so pretty that you know when you check into an Airbnb, people kind of write who they are and where they're from and what their experience was. You see that sometimes at Airbnb's. This kind of looks like something like that, where you could have it on the table. People would pick it up. I think it's beautiful. Obviously, Rose themed for our Bachelor fans out there.

Those are some of our choices. Now, Ashley, we do have a couple other things on the list that I think could be big highlights. Ashley, I also really, I think this is cool. My wife is a huge bag person. She loves bags. It's kind of her, I guess, one of her only vices in life is just selling bags, buying bags, showing off bags, talking about bags. I've had to learn a lot about bags.

Oh my gosh. That is so funny. I'm not a bag girl. I'm not. She loves bags. Yeah, that's great. Her mom lost bags. So I had to add a bag to this gift guide.

The Hearts and Roses beaded shoulder bag is what I went with, kind of sticking with that rose theme. You know, you don't want to be overly bachelor, you know, if you're a fan sometimes. This bag is when you can take. anywhere nobody's going to like see you wearing it they're only going to be like wow that's a pretty bag this bag's from uh francescas actually if anybody's wondering oh it's so cute is that cool yeah it's fun i like it oh my god we're going to be posting this stuff on our socials too so you can kind of go back if you're listening you don't have to write all this down you can go back through

our socials and kind of see um some of this these gift you know that we're talking about but so far we've got the rose embroidered journal from the rifle paper company we've got the pajamas that you mentioned we've got the hearts and roses beaten shoulder bag i know there's some other things on our list that we definitely want to share i just want to say that this hearts and roses beaded shoulder bag they're not sponsored by the way the way that we're reading the titles it's half off it's thirty four dollars and it is going to make everybody comment on your outfit. My next item I've had for a long time. It is from Etsy, so I'm not sure if you're going to get it in time. Etsy is chock full of Bachelor-related gifts, and this is one of the

best ones. This girl, she's a small business, and her name is Ponderella. She also has a fun Instagram. She makes greeting cards and coloring books of the Bachelor cast. So these are two older ones. As you can see, Chris Harrison's on the cover of this one. And he's got a little knife with his wine glass. And then Wells is bartending right here. Let me look through it to see we got, oh, this is how outdated it is. We got Crystal and Goose. So I was like she has updated ones now. Oh, there I am. Jared, how am I going to find another you? I use her cards whenever I have a birthday or a special occasion for some of my bachelor, fan friends, fan friends. Those are super fun. I love them.

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They're 30 scratch-off dates that take 30 minutes or less. They're from the Adventure Challenge. They're good to kind of mix life up a bit when it comes to your dating life. They're fun. You never know what you're going to get. also on my list we got to go with some of Bachelor Nation's favorites

Joey G and Tyler C they have prayer candles from Zoe Celeb Candles on Etsy that's for your like your big fans I have my Harry Styles one right here it's usually reserved for like a Harry

Stiles type of fandom but like if you are so deep into Bachelor maybe you do want Joey the Bachelor who brought it back on your candle the bachelor who brought it back also uh the bachelor t-shirt from the official hulu website so this is your i see this as like your big comfy t-shirt right you're your one that you're going to bet in i have two more items on this list the uh amusibles rose bouquet from jelly cat jelly cat so in right now so in um very popular and then finally on my list uh i've got

something. I'm just going to explain it to you. I worked really hard on this list. I did a lot of researches. I know that I think you did too, but woven from 100% pure mulberry silk. This blissy pillowcase is designed to offer you the perfect sleep experience. Jessica's got me sleeping on silk now. It took me a bit to get used to. I love it now. I don't know if I can go back. this is a rose sick silk pillowcase i think it's pretty but also i just think sleeping on silk has been life-changing for me and i think jessica would say that it's good for your skin it is that is the reason to do it it's also good for your hair it helps prevent breakage all right so a quick rundown of the items that i still have on my list i steal you for a sex sweatshirt how cute is that

it's on Etsy and then of course how can we have a complete how can we have a gift guide without including Ben's book alone and plain site come on the refurbished edition

how do you properly say that the updated edition yeah that works it's extended now it has it has a couple chapters on obviously being a dad being a husband the whole book is set up to help people feel less alone.

And I think the holiday season is a good time for people to be reminded that they're not alone in this world. So that's very sweet of you to add that to your list. Of course. And there are so many Bachelor books out there. Hey, give your friend an entire collection. That's the kind of thing that you can actually probably get in time now on Amazon. So you can get a whole library of Bachelor books.

Really recommend the Courtney Robertson book, the Amher. book, Ben's number one, then Nick's book, and I do think that Sean Lowe's book is also very captivating. All right. Those are all on Amazon. Ben's book is in paperback now for 1158. So that is a steal. Absolute steel.

Goodness. Absolutely. Absolute steel. If you listen to him regularly on this podcast, why would you not spend about $12 to read? You also get some good insights in that, I think, as well. you get some insights into the breakup, into life after the breakup, it's not all Bachelor-focused. And so I think if you're a Bachelor fan, you'll get what you want. I'm hoping if you have somebody in your life that's not a Bachelor fan who's feeling disconnected,

I think they could read it and still enjoy, you know, some of the stories that are a part of it. 1,000% and I love the parts about one of your friends. You talk about a couple friends that I know of. Yeah. Okay. finally a will you accept this rose wine tumbler you can find that on etsy from chloe's corner shop everybody loves a tumbler and i have to say even though my kitchen is so freaking full of tumblers every time i get a new one gifted i don't regifted i'm like i will use this one day

i'm always losing tops straws they get janky so i'm always replacing a tumbler not to say that it's not wonderfully recyclable and all that it's definitely better for the environment blah blah blah blah um okay and then finally the forever rose this starts at um 70

these roses last for over three years I actually would argue maybe a little longer I've had my forever roses for a while now really they used to say that they only lasted a year the brand that I was most familiar with but this forever rose is over

three years these are from Ecuador They're gorgeous, and they allow you to get a whole bunch of different colors, whatever's going to match the decor best. And then they give you a whole bunch of sized options as well. This is fun. This is great. If you have a Bachelor fan in your life or just somebody who loves roses, I think these gifts will be great for you. Again, you can find all of these kind of gifts that we've mentioned back on our social media if you follow us at the online. almost underscore famous podcast.

Go back, look at them. A couple ideas for you. This has been our gift guide. This is what we do this time of year. It's great for the holidays when it comes to, you know, Christmas, but then also the new year. I don't think any of these things would not be good gifts for the new year if you just do New Year's gifts, which at this point in time. Or birthdays. Yeah, it feels like people are just gifting each other a lot of things, which is,

good for the economy. Hey, we'll be back with some more content coming your way as we lead up to the holiday season. We cannot wait to share more with you some incredible interviews. Obviously, we will continue on with Frankie Fridays. We'll have some holiday theme, the podcast as well. We're talking as much as we can to prep you for this holiday season. So until next time, I've been Ben. I've been Ashley. Bye. Follow the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcasts on IHartRadio Or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts

Who would you call if the unthinkable happened? I said it was y'all 22 times A police officer, right? But what do you do when the monster is the man in blue? This dude is the devil, he'll hurt you. This is the story of a detective who thought he was above the law until we came together

to take him down. I said, you're going to see my face of the day that you die. I got you, I got you, I got you. Listen to the girlfriends, untouchable, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Stefan Curry, and this is Gentleman's Cut.

I think what makes Gentleman's Cut different is me being a part of developing the profile of this beautiful finished product with every sip you get a little something different. Visit Gentleman. Gentlemen'scut bourbon.com or your nearest total wines or Bevmo. This message is intended for audiences 21 and older. Gentleman's Cut Bourbon, Boone County, Kentucky.

For more on Gentleman's Cut Bourbon, please visit Gentleman'scutbuburn.com. Please enjoy responsibly. Have you ever listened to those true crime shows and found yourself with more questions than answers? Who catfishes a city? Is it even safe to snort human remains? Is that the plot of footloose?

I'm comedian Rory Scoville, I'm here to tell you, Josh Dean and I have a new podcast that celebrates the amazing creativity of the world's dumbest criminals. It's called Crimeless, a true crime comedy podcast. Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I know he has a reputation, but it's going to catch up to him. Gabe Ortiz is a cop. His brother, Larry, a mystery Gabe didn't want to solve until it was too late. He was the head of this gang.

You're going to push that line for the cause? Took us under his wing and showed us the game, as they call it. When Larry's killed, Game Must Untangle the Dangerous Past, one that could destroy everything he thought he knew. Listen to the brothers Ortiz on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm investigative journalist Melissa Jeltson. My new podcast, What Happened in Nashville, tells the story of an IVF clinic's catastrophic collapse and the patients who banded together in the chaos that followed. It doesn't matter how much I fight.

Doesn't matter how much I cry over all of this. It doesn't matter how much justice we get. None of it's going to get me pregnant. Listen to what happened in Nashville on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed human.