The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - The Most Dramatic Return in History

Episode Date: March 11, 2024

Ben and Ashley have a round-up of the latest Bachelor Nation headlines, including Chris Harrison’s surprise return to the world of TV!  Find out more about the new reality dating show he’s hosting, the drama between Dean Bell and Kaitlyn Bristowe, and how Jason Tartick might have spoiled the Bachelor finale!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey, Bachelor Nation's Chris Harrison returning to TV with these shows. Now, Ashley's going to break down the shows that Chris Harrison and Lauren Zima are going to be a part of. Very exciting. And it's a part of Merritt Street Media, which is Dr. Phil's company. Ashley, what do we know so far? It was the big announcement. I even texted Chris and I said, when can you tell me

what exactly you're doing? And he said, very soon. That's what I know. Well, yay. I know we're so happy for him and Lord. They're going to be hosting shows together. We actually, well, we know that Chris will be returning to anchor two TV shows

for Dr. Phil's new Merit Street Media. It's going to be a new channel. I think it's on cable. and they are going to, one of the shows is going to be a reality dating show. Chris says that there's dating elements in it, but it's so different and so novel. It's flipping the script in a way that I think people are going to become very addicted to it in a week. It's unbelievable. And for further hinting, he said that the series will be bigger and broader.

And for years and years, he said that The Bachelor has been the most dramatic show ever. and we want to create a show where those words actually ring true that's a little saucy and this dating show will be the most dramatic ever that is one you could be sure of and for the other gig chris and larn will be working together for it'll be a morning show and their relationship is going to be a big part of it and i love that because i have never been like a huge fan of i'm not not not a huge fan of kelly rip up but i've never like really watched the show since like it was regis back on and like you know late you know decades ago like over a decade ago but ever since kelly has been with mark consuelos who a little bit of a celebrity crush

of mine her husband i think it's it's been such fun show to watch because it's so authentic when you have a husband and a wife talking about like what they did the night before so much more entertaining, so much more real. And that's kind of the vibe that Lauren and Chris are going to go for, then I would love to see that. They'll be my new morning show. They have a great chemistry together, obviously, very good on television. This is a big announcement.

I do think part of the announcement also they are going to be producing some television. So they're not just going to be hosting. They are going to be producing kind of being behind the scenes of some television as well, which will be very interesting to see what kind of touch. is brought to that. It's a big announcement for the two of them. It is a step back out into the world, obviously, since Chris's departure on the Bachelor franchise, you know, it's been a few years. We didn't know if this was going to happen or not. We didn't know if Chris Harrison was going to come back on our televisions ever again. We thought there was a possibility. He's too good

to not be. But now we officially know. They will be back on our televisions to get together as a couple. What do you think about that snarky comment about it will actually be the most dramatic show on TV? I think that's Chris being Chris. Yes. Okay. All right. Next headline. The Bachelor's Peter Weber wants Hannah Brown on the Traders season three. She'd be a joy to watch, he says. Well, before he names Hannah Brown as one of the people from the franchise he'd like to see, he actually says that he would like to most see Chris Harrison. He says that would be a really interesting choice to kind of put him

in a player's field. I agree. But he goes from the show specifically, Jason Tartick. He's super smart and analytical guy. I'd be very good with strategy. And then Hannah Brown, I think she would be a joy to watch on the show just personality-wise and in the competition.

And we also know, like, this is just me adding it in that like Hannah Brown doesn't lose competitions. so she'd she'd be she'd be fighting for it yeah she's she's competitive down to the core actually we we're going to speak about this we're not going to say exactly what was said but jason tardick accidentally reveals the bachelor 28 winner on his podcast we talked about it last week it was a shocker uh Ashley give us the details okay so in an episode of Jason's podcast that was released last week,

he had like a teaser for upcoming guests that were going to be on the show. And along with Joey's name, he paired it with another woman's name from the show. And it was very odd that this could possibly have been done. Ben and I mutually think that there's no way that this episode has been recorded. the show just doesn't do advanced interviews like this. I mean, maybe with People Magazine, they do an advanced photo shoot at a very secretive location.

But there's just no way that they've recorded with Jason yet. And we just find it to be absolutely mind-boggling how this could have gotten past Jason and his team that this teaser was released in an episode, especially so early on before the finale. It wasn't like it was a day or two. I mean, still really inexcusable with like the team that surrounds his podcast.

But crazy that a couple weeks before the finale, he vocally said these two people's names together and that it was released. And it was released for only a couple minutes, but of course a couple minutes in this media world that we live in is all that it takes for all the outlets to get on top of it. There's no way this show.

was very happy with this. No, no. I really want to know what happened behind the scenes here. Like that first phone call from whoever being like, there's just no good way that they would have responded to this. If you go back to even Caitlin's season when, you know, the picture was released and the amount of just turmoil they went through because a picture was accidentally released, this situation feels like one that I would not want to be able to.

part of. Yeah, there was, there's been other times where leads have hosted things and then the audience has vaccination has put things together. Like, oh, they look like they were seen at the same place and the same day, blah, blah, but there's never been an alum who wasn't associated with the, you know, at the show at the time that has spoiled. No. Big deal, though. The bachelor's Rachel Nance is unbothered by rude comments after her hometown date. The quote is Go touch grass. Yeah, okay. This hometown date, the Rachel thing is absolutely crazy.

It's so crazy. We're not talking about anything that really happened on the hometown date. We are talking about the fact that during the rose ceremony from the hometown date episode, Rachel said when Maria tried to pull, she did, pull Joey away at the rose ceremony. Before we started giving out roses, he said, like, you know, she said, can we, talk and then Maria was like what was that about right and everybody not everybody a huge chunk of bachelor nation got on Rachel's case for questioning Maria in that moment and for giving her a little bit of attitude I think a little bit of attitude in that moment is fine Maria has a good fan group they're very

supportive of her. Very. They love her so much. And guys, I know that I have close ties to Sydney, I understand. I'm not, but everything that I've seen from Maria on the show has been entertaining. I've liked her. I'm not saying this from an anti-team Maria. I'm saying this is like, you guys are being a little bit too defensive if you're having a problem with Rachel saying, what was that about? Why are you mad at Rachel for that? And all of a sudden they like start piling on her as if she's some villain. They do. They piled on her.

Can you believe? Yes, because Maria's fans are very supportive. What do you think it is about Maria that's getting people so? She's relatable. She's, they see themselves in her. They love her kind of like ability to be honest in all situations and kind of just be herself. And I also think a lot of people feel for her because they think she got a, like,

the raw end of the deal through the show with all these people kind of like using her as the target. So they're back in her. Do you think that you know, you and I think that whoever is the runner up on this season will be Bachelorette material?

Do you think that Maria has the upper hand on whoever is the runner up right now? Yes. Yeah, I think so too. So you didn't say this a couple weeks ago. You've switched. I switched as. I still don't think they'll make her the Bachelorette. I don't. I think this issue is a good

chance. She reminds me a lot of Caitlin Bristow in a lot of ways. She has the highest follower account now. Yeah. So I do think she has a really good chance. I don't think they'll do it, but I think she's going to be right there till the end when they're making this decision.

Like she's going to be in the final two with the runner up. Whoever the runner up is. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Well, 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. Hi, my name is Enya Yumanzor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom.

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apparently like Caitlin has like 30 people muted. Jared's like, you guys mute people. So this is how it unfolded. Dean goes, I think after a Golden Bachelor wedding, Caitlin unfollowed me. on Instagram so I don't think she likes me that much because I think she posted something and tagged me or had me tagged and I clicked on her profile and I just checked and she wasn't following me and I'm pretty sure she was before so I unfollowed her out of I don't even know how to say this word reprosicity like as in like to reciprocate like he unfollowed her I don't know that's all. And then Jared was like, I can't imagine she doesn't like you. And then Dean was

like, that's nice, but I'm pretty sure she did. And then, you know, and then I told this story about how we were up really late partying. And she was with all of us. And I woke up the next morning and I looked and it was gone. But it's okay. I muted her anyway. So it's not like I actually followed her. I followed her for the sake of following her, but I didn't want to see any of the stuff she was posting. And that's when Dean goes and says, like, I have so many people muted. It's very confusing. Wait, he said, oh, wait, Cher didn't tell me this. I know I love my friend of this out through an article. He goes, I'm pretty sure I have Ashley muted. It's not that I don't love these people. It's just that sometimes Instagram puts their content before everybody else's.

If it's not travel-focused or photography, inspiration for me, I just don't really care what you're posting. Damn. All right. Ashley shook. How did he just knock him up? Because Jared and I actually had a conversation on the couch after the podcast where he was like, how many people do you have muted? Because we were talking about how many people he didn't bring up that they possibly have muted me. All right.

let's pause here for a second and say actually how does this make you feel kind of sad yeah yeah it kind of hurts I would be super hurt I would be so sad if Dean said that about me because I love Dean so much because you don't have travel focus I don't post enough I don't post enough things for him to mute me he probably doesn't even know he follows me based on the amount of content I put out there wait Ben I need to go look at like to see if Dean has like commented or liked any of my like most recent post from the past few months to see if this is true because I'm assuming if he hasn't liked like our birth announcement or something he definitely has me muted

well I think he just said he has you muted well he said I think I have actually muted you you don't want to believe this to be true I think Dean has you muted Ashley and I want to know but you know what's sad what is that like he took the effort to me like he saw me post something and he was like, this doesn't interest me. And then he went to my profile. I then clicked mute. Yeah. Here's the thing about Dean, though.

I know he means no harm. Oh, time out. This is my point. Time out, Ashley. Hey, go for it. This is the thing that drives me the craziest about some people in this world. And I love these people. But there's some people that can do no wrong to anybody.

And if I, if you found out that I had muted you, you would be hurt and upset with me. Dean does it. And you go, he means no wrong. wrong. It's funny. It's Dean. And I'm like, it's the same thing. But you're giving him so much more leniency. You guys have such different personalities. Okay. It doesn't change the act. Okay. So let's flip the switch. If I muted you, you would feel, you would be very hurt by me meeting you. But then if Dean did, you'd be like, oh, that's Dean. No, I'd be super hurt. You know I'd be hurt. I would. I would call

Dean right away and be like, what's going on? Okay. Yeah. I'm going to have. Because I view you both as friends, real friends in my life. And if my friends are saying, Don't care about your life. Yeah, I don't care to see what you're up to. I would be like, that hurts me no matter who did it and why they did it. No, you're right, Ben. He does have this special exception that it gets away with like all of this.

Yes, it happens and it's weird. Is it wrong? We need to call him out on this and be like, Dean, you can't get away with this stuff. I think you just did. I feel like Wells gets away with stuff like this too. There's, again, yes, there are people that have this certain leniency that get away with. We've talked about this. It's a certain personality type that can do no wrong for anybody.

That's the golden retriever personality type. Yeah. I wouldn't say, I don't think that Wells is a golden retriever, though. Yeah. Final headline of this day, it is a big headline. I think it's wild. I think it's great. Fans think Peter Weber's mom hard launched his new relationship with a.

reality star, Ashley, final headline, send us home. Because I think this is true. All right. I had, we had Peter Weber on the show. I interviewed him. And I asked him about this. I was like, all right, your mom keeps commenting under Egan Sue, who was on Love Island in the UK, keeps commenting under her TikToks.

And there's like a Kelly Flanagan. vibe look about her people are thinking that you are like dating and your mom is basically hard launching this or at least in she's in you know she didn't um what's the word participating in the future relationship she's participating okay well this is like so bar man like barb is a hard a hard mom to have in like a public dating sphere so barb took to instagram this past week posted a picture of her daughter-in-law, Christine, and Egan Sue, who, by the way, appeared with Peter on the traitors. That's how they met.

And Barb captioned the photo, Ladies' Afternoon on Sunset, and comments immediately flooded from Bachelor Nation being like, not Barb, hard launching Peter and Echin Sue, oh, this is the Love Island Bachelor. crossover that we need la la la and then one of the traders um contestants co-stars trichelle said family pick with a heart emoji and his heart smiley face with heightened suspicions now later in the week peter shared a photo dump of showing the film's reunion show the filming of the show the film the show's reunion show and it did include a solo shot with eiken and ekin also shared the photo in her carousel saying something like,

love our Traders fan. But you have to stick by what Peter told me less than two weeks ago or just about two weeks ago that he and her are not dating. But I don't believe him anymore. Yeah, I don't believe him at all. Because it was a girl's lunch at, you know, out on sunset. Well, it was just two family members, you know, and then her.

I love that his mom did this. Because it is something that every mom in the world would do without thinking through. Like, I don't think. What are you talking about? Barb thinks all this through. She loves this. Yes. Barb is a celebrity on Instagram.

She knows that everything that she says and does on it is going to get track and overanalyzed. And she loves this. And this is going to be poor Peter's downfall in the world of love. It's that his mom is too involved. Somebody's going to be like, I love. I love Barb so much that Peter, you and I can make this work because your mom is so great. It is going to take that unique human, but I think it's the human he's looking for. Yeah, he probably does want, he does want to find somebody who, like, is okay with his mom being

because he would have put separation between it if he didn't. Yeah. Oh, it's so good. Well, that's all the headlines we have for you today. There are some big headlines out there. Again, a full week of content coming your way for the almost famous podcast with almost good advice, headlines, a Bachelor breakdowns, some great interviews, everything that you're interested in will be right here on our thread. So stay tuned. Continue on with us. It's an exciting

time of the year. But until next time, I've been Ben. I've been Ashley. Bye. 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 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. But if you have unmedicated ADHD... Oh my God, perfect.

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