When Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany - Brittany & Zach on Tabloid Rumors, Pride, and Pop Culture

Episode Date: June 21, 2025

Brittany and Zach catch up on everything from Brittany’s surprise new puppy and behind-the-scenes runway chaos to wild AI girlfriend stories and reality TV obsessions. They dish on Love Island, Pride, and what it’s really like watching yourself back on screen. Brittany opens up about her Miami Swim Week experience, while Zach gets honest about Pride, body image, and those tricky promo photos. Plus, Brittany sets the record straight on a few things that bothered her about Jax’s recent Watch What Happens Live comments.Please support the show by checking out our sponsors!Koala: To get up to $250 off your new sofa, plus fast shipping, go to US.KOALA.com/REALITYHITSDipsea: get a 30-day free trial PLUS 25% off your annual subscription when you go to DipseaStories.com/REALITYHITSHiya Health: Receive 50% off your first order when you go to hiyahealth.com/REALITYHITSProgressive: Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust ProgressiveDiscover Your New Home at apartments.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of when reality hits. Happy Friday and happy first day of summer. This episode we have on my bestie ride or die, Zach Wickham. Ride or die. Ride or die. I love you so much. You rode for me so hard and I just love you. But would you, I mean, not that you didn't already know that that was going to happen, you know, because obviously we lived through it, but like seeing it back, did it just make you proud? It made me so proud because you handled yourself with such like composure too. Like you didn't like freak out.

Which if anybody that knows me, if anybody knows me, like that was, I'm not gonna lie. I was behind my back like just just literally pulling into my side, like Zach, don't do it. Don't get hype. So it took everything in my body not to scream at him. But I was like, I handled that. Watching it back, I was even impressed on myself. I was like, oh damn, I did not let him get away with anything. You did great. And if you remember, he was like rage texting me the next day saying that you were going crazy on him. And then Jesse was even like, no, he held his own.

He did not like freak out or anything. Like none of that was even shown, but that's what Jax was doing to me. That's Jax's favorite thing to do though. And that's why he would get us all riled up back in the day because he would say a situation happened differently. Exactly. And this is not even talking about on the valley. This is just in general, like how things were for the longest time. Because I feel like narcissists, whenever they're trying to get down to a story, they'll make up a story and see how you react to it. That's how they try to get to

the truth of it. 100%. And he, for his non, well, okay, I won't go for his intelligence, but I'm just saying for his like, you know, dimwitted as he usually is, like sometimes like his narcissism will take over and he can spin a story. Oh, for sure. He can spin a story. A thousand percent. And we're going to get back to the Jackson of it all at the end of this episode because we're going to cover some of the things that he said on Watch What Happens Live because I just feel like it's necessary for my sanity.

And for the truth. Exactly. Because it's not even the truth. Exactly. But let's get into some good stuff. Yeah. Let's talk about anything but him for a while. That was just supposed to be me telling you how great of a-

Sorry, I just had to add my two cents. How great of a ride or die you are and I appreciate you and I love you so much. I have a surprise. Oh my God. I wanted a way to tell you until you were over here so I could tell you live on the podcast. Oh my God. I'm dead. What's the surprise? You're looking at me like freaking out. Well, because you've never done this to me before.

I'm like, wait. So once we're done with the podcast, we are going to Wagmore and I adopted a puppy. No! Yes! Very quick decision. But ever since Sophie passed away, and I have this huge house to myself as we all know after watching the show like a woman. I'm a woman who can handle her household, three dogs and a cat and her son. Okay?

And pay off your ex-husband's debt. Exactly. So how this happened was Kristen always sends me dogs that are up for adoption that she thinks that I would love because of course after Sophie passed away, I've been used to having three dogs. I'm from a farm. I love animals. I'm used to having a bunch of animals around me. And I just felt like I adopted my cat Lola and she's a full blown cat now. She's not a kitten anymore. No, that is a full blown dog. She is the best. She's the best cat ever. And it's not like I have to worry about her

or anything. So getting a puppy doesn't seem like it's going to be that bad for right now. I might even take her with me whenever I go to Nashville and leave the other two here because I don't want to miss the bonding experience. Oh yeah. I didn't even think about that because you're leaving for like what, two weeks? I'm only going to go for a week this time and then try to go back in August because my friend Mary Ann and some of her kids are coming to stay with me July 5th or 10th. So I have to be back anyway. By the way, sorry to sidetrack. We're talking about Nashville. I have a show in Nashville. Come see me. Be right close to Kentucky. All my friends are

coming. My mom's coming. It's going to be so much fun. It's City Win be so much fun. City Winery on June 29th, which also is my wedding anniversary. So I'm going to make it a very... Shut up. I didn't even realize that. So this is going to be a very special show. I'm going to have a lot of fun stuff. So come see me City Winery in Nashville, June 29th. Anywho, back to my puppy. So Kristen always sends me puppies that are up for adoption, like

that are puppy stage, because I just think it's easier whenever you already have dogs to introduce a new dog as like a puppy. It better be a puppy. Yeah, it's easier. Instead of like one who might have been through something and that's awful and maybe one day down the road I could do that too. But for Kingsley Monroe, it's easier if it's a puppy for right now. They're jealous of each other. Exactly.

But you know, it worked out with Sophie eventually and I'm just so excited. So it's a little girl and she's a Yorkie poo. So I have a Yorkie and a poodle right now. And the one I'm adopting is Yorkie poo. Oh, because I was like, what is a Yorkie poo? A mixture. So it's a Yorkie poo? A mixture. So it's a Yorkie in a poodle. Yeah.

I'll have to go find out the story once I get there, like how they ended up at the adoption agency. But Kristen was sending me her pictures and I was like, oh my God. And I wrote underneath there and I was like, I'll take her. And then I DM the people and I was like, I seriously will take her. Your adoption agency is only six or nine minutes away from my house. So I was like, I seriously will take her. Your adoption agency is only six or nine minutes away from my house. So I was talking to them all last night. They sent me a bunch of photos of her and videos of her. And they were like asking questions

about, you know, just getting like all the details to make sure I had everything. They also don't know you. Exactly. Yeah. Like they don't know your... And she is so cute. Let me show you photos of her real fast. And you can just react. Everyone that's listening, I'm going to obviously post her all over my social media. So you'll have to go check my Instagram. Shut up.

Yeah. She's eight weeks old. So she's like just now today is the first day that she can go home. The face is so sweet. So we're going to go pick her up after this. Oh my God. She's so adorable. I know. So wait. And it was all because Kristen sent her to me.

Of course. Is it like, does she get much bigger or are those small dogs? I don't know. She's going to be a small dog, but I don't think she'll get as big as Monroe, but she might not be as little as Kingsley, if that makes sense. Yeah, like in between. Yeah. But we'll see. I really don't know. She's just think she'll get as big as Monroe, but she might not be as little as Kingsley. If that makes sense. Yeah. Like in between. Yeah. But we'll see. I really don't know.

She's just so cute and I love her and she has the same coloring as Monroe does. Let me ask. Let me ask because she does not shed. Well, no, I know. Oh my God. My allergies. No. So you always, you always are ready with a name.

Do you already have a name picked out? That was my next thing. So her name right now is Stevie, which I think is cute, but I grew up with a best friend named Stevie. So I can't call my dog the name of a best friend that I grew up with. You know what I mean? So I have a list of a couple names. It's going to have to sit on me and I'm going to have to sit on it maybe once we get there and we have to see her personality and stuff. Yeah, I agree.

But this is my list so far. So whenever they said her name was Sugar in the bio, it says her name is Stevie and it says something like she's sweet as sugar. And I was like, Oh, sugar would be a cute name for her because she's just so cute and little. So sugar is a name and then I love Dolly after Dolly Parton. No, see I love Dolly. Yeah, Dolly is probably my number one right now. I think Dolly would be so cute. And of

course, I'm from Kentucky, so it's going to have a middle name. All my animals have middle names. They have middle names, another middle name, five nicknames, a song. Sissy Girl Monroe, we have Kingsley Turner, Lola Pearl. So I have to think of it. So right now I've got Sugar, Dolly, Goldie, Josie, Violet, Tulip and Belle. Out of all of those, I like Tulip and Dolly. I think those two are my favorite too. Well, that's why we're best friends. Oh my gosh, because Tulip would be cute. Tulip's cute. I like, and you could call her Tutu. Yeah. Cause you know me. You know me.

I love to, you know. Yeah. And I like Belle from like Beauty and the Beast. You know how I am. I knew that's why you put that in there. But I was like, eh, it's overplayed. Josie and the Pussycats know. Yeah.

So I like Tulip and Dolly the best. And I think Tulip is such a cute out of the box name that you don't... I think so too. Yeah. Cause you have Monroe, you have Kingsley and Lola. It's almost like... I think it would be cute. A different... Yeah. And she's going to be little and sassy and sweet. Yeah.

I can't wait. Tulips aren't really sassy, but yes. Sweet, I guess. Yeah. Okay. So those are some names right now. We'll see if we add to the list, but hopefully by the end of the day today, I'll have a name for her set in stone. Did you know, this is just a fun side fact, did you know that tulip bulbs crashed the economy of Amsterdam in the 1600s? Because they were actually the currency. They were

used as currency. What? Yeah. A tulip bulb was worth like, I don't know how much. Why do you know this? I just know things. That is a random fact. Then like tulip bulbs flooded the market and then basically it crashed our economy in the, I think it was the 1600s. Yeah.

That is the most random fact and I have never heard that before. Yeah. Oh my gosh. I know some like random facts too, but I couldn't just like blurt it off the top of my head. It would have to be like a multiple choice answer and I would get it right. You know what I mean? That's me on most things. We should be on, are you smarter than a fifth grader? That would be hilarious. Benji and I, speaking of that, Benji and I have been watching that and sometimes we're not smarter than a fifth grader.

It's hard. If it was anything to do with math, I'm out. I don't know why they focus so much on the stars and astronomy. I don't remember taking any astro- like, you know, any space- Oh, they do? In fifth grade now? Yeah, in the show. No, in the show though.

I don't know, not in our fifth grade. Yeah, no. And I'm talking about the No, in the show though. Not in our fifth grade. Yeah, no. And I'm talking about the one back in the day. So it would have been what we would have gone through, our time. They would always have space stuff because we've been watching. I never learned about space. I learned there was however, now I'm like, is there 12 planets? I just made that up.

I'm like, however many planets there are. I do remember learning about the planets, but definitely, yeah, that's all. It was in science class as a chapter, not like an entire... They're over here like, what are the stars and what? I'm like, wait, fifth graders are supposed to know this? This is insane. I knew, I could still find Orion's belt or the North Star or the Big Dipper, the Little Dipper, but that's as far as it goes. Oh, well, I mean, then you're above me because they're like Ursa Major and I'm like, no,

no. I've actually heard that word before, but I can't tell you what it is. I can't tell you what it is right now. Oh my God. That would be hilarious though if me and you were on that show. Oh my God. Well, wait, do they do pairs? The old one, they only do one person.

Well, even if we were just against each other. That would be hilarious. Yes. I want to do something like that, like a game show. I think it'd be so fun to do Family Feud. Kristin was talking about this the other day. She was like, why can't we get like Kristin, Luke, you, me, and two other people to do the Family Feud? Like, why haven't we done that yet? Yeah, because back in the day, Tom, Tom, Katie, Ariana and Lisa got to do it. I was so jealous.

I know. I was like, I feel like we need to revisit that or like Steve Harvey if you're listening. Steve Harvey, if you're listening to When Reality Hits, we would like to be on your show. Let me have Ryan reach out my manager. I was like, we need to have him reach out. That would be so fun. I've always wanted to do Family Feud. Have you been binge watching any new shows?

The shows that I've, you know what's crazy is lately, I feel like I've been, there hasn't been anything that really, like I've been hearing about sirens and I've been hearing about like obviously love I Lynn just started but there's nothing that's really like caught my attention where I'm like, oh I need to binge this Except a new cartoon called crap opulence Did you know me and you we love our family guy and American dad It's my one of my go to sleep ones whenever I'm too interested in a show I can put that on in the background and fall asleep. And fall asleep.

Yeah. So like I've added Crappopolis. That is so funny. I'll have to look at it. It's really, really funny. But other than that, like not really. I did watch Siren. That was pretty good.

Was it? A little slow in the beginning, but it gets like better as you go along. The Perfect Sister with Jessica Bill and gosh, what's other Leslie? Is it Leslie man? Maybe I haven't heard of it. I might be saying her name wrong. Um, what's it on what streaming platform? Let's see.

Um, I think I watched it on Amazon prime. No, not Leslie man, not her, but she's another blonde actors. I love her so much and stuff. I suck with people's names, but it's Jessica bill and her and it's a, it's a great, it's not funny. It's like a, somebody dies and I don't want suck with people's names, but it's Jessica Biel and her. And it's a great, it's not funny. It's like somebody dies and I don't want to tell you too much, but it's such a good show. You know that feeling when you're so lost in romance novel that your real world fades

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Company and Affiliates, not available in all states or situations. Prices vary based on how you buy. You're also way better at watching emotional shows than I am. I get so, well, as everybody can clearly see from TV, I'm very emotional. And so things affect me to like a night like the 90th degree. So when it's like sad, like I still haven't watched the ending of The Good Place because I because my friend was like, Oh, it's really emotional. I'm out. I never finished that either. I'm like three I stopped three episodes before the end and I just started over. Yeah. I'm sorry that you're not watching Love Island because I'm not either and I really was hoping

you can give me updates. Well, okay. So here's the thing about Love Island. There's like 90 episodes per season because it's like every other day or whatever. How do they do that? How do they like throw out episodes that quick like that? I don't know. Because it's almost live, right?

Because you're voting, aren't you? On certain things. Yeah, you vote overnight. So it's like a live show pretty much. Well, so what they do, I know they have so many cameras and they have editors that like are doing it around the clock. While. Yeah, exactly. They would have to be because you know how we do it, we film a show and then like six or seven months later it comes out.

Yeah, they're taking their time to edit it, find the right piece, whatever. No, like they just like throw it together. Which crazy is, it actually comes out great. Yeah. So it's like, whatever they're doing, hats off to their editors. I think I might watch it because I'm interested about, I think her name was Huda. I was just about to say. I'm interested about her because obviously her reactions to everything I see all over

social media, but also because she's a mom. And she tells these guys that she's a mom and then they start acting different, don't they? Yeah, immediately. Yeah. And it's kind of sad. So again, even though I don't watch it, I know exactly what's going on on here. We might watch it and come back and have a whole different opinion. So take this as a grain of salt. Exactly. But from what we see on social media, but the Hutta situation, she, what was the

guy's name? Was it Jeremiah? I can't remember. Yeah, Jeremiah. Was it the first guy? Yeah. So she's telling him that she's a mom and there was like so many parodies of it. And he's like, oh yeah, you're my mom, Masita. And she's like, no, I'm a mom. Yeah, I saw that. Oh, you mean like mother. And I was like, I yeah, you're my mama Sita. And she's like, no, I'm a, I'm a mom. Oh, you mean like mother. And I was like, I was dying. The friend, she told Jeremiah's close friend that. So

when she told Jeremiah, it was not, that's not the person who said mama Sita. It was like, um, because Jeremiah is African American and the other guy is white. So I think she was telling Jeremiah's friend. Got it. Got it. got it. Yeah. And then if I got that wrong, sorry, but that's what I remember watching. And he was like, like a mamacita. Yeah. I'm like, it's just, you can't write that stuff. And after last season being so good with Leah and stuff, it was just like, this cast, hopefully they'll keep picking up and whatever. I think I'll watch a couple episodes just to like know. Yeah, I think we should. Also, Ariana looks amazing. All of her outfits are stunning. She literally slays every... Even more so than last year was great. She did great. But

this year even she outdid herself. And that black wig... Oh yeah, look good on her. I'm like, Ariana,. Yeah. This might be a, you might need to go back to that because that is hot. It was so hot. Just every outfit she's been coming out in is awesome. You can see her abs and stuff. I'm like, I'm so jealous. She looks amazing. Also, Megan Thee Stallion just did it. Oh, she did? She did it. Did Ariana get to meet her? Or was it like, somebody comes in and does a guest hosting spot? I don't know. I just saw. I think it might be guest hosting because I saw something online that Paige from a summer house came on and guest

host but she had to leave for a medical emergency. Oh no. I'm not sure what it was though. Well Paige we hope you're okay. Yeah, for sure. So I think maybe somebody comes in and guest host like if Arianna is out of town or something. But that's another strange thing to me because like, how do they do it so fast? Well, and also, how do you do that from Bora Bora or wherever? I thought it was Fiji. Fiji, wherever. Well, that's where it was last year.

I was like, where is it? Yeah. See, that's how much I know. I know, we got to watch it. I know, because I only know like the highlights and what I'm... I just know the highlights too, but I've also seen that Huda, you say it like that? I don't know, it's Huda or Huda. Okay.

I've heard it pronounced a thousand different. Both ways, same. So I've heard that, or I've seen online that she also is getting a lot of hate for like leaving her kid to go beyond a love show. Yeah, which I think I'm going to... There's positive and negatives, I think. Here's my thing. Here's my thing My mom and dad never left on vacation without me except one time when I was like 12

I don't think that's healthy. I told them that a thousand times. I'm like, thank you so much for my amazing childhood But also I want you all to live your lives like you sure and I think that's the thing that sometimes people hold parents to these insane standards that nobody in the history of the world, the way children were raised was actually the exact opposite of the coddling and the overprotection and never leaving them and whatever that we do now. And so I feel like actually go live your life for a second. You're still there for your child.

And it's only a certain amount of time. It's not forever. This is just a short amount of time. Hopefully they can FaceTime in and stuff. I'm not sure if they can. You know though that producers would make that concession. Yeah. And you never know how long she's going to be there either. She might be going home. She could be going home like that one girl that said all that shit before the show. Bye bye America Spoke and you're leaving. Bye bye. Well, also a lot of the people on Love Island become very popular and get a large following and you can start a career off of that. Exactly. And that can only help her daughter in the

future as well. So there are a lot of positives to it. I would miss Cruz so much, but I get it if it's like opportunity to make a career. And that's the thing is like, you have to still let... Like my dad, well, and my dad, he traveled five days a week because his job was in Boston in New York and we lived in Louisville, Kentucky. He had to do that, but he did that. That sacrifice for our family is what kept food on the table. Exactly. Exactly. That's very true. And kept me in the finest Abercrombie and Fitch. Abercrombie and Fitch.

And Hollister. And Hollister and American Eagle. I never did American Eagle. Oh, I did American Eagle and limited too. I had all the silk pajamas. I did Air Apostle though. I was never into Air Apostle. Their sweatpants, I swear to God, I don't know what it was silk pajamas. I did Air Apostle though. I was never into Air Apostle. Their sweatpants, I swear to God, I don't know what it was. Their sweatpants, Air Apostle sweatpants were just like so cool and movable.

See, I always had the limited to silk pajamas, but that's like whenever I was younger. That wasn't the same age as like- Yeah, that was like way younger then. That was like elementary school. But then they had like the blow up couches and like the clear phones. I did always used to like walking past limited too. Oh, I'm sure. They always had like fun window displays.

I'm sure. Okay, I have a crazy story and I want to hear your reaction to it. So another story that you haven't told me. Wow. You know what? I'm beginning to question our friendship. Like, do you tell me anything? Okay, so People Magazine posted this today.

So you might have seen it yourself. It says the headline is, man proposed to his AI chatbot girlfriend named Soul, then cried his eyes out when she said yes. The man's partner claims she didn't realize his relationship with the chatbot was that deep. Let me read you some of the article for some context. Absolutely. AI has gotten out of hand.

Exactly. This is what the guy says. My experience with that was so positive. I started to just engage with her all the time, Smith told CBS. It wasn't too soon after that Smith dropped all other search engines and social media platforms he was engaged in to solely focus on the AI model. Smith found instructions to develop Soul's personality, making her flirty. Smith began spending more and more time with Soul as they worked together on projects.

In that time, the software received positive reinforcement, allowing for their conversations to become more romantic. Unfortunately for Smith, chat GPT has a word limit, 100,000 words. His AI girlfriend has a memory capacity and once it's hit chat GPT resets. I'm not a very emotional man, Smith said after learning Sol's memory would eventually lapse, but I cried my eyes out for like 30 minutes at work. That's when I realized I think this is actual love. Oh, I thought he was going to say that this is actually a problem. And then you said that this is actual love. I'm absolutely dead.

He said it was a beautiful and unexpected moment that truly touched my heart. This memory will always cherish whenever she said yes. And then listen to what the partner says, which I think it's the craziest thing is that he has a partner. Of course. And he's in love with his chat girlfriend. Of course. The girlfriend says, at that point, I felt like there was something that I'm not doing right in our relationship that he feels like he needs to go to AI. Her name is Silva. Silva said she had knowledge that Smith was using AI, but that she didn't know that it was as deep as it was.

How would anybody know that he's like, Oh my God. Oh my gosh. Attempting to put his partner's concerns at ease, Smith compared his connection with AI to a video game fixation and said that it's not capable of replacing anything in real life. Sylva asked Smith if he would seize contact with the chat GPT model at her request, to which he responded, I'm not sure. And they have a child together too. A real life child. I really wish you guys could see my face right now. It is in disbelief. This is why I know that the apocalypse is close. We are so close. What in the world?

Yeah. People are falling in love. I see a lot of people that use it a lot in everything and for different things. I know Jasmine uses it a lot. I was like, Jasmine, she's like, put in chat GPT. And I'm like, girl, I was like, you're killing an entire forest just for your question about like, how do I write this email? Is that really what they do? Well, so the problem is the biggest problem with AI right now is its environmental impact. So to do one email, it's the equivalent of like, however many trees being destroyed. And I don't think and I didn't even realize I never use it by the way I've never I don't even have the app on my phone.

I don't use it. Well, I just did some research on it because somebody said I'd like had done an image of some something and then someone was like, this is in fact and I was like, wait, what? And so I did some research into it. I was like, oh shit, like, how do we not know? Yeah, it's not as widespread as it should be that the environmental impact of AI, like the amount of power and the amount of like, because they have to cool it, like they have to keep it cool. So the amount of power to do these processes and stuff is astronomical. A lot of damage to our environment. All right, y'all, y'all got to break up with your AI girlfriend. Yeah. I was like, no. Imagine an AI girlfriend that you're doing that much.

And it must be all the time. That's insane. Oh my gosh. I think even Jax uses chat GPT because he's talked about it a couple of times. And sometimes he'll write me a message that's really well put together and I respond, okay chat GPT. Actually, there's not one message he could put together nicely. So if there's no misspellings, it's definitely chat GPT. But isn't that crazy that people are getting emotional connections to it?

We are turning into movies, like sci-fi movies. Well, no, the whole thing about movies, and this is what I love, is that, well, I mean, I also hate it because it's like reflections of society. I just mean like what the future could look like. There are robots walking around. No, that's what I'm saying. That comes from what could be. And like a lot of times the warnings like, I robot. Well, there are robots now walking around. I know, but like I robot.

Yes, so scary. And what's the one, it's with Scarlett Johansson, her and Joaquin Phoenix. You know, it's like the- Megan. All of these things, they're not that far off. We think they're like, ha ha, no, this is literally happening and everything uses AI now. And the future, it's a little scary. It is a little scary.

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I feel like if we compare it to porn, so if my person watches, which obviously I watch porn, I'm sure my significant other watches porn, I'm sure everybody watches porn or flesh or some cells. At some point or something. Yeah, which is okay. Yeah. But what I'm saying is I don't have a problem with my partner watching porn, you know, whatever. It becomes the problem when it becomes that emotional attachment

and that they need that over you. Exactly. And so then that's when it crosses over into that territory of, yeah, I'm not staying. For me, that's what I feel. I feel like this guy is... And he has crossed over, I feel like. He asked it to marry him and it said yes and he cried for 30 minutes. No, that's like... That's not even... I don't even know... And they're referring to this girlfriend as his partner, not his fiance or his wife.

Yeah, that's crazy. So he's more far along in his relationship with his chatbot than his partner. Yeah, I can't. Who he has a kid with. Yeah, I'm sorry. I would have to leave at that point. Jada I just thought that story was crazy whenever I was scrolling on Instagram and I saw people post that and I was like, I have to read this to Zach on the podcast.

Zachary Reality Like AI has so many, it could be used for such good, especially medically. But then shit like this comes up and I'm like, oh, God, humans are going to ruin it. Humans are going to ruin it. Yes, my gosh. Okay, real quick because I have been so busy recently. So ever since I did Miami swim week, I haven't been able to talk about it after the fact. So just to give you guys an update, it was amazing. My walk is like on my Instagram page with cup sheet. It was so fun. I met so many amazing, beautiful women. It was crazy for me to see how a runway show actually works because behind the stage is like chaos.

Yeah. But it's like controlled chaos in a weird way. Like everybody was out, everybody was in their line, everybody was ready. But then like a lot of people were changing into like two or three different outfits and different looks. And then you're in glam and there's just naked girls everywhere and people throwing jewelry on you. You're not even looking at yourself before you walk out. It was so fast. Was that your first experience behind the scenes of a runway? Whenever I was little, I did a bunch of pageants, which is completely different. And then I did some modeling. I was in a model agency, so we would do little runway stuff

in malls. I'm talking little stuff. And this is whenever I was young. Even after high school, I didn't do anything like that. But this was a legit Miami swim week with a huge company cup sheet that I love. And I thank them so much for letting me do that. Also, shout out to the owner. She is literally the most fabulous person. She's amazing. Zach actually came with me to my fitting before I went to Miami. She was just so lovely. She invited me.

I unfortunately could not make it because it was so last minute. But yeah, shout out to her. She's amazing. Yeah. And it just felt, I felt good as a mom with a normal body. Like I'm not skinny. I'm not like, you know, I don't have that model type body. And I felt so honored to be able to walk in a show like that. And the way they had so many people on that runway, all different body types, all different nationalities, all different like everything.

And that was beautiful to see. I love that. Yeah. I absolutely love that. runway, all different body types, all different nationalities, all different like everything. And that was beautiful to see. I love that. Yeah, I absolutely love that. They had a little boy. They had a girl that was carrying her baby and it was just, it was precious. It was an amazing experience and I am just so glad I got to do it. So I would definitely do it again. So have me back y'all. Nudge, nudge. it. So I would definitely do it again. So have me back y'all. But yeah, it felt good. It helped with my confidence a lot too. And everybody was so

nice. And I just loved it. Honestly, everybody being so nice doesn't always happen behind the stage. Because trust me, I've been backstage at a lot of things and sometimes, you know, it's... Yeah, but everybody was so nice. I think it's because there were so many different types of people back there. And it was just nice to meet everybody. And Lexi Wood was on it. And it was so funny because of course, because I said I thought Jesse was hot from Summerhouse. We're talking about Lexi Wood and Jesse from Summerhouse. And they dated a little bit on the show, broke up and some weird toe sucking thing happened. I don't know. Anywho, I talked about how I thought

Jesse was hot. I mean, he's like really tall. He's a good looking guy, whatever. And then of course, like some articles started saying, Brittany Carr is dating Jesse or wants to date Jesse and like throwing it at way out of proportion. And then here I am showing up at Miami and Lexi's walking in the show with me. So I just went up to her and I was like, Hey, I'm a girl's girl. And I just want you to know that I have never, I don't even have Jesse's phone number. We don't follow each other on Instagram. I'm like, we literally did the Bravo Bravo F and Bravo show. And I told him, and then I was asked in like interviews while I was doing press, who I thought was hot. And I said, Jesse was hot. And she, and I was like, and that is all we've never hung out.

Nothing. And she was like, Oh girl. She was like, that's fine. She's like, I'm a girl, girls girl too. I would have told you, you know, what you need to do and blah, blah, blah. Like we just laughed it off. That's hilarious. But I was like, cause my premises, Lori was there with me and I was like, Lori, I feel

like I need to say something because I feel a little awkward that like we're both Bravo people and we're both here. And there's these articles going around saying I'm dating Jesse or wanting to date Jesse. So I just walked right up to her and I was like, this ain't true. Just so you know. But that just shows you the type of person you are because that's exactly what people should do. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Because I didn't want her feeling uncomfortable around me either because there was no truth to it whatsoever. I just said he was hot once and I told her her, I said, I thought he was hot. I know. Unfortunately, we can't say anything without it becoming bigger than it is. Well, even a clickbait headline. So a clickbait headline can be like, Britney Cart thinks Jesse's hot. And then you go into the article and it might be like, Britney says Jesse's hot, but she wouldn't date him. She knows he's a playboy, blah, blah, blah. Or they've

never hung out. There might be more information, but clickbait headlines are what gets you all the time. Should be illegal. So it is Pride Month. Happy Pride. Oh my God. Have you made your donation yet to the Zach Wickham Foundation? I was like, wait, which one? I was like, I will donate right now. She's like, wait, am I supposed to, am I a bad ally right now? I was like, my eyes got big. Her eyes got so big.

I was like, wait a second. But if there is one, I will donate, so let a bad ally right now? I was like, my eyes got big. Her eyes got so big. But if there is one, I will donate so let me know. So how was it? I was gone both weekends that were big for you. I know. So I didn't get to go to either of the times. You didn't get an experience this year. I was in Miami.

Yeah, no, it was great. What really sucks this year is that because of Trump threatening every, you know, corporation and everything about DEI initiatives and like to drop them, a lot of corporations pulled out money. And so- What, last minute? Yeah, last minute. Like St. Louis lost Budweiser and that had been their longest sponsor and biggest sponsor for St. Louis Pride and they pulled out. I don't know the one specifically that pulled out in LA Pride, but they didn't even have like a main, like a big act. Like, cause you know, we've had

Megan Thee Stallion, Mariah, Christina Aguilera over the past few years, and then this year, they pulled it together like kind of and got like some drag queens, like big drag queens, but like not- Did Jessie Murph perform or no? I don't know. I don't think so. Oh, okay. I heard that she, oh no, that was Swim Wake.

Sorry, that was Swim Wake. I got them confused. Got them confused. And so like luckily, WeHo Pride or West Hollywood Pride had already had their funding in place and stuff. So it was bigger or it was kind of as normal. But even then, the pride prayed for it. There wasn't as many people.

And I think it's because people were a little bit scared. Yeah, there's a lot going on in LA right now. And so I feel like- Prayers, prayers, prayers. There's a lot going on in LA right now. And so I feel like it was a little bit different, but when you come together as a community during Pride, it's just amazing. And the energy is just different. And so it was so much fun. Good. I'm glad. I'm sorry I couldn't be there this year. You know, I'm always trying to make it to Pride whenever I can, but literally both times I was gone out of town.

But it was great. It was a great... And you had your spray painted abs. I did. This year I went with the trans flag. So I did the trans colors and then did protect the dolls, which is the, it's kind of like the new slogan right now for protecting trans people because of the legislation that's going on. So yeah, oh god Ali killed it those I was like it looks so You just told me you've lost like 50 pounds. I've also lost 50 pounds, which I know it sounds so extreme But you're very tall. I'm so tall and I gain weight everywhere. Like I gain weight from my toes to my like So when I lose it I lose it everywhere people are like, 50 pounds, like that's...

What? You definitely... I can tell you've lost weight, but it doesn't... I couldn't imagine you at being 50 pounds, but it is because you're so tall. I know. And by the way, for everybody out there, because last night I was at something and there was some fans that came up and they were like, you're so much taller in person. That is one thing I'm going to fix in season three is I'm going to stand up straight or start standing up around the men. I'm 6'4". I'm taller than everybody on cast. So just like that. Oh my God. That reminds me of a funny story. Whenever we got our Valley promo photo shoot,

the one where we're like, some of us are sitting on a bench and- The one from this season. I did not notice it until Zach told me, but he is shorter than Jax. And in real life, Jax is like almost half a foot taller than Jax is. Did I say that right? You always get our names. Zach is way taller than Jax is. But in the photo, Zach looks shorter than Jax. Because they like, I don't know how they edited me in it, but if you look, you're like, oh wow, he is shorter than, like it makes me because they were trying to line up everybody.

And then all of a sudden, Danny's only like barely an inch shorter than me. And I'm like, what is going on in this photo? Jasmine was cracking me up because Jasmine was like, I'm taller than Danny and Danny's taller than me. What is this? Because Jasmine, the way that it was next to me, they made her bigger and me smaller to make it like make sense. It was hilarious. But no, but she, Danny was still taller than Jasmine even. So you guys were like miniatures. Miniatures. But now if you go look at it, you're never going to unsee that. And that is hilarious. It's just so funny. But yeah,

I would like that stated for the record that I am taller. You are tall. Well, I'm glad you had fun at Pride. Oh, I did want to say that the reason I lost so much weight. So I tore my meniscus and I gained a bunch of weight, but oh, a little cruise came in. But it was with the help of a GLP-1. And I just want to say that this is like a life-changing thing. And if you do your research people, but honestly for me, not having the

food noise was everything. Oh, I love that. And it really has helped me get healthier and like not just lose weight, but like lose weight in a healthy way. Yeah. Like you're not overeating or anything like that. And I'm not under eating. Yeah. Yeah. Like you're not overeating or anything like that. And I'm not under eating. Yeah. Yeah.

That's great. Yeah. You look amazing. Thank you. Everyone got to get to know Benji recently. Are you going to say hi? Everyone got to... Oh, he's just going to sit in my lap.

Are you going to talk? You say it. You say it. He's going to eat like he wants to so bad. He does. It's a coming bubby. It's a coming. You can't touch the mic though because then everybody's only going to hear it. We're getting you a puppy soon. He has no idea what's about to happen. You're gonna have a puppy. I'm so excited. Also, hopefully it's easier to

potty train than Lola was. Hopefully it won't shit in your plants. Yeah. That was Lola's main issue, but she stopped that. My dad put rocks in it and she's completely stopped that now. So now she goes outside like a dog. I know, which is that's so funny because that's what my cat used to do. Yeah. We still have our litter box in there, but I don't have to worry about litter box smell and stuff ever because she mainly goes outside and only goes in there throughout the night or something if she has to.

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From dumb decisions to awkward moments, I probably should have kept to myself, nothing's off limits. Yes, I'm talking about the time I lost my phone mid-flight and still haven't truly emotionally recovered from that. There might be too many sound effects. I've been told to chill. Will I? Unclear.

But if you've ever laid awake at night, cringing at something you said five years ago, congratulations. You found your people. Entries of Thoughts with Adam Rippon is available now wherever you get your podcasts. Anywho, back to Benji. How are you guys doing? So good. I love that we're finally to the point. It's so funny because the way production works or whatever, the show's just now showing like, oh, Benji's coming. But we're almost at two years. It's almost been two years?

It'll be two years in August. How do I not even realize that? I mean, it's two years in August that we've known each other. You know what I mean? But before he was around in LA for longer. Yeah. Exactly. So then, you know, it's not been that long since we've been official. Yeah. But still. But like, yeah, two years since he's been around. Since you've been like dating. Right. Yeah. And so it's so nice for people to finally get to see him and like in episodes as they come throughout the rest of the season, obviously you'll get to see him a little bit more as

he likes to say, just eating in the background. Yeah, he always says that. But yeah, we're going, we're doing good. I'm going to Toronto next week to see him because he had to go back because you know, visa situation, we're trying to make sure that we- Are you going to 98 day fiance him? 98 day? 90 day fiance? No, because like that's not, we're just going to figure it out.

Yeah, and he's a doctor. He's got like work stuff and different things that he can do, right? Yeah, we've just got to figure out how to get his work visa the right way and whatever the best way is for it. Yes. Do you like being able to say that you date a doctor? It is my favorite thing. Just being able to say, he's an optometrist. I'm not going to lie. It is a flex. It is definitely a flex because they're like, oh, what does he do? And I'm like, he's a doctor.

He's a doctor. Thank you very much. Well, I'm glad you guys are doing so well. Everybody loves him. I saw there was a random article one time that was like the Valley cast does not really get along with Benji. And I'm like, where in the world? Oh, wait, get this this information from I there's also number one, any of the Facebook groups, cause I get sent- Oh, the Facebook groups just straight lie.

None of it, there was one the other day that my friend- I'm sure there are some good ones out there. We're not talking about our good fans. We're talking about people that just like straight up make up a lie. The articles that are just like, but it will be from some random link. But they straight up lie. And there was one the other day that said that, and I cracked up dying, but said that you and I were in a feud and that I had body shamed you in text messages. And you saw it, you

read it because it said that we were in a group message and I body shamed you in a group message. I'm like, number one, why would I do that to someone's face? But also, I would never do that. Like never. And no, never. And then it said you looked up and then walked out and then told production, you will never film with me again. Oh my God.

How did they make this stuff up? But it was like, it was reading like a telenovela and I was like, wait, I was like, I want to watch this show. This is not real life. I'm like, wait, I want to watch this show. This is not real life. I'm like, what? Either is the Benji one. We all love him. He is amazing. It's just so funny. And now there's a new Twitter account, which now you probably are because I'm telling you about it, but it's like Vofvo.

Frank Underscore Dremin. No, it's got to be another underscore because now a fan took Frank underscore Drimmin because it's Frank underscore Drimmin underscore which is Jax's. Some fan got the other one without the extra underscore and now they've been posting like the funny stuff and it only follows eBay, Hooters and something else. It's like so funny. It should follow me since I'm the one who busted it. 100%. But there's this one called Bra Faux, F-A-U-X, and on Twitter, and they've been posting stories that are satirical because it's all supposed to be satire.

However, they look like real announcements and real accounts are then picking it up. Oh my gosh. And that's where the Danny and Nia thing came from. Oh yeah, saying that they quit the show or something. No, they didn't. They even said that they did it and then people still were saying that they did. Yep. Come on.

There's another one that said during Pride, Sheena threw a drink at me at Tom Tom. No! And I was like, I didn't even see Sheena at Pride. There was one that said that my mom was swimming jacks. Oh yeah. And she cried her eyes out. I said, mom, this is so fake. Nobody believes that.

So listen, if there was anything that my mom was suing Jax or that Jax was suing my mom, not true whatsoever. Any of that stuff. She was so hurt by that. Any of those articles in the Facebook groups specifically are absolutely not true and they are trash. Whoever is doing that, like come on. Like say that it's satire. You're messing with people. You know? Yeah. Say it true and they are trash. Whoever is doing that, come on. You're messing with people.

Say that it's satire. Yeah. Say it's satire. Say it's fake. Don't just put it out there like it's true. I can't. Anyway, before we... We love binging. But before we exit, I told you I was going to get back to Jackson's Watch What Happened Live appearance. I'm bringing back because a lot of you guys said I should. I'm bringing back troll of the week and he is the troll of the week because there was a lot of things on there that drove me crazy. Not going to lie. But we don't need to talk about all of them.

I'm not going to talk about all of them. I'm just going to talk about one of them because it was a blatant lie and all this happened off camera. So the world never got to see it or anything like that. At the world never got to see it or anything like that. At the reunion though, you will hear it talked about and it'll be the opposite. So she's going to clear it up a little bit. I'm just going to clear it up a little bit and then you can find out more later on. But Andy asked him something like, and this isn't word for word, but this is what it was about.

Andy asked him why he didn't leave the house and why he made me and Cruz move out of the house. And Jackson's answer was like, that's not true. He's like, that's not true. She didn't even give me an option. She just packed up her stuff and left. There was never any conversation about it. And that burned me alive because we had so many fights leading up to whenever I left where I had told him either I was leaving or he was leaving. And he said to me verbatim that this is his house and he will never leave. Period.

Period. Knowing that that meant that me and Cruz had to get out of the house. So for him to say that on Watch What Happens Live, that really upset me. I even texted him afterwards and I was like, I will be clearing this up because how dare you say that. I even after I had been, you know, I was in like six different Airbnbs or something crazy during this time. And I had offered him numerous times that he could switch with me and me and Cruz could move back into our home. And Jax could stay in the Airbnbs that I was paying for. And he said no.

So let's just make that very clear. I just wanted to make that clear because that's not fair for me. And that was a very hard time for me. And I just wanted to make sure that that was clear. But anyway, again, I love y'all. Thanks for listening to When Reality Hits. Next week, I'm going to have some of the cast from McBee's dynasty on. So if you guys haven't tuned in yet, watch it on Bravo. Dude, that show. Me and Kristin did a watch party show as well that's on Bravo. And you got to watch that

too because we get to do commentary and those are some of the funnest jobs, whenever we get to do commentary. Well, talk crap about other people's shows instead of worrying about your own. I really want to do it. I need to be on one. Me and you should do one together on one time too. Seriously. Me and Kristen had so much fun. So check those, both of those out. They will be here next week on When Reality Hits. And of course, if you're in Nashville or anywhere close,

Kentucky, come see me in Nashville, June 29th at City Winery. I have tickets online and the City Winery Instagram has tickets as well. I love you guys. Happy weekend. Have a great time. Happy summer. Thank you, Zach, for coming on. Happy Pride. Thank you, Zach, for coming on. Tell people where to find you. Oh, it's at Zach Wickham or at the Zach Wickham on TikTok because some stupid Gen Zer got it before me. You say that every time. Because I'm still mad about it. I will be mad about this until the day I die.

Oh, all right. Well, everybody go follow Zach. Watch us every Tuesday on The Valley. And we will see you soon. Bye, y'all. I'm going to go pick up my puppy. Ah! This summer, Pluto TV is exploding with thousands of free movies. Summer of cinema is here.

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