March 29, 2024 • 17 mins
If you watched American Idol this season, you probably noticed a return from a Bachelor Nation superstar! Ben and Ashley are hanging out with season 18 Bachelor Juan Pablo Galavais and his daughter, aspiring singer Camila!
We hear all about Camila’s audition for American Idol, and she shares some memories from when her dad was The Bachelor!
Plus, find out what Juan Pablo REALLY thinks about his daughter being in the spotlight on ABC!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. Today we
have a throwback on while Pablo is here with his daughter,
who was actually the new star of the family. If
you guys don't remember her, I mean, if you watch
one Pablo season, you remember Camila because you are a
huge part of it. It's been ten years since you
got you guys both were on the show, and now
(00:28):
you're back on ABC, but this time it's American Idol
and this is so exciting. Your audition aired on Sunday
and now you're going to Hollywood and we're we're very
happy for you. Congratulations on that. That's like, was that
your goal just to like make it through round one?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah? So I get like the the okay from like
the judges was like Michael, basically.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, you're fourteen, so it's your first year. You're fifteen, now, okay,
so was this your first year of eligibility for American Idol? Right, Yeah,
I'm an American Idol, A huge fan. I don't watch
the show anymore. I'm gonna have to tune in for you,
but I used to in like the two thousands, on
my license plate it said heart Idol, Like the actual
(01:18):
license plate was a heart with idol. So this is
a big this is a big deal. Yes, yes, yes,
Or did you grow up watching the show?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I would watch sometimes like on TikTok or like on YouTube,
but not like I would watch it like on a TV.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Okay, So why American Idol and not The Boys or
another competition show.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I don't know because my dad just told me, oh,
American Idol.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
So I was like, okay, well, uh, to be honest
with you, like the story is basically one of the
producers from the show, you know.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Rob the Bachelor, or.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Of Rob Mills, so ABC King, Yeah, ABC.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
So so we had a conversation. We chatted once in
a while to see how's everything doing or whatever, and
he asked me so as Camilla. I said, well, she's bay.
Is she into sports or whatever? She likes to sing
all day or what? Oh my gosh, really, So I
send her a song that she recorded, like a little demo,
and he was like, we got to get her an
(02:19):
American Idol. So I said, well, she's too young still,
she's thirteen, so let me see and he checked obviously
the age living.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
And stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
So when it was time for her to do it,
we'll just say, okay, Camilla, would you like to do it?
And she said, yeah, I would like to do it.
So basically that's how it came out through the show
and do it, and then we did the casting and
it was a zoom casting kind of thing. And then
that's when she you know, performed stuff like that and
she want they want her to do the singing it
(02:52):
from the shows.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, so you didn't have to wait in line for
twenty four hours and camp out at an arena.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Well does at least we got some perks still, you.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Know, seriously, very nice. Seriously the one pole I want
to I want to dive into you a little bit.
So obviously it has been ten years since you've been
on the Bachelor. We did get to know you both
through that experience. I think last time we talked to you,
you were doing social media management. Am I Right?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Well, that's what it's funny because that's what Keble said
the show.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
She is nervous. So basically what I do I manage
singers and songwriters.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
And since a couple of years ago, a little bit
before pandemic, I started doing.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Soccer as well.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
So I'm an agent for soccer players and I do
music and entertainment, you know, management, So that's where I
am right now.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
So you obviously have a taste for talent, so you
knew that she was really a really good singer. Obviously
biases probably played into a little bit. I want to
know when you both walked into the first audition outside
of the zoom, So the first live audition as a dad,
what was your thought, like, what was going through your
(04:05):
head or the emotions?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you first. I'm gonna
let her explain to you how it happened, because it's
you know, you see it on the show and basically
that was it.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
But I was waiting with her mom outside.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, so I entered the audition room and they like
asked me like, oh, like your name whatever, And then
they asked me if anyone in my family was like
in the industry or whatever, like yeah, my dad, And
then they asked I was like, oh, my dad he
was in the Bachelor, and they.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Go, oh, like that's what you see on TV.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And he was outside with my mom. And then when
I like, he was like, oh, bring him in. So
I was like, okay, so I go and I get
him and that's when he like goes.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
That's when I came in.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
So basically, obviously I got to talk a little bit
with them. You know, I knew Luke Bryant from a
NASCAR Daytona five hundred twenty fifteen he performed and we
met and stuff like that, and uh, and through my
head was like, okay, well we're here. She you know,
it's time for her to show her stuff. And obviously
(05:03):
I didn't know that I was gonna stay or listen
to Uh. I would just say, oh, they call me.
She she she ran and his dad they want to
meet you. So I say, okay, fine, So I went there,
spoke a little bit with them and there and that's
why she says, well, would you like your father to
be there or whatever?
Speaker 6 (05:19):
She said yes, so I'll sit down.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
What was going through my mind is like, well, I
knew she was very nervous because I was outside with
her and she's so young at the time, she was
still fourteen when when she did the audition. That, Uh,
through my head was like, I hope she feels okay.
She felt comfortable just by by you know that she
doesn't feel as nervous as she was before. But when
(05:42):
I saw her on the stage, like I mean in
front of me, I saw her a little more calm
than when she was outside. She even a little cried
before going into the audition because she was so nervous.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Sometimes the nerves go away as soon as you walk
into the room and see the panel or whatever. I
just think about Bachelor auditions. How would you compare your
Bachelor audition to her American Idol audition?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
So one of the things that I told her also
that you know, I think it might help her a lot.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
It was when I played soccer.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
You know, if I didn't feel this nervousness or something
in my stomach when I was going into the field,
then maybe I wasn't. I was done with soccer, you know,
So she will always have that. When I was on
the show, obviously you get that lemo and you're like, oh, shoot,
(06:41):
I'm here, let me see what I'm gonna do. But
but for her, I think part of it was just
being there and letting things go right.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, it was it was more of like me, like
letting it flow so it wouldn't be like super like,
so it wouldn't be like a four audition, Like I
didn't want it to look like I was like forcing
myself to, like, you know, do my best. I was
just like whatever, like either way, I'm super young, Like
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
So yeah, now Comia the does any of the time
on the Bachelor, Like do you remember? I mean, do
you remember that well at all?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It's just the little The only thing I remember was
like ice skating in like this weird like ring that,
like ring ring here in La.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
So I was curious to see if any of that,
like any of the attention from that the cameras, the
interviews or whatever you like, prepped you for these types
of moments.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
No. I felt like when I was doing my my
like interviews, I was like more common about it because
I was like I've done this before, like when I
was super young, and like also like with like the
cameras and all of that, it was like fine because
I like also seen that before and like I kind
of like being on camera, like I don't know, I
(07:58):
like it.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
It's like fun, Yeah, we get it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
So the judges are obviously all star panel. Was there
one that you were most wanting to get a yes
from anybody that you were most excited to meet.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Katie probably yeah, she gave you a yes.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And so did Luke Brian now Lionel, who I've met
and he was one of the sweetest celebrities I've ever met,
so warm. He said no, but he was also like,
you're so young that, like you know, you can always
come back. So is there a judge that is like
on your side on the way through Hollywood?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I feel like I feel like Luke is on my side,
like he he in the in my audition. He said
that that like if a producer grows me and it
makes a song like it's a hy and like I
feel like he encourages me a lot because I'm still
super young, and like he's like, no, like you got this,
(09:06):
like you're gonna be fine, Like and if they and
if you don't go through, then it's fine, Like you're
still super young. You could do this because I think
the maximum me just like thirty, so I could do
this fifteen more times. Yeah, literally no more times, but
I don't think it's like I could still do it
fifteen more times. So it doesn't matter if it's a
(09:28):
nowherey yes, because either way like it's in front of
Luke Bryan, Lionel Ritchie and Katie Berry and the other contestants.
They're way older than me, and they have like way
more experience, and it's like I just feel like what
I mostly wanted to get from like all of like
the American Idol is like the experience and the friendships
(09:51):
that come within and just like having it's like a family.
Like to me, they're like a family. Like I still
talk to a lot of the people there.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Just like bastination. Okay, well, I'm so glad you got
that experience. And I don't want to spoil do we do?
We don't want to ask for spoilers or anything. No,
So we'll leave the conversation at that.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
As as if somebody that likes I mean, obviously I
used to love American Idol, I haven't seen I'm gonna
watch it because of you this season. What Okay, you're
saying this era is pre taped, but does it go
live at some point? Yeah, and we don't know, just
we don't know if you make it to the live
or not, Like that's something the viewership right now doesn't know. Correct, Okay, Okay,
(10:37):
so that's weeks I mean, obviously it plays every week
right now, so we'll get to follow your journey along
the way. Yeah, okay, I am like, this is so
cool to see a father and a daughter sit here
in two here's a note that you're saying, Wan Pablo
that she felt more comfortable with you in the room.
Such a big deal. Like I feel like if I
(10:58):
was a singer, which I'm not, I would be more
nervous if my parents sat.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
In the room.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Name That's what I was thinking, Like I would be
more anxious about that, Like I would rather than not
see it, just in case I embarrass myself. So I
want to know what you guys have done in your
relationship as a father and daughter to like make it
a comfortable space where you're like, I think she'll be
better if I'm sitting here.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I mean every day, it doesn't matter where I am,
Like I could be in school and I will be singing.
Like sometimes in school I'm seeing like my friends the
can you like just shut up? Like we're tired, Like
it's seven in the morning, how do you have this
much energy? And I'm like, because it's a new day,
and like with my parents, like all I do is
sing in the car. Yeah, Like one time we had
(11:42):
we had we did. We took a road trip to
Orlando because we live in Miami, so it take a
four hour drive and the whole four hours I did
not sleep nothing can we just saying the whole time?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, and papla, do you like listening to her for
four straight hours?
Speaker 6 (11:56):
I like to play my music too, but just it
is what it is, you.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Know, Yeah, once in a while, just a couple of songs.
But once It's funny because she jumps in the car
every time I pick her up, and like, she's not
even jumping in the car. He's asking offer the cable
depends on the car or she's had the bluetooth already,
so she's just playing whatever she wants yea. And she
said also she gives me good songs too that I heard,
(12:23):
so oh that listen to this song by whatever, and
I'm like, oh.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
That's a that's a nice song right there.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And one thing I hate is that every time that
we're listening to music and we're having a good he
has to get on a phone call.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
So he saw everything that happened.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Sound.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I hate phone calls in the car.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
To me, it's like my office once in a while
when Miami it just becomes so much trap. Well you
really too, So when I jump in the car, you know,
I because I work with people.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
That's that's the problem. As I work with people. It's
not like I call.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Whenever or you know, sometimes I gotta make a phone
call to the song player that needs something or something
like that.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
So she's like, are you gonna pick up?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
And I say, I have to pick up the phone.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
I'm working right now.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Well, one day, one day that might change. When you
have a new client that you're representing that sounds like
it's it's not too far in the future.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
You might I'm gonna get her a manager, man getting
her a manager.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, it's so cool to see. We wish you the
best success. I am. I'm almost like anxiously nervously excited.
But then again, you have fifteen more times if, like
you don't win this season, you have fifteen more times.
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It's so well, you have fifty more times until you
get to the live round, right, because then when you
hit it live, then they don't let you come back anymore.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Right, that's a good question. I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I think there's some caveat there, so you just have
Maybe that's what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't know if
they change the rules since I have last watched, but
I wanted to ask you guys, like, since Camilla are you?
Are you freshman or a sophomore in high school?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I'm a freshman in high school.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Okay, So how is it with your peers that your
dad was once the Bachelor? Does it come up often?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah? Like my friends they like sometimes ask me and
I'm like, I don't know. Like I was like ten,
I was like five before I was four. How am
I supposed to remember? They're like, oh, but you don't
remember like when you were I was like no, Like
I don't know. And like there's this joke that like
goes on with my friends, with the guys most because
(14:31):
my dad also plays soccer that they just start screaming
in the middle of nowhere his name. They're like, bab
and like we could take the whole class is quine
And just someone says't and I'm like, oh my god, no,
it's so weird. It's weird, and I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
It's nice to have a cool dad. You'll appreciate it.
One day. You probably appreciate it now. Yeah, the awesome
family dynamic. It's so good to catch up with both
of you again after yeah, so many years. I I
so here here's my story as we close out. I
was watching the television. The commercial came for the American
Idol because it was airing and it was there was
(15:09):
I figet how they entered into it, but it was
something like and and the reoccurrence of a Bachelor, and
they was playing when the Bachelor, and I was watching,
I was like, wait what because I didn't know what
was going on and know what they were talking about
and who's coming back again to be on the Bachelor
or to be a part of the Bachelor. But no,
it was about the two of you, and I was
happy to see that. So wish you the best. We'll
(15:30):
catch up with you, we'll continue along on the journey.
And one day, here's my guest, Ashley, I wonder if
you agree, one day, when we are looking back on
our time on the Almost Famous podcast, I think we
might have the most the potentially most famous person we've
ever interviewed sitting with us today.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Oh that I can't I can't wait to see what
your voice will sound like when you're about twenty. If
that's what it sounds like at fourteen, that's.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Great, good good, good good.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Good luck to you.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
I hopes me too, to be honest with you, So
we'll see how it goes. She's gotta, you know, work,
I don't. It's not easy. People doesn't get there quick.
She wants to be.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Better than Ariana.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
She wants to get a little lower than Ariana Grande.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Well, you've got the look too.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
It's just you have to practice, you have to do
a lot of work.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
There's a lot of responsibilities, so you know, and like,
luckily I'm in the industry, so I know exactly how
it goes.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
So I'll take.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
You know.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
I try to hold back as much as I could
for this. Yeah, but it was it was now, it
was the time. So we'll see, we'll take, we'll take.
We'll take a day at the time. Thank you, guys,
appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. Today we
have a throwback on while Pablo is here with his daughter,
who was actually the new star of the family. If
you guys don't remember her, I mean, if you watch
one Pablo season, you remember Camila because you are a
huge part of it. It's been ten years since you
got you guys both were on the show, and now
(00:28):
you're back on ABC, but this time it's American Idol
and this is so exciting. Your audition aired on Sunday
and now you're going to Hollywood and we're we're very
happy for you. Congratulations on that. That's like, was that
your goal just to like make it through round one?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah? So I get like the the okay from like
the judges was like Michael, basically.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, you're fourteen, so it's your first year. You're fifteen, now, okay,
so was this your first year of eligibility for American Idol? Right, Yeah,
I'm an American Idol, A huge fan. I don't watch
the show anymore. I'm gonna have to tune in for you,
but I used to in like the two thousands, on
my license plate it said heart Idol, Like the actual
(01:18):
license plate was a heart with idol. So this is
a big this is a big deal. Yes, yes, yes,
Or did you grow up watching the show?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I would watch sometimes like on TikTok or like on YouTube,
but not like I would watch it like on a TV.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Okay, So why American Idol and not The Boys or
another competition show.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I don't know because my dad just told me, oh,
American Idol.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
So I was like, okay, well, uh, to be honest
with you, like the story is basically one of the
producers from the show, you know.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Rob the Bachelor, or.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Of Rob Mills, so ABC King, Yeah, ABC.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
So so we had a conversation. We chatted once in
a while to see how's everything doing or whatever, and
he asked me so as Camilla. I said, well, she's bay.
Is she into sports or whatever? She likes to sing
all day or what? Oh my gosh, really, So I
send her a song that she recorded, like a little demo,
and he was like, we got to get her an
(02:19):
American Idol. So I said, well, she's too young still,
she's thirteen, so let me see and he checked obviously
the age living.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
And stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
So when it was time for her to do it,
we'll just say, okay, Camilla, would you like to do it?
And she said, yeah, I would like to do it.
So basically that's how it came out through the show
and do it, and then we did the casting and
it was a zoom casting kind of thing. And then
that's when she you know, performed stuff like that and
she want they want her to do the singing it
(02:52):
from the shows.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, so you didn't have to wait in line for
twenty four hours and camp out at an arena.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Well does at least we got some perks still, you.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Know, seriously, very nice. Seriously the one pole I want
to I want to dive into you a little bit.
So obviously it has been ten years since you've been
on the Bachelor. We did get to know you both
through that experience. I think last time we talked to you,
you were doing social media management. Am I Right?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Well, that's what it's funny because that's what Keble said
the show.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
She is nervous. So basically what I do I manage
singers and songwriters.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
And since a couple of years ago, a little bit
before pandemic, I started doing.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Soccer as well.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
So I'm an agent for soccer players and I do
music and entertainment, you know, management, So that's where I
am right now.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
So you obviously have a taste for talent, so you
knew that she was really a really good singer. Obviously
biases probably played into a little bit. I want to
know when you both walked into the first audition outside
of the zoom, So the first live audition as a dad,
what was your thought, like, what was going through your
(04:05):
head or the emotions?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you first. I'm gonna
let her explain to you how it happened, because it's
you know, you see it on the show and basically
that was it.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
But I was waiting with her mom outside.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, so I entered the audition room and they like
asked me like, oh, like your name whatever, And then
they asked me if anyone in my family was like
in the industry or whatever, like yeah, my dad, And
then they asked I was like, oh, my dad he
was in the Bachelor, and they.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Go, oh, like that's what you see on TV.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And he was outside with my mom. And then when
I like, he was like, oh, bring him in. So
I was like, okay, so I go and I get
him and that's when he like goes.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
That's when I came in.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
So basically, obviously I got to talk a little bit
with them. You know, I knew Luke Bryant from a
NASCAR Daytona five hundred twenty fifteen he performed and we
met and stuff like that, and uh, and through my
head was like, okay, well we're here. She you know,
it's time for her to show her stuff. And obviously
(05:03):
I didn't know that I was gonna stay or listen
to Uh. I would just say, oh, they call me.
She she she ran and his dad they want to
meet you. So I say, okay, fine, So I went there,
spoke a little bit with them and there and that's
why she says, well, would you like your father to
be there or whatever?
Speaker 6 (05:19):
She said yes, so I'll sit down.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
What was going through my mind is like, well, I
knew she was very nervous because I was outside with
her and she's so young at the time, she was
still fourteen when when she did the audition. That, Uh,
through my head was like, I hope she feels okay.
She felt comfortable just by by you know that she
doesn't feel as nervous as she was before. But when
(05:42):
I saw her on the stage, like I mean in
front of me, I saw her a little more calm
than when she was outside. She even a little cried
before going into the audition because she was so nervous.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Sometimes the nerves go away as soon as you walk
into the room and see the panel or whatever. I
just think about Bachelor auditions. How would you compare your
Bachelor audition to her American Idol audition?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
So one of the things that I told her also
that you know, I think it might help her a lot.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
It was when I played soccer.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
You know, if I didn't feel this nervousness or something
in my stomach when I was going into the field,
then maybe I wasn't. I was done with soccer, you know,
So she will always have that. When I was on
the show, obviously you get that lemo and you're like, oh, shoot,
(06:41):
I'm here, let me see what I'm gonna do. But
but for her, I think part of it was just
being there and letting things go right.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, it was it was more of like me, like
letting it flow so it wouldn't be like super like,
so it wouldn't be like a four audition, Like I
didn't want it to look like I was like forcing
myself to, like, you know, do my best. I was
just like whatever, like either way, I'm super young, Like
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
So yeah, now Comia the does any of the time
on the Bachelor, Like do you remember? I mean, do
you remember that well at all?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
It's just the little The only thing I remember was
like ice skating in like this weird like ring that,
like ring ring here in La.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
So I was curious to see if any of that,
like any of the attention from that the cameras, the
interviews or whatever you like, prepped you for these types
of moments.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
No. I felt like when I was doing my my
like interviews, I was like more common about it because
I was like I've done this before, like when I
was super young, and like also like with like the
cameras and all of that, it was like fine because
I like also seen that before and like I kind
of like being on camera, like I don't know, I
(07:58):
like it.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
It's like fun, Yeah, we get it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
So the judges are obviously all star panel. Was there
one that you were most wanting to get a yes
from anybody that you were most excited to meet.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Katie probably yeah, she gave you a yes.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And so did Luke Brian now Lionel, who I've met
and he was one of the sweetest celebrities I've ever met,
so warm. He said no, but he was also like,
you're so young that, like you know, you can always
come back. So is there a judge that is like
on your side on the way through Hollywood?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I feel like I feel like Luke is on my side,
like he he in the in my audition. He said
that that like if a producer grows me and it
makes a song like it's a hy and like I
feel like he encourages me a lot because I'm still
super young, and like he's like, no, like you got this,
(09:06):
like you're gonna be fine, Like and if they and
if you don't go through, then it's fine, Like you're
still super young. You could do this because I think
the maximum me just like thirty, so I could do
this fifteen more times. Yeah, literally no more times, but
I don't think it's like I could still do it
fifteen more times. So it doesn't matter if it's a
(09:28):
nowherey yes, because either way like it's in front of
Luke Bryan, Lionel Ritchie and Katie Berry and the other contestants.
They're way older than me, and they have like way
more experience, and it's like I just feel like what
I mostly wanted to get from like all of like
the American Idol is like the experience and the friendships
(09:51):
that come within and just like having it's like a family.
Like to me, they're like a family. Like I still
talk to a lot of the people there.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Just like bastination. Okay, well, I'm so glad you got
that experience. And I don't want to spoil do we do?
We don't want to ask for spoilers or anything. No,
So we'll leave the conversation at that.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
As as if somebody that likes I mean, obviously I
used to love American Idol, I haven't seen I'm gonna
watch it because of you this season. What Okay, you're
saying this era is pre taped, but does it go
live at some point? Yeah, and we don't know, just
we don't know if you make it to the live
or not, Like that's something the viewership right now doesn't know. Correct, Okay, Okay,
(10:37):
so that's weeks I mean, obviously it plays every week
right now, so we'll get to follow your journey along
the way. Yeah, okay, I am like, this is so
cool to see a father and a daughter sit here
in two here's a note that you're saying, Wan Pablo
that she felt more comfortable with you in the room.
Such a big deal. Like I feel like if I
(10:58):
was a singer, which I'm not, I would be more
nervous if my parents sat.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
In the room.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Name That's what I was thinking, Like I would be
more anxious about that, Like I would rather than not
see it, just in case I embarrass myself. So I
want to know what you guys have done in your
relationship as a father and daughter to like make it
a comfortable space where you're like, I think she'll be
better if I'm sitting here.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I mean every day, it doesn't matter where I am,
Like I could be in school and I will be singing.
Like sometimes in school I'm seeing like my friends the
can you like just shut up? Like we're tired, Like
it's seven in the morning, how do you have this
much energy? And I'm like, because it's a new day,
and like with my parents, like all I do is
sing in the car. Yeah, Like one time we had
(11:42):
we had we did. We took a road trip to
Orlando because we live in Miami, so it take a
four hour drive and the whole four hours I did
not sleep nothing can we just saying the whole time?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, and papla, do you like listening to her for
four straight hours?
Speaker 6 (11:56):
I like to play my music too, but just it
is what it is, you.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Know, Yeah, once in a while, just a couple of songs.
But once It's funny because she jumps in the car
every time I pick her up, and like, she's not
even jumping in the car. He's asking offer the cable
depends on the car or she's had the bluetooth already,
so she's just playing whatever she wants yea. And she
said also she gives me good songs too that I heard,
(12:23):
so oh that listen to this song by whatever, and
I'm like, oh.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
That's a that's a nice song right there.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And one thing I hate is that every time that
we're listening to music and we're having a good he
has to get on a phone call.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
So he saw everything that happened.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Sound.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I hate phone calls in the car.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
To me, it's like my office once in a while
when Miami it just becomes so much trap. Well you
really too, So when I jump in the car, you know,
I because I work with people.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
That's that's the problem. As I work with people. It's
not like I call.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Whenever or you know, sometimes I gotta make a phone
call to the song player that needs something or something
like that.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
So she's like, are you gonna pick up?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
And I say, I have to pick up the phone.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
I'm working right now.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Well, one day, one day that might change. When you
have a new client that you're representing that sounds like
it's it's not too far in the future.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
You might I'm gonna get her a manager, man getting
her a manager.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, it's so cool to see. We wish you the
best success. I am. I'm almost like anxiously nervously excited.
But then again, you have fifteen more times if, like
you don't win this season, you have fifteen more times.
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It's so well, you have fifty more times until you
get to the live round, right, because then when you
hit it live, then they don't let you come back anymore.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Right, that's a good question. I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I think there's some caveat there, so you just have
Maybe that's what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't know if
they change the rules since I have last watched, but
I wanted to ask you guys, like, since Camilla are you?
Are you freshman or a sophomore in high school?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I'm a freshman in high school.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Okay, So how is it with your peers that your
dad was once the Bachelor? Does it come up often?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah? Like my friends they like sometimes ask me and
I'm like, I don't know. Like I was like ten,
I was like five before I was four. How am
I supposed to remember? They're like, oh, but you don't
remember like when you were I was like no, Like
I don't know. And like there's this joke that like
goes on with my friends, with the guys most because
(14:31):
my dad also plays soccer that they just start screaming
in the middle of nowhere his name. They're like, bab
and like we could take the whole class is quine
And just someone says't and I'm like, oh my god, no,
it's so weird. It's weird, and I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
It's nice to have a cool dad. You'll appreciate it.
One day. You probably appreciate it now. Yeah, the awesome
family dynamic. It's so good to catch up with both
of you again after yeah, so many years. I I
so here here's my story as we close out. I
was watching the television. The commercial came for the American
Idol because it was airing and it was there was
(15:09):
I figet how they entered into it, but it was
something like and and the reoccurrence of a Bachelor, and
they was playing when the Bachelor, and I was watching,
I was like, wait what because I didn't know what
was going on and know what they were talking about
and who's coming back again to be on the Bachelor
or to be a part of the Bachelor. But no,
it was about the two of you, and I was
happy to see that. So wish you the best. We'll
(15:30):
catch up with you, we'll continue along on the journey.
And one day, here's my guest, Ashley, I wonder if
you agree, one day, when we are looking back on
our time on the Almost Famous podcast, I think we
might have the most the potentially most famous person we've
ever interviewed sitting with us today.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Oh that I can't I can't wait to see what
your voice will sound like when you're about twenty. If
that's what it sounds like at fourteen, that's.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Great, good good, good good.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Good luck to you.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
I hopes me too, to be honest with you, So
we'll see how it goes. She's gotta, you know, work,
I don't. It's not easy. People doesn't get there quick.
She wants to be.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Better than Ariana.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
She wants to get a little lower than Ariana Grande.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Well, you've got the look too.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
It's just you have to practice, you have to do
a lot of work.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
There's a lot of responsibilities, so you know, and like,
luckily I'm in the industry, so I know exactly how
it goes.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
So I'll take.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
You know.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
I try to hold back as much as I could
for this. Yeah, but it was it was now, it
was the time. So we'll see, we'll take, we'll take.
We'll take a day at the time. Thank you, guys,
appreciate it.
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