July 23, 2025 • 28 mins
Our Bachelor Nation OGs Bob Guiney and Trista Sutter are catching up with a superstar from Jason Mesnick’s season, and Season 5 Bachelorette: Jillian Harris!
Jillian opens up about how she handled the tabloid fodder after the downfall of her relationship post-show and reflects on the heartbreak years later. What happened to her engagement ring she got on the show? Jillian is spilling details!
Plus, is this interior designer going to be popping up on the Bachelor mansion renovation TV show? Trista and Bob are getting the answers!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio. Hi everybody,
It's Trista and Bob for the Almost Famous OG podcast,
and I'm so excited about today. I love this guest,
and I know everyone out there does too. She's such
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a fan favorite. She truly is like a success story
in every sense of the word. In that Yeah, maybe
the show didn't work out for her, but she found
her true love. She went on to do amazing things.
Written to two cookbooks, she's written a children's book, she's
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birth two babies, she's about to get married, she has
success stories out the wazoo, her Jillibox. She's done some
home improvement shows that I know everyone has heard of
Extreme Makeover, her Home Edition, love at her list it,
and gosh, I just I feel like everyone in Bachelor
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Nation just looks up to this beauty and this mom
because she's so real. She shares everything with everybody, and
I truly feel like if you don't look up to her,
you should, right.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes, I agree that she's super relatable too, Like you know,
when you actually meet Jilly, she is so sweet and
funny and unassuming and yeah, you know she's She's really
all those things that you would hope she would be,
and then then some you know, then you meet Justin
and you know, you meet her family, and it's like
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she's doing it right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
So I think that I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That's a beautiful introduction to our guest who's joining us today,
who we are very very excited.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
She's not an easy get, by the way, right, I
mean to busy. He's busy. She's busy.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I mean the first option was like a month or
two maybe two months from now, and I was like,
well that's far away, so I don't know if anything
will come up, but yeah, put her on. But luckily
we got her. She you know her as Jillian Harris.
She was on Jason Mesnick season and then she was
the Bachelorette season five. So welcome Jillian Harris.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Jilly Bean.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Oh my gosh, so good to see both of you.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So good to see you too.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Thanks for having me, Thanks for coming.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It was hard to get to you. You're a busy lady.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
You know, we're getting married finally this summer, and we
have a new puppy.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
What I saw, that's true, it's true.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Look at that little beauty.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh you are pressious new kitten, and the kids are
out of school and I'm still working, so it's been
a bit crazy this year, this summer.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I'd say, so, well, we were just talking about you,
how you have always been so sweet and just such
a wonderful breath of fresh air.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
And then of.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Course the slippery goose he's out there, he's doing his thing,
which we all love. Justin and I mean, congratulations on
the upcoming nuptials.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Took me thirteen years to really be sure. See this
is the wrong, this is wrong with me on the Bachelor.
You have like thirteen days. I need like thirteen years.
I mean, I.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Will say, though, you're going to give yourself some grace
because you guys were supposed to get married during COVID, Rightyeah.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I wanted to. I wanted to cancel before COVID, like
I was the happiest COVID ride. I was like, God,
Hans pandemic, I could cancel my.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So before you came on, I introduced you and and
I just said, if people don't look up to you,
they should, because girl, you are so freaking amazing, like
so successful, so someone that I truly honestly look up
to from the franchise and just a normal life as
a friend. But I you are just I mean a
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force to be reckoned with mom soon to be wife,
but a fiance up to that, and not just a
human mom. But you had to And I'm so sorry
about Nacho, but yeah, of course. But now this cute
little baby chero, Oh my gosh, I'm so glad. Oh no,
(04:35):
thank you. But we haven't written three books and do
a blog and have a super successful you done, I know,
but I just.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Do other things. But thank you so much, you know. Yeah. Always,
Like I always tell my mom and dad, I'm like,
we're only on this planet once. Like, I got a
lot to do. Like there's no guarantee that we're gonna
get reincarnated or go to heaven or all these other
things we're talking. But I want to make sure I
do all the things I need to do in my
short time on this planet.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So well, you're getting a lot of it done.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, yeah, you are.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You're getting some mileage're getting your steps in, as they say,
Uh yeah, that's pretty great.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Okay, wait, how old have you guys been? How long
has this blog been? Uh? Going on? For her?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
So the almost famous uh, the almost famous things started
with Ben and Ashley, and then iHeart and Sugarman approached
us to do the almost famous ogs where we would start.
You know, we weren't so much about the current events, right,
We were a little bit more about some stuff that's
that's had some time to see, some.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Real deals.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
So it's been a lot of fun because you know,
we've touched base with so many people that we've met
over the years and you know, just loved from the
show and from all the other things that they've done.
But how many years just I mean, we got to
be a few years in by now, right what three years.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
And I was literally just telling someone about it. They
were like, oh, tell me about the podcast, and I
I feel like it's been more than because we've moved
into our house in a year and a half ago.
It's been at least a year before that, so it
almost three years, maybe four years. I don't know something
like that.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I'm so out of touch with podcasts, And it's so
funny because I do a lot of I'm a guest
on a lot of podcasts. People always say I sh
have my own podcast, but I just it's just never happened.
But I know, don't take offense. But I tried to
listen to podcasts, but I think I have a very
undiagnosed extreme case of ADHD, and so I can't even
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listen to you to like justin, he knows that whatever
he has to say that he has to get it
out in like thirty seconds otherwise, like looking even.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
My staff, is that one of the secrets to your relationship?
You just he knows.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
It's the secret as to why it's taken us a
wone to get married. Even our staff they joke that
if I'm on to call for more than thirty minutes
that I start shopping on anthropology. So anyways, I'm not uh.
I we get invited to some podcast too, and I'm like,
I don't know, is this fake? Is this real?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't know?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Anyways, I was like, yes, I'm in I know.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I do. I actually wrote Caitlin a thing because she's
good friends with Christian Cavaliery.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I got invited to this one to me too.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
When I sent it to her and I was like,
is this legit? Can you ask her? Because I don't
think it's legit and I need to confirm And she
said no, those things come all the time, So don't
always sends people.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
My two favorites, Chelsea Handler and Kelsey the what's her name,
the sister, the sister in law.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Travis Kelsey's yes, yes, yes, and my was like.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Oh my gosh, you got invited and I was like,
this is fake, Like that's so I know. But we've
got each other. We've got each other. That's all.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Use us as your mouth piece. We got you covered.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Well, we're totally getting into the wedding. We're totally getting
into the wedding. And we have some bachelor obviously related
questions current relations, but we want to get into back
in the day. So obviously you came in I think
third on Jason seasoned right, and then you went on
to be Bachelorette and you and Edward together, and you
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come off the show and hello, tabloids. We all know it.
We're all on the cover of tabloids. And the tabloids
were a thing back then. It really isn't a thing now.
But I feel like you walk into a grocery store
and your your face is plastered all over the every
single magazine and all that people are saying is that
he has girlfriends that are not you and help chaos like, like,
(09:02):
describe to us how that was coming off of the
show and having to see all those tabloids and probably
maybe even finding out tell us finding out about the
girlfriends through the tabloids.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Well, I have to be careful because the last time
I spoke about Ed was when we came together, remember
the Bachelorette reunion. Yes, I felt like it was fairly complimentary,
like I gave the cold work based on what everybody.
But I got a scathing email from him, like I'm
talking like a ten pager, and I was like, wait
a second, weren't you the one that was terrible to me? Like,
(09:36):
I don't think you get to tell me what I
can say or not say. But anyways, I just didn't respond.
And I honestly wish him the best. He's got a
beautiful wife and a beautiful baby. Oh my gosh, I
sometimes creep because the baby's so cute. I got to
see what she looks like and how she's growing up. Anyways,
so I wish him no harm like I, but like, yeah,
that was this very very traumatizing time. And to his
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to his defense, being on the show is a mind,
it's a total mind. And he asked to be on
the show, he got recruited, and he did have girlfriend
uh at the time, which, by the way, I've had
I've had multiple I've did multiple people before too. That
doesn't make him a monster. But I think that he
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just thought it was going to be a fun adventure.
I don't think that he thought that I was going
to fall in love with him and that he might
have feelings for me. And I think that he was
just like holy and as you know, once you get
to the end, your life has just exploded, Like you
don't even recall what was happening back home because you're
being jetted everywhere, You're at these fancy mansions, you're dealing
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with big wigs at ABC, you're on you're on the
Ellen Show. Like it is so hard to stay grounded.
So I don't fault him for any of that, but
it doesn't matter. Just the whole scenario was so traumatic
because in my little Jilly Hart, I started to cry.
But like I just wanted I just wanted somebody to
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love me, and I had like had such I just
wanted to have I wanted I wanted a relationship, and
I wanted babies, and I'd been a heartbroken so many times,
and I was sort of like, what is wrong with me?
I know what's wrong with me. I'm thirty forty five.
I know it was wrong with me, but anyways, I
just didn't see it back then, and I was just like,
I'm actually writing a memoir. I'm writing a book like
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from the Times a little Girl, and I've really been
able to unpack some of the like trauma from my
whole life. And I think when that happened, I just
felt like failed again. Like I felt like I'm always
looking even though my parents did their best, like that
was hard. So I just felt like my whole life
I could never had that one person that would just
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like take care of me. And I just was convinced
that Ed was the one, even though looking back, no
he wasn't, but like I just I had convinced myself,
and so when that happened, I was like, great, here
I am again, just humiliated again, failure again. So it
was just embarrassing and it just sucked. And it's not
really Ed's fault. It's just we put ourselves in that position.
(12:08):
He had a life before, I had trauma and heartaches
that he didn't know about before. And actually the show
I don't know if you guys have talked about this
with any of your past clients, but they really give
you such a vigorous psychological testing before you go on
the show. I don't know if they still don't do that.
But after my psychological testing, which is like a test
a book like this big, they actually brought me a
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psychologist and they said that they want me on the
show because they feel that I would be good entertainment
and I have all the qualities they're looking for besides
the ones that Mike Flais doesn't like, which is a
raspy voice, Canadian short, no boobs, you know. But other
than that. Other than that, they wanted me on the show.
But they were really worried about my emotional capacity if
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I were going to be heartbroken, because somewhere in those
psychological tests they saw that I was very fragile. And
when I don't know if I'm allowed to say all this,
but when Jason dumped me, they actually flew that same
psychiatrist psychologist to New Zealand to bring me home because
they were so afraid of how heartbroken I would be.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
That is the first time I've ever heard that.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Home that's actually can I honestly, this is like one
time where I will actually defend the show a little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
That's amazing that they did that.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
That would have been expensive, like first, yeah, yeah, that
would have been very expensive to hire her, to pay her,
to pay for her room and all that kind of stuff.
So anyways, it was very traumatic. But I do say
everything happens for a reason. I always talked to Justin
and the kids about maintaining an abundance mindset, and when
you have an abundance mindset, you really have to believe
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that even the shittiest times are there to build you
up and set you up for success. And so, yeah,
it sucked, and I was like after that moment, I
think I was like ninety two pounds and I was
very unwell. But I'm stronger because of it. And yeah,
I don't know. I think I just I have more
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compassion because of it, and I have no regrets. I
wouldn't picked somebody else. I would have had fun read
and I had so much fun in the time that
it lasted, Like when we were good, we had a
good time. Yeah he was a funny, fun guy, Like yeah,
you know he was.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I love your attitude, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Too, because you can you can take you know, And
I do think sometimes the show puts so much pressure
on the success of that relationship, and you know, the
Tristan and Ryan's of this world are very few far between, right,
I Mean when you look at.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
The track record of the success.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Of the show in that mindset of what you know
the success would be, there's very few people. And it's
like it is kind of hard because you come through
it thinking that you're a loser. I mean I went
I went through the same thing, not as bad. I
mean I didn't.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I feel like for me, it was one of the
those things.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Where I was not expecting it to work, and then
when it would all of a sudden be working, I'd
be like, oh my god, this isn't this isn't gonna last,
you know.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Or whatever. I almost was like self sabotaging totally.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
But I can I can totally relate to that because
I feel like, especially when you come off of that
and having the history that you had had previously, walking
into the grocery store and seeing, you know, seeing your
face on the cover of a tabloi with a rip
down the middle does not do you any favors.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Yeah, you know there was a rip down the middle
good memory.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, yeah, well I had.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
The same cover, so I remember, unfortunately a couple of
times for me.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
A couple of times on that you know what Ryan season.
It was so much more wholesome back then, Like I
think it's gotten a little bit, you know, raunchy or
whatever and social media media and whatnot. Yeah. So, and
you know, Bobby said something about like being a loser.
One of the things I tell the kids all the
time is we're all we're all losers. Can't be winter.
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Can't be winter all the time, Like you can't be
weird moments. You're just going to be a loser. And
you's got to sit with that and not find a
way to make it funny.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
So true, humor saves everything. It does, unless unless you're
in the midst of a broken heart, and then you
need a psychologist. Yes, I'm glad you had that. You
Did you stay in touch, like with that psychologist? Did
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you meet with them after the show?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Never saw her ever again, Probably shouldn't have. But my
whole Canadian American thing was always very difficult for me
because I actually the show had me on as a
contestant without actually figuring out like what if I won?
Because once I once ED and I were engaged, and
I went to go move to Chicago, like not even
(16:48):
knowing anything about immigration. I got a border by somebody
who knew me on the show and she's like, no,
you're not moving to Chicago. And I'm like, what do
you mean. She's like, yeah, I'm wait for you to
come through. She's like, you need to be married, you
need to. So ABC had no choice. The had to
hire an immigration lawyer to the actually did a really
good job. They had an immigration lawyer and invested thousands,
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tens of thousands of dollars to make sure that I
could actually live with Ed. And I had to find
then remember I found a job on Extreme Makeover Home
Edition and they kind of sponsored me improved that there
was nobody else like me in the United States.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
So what that that basically got you a work visa.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
That got me a visa. Yeah, and I may famed
that work visa for just up until like before COVID, But.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Now I, wow, that's awesome. You're done.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You're just going to travel here whenever you need to.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
You don't need via exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, Okay, So back to ed you obviously got engaged
you I had the ring. We're interested to know what
happened with the ring because we know like Ali got
(18:06):
to keep her ring after calling off the engagement, and
like Estella, she sold her ring after her and Bob
broke up and I was just talking to her our producer.
I don't know that i'd want to keep the ring
if I was not engaged to the guy, so I
would totally sell it.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Yeah, we have it downstairs and or say you do wow.
And here's why I wanted to keep it. That moment
signified such a huge moment in my life. It signified heartbreak,
it signified growth, it signified like a huge step in
my career. I don't think I would have found Justin
without that, like that experience. So I don't know what
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we're ever going to do with the ring. But what
I told ABC is I want to you to loot
me in with Neil Lane, and I want to see
from Neil that he actually wants the ring back. If
Neil actually wants the ring back, then fine, I'll give
it back. But if he doesn't, I'll pay for it
or you can. I'm down to rip it out of
my cold hard hands, Like, it's just like who actually
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wants the ring back?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Who actually?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
And they know that I tried so hard to make
that relationship work and it wasn't because I didn't want
it make it work. I'm like, just like at least yeah, yeah,
oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
So I had always heard and I don't know if
you've heard this, Trista or if you've heard this, Jillian,
but that they called it the Guinea rule, and.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
That if because after Istellas sauld it and made a
lot of money off of it. By the way they.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Made the Guinea rule that you had to keep you
had to stay together.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I thought it was at least a year to keep
the ring.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Otherwise you had to give it back, and they have
a file cabinet full of them.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
By my time, it was three years because Ed and
I had been together for a year. Yeah, I don't
want it three years?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
So did you end up paying for it?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
They didn't make me pay for it? No, but they did.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
They didn't.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
He did. Who wasn't It wasn't Rob Mills. It was
the other lawyer. I think he was also a raw
I think it was Aylor lawyer. Anyway, he did send
me a huge thing of what I can and can't
do with it, and to me, I didn't really care
at that point, and it's kind of ugly and it
was kind of looks like a football ring offense to
Neil Lane, I don't know. And we have enough jewelry
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now that it's like, I think we'll just meet as
a family heirloom. Mummy did this crazy thing, and this
is the ring from that.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
That's funny, you know, it's funny. I have my engagement
ring that was a Harry Winston in my safe too,
and I'm just like, I'll just keep it and if
Blakeslee wants it, or we want to make it into
a necklace someday, or Max wants to give it to
somebody he asked to Mary, Great, then he can do that.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, yeah, those are the days. Well, I'm glad you
got to keep that because you deserved it.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I mean, you were and we've often.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I think we met for the first time at the
Janner wedding.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, right at the Jade and Tanner wedding.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I just was looking of that reason.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
It's so fun and I love that big group picture
of all of us.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah, yeah, it was so funny.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
We came away from that in Canyon, my wife was like,
I just feel like Jillian Harris and I would be
best friends.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I'm like, I know.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I was pregnant. You know I was pregnant?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Then yes, No, I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
No, I don't know if I was pregnant. So I
wasn't drinking at the Janner wedding. Now you think Kenyan
loved me, then how about billionaires drinking? Because I am
a whole new level of like, I'm like jillionaires times
one hundred.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Times one hundred. Oh my god, that's so awesome. Well
we'll have to see that. We'll have to see that. Yes,
I'd like that very much.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, yeah, okay, so one of the biggest pieces of
news lately in Bachelor Nation. Oh, before I get to that,
do you watch the show anymore?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I don't. And it's not because I don't like it.
It's my ADHD. I don't know. I think I don't
know when this started. And two our kids are at
this age that first of all, we have to put
them to bed still, this is so embarrassing, but they're
almost nine and seven, and we stopped to lay down
with both of them to go to bed and there's
such night owls that by the time they fall asleep,
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I'm going to bed, like I'm yea calling people with them,
or I go to bed and then while they're awake.
Justine's actually quite strict as to like what he allows
our kids to like consecuod for him, I'm not. I'm
like last night Annie and I fell asleep looking at
the anatomy of a vagina because I was explaining to
her that the vagina is actually the whole in the middle,
it's not the labia. So that's what like, I'm super
(22:38):
super super open, but Justin would not allow our kids
to watch.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Oh my gosh, Justin needs to give me some lessons.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I So I'm the you and canyons, the Justin Yeah,
And I'm just like like, She'll be like, I won't
know that she has told the boys this. Maybe no,
there's no YouTube, you know nothing, and they'll come in
and go, hey, daddy, can we watch YouTube on your phone.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I'm like, gosh, sure you go.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
And then I'm in the doghouse for like the better
part of a week trying to claw my way out.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
So I need some lessons on how to how to
strip it up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
A very common conversation around our house is just insane
to me, What the hell are you thinking, I'm like.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Because.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I wasn't thinking. I was just doing. Oh I love that.
Oh my gosh. So you're going to be the one
having the birds and bees conversation like I.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Did with exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, okay. So one of the biggest pieces of news
lately is that they're going to be redoing or renovating
the Bachelor mansion.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Needs needs to be done.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Have you gotten a call from ABC or no.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Like, really, it would be from AHGTV. Actually I've heard if.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
They contacted me and wanted me to do it, I
said I was not going to do any more TV. Okay,
but I would do that. But yeah, I'm not really
an interior like okay. So when I was when I
got scouted for the show, I had taken two years
of interior designer courses and I was a restaurant designer.
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That's all I did. I think I did one or
two houses, but I had never done like residential. I
only did restaurant. And then I was on the show
positioned as an interior designer, and then I got hired
on by Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Sorry, I need to
focus my thing. I got brought on Extreme Ocover Edition,
but that's not really interior design. It's more like decorating,
(24:37):
which is probably what this house would want, but it's
it's not really legit, Like you're not really a legit designer.
You're more just like picking up pink colors and like,
it's not like cad and specifications and binders. And then
when I was done with Extreme Ocover Home Edition, I
went straight to lever or list It and loved her.
List It. You have legit interior designers that are bringing
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your vision to life. So I was basically just like
a glorified client. Really yeah, and now I have Now
I don't do interior design. Now I have the jillibox
and my Instagram page, and I don't do any interior
Like I hired an interior designer for our new house,
I'm not doing the interior design. However, I could play
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the interior designer for The Bachelor Mansion Show. I would
just need a design team and I could give my
the jillionaires aesthetic.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
There you go like it?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
That would really work. And I'm great on camera. I'm
great for drama. I think this would be a great
like four part episode was.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
For sure for sure. I don't know why they wouldn't
because actually we've heard that they are higher. They're bringing
people from Bachelor Nation.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
But what about Joelle Joel Joelle Jojo will do it?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, I'm sure Jojo would do it. For sure. Jojo
and Jordan, they're a team. We actually just had Chris
Lambdon on and I think he he does some renovations.
There's Tyler Cameron.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I mean they have.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
More did I did a Rocky Mountain reno show. I've
definitely was not the brains of the operation and had
had the team behind us too. But yeah, no, they're
bringing people back. You are a natural fit. You were
on the original Extreme Makeover.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Yes, I'm interested.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I think I mean we're putting it out there in
the universe.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yes, yeah, Trista still the whole it's called.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I won't say. For the longest time, I never had
time like I would have loved her listed and I
had babies in COVID and other than the Bachelorette reunion,
I never had time to come to any of these events.
But recently I'm starting to have fomo.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Oh we need to do something like for real, we
have talked so long on our little text chain, which
has been radio silent for years. I feel like.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
That's so awesome that we have not we do, but
we never.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Do anything with it anymore. We need to We need
to bring it back. We need to bring it back
and get a trip on the books because it would
be amazing to get all the girls together. But also
I have always told Rob Mills, we need to do
a like a reunion for everybody, Like how crazy would
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it be? They don't have to fly everybody in, but
maybe it would be in LA because I don't know
where it would be.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
But specialty discounts on the people can pay for their
own right, we're all adults.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, totally, Like just a big, huge fun party.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Televise it and we'll be.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
There after you guys did the Bachelorette reunion.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I kept waiting for them to call for the Bachelor reunion,
like I thought they would do one, you know what,
And they just didn't do it, And I was like,
oh my god, this would be so interesting to me
because you don't.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
We're interesting with the ladies because it's the hair that's true,
Like you guys are all just be sitting around farting
in the same outfit like Firestone.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Firestone and I love getting our hair done. It's true.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Everyone knows that if we can get a little blow up,
we're both happy with that. I can't all right, we
have so much more we want to ask Jillian. So
we are going to take a quick break and we return.
We'll have more Almost Famous ogs with Gillian Harris.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Follow the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast on
iHeartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.
This is the almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio. Hi everybody,
It's Trista and Bob for the Almost Famous OG podcast,
and I'm so excited about today. I love this guest,
and I know everyone out there does too. She's such
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a fan favorite. She truly is like a success story
in every sense of the word. In that Yeah, maybe
the show didn't work out for her, but she found
her true love. She went on to do amazing things.
Written to two cookbooks, she's written a children's book, she's
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birth two babies, she's about to get married, she has
success stories out the wazoo, her Jillibox. She's done some
home improvement shows that I know everyone has heard of
Extreme Makeover, her Home Edition, love at her list it,
and gosh, I just I feel like everyone in Bachelor
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Nation just looks up to this beauty and this mom
because she's so real. She shares everything with everybody, and
I truly feel like if you don't look up to her,
you should, right.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes, I agree that she's super relatable too, Like you know,
when you actually meet Jilly, she is so sweet and
funny and unassuming and yeah, you know she's She's really
all those things that you would hope she would be,
and then then some you know, then you meet Justin
and you know, you meet her family, and it's like
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she's doing it right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
So I think that I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That's a beautiful introduction to our guest who's joining us today,
who we are very very excited.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
She's not an easy get, by the way, right, I
mean to busy. He's busy. She's busy.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I mean the first option was like a month or
two maybe two months from now, and I was like,
well that's far away, so I don't know if anything
will come up, but yeah, put her on. But luckily
we got her. She you know her as Jillian Harris.
She was on Jason Mesnick season and then she was
the Bachelorette season five. So welcome Jillian Harris.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Jilly Bean.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Oh my gosh, so good to see both of you.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So good to see you too.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Thanks for having me, Thanks for coming.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It was hard to get to you. You're a busy lady.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
You know, we're getting married finally this summer, and we
have a new puppy.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
What I saw, that's true, it's true.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Look at that little beauty.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh you are pressious new kitten, and the kids are
out of school and I'm still working, so it's been
a bit crazy this year, this summer.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I'd say, so, well, we were just talking about you,
how you have always been so sweet and just such
a wonderful breath of fresh air.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
And then of.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Course the slippery goose he's out there, he's doing his thing,
which we all love. Justin and I mean, congratulations on
the upcoming nuptials.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Took me thirteen years to really be sure. See this
is the wrong, this is wrong with me on the Bachelor.
You have like thirteen days. I need like thirteen years.
I mean, I.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Will say, though, you're going to give yourself some grace
because you guys were supposed to get married during COVID, Rightyeah.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I wanted to. I wanted to cancel before COVID, like
I was the happiest COVID ride. I was like, God,
Hans pandemic, I could cancel my.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So before you came on, I introduced you and and
I just said, if people don't look up to you,
they should, because girl, you are so freaking amazing, like
so successful, so someone that I truly honestly look up
to from the franchise and just a normal life as
a friend. But I you are just I mean a
(04:14):
force to be reckoned with mom soon to be wife,
but a fiance up to that, and not just a
human mom. But you had to And I'm so sorry
about Nacho, but yeah, of course. But now this cute
little baby chero, Oh my gosh, I'm so glad. Oh no,
(04:35):
thank you. But we haven't written three books and do
a blog and have a super successful you done, I know,
but I just.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Do other things. But thank you so much, you know. Yeah. Always,
Like I always tell my mom and dad, I'm like,
we're only on this planet once. Like, I got a
lot to do. Like there's no guarantee that we're gonna
get reincarnated or go to heaven or all these other
things we're talking. But I want to make sure I
do all the things I need to do in my
short time on this planet.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So well, you're getting a lot of it done.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, yeah, you are.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You're getting some mileage're getting your steps in, as they say,
Uh yeah, that's pretty great.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Okay, wait, how old have you guys been? How long
has this blog been? Uh? Going on? For her?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
So the almost famous uh, the almost famous things started
with Ben and Ashley, and then iHeart and Sugarman approached
us to do the almost famous ogs where we would start.
You know, we weren't so much about the current events, right,
We were a little bit more about some stuff that's
that's had some time to see, some.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Real deals.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
So it's been a lot of fun because you know,
we've touched base with so many people that we've met
over the years and you know, just loved from the
show and from all the other things that they've done.
But how many years just I mean, we got to
be a few years in by now, right what three years.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
And I was literally just telling someone about it. They
were like, oh, tell me about the podcast, and I
I feel like it's been more than because we've moved
into our house in a year and a half ago.
It's been at least a year before that, so it
almost three years, maybe four years. I don't know something
like that.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I'm so out of touch with podcasts, And it's so
funny because I do a lot of I'm a guest
on a lot of podcasts. People always say I sh
have my own podcast, but I just it's just never happened.
But I know, don't take offense. But I tried to
listen to podcasts, but I think I have a very
undiagnosed extreme case of ADHD, and so I can't even
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listen to you to like justin, he knows that whatever
he has to say that he has to get it
out in like thirty seconds otherwise, like looking even.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
My staff, is that one of the secrets to your relationship?
You just he knows.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
It's the secret as to why it's taken us a
wone to get married. Even our staff they joke that
if I'm on to call for more than thirty minutes
that I start shopping on anthropology. So anyways, I'm not uh.
I we get invited to some podcast too, and I'm like,
I don't know, is this fake? Is this real?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't know?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Anyways, I was like, yes, I'm in I know.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I do. I actually wrote Caitlin a thing because she's
good friends with Christian Cavaliery.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I got invited to this one to me too.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
When I sent it to her and I was like,
is this legit? Can you ask her? Because I don't
think it's legit and I need to confirm And she
said no, those things come all the time, So don't
always sends people.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
My two favorites, Chelsea Handler and Kelsey the what's her name,
the sister, the sister in law.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Travis Kelsey's yes, yes, yes, and my was like.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Oh my gosh, you got invited and I was like,
this is fake, Like that's so I know. But we've
got each other. We've got each other. That's all.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Use us as your mouth piece. We got you covered.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Well, we're totally getting into the wedding. We're totally getting
into the wedding. And we have some bachelor obviously related
questions current relations, but we want to get into back
in the day. So obviously you came in I think
third on Jason seasoned right, and then you went on
to be Bachelorette and you and Edward together, and you
(08:35):
come off the show and hello, tabloids. We all know it.
We're all on the cover of tabloids. And the tabloids
were a thing back then. It really isn't a thing now.
But I feel like you walk into a grocery store
and your your face is plastered all over the every
single magazine and all that people are saying is that
he has girlfriends that are not you and help chaos like, like,
(09:02):
describe to us how that was coming off of the
show and having to see all those tabloids and probably
maybe even finding out tell us finding out about the
girlfriends through the tabloids.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Well, I have to be careful because the last time
I spoke about Ed was when we came together, remember
the Bachelorette reunion. Yes, I felt like it was fairly complimentary,
like I gave the cold work based on what everybody.
But I got a scathing email from him, like I'm
talking like a ten pager, and I was like, wait
a second, weren't you the one that was terrible to me? Like,
(09:36):
I don't think you get to tell me what I
can say or not say. But anyways, I just didn't respond.
And I honestly wish him the best. He's got a
beautiful wife and a beautiful baby. Oh my gosh, I
sometimes creep because the baby's so cute. I got to
see what she looks like and how she's growing up. Anyways,
so I wish him no harm like I, but like, yeah,
that was this very very traumatizing time. And to his
(09:59):
to his defense, being on the show is a mind,
it's a total mind. And he asked to be on
the show, he got recruited, and he did have girlfriend
uh at the time, which, by the way, I've had
I've had multiple I've did multiple people before too. That
doesn't make him a monster. But I think that he
(10:19):
just thought it was going to be a fun adventure.
I don't think that he thought that I was going
to fall in love with him and that he might
have feelings for me. And I think that he was
just like holy and as you know, once you get
to the end, your life has just exploded, Like you
don't even recall what was happening back home because you're
being jetted everywhere, You're at these fancy mansions, you're dealing
(10:41):
with big wigs at ABC, you're on you're on the
Ellen Show. Like it is so hard to stay grounded.
So I don't fault him for any of that, but
it doesn't matter. Just the whole scenario was so traumatic
because in my little Jilly Hart, I started to cry.
But like I just wanted I just wanted somebody to
(11:02):
love me, and I had like had such I just
wanted to have I wanted I wanted a relationship, and
I wanted babies, and I'd been a heartbroken so many times,
and I was sort of like, what is wrong with me?
I know what's wrong with me. I'm thirty forty five.
I know it was wrong with me, but anyways, I
just didn't see it back then, and I was just like,
I'm actually writing a memoir. I'm writing a book like
(11:25):
from the Times a little Girl, and I've really been
able to unpack some of the like trauma from my
whole life. And I think when that happened, I just
felt like failed again. Like I felt like I'm always
looking even though my parents did their best, like that
was hard. So I just felt like my whole life
I could never had that one person that would just
(11:45):
like take care of me. And I just was convinced
that Ed was the one, even though looking back, no
he wasn't, but like I just I had convinced myself,
and so when that happened, I was like, great, here
I am again, just humiliated again, failure again. So it
was just embarrassing and it just sucked. And it's not
really Ed's fault. It's just we put ourselves in that position.
(12:08):
He had a life before, I had trauma and heartaches
that he didn't know about before. And actually the show
I don't know if you guys have talked about this
with any of your past clients, but they really give
you such a vigorous psychological testing before you go on
the show. I don't know if they still don't do that.
But after my psychological testing, which is like a test
a book like this big, they actually brought me a
(12:32):
psychologist and they said that they want me on the
show because they feel that I would be good entertainment
and I have all the qualities they're looking for besides
the ones that Mike Flais doesn't like, which is a
raspy voice, Canadian short, no boobs, you know. But other
than that. Other than that, they wanted me on the show.
But they were really worried about my emotional capacity if
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I were going to be heartbroken, because somewhere in those
psychological tests they saw that I was very fragile. And
when I don't know if I'm allowed to say all this,
but when Jason dumped me, they actually flew that same
psychiatrist psychologist to New Zealand to bring me home because
they were so afraid of how heartbroken I would be.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
That is the first time I've ever heard that.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Home that's actually can I honestly, this is like one
time where I will actually defend the show a little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
That's amazing that they did that.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
That would have been expensive, like first, yeah, yeah, that
would have been very expensive to hire her, to pay her,
to pay for her room and all that kind of stuff.
So anyways, it was very traumatic. But I do say
everything happens for a reason. I always talked to Justin
and the kids about maintaining an abundance mindset, and when
you have an abundance mindset, you really have to believe
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that even the shittiest times are there to build you
up and set you up for success. And so, yeah,
it sucked, and I was like after that moment, I
think I was like ninety two pounds and I was
very unwell. But I'm stronger because of it. And yeah,
I don't know. I think I just I have more
(14:12):
compassion because of it, and I have no regrets. I
wouldn't picked somebody else. I would have had fun read
and I had so much fun in the time that
it lasted, Like when we were good, we had a
good time. Yeah he was a funny, fun guy, Like yeah,
you know he was.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I love your attitude, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Too, because you can you can take you know, And
I do think sometimes the show puts so much pressure
on the success of that relationship, and you know, the
Tristan and Ryan's of this world are very few far between, right,
I Mean when you look at.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
The track record of the success.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Of the show in that mindset of what you know
the success would be, there's very few people. And it's
like it is kind of hard because you come through
it thinking that you're a loser. I mean I went
I went through the same thing, not as bad. I
mean I didn't.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I feel like for me, it was one of the
those things.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Where I was not expecting it to work, and then
when it would all of a sudden be working, I'd
be like, oh my god, this isn't this isn't gonna last,
you know.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Or whatever. I almost was like self sabotaging totally.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
But I can I can totally relate to that because
I feel like, especially when you come off of that
and having the history that you had had previously, walking
into the grocery store and seeing, you know, seeing your
face on the cover of a tabloi with a rip
down the middle does not do you any favors.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Yeah, you know there was a rip down the middle
good memory.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, yeah, well I had.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
The same cover, so I remember, unfortunately a couple of
times for me.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
A couple of times on that you know what Ryan season.
It was so much more wholesome back then, Like I
think it's gotten a little bit, you know, raunchy or
whatever and social media media and whatnot. Yeah. So, and
you know, Bobby said something about like being a loser.
One of the things I tell the kids all the
time is we're all we're all losers. Can't be winter.
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Can't be winter all the time, Like you can't be
weird moments. You're just going to be a loser. And
you's got to sit with that and not find a
way to make it funny.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
So true, humor saves everything. It does, unless unless you're
in the midst of a broken heart, and then you
need a psychologist. Yes, I'm glad you had that. You
Did you stay in touch, like with that psychologist? Did
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you meet with them after the show?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Never saw her ever again, Probably shouldn't have. But my
whole Canadian American thing was always very difficult for me
because I actually the show had me on as a
contestant without actually figuring out like what if I won?
Because once I once ED and I were engaged, and
I went to go move to Chicago, like not even
(16:48):
knowing anything about immigration. I got a border by somebody
who knew me on the show and she's like, no,
you're not moving to Chicago. And I'm like, what do
you mean. She's like, yeah, I'm wait for you to
come through. She's like, you need to be married, you
need to. So ABC had no choice. The had to
hire an immigration lawyer to the actually did a really
good job. They had an immigration lawyer and invested thousands,
(17:11):
tens of thousands of dollars to make sure that I
could actually live with Ed. And I had to find
then remember I found a job on Extreme Makeover Home
Edition and they kind of sponsored me improved that there
was nobody else like me in the United States.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
So what that that basically got you a work visa.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
That got me a visa. Yeah, and I may famed
that work visa for just up until like before COVID, But.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Now I, wow, that's awesome. You're done.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You're just going to travel here whenever you need to.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
You don't need via exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, Okay, So back to ed you obviously got engaged
you I had the ring. We're interested to know what
happened with the ring because we know like Ali got
(18:06):
to keep her ring after calling off the engagement, and
like Estella, she sold her ring after her and Bob
broke up and I was just talking to her our producer.
I don't know that i'd want to keep the ring
if I was not engaged to the guy, so I
would totally sell it.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Yeah, we have it downstairs and or say you do wow.
And here's why I wanted to keep it. That moment
signified such a huge moment in my life. It signified heartbreak,
it signified growth, it signified like a huge step in
my career. I don't think I would have found Justin
without that, like that experience. So I don't know what
(18:43):
we're ever going to do with the ring. But what
I told ABC is I want to you to loot
me in with Neil Lane, and I want to see
from Neil that he actually wants the ring back. If
Neil actually wants the ring back, then fine, I'll give
it back. But if he doesn't, I'll pay for it
or you can. I'm down to rip it out of
my cold hard hands, Like, it's just like who actually
(19:05):
wants the ring back?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Who actually?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
And they know that I tried so hard to make
that relationship work and it wasn't because I didn't want
it make it work. I'm like, just like at least yeah, yeah,
oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
So I had always heard and I don't know if
you've heard this, Trista or if you've heard this, Jillian,
but that they called it the Guinea rule, and.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
That if because after Istellas sauld it and made a
lot of money off of it. By the way they.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Made the Guinea rule that you had to keep you
had to stay together.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I thought it was at least a year to keep
the ring.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Otherwise you had to give it back, and they have
a file cabinet full of them.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
By my time, it was three years because Ed and
I had been together for a year. Yeah, I don't
want it three years?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
So did you end up paying for it?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
They didn't make me pay for it? No, but they did.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
They didn't.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
He did. Who wasn't It wasn't Rob Mills. It was
the other lawyer. I think he was also a raw
I think it was Aylor lawyer. Anyway, he did send
me a huge thing of what I can and can't
do with it, and to me, I didn't really care
at that point, and it's kind of ugly and it
was kind of looks like a football ring offense to
Neil Lane, I don't know. And we have enough jewelry
(20:20):
now that it's like, I think we'll just meet as
a family heirloom. Mummy did this crazy thing, and this
is the ring from that.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
That's funny, you know, it's funny. I have my engagement
ring that was a Harry Winston in my safe too,
and I'm just like, I'll just keep it and if
Blakeslee wants it, or we want to make it into
a necklace someday, or Max wants to give it to
somebody he asked to Mary, Great, then he can do that.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, yeah, those are the days. Well, I'm glad you
got to keep that because you deserved it.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I mean, you were and we've often.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I think we met for the first time at the
Janner wedding.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, right at the Jade and Tanner wedding.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I just was looking of that reason.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
It's so fun and I love that big group picture
of all of us.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah, yeah, it was so funny.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
We came away from that in Canyon, my wife was like,
I just feel like Jillian Harris and I would be
best friends.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I'm like, I know.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I was pregnant. You know I was pregnant?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Then yes, No, I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
No, I don't know if I was pregnant. So I
wasn't drinking at the Janner wedding. Now you think Kenyan
loved me, then how about billionaires drinking? Because I am
a whole new level of like, I'm like jillionaires times
one hundred.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Times one hundred. Oh my god, that's so awesome. Well
we'll have to see that. We'll have to see that. Yes,
I'd like that very much.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, yeah, okay, so one of the biggest pieces of
news lately in Bachelor Nation. Oh, before I get to that,
do you watch the show anymore?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I don't. And it's not because I don't like it.
It's my ADHD. I don't know. I think I don't
know when this started. And two our kids are at
this age that first of all, we have to put
them to bed still, this is so embarrassing, but they're
almost nine and seven, and we stopped to lay down
with both of them to go to bed and there's
such night owls that by the time they fall asleep,
(22:14):
I'm going to bed, like I'm yea calling people with them,
or I go to bed and then while they're awake.
Justine's actually quite strict as to like what he allows
our kids to like consecuod for him, I'm not. I'm
like last night Annie and I fell asleep looking at
the anatomy of a vagina because I was explaining to
her that the vagina is actually the whole in the middle,
it's not the labia. So that's what like, I'm super
(22:38):
super super open, but Justin would not allow our kids
to watch.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Oh my gosh, Justin needs to give me some lessons.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I So I'm the you and canyons, the Justin Yeah,
And I'm just like like, She'll be like, I won't
know that she has told the boys this. Maybe no,
there's no YouTube, you know nothing, and they'll come in
and go, hey, daddy, can we watch YouTube on your phone.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I'm like, gosh, sure you go.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
And then I'm in the doghouse for like the better
part of a week trying to claw my way out.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
So I need some lessons on how to how to
strip it up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
A very common conversation around our house is just insane
to me, What the hell are you thinking, I'm like.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Because.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I wasn't thinking. I was just doing. Oh I love that.
Oh my gosh. So you're going to be the one
having the birds and bees conversation like I.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Did with exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, okay. So one of the biggest pieces of news
lately is that they're going to be redoing or renovating
the Bachelor mansion.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Needs needs to be done.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Have you gotten a call from ABC or no.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Like, really, it would be from AHGTV. Actually I've heard if.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
They contacted me and wanted me to do it, I
said I was not going to do any more TV. Okay,
but I would do that. But yeah, I'm not really
an interior like okay. So when I was when I
got scouted for the show, I had taken two years
of interior designer courses and I was a restaurant designer.
(24:16):
That's all I did. I think I did one or
two houses, but I had never done like residential. I
only did restaurant. And then I was on the show
positioned as an interior designer, and then I got hired
on by Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Sorry, I need to
focus my thing. I got brought on Extreme Ocover Edition,
but that's not really interior design. It's more like decorating,
(24:37):
which is probably what this house would want, but it's
it's not really legit, Like you're not really a legit designer.
You're more just like picking up pink colors and like,
it's not like cad and specifications and binders. And then
when I was done with Extreme Ocover Home Edition, I
went straight to lever or list It and loved her.
List It. You have legit interior designers that are bringing
(24:58):
your vision to life. So I was basically just like
a glorified client. Really yeah, and now I have Now
I don't do interior design. Now I have the jillibox
and my Instagram page, and I don't do any interior
Like I hired an interior designer for our new house,
I'm not doing the interior design. However, I could play
(25:18):
the interior designer for The Bachelor Mansion Show. I would
just need a design team and I could give my
the jillionaires aesthetic.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
There you go like it?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
That would really work. And I'm great on camera. I'm
great for drama. I think this would be a great
like four part episode was.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
For sure for sure. I don't know why they wouldn't
because actually we've heard that they are higher. They're bringing
people from Bachelor Nation.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
But what about Joelle Joel Joelle Jojo will do it?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, I'm sure Jojo would do it. For sure. Jojo
and Jordan, they're a team. We actually just had Chris
Lambdon on and I think he he does some renovations.
There's Tyler Cameron.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I mean they have.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
More did I did a Rocky Mountain reno show. I've
definitely was not the brains of the operation and had
had the team behind us too. But yeah, no, they're
bringing people back. You are a natural fit. You were
on the original Extreme Makeover.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Yes, I'm interested.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I think I mean we're putting it out there in
the universe.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yes, yeah, Trista still the whole it's called.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I won't say. For the longest time, I never had
time like I would have loved her listed and I
had babies in COVID and other than the Bachelorette reunion,
I never had time to come to any of these events.
But recently I'm starting to have fomo.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Oh we need to do something like for real, we
have talked so long on our little text chain, which
has been radio silent for years. I feel like.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
That's so awesome that we have not we do, but
we never.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Do anything with it anymore. We need to We need
to bring it back. We need to bring it back
and get a trip on the books because it would
be amazing to get all the girls together. But also
I have always told Rob Mills, we need to do
a like a reunion for everybody, Like how crazy would
(27:27):
it be? They don't have to fly everybody in, but
maybe it would be in LA because I don't know
where it would be.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
But specialty discounts on the people can pay for their
own right, we're all adults.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, totally, Like just a big, huge fun party.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Televise it and we'll be.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
There after you guys did the Bachelorette reunion.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I kept waiting for them to call for the Bachelor reunion,
like I thought they would do one, you know what,
And they just didn't do it, And I was like,
oh my god, this would be so interesting to me
because you don't.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
We're interesting with the ladies because it's the hair that's true,
Like you guys are all just be sitting around farting
in the same outfit like Firestone.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Firestone and I love getting our hair done. It's true.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Everyone knows that if we can get a little blow up,
we're both happy with that. I can't all right, we
have so much more we want to ask Jillian. So
we are going to take a quick break and we return.
We'll have more Almost Famous ogs with Gillian Harris.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
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