BREAKING NEWS: Matt James Breaks His Silence

Ben & Ashley are talking all things Matt James & Rachel Kirkconnell's split and there's so much to get into. From cleaning his IG of her to breaking his silence since the original post, they share why this may be the best way to do things for the former Bachelor nation couple.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. We have some news
to discuss. I'm not gonna call it breaking news now,
it's just news and it's updates. Maybe maybe this is
the best way to say it. We have some updates
to give you in relation to the Matt James Rachel breakup. Obviously,
we talked about Rachel going on Call Her Daddy. A

(00:28):
lot of information was shared on that show about their breakup.
If you want to go back and listen to that
if you're kind of just catching up on this story.
The reason it's a story in general because Ashley and
myself we don't love talking about breakups on this show.
The reason this is a story, though, is because of
how it was done. Matt James did it. Supposedly, it

(00:50):
was just like a few hours after the breakup. Rachel
was on a flight and so, you know, Bachelor Nation
kind of reacted and said, like, what's happening here? We
want more answers. Well, we have some answers today. Matt
James showed back up on social media. Ashley, what do
you know about it?

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, so he took a two three week break ever
since the announcement of their breakup, which was wait, this
is weird. I'm looking at his Instagram right now. He
deleted the breakup announcement.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Whoa, that is breaking news. Now we do have news. Yeah, wait,
it's not there. That post isn't here right now. Wow,
but she is still there.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
He hasn't deleted any other videos or posts with Rachel.

Speaker 5 (01:36):
But it's so weird the breakup post is gone.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
I'm sorry if this is old news to you guys,
but I haven't seen any headlines about him deleting the
breakup yet.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
All I've seen is that his first video posted since
the breakup announcement, at least is that he is doing
it looks like running training in Kenya.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Just has morning run with friends in Kenya, and then
he posted to a story. Now there's something similar about
his trip in Kenya. The question is, is this weird?

Speaker 5 (02:07):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I don't think it's weird necessarily, because what do we
expect of him to come back and try to speak
further into what Rachel's already spoken into. And I don't
know if there's space if he honestly and these are assumptions,
if he felt like something she said during that interview
with call Her Daddy was worth confronting, correcting, protecting, or whatever.

(02:33):
He would have done it. But I'm assuming based on
this maneuver he's saying, no, what she said is true.
I'm regretful for how I posted about this breakup. We
are broken up. This She did say a lot of
things about our relationship, mostly it was protective of me,
and now I'm going to move forward with a whole

(02:54):
separate chapter of life. So I don't think it's weird
more than it's just disregarding what most people are interested in.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Like, well, you know it's out there that he broke
up with her, and I think it's just yeah, well guys,
you know the story, so we're moving on that.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
You're right, just like this is a new chapter, and it's.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Kind of I think it might be just kind of
nice that this symbolizes that it's not going to be
some back and forth breakup.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I agree. I think it's nice that that's going to
be the case. I think from the interview that Rachel did,
we have perspective on how it happened. I don't know
if there's anything else to be said. Also, I do
think The key here would be if he felt like
there was something to confront, he would have confronted it.

(03:44):
But I don't think he thinks there's anything to confront
at this point. I think it's just a move on
chapter for him, and that's that's fair. He has every
right to do it. I'm also still I think Rachel
had every right to go on that show because she
gave a lot of clarity to the questions that everybody
was asking and probably making worse assumptions about their breakup

(04:07):
without her doing that interview, like did he cheat on her? Yeah,
did he step out? Those kind of things. She answered those.
But Matt James's back, he's running in Kenya, he is
at a training facility, and that's the best we got
right now. That's the biggest update, and it's probably going
to be the only update that we now have moving forward.

(04:27):
I'm assuming both of them are going to be transitioning
to whatever this next chapter.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Looks like they still follow each other on Instagram, and
that's not surprising to me, As she said on her
on the podcast, that they've been talking ever since.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
So I don't think that there's.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Like a lot of hostility between the two of them
just sadness.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
So we'll see where this goes.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
And I'm more thoughtful now about why he deleted the
post that was just so infamous, Like everybody knows what
the post said, what it looked like, and it can
be found on the internet so very easily.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Why did you delete it from your feed?

Speaker 2 (05:04):
I think Matt has probably I think having it up
there probably is just a reminder of a mistake he made,
I would assume, and getting it down just feels like.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
A mistake he made in posting before she knew he
was going to post et cetera.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Which he's owned up to. She said, Well, that's a
big update on the Matt James Rachel situation. I assume
unless new major updates come about, this is probably going
to be the end of the Almost Famous podcast talking
about this. But if there are bigger new updates that
present themselves, you know we will be talking about it
right here. So until next time, I've been Ben.

Speaker 5 (05:40):
I've been Ashley. See you guys.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
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