February 24, 2025 • 10 mins
She once was looking for love on "The Bachelor," and now, she's helping people find their dream homes on "Million Dollar Listing." Tammy Ly shares what it was really like crossing over from one reality show to the other, including how she navigated the crazy drama and getting ghosted on both shows.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. Today we
have someone you haven't heard of in a while, but
she is back and she's on a show that is
very popular. You saw her during Peter Webber season. It's
Tammy Lee. Hello everyone, Hello Tammy. When I met you
(00:27):
at Women Tell All, we like had a great girl
moment and I was like, wait a second, you're sown
on a villain.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I know.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I remember that moment too because I was going through
the trenches back in the day.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
So I appreciate your help with that, but it was good.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I think that the show obviously makes people look and
feel are not our best sometimes, And yeah, I was
also young and a whole different person now.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I feel like, so, how did this happen? It's been
five years since Peter season and now you're on a
million dollar listing la are How did they find you?
Did they know you from the show or is this
a totally fresh thing.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's a totally fresh thing.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I joined Tracy Tutor's team here in LA two years
ago when I got my license in California, and I
started being really back and forth between New York and
Los Angeles. But yeah, so I join and we just film,
and it's so different than filming The Bachelor because we
get to have our cell phones and we can touch
our mics, and we can talk to producers and it's
(01:34):
just they just film us working and going through our
daily lives. And it's so different than filming The Bachelor
because you're just you know, restricted, no phones, you don't
know what time it is. So it was such a
like three sixty of different ways of filming, but it's
a different show.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So so does it feel like kind of a nine
to five job where you know, you put your mic
on in the morning, you take it off at night,
and you just kind of about your actual job while filming,
Like how much of it is not you know, we
don't like to use the word scripted, but maybe a
little staged.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's actually not staged. Some of the things.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
We wish it was more stage because it would get
more you know, realistic timelines of how buyers and sellers
work with each other. But it's we have set filming
days and we tell them what listenings we have active
and what's going on between the other agents, and they
kind of coordinate when we're going to film and what
(02:34):
we're going to be filming. But we're just going through
the motions as if we were working, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Really so, it's as if you're just being filmed doing
a realtor job. Yeah, then how does the drama? Would
you say that like when you're just doing a regular
job as a realtor? Would you say that drama occurs
like that or is it because the personality is in
your company?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I would say both.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
We're a pretty badass girl group and we are very sassy,
and we work with other agents and I think, I mean,
I've been doing this for eight years now. The Los
Angeles real estate agents are a different animal. Like it
is a drama. Some people won't show each other houses
because they don't like each other.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It's just wild.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
That is so interesting. Tell us about that. Just like
the housing market right now, what's the status? Is it
a good time to buy? Is it a buyer seller's market?
I don't know. I've been out of the buying game
for a couple of years now, but I'm always interested.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
A realtor will tell you that it's a great time
to buy and sell. After last month, La obviously got
hit with a ton of fires. It's very sad, and
we were so busy out of nowhere. Seven days into
the new year. You know, a lot of families lost
their homes, so we were trying to find all of
our clients temporary housing, what are they going to do
with their house, try to figure out their insurance with them,
(03:58):
and then try to find them maybe a potential more
permanent home for the next two to three years while
they rebuild.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
There's just so much going on, Like we had an
influx like.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
The night of the fires, like twenty thirty people reaching
out to us trying to help them relocate. And everyone
wants to stay on the West Side because that's where
their whole lives are, but they can't really live. Yeah,
the fires were still going on, so it was just
really hectic and crazy. It was very sad. A lot
of my clients you know, have nothing, you know, and
it was very heartbreaking, so sad.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So sad. And now is there like a you guys
just have you don't have enough places for these able
to live now, right, So they're all moving further east in.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
That they're moving to OC they're moving to San Diego.
There's just it's the wild wild rest right now.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I mean we're getting a ton of inventory in, but
it's still not enough for all the people that lost
their homes.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Now, you were a realtor when you were on the Bachelor.
You've been a realtor for eight years. Now, did it
help or hurt your business being on the Bachelor?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
You know, it's so funny.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
So I was newly a realtor probably for a couple
of years when I had my first show, and I
obviously became a villain at some point in people from
like Kansas, the Midwest.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
They were like leaving reviews about me, saying that I'm
a bad real estate agent. And it was really funny.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I mean, it's funny to laugh out about right now,
but it was really traumatizing during that time because like
people are like with my business.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
But I actually ended up helping my business.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I think obviously people know who I am now in
my small town, and I have credibility now as well
with you know my business and who I am. So
I've had definitely people try to reach out to view
homes just to meet me sometimes, but we do a
whole vetting process.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
That's so for safety precautions.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Oh okay, well that's great. We have seen as part
of million Dollar listing some romance. How's your romantic life going?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
So I didn't find love on The Bachelor or Bachelor
in Paradise, but I did find it through The Bachelor
my really good friends Chason and Spencer, who are on
Clarentatious season. I was close with them for a very
long time during COVID and still kept up with them
to this day. And I met my curve boyfriend now
through them, so they were both friends with him.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, so technically the Bachelor.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Did help me. There's lots of people who have met
that way and I love that. I love fate stories.
Do we see any of your boyfriend on the show.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
He's filmed a couple of times, but they don't really
cut out so much. I mean, you know TV, so
I don't think I've seen him on any episodes. If
you did, it might be like the side of his head.
But he also works like a very intense job, so
he's such a he's like a very normal person. He's
an attorney, so he's always like working. He doesn't really
go to my events with me or filming.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, if you would, you say that being on the
Bachelor helped in your career at all. Besides, like you know,
people trying to get viewings with you. Would you say
that like it gave you people like certain like insight
into people.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yes and no.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I mean obviously I'm not just your average real estate agent.
I've been on to Vehy couple of times. I mean
Tracy is the same way though, you know, so people
have reached out trying to talk to us and interested
in properties just because it's Tracy.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
So I would say, yeah, who is your favorite client
to work with? Like, what kind of person?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I love my new families?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
A young couple with like maybe a kid or two
who are trying to find like a bigger space for
their growing family. I love those types of clients. I
think it's really cool to see people growing into something
that they thought was a dream and that some point
we were all twenty years old thinking were we ever
going to have children?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Are we ever going to have a home to you know,
build on? And it's very beautiful to see that.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Can you give us a horror story now, like, what
is who's like the worst? Can you think of the
worst client you've ever had and give it to us anonymously.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I love all my clients, I'll say, but there's definitely
been nightmares with people. I've had a client where I
lent them money to borrow I should have done I
should have done that. I was young at the time,
and I lent him money to empty out his house
and he like disappeared. And if I didn't sell this house, like,
I wouldn't have gotten paid and he had he had
(08:39):
like ten leans on his home.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So I think, any good lord, Oh no.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Okay, it's because you're in La. Any celebrity clients.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yes, a popular one. I don't know if I could
say his name. But our teams working with a bunch
of clients, okay, do.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
They tend to be more difficult or the same as
your everyday client?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
The same as your everyday client? You know who I
was really struck on.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I don't normally get like god, I like that, but
I showed a house to Jimmy Jimmy Garofolo.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Is that his name?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh yeah, Jimmy Garoppolo. This podcast tried to set me
up with Jimmy Garoppolo during our first season. I was,
you know, of course, who doesn't love Jimmy. Who doesn't
think he's super hot, and I was like, I want
to date him, and the podcast, like our producers kept
trying to like find a way into that circle, but
(09:38):
it didn't work and I lived happily ever after. Besides
that point, but reason, yeah, I am not surprised that
you had googly eyes over that.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
This man is large, and I'm like, oh my god,
I love that.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
All right, well, Tammy, we appreciate you being here. What
a million dollars million dollar listening is? I know it's
on the streaming services. Is it released all at once
or in episodes?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
It's an episodes I think every week on Bravo and
then you can watch it on Peacock.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, alrighty well, guys check her out on that are
you you're currently on? Right?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
We haven't picked up season sixteen, but I was on
season fifteen and a little bit of season fourteen.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Okay, great, Well you guys if they get picked up,
which I'm sure they will, keep supporting Tammy and watching
that show. All right, Thanks, Tammy, You're welcome. Seeya bye bye.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Follow the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcasts on
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. Today we
have someone you haven't heard of in a while, but
she is back and she's on a show that is
very popular. You saw her during Peter Webber season. It's
Tammy Lee. Hello everyone, Hello Tammy. When I met you
(00:27):
at Women Tell All, we like had a great girl
moment and I was like, wait a second, you're sown
on a villain.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I know.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I remember that moment too because I was going through
the trenches back in the day.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
So I appreciate your help with that, but it was good.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I think that the show obviously makes people look and
feel are not our best sometimes, And yeah, I was
also young and a whole different person now.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I feel like, so, how did this happen? It's been
five years since Peter season and now you're on a
million dollar listing la are How did they find you?
Did they know you from the show or is this
a totally fresh thing.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's a totally fresh thing.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I joined Tracy Tutor's team here in LA two years
ago when I got my license in California, and I
started being really back and forth between New York and
Los Angeles. But yeah, so I join and we just film,
and it's so different than filming The Bachelor because we
get to have our cell phones and we can touch
our mics, and we can talk to producers and it's
(01:34):
just they just film us working and going through our
daily lives. And it's so different than filming The Bachelor
because you're just you know, restricted, no phones, you don't
know what time it is. So it was such a
like three sixty of different ways of filming, but it's
a different show.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So so does it feel like kind of a nine
to five job where you know, you put your mic
on in the morning, you take it off at night,
and you just kind of about your actual job while filming,
Like how much of it is not you know, we
don't like to use the word scripted, but maybe a
little staged.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's actually not staged. Some of the things.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
We wish it was more stage because it would get
more you know, realistic timelines of how buyers and sellers
work with each other. But it's we have set filming
days and we tell them what listenings we have active
and what's going on between the other agents, and they
kind of coordinate when we're going to film and what
(02:34):
we're going to be filming. But we're just going through
the motions as if we were working, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Really so, it's as if you're just being filmed doing
a realtor job. Yeah, then how does the drama? Would
you say that like when you're just doing a regular
job as a realtor? Would you say that drama occurs
like that or is it because the personality is in
your company?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I would say both.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
We're a pretty badass girl group and we are very sassy,
and we work with other agents and I think, I mean,
I've been doing this for eight years now. The Los
Angeles real estate agents are a different animal. Like it
is a drama. Some people won't show each other houses
because they don't like each other.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It's just wild.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
That is so interesting. Tell us about that. Just like
the housing market right now, what's the status? Is it
a good time to buy? Is it a buyer seller's market?
I don't know. I've been out of the buying game
for a couple of years now, but I'm always interested.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
A realtor will tell you that it's a great time
to buy and sell. After last month, La obviously got
hit with a ton of fires. It's very sad, and
we were so busy out of nowhere. Seven days into
the new year. You know, a lot of families lost
their homes, so we were trying to find all of
our clients temporary housing, what are they going to do
with their house, try to figure out their insurance with them,
(03:58):
and then try to find them maybe a potential more
permanent home for the next two to three years while
they rebuild.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
There's just so much going on, Like we had an
influx like.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
The night of the fires, like twenty thirty people reaching
out to us trying to help them relocate. And everyone
wants to stay on the West Side because that's where
their whole lives are, but they can't really live. Yeah,
the fires were still going on, so it was just
really hectic and crazy. It was very sad. A lot
of my clients you know, have nothing, you know, and
it was very heartbreaking, so sad.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So sad. And now is there like a you guys
just have you don't have enough places for these able
to live now, right, So they're all moving further east in.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
That they're moving to OC they're moving to San Diego.
There's just it's the wild wild rest right now.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I mean we're getting a ton of inventory in, but
it's still not enough for all the people that lost
their homes.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Now, you were a realtor when you were on the Bachelor.
You've been a realtor for eight years. Now, did it
help or hurt your business being on the Bachelor?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
You know, it's so funny.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
So I was newly a realtor probably for a couple
of years when I had my first show, and I
obviously became a villain at some point in people from
like Kansas, the Midwest.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
They were like leaving reviews about me, saying that I'm
a bad real estate agent. And it was really funny.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I mean, it's funny to laugh out about right now,
but it was really traumatizing during that time because like
people are like with my business.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
But I actually ended up helping my business.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I think obviously people know who I am now in
my small town, and I have credibility now as well
with you know my business and who I am. So
I've had definitely people try to reach out to view
homes just to meet me sometimes, but we do a
whole vetting process.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
That's so for safety precautions.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Oh okay, well that's great. We have seen as part
of million Dollar listing some romance. How's your romantic life going?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
So I didn't find love on The Bachelor or Bachelor
in Paradise, but I did find it through The Bachelor
my really good friends Chason and Spencer, who are on
Clarentatious season. I was close with them for a very
long time during COVID and still kept up with them
to this day. And I met my curve boyfriend now
through them, so they were both friends with him.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, so technically the Bachelor.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Did help me. There's lots of people who have met
that way and I love that. I love fate stories.
Do we see any of your boyfriend on the show.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
He's filmed a couple of times, but they don't really
cut out so much. I mean, you know TV, so
I don't think I've seen him on any episodes. If
you did, it might be like the side of his head.
But he also works like a very intense job, so
he's such a he's like a very normal person. He's
an attorney, so he's always like working. He doesn't really
go to my events with me or filming.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, if you would, you say that being on the
Bachelor helped in your career at all. Besides, like you know,
people trying to get viewings with you. Would you say
that like it gave you people like certain like insight
into people.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yes and no.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I mean obviously I'm not just your average real estate agent.
I've been on to Vehy couple of times. I mean
Tracy is the same way though, you know, so people
have reached out trying to talk to us and interested
in properties just because it's Tracy.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
So I would say, yeah, who is your favorite client
to work with? Like, what kind of person?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I love my new families?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
A young couple with like maybe a kid or two
who are trying to find like a bigger space for
their growing family. I love those types of clients. I
think it's really cool to see people growing into something
that they thought was a dream and that some point
we were all twenty years old thinking were we ever
going to have children?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Are we ever going to have a home to you know,
build on? And it's very beautiful to see that.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Can you give us a horror story now, like, what
is who's like the worst? Can you think of the
worst client you've ever had and give it to us anonymously.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I love all my clients, I'll say, but there's definitely
been nightmares with people. I've had a client where I
lent them money to borrow I should have done I
should have done that. I was young at the time,
and I lent him money to empty out his house
and he like disappeared. And if I didn't sell this house, like,
I wouldn't have gotten paid and he had he had
(08:39):
like ten leans on his home.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So I think, any good lord, Oh no.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Okay, it's because you're in La. Any celebrity clients.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yes, a popular one. I don't know if I could
say his name. But our teams working with a bunch
of clients, okay, do.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
They tend to be more difficult or the same as
your everyday client?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
The same as your everyday client? You know who I
was really struck on.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I don't normally get like god, I like that, but
I showed a house to Jimmy Jimmy Garofolo.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Is that his name?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh yeah, Jimmy Garoppolo. This podcast tried to set me
up with Jimmy Garoppolo during our first season. I was,
you know, of course, who doesn't love Jimmy. Who doesn't
think he's super hot, and I was like, I want
to date him, and the podcast, like our producers kept
trying to like find a way into that circle, but
(09:38):
it didn't work and I lived happily ever after. Besides
that point, but reason, yeah, I am not surprised that
you had googly eyes over that.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
This man is large, and I'm like, oh my god,
I love that.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
All right, well, Tammy, we appreciate you being here. What
a million dollars million dollar listening is? I know it's
on the streaming services. Is it released all at once
or in episodes?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
It's an episodes I think every week on Bravo and
then you can watch it on Peacock.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, alrighty well, guys check her out on that are
you you're currently on? Right?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
We haven't picked up season sixteen, but I was on
season fifteen and a little bit of season fourteen.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Okay, great, Well you guys if they get picked up,
which I'm sure they will, keep supporting Tammy and watching
that show. All right, Thanks, Tammy, You're welcome. Seeya bye bye.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
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