July 10, 2025 • 12 mins
Ben and Ashley are breaking down the latest in Bachelor Nation headlines! The Bachelor is returning for season 30, but Ashley doesn’t want the obvious choices. Who do you think will be the next lead??
The next Golden Bachelor has made his preferences clear, long before the show’s premiere! Will he even make it to filming??
Plus, which Bachelor Nation alum are we speculating is the host of a new TV show?? Listen to find out!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I almost famous podcast
with ONET Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is the almost famous podcast. We're here today to
break down headlines, and we do have a few Ashley's
with us to break down everything good happening in Bachelor
Nation that we want to share with you all. Ashley
first headline is this. It's a big one, the biggest
of ones. It keeps our job still available for at
least another year.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Which is cool.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The Bachelor has been picked up for season thirty now, Ashley,
rumor has it Jason Tardik is the front runner to
become the next Bachelor, along with some other names like
Dale Moss. So in your breakdown the Bachelor being picked
up for season thirty, please let us know if you
think those are two good choices for your next.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Bachelor to be for real, I wasn't sure if I
remembered this headline What's a thing, or whether I dreamed
of it. It is official, the show has been picked
up up. People were saying that they were going to
use paradise ratings paradise excitement to decide whether or not
they can continue with The Bachelor. Well, I guess that
wasn't a true statement. They are if they're between. I
(01:14):
don't think they'll ever pick Dale, Okay, Do I think
that in an ideal world, they would love the bachelor
to come from Paradise all on Nick and Colton. Yes,
the person is fresh in their memory. Or they could
choose someone like Jason, who is fresh on people's memory
because he's so prevalent on social media and he had
such a high profile relationship with Caitlin. I don't want
(01:34):
the bachelor to be either of those men. Can we
come up with somebody else?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
But both of them seem like they'd be in it
too much for the attention.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, well they are the two front runners from what
we're hearing behind the scenes right now. We're going to
see how that happens. It means Dale Moss doesn't end
up with anybody from Paradise, not shocked, but it would
be in if they do become the next Bachelor. I
would I would say I would be more interested in
somebody that we don't know from the franchise.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Well, no, I think we needed to be somebody we
really know. Now, Jason makes a lot of sense to me,
and a lot of women are going to want it
to be Jason, And do I think that he could
carry the show. Absolutely sure. I can't really even think
of somebody else that is single and so prevalent as
such a prevalent alum. Can you can you can be
(02:32):
throw out a name. I can't Heather producer Heather. Is
there anyone else that is up to par with.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I think it's going to be Jason. I'll put my
money on now. I think Jason Tartik will be our
next Bachelor.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
We didn't have a Bachelorette season, so they're not going
to choose from a Bachelorette season.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Gen's cast was full of.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
We obviously are not picking from Gen's cast. We would
be going back in time to pick one. They are
apparently actively casting right now. But I do think it
would be a mistake if they picked someone random. Yeah,
I agree, really no, look what they did. They picked
someone random for Golden Bachelor, and that leads us into
(03:12):
our next headline.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, Jesse Palmer gives updates.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
If you haven't heard, mel Owens came on a podcast
and said some things that people didn't enjoy. The headline
says Jesse Palmer gives updates on the Bachelor franchise Season thirty,
Golden Star mel Owens.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, he said, I've seen the headlines obviously because I'm
on social media. I have not heard the podcast. The
podcast came out in early June, so we haven't started
filming Golden yet. Haven't spent a lot of time with
mel the short amount of time that I have spent
with him, he seems like a good guy. But I
know we're going to get to spend a lot of time,
a lot of more time with him pretty soon, and
(03:52):
I'm sure that's something we're going to talk about, So
that last sentence there, But I know I'm going to
get to spend a lot more time with him pretty
pretty soon, and those headlines are something we're going to
talk about. So if you guys aren't aware, early June
he did a random podcast. It wasn't a podcast in
which I know the name of, but he said on
(04:14):
it that he wants women from the ages of forty
five to sixty and that anybody above the age of
sixty would be getting cut early. Has was he not
informed that per the past two Golden seasons, the casting
starts at age sixty. There are no fifty somethings unless
(04:37):
you're Kelsey's dad, which they made a little bit of
an exception for he was fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It's not starting out well.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I'll say this, My money is on mel Owens never
becoming our Golden Bachelor at this point.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
As I think he shouldn't be. I think they I
think Jesse was being really pc. He probably didn't really
know what was going on at the time of this interview.
But like, if they make this guy the Golden Bachelor
after this comment, there's really no coming back from this comment.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, I would say I actually would have appreciated if
Jesse would have stood up for the Golden Show a
little bit more during this comment and said, no, sorry,
he's out. This show is about the Goldens finding love,
and it's not about who is the most attractive, or
who is the youngest or the best shape or whatever.
That's exactly what this show isn't about. This show is
(05:24):
about love stories, and it's about people as they get
into this season of life, finding love again or finding
love for the first time.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
As and he's out, We're done.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I would have loved that because I think if they
continue with it, it's going to discredit the whole idea
of what this show is created to be. Anyways, my
opinion strong opinion. I'll put my stake in the ground
right now and be willing to change it if I
meet what mel owns. I'm like, oh no, you can't
do anybody other than this guy. But I think he
should be out.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I believe that they were supposed to start filming within
the July timeline.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I think that that's what they're stressed about. He also
need to mention said I would like no fake hips
and no wigs. Lots of fans are putting his picture
next to Jonathan, you know, handsome Jonathan from jone season,
because when he was in the reunion show, he had
(06:21):
announced that he had a new girlfriend. Hey, and the
girlfriend have now split, so he is single.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Bring him in, Bring him in.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Big update here, switching gears a little bit to Katie Thurston.
We've talked a lot about the Katie Thurston story and
her getting diagnosed with breast cancer. We've had her on
the show to talk about this diagnosis and it's been
kind of quiet. But Katie Thurston shares that breast cancer
tumors are shrinking in new posts.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, we're so excited, We're so so happy. The reason
that Katie hasn't really been giving updates is well. She's
been giving updates on her booby broadcast on Instagram all
the time, but like headline wise, it's because she's been
doing treatment, but she hasn't known yet whether or not
the treatment was working. And she got her three month
scan this week, and we are so excited to again
(07:13):
say that her tumors are shrinking. Even the one that
was on her liver, it can barely be detected in
the scan now, so that is absolutely fantastic news. We're
so happy. She wrote that this is amazing news. I'm
so relieved. People don't people don't realize as it stands
right now, I'll be on a treatment plan for life.
There isn't a cure for breast cancer, you know, at
(07:33):
stage four, but as long as funding for medical research continues,
especially for met survivor meta vivors, I'm assuming that means
fantastasized survivors, then there's a chance at continuing a long,
healthy life. Yay.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Three more headlines for you all that we're going to
kind of run through, But the first one is one
that we want us to spend a little time on
and say congratulations. Peter Cross. He just came on our
show a few weeks ago kind of dropped the bomb
that within the next year this would happen. But Peter
Crause is engaged to his girlfriend Hannah after one year
(08:27):
of dating.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
We are also so thrilled about this. The pictures stunning, stunning,
a big American flag in the background, sunset on a
lake out in Wisconsin where he lives and she now lives.
He told us on the podcast a couple months ago, yes,
that the engagement would be coming. I don't think that
(08:51):
it's a surprise that it came this soon. He basically
seemed like he had the ring in his pocket at
the time that he was talking to us. So happy
for them. You should definitely go check out these pictures.
They are stunning.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
They are and this isn't a shock to our show
because he did drop it. So go back and listen
to it. You get a good sense of the love
that they share. Claire Crawley details husband Ryan's scary bike's
bike accident and reveals how he's doing.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
So he got in this accident, she was in the
emergency room with him and said, not on our weekend
bucket list, but here we are. He was out cycling
and on his way up to meet us somewhere. He
was about two minutes away and an suv sideswiped him
and he was going fast and he crashed his bike
(09:39):
and these guys didn't even go stop and help him.
They just kept driving along. That is nuts. She showed
a picture of a broken headphone that he was wearing
at the time and said, bless helmets. This could have
been so much worse. He's now home and Okay, thank god,
we're gonna be hurting, and like he's gonna be hurting
for a bit. His ribs are a little bit jacked,
ub he's got road rash, but so grateful that it
(10:02):
wasn't worse.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Very grateful. Final headlines is this. There's rumors buzzing around.
It isn't confirmed by any means, but there are rumors
going around that Gabby Wendy might be hosting Alex Cooper's
from Call Her Daddy's new dating show she's producing, and
the speculation comes from a front of ours.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yes, Zachary Reality says that this new show that they're
filming I believe they started filming last month on for
Hulu is a unique dating show. The working title is
called Overboard for Love, and I know that there are
some of our friends that are working on this show.
Then our friends are working on the show, not just
(10:48):
reporting on the show, and it would make sense for
them to cast Gabby, who they worked with alongside on Bachelorette. Now,
the reason that people are putting two and two together
here is that the show was recently filmed on a
yacht in Malta. And where has Gabby recently been? Seems
(11:09):
like she might be in Malta. Yes, so that seems
I would say this makes a lot of sense there.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I wouldn't be shocked. It's a good fit.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
No, it's also about singles mixing. There's a twist where
they're like have to play a game, so it's kind
of like Bachelor and gameplay from Traders together.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Let's see if we're the breaking news now, the second
news source to make this happen. I'll say right now,
if she is the host, I want Almost Famous to
also get some type of credit for breaking this news,
along with Zachary Reality because we're friends with shared I.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Guess my question would be the it's if it's Alex
Cooper's show, why isn't Alex Cooper just hosting it though, right,
so would Gabby just be like a side host.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I don't think Alex Cooper is doing much hosting. I
think she is simply producing this show. Okay, it is
going underneath her brand. Okay, that continues to be huge. Hey,
this is the Almost Famous podcast. We're happy to be
talking today. Ask the headlines we have. Congratulations once again
to Peter Krause. Also to Katie Thurston on the recent news.
(12:19):
There's obviously some big headlines coming your way. They never
stop and moving back next week breaking down more headlines.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
But until next time, I've been.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Then I've been, Ashley, Love you bye.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Follow the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcasts on
iHeartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts
This is the Ben and Ashley I almost famous podcast
with ONET Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is the almost famous podcast. We're here today to
break down headlines, and we do have a few Ashley's
with us to break down everything good happening in Bachelor
Nation that we want to share with you all. Ashley
first headline is this. It's a big one, the biggest
of ones. It keeps our job still available for at
least another year.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Which is cool.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The Bachelor has been picked up for season thirty now, Ashley,
rumor has it Jason Tardik is the front runner to
become the next Bachelor, along with some other names like
Dale Moss. So in your breakdown the Bachelor being picked
up for season thirty, please let us know if you
think those are two good choices for your next.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Bachelor to be for real, I wasn't sure if I
remembered this headline What's a thing, or whether I dreamed
of it. It is official, the show has been picked
up up. People were saying that they were going to
use paradise ratings paradise excitement to decide whether or not
they can continue with The Bachelor. Well, I guess that
wasn't a true statement. They are if they're between. I
(01:14):
don't think they'll ever pick Dale, Okay, Do I think
that in an ideal world, they would love the bachelor
to come from Paradise all on Nick and Colton. Yes,
the person is fresh in their memory. Or they could
choose someone like Jason, who is fresh on people's memory
because he's so prevalent on social media and he had
such a high profile relationship with Caitlin. I don't want
(01:34):
the bachelor to be either of those men. Can we
come up with somebody else?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
But both of them seem like they'd be in it
too much for the attention.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, well they are the two front runners from what
we're hearing behind the scenes right now. We're going to
see how that happens. It means Dale Moss doesn't end
up with anybody from Paradise, not shocked, but it would
be in if they do become the next Bachelor. I
would I would say I would be more interested in
somebody that we don't know from the franchise.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Well, no, I think we needed to be somebody we
really know. Now, Jason makes a lot of sense to me,
and a lot of women are going to want it
to be Jason, And do I think that he could
carry the show. Absolutely sure. I can't really even think
of somebody else that is single and so prevalent as
such a prevalent alum. Can you can you can be
(02:32):
throw out a name. I can't Heather producer Heather. Is
there anyone else that is up to par with.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I think it's going to be Jason. I'll put my
money on now. I think Jason Tartik will be our
next Bachelor.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
We didn't have a Bachelorette season, so they're not going
to choose from a Bachelorette season.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Gen's cast was full of.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
We obviously are not picking from Gen's cast. We would
be going back in time to pick one. They are
apparently actively casting right now. But I do think it
would be a mistake if they picked someone random. Yeah,
I agree, really no, look what they did. They picked
someone random for Golden Bachelor, and that leads us into
(03:12):
our next headline.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, Jesse Palmer gives updates.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
If you haven't heard, mel Owens came on a podcast
and said some things that people didn't enjoy. The headline
says Jesse Palmer gives updates on the Bachelor franchise Season thirty,
Golden Star mel Owens.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, he said, I've seen the headlines obviously because I'm
on social media. I have not heard the podcast. The
podcast came out in early June, so we haven't started
filming Golden yet. Haven't spent a lot of time with
mel the short amount of time that I have spent
with him, he seems like a good guy. But I
know we're going to get to spend a lot of time,
a lot of more time with him pretty soon, and
(03:52):
I'm sure that's something we're going to talk about, So
that last sentence there, But I know I'm going to
get to spend a lot more time with him pretty
pretty soon, and those headlines are something we're going to
talk about. So if you guys aren't aware, early June
he did a random podcast. It wasn't a podcast in
which I know the name of, but he said on
(04:14):
it that he wants women from the ages of forty
five to sixty and that anybody above the age of
sixty would be getting cut early. Has was he not
informed that per the past two Golden seasons, the casting
starts at age sixty. There are no fifty somethings unless
(04:37):
you're Kelsey's dad, which they made a little bit of
an exception for he was fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It's not starting out well.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I'll say this, My money is on mel Owens never
becoming our Golden Bachelor at this point.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
As I think he shouldn't be. I think they I
think Jesse was being really pc. He probably didn't really
know what was going on at the time of this interview.
But like, if they make this guy the Golden Bachelor
after this comment, there's really no coming back from this comment.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, I would say I actually would have appreciated if
Jesse would have stood up for the Golden Show a
little bit more during this comment and said, no, sorry,
he's out. This show is about the Goldens finding love,
and it's not about who is the most attractive, or
who is the youngest or the best shape or whatever.
That's exactly what this show isn't about. This show is
(05:24):
about love stories, and it's about people as they get
into this season of life, finding love again or finding
love for the first time.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
As and he's out, We're done.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I would have loved that because I think if they
continue with it, it's going to discredit the whole idea
of what this show is created to be. Anyways, my
opinion strong opinion. I'll put my stake in the ground
right now and be willing to change it if I
meet what mel owns. I'm like, oh no, you can't
do anybody other than this guy. But I think he
should be out.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I believe that they were supposed to start filming within
the July timeline.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I think that that's what they're stressed about. He also
need to mention said I would like no fake hips
and no wigs. Lots of fans are putting his picture
next to Jonathan, you know, handsome Jonathan from jone season,
because when he was in the reunion show, he had
(06:21):
announced that he had a new girlfriend. Hey, and the
girlfriend have now split, so he is single.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Bring him in, Bring him in.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Big update here, switching gears a little bit to Katie Thurston.
We've talked a lot about the Katie Thurston story and
her getting diagnosed with breast cancer. We've had her on
the show to talk about this diagnosis and it's been
kind of quiet. But Katie Thurston shares that breast cancer
tumors are shrinking in new posts.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, we're so excited, We're so so happy. The reason
that Katie hasn't really been giving updates is well. She's
been giving updates on her booby broadcast on Instagram all
the time, but like headline wise, it's because she's been
doing treatment, but she hasn't known yet whether or not
the treatment was working. And she got her three month
scan this week, and we are so excited to again
(07:13):
say that her tumors are shrinking. Even the one that
was on her liver, it can barely be detected in
the scan now, so that is absolutely fantastic news. We're
so happy. She wrote that this is amazing news. I'm
so relieved. People don't people don't realize as it stands
right now, I'll be on a treatment plan for life.
There isn't a cure for breast cancer, you know, at
(07:33):
stage four, but as long as funding for medical research continues,
especially for met survivor meta vivors, I'm assuming that means
fantastasized survivors, then there's a chance at continuing a long,
healthy life. Yay.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Three more headlines for you all that we're going to
kind of run through, But the first one is one
that we want us to spend a little time on
and say congratulations. Peter Cross. He just came on our
show a few weeks ago kind of dropped the bomb
that within the next year this would happen. But Peter
Crause is engaged to his girlfriend Hannah after one year
(08:27):
of dating.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
We are also so thrilled about this. The pictures stunning, stunning,
a big American flag in the background, sunset on a
lake out in Wisconsin where he lives and she now lives.
He told us on the podcast a couple months ago, yes,
that the engagement would be coming. I don't think that
(08:51):
it's a surprise that it came this soon. He basically
seemed like he had the ring in his pocket at
the time that he was talking to us. So happy
for them. You should definitely go check out these pictures.
They are stunning.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
They are and this isn't a shock to our show
because he did drop it. So go back and listen
to it. You get a good sense of the love
that they share. Claire Crawley details husband Ryan's scary bike's
bike accident and reveals how he's doing.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
So he got in this accident, she was in the
emergency room with him and said, not on our weekend
bucket list, but here we are. He was out cycling
and on his way up to meet us somewhere. He
was about two minutes away and an suv sideswiped him
and he was going fast and he crashed his bike
(09:39):
and these guys didn't even go stop and help him.
They just kept driving along. That is nuts. She showed
a picture of a broken headphone that he was wearing
at the time and said, bless helmets. This could have
been so much worse. He's now home and Okay, thank god,
we're gonna be hurting, and like he's gonna be hurting
for a bit. His ribs are a little bit jacked,
ub he's got road rash, but so grateful that it
(10:02):
wasn't worse.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Very grateful. Final headlines is this. There's rumors buzzing around.
It isn't confirmed by any means, but there are rumors
going around that Gabby Wendy might be hosting Alex Cooper's
from Call Her Daddy's new dating show she's producing, and
the speculation comes from a front of ours.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yes, Zachary Reality says that this new show that they're
filming I believe they started filming last month on for
Hulu is a unique dating show. The working title is
called Overboard for Love, and I know that there are
some of our friends that are working on this show.
Then our friends are working on the show, not just
(10:48):
reporting on the show, and it would make sense for
them to cast Gabby, who they worked with alongside on Bachelorette. Now,
the reason that people are putting two and two together
here is that the show was recently filmed on a
yacht in Malta. And where has Gabby recently been? Seems
(11:09):
like she might be in Malta. Yes, so that seems
I would say this makes a lot of sense there.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I wouldn't be shocked. It's a good fit.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
No, it's also about singles mixing. There's a twist where
they're like have to play a game, so it's kind
of like Bachelor and gameplay from Traders together.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Let's see if we're the breaking news now, the second
news source to make this happen. I'll say right now,
if she is the host, I want Almost Famous to
also get some type of credit for breaking this news,
along with Zachary Reality because we're friends with shared I.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Guess my question would be the it's if it's Alex
Cooper's show, why isn't Alex Cooper just hosting it though, right,
so would Gabby just be like a side host.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I don't think Alex Cooper is doing much hosting. I
think she is simply producing this show. Okay, it is
going underneath her brand. Okay, that continues to be huge. Hey,
this is the Almost Famous podcast. We're happy to be
talking today. Ask the headlines we have. Congratulations once again
to Peter Krause. Also to Katie Thurston on the recent news.
(12:19):
There's obviously some big headlines coming your way. They never
stop and moving back next week breaking down more headlines.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
But until next time, I've been.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Then I've been, Ashley, Love you bye.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Follow the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcasts on
iHeartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts
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