September 8, 2025 • 25 mins
Not a love connection in Paradise for either one, but Bob is getting the inside scoop from Jonathon and Lea if there could be sparks flying now that cameras have stopped rolling??? Did they know about the Susie drama as it was going down?
Plus, Jonathon clears up how he was REALLY feeling towards Kat in Paradise.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Paradise reunion.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
This is the almost famous podcast with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Okay, almost famous podcast. Guys, I'm so excited to have
you on Leah. You look so different than what I
saw you on your LOREX.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
You switch show.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Few outfit changes, you know, you got to keep.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Them guessing you do.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And Jonathan, my guy, always looking good but I love
the shoes, appreciate it outfit. You know, that's okay. I
didn't bring a wardrobe change either. I haven't changed since
the planes. I feel disgusting. But guys, I'm sure you've
been asked this question a million times. You're both absolutely
beautiful people, very kind. I've gotten to know Jonathan over
over the last year or so. Le it's our first
(01:11):
time meeting. But I don't understand why why isn't there
a love connection here? I mean, honestly, I look at
the two of you, I'm like, what a perfect couple?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Like, what's the deal?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Really? What it is?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
He actually is so in love with me, and it's
just he's scared of it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I understand. I understand letting him, you.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Know, explore what he has to explore. Yeah, no, I'm
just kidding. But we are such good friends, and I
don't know. I think when I was in the setting
of Paradise, mind you, we've met before, yea, and nothing
has ever happened. I've never like been like hate Jathan.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Like you know whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
But I think that when I was there, I was
just so intent on like being in love and finding love,
and Jonathan, I think was the only one remotely, like
I was remotely my type that i'd pursue. Actually, I
take the back, I'd never pursue a man, but.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
That i'd be interested in pursuing.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
The options were limited to you came in and it
was either me or realistically, yeah, they touch.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
On, like I love him to death, but he's just
not my type, right, But yeah, I think we've just
always been good friends and yeah, I don't know, and
he's just tripping because I'm like, amazing you are.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I mean honestly, I mean, come on, buddy, No, No.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
That's the big thing too, is like, and I know
this question is going to come of why did you
friend zone people? And it's like, well, if I don't
feel a romantic connection towards somebody, well I'm not going
to just kick them to.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The curb and be no.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
First of I'm not going to pretend to waste somebody's time.
But also, like, I see how incredible of a person
you are inside out, You're beautiful, Like I want to
be on your side for everything.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Last thing I want to.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Do is burn the bridge and then be like absolutely
not never going to happen immediately off the rip, and
then that's it like, I want to still be on
your side and be there for you and be a
friend that you can lean on if it's not going
to work out romantically. So like when my friends owned
it's because I actually care about everybody on the damn show,
but people look at it as a negative. It's like, yeah,
(03:14):
I could have just been the bad dude, really not
wasted anybody's time, just been like, don't even talk to
me right right?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
You know what I mean, that's not me. I'm not
going to sit here and that amiable guy. You like people,
and you obviously are hilarious.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I mean you're out there entertaining everybody, quick to smile
and make everybody laugh. I'm just saying iought I thought
you know that there was something there now, Leah, before
coming to Paradise, did you kind of like how they
always ask everyone, like, you know, who do you want
to meet here? Did you have anyone that you named
that you wanted to meet that that did show up
or and you were disappointed in what happened there.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I think when I was initially talking to the team
about coming on, I was very much like I think
a handful of these men are handsome, but I'm definitely
a personnally gal and I want to kind of get
to know someone face to face because you know, you
can only see so much on the screen. Sure, So
I think I just walked in very open. I wasn't
(04:10):
specifically looking for one person. Yeah, whatever it may be,
but yeah I was. I think I was just very open.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Sure. Yeah, and how about you? How about you, Jonathan?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
So I literally the exact same thing. That's what I
told you guys last time we spoke, because I was like,
it's not like a physical thing for me, Like I
know what's done behind the camera to show these people
in different line. I want to meet somebody for who
they are in the moment right and then make my
decision there. So I tried to stay away from meeting
people at the show, all my best behaviors, just going
open minded.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And you didn't.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You didn't say like for the producers, there wasn't like
I want to meet these three people.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I think it pissed them off actually, because they're like
pushing it. We want to help you out.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, they give us a clue.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, well you know.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So one of the things I think is kind of interesting,
and this is because I obviously was watching the show
at home with everybody else was there were these times
when you think, oh my god, there seems like there's
so much tension right like, like, for example, you and
Dale right like A lot was made of the fact that,
though editing sometimes would show you almost looking like you
were trying to interfere in Dale and Cat's relationship.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But then I see you and Dale today.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You guys seem fine, but are you fine?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The connection with Cat lasted of whole three days.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
And I knew after twenty four hours when Dale showed
up her reaction. She was standing this close to me
as Dale walked up. Oh my god, it's like as
Cat does. Yeah, I'm sitting there and I'm like, I
didn't get this reaction. I was like, now that I
don't even want it. I don't get that same reaction,
you know what I mean. So from that point on, realistically,
(05:40):
I was like, dude, I'm not gonna shoot my shot
a cat Like, yeah, I still had like that in
the back of my mind, like, hey, I still do
like this girl. I'm not going to just completely write
it off because yeah, I'm not the obvious pick to her.
But after like two days of her just being pretty
locked in on him. I was like, dude, I'm not
about this. So like those moments where I pull her
for a chat to check on her is because a
similar situation like it didn't work out.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
But as a cat, I'm still going to be there
for you individual and a friend. Yep. And it looked
more as if like.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I'm so hanging on this fact that like, oh maybe
me and Kat and it's like.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, come on, well, I mean, no one, I mean,
no one would blame anybody on the show for all
the women are beautiful. You know, you're on a beach,
you're having beverages, you like, you know, sunsets and all
that kind of good stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I totally get it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, but it was it was kind of interesting how
the show played up that tension a little bit, you know,
and it was it was funny because I think the
first time it happened is when they asked me, if
you know who do you want to be the next
bashion I'm.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Like, what's gotta be? My guy? Jonathan? Yeah? Right, So
I was like, yeah, I see what's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, he'd be a really good one, unless you know,
of course, the love connection here happens which you know, yeah,
come on, come on, all right, So anytime after filming
away from the cameras that you two thought, you know,
maybe we could give this a shot, Like, did you
guys ever explore that conversation?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
No, I'll never get crossed our minds to even like
we were both knew, like it wasn't even a think,
like a thought that like, hey, should we talk about this?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:02):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I also think from that very first conversation that we're
the confrontation that we had where I was like, do
you ever even potentially see something here?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
And I pressed him for a yes or no and
he said no, And I said, okay, perfect, thank you.
I have my information because my husband would never.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Right, no, never in a million years.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
My husband would be like, oh my god, her, like
I love everything about her, this is like this is it?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Mine was a gray area too, where I was like,
I'm a little bit more slow to the role, and
I'm like I don't want to be like, no, it'll
never happen because like, dude, we can be friends for
five years and I could just be like you're an idiot,
dude conversation and then I don't want to I don't
want to say that, and obviously, like five years is
like dramatic, like that's too much to like and then
(07:55):
tell somebody your confess your familis. But people have done it,
you know what I mean, like shut a friend zone
and then you try to get out. But I was like,
I don't know, that could end up being my reality
one day.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I don't know. Yeah, but she needed that.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Jared and Ashley, I yeah, I mean, that's that's exactly
what happened with those So I was.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Like, I don't want to put myself in a hole
before I know for sure, but she really just needed
an answer, and like, I'm not going to waste her time,
so I just went with no, because I'm not going
to have you wait for me.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I just know the energy that I will be approached with,
and I know how I want to be pursued, and
I know my worth and my value and I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
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Speaker 1 (09:06):
Let's talk about Sean.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So Sean comes in with the Parliament of Paradise and
it's basically coming after the platonic relationships, right, and he's
just having a pow wow with anybody that listened. He
wasn't very very sly about it. I mean it was
really kind of obvious. How did that make you feel? Because,
I mean it seemed like you guys kind of.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
He tried to plot with me at one point. Yeah,
about the Sean like he was he wanted to get
rid of, like Spencer. He's like, none of those will
be my biggest Did.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
He call you guys to a meeting and and you
guys showed up, You're like, no, we're not doing that, Okay, Yeah,
because you guys are on his shopping were.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
In our own little world just like around like having fun. Yeah,
we didn't know about.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Bailey and Jeremy. We did know that Jeremy made the
phone call. We didn't know any no kidding.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
On our own different show.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
We weren't like better seat than you. Yeah yeah, oh
my god, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I think because we were on a couple like people,
we were like out of gameplay.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, no, it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Kind of irrelevant, which is totally okay, But.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
We were friends. Like she was a girls girl, she
was there for all the girls. I was the guys.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
I was there for a lot of the guys, well,
the guys that were in the relationships that happened, like
Jeremy and Spencer. Spencer's my best friend from the show,
so like I'm sitting there being them, there for them
through everything, and they're like, okay, well we want to
protect him too, like that's our guy.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So we kind of got by by game our friendships
so long, you know what I mean. Yeah, it was
great if you would have won.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
In fact, I mean you would have probably made it
to the finals if you would have won the last challenge.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, you know what I mean, because once.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
The Parliament came back and they made their votes, they
probably would have rather had you guys in that mix,
I would guess because you might be able to eat everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I thought it was an interesting twist. I thought you
guys did a really great job the thing. I you know,
I can't help, but wonder you keep hearing all these
rumors that Kat had a iPad or a following or
something like that. It came up tonight people kind of
going at her about it. Did you guys hear that
at all? Because you said you weren't hearing the other stuff.
Did you hear any of that?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And actually I was closer with Kat. She didn't have
an iPad, she didn't have a computer.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
They searched your bags, right.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Or I think that they were like they were trying
to figure out if she had it during the holding,
which is like when you first get to Costa Rica. Okay,
but I don't I don't know. I don't think she
had anything.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
But you know what I mean, if you're there in
the holding thing, ey, I mean, I might get in
trouble for this, but.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You're not on the show yet. You haven't even medine
who's there yet? So who cares if you're texting somebody.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
And there's no Wi Fi?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Right?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
And if you asked the front desk.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
For wi Fi, which I did at one point.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
They'll tell on you.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Oh and then production called me and was like, hey,
did you ask for the WiFi? And I was like,
yeah that mind you. This is when I was allowed
to have my.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Phone right right right.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
It's different still.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
The time, but yeah, you there was no way, like
I couldn't even call or text anyone. There's no white
what why Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, yeah, so it's to be a waste for her
to have that anyway. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Plus, I mean, to be fair, I felt like she
and Dale really created a real relationship. I really did
like watching it from home, I mean, and then seeing
them out there today, like, you know, they had this
kind of like nice couple, dumb thing going on when
she was getting kind of fired up and he's like,
it's okay, just calm down, don't take the bay.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You know. I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It was a nice dynamic, you know, to watch that
as a married, old, married dude seeing people kind of
like police each other in a nice way.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It was kind of nice to see you.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I was like Jeremy and Bailey too that At one
point Jeremy's like can I say it?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
And Bay was like no, not real.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Yeah, yeah, like it's just gonna make you look bad
in this moment. That's a reaction. We need you to
be like more proactive, not reactive. Sure, and Bailey knew
the objective and Jeremy like almost almost slipped up and
it was like can I and she's like no, no.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, yeah, it's got to be interesting because it's like,
you know, like I said, I could never have been
on a show like this because I get so my
feelings get so hurt so easily. If I think that
someone who's my friend is like going to vote me off,
I'd lose my mind.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Right, But you guys were sort of.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Constantly on the chopping block, even though you were everyone's
best friend, because the mindset was, oh, we keep the
real couples, which I don't know why that's the mindset.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Because one of the money's introduced. The money is a
different show, like what us.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
To versus everyone else?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
We're going to fight everyone and then they would just
vote us out real quick, like Sean.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
But Sure, we were trying to just coast on by.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Be very neutral, not be very polarizing, like let's just be.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Yeah, don't make any like we just wanted to just
fly on the wall.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Right now, their only choice.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It works. I mean, and you both came off from
off the show.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And I will say this as a as a viewer,
but somebody's been around this franchise since prettym at the beginning.
You guys came off the show both looking really great,
like you did yourself a lot of favors for the
way you were portrayed and the way that you handled
yourself and and everything. I mean, you showed vulnerability, you
showed a lot of different size of your you know,
your your character, and I think that was really nice.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Jonathan.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
The one thing that you obviously got a lot of
attention for was the night that April gave you a flower. Right,
so April gives you ros, it gets a bunch of
the goldens voted off or some like domino effect happens
right when that happened, where you all of a sudden
like Wow, maybe maybe I like older women, maybe I
want friends one April?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Did you have that ever come?
Speaker 5 (14:37):
I mean I'm not opposed to slightly older. I mean,
if you watched the if you watched the game that
we played, I have hooked up with somebody twenty five
years older than me like what.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It was a one time thing. It was the one time.
It was a one time thing. Yeah, okay, okay, okay,
all right, but yeah it was.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
It was a cool moment too, because they made it
almost cliffhanger, like, oh, Jonathan's gonna go like plead for
this rose from an older woman if a younger one
is not willing to give.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
It to him. And that was never the case.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
You know, I went into that roast ceremony like night
the cocktail party, so ready to go, because at that
point I was ready to go and I accepted it,
and I was like, you know, i'mna be happy for
my friends, everybody's and have a good night, and I'm
to go out on a great note.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
And I was having a great time.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
But in that time that I was having so much fun,
I had Leslie and April, which they didn't show the
one with Leslie, but come up and pull me for
a chat and be like, hey, can we talk. I
just want to see how you're doing? This is and that,
And in that moment I kind of knew. I was
like to these ladies, like meet me, do they want
to keep me around?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I didn't. It was never like a sexual and well,
April did purr on me a bit.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
She didn't put on me a little bit, but like
she is, she's iconic, and she is the sweetest, like
she's insane, but like insanely sweet, like she means so
damn Well. Yeah, from that point, I was like, oh,
maybe there is a chance they give it to me.
And I was like, you know what, like practice is
still fun. And when I realized that, like being there
(16:09):
is a positive thing, I almost like reconvinced myself that ya,
he's saying, would be fun if I was offered a rose.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Sure, but like the expectation was like zero. Yeah, but
it did cross.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
My mind, like maybe it is a possibility that she's
going to give it to me, because they did both
pull me for chats.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Sure, crazier things have happened. Yeah, I mean, then it
ended up happening.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
And then it ended up I think it had to happen,
you know what I mean, in the realm of the
Goldens being there some crossover, so some extent had to happen, and.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
It would have to be her too. It had to
be heart, It had to be my single ass.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
And thank god, otherwise I would have never I wouldn't
have made it either.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I know, right. I think it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, I mean I think it's It makes sense to
me why America fell in love with you guys. Why
like you guys really kind of just cut through and
I love seeing it.
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off the show. They're not all still together, right, Which
couple do you think has the best chance of making
it post paradise?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Best friends? Yeah, these are best friends.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah yeah, those are like truly.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Spencer's mind, like, oh that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, oh my god, and you like it was the
sweetest thing. I remember we had a reunion with all
of like from all the girls from Joey season. We
all sat around, we had just gotten the text, like, hey,
are you still single? Are you open to paradise? And
so we were talking about boys this night, and Jess specifically,
I remember she was sitting on my couch and she goes, yeah,
like I really like Spencer, and I was like, Spencer
(19:19):
the one, like the one that does a dog portraits,
and she's like, yeah, he just seems so sweet and
like I really want to get to know okay, dude,
Like I could see that happening, and like, I just
knowing what Jess had gone through the previous season, me
and her had just really been sucker punch. We were
(19:40):
really some villains and I think.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
That, which is so interesting to me because neither one
of you.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Have and now it's like the complete opposite on this season.
So that's why I always.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Give problem should actually like think the fans be like,
oh wait, this person was portrayed as villain, but now
we're seeing and you're like, oh, now you're in love
with them, Like okay.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's a fickle public guy. It's a fickle public right.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
But anyways, just seeing her like come full circle, and
I remember her just like in the midst of all
the overwhelming hate, she was just like I just don't understand,
Like I just want to be happy a lot, and
so now to see her so happy and so cared
for it. Oh my god, I cry all the time
about it because.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It just like we're getting emotional in the couch Last
Life watching the finale.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
So I will tell you guys watching the finale, and
I was I was so happy for both couples, right,
But yeah, I wasn't one hundred percent sure because the
way the show had been edited, what Jess's decision was
going to be.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Because yeah, and it.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Was like, you know, oh, well, I don't know if
I'm ready for this, and you know that money would
be you know, a life changing whatever, and uh and
he looked, I mean, the look on his face was
just like I have no idea what's going to happen,
you know. And she comes around the corner and it
was like, oh, thank god. I was so happy. You know,
He's like, I can always make more money. I can't
make another job, you know, A really beautiful line. I thought, Yeah,
(21:00):
someone must have written that for him. No, I'm sure
he came up and he.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Seems like a pretty clever guy.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
But no, I love I love that you guys are
so close with them and that they have such a
successful relationship already.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Going because talking then tonight, I I do.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Feel like they're they're the ones any others, Like, if
you had to say, I think this next couple might
really have a chance.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I think we're gonna gree in the same one too.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
No, I was gonna say Bailey and Jeremy, which I
was surprised about.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Interesting, I think I think Jeremy likes Bailey more than
he lets on. He's like, he doesn't wear his heart
in his sleeve.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Well he didn't have any sleeves on the night, to
be fair, and tank top is just exactly notice that.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
But watching him you might want to coacho on some
fashion choices moving forward, just saying.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I go for the traditional gentleman.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
I literally had a tie on before I came with,
like my tie clip on everything, and I was like,
you're doing too much, dude, like my pocket square and
I was giving it to her to like.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And I was like, at least I kept the pocket
square to keep it.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You keep it kind of classy. Yeah, No, I like them.
I mean Cat and Dale. What do you think they're
They seem like they're doing pretty well right.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Now, good for right now.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, and then Andrew and and Alex are great to Yeah,
I love because you guys know him also intimately.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, and they're also different in their own ways and yeah,
in their own ways, And I think, like, who are
we to judge these couples?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, we're also going based off of like who we
get along with the best. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
That doesn't mean like one couple stronger, right, It just means,
you know, we're gonna justin Spencer regardless, because those are
like those are people, right, Yeah, but like somebody who's
closer with like Andrew and Alex might be like, I
don't know, Andrew and Alex are probably the strongest, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, And I could see that well, and they all
to be fair, I think that, you know, there's some
some good couples still kicking from the show, and and
I'm excited for the two of you to start finding
your couple THEMS. Has there been any dating you can
bring us up to speed on since the show?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Come on, girl, I'm like, I can't talk about it.
It's Netflix, Okay, do you know what that's from?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I love it. But I am dating very nice.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
And I'm having a lot of fun. I'm very happy,
and yeah, well I just have to stay I will.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well, where are you living? And where is he living?
Speaker 6 (23:30):
He lives in la oh Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
That keeps it simple. Very nice, Jonathan, anything on the
horizon for you.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I've been actively dating publicly now, thank god, because I
didn't for ten months to like make sure I portrayed
that like single look going in the Pardess people can
be brutal, yeah, and I was like fearful. So now, yeah,
I've just been taking girls on dates. Nothing crazy, I meant,
(23:55):
anybody that's just like really just made me feel I
don't know, Yeah, the butterfly that feeling yet, so get it.
I get it, it's coming. But actively dating again, and.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah, well, you both are such nice people and you're
both beautiful. I'm sure you're gonna find your special someone
in no time. And I think the way people got
to know you guys on this show will really resonate
for both of you because I think you know, I
didn't even realize I never thought of you as a
billet villain on Jonathan season.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Sorry on Joey's season. Oh, I didn't see it that way.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
No, I didn't see it that No, I burned it.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
That's solid though, that's a that's a gangster move.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, well you guys, thanks for joining us on Almost Famous.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Thanks for being a part of this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I'm so glad we got to have the reunions, the
Baelan Paradise reunion, and so glad that we got iHeart
and Almost Famous to be a part of it with
you guys.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
So thanks for coming on the show. We appreciate it,
of course, thanks for having us, BROB come on again.
We'll check in again in a couple months and see
where things are at with you guy. Maybe I'll have
somebody at that point.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I'll say you well, brother, all right, Thanks you guys,
Thank you very much.
Before I get two carried away.
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Paradise reunion.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
This is the almost famous podcast with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Okay, almost famous podcast. Guys, I'm so excited to have
you on Leah. You look so different than what I
saw you on your LOREX.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
You switch show.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Few outfit changes, you know, you got to keep.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Them guessing you do.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And Jonathan, my guy, always looking good but I love
the shoes, appreciate it outfit. You know, that's okay. I
didn't bring a wardrobe change either. I haven't changed since
the planes. I feel disgusting. But guys, I'm sure you've
been asked this question a million times. You're both absolutely
beautiful people, very kind. I've gotten to know Jonathan over
over the last year or so. Le it's our first
(01:11):
time meeting. But I don't understand why why isn't there
a love connection here? I mean, honestly, I look at
the two of you, I'm like, what a perfect couple?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Like, what's the deal?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Really? What it is?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
He actually is so in love with me, and it's
just he's scared of it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I understand. I understand letting him, you.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Know, explore what he has to explore. Yeah, no, I'm
just kidding. But we are such good friends, and I
don't know. I think when I was in the setting
of Paradise, mind you, we've met before, yea, and nothing
has ever happened. I've never like been like hate Jathan.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Like you know whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
But I think that when I was there, I was
just so intent on like being in love and finding love,
and Jonathan, I think was the only one remotely, like
I was remotely my type that i'd pursue. Actually, I
take the back, I'd never pursue a man, but.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
That i'd be interested in pursuing.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
The options were limited to you came in and it
was either me or realistically, yeah, they touch.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
On, like I love him to death, but he's just
not my type, right, But yeah, I think we've just
always been good friends and yeah, I don't know, and
he's just tripping because I'm like, amazing you are.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I mean honestly, I mean, come on, buddy, No, No.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
That's the big thing too, is like, and I know
this question is going to come of why did you
friend zone people? And it's like, well, if I don't
feel a romantic connection towards somebody, well I'm not going
to just kick them to.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The curb and be no.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
First of I'm not going to pretend to waste somebody's time.
But also, like, I see how incredible of a person
you are inside out, You're beautiful, Like I want to
be on your side for everything.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Last thing I want to.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Do is burn the bridge and then be like absolutely
not never going to happen immediately off the rip, and
then that's it like, I want to still be on
your side and be there for you and be a
friend that you can lean on if it's not going
to work out romantically. So like when my friends owned
it's because I actually care about everybody on the damn show,
but people look at it as a negative. It's like, yeah,
(03:14):
I could have just been the bad dude, really not
wasted anybody's time, just been like, don't even talk to
me right right?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
You know what I mean, that's not me. I'm not
going to sit here and that amiable guy. You like people,
and you obviously are hilarious.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I mean you're out there entertaining everybody, quick to smile
and make everybody laugh. I'm just saying iought I thought
you know that there was something there now, Leah, before
coming to Paradise, did you kind of like how they
always ask everyone, like, you know, who do you want
to meet here? Did you have anyone that you named
that you wanted to meet that that did show up
or and you were disappointed in what happened there.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I think when I was initially talking to the team
about coming on, I was very much like I think
a handful of these men are handsome, but I'm definitely
a personnally gal and I want to kind of get
to know someone face to face because you know, you
can only see so much on the screen. Sure, So
I think I just walked in very open. I wasn't
(04:10):
specifically looking for one person. Yeah, whatever it may be,
but yeah I was. I think I was just very open.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Sure. Yeah, and how about you? How about you, Jonathan?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
So I literally the exact same thing. That's what I
told you guys last time we spoke, because I was like,
it's not like a physical thing for me, Like I
know what's done behind the camera to show these people
in different line. I want to meet somebody for who
they are in the moment right and then make my
decision there. So I tried to stay away from meeting
people at the show, all my best behaviors, just going
open minded.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And you didn't.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You didn't say like for the producers, there wasn't like
I want to meet these three people.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I think it pissed them off actually, because they're like
pushing it. We want to help you out.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, they give us a clue.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, well you know.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So one of the things I think is kind of interesting,
and this is because I obviously was watching the show
at home with everybody else was there were these times
when you think, oh my god, there seems like there's
so much tension right like, like, for example, you and
Dale right like A lot was made of the fact that,
though editing sometimes would show you almost looking like you
were trying to interfere in Dale and Cat's relationship.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But then I see you and Dale today.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You guys seem fine, but are you fine?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The connection with Cat lasted of whole three days.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
And I knew after twenty four hours when Dale showed
up her reaction. She was standing this close to me
as Dale walked up. Oh my god, it's like as
Cat does. Yeah, I'm sitting there and I'm like, I
didn't get this reaction. I was like, now that I
don't even want it. I don't get that same reaction,
you know what I mean. So from that point on, realistically,
(05:40):
I was like, dude, I'm not gonna shoot my shot
a cat Like, yeah, I still had like that in
the back of my mind, like, hey, I still do
like this girl. I'm not going to just completely write
it off because yeah, I'm not the obvious pick to her.
But after like two days of her just being pretty
locked in on him. I was like, dude, I'm not
about this. So like those moments where I pull her
for a chat to check on her is because a
similar situation like it didn't work out.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
But as a cat, I'm still going to be there
for you individual and a friend. Yep. And it looked
more as if like.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I'm so hanging on this fact that like, oh maybe
me and Kat and it's like.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, come on, well, I mean, no one, I mean,
no one would blame anybody on the show for all
the women are beautiful. You know, you're on a beach,
you're having beverages, you like, you know, sunsets and all
that kind of good stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I totally get it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, but it was it was kind of interesting how
the show played up that tension a little bit, you know,
and it was it was funny because I think the
first time it happened is when they asked me, if
you know who do you want to be the next
bashion I'm.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Like, what's gotta be? My guy? Jonathan? Yeah? Right, So
I was like, yeah, I see what's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, he'd be a really good one, unless you know,
of course, the love connection here happens which you know, yeah,
come on, come on, all right, So anytime after filming
away from the cameras that you two thought, you know,
maybe we could give this a shot, Like, did you
guys ever explore that conversation?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
No, I'll never get crossed our minds to even like
we were both knew, like it wasn't even a think,
like a thought that like, hey, should we talk about this?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:02):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I also think from that very first conversation that we're
the confrontation that we had where I was like, do
you ever even potentially see something here?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
And I pressed him for a yes or no and
he said no, And I said, okay, perfect, thank you.
I have my information because my husband would never.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Right, no, never in a million years.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
My husband would be like, oh my god, her, like
I love everything about her, this is like this is it?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Mine was a gray area too, where I was like,
I'm a little bit more slow to the role, and
I'm like I don't want to be like, no, it'll
never happen because like, dude, we can be friends for
five years and I could just be like you're an idiot,
dude conversation and then I don't want to I don't
want to say that, and obviously, like five years is
like dramatic, like that's too much to like and then
(07:55):
tell somebody your confess your familis. But people have done it,
you know what I mean, like shut a friend zone
and then you try to get out. But I was like,
I don't know, that could end up being my reality
one day.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I don't know. Yeah, but she needed that.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Jared and Ashley, I yeah, I mean, that's that's exactly
what happened with those So I was.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Like, I don't want to put myself in a hole
before I know for sure, but she really just needed
an answer, and like, I'm not going to waste her time,
so I just went with no, because I'm not going
to have you wait for me.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I just know the energy that I will be approached with,
and I know how I want to be pursued, and
I know my worth and my value and I'm not gonna.
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Speaker 1 (09:06):
Let's talk about Sean.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So Sean comes in with the Parliament of Paradise and
it's basically coming after the platonic relationships, right, and he's
just having a pow wow with anybody that listened. He
wasn't very very sly about it. I mean it was
really kind of obvious. How did that make you feel? Because,
I mean it seemed like you guys kind of.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
He tried to plot with me at one point. Yeah,
about the Sean like he was he wanted to get
rid of, like Spencer. He's like, none of those will
be my biggest Did.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
He call you guys to a meeting and and you
guys showed up, You're like, no, we're not doing that, Okay, Yeah,
because you guys are on his shopping were.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
In our own little world just like around like having fun. Yeah,
we didn't know about.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Bailey and Jeremy. We did know that Jeremy made the
phone call. We didn't know any no kidding.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
On our own different show.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
We weren't like better seat than you. Yeah yeah, oh
my god, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I think because we were on a couple like people,
we were like out of gameplay.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, no, it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Kind of irrelevant, which is totally okay, But.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
We were friends. Like she was a girls girl, she
was there for all the girls. I was the guys.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
I was there for a lot of the guys, well,
the guys that were in the relationships that happened, like
Jeremy and Spencer. Spencer's my best friend from the show,
so like I'm sitting there being them, there for them
through everything, and they're like, okay, well we want to
protect him too, like that's our guy.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So we kind of got by by game our friendships
so long, you know what I mean. Yeah, it was
great if you would have won.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
In fact, I mean you would have probably made it
to the finals if you would have won the last challenge.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, you know what I mean, because once.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
The Parliament came back and they made their votes, they
probably would have rather had you guys in that mix,
I would guess because you might be able to eat everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I thought it was an interesting twist. I thought you
guys did a really great job the thing. I you know,
I can't help, but wonder you keep hearing all these
rumors that Kat had a iPad or a following or
something like that. It came up tonight people kind of
going at her about it. Did you guys hear that
at all? Because you said you weren't hearing the other stuff.
Did you hear any of that?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And actually I was closer with Kat. She didn't have
an iPad, she didn't have a computer.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
They searched your bags, right.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Or I think that they were like they were trying
to figure out if she had it during the holding,
which is like when you first get to Costa Rica. Okay,
but I don't I don't know. I don't think she
had anything.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
But you know what I mean, if you're there in
the holding thing, ey, I mean, I might get in
trouble for this, but.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You're not on the show yet. You haven't even medine
who's there yet? So who cares if you're texting somebody.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
And there's no Wi Fi?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Right?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
And if you asked the front desk.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
For wi Fi, which I did at one point.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
They'll tell on you.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Oh and then production called me and was like, hey,
did you ask for the WiFi? And I was like,
yeah that mind you. This is when I was allowed
to have my.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Phone right right right.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
It's different still.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
The time, but yeah, you there was no way, like
I couldn't even call or text anyone. There's no white
what why Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, yeah, so it's to be a waste for her
to have that anyway. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Plus, I mean, to be fair, I felt like she
and Dale really created a real relationship. I really did
like watching it from home, I mean, and then seeing
them out there today, like, you know, they had this
kind of like nice couple, dumb thing going on when
she was getting kind of fired up and he's like,
it's okay, just calm down, don't take the bay.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You know. I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It was a nice dynamic, you know, to watch that
as a married, old, married dude seeing people kind of
like police each other in a nice way.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It was kind of nice to see you.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I was like Jeremy and Bailey too that At one
point Jeremy's like can I say it?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
And Bay was like no, not real.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Yeah, yeah, like it's just gonna make you look bad
in this moment. That's a reaction. We need you to
be like more proactive, not reactive. Sure, and Bailey knew
the objective and Jeremy like almost almost slipped up and
it was like can I and she's like no, no.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, yeah, it's got to be interesting because it's like,
you know, like I said, I could never have been
on a show like this because I get so my
feelings get so hurt so easily. If I think that
someone who's my friend is like going to vote me off,
I'd lose my mind.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Right, But you guys were sort of.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Constantly on the chopping block, even though you were everyone's
best friend, because the mindset was, oh, we keep the
real couples, which I don't know why that's the mindset.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Because one of the money's introduced. The money is a
different show, like what us.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
To versus everyone else?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
We're going to fight everyone and then they would just
vote us out real quick, like Sean.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
But Sure, we were trying to just coast on by.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Be very neutral, not be very polarizing, like let's just be.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Yeah, don't make any like we just wanted to just
fly on the wall.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Right now, their only choice.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It works. I mean, and you both came off from
off the show.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And I will say this as a as a viewer,
but somebody's been around this franchise since prettym at the beginning.
You guys came off the show both looking really great,
like you did yourself a lot of favors for the
way you were portrayed and the way that you handled
yourself and and everything. I mean, you showed vulnerability, you
showed a lot of different size of your you know,
your your character, and I think that was really nice.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Jonathan.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
The one thing that you obviously got a lot of
attention for was the night that April gave you a flower. Right,
so April gives you ros, it gets a bunch of
the goldens voted off or some like domino effect happens
right when that happened, where you all of a sudden
like Wow, maybe maybe I like older women, maybe I
want friends one April?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Did you have that ever come?
Speaker 5 (14:37):
I mean I'm not opposed to slightly older. I mean,
if you watched the if you watched the game that
we played, I have hooked up with somebody twenty five
years older than me like what.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It was a one time thing. It was the one time.
It was a one time thing. Yeah, okay, okay, okay,
all right, but yeah it was.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
It was a cool moment too, because they made it
almost cliffhanger, like, oh, Jonathan's gonna go like plead for
this rose from an older woman if a younger one
is not willing to give.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
It to him. And that was never the case.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
You know, I went into that roast ceremony like night
the cocktail party, so ready to go, because at that
point I was ready to go and I accepted it,
and I was like, you know, i'mna be happy for
my friends, everybody's and have a good night, and I'm
to go out on a great note.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
And I was having a great time.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
But in that time that I was having so much fun,
I had Leslie and April, which they didn't show the
one with Leslie, but come up and pull me for
a chat and be like, hey, can we talk. I
just want to see how you're doing? This is and that,
And in that moment I kind of knew. I was
like to these ladies, like meet me, do they want
to keep me around?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I didn't. It was never like a sexual and well,
April did purr on me a bit.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
She didn't put on me a little bit, but like
she is, she's iconic, and she is the sweetest, like
she's insane, but like insanely sweet, like she means so
damn Well. Yeah, from that point, I was like, oh,
maybe there is a chance they give it to me.
And I was like, you know what, like practice is
still fun. And when I realized that, like being there
(16:09):
is a positive thing, I almost like reconvinced myself that ya,
he's saying, would be fun if I was offered a rose.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Sure, but like the expectation was like zero. Yeah, but
it did cross.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
My mind, like maybe it is a possibility that she's
going to give it to me, because they did both
pull me for chats.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Sure, crazier things have happened. Yeah, I mean, then it
ended up happening.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
And then it ended up I think it had to happen,
you know what I mean, in the realm of the
Goldens being there some crossover, so some extent had to happen, and.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
It would have to be her too. It had to
be heart, It had to be my single ass.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
And thank god, otherwise I would have never I wouldn't
have made it either.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I know, right. I think it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, I mean I think it's It makes sense to
me why America fell in love with you guys. Why
like you guys really kind of just cut through and
I love seeing it.
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off the show. They're not all still together, right, Which
couple do you think has the best chance of making
it post paradise?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Best friends? Yeah, these are best friends.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah yeah, those are like truly.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Spencer's mind, like, oh that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, oh my god, and you like it was the
sweetest thing. I remember we had a reunion with all
of like from all the girls from Joey season. We
all sat around, we had just gotten the text, like, hey,
are you still single? Are you open to paradise? And
so we were talking about boys this night, and Jess specifically,
I remember she was sitting on my couch and she goes, yeah,
like I really like Spencer, and I was like, Spencer
(19:19):
the one, like the one that does a dog portraits,
and she's like, yeah, he just seems so sweet and
like I really want to get to know okay, dude,
Like I could see that happening, and like, I just
knowing what Jess had gone through the previous season, me
and her had just really been sucker punch. We were
(19:40):
really some villains and I think.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
That, which is so interesting to me because neither one
of you.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Have and now it's like the complete opposite on this season.
So that's why I always.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Give problem should actually like think the fans be like,
oh wait, this person was portrayed as villain, but now
we're seeing and you're like, oh, now you're in love
with them, Like okay.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's a fickle public guy. It's a fickle public right.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
But anyways, just seeing her like come full circle, and
I remember her just like in the midst of all
the overwhelming hate, she was just like I just don't understand,
Like I just want to be happy a lot, and
so now to see her so happy and so cared
for it. Oh my god, I cry all the time
about it because.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It just like we're getting emotional in the couch Last
Life watching the finale.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
So I will tell you guys watching the finale, and
I was I was so happy for both couples, right,
But yeah, I wasn't one hundred percent sure because the
way the show had been edited, what Jess's decision was
going to be.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Because yeah, and it.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Was like, you know, oh, well, I don't know if
I'm ready for this, and you know that money would
be you know, a life changing whatever, and uh and
he looked, I mean, the look on his face was
just like I have no idea what's going to happen,
you know. And she comes around the corner and it
was like, oh, thank god. I was so happy. You know,
He's like, I can always make more money. I can't
make another job, you know, A really beautiful line. I thought, Yeah,
(21:00):
someone must have written that for him. No, I'm sure
he came up and he.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Seems like a pretty clever guy.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
But no, I love I love that you guys are
so close with them and that they have such a
successful relationship already.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Going because talking then tonight, I I do.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Feel like they're they're the ones any others, Like, if
you had to say, I think this next couple might
really have a chance.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I think we're gonna gree in the same one too.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
No, I was gonna say Bailey and Jeremy, which I
was surprised about.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Interesting, I think I think Jeremy likes Bailey more than
he lets on. He's like, he doesn't wear his heart
in his sleeve.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Well he didn't have any sleeves on the night, to
be fair, and tank top is just exactly notice that.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
But watching him you might want to coacho on some
fashion choices moving forward, just saying.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I go for the traditional gentleman.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
I literally had a tie on before I came with,
like my tie clip on everything, and I was like,
you're doing too much, dude, like my pocket square and
I was giving it to her to like.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And I was like, at least I kept the pocket
square to keep it.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You keep it kind of classy. Yeah, No, I like them.
I mean Cat and Dale. What do you think they're
They seem like they're doing pretty well right.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Now, good for right now.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, and then Andrew and and Alex are great to Yeah,
I love because you guys know him also intimately.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, and they're also different in their own ways and yeah,
in their own ways, And I think, like, who are
we to judge these couples?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, we're also going based off of like who we
get along with the best. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
That doesn't mean like one couple stronger, right, It just means,
you know, we're gonna justin Spencer regardless, because those are
like those are people, right, Yeah, but like somebody who's
closer with like Andrew and Alex might be like, I
don't know, Andrew and Alex are probably the strongest, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, And I could see that well, and they all
to be fair, I think that, you know, there's some
some good couples still kicking from the show, and and
I'm excited for the two of you to start finding
your couple THEMS. Has there been any dating you can
bring us up to speed on since the show?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Come on, girl, I'm like, I can't talk about it.
It's Netflix, Okay, do you know what that's from?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I love it. But I am dating very nice.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
And I'm having a lot of fun. I'm very happy,
and yeah, well I just have to stay I will.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well, where are you living? And where is he living?
Speaker 6 (23:30):
He lives in la oh Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
That keeps it simple. Very nice, Jonathan, anything on the
horizon for you.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I've been actively dating publicly now, thank god, because I
didn't for ten months to like make sure I portrayed
that like single look going in the Pardess people can
be brutal, yeah, and I was like fearful. So now, yeah,
I've just been taking girls on dates. Nothing crazy, I meant,
(23:55):
anybody that's just like really just made me feel I
don't know, Yeah, the butterfly that feeling yet, so get it.
I get it, it's coming. But actively dating again, and.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah, well, you both are such nice people and you're
both beautiful. I'm sure you're gonna find your special someone
in no time. And I think the way people got
to know you guys on this show will really resonate
for both of you because I think you know, I
didn't even realize I never thought of you as a
billet villain on Jonathan season.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Sorry on Joey's season. Oh, I didn't see it that way.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
No, I didn't see it that No, I burned it.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
That's solid though, that's a that's a gangster move.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, well you guys, thanks for joining us on Almost Famous.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Thanks for being a part of this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I'm so glad we got to have the reunions, the
Baelan Paradise reunion, and so glad that we got iHeart
and Almost Famous to be a part of it with
you guys.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
So thanks for coming on the show. We appreciate it,
of course, thanks for having us, BROB come on again.
We'll check in again in a couple months and see
where things are at with you guy. Maybe I'll have
somebody at that point.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I'll say you well, brother, all right, Thanks you guys,
Thank you very much.
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