Latest / The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast / Breaking News: Dakota is OUT of the Villa!
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I almost Famous podcast
- 0:03Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
- 0:06Speaker 2: It's the almost famous podcast. We're here today with some
- 0:08Speaker 2: breaking news. I am joined by our wonderful producer and
- 0:14Speaker 2: now I guess we could call her like a co
- 0:16Speaker 2: co host. She jumps in a lot, Heather, because the
- 0:21Speaker 2: breaking news has happened and it's not stopping, and so
- 0:25Speaker 2: on a whim, Heather sends me a text she says,
- 0:29Speaker 2: can we jump on and record? I say yes, And
- 0:31Speaker 2: Heather's always there to be our trustee, fill in an
- 0:35Speaker 2: expert on all that's happening in pop culture. Here is
- 0:40Speaker 2: today's episode. I'll read the headline. Hulu's vander Pump Villa
- 0:45Speaker 2: is caught up and the Taylor Frankie Paul drama as
- 0:48Speaker 2: Dakota Mortensen is cut from season three.
- 0:54Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go out on a lemon say you've
- 0:56Speaker 3: probably never seen vander pump Villa.
- 0:58Speaker 2: I don't know what it is, but.
- 0:59Speaker 4: I'll I'll tell you about it.
- 1:00Speaker 3: Okay, So obviously, Lisa vander Pump is famous from being
- 1:05Speaker 3: a Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She is a restaurant
- 1:09Speaker 3: tour with her husband. They have been for over twenty years.
- 1:12Speaker 3: Then she got her first spin off on Bravo that
- 1:15Speaker 3: was vander Pump Rules. That was all about the waiters
- 1:17Speaker 3: and waitresses that worked at one of her restaurants in
- 1:20Speaker 3: West Hollywood called Sir.
- 1:21Speaker 4: That ran for a very long time on Bravo.
- 1:24Speaker 3: And since then they've now created another iteration that's airing.
- 1:28Speaker 3: But I want to say two years ago Lisa went
- 1:32Speaker 3: to Hulu and launched this new show that is called
- 1:36Speaker 3: vander Pump Villa. It takes place, I believe in a
- 1:38Speaker 3: chateau villa in.
- 1:42Speaker 4: France, Italy.
- 1:43Speaker 3: Now the comments are going to come for me that
- 1:45Speaker 3: I didn't look this up, but it's definitely overseas. And
- 1:49Speaker 3: what it is is it follows the staff that works
- 1:52Speaker 3: at that villa as they cater to different reality stars
- 1:58Speaker 3: or celebs. It's it's kind of like Below Deck, but
- 2:01Speaker 3: on land. And so this show has brought quite a
- 2:05Speaker 3: bit of drama to the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
- 2:07Speaker 3: this crossover because they have had the Secret Lives women
- 2:12Speaker 3: go film at vander Pump Villa. This is where some
- 2:15Speaker 3: like inappropriate action happened between a cast member of vander
- 2:19Speaker 3: Pump Villa and some of the Secret Lives Wives that
- 2:22Speaker 3: carried into their show was very dramatic. So anyways, in
- 2:25Speaker 3: this last season of Secret Lives, we saw Dad talk
- 2:29Speaker 3: all the dads on the show, including Dakota, say, we're
- 2:33Speaker 3: all going to go to vander Pump Villa now that
- 2:35Speaker 3: you ladies have all gone and filmed, and we're going
- 2:38Speaker 3: to go and we're going to have a good time.
- 2:39Speaker 3: And you know, it was a kind of a questionable
- 2:43Speaker 3: act for some of the husbands, especially ones that had
- 2:46Speaker 3: issues with their wives doing things on the show in
- 2:50Speaker 3: previous seasons. So it was kind of like, are we
- 2:53Speaker 3: doing this as a tit for tat kind of thing. So, anyways,
- 2:56Speaker 3: this was filmed a while ago, it was promoted on
- 2:59Speaker 3: this recent season, and they don't show the filming of it.
- 3:03Speaker 3: We just know that the men went and filmed, and
- 3:05Speaker 3: then you're supposed to then tune into vander Pump Villa
- 3:07Speaker 3: when it premieres to kind of get the full scope
- 3:09Speaker 3: of what happened. We kind of heard bits and pieces
- 3:12Speaker 3: that Dakota hooked up with somebody on the cast. We
- 3:15Speaker 3: kind of heard bits and pieces that also cast members
- 3:19Speaker 3: from the Alex Cooper show Love Overboard that we've been
- 3:23Speaker 3: recapping here on the podcast. Some of those girls from
- 3:26Speaker 3: that show also went to vander Pump Villa at the
- 3:29Speaker 3: same time that the Dad Tak guys were filming there,
- 3:32Speaker 3: so we heard that Dakota might have hooked up with
- 3:35Speaker 3: somebody from that cast as well. Hulu loves the crossover.
- 3:40Speaker 3: That's kind of the plane and simple of it. So
- 3:42Speaker 3: after the Bachelorette was pulled, immediately people were going to
- 3:48Speaker 3: the comments and saying, well, if you're going to pull
- 3:50Speaker 3: the Bachelorette, you need to pull Dakota from being on
- 3:53Speaker 3: vander Pump Villa. So it's been now two weeks of
- 3:56Speaker 3: us covering this and we're finally getting some headlines about
- 4:00Speaker 3: this exact thing.
- 4:02Speaker 2: Okay, there's a lot there. Sorry, yeah, if okay, this
- 4:08Speaker 2: is like when I typed something in the chat GPT
- 4:11Speaker 2: and say explain it to me like I'm a first grader.
- 4:14Speaker 2: You're saying, vander Pump Villa is where celebrities go and
- 4:19Speaker 2: hang out for a week agreeing to be on the show,
- 4:22Speaker 2: and the staff is like the main focus throughout the
- 4:25Speaker 2: whole season, and then random people are popping in and
- 4:27Speaker 2: out correct and things happen. Okay, So that's one element
- 4:30Speaker 2: that I the second is, I was obviously have restaurants
- 4:35Speaker 2: as well. Why do I Why am I not able
- 4:39Speaker 2: to buy a French chateau?
- 4:41Speaker 3: You know what, I don't know, Ben, Maybe you have
- 4:43Speaker 3: to have another twenty plus years of doing it before
- 4:46Speaker 3: you're able to do that.
- 4:48Speaker 4: She's been at this for a very long time.
- 4:49Speaker 3: She also just opened one recently in Lake Tahoe, and
- 4:53Speaker 3: she's got one in Vegas. Yeah, she's vander pump is
- 4:57Speaker 3: all over the place.
- 4:59Speaker 2: See like it. I'm more envious if anything, I'm curious.
- 5:03Speaker 2: All right, So Dakota was on this this season of
- 5:07Speaker 2: vander pup Villa as a guest.
- 5:10Speaker 3: Correct with the rest of dad Talk from Secret Lives.
- 5:14Speaker 2: Okay, and the dad talk is like the ladies started
- 5:19Speaker 2: mom talk and the dads are like, hey, we want
- 5:22Speaker 2: in on this.
- 5:23Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty much.
- 5:25Speaker 3: They get called out frequently for kind of taking the
- 5:29Speaker 3: ladies leftovers and kind of like following in their footsteps.
- 5:33Speaker 3: And it also has guys like Dakota who's never been
- 5:36Speaker 3: married to one of the girls technically, and also Chase
- 5:39Speaker 3: who's the ex husband of Miranda. So you know, it's
- 5:43Speaker 3: a very It's it's the motley crew of the men
- 5:46Speaker 3: on the show.
- 5:47Speaker 4: Just, you know, getting together making tiktoks.
- 5:49Speaker 2: That sounds like me and my buddies do we just
- 5:53Speaker 2: get together. We text each other, Hey, you want to
- 5:55Speaker 2: get together and make some tiktoks? Yeah?
- 5:57Speaker 3: I mean it's very silly, and all the ladies like
- 6:00Speaker 3: to call them out on being cringey on the show.
- 6:04Speaker 2: Okay, so the dad talk guys, So okay when I explain. Yesterday,
- 6:09Speaker 2: I was talking to a few friends and they were like,
- 6:11Speaker 2: what's your show about? Almost famous? I'm like, okay, here's
- 6:14Speaker 2: the stick. It's a real stick. Like mostly it's Bachelor,
- 6:18Speaker 2: but it's also like the Bachelor world has invaded other worlds,
- 6:23Speaker 2: and so we're going to talk about other shows that
- 6:25Speaker 2: Bachelor contestants are now on. I know nothing about any
- 6:29Speaker 2: other world outside of the Bachelor. And I only know
- 6:31Speaker 2: about the Bachelor because I was like deep in it
- 6:33Speaker 2: and participated in it. And so my job historically is
- 6:37Speaker 2: to know so little and learn and ask the questions
- 6:41Speaker 2: that maybe somebody might be asking who has not watched
- 6:43Speaker 2: these shows. Yeah, which is fantastic. And I have incredible
- 6:48Speaker 2: people like Ashley and now yourself and Ashley's sister Lauren,
- 6:53Speaker 2: who can fill me in and educate me on what's
- 6:55Speaker 2: happening in these worlds. So I'm trying to think of
- 6:58Speaker 2: some of the questions that maybe somebody more naive to
- 7:00Speaker 2: the situation would want to know. But I think I'll
- 7:05Speaker 2: start with Obviously, this headline the coda was cut from
- 7:08Speaker 2: this season. Do we know if it's the whole Dad
- 7:11Speaker 2: Talk crew, because there's other drama that I've cut. We've
- 7:14Speaker 2: covered when it comes to other Dad Talkers right right now, Yeah.
- 7:19Speaker 3: We've covered other stuff for sure, and right now, not
- 7:22Speaker 3: to get two into the weeds, but you know, one
- 7:24Speaker 3: of the Secret Lives wives, Jesse's husband recently filed for divorce.
- 7:30Speaker 3: Like all in the midst of the Taylor Frankie Paul
- 7:33Speaker 3: Bachelorette cancelation stuff coming to light or sorry, not cancelation,
- 7:37Speaker 3: they're saying pause or whatever the word that they're using
- 7:41Speaker 3: this week is so yeah, we have covered some of this.
- 7:44Speaker 3: I take away from this that the Dad Talk group
- 7:47Speaker 3: is not being cut because that means them potentially losing
- 7:52Speaker 3: several episodes. When I read this, it makes me think
- 7:55Speaker 3: that he is just being cut from the episodes and
- 7:58Speaker 3: his storyline whatever that might have been. Because they again
- 8:03Speaker 3: they love the crossover, So I don't think that they're
- 8:05Speaker 3: going to remove the entire group.
- 8:08Speaker 2: How big of a character in Dad Dot Dad Talk
- 8:12Speaker 2: is he? Is he the main guy?
- 8:15Speaker 4: I mean, he's.
- 8:16Speaker 3: Out of all the men on the show, he is
- 8:19Speaker 3: by far the most prominent because of his volatile relationship
- 8:24Speaker 3: with Taylor. I would say Jesse's estranged husband who just
- 8:29Speaker 3: filed for divorce, has also come up in getting a
- 8:33Speaker 3: lot of camera time in the last two seasons.
- 8:37Speaker 2: Okay, so it's a big deal for Dakota to be
- 8:39Speaker 2: cut from this. It's not like he's a side character
- 8:41Speaker 2: who was at the villa and they're like, yeah, he
- 8:44Speaker 2: might be shown. No, he was gonna be a prominent
- 8:46Speaker 2: figure on this episode.
- 8:48Speaker 3: Yeah, and when he came back from filming, him and
- 8:53Speaker 3: Taylor got into a fight about rumored two of what
- 8:59Speaker 3: had happened at the villa.
- 9:00Speaker 2: Okay, let's dig into there then, because I think I'm curious,
- 9:04Speaker 2: and I'm assuming others would be too. She went on
- 9:07Speaker 2: to be the bachelorette and they're not together, and so
- 9:10Speaker 2: why would it be a big deal if he, you know, canoodled,
- 9:15Speaker 2: was somebody different.
- 9:16Speaker 3: I totally agree. And this was before she left for filming.
- 9:21Speaker 3: This was before she left for filming the bachel announced,
- 9:23Speaker 3: but she had been announced and she did agreed to it,
- 9:25Speaker 3: so I totally understand. Yeah, I can't tell you why.
- 9:28Speaker 3: I think you'd have to ask Taylor that question as
- 9:30Speaker 3: to why she'd be upset by that. But I think
- 9:32Speaker 3: that's valid. It's like, you're not together. If you're about
- 9:35Speaker 3: to go date twenty five guys, why can't he hook
- 9:38Speaker 3: up with somebody from another show.
- 9:41Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's valid, Okay.
- 9:43Speaker 2: I was just wondering if maybe they were together at
- 9:45Speaker 2: this point, if that.
- 9:46Speaker 3: Was, like I mean, it's very hard to follow, to
- 9:49Speaker 3: be honest, Like they always kind of are like one
- 9:51Speaker 3: foot in, one foot out. I mean they after they
- 9:53Speaker 3: got into that fight about what happened at Vanda pum Villa,
- 9:55Speaker 3: we know that they hooked up the night before she
- 9:57Speaker 3: left for filming.
- 9:58Speaker 2: So yeah, what I'm learning is this is not like
- 10:01Speaker 2: a linear path. There's a lot of.
- 10:04Speaker 3: Curg It's a lot of gray area when it comes
- 10:06Speaker 3: to that relationship. It is not black and white.
- 10:09Speaker 2: It is not black and white. So he's obviously cut.
- 10:11Speaker 2: That's been announced in the vander Pump Villa. They have
- 10:14Speaker 2: reacted to obviously the situation that is going on with Taylor, Frankie, Paul,
- 10:20Speaker 2: and Dakota. We covered last week a show that will
- 10:24Speaker 2: be on YouTube that we'll be covering here because we
- 10:28Speaker 2: want to support Joe and Serena. They're good friends of ours.
- 10:30Speaker 2: They're obviously from Bachelor Nation, so we will be breaking
- 10:33Speaker 2: down those episodes. But we also talked about how Dakota
- 10:37Speaker 2: is cast on that show, and we have not heard
- 10:39Speaker 2: anything in response from I mean, I know this. Our
- 10:45Speaker 2: little episode breaking it down got a lot of press
- 10:48Speaker 2: and we were wondering, you know, why he would be
- 10:50Speaker 2: cast on a show while at the same time, the
- 10:52Speaker 2: you know, Taylor is being her whole season The Bachelorette
- 10:56Speaker 2: is not airing because of the situation. We haven't heard
- 11:01Speaker 2: anything on if they're going to cut him from the
- 11:03Speaker 2: episodes or not.
- 11:05Speaker 4: Do we know no?
- 11:06Speaker 3: And can I tell you just my opinion on that is,
- 11:11Speaker 3: he's not going to be able to be cut out
- 11:13Speaker 3: of that show. It's a competition show, and we know
- 11:16Speaker 3: that they're competing in teams and there's a cash prize
- 11:20Speaker 3: up for grabs.
- 11:22Speaker 4: It's a little bit different.
- 11:23Speaker 3: I don't think you can cut somebody out of a
- 11:26Speaker 3: competition show and still be authentically showing how the competition
- 11:30Speaker 3: plays out on camera. Let's say he wins something or
- 11:35Speaker 3: wins a challenge, you can't remove him from that. So
- 11:39Speaker 3: Alex Cooper's either going to have to scrap the show
- 11:43Speaker 3: or just move forward with it, like there's no in
- 11:46Speaker 3: between with that. Now, with this vander pump Villa thing,
- 11:49Speaker 3: it's not competition, it's docu. They're just hanging out, mingling whatever.
- 11:53Speaker 3: So that's why they're probably able to make the cut
- 11:55Speaker 3: around him.
- 12:08Speaker 2: Did you feel like the response this week following kind
- 12:10Speaker 2: of our conversation and it was one of you know,
- 12:13Speaker 2: it happened so early on after the announcement of the cast.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Did the reaction from I guess listeners of this show
- 12:22Speaker 2: and then people who follow these types of shows and
- 12:25Speaker 2: would watch it. Was it loud enough or did you
- 12:29Speaker 2: get an idea of kind of where it was tilting,
- 12:31Speaker 2: where people like, hey, I want to watch it and
- 12:34Speaker 2: let it happen, or people like, no, this is not good.
- 12:37Speaker 3: I think the majority of the comments I saw, not
- 12:40Speaker 3: only on our page but on the unwell page were
- 12:43Speaker 3: fairly negative, not only about his casting but about the
- 12:47Speaker 3: others that we mentioned. Too about Houdah from Love Island,
- 12:50Speaker 3: who has an active restraining order out against her right now.
- 12:53Speaker 3: And Demi who is currently in a defamation lawsuit with
- 12:58Speaker 3: Marciano from vander pump Hilla. That's the other crossover that
- 13:03Speaker 3: has happened in Secret Lives. So I think it's it's
- 13:06Speaker 3: a culmination. Plus you know Anadelvi, which Annadelvi actually.
- 13:12Speaker 4: Isn't mentioned so much in the comments.
- 13:14Speaker 3: I think people have like they're kind of like over
- 13:17Speaker 3: her in her scammy ways. But I think that overall
- 13:23Speaker 3: the comments were like whoa not good? Or Hey, I'm
- 13:27Speaker 3: not interested in this, or Dakota you so yeah. I
- 13:31Speaker 3: didn't see an overwhelmingly positive amount of comments or people
- 13:35Speaker 3: saying that they were going to watch. It was people
- 13:39Speaker 3: giving kind of a pause or thought on that.
- 13:43Speaker 2: Okay, well we do see. Let's just say another chip
- 13:50Speaker 2: fall in the uh kind of aftermath of and not
- 13:56Speaker 2: really aftermath. We're kind of in the middle of the
- 13:59Speaker 2: conversation of what exactly is happening with Dakota and Taylor.
- 14:02Speaker 2: Where does this lead? What are they going to find out?
- 14:05Speaker 2: Where does the evidence point to? Is there more videos?
- 14:08Speaker 2: Is there not more videos? Is this going to head
- 14:10Speaker 2: to court, like kind of there's so much that's still
- 14:13Speaker 2: yet unknown that we're kind of sitting in the middle of.
- 14:16Speaker 2: But it does seem like, you know, vander pum Villa
- 14:19Speaker 2: has said, Hey, no, we're not going to get in
- 14:21Speaker 2: the middle of this. This is not what we want
- 14:24Speaker 2: to do.
- 14:25Speaker 3: Well. I also think because it's on Hulu and he's
- 14:28Speaker 3: not currently filming Secret Lives, and we also still haven't
- 14:31Speaker 3: gotten confirmation if that show has picked cameras back up,
- 14:34Speaker 3: but my assumption is that he is not going to
- 14:37Speaker 3: be on that show anymore, and as a network, they
- 14:40Speaker 3: probably have to be aligned on that. Whereas Alex Cooper,
- 14:44Speaker 3: because this show is on YouTube, can it's up to her,
- 14:47Speaker 3: you know, and YouTube what they do. So the other
- 14:50Speaker 3: thing I do want to point out is I believe
- 14:52Speaker 3: it's on April seventh, Dakota and Taylor do you have
- 14:56Speaker 3: their day in court, which is about the custody situation
- 15:00Speaker 3: of their son. So we will obviously be keeping an
- 15:02Speaker 3: eye on that As to how things play out.
- 15:07Speaker 2: I'm assuming we will be breaking it down and talking
- 15:09Speaker 2: about everything that comes out here at the Almost Famous podcast. Yes, okay, perfect, Well,
- 15:15Speaker 2: we'll be back in just a few days talking about
- 15:18Speaker 2: the court case between Taylor and Dakota. But they are
- 15:22Speaker 2: filling up our headlines right now. We could do multiple
- 15:24Speaker 2: headline episodes on all the stuff that's happening. And I mean,
- 15:28Speaker 2: I guess one of my takeaways from this right now
- 15:31Speaker 2: is both these people were so busy. How are they
- 15:34Speaker 2: on so many different shows at once? I mean, it
- 15:39Speaker 2: blows my mind. They travel the world and get a
- 15:42Speaker 2: camera put up and there the two of them were everywhere,
- 15:46Speaker 2: and so there's a lot of things that are affected
- 15:49Speaker 2: by you know, the incidents that happened in twenty twenty
- 15:52Speaker 2: three and then obviously most recently. So that's shocking of
- 15:57Speaker 2: how many shows they're on, and then how many people
- 15:59Speaker 2: are now having to edit, scrap and move on from
- 16:05Speaker 2: them being on their shows. Heather, thank you for following
- 16:09Speaker 2: the headlines. Thank you for bringing us all the recent
- 16:13Speaker 2: news that is happening in relation to Bachelor Nation, which
- 16:16Speaker 2: again I say Bachelor Nation has now expanded far outside
- 16:21Speaker 2: of the Bachelor and Bachelorette. This show is getting bigger,
- 16:24Speaker 2: almost famous, is growing in large part thanks to all
- 16:28Speaker 2: these Bachelor people moving on and doing other shows, which
- 16:31Speaker 2: is fun for us to break down. And again we
- 16:33Speaker 2: are going to be breaking down the YouTube series because
- 16:35Speaker 2: we love Joon and Serena. They're great people and we
- 16:38Speaker 2: want to follow along with their journey, just like we
- 16:42Speaker 2: did with whatever that wild show was in Perfect Match
- 16:45Speaker 2: where I had to see two people lick ice cubes
- 16:48Speaker 2: off of each other's bodies.
- 16:50Speaker 4: Love overboard.
- 16:51Speaker 3: Real Housewives of Rhode Island soon to be Also Farmer
- 16:54Speaker 3: wants a wife because Heather Martin is a cast member
- 16:57Speaker 3: on that show.
- 16:58Speaker 4: So we've got a lot to cover as Actually I.
- 17:01Speaker 2: Don't think I agreed to anything like this.
- 17:05Speaker 3: Well, I will say we've got some fun people coming
- 17:08Speaker 3: in to help with some of these shows as well,
- 17:10Speaker 3: because yes, you and Ashley are also very busy. But yeah,
- 17:14Speaker 3: the Bachelor world does keep expanding, and we want to
- 17:17Speaker 3: make sure that you know we're bringing you, guys, the listeners,
- 17:22Speaker 3: everything that you want to hear, especially since we don't
- 17:24Speaker 3: have a season of The Bachelorette and who knows what
- 17:26Speaker 3: the future of the franchise will be.
- 17:29Speaker 2: Yeah again, you know, it would make this so much easier.
- 17:31Speaker 2: What if there's this show whereas like a reunion of
- 17:34Speaker 2: Bachelor contestants that people love and followed that was all
- 17:37Speaker 2: centralized in one location. Yes, that would be so much
- 17:40Speaker 2: easier to break down.
- 17:41Speaker 3: Yeah, it would because you know what, we'd also not
- 17:45Speaker 3: have to follow all the headlines in so many places.
- 17:48Speaker 3: If we had everybody together, we could just have group
- 17:52Speaker 3: talk about what's going on in their lives.
- 17:54Speaker 4: I like that.
- 17:55Speaker 2: Yeah, what a great idea. Hey, until next time when
- 17:59Speaker 2: we break down more headlines, more episodes of the Real
- 18:03Speaker 2: Housewives of Rhode Island, more episode episodes of Love Overboard,
- 18:07Speaker 2: the court case between Taylor and Dakota, Farmer wants a
- 18:11Speaker 2: wife at some point in our life, and this YouTube
- 18:15Speaker 2: show that I forget the name of. We'll be back
- 18:18Speaker 2: right here on the Almost Famous podcast talking about it
- 18:20Speaker 2: all until next time.
- 18:21Speaker 4: I've been Been, I've Been Heather, Hi by y'all.
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