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Let’s Marry Harry’s Emily Stone Isn’t A Virgin To Reality TV · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Almost Famous Podcast with iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Kind of Famous. It's Deanna and producer
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Speaker 2: Heather here. And today we get to talk to Emily,
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Speaker 2: who is officially reality TV veteran. We love her and
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Speaker 2: we got obsessed with her on Let's Marry Harry.
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Speaker 3: This is fun for me because I put her on
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Speaker 3: a television show a handful of years ago. She was
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Speaker 3: fantastic on that show, if memory serves right. She won
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Speaker 3: the show. So we'll talk to her about that. And
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Speaker 3: I've kept in touch with her over the years because
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Speaker 3: of different opportunities. You know, this is what us casting
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Speaker 3: people do. If you seem like you have fun on
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Speaker 3: a show or, you know, you never know who they
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Speaker 3: know or who they're related to, who might want to
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Speaker 3: do with the experience.
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Speaker 1: So we've touched base.
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Speaker 3: But I was very surprised when I saw her post
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Speaker 3: the picture that she was a cast member for this show.
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Speaker 3: And if you remember, I didn't spoil it in the
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Speaker 3: first two episodes that you watched because I didn't want
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Speaker 3: you to know her story and why it was so
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Speaker 3: surprising to me that she would be on a show
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Speaker 3: like Let's Marry Harry. But I'm excited to reconnect with
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Speaker 3: her and kind of hear about what her experience was
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Speaker 3: like on this show because It's very different than the
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Speaker 3: other show she was on.
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Speaker 2: This is like your baby, Heather. This is like your baby.
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Speaker 1: It's always fun for me. Hello.
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Speaker 4: Hi.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. So good to see you. So good
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Speaker 1: to see you, too.
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Speaker 3: Emily, this is Deanna. And we're so excited to chat
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Speaker 3: with you. Obviously, you and I go back a handful
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Speaker 3: of years. So just to tell everybody, you were on
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Speaker 3: the Real Love.
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Speaker 1: Boat a few years ago.
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 3: what was your experience like going on reality TV the
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Speaker 3: first time and how did it differ from the second time,
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Speaker 3: would you say?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, going on the Real Love Boat the first time
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Speaker 4: was my first experience with reality TV and I had
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Speaker 4: a great experience. I think it was a lot different
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Speaker 4: than my most recent experience. So the first one was
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Speaker 4: more of like a challenge slash dating show. As you know, Heather,
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Speaker 4: like It was fun. We got to travel. It was
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Speaker 4: more lighthearted. It was just like, it was amazing, honestly,
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Speaker 4: for a first time experience on TV. So I guess
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Speaker 4: I was maybe a little bit naive going into this
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Speaker 4: one because I was kind of expecting a similar maybe
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Speaker 4: experience and it was quite like polar opposite. I think
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Speaker 4: the dynamic shifts a lot when there's just like one
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Speaker 4: lead versus... The first show I was on where it
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Speaker 4: was like a mix of guys and girls where you
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Speaker 4: could kind of really explore and find like your personality
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Speaker 4: and who you're a good fit with. And there's a
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Speaker 4: ton more tension, obviously, when there's 20 women competing for
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Speaker 4: one guy.
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Speaker 3: And living in a house together. On the other show,
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Speaker 3: you got to go back to your own room and
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Speaker 3: stuff at the end of the day.
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Speaker 1: Exactly.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we were definitely not on camera 24-7 like we
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Speaker 4: were on Let's Marry Harry. So that was definitely an
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Speaker 4: adjustment because I felt like for my mental health, like
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Speaker 4: being able to step away from the cameras for a
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Speaker 4: little bit kind of helped keep my sanity. And in
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Speaker 4: this one, it was definitely a lot more intense stuff.
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Speaker 3: What was your knowledge of Harry Jousey before going on
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Speaker 3: the show? Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So honestly, I didn't know a ton about him. All
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Speaker 1: I really knew were like the negative headlines.
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Speaker 4: And it's a funny story because I almost didn't go
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Speaker 4: on the show because of that. I was reached out
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Speaker 4: to multiple times about it. I kept ignoring it.
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Speaker 1: I was like, I don't want to be associated with
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Speaker 1: With that, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 4: And so I.
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Speaker 1: Ended up opening my mouth to my mom and I
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Speaker 1: said something.
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Speaker 4: I was like, there's a bunch of casting producers reaching
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Speaker 4: out to me about this Let's Marry Harry show.
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Speaker 1: Like, do you have any idea like who Harry Jowsey is?
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Speaker 1: She ended up knowing 10 times more about him than me,
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Speaker 1: which was hilarious.
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Speaker 3: Thanks, Mom.
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Speaker 1: I said this in the show. I was like, if
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Speaker 1: this wasn't for my mom, I would not be here
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Speaker 1: right now. And now she apologizes for it.
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Speaker 3: And she's like, sorry, I.
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Speaker 4: Didn't mean to steer you in the wrong direction. But no, really,
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Speaker 4: I think we both were kind of... fell into his
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Speaker 4: trap of she's like, I watch these podcasts of him
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Speaker 4: and he's really trying to, you know, turn his life
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Speaker 4: around and really get serious.
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Speaker 1: And learn from his mistakes.
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Speaker 4: And O'Harey did a really good job of making, I think,
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Speaker 4: the public and us women believe that or we wouldn't have.
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Speaker 1: Signed up for it.
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Speaker 4: And so after getting my mom's blessing and everything, I
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Speaker 4: was like, okay, I guess I'll interview and everything. And
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Speaker 4: then throughout the interviews, we talked a little bit about
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Speaker 4: Harry and his reputation and everything like that.
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Speaker 1: And I believe that people can change.
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Speaker 4: And so ultimately, that's why I decided to sign.
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Speaker 1: Up for it despite his controversial reputation.
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Speaker 2: Had you told the other girls in the house that
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Speaker 2: you had been on television before that you'd done reality TV?
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Speaker 1: No, I don't think that really ever got brought up.
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Speaker 3: Do you think that it gave you a little bit
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Speaker 3: of a upper hand going into this kind of environment?
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Speaker 3: I mean, you weren't the only one, by the way,
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Speaker 3: who'd been on TV before. We know that your cast member, Lauren,
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Speaker 3: had also been briefly on The Bachelor.
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Speaker 1: Did, would you guys connect about that at all?
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Speaker 3: Like between you two or did literally nobody in the
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Speaker 3: house know anything about you guys in your background?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I never really brought it up. I
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Speaker 1: never really felt there to be a reason to, and
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Speaker 1: I didn't want people.
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Speaker 4: To view that as like, oh, she's just trying to
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Speaker 4: get on TV because that really isn't.
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Speaker 1: What it is.
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Speaker 3: Like I'm trying to find my person.
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Speaker 1: No one held it against Harry.
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Speaker 4: Had anyone ever asked, like, of course, I would be
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Speaker 4: honest about that. I just never really thought it was
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Speaker 4: appropriate to bring up or part of the story.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, part of your story is about the fact that
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Speaker 3: you have maintained your virginity as a personal choice. And
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Speaker 3: so dating somebody who is kind of known for maybe
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Speaker 3: not having the longest relationships in the public eye, Did
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Speaker 3: you feel nervous about broaching that topic with Harry? Did
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Speaker 3: you think about how he was going to receive that information?
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Speaker 3: Did you think he would be receptive to that? Like,
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Speaker 3: what kind of were your thoughts? And did you have
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Speaker 3: a conversation, like a deep conversation with him about that?
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Speaker 3: Because we didn't really see that happen on camera.
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Speaker 4: No, actually, Harry and I never had a conversation about
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Speaker 4: my virginity. It was never an opportunity that we really got.
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Speaker 4: I think their way of kind of maybe raising eyebrows
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Speaker 4: was through that one challenge I was a part of
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Speaker 4: when they were asking about like sex positions. Obviously, I
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Speaker 4: was kind of put on the spot about that. And
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Speaker 4: I was just truthful and honest, like I am who
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Speaker 4: I am and Harry.
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Speaker 1: Is who he is.
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Speaker 4: But I think The thing that I kept telling myself
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Speaker 4: going into this is like, I'm so much more than
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Speaker 4: a virgin and he's so much more than like a boy.
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Speaker 4: And so I had hoped that with who he said
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Speaker 4: he was changing into, that he was kind of putting
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Speaker 4: those tendencies aside and that he would honor my virginity really,
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Speaker 4: because ultimately I'm not only doing it for myself, I'm
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Speaker 4: doing it for like my future.
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Speaker 1: Husband as well.
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Speaker 3: And so.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I was nervous about it.
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Speaker 4: I was more so just curious about how he was
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Speaker 4: going to take it.
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Speaker 3: And of course, you are more than that. I think
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Speaker 3: for me personally, as a viewer, knowing that aspect about you,
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Speaker 3: I was a little upset that I didn't get to
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Speaker 3: see more of your character development because I thought that
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Speaker 3: that juxtaposition of you guys kind of being different could
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Speaker 3: have been a cool way for you to connect and
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Speaker 3: for him to also be looking at somebody or connecting
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Speaker 3: with somebody in maybe a less physical way. So I
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Speaker 3: was upset as a viewer that there were certain, and
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Speaker 3: I said this by the time we were in episode
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Speaker 3: four or five, I felt like I was learning really
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Speaker 3: serious things about some girls, especially when the challenge of
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Speaker 3: like writing things down on the tile and dropping them
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Speaker 3: where I was like, why am I hearing this in
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Speaker 3: episode four when I could have been hearing this in
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Speaker 3: episode two, because I didn't really know who we were
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Speaker 3: rooting for. I didn't know who was going to be
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Speaker 3: the final two. When you saw who ended up being
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Speaker 3: the final two being Danelle and Amber, were you surprised
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Speaker 3: or those two girls that you thought were the front
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Speaker 3: runners when you were during your time in the house?
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Speaker 4: Honestly, I don't think I tried to get too invested
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Speaker 4: in other people's relationships.
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Speaker 1: I was kind of just trying to focus on my own.
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Speaker 4: I will say that I think one of the hesitations
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Speaker 4: I had going into it ended up being true, that
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Speaker 4: Harry was a little bit more lustful than he was
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Speaker 4: maybe really looking for true love.
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Speaker 1: And I think no disrespect on the girls.
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Speaker 4: I think all the women are amazing and to each
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Speaker 4: their own. But I think it is a little telling that,
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Speaker 4: you know, the the top two were the ones that
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Speaker 4: he was intimate with pretty early on.
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Speaker 1: And I think that says more about Harry than anything.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Interesting.
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Speaker 3: It is an interesting point. Now we know that Danelle
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Speaker 3: in the scenes that we saw of them in the closet,
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Speaker 3: they've both confirmed that they actually were not intimate in
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Speaker 3: that scene. And they really, I don't think explored their
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Speaker 3: intimacy until their overnight. That's kind of what, is been
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Speaker 3: put out there, but we do know that he got
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Speaker 3: with Abby and supposedly maybe somebody else that hasn't really
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Speaker 3: come forward or owned up to that. We were surprised
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Speaker 3: just now to find out that Harry actually was living
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Speaker 3: in the house with you guys. I for sure thought
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Speaker 3: that was a production trick and that he was like
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Speaker 3: going back to a hotel at the end of the
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Speaker 3: night no.
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Speaker 4: He actually was and it's so funny like his upstairs
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Speaker 4: was like the Taj Mahal compared to like what we
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Speaker 4: were living in like we had these small little rooms
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Speaker 4: with four girls living in it, one tiny bathroom, and
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Speaker 4: we have all our luggage in.
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Speaker 1: There on top of it. So yeah, he had a
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Speaker 1: good setup compared to us.
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Speaker 3: Wow. Let's talk about the reunion because there was a
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Speaker 3: lot happening there. What would you say your biggest takeaways
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Speaker 3: were from that day, either from being present and what
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Speaker 3: you saw versus what you saw when it aired back?
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Speaker 3: What would you say your biggest takeaway was from the reunion?
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Speaker 4: I think that I was just really disappointed in Harry,
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Speaker 4: to be honest. I feel like the way he.
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Speaker 1: Handled it was just disappointing.
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Speaker 4: I think, you know, 20 women put their life on
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Speaker 4: the line and they tried to take him seriously.
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Speaker 1: And it just didn't.
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Speaker 4: Really feel like at that reunion, he felt super genuine
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Speaker 4: or serious. And it kind of made me question if
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Speaker 4: the whole thing was like a joke.
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Speaker 2: You know, this feels like a running theme, Heather. Emily,
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Speaker 2: we've gotten the opportunity to talk to several girls, and
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Speaker 2: this feels like the running theme because as a viewer,
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Speaker 2: we kind of were not shown any of that. Like,
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Speaker 2: Harry looked to be on his best behavior for the
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Speaker 2: most part. We got one little snippet where you see
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Speaker 2: him turn and look at a girl and say, I
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Speaker 2: don't even know who you are. Stop talking. But it
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Speaker 2: feels like there was so much more that happened that
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Speaker 2: we didn't get to see.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting.
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Speaker 4: That's reality TV, I guess. So much is cut and
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Speaker 4: they can't put it all. But I would say from
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Speaker 4: being there in person, it was just jaw dropping all around.
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Speaker 4: I honestly, too, going into that, didn't realize all the
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Speaker 4: things that had happened post show either.
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Speaker 1: And so I think I.
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Speaker 4: Was just like probably just as shocked as a viewer was,
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Speaker 4: to be honest.
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Speaker 1: It was just terrible, to be honest, to hear everything
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Speaker 1: that went down.
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Speaker 3: Well, throughout all of filming, we saw Harry being extremely emotional.
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Speaker 3: He was really in the thick of his grief process,
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Speaker 3: having emotional connections and conversations with girls, also being emotional
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Speaker 3: on his own. We've heard a lot about that he
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Speaker 3: was one way for the cameras and another. Would you
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Speaker 3: say that that was also part of it? Do you
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Speaker 3: think that had he shown an emotional side at the reunion...
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Speaker 3: and let those walls down that it would have been
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Speaker 3: a different experience. What did you think about that?
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Speaker 1: You mean like if he would have shown more emotion
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Speaker 1: at the reunion? Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And did you think that the emotion he showed on
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Speaker 3: the show was genuine?
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Speaker 1: I wasn't there long enough to really say, to be honest.
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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously I fell into the trap. I thought
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Speaker 4: while I was there, he seemed serious about things. I
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Speaker 4: didn't know a lot of the things that were happening
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Speaker 4: behind the scenes. And I will say at the reunion,
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Speaker 4: at the reunion, it felt like he was just kind
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Speaker 4: of checked out of it all. Like he just was
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Speaker 4: like ready to just wipe his hands clean and.
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Speaker 1: Just be done with it.
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Speaker 4: Where I think a lot of us women felt differently.
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Speaker 1: Like we all kind of wanted a little bit of
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Speaker 1: like closure and understanding and whatever. And he didn't really
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Speaker 1: seem to care as much as the women did. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, it was interesting, too.
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Speaker 4: I know he made a lot of comments on social
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Speaker 4: media about how, like, oh, if you're not a top five,
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Speaker 4: I don't know who you are.
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Speaker 1: You don't really matter.
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Speaker 4: And for Harry, Harry had 20 women. For us women,
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Speaker 4: we had one man. So for him, we may not
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Speaker 4: have meant anything. But for us, he did.
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Speaker 1: So I think he had a hard time maybe... comprehending
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Speaker 1: that or was.
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Speaker 4: Maybe a little selfish in that aspect where he was
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Speaker 4: just worried about himself and maybe not other people's feelings.
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Speaker 3: Or maybe he was checked out because he's already in
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Speaker 3: another relationship.
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Speaker 1: This is true, Heather. This is true.
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Speaker 2: I love how Heather doesn't cut the stuff. Heather is
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Speaker 2: not messing around. She is not beating around the bush.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, well, maybe they were going through a difficult time.
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Speaker 2: Heather's like, absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: He had another girlfriend.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't care.
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Speaker 3: Imagine you've got a new girlfriend, however long that they've
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Speaker 3: been together. The last thing you want to do is
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Speaker 3: go home and justify why you were emotional or opening
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Speaker 3: up to a girl that you're not dating when the
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Speaker 3: girl you are dating is back at home.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 3: I just think men tend to compartmentalize like that in
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Speaker 3: a lot of ways. And so it doesn't mean it's
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Speaker 3: right how he approached it. And I do think, you know,
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Speaker 3: as viewers, we all... I'll speak for myself. I felt
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Speaker 3: like I was missing a lot of that closure, a
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Speaker 3: lot of those kinds of one-on-one conversations that you tend
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Speaker 3: to get from a reunion. Not saying that Amber is
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Speaker 3: not justified in having her time and getting out there
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Speaker 3: and getting to speak her piece and her mind, but
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Speaker 3: I would have loved to see more of you ladies
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Speaker 3: get that same opportunity.
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Speaker 1: Totally.
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Speaker 3: Me too.
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Speaker 2: Something that I'm so hung up on, and Heather and
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Speaker 2: I have discussed this a thousand times, I was pretty
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Speaker 2: shocked by Juliana deciding not to come. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if you guys were close in the house or if
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Speaker 2: you were also surprised by her not coming to the reunion.
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Speaker 2: I guess I just really needed to see what happened.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, to be honest, I was a little surprised as well.
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Speaker 4: Like I said, I never really got caught up in
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Speaker 4: any of the drama or the other things going on
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Speaker 4: in the house.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, I was there, so I saw a little bit
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Speaker 1: of it.
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Speaker 4: Um, but to each their own, like if she needed
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Speaker 4: to find peace by not going, I can respect that.
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Speaker 4: I think I personally, if I was in her shoes,
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Speaker 4: would have wanted to be there to kind of defend
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Speaker 4: myself because obviously there were a lot.
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Speaker 1: Of people speaking of her.
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Speaker 4: But again, I think all that drama kind of got
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Speaker 4: blown out of proportion as like an outsider watching it all.
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Speaker 3: So you never felt unsafe living in the house with her?
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Speaker 1: No, I never felt unsafe. I didn't know what that
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Speaker 1: was all about. I was like, I don't know if.
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Speaker 4: I was just living under a rock in the house
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Speaker 4: or if that was after I left or what.
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Speaker 1: But there was a lot at that reunion where I
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Speaker 1: was just like, wait, that happened?
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Speaker 2: I think I feel a way that she didn't come
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Speaker 2: because now she's taking to social media and she is
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Speaker 2: doing press and podcasts. I think that's why I feel
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Speaker 2: a way about it. Why not come, face Harry, sit
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Speaker 2: with the other women, you know what I mean, and
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Speaker 2: have a place? Instead of avoiding it and then doing
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Speaker 2: press and putting things out on social media afterwards. And
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Speaker 2: I think just as a viewer, that's just, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I feel a weight about it.
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Speaker 3: I'd love to know from Emily because another thing that
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Speaker 3: Juliana has done is been extremely public about this relationship
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Speaker 3: that she's in post-show. I want to say that she
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Speaker 3: launched the guy as soon as.
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Speaker 1: The episodes were out.
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Speaker 3: There was no hiding that she was already with somebody.
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Speaker 1: I've just been.
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Speaker 3: in this for a really long time and I hear
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Speaker 3: this on probably every dating show that I've done where
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Speaker 3: somebody either is on there for not the right reasons
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Speaker 3: or somebody has a boyfriend back at home or a girlfriend,
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Speaker 3: whatever it may be. Not saying Juliana specifically, but to
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Speaker 3: your knowledge, the people that you met and were close
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Speaker 3: to in the house, was everybody there for the right reason?
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Speaker 3: Did anybody have or admit to having something on the side?
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Speaker 3: Or was that ever talked about amongst you girls after filming?
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Speaker 1: I was never part of that conversation.
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Speaker 4: If there was, I would be so interested for you
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Speaker 4: to tell me because I guess I just was maybe naive,
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Speaker 4: but hoped that everyone was there for the same reasons
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Speaker 4: as me. I mean, I have a hard time dating
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Speaker 4: in real life. Not that am I crazy to think
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Speaker 4: reality TV would be any better?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. But I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I think finding love is all about putting yourself out
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Speaker 4: of your comfort zone. And I guess going back to
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Speaker 4: your question, was I aware of anyone who had.
18:07
Speaker 1: Relations going into the show?
18:09
Speaker 4: No.
18:10
Speaker 1: If they did, that would be disappointing as well.
18:12
Speaker 4: Because I think for people like myself who went into
18:15
Speaker 4: it with really, like, went into it really seriously, it
18:19
Speaker 4: would be a little bit disrespectful to the other girls
18:22
Speaker 4: who were serious about it.
18:23
Speaker 1: Like me.
18:24
Speaker 3: Totally. And to be clear, I don't know when Juliana
18:27
Speaker 3: started dating this guy, she could have met him the
18:30
Speaker 3: second she landed back wherever she lives. You know, I,
18:33
Speaker 3: I do know that my saying all the time to
18:36
Speaker 3: Deanna is hot.
18:37
Speaker 1: People don't stay single for long.
18:39
Speaker 3: You guys always tend to meet people very quickly. So
18:43
Speaker 3: more power to her. And I hope that this relationship
18:45
Speaker 3: is fulfilling for her. But I agree with Deanna that
18:49
Speaker 3: I would have loved to see her show up at
18:50
Speaker 3: the reunion and speak her truth. And, you know, when
18:54
Speaker 3: somebody's talking about you slamming doors and feeling unsafe, I
18:57
Speaker 3: would have loved to hear your own personal reaction to that. Yeah.
19:01
Speaker 4: I didn't find out until I was there that she
19:04
Speaker 4: wasn't going to be there. And I was just shocked nonetheless.
19:08
Speaker 2: I am more so like, come on, Harry and his
19:09
Speaker 2: little personal interviews when he was like, I don't love
19:12
Speaker 2: this girl.
19:12
Speaker 1: This is crazy.
19:13
Speaker 2: But then the way he's confessing his love to her face.
19:15
Speaker 1: I need more. I need more.
19:17
Speaker 3: I would have loved to hear them both address that
19:19
Speaker 3: situation because she seemed to say she was in love
19:24
Speaker 3: with him. And then I saw on a podcast that
19:26
Speaker 3: she said she was not. Two times reality TV under
19:42
Speaker 3: your belt. Is this the last time or are we
19:45
Speaker 3: going to see you possibly on TV again, say if
19:48
Speaker 3: perfect match on Netflix? comes knocking on your door?
19:51
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I don't even know enough about that show
19:54
Speaker 1: to answer that. But I would say obviously I.
19:57
Speaker 4: Had one really good experience on reality TV and.
20:01
Speaker 1: Then the other one, not so much.
20:02
Speaker 4: So I think it would just all depend on the
20:04
Speaker 4: opportunity and what would feel like a right fit.
20:08
Speaker 1: I joke that I feel like me getting casted for
20:11
Speaker 1: Let's Marry Harry, I was casted for the wrong show.
20:13
Speaker 1: I don't know how I got casted for that.
20:15
Speaker 3: Girl, color me surprised the day that I saw the announcement.
20:19
Speaker 1: I was like, what?
20:21
Speaker 3: Knowing you, knowing I did not seem like the show
20:25
Speaker 3: that you would want to go on.
20:27
Speaker 1: And I just, I think I was so bamboozled. Like
20:29
Speaker 1: I think in the interview.
20:30
Speaker 4: Process, they made me just believe that we were going
20:33
Speaker 4: to be like this perfect fit and that he was
20:36
Speaker 4: really changing. And then it was like on paper, we
20:38
Speaker 4: seemed like we were, you know, everything was kind of
20:41
Speaker 4: lining up.
20:41
Speaker 1: And so I was like, oh, okay.
20:43
Speaker 4: What I once was ignoring, I thought was this totally
20:46
Speaker 4: not my fit.
20:47
Speaker 1: I was like then convinced it was.
20:49
Speaker 4: And then when I got there, I was just like,
20:52
Speaker 4: really piecing it together. I was like, okay, maybe this
20:55
Speaker 4: is it. And now, especially watching it back, I was like,
20:59
Speaker 4: what was that?
21:00
Speaker 1: I don't know.
21:01
Speaker 4: But that opportunity came to me for a reason.
21:03
Speaker 1: You met great girls, right?
21:05
Speaker 4: Yeah. And like, I think you just have to put
21:07
Speaker 4: yourself out of your comfort zone. And that's what this
21:09
Speaker 4: was for me. I think I gained a lot of
21:11
Speaker 4: confidence from it. I think I heard a really positive
21:14
Speaker 4: response from viewers on my virginity. I think being able
21:19
Speaker 4: to speak on that makes some people not feel so alone.
21:22
Speaker 2: Totally. So what I hear is that third time's a charm.
21:26
Speaker 3: That's what I was about to say, Heather.
21:27
Speaker 2: Yes, I am so here for it.
21:29
Speaker 3: And that's the thing is like this all just could
21:31
Speaker 3: have been a stepping stone for perfect match because you'll
21:35
Speaker 3: look into perfect match after this conversation. But it's basically
21:38
Speaker 3: all the people who didn't find love connections on other
21:41
Speaker 3: Netflix shows, whether that's Love is Blind, The Ultimatum, whatever.
21:45
Speaker 3: And it's a challenge more kind of you know, bachelor
21:50
Speaker 3: in paradise, kind of very similar to the real love
21:54
Speaker 3: boat in the sense that people are coming in at
21:56
Speaker 3: different times and stuff like that and challenges.
21:59
Speaker 1: It's a mixture of men and women.
22:01
Speaker 3: So there's definitely more of a chance at finding it.
22:03
Speaker 2: We're manifesting it right. Heather manifesting it for Emily.
22:07
Speaker 1: So sweet.
22:08
Speaker 4: I think Heather knows me well. So if you're saying
22:10
Speaker 4: it's a good fit, I may have to trust you.
22:12
Speaker 3: I was going to tell you that I don't think
22:14
Speaker 3: it's this current season, but the last season, and we
22:16
Speaker 3: recapped it, couple met, fell in love, had a baby
22:21
Speaker 3: together all before, like, and got married all before the
22:26
Speaker 3: season came out.
22:26
Speaker 1: It can happen. It can happen. Yeah, that's so sweet. Yeah,
22:29
Speaker 1: I'm a hopeless romantic, and I... I want to find love.
22:33
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of finding where it's at.
22:35
Speaker 2: So yeah.
22:35
Speaker 3: We'll end on this. What's going on in your love
22:38
Speaker 3: life now post-show? Are you dating? Is there anybody in
22:41
Speaker 3: your life right now?
22:43
Speaker 1: Nobody's in my life right now.
22:45
Speaker 4: No, I think I'm open to that. I've, you know,
22:48
Speaker 4: dated a bit post-show, nothing that's stuck, but I know
22:51
Speaker 4: my person's out there. So I'm staying hopeful.
22:54
Speaker 2: You should.
22:55
Speaker 4: You're the best.
22:55
Speaker 2: Emily, you're so beautiful inside and out.
22:58
Speaker 1: You're so sweet.
22:59
Speaker 2: What a bright and shiny woman that you are. Thanks
23:03
Speaker 2: for joining us today.
23:04
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, of course. Thank you guys so much
23:06
Speaker 1: for having me. I really appreciate it.
23:08
Speaker 3: So good to connect and see you again, Emily. Wishing
23:11
Speaker 3: you all the best and keep in touch with us
23:14
Speaker 3: if necessary.
23:15
Speaker 1: Netflix comes knocking
23:16
Speaker 4: Again sounds good so nice to talk to you thank
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Speaker 4: you bye