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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: Hey guys, welcome to another Bendless Headlines episode.
- 0:11Speaker 3: And that's okay.
- 0:11Speaker 4: I'm not thinking about event at all.
- 0:13Speaker 2: He has been away doing a cool cruise thing with
- 0:18Speaker 2: Wells and Chris Harrison, which I'm bummed that I didn't
- 0:22Speaker 2: get to go to. But today we have our producer
- 0:24Speaker 2: Heather joining us to break down headlines with me because
- 0:27Speaker 2: we have a couple juicy ones. We wanted to get
- 0:29Speaker 2: them out there before he came back. So let's talk
- 0:33Speaker 2: about Melissa Ryecroft's I.
- 0:36Speaker 4: Mean is gonna be We're gonna be honest.
- 0:38Speaker 3: It's gonna be a little lowkward.
- 0:39Speaker 4: To talk around.
- 0:40Speaker 2: She was she got a dui and she was Yes,
- 0:45Speaker 2: she was driving one talksd and she got arrested. And
- 0:51Speaker 2: the mug shots not great.
- 0:52Speaker 3: It was not a.
- 0:53Speaker 5: Great photo in the list of you know, good mug
- 0:57Speaker 5: shots shots.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Yeah, like this, this one looks like she was arrested
- 1:03Speaker 2: drunk driving.
- 1:04Speaker 3: Yeah, does look like that.
- 1:07Speaker 2: The photo was made public after the news broke that
- 1:10Speaker 2: she was arrested on September twenty third in Texas with
- 1:13Speaker 2: a DWI. TMZ reported that she was released on bond
- 1:18Speaker 2: after eight hours. She posted bail at one thousand dollars
- 1:23Speaker 2: and promised you pier in court. She allegedly told officers
- 1:27Speaker 2: at the time that a driver hit her car and
- 1:29Speaker 2: fled the scene, but an eyewitness allegedly contradicted her report,
- 1:36Speaker 2: according to a search warrant obtained by the outlet, and
- 1:41Speaker 2: the eyewitness alleged that Melissa's car was the only one
- 1:46Speaker 2: involved in the accident, said that the police on the
- 1:51Speaker 2: scene encountered her bloodshot eyes, slurred speech, and she stood
- 1:57Speaker 2: next to an off duty firefighter on the scene. And
- 2:01Speaker 2: then her attorney has of course said, I want to
- 2:04Speaker 2: remind the public of the fundamental principle of our justice system.
- 2:08Speaker 2: Every individual is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Toats agree,
- 2:14Speaker 2: and that's kind of where we stand with that. If
- 2:17Speaker 2: you guys don't remember where Melissa Ryecroft is placed in
- 2:22Speaker 2: the whole Bachelor lore. She came to fame after winning
- 2:29Speaker 2: Jason Mesnik's final rows, but then he of course later
- 2:32Speaker 2: dumbed her for Molly Mesnick, his now wife of over
- 2:35Speaker 2: a decade on like basically it all happened on the
- 2:39Speaker 2: after show.
- 2:40Speaker 5: And just to say at the time of this recording,
- 2:42Speaker 5: she has still not made any sort of public comment
- 2:45Speaker 5: or acknowledged this incident as of yet.
- 2:48Speaker 2: Yeah, she's been living pretty privately with her husband, Tys Strickland.
- 2:52Speaker 2: They they got married in two thousand and nine. Yeah,
- 2:56Speaker 2: everybody's been together. It's been crazy because it feels like
- 2:58Speaker 2: when you think of Melissa Rai Kraft and Jason Mesnik,
- 3:01Speaker 2: it feels like it was just yesterday and it was
- 3:03Speaker 2: two thousand and nine.
- 3:04Speaker 3: I mean, you know that's when she found somebody else
- 3:06Speaker 3: and got married.
- 3:06Speaker 4: That's nuts.
- 3:07Speaker 2: And they have three kids, Ava fourteen, Beckett eleven, and
- 3:11Speaker 2: Cason nine.
- 3:12Speaker 5: Let's switch gears to something maybe a little bit more happy.
- 3:16Speaker 3: This one is crazy.
- 3:19Speaker 2: Gary Turner is engaged to his new girlfriend fifteen months
- 3:23Speaker 2: after finalizing his divorced from Teresa.
- 3:26Speaker 3: You know who we have to have on the podcast now, Teresa.
- 3:30Speaker 3: That woman loves to give us tea. She is unfiltered
- 3:35Speaker 3: and I love it. So has anybody.
- 3:38Speaker 5: Checked on Teresa since this?
- 3:40Speaker 2: Oh my god, I cannot even imagine her reaction to this. Obviously,
- 3:44Speaker 2: we know that Gary has been dating this woman for
- 3:47Speaker 2: a little bit now, but I can't imagine that that
- 3:55Speaker 2: Teresa wouldn't be greatly affected by the fact that he's
- 3:57Speaker 2: now going to get married again after having such a
- 4:00Speaker 2: quick divorce turnaround. Last time, he posted on Instagram, big news,
- 4:07Speaker 2: the Golden Bachelor is off the market. I found my
- 4:10Speaker 2: perfect match. She said, Yes, I love this woman. How
- 4:15Speaker 2: long have they been together?
- 4:16Speaker 4: Do we know?
- 4:17Speaker 3: Fifteen?
- 4:18Speaker 5: Oh, like less than a year. They definitely didn't go
- 4:23Speaker 5: public until this year, but I can't remember the exact tea.
- 4:27Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's quick.
- 4:30Speaker 5: We definitely are going to be having Gary come on
- 4:33Speaker 5: the show before the end of the month. You know,
- 4:36Speaker 5: he's got a new memoir coming out as well, so
- 4:39Speaker 5: lots to discuss with him.
- 4:41Speaker 2: I feel like Gary like probably hates me because, like
- 4:43Speaker 2: I make fun of him a lot.
- 4:47Speaker 5: Let's be honest, I think the world did so. I
- 4:52Speaker 5: mean you're okay, I think.
- 4:53Speaker 3: You're right alrighty.
- 4:56Speaker 2: Then Robert Irwin, who you know of us, the Crocodile
- 5:00Speaker 2: Hunter's son, and ABC is loving their Hulu crossover, and
- 5:06Speaker 2: you know they they're like wanting to marry all their
- 5:09Speaker 2: shows together. Somebody asked Robert, who's currently on Dancing with
- 5:13Speaker 2: the Stars, if he'll be interested in being the Bachelor
- 5:17Speaker 2: since he admitted that he's still looking for his American girl,
- 5:21Speaker 2: and he said, all I can say is stranger things
- 5:24Speaker 2: have happened.
- 5:26Speaker 3: Who knows.
- 5:28Speaker 2: Oh, Okay, that actually sounds like he has been asked
- 5:36Speaker 2: if there's been interest. I don't think he's like at
- 5:39Speaker 2: all close to being cast, but I think that possibly
- 5:42Speaker 2: ABC has put a little something in his ear. His
- 5:45Speaker 2: dance partner, Whitney Carson, chimed in and she shut down
- 5:49Speaker 2: the idea for now, saying he needs to focus on
- 5:52Speaker 2: dancing and then her, and then Robert responded by saying,
- 5:57Speaker 2: oh my gosh, we'll see.
- 5:58Speaker 4: Maybe you know, I want to do it.
- 6:00Speaker 2: Even more now now I want to do it even
- 6:03Speaker 2: more now that you don't want me to do it.
- 6:06Speaker 3: Okay, what do you think? What'd your take? Do you
- 6:08Speaker 3: think they've talked to him?
- 6:09Speaker 5: I think i've definitely. I know I've said this behind
- 6:12Speaker 5: the scenes multiple times to you guys that I think
- 6:15Speaker 5: that he should be the next Bachelor. He is super wholesome,
- 6:19Speaker 5: He's really such darkly. He did that shoot for People Magazine,
- 6:23Speaker 5: I want to say, earlier this year where he was
- 6:25Speaker 5: like showing off his six pack, had a snake around him,
- 6:28Speaker 5: and I was like, yes, I could see this guy
- 6:30Speaker 5: being the Bachelor, and he was one of the early
- 6:32Speaker 5: ones announced for the Dancing with the Stars cast. I
- 6:37Speaker 5: see it happening. He's wholesome, he's lovely, he's got a
- 6:40Speaker 5: great family.
- 6:41Speaker 2: He's too young though he's only twenty one. We can't
- 6:45Speaker 2: have a twenty one year old bachelor.
- 6:47Speaker 5: But he's mature because he like, oh no, he helps
- 6:50Speaker 5: run a zoo.
- 6:51Speaker 4: He and Bindy are just like so far beyond their years.
- 6:55Speaker 5: Totally. I could see it happening. I could see it happening.
- 7:00Speaker 4: I could see it having down the road.
- 7:01Speaker 2: But I don't think that I think they would get
- 7:02Speaker 2: so much backlash with a twenty one year old bachelor.
- 7:05Speaker 5: I mean, we've had golden bachelors who have not been.
- 7:10Speaker 3: Ready, I who have not been very PC to be married.
- 7:15Speaker 5: So I don't know. I don't know. I will see where.
- 7:19Speaker 5: I'm just saying I've thrown my hat into the ring
- 7:21Speaker 5: that I support Robert Irwin being the next Bachelor since
- 7:25Speaker 5: bat People magazine.
- 7:26Speaker 2: Shoot, Okay, already, I cannot support a twenty one year
- 7:31Speaker 2: old bachelor, but I can support him being the Bachelor
- 7:34Speaker 2: because he is very adorbed.
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- 9:21Speaker 2: Kaylin Bell, it's so crazy not to call her.
- 9:24Speaker 4: Miller Keys. With Kaylin Bell.
- 9:25Speaker 2: And Dean, they are being open about their fertility struggles.
- 9:30Speaker 2: I have talked to Kaylin months ago about this, but
- 9:34Speaker 2: she says that they haven't been trying yet for a year,
- 9:38Speaker 2: and at Kaylin's age, I know my doctor told me
- 9:42Speaker 2: not to stress until you get to that year point.
- 9:46Speaker 4: But she has said.
- 9:49Speaker 2: That she's been feeling disappointed in their attempts to conceive.
- 9:53Speaker 2: She said in a new Instagram video that Dean and
- 9:55Speaker 2: I have been trying to get pregnant for quite some time,
- 9:58Speaker 2: and honestly, it's harder than I expected. My mom got
- 10:01Speaker 2: pregnant super easily, so I figured it would happen quickly
- 10:04Speaker 2: for me, but that has not been the case. This
- 10:06Speaker 2: journey has been emotional, it's been tough, it hasn't been easy.
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- 10:30Speaker 2: for me and starting and spotting my trends in my
- 10:33Speaker 2: cycle and any irregularities. I've been able to bring the
- 10:36Speaker 2: data to my doctor to figure out what's going on
- 10:39Speaker 2: with me. And she said that Shane Dean have been
- 10:43Speaker 2: are beginning to think about next steps if they are
- 10:46Speaker 2: unable to conceive soon.
- 10:49Speaker 4: All right, So we are just sending them.
- 10:50Speaker 2: All the good baby vibes, the baby dust. We're hoping
- 10:54Speaker 2: that happens for them. They're going to be such excellent parents,
- 10:57Speaker 2: and I'm sure it'll happen one day. And then in
- 11:02Speaker 2: sad sort of news. I don't know why I said
- 11:05Speaker 2: sort of, but I'll explain later Carly Wadel, my friend,
- 11:10Speaker 2: said that she's ended her engagement. She has been She
- 11:13Speaker 2: publicly said she's ended her engagement to Todd Allen Trestler.
- 11:19Speaker 2: It ended a couple a bit, a little bit ago.
- 11:23Speaker 2: They did go to Paris in July, and they did
- 11:27Speaker 2: go and move into and move in together earlier.
- 11:32Speaker 4: In the year. I want to say it was springtime.
- 11:35Speaker 2: And so yeah, they did big life things together and
- 11:39Speaker 2: they have decided to call it off. And I will
- 11:41Speaker 2: let Carly talk about that more. She wants to talk
- 11:43Speaker 2: about it more. But I think that she knows that
- 11:47Speaker 2: it's for the very best for her and her family.
- 11:50Speaker 2: I feel bad that she had to, you know, move
- 11:52Speaker 2: the kids out of where they were living, but she
- 11:56Speaker 2: said that they love the new neighborhood now, and it's
- 11:58Speaker 2: just that that's what sucks. It's just like that, like
- 12:00Speaker 2: she uprooted her life out of the house that she
- 12:03Speaker 2: loved that she bought herself. And but she did say
- 12:07Speaker 2: in an Instagram video this week, real talk. It's a
- 12:10Speaker 2: post I've been delaying so that, but so that I
- 12:15Speaker 2: can feel more free here we go. I'm always trying
- 12:18Speaker 2: to be real with you guys.
- 12:19Speaker 4: So I'm going to.
- 12:20Speaker 2: Be real with you now, I'm not wearing a ring.
- 12:21Speaker 2: I did break off my engagement about a month ago.
- 12:24Speaker 2: It's not a decision that I personally made overnight. It
- 12:28Speaker 2: was really bad time because the kids had started school
- 12:31Speaker 2: in sports and all those things. But you know what
- 12:33Speaker 2: it is, what it is, and I feel very at
- 12:35Speaker 2: peace of this decision. My kids are loving life in
- 12:39Speaker 2: a new place, and honestly, dating after divorce and dating
- 12:42Speaker 2: with kids is super difficult and you have to make
- 12:44Speaker 2: the decisions for yourself and your family.
- 12:46Speaker 4: So that's where I'm at.
- 12:46Speaker 2: And I definitely know that she made the best decision
- 12:49Speaker 2: for her family.
- 12:51Speaker 3: And she's still in the Nashville area.
- 12:53Speaker 2: I know that, and she's close with and her parents
- 12:56Speaker 2: are in the area, so I'm sure she's doing just fine.
- 12:59Speaker 2: And I will be seen Carly for her fortieth birthday
- 13:02Speaker 2: this coming weekend because we are doing eight chrys Soul's
- 13:06Speaker 2: Bachelor Girls reunion and we're all staying at Caitlyn's house
- 13:09Speaker 2: and we are so excited. So will uh, you'll be
- 13:15Speaker 2: following a lot on Instagram, I'm assuming.
- 13:18Speaker 3: Wait, I love it.
- 13:19Speaker 5: I love that. Yeah, what are you like when you
- 13:23Speaker 5: do a girl's weekend like what kind of stuff do
- 13:26Speaker 5: you look forward to the most when you're away from
- 13:29Speaker 5: the kids, which who you love, and you're away from
- 13:31Speaker 5: your husband. What's kind of the big thing that you
- 13:33Speaker 5: look forward to the most on a girl's weekend.
- 13:36Speaker 2: I'm just thinking that like morning coffee, just sitting around
- 13:39Speaker 2: in sweats, and then probably just like being cozy and
- 13:43Speaker 2: like probably like just having some drinks to the girls
- 13:47Speaker 2: at night too. Just like I don't know what we're
- 13:49Speaker 2: gonna do yet, honestly have to like text the group
- 13:51Speaker 2: and be like, so do we need to make reservations
- 13:53Speaker 2: for certain places? Like what's the actual do? Are we
- 13:56Speaker 2: gonna make an itinerary? Are we gonna wing it?
- 13:58Speaker 3: But we are going to do like sort of fun
- 14:00Speaker 3: witches night.
- 14:01Speaker 2: Oh where everybody's gonna be a different witch.
- 14:06Speaker 3: Wait, I love this.
- 14:07Speaker 5: I love this. Please make focus pocus like TikTok.
- 14:11Speaker 2: Yeah, we're definitely gonna be just doing social media a ton,
- 14:15Speaker 2: I'm sure, which well I hope not feel like work,
- 14:19Speaker 2: but it's just like to get I think there's seven
- 14:22Speaker 2: of us together after eleven years, it's just too good
- 14:26Speaker 2: not to just do all that stuff.
- 14:28Speaker 5: I like really love that and I think it really
- 14:30Speaker 5: is a testament to kind of how special the show
- 14:33Speaker 5: is that you still have that kind of fun bond
- 14:36Speaker 5: with these girls that you went through this super unique
- 14:39Speaker 5: experience with. I really love that.
- 14:41Speaker 2: What is really cool about the Bachelor is the friends
- 14:45Speaker 2: that you make are kind of the friends where you
- 14:47Speaker 2: can go a couple of years without seeing them and
- 14:49Speaker 2: then you see them and it doesn't.
- 14:50Speaker 4: Feel weird at all.
- 14:51Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the best kind of friendships.
- 14:54Speaker 4: I love that.
- 14:54Speaker 5: For you, guys, this sounds like really fun.
- 14:57Speaker 3: Thanks, We're super excited.
- 14:58Speaker 2: Our last headline of the day is Gary Levingston. He
- 15:03Speaker 2: hard launched a new relationship with the new girlfriend. What
- 15:07Speaker 2: Why do we feel like this is correct? Why do
- 15:08Speaker 2: I feel like this is crazy? Okay, so Gary, everybody's
- 15:12Speaker 2: lovable Gary from Bachelor in Paradise and the Golden Bachelorette
- 15:16Speaker 2: who had a connection and was like I thought, like
- 15:18Speaker 2: kind of dating flirting with Leslie is definitely no longer
- 15:23Speaker 2: flirting with Leslie. He took to his Instagram to say
- 15:27Speaker 2: that he's found love like we're at the love word
- 15:30Speaker 2: off screen and he says it's never too late, sixty six,
- 15:35Speaker 2: never too late to find the one that you're equally
- 15:38Speaker 2: yoked with on an energy level, and he's referring to
- 15:42Speaker 2: them as Big G and Little G.
- 15:45Speaker 3: It's real.
- 15:46Speaker 2: Okay, So I actually am gonna throw this to you
- 15:49Speaker 2: because weren't you with Gary in Tahoe.
- 15:54Speaker 3: I've never met Gary in real life.
- 15:56Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. So I've met Gary so many times,
- 15:58Speaker 5: love him to pieces. You know, we set him up
- 16:01Speaker 5: on a blind date with Kelly ben Simone earlier this year. Yes,
- 16:06Speaker 5: I was in Tahoe where he was with Leslie and
- 16:11Speaker 5: we were kind of sussing out what was going on
- 16:13Speaker 5: because Paradise was still airing at the time, so they
- 16:16Speaker 5: were being very hush hush, but they seemed like they
- 16:19Speaker 5: were canoodling, like they're definitely seemed like a vibe. But yeah,
- 16:25Speaker 5: so you're not the only one who was shocked by
- 16:27Speaker 5: this answer or this news. I was as well when
- 16:30Speaker 5: I saw it. But all I can say is Gary
- 16:33Speaker 5: is a lover. We love this h I am so
- 16:36Speaker 5: happy for him. He was definitely, like to remember on Paradise,
- 16:40Speaker 5: he was kind of like the big cheese like everybody
- 16:43Speaker 5: all the ladies were like circling around him and like
- 16:46Speaker 5: wanting to know Gary. He gives off that fun vibe
- 16:51Speaker 5: and he's just really really nice and has really great energy.
- 16:54Speaker 5: So I'm happy for him. I'm glad to see that
- 16:56Speaker 5: he's got a girlfriend because I know that finding a
- 16:59Speaker 5: partner has been something we've talked, you know, off camera
- 17:02Speaker 5: and stuff, and that is something that's been really important
- 17:05Speaker 5: to him. So I'm happy for him.
- 17:06Speaker 4: I'm so happy for him too.
- 17:08Speaker 3: Good job, Gary, Yeah already. Well that is it for
- 17:13Speaker 3: this week. We are so grateful for you stepping in, Heather.
- 17:16Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
- 17:17Speaker 5: You know where to find me, Ashley.
- 17:19Speaker 3: We'll talk soon. Bye, see ya. Until next time, I've
- 17:23Speaker 3: been Ashley, I've been Heather.
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