You are listening to the Daily Roundup here as part of the Reality. Steve Podcast, I’m your host reality. Steve, thank you all for tuning in on this Monday. I got some Bachelor in Paradise News to go over. They did run their first commercial last night during the American Idol finale. Not much to go off of.
I’ve also got an update on some behind the scenes news from Bachelor in Paradise in terms of production that I don’t think a lot of people know just yet. Maybe the story will break this week. I’m not sure. But I’ve got an update for you on that. I will talk about the fact that I watched the American Idol finale all the way up until the end, and I’ll tell you why I didn’t watch the end.
I will talk about my, about my conflicting weekend or my conflicting night I had on Saturday night and I’ve got an update on my vibrating ball for my plantar fasciitis. Yeah, we’ll get to all that momentarily. So let’s start here. Bachelor Paradise ran their first promo during American Idol last night.
They ran it twice. American Idol was three hours long and they ran it twice, and I don’t even think it was either a 15 second or a 32nd and they barely showed anything. The only things they showed of something from filming were three things that I saw. There was a guy that was Jesse Palmer narrated it and said, upcoming this summer, July 7th, you know, bachelor of Paradise Returns with more drama.
And then they show a guy face down on the bar. Like with his head in his arms, you know, possibly crying, couldn’t tell who it was. Then they showed somebody from behind again, couldn’t tell who it was, kissing a girl on the beach, but the girl was completely blocked by the guy. ’cause he was much taller than her.
I think it was either Dale or Andrew if I had to guess, but I have no idea who it was. And then they showed Hakeem saying something in a confessional or an ITM. We already knew Hakeem was on the show. That wasn’t anything surprise there. And even the two things that they gave away, it’s like, great, there’s people on the show.
Like that’s all it is. We have no context of anything other than there was a guy and a girl kissing like, great, this is what we know happens on Bachelor in Paradise. People are gonna couple up and they’re gonna kiss on the beach. We just didn’t see who it was. So that was the first we’ve seen of any Bachelor in Paradise promotion.
It ran twice. I think once in the first hour of I and then once in the third hour of Idol and it was really small. Maybe they’ll probably play it today on the Instagram channels, social media channels of Bachelor Paradise. Maybe they’ll rerun it. I don’t know. They usually do it. They usually run it on TV first, and then they’ll run it on the social media accounts.
The other thing is if they are gonna take the same type of shooting schedule. That they have in the first nine seasons of Bachelor in Paradise, bachelor in Paradise only films over about an 18 to 21 day shoot from the day, first day of filming until the last day of filming is only about three weeks, and they started, as you know, back on Saturday May 3rd.
So this should be the final week. And they should wrap filming up this weekend if they are including the same exact timeframe as they have in past seasons. But again, we have a completely new showrunner on this show. His name is Scott Teddy. He came from Claim to Fame and married at First Sight. He’s never worked on a bachelor show before.
We don’t know how this show is being formatted. If they’re gonna shoot longer, we have no idea. I’m starting to hear a few things here and there. I can’t confirm them, and I don’t know. I mean, I think they’re true, but I don’t have any details of them. The only thing that I, that I did hear that that is possible, and we kind of knew this going in because we knew if they were gonna bring in a new showrunner, he probably wasn’t gonna do the same exact thing they did for nine seasons.
And the fact that this guy came from claim to fame I, I have heard that they are doing challenges on this show, but I have no idea what that means. I don’t know if you win a challenge. You get to go on a date, or you get to choose somebody to go on a date, or you participate in a challenge with another person and a team of two that wins the challenge gets to go on a date.
I have no idea. I just heard there’s challenges involved this season. I don’t know if, again, I know you’re gonna have a bunch of questions. That’s why I hate bringing this stuff up because then it’s gonna lead to five questions I’m gonna have no answers to. I don’t know if it’s for money. I don’t know if it’s for dates.
I don’t know if it’s twosomes. No idea. But I’ve heard there’s challenges involved and it makes sense. The guy came from claim to fame. You’ve seen claim to fame, which is not coming back this summer, by the way. Claim to fame is a show where every episode there was a challenge and then challenges got people clues to try and solve who the other people in the house were related to.
So just keep that in mind. I probably will have more details as time goes on, but that’s what I’m hearing in regards to any sort of format of the show. They are incorporating some sort of challenges, but there are still dates. I’m not saying everything is a challenge. There are still dates. I don’t think that’s a surprise to anybody, but I have heard challenges or being incorporated.
I just don’t know how and what type of challenges we’re talking about. But if it’s anything like claim to fame, they’re gonna be silly, goofy challenges. So be prepared for that. This isn’t like MTV challenge where they’re driving cars off a cliff and they have to escape a car as it’s drowning in the ocean or.
Trying to get by and moving tiles on moving trucks and jumping from a moving one, moving truck to another. Now, I’m sure it’s gonna be silly stuff in the sand where like, Hey, capture the flag, or whatever. Anyway, just keep that in mind. Some behind the scenes news for you that I think might get out in the entertainment sites this week.
I’m not sure, but something that I was informed of. Couple days ago was, we all know I had mentioned new show runner for Bachelor in Paradise. His name is Scott Teddy and he came from Mary to first sight and claim to fame. But something that I was made aware of was the fact that there is a lot of former behind the scenes people that were not brought back for Paradise of this season.
So basically what I’m saying is this whole show is going through a makeover, so I don’t know how it’s gonna look when it gets on television, but I can tell you based on everything that I’m hearing, they have a bunch of new people and I’m talking about over a hundred. We’re talking. 150 to 200 people.
Were talking about camera operators, production, production design team assistants, some producers, lighting people, art people, the tech department. They were all basically told within the last week or so, you are no longer needed for our show. And these are people that have worked on the show for years.
You wouldn’t know any of them. You wouldn’t know any of them by name, and you wouldn’t know any of them by face. But this kind of goes to show, and maybe this show is like, Hey, we lost our main executive producers, Bennett Grabner and Claire Freeland, what’s her name, right? Claire Freeland. And we have to undergo a lot of changes.
We have to change things up because whatever we were doing, the network wants. Well, we have a, a new runner here. You know, Scott Teddy is his name, but what Scott Teddy didn’t do as a guy who’s never worked in the batch of franchise, and this is what’s kind of head scratching, when I heard about this, Scott’s never worked.
It’s not like he worked his way up and got the showrunner gig for Paradise this summer. He just came from another show. So. What’s confusing to me is if you come from another show and you come into a franchise like this that has been around over 20 years, what are you doing? Dumping over 150 people that have worked on the show for years doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
Like if you wanna bring in your own people, I get it. This happens all the time in management. New management takes over. They wanna bring in their own people, and that’s apparently what Scott Teddy did. But now you’ve got 150 people out of a job. And 150 people who have families and children and stuff like that.
The crews, the crew of this show that we have known, or at least that has put together the show that we have known for years, is no longer there. This is a whole entirely different thing. Like we’re not gonna know how it looks to us until we see that first episode on July 7th. So it’s curious to me, and look, I, while I’ve seen every episode, I’m not somebody that dissects what the set looks like.
You know, I’m not somebody that. Cares about the, the camera angles on shots. I, I just don’t, but July 7th rolls around and BIP is gonna air its first episode. If I notice something, then you know something’s definitely changed. But I can tell you right now, they let go over 150 people last week and they have gone to a completely new crew this time around.
And there is a lot of people. Who used to be on the show that are no longer on the show, all, like I said, all behind the scenes people, you wouldn’t know who any of them are. I don’t know who any of ’em are and I don’t know their names other than maybe I’ve seen it when producers might tag somebody in them, but I wouldn’t know them by face.
But you ask around, I have a feeling this story might get out on the entertainment sites this week, but there’s been some major overhaul behind the scenes and. Maybe we will notice it as viewers. Maybe we won’t. I have no idea until the first show airs, but on July 7th. But it’s something to possibly look at if you’ve never chosen to look at it before.
The whole production design team that designs what stuff looks like on Paradise. They Desi, you know, while they were at Saleta last time, they, they were on a beach and so it had a certain decor to it. Let’s see how the new decor looks on this resort in Costa Rica. We have no idea. We’ll know July 7th. But I think the whole this show is, while we all know that there were changes being made, I don’t think we knew that there were absolute wholesale changes where people that have been on the show for years were basically just shown the door.
Because this new producer didn’t want to, at least you, you would think the new producer would come in, or new showrunner would come in and be like, I, I don’t know the inner workings of this franchise. This is a franchise that’s been around over 20 years. You would think that person would at least wanna keep a couple stay overs and just be like, Hey, how, how do we, how do we do this?
How do we keep like the same vibe? But we can change things up directionally. But apparently they just said, Nope, we’re wiping everybody out. And it was in the last, I think within the last couple weeks, everyone found out. And there is some people that, you know, put in a lot of hard work and have, have made this show and this franchise, what it’s been to today, and they’re out of a job now.
And that kind of shows there’s absolutely, maybe we shouldn’t be surprised there’s no loyalty in Hollywood, but, and there’s no loyalty. Anytime new management comes in, anytime a new management comes into any job. Yeah, you should probably be worried for your job because you just don’t know what they have in store, and it’s exactly what happened here.
Apparently, Scott Teddy took a wrecking ball to the behind the scenes crew of this show and this franchise, and there’s basically nobody left from the show that we knew. I mentioned in the open that I had a conflicting Saturday night, and here’s what it was. One thing, maybe you have noticed it was a little worse earlier today, but my voice is a little off.
I’m not sick, but I just kinda lost my voice on Saturday night because that’s because I attended Game six of the Western Conference semi-finals in the NHL, between the Stars and the Winnipeg Jets stars winning overtime. It was an unbelievable game. It’s why my voice is a little fried, just because I was screaming a lot and.
The stars move on to the Western Conference finals for the second year in a row against the same exact team they played last year in the Western conference finals, the Edmonton Oilers. Oh, by the way, the Dow Stars have been in the Western Conference finals three straight years, and four of the last six.
Just wanna point that out. Stars are a very good franchise, unlike the Dallas Mavericks and the Dallas Cowboys. Stars are the best run organization in this city. The Rangers would be second. I get I, I, I, I’d say the Mavericks are third and the Cowboys are fourth, but Mavericks are only third because they’ve won a title.
More recently than the Cowboys have. Mavericks won their title in 2011. The Cowboys haven’t won a world championship since 1995. Anyway, I was at the game Saturday night. But going into the game, what I knew was this Katy Perry is performing at the American Airline Center where the Dallas Stars play their home games and where the Dallas Mavericks play their home games in two nights on Wednesday night.
I bought tickets to this six months ago. So I’ve been looking forward now, I’m very well aware of the shit that Katy Perry is taking online for this concert. Trust me. I’ve seen all the tiktoks about it. I’ve seen the SNL meme where it’s the skit, the Lawrence Welk skit, and I’m Do Denise. Yeah, I’ve seen it.
Trust me, I’m well aware that people aren’t liking Katie’s tour this time around, this not life lifetime’s tour, right? That’s what it’s called. Yeah. I, I’m well aware. But it’s Katy Perry. I’ve seen her when she had a residency in Vegas. I saw her concert there twice. I loved it. It’s just very fun. Upbeat.
Yeah. This one, she’s basically, the theme of it is she’s, she’s a character in a video game, whatever. I just care about the songs. I don’t really care about the choreography, but I was set to go to it Wednesday night. However, going into Saturday night’s game, I knew that the Dallas Stars, whether they won Saturday night.
If they lost Saturday night, game seven would’ve been tonight in Winnipeg. But from everything that I was told, I already knew because the Dallas Stars had a better record than the Edmonton Oilers, the Dallas Stars, if they made it to the Western Conference finals had game one and game two at home. And knowing that Katie was on Wednesday, I was like, shit, if the Stars clinch tonight, game one or Game two is probably gonna be an American Airlines Center.
And if they lose tonight and Clin Monday, I guarantee they come back and game one is probably Wednesday night. Well, not 10 minutes after the game ended on Saturday night. Find out game. One of the Western conference finals, stars and Oilers is Wednesday night at the American Airline Center. As of the missed recording, Katy Perry has not posted anything on her Instagram saying we have to reschedule, but I’m sure it’s coming today or tomorrow because last Thursday, Katy Perry was supposed to be at Ball Arena in Denver.
But the Denver Nuggets had game six there something that when Katy Perry makes out her schedule, she can’t predict that the Denver Nuggets are gonna have a second round home game on the exact date and a game six nonetheless, on the exact date that she had her concert there. So the sports teams take precedent over his, her concert.
It’s just funny that two of her concerts are now getting rescheduled due to sporting activities happening in those arenas. So I’m sure I’m gonna get the announcement today. But yeah, I was cheering for the stars. You can hear it in my voice. But there was a part of me that’s like, damnit. Now I’m probably gonna have to wait till Katie.
I know the Denver, I know the Denver concert got posted till July. So now I’m gonna have to wait for the Katie concert probably until, I don’t know when she’s gonna reschedule. Maybe it’s June, maybe July. I don’t know. But yeah, that sucks. I was looking forward to, I literally bought these tickets in December and now I gotta wait.
So bummed. But I’m also very, very happy that the stars are going to the Western Conference finals. I. I mean, I hope they beat the Oilers. I hope they’re back. I hope they get to the Stanley Cup finals, but you just never know with hockey. Should be a great series. Just know the Dallas Stars. This is their third year in a row in the Western Conference finals their second year in a row against the Oilers.
Two years ago, they lost to the Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference Finals. So this is a team that’s lost two consecutive years in the Western Conference finals. I feel like they’ve got revenge on their mind. They’ve got home ice advantage. Yeah, I’m biased, but I’m gonna go with the stars in this series.
