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 Friday. We are going to talk a little bit more about the Bathroom Paradise Spoilers. I gave out yesterday one small, small correction I wanna make on yesterday’s post.
We are also going to talk about the Golden Bachelor because I don’t want that story to get lost. And isn’t it funny that that podcast came out on June 4th? None of the major outlets covered it. I put it in my daily roundup yesterday and it was all over the entertainment sites yesterday. You’re welcome everybody.
Also, we have an update in the Alex Cooper situation regarding the Boston University soccer team that we just found out yesterday, and also the executive producer of Vanderpump Rules. Alex Baskin speaks on Jacks, and are they enabling him by allowing him to continue on the show? Let’s just say I disagree with what Alex says in some of his quotes, and we’ll get to all that momentarily.
Right off the bat, I do wanna make one correction that I put in yesterday’s spoilers. Here’s the thing that sucks about Instagram is, I don’t remember what slide it was. There were 11 slides that showed you all these spoilers in yesterday’s Instagram feed that I posted, and I don’t know what slide it was, three or four, something like that.
When I said after the. First row ceremony for women enter the resort, and one of ’em was Jill Chin. I said Jill was on Zach’s season. Jill was on Clayton’s season. Clearly just a slip of the mind. I had so much information that I had to write down. I just wrote the wrong name. But the problem is I can’t just go in and swap out that photo.
I can, I can change the photo and have it say Clayton, but I would literally have to delete the whole post. Because obviously I want those 11 slides in order and I can’t just, let’s say that was slide number four. I can’t just go in, delete slide number four, insert a new picture that has Jill saying she was on Clayton season and go about my day, I’d have to delete the whole post.
And I was just like, you know what? For one small mistake like that, it’s not worth it. So yes I’m aware that Jill was on Clayton’s season. I accidentally rode Zach. Really nothing I can do about it at this point. But, you know, something that I wanted to say about yesterday’s spoilers is that was just what I was told.
And what I was able to kind of piece together. ’cause not everything was told to me word for word. I had to getting it from different places and getting an email about this and the getting a, a text about this, all this stuff. It was just like, okay. It took me a while to put it all together. And when I say a while, I don’t mean months.
I mean a couple days. And then I had to get it done on Instagram and I think. This is the stuff that I was told. That doesn’t mean more stuff doesn’t happen. ’cause clearly it does. I don’t have every single detail about the season. I think something that I did write on the very last slide was the first thing I wrote on the very last slide, slide number 11.
I said, look, I was told there is some major drama that goes down once no one else enters the show because then it becomes, like I said, I think it’s some sort of vote off. Where, I don’t know if the couples vote for another couple or the couples vote separately for who they want to vote off. Like let’s just say Sean and Alicia, I don’t know if they give one vote of, Hey, Sean and Alicia.
Alicia decide we wanna vote off this couple. Or if Alicia goes up and says, I wanna vote off this couple. And Sean goes up and says, I wanna vote off this couple. ’cause maybe they’re not aligned. I don’t even know. I don’t even know if there’s a vote off. I think there’s. Something along the lines of a vote off, just because I know they’re not passing roses back and forth to each other.
That doesn’t make any sense. But there is drama that happens. I just don’t have enough details. I might, as the season starts getting underway, we start seeing more things in the trailers, in the previews, you might be able to even tell it because we haven’t gotten that. Two and a half, three minute trailer yet, which is gonna show a lot about the upcoming season.
But now that you have the frame of what to expect on Bachelor in Paradise this season, you’ll be able to figure stuff out. You’ll be like, oh, this is where Steve said this happened, and here’s a video footage of it. So it just is a way to help you watch. But as I said yesterday, I think it’s a good thing because they’re getting their ass kicked by Love Island and all the streaming shows.
Those shows are just more popular. One of the reasons they’re more popular is ’cause they’re on Netflix, and Netflix goes out everywhere. You know, not every other country has the ability to watch the United States Bachelor season, at least in real time. So yeah, they’re going to get more people, but they’re just, it’s just a lot more of what people want.
So after taking a year off, yeah, you couldn’t come back if you’re a bachelor in Paradise and do the exact same thing. First off, people complained about it every single year and they did nothing to change it. So I’m glad they did and I’m glad there’s some sort of, Hey, we’re gonna get rid of couples.
Versus we’re telling couples, Hey, you either need to leave the island now and you wanna break up, or you’re gonna stick it out and stay together. So. I’m fine with it. I just wanna see it play out. Ultimately, this show is gonna come down to storylines. How is the editing? How are you telling the story?
Because you could throw all the twists you want in it. If it’s not good storytelling and it’s not good editing, people are going to get frustrated and people are gonna say like, this isn’t any good. So time will tell on that. We just don’t know. I can’t judge a season of paradise that hasn’t even aired yet, even though we know what happens now.
It doesn’t mean it’s gonna be good or it’s gonna be bad. Based off what I posted yesterday. How could you say that? You haven’t seen it yet? I can’t say it. I don’t know if it’s gonna be good or not, but what I can say is I like the fact that they did something different. They had to, they had nine seasons of the same shit.
Just saw that same stuff over and over every season. Oh, here’s Rose sermon number five. Let’s bring four more people in. When five of the six couples we have left are basically strong couples. And nobody really has a chance to match up with anybody. It was just dumb. So I’m glad they did that. As I mentioned in the open this Mel Owens Golden Bachelor interview that he did back on June 4th for the Go Blue Podcasts, which is a Michigan University of Michigan podcast.
Where he said the things that he did saying, I told production was only interested in 45 to 60-year-old women, anyone over 60, just gonna cut them and let’s not have any wigs and artificial hips. I mean, he couldn’t come across looking any worse than he did. But the thing was, this thing came out on June 4th and nobody really reported it at the time it came out.
It was sent to me because Emma and Claire put it on their podcast. I put it out there yesterday on my daily roundup, and then everybody was covering it yesterday, three weeks after it came out. Everybody covered it yesterday after I put it out yesterday morning. So again, I’ll just say, you’re welcome. I’m glad I brought attention to it.
I’m not gonna sit here and start a change.org petition to get Mel Owens removed from the show. I don’t care enough to have him removed from the show, or if they did remove him, be upset, or if they don’t remove him, be upset. I don’t care enough. If they wanna keep him on, they’re gonna keep him on. Nothing I do or nothing.
Any change.org petition is gonna do anything. What I’m saying is, as a viewer, and I’m just kind of speaking out loud here, and trying to give production a heads up some insight. You’ve got a problem on your hands. The Hollywood Reporter ran this story yesterday and they said they didn’t get a quote, they didn’t get a quote from anybody.
They reached out to a, B, C and Warner Brothers to talk about what Mel said on this podcast, and they haven’t heard back yet. Golden Bachelors got a problem on their hands because this story now blew up after yesterday. It might’ve gone unnoticed if nobody decided to. Relay that part of the podcast, but holy shit, I can’t believe this guy thought that, that was smart to say.
Like he might think that he can feel that way. And I told you, there’s no way a 66-year-old dude is interested in dating 60-year-old women. I knew it the second I found out he had a wife that was 20 years younger than him, an ex-wife that was 20 years younger than him. So I’m not faulting Mel for, for liking women, wanting women that he wants to date, possibly be younger.
What I’m saying is, Mel shouldn’t have said that publicly. ’cause now he looks like a horse’s ass. Because dude, you’re going on a show where, yeah, it’s a small sample size. We only have two seasons, but every single contestant on that show was over 60 years old, and you literally said anybody over 60, I would cut them.
So now, even if he says I was being flippant, even if he says I was joking around, I don’t think anybody’s gonna believe him. And if he does get 60 or. 60-year-old women and older on his season, and he chooses someone at the end. Nobody will think for two seconds that they’re going to last and he will get rid of her once the media tour dies down.
Like I think it, I think A B, C has a problem on their hands, and honestly I think the only way to get rid of that problem is to recast. Will they? I say there’s a 10% chance they recast. But I think they gotta at least address it. They have to say something, they have to release some statement, but I don’t know how you don’t recast this guy at this point because nobody buys his act.
Again, if they do end up casting 45, late forties, early fifties women, then this isn’t the Golden Bachelor. So now the show will take shit for changing the whole premise of this show. Or they cast nothing but 60 year olds. And Mel goes on and does the show and chooses a 60-year-old woman and breaks up with her probably four seconds after the finale airs because we all know he’s not interested in 60-year-old women.
You know why? Because he said it verbally on a podcast and said, I’m just being honest. So he can’t even run it back and say, ah, I was just kidding. No, you weren’t. You were saying just being honest. I date 45 to 60. He can say all he wants about, you know what I thought about it and that was just dumb of me.
My mindset was in a different place at that point. I really am open to 60-year-old women or older. No, he is not. Sorry, Mel, I don’t believe you and I don’t think anybody else will. So I think they got a problem on their hands and I don’t know how they’re gonna do. I don’t how they’re gonna change it. The way they should change it is recast him.
But I just can’t see them recasting him. I believe filming starts next month. Gary’s season filmed, I think mostly in July and into Aug. No, no, no. Joan’s season filmed in July. I think Gary’s season filmed most of August, so I don’t know when they’re filming Golden Bachelor. It’s either in July or either in August, and if it’s August, you have a month to recast somebody.
But I, I I’m telling you, if I was the head of a, B, C or the showrunner for Golden Bachelor melts out. I’m just, I, I’m sorry. He, he, he soiled himself on that podcast and he left a bad taste in everybody’s mouth. And you know what? It didn’t help that it went viral yesterday because a lot of news outlets are covering it.
If it was just the reality, Steve Podcast and Emma and Claire’s podcast. I don’t think this show would particularly do anything, but I think like that’s why I said I think there’s a 10% chance. If it was only just my podcast and Emma and Claire, I’d say there’s 0% chance he’s getting recast. But the fact that Hollywood Reporter picked up on it, other entertainment sites picked up on it, A lot of talkers are talking about it.
A lot of former contestants are talking about it on their tiktoks and their social media. That’s why I say I think there might be a chance. I think it’s still a low chance just because of logistics and everything and shit. If they are starting to film in July, there’s no way they’re gonna recast ’em.
They can’t do it this quick. But he absolutely put his foot in his mouth in that interview, and I think the only way for this show to redeem themselves is to recast him. I, I just. I’d be surprised, but if I were them, that’s what I would do.
