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, A Labor Day. Even though the show is not on tonight, the finale airs for Bachelor in Paradise Tomorrow. Got a lot of stuff in the Bachelor in Paradise World.
The Bachelor World. Just a lot of stuff to go over. And we’re also gonna talk about Big Brother last night. Episode, HOH. We’re gonna have spoilers on who won Power of Veto, what the plan is going into today for the veto ceremony. And yes, we are going to talk about Catherine’s interviews that she did on Friday with the media.
Absolutely zero surprise, what she said about Riley. So let’s get started. One thing that the Bachelor Nation Instagram account did over the weekend. Is they put a countdown clock on their Instagram story. Now, no matter where you are, everybody has the same clock, and basically what it’s telling you is this countdown is going to end tomorrow night at seven o’clock.
Well Central time, eight o’clock Eastern, six Mountain five Pacific, which is when the show airs at least on the East Coast and central time. Eight Eastern, seven central. The finale starts. Obviously all sports of speculation, all sorts of speculation as to what this is. I’m not sure what it is because it’s saying it’s at the beginning of the show.
Well, we only only see the same thing at the beginning of every show. They just start with the recap of last week’s episode, and then they go into the o, the intro. Maybe they’re gonna do something, maybe they’re gonna add something. I know a lot of speculation regarding maybe they’re gonna announce the next bachelor.
Seems a little early to announce. Its September 2nd, considering they’re not filming until the beginning of October, but maybe they want to get the word out there. I don’t know. But we now know there is a countdown clock, and that countdown clock ends tomorrow night at eight Eastern, seven Central when the show airs for people that live in the Eastern and central time zones.
Obviously, if you live in Mountain and you live in Pacific, you don’t get the show at. 6:00 PM Mountain Time and 5:00 PM Pacific Time. You have to wait until your time’s when it airs. But Eastern and Central watch it at the same time. For those that don’t know, right when the show starts, this countdown clock ends.
So we’re gonna find something out in regards to a possible bachelor announcement. I had mentioned on Friday that the one thing that I did find out about bachelor filming is it’s not gonna start until the beginning of October. Which is about two weeks later than it usually does because we know this show has always been on the same filming schedule, at least for the last 15 years.
They basically start filming third week of September and they end right before Thanksgiving. Well, that has changed. It is going to film in the beginning of October Now, I don’t think that means, oh, they can’t find a bachelor or they’re struggling to find women on the show. I know that has been out there.
I don’t think it’s anything like that. I just have reasons for why I believe it is, but I’ll keep those to myself. Right now, what is important is I did find out a little bit more in regards to the Bachelor. Not necessarily who it is because I don’t know, but if we do get a bachelor announcement tomorrow night when the show begins on the Eastern and central time zones, what I can say is this.
I’ve been hearing names, I’ve now heard three names that I’ve been told are quote unquote finalists. But again. I have no idea what finalists mean. These three guys could all be being lied to, you know, and just being told, Hey, you’re gonna be our bachelor, and then they pull the rug out from under him.
That’s why I’m not giving you their names, because I have no idea how close these guys are to being named The Bachelor. One thing though, that I do know that I can relay is based on everything that I’m hearing. At least these three guys that I’ve been told are quote unquote finalists. They’re not looking for influencers.
In fact, all three guys that I have been told are in the finalist stage have under 2000 followers on Instagram. So remember at the beginning of the season when I had Game of Roses on and Chad was just, look, this show is changing. They got a new show runner and Scott Teddy. They might as well just go full bore, bring in somebody new and make it an influencer, because that’s what’s gonna draw eyeballs.
And I was like, yeah, it would, but it would completely change the direction of the show because nobody feels that an influencer actually needs. To go on the show to find a date or to find a wife, and they wouldn’t really buy that this, a influencer would go on this show and really be serious about an engagement.
But it just comes down to here we are in 2025 and this show would air in 2026. Is that what people care about anymore? It’s to each their own. Some people do, some people don’t. But I could tell you right now, if any of these three guys that I know about. Get the gig, and these aren’t the final three guys.
Like I’m just telling you, I’ve been told three people are finalists. I’m guessing there are more. That’s why I’m not reporting them, because what’s the point all you care about is who is it going to be? So I don’t know if these guys even know anything about the show and are thinking, oh wow, I, I’ve been told I’m a finalist.
Well, what if there’s 15 finalists? Like we don’t know. So it’s kind of pointless if I find out who it is or if I find out, then obviously I’ll share it. But sharing three names with you doesn’t do me any good. So what I can say is these three guys that I have, none of ’em have a big following at all.
They’re just guys, good looking guys, but they’re guys, they are not anybody that anybody would know outside of their family and friends. So it looks like the show is trying to cast somebody who actually is possibly interested in getting engaged. And I think that was their, that was their question mark about do we go after an influencer?
Like I said, Chad was all for it from Game of Roses. He wants an influencer. He thinks the Bachelor should be some guy that already has 500,000, seven 50,000, a million followers. ’cause that will bring the show back up and maybe it would just to get eyeballs on it. And I think the show is probably struggling with, do we want to go that route and basically just blow up this franchise because nobody will really buy that they’re interested.
Now you can say they don’t buy that they’re interested with other people that they cast, which is usually someone from a previous season because they’ve only had two successful marriages of bachelors. One recently with Zach and Katie. But Sean Lowe and Zach are the only two that have married the final girl that they chose.
So do they go the influencer route? Sounds like they’re not gonna do it. Sounds like they are just going for a guy. A guy that I guess has a good job, good looking, but has no influence, has barely any followers, and is not looking at least publicly looking to become the next great influencer. Doesn’t mean it can’t change.
Once he gets the gig and all the attention and all these women hitting him up in his dms, it doesn’t mean it can’t change. But the impression I’m getting is they’re going with somebody new. The guys that I have, one of ’em has less than a thousand followers and the other guy, one of ’em has like 1500 and the third guy, I forget, but it’s not a lot.
So I’m just telling you. Um. I’m fine with that. I, you heard me at the beginning of the season when I was talking to Chad about this. I’m like, eh, really? Do you think they were gonna go that route? And Chad’s like, I would, and I say, yeah. I mean, I guess it depends on what they want to do. It’s a completely different show.
If you go that route, you’re leaning into the love island aspect of things. But maybe that’s what they need to do to get people to watch the franchise. However, it looks like they’re not going that route. So keep that in mind when a bachelor announcement is made. If it is tomorrow night when the countdown runs out, then we’ll know.
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