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 a good episode for you. As I’ve got your Bachelor in Paradise finale Spoiler tonight, I was able to find out how it all goes down tonight. Nothing changes from what I’ve already reported, but I do have some more information on how the money situation plays out.
So we’ll get to that. I’m gonna talk a little bit more about the reunion show, that Records tomorrow, and another thought that I had about it. Then we’re gonna talk about Big Brother. Yesterday, Keanu made his decision on who he was going to Reno since one of the people that was on the Block, one Power Veto, which you’ll see on Wednesday.
We’re gonna talk about Catherine and what she has said post filming in her exit interviews, and then a little Dancing with the Stars, as well as that cast announcement is coming officially tomorrow morning on GMA, but a lot of the names have already gotten out, so let’s get started. As I put out there last night on social media, in case you saw it, didn’t want to have to put it in word form this time, so I just did it verbally.
Made a little video, put it on my Instagram stories, put it on my Instagram feed, and also put it on TikTok, how it’s gonna play out tonight with Bachelor in Paradise. We already know that. The fifth place couple is Kathy and Keith and Jeremy and Bailey finishing fourth Dale and Kat finishing third, and then your final two couples.
Our Spencer and Jess and Alex and Andrew. The one thing that I wasn’t sure of this season was how the money played out. The only thing I did know about it was this was not a, you gotta choose love or you have to choose money, one or the other. ’cause that really doesn’t make sense on this show, you know?
Because anybody in their right mind would be like, oh, we’ll take the money and then just date afterwards. The show can’t prevent you from seeing somebody after the show. So that’s why it doesn’t make sense to ever do that on this show. With that said, as you saw in the video last night, and if you didn’t, here’s how it’s gonna break down the final two couples.
I don’t know if they’re gonna be asked specifically, but essentially it’s laid out, are you here for love? Are you here for money? And both of them, both couples, Spencer and Jess, and Alex and Andrew say they’re there for love. Then from that point, I guess outside of how they choose, which is what I don’t know, but at that point, they are given the choice and the option, well, not even a choice and an option, they are somehow told, Hey, you get to choose an envelope that has money in it.
And whatever law envelope you choose, that’s what you get as a couple. So there was never really, as I have told you for a few weeks, this was never about love or money. And you can now go back to all the previews that preview Jesse Palmer saying $500,000. You notice how he used the phrase up to $500,000?
Well, I can tell you right now, not all $500,000 is given out. I do know that Spencer and Jess pull a card that gets them more than Alex and Andrew. I don’t know the exact amounts, but they get more than Alex and Andrew based on the card that they pulled. But $500,000 is not used. All of it, because they put different amounts in the different cards.
So unless both of them chose the max amount that added up to $500,000. Yeah. So now it makes sense why Jesse was promoting it the way that he was. And what I had heard, and I told you in the last spoilers, I was hearing that more than one couple won money and it ended up being right. So the final two couples both get money and it’s based on what envelopes they chose.
I just don’t know who won which amount of money. Just know that Spencer and Jess won more and nothing has changed. At some point during the finale, Spencer propose proposes to Jess tonight. So, yeah, an interesting little twist that I think is better for the viewing public. I don’t think people wanted to see, oh, you’re gonna choose money over me.
It just, it didn’t make sense. It didn’t fit with the theme of this season. Now I’ve been talking about this Bachelor in Paradise Unplugged show that is recording tomorrow. It’s filming tomorrow in la and then we’re going to get the audio part one late tomorrow night, the audio of part two, late Thursday night.
And like I said, I, I, this strictly is done so they can get more downloads on the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast. But here’s the other thing that I am starting to question. As to, and I don’t know if we’re ever gonna an answer to this. I’d love to get an answer, but again, this would mean an executive from the show, whether it’s Robert Mills or Scott Teddy, or even Jesse Palmer, somebody in the higher ups would have to ask them on record, and they would have to answer on record.
Why did you do the finale this way? Why did you do the reunion show this way? What was the point? Why wouldn’t you just air it like a normal episode? Even if you have to tape it a few days in advance, why wouldn’t you air it? So here’s what I’m get, here’s what I’m asking. Now. I would like to ask one of those people, is this something that was planned from the second you started filming this show?
Did you always know this is how we are gonna do the reunion show? Man, I gotta guess that the answer to that is no. I can’t imagine they went into a season and said, okay, this is what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna film all these episodes, but then for the finale, what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna tape a reunion show, but we’re gonna air it in audio in two different parts, over two nights, and then on the third night, we’re gonna show it all on video.
Who would think of something like that? So I think there’s a couple things at play here that could have happened. Again, I know nothing, I’m just kind of talking out loud about why this Bachelor in Paradise reunion show is happening, happening the way it is. My first thought is at the beginning of the season, A, B, C is told, okay, you’ve got X amount of episodes for Bachelor in Paradise.
Well, tonight is the 10th episode. So either they were told you get 10 episodes at the beginning of the season. Or they were told, we’re giving you 11. And in their minds, okay, 10 episodes and 11th episode will be a reunion show. And then at some point during this season, the network went back to them and said, you know what?
We can only give you 10. And they had already, I don’t know, mapped out 10 episodes without a reunion show, but maybe they were told at the beginning of the season, you’re only getting 10 episodes and this is just a complete fumble by them. And they should have just backlogged and just kind of thought backwards and said, okay, our 10th episode will be our reunion and we’ll do nine episodes of rose ceremonies and eliminations like that would be on them if that were the case.
Like there’s just something that’s telling me there’s no way this was their plan from the beginning. Now it’s either on them for not thinking ahead. Or maybe in the beginning of the season they didn’t have plans for a reunion show, but once the season was going on and they were seeing a lot of the things that were being said on social media and things that contestants were saying when they went on bachelor affiliated podcasts, maybe then they said, we need to add a reunion show, but we can’t do it on a, B, C because the week of the finale, a, B, C basically has football.
They have football starting Saturday. We can’t air it Saturday. We can’t air it Sunday and we can’t air it Monday ’cause that’s the first Monday night football game of the season. So it’s one of those three things. One, they were given X amount of episodes at the beginning of the season and they just totally dropped the ball and didn’t think to put the reunion show in as the last episode.
I’d say that’s highly unlikely. Two, they were given. X amount of episodes and they were planning on the last episode being a reunion episode, and at some point during the season, the network came to them and said, sorry, we can’t give you that last episode. And then they were basically caught scrambling and having to put this together the way it was.
That’s very likely. But again, I have no insight to this. This is just me thinking out loud. I haven’t heard anything, but I would really like to know the answer to that question. I think a lot of people would. Because nobody is really thrilled about how this reunion show is going down. You can have 16 people on a stage and we’re getting audio only for the filming of it for at least the first two parts, and then they’re gonna give us video on Saturday.
It just doesn’t make any sense. So I just have a feeling something happened behind the scenes and unless one of these executives actually answers that. We’re never gonna know, and chances are considering how the one thing this show does is not very, not very well, is being transparent. My guess is we’re never gonna get an answer as to why the reunion show is going down the way it is.
I mean, I guess, like I said, the third option would’ve been, no, this is what we want to do. Once we heard all the stuff that was going on on social media, we needed to put something together. People wanted. Some sort of resolution to this season, and we went to A, B, C, they wouldn’t grant it to us, so we had to do it this way.
I guess that’s a possibility as well. I just cannot believe for a second they’ve known since the beginning of filming that this was gonna be the way they did their reunion show. Man, I wish we could get an answer to this.
