Daily Roundup 6/11 – Initial BIP Cast Announced with One Name That’s Pretty Laughable, The Valley Episode #9, a Hollywood Divorce After 21 Years, & Who Dated Sherri Papini?

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 Wednesday. Good show for you. The Bachelor in Paradise initial cast was officially announced yesterday. We knew it was coming this week. It came yesterday. 16 people, 10 men, six women.

We’ll go over it. I’m gonna go over episode nine of the Valley last night and answer the question, or ask the question, why the hell didn’t it record on my DBR and what did I do to fix it? We’re also gonna talk about a divorce in the celebrity world, and a very interesting note that I saw come across Twitter yesterday regarding regarding a season 48 survivor contestant, and one of the most interesting, feared, weird women in pop culture.

Get to all that momentarily. All right. Let’s start off with yesterday’s official announcement of who is the initial cast for Bachelor in Paradise Starts July 7th. Most of these names were names that I said. These are the names that I’m hearing that will be on this season. Obviously, there will be more.

This is what I told you a few weeks before they left for filming, and I said, look, these are the names that I’m hearing that will be on, but obviously there will be more and of them I want to say. 11 or 12 is what I told you, but we know more are coming. So the six women who will be on the show to start the season and with six women to start and 10 men to start, that means the women will be giving out roses first.

Meaning that four men should possibly be eliminated at the first roses ceremony. I mean, I say possibly, but we also know that they usually bring in another woman. Right at like the end of the first episode, but before the first row ceremony happens. And that’s probably going to be Susie. ’cause we know that Susie went down to Paradise.

So my guess is there’s gonna be seven Roses handed out at the first row ceremony and three men are going home. But we don’t know that for a fact. I just assume that’s what’s gonna happen. So the six women that are gonna start the show are Alex Bailey, Kat Izzo. Lexi Young Zoe and Jess Edwards. So Alex and Bailey and Zoe were all from Grant’s season that we just watched earlier this year.

We have Jess, who was from Joey’s season. Kat was from Zach’s season and Bachelor in Paradise, season nine, and Lexi was also from Joey’s season. So those are your six women to start the show. The 10 men that’s starting the show are Brian from Jen’s season. Dale, we know from Claire’s season, Hakeem and Jeremy, also from Jen’s season.

Jonathan from Jen’s season. Justin Glaze from Katie’s season and Bachelor Paradise, season eight, Kyle, who was like a first or second row ceremonial elimination on Katy’s season, which aired during the pandemic. Or the season? No. Right at the pandemic, right? No. That season after 2020. 2021. And then Ricky from Jen season, who got eliminated at the first or second episode, Spencer from Jen season, and then Sam McKinney.

I had heard rumblings that Sam was on, but I didn’t know for sure. Obviously it’s official now that. Casting of Sam McKinney is so funny and yet so hypocritical. Do I need to remind you? The tirades, that not only Sam McKinney went on, but every single member of his family went on during gen season. All they did was bitch and Bitch and bitch about the show production literally breaking.

He broke his contract. His own family broke their contracts, literally talking about stuff that wasn’t on the show. Maybe someone should alert the bachelor legal team to that. Maybe stop sending out garbage to other people and maybe go after your own contestants who literally violate their own contract.

But, hey, who am I to say? But isn’t it hilarious? Like, Sam, you saw the expose that I did on Sam. Where I relayed all the information that his ex Raley had given to me and the things that he was saying to her, things that he was saying to her pre-show, things that he was saying to her post-show, like, this is hilarious.

And all I can say is, Sam, I guess fame is quite the drug, isn’t it? You and your family literally could not shut up for five seconds after the edit that you got on Jen’s season. Yet here you are jumping right back in bed with them because I guarantee some producer told you, dude, we’re gonna give you a redemption edit.

Hell, even if Sam had the greatest time down in Bathroom Paradise this summer, it doesn’t change the fact that the guy literally called out every single producer chastised the show shit on the show. And then jumped right back in bed with him on the next show on the next season that they basically put out that he could go on.

Like it’s hilarious and it makes him such a phony and such a hypocrite. I don’t care if he had a great time or not. I don’t think he lasted very long on the show based on the rumblings that I’m hearing. So it’s just funny to me because I know a lot of, you’re probably forgetting and you aren’t even remembering what happened.

Trust me, I do. Remember we were talking about it. I was taking screenshots of all the things that his mom and his dad, and his sister and his brother and him were posting on Facebook groups and posting on Instagram stories. About how badly the show was portraying Sam when he’s like the greatest uncle ever, and how they were showing Jen in such a positive light when Jen wasn’t all that great.

And the second Sam got home from filming, he was shit. Talking Jen to other people. Sam, you wanna go on Bachelor in Paradise? Where do I sign?

What a joke. I mean, come on Sam, just admit. Just admit that fame got to you seriously. There’s no other reason for you to go on Bachelor in Paradise. After everything you said about how awful the experience was for you on Gen season. You literally called out production and told them how shitty they were without saying the word shitty, but you’re literally pointing out all the things that they did wrong and how they manipulated you and how they edited you.

And then I know some new producer on Bachelor in Paradise told you, oh, we’ll never do that to you, Sam. I can’t wait to see his edit. I, I hope they literally gave him the same edit just so I could laugh even more at this guy. It’s just, it’s just comical at this point because, look, I’m not saying Sam McKinney is the only person on the show that goes on for clout, but for someone who was as vocal as him to then immediately jump back in and get in bed with this show.

Just, it kind of shows you who that guy really is. Laughable. Just laughable. So Bachelor data broke it down on her Instagram page yesterday. Of the 16 cast members that were announced, there are 10 guys, obviously in six women. The average age of the cast is 29.75 years old. The average male age is 30.8.

The average female age is 28. So. Before this started, we knew that most of the cast was going to be from the most recent seasons, and 12 of the 16 people that were announced in the cast yesterday were from the three most recent seasons, which is Grant that aired earlier this year, Jens, which aired in the summer of last year, and Joey’s, which aired through January and March of last year.

You got three women from grant season, seven men from Jen season, and two women from Joey season. Then you got one woman from Zach season. Which is Lexi, right? Two men from Katie’s season. Justin and Kyle and then Dale from Claire’s season two of these 16 have been on Bachelor in Paradise. Before we know Kat Izzo got engaged on season nine to John Henry and Justin was on season eight.

Five of the 16 initial cast members were Final four on their original season. That’s not a lot. Like when you look at this cast, I don’t wanna say I’m not, you know, I’m not saying anything negative about these contestants. I don’t even know how this season plays out yet, but nothing about this cast jumps out to the average fan, I don’t think.

And seeing that only five of the 16 are people that got to the final four. Again, doesn’t mean you’re not deserving of love if you didn’t make the final four on your season. I’m just saying from as a viewer perspective, the average fan that doesn’t read every five seconds online about what’s going on in imagination.

When they saw that cast announcement yesterday, I don’t think they were doing cartwheels over it. I’m like, oh my gosh, you’re telling me that Kyle from Katie Thurston’s season in 2021 got cast? I guarantee 99% of the audience. Has no fucking clue who Kyle is. I didn’t remember who he was. I had to go back to my Instagram post and look at a picture of him and he still didn’t ring a bell in my head.

And that’s not saying there’s anything wrong with Kyle, I’m just saying as a viewer and a the viewer perspective, the average fan of this show, I just don’t think they were getting excited over those 16 people that were announced yesterday. Now, there are other people that I know are gonna be on the show this season that will show up at some point.

Andrew Spencer is gonna show up. Sean McLaughlin is gonna show up who was on charity season. We have Parisa. We know she is showing up. Susie is going to show up. My guess is she’s going to be the next person down and will be part of the first row ceremony, giving out a rose. I’m assuming she’s gonna give it to Justin.

That is her ex-boyfriend, Allie Joe from Grant’s from grant’s season I believe is on this season as well. Those are the names that jump out to me, but obviously there are more, there’s more than five other people that are gonna enter the show at some point this season, so I will let you know the more I hear.

And like I said, we’re a little less than a month away and I’m hearing more and more things, but just nothing I feel solid with just yet. But I will fill you in the second. I do get any sort of confirmation on anything. This podcast brought to you by factor Summer is here. That means more sun and more light.

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