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Victoria Fuller
You're crazy.
Nick Viall
What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of the Vile Files. Reality recap. I'm your host, Nick, and justice for Jeremiah.
Victoria Fuller
Jeremiah.
Steve
Jeremiah.
Nick Viall
Is that the Wisconsin in me?
Steve
I think so.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah. Justice. Justice, period.
Steve
Justice for the most handsome man on the cast. The hottest.
Victoria Fuller
Like, let's not.
Steve
Did we really need to get rid of him right now?
Victoria Fuller
Absolutely not.
Steve
We didn't. Did you realize that Casa Amore is tomorrow night?
Nick Viall
It starts tomorrow night.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah. Yeah.
Nick Viall
They sent home the Hannes. That Ace is a. It's all. I believe Ace did it all.
Victoria Fuller
I agree 100%.
Nick Viall
We'll break it down in just a second, but Victoria Fuller has returned to the Vow Falls. She is here. She is caught up on Love Island. She'll be talking with us. Steve is itching his nuts sitting next to her. How have you been?
Victoria Fuller
I've been so good. Thank you for asking.
Steve
You've been on the go every time you post. You're busy. Really? You're doing something. Oh, you're on the town. You're at a party, you're at a festival. You're at this, you're at that. You're here, you're there. You're up, you're down. Are you ever sitting at home?
Victoria Fuller
Always. Of course. Actually, I haven't posted on social media in six days because I don't.
Nick Viall
You haven't?
Victoria Fuller
No.
Nick Viall
Is that, like, a deliberate, like, mental health thing or.
Victoria Fuller
I just don't have anything going on, you know, so it's, like, easier to.
Nick Viall
Feel like you're past the point of, like, pretending that you have something going on in social media.
Victoria Fuller
Yes.
Nick Viall
Isn't that great?
Victoria Fuller
Yeah. I'm like.
Nick Viall
I literally remember when we used to, like, be like, all right, what am I gonna.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah, you'd have to, like, make something today. Yeah. Oh, my God.
Nick Viall
They say post every day.
Victoria Fuller
My food, your coffee, my coffee.
Steve
Yeah.
Victoria Fuller
Don't care. It's like, at this point, it's like.
Nick Viall
I saw a headline. Hannah's pregnant. Congrats, Hannah.
Jalen Brown
Yay.
Marisol Patton
We love Hannah.
Steve
So exciting.
Nick Viall
Well, we have a great episode lined up for you today. Jam packed. First of all, we were going to break down the past three episodes of Love island, including the one where Megan the Stallion was a part of. And that was just kind of period.
Steve
I haven't forgot about it.
Nick Viall
They got to grind on her. Like, I mean, Austin got to do this to Megan. This now.
Victoria Fuller
That was crazy.
Nick Viall
Just, like, spread eagle showing his crotch.
Steve
No, that was really crazy. I don't Think I've ever laughed that hard?
Victoria Fuller
I know it was.
Nick Viall
It was definitely better than the milk challenge. We do have Jalen later this episode. Who gone too soon? Jalen.
Steve
He got a passport just to come.
Nick Viall
To Fiji for, like, three days.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Steve
That's all he got his passport for. He was like, I'm just so excited to the country.
Nick Viall
Anyways, we get to talk to Jaylen late this episode. Also later this episode, we'll get into some Real Housewives of Miami, some Atlanta. But now let's talk.
Victoria Fuller
Okay, perfect. Let's do it.
Nick Viall
Do we want to start at the. Do we want to go backwards or forwards? You want to start with Megan the Stallion?
Steve
It was honestly the thing that was going to bring America together. Everyone twerking. Megan thee Stallion. Like, that was the only thing that was going to get us aligned.
Nick Viall
It was kind of shocking just how beautifully timed up because obviously that show moved so fast. They couldn't possibly have timed it or know that Jeremiah and Huda were gonna break up or that Huda would have been, like, just kind of like Huda Hurricane making everything about her and then finally bring in someone like Megan Thee Stallion, to, like, no one gave a fuck about anything else in that moment. And, like, it honestly, like, saved the villa for, like, a split second.
Victoria Fuller
It really did. Everyone was, like, happy, and Larry was.
Steve
Like, oh, my God, do you know my name?
Victoria Fuller
I loved that moment. It was so cute. I loved it.
Steve
I honestly wish Megan would have, like, kind of read Huda, but she was just like, you stand on business. You stand 10 toes down.
Nick Viall
And it was like, well, yeah, she wasn't there for that, you know?
Victoria Fuller
Yeah, she didn't want to.
Steve
Like, she was just being a girl.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah. She was being girls girl, which I can appreciate.
Nick Viall
But what she did kind of. She gave her, like, the slightest bit of hard time. What did she say? It was.
Victoria Fuller
No, she really didn't.
Nick Viall
She was like, oh, your face. When you got, like, mad or something. I don't know. Oh, no, she. She gave her. About the baby, the mama.
Victoria Fuller
Oh, no. Yeah, she gave.
Nick Viall
She was like. My favorite moment was like, mama, mama, mama, mamacita.
Victoria Fuller
She was like, nick, why did you say mamacita? I loved that.
Steve
No, watching Austin and Taylor and Nick, honestly, unbelievable. Unbelievable twerk. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen.
Victoria Fuller
I. I can't.
Steve
And, like, the way that Austin was moving was something I don't think I'll ever forget. He looked like. I mean, he looked like a daddy long leg.
Kiki
Like a.
Steve
Like a little bit of Like a grasshopper mix with a daddy long leg. It was awful.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah, it was so good. It was really, really bad.
Steve
It was really bad.
Victoria Fuller
I just didn't.
Nick Viall
Didn't Austin win his challenge? Yeah, I think it was so bad. He won.
Victoria Fuller
Oh, my gosh.
Steve
And then they built the new bombshells. TJ and Adrina.
Nick Viall
Are you good at puzzles?
Victoria Fuller
Yeah, I am pretty good.
Nick Viall
How do you put your puzzle together?
Victoria Fuller
I do the colors first. Put all the colors together, like before.
Steve
You start putting them together?
Victoria Fuller
Yeah, before I start.
Steve
You section them out?
Victoria Fuller
Yeah, I section them out first before I start. What do you do?
Nick Viall
I don't do a lot of puzzles, to be honest.
Victoria Fuller
He's like going through like a thousand pieces just looking for like the four corners.
Nick Viall
I don't remember the last time I've done a puzzle.
Steve
We did one for Christmas a few years ago.
Nick Viall
We started a puzzle.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah, we started a puzzle and then.
Steve
It sat on our dining room table for two weeks.
Marisol Patton
Forever.
Nick Viall
Yeah, it was like a 500 piece puzzle.
Victoria Fuller
500.
Nick Viall
Something like that.
Victoria Fuller
Couldn't get it done.
Nick Viall
Or it was one of those, like one of those days where Nelly was like, let's do something fun. And I was like, how about a puzzle?
Victoria Fuller
Oh, what was it of we never completed.
Steve
It was like a Christmas, like, cottage.
Nick Viall
Oh, it was too much. It was okay.
Steve
Like, it was so cute.
Victoria Fuller
It was like. It was too much.
Steve
It wasn't fun. It was too much.
Nick Viall
It was.
Steve
Honestly, we tried to, like make it a competition, you know, like.
Victoria Fuller
Yes, of course.
Nick Viall
Speaking of love, Ivan, speaking of breakfast, this is just something I just want to share. Speaking of breakfast excites me. What is the thing in your life that just makes you so happy that you have to have maybe on a daily basis or just something that you really have figured out and you just absolutely love it? What is that for you?
Steve
Mine's coffee mate. Vanilla coffee creamer.
Nick Viall
Wow. That's not a. That's not a special thing.
Victoria Fuller
That's so special.
Steve
Why is that not special?
Victoria Fuller
That's her most special thing. Why is that not her alone?
Steve
Why is that not special?
Nick Viall
He says special.
Steve
The cancer in it is special.
Victoria Fuller
As for tame, it is special.
Steve
The chunks in it are special.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Nick Viall
Hey, what's your thing?
Victoria Fuller
Is it an everyday thing?
Nick Viall
I mean, you're.
Victoria Fuller
You're. I don't know if you want to hear my.
Steve
Really wants to tell you his, so if you can. Do you want to just go ahead.
Victoria Fuller
And tell me yours?
Nick Viall
You don't have one?
Victoria Fuller
No, I don't.
Nick Viall
What is it?
Victoria Fuller
It's a non fat Greek yogurt. And I put protein powder in it. And then I add blueberries and walnut.
Steve
Oh my God. I don't fit in here.
Nick Viall
Coffee made freshly squeezed orange juice for me.
Victoria Fuller
And every day, every day from.
Nick Viall
Well, I used to get it at Whole Foods but you know, sometimes I would go and they wouldn't have it and sometimes they would and just became like I, it really ruined.
Steve
Unpredictable.
Nick Viall
It was very unpredictable. And I would sometimes go then, then there was a Gelsons that had it. Sometimes the air one sometimes had it. But there wasn't anything very good, you know. And so I have figured it out now because now we're remodeling the lake house and they certainly don't have a whole foods at the lake house.
Victoria Fuller
Right.
Nick Viall
And I, I, I need to have freshly squeezed orange juice every day. It like, it, it's the thing that makes me the happiest.
Victoria Fuller
Okay.
Nick Viall
I absolutely have.
Victoria Fuller
Get them some right now, please.
Steve
The happiest.
Victoria Fuller
No, it's not you, not river, not the dogs.
Nick Viall
As far as eating food. Orange juice as far as eating food.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Nick Viall
So now I've been trying to figure out freshy squeezed so I can have it at the lake house because I want to spend more time there.
Victoria Fuller
Did you get it?
Nick Viall
I got one of those. Yes. Well, first I got, I got one of the, I got a ninja, like a machine.
Victoria Fuller
No, you gotta go. Hand, you gotta go.
Steve
He was like peeling all the oranges and like peeling all of like the little veinies.
Nick Viall
Such an ordeal. And then you would put it in the machine and it would like, it would mix with all the, the white stuff, I guess. Pulp. Not the pulp, but like the, the, you'd peel the orange. What's the, I don't know. What, the fur on the orange.
Jalen Brown
Yeah.
Victoria Fuller
But did you, did you ever strain it and like put, put it through like a.
Nick Viall
No, I did. And like still not as good. Yeah, it was like a whole process. So then I got the handheld thing. Absolutely game changing. The orange juice is elite.
Victoria Fuller
Okay.
Nick Viall
I, I have some in the fridge. I made a whole, I got a glass, I got a glass container. It's, it's never, it's, it's, it makes me so happy.
Victoria Fuller
Do you do it every morning or are you, are you asking Natalie today?
Nick Viall
Oh, no, no, I enjoy doing it.
Victoria Fuller
Oh, you do?
Nick Viall
Oh God.
Jalen Brown
Yeah.
Steve
I would probably do it wrong.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Nick Viall
I would absolutely never ask.
Steve
Yeah, it would be, it'd be like. Are you serious?
Nick Viall
Like, yeah, this is fucked up.
Victoria Fuller
He'd be like, you know, go Drink your coffee.
Steve
Look at the color of this orange.
Nick Viall
I would absolutely never.
Steve
Orange.
Nick Viall
I would never ask.
Steve
Yeah, she could do it.
Nick Viall
She could. It's just, it's better for my man.
Ryan Seacrest
I tried to help him today.
Steve
I was cutting the oranges in half for him.
Nick Viall
Yeah, it was.
Jalen Brown
They're very sweet.
Victoria Fuller
That's a good. That's a good moment.
Steve
That was me giving like an acts.
Nick Viall
Of service, but so much easier because again, you just have to slice it in half. It's. So why does anyone ever use a machine? Listen, guys, you know what I've also discovered?
Victoria Fuller
What?
Nick Viall
Do you like shrimp cocktail? Love it.
Victoria Fuller
Oh yeah, you made us some.
Nick Viall
So. Yeah, there's. I've ruined shrimp restaurant shrimp. I used to always think that you can only go and get like a good shrimp cocktail at a restaurant because like before that, like you'd have like a dinner party or something and then someone bring a shrimp cocktail and it'd be like a bunch of shrimp that's sitting out forever and it's just like kind of soggy and little and like this is disgusting. And then you go to a restaurant and then you'd bring out the rest. Shrimp cocktail. No. It's so easy to do.
Victoria Fuller
You said that you boiled it, right?
Nick Viall
Yeah, it's real simple. You go to go to a nice grocery store, fresh market, whole foods, whatever. Get the pre peeled. So they take the poop out.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah, yeah, I don't want that poop out.
Nick Viall
And then so you just take the skin off. Real simple. You boil some water, you put maybe crush some garlic and onions. You don't. Whatever. Just boil water. When it's boiling, turn the water off, put the shrimp in.
Victoria Fuller
Okay.
Nick Viall
Six minutes later, done.
Steve
Turn the water off or turn the stove off?
Nick Viall
Turn the stove off.
Victoria Fuller
And then the water will stop boiling.
Nick Viall
It's still really hot, but it's hot enough.
Victoria Fuller
Okay. And then you throw the shrimp in.
Nick Viall
Throw the shrimp in.
Victoria Fuller
Okay.
Nick Viall
Take the shrimp out. In the meantime, get a bowl of ice, put the shrimp, rinse it out, put it in the. Put it in some ice. Ice water. Cold freezing water. Then I take the water out and then I put the shrimp in the freezer. And you have to. You eat it right before it's like not frozen yet, but like stiff.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah. Like it has like a little.
Nick Viall
Yeah, just. And it's perfect.
Victoria Fuller
This is a process.
Steve
Food Network, everyone. So easy to know where you were.
Nick Viall
It's so easy. And restaurant shrimp cocktail will never be good enough for you anymore.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah, I like, I like the bigger ones too.
Nick Viall
Anyways. Also, that reminded me about Iris. Who? She seems like a really nice girl. Lovely, nice, chill, down to earth. Like, just like, definitely the opposite of Huda. Like, yeah, just really easy going. But she doesn't like dinner.
Marisol Patton
She said that?
Nick Viall
She said I. She doesn't like dinner. I honestly.
Victoria Fuller
When did she say that?
Steve
Who did she say that to?
Victoria Fuller
She said, I don't like dinner. That was her statement.
Nick Viall
She was like, yeah, I don't really like dinner. I forgot who she said it to. But it was early in her arrival.
Victoria Fuller
What is she.
Steve
Dinner is like this to Charlie, maybe.
Nick Viall
It's like one of my favorite things.
Victoria Fuller
It's the best dinner.
Nick Viall
It's like an adulthood. If you. What. What do you do for fun?
Victoria Fuller
What do you. That's so true. Like, when you go out at.
Steve
Let's get dinner.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Nick Viall
You don't go to clubs.
Steve
Do you want to get dinner?
Nick Viall
You just, like, have a nice meal.
Steve
Should we cook dinner?
Nick Viall
Do you want to come over for dinner? Dinner? Like, what do you. Maybe that just shows us her age, I guess.
Victoria Fuller
How old is she?
Nick Viall
I'm guessing mid, early 20s.
Victoria Fuller
Okay, that probably makes sense. I guess I didn't like dinner at my early 20s.
Nick Viall
I always liked dinner.
Victoria Fuller
I love dinner. Who am I kidding? So good dinner. I can't believe she. That's weird.
Nick Viall
I honestly don't think I could date someone who was like, yeah, I don't eat dinner.
Steve
Listen, they're interesting cats. You think they're like, you know, they're. They're, you know, grown and cool and this and that. And then like, C.J. says he likes to build stuff, and you're thinking that he, like, builds houses, and then he says he likes to build Lego sets.
Nick Viall
What did you think of Hannah? Gone too soon. Also spit on that hand. Do you think she just. Do you think they had sex or do you think she just.
Steve
Oh, my God. His hips were literally going back and forth.
Victoria Fuller
I mean, she's spitting on the hand.
Nick Viall
Jeremiah, we assume, had sex. Nick and Sierra, they've confirmed they've had sex. Yeah, 30 seconds. 26 seconds. First it was 26 seconds, then he added four more seconds.
Steve
Yeah, yeah, he was like, 26 seconds.
Victoria Fuller
Crazy. Yeah, he's like, counting his head.
Nick Viall
But relationships have. Everyone who's had sex is broken up.
Steve
Well, Hannah and Pepe was not by choice.
Nick Viall
Well, they're still broken up. I'm just saying either way. Sure. Well, I'm sorry, Nick. I'm sorry. Nick and Sierra still together, but, like, they.
Victoria Fuller
I'm a little surprised that they're doing that early on, human.
Nick Viall
Like, they had sex. Next day, Nick is absolutely not having TJ Getting Sierra some tea. He seems like he's, like, really feeling Sierra, but he's like, I can't let a guy get you tea. But I definitely want to date other women. 100.
Victoria Fuller
I know. I was like. I thought that was crazy, too. I was like, are you.
Steve
He's like, no. I honestly, like, I don't see anyone other than you. You're perfect. We're perfect. Like, we're in the best couple. Like, I don't. Like, I picture you. You check all of my boxes. I picture on the outside, but I don't want to close off.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Nick Viall
I'm definitely still not close.
Steve
Literally a pity of a man. Like, they have everything they could have ever wanted. They're like, but I'm just gonna, like, keep looking, like, just in case.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah, no, no. It's so true.
Steve
It's crazy.
Nick Viall
Teaching you, like, men just, like, once they have sex, like, especially that early on, they're just like. They're just like, I don't know. I think I'm good. There's something about having sex that actually makes men not like, I.
Steve
No. I wonder if it.
Victoria Fuller
I love that you're saying this right now, like, as a man.
Nick Viall
If you're not in love, like, if you're in a relationship, great. If you're like. Like, we are.
Steve
Yeah.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah. But, like, you.
Nick Viall
But, like, when you're dating, like, there's kind of like a. I don't know. It's like a chemical that goes off your brain that says you hate her.
Victoria Fuller
Well, there's. It definitely is, like, this release for guys where I feel like they. Have you heard that, like, guys fall in love through vasopressin?
Nick Viall
I'm not familiar with that one.
Victoria Fuller
So it's a hormone that gets released in guys when it's, like, a struggle or, like, hard to, like, get. And that's how they fall in. And we women fall in love through oxytocin, and that's what's released during sex. And it bonds you, and it bonds you.
Nick Viall
That's why you're all, like, love.
Victoria Fuller
Exactly. But guys don't. They. It releases in them, but not as much as women. So they don't feel the love. They fall in love through, like, the struggles and, like, accomplishing goals together and, like, doing things like one on one with their partner, podcasting together. Right. And that's how you fall in love, at least for guys. So I think it's like, when that vasopressin hasn't, like, fully developed in them.
Nick Viall
I do.
Steve
That's a good point. But I also do wonder if Nick was like, I know the show. I've seen the show. I'm sure Casa Moore is, like, somewhere around the corner. I'm not gonna, like, close off to you when I know I'm about to go, like, be around a bunch of. Be around a bunch of beautiful women.
Nick Viall
He's like, I'm not gonna. I'm not.
Steve
He's like, I'm not gonna set myself.
Nick Viall
I'm not gonna set myself up like Aaron or.
Steve
Yeah.
Victoria Fuller
Oh, yeah. Because. But here.
Ryan Seacrest
But it still is crazy.
Victoria Fuller
Exactly. At this point, he's like, already basically, like, leading her on. Like, if he goes and hooks up with someone and cost him more America. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. No one's gonna be like, oh, well, at least he told her. It's like, no. You, like, let her on then.
Steve
Yeah. It's like he still had sex with her. Like, he definitely still. Yeah. Oh, Amaya and Austin, the whole, like, he's like, complaining about her. Austin Boston. And then he's like, they were so.
Nick Viall
Cute for six seconds.
Steve
He's like, it's too much. She's hanging on me non stop, and she just won't let me go.
Nick Viall
Yeah. Physical touch is not his love language.
Victoria Fuller
It is not.
Nick Viall
No.
Steve
He's handling it way better than Ace did.
Victoria Fuller
But, like, yeah. Yeah.
Nick Viall
She can't catch a break.
Victoria Fuller
I know. I kind of feel bad for her.
Steve
I love my. Am I papaya?
Nick Viall
She's.
Steve
She's just not like her.
Nick Viall
Her man is just. Her man has not showed up.
Victoria Fuller
Like, Austin was never going to be her right now.
Steve
Austin can't even take care of the whiteheads under his nose. He can't take care of her quite yet.
Nick Viall
Ace was always. He's. He's been scheming for Shelly since he showed up.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah. But he's, like, weird.
Nick Viall
It's annoying because, like, Ace is definitely the most emotionally intelligent person. Him and Shelly are so cute together. Like, they really. They're just.
Victoria Fuller
Honestly, she really likes him.
Nick Viall
They seem like they should get married.
Steve
Yeah.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Nick Viall
They really, like, they have potential. Yeah. They seem like they're really a fit. But there is something about, like, the fact that I just feel like. I don't think, you know, there's all these rumors on the Internet about, like, they. I don't. I don't think that they would. I don't know. I don't.
Steve
They, like, met, and I guess they.
Nick Viall
Met once, but, like, I guess it's not I don't. I don't think it much, but either way, it just feels. I don't know, maybe it's him coming in with, like, a million followers or whatever. It just feels like he's too good at reality tv, you know? It just.
Victoria Fuller
I agree.
Nick Viall
I think he's influencing us on the show.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah. I think he comes off manipulative.
Nick Viall
I think he.
Victoria Fuller
Manipulative.
Nick Viall
I think it's kind of that they did not show us the conversations of the elimination tonight.
Victoria Fuller
I wonder why, though.
Steve
I think it'll probably be, like, if they'll show it at some other time. Movie night or on after sun.
Victoria Fuller
Oh, yeah, yeah. Movie night.
Steve
Movie night.
Nick Viall
No. Well, movie night.
Steve
It would only piss off Pepe.
Nick Viall
Yeah. Movie night's more about the cat. Like, why they hide it from us, the audience.
Victoria Fuller
I don't know.
Nick Viall
Saving it for after sun seems stupid.
Victoria Fuller
No, I don't think they're gonna show it. I don't think they're gonna show it.
Nick Viall
It was obviously a big deal last year with that whole thing. Let's table Jeremiah for a second. Why do you think they sent home Hannah? Because I honestly thought it was gonna be Iris. Because Iris, I thought it was kind of floating. She didn't really have a match. Hannah and Pepe seem to be hitting it off. Hannah also seemed to be pretty close with, like, the other women.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Nick Viall
Do you think they're trying to make Pepe available for Hood?
Victoria Fuller
No, I don't think that they were, like, plotting. I.
Nick Viall
Why do you think the women sent her home?
Victoria Fuller
I don't know.
Steve
I honestly have no idea.
Victoria Fuller
I. I was shocked. I was shocked by that.
Steve
I was just as shocked as Hannah was. Yeah.
Victoria Fuller
I was like, wait, what?
Nick Viall
And if you're Hannah, like, I don't. When Orlando is trying to comfort her. Yeah. Yeah.
Steve
It's like, I don't want to hear that right now. You know, like, them being like, you're a sunflower.
Ryan Seacrest
You're the light of.
Steve
In this. In this villa. It's like, then why vote me off if you love me so much, if I'm your sister?
Victoria Fuller
That's crazy.
Steve
It's like, this isn't the time. And then, like, write me a letter.
Nick Viall
When they eliminated both, like, Jeremiah and Hannah, it starts off the same. It's always like, we love all of you. You're all the same. Like, honestly, it's so hard. And then, like, the last thing they both say is, like, well, we just base their decision based basically, because this person's a piece of shit. They didn't actually Say that, but they're like, just like, you know, like we took everything in consideration and there's always like this kind of subtle jab. Jab about like they did it wrong or something.
Victoria Fuller
You know, like the way they moved.
Nick Viall
The way they moved and it's like, what the fuck is that supposed to mean?
Steve
I know Jeremiah knew, like as soon.
Kiki
As.
Nick Viall
Ace did it. Like the fact that Ace didn't stand up and like, own his shit, because that was 100% Ace. Ace. 100%.
Victoria Fuller
I agree.
Nick Viall
Told Nick and Taylor what to do.
Victoria Fuller
Absolutely he did. Ace is the ringleader. Yeah, I honestly don't. I honestly don't really. I like him in the couple with Shelly, but I don't individually like him. I think he's kind of like, I don't know, he thinks he's smarter than he is. Like, he's kind of like.
Steve
I think he definitely has a hidden agenda.
Nick Viall
For sure.
Victoria Fuller
I agree.
Nick Viall
Of the. Ace is obsessed with Huda. Conspiracy theorist.
Victoria Fuller
Oh, he's obsessed with her. Or he was at least.
Nick Viall
And that. Do you think that's why he hates drama?
Victoria Fuller
I think from the very beginning that was why. Because he thought that Huda, from the very beginning, he thought that Huda, during that, like mass challenge or whatever, he thought that like Huda was making out with him or something. Or did he make out with her?
Steve
He went and made out with her.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah, he wouldn't made out with her and she was like, well, I didn't get up for anybody. And then he like kind of made like a weird thing with Jeremiah.
Nick Viall
He's like, well, that's because also Jeremiah, like Ace is clearly like the ringleader.
Victoria Fuller
Right.
Nick Viall
Nick and Taylor follow him and Jeremiah just kind of does his own thing and he clearly like the best looking guy by a mile. And then Hooda left and then the bombshell comes in, obviously is giving like Jeremiah the attention. It's just like it comes from a place of jealousy. And like, Ace is always talking about people. Always.
Ryan Seacrest
It was crazy that the three of.
Steve
Them, Ace, Nick and Taylor were all talking about Jeremiah with Adrina. Like when they were kissing and like sitting on. They were all talking about him being like, damn, like the way he moves or in the way he likes just talking about the way he's done this whole. And then for them to like vote him off the, you know, hours later, it's like, yeah.
Victoria Fuller
And they're saying like, oh, he came in here. They said that he came in there, like focused on Huda and then wanted to get to the end with her. So they were, like, making it sound like he was being manipulative and like, what?
Nick Viall
Jeremiah is moving on. Like, you all wanted him to move on.
Victoria Fuller
Exactly.
Nick Viall
Bombshell comes in.
Steve
Oh, he was like. He's writing off everyone and saying, like, oh, platonic this, platonic that. It's like the only person he's been with is Irish. He's been the only Bombshell since It.
Nick Viall
Clearly wasn't a match. They didn't really vibe with each other. They were super chill and nice about it and, like, I don't.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah, I don't know.
Nick Viall
They did. They did Jeremiah dirty.
Steve
Who would you have voted off?
Nick Viall
I really warmed up to Austin. Pepe or Pepe? Probably Pepe.
Steve
It's like, I wish they could have changed their answer. I don't know if they could have it. Like, when they saw Hannah got voted off, I wish I could have been.
Nick Viall
Like, I just think it's fucked that they didn't show us, like, what they were saying. Like, why. Why are they protecting the cast that way?
Victoria Fuller
I know that' know strange. It is weird.
Nick Viall
Like, don't. I mean, I. I know you can't show us everything, but, like, I want to see a little bit of, like, how it was influenced.
Victoria Fuller
I agree.
Nick Viall
What were the talking points?
Victoria Fuller
But I think that's why they. I don't know. I feel like they didn't want us to, like, know.
Nick Viall
Who do you think they're protecting?
Victoria Fuller
Ace for sure. With the girls. I don't know really, Because I think they probably all agreed on Hannah. I don't know why. There must be something.
Nick Viall
Hannah was kind of a freak, really.
Steve
The way that she was doing that milk challenge.
Nick Viall
She was like, on her knees.
Steve
Honestly. No, wait. Nick was. When Nick swallowed it.
Nick Viall
Oh.
Victoria Fuller
And he was like, all of that.
Nick Viall
That challenge was absolutely disgusting.
Victoria Fuller
Could you imagine milk and then spitting it into someone's mouth?
Steve
Milk is already, like, only good. Only good when it's cold. Ice fucking cold. It has to be right out cold.
Nick Viall
So cold. Complimenting either cereal or a chocolate chip cookie. Just like. Just like, is a cup. I've had glass of milk as a drink since I was six.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah, I guess I haven't either. Maybe like chocolate.
Nick Viall
When was the last time you had milk with dinner?
Steve
Dinner.
Victoria Fuller
Stop it. Honestly makes me sick to think about dinner.
Nick Viall
People do that.
Victoria Fuller
I used to do it. We used to do it in my family every night we would have a.
Nick Viall
Cup of milk when I was a kid. Yeah, absolutely. And then, like, one day my family stopped. I was. Yeah, they're like, this is this Is stupid. I was like, okay, it seemed weird.
Steve
But, like, I was drinking sweet tea out of the nipple. Yeah.
Victoria Fuller
Arnold Bomber.
Nick Viall
No. There are families out there who sit down for dinner, and everyone has a glass of milk.
Victoria Fuller
I know. I was. I was.
Nick Viall
That was a thing, like, in the. In the. In the 80s.
Victoria Fuller
In the 80s.
Nick Viall
I wasn't born in the 80s thing.
Victoria Fuller
I was in the 90s.
Nick Viall
Period. Period.
Steve
She's young.
Nick Viall
The book. Just a Glass of Milk.
Victoria Fuller
Just a glass of milk for dinner.
Nick Viall
And you're like, the roast beef.
Victoria Fuller
Oh, my God. I'm a throw up. A bowl of spaghetti.
Nick Viall
Yeah. Spaghetti and milk. Ew.
Kiki
Sick.
Nick Viall
Pork chops and milk.
Steve
I only had milk at breakfast. His bones. I only drank milk up until my sister, who hated milk, told me that it was cow's blood with no red blood cells.
Jalen Brown
What?
Steve
And I was like, oh, my God, I could never touch this shit again.
Victoria Fuller
Why would your sister tell.
Steve
I don't know. I think she just, like, didn't want milk in the house. And so she was like, if I convince my little sister that it's just blood.
Nick Viall
When we were kids, we used to have. When we had macaroni and cheese, we would. We would imagine it being the most. Like, I was a picky eater.
Victoria Fuller
Please don't make this gross for me.
Nick Viall
We would just, like. Just like, I'm eating. We would come up with, like, gross, disgusting things or, like, what we thought was fancy food because. But it was Mac and cheese.
Steve
You're like, I'm eating escargot.
Nick Viall
Yeah.
Victoria Fuller
Oh, okay.
Phaedra Parks
I'm eating brains.
Nick Viall
Yeah. No, we do that, too. Okay.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Nick Viall
He was creative.
Steve
He was using his imagination.
Victoria Fuller
Well, is he a creative.
Steve
He's a creative guy.
Nick Viall
Yeah. Well, my parents, they wouldn't buy, like, toy guns. I had to use sticks.
Victoria Fuller
You're like, pow, pow.
Steve
Yeah. Well, honey, that was. They don't. They probably didn't even make toy guns then, you know, so you weren't missing out. No one had a toy gun.
Nick Viall
I miss it by a couple years.
Ryan Seacrest
Couple years.
Victoria Fuller
Only 10.
Kiki
Truly.
Nick Viall
Milk and spaghetti.
Ariana Maddox
Milk and spaghetti.
Nick Viall
Spaghetti.
Victoria Fuller
I remember it fondly.
Steve
Does that make you hungry?
Nick Viall
Yeah.
Victoria Fuller
I honestly would go for some milk.
Nick Viall
With spaghetti right now. According to the Internet, Nick did not have a cold sore. Where?
Victoria Fuller
On his. On his face.
Nick Viall
There was a couple episodes. I don't know.
Steve
He should have disclosed. They should have.
Ryan Seacrest
He should have.
Steve
In his itm. In his little interview, he should have been like, I know y' all are watching me, and I'm gonna go ahead and let you know right now. I Cut myself. Okay. It's just a little cut, and now it's a little inflamed and red because it's irritated.
Ryan Seacrest
Just to let all.
Steve
You know, it's not a cult. Like, he should have given us a psa.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Nick Viall
Are you shocked? That Hood is such a bad flirt. Like, the moment she got single, like, it was. It was.
Steve
It was hard to watch.
Nick Viall
It was tough.
Victoria Fuller
She's a hard watch in general, I think.
Steve
Well, she said it herself. She was like, I'm used to men being, like, obsessed with me. And so, like, if she has to work for it, I don't think she's good at it, you know? And she had to work for it with Pepe. She had to work for it with tj, and they both were kind of.
Nick Viall
Like, Hira goes from, like, guy looking at her across the bar to, like, planning a wedding.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Nick Viall
That's how fast she moves.
Victoria Fuller
I know. I know. It's interesting because I don't know.
Nick Viall
Have you ever. I've been a Huda.
Steve
We've all had a moment or two of a Huda. What did she say? Oh, when she's sitting there talking to.
Victoria Fuller
I've never spoken to anyone like that.
Steve
When she's sitting there talking to TJ and he's like, by the way, like, I'm not interested in you. Like, you know, like, at all. And she's like, oh, don't worry. Like, I'm not mad. Like, I'm not gonna scream like, you or anything.
Victoria Fuller
Right. And she literally just did last episode.
Steve
Ma' am, you've screaming, you. You're a sugar. Left and right.
Nick Viall
It's tough because, like, every. She's just. Listen, we've all had our heart broken. And when you're heartbroken, you make everything about you. Yeah, but, like, every sentence out of Huda's mouth starts with I or me. Like, I'm. I'm always this. I'm never this. Like, I would never do that. I'm always like this. Like, it's just.
Victoria Fuller
It's a lot of me.
Nick Viall
It's all about her.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Nick Viall
And she's always like, it's not always about me. Even when she's, like, telling you it's not about her, she's talking about her. She's just always describing herself. She. She felt very. Did you. Were you moved by the. Her words with Jeremiah upon his exit, or did you feel like she was just standing on.
Victoria Fuller
I think she probably meant what she was saying to him because they had real moments, but I just think that was just like, so toxic.
Steve
So toxic. I do think that was a genuine response to being like, oh, now this.
Victoria Fuller
Guy'S like, he's gone and I can't even talk to him if I want to.
Steve
Yeah. I'm so. I'm sure, like, the tears and all that stuff was. And then he kissed her on the forehead and I'm sure that made her feel like some type of way, you.
Victoria Fuller
Know, their interaction was sweet. Yeah.
Nick Viall
What do you think's gonna happen with Puddle?
Steve
Well, that's the thing is, like, that's why I'm kind of confused by, like, why producers didn't have more of a say in this voting.
Nick Viall
Like, I guess it's kind of undateable.
Steve
They're going into Casa More and so it's like the only people that are going to get a reaction out of Casa More are the people who are, like, solidified in couples and who are going to be, like, pissed off that their man is doing something over there.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Steve
So that's clearly Ace and Shelley, Nick and Sierra, Alandria and Taylor. Like, no one else. It would have also been Hannah and Pepe. It would have been Amaya and Austin, and it would have been Iris and maybe tj. I guess they're, like, starting off their little thing, but, like, that's why it doesn't really make sense as to why they would send home Hannah. I know, because she would have had a reaction to. And Pepe probably would do because they're. They just started talking. Like, they just started, you know, so he might have, like, folded and cost them more. She would have had a big reaction.
Nick Viall
Hannah might have someone maybe.
Steve
I don't know, like, but I feel like they would have had, like, a reaction. And so it is, like, weird that they sent home somebody in a couple. Yeah.
Victoria Fuller
And like, a strong couple.
Steve
Yeah.
Victoria Fuller
But also, too, I think that they're playing chess in this and they probably know a little bit of what's gonna go down. And, like, kind of being there obviously is really good tv.
Nick Viall
She's great tv, but she does kind of feel almost undateable. And I'm not meaning that, like, as a. But it seems like. It does seem like up to a certain point, like, they showed Iris, like, Iris was doing, like, some kind of TikTok or whatever, and she was, like, watching the first few episodes of Love island packing to go to Fiji.
Steve
Yeah. She's, like, trying on her outfits to go to Fiji.
Nick Viall
Yeah.
Steve
And in the background was like. Yeah.
Nick Viall
So they don't, like, they don't, like, bring everyone all at the Same time, you know, Right. Make someone right.
Victoria Fuller
No people.
Nick Viall
But it seems like they watch and like they mentioned like when bombshells come in, they're like, they clearly are watching.
Victoria Fuller
Yes.
Nick Viall
So like, if you're watching Huda do this shit with Jeremiah, it is going.
Victoria Fuller
To be hard for her to start over. I agree.
Nick Viall
Like, what guy is going to be like, yeah, no, I'm, yeah, like I'm.
Victoria Fuller
Going in there for that.
Nick Viall
She'll be different with me.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah.
Nick Viall
You know?
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Steve
People love a fixer. I mean they love to, they do love a project.
Victoria Fuller
Like I, I'm kind of, I kind of love a project.
Nick Viall
It's going to take a special guy.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah, it will take a special guy. And I think that maybe she could have her moment.
Nick Viall
I mean that would be incredible if she finds love on the show.
Victoria Fuller
That would be amazing.
Steve
They did show the five. It's only five women that go into casa and five men that come into. I definitely thought it was like more than that. Maybe I'm thinking of Temptation island where it's like a shit ton of women.
Victoria Fuller
No, it's, I think it's only five.
Steve
It's only the equal number of people who are there.
Nick Viall
So wait, interesting. For the vote, they. Four women were safe and three guys were safe.
Victoria Fuller
No, four. Four guys.
Nick Viall
What? Four guys were safe? Yeah, Nick, Ace, Taylor.
Steve
Nick and Ace.
Nick Viall
Hooda got the fourth and then Jeremiah. Yeah. Because there was more women than.
Victoria Fuller
Oh yeah.
Nick Viall
Interesting, because I feel like Ace, I mean they're all very popular, but I feel like Nick being matched with Cira and Ace being matched with Shelley and Taylor being matched with Alandria. I feel like the men benefited from the women's popularity. I feel like people loved those women and they wanted the men that they were with. It's almost like they voted for the men and supported them. And then with Jeremiah was kind of on an island. I don't feel like America voted against Jeremiah. I feel like they kind of forgot to vote for him.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah. In a way that makes me sad though because I think he, he deserved a chance.
Nick Viall
I, I, I'm curious. I haven't been online since his exit, but I feel like there's gonna be a little bit of outrage.
Victoria Fuller
I, I agree.
Steve
Give me the uproar.
Victoria Fuller
I need to know.
Nick Viall
He's beautiful. He'll be fine. I know, but he really seemed like a stand up guy.
Victoria Fuller
He did. I mean he never once clapped back to clap back at Huda and he always like kept his composure. Most guys would have been like, first.
Steve
Headline I see is Ace, I will never forgive you for this. What about Jeremiah?
Nick Viall
No, it was all Ace.
Steve
Yeah.
Victoria Fuller
Wait, wait, wait. Jeremiah said that about.
Steve
No, no, that was just, like, a headline of someone's reaction to tonight. They said, ace, I'll never forgive you for this.
Victoria Fuller
Okay.
Kiki
Yeah.
Steve
Because Nick even came up to Jeremiah, like, you know, you're my friends in this house. Like, so why'd you vote off your best friend?
Victoria Fuller
Exactly.
Nick Viall
Well, first of all, you. We've seen Ace, like, in every conversation, like, share his opinion talk, try to convince the other people listening about why his opinion's right.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Nick Viall
He's always talking about how he doesn't like how people move. You know, Ace was, like, outspoken. You know, he was just, like, talking about how, like, Jeremiah has been closed off the whole time. I think it's up. I don't know. It's this game. To me, it's his game, game, game. You know, he was talking to. And Ace was not gonna let it not be Jeremiah.
Victoria Fuller
You definitely was all about Jeremiah. Smear campaign.
Nick Viall
All right, well, Victoria, thanks for stopping by.
Victoria Fuller
Of course. Thank you for having me.
Nick Viall
Having you.
Victoria Fuller
Love you guys.
Nick Viall
Love you. All right, up next, Jalen Brown joins the show. And then following our interview with Jalen, the household will join us, and we'll get their thoughts on the previous episodes of Love Island. We'll also share our thoughts about the CASA cast joining the show and give some predictions about what we think will happen. We'll also do a little household headline. Real Housewives of Miami and Atlanta all coming up next. But right now, Jaylen Brown.
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Nick Viall
L L. Jalen, welcome to the Vile Files. It's great to have you, buddy.
Phaedra Parks
Yo, what's going on? What's going on?
Nick Viall
I'm glad to be here, man. We're so excited to talk with you. First of all, it was. It was really sad to see you go. I felt like you had a great few days in the villa. You were gone too soon. How are you feeling now that you're back in the States, you're settled in? How's your heart feeling? Are you kind of, like, comfortable with how things played out? Are you excited about what seems to be your newfound Internet popularity? Are you still kind of, like, having FOMO from being away from the villa?
Phaedra Parks
Man, this is, like, you know, coming from a small town, this. This is. This is crazy, man. I'll say. I'm just overwhelmed. I just feel like, like. Like everywhere I go, like, it's just like, oh, you. Jaylen from Love Island. Jalen from Love Island. Yes, I am. You know what I'm saying? I had to take a picture here. I had to take a picture there. It just feels like, like, wow. I'm really, like, living. I don't know, maybe, like, feel like I'm on 2k, like, a my career thing. Like, I feel like I'm on top of the world, man. From the. From the support I'm getting, and just, like, it's like, wow. It's like a wow moment. Like, it feels like a dream almost.
Nick Viall
That's awesome, man. Well, I think everyone's just super happy for you. You really obviously connect with the audience, and clearly, so many people were sad to see you go. I was. You know, when you entered the villa, it really seemed like at the time, Taylor and Alandria were just kind of more like friends. And when you came in, being the country boy that you are, and her constantly talking about how she likes a country man, and then she paired up with you, it really. I really thought that you guys were gonna really take off from there. And from your perspective, why do you feel like things didn't, you know, go the way we all kind of anticipated things to go with you and Alandria.
Phaedra Parks
I feel like Taylor had more time. You know, they starting five, they had more time. I didn't have much time to work with, but, you know, I'm coming in there just being myself. And at the end of the day, I was just being myself, like, just, hey, I'm jb. You know, I'm from this place, that place. I thought we had something in common, but, you know, unfortunately, she had a better connection with Taylor, so I wish them. Wish them two the best.
Nick Viall
Yeah.
Phaedra Parks
That's all.
Nick Viall
Was there a point on your date where you kind of felt like, you know, I don't know, maybe it's. We're just not connecting the way I hoped. Or, like, when did you kind of notice her kind of leaning back towards Taylor?
Phaedra Parks
I thought we was doing good. I'm not gonna lie. I thought we was doing good, you know? But, hey, I guess. I guess not. I'll say.
Nick Viall
Probably.
Phaedra Parks
I don't know. I thought we was doing so good. But, you know, she made the best man win, so she went with.
Nick Viall
You're a gentleman, man. So when you. When you, like, unlock the door and, like, that's so brutal, by the way. Like, it's like, it feels like no one wants to open a door that's locked. There's something kind of, like, clumsy about it, and they really set you up for failure. That kind of sucked. But, like, were you going. When you went to open the door, like, what was your confidence level at that point? Did you feel like, I don't know, man. Or like, was it like, 50, 50 in your mind?
Phaedra Parks
It was like, 50, 50 in my mind. I say, you know me. When I. When I. When I grabbed that door handle and I was like, oh, man. I was like, wow. So I knew it was going to be Taylor at the end of the day, so I was kind of like, okay. I mean, it was either me or him at the end of the day. So I was. I mean, like, it was like, okay. She. She. She. She got a better connection with Taylor.
Nick Viall
Yeah. What do you do before you showed up at Love Island? You. You're a trucker?
Phaedra Parks
Yes. Yes, I am.
Nick Viall
Hell, yeah, man. That's great. Like, I feel like there's so many times, especially nowadays in 2025, it feels like a lot of the people who get casted on these shows are, like, are already influencers. They're already gone social media. Like, you're, like, doing real work. You know, it's a cool job. You don't, you know, you don't hear about, like, you know, kind of trade jobs. So, like, credit to you, man. Like, but how did you get discovered, and how did you end up, you know, being a trucker and end up on Love Island?
Phaedra Parks
Oh, so I'm going to say it. Shout out to Nishay, one of the producers on Love Island. She found me on ig and we kind of went from there, man, because I was shocked. I thought it was a scam. Or some, like, some type of thing. So I didn't know it was for sure until I did some research on the Shay. I'm like, oh, shit. It might be. Might be real. You know what I'm saying? So Nishay found me on social media, and I don't know how, but just went with it.
Nick Viall
Well, the rest is history. And so it's true that you had to get a passport. This is your first passport, or you got your passport just to go to Love Island?
Phaedra Parks
Yeah, I got my passport just to go to Love. I'd never been outside the country. Never.
Nick Viall
Are you gonna start using this passport now that you have one?
Phaedra Parks
Definitely. Definitely. I gotta travel some more, man. It just. Fiji opened up my eyes, you know, it's more out there other than, you know, farmland, just, you know, just land and trail rides, all type of stuff.
Nick Viall
You have. You have all these brands, like, hotels are hitting you up in the comments. You got, I think, Delta, all these airlines. So have any of them come through and offered you any cool, exciting opportunities?
Phaedra Parks
Yeah, definitely a lot of them. I say Delta, offer some. We got the. The Hilton a couple more. Offer some, too. Like, just free trips on this. This day, that day. And I. And I want to say, I want to thank them, man. Like, it's really a dream come true. I never would have thought that. Hey, man, me coming off of two episodes. Three episodes. Hey, Jalen, you're going to be famous after this. This big. You know what I'm saying? I had, like, I think 48 hours. I had a million followers. So, like, what the hell, man?
Nick Viall
Yeah, it was pretty funny. Like, my producer, Leia told me that you got to 500, 000 followers and you got, like, balloons to celebrate and change your audience, but by the time you posted, you're already at a million.
Phaedra Parks
That's what I'm saying. I got a cake, everything, like 500k. Then I started reading the comments. I read some of them, and they said, you're gonna get you to me. I'm like, no, y' all not.
Kiki
Y' all ain't give me to no millions.
Phaedra Parks
I'll check my phone a couple. I think some minutes later, I'm like, I'm at 800, okay? I'm at 800, okay. Oh, I'm at 900. So I saw like, oh, I'm really. They really not playing. So shout out to them, man. Shout out to the supporters. They wasn't playing.
Marisol Patton
You're at 1.5 million now.
Phaedra Parks
Yeah, I mean, y' all, like, I wasn't Expecting this. I just made a tick tock. I never had a tick tock.
Marisol Patton
We love it.
Phaedra Parks
I've never follow you.
Nick Viall
What are you gonna make your TikTok page about?
Phaedra Parks
Just traveling, fitness, Just about my life, you know, just, you know, about me. Really? Just me.
Nick Viall
Okay. Hell yeah. I'd love to ask you some questions about your castmates in the villa. You got to know them really well now that the season is really kind of taken off. And right smack in the middle of it, there's obviously a lot of different opinions about the rest of your castmates. Have you been keeping up with the show since you left?
Phaedra Parks
Not too much, but I've just been trying to get. Just see my family members, get back in touch with them, ask how they. What they saw me on tv. What did they think of it and stuff. Like it just getting their reaction or whatever, but I happened just a little bit. Just a little bit.
Nick Viall
Okay. All right.
Kiki
What did your family think of you being on the show?
Phaedra Parks
Oh, man, it was crazy. So my grandma and my mom, they was like, oh, my gosh, you had on that leather suit. You kissing out on girls. What the hell are you. You know. You know what I'm saying? Like, wow. So it was just like a. What the hell, Jalen doing on tv kissing out, you know what I'm saying? Like, that's how it was, man. It was like, mom, you know, I'm on tv. This is Love Island. That's what they do. You know what I'm saying? So they was like, damn, I didn't know you do all. You know what I'm saying? So, yeah, it was like, okay, Jay, you know, like that. It was a reaction like that.
Nick Viall
Were you surprised to hear that Jeremiah got sent home?
Phaedra Parks
Yeah, yeah, I was surprised a little bit. I'm not gonna lie. Shout out to Jeremiah.
Nick Viall
Yeah, shout out to Jeremiah. We. He seems like a really good dude. A lot of the fans reactions and kind of what we all thought was, it really seemed like for whatever reason, like, Ace seems to be kind of like the leader of the pack. He has a lot of opinions about a lot of people. He kind of seems to talk shit about people behind people's back. And for whatever reason, he always seemed to kind of like, have an issue with the way that Jeremiah was moving. And a lot of people are blaming Ace for ultimately the men's decision to send Jeremiah home. You were around these guys for a few days. Like, how did you see the dynamic of that group? Is Ace kind of the ringleader of. Of like, between Nick and Taylor. Or is that maybe an inaccurate perspective that people are just, like, coming up with on their own?
Phaedra Parks
I think people just coming up with that on their own, you know, they just see more camera time, I guess, on Ace, I mean, and they see Ace just, you know, being Ace. You know what I'm saying? So I just think people got their own opinions about things. But me personally, I feel like it wasn't on ringleader. It wasn't no pack leader. All the guys did what they wanted to do, and that's it.
Nick Viall
Okay, why do you feel like they came up with the decision to send Jeremiah home? If you had to guess, I don't.
Phaedra Parks
Know why they sent Jeremiah. I. I don't know why they did that. I. Nah, I wouldn't have sent Jeremiah home, but you got to make a decision at the end of the day, you know? But I'm trying to think. I really can't think of a reason why they sent Jeremiah home.
Nick Viall
Between Jeremiah, Austin, and Pepe, who do you think if you were, like, who would have been your vote? I mean, again, they all seem like great guys, and that was. That's what's crazy about this show is they make you pick somebody. Even if you love all of them, like, who do you think just based off of connections, and who would have been your vote?
Phaedra Parks
That's hard. I love all three of them guys, man. I'm acting like I'm on the show.
Nick Viall
Again, trying to make a decision.
Phaedra Parks
This is crazy. If I had to pick. I love you, Austin, bro. I love you, Austin, but.
Nick Viall
Okay, I thought maybe Austin would have gone, too. Yeah.
Phaedra Parks
I love you, Austin, man. Like, bro, like, it's so hard. I can't pick between the three, but if I had that. If I had to pick, I mean, it had to be offset.
Nick Viall
Okay, all right. Well, I appreciate your answering the question. It's a tough question to answer, so thanks for playing the game. Not to rub salt on the wound, but were you pretty bummed to not get to meet Megan the Stallion?
Phaedra Parks
I was kind of like, wow. I mean, they would do it when I leave. I was like, why they would do it when I leave? I mean. But it is what it is, man. You know, I might meet her, you know, out here.
Nick Viall
So there you go.
Phaedra Parks
Who knows?
Kiki
Maybe.
Nick Viall
Yeah, I don't know. Maybe. Maybe she'll slide in. You know what I'm saying? Like, she might. She might.
Phaedra Parks
Kalani. Kalani even tweeted about me, man. I was shocked by that.
Nick Viall
Have there been any other, like, celebrities or famous people that, like, either comment on your page or that you've been able to interact with that kind of blown your mind.
Phaedra Parks
I say Kalani. She did a post about me one and Coco. I forgot her name. Coco. She's a tennis player. Shout out to Coco. She said something under the. Under my Instagram Love island picture. She said something, but. Shout out to her. But I know some other people said something too, but I forgot.
Nick Viall
Okay. The Internet couldn't help but notice that you seem to follow all of your castmates, but Huda, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen.
Phaedra Parks
Listen to me, y' all, y' all, Here we go.
Nick Viall
Here we go. Here we go, y' all.
Phaedra Parks
It was. It was all. Every. All. So the people who managing my page, they still managing my page.
Nick Viall
Okay.
Phaedra Parks
Yeah. I'm like, what the hell? They unfollowed. So they basically unfollowed all my friends, all that stuff. Follow, follow. I guess the people they liked on the show.
Nick Viall
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Everyone's got people managing their page. So that wasn't. That wasn't Jalen. That wasn't you. That was.
Phaedra Parks
No, that wasn't me.
Nick Viall
That was your people kind of being. Being fans.
Phaedra Parks
Yeah, they even. They even unfollowed my family members.
Nick Viall
Okay, what?
Marisol Patton
Now you don't even know who you were following.
Phaedra Parks
That's what I'm saying. Like, I'm like, what? And people calling me, hey, jb, what happened, man? You just. You too Hollywood now. You unfollowing me?
Nick Viall
You gotta get back hold of that Instagram, man. Or that.
Phaedra Parks
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nick Viall
Obviously, Huda's, like, created a lot of, like, waves, and people have a lot of, you know, mixed feelings about her. How was your time with Huda and what was your perspective on how she moved in the villa?
Phaedra Parks
It was kind of like a hey, bye relationship we had. It was like, hey, you know, we ain't got nothing against each other. You know what I'm saying? We just talk just a little bit or something about probably about fitness or just about life. How you doing? I'm doing good. Okay. Hope you have a good day. Bam. That was me and Huddle and the villa. That's about it.
Nick Viall
Okay, who do you think is the strongest couple right now?
Phaedra Parks
I would say Nick and Sierra right now, but right now it ain't looking too. It ain't looking. I don't know. It ain't looking too good. So I say Ace and Shelly. Right? Right now. Right now. Ace and Shelly. But if Nick and Sierra would. What I saw when I was in the villa, Nick and Sierra would Be the strongest.
Nick Viall
Yeah, I thought they're their strongest, too, until, like, you know, they seem to, like, hook up. And then all of a sudden, Nick was like, hey, I want to date other people. Who do you. What is there. Is there a couple or relationship? Do you think that's most at risk as we. We head into Casa More?
Phaedra Parks
Yeah.
Nick Viall
Who.
Kiki
Do you think that's how you were gonna get away with answering?
Phaedra Parks
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Nick Viall
Y' all crazy.
Phaedra Parks
Y' all crazy.
Ariana Maddox
I say.
Phaedra Parks
Not gonna lie. Alandria and Taylor.
Jalen Brown
Okay.
Phaedra Parks
I say their relationship at risk. Nick and Sierra at risk. Um, Austin Amaya, at risk.
Kiki
Um, so everyone.
Nick Viall
Okay, shoot.
Phaedra Parks
Ace and every. Hey.
Nick Viall
Yeah. I mean, you're. You're. I. I totally agree with you. I don't feel like there's any, like, really established couple that, like, I. I know a lot of people are blaming Ace, but, like, I. I think Nick seemed to, like, have the hots for. What was the bombshell's name that Jeremiah was connecting with?
Kiki
Andrina.
Nick Viall
Adrina. Yeah. So, like, Nick was talking to Andrina, and, like, Andrina was the one bombshell that Nick seemed to be interested in in other than Sierra. And I feel like. I wonder if, like, also knowing that Casa Moore is around the corner, do you think Nick was, like, keeping his relationship very open because he wanted to be able to go into Casa More, you know, kind of single and available with that?
Phaedra Parks
I feel like Nick was. I feel like Nick and Sierra relationship. It was strong. Like I said, it was strong. Adrina, she's hot. I'm not gonna lie.
Kiki
Yeah.
Phaedra Parks
Yeah.
Nick Viall
She.
Phaedra Parks
She nice. I would have. I would have said, hey, I would have wanted to get a Know. Wanted to get it. Get to know her too. I'm ahead fumbling up my words, but, yeah, she is hot.
Kiki
She's very.
Phaedra Parks
I don't blame. I don't. Kind of. I mean, why not just try, you know, Just see who she is. You know what I'm saying? And, you know, she's a hot girl, so I understand where Nick was coming from with that.
Nick Viall
So if Alandria leaves the villa single, are you gonna shoot your shot and ask for a second chance?
Phaedra Parks
She didn't open that door for me, okay? So I'm not gonna open my door.
Nick Viall
Okay, respectful king. Okay. She didn't open her door, so I'm.
Phaedra Parks
Not gonna open my door.
Jalen Brown
I don't know.
Phaedra Parks
I don't know.
Kiki
If you were brought back for Casa Amor, which of the women would you go for?
Phaedra Parks
I'm not gonna lie. I go for Shelly. Shelly Maya. I go for Amaya. Okay, shoot. Why not Sierra? Yeah, why not? I go for those three.
Nick Viall
Are they, do you think they're better looking in person or on, on camera?
Phaedra Parks
They look the same on camera. They. So when I was watching it previously, checking them out, I said, I wonder. They look the same in person and they, they look the same. Fairly the same.
Nick Viall
What's, what's next for you, Jalen?
Phaedra Parks
I guess more content creating. I want to make more tick tocks. I want to get involved with, with my supporters more. That's, that's what I want to do and I want to travel more. So that's what's next for me. Get, get with my supporters more, travel more and. Yeah, and just make more content and just see where things go.
Nick Viall
Okay.
Marisol Patton
Is this, did you make the sweatshirt that you're wearing?
Phaedra Parks
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rubbery, rubbery.
Nick Viall
There we go.
Marisol Patton
I saw that.
Nick Viall
Where can people get that hoodie if they want to get it, Jalen?
Phaedra Parks
So I got this made, but I can get some more, man. I got this made.
Kiki
Like, can you send something to us?
Nick Viall
Yeah, get that, get that website going, Jalen. Get that website going and sell that merch, bro.
Phaedra Parks
Yeah, I know. I got this made for me, man. So I got it made. I thought I was, you know, I'm a truck driver, I'm handsome, I look good, I take good care of myself. You know, a lot of truck drivers don't do that. And you know, I just got a discipline that, that, that nobody has. So I just felt like I was a rap read, man. A lot of people don't have the discipline I have or, or truckers don't have the body or the looks I have.
Nick Viall
So.
Phaedra Parks
Hey, man, I'm a rap read, all right?
Nick Viall
And are you planning on, do you, are you gonna keep on trucking or do you think influencing is gonna take you away from, from that career?
Phaedra Parks
The way things going, if I keep getting millions and millions and millions of followers and stuff like that, I mean, I gotta go to content route. I mean, it makes sense. I, I say I wanna, so I wanna make my supporters like, I wanna, I wanna show my supporters my life, man. And I wanna, and I love them, you know what I'm saying? They love me so much, man. I'm like, shoot, why not? Like, it's just insane. Like, I didn't know that many people love me, so I'm like, I gotta show them love too. Cause I'm like, if you love me, I love you, respect me. I respect you.
Nick Viall
We love Annette, we all love You, Jalen, who would be your dream person to collaborate with? Like, what, is there a celebrity out there? Or, sir, like, who would be your absolutely dream to make content with?
Phaedra Parks
Y' all put me in a tough spot. Damn. That's all our question.
Nick Viall
Oh, you can say. You can say more than one.
Phaedra Parks
I say I want to make content with Jeremiah.
Nick Viall
Okay.
Phaedra Parks
In the villa. I want to make content with Jeremiah. That would be number one. Somebody in the villa, you know, just have somebody that's number one in the villa, you know, just do that. Number two, I would like to make content with. I'll say I like to make content with. Shoot. Anthony Edwards. Why not? You know him?
Nick Viall
The basketball player?
Phaedra Parks
Yeah, yeah. Anthony Edwards. Ant man. Yeah, he's from Georgia, so I like to make some content with him.
Nick Viall
All right, shout out to Anthony. Let's.
Phaedra Parks
Let's shout out to Anthony Edwards. Timberwolves man. Number five. So shout out to him. I like to make content with him.
Kiki
Are you gonna keep watching the season?
Phaedra Parks
Yeah, I'm kind of curious to see what's. What's gonna happen. Yeah. So I'm try to watch some more of it. Since they kicked Jeremiah out, I want to see what's going to happen next. And, you know, with the casa ammo, so I know it's going to Casa Amore gonna be crazy. Them boys gonna wild out. The girls gonna wild out, I feel, you know, so I'm definitely gonna keep. I'm definitely gonna keep in touch with that.
Nick Viall
One last question, Jalen, before we let you go. Do you think it's gonna be a man or a woman who steps out of their relationship during Casa Amor?
Phaedra Parks
It's gonna be both.
Nick Viall
Both. Okay. Okay.
Phaedra Parks
It's gonna be both. It's gonna get ugly for both.
Nick Viall
Oh, you. So you're predicting just chaos and mess.
Phaedra Parks
Oh, I know it's gonna be chaos and mess.
Nick Viall
Okay. Hell, yeah. All right, Jalen, that's a great, great way.
Phaedra Parks
I know.
Nick Viall
Great place to leave it. Jalen, can't thank you enough for taking the time. Congratulations on all this exciting success that you're having. It's really been a pleasure getting to know you and to see you on Love island, man. Wish wishing you nothing but the best going forward. Excited to see what kind of content you make. And I know we're all excited to keep following you, so cheers to you and thank you for your time.
Phaedra Parks
Yes, sir. Appreciate you, Nick. Appreciate you. You know, just having me on the podcast, man, this is my first podcast I ever did, so I wish. I hope I did good.
Nick Viall
You did Great, man. We appreciate you. Crushed it.
Phaedra Parks
Appreciate it.
Nick Viall
All right. Take care, man.
Phaedra Parks
All right.
Nick Viall
What do we all think of Jalen?
Marisol Patton
I think he's adorable.
Ariana Maddox
I'm in love with him.
Marisol Patton
I literally follow favorite follow of the year.
Nick Viall
Well, Natalie and Victoria and I, we all talked a little about the. The past few episodes, but do you guys have any things you want to get off your chest?
Kiki
Yeah, I have one thing I'd like to say.
Ariana Maddox
Say it.
Kiki
I'm really upset with everybody in the.
Nick Viall
Villa, so are you with. Is it all Ace?
Kiki
I think it. Yeah, I think it's Ace, and I think that Nick and Taylor can't stand up to him, and I think that they all went with whatever he said, and he was just like Jeremiah this entire time for, in my opinion, no reason at all. Jeremiah's just been trying to be in with them this whole time, and he can't do anything right. Like, he cuts himself off with Huda. That's not right. Even though Taylor did the same thing with Alandria and Nick did the same thing with Sierra, and Ace did the same thing with Shelly, if we're being real.
Marisol Patton
Yep.
Kiki
And then he cuts himself off from Huda, but he didn't do it properly. So then they're all upset with him for that, and now he finally has a connection with someone else, and they're mad at him for locking in too quickly with her. Like, what can. What is he.
Ariana Maddox
What's a man to do?
Nick Viall
Yeah, I. I com. I completely agree. Except that. Do you think Nick is. Is more outspoken than we realize and just maybe it's just not being aired as much?
Kiki
I don't know. I was upset that they didn't really air that conversation to begin with because I would love to know. I. I understand why how the guys got to Jeremiah because, like, Taylor kind of explained based on what America saw.
Nick Viall
Yeah. But it was. That didn't show. Know any of those conversations of how they came.
Kiki
How did the girls get to Hannah? Like, why did the girls choose Hannah? Like, Iris doesn't have a real connection. Like, she's going for TJ because he's kind of like, same with Amaya. Amaya. And. And like Amaya, I love Amaya and I'm glad that she's staying because I think she's fun. But like, her and Austin, it's not a relationship. So, like, either one of them should. Like, Hannah has one of the strongest connections in the villa, and the only thing that I can think of as the reason why they would send her home is because Huda wants to go for Pepe.
Ariana Maddox
That's gotta be it. But it's like, I thought they didn't fuck with Huda, right? And now it turns out that they do. I'm. It's just like, kind of confusing. And also, like, Hannah got so over by Huda and then just to get sent home, like, she was just trying to be a good friend.
Kiki
And what I. What I hate the most is Huda being like, I love you, baby. Like, we love you, we love you. And I. I loved that Hannah was just like, no, this is like, I'm having a hard time talking to the people who just vot. Like, yeah, like, you're gonna pretend to be all like, buddy, buddy. Like, no, you just voted me out of the villa for no reason because I have a connection. Like, it would be one thing if I didn't have a connection and I. Okay, I understand, but, like, what the fudge? Yeah, I'm heated.
Ariana Maddox
I mean, do you think it's because Hannah was a bombshell and Huddle wasn't.
Marisol Patton
But there's just like, no real connections going on. Like, I'm not rooting for any of these couples. And I'm not saying that if Hannah stayed, I would have been rooting for her and Pepe, but at the same time, it's like, yeah, we're getting rid of the two people that actually have connections. And then it's just like, I'm not rooting for anybody else in this house.
Kiki
That's why I was like, casa.
Marisol Patton
I'm like, casa is going to be a mess because everybody's single.
Kiki
The only person I was rooting for was Sierra and Nick. And then Nick is just being like, well, the day after they have sex, he's like, I want to be open. Like, of course that's going to fuck with her.
Marisol Patton
But do we also think that, like, we want to get Jeremiah out because all the guys want to get with Adriana?
Kiki
I think that they wanted Jeremiah out because Nick is feeling Andrina and so.
Marisol Patton
Is Ace, and so, like, all of the guys are feeling her.
Nick Viall
Jeremiah is not a follower. He did his own thing. He's clearly, like the best looking guy in the villa and he clearly, like, basically got dibs. Like, all the women came in immediately interested in Jeremiah, whether they ended up, like, staying interested or not. Like, I think all the guys noticed. And that's the thing. Jeremiah was able to, like, have this intense relationship with Huda and then find a quick connection. Like his. His ability to move on, I think was threatening to the other guys. And the fact that he, like, kind of did his own thing, whether it's Ace, like, leading the pact with, like, Taylor and Nick, or it's just like the three of them all kind of just, like, kind of talking shit and just kind of being their kind of this little clicky group that kind of, like, loves to, like, you know, it's us three and everyone else type of thing and act like they're those three are, like, the alphas. And I also feel like I said this to Victoria and Natalie. I feel like Nick, Ace, and Taylor being, quote, unquote, saved. I feel like they owe their women a thank you because I feel like they got saved based off of being in the relationships with the most popular, popular women in the villa.
Marisol Patton
Yes.
Nick Viall
You know what I'm saying? I feel like. I don't feel like Jeremiah not being saved is a. Is a reflection of, like, America not liking him. I think it was more like a forgotten vote, you know what I'm saying? It wasn't like, there were no reasons for people to be like, let's save Jeremiah. Like, Huda, for example. Like, as many people who, like, wanted to see her go. There are plenty of people out there.
Kiki
Who, like, there was a movement.
Nick Viall
Yeah, there was, like, a movement for Huda. Like, let's protect Huda. Because knowing that Hilda had a lot of, like, haters, there were a lot of people who responded to her haters or Jeremiah's more neutral. You know what I'm saying? And him being more neutral, like, there weren't people going out there, like, trying to save Jeremiah and he got screwed over from it.
Kiki
Yeah. No. Shelly, Alandria, and Sierra are the closest thing to, like, the new PPG that we have of the season. And America loves the three of them. And so their men were saved.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah. My. My biggest beef of the season is with Taylor. You're with Alandria, and you are not just like. Like, whatever you want.
Nick Viall
Yeah.
Ariana Maddox
You know what I mean? Like, the way. And I understand maybe he's a little reserved and, like, she's a little reserved, and they're taking things slow. But at this point, once Megan the Stallion comes in and hypes up your girl like that, you need to know that you have to do the work. You have to put in the goddamn work to keep this woman after that because she is better than you.
Kiki
If Taylor gets with someone at Casa, like, he's the biggest idiot in the world.
Ariana Maddox
Alandra is literally one of the most beautiful women.
Nick Viall
He will never. He will never date hotter. I mean, I Don't think anyone will. No, no, she's.
Ariana Maddox
No.
Kiki
Also, do we want to talk about the new CASA cast?
Ariana Maddox
They're ugly.
Nick Viall
I'm just kidding.
Steve
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Ariana Maddox
I'm joking. I'm joking.
Nick Viall
I'm joking.
Kiki
I'm not even going to.
Ariana Maddox
I said they're ugly, but I was joking and being mean.
Nick Viall
No, I mean, listen, the pictures are.
Ariana Maddox
Kind of deceiving, but, like, they're hotter than me.
Phaedra Parks
But.
Nick Viall
The CASA women do not seem to be in the same league as the women that are currently in the villa. I'll discuss.
Kiki
Say that should we pull up a picture?
Nick Viall
Like, obviously everyone on the show is beautiful. And that's another thing too. Like, to that point, Mary, I. I like. One of the most outrageous things I find on the Internet, of many things on the Internet, and it's kind of funny, is the amount of, like, average to ugly looking people judging hot people online. Yeah, it's the most hilarious thing, like the way that the confidence of these, like, Internet trolls talking about how these people are ugly, when then you go on their page and you're like, you're. You're judging someone. That being said, it just seems like the women who are currently in the villa are just dynamite and they're bringing in people for CASA who just don't, at least based off the pictures, don't appear to be in the same league.
Ariana Maddox
I mean, that does kind of reflect real life, though, but. And of the most beautiful women you've ever seen in your life dating men, and you're like, what? That. That guy? But Love island is supposed to be an escape from all of that. Love island is supposed to be an island of people that are so, so, so, so, so beautiful that they look like they were made in a lab.
Nick Viall
Only reason why I point out that out, because I just, I. And I. That's why I asked Jalen. You know what I'd really love? Because you know how traditionally it's like in Casa, it's usually the guys, like, stepping out of the relationship and usually, like, the women are just like, sitting around wondering what their men are doing. Doing. Like, that's usually how it goes. I would really love to see, like, Sierra Swerve or like, or Shelly. Oh, my God, that would be amazing if Shelly, like, found a better connection or just a connection that made her like, I want her, I want it. I want to see Ace rattled, you know what I'm saying? Like, the thing that bothers me about Ace so much is that he's like, he's moving too confidently, and he's moving like he's never worried about, like, it's just. It seems like. Like, he knows he's not going home, you know, and there's. I want to see him rattled. I want to see him, you know, for all the hate that Huda's getting, like, she just got emotionally invested too soon. You can criticize, you know, how she got there or whatever, but, like, when you're activated and you're emotionally triggered, like, you know, it's not easy to be at your best. So I. I want to see, you know, some of these guys get rattled. I want to see them scared. I want them emotionally worried about, like, losing their women, and I want to see how they react. And it would be great to see some of these women, like, fall have connections with some of these casa guys.
Kiki
I mean, I. I agree. I think that that would be. I mean, I think that. That Ace is way too comfortable. I think that him getting voted, like, him being safe last night is only going to make him feel even more safe and more confident. And I think that.
Marisol Patton
I think he's gonna run amok in casa more. Like, I think he's like, finally, I get off my leash. It's a whole group of whole new girls, and now I don't have to pretend or like, I'm. You know what I mean? Like, I just. I feel like he's gonna. He's gonna get himself in trouble because of Costa. More.
Ariana Maddox
He's giving the Love Island Napoleon.
Nick Viall
It really felt like everybody to back him up. Honestly, like, last night's vote was, like, giving. The first time I shot, Ace lived up to his first height.
Marisol Patton
That's nice.
Nick Viall
Before. Yeah, he just, like. He just. It just. It just reeked of jealousy.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Marisol Patton
And he also, like, has drooled over every new bombshell that's walked in, and every bombshell exactly as you said, has gone for Jeremiah. So, like, who do we hate? Jeremiah.
Kiki
Well, I have a theory, too, since the beginning that Ace was into Huda. I don't think he is anymore. I think that he was turned off by her, but I think initially he was into Huda and Jeremiah had her.
Nick Viall
You know what they always say? The opposite of love is not hate. I feel like he. You know, the. The anger or hostility that Ace showed towards Huda is like, he. He still seems invested in Huda. You know what I'm saying?
Kiki
Like, he seems too invested in everyone but his own, like, situation. Like, he's so invested. You know, those. Those People at CASA who are so, like, invested in everybody else's relationships and they're pushing the other guys to like, get with girls and go outside of their couples. That actually is my prediction for Ace at cas. Think that he's going to stay loyal to Shelley and I think that he's going to be the one egging on all the other guys, convincing them to, to go outside of their couples.
Ariana Maddox
But then also at the same time, like, put that energy into making like gassing Shelly up because again, another woman. That is so, so, so, so beautiful.
Marisol Patton
Funny how the dates stopped happening. These like, pop up dates stop happening the second he knows he has her.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah.
Marisol Patton
But it's like while I'm trying to steal him from Austin or steal her from Austin in. That's when I'm like, here's pop up yoga in the middle of the. Of the villa. But it's a surprise. But like now it's like, where are these days?
Kiki
Pancakes and ping pong.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Marisol Patton
The way I'd be so mad if somebody offered that to me.
Ariana Maddox
Not. That would never happen on my life.
Marisol Patton
Can I sit down and eat?
Nick Viall
Thank you, no. I can't believe we have CASA starting tonight.
Kiki
I'm so, so excited.
Nick Viall
Which by the time they're listening to this episode, we'll. We'll be an episode into casa.
Kiki
And how long does that. That usually last?
Ariana Maddox
Let us know if we're wrong.
Marisol Patton
They're in CASA for a week. I don't know how many episodes that equals, but at least four.
Nick Viall
Yeah, but I. Yeah, but I'm.
Kiki
But I'm honestly not like, I'm not that. Yeah. Invested in any of these couples enough to like be rooting for any of them to stay loyal.
Ariana Maddox
I do think Nick and Sierra are cute, but I was bummed by the way Nick after they had sex, the way he just kind of like, you.
Nick Viall
Know what's, what's annoying is like I think the most. The cutest couple that actually looks like like the best match outside of the villa is actually Ace and Shelly. There is like a natural chemistry that they have. It's just that Shelly seems almost like kind of. Shelly's just almost too chill. She's like.
Kiki
She's on vacation.
Nick Viall
Yeah. She's just kind of like there chilling. She seems wonderful. But they do when they're together, there's like this, this palpable chemistry that I feel like you feel. And then like Ace seems almost like too good at reality tv. You know, it just seems like he's. I'm not getting this authentic Reaction. It just seems like he's working with producers too much. I don't know. And then, like, them not showing how they came to that decision just feels like they were protecting people in a way that I didn't want them to be protected. If you're gonna make the cast, vote someone off and, like, get together and, like, not do, like, these independent, like, just get behind people's back. I want to see those conversations. That was such a major storyline from last season, and the fact that they just didn't even give us any of, like, not even 15 seconds. Not even, like. Like, a little bit of Cliff Notes about, like, how they came that decision. None of that was just kind of annoying.
Kiki
Yeah. They even had, like, a whole movie night about that specific.
Marisol Patton
They also did it at the reunion, remember? And we were like, why are we spending 15 minutes on this footage we don't care about anymore?
Nick Viall
Yeah.
Marisol Patton
That was wild.
Nick Viall
Yeah. And then we get. We didn't get any of that. You know, it's fascinating. Like, all the couples who have had sex are either, like, on the rocks or broken up.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah. Mommy's little meatball.
Nick Viall
Hannah and Pepe, broken up. Huda. Jeremiah, broken up. And Nick and Sierra. Nick's like, I want to get ready for casa, even though it was the.
Kiki
Best 25 seconds of my life.
Marisol Patton
But I'm also attracted to the new bombshell.
Ariana Maddox
25 seconds. So him admitting.
Victoria Fuller
Right.
Ariana Maddox
Full chest. It was 25 seconds.
Nick Viall
Well, you did say 30 seconds last night.
Kiki
Okay.
Ariana Maddox
Okay.
Nick Viall
I thought she handled herself pretty well. I mean, she came out and she made it very clear where she was, that. She made it clear that she was, like, really excited where this was going, and she's not really looking around. And then she just got this answer or response from Nick. Like, is she supposed to, like, yell at him? It was, you know, you. It's natural for them to, like.
Kiki
No. I thought she handled herself really well. And then Nick was kind of just like, well, if she's gonna, like, act that way, then I'm gonna. And I was like, what do you mean, act, like, mature? Like, what are you talking about? Like, so that turned me off. I really wanted him to, like, recognize her pulling away because of his actions and then try to get her back. But him pulling away further just shows me that he's not really into her and he's ready for casa.
Nick Viall
They all are.
Marisol Patton
Anyway, be watching.
Kiki
Yeah.
Nick Viall
Well, that. That'll wrap up our Love Highland discussion. More to come this week, certainly. As we enter into Casa. Let's get into a little bit of household headlines and then we'll talk some Miami in Atlanta and then send you on your way.
Marisol Patton
Drop you off at school School.
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Kiki
Yes. Yes, I did.
Ariana Maddox
Did I?
Marisol Patton
He took some vocal lessons.
Nick Viall
Are you guys haters? Are you guys. Are you guys happy for Tom?
Kiki
I think he picked a very difficult song and he did a good job with it. I think that that man does not have stage fright, that's for sure.
Nick Viall
I mean, the overall takeaway, to be clear, especially on America's Got Talent, was like, very positive. Like, it was that classic Simon Cowell looking like, what the fuck am I watching? For the first few seconds it was giving like, oh, this is going to be an absolute disaster. But then there was like the flip where, like, you know, the judges got involved, the audience got involved. It was like a very, like, uplifting, positive performance. Like, that was the takeaway from the show. I'm just curious if, like, what you guys think specifically, Sierra being, you know, more like anti Tom Sandoval.
Marisol Patton
I'm not anti Tom Sandoval. I just am not a fan. But I'm like, I think he did a good job.
Jalen Brown
We realized that America's Got Talent is like fake, right? Like, the audience reactions don't actually happen when, like the talent are out. A lot of the judges reactions are taped at different times.
Marisol Patton
Oh, I didn't know that.
Jalen Brown
Like, if you've ever been to America, if you've been to an America's Got Talented taping, it's like the talent comes out, but, like, the reactions of the audience will be on, like different days. They'll make you react in certain ways. Like, it's all Staged.
Ariana Maddox
My biggest question is, does Simon Cowell know about Tom Sandoval?
Marisol Patton
Oh, he didn't care.
Kiki
Yeah.
Nick Viall
Do you think he would give a one way or the other?
Kiki
No.
Ariana Maddox
Well, I just. No. I mean like, do you think he was like briefed on it or do you think he like knew?
Nick Viall
Well, I think this all came together because of Howie Mendel. I think Howie Mandel has some kind of relationship with Tom. He was the first one to interview Tom post scandal. Like, I think there's a bit of like Howie Mandel has a soft spot for Tom, Howie being one of the judges. So I think that Howie, I'm guessing how he facilitated getting Tom on the show in the first place. So I don't know, maybe he gave, I don't know what Howie and Simon's relationship is, but maybe he gave him a little, you know, fair enough.
Ariana Maddox
It is funny. Just the comparison of Tom Sandoval on America's Got Talent and then Ariana Maddox hanging out with Megan the Stallion on Love Island. You know, it's just like a little funny juxtaposition.
Nick Viall
I mean, yeah, they're, I mean like, yeah, Ariana's crushing life. I just like this was a guy who did something terrible certainly, but was something that like I don't know, 60% of the people dating do and he was, I mean like his life was destroyed. Like he was literally the most hated man and talked about man for years and like he' working hard and trying to make something of this experience and he's going on like knowing that people want him to fail and he still goes on out there and like, you know, does his best. I feel like he got like, you.
Kiki
Know how there's like an egot, like there's a club where like very few people have received an emmy, a Grammy, etc.
Nick Viall
Etc.
Kiki
Tony.
Ariana Maddox
Oh yeah.
Kiki
I feel like there should be a competition similar where it's like how many reality TV shows can you put be.
Ariana Maddox
On the reality TV egot?
Nick Viall
Well, I don't think it counts if it's all under Bravo.
Kiki
But you're right, talent isn't.
Nick Viall
You know, Tom's been on America's Got Talent. He's been on Singers Special Forces.
Kiki
He was on Mass singer.
Jalen Brown
Nick is right though. This is all in the under the NBC portfolio.
Nick Viall
So it's like, well, Special Forces is not. That's Fox. America's Got Talent and mass singer's Fox too.
Jalen Brown
So a little diversity House of Villains is e. Right.
Nick Viall
Listen again, like Ariana is doing things well beyond what Tom Sandoval is doing. And she has. But, like, compared to some of the men on Bravo, at least Tom is trying to, like, seems like. I don't know. Last time we talked him on the show, he's in individual and couples therapy. He seems like he's actually trying to make positive changes in his life. And he has. Coming from a situation where. Where, I mean, like, whether. Whatever. Whatever you think of him, it was really dark and he got so much fucking hate. He's come out of this and. And he's making. He's doing positive things. I don't know. I think that. I feel like. I don't know why people have a hard time giving that credit to that and why it's. They still want to be haters.
Jalen Brown
I mean, to his credit, and this is my own speculation, that a lot of these, like, competition shows have been paying talent to come on just to, like, spark Internet chat better. So, like, to me, I think he's just, like, he's not there to compete. He's there to, like.
Nick Viall
Sure. It's definitely for people to be able to still went on and performed knowing that people would want to make fun of him, and he did.
Jalen Brown
Well, that's what I'm saying.
Ariana Maddox
So does I think he's fine with people making fun of him?
Jalen Brown
Well, I'm saying to his credit is that they may have paid him or at least wanted him to be there.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah.
Jalen Brown
But someone does.
Kiki
I am very curious to know, though, if he makes it past the round, because while I do think he did.
Jalen Brown
A good job, I don't think that's the point of him being there.
Kiki
I do think he did a good job. I do not think that he did a good enough job to make it to the next round, you know, because America's Got Talent is like, there are people coming on with the craziest talents I've ever seen in my life. And so the people who are coming on and who are singing, like, better be.
Nick Viall
Really. I feel like this is definitely a stunt cast, for sure. And it got ratings and it got, like, people talking about the show. I mean, I've never seen America's Got Talent, so. Yeah, first time I watched it.
Kiki
It's a fun watch.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah. Do you think it's more of a stunt than Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber unfollowing each other on Instagram? Instagram.
Nick Viall
I. I'm just. Blah. I'm blown away about the level of pet. Like, you can't convince me that either of these two people want to be happy.
Jalen Brown
I don't think it's petty.
Nick Viall
It's so unnecessary.
Jalen Brown
I think it was more petty to be following her.
Nick Viall
Well, I don't know who started it.
Jalen Brown
But, like, to keep that going.
Nick Viall
My understanding of this whole saga, which has been going on for years, is they both had rabid fan bases. Specifically in Selena Gomez's fan base is, you know, those music fan bases are, are another level of toxicity and online bullying. And it seemed like there was a following to be like, hey, let's list. Let's, let's, let's not do this. And for. I don't know who started it. I don't know what's going on, but the fact that they unfollow each other just invites people online to do outrageously horrible things. And, like, why is it bothering either of them that they're following each other?
Jalen Brown
I don't think it's bothering any of them. I think we're reading into it because, I mean, if. Even if we look at it like with when Haley signed her road deal to Sephora, who was liking the post? Selena Gomez. So I'm like, just because she unfollowed her and we don't know that anyone.
Nick Viall
So why unfollow it? Like, it's just. I mean, it's not like a Taylor Swift.
Jalen Brown
Well, I think it's just years of us pressuring them to follow each other.
Nick Viall
There was a point when Taylor Swift was following people and then she decided to follow nobody. And I know that she reached out to friends and was like, hey, FYI, like, I'm just unfollowing everyone. This is not a personal thing. But, like, they're both following hundreds of people.
Jalen Brown
I don't think we know she didn't reach out to people. I think, like, that was a relationship that people pressured them to keep following each other when there was no relationship really to begin with.
Kiki
You know what I always wonder is the people who discover these things, like, who's going on to Hailey Bieber's Instagram? I wonder if she's still following.
Marisol Patton
Let me tell you what I'm saying.
Nick Viall
Is, though, like, who. They both know that their fan base track every little thing they do and make a big deal about every little thing they do. So for them to play into it seems crazy to me.
Jalen Brown
I don't know that it's playing into it. Or they're just like, let's just cut the ties now so we don't have to keep playing into it later.
Nick Viall
Yeah, like, what?
Jalen Brown
Because before it was, oh, Selena follows Haley. She didn't like this post or she Accidentally liked this post. So it's like, why cut it now?
Nick Viall
Every once in a while I'll be on my. I don't know why I follow this person anymore. I don't know. I don't engage with them. It's just like, there's an unfollow. But if there's people like that are in public figure, I don't go out of my way to unfollow people, even if I don't fuck with them, you know, like, it's. I just don't care. Especially when there's a mute button, it.
Kiki
Causes more of a conversation.
Nick Viall
It used to be like, oh, if you didn't want to see their content, you can just mute anyone.
Ariana Maddox
I think if I ever get famous, I'm just going to delete social media. Yeah, I just don't want to deal with that. I would rather. No peace.
Jalen Brown
I mean, I just see Selena Gomez in the way that she treats her. Her like, relationship with social media. And she treats it as if she's a normal person. Like, she doesn't care about being the celebrity that has a social media. She's always like, don't send me tips. Don't follow me. Don't send me this. Like, I'll deactivate if I want to. I won't post. I'll turn off my likes.
Ariana Maddox
Like, she loves to deactivate for a day, announce a deactivation for a day, which I think is really.
Jalen Brown
But she doesn't care about, like, the PR of who she's following. Like, she's never been that person. Did you guys see Teresa Giudice being interviewed and, like, leaving the interview?
Marisol Patton
I did, yes.
Jalen Brown
So embarrassing for the news anchor. Nick, did you see. See this?
Nick Viall
I did, but like, you guys told me that her. I mean, given that, if this was a question about why she went to prison, I think it's a crazy question. Like, she's already served her time, she's paid her dues. But like, you're telling. Isn't there speculation that she's once again not paying her taxes?
Jalen Brown
I mean, I don't think it's speculation.
Nick Viall
Fact, it's facts.
Jalen Brown
Well, I think it's like. Well, no, it's Louis. So, like, there's the people she's associated with. There have been like, liens or lawsuits filed and none of these have been concluded or anything.
Nick Viall
Well, I mean, she went to prison because she was married to someone not paying their taxes. And when you're married, you file joint like it's. You're kind of. It's kind of one in the same, not a tax expert. So, you know, definitely could be wrong. But like if, if it's her husband not paying her taxes, that's not much better than her not paying her taxes.
Marisol Patton
Well, in March of this year, people reported that Theresa and Louis were each issued tax liens totaling 3 million, with Teresa owing $303,889 and Louis owing nearly 2.6 million dol. Louis also has an open case for $163,523 from December 2024.
Jalen Brown
I just think it's an out of pocket question. And something I've learned from you, Nick, is that you have to respect the guests while they're sitting on the couch. So when I'm like when he ripped that question out of nowhere. And I would have left too.
Nick Viall
And then after blows my mind why they still will put their talent on, on these quote unquote news shows who like will pretend they have to be act like journalists and they have to ask the tough questions, so to speak.
Kiki
It also felt like this guy had no idea who she was. And he was just like reading a question that was there and he was like, wait, what did I. Did I see something wrong?
Jalen Brown
He was laughing about it. He was like, oh, she didn't like that question.
Marisol Patton
She didn't like that question. It's like that's not what she came on to talk about.
Jalen Brown
I think Teresa, I respect it. I would have ended it too. And I think it's funny that she didn't know how to end it. And she was there for two seconds.
Ariana Maddox
Hey, if her not paying her taxes made it so that the next chance and cash could come and make pizza and hang out on a trampoline. Are we really that mad?
Nick Viall
Yeah, I mean, I don't give a fuck, but I just think that's the one thing you shouldn't be doing is like not paying your taxes because like you're gonna.
Jalen Brown
There's also just a way to say it. Like the way he phrased the question was just like when you. When she was like, what family?
Nick Viall
Well, that's the thing. It's just like when they, you know, when Bravo puts their talent on these types of like local news, they. They all act like they're back better than these reality TV stars. Like the local news. Like people on local news act like they're like fucking rock stars. I mean, 20 years ago they used to be somebody's. Now they're nobodies because no one watches local news anymore. But like they still have, like, the ego of, like, local legends.
Jalen Brown
You're saying the news anchors.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah, like, I think there's something sweet about local news anchors.
Jalen Brown
I agree with Nick actually, though, I.
Nick Viall
Mean, I mean, I'm sure that's a ballsy question, but there is a lot, like Wichita, Kansas, Jack Johnson, you know, like, there's a lot of, like, legend.
Ariana Maddox
It's. There's like, a camp aspect to it that, like, always makes me laugh.
Nick Viall
Yeah. But a lot of them are assholes. And they're like, they're like the guy who, like, was cool in high school, who never left and, like, still thinks he's the rock star by going to the bars. Like, that's the attitude a lot of, like, local news anchors bring to their community. Not all.
Ariana Maddox
I agree. And I think it's very funny because what you're seeing in, like, me in, like, bigger news anchors is the same thing, but just even more inflated. So it's funny to see it on a smaller scale, but still, like, inflated. And it just really.
Jalen Brown
I also, I imagine that this didn't come from Bravo because they're not on air. And I feel like she probably just like one of her reps is like, oh, hop on this. Or she wanted to, like, say something and then homeboy hit her with the question.
Nick Viall
All right, well, let's start with Atlanta. I. How do you, if you're still married, do you have to pay? I'm a little confused. That's my big takeaway or question from this episode of Atlanta. I don't. Certainly not a legal expert in the court of, like, family court court. But I do not understand how if you're married, how you owe child support. Second follow up question is, with all the stories out there that you hear about, like, deadbeat, usually fathers not paying child support, how is it, like, is Georgia state law like that hardcore where they're actually throwing people in jail for not paying it? Because you hear a lot more stories about, like, just people just not paying what they owe. I was just kind of very confused by all that.
Marisol Patton
I mean, I feel like they've been going through this legal process for, like, three years now. So I think that that's part of it. I think they are separated but not fully divorced. So maybe that's why he's a. Because them being separated, maybe that's where the child support comes into it.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah, well, I mean, they had the divorce hearing, but it didn't get finalized and there had to be a continuance.
Marisol Patton
Yeah. And it says that she. They split in 20, 22 so can.
Nick Viall
Someone do a quick Google search?
Marisol Patton
Church child support is typically determined using an income share approach where both parents incomes are considered to calculate the support amount. The non custodial parent who has less than 50% of the parenting time usually pays support to the custodial parent. Georgia law also outlines procedures for reviewing and modifying child support orders as well as enforcing them through various legal means.
Jalen Brown
And I'm also reading so this is an article from last year when the original lawsuits were going on. And basically it says says that Kelly said despite his previous jail stint, her ex failed to pay his support for February, March, April, May and June in quotes. By his foregoing persistent and habitual refusal to abide and respect this court's order and other misconduct, Chavalo has persistently shown his utter disdain, disrespect and disregard to authority of his court. The court then orders Chavalo to be thrown in jail for contempt on January 12th. Kelly's lawyer says Chavalo must be held in contempt and incarcerated until he purges his himself of his contempt. She also demanded the legal fees presiding over divorce granted Kelly's motion and ordered Chavalo to be jailed until he paid the child support.
Marisol Patton
And then it does say criminal penalties. Failure to pay child support can lead to misdemeanor or felony charges, especially if a parent is attempting to avoid payment or has a history of non payment. So they do take that very seriously in Georgia.
Ariana Maddox
The more you know that's good.
Jalen Brown
I mean.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah. I don't know. The the Kelly versus Brit stuff was really what threw me for a loop.
Jalen Brown
The episode in general, the back and forth there.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah. I honestly forgot about the divorce pill pop and roommate.
Marisol Patton
I was like oh my Michael Jackson special.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah. Phaedra. I think Phaedra may have one of my favorite lines ever which is the pillage she offered me was just a little Advil pm. I didn't get the pro before Michael Jackson special.
Marisol Patton
Pedro and her one liners.
Jalen Brown
Thank you for Brit just takes the low road. I'm sorry like her bringing up abortions. That wasn't even a dig. That was just like huh.
Marisol Patton
And they even said somebody did say to her like where it's just like and you want the support with the Kenya stuff. And then it's like this is how you're behaving and it's like there's something things I think Cynthia said it. There's some things that you do not need to to pull out of your arsenal in an argument. And that was just disgusting and low.
Ariana Maddox
She I forget who said on Atlanta. But it was like when someone. When they go low, she just goes lower.
Marisol Patton
Yeah.
Ariana Maddox
And I was like, oh, my God.
Marisol Patton
You know, this is a second event that you're, like, doing this.
Ariana Maddox
I actively gasped. Yes.
Marisol Patton
And she's been your friend. She's been supporting you this entire time. Only one to have your back, defending you in rooms you're not in.
Ariana Maddox
And over glam, over glam, over glam.
Jalen Brown
Like, you kind of are trying to one up Kelly. And that's why Kelly was like, never mind.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Marisol Patton
I don't know. The whole thing was wild.
Ariana Maddox
I mean, Cynthia said on watch what happens live afterwards. And I think she said it best, which was just like, it's never a good idea to share glam.
Jalen Brown
No. No.
Ariana Maddox
I don't think it ever ends well.
Nick Viall
Don't.
Ariana Maddox
Do not share glam. If you're going on Housewives, take it.
Jalen Brown
And the whole Angela of it all.
Marisol Patton
The guy that's, like, paid to show.
Steve
Up at this event by a random name.
Jalen Brown
And I was like, we need more.
Marisol Patton
Your husband is going to got also, like, Charles Oakley.
Ariana Maddox
Charles Oakley. I love that man.
Marisol Patton
The most oblivious man. Like, he literally.
Ariana Maddox
He's just making his chicken and waffles, minding his own business.
Nick Viall
He's like, well, you walk around in the kitchen.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah.
Jalen Brown
No, he for sure knew what the person said. He was just like, I'm not paying a business.
Marisol Patton
But what did he say? He's like, I own a restaurant, and if you want to know what your husband's been getting up to, then you should call me and then make it weird.
Jalen Brown
He was just weird. Because then he went up to Angela. Angela was like, I want to have a word with you. And she's like, do I know you? And he's like, no. Well, then no.
Ariana Maddox
Cheers. If your name is Angela and your husband is cheating on you, like, what? And then for Angela to be like, her and Charles had people pay. Had someone pay the guy a visit. When they asked, she was like, it's not the mom.
Nick Viall
Are you a part of the.
Ariana Maddox
There are people who care about us.
Jalen Brown
She didn't pay the family. She just had these people that care about us and they went to go visit.
Marisol Patton
Yeah, it's giving kisses. The ring.
Jalen Brown
You have to clarify. And the guy was paid by someone to confront her. That's what it.
Nick Viall
Yes.
Ariana Maddox
So I want to know who this person is. I literally started Googling, but then got too locked in on the episode again. I was like, NBA players that has beef with Charles Oakley.
Jalen Brown
That's like, who could it be.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah, yeah.
Nick Viall
I mean, a lot of people had beef with Charles Oakley back in the day.
Ariana Maddox
Exactly. Michael Jordan literally wrote the foreword to his book, which I found out on Watch what happens Live. And I'm like, who's coming after this guy?
Marisol Patton
Charles Oakley and Charles Barkley don't like each other.
Ariana Maddox
Was it Barkley?
Marisol Patton
No, I'm just kidding. I'm just Googling. I was like, who. Who hates Charles Oakley?
Kiki
And the AI Is like, it just.
Nick Viall
So you know, I don't know. The owner of the Knicks hates Charles Oakley.
Ariana Maddox
Hey, it could have been the owner of the Knicks. Like, that's what I'm saying. And the amount that basketball is. Is intertwined with Housewives, we don't know.
Jalen Brown
I love Atlanta.
Ariana Maddox
I love Atlanta.
Jalen Brown
I love Atlanta. And, like, Drew being locked outside of the event and, like, sharing food with the security guard.
Marisol Patton
Not even, like, literally taking. Taking this man's lunch.
Jalen Brown
She took his food. I was like, oh, girl.
Ariana Maddox
She was 15 minutes late. I mean, Phaedra did say, like, do not come late, but.
Marisol Patton
And also, the shamewalk when they walked in, and she's like, for the late people come in and the show is over.
Jalen Brown
I tell Mary, you're either 10 minutes early or you're 30 minutes late. And Drew was 30 minutes late.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah, I do relate to Drew in.
Marisol Patton
That way, but she was just happy we're not talking about her. Like, yeah, she was like, I'll be locked down.
Ariana Maddox
Drew's like, you know what? I would love to not be in this bit business.
Marisol Patton
Yeah.
Phaedra Parks
Yeah.
Ariana Maddox
God, I'm. I'm so excited for the finale and for. I mean, it's. It's so annoying that Brit's not at the reunion.
Nick Viall
How many more episodes are there?
Jalen Brown
There's one more, and then there's reunion, but we don't know how many parts yet.
Marisol Patton
Oh, it's giving it three.
Ariana Maddox
It's got to be three.
Jalen Brown
Oh, I want.
Ariana Maddox
I like this season, but also, I'm so mad that Brit's not gonna be like.
Jalen Brown
I mean, you're mad that she's not gonna be there? For what reason?
Ariana Maddox
To get.
Jalen Brown
Get crucified by the cast?
Ariana Maddox
I mean.
Jalen Brown
Yeah, okay.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah, I kind of wanted to see. I wanted to see them say what needed to be said about her.
Nick Viall
Well, it's tough to have a whole season. Not a whole season, but a big chunk of the season being about one person's mess and then have that person not show up. Like, kind of like, what's the point of a reunion?
Ariana Maddox
Yeah, Like, Kelly needs to come with some lines.
Jalen Brown
For Brit and the Shamia. Portia of it all, too, because I'm like, Britt just threw Shamia under the bus saying that she was showing text messages from Portia. But, like, is that even true? Who knows?
Ariana Maddox
It's like you're trying to destroy a friendship that, like, just got rebuilt. Also, knowing what, like, Portia's going through in the moment, I will say Phaedra.
Jalen Brown
Did handle that well. When she's like, we're going to start the show and everybody's like, well, what about Portia? And she's like, she's not going to be here. I'll handle it after.
Marisol Patton
Let's continue.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah, that was really.
Jalen Brown
She's like, no drama. Yeah, we'll talk about it later.
Nick Viall
Segue into Miami. I was shocked to agree with Larsa. What?
Jalen Brown
Huh?
Marisol Patton
You got to say more.
Ariana Maddox
Explain, explain.
Nick Viall
If you are going to invoke your dying parents name as a way to garner sympathy, then you probably should, like, be by their side. You know what I'm saying? It's just kind of like, why aren't you with them? Like, why are you here? Like, it kind of like, you know, I get there's a lot of people out there who don't have relationships with parents and, you know, they're not very close. But, like, I don't know, like, if you're going to bring it up, be like, well, my. My dad's dying and you're supposed to treat me differently or give me sympathy as a result of a dying parent, then like, shouldn't you pee by their side? That was my thought. And then like, Larsa said it out loud, what I was thinking.
Marisol Patton
Well, I'm like, I agree with her son where I'm just kind of like, that's her business. And if she has like a paid thing that she's going to like, I'm like, I don't know. That's the choice that she wants to make.
Nick Viall
Brought it up.
Marisol Patton
Well, because she was saying she was going through a lot and, like, sharing her life and was like, listing off to Larsa, like, what? Like, where she's at.
Jalen Brown
I don't think she was using it as a, like, trump card. Yeah, that's how I saw it.
Ariana Maddox
She's just being vulnerable. Vulnerable.
Jalen Brown
I thought Larsa was more out of pocket for, like, every time that she walked up, she was pulling out the selfie light and intentionally trying to, like, honestly.
Marisol Patton
And I went back and I'm watching season one too, where I'm just kind of like, Larsa has been petty forever and the Marisol, Alexia, and Larsa of it all. It's like, Larsa can do no wrong. She's been attacking Lisa for the last two seasons over, like, not being a good enough friend or not being loyal. Where I'm like, thank God. Fabulous wanted to know, but I'm like, even this conversation, like, you're from New York. See, loyalty means a lot. Like, where it's like, no matter what, it's like always going to find a way to make sure that everyone sides with her. And I'm like, she never wants to hear anybody out. She always does talk down to people. And it's just like. And expects everybody to, like, kneel at her feet because she was friends with the Kardashian. Like, I just. I think she's so mean to her friends and people. Nobody checks Larson.
Jalen Brown
I will say in Larsa's defense, when they were in the sprinter van and Lisa, or not a sprinter van, but the car, and Lisa was like, apologizing to her so her son be like, sorry, your mother's not being a good example. I was like, that's a little. We didn't have to go there, but.
Nick Viall
It'S a little too much.
Ariana Maddox
But that is a bit much. Yeah, I agree.
Marisol Patton
But her son was like, just leave me the fuck out of this.
Nick Viall
Literally.
Jalen Brown
Well, I'm just like, Miami's going in on insinuating at least.
Marisol Patton
Yeah.
Jalen Brown
Insinu. Intimating the ac.
Ariana Maddox
Intimating.
Jalen Brown
Intimating there is AC being used and that Lisa's man, Jody. Jody is his name, right? Jody is partaking or not there.
Marisol Patton
Yes.
Jalen Brown
I didn't think we were going to dive that deep into it.
Ariana Maddox
And I may agree.
Jalen Brown
Well, and I love Lisa, but I was like, the AC and they spoke out and said it was all just like.
Nick Viall
I'm just like.
Marisol Patton
But a real stuff. Getting that, like, Lisa was married to Lenny, a successful plastic surgeon who was throwing like, these Star island parties. Like, And I'm like, are we. And we're. Are we pretending like we're not in Miami?
Ariana Maddox
Exactly.
Jalen Brown
Well, the cut. The cut to them showing the picture of him at the event. I was gagged. I was like, wait, what are we talking about?
Marisol Patton
First of all, no, we're going to make this the whole storyline for these. Which is unfortunate.
Jalen Brown
Yeah.
Marisol Patton
Because I'm like, if he's supporting her, but then at the same time, that whole fashion show thing where it's like she's stuck in this weird conversation doing her job with Larsa and then it's like, for him to like, text being like, I'm feeling left alone. So I just disappear like that. To me, giant red flag. I'm like, you're at her event, she's working. There's cameras here. Like, let's not pull this shit tonight.
Jalen Brown
She also looked hot.
Marisol Patton
She did. I thought she killed it on the horn.
Jalen Brown
And then who was the guy that they were both talking to? And then they both. Fabulous, Fabulous. And they both were like, he took my side.
Marisol Patton
Yeah.
Jalen Brown
It's like, okay. Nobody was listening to the conversation.
Ariana Maddox
I do love Miami.
Marisol Patton
Like, just don't be disrespectful. And then, like, we won't talk. We won't hang out with your ex. But nobody was hanging out with your ex. And I also think that that's kind of crazy where it's like, even fabulous. Agreed that I'm like, the boyfriend might be hanging out with your ex boyfriend. But like, Lisa's make it made it a point to not so I'm like, she can't control what he does. And for her to be like, yeah, well, if you put he's dick in your mouth, you should be controlling him.
Jalen Brown
And I'm like, larsa, Nobody's saying that. There's multiple people in the room using ac from what we've seen.
Marisol Patton
It's Miami.
Ariana Maddox
It's Miami. That's literally the town that Scarface was in.
Marisol Patton
The cartels, like, what are we talking about here? The yacht part. 1970 is like, it was like the coke drop spot.
Ariana Maddox
It's the foundation of the city.
Marisol Patton
That's why I don't go.
Ariana Maddox
It is the culture. It is the culture of the city.
Marisol Patton
That's why I'm scared of Miami.
Ariana Maddox
Okay.
Jalen Brown
I want to go to Mike. Miami.
Marisol Patton
There's too many people.
Ariana Maddox
Miami's a beautiful.
Kiki
You don't need to be scared.
Ariana Maddox
Miami's a beautiful place.
Nick Viall
It is very difficult to tell people's ages on Miami because they're all hot. Sure.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah.
Jalen Brown
Alexia's so hot. Every time I see her, I'm like.
Ariana Maddox
Oh, she's so hot.
Marisol Patton
Oh, my God. Alexia and Todd, the way that she thinks that leasing is fake. Fake owning is so funny.
Jalen Brown
Is that what it was?
Marisol Patton
Because her husband was super. Her last husband was super successful, super rich. So it's like always buying her cars and buying. But, like, they owned everything.
Jalen Brown
Todd's also rich, right?
Nick Viall
I mean, in a way, leasing is fake. It is.
Marisol Patton
But it's funny how she said renting.
Jalen Brown
She said, rent your car, rent your apartment.
Nick Viall
I was like, well, that's what Lisa.
Marisol Patton
He's in legal trouble.
Ariana Maddox
It's a long Term rental.
Nick Viall
Right.
Marisol Patton
The point being is that for her, she kept calling it this, like, fake thing because she's so used to everything being owned.
Jalen Brown
Did she say leasing?
Marisol Patton
Calling it leasing or renting, she's like, you fake owning. Fake owned car, fake bot.
Jalen Brown
She said rent. I think she was saying renting because in my head, I was like, oh.
Nick Viall
Either way, it's just another name for the. The same thing.
Steve
Yeah.
Kiki
Leasing and renting are the same. No.
Nick Viall
And fake owning, in a way, Was.
Ariana Maddox
It Alexia that was like, narc is a narcissist.
Jalen Brown
Oh, yes. Okay, wait, Nick. Define narc.
Nick Viall
Well, I would say it's someone who, like, tattletales, like, goes behind your back, you know?
Kiki
Yeah, I'm not a narcissist.
Jalen Brown
And she goes, a narc. A narc. And then it's a narcissist. And I was like that.
Nick Viall
The way people on reality TV accuse other people of being narcissists. This is hilarious.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah, well, that's the beauty of the show.
Marisol Patton
The best is that she has this dinner for her friend, and she's like, these two did not get an invite because I don't want anybody making this about them. This is all about Johnny or whoever. And then it was all about Alexia.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah.
Jalen Brown
I loved it, though.
Ariana Maddox
I could watch Hours of Alexia.
Jalen Brown
I love that Julia was there.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah, I know. I love Julia. I'm everywhere.
Jalen Brown
I'm so Julia, was Gertie at that dinner?
Marisol Patton
No, Gertie wasn't invited to say she wasn't.
Jalen Brown
Yeah, that's true.
Marisol Patton
And she's got the issue in. And the. Gertie. Julia. I'm a little. Just, like. I feel like we're kind of forcing a storyline here.
Jalen Brown
You know, I did think about that, because they've always been really good friends. And, like, hearing what they say happened, I'm like, is it that big of a deal? Which maybe it was, but I almost.
Marisol Patton
Kind of feel like nobody has a right to be upset about this because it's a adoption announcement.
Victoria Fuller
Right.
Steve
It's just.
Jalen Brown
And then also, Gertie was also going through a lot, so I'm like, is it a tip for tat, or is it just, like, let's just secure another season for each other to, like. And it's giving.
Marisol Patton
But I'm also, like, confused as to why Julia wouldn't just call Gertie after the call, to the point where I'm like, hey, I'm adopting kids. Like, where it's like, to me, that's the weird way to go about it, being like, you'll find out when it comes out. And then being mad that she just said congrats. But it's like, I thought we were closer than that.
Jalen Brown
She doesn't know what she's saying. Congrats to.
Marisol Patton
For me to find out that you adopted babies finally and like, got what you wanted. And then it's like, I'm not sharing in a part of that because I couldn't get into a zoom link.
Jalen Brown
I had this thought. I literally had this thought where I was like, is this planned?
Marisol Patton
Yeah.
Victoria Fuller
Yeah.
Nick Viall
Who is your guys favorite on Miami?
Jalen Brown
All of them.
Marisol Patton
Marisol.
Kiki
Marisol feels like the voice of Reeves in a way.
Jalen Brown
Kiki, though. Kiki I've always loved.
Ariana Maddox
Kiki's really great.
Marisol Patton
Kiki is the one liners. But Marisol is just consistently like, saying what we're all thinking.
Ariana Maddox
What is it? Just because it's good for the whole doesn't mean it's good for the soul.
Jalen Brown
Nick needs to watch Ultimate Girls Trip season three because Marisol and Alexia, they ate.
Ariana Maddox
Oh, my God. Her and her, like, screwdrivers.
Nick Viall
How many Ultimate Girls trips are there?
Steve
3.
Jalen Brown
Technically 4, because legacy ended up.
Nick Viall
Justin, you're still obsessed with that.
Marisol Patton
He said, don't discredit my girlfriend.
Jalen Brown
I love Ultimate Girls trip. No, but there's one season. Morocco. I saw this theory. So the Morocco season didn't happen. If you've noticed. All of these women are being sprinkled back into their franchises. So there's a theory that they were like, we didn't. We're not airing this season, so we have to like, owe them something. Okay, so everybody but Alex, who's now living in Australia from Roni, has like. And Eva technically has been put back on their franchise as, like, appearances. Does it make sense? Like, Phaedra is back, Vicky's back, and Brandy, I guess because she's not coming back.
Ariana Maddox
Justin sold Thailand to me as like a continuation of Salt Lake City when I was going on my Salt LA City journey. And it is. But it. It also like, really just opens you up to a whole new world.
Jalen Brown
Well, and everybody that's like, what housewives should I watch? I'm like, just watch season three and decide from there who you like.
Nick Viall
Yeah.
Ariana Maddox
Because what you get Portia, you get Candace calling.
Jalen Brown
Giselle Green.
Ariana Maddox
Giselle, yeah. Heather Whitney stealing the bottles at the event.
Marisol Patton
She didn't talk.
Jalen Brown
That's what I'm saying though. But everybody's being sprinkled back in. So someone pointed that Gretchen's back.
Marisol Patton
So it's like, interesting.
Jalen Brown
It's good theory.
Kiki
They did just release the trailer for the Mormon Wives reunion?
Jalen Brown
They did, like, literally 30 minutes ago.
Kiki
Do you want to see it?
Marisol Patton
I do.
Jalen Brown
Someone say breaking news.
Marisol Patton
Breaking news.
Nick Viall
Breaking news.
Kiki
I didn't know where you were going with that.
Marisol Patton
It worked.
Jalen Brown
The Mormonwise trailer has dropped and Mikayla's in the first two seconds.
Marisol Patton
Oh, are you guys in an LDS church?
Jalen Brown
I wish.
Kiki
Yeah. Where are you guys?
Marisol Patton
That's stunning. These chandeliers.
Nick Viall
According to all the. All the women. Apparently it's like a part of the church where most people aren't supposed to know what it looks like or something, so.
Marisol Patton
Oh, my God.
Nick Viall
Production, really?
Kiki
They didn't do like a dress code or anything, right? Like, there's no, like, dress.
Jalen Brown
I mean, they're wearing the same color palettes.
Kiki
Are they?
Marisol Patton
No, I think I feel like.
Nick Viall
No. No, I don't. I mean, it doesn't look like there is.
Jalen Brown
Didn't you have a dress code, Nick?
Nick Viall
Yeah, I had to change. Why? It was a color palette because my stylist picked out, like, well, I. They gave me like some selects and then I picked out this kind of like sage green suit. It was. It was really cool. But like, it. It was like too light tone for the set, so they wanted me to wear something darker.
Jalen Brown
So reunion 101 is. There's a color palette usually, yeah.
Kiki
But this doesn't look like there's a color.
Jalen Brown
It does look besides Whitney's in blue, everybody but Miranda. But they're all the same.
Kiki
Like, otherwise.
Jalen Brown
These are spring colors, though, you know.
Marisol Patton
I'm just saying, Whitney, she sticks out like a sore thumb. If there was a color.
Nick Viall
No, I don't. I do not believe there was a coordinated color color theme. Yeah.
Jalen Brown
Guys, my sister is moving to Utah and I've never been more excited. She told me the other day and she. She said it as if it was going to be like this jaw dropping news.
Nick Viall
What part of Utah?
Jalen Brown
No clue. But I was like, is it near Park City? And she said, no, I don't know. But I was like, utah's enough for me.
Marisol Patton
I'm going to Swig, baby.
Kiki
I need to go to Swig Nick. It looks really good. I'm really excited to watch it.
Nick Viall
Yay.
Ariana Maddox
Congrats.
Nick Viall
I think it's going to be great. Yeah.
Kiki
I mean, you know, know.
Ariana Maddox
Yeah.
Kiki
You were there.
Ariana Maddox
You famously were there.
Marisol Patton
Is it one, like, whole reunion or is there multiple parts?
Nick Viall
It's just one lengthy reunion.
Kiki
Yay.
Jalen Brown
Did you hand anybody tissues?
Marisol Patton
Yeah. Did anyone cry? Have you seen tears?
Nick Viall
Definitely tears. I think I was in black eyes.
Ariana Maddox
Black eyes storming out.
Kiki
Oh, yeah. Did anyone storm off?
Nick Viall
Cannot say.
Victoria Fuller
Cannot say.
Nick Viall
Cannot wait.
Kiki
It looks so good, though.
Nick Viall
I think. I think the audience will laugh and I think the audience. Audience will cry.
Ariana Maddox
That's beautiful. I love doing both of those things.
Nick Viall
There will be receipts. There'll be people exposed. There'll be. My job is on the floor. That's for sure.
Marisol Patton
I'm so excited they included that little clip of Demi walking in a denim suit.
Nick Viall
Is that, like I said, in a way, Demi is a part of the reunion. Very much so.
Marisol Patton
Cannot wait.
Ariana Maddox
Wow. I can't wait to find out what that means.
Marisol Patton
And I want to see the receipt.
Ariana Maddox
The proof, the timelines, the screenshots.
Nick Viall
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Nick Viall
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Victoria Fuller
I don't really have much in my purse. Oh, let's see. Hand sanitizer. It's lavender.
Nick Viall
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Victoria Fuller
Let me check this pocket. Oh, mints.
Nick Viall
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The Viall Files: Episode E956 - Love Island USA w/ Jalen and Victoria Fuller, RHOA, RHOM, and Tom Sandoval on AGT
Release Date: June 24, 2025
Host: Nick Viall
Guests: Victoria Fuller, Jalen Brown
In this engaging episode of The Viall Files, host Nick Viall dives deep into the latest happenings on Love Island USA, accompanied by insights from special guests Victoria Fuller and Jalen Brown. The discussion also touches upon notable events in the Real Housewives franchises and Tom Sandoval's recent appearance on America's Got Talent (AGT).
Victoria Fuller rejoined the show to provide her perspective on the current dynamics within the Villa. The conversation begins with a breakdown of recent eliminations and notable moments that have stirred audience reactions.
Megan Thee Stallion's Appearance:
The episode highlighted Megan Thee Stallion's participation, sparking a surge of twerking and lively interactions on the show. Victoria shared,
“That was crazy. It was so good. It was really, really bad.” ([07:08])
Austin's Twerking Challenge:
A memorable moment was Austin's unconventional twerking during a challenge, which became a talking point among the group.
“I think he's too good at reality TV, you know? It just seems like he's not getting this authentic reaction.” ([67:24])
Jeremiah's Elimination:
The sudden removal of Jeremiah from the Villa left many confused. Victoria speculated,
“I wouldn’t have sent Jeremiah home, but you got to make a decision at the end of the day.” ([48:21])
Ace's Influence:
Ace was a focal point of debate, with discussions revolving around his role as a potential ringleader and his interactions with other cast members.
“Ace is the ringleader.” ([23:15])
Steve and the rest of the household expressed frustration over the lack of transparency in the elimination process, emphasizing the need for more insider information to understand the producers' decisions.
Victoria delved into her personal experiences and observations from her time on Love Island:
Social Media Detox:
Victoria shared her brief hiatus from social media, attributing it to a lack of active engagements:
“Actually, I haven't posted on social media in six days because I don't.” ([03:53])
Personal Relationships and Dynamics:
She discussed her connections with fellow contestants and provided insights into the emotional complexities within the Villa.
“I would say, oh, my God, this is crazy.” ([03:15])
Future Predictions:
Victoria offered her take on upcoming events like Casa Amor, predicting emotional upheavals and shifts in relationships.
“It's gonna be chaos and mess.” ([58:54])
Her candid reflections provided listeners with a nuanced understanding of the behind-the-scenes intricacies of reality TV relationships.
Jalen Brown, beloved by fans from his stint on Love Island USA, joined the podcast to discuss his rapid rise in internet popularity and future endeavors.
Post-Show Fame:
Jalen expressed his astonishment at gaining over a million followers in a short span:
“I never had a TikTok. I just made a TikTok and I was like, I'm at 800... I was like, I'm at a million.” ([45:36])
Content Creation Ambitions:
Transitioning from a trucker to a content creator, Jalen shared his plans:
“I want to make more TikToks. I want to get involved with my supporters more.” ([55:00])
Connections in the Villa:
Discussing his relationship with Alandria and Sierra, Jalen provided his perspective on the strong bonds formed and how they might evolve:
“I feel like Nick and Sierra relationship was strong.” ([52:23])
Casa Amor Insights:
Jalen predicted that both men and women would face challenges during the Casa Amor phase, anticipating broken relationships and intensified competition:
“It's gonna be both. It's gonna get ugly for both.” ([58:57])
His insights shed light on the emotional and strategic maneuvers contestants might undertake in upcoming episodes.
The podcast segment expanded to cover developments in the Real Housewives franchises:
Tom Sandoval on AGT:
Tom Sandoval's performance on America's Got Talent became a hot topic. The household discussed his positive reception despite initial skepticism:
“It was like, very positive. Like, it was that classic Simon Cowell looking like, what the fuck am I watching?” ([77:54])
Social Media Dynamics:
The conversation touched upon Larsa Pippen's online interactions and her recent actions, sparking debates about authenticity and public perception.
Season Predictions:
Predictions were made regarding future episodes, especially focusing on the dynamics introduced by new Casa Amor contestants and their impact on existing relationships.
On Instagram and Social Media:
Victoria commented on the pressures of maintaining an active social media presence:
“Feel like you're past the point of pretending that you have something going on in social media.” ([04:01])
On Relationship Dynamics:
Discussing the impact of intimacy on relationships, Victoria shared:
“Guys don't feel the love. They fall in love through the struggles and accomplishing goals together.” ([17:52])
On Eliminations:
Frustration was voiced over the lack of clarity in elimination reasons:
“The way they moved and it's like, what the fuck is that supposed to mean?” ([22:35])
On Future Episodes:
Anticipation for Casa Amor:
“It’s gonna be chaos and mess.” ([58:54])
As the episode wrapped up, Nick Viall and his household shared their final thoughts:
Frustration with Lack of Transparency:
The group emphasized the need for more openness from producers regarding key decisions.
“If you're gonna make the cast, vote someone off, and, like, get together and, like, not do these independent conversations, I want to see those conversations.” ([35:32])
Anticipation for Casa Amor:
Predictions and excitement were shared about the upcoming challenges and potential drama in Casa Amor.
“It's gonna get ugly for both.” ([58:57])
Final Guest Impressions:
Victoria Fuller and Jalen Brown were praised for their candidness and insightful contributions to the discussion.
Listeners are left eagerly awaiting the next episodes, especially as Casa Amor unfolds, promising heightened emotions and intensified relationships.
Following the in-depth discussions, the household briefly touched upon some general headlines:
Tom Sandoval's AGT Performance:
Positive reception despite initial doubts, with discussions on whether his appearance was a strategic move.
Real Housewives Developments:
Updates on interpersonal dynamics and upcoming storylines within the Real Housewives of Miami and Atlanta.
Episode E956 of The Viall Files offered a comprehensive and spirited analysis of the latest Love Island USA episodes, enriched by firsthand experiences from Victoria Fuller and Jalen Brown. Coupled with insights into other reality TV phenomena, the episode provided listeners with a multifaceted understanding of the ever-evolving landscape of reality television and relationships.
Stay tuned for the next episode where the household will delve deeper into Casa Amor, join special guests, and continue unraveling the latest in dating, relationships, and pop culture!