Grief, Grit & Game: Jemmye Carroll Tells All

Barely Famous

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Talk Radio, Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Kail sits down with Jemmye Carroll from The Real World & The Challenge for the reality-TV convo we’ve waited years to make happen. They get real about how early fame shaped their lives, grief, and why Jemmye chose to keep her relationships offline. Jemmye breaks down Challenge casting, why she walked away, and which shows she would do next . Kail and Jemmye compare Teen Mom vs. Challenge pressures, talk exit strategies and money, and play “Iconic or Ick” - going through pop culture phenomenons, social media trends and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the shit show.
0:02.9	Things are going to get weird.
0:04.0	Get weird.
0:04.5	It's your fave villain, Kail Lowry.
0:06.4	And you're listening to Barely Famous.
0:23.7	Happy Friday fuckers.
0:25.1	Welcome back to Barely Famous Podcast.
0:26.0	I'm sitting with Jemmy.
0:28.4	And this is a long time in the making.
0:29.3	Cheers.
0:30.5	Welcome to Barely Famous.
0:31.2	Thank you.
0:32.4	I'm so happy to have you.
0:34.5	So you've been on TV for over a decade.
0:40.4	You started on Real World. Yep. And- Back to New Orleans. You're from New Orleans?
0:46.4	grew up in North Mississippi, so it wasn't far. And do you feel like being on TV for as long as you have? Because we were on TV for roughly the same amount of time has shaped you into who you are today.
0:51.1	Absolutely. It literally, I was just talking about this the other day on TikTok.
0:55.3	Like, when night passed, who was on the real world with me, that his passing changed my
1:01.3	trajectory online because of what I experienced so early and so soon at 22 years old and
1:07.6	now sitting here at 37.
1:09.8	Decisions then have shaped my life up until now.
1:13.0	How did you get on the real world?
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