Infamous: Luke Parker
The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
3.8 • 14K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Ashley are braving the thorns to explore some of the Bachelor Nation icons that gave new meaning to the word “villain”. But in this deep dive, they explore...was Luke Parker the villain of Hannah Brown's season, or was he simply misunderstood? You be the judge!
Luke gets real about how he handled the social media hate and backlash from fans, while looking back on how his actions led to one of the hardest challenges he’s ever faced.
Plus, was there more to the conversation he had with Hannah about the Fantasy Suite???
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | Over the years of making my true crime podcast, Helen Gone, I've learned no town is too small for murder. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Catherine Townsend. |
| 0:11.9 | I've heard from hundreds of people across the country with an unsolved murder in their community. |
| 0:16.7 | I was calling about the murder of my husband. |
| 0:19.4 | The murder is still out there. |
| 0:21.2 | Each week, I investigate a new case. |
| 0:23.4 | If there is a case we should hear about, call 678-744-614-6-1-45. |
| 0:29.0 | Listen to Hell and Gone Murder Line on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:34.5 | I'm Jeff Perlman. |
| 0:35.4 | And I'm Rick Jervis. |
| 0:36.2 | We're journalists and hosts of the podcast |
| 0:38.2 | Finding Sexy Sweat. At an internship in 1993, we roomed with Reggie Payne, aspiring reporter and |
| 0:43.5 | rapper who went by Sexy Sweat. A couple years ago, we set out to find him. But in 2020, |
| 0:48.9 | Reggie fell into a coma after police pinned him down, and he never woke up. |
| 0:52.4 | But then I see, my son's not moving. |
| 0:54.6 | So we started digging and uncovered city officials bent on protecting their own. |
| 0:58.8 | Listen to finding sexy sweat on the I-heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 1:03.2 | podcast. |
| 1:04.8 | I always had to be so good, no one could ignore me. |
| 1:08.5 | Carve my path with data and drive. |
| 1:11.2 | But some people only see who I am on paper. |
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