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The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

Spoiler Alert! After the Final Rose with Rachel Recchia and Joan Vassos

The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Society & Culture, News, Tv & Film, Entertainment News

3.814K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The first Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos and former Bachelorette Rachel Recchia are fresh from After the Final Rose and they're taking over the pod with SPOILERS! 

Rachel and Joan share an inside look at how things ended up for Mel. We get into his “proposal” (if you want to call it that) and how it felt to watch a romantic moment with almost no emotion. 

Plus, find out what happened when Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist both showed up to After the Final Rose!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.6

This is the Almost Famous Podcast with IHart Radio.

0:09.2

It's Bachelor Nation, Joan Bassos, and Rachel Akeha, jumping in to take over for the

0:14.5

Almost Famous podcast.

0:16.2

We just got back from the Golden Bachelor finale and after the final rostaping, and we're

0:20.6

going to talk

0:21.3

all about it. So consider this, your spoiler alert. If you haven't watched the finale yet, because

0:27.1

we are about to cover it all. Okay, Rachel, we have so much to talk about. So me and Joan drove

0:33.6

together on the way here and I was like, okay, let's just like make sure we're on the same page.

0:38.8

Joan has so many good points. And I was so excited for everyone to hear her point of view because I

0:44.1

feel like you have such a unique perspective being the only golden bachelorette. And in my

0:51.0

opinion, maybe ever. Well, we don't know about that.

0:54.4

We don't know.

0:55.3

But no, but I feel like we have a lot of the same opinions.

0:59.0

You've been through this journey also.

1:01.4

I don't think it's all that different coming from a different age.

1:05.6

So, but I really want to talk about, like, how this started out as a cliffhanger.

1:09.2

So we have all now waited a week

1:11.0

to find out what's going to happen with Cindy. And Cindy, I feel like, okay, first of all,

1:16.2

let's guess, did you, who did you think was going to win? Well, I feel like the way

1:21.7

they made it seem, we would think that it's Cindy because she is, like you said so many times

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