Swapping Gum...and Secrets with Bailey Taylor and Jeremy Simon
The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
3.8 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy and Bailey are sitting down with Ben to swap more than just gum! Did Jeremy even want to come to the reunion? Ben is getting to the bottom of this!
Does the couple think their love story was accurately shown on Paradise?
They open up about the situation with Susie and how they feel looking at it in hindsight. And Jeremy clears it up - did he actually hate the goldens?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | This is the Ben and Ashley I, |
| 0:06.5 | Almost Famous Podcast with Iheart Radio. |
| 0:10.2 | It's almost famous podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | We're here still. |
| 0:13.0 | It's a very exciting time. |
| 0:15.2 | We got to sit in on the reunion. |
| 0:18.2 | It was hosted by Wells Adams, |
| 0:23.4 | had some of our favorites from Bachelor in Paradise. |
| 0:30.2 | One of our favorites are with us right now, Jeremy and Bailey. Are we your favorites? Oh, |
| 0:35.9 | are we? You talk some shit. No, we're going to get to that. We're going to get to that because I think you got very upset about something. Well, let's just start there. Yeah. On our podcast, we did. We made fun of you two for swapping gum. Oh, I don't even get pissed about that. What was it then? I don't listen to a lot of podcasts, but I get sent clips in you guys and to see you just talking on us the whole time. No way. Yeah. I have no idea. I would love. I would love. I'll DM you the clips. I'm all good. We never met in person, so it's fair. Now that you've met us, now you can love me. Well, that was not my idea. Yeah, Bailey, I love you. Jeremy. We're just going to keep... The gum swapping, let me say. |
| 1:11.4 | I feel like it wasn't that... |
| 1:12.8 | I did get that clip. |
| 1:13.9 | I didn't think that the gum swapping... Why do people think that's gross? I didn't think it was that gross. Also, like... We're not allowed to have... Are you married? I'm married. Yes. I wouldn't do it with her. Okay, listen, we're not allowed to have gum. |
| 1:25.6 | Like, you're not supposed to have gum when you're filming. |
| 1:27.6 | And so the reason we would just swap it is because we're just like, you know, it's a ration. Like your rash. Because she's freaky. I was like, we're rationing gum. People don't understand we're in a war right now. We're living through war. Paradise season 10. Here's how I want to view the gum swapping. This was never meant to be a hit or an attack on you two. I think it's in one of those gray areas that some might say that's not gross. And you could look at me and say, that's crazy that you would not swap gum with your wife. Which you would be entitled to say that. And I could think about that and be like, yeah, that is actually kind of weird that I wouldn't swap gum with your wife. Right. Which you would be entitled to say that and I could think about that and be like, yeah, that is actually kind of weird that I wouldn't swap gum with my wife. However, I think there's another side that would say, that is very weird. Like that is, that is as freaky as you can get. No, it did. Bacteria. Yeah. Food from the day. Okay, to be fair, we would never like eat. |
| 2:20.2 | Let's talk about it. |
| 2:21.5 | We would never like eat food and then choose the gum. |
| 2:24.6 | It's kind of just like you have a moment where you're like, I would love a piece of gum right now. |
| 2:29.3 | Maybe I want free choose. |
| 2:30.6 | Well, when you are in paradise, you do resort to crazy behavior. You're in tough times. You're rationing. You're trying to survive. I think it is a polarizing moment because the show showed it. And so I think they wanted a reaction. Like, they wouldn't have showed that. I don't think we were fine with it, but we're like out of everything. Sure. I was like, can we get a conversation of us talking about our future? They were like, no. No. The gum is sitting. I love it. Jeremy, I do want you to send the clips because I did not come into this expecting. You have a job. I do have a job. We've had this job for many years. |
| 3:25.4 | And I came into this interview, excited to talk to you. But I do want to ask... I'm excited. I'm here for a reason, yeah. Jeremy, you didn't necessarily... From the viewers and the listeners that wrote us in, you didn't necessarily know if you wanted to come to this reunion. I think you put a poll online. And it shows here asking if you should come or not. |
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