Some Golden Bachelorette viewers were turned off by Pascal Ibgui’s behavior on the show. His daughter took up in his defense. Keep reading to find out what she had to say about her dad.
Golden Bachelorette Pascal Ibgui Upsets Viewers
Joan Vassos and Golden Bachelorette viewers were impressed when they first met Pascal Ibgui. The Paris, France, native, 69, exuded confidence and swagger. But viewers quickly picked up on some red flags and high maintenance behavior. He paid one of his housemates $100 to do his laundry for him. Pascal also seemed to enjoy showing off his clothes and lavish lifestyle.
He recently spoke out about fan backlash for his wealth. He told Glamour magazine that he worked hard for what he has.
His Daughter Defends His Behavior
Golden Bachelorette viewers met Pascal’s family during his Hometown Date in Chicago with Joan. Fans swooned over his son, Maxim, who looks exactly like his dad. Pascal also has two daughters, Sara and Natalie. Natalie has been outspoken on social media about her dad being on the reality show.
She jokingly reacted in horror to her dad taking part in the Chippendale stripper group date. But only his daughter is allowed to nitpick at her dad! Natalie took to social media to respond to allegations from Golden Bachelorette viewers that her father is a diva.
“Number 1. My dad is very open about being high maintenance. I know everyone’s like ‘Oh, he’s such a diva.’ He is a bit of a diva. You have to remember that this is reality TV. They want to make the show entertaining. That’s what the show is, it’s for entertainment.” she explained in a video posted on social media.
Pascal’s daughter added, “Yes, he is very high maintenance in a lot of ways. but what people don’t see is that he works so hard to be able to have all those things and to be able to have someone who does his laundry and to be able to have nice cars and have nice clothes.”
What’s Next For Pascal?
Pascal Ibgui was one of the three suitors who accompanied Joan Vassos to Tahiti for the Fantasy Suite dates. However, before the overnight date could happen, Pascal made a shocking confession that he wasn’t in love. He decided to leave the competition because he wasn’t ready for an engagement or a relationship.
But viewers could always see him on Golden Bachelor In Paradise if the network decides to go ahead with the spinoff. Meanwhile, viewers can check out Pascal’s salon in Chicago.
Do you think he was a diva on the Golden Bachelorette? Sound off in the comments.
Jennifer Havener grew up in a small town in Upstate New York. She earned her B.A in Writing & Literature from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She always knew watching reality TV shows and soap operas, particularly ‘Days of Our Lives’, would come in handy someday. When she’s not writing, she’s playing with her dogs, Lola and Ruger
On the track, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has always kept a stoic demeanor. Sure, we see her smile. But for the most part, the Olympian has always maintained a determined yet serious persona whenever we see her. That’s precisely what most fans saw when she returned to the world’s biggest stage as a defending champion for the 400m hurdles and the 4x400m relay. This makes many wonder, is the 25-year-old always like this?
Well, we’re here to tell you that the hurdler has quite a goofy side off the tracks. Many of us saw a glimpse of this at Thursday Night Football. The New York Giants locked heads with the Dallas Cowboys on September 26. And New Jersey native McLaughlin-Levrone was spotted on the sidelines. However, the Cowboys beat the Giants 20-15. But the real icing on the cake was a moment between the Olympian and Prime Video reporter Taylor Rooks.
The reporter approached Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and asked if she could touch her gold medal. The Olympian looks for the Olympic medal in her purse and hands it over. However, what she said next caught the reporter by surprise. “Of course. But I have another one.” Rooks shared the interaction on X along with pictures of the two of them from the sidelines. In one of them, she’s holding one of the 25-year-old’s medals, too. She captioned the post, “One of the biggest flexes ever 😭”
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Is Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s latest behavior a sign of pressure or confidence? React!
The hurdler stepped onto the purple tracks at Stade de France to seize the title of Olympic champion for the next 4 years in the 400m hurdles. While fans expected her to defend her title, she did that and more! The 25-year-old scorched the tracks in a world record-breaking time of 50.37 seconds. Not only did she win her second Olympic gold in the event, but McLaughlin-Levrone is also the only woman to have achieved this feat. In fact, she even shattered her own world record for the 6th time in her career.
However, the Olympian returned to the track for yet another shot at an Olympic gold. Only this time, it was in the women’s 4x400m relay. Her incredible split of 47.71 seconds gave Team USA a comfortable lead. The quartet of herself, Gabby Thomas, Shamier Little, and Alexis Holmes set a new American record with 3:15:27 seconds on the clock. But while her unusual side shocked many, this wouldn’t be the first time the 25-year-old had let loose.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone lets fans in on her playful side
In the latest Ready Set Go podcast episode, Justin Gatlin and Rodney Green spoke to their guest, Tiara Williams, also known as Real Talk with Tee. While discussing her Paris Olympics memories, the conversation soon deviated to McLaughlin-Levrone. However, the track and field legend was beyond excited to discussher fun interactions with the Olympian.
Gatlin reiterated how Williams has a way of bringing out Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. He even reiterated, “I love your interaction with Sydney because I feel like no one brings out a side of Sydney like you bring out and I be sitting like, what is going on here? You got Sydney over here dancing. What’s going on there?” The interview he’s talking about is from the U.S. Olympic Trials in July.
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Paris 2024 Olympics – Athletics – Women’s 400m Hurdles Final – Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France – August 08, 2024. Gold medallist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of United States celebrates after winning and setting a new world record. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel
Tiara Williams was gracious enough to share the secret behind this interaction. “You know, I think it’s just a level of trust.”
In fact, after congratulating the 4x Olympic gold medalist on her qualification, Williams asked the hurdler if there was anything fans should look forward to before the Paris Olympics. Without missing a beat, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone mentioned that she’d lost both her toenails.
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“So, you won’t see me with my shoes off for like a year!” she added.
However, they had a mini dance party when the hurdler mentioned her birthday would be right before the finals. Even though these light-hearted moments aren’t as common, we appreciate seeing how goofy the 25-year-old is. What do you think about her hilarious interaction with Taylor Rooks?
Welcome to our annual Labor Day weekend brunch buffet. And don’t forget to stop by our three-cheese omelet station. …
What do you suppose has driven the escalation of “social” media putdowns, threats and unfettered hatred that has been aimed at pro tennis players?What do you suppose has driven the escalation of “social” media putdowns, threats and unfettered hatred that has been aimed at pro tennis players?
Well, is it logical to note that the hatred has coincided with the rise in legal gambling on sports? All sports have reported increased incivilities from “fans” as per their lack of success through the growth and promotion of gambling. Why should tennis be different from golf, basketball and football?
Fans pack Arthur Ashe Stadium for the U.S. Open. REUTERS
Tennis is the easiest sport to fix, as all one needs is one person — himself or herself — plus, perhaps, one other to place the bets.
Regardless, easily outraged nuts will always be among us, but digital instant messaging plus legalized wagering from which the sports financially benefit help unscrew the nuts from their bolts.
Speaking of legalized sports gambling, Bob Costas, calling Thursday night’s Braves-Phillies on MLB Network, continues to refuse to narrate any gambling come-ons, in game or between half innings. He insists that someone else handle that, often in a remote or recorded insert.
He’s the opposite of “Everyone Loves” Charles Barkley, an admitted big-problems gambler who compiled staggering casino debt, yet still took the cash to star in commercials encouraging young male adult suckers to gamble. What a guy!
A fan places a bet that New Jersey’s Ocean Casino. APDavid Banks-USA TODAY Sports
Apparently there was at least a modicum of internal shame within the Mets following that Camp Day afternoon disgrace when the Mets honored a young, TikTok oral sex “advisor” by having her throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
Reader and Mets’ fan Henry Conte contacted team owner Steve Cohen to express his dismay. Cohen responded:
“Henry — I’m sorry you feel that way. I’ve taken the appropriate remedial actions to ensure that this situation doesn’t occur again.
Viral internet personality Haliey Welch throws the ceremonial first pitch of a game between the New York Mets and the Oakland Athletics at Citi Field on August 15, 2024. Getty Images
“Poor judgment was exercised here and I’m as upset as you are. Thanks for the feedback. Best, Steve.”
Not bad. No attempt to excuse the inexcusable. Though a fully public, unsolicited apology would have closed the case.
Regardless, it sure beat Rob Manfred’s usual Sgt. Schultz act.
Stephen A. can’t keep Yanks’ lineup order in order
OK, so now after Stephen A. Smith’s latest self-revealment as an $18 million per (plus commercial endorsements) fake — last week’s blowhard, expert on-air assertion that “Bro” Aaron Judge benefits from batting behind Juan Soto when the reverse has been in place all season — was further proof that ESPN’s center stage voice, face and presence has a credibility rating of zero.
Smith offers nothing better than his transparent bad-guess “facts,” his race hustles and ignorance of the sports he addresses from his self-constructed and ESPN-secured mountaintop throne.
And it’s totally inconceivable that ESPN can any longer play stupid to Smith’s fakery. It’s certainly not as if ESPN viewers and subscribers weren’t years ago unaware of Smith’s bogus presence as ESPN execs increased his pay and presence.
Stephen A. Smith Getty Images
So what does ESPN, this time, do about it? The track record guess is nothing. ESPN’s double standard is granitized. Then wait until next time — it’s due sooner than later — for Smith to make more perverse comedy of himself and ESPN — then do nothing, again.
If college players are academically deficient, why shouldn’t their schools’ partner networks?
Near the top of Fox’s North Carolina-Minnesota on Thursday, a large graphic appeared suggesting that a key to the game was for UNC to “Play Complimentary Football.”
Reader Ken Mortenson: “Apparently victory for UNC is based on saying only nice things to the Gophers during the game.”
We’ll take a wild guess here: Fox meant “Complementary” and not “Complimentary.”
For all the boring, repeatedly empty, expensive and unentertaining national TV MLB pregame shows, has it struck any production exec that a return to some form of “This Week in Baseball” might actually both attract and hold an audience?
What baseball fan ever turned off TWIB? So why not produce one from a network’s studios?
Of course, if such a show were resurrected, the producers might stuff it with bat-flips and all forms of me-dancing.
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Maybe the college can no longer afford a janitorial staff or to heat the dorms, but there’s always plenty of money for sports.
Thursday, Monmouth opened at Eastern Washington. Oddly enough there is no direct flight from West Long Branch, N.J., to Cheney, Wa.
Seems everything we watched on national network prime time TV last month was stuffed with empty-headed cheerleading: NBC’s Olympics, the Republican National Convention, the Democratic National Convention. Same sell, same smell.
I suppose this is the week when NFL head coaches gather their fabulously paid troops to demand that not one of them cause the team 15 yards, let alone a win, for post-play, all-about-me misconduct.
Then again, if that were the case, we wouldn’t be beginning another season when such impudence among professionals hasn’t grown worse.
Tickets not all UK fans buying
In this age of “more transparency” more and more seems attached to a con.
The University of Kansas recently announced payment rules on season’s tickets for football and basketball. In addition to must-pay-for-tickets, there is a “required donation.” Required donation? Is that anything like a mob shakedown?
Then there’s the National Football Foundation, which last week announced that there are a “Record-Breaking 3,534 Graduates Suiting Up For College Football This Season.”
kansas head coach Lance Leipold AP
The news release added that all of them will be in the quest for “additional diplomas,” as if they’re all both enrolled in active pursuit of graduate degrees — a masters or doctorate — in addition to playing football.
Malarkey in pail! These are football players who have slipped through eligibility loopholes under the laughable guise of grad students, and the universities are complicit in the scheme and scam.
The NFF would be taxed to find a tiny fraction of these 3,534 post-grad players in any campus structure outside the athletic department.
And the TV and radio announcers, who wouldn’t dare ask what these players’ specific academic goals are, will obediently play this bogus game, continuing to identity them only as “graduate transfers.”
Standards? What standards? Where?
Despite a career as a slugger predicated on admitted steroid use, an arrest for domestic assault and incarceration for violation of a drug distribution probation, Jose Canseco last week was inducted into the A’s Hall of Fame.
Athletics former outfielder Jose Canseco prepares to throw the ceremonial first pitch before the game against the San Francisco Giants at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con
Al Attles, the Newark-born career-long Warriors — Philly, San Francisco, Oakland — player, coach and GM died Aug. 20, at 87.
I was surprised to read in his obit that he was just 6-foot, as he played tall and tough.
Attles also had a thoughtful way with words. Asked about comparing apples to oranges, he said, “They’re both good fruit.”
I wonder how many employees of just sold-out WCBS News Radio 880 — committed, valued, news professionals — will enjoy, if possible, their first Labor Day off from labor in decades.
