Refresh my memory: what was in Myrtle Beach?
ANS rented a waterfront condo there in the earlier part of the summer. She had also stayed there the year before - maybe other years I don't know about.
That's where G. Ben Thompson and family live (such as dtr Gina and her husband, Ford Shelley). Apparently she was there because of her *friendship* with Thompson - altho Stern was, as always, along for the ride, too.
It was there in Myrtle Beach that she began complaining about the paparazzi not giving her a minute to herself, especially since she was PG with the baby, so she and Thompson (with or without Stern) hatched the Bahamas idea.
In one story I saw, Birkhead also showed up in Myrtle Beach at that time, but it was to visit relatives and he didn't even see ANS that time.
Ben Thompson