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Speaker 1: From the newsroom and news to come to me.

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Speaker 2: Good day there, I'm Andrew Bucklow. Now usually Bronte Coy

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Speaker 2: would host this episode with an update on the latest

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Speaker 2: happenings from Buckingham Palace. But I'm afraid our little Royal

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Speaker 2: insider is that available this weekend, so you've got me instead.

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Speaker 2: Some would say an upgrade, some would say not so much.

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Speaker 2: I'm not an expert on the Royals at all, so

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Speaker 2: I thought what I'd do is focus on the Oscars instead,

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Speaker 2: which are coming up on Monday morning Australian time. And

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Speaker 2: what I thought I'd do is re visit one of

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Speaker 2: my favorite interviews that I did a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 2: I spoke to a woman in twenty twenty two. Her

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Speaker 2: name is Laura Kine, and she used to be a

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Speaker 2: seat filler at the Academy Awards. How cool is that?

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Speaker 2: She told me some amazing celebrity stories and revealed why

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Speaker 2: she got banned from the Oscars. I'll play you some

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Speaker 2: highlights from that chat in just a moment. Let's talk

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Speaker 2: about the fact that you've been a seat filler at

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Speaker 2: the oscars. How many years were you a seat filler for?

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Speaker 1: I do that for five years, every single year from

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Speaker 1: twenty twelve to twenty seventeen. And then I did, I

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Speaker 1: got I got kicked out, And I'll tell you why

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Speaker 1: do you want to what do you want to know? First?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think we have to talk about why you

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Speaker 2: got kicked out.

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Speaker 1: When you become a seat filler, you have to fill

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Speaker 1: out tons of forms. They have to do a background

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Speaker 1: check on you. You need to get like passport photos taken,

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Speaker 1: the whole thing, and you're signing documents that say you

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Speaker 1: are not allowed to take pictures with the celebrities, you

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Speaker 1: are not allowed to speak to the celebrities, or you know,

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Speaker 1: make any ruckus. You're supposed to be quiet. You have

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Speaker 1: to wear this name tag around your neck when the

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Speaker 1: cameras are off, and then put it behind you when

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Speaker 1: the cameras are on. Just do our job, right. But

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Speaker 1: it's so incredible that there were times when celebrities actually

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Speaker 1: speak to me and I would have to pull out

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Speaker 1: my phone and say, well, please get a selfie. And

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Speaker 1: I posted those pictures and the guy who was in

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Speaker 1: charge of the seat filling he saw that and was like,

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Speaker 1: you just broke the rule. As a matter of fact, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there was a lady. They sat me next to a

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Speaker 1: lady who had just won the Oscar for a short

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Speaker 1: documentary film something like that. She was holding an Oscar

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Speaker 1: and she just drunk and she said to me, Hey,

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Speaker 1: do you want to feel what an oscar feels like.

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Speaker 1: I'm like yes, So she hands it to me and

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Speaker 1: I have her take a picture of me holding an

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Speaker 1: actual Oscar and I posted that one too, and that

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Speaker 1: really got me in trouble, but I had to. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I still have that picture and it's amazing, so it

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Speaker 1: was worth it kind of. But it's a very long day.

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Speaker 1: You have to be ready by I think it was

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Speaker 1: like ten o'clock in the morning, all dressed dressed up,

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Speaker 1: just like the celebrities do long gowns. They have to

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Speaker 1: approve the gown before you even show up, makeup, hair,

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Speaker 1: the whole thing. And we it's a lot of waiting

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Speaker 1: around until the actual oscars start. There's probably about one

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Speaker 1: hundred of us and we wait in the ease of

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Speaker 1: the theater and when the show goes to commercial, celebrities

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Speaker 1: get up and use the restroom, go to the bar whatever.

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Speaker 1: We are there to fill the seat until they come back.

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Speaker 1: So when the cameras come back on, it looks like

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Speaker 1: the audience is full, and a lot of times there

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Speaker 1: was one time when somebody left. I wasn't a celebrity,

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Speaker 1: but it was right there in the front and never

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Speaker 1: came back. So I was there at the entire show.

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Speaker 1: It was incredible. But when you walk into that theater

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Speaker 1: and you see every single celebrity that uber famous in

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Speaker 1: one place and they're all talking to each other, it's surreal.

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Speaker 1: So I and one time, I think it was twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 1: do you remember when Neil Patrick Harris hosted, Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: well I was a seat filler then and they had

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Speaker 1: they sat me on the aisle and then the lights

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Speaker 1: went back up. The show was back on, and he

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Speaker 1: was standing in the aisle and he goes, welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the Oscars. Hey, are you a seat filler? And

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Speaker 1: he pointed the mic to my face to be on TV?

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Speaker 1: And I said I did. I thought it was a

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Speaker 1: trick question because we weren't supposed to say that we're

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Speaker 1: seating this, but I said yes, I am, and he goes,

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Speaker 1: what's your name? I said, Laura. He goes, hi, Laura,

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Speaker 1: and that went out to millions of people. My phone,

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Speaker 1: which was in my purse on silent, of course, was buzzing, buzzing,

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Speaker 1: buzzing in my lap. If you saw that, and it's

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Speaker 1: a meme, Now it's a meme. You can look it

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Speaker 1: up Girl in the Red Dress Neil Patrick Harris and

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Speaker 1: you'll find it.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like such an amazing gig. I mean, how

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Speaker 2: do you even get the job of being a set feeler.

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Speaker 1: I worked with a guy whose cousin was in charge

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Speaker 1: of that that sole thing seat filling, so I got

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Speaker 1: it through my friend whose cousin did it. So it

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Speaker 1: was just who I just knew somebody.

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Speaker 2: And is it PI at all or is it completely freight?

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Speaker 1: We don't get paid to do it. It's just the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to be there is our payment. And it's just

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. And I've seen I've talked to

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Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson. Now, mind you, they have to speak to

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Speaker 1: you first. If the celebrities speak to you, you can

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Speaker 1: you can obviously speak back to them, but you're not

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Speaker 1: allowed to initiate a conversation.

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Speaker 2: Stick around and the moment Laura tells us which celebrity

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Speaker 2: was a bit of a dud, welcome back, I am

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Speaker 2: playing you some highlights from my chat with Laura kay And,

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Speaker 2: who was a seat filler at the Oscars for several

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Speaker 2: years in a row. I recorded this chat back in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Here she is telling me about some

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Speaker 2: of the celebrities she met during the ceremonies.

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Speaker 1: I sat next to Adele had a song that was

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Speaker 1: nominated for an Oscar, so she was performing. I just

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Speaker 1: so happened to be seated next to her husband at

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Speaker 1: the time, and I remember thinking, what is she seeing

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Speaker 1: this guy? He just was a dud and I was

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Speaker 1: sitting in her seat. I was actually sitting in her seat.

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Speaker 1: And well they ended up divorcing, obviously.

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Speaker 2: But.

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Speaker 1: All the celebrities all seem to know each other, and

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Speaker 1: they all gather right in the front of the stage

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Speaker 1: kind of and they're all mingling. So that's the time

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Speaker 1: where we would go and try to get self these people.

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Speaker 1: So we asked Bradley Cooper, super chill, nice and then

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Speaker 1: we abstu Leonardo DiCaprio, very quiet but a nice guy.

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Speaker 1: We asked, oh, Jennifer Aniston, she kind of she didn't

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Speaker 1: do anything mean, she was just very cold, I guess,

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Speaker 1: but I would. I don't know how I would react

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Speaker 1: if I saw someone coming up to me wearing a

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Speaker 1: big lanyard around my neck that said setiller on it,

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 2: What I mean. And what's a fun fact about something

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Speaker 2: that goes on in the room that would surprise a

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Speaker 2: lot of people sitting at home watching it. What's something

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Speaker 2: we don't know about?

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Speaker 1: Oh, we had to bring snacks because it was such

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Speaker 1: a long day that you know, we got hungry, so

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Speaker 1: we had to bring snacks in our purse, and of

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Speaker 1: course our purses were small because there were party verses.

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Speaker 1: There was a couple of times when we were extras

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Speaker 1: on the red carpet too, had us walking as like

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Speaker 1: people who were just to fill it out a little

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Speaker 1: bit more. And so that was really cool because people

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Speaker 1: would just start taking pictures of me, not knowing that

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Speaker 1: just by chance, if I happen to be a celebrity,

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Speaker 1: you know, and that was cool.

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Speaker 2: Well, the Oscars are coming up on Monday morning Australian time,

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Speaker 2: and we'll have live coverage as we always do on

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Speaker 2: news dot com dot au.

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