Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to the Maturing Podcast with me
Speaker 1: Joshua Fox, coming to you live from Melbourne today. I
Speaker 1: after catching up with I think nine different cast members,
Speaker 1: and I've now frantically just turned my hotel room into
Speaker 1: a makeshift studio just to get these updates out as
Speaker 1: quickly as I can before I forget. And also I'm
Speaker 1: a bit drunk, so yeah, bear with me, but I
Speaker 1: can now reveal who's together present day, who's not together
Speaker 1: present day, and who appears to be getting back together
Speaker 1: present day. Also before we jump in, I just want
Speaker 1: to shout out to people here in the Volo Hotel self. Yarra.
Speaker 1: They randomly recognize me from this podcast and listen and
Speaker 1: just said they'd pause the vacuum in the hallway while
Speaker 1: I record this in my room, So thank you for that.
Speaker 1: We love clean audio. Okay, So basically on Thursday I
Speaker 1: found out that there was some kind of cast reunion
Speaker 1: happening here in Melbourne and Friday lunchtime at a restaurant
Speaker 1: and I just fought fuck it and jumped on a
Speaker 1: plane with no idea what to expect. And I found
Speaker 1: this out through like media. Often when there's like a
Speaker 1: celebrity booking in a venue, they might pass that to
Speaker 1: the press and the pub, and that made its way
Speaker 1: to me. Again. I flew here with no idea if
Speaker 1: it was even true what was happening, And then bang
Speaker 1: on two thirty, the time I was told the castody arriving.
Speaker 1: I turned around and oh, there's Rie and Karina being
Speaker 1: dropped off by Jeff, which means I can confirm what
Speaker 1: we probably already suspected, that Ree and Jeff still together.
Speaker 1: He gave her a massive kiss, so she got out
Speaker 1: the cayle a little hug, and then they kind of
Speaker 1: walked over to me, and Karina tried to make out
Speaker 1: that her and Paula also still together, even though he
Speaker 1: wasn't there. Ladies, ladies, have you got a second the
Speaker 1: maps Ony podcast, how weed in? We've got Ree and Karna. Hey,
Speaker 1: now it's Valentine's Day? Yeah, you've got no husband? What's happening?
Speaker 2: Didn't you just see her husband drop us off?
Speaker 1: Jeff? Well, where is your where's your husband?
Speaker 2: Well? I mean I'm right here in Melbourne, so my
Speaker 2: husband's working in the mines.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, wait, hang on a minute.
Speaker 1: I heard a rumor earlier this week that you had
Speaker 1: lunch with Drake in Perth and then she told me this. Now,
Speaker 1: Karina have to ask the other day you go for dinner,
Speaker 1: Drake pays for it. What happened?
Speaker 2: It's actually lunch.
Speaker 1: So sorry about the specifics. Yeah, I do just one
Speaker 1: go out and then Drake buys your lunch.
Speaker 2: Well, it's pretty simple. I've got friends that are international
Speaker 2: and they've lived overseas and they came on tour for
Speaker 2: Drake's concert in Australia and we all, yeah, converse with them,
Speaker 2: organized it got ready. My girlfriend's also a fashion designer,
Speaker 2: so us girls are like, coo, we're gonna get dressed
Speaker 2: up and wear some of the pieces to lunch. And yeah,
Speaker 2: they were there at the same time. It just happened
Speaker 2: to be good timing.
Speaker 1: So did you say hello to Drake? Yes? See, my
Speaker 1: perception would be if someone's out there and Drake's buying
Speaker 1: your lunch, she's probably a single lady.
Speaker 2: No, they're just gentlemen.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that Karina's just talking about having
Speaker 1: lunch with Drake and his friends as if it's the
Speaker 1: most casual thing in the world and we all do
Speaker 1: it when he's in town. On tour. I although she
Speaker 1: gave no in a way about her and Paul and
Speaker 1: kind of pedaled out the pr line that yes, they're
Speaker 1: still going strong, I just get the feeling that, nah,
Speaker 1: they are done, but time will tell. Before these two
Speaker 1: went inside, though, I also wanted to apologize to Ree.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys remember, but I was
Speaker 1: actually at her wedding in July and I shared those
Speaker 1: first videos of me crashing the wedding and revealing how
Speaker 1: her and Jeff knew each other. Those videos ended up
Speaker 1: getting like ten million views, and I basically just ruined
Speaker 1: that whole storyline of two x's being matched, which ended
Speaker 1: up like going viral all around the world because this
Speaker 1: is an international franchise and it's never been done before.
Speaker 1: I would like to apologize to you for ruining your
Speaker 1: whole storyline. At the start of filming, I think I
Speaker 1: had ten million views. Yeah, thanks so much. Was that
Speaker 1: a shock? It was a definite shock. Yeah, definitely unexpected.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna say it wasn't stage. She had no idea,
Speaker 1: zero idea on heart, zero idea. Well, I'm glad that
Speaker 1: you are still together. No comment, no comment, Okay, Well, ladies,
Speaker 1: lovely for me if I give you coming on the
Speaker 1: Math Funny podcast. Next up, we had Katie arriving and
Speaker 1: I gave her a massive hug on behalf of all
Speaker 1: of Australia. Look here it is. It's Katie on the
Speaker 1: Mass Funny podcast. How are we doing? I'm not here.
Speaker 1: It's all an illusion. But life's good. It's very good.
Speaker 1: We do love you, Katie. Can I give you a kiddle?
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for her. The beverly Katie. You're going
Speaker 1: through here and upstairs, have the best evening. Then we
Speaker 1: had Athena, Jamie and intruder Beth, who will meet on
Speaker 1: the show within the next week or so I believe,
Speaker 1: and Jamie pretty much confirmed the news we'd all been
Speaker 1: waiting for that. Yes, her and Dave still together, but
Speaker 1: he wasn't there because it's a girl's lunch. Hi, Jamie,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? Where's Dave? Is Valentine's Day? Where's Dave?
Speaker 2: He's our home waiting for me.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get so love is real. I also had
Speaker 1: another apology, this time for Athena. I just want to
Speaker 1: say I am so sorry. No just to fight. You're
Speaker 1: paid with Adrian, no comment, no comment, okay, have a
Speaker 1: lovely Valentine's. Happy Valentine's. As the girls are then enjoyed
Speaker 1: the lunch, I bounced for a couple of hours to
Speaker 1: go meet a manor for certain app to have a
Speaker 1: bit of Valentines fun of my own, which Athena somehow
Speaker 1: guessed and told everyone as the girls left the venue
Speaker 1: later on and I was back there reporting live Yes,
Speaker 1: I've been in, comeback. I thought she went on.
Speaker 2: Ada came there.
Speaker 1: And then as the girls were all giggling and living life,
Speaker 1: I noticed Beth the intruder, kind of stood a bit awkward,
Speaker 1: unsure if to join in, if to stay hidden, as
Speaker 1: technically she hasn't been officially announced it, but I already
Speaker 1: know she's an intruder, so yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 1: a bit weird. Okay, ladies, how is the Valentine's lunch?
Speaker 1: Who wants to speak? Happy Valentine's girl?
Speaker 2: It was delicious with yay.
Speaker 1: I do oh? Do you want? Someone introduce Beth? But
Speaker 1: then Afena took my microphone. The rest of the girls
Speaker 1: hid Beth behind them in a circle, and then they
Speaker 1: did a little announcement, you know, for the Mass Funny
Speaker 1: podcast Meet Beth high Mass.
Speaker 2: Funny, We're gonna introduce you to a new bride that
Speaker 2: you haven't met yet, the gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Hi guys, it's me Beth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, oh god, I know.
Speaker 1: We call it Depresson where I'm from Depressed and Preston.
Speaker 1: And it turns out Beth is from a town about
Speaker 1: forty minutes from mine back in the UK, and her
Speaker 1: accent is even harder to understand the mind, So good
Speaker 1: look with that people. Oh yeah, do you know what
Speaker 1: I've got fucking leafing me eye? No, I'm not even joke.
Speaker 1: So this is Beth, I've got leafing me fucking I'm
Speaker 1: met anyway, Yeah, welcome to the experiment. Thank you. I'm
Speaker 1: very fucking excited to be here. I really am. Just
Speaker 1: wait and see. Still single. Then I thought i'd have
Speaker 1: a little chat with Ashley, who obviously left the show
Speaker 1: a few days earlier, with Jake, How are you Ashley?
Speaker 1: I'm doing fabulous? How are you? Yeah? How's live? Post
Speaker 1: show life is fabulous? As always? Still talking to Jake?
Speaker 1: Are we over there? We're done with him? No? Never again?
Speaker 1: Have you spoke since the show? Would you like to
Speaker 1: speak to him again? Absolutely? Not? Okay, fund Look since
Speaker 1: the show. No, maybe tonight. I don't know why I
Speaker 1: sounded so suggestive when I said that, as if like
Speaker 1: I was hinting she's going to meet me. I'm gay.
Speaker 1: And you know what was lovely though, just how much
Speaker 1: the girls are rallied around Kate and how happy and
Speaker 1: glowing Kate looked like compared to how we've seen her
Speaker 1: on the show, Like it was genuinely just lovely to
Speaker 1: see now Kate. It's so nice to see you smiling.
Speaker 1: Have you got a new boyfriend? Many bedside draw full
Speaker 1: of them. But then as the girls all started getting
Speaker 1: into the ubers to go to the next place, Athena
Speaker 1: remained she wasn't carrying on the little girls Valentine's Day
Speaker 1: out with them? And before I could even ask, are
Speaker 1: you calling it early? Having an early one? Like what's
Speaker 1: to go? A car pulls up with a man dangling
Speaker 1: out the window holding roses, and I'm sad to say
Speaker 1: it were Adrian. Oh damn, look he's back together, leaving
Speaker 1: the girlfriends to see the husband being a great husband.
Speaker 1: I Fina, why would you do that? Especially after we
Speaker 1: know for a fact he was on a date with
Speaker 1: another woman two weeks ago? Which I revealed on here
Speaker 1: after you guys spotted him like grabbing this chick's ass
Speaker 1: with video and picture evidence. Also how awkward that I
Speaker 1: was slagging Adrian off to Athena as she arrived, like
Speaker 1: about him, and then you know she was already planning
Speaker 1: and leaving that venue early because he was picking her up. Now,
Speaker 1: to me, this could mean two things. Firstly, they're getting
Speaker 1: back together, which fucking hope not. Or secondly, it's Channel
Speaker 1: nine kind of pushing out a fake PR spin just
Speaker 1: to start these rumors and like the knew I'd be
Speaker 1: there or op Press would be there, and I don't know.
Speaker 1: It all just felt too too set up, like oh,
Speaker 1: there's this girls were in and where press are going
Speaker 1: to be outside? And then oh, let's send Adrian who
Speaker 1: doesn't even live in Melbourn, Like why is he there?
Speaker 1: And all let's have him dangling roses out the window
Speaker 1: shouting happy Valentine's They're like to me, it just screams
Speaker 1: fake And it also screams Channel nine getting desperate to
Speaker 1: distract from maybe other negative headlines and stuff out there,
Speaker 1: and yeah, just trying to sell this happy ending. I
Speaker 1: don't know, leave it with me. I shall be investigating.
Speaker 1: That's all for this podcast, but stay tuned because there
Speaker 1: will be a part two very soon with a very
Speaker 1: big spoiler involving I won't say too much yet because
Speaker 1: I don't want to get ahead myself, but here's here's
Speaker 1: a little preview. After I dropped the bombshell. None of
Speaker 1: them knew that I knew. I know, yeah, yeah, she's
Speaker 1: slapping me. Fucking husband.
Speaker 2: You're not a fan.