Speaker 1: Apodjae Production.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of Am I A Bad Mom?
Speaker 1: Podcast?
Speaker 3: Where we constantly asked that question, am I a bad Mom?
Speaker 1: Again and again and again.
Speaker 4: I also get now because my kids are old enough, mom,
Speaker 4: you're being a bad mom?
Speaker 1: Like this is content via podcast.
Speaker 3: I've said numerous times that as the kids get older,
Speaker 3: you really got to do some work on yourself and
Speaker 3: your self esteem because they make you feel like shit,
Speaker 3: like oh, literally put clothes on and they'll like look
Speaker 3: me up and down like mean girl, like what are
Speaker 3: you wearing?
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Just before when you were saying it, and I was
Speaker 4: commenting about how nice you look, and I was like, look,
Speaker 4: we're on a camera.
Speaker 1: This is great.
Speaker 4: We should use this piece of content on a camera
Speaker 4: because you look lovely. You said, Oh, do you know
Speaker 4: what Holly said to me today?
Speaker 2: You look like a watermelon.
Speaker 4: I'm sitting you going you're really nice, and your child
Speaker 4: goes you look like a watermelon.
Speaker 3: It's like being back at school and being bullied, and like,
Speaker 3: I was really lucky.
Speaker 2: I didn't really get Oh, I got Michelle. I remember Michelle.
Speaker 3: She told me that I couldn't play with them and
Speaker 3: if I wanted to I just had to be a tree,
Speaker 3: and so I would stand in the playground like that
Speaker 3: as a tree. And that was her being nice because
Speaker 3: she did once say you can just be the thin air.
Speaker 1: Who the fuck is Michelle? Have that pipe down? I'll
Speaker 1: do whatever I want.
Speaker 4: I would have probably been that person in the playground
Speaker 4: that would have belted Michelle.
Speaker 1: Then you wonder why my kids are late? They are.
Speaker 1: I have to say though, just carrying that on?
Speaker 4: Is that twice this week from both children I have
Speaker 4: had haymum, when you grow out of this?
Speaker 1: Can I have these?
Speaker 4: I was like, if you aren't going to get any bigger,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to give them because my feet aren't
Speaker 4: going to grow out of them. I don't have what
Speaker 4: you have, which is changing feet every five minutes, like
Speaker 4: I am fully grown. Elsie goes, well, just when I
Speaker 4: get big enough, I'm going to take them, okaye.
Speaker 1: And then Gracie sees like a brand new T shirt
Speaker 1: and she goes, oh, I really like that.
Speaker 4: She goes, when you grow out of that, you might
Speaker 4: grow like and I was like, what get bigger and
Speaker 4: not be able to wear it?
Speaker 3: But you've got to enjoy that stage because once they
Speaker 3: get to teenagers. They don't think anything that you wear
Speaker 3: is nice. I've saved stuff for them, Rach, Like, I've
Speaker 3: been through my wardrobe and gone, I'm never going to
Speaker 3: get in that mini skirt again, like things like that
Speaker 3: or that dress is a bit skimpy now bit mutton, and.
Speaker 1: And that is so good. I've not known that for you.
Speaker 3: And I've kept stuff for them, and I was like,
Speaker 3: look at what I've got you like even like denim.
Speaker 2: Jackets, Like what's wrong with that? I like leave eyes
Speaker 2: and like.
Speaker 1: Leave us back in? Aren't they like? Absolutely?
Speaker 3: What I've realized is that it's not that they don't
Speaker 3: like the clothes. It's just that they think anything that
Speaker 3: was mine is really like it.
Speaker 4: It's no, it's just a no mum. Well, at least
Speaker 4: they still like what I wear.
Speaker 1: Am I a bad mum for rewriting their story? Yes?
Speaker 3: So, as we know, your husband, Sam Thaday was last
Speaker 3: night's winner of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here.
Speaker 3: But there's so much that we haven't talked about, Like,
Speaker 3: for example, you and I chatted about the letters from Home.
Speaker 1: So he's been in the jungle for weeks and weeks
Speaker 1: and weeks.
Speaker 4: The kids aren't missing him like crazy, but have loved
Speaker 4: the idea that they can watch him every night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that has definitely helped.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite episodes been the dancing. You know,
Speaker 3: they all had to do the dancing, the twerking.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: I had so much satisfaction showing that to Gracie right
Speaker 4: before school because they haven't been staying. It's too late, right,
Speaker 4: so they only get to a certain time. And then
Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, bed, whatever you miss I'll let you know,
Speaker 4: or it'll be online tomorrow. This particular thing of him
Speaker 4: dancing that's all over online.
Speaker 1: I didn't even see it. You're watching masks. I don't
Speaker 1: because they're going to bed.
Speaker 4: Ah, it's just a train wreck.
Speaker 1: I cannot anyway, so I couldn't wait.
Speaker 4: Joe Gracie the next day, just before she was going
Speaker 4: to school, and I.
Speaker 1: Was like, Hey, do you want to see eat dad
Speaker 1: did last night?
Speaker 4: And I showed her and she was like, oh she
Speaker 4: was flipping. Oh my god, I'm so embarrassed.
Speaker 1: I can't even walk into the school yard now people
Speaker 1: don't know Dad's dad. That's disgusting. Why did he open
Speaker 1: his shirt? Anyway?
Speaker 2: It was so I watched it and when yes, there
Speaker 2: he is.
Speaker 4: Yes, then there was another opportunity for the girls to
Speaker 4: be able to connect with him.
Speaker 1: You know, they ask you to write a letter from home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they do that as an episode, like
Speaker 3: it's a really whole life. They all sit around and
Speaker 3: they read each other's letters home, and it's.
Speaker 1: All it's so like I didn't realize how emotional it was.
Speaker 2: But like I cried, I'm not even in there.
Speaker 4: So I just literally said to the girls, go and
Speaker 4: write Dad a letter, and it has to be one page,
Speaker 4: and then bring it back.
Speaker 1: Elsie's is folded, got a little bit of a.
Speaker 4: Story in there, maybe about three sentences, and then Graces
Speaker 4: is like dear Dad, and it's like point by point
Speaker 4: by point of her whole life over the last five weeks,
Speaker 4: and then a photo. I had to rewrite their versions
Speaker 4: into one page because it's said on their no more
Speaker 4: than one page, okay, right, join blay the like the
Speaker 4: whole thing, the actual actual one that went live.
Speaker 1: So they snipped my snipped version of the story.
Speaker 2: You'll read it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can hear it. First of what says Daddy's
Speaker 1: out here.
Speaker 4: The girls are literally screaming at you every single night, hearing.
Speaker 1: You on, trying to call you their dad.
Speaker 4: They want you to know that we're all good here
Speaker 4: actually in our own jungle.
Speaker 1: Three women in one household is like living.
Speaker 2: In the Marc room talent.
Speaker 1: Ha. He's crying right now. I'm cool.
Speaker 4: You're right.
Speaker 1: And leaning into every day as it comes. Love you
Speaker 1: to the moon and back and EVTs crying.
Speaker 4: Well, then they show the photos, so now you can
Speaker 4: see I know two that's the two snippets.
Speaker 1: That's the back of G's and then the other one.
Speaker 3: The thing that I love the most about my girls
Speaker 3: is they have huge hearts. But they got a lot
Speaker 3: of moxy about them too, and I wouldn't have it
Speaker 3: any other way.
Speaker 1: It's really nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm really glad that you can sit here
Speaker 3: and tell us actually what happened?
Speaker 4: That was beautiful, so nice, right, And I had to
Speaker 4: summarize both of their letters.
Speaker 1: That was Elsie's.
Speaker 4: The front of Elsie's it literally says, too, Sammy, I
Speaker 4: love evt okay.
Speaker 1: And then that was the back of Grace's.
Speaker 2: Call him Sammy, does she no?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: And then that's the back of Grace's with the photo
Speaker 4: and she says ps we don't accept second place in
Speaker 4: this house.
Speaker 1: Pps, I love you gg.
Speaker 2: Can you tell us what the letters said? Originally?
Speaker 4: So originally I was like, if I went through graces,
Speaker 4: you know everything that's going on in her life.
Speaker 2: Literally it was literally, dear dad, this happened on Monday.
Speaker 4: I broke up with such and such. Don't worry, I
Speaker 4: broke my foot. Elsie's was literally too summi love evt
Speaker 4: open it up. It said, Dad, stay in the jungle
Speaker 4: as long as you can. It's just like camping with
Speaker 4: no tent. Also, we don't accept second place in this house,
Speaker 4: so don't come back.
Speaker 2: With don't come home. And that's sure the winner you
Speaker 2: have to be king of the jungle.
Speaker 1: You're not welcome back home.
Speaker 2: And so what the producers didn't want nothing?
Speaker 1: I couldn't said that. I was like that goes live people.
Speaker 1: They won't understand who we are. Obviously.
Speaker 4: Now I summarized it into one YEP and just sort
Speaker 4: of owned it down a bit. Didn't put all the
Speaker 4: details about breaking feet and all those sorts of things.
Speaker 4: This is how I wrapped it up. We all hope
Speaker 4: that you're loving being in the jungle. The girl said,
Speaker 4: it's suit's dad, keep doing us proud, keep opening your
Speaker 4: heart and leaning into every day. Gracie said, don't worry.
Speaker 4: We are happy and protected, so don't worry about a
Speaker 4: thing other than bringing your crown of just being yourself
Speaker 4: in the jungle.
Speaker 1: Elsie said, Dad, we love you so much.
Speaker 4: Keep living in the jungle. It's like camping with no tent.
Speaker 4: And remember first place always counts. You've got this, Oh god,
Speaker 4: we have. We have your back, love you to the
Speaker 4: moon and back. You know, it's all there.
Speaker 1: But I had to rewrite their stories.
Speaker 4: I felt a bit bad about that, but at the
Speaker 4: same time kind of needed to generalize it but also
Speaker 4: just take out that part of like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: if he reads this bit. Everyone else was like sentimental
Speaker 4: and like we miss your own proud of you and
Speaker 4: your extraordinary.
Speaker 1: We said that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was enough, but there was also like some
Speaker 4: unless you win, don't bring anything else home other than
Speaker 4: the crown.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if you're allowed to say or not,
Speaker 3: but he was struggling a little bit to start with
Speaker 3: because he was so worried about you guys at home
Speaker 3: and you having to take on everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the night that he was handing his phone over
Speaker 4: there was a part of like ride.
Speaker 1: At the start before it even got in.
Speaker 4: Obviously weren't allowed to go anywhere and do any of
Speaker 4: that because he was just anticipating going into the jungle.
Speaker 4: So he handed his phone over like a week out
Speaker 4: and he was doubting at that. He's like, oh, I've
Speaker 4: changed my mind.
Speaker 1: Oh I need to get out. I can't do this
Speaker 1: and like and I was like, too bad. Ro you
Speaker 1: signed up? There's lock a load.
Speaker 4: Basically the producer touches base when they.
Speaker 1: Need something from you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And at that time they were like, oh, it's
Speaker 4: pretty flat. So they all go through like these lulls
Speaker 4: apparently of like being really good and then being really low,
Speaker 4: and they were just concerned that he wasn't going to
Speaker 4: pop up from the lull again.
Speaker 1: But he did.
Speaker 4: He came back stronger than ever with his dances to it,
Speaker 4: and he's half stripping, that's what Gracie called it.
Speaker 1: Why is he stripping on TV? I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: god
Speaker 3: Knows, Yeah, well paid off stripper Sam for the wind