Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to the Maths When Your podcast
Speaker 1: and welcome to an emergency podcast today on re and JAF.
Speaker 1: Because there's a lot of rumors floating around lately about them.
Speaker 2: Have they quietly split up? Is their drama? What's going on?
Speaker 1: Last night, everybody thought they had solid proof because of
Speaker 1: a post that remade on Instagram about things that have
Speaker 1: changed her life, including how she's and their quote now
Speaker 1: choosing relationships that feel calm and safe instead of confusing,
Speaker 1: inconsistency or mixed signals for love. That post last night
Speaker 1: started blowing up and read it That's where I first
Speaker 1: saw it. Then I jumped on Instagram or the comments
Speaker 1: were a bit confused, and on Facebook it was blowing up.
Speaker 1: And now people are like claiming things like they were
Speaker 1: never actually together or they were paid to pretend to
Speaker 1: be together. So Maths could apparently redeem itself and get
Speaker 1: some integrity, which is never going to happen, and everything's
Speaker 1: just getting a little bit silly. So this morning I
Speaker 1: just thought, as anyone actually messaged them and asked, So
Speaker 1: I got my phone out and a text rae and
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, what's to go? And here is
Speaker 1: now the exclusive straight from re herself, who tells me
Speaker 1: that all is good, they have it. And for people
Speaker 1: who aren't really across this or what's happening and you're
Speaker 1: a bit confused, Basically, over the last month or so,
Speaker 1: fans have noticed that Ree and Jeff have maybe been
Speaker 1: sharing each other a little less than usual on their instagrams.
Speaker 1: And actually, as this year Season a Math started wrapping
Speaker 1: up on TV, what about six weeks ago now, I
Speaker 1: even got a couple of random messages and I could
Speaker 1: not tell you who these were from my in boxes,
Speaker 1: usually spammed as the show's coming to an end, but
Speaker 1: they were like this drama with Rihe and Jeff, or
Speaker 1: find out what's happening with Rihe and Jeff.
Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I kind of just ignored them, firstly because I didn't
Speaker 1: believe it. Secondly because I was so busy with this
Speaker 1: year's cash just going rogue by the day as their
Speaker 1: season started to end, and then thirdly because I kind
Speaker 1: of just like thought, well, if there is something they
Speaker 1: haven't posted about it, and I don't really want to
Speaker 1: be nosy, which sounds weird because literally this podcast is
Speaker 1: me being nosy, but in my head it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: if there's something there, these are two people who are
Speaker 1: just back to regular life. They've been off TV for
Speaker 1: a year, and I don't know, like again, this is
Speaker 1: going to sound so hypocritical and like a contradiction from
Speaker 1: me saying on this podcast, but sometimes it just feels
Speaker 1: like oddly intrusive depending who the people being spoken about
Speaker 1: are and these rumors about because like if Rie and
Speaker 1: Jeff had come off the show last year and then
Speaker 1: you know, gone to every red carpet tried to get
Speaker 1: another show's just been in our faces constantly across all
Speaker 1: the media making their relationship like their brand and their job,
Speaker 1: then sure, if these drama to me, it's then like
Speaker 1: all right, fair game to ask and speculate because this
Speaker 1: is literally what they want. But in my eyes, Rah
Speaker 1: and Jeff are just like to really normal people who
Speaker 1: have just come back to their normal life. And yeah,
Speaker 1: we see like updates on the socialism whatever, but it's
Speaker 1: not like say Jules and Cam who are a lot
Speaker 1: more across the media with their brands and books and
Speaker 1: do you know, does this make any sense? And then
Speaker 1: the other reason I didn't look into it is also
Speaker 1: just because I forgot until this week and last night
Speaker 1: when I saw that repost and the backlash, and even
Speaker 1: when Jeff commented on Ree's post last night saying love
Speaker 1: this about loving her new mindset and stuff, people still
Speaker 1: weren't convinced they're still together. And then since then, this
Speaker 1: is when things have got a little bit silly, And
Speaker 1: this is why I wanted to do this podcast today,
Speaker 1: so just share some clarity on certain things and narratives
Speaker 1: that seem to be blowing up right now.
Speaker 2: Now I'm laughing already.
Speaker 1: Much to my surprise, a lot of people seem to
Speaker 1: actually think that Ree and Jeff were paid to fake
Speaker 1: a reunion on the show last year and then paid
Speaker 1: to just pretend to be together to give Maths some integrity,
Speaker 1: and like, come on, guys, if this was true, like
Speaker 1: talk about committing to the bit. They literally live together now,
Speaker 1: like it's been a whole year and they're still living together,
Speaker 1: Like when does this the imaginary contract end? And secondly,
Speaker 1: how much would they even be getting paid, because like.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's just to me, that's so crazy that people actually
Speaker 1: may believe that. And then secondly, overnight this morning, I've
Speaker 1: seen so many comments from people out there claiming that
Speaker 1: Ree and Jeff never actually broke up when they first
Speaker 1: started dating, you know, long before married.
Speaker 2: At first sight.
Speaker 1: And then they faked that on screen reunion at their
Speaker 1: wedding when it was like, oh wait, what I know
Speaker 1: you and people genuinely believed. Yes, that was again stage
Speaker 1: to give the show integrity. So maths for let's just
Speaker 1: find a couple already together. And again I can say
Speaker 1: I can actually say this hand on higher, that is
Speaker 1: not true. And that's because, as some of you may remember,
Speaker 1: I was at their wedding.
Speaker 2: I crashed it.
Speaker 1: It was in like a park, so I was pretty close,
Speaker 1: to be honest, and I had binoculars and I watched
Speaker 1: the genuine shock on both of their faces and their
Speaker 1: guest faces as they saw each other as re arrived
Speaker 1: and walked down the aisle. And then I saw like
Speaker 1: the the awkwardness and confusion as they did the wedding,
Speaker 1: and then they had to pause now and again like
Speaker 1: to change the camera angles. And trust me, neither of
Speaker 1: them had any idea like that shock was real and
Speaker 1: if it wasn't real, then okay.
Speaker 2: They are Australia's greatest.
Speaker 1: Actors and deserve every award because like even what you
Speaker 1: guys didn't see during the episode is between takes when
Speaker 1: producers dragged them aside to do the boxes, and that
Speaker 1: the stuff that wasn't filmed was them being like, what
Speaker 1: the hell is this apprankic?
Speaker 2: Like is this real?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Like they stayed in characterr when they
Speaker 1: weren't meant to be on cameras. So for those thinking
Speaker 1: it was all in act, why would they do that? Also,
Speaker 1: like it'd just be so elaborate and so easy to
Speaker 1: prove that was fake if that was the truth. And
Speaker 1: then the next thing I'm seeing a lot of comments
Speaker 1: about today is confusion around is repregnant.
Speaker 2: And do they have a baby?
Speaker 1: And I have looked into this a bit, and this
Speaker 1: all seems to stem back to because people say they
Speaker 1: saw something online a few months ago which left them
Speaker 1: with this impression that they were having a baby, about
Speaker 1: to have a baby, now have a baby.
Speaker 2: And yes, I've done some digging.
Speaker 1: And this stems from an interview that re and Jeff
Speaker 1: did at the end of January with WHO magazine.
Speaker 2: And this was like a.
Speaker 1: Big feature where they spoke about their relationship of the
Speaker 1: last year, moving in together, what they've learned all these
Speaker 1: huge things, like a real big feature. But then the
Speaker 1: headline to that cute chat was RhE and Jeff's baby Joy,
Speaker 1: which to me is kind of insensitive because firstly, headline
Speaker 1: too pretty much everyone suggests that Ree is currently pregnant
Speaker 1: at the time of that. And remember, most people they
Speaker 1: just don't click things. They'll see something on Facebook, like,
Speaker 1: they're not going to click the link. They're not going
Speaker 1: to read this huge feature to find out that no,
Speaker 1: she's not pregnant.
Speaker 2: So like Human Magazine doing that and pushing.
Speaker 1: That narrative out like on purpose just to get a
Speaker 1: few more clicks again feels insensitive because anyone who then
Speaker 1: read the full thing knows that that line about baby
Speaker 1: joy is about the part of the interview where Ree
Speaker 1: talked about wanting to start trying for a baby in
Speaker 1: like a year's time, but this and a quote her
Speaker 1: endometriosis diagnosis is at the forefront of her mind with this,
Speaker 1: as that's a thing Ree has spoken about publicly quite
Speaker 1: a lot. So yes, as I said, that headline loki
Speaker 1: insensitive to then imply to everyone that they're now having
Speaker 1: a baby just for extra clicks.
Speaker 2: But that's just my thought.
Speaker 1: To someone who used to work in magazines and tabloids
Speaker 1: and kind of know how they work, Like I feel
Speaker 1: like society we've maybe moved past that type of clickbait.
Speaker 1: And now, lastly, to wrap up this little podcast today,
Speaker 1: maybe all of these rumors which are still floating about
Speaker 1: have just stemmed from nothing, which is unfortunate, or maybe,
Speaker 1: as a few people are kind of suggesting, it is
Speaker 1: true that Ree and Jeff maybe hit a little rocky
Speaker 1: patch lately.
Speaker 2: But are now past it. As retells me, all is good.
Speaker 1: And if that's true, then you know what fair because
Speaker 1: that's literally every relationship ever and in my opinion, like
Speaker 1: things that are going to stand the test of time,
Speaker 1: and relationships that will last the duration like they take
Speaker 1: work and you will have ups and downs.
Speaker 2: And that's just life.
Speaker 1: But then I suppose the downside to that is if
Speaker 1: you have a couple of hundred thousand followers and you
Speaker 1: work up with that kind of formed on a TV show,
Speaker 1: that during those up and downs, people are going to
Speaker 1: notice and then things like this will happen and there'll
Speaker 1: be a man like me talking about on a podcast,
Speaker 1: which again feels hypocritical because I say it felt intrusive.
Speaker 1: We wuld talk about this a month ago, but again
Speaker 1: here I am I think with this. So I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to end the rumors, to stop them circling more.
Speaker 1: But then again, I'm doing a whole podcasting it. I
Speaker 1: feel like this podcast is now ending with me having
Speaker 1: like some internal conflict and battle within my own head
Speaker 1: about my own integrity as a journalist.
Speaker 2: Is this even journalism? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let's just send this saying great RhE and Jeff all
Speaker 1: was good. As she told me. They make a cute couple.
Speaker 1: I wish them all the best if they're still going
Speaker 1: through a rocky patch. I hope you sawry it out
Speaker 1: last year. I spent a bit of time we read,
Speaker 1: we hung out a few times. I think she's lovely,
Speaker 1: think of her and Jeff are lovely together. This is
Speaker 1: why I need to write scripts when I do these
Speaker 1: solo podcasts, because honestly, no structure say yeah,