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Speaker 1: It fits in with.

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Speaker 2: First of all, the reason why we are so excited

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Speaker 2: doesn't it We haven't had anyone hearing for ages. Second

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Speaker 2: of all, the person that we've chosen to come into

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Speaker 2: this beautiful studio first is the magnificent Leavement.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys. Is so great to be back.

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Speaker 3: You know, thank God. Before we get onto your Booklyn

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Speaker 3: that Home and Away has been deemed essential services as well,

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Speaker 3: because TV and radio and entertainment essential.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think for people's mental health, which is lovely

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Speaker 4: for us. But of course during the last lockdown, there

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Speaker 4: were certain people who couldn't come in because they were

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Speaker 4: in I like to call them POxy zones, but they

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Speaker 4: were actually LGAs of concerns. Ada couldn't come in for

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Speaker 4: four months. M Simon's she had to take a month

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Speaker 1: So what did that do to your storylines? Then? Was

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Speaker 1: everything just changing on the floor.

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Speaker 4: Went to hell in a handbasket. It's all about you writers, part.

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Speaker 1: Of me, It was all about you know.

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Speaker 4: It was funny because they had all these storylines set

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Speaker 4: up and then they couldn't do them because people went there.

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Speaker 4: So all of a sudden, I'm best mates with Jimmy.

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Speaker 1: Stewart with Justin.

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Speaker 4: Now Irene and Justin are strolling along the beach together

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Speaker 4: having deep, meaningful It was crazy.

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Speaker 3: So you were going to hook up with one start

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Speaker 2: So we see you on the screen. But this is

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Speaker 2: a big decision to open up and talk about your life.

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Speaker 2: The new book is called Acting Up. It's called Me,

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Speaker 2: Myself and Irene, which is great. So was this in lockdown?

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Speaker 2: You thought, well, this is my opportunity to sit down

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Speaker 2: and tell my story. Here.

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Speaker 1: Look to be honest, I was approached.

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Speaker 4: My manager, Amian said, Echo Publishing had gone in touch

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Speaker 4: with me and they would like you to write a memoir.

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Speaker 1: So when are you out of your mind?

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Speaker 4: What on earth would I say or talk about? Or

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Speaker 4: up with they call them ghost writers, I think, and

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Speaker 4: then you, guys, she will help you find your voice.

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Speaker 1: And so over the first over last.

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Speaker 4: She lives in Mudge, so I was able to go up.

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Speaker 4: And she's since become a very dear friend. And her

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Speaker 4: name's summer Land. She also writes land summer Land, not

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Speaker 3: That's extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: I know it's extraordinary. It was meant to be.

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Speaker 4: And so we would talk and she would write and

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Speaker 4: And I go, yeah, what about we do that? And

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Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't say that so much. It was more

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Speaker 3: That was the thing. I saw the headline that you'd written,

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Speaker 3: God released a book, right, But then the just under

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Speaker 3: that it said a quote I smoked a lot of dope.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I'm sure I've got friends out there

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Speaker 4: who will go dig God in heaven. I can't believe

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Speaker 1: Sugar coating, be honest. I wanted to be honest.

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Speaker 4: And if people, you know, if I'm approached to write

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, Love, I'm sure.

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Speaker 4: It's just I personally believe, and trust me, I'm not

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Speaker 1: What's the word, you know? How they can control control?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they can't control that, the strength and things like that, and.

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Speaker 3: You might have to help them.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, Irene's character needs to tell you.

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Speaker 1: Somebody that isn't in the book that I've forgotten.

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Speaker 4: Then Irene was obviously on the wagon and she wasn't

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Speaker 4: It was just a funny little in joke that we

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Speaker 3: Did your mum and dad ever did they jump into

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Speaker 4: But I don't think I ever really did they know

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Speaker 2: Look you would have been a fire cracker when you

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Speaker 2: were younger, were you like, did you go to music festivals?

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Speaker 2: Were you were you into that kind of scene?

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Speaker 4: I went to concerts, but you know, I'm one hundred

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Speaker 3: So chapter two, which is just titled nimb and I

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Speaker 3: Love You.

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Speaker 2: Before you Go because.

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Speaker 4: It got can I just say, there's so much more

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Speaker 1: Than the all this effing stuff.

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Speaker 4: And that's like publication which shall remain unnamed. I'm so

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Speaker 4: peed off because he anyway, let's not go there.

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Speaker 1: Before you go.

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Speaker 2: We need to and you don't have to comment on this,

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Speaker 2: but I know how she are to Sammy Frost She's

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Speaker 2: spoken to producers and Channel seven. Just because of a

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Speaker 2: medical condition that I have, I'm not getting the vaccination.

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Speaker 2: We've worked it out that, you know, after the new year,

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Speaker 2: I can come back onto set. Has How has that

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Speaker 2: and Sam and taking that stance.

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Speaker 4: Look, everyone is very supportive and Sam, you know, we

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Speaker 4: all might have differing opinions, but we are That's one

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Speaker 4: are supportive. And the great news is that she has

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Speaker 4: arrived at a resolution and she will see that through

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Speaker 4: and she may take a few weeks off either at

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Speaker 4: next year.

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Speaker 2: You can fight in you at all in it, she did.

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Speaker 1: It's a matter of fashion. She is great, good. I

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Speaker 1: love she's great.

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Speaker 4: I think that she has arrived at a solution and

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Speaker 4: she realizes that everybody supports that, and we don't want

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Speaker 4: personally think she's a great little actress and a lovely person.

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Speaker 2: Well, Tommy, I don't think we can get anyone else

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Speaker 2: the rest of all we're not going to.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of which you know, I'm catching up with Johnny

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Speaker 2: How's he going?

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Speaker 4: As far as I know, Darling is really well, actually

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Speaker 1: She's had a sex change.

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Speaker 4: Summer and her husband are coming down and spending the

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Speaker 4: weekend with Paul and I. And we're catching up with Johnny,

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Speaker 4: which is just lovely. So you know, obviously he's in

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Speaker 1: See from all of us.

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Speaker 2: Can you please send our love to Johnny?

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Speaker 1: I absolutely will.

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Speaker 3: Darling, Thanks, Lly and Helen.

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Speaker 2: All Right, the new book me myself and Irene acting up,

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Speaker 2: you can go get it now.

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Speaker 1: I love you, Lynn, Thanks for coming, God bless you all.

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Speaker 1: It fits in with Yah