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Speaker 1: Jumb mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Oh look our next guest.

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Speaker 3: We do love her.

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Speaker 2: She's had a career, boasting the title of the longest

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Speaker 2: serving female character in Australian TV history. Lyn McGranger, of course,

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Speaker 2: is a woman behind the Home and Away character Irene.

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Speaker 2: But there's so much more to Lynn than just Irene.

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Speaker 2: She's been brightening our screens for years. She's a wonderful

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Speaker 2: human being. She's written a new autobiography, Acting Up Me,

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Speaker 2: Myself and Irene, and she joins us now Lynn McGranger.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Well, good morning guys. It's been way too long

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Speaker 1: between drinks, hasn't.

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Speaker 2: I Absolutely, I'm flicking through all the amazing photos in

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Speaker 2: your book.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: That's how Amanda says she's read the book.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, there's a lot that's covered in here that

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Speaker 2: we don't know about you. And I love the teenage

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Speaker 2: stuff about your fad diets, tell us all the weird

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Speaker 2: I can so relate.

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Speaker 1: To this, well, you know, because I kind of was

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Speaker 1: a teenager in the mid to late sixties when you know,

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Speaker 1: you had your twigg ears and your you know, your

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Speaker 1: Jean shrimped and shrimped, and that was probably her anyway, twiggy,

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Speaker 1: But you know that was the the It was almost

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Speaker 1: like the nineteen twenties, you know, flat breasted and no

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Speaker 1: snake hips and all of that. And I was a

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Speaker 1: bit more of a grew I think I explained. You know,

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Speaker 1: I was like a barrel on pins. And my mother

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Speaker 1: from a very early age really wanted me to be slim,

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Speaker 1: and she didn't for no other reason than she wanted

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Speaker 1: me to be happy. And my sisters, you know, a

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Speaker 1: little woman and she never struggled with her weight and

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Speaker 1: I did. And she just had me on diets from

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Speaker 1: a very very early age. Like you know, I remember

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Speaker 1: taking vitaweats with vegamite to school. All the other kids

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Speaker 1: had like delicious egg sandwiches and you know, devon and

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Speaker 1: tomato sauce rolls and things like that. So I became

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Speaker 1: a bit of food obsessive from an early age because

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Speaker 1: I was restricted. My mom was always had me on

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Speaker 1: sad diets and because ultimately that led to her and

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Speaker 1: eating disorder which I didn't recognize then but which of

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Speaker 1: course we now know is a form of bolimia.

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Speaker 2: And what's your relationship with food?

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Speaker 1: Like now, oh fabulous, I love it.

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Speaker 3: I really love it.

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Speaker 1: I do. I really love it. It's interesting because I've

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Speaker 1: found over the years the balance between input and output.

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Speaker 1: You know, what you put into your body, you need

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Speaker 1: to be able to use otherwise it gets stored in

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Speaker 1: places you don't want it to be stored in. And

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Speaker 1: now I have a great relationship with it because I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate it. I love it. Hell Aida Nicodemo, who

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Speaker 1: can Eat for Australia, is one of my best friends.

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Speaker 1: So you know, spending time with her, you've got to

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Speaker 1: love food.

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Speaker 3: And she works out. She does a lot of working out,

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Speaker 3: not saying that.

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Speaker 1: Yes she does. Demon absolutely.

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Speaker 4: We rarely get our show is so offensive. We never

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Speaker 4: cracked the radar for Google alerts, but our senior producer

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Speaker 4: here one day was woken up. There was a series

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Speaker 4: of Google alerts about shocking on air moment and it

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Speaker 4: was about us and you, and apparently we shocked you.

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Speaker 4: Last time we spoke was I mentioned that you looked

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Speaker 4: like that your role in the early days was going

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Speaker 4: to get axed.

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Speaker 3: Irene's character was going to get asked. And you didn't

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Speaker 3: know that.

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Speaker 1: No, I did not know it. Love and it's actually

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Speaker 1: in the book. You guys got to get a mention

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Speaker 1: and it's like because it was such a shock that

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Speaker 1: because I didn't see it coming, and you know when

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Speaker 1: you're talking to someone on live radio when they suddenly

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Speaker 1: go oh, So I was really sacked. In two thousand

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Speaker 1: and three, I was like, what the hawk? What on earth?

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Speaker 1: And so you know, I told Paul, and of course

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Speaker 1: we googled and when we found Coral Druan's name. And

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Speaker 1: I did remember Coral and I know she was a

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Speaker 1: great champion of Irene. But yes, it was just one

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Speaker 1: of those moments in life where you kind of get

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Speaker 1: a bit of a shake cover and realize that you're

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Speaker 1: not You know that that your job is honey, as

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Speaker 1: good as the next day you're employed.

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Speaker 4: But the thing about a book, it just brings out

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Speaker 4: so many many things because you write the book, and

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Speaker 4: having written, when I can say this, it's quite cathartic

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Speaker 4: because you write the book, but then all of a

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Speaker 4: sudden there's a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 3: Out there that people will ask you about.

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Speaker 4: So, for example, we used to smoke a bit of

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Speaker 4: pot and that's documented.

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Speaker 3: In the book.

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Speaker 1: Tim Tans.

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Speaker 3: You had to although I will this if I were

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Speaker 3: to home and away.

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Speaker 4: So I was to go into Summer Bay and I

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Speaker 4: saw ira Reen, I would reckon that she would partake.

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Speaker 4: I would say, I would say Irene. I'd say, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I think Irene part.

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Speaker 1: Takes partakes, So back in the day she probably did,

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Speaker 1: although I don't know she was, even though she was,

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Speaker 1: you know, a raging alcoholic and she was a mean drunk,

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Speaker 1: I don't I think she's a bit straighty one eighty.

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Speaker 1: I think I think she's a bit straighty one eighty.

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Speaker 1: And whilst it would be okay to, you know, to

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Speaker 1: down a bottle of scotch and then punch someone's lights out,

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't have been okay to partake of the dreaded weeds.

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Speaker 1: But can I tell you a quick funny story we

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Speaker 1: used to have. There was a our back in the

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Speaker 1: late nineties when Irene was on the wagon, which of

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Speaker 1: course she is always. They decided that maybe Irene did

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Speaker 1: part take, and the then sector dresser art director decided

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Speaker 1: to be nice. She had a little bong on her set.

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Speaker 1: So I used to have, I'm serious, a bong. It

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Speaker 1: looked like a vase but it was actually a bong,

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Speaker 1: and it was part of the set on Home and Away.

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Speaker 1: But somebody nicked it, and I know, I know, never

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Speaker 1: to be seen again, a bit like the original Hamburger

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Speaker 1: phone was nicked. So I know I remember that.

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Speaker 4: I remember that episode that was the Dave's not here episode.

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Speaker 3: I remember.

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Speaker 4: Well, now enough about you from and how's my no

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Speaker 4: doubt you saw my audition with Georgie Parker.

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Speaker 3: Yes, how's that all going?

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Speaker 2: What do you think the chance for him?

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Speaker 1: Look, honey, it's so hard. Look, it's so hard dig

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Speaker 1: to get into, particularly when you're not and no offense

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Speaker 1: a Jonesy, but when you're not you know, twenty four anymore,

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Speaker 1: unless there's a specific role for you. See, I think

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Speaker 1: it'd be quite a good idea to have a radio

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Speaker 1: station in Summer Bay.

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Speaker 4: All the sudden, out of all these years, a radio

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Speaker 4: station just pops up in summer that.

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Speaker 1: Well, why not love everything else does? There's suddenly a

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Speaker 1: sinkhole or you know it's.

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Speaker 3: A name with Jonesy in the sinkhole. No, you are

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Speaker 3: the sinkhole.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so look, if anything is possible, love, And as

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Speaker 1: I say to all young actors starting out, never give up,

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Speaker 1: you know, and be prepared for knock back.

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Speaker 3: And what would you say to a fifty three year

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Speaker 3: old to this is.

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Speaker 1: I'll say yeah by a lottery.

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Speaker 2: About the back smoking of ours.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so you talk about Lynn.

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Speaker 3: It's always great to talk to you.

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Speaker 4: Lyn mcgrade's new autobiography, Acting Up Me Myself and Irene

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Speaker 4: is in all good bookstores today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Linn, Love.

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Speaker 1: You Lynn, Thank you so much for your support. Guys,

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Speaker 1: love you lot you.

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Speaker 2: Take care.

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's