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Speaker 1: welcome back to TV Reload. I want to thank you
Speaker 1: for clicking and downloading on today's episode with khn Ong,
Speaker 1: our sixth eliminated Celebrity from I'm a Celebrity, Get Me
Speaker 1: out of Here for twenty twenty four. During his time
Speaker 1: in the jungle, Khan used his chef skills from Master
Speaker 1: Chef Australia and the tips and tricks he picked up
Speaker 1: during his time on Australian Survivor to make the most
Speaker 1: of that limited camp kitchen. But it wasn't all cooking
Speaker 1: and chatting for Khan, who made the most of his
Speaker 1: time in the jungle by tackling some of the biggest
Speaker 1: and most boldest challenges that we've ever seen on the show.
Speaker 1: While there were plenty of laughs, Khan's time in the
Speaker 1: jungle was for a cause close to his heart. Minus
Speaker 1: eighteen youth whose work had positively impacted his own journey
Speaker 1: of self discovery. Come we'll reveal how many times Network
Speaker 1: ten has asked him to go on I'm a Celebrity,
Speaker 1: and he will share with us just how long he's
Speaker 1: been keeping this job a secret. We will burn through
Speaker 1: a list of intrusive questions as I asked Khan to
Speaker 1: plead the fifth on a round of juicy questions about
Speaker 1: his career and his time in the jungle, which will
Speaker 1: expose things like who he hated in the camp, the
Speaker 1: answer to that is really surprising, and what is actually
Speaker 1: going on with his relationship with the bachelor Matt Agnew.
Speaker 1: We will also find out who he did not want
Speaker 1: to see in the camp and the bizarre lengths that
Speaker 1: he went to to find out if this celebrity was
Speaker 1: going to be joining him on the show. While I've
Speaker 1: Got Khan, I will find out from easiest to hardest
Speaker 1: the reality shows that he's taken part in, and if
Speaker 1: he ever would return to Master Chef, Survivor and maybe
Speaker 1: even an all stars season of I'm a Celebrity. There
Speaker 1: is actually so much to unpack with Khan, so sit
Speaker 1: back and relax as we unpack his time in the
Speaker 1: South African jungle.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Abe, my mate.
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm mate, I'm pretty good. Hate Well, you know, I just.
Speaker 1: Was looking at this before and you've been on the
Speaker 1: podcast now as many times as Abbi Chadfield and your
Speaker 1: mates so in good company.
Speaker 2: Ah. Yeah, I love her. I love her to teat it.
Speaker 2: I'm very, very honored to be on the amount of
Speaker 2: times with it.
Speaker 1: Well, congratulations on making it so far in the jungle.
Speaker 1: Were you shocked to go home at this point?
Speaker 2: No, I wasn't you know. I'm the data I left yesterday.
Speaker 2: I woke up and I was like in my camp man,
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I time be fine. I mean
Speaker 2: we looked exactly that. I was fine. I think I
Speaker 2: got toked on where I did all the child that
Speaker 2: I wanted to. I felt like I had achieved a
Speaker 2: lot in there and I was really missing home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean I also feel like once you
Speaker 1: did the Asia Challenge of the sinking ship, I think
Speaker 1: that was a an iconic moment. I may for the
Speaker 1: rest of my life hear you screaming, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I was putting your hands in those boxes. I mean,
Speaker 1: you've put your hands in some pretty strange places before,
Speaker 1: but you look terrified.
Speaker 2: I was so scared. And it wasn't even the ones
Speaker 2: that I couldn't see. It was the ones of the
Speaker 2: from They kind a little bit of it out, but
Speaker 2: I kept referring leitimate mangos, and that's only what I
Speaker 2: got through. And I'm like, you're just an ango? Did
Speaker 2: you moving mango? You find me like a mango? You're
Speaker 2: just a mango. I spent a good two minutes on
Speaker 2: the frog box. It looked like it was my ten seconds,
Speaker 2: but ipent so much time on the frog box because
Speaker 2: I was so scared of them.
Speaker 1: Were you're plowing through these reality TV shows? I want
Speaker 1: to ask you, because so many people were talking about
Speaker 1: this online, can we unpack your order from easiest to
Speaker 1: hardest reality shows?
Speaker 2: In the eyes of khn Okay, in the eyes of
Speaker 2: we made the easiest show would have been Survivor, and
Speaker 2: then it would have been my second vision of Marster Chef,
Speaker 2: then I'm a celeb, and then it my first even
Speaker 2: of Marstership.
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, that's not the order that I thought it
Speaker 1: was going to be in, you know, I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think as well.
Speaker 1: You know, would you do more reality shows at this point?
Speaker 1: Because I remember going for swim one day and running
Speaker 1: into you at the pool and asking you about reality shows.
Speaker 1: And this is before Survivor, before I'm a celebrity, and
Speaker 1: you mentioned dancing with the stars, like, is there is
Speaker 1: there another? Is there more reality TV for you?
Speaker 2: I think I'm hanging up my boots. I'm pretty dune now.
Speaker 2: I feel like I've done three that I really really
Speaker 2: loved dancing. For me, it looks like I'm but I
Speaker 2: don't think I could do it. I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: I've got too less fee, no time to teaching me
Speaker 2: how to dancing here, and I was not getting anything.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: I always think of you as being a DJ because
Speaker 1: that's how I met you. You know how you always remember people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I meet you, and I kind of feel like I've
Speaker 1: seen you do the two step while you're djaing a lot.
Speaker 1: I wonder whether or not stepping outside of that two
Speaker 1: step to try and do bigger dance moves would be
Speaker 1: really impossible.
Speaker 2: It's impossible. Would be jumping up and down into my
Speaker 2: hands up in the air for every single down, and
Speaker 2: they'll be like, okay, zero.
Speaker 1: Well, you're kind of disappointing fans out there, because if
Speaker 1: I was reading any of the comments and wanting to
Speaker 1: highlight one, everyone seems to think you've got another season
Speaker 1: of Survivor in you. So I think that sounds pretty
Speaker 1: glauning for them.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm never going to say no to Survivor. I
Speaker 2: do have a little thought box for the Vivor. But
Speaker 2: saying that, definitely not for the next few years, I'm
Speaker 2: going to be contemplating on my own. So it's for
Speaker 2: a little bit. I think I'm just going to hide
Speaker 2: away in the kitchen for a while. You you to
Speaker 2: see me. I don't know if you've been watching on
Speaker 2: Ready to Be Cook and I really enjoyed doing that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I'm just going to stick to
Speaker 2: the kitchen for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll take it. How did you prepare for this show?
Speaker 1: Because you know I've spoken to you a lot about before,
Speaker 1: You've done shows in the past, and you are a
Speaker 1: preparation man. How long did you have knowing that you're
Speaker 1: going in there? And what sort of preparation did you do?
Speaker 2: Okay? And I tell you, Okay, I guess this flow
Speaker 2: between you and goodness. I have known this pretty much
Speaker 2: like the third couple of weeks. It's November.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew really really early, just because I've kind
Speaker 2: of like been up back and forth about doing Amatla
Speaker 2: for a few years and the timing never worked, so
Speaker 2: like having that head up really really helped. So it
Speaker 2: was really people say that they need to like naturally show.
Speaker 2: I was kind of just paping my life to make
Speaker 2: it work, and I'm so glad that I did because
Speaker 2: this has been best experience. I don't think you can
Speaker 2: actually do anything to prepare yourself for something I did.
Speaker 2: Like if I've been going on like a school camp
Speaker 2: and like doing some stupid stuff with your like mate,
Speaker 2: there's nothing else you really do, but you don't know
Speaker 2: what they're going to follow you either. Yeah, you know
Speaker 2: there's gonna be like we challenges and wed trials, but
Speaker 2: like I wasn't expecting to get thrown off with a
Speaker 2: clip on a third day.
Speaker 1: No, they're horrific.
Speaker 2: No, I was supposed there, like the whole way, and
Speaker 2: even like the eating stuff. Everyone's like, oh, you're a chef,
Speaker 2: you'll be fine. I'm like, hey, I'm a chef. I
Speaker 2: like flavor. I don't like like a stinky random things
Speaker 2: that look like that, you know, like they're rotting.
Speaker 1: How many times have they asked you to do this show?
Speaker 1: Because I think you said publicly before a pedestrian that
Speaker 1: that asked you four times. Is that the fourth time?
Speaker 1: And then what made you say yes this time?
Speaker 2: I think it was actually a sixtated first time. I
Speaker 2: think it would like there were a couple, don't one
Speaker 2: you or we just kind of like back and board thing,
Speaker 2: but nothing will ever intulate. It was really always about timing.
Speaker 2: It was never that I didn't want to do it,
Speaker 2: but it was just more that, you know what, It's
Speaker 2: like a lot of times your books really find advance
Speaker 2: for certain things, especially when you're in food and food
Speaker 2: tenth of all and I'm cooking demos and stuff they booked,
Speaker 2: you really find advance. Luckily, this time we spoke far
Speaker 2: enough for me to be able to do it. Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, So another thing I was going to ask you,
Speaker 1: but I was curious, did you packed thirty one lunches
Speaker 1: for Mickey or whoever that guy is didn't make lunch past?
Speaker 2: What did you gone? He moved out like over a
Speaker 2: year ago. Oh my god, I think someone else is
Speaker 2: doing his lunches.
Speaker 1: He's long gone. What about Matt Agnew Because I would
Speaker 1: wonder because he had put his hand up to do
Speaker 1: this series and he didn't get cast. Did that upset him?
Speaker 1: Because you guys are in like a romance. Was he
Speaker 1: jealous of you?
Speaker 2: No? No he was No, he was really really supportive,
Speaker 2: like he played along with everything. I think with Glamor
Speaker 2: on the Grid, which was like probably the big event
Speaker 2: that I missed, the one where I thought, oh, that
Speaker 2: might be the one that makes it a little bit
Speaker 2: obvious because I do it every year. And he was
Speaker 2: there and he's like, oh yeah. I spoke to a
Speaker 2: few journalists about it, and I just said, you were
Speaker 2: on persing your guy, and I was like, I.
Speaker 1: Just realized, I have so many questions if only got
Speaker 1: ten minutes. So I feel like we should do what
Speaker 1: I sometimes have to do for celebrities who have far
Speaker 1: too many questions. Can we play Andy Cohen's lead the
Speaker 1: fifth just to be able to plow through all of
Speaker 1: these Yeah, let's do it. Let's let's lead the Okay,
Speaker 1: work with me, people that are playing on home because
Speaker 1: I didn't prepare this. But have you ever slept with
Speaker 1: a coast from any of your previous.
Speaker 2: Shows in the same bed? Yes? Actually, no, wait one second,
Speaker 2: let me have a think.
Speaker 1: No, who was your least favorite celebrity in the jungle.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be really surprising because they're also my favorite.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Sky, what I gonna hate me for saying
Speaker 2: that I loved guide to Pieces. But there were moments
Speaker 2: where I was like, day, lets go right when she
Speaker 2: cooked with me if she was always person to put
Speaker 2: her hand up, but she was also the person that
Speaker 2: stressed out the moment, so like I would give her
Speaker 2: a top like, hey, day, can use like book this
Speaker 2: broccoli for me. Get put it into the pan and
Speaker 2: stir for a little bit. But every thirty seconds to
Speaker 2: a minute after I she was like, should I keep stirring?
Speaker 2: Do I need to add a new ingredients? Do I
Speaker 2: put the feeding? Do I do this? I'm like, I
Speaker 2: would give you the next instruction when it's ready for
Speaker 2: the next induction.
Speaker 1: That's juicy. That is very pussy. I love it. Okay.
Speaker 1: Who surprised you the most out of your campmates? Out
Speaker 1: of the other celebrities, Candice Fauna.
Speaker 2: I in thinking that she was this really half strong,
Speaker 2: like heart exterior person, and what I got from her
Speaker 2: was nurturing, a soft motherly. She loved her children and
Speaker 2: her husband so much. There her entire life and it's
Speaker 2: like to be really connected just about family.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I'm taking that one as well. That is
Speaker 1: also trucy. But did you have a crush on anyone
Speaker 1: throughout your time in the jungle?
Speaker 2: Mister Bridges did really? Not all just fall in love
Speaker 2: with her Selfridges and she did because we he and
Speaker 2: then I get to be in here with her like that.
Speaker 2: He is insane, which is really surprising because I feel
Speaker 2: like everyone would be like what about Talum? And I'm like, like,
Speaker 2: I don't like clean hearts, like after my vibe?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's amazing. Who would you do All Stars?
Speaker 1: I'm a celebrity if it circles back around, because you
Speaker 1: know we're up to ten seasons, surely they're going to
Speaker 1: do on All Stars? Would you go back?
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure there's new markets contestants every single year,
Speaker 2: new Battle Into contentants every year, So I don't think
Speaker 2: they're going to do it all does. I don't even
Speaker 2: think that I would even get the call up for that.
Speaker 1: What about? Do you think anyone would hit on Robert
Speaker 1: Irwin while Terry Erwin is watching from the site?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not that they are Australian Royalty. Okay, here's another infobius.
Speaker 2: So I did a trial right and I didn't know
Speaker 2: that Terry was going to be around, and I remember
Speaker 2: walking off it was Ellie and I and I literally
Speaker 2: stood there and I went a lot. Jerry I was.
Speaker 2: I was so happy. I was so excited to see her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty hard. I mean I would be starstruck
Speaker 1: from Julia Morris and Robert Owan alone, but Terry's like
Speaker 1: sort of another level. It's another rationalon of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love I love my ship. I was like,
Speaker 2: I was not hiding it whatsoever. I was fan going hard.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, loving this too much. But I'm going to
Speaker 1: throw you out one last question to finish off pleading
Speaker 1: the fifth and you haven't played the fifth one, so
Speaker 1: I'm very excited. Was there any celebrities that you were
Speaker 1: worried would be in the jungle because you have any
Speaker 1: you have existing beef them on the outside.
Speaker 2: Not beef, but I was really worried. So strange, but
Speaker 2: I was really worried that that was going to be here.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was really worried, just because I didn't
Speaker 2: tell Matt until pretty much the week before I went in,
Speaker 2: and I was trying to like, I was goping at
Speaker 2: his house because they they people might not marriage. I know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if we're going to get in trouble
Speaker 2: for friends, but they then need the boots to break
Speaker 2: in first, so like you get to booty a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks beforehand. So when I was at I was
Speaker 2: sound like two times during those time lead up weeks
Speaker 2: and I would like to send him to go get
Speaker 2: like chocolate or something, just so that I could smith
Speaker 2: through the house and see if I can find the
Speaker 2: boot because I was really worried, but he was going
Speaker 2: to be in there just because I'm like, I don't
Speaker 2: want like us to just be in there together and
Speaker 2: not bother with anyone else. Like I just thought, like
Speaker 2: we did separtations all good, but we were in there
Speaker 2: together and it would just feel like me and him
Speaker 2: doing our normal day stuff and like we would just
Speaker 2: not hang out with anyone and not care about anyone else.
Speaker 1: We need as I mean to come on at this point,
Speaker 1: because you know, like the only people that have actually
Speaker 1: covered this, the only people that have actually asked about
Speaker 1: this really publicly from apart from you two talking about
Speaker 1: it on your socials. What's going on with you guys?
Speaker 1: Is there something I think we're playing along at home
Speaker 1: we are talking about Matt agu who was the bachelor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Abby Chatfield's bachelor just f y. I so what is
Speaker 1: the deal with your friendship? Because sometimes we see you
Speaker 1: cuddling on the couch. Is it inappropriate and not appropriate
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four to ask?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think it's like a propect to be like, oh,
Speaker 2: like an UNI relationship, because obviously that would be like
Speaker 2: you shouldn't probably take anyone if the gay shoot are
Speaker 2: but we all want to know.
Speaker 1: I feel terrible put me in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm telling you now, it's like Abbie introduced
Speaker 2: me to Matt just because Matt was thinking about me
Speaker 2: back to Melbourne. He didn't really have a massive like
Speaker 2: friendship group here and she trust me wear really clothes
Speaker 2: and so she was like, oh, hang out with each other,
Speaker 2: and then we became better friends off the back of that.
Speaker 2: We both need them thinks in our life being just
Speaker 2: like you know, companionship. There's never been in a contextual
Speaker 2: or anything like that purely friendship, but like I'm seeing
Speaker 2: someone that lives in a different state, So sometimes I'm
Speaker 2: just like, I do you think someone's coming and watch
Speaker 2: a movie with me?
Speaker 1: Okay? I feel like I get it. I get it,
Speaker 1: and it's very twenty twenty four, and I.
Speaker 2: Think it's really healthy for a straight mail to just
Speaker 2: be like, yeah, this is what we do because I'm
Speaker 2: so confident in my own masculine maculinity that I don't
Speaker 2: feel threatened by people being like I'm in a relationship
Speaker 2: with like freaking dance like well, like we're two friends
Speaker 2: sitting on a couch watching a movie and eating my
Speaker 2: cream and being scared because all we do is what
Speaker 2: power up?
Speaker 1: Well, this probably answers another question, but like when you
Speaker 1: come out of the jungle, who's the first phone call?
Speaker 1: Is it your boyfriend or is it Matt?
Speaker 2: I called my mom, I called my sister and not
Speaker 2: my boyfriend. But I did call Tysan. I did send
Speaker 2: Matt a text, but it was very late. Okay, So
Speaker 2: we've just been kicking back and forth because I've just
Speaker 2: only been on I've been on interview all days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course. And have you found anything out that's
Speaker 1: outrageously away from Matt and away from your and your
Speaker 1: family coming out of the jungle, what's kind of shocked
Speaker 1: you the most? Is it anything that you learned that
Speaker 1: happened in camp that you didn't know, is it something
Speaker 1: in the news cycle. Well, I want to know what's
Speaker 1: something that shocked you.
Speaker 2: I actually haven't had an answer to read anything. I honestly,
Speaker 2: I came out a full round of print and then
Speaker 2: I had like food, like a lot of food, scolate
Speaker 2: looking at that, and then I went to lead for
Speaker 2: three hours and work up to do more presents.
Speaker 1: So it's just been hectics. Okay, you're not getting your
Speaker 1: full block. Yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I get my life back in about
Speaker 2: an hour and a half.
Speaker 1: Okay, in an hour and a half, you'll have your
Speaker 1: life back, which is great. So I'm going to ask
Speaker 1: you two more questions. It's kind of do you know what?
Speaker 1: For me, it was kind of expected to me that
Speaker 1: we would hear some of your stories from your back catalog.
Speaker 1: I'm sure because you haven't had a chance to watch
Speaker 1: the showback, so you don't know what we've seen. And
Speaker 1: maybe you did talk about these things, but I would
Speaker 1: have loved to have heard about your relationship with like
Speaker 1: King George or the late Jock who you worked with
Speaker 1: on mastershef did you get a chance to sort of
Speaker 1: unpack some of the you know, the highs and lows?
Speaker 1: And the relationships that you've had throughout your time with
Speaker 1: some of these really extraordinary famous people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did speak basically about you know, doing marketship
Speaker 2: and having dropped, and all I can say is he
Speaker 2: was in bost seasons. I have different judges that I
Speaker 2: really dealt with. For my first season, I became really
Speaker 2: close to George Colin Barras. He actually texted me like
Speaker 2: this day that when in not even knowing that went
Speaker 2: in here with asking me questions about like doing enough
Speaker 2: with him at Hotel Cerendo. So like we still talked
Speaker 2: to this day. Jock with the other one that I
Speaker 2: actually got along with really really well. He was super supportive.
Speaker 2: I remember him just being like when I left a
Speaker 2: vamily or anything, He's actual to send me a message.
Speaker 2: I'm here. He gave me really good advice. And that's
Speaker 2: the kind of person that they both are. They're both
Speaker 2: very nursuring. So I definitely just wanted the best out
Speaker 2: of the contest, so that a will is a really
Speaker 2: really big loss. Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well for people who missed out on being able
Speaker 1: to hear some of those people's names, that's pretty impressive,
Speaker 1: and thank you for sharing that. I know who you
Speaker 1: think is going to win. You've told Julia and Robert
Speaker 1: that do you think it's going to be Sky? So
Speaker 1: I don't need to ask question. But my last question,
Speaker 1: as you would know, as you've been on the podcast
Speaker 1: now this is your fourth time, what is something from
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, something that we didn't get a chance
Speaker 1: to see, something of a behind the scenes secret from
Speaker 1: you as a celebrity and what it's like to be
Speaker 1: on a show like this.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm thinking it's from on the you know, I'm
Speaker 2: mentally per Okay, you get blindfolded a lot o S
Speaker 2: and M. You get blindfolded a lot on this show.
Speaker 2: They don't want you to like see anything that might
Speaker 2: ruin your experience. So a lot of times when we're
Speaker 2: sitting around waiting for a trial or moving from one location,
Speaker 2: ticken actually get blindfolded.
Speaker 1: Wow, that did I use the right initials? I'm not
Speaker 1: into SNM. Is that what you say?
Speaker 2: S and M?
Speaker 1: This is where you get blind.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say finem. It was more of a subsaulting
Speaker 2: and I did a couple of times. I did try
Speaker 2: and peek underneath, and all I could see were like
Speaker 2: the back of people's feet. And I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: there is the personal in this challenge because you know
Speaker 2: it's not reality tving and not only like five hundred people.
Speaker 1: On set, can't I You're a living legend. I cannot believe,
Speaker 1: you know, every year we get to be treated with
Speaker 1: you being able to do one of these shows, which
Speaker 1: I'm here for. Thank you so much, and yeah, congratulations
Speaker 1: on doing so well on the show.
Speaker 2: And the problems. I love I love eaching you from
Speaker 2: you too.
Speaker 1: I believe I managed to get all of those questions
Speaker 1: I've got to go because you're going into your next
Speaker 1: into I mean, being driven away, but I've managed to
Speaker 1: slam all those questions together or to plead the fifth,
Speaker 1: which was amazing.
Speaker 2: We we liked it, and I reckon you got a
Speaker 2: lot like You've got a lot of like really pumping.
Speaker 1: They're all stuff for your autobiography, Sott Mett. We'll hope
Speaker 1: no one listens to my podcast because they all need
Speaker 1: to be chattered anyway. Lots lots of love for you, mate,
Speaker 1: You
Speaker 2: By Haney