WEBVTT - ELIMINATED QUEENS Week 6 - RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE DOWN UNDER - Reality TV Contestant 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:03.640 TV Reload the podcast. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:04.040 Past weep that line. 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.200 Welcome TV Reload listeners. As you may know, my name 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.920 is Benjamin Norris and this is your podcast to get 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.400 all the inside goss on the popular TV shows you 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.040 may be watching from around the world. Undeniably, our TV 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.799 sets are a major part of our home entertainment, and 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:21.680 yet very little is known about how our favorite shows 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.479 get made. 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It is the Fabulous bump Alove. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.160 The now Melbourne based New Zealand drag queen is known 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.480 amongst the entertainment world as a trailblazer for the drag scene, 0:00:57.760 --> 0:00:59.760 you would be hard pressed to find it down Under 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.560 Court Jean who has clocked as many wigs, dresses and 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:06.160 nightclub appearances as Bumper, and it has been really exciting 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.720 to see her take on the Rupoul's competition. Bumpa was 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.560 pretty direct at times and gave this competition her all, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.520 representing the older queens of our industry in a very 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.800 fabulous way. However, it was her return this week to 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.479 the bottom two for the second time that saw her 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.759 sashang away. I will find out how Bumpa Love got 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.840 along with the other queens and if any existing riffs 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.800 carried through into the filming of the third season. We 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.520 will unpack the Rupole's Drag Race experience and get some 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.559 great insights into the drag world and how this show 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.760 has changed the industry for the better. Bumper will share 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.520 her thoughts on the early favorites and how this show 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.080 will affect their careers moving forward. Plus, we will get 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.960 plenty of exclusives from behind the scenes of Rupoul's Drag 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.720 Race down Under, which is now available to watch on 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:55.160 STAN Australia. Anyway, guys, let's bring Bumper into the podcast 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.640 and I hope you enjoy this very special look at 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.480 RuPaul's drag Race for week six. Hi bomba Love, How 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:02.320 are you hello? 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:03.440 I'm great, thank you? 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.440 How are you very good? I'm very excited to be 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.360 talking to you. It's actually really scary how fast this 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.960 season is going. Is it a bit of a whirlwind 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:11.800 for you at this point? 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.880 It actually is, even though you know we've had finished filming, 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:16.720 it's still a freaking whirlwind. 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:18.799 I wanted to ask you about because, I mean, you're 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.040 a very recognizable queen in Melbourne. I mean I was 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:23.920 just saying to you before we started that you're one 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.600 of the only queens that have actually seen live, you know. 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:28.600 I wanted to ask you how this opportunity came up. 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.920 I mustome if they had reached out to me previously, 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.280 but because of lockdown and I have my own business, 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.200 I really had to look after my business because I 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.200 employed drag queens and so that's where my focus was 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:39.120 this time round. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:40.280 My focus. 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.760 I didn't think I'd ever get the opportunity to be 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.519 on this kind of platform because for me, Ripple's Drag 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.240 Race is the Olympics of drag. So I never thought 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.560 it would happen for me because I'm an old girl, 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.320 but this time the opportunity came around, the timing was 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.240 right for me, and also the rent on my venue 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.720 went up by sixty percent after COVID, so Mumma needs 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.119 to make coin. So it's a two prong thing. Yes 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.760 for the Olympic, Yes, mumonys to promote the venue and 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.800 make some coin to keep on employing my team because 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.359 I've had the venue for six years and I want 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:10.600 to have it for another six years. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.320 I just think, you know, it's a lot of pressure 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.720 because you're going onto this show after watching it for 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.800 so many years, and it's your Olympics. So what was 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.320 the reality of being a part of a show like 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.640 this in comparison to what maybe you'd construct it in 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:23.120 your head. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:27.040 It's nothing compared to what I constructed in my head. 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:31.000 So really blew me away with the whole process and 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.720 what's involved in it, what I would need to bring 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.920 to it. I really actually wasn't prepared and I don't 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.160 really listen to a lot of online chatter about stuff. 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:41.960 So I'm not really that kind of a person. Because 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:43.880 I've been in the public eye for many years and 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.680 people used to come for me all the time. So 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.200 I've learned how to block all of that noise. But 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.360 there's some really good advice in all of that noise 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:52.720 that I missed out on. 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:53.960 So I realize that now. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:55.840 So I'm going to listen a little bit more to 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.880 some of that stuff. Yeah, it's definitely it's a world 0:03:58.880 --> 0:03:59.360 of its own. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.440 You know. It's funny about reality TV as well, is 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.840 that we get an opportunity to see a version of ourselves. 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.240 I mean, it is a version that's been constructed. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.960 But we get to see ourselves from how other people 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.640 would see us. Has that been quite surreal? And what 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.960 did you learn about yourself? Watching yourself back? 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.919 Difficult for me because a lot of the takes that 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.760 they have shot the times when I thought we weren't filming, 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.359 So you see me with like crazy eyes and weird 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.440 mouth things, all this weird shit going on when I 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.200 thought the cameras went wrong because I get bored easily 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.120 pretty sure. I've got ADHD, you know, and I want 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.760 to do things keep myself awake, and they captured all 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:35.200 of those things. 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:36.080 It was that shit on. 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.720 TV that was hilarious, not really for me to watch, 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.000 but what I have, I've got a huge sense of 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:47.760 self now because that insights and Instagram especially show me 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.200 where my biggest followings are. And I also get a 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.960 lot of communication back from two countries. In particular, Spain 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.760 is my second most followed follow me Spain and first 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.719 as the Bible Belt of America. Wow, in particular x Mormons, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.560 and they see me such beautiful words, and I think 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.800 that they Spain and the Bible Belt of America they 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.279 see an essence of bumper and that's what they talk 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.520 to me. And I know that language because the way 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:19.400 they talk to me, that's the bumper language. And so okay, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.080 although I hate my crazy eyes, my crazy mouth moves 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.520 and all of that from the show, the essence of 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.839 who I am is quite clearly has come across to 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.840 two countries that you know, I've visited, but I just 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:32.680 didn't know would have that kind of a connection. And 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.359 it's a really beautiful connection, and the feedback from it 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:36.279 has been so amazing. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.200 It's funny we get so critical about those sorts of things, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.600 but it is who we are. For years, I used 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.280 to get really funny about I'd be like, oh, I've 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.239 got jows and aw yeah, and I'd. 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:47.880 Be really critical and I think to myself. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.720 Why because we're so critical on ourselves, but other people 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.600 aren't seeing that. I do relate to the fact that 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.839 I think you have some resting bitch face at certain times, 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.880 which I'm here for. That's a part of the magic 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.800 of you though, you know what I mean, Like, that's 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.360 why you've been so successful. You've got to adopt all 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.360 of those things that you put out into the universe. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:12.400 Yeah, exactly, and I'm very I am multifested. It's amazing that, 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.640 you know, even the girls you know, allude to this 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.320 drunken character. But that's a character that I can draw on. 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.760 And it's a dry shoot, so there's no alcohol, but 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.640 it's clearly I'd look drunk at quite a lot. That's 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.719 part of who my bumper character is. And I can 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.240 draw on the funny bumper, the drunkum, the serious. You know, 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.640 I can draw on what I need to at, you know, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.400 kind of any given time. But it is a character, 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:39.960 and it's someone who wants to invite people in. So, 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.599 you know, come and learn a bit more about the 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.640 old bumper. You'll have a good time because I am 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.320 a good time girl. So I can see how initially 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.320 it might come come across as upway. But I can 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.599 clearly see from the support that the feedback I've had 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.000 from around the world that they get the whole picture 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.080 that there's more to Bumper than meets the eye. 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.159 You can definitely tell that you've got the work, that 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.200 you've put the work in, that you've been around. You 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.920 get that vibe from you straightaway. And I think it's 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.679 a good question to ask you about Rue Paul the series. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.920 You know, it's such a global phenomenon at the moment. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.720 How influential is the show these days on what's actually 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.760 happening in the drag scene from what you've seen around Australia. 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.880 I think for me personally, it hasn't. It's had no effect. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.480 I know it's a weird thing to say, but I'm 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:26.400 a stage venue girl, so you know, I work work, work, work, work, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.160 So the RuPaul drag Race world for me is it's 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.560 a world, but it's not my world. It's a weird 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.840 thing to say, but that that's I hadn't really had 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:34.560 it affect me. 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:36.120 After being on the show. 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.040 I can definitely see how it's influenced some of the 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.880 girls that I work with, for sure, and I've certainly 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.680 learned a lot from being on the show, and it's 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.480 a universe. Rupel's drag Race is a universe, and I'm 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:54.000 really super excited and looking forward to creating other Bumper images. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:58.480 Bumper looks Bumper gigs because of now of what I've experienced, 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.720 and it's a world that I think I've been so 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.200 busy working that really I just did not know that 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.360 it was that amazing and I could learn so much 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:08.280 from it so I. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:09.000 Had on the show. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.240 I think the amazing thing about doing a show like 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.560 this is how it can change you. You know, not 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.080 everyone gets the opportunity to do a show like this, 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.840 which you've been very lucky to get into. Do you 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.880 think that your drag will look quite different to what 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.280 it was before you did the show? 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:27.600 Yes, I think look wise, definitely. I think experience wise. No. 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.640 We've had our viewings here in the venue and I 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.200 can It's weird because now that I've been on the show, people, 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.840 I can hear people in the audience like talking about 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.120 me and say, oh, remember when Bumper did that? Blah blah, 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.320 remember when Bumper did that. You know, it's a different 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.800 kind of conversation, but I'm not being any different in 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.880 a station show, but I think certainly looks. I think 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.440 the one thing, the biggest, one of the biggest lessons 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.199 I've been given from the show is you know, drag 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.440 is actually high fashion. It can actually be at the 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.480 top of fashion. So that's something I really want to 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.400 work on over the next couple of years to recreate Bumper. 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:05.440 I think it's really fascinating the way that RuPaul's and 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:10.040 this particular show has influence art and influence fashion, and 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.319 they're two things that people don't necessarily draw to straight away, 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.360 but it certainly is happening in industries around the world, 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:17.200 quite impressive and. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.800 Always That's the funny thing. It actually always has been happening. 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.520 Drag has influenced for many, many years, and I think 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.000 I don't know why. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.960 I just kind of wasn't looking with those eyes. 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:30.600 But now that I've been on the show, I really 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.760 do want to work and I think maybe it's because 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.360 I spent so much of my time working in community. 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:36.480 That's that's a lot. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.680 I put a lot of energy into that, So I 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:40.680 may have to pull back from some of that because 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.360 I really do want to work on other aspects of Bumper, 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:44.800 and I really do want to get into TV in 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:46.720 film as well now because it's time. 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:48.760 Yeah, there's a lot of people actually coming off these 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.280 shows and getting a lot of work that way. How 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.120 come you made the decision to go from New Zealand 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.360 over to Australia And what made you choose Melbourne is 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:57.800 as where you wanted to call home. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:58.400 And New Zealand. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.600 I ended up doing the biggest gigs you could ever do, 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.920 and I had been on TV as well, and I 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.520 thought what do I do now? And there's a couple 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.360 of raining queens there as well that you know, I 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.520 couldn't really topple them over because they were, they was 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.760 and they're still going today. And one of them's actually 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:17.120 my inspiration, Buckwheat. So I wanted to make my own stamp. 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.080 And I've always loved Melbourne. I've worked here before and 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.720 so that that's why I decided to come here. I 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.440 did go to Sydney for a couple of years. I've 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.760 got four generations of my family. Then I wanted to 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.439 work at Nider Drama School and I worked there for 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.760 a couple of years intending to come and land here. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.760 So I've been in Melbourne for about sixteen years. I 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.760 think sixteen seventeen years wow, and forming the whole time. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.640 But also I've worked at VCA, the College of the 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.480 Arts for severn or eight years on and off, working 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.400 with them a lot. But Melbourne is amazing, and I 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.480 just wanted to like make my own mark, if you 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.160 know what I mean, because it was a bit difficult 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.240 in New Zealand, but I'm at the top of my 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:51.440 game here, so still good. 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:51.840 You know. 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.480 I always get really stressed about these challenges because I 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.800 always think of myself and how I would do them. 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.599 And as soon as that annual drag Brunch was announced, 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.520 I was like, I'm like, what act would you put together? 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:05.240 And then I was watching you. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.280 You seem more determined than anyone else about doing comedy, 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.240 and I knew when Gabriella was saying to you, be 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.400 really careful with comedy because it can fall down where 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.240 I actually didn't think you did too badly because I 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.480 was genuinely laughing along with you, but I was. But 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.000 I was curious to know when you knew that there 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:24.920 was going to be sort of like a talent contest 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.160 you was it comedy and comedy only or did you 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:29.000 have a backup plan? 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:29.640 God? 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.480 No, so that I wasn't supposed to be doing that. 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.120 So I love writing lyrics and I like singing, so 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:39.560 my track hadn't been cleared in time, so I think 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.520 I just got through EPRA because you know, we were 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.360 only a short time to put all this stuff together, 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.360 and it took me two weeks to do the recording 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.959 of my track that I wrote and the backing vocals, 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.520 and then got cleared by OPRA here in Australia, but 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.200 I think it was the day after we were shooting, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.280 or got cleared in New Zealand the day after, so 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.920 my track I couldn't use it. So I had two 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.160 hours to come up with that fucking bullshit you saw. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.600 And I wish I had gone first because I would 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.400 have been more off the cuff. The judges and the 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.920 critique I got in the two hours I had to 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.160 do it said you know wanted me to go down 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.600 that track because I was just stumped. I just went 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.280 with it and I should probably should have just not 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.640 listened to anyone and saying the track a cappella final love. 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.280 Can you give me a bit of the track. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.400 Now that we've it's been a time, I'm going to 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.880 remix it because there's something else has happened since, which 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.720 I'll announce down the track and then yes, I will 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.040 definitely have that track online. 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:36.959 So what about a name? Can you give us a 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:38.400 name of the track so that we know what we're 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:38.880 looking about? 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.320 Way, Bumper's Way, Bumper's Way. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.360 W A y. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.880 Well, I mean it's really stressful when you're putting that together. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.320 So like, I can't believe that you had such a 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.120 short turnaround to try and put a comedy act together. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.320 My lad fear is doing comedy in front of a 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:56.000 live audience. 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.360 So I think you did so well well. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.280 I wish we had an audience that we have been 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.480 a lot better for Bumper because I'm really good at 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.319 like one on one and bom bom boom boom. When 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.679 you've got four people like miles away from you and 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:11.560 that's it, it's you know, it's a different, different scene, 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:12.880 so you know, it is what it is. 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:14.200 I landed in the bottom. 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.440 I'm not I'm actually not upset with that because I 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.160 thought it was not my best work. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:19.360 So I was okay with that. 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.520 When you first arrived and you've got all the queen's there, 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.000 how close to how you thought people would go in 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:27.719 this competition? 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.720 Is accurate to how you thought it was going to go. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:34.600 Gabby, Oh my god, so good. Loved her from the 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.120 very very outset, so I knew she would do well. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.880 I bloody knew Isis will do well. And then as 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:44.600 the season progressed, I really thought Floor would do great 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.920 as well. And of course Hollywood slays a performance. Is 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:49.720 absolutely an amazing performer. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.160 Has it brought you girls closer together like as in 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.360 doing this sort of a show with a high pressure 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.280 that it is. Does it make you all like a 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.880 tight unit? Or is there is it fragmented after doing 0:13:58.920 --> 0:13:59.920 something so intense like that. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.720 It's a unique experience and we've all said that to 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.880 each other that you know, no one else has actually 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.560 had that experience. And I hear that all the time 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.839 with the different community groups that I work with. 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:11.160 But this is. 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:16.720 Definitely a very very unique situation with men dressing up 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.560 as a woman online television with a worldwide audience. It's 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:25.440 very very unique. So we actually have really great conversations together, 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.720 really honest ones, really supportive ones. As I said, I've 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.640 got Ivory staying with me at the moment, who I love. 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.440 She's here doing some gigs and I had I've had 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.120 ready to come and stay with me as well and 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.800 her partner. You know, we're super supportive and if I 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.320 needed to stay with someone in Sydney, I can stay with. 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.240 I wouldn't die always that qt QT hotel. You need 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:45.400 to give me free accommodation. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:46.880 It's my favorite way I would stay. 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.280 Love that hotel met too. 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.280 I'm just about to write to them because they need 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.120 coming up. But you know, we've got homes all over 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.560 the place, and Gabby's like me too. She's been looking 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.200 after some of the girls. They've gone for viewings in 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.240 Ballarat and they've stayed with her. I don't know what 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.600 the other seasons do like that, but we definitely have 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.680 each other others. Back to all of us in New Zealand. 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.760 People have got a home Melbourne, Sydney. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.240 Barrett, you've now got all these new homes. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.560 You're like a drag mother for everyone in Melbourne, and 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.240 then they can be a drag mother for you when 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:15.840 you go there. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:17.920 Well, they can just buy all of my seven yarm 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.560 blank because I'll be staying at the QT in Auckland 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.640 QT in Sydney and I won't be saying it bet 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:25.280 Gabriellism Bella. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.040 I think I'll go and stay a hotel. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.080 You needed to be more upperclass, you know, there was 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.120 a there was a couple of moments that was a 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.600 little bit confusing, with some drama with your relationship with 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.680 Ashley Madison, who wanted to speak to about this last week. 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:43.280 What was the tea in regards to your relationship before 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:44.600 you both did the show. 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.840 Before, Well, she worked for me and we worked for 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.240 many years together, and then we had a bit of 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:52.120 a falling out. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.280 I suppose. I don't know what it was about. I 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:55.480 got us think about that anything. 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:56.240 Roll back the decks. 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:00.320 Anyway, Well, a long time ago we had a falling out, 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.720 and then we didn't have a falling out, So, you know, 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.520 I think it's just those relationships. But we we're family. 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.000 We're drag family through and through. So it's one of 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.680 those things that just happened. But then it didn't because 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:12.520 we've been fine. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.480 Do you know what I mean. It's like you argue 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.680 with your family and then you make up. That's exactly 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:17.640 how we have been. 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.400 Yeah, yeah, totally, because as you would have seen on 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.360 the episodes, we both talk about each other all the 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.280 time and we're both in each other's lives. Ash was 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.600 at my house last night with Ivory. You know, we're 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.280 just we are family. You know, family fall and family 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.840 fall out, but we have been in much more than 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:34.400 we've been out. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.080 Yeah, it was so. You heard the conversation that I 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:38.560 had them with with Ashley. 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:40.840 Yeah, I love I love your post. You're you're because 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.280 you're very you want to learn about the girls and 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:44.960 what's going on. Whereas you know, a lot of the 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.280 podcasts I just had to not follow because they kind 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.840 of they verge on the edge of being rude because 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.680 they just haven't really done the homework, I suppose, whereas 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:54.920 you do. 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:55.880 It's great. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:59.160 I'm fascinated about the reality TV side of it, you know, 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.280 these social experiment side of it, and you know, and 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.880 the joy of being selected. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.639