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Speaker 1: I'm joined by this week's eliminated queen from RuPaul's Drag
Speaker 1: Race down Under season three. It is the Fabulous bump Alove.
Speaker 1: The now Melbourne based New Zealand drag queen is known
Speaker 1: amongst the entertainment world as a trailblazer for the drag scene,
Speaker 1: you would be hard pressed to find it down Under
Speaker 1: Court Jean who has clocked as many wigs, dresses and
Speaker 1: nightclub appearances as Bumper, and it has been really exciting
Speaker 1: to see her take on the Rupoul's competition. Bumpa was
Speaker 1: pretty direct at times and gave this competition her all,
Speaker 1: representing the older queens of our industry in a very
Speaker 1: fabulous way. However, it was her return this week to
Speaker 1: the bottom two for the second time that saw her
Speaker 1: sashang away. I will find out how Bumpa Love got
Speaker 1: along with the other queens and if any existing riffs
Speaker 1: carried through into the filming of the third season. We
Speaker 1: will unpack the Rupole's Drag Race experience and get some
Speaker 1: great insights into the drag world and how this show
Speaker 1: has changed the industry for the better. Bumper will share
Speaker 1: her thoughts on the early favorites and how this show
Speaker 1: will affect their careers moving forward. Plus, we will get
Speaker 1: plenty of exclusives from behind the scenes of Rupoul's Drag
Speaker 1: Race down Under, which is now available to watch on
Speaker 1: STAN Australia. Anyway, guys, let's bring Bumper into the podcast
Speaker 1: and I hope you enjoy this very special look at
Speaker 1: RuPaul's drag Race for week six. Hi bomba Love, How
Speaker 1: are you hello?
Speaker 3: I'm great, thank you?
Speaker 1: How are you very good? I'm very excited to be
Speaker 1: talking to you. It's actually really scary how fast this
Speaker 1: season is going. Is it a bit of a whirlwind
Speaker 1: for you at this point?
Speaker 2: It actually is, even though you know we've had finished filming,
Speaker 2: it's still a freaking whirlwind.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about because, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: a very recognizable queen in Melbourne. I mean I was
Speaker 1: just saying to you before we started that you're one
Speaker 1: of the only queens that have actually seen live, you know.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you how this opportunity came up.
Speaker 2: I mustome if they had reached out to me previously,
Speaker 2: but because of lockdown and I have my own business,
Speaker 2: I really had to look after my business because I
Speaker 2: employed drag queens and so that's where my focus was
Speaker 2: this time round.
Speaker 3: My focus.
Speaker 2: I didn't think I'd ever get the opportunity to be
Speaker 2: on this kind of platform because for me, Ripple's Drag
Speaker 2: Race is the Olympics of drag. So I never thought
Speaker 2: it would happen for me because I'm an old girl,
Speaker 2: but this time the opportunity came around, the timing was
Speaker 2: right for me, and also the rent on my venue
Speaker 2: went up by sixty percent after COVID, so Mumma needs
Speaker 2: to make coin. So it's a two prong thing. Yes
Speaker 2: for the Olympic, Yes, mumonys to promote the venue and
Speaker 2: make some coin to keep on employing my team because
Speaker 2: I've had the venue for six years and I want
Speaker 2: to have it for another six years.
Speaker 1: I just think, you know, it's a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: because you're going onto this show after watching it for
Speaker 1: so many years, and it's your Olympics. So what was
Speaker 1: the reality of being a part of a show like
Speaker 1: this in comparison to what maybe you'd construct it in
Speaker 1: your head.
Speaker 2: It's nothing compared to what I constructed in my head.
Speaker 2: So really blew me away with the whole process and
Speaker 2: what's involved in it, what I would need to bring
Speaker 2: to it. I really actually wasn't prepared and I don't
Speaker 2: really listen to a lot of online chatter about stuff.
Speaker 2: So I'm not really that kind of a person. Because
Speaker 2: I've been in the public eye for many years and
Speaker 2: people used to come for me all the time. So
Speaker 2: I've learned how to block all of that noise. But
Speaker 2: there's some really good advice in all of that noise
Speaker 2: that I missed out on.
Speaker 3: So I realize that now.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to listen a little bit more to
Speaker 2: some of that stuff. Yeah, it's definitely it's a world
Speaker 2: of its own.
Speaker 1: You know. It's funny about reality TV as well, is
Speaker 1: that we get an opportunity to see a version of ourselves.
Speaker 4: I mean, it is a version that's been constructed.
Speaker 1: But we get to see ourselves from how other people
Speaker 1: would see us. Has that been quite surreal? And what
Speaker 1: did you learn about yourself? Watching yourself back?
Speaker 2: Difficult for me because a lot of the takes that
Speaker 2: they have shot the times when I thought we weren't filming,
Speaker 2: So you see me with like crazy eyes and weird
Speaker 2: mouth things, all this weird shit going on when I
Speaker 2: thought the cameras went wrong because I get bored easily
Speaker 2: pretty sure. I've got ADHD, you know, and I want
Speaker 2: to do things keep myself awake, and they captured all
Speaker 2: of those things.
Speaker 3: It was that shit on.
Speaker 2: TV that was hilarious, not really for me to watch,
Speaker 2: but what I have, I've got a huge sense of
Speaker 2: self now because that insights and Instagram especially show me
Speaker 2: where my biggest followings are. And I also get a
Speaker 2: lot of communication back from two countries. In particular, Spain
Speaker 2: is my second most followed follow me Spain and first
Speaker 2: as the Bible Belt of America. Wow, in particular x Mormons,
Speaker 2: and they see me such beautiful words, and I think
Speaker 2: that they Spain and the Bible Belt of America they
Speaker 2: see an essence of bumper and that's what they talk
Speaker 2: to me. And I know that language because the way
Speaker 2: they talk to me, that's the bumper language. And so okay,
Speaker 2: although I hate my crazy eyes, my crazy mouth moves
Speaker 2: and all of that from the show, the essence of
Speaker 2: who I am is quite clearly has come across to
Speaker 2: two countries that you know, I've visited, but I just
Speaker 2: didn't know would have that kind of a connection. And
Speaker 2: it's a really beautiful connection, and the feedback from it
Speaker 2: has been so amazing.
Speaker 1: It's funny we get so critical about those sorts of things,
Speaker 1: but it is who we are. For years, I used
Speaker 1: to get really funny about I'd be like, oh, I've
Speaker 1: got jows and aw yeah, and I'd.
Speaker 4: Be really critical and I think to myself.
Speaker 1: Why because we're so critical on ourselves, but other people
Speaker 1: aren't seeing that. I do relate to the fact that
Speaker 1: I think you have some resting bitch face at certain times,
Speaker 1: which I'm here for. That's a part of the magic
Speaker 1: of you though, you know what I mean, Like, that's
Speaker 1: why you've been so successful. You've got to adopt all
Speaker 1: of those things that you put out into the universe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, and I'm very I am multifested. It's amazing that,
Speaker 2: you know, even the girls you know, allude to this
Speaker 2: drunken character. But that's a character that I can draw on.
Speaker 2: And it's a dry shoot, so there's no alcohol, but
Speaker 2: it's clearly I'd look drunk at quite a lot. That's
Speaker 2: part of who my bumper character is. And I can
Speaker 2: draw on the funny bumper, the drunkum, the serious. You know,
Speaker 2: I can draw on what I need to at, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of any given time. But it is a character,
Speaker 2: and it's someone who wants to invite people in. So,
Speaker 2: you know, come and learn a bit more about the
Speaker 2: old bumper. You'll have a good time because I am
Speaker 2: a good time girl. So I can see how initially
Speaker 2: it might come come across as upway. But I can
Speaker 2: clearly see from the support that the feedback I've had
Speaker 2: from around the world that they get the whole picture
Speaker 2: that there's more to Bumper than meets the eye.
Speaker 1: You can definitely tell that you've got the work, that
Speaker 1: you've put the work in, that you've been around. You
Speaker 1: get that vibe from you straightaway. And I think it's
Speaker 1: a good question to ask you about Rue Paul the series.
Speaker 1: You know, it's such a global phenomenon at the moment.
Speaker 1: How influential is the show these days on what's actually
Speaker 1: happening in the drag scene from what you've seen around Australia.
Speaker 2: I think for me personally, it hasn't. It's had no effect.
Speaker 2: I know it's a weird thing to say, but I'm
Speaker 2: a stage venue girl, so you know, I work work, work, work, work,
Speaker 2: So the RuPaul drag Race world for me is it's
Speaker 2: a world, but it's not my world. It's a weird
Speaker 2: thing to say, but that that's I hadn't really had
Speaker 2: it affect me.
Speaker 3: After being on the show.
Speaker 2: I can definitely see how it's influenced some of the
Speaker 2: girls that I work with, for sure, and I've certainly
Speaker 2: learned a lot from being on the show, and it's
Speaker 2: a universe. Rupel's drag Race is a universe, and I'm
Speaker 2: really super excited and looking forward to creating other Bumper images.
Speaker 2: Bumper looks Bumper gigs because of now of what I've experienced,
Speaker 2: and it's a world that I think I've been so
Speaker 2: busy working that really I just did not know that
Speaker 2: it was that amazing and I could learn so much
Speaker 2: from it so I.
Speaker 3: Had on the show.
Speaker 1: I think the amazing thing about doing a show like
Speaker 1: this is how it can change you. You know, not
Speaker 1: everyone gets the opportunity to do a show like this,
Speaker 1: which you've been very lucky to get into. Do you
Speaker 1: think that your drag will look quite different to what
Speaker 1: it was before you did the show?
Speaker 2: Yes, I think look wise, definitely. I think experience wise. No.
Speaker 2: We've had our viewings here in the venue and I
Speaker 2: can It's weird because now that I've been on the show, people,
Speaker 2: I can hear people in the audience like talking about
Speaker 2: me and say, oh, remember when Bumper did that? Blah blah,
Speaker 2: remember when Bumper did that. You know, it's a different
Speaker 2: kind of conversation, but I'm not being any different in
Speaker 2: a station show, but I think certainly looks. I think
Speaker 2: the one thing, the biggest, one of the biggest lessons
Speaker 2: I've been given from the show is you know, drag
Speaker 2: is actually high fashion. It can actually be at the
Speaker 2: top of fashion. So that's something I really want to
Speaker 2: work on over the next couple of years to recreate Bumper.
Speaker 1: I think it's really fascinating the way that RuPaul's and
Speaker 1: this particular show has influence art and influence fashion, and
Speaker 1: they're two things that people don't necessarily draw to straight away,
Speaker 1: but it certainly is happening in industries around the world,
Speaker 1: quite impressive and.
Speaker 2: Always That's the funny thing. It actually always has been happening.
Speaker 2: Drag has influenced for many, many years, and I think
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: I just kind of wasn't looking with those eyes.
Speaker 2: But now that I've been on the show, I really
Speaker 2: do want to work and I think maybe it's because
Speaker 2: I spent so much of my time working in community.
Speaker 3: That's that's a lot.
Speaker 2: I put a lot of energy into that, So I
Speaker 2: may have to pull back from some of that because
Speaker 2: I really do want to work on other aspects of Bumper,
Speaker 2: and I really do want to get into TV in
Speaker 2: film as well now because it's time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of people actually coming off these
Speaker 1: shows and getting a lot of work that way. How
Speaker 1: come you made the decision to go from New Zealand
Speaker 1: over to Australia And what made you choose Melbourne is
Speaker 1: as where you wanted to call home.
Speaker 3: And New Zealand.
Speaker 2: I ended up doing the biggest gigs you could ever do,
Speaker 2: and I had been on TV as well, and I
Speaker 2: thought what do I do now? And there's a couple
Speaker 2: of raining queens there as well that you know, I
Speaker 2: couldn't really topple them over because they were, they was
Speaker 2: and they're still going today. And one of them's actually
Speaker 2: my inspiration, Buckwheat. So I wanted to make my own stamp.
Speaker 2: And I've always loved Melbourne. I've worked here before and
Speaker 2: so that that's why I decided to come here. I
Speaker 2: did go to Sydney for a couple of years. I've
Speaker 2: got four generations of my family. Then I wanted to
Speaker 2: work at Nider Drama School and I worked there for
Speaker 2: a couple of years intending to come and land here.
Speaker 2: So I've been in Melbourne for about sixteen years. I
Speaker 2: think sixteen seventeen years wow, and forming the whole time.
Speaker 2: But also I've worked at VCA, the College of the
Speaker 2: Arts for severn or eight years on and off, working
Speaker 2: with them a lot. But Melbourne is amazing, and I
Speaker 2: just wanted to like make my own mark, if you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, because it was a bit difficult
Speaker 2: in New Zealand, but I'm at the top of my
Speaker 2: game here, so still good.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I always get really stressed about these challenges because I
Speaker 1: always think of myself and how I would do them.
Speaker 1: And as soon as that annual drag Brunch was announced,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm like, what act would you put together?
Speaker 4: And then I was watching you.
Speaker 1: You seem more determined than anyone else about doing comedy,
Speaker 1: and I knew when Gabriella was saying to you, be
Speaker 1: really careful with comedy because it can fall down where
Speaker 1: I actually didn't think you did too badly because I
Speaker 1: was genuinely laughing along with you, but I was. But
Speaker 1: I was curious to know when you knew that there
Speaker 1: was going to be sort of like a talent contest
Speaker 1: you was it comedy and comedy only or did you
Speaker 1: have a backup plan?
Speaker 2: God?
Speaker 3: No, so that I wasn't supposed to be doing that.
Speaker 2: So I love writing lyrics and I like singing, so
Speaker 2: my track hadn't been cleared in time, so I think
Speaker 2: I just got through EPRA because you know, we were
Speaker 2: only a short time to put all this stuff together,
Speaker 2: and it took me two weeks to do the recording
Speaker 2: of my track that I wrote and the backing vocals,
Speaker 2: and then got cleared by OPRA here in Australia, but
Speaker 2: I think it was the day after we were shooting,
Speaker 2: or got cleared in New Zealand the day after, so
Speaker 2: my track I couldn't use it. So I had two
Speaker 2: hours to come up with that fucking bullshit you saw.
Speaker 2: And I wish I had gone first because I would
Speaker 2: have been more off the cuff. The judges and the
Speaker 2: critique I got in the two hours I had to
Speaker 2: do it said you know wanted me to go down
Speaker 2: that track because I was just stumped. I just went
Speaker 2: with it and I should probably should have just not
Speaker 2: listened to anyone and saying the track a cappella final love.
Speaker 4: Can you give me a bit of the track.
Speaker 2: Now that we've it's been a time, I'm going to
Speaker 2: remix it because there's something else has happened since, which
Speaker 2: I'll announce down the track and then yes, I will
Speaker 2: definitely have that track online.
Speaker 1: So what about a name? Can you give us a
Speaker 1: name of the track so that we know what we're
Speaker 1: looking about?
Speaker 3: Way, Bumper's Way, Bumper's Way.
Speaker 4: W A y.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's really stressful when you're putting that together.
Speaker 1: So like, I can't believe that you had such a
Speaker 1: short turnaround to try and put a comedy act together.
Speaker 1: My lad fear is doing comedy in front of a
Speaker 1: live audience.
Speaker 4: So I think you did so well well.
Speaker 2: I wish we had an audience that we have been
Speaker 2: a lot better for Bumper because I'm really good at
Speaker 2: like one on one and bom bom boom boom. When
Speaker 2: you've got four people like miles away from you and
Speaker 2: that's it, it's you know, it's a different, different scene,
Speaker 2: so you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 3: I landed in the bottom.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm actually not upset with that because I
Speaker 2: thought it was not my best work.
Speaker 3: So I was okay with that.
Speaker 1: When you first arrived and you've got all the queen's there,
Speaker 1: how close to how you thought people would go in
Speaker 1: this competition?
Speaker 4: Is accurate to how you thought it was going to go.
Speaker 2: Gabby, Oh my god, so good. Loved her from the
Speaker 2: very very outset, so I knew she would do well.
Speaker 2: I bloody knew Isis will do well. And then as
Speaker 2: the season progressed, I really thought Floor would do great
Speaker 2: as well. And of course Hollywood slays a performance. Is
Speaker 2: absolutely an amazing performer.
Speaker 1: Has it brought you girls closer together like as in
Speaker 1: doing this sort of a show with a high pressure
Speaker 1: that it is. Does it make you all like a
Speaker 1: tight unit? Or is there is it fragmented after doing
Speaker 1: something so intense like that.
Speaker 2: It's a unique experience and we've all said that to
Speaker 2: each other that you know, no one else has actually
Speaker 2: had that experience. And I hear that all the time
Speaker 2: with the different community groups that I work with.
Speaker 3: But this is.
Speaker 2: Definitely a very very unique situation with men dressing up
Speaker 2: as a woman online television with a worldwide audience. It's
Speaker 2: very very unique. So we actually have really great conversations together,
Speaker 2: really honest ones, really supportive ones. As I said, I've
Speaker 2: got Ivory staying with me at the moment, who I love.
Speaker 2: She's here doing some gigs and I had I've had
Speaker 2: ready to come and stay with me as well and
Speaker 2: her partner. You know, we're super supportive and if I
Speaker 2: needed to stay with someone in Sydney, I can stay with.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't die always that qt QT hotel. You need
Speaker 2: to give me free accommodation.
Speaker 3: It's my favorite way I would stay.
Speaker 4: Love that hotel met too.
Speaker 2: I'm just about to write to them because they need
Speaker 2: coming up. But you know, we've got homes all over
Speaker 2: the place, and Gabby's like me too. She's been looking
Speaker 2: after some of the girls. They've gone for viewings in
Speaker 2: Ballarat and they've stayed with her. I don't know what
Speaker 2: the other seasons do like that, but we definitely have
Speaker 2: each other others. Back to all of us in New Zealand.
Speaker 2: People have got a home Melbourne, Sydney.
Speaker 4: Barrett, you've now got all these new homes.
Speaker 1: You're like a drag mother for everyone in Melbourne, and
Speaker 1: then they can be a drag mother for you when
Speaker 1: you go there.
Speaker 2: Well, they can just buy all of my seven yarm
Speaker 2: blank because I'll be staying at the QT in Auckland
Speaker 2: QT in Sydney and I won't be saying it bet
Speaker 2: Gabriellism Bella.
Speaker 3: I think I'll go and stay a hotel.
Speaker 1: You needed to be more upperclass, you know, there was
Speaker 1: a there was a couple of moments that was a
Speaker 1: little bit confusing, with some drama with your relationship with
Speaker 1: Ashley Madison, who wanted to speak to about this last week.
Speaker 1: What was the tea in regards to your relationship before
Speaker 1: you both did the show.
Speaker 2: Before, Well, she worked for me and we worked for
Speaker 2: many years together, and then we had a bit of
Speaker 2: a falling out.
Speaker 3: I suppose. I don't know what it was about. I
Speaker 3: got us think about that anything.
Speaker 4: Roll back the decks.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Well, a long time ago we had a falling out,
Speaker 2: and then we didn't have a falling out, So, you know,
Speaker 2: I think it's just those relationships. But we we're family.
Speaker 2: We're drag family through and through. So it's one of
Speaker 2: those things that just happened. But then it didn't because
Speaker 2: we've been fine.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean. It's like you argue
Speaker 3: with your family and then you make up. That's exactly
Speaker 3: how we have been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, totally, because as you would have seen on
Speaker 2: the episodes, we both talk about each other all the
Speaker 2: time and we're both in each other's lives. Ash was
Speaker 2: at my house last night with Ivory. You know, we're
Speaker 2: just we are family. You know, family fall and family
Speaker 2: fall out, but we have been in much more than
Speaker 2: we've been out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was so. You heard the conversation that I
Speaker 4: had them with with Ashley.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love I love your post. You're you're because
Speaker 2: you're very you want to learn about the girls and
Speaker 2: what's going on. Whereas you know, a lot of the
Speaker 2: podcasts I just had to not follow because they kind
Speaker 2: of they verge on the edge of being rude because
Speaker 2: they just haven't really done the homework, I suppose, whereas
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated about the reality TV side of it, you know,
Speaker 1: these social experiment side of it, and you know, and
Speaker 1: the joy of being selected.
Speaker 4: To do this show. I think the whole thing fascinates me.
Speaker 1: And that's you know. And I thought, for you, you are
Speaker 1: somebody who is going to be remembered for this show.
Speaker 1: You had so much energy, you had so much skin
Speaker 1: in the game, and I think that made it very
Speaker 1: interesting to watch. And I think you should be really
Speaker 1: proud of yourself for being true to yourself in there
Speaker 1: and giving the audience something to invest in.
Speaker 2: No, I really appreciate that, thank you, because you're right.
Speaker 2: And reality TV there are producers and directors and they
Speaker 2: want you and they tell you what to do. As
Speaker 2: I said before, now many people can tell Bumple what
Speaker 2: to do. So they would want a storyline or want
Speaker 2: to go a certain way, and just especially culturally, if
Speaker 2: it didn't sit well with me, I would just own
Speaker 2: up to it whether well Bumble wouldn't do that, bump
Speaker 2: wouldn't say that, what is it you actually want? And
Speaker 2: then we'd have a conversation and Okay, great, I've got
Speaker 2: to roll the camera because I can't be fake. I
Speaker 2: just I just I mean this is you know, the
Speaker 2: titties aren't real, the latches aren't real. That's all fake.
Speaker 2: But this has ever been fake. So I was able
Speaker 2: to That's why I had a great time. I think
Speaker 2: if I had let some of the producers or the directors,
Speaker 2: you know, really like move me to be something I wasn't,
Speaker 2: I think I would not have enjoyed it. And I
Speaker 2: know I had now seen a lot of feedback about
Speaker 2: some of the queens and other iterations who had that experience.
Speaker 2: I'm just so thankful that I'm a hard bitch and
Speaker 2: that I you know, am really true to my own voice.
Speaker 2: But also I think it's because I'm grounded in community
Speaker 2: and I've worked so much in our community, and I've
Speaker 2: had those voices in my ear saying you really helped
Speaker 2: me with the struggle. You you know, all of those conversations,
Speaker 2: so you know you're only going to get one thousand
Speaker 2: percent me.
Speaker 1: I think that's what's so impressive. And you now have
Speaker 1: a global audience. You know, you have these people following
Speaker 1: you from all around the world. Speaking of you know,
Speaker 1: being a global audience. Though, I'd love to see an
Speaker 1: Ossie queen from our down Under series on the US
Speaker 1: All Stars. Who do you think would be the best
Speaker 1: person who's our best shot of winning that competition if
Speaker 1: we were to send one of our down Under girls
Speaker 1: into that.
Speaker 2: To be honest, any of the previous winners, so Keita
Speaker 2: could do it, Spanky could do it, and Quen Kong
Speaker 2: could do it, And then me, yeah.
Speaker 1: I think throw Art Simone in there, and then I
Speaker 1: think we've got our I think we've got who is she?
Speaker 4: I don't know. She's some sort of underground queen.
Speaker 2: She worked here for a little bit too.
Speaker 1: Who do you reckon? This year's Miss Congeniality is like
Speaker 1: who did you me?
Speaker 3: Mother?
Speaker 1: You know, I deleted this question off the podcast after
Speaker 1: doing the first season, and that was because everyone I
Speaker 1: asked who was Miss Congeniality, they all said themselves, if
Speaker 1: it's not you, I'm now sounding like Michellevassage. If it
Speaker 1: is not you, who is Miss Congeniality?
Speaker 2: Of you know what, each one of the girls had
Speaker 2: a moment for me that was super special. So it's
Speaker 2: very difficult, and I'm being honest, you know, very difficult
Speaker 2: because they all gave of themselves, so can't really.
Speaker 1: Say, okay, well, can you give me a souvenir moment? Then,
Speaker 1: in regards to working with RuPaul, people want to work
Speaker 1: with RuPaul and they want to have like a moment
Speaker 1: that they will have that's a moment between you know
Speaker 1: you and them, what's going to stay in your mind?
Speaker 2: This song's very easy for me. Twice in two different episodes,
Speaker 2: Ruth says when we're judging after the runway, says, straight
Speaker 2: to my face, Bumper, you look twenty five years younger.
Speaker 2: Not once, but twice. I was like, damas game.
Speaker 4: In I think you're ageless. I don't even know how
Speaker 4: old you are.
Speaker 1: Like, I couldn't even guess, Like if you offered me
Speaker 1: a million dollars and gave me an age bracket of
Speaker 1: between twenty and forty, I've have no idea.
Speaker 2: Well, actually, that's the second strangest thing I get online
Speaker 2: is people are shocked at my age?
Speaker 3: So great?
Speaker 4: How old are you? You shouldn't ask a girl that.
Speaker 3: Am I going to get back one?
Speaker 1: How old?
Speaker 3: One? Fifty one?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: When you work as much as I have and just
Speaker 2: I keep my body in shape, you know, I'll just
Speaker 2: give one work until I want to stop.
Speaker 1: I want to see you come back because I do
Speaker 1: this show again because I want an old queen's like
Speaker 1: Australian old queens your Paris is.
Speaker 2: I just got a notification actually that I am the
Speaker 2: oldest queen to win a lip sync It was Raja.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, now it's me. Now it's you.
Speaker 3: You've found that out this morning.
Speaker 4: There you go, You're in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: I was also going to ask you about Rees Nickelsen
Speaker 1: and Michelle visage. Did they teach you something? How did
Speaker 1: you go with their comments? Did you enjoy what comments?
Speaker 1: They offered you in your critiques.
Speaker 2: I don't think you see it in the series, but
Speaker 2: Michelle was really super hard on me. I think they
Speaker 2: gave her the best moments with me, which is great,
Speaker 2: But she was so hard on me, so it was
Speaker 2: which is great because people don't really talk to me
Speaker 2: like that. So to have her like come straight in
Speaker 2: every time, there's always something with her and she was right,
Speaker 2: she was never wrong. So high praise her, love her
Speaker 2: a bit, just so on point Reese, so fucking smart.
Speaker 2: You know, I just want like the one percent of
Speaker 2: him and I'd be good. He's so smart, so intelligent,
Speaker 2: so funny, and a really nice guy too.
Speaker 3: So I really appreciated working with him, and I'd love
Speaker 3: to work with them again.
Speaker 4: I could definitely do with some of his brain cells.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: You know, Well, just before you go, I always ask
Speaker 1: someone Everyone who joins the podcast gets asked this question, is.
Speaker 4: What is something from behind the scenes?
Speaker 1: Not necessarily to peel back the layer too much and
Speaker 1: revealed much about the whole report, but what about from you?
Speaker 1: What's something that happened during the makings of this season
Speaker 1: that we won't see on television that you can share
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 2: What don't think anyone realizes that the stage is actually perspects?
Speaker 3: Have you ever danced on perspects?
Speaker 4: Never? It's a dream of mine.
Speaker 3: Perspects. It's so fucking hard.
Speaker 2: That's why it's so shiny on the screen, but it's
Speaker 2: a very difficult to per form on. And I know
Speaker 2: this is why I'm now going to start listening to
Speaker 2: the things online, because I probably would have figured that
Speaker 2: out before I went on there for the first time.
Speaker 3: It's very slick grey well.
Speaker 1: I remember this one Queen was saying that they put
Speaker 1: like velcrow dots on the bottom of their high.
Speaker 2: Heels the New Zealands as well, so they wear bulve
Speaker 2: crow bush shoes the heels and there are like sand paper.
Speaker 4: There's a secret from behind the scenes that we've told them.
Speaker 3: I don't thank god they hit those buffa love.
Speaker 1: I am obsessed with you and I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing you again in Melbourne, where it is my hometown,
Speaker 1: performing and I'll be in your audience.
Speaker 4: I think you're an amazing talent.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I'd love that time. Thank you
Speaker 3: so much.