WEBVTT - UNPACKED REALITY: I'M A CELEBRITY - DENISE DRYSDALE 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:02.920 TV Reload. 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:03.640 The podcast last week. 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.800 Nebne Hey, guys, welcome back to TV Reload. I want 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:09.559 to thank you for clicking and downloading on today's episode 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:14.160 with Denise Dreisdale, our first eliminated celebrity from I'm a Celebrity, 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.320 Get Me Out of Here for twenty twenty four. Throughout 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:21.120 her jungle journey, Denise undoubtedly made a mark on her 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:24.680 camp mates, from her entertaining game of Ding or Dong 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.000 that talk camp mates about her long and her illustrious career, 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.200 to hosting a celebrity fashion show, and of course, bravely 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:37.080 taking on an inaugural eating trial called vom Appetite. Denise 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.920 took the opportunity to raise awareness for her chosen charity, 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.040 Gotcha for Life, whose mission is to inspire and enable 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.360 people to build mental fitness, which is very important to Denise, 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.600 who has a shared hope of a world where no 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.519 one worries alone. There are some fabulous stories shared by 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.200 Denise on today's episode, and for the first time, we 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.320 will talk about some shared memories from the eighties and nineties, 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:00.920 from when Denise was a big part of my childhood 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.400 and a side note, you will hear me talking about 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.839 her boys, Pete and Robb, whose names I should probably 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.760 highlight so that you know who we're talking about. Denise 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.880 will reveal how many times she was asked to go 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.679 on the show and why she finally said yes. In 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.640 twenty twenty four, we will unpack her time in the 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:20.280 Celebrity Jungle and hear why she didn't tell more stories 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.280 about some of her famous co stars like Ernie Sigley, 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.039 Darryl Summers, Frank Holden just her name a few. You 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.280 will get some interesting insights into why Denise has had 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:34.120 a pretty tough attitude amongst a boys club of television executives, 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.920 which will then include me highlighting the need to include 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.680 her in the Logis Hall of Fame. I'm also really 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.160 delighted to hear Denise retelling a story about her mother's 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.120 prank calls to Channel nine receptionists back in the day. 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.120 There is actually so much to unpack with Denise. To 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.080 hear about her jungle journey is quite amazing, but also 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.800 to reminisce about a few things. So sit back and relax, guys, 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.680 as we unpack Denise Dreisdale's time in the South African jungle. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.920 Hello you all self, inch, how are you? 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.920 What an achievement? I don't know? I feel so is 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:07.640 it a strange thing to say that I feel proud? 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:08.800 I don't know. I'm in awe. 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:10.880 No, no, no, you can be proud of me. I'm 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.760 proud of myself. I cannot tell you how glad I 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.000 am to be out. I'm the most I'm the happiest 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.160 big d that's ever been ever. 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.160 I think voting to keep you in there, and then 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.000 I speak to other people that know you better than 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.120 I do, and they were like, no, we want her out, 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:28.440 we want to save her. How do we get her 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:28.919 out of there? 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.160 It all worked out for the best. I was in 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.560 there eleven days, eleven nights anyway, and eleven nights sleeping 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.480 with eleven other people is enough for anyone. It's an 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:39.320 only child. 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.359 I mean, I think it was very brave and it's 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.600 something obviously new for you and something that you probably 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.799 will never forget. But it's probably also something you'd never 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:48.320 do again. 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.160 No, why you'll do it again. I've done it. I'm 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.639 telling you. I had black bitch where black bit shouldn't 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.640 be from the sawdust and the charcoal in the dummy 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:02.440 up to the fire, eating in smoke and fire and 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.480 dust and everything. I dropped the kettle the night that 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:09.040 the storm was there and everybody was asleep, and I 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.200 dropped the kettle and all the ash came out of 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:15.280 the bloody fire and covered all the sleeping bags. Everything 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.520 was going really well up until that moment. 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.160 Who was the most affected by that? Who got the 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:21.240 most amount of what was it? 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:26.320 The theta? Yes, and he's the most gorgeous man. We 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.400 had a good laugh together, like he's a really nice person. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.639 How many times did you say no to this show? 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:32.160 You know? 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:33.960 Oh? Oh, I don't know. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:35.760 Pretty much every year, but I mean it was a 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:36.880 bit close to that, wouldn't I. 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.240 Nearly every year? But when they ranked this time and 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.280 I said no again, and then they came back and said, oh, 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.480 circumstances have changed. What about if you go in a 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:50.160 week later, which in retrospect was a bit I think 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:54.520 I put myself behind the eight ball because they'd already 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.000 had a week or ten days or something to bond. 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.040 The reason being I did want to be away from 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.480 home for a long time. As you know, I've spent many, 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:09.680 many weekends, many nights away from home always your whole life, 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.320 and now I'm at my whole life. You're right, and 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.160 at this stage in my life, I just want to 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.040 be home with me, Doggie, my little d d. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.239 I remember as a kid that you would this sounds 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.599 ridiculous if you tell anyone, they'd say it's slave labor. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.160 But I remember you would go and you would get 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.159 up a door like before dawn, like a's three or 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.800 something ridiculous, drive to the studio and you'd record like 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.839 five episodes and then you'd fly off to different states 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.120 and film it again for different states. And I mean, 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.240 thank god they then changed it Berney and Denis and 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.880 not in Melbourne today and Sydney today. Is that right? Yeah? 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.320 We did in Melbourne today, in Sydney today, in Bristone today, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.080 until they finally worked out that they could do a 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.880 national show and we just did the five to the 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.640 whole of Australia. But it took I think it took 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.200 about two years. Yeah, and Ernie and I'd be on 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:55.680 the plane anyway. 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:57.800 You worked out how to sleep on the plane. I 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.120 think that was why how you made away. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.680 Not really not, I don't really know. It's still a 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.600 bad sleeper always. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.599 I can't tell you how many women though that I 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.000 spoke to about you being in the jungle, including my 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.200 mum and other women around your age, And you had 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.520 Australian women again thinking that they can do more, which 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.680 I think has been a part of your brand your 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.200 whole career. We've always made people feel like they could 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.240 do more than they think they could. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.560 Yeah. I've done a couple of things like splash that 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.800 was a disaster that I did it because I thought 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.279 I wanted grandmas to get out there in their basis. 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.120 So I have done things. But I think women in 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:38.240 general now are so out there and doing things zumba 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.360 classes and everything, and good luck to them. Get out 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.960 there and do it, don't sit home, use it or 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:50.039 lose it. I've lost a few things. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.000 Hey, haven't we all? I think we've all lost our 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:51.920 minds a little bit more. 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.640 You haven't lost anything. I suppose the people listening to 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.520 this know that I used to look after you when 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.960 you were little. Yeah, yeah, bo, you were a bugger. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.280 I was the worst, absolute bugger. Do you know that? Well, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.080 you weren't the worst kids, you were just sensitively. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:08.640 I was a very sensitive kid. And do you know 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.520 what was funny because the last time I caught up 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.280 with you, and my brother was there, and Pete and 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.960 Rob were there, of course, and I remember someone said, oh, 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:18.560 who was the worst out of the four of us? 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.000 And I'd rewritten history and thought that I was the 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.480 best and I was the easiest of the lot, and 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.640 that you know, I was a great child. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:26.839 No, no, you weren't. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:28.920 I was the worst. You were like, no, no. 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.200 Just an absolute bugger you were. But it was okay 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.640 because I sort of was able to get through to you. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.000 You are young, seven or something, and you were going 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.320 through bits and pieces. But I was able to get 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.320 through to you most of the time, except for the 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.120 time on sin Kilda Beach when you said I want 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.720 to get out of the car, and then you took off, 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.080 and then for the next hour I wouldn't get back 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.040 in the car. I'm driving the car along and killed 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.480 the breach trying to get you in. I've got three 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.560 other kids in the car. See I remember everything. 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.680 Oh no, I'm hoping that over time that you'd sort 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.120 of forgotten instead of reimagined me. I did think that 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.040 there was no change. No, No, you'd ever go on 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.320 a plane with me ever again. After we flew to 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.160 Los Angeles and I threw up on the plane the 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:16.880 whole way there. I remember thinking, this lady is ready 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:18.320 to throw me out the cargo door. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.480 Oh god, I remember that trip. So yeah. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.960 Well, I love catching up with your boys, and it 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:25.920 was actually interesting. I was talking to both of them 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.560 last night, you know, as you were eliminated, and they 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.320 were just so thrilled by the way. I'm sure you've 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:31.840 spoken to them, but they were just so thrilled that 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:33.520 you hadn't hurt yourself and you were coming home. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.560 That's right. The only thing people said this, I said, 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.160 I'm going into the jungle. Oh, for God's sake, don't 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.240 hurt yourself. You know what I did. I sprained a muscle. 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.920 I sprained a muffle the third day, but you did 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:48.000 on the lob and it was dawn further than I thought. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:49.560 And I've gone down with conflict. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.560 Well, anyway, I said to Bob's, I was like, I 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.120 know Alex mavdykis and I've told him that if anything 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.120 happens to you, he's in so much trouble. And I said, so, 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.600 I'm worried about the challenges, and Bob's was like, I 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.320 don't care about the challenges. I'm worried about her acting 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.680 a damn fool in the campsite and jumping up on 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.680 something that's not stable. That's all he was. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.080 Yeah, that's all. I was worried about it. For god, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.480 you know, I don't do anything stupid. But anyway, I 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:17.000 didn't do anything stupid, but all on the camp, Oh 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.080 my god, I have a home in the arm chair 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.600 and looking at the show and thinking I want to 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.280 get in there and clean it up. You can't. You 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.600 just can't. It dirt everywhere, and you know I'm rather 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.440 a clean person, so I just it was very That 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.840 was the hardest part to dirt and the dummies. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:36.640 You said to me, if you ever did it, you 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.960 would get You said, I'm going to make a broom 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.760 out of the palm leaves and I'm going to sweep 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.240 that camp. And I was thinking, oh, it's like one 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:45.760 of those things where you make a clean spot and 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:46.720 then you'll be there all day. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.000 I did make a fly spot for FRANKIEO because he 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.880 was obsessed with did go around go and he camped 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.160 the flyers that he killed was I made it out 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.839 of from there was a broom there already. I didn't 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:58.840 have to make one of those. 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:00.840 You know, I don't want to know and shame anyone. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:02.679 But I know you well enough to know that I 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:04.720 could see the people that you would connect with, and 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.000 I knew Callum was going in there, so I knew 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.080 you'd be fine with Callum. He's such a lovely, genuine person. 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.960 Hey, that's the word genuine. He's gorgeous, gorgeous guy and 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:19.080 speaks so well of his parents and everything. And I 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.079 know he's out there and he MUCKs around, well your 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.920 mental he's looking and thinking, who's this old dealer in 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.640 the corner that's just arrived. Yeah, And then after a 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.160 couple of days, I'd be talking to him and he 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:35.240 goes what that means, and I'll explain it and he'd go, oh, 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.000 and he's lave. So we got on really, really well. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:39.439 He's a lovely boy. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.960 There's a lot of people saying online that they'd love 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.400 to see a spinoff series with you, and I was 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:49.079 reading it's this morning. We're saying, you know, well, I 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.040 think it'd be great. Denise could have Callum over and 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.200 you know, you could show him how to cook and 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.360 look after animals, and then he could take you out 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.319 to the nightclubs at nighttime, I said. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.680 To came. He came over to me. I said, my 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.199 pants are still with I said, I said, that's because 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.400 you've got them hanging He had them hanging together, like 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.280 the pants there's no air going in. So I put 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.280 him on the fronds for him and it's, you know, 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.440 just it was just fine. It was just lovely. I 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.480 loved it. I could mother somebody. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.880 But I was going to say, though, you always had 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.000 a very good bullshit detector, And so I wondered where 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.679 your bullshit detector came from, because I have a theory 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.320 that it might have been from growing up in the 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.719 pot Melbourne pub which your mum and dad owned. Did 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.320 that have something to do with being able to work out? 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.640 Thing? Is I grew up I had to look after 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.680 myself in the pub because there were customers there that 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.400 used to say, here's a packet of razor blades, go 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.760 and play in the traffic. That was when I was 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.760 about eight. So I learned to cope with that. And 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:48.920 I don't know, I think that's where I got a 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.040 bit of the don't mess with me, or you know, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.040 I won't put up with anything At work, I don't 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.280 take it home. If there's a problem, I fix it up. 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.320 And so maybe that's part of what you're talking about 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.560 out she can sum up people after a while, you know, 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.400 you know who's putting on a show, you know who's 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:10.440 doing what for what you just do. It's a different world. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.200 And I'll tell you my surprise was s guy I 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.280 saw a sky the first couple of shows. I was home, 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.319 so brave, so wonderful. And then when you talk to her, 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.200 she's a really lovely girl. I did ask her where 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.800 she puts her ribs. She must put him in a bag, 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:27.920 definitely not in that body. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.760 She once came we went out for a night out, 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.520 and she came back to our place and she stayed 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.839 at our house for three nights. I had to bring 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:37.280 her mum and tell her mom to come and get 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.120 us to get her because she'd basically. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:40.920 Moved before her baby. 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.520 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. She hadn't met her hadn't met 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.080 her partner, and she hadn't had some boobs done and 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:47.920 that you know, she's got the wrong plumbing for Ben 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.040 and I. But she came out and she showed us 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:51.640 her boobs and asked us whether or not we thought 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.920 they needed to be fixed. She said one boob was 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.240 smaller than the other. Ben and I just was looked 0:11:56.240 --> 0:12:00.640 at her in horror. Lovely person, but we just couldn't 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.560 believe how she's. 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.600 Got a brainess smarter than anything you know, and so 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.320 don't be de sleep by looks. I think that's the 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.319 perfect thing to sum up about. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.280 Guy, Well she's going to do well. I think that 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.480 it's between Calluman's. Guy, do you have a pick on 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:15.480 who you think can win? 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.760 I just couldn't even pick it, wouldn't pick it. So 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.160 that was a sort of game we play and you 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.199 go around and go oh no, no, and then no, 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:25.040 you couldn't do it. 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.680 I thought we might get a few more signature stories 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.720 from you with because I mean, you've had some pretty 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.320 amazing co hosts your whole career, and I was expecting 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.360 to hear more about Ernie and Darryl and Burton Frank Holden. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.880 I wondered whether or not you worry these days about 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.439 offending people because it's not just your story at someone else's. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.000 Did you worry about opening up and talking about some 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:47.959 of those people that you've worked with right now? 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.040 No? No, because no, no, no, I would have talked 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.000 about most things. A couple of things I don't talk about. 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.760 But the thing is that the opportunity didn't come up. 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.400 There's people in there that really they know the name, 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.840 but they oh, idea would have done so that was okay. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.360 I just I did the best that I could. 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.640 I still do your chalk dance to people at a 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.559 party on U set. That's one of my I don't 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.200 even do it as well as you. But when I 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.920 watched in the episode last night that you did do 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.080 the chalk dance and they didn't really understand it, I 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.400 was devastated. That and bacon and ex that's what I 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.600 get out on Saturday night to entertain people after a 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:25.400 couple of drinks. Except my bacony, I looked as good as. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:29.800 You, trying to muck around for the cameras and whatever. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.800 We're in camp and it's a bit quiet. I don't 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.200 think anyone even looked. I just I think they might 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.120 be glanced over and look the otherwise. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:38.959 That's okay too, that's okay too. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:40.480 Maybe they don't love chicken. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.560 Did you do the bacon and eggs? I mean, this 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:43.760 is a podcast, so we kind of. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:44.440 Still do it. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:45.240 You still do that much. 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.800 I still do it on stage and I'll get applause 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.640 for getting up off the floor. That's when you know 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.360 you're officially old. You know. 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.640 One of my favorite memories of you was, I remember 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:56.920 I loved when we go away and we'd be with 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:58.760 your mum and I used to go and give her 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.559 a brandy for lunch and go around and oh god, 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.120 and turn off all the televisions because she believed that 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.240 if she left all the televisions on the network that 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.079 you were currently on, that it was giving the network ratings. 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.720 So you'd walk through the place right all the TVs 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:15.319 would be on in the house and I'd turn them off. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.640 She used to. And you've got to remember she used 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.960 to ring the whatever channel I was onto the receptionist 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.040 and do all different accents. Oh you didn't, it's a job. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.960 She's on the television. I love her. She's a really 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.640 lovely girl. I'm so glad she's on the television. And 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.440 then she'd hang up and ring in her high you know. 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:41.200 And you know Paddy Newton and mom Paddy Newton's mum Eunice, 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:45.000 and they used to ring each other and they'd say 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.640 who are you watching? And un say I'm watching Bert 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.680 at the moment, so Mom would turn over to Ernie 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:53.000 and I and then they'd work out if you turn 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.800 over at ten o'clock, I'll go. Mum will go over 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.040 to Burt and come over to Ernie and Denise. You know, 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.880 so they were mastering the whole television. 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:03.840 I mean, it was so cute. I mean, I don't 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.080 think anyone ever told her not to do it. I 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.120 just were turning off the power because I was worried that, 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:09.520 you know, we were burning electricity. 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.680 We'll leave them on. We'll leave them on the ratings. 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:13.280 You'll go up. 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.160 My favorite thing about you was watching The Golden Girls. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.680 Back in the day. Used to have a videotape of 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:23.000 the Golden Girls outtakes, and I'll never fold how much 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.760 you would laugh at that video. You would laugh until 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:26.960 I thought you were going to have a stroke. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.960 And I still read when Betty White was talking about 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:35.560 the fleet circuits and the others in the others at 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.600 the table would just could not hold themselves together. It's 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.840 one of the funniest things. I can't find it. 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:45.240 Sorry to interrupt the chapter, Denise, but please go and 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.720 watch this clip. It's actually available on YouTube. So I 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.600 did find it. I was going to include it on 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.920 the podcast, but I worried about the copyright. And also 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.240 the clip is actually very visual, so type in the 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.200 Great Herring War on YouTube. It's a Golden Girl's clip 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.160 and just to imagine Denise laughing along with it, I 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.200 think it'll make it seems just that little bit more funnier. 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:05.080 You know. 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:06.720 But before I let you go, the one thing I 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.760 wanted to talk to you about was just the need 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:11.720 for you to be in the Hall of Fame for 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:13.920 the logis and I have been talking to so many 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.120 other journalists in the last twelve months who are championing 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.200 for this to happen. Is that something? I mean, it's 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.480 to me it seems so strange. There's so very few 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.320 women that are in the Hall of Fame. Do you 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:25.520 think it's now time? 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.400 There was a bit of a movement for more women 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.480 in the Hall of Fame when about three or four 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.040 years ago, because the only one was Ruth Kracknel, But 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:40.680 now there's Nony Ninny Hazelhurst. Then there's Tech Yeah, gury Aiden. 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:41.400 Is that it? 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:43.160 That's three? 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:43.560 I mean? 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.840 But also you've been on television no offense to carry 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.840 on Kenney at all, but you've been on TV longer 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.120 than I mean, you've clocked more man hours in television 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.640 than she has. So like the matter, I don't think so, 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:53.560 you don't think so. 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.600 No, No, I don't think that. No, she diets midday 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.480 show for a long time. No, she's not up a 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:02.840 hell of a lot of television. But the thing is, 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.360 there's so many worthy people out there that have been 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.000 around for a long time. So I feel very honored 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:14.320 that people talk about me in that respect. But it's fine. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:18.119 I've got my stamp. Me being on a stamp was 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:22.200 the best thing I had never ever entered my head 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:23.840 that I would be on a staff. I thought it 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:28.160 was a reserved for mountaineers and sports people and people 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.840 like that. So when I got the stand, that was, 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:32.880 you know what. I was so sorry Mom and Dad 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.040 put around to see that. They would have been loved over. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.040 They would have been over the moon. So yeah, I've 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.040 got that. I'm happy. I've got a lovely life, love 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:45.080 my kids, love my drank kids, love my dog, love 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.920 my house. What more can a woman ask for to get? 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.480 I don't even think it's about you anymore. It's about like, 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:54.120 let's start recognizing some of the women in Australian television. Yeah, 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.399 I don't know. I think that it's about getting you 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.280