WEBVTT - PIA MIRANDA TALKS ABOUT BEING A THONG ON TV! 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.720 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:05.280 TV Reload the podcast last week The Light Welcome back 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:07.960 to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris and on this 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.200 podcast I go behind the scenes with the biggest players 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.440 in television. Each episode you will get a front row 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:19.200 seat with content makers like executive producers, writers, editors and 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.560 casting agents, plus the talent we see on our screens. 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:26.599 TV Reload reloads the shows that you're currently watching and 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.240 gives you a better insight into our television industry and 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.640 our streaming services. Today on the podcast, I have the 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.640 latest unmasked celebrity from Channel tens, the mass singer Australia, 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.479 and this guest has been in our cinemas and on 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:45.160 our TV screens for decades. It is pa Miranda. While 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.880 the song was an unusual choice for the pint sized 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.640 Australian actor, it was a great disguise because no one 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.760 seemed to guess who was behind the mask. I thought 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.240 Bindy Irwin, Carla Bonna and so many other celebrities that 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.520 somehow I missed all the clues that matched with one 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.800 of my favorite Australian stars. I have loved Pea's unpredictable 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:09.480 at times, but consistent career from Looking for Ala Brandy, 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.920 Secret Life of Us went Worth to Australian Survivor. There 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.480 is so many iconic twists and turns to Peer's career 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.520 and what an opportunity to talk to her about it. Today. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.120 We will talk about if she would ever return to 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:27.559 Australian Survivor, what song she had planned next from Bachelor Girl, 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.399 what her family thought of her secret involvement in The 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.080 Mass Singer, and I will also get a backstory on 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:37.120 her famous role as Josie Alla Brandy. However, let's get 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.680 started with today's special guest. Pea Miranda is here ready 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:45.160 to unpack her unmasking on the Mass Singer in Australia. 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:46.840 Who do you think? It is a new and imagine 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:47.400 if that was. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:51.720 You last time on Australia's Wildest singing show. 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.280 And there's a little bit of TV magic as far 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:56.680 as meet getting it off. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.280 It was an incredible performance. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.760 It was I like some reality I really do obviously, Survivor. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:04.360 It's like. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.800 You've lived in the public eye. Are you were neighbors 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.320 from when you were a kid. You're looking for Ala Brandy? 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:12.799 You want to wards all over the place, what's it 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:13.840 been like to be anonymous? 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.200 I'm not sure if anyone's going to fall for my 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:18.480 nonsense twice. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.840 Frandi where we're neighbors. 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:24.680 Oh my god, you want Survivor. 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.520 It's just one of those beautiful moments in your life 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.880 when he thinks of you just know some really specials. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.079 About Tappan Hypier. How are you? 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:35.520 Hello, I'm good. How are you? 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.240 I'm really well? And congratulations on the mask singer. I'm 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.640 going to start off by saying I had no idea 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:42.200 it was you. 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.320 I don't think anyone did. Actually, those clues were very random. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.200 And look, you know you've played some amazing characters. Is 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.440 adding a thong to your resume at this point something 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:54.560 you never saw coming. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.040 I didn't think I was going to be wearing a 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.360 thong on TV, but it was a career highlight for me. 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.679 You know what's really funny was watching last night's episode 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.280 with my Irish friend who is staying with us. He's 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.760 just arrived yesterday never being here to Australia and had 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.000 not seen the first two episodes, so I was quickly 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.520 catching him up on the show. So when I said 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.440 one of the masks was a thong, he had this 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.440 really strange look on his face, because in England and Ireland, 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.840 in Europe, a song is something very different. 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.120 It's very different. Yes, so for him it was a 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.840 flip flop. But yes it was a thong. But maybe 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.799 when I got to America, I can be like, oh, 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:34.840 you know, I wore a song on Telly once. 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.640 Being a pair of nickers would have been a little 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.120 bit risque for the time slot. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.400 Yeah, I think so those days wrote for me. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.080 You know, you mentioned your desire to be on the 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.640 mast Singer Australia and that you wanted to surprise your kids. 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.000 How did that play out? Did they work it out 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.720 before the reveal? Could you keep it a secret? 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.600 I mean, I'm good at keeping secrets, and so I 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.000 did keep it from them. It was really weird because 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:00.400 my son and I were sitting on the couch and 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.760 we thought all the video his reaction, and then just 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.280 before it happened, I went, who do you think it is? 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.640 And he went, imagine if that was you, And I 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:08.840 don't know why he said that, He's never said that before, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.000 and then when it was me, his little brain exploded. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.000 He was just like, I said that as a joke. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:15.560 I said that as a joke. So it was the 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.680 cutest moment. He's I take can't believe I said it. 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.400 And my daughter is a teenager, so she was like, yeah, cool. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:24.480 Don't be embarrassing on TV. Mom. 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:26.880 Oh my god, I go to a school tomorrow and 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.200 everyone's going to know your song. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.080 Out of all the masks, yours had me stumped with 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.719 how you were going to even take the mask off, 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.960 because I was wondering if they're going to lift a 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.560 panel off the front or is there some sort of 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.159 line we couldn't see. How hard was it to be 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.360 in that costume and how hot was it in there? 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.720 Ah, it was a big costume. There was a little 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.720 bit of TV magic as far as you know, meat 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.800 getting it off, and it was sort of one of 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.039 those things where I didn't really have much to work 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.400 with her. I had hands and feet. So the first 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.200 like run through that we did, because you know, I 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:58.520 used to be a dancer, I was like, I'm going 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.880 to dazzle everyone, my dad, and then I danced my 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.360 heart out. Then we watched it back on screen and 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.479 it just looked like I was just standing there because 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.440 I was all hips and you know, so I thought, okay, 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.440 I've just got to do lots of footwork. 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.800 Have you had a chance to chat to Lisa or 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.080 Ryan and swap stories on what it's like to be 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:17.880 on the show. Yet. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.400 The cute thing in my package was that they had 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:22.920 one of the clues was Ryan it was the night 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.440 and they had the night and the thong falling in 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.080 love and Ryan and I were on Neighbors together and 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.480 I was his first girlfriend on Neighbors. I was Toby's 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.880 first girlfriend. So I loved that it was in the package, 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:34.599 And when I found out he was on it, I'm like, 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:36.440 that's so sweet. What a great way to book and 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:37.560 neighbors for myself. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.680 That clue made me think maybe Carla Bonna for some reason, right, 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.080 you know, do you have any idea on who Blowfly is? 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.719 Just because of what we saw in that battle. You 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.880 obviously got to interact with Blowfly. Did you hear anything? 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:53.960 Do you have any guesses on who you think it 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:54.240 may be? 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.760 No, I feel like it's a singer because I could. 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:01.240 One day, I sneakily heard Blowfly practicing in one of 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.360 the rooms, a beautiful song with a lovely voice, and 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.200 then I kind of went into my practice room where 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.640 I was like n no, no naa, you know what I mean, 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.360 like singing a pink song. So I feel like it's 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.320 a singer. I don't know who it is, but maybe 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.160 not like a pop singer, like maybe someone who's more 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.320 of a kind of like a country or rock singer. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.280 When you are that close, is there any chance that 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:27.200 you can hear each other talking or murmuring or maybe sweating? 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:28.960 I don't know. Is there any chance of being able 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:29.640 to hear each other? 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.039 You can't. I mean, we would all wave to each other, 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.240 but you can't really hear anything because you have earpieces 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.240 in your ears that are locked off when you're not 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.120 performing or talking to someone, so you kind of you 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.280 sort of can't hear anything, and you can't see anything, 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.320 and you can barely move. So it's pretty much you're 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:45.800 just a lone soldier out there. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.479 And are you now playing along with the rest of Australia? 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.360 Are you trying to work out who the other masks are? 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.880 Do you have any guesses so far that you're even 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:54.719 allowed to share? 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.880 I honestly know as much as everyone else, like, they 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.240 don't give you any hints or anything like that. You're 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.560 also quested, so it's a surprise to me so I 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.400 can enjoy it like anyone else. I kind of felt 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.440 like one of my things was I saw Kyle Richards 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.480 out here, you know, from Beverly Hills Housewives, and I 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.760 was like, maybe she was on it. Maybe that's why 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.000 she's actually here, because she was just here like meet 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.280 and greet, and I went, maybe, just maybe Kyle is 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.120 one of them. So that's one of my I don't know, 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.880 weird random guesses. Apart from that, I have no idea. 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:26.960 Do you watch The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. I 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:27.960 love that show, you know. 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:32.600 I don't want to out myself, but everybody needs some downtime. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.360 And as much as I love, you know, watching a 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.960 great drama, I also do enjoy watching a little bit 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.120 of trash every now. And the one I really like 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.560 is The New Jersey because they're so Italian and that 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.760 there's some in jokes in that for Italians. It makes 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.280 me laugh. But yeah, sometimes I watch Jerseys, sometimes I 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.720 watch Beverly Hills just for a little bit of a laugh. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.960 You know. I've got some guilty flats housewives. Some I 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.200 like some reality I really do obviously, is like my. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.080 Number one was, Yeah, well, I'm gonna ask you a 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:04.880 survivor question at a second, but you know, I just 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.720 wanted to say, sadly, you were the person leaving the competition. 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.200 Last night, Ryan and Lisa, as they left the competition 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.280 revealed what song they had planned next. Can you tell 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.840 me if there was another song in your playlist that 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:18.320 we've just missed out on seeing. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.480 Yes, I was about to sing Bachelor Girl. I was 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.040 about to sing Buses and Trains. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:24.800 Oh wow, that was my. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.000 Next song, which I felt like, yeah, it would have 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.240 been fun to do. But yeah, they were taking the 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.120 tone down a little bit from Pink and Footloose. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.160 They were still they were so fun to watch, Like, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.840 I think there were great selections of songs for you, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.079 being that you're not a recognizable singer, you never released 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.720 an album or anything like that, just your authentic voice. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.319 I thought it was very cute. 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.280 Thank you. I'm hoping to release a Christmas album called 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:49.240 Christmas Songs. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.960 It's gonna be massive. It's gonna be huge, yep. 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.600 But I'm available if anyone wants to sign. 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.800 I absolutely loved Abby chat Field's comment about looking for 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.760 Ala Brandy because that Molina Minchedda book was my favorite 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.320 book as a teenager. I always wanted to know, though, 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.600 with your relationship with that book. Had you read the 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.120 book prior to playing that iconic role, Like, what was 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:16.319 your relationship with that book? 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.400 Yeah, I mean obviously before I did the job, but 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.520 I hadn't. We didn't have it on the curriculum in Melbourne, 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.400 so it was a Sydney thing, so we didn't really 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.200 know about it. The first time I heard about it 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:28.480 was when I was walking on the street and I 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.240 saw bumped into Kick and he was telling me he 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.640 was auditioning to this film. So when I finally got 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.960 the audition, Kick lent me his book and that's the 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.680 first time I read it, which is so sweet, and 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.840 then I kept it, never returned it, and we both 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.000 ended up being Josie and Jacob. Yeah. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.520 You know, I remember when your name was announced for 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.800 the film, you know, and I remember the audition process. 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.080 I remember there was a lot of people auditioning for 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.199 that role. Do you know any of the other actors 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.240 that you beat out to play Ala Brandy? 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.439 I mean I was there on one of those massive 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.600 cattle call days, you know, when it's like hundreds and 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:00.800 hundreds of people and then it was like a dance 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:02.840 audition because I used to be dancer. And then you'd 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.959 go wait and then they'd call out the people who 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.559 they wanted to see next. So it was really brutal. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.240 So I didn't know too many people who were going 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:11.800 for Josie, but I did know a lot of people 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.480 that had gone for Carlin and some of the other roles. 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.160 I just remember that it was like it was this 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:20.079 huge thing in Melbourne, right across the country with this 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.200 massive search. It was almost like casting Big Brother or Idol. 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.240 You know, there was just it felt like that. 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:27.760 It felt like that it was just so many people. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.040 It's audition, and then I was really late because I 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.000 was not in my teens and they just didn't want 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:34.880 to see me. And then they didn't realize I had 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:39.439 that weird child woman thing going on. It's a bit creepy, 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:41.680 but so I was like late in the process. It 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:43.319 was hundreds of people, and then you know, by the 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.240 end of that day, it was just me left at 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.760 the end, and then Kick walked in and it just 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.599 kind of felt really quite amazing. It's just one of 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.280 those beautiful moments in your life when you think something, 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.120 you just know something really specials about Tapping. 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.600 People who loved that movie are just gonna love hearing 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:58.760 you talking about it like that. 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.120 So do you know My favorite thing about the movie 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.920 is that I think I'm really worried as an Italian 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.960 Australian that grew up in the eighties when it wasn't 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.160 called to be Italian Australian, I'm really worried that like 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.679 people are going to forget about the good rooms or 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:12.800 the furniture covered in plastic because it doesn't seem to 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.040 exist that much anymore. And I love in the film, 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:16.680 like as an Easter egg that you can go and 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.319 see Anna's good room. She's still got a good room 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.640 and all the furnitures covered in plastic. That was how 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:23.560 I grew up, Like a good room that you weren't 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.040 allowed to go into, but it was the only room 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.280 with their conditioning, and so you try and sneak in there. 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.319 Yeah, because it felt very much like my high school. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:35.120 I went to Doncaster High in Melbourne and basically, you know, 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.439 everyone was Italian at that school, Like it was so bizarre. 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.400 So I connected to it a lot because I had 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.959 friends that had parents that had the good room. You know, sad, 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.360 the good rooms being phased out. 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.280 I know I don't want it to be. I'm gonna 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:49.200 have to start it up again. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.920 Also, massive fan of Australian Survivor, so massive fan of 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.120 this show, and I just wanted to ask how did 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.760 that happen for you? Because when that was announced that 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.320 you were part of that show, everyone was like, Pa, 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.040 Miranda's going to being in Survivor, this is incredible, and 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:03.560 then you went on to win it. But how to 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.720 producers know you were a super fan of that show 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.040 that you were willing to do it. 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.760 It was really random. Obviously I never planned to do 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.199 reality all of a sudden, I'm popping up everywhere. But 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:16.760 it was one of those random things where I was 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.080 doing an interview with TV tonight and it was one 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:21.480 where he asked, you know, you had to do a 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.440 Q and A and it was like it was on 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.680 New Year's Even, It was like, what is your guilty 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.760 pleasure on television? And I just went, oh, obviously Survivor. 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.920 And I went on this whole rant about how Survivor 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.600 for twenty years and I'm really obsessed with it, which 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.720 I really really was never missed a season. Blah blah blah. 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.480 I sit on the couch and I reckon I could 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:42.120 win it and I'd drive people crazy. And anyway, the 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.120 next day after it got printed, they called and said, well, 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.400 actually we're doing a new season. And my heart just 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.640 sank because I thought, I can't say no, but I 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:53.040 really don't want to go do this. Yeah, and Australian 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.040 Survivors brutal. You know, it's fifty days, which is a 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.360 really big difference to America's twenty six. I think South 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:04.520 Africa's thirty six. Fifty days is a huge difference as 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.520 far as how you cope with that mentally and physically, 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.120 it's a lot. So it was a really you know, 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:11.960 hats off to anyone who does it twice. 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.280 You got paid pretty well considering you got the prize money, 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.120 so you'd never go back. You'd never go back. 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.760 I would never say never. I'm a huge fan of 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.680 the South African franchise, which is you can watch on 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.520 teenplay at the moment if you like Survivor, it's really good. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.520 I would never say never. I'm not sure if anyone's 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.040 going to fall for my nonsense. Twice, Like a lot 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.079 of my game plan was pretending to people I didn't 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.280 know what was going on and then whispering in people's ears, 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.600 going how about you go tell that person to do this, 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.360 and then going woll, what's happening. So you know, everyone 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.120 was kind of onto that by the end, so I 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.480 don't know if they'd fall for that twice. For someone 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.400 like me to get to merge in Australia, it is 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:51.080 extremely hard because Australian Survivors very much about brute strength 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.320 in the first half of the game, so it's you know, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.280 smaller people tend to get but not so much smaller people, 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.600 but people who aren't, you know, very athletic. It's really 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.880 it's really difficult to make that merge. And there's a 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.760 part of me that just would love to go to 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.520 my grave with my torch unsnuffed. You know. I love 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.439 the fact that my torch never got snuffed. It's just 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.240 it really means a lot to me. I mean, it 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.080 was it was a rough journey for me on the 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.480 Survivor obviously if you were around for that time, but 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.880 it just means a lot. It really means a lot 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.080 to me to win that show and to be a 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.160 part of it. I am a nerdy nerdy nerdy mega fan. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.800 I'm the opposite. Like, you know, I did Big Brother 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.960 and One Big Brother in Australia, and I always thought, 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.680 because I'm annoying, that I would be I would get 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:36.000 the very iconic it's time to go Benjamin, and so 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.160 I never got it. So I want to go back 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:39.480 and do it again because I want to know what 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.760 it's like to be evicted, right. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.280 I know what you're saying. There's a little part of 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.720 me I feel like it wouldn't mean. The only time 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.520 I would really get like all gooey inside is if 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.640 Jeff said it to me, you know, if Jeff is 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.040 like the tribe has spoken. 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.960 What did you think of Melbe's comment? I mean she 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:56.280 called you a boss bitch. 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.760 I just want to say I thought you on and 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.360 you were like a bad boss bitch. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.280 I watched that series. I just I don't know if 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.240 boss bitch was what I walked away with. 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:13.400 The super fans really were just so incredible to me 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.320 on that show. You know, I cocked a light. I 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:16.880 think it's really hard to play a game like that 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:18.680 as a woman. You know, a woman used to get 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:22.160 these just incessant just nonsense on your Instagram and tweeter 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.480 like you lied, you lied, and then the boys. I 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.400 don't want to be like boy girl, boy girl, but 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.800 the boys will get You're amazing. You lied. It's just 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.239 it gets really hard, and for me it was extreme 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.440 at one point. And just to have those super fans 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.520 just really get your game and really stick by you 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.240 and really be obsessed with your game was just always 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.800 something that was incredible to me. But I think people 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:45.600 can take your game different ways. Some people see you 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.360 as a boss bitch, some people see you as like, 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.280 you know, a cool, sneaky manipulator. Some people just there's 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.520 lots of nuances in the edit and in how people 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.480 see you. And certainly if they listen to lots of podcasts, 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.680 they pick up a lot more as well, because obviously 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:00.920 only like one percent of the show show was on screen. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.200 But I didn't mind her saying that, you know, I'll 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:03.640 own it. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.760 The chemistry between the panel this year on the Mark 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.320 Singer is just so amazing. I love all four of 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.000 those people quite a lot deeply. I really do. Do 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.240 you think some of those clues were a little bit 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:15.880 hard for them? 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.400 Ah? Yeah, I mean I'm the same. I feel like 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:20.800 the panel of Mark Singer this year is so lovely. 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:23.040 There was a lot of warmth coming towards you from 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:24.880 that panel. I grew up with Chrissy, so I was 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.320 really thinking that perhaps she was going to guess me. 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.280 But I think some of the clues were hard. But 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.720 then it's one of those things that if you like 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.520 know who the person is and then you go back 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.560 and watch the clues, it will make more sense. There 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.520 was a couple I didn't get. There was one about fish. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.720 I didn't know why I said I loved fish. I 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.760 think I mentioned once I really love salt and pepper kalamari, 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.400 so I think that's why they put it in, or 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.600 maybe it was a survivor thing. There's really cute things, like, 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.480 you know, they put up Lily James. My kids are 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.280 called Lily and James. There was like a in one 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.280 of my packages there was someone wearing an eye patch, 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.200 which is a you know, a throwback to Wentworth. There 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.440 was lots of cute little things, you know, and I 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.760 there was the night and the thong falling in love. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.560 It was just really sweet, little sweet things. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.760 I think, you know, something that we always ask everyone 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.640 that joins TV reload is what is something from behind 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.920 the scenes, something that we didn't see that we won't 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.440 see from behind the scenes of your experience on the Mastinger. 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:18.840 Behind the scenes from Mastinger. One of the things that 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.560 was really exciting to me, and I know this doesn't 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.040 sound like a lot, but you've got to remember I 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.000