WEBVTT - REAL REALITY - LIZ ELLIS - GLADIATORS 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:05.880 TV Reload the podcast past Leep Theline, Get a Podcaster enthusiasts, 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.119 thank you for clicking and downloading. On today's episode of 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:11.639 TV Reload with Liz Ellis, we will be talking about Gladiators, 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:13.560 which is out now on Network ten and you can 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:15.920 catch up on No. Ten Plus. One of the most 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.680 exciting and iconic sports entertainment programs in the world, Gladiators 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.720 did make its triumphant return to Australian screens this week, 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.040 Premiering in twenty twenty four, A new tribe of twenty 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.200 first century superhumans, the Gladiators, will wrestle, rumble and battle 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.400 brave Ossie contenders from all works of life in the 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:37.800 ultimate test of speed, strength, stamina, agility and power, Welcoming 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.520 a new generation of fans to the spectacle of Gladiators 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:45.000 with charm, wit and sporting expertise. Are iconic sports heroes 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.879 and our hosts, Liz Ellis and Bo Ryan. There's so 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.440 much to unpack with Liz Ellis today. What it was 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.960 like to work with Bo Ryan. Did they swap notes 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:54.920 on their time in the jungle? Is there going to 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.560 be another series of Gladiators. I will ask her as 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.880 well about her ill fated screen test with Vola and 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.280 if you got into trouble for revealing that secret on 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.720 national radio. Anyway, let's bring Liz into the podcast. So 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.600 sit back, relax as we dive just that little bit 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:11.880 deeper into the world of television and go behind the 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:18.399 scenes of Network tens rebooted Gladiators for twenty twenty four. Hello, man, Liz, 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:19.959 what time do they get you up this morning? Have 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.679 you been up since dawn? 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:22.959 Five o'clock? 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.000 The alart went off today and yesterday, so that hurt, 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:27.840 especially since last night I was going to get an 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.000 early night and then I light in bed after watching Gladiators, 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.000 of course in my hotel room, and then I started 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:34.800 watching Succession and eleventh thirty. 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.200 I went, shit, what season of Succession are you up to? 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.320 I just finished episode three last night, so I've literally 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:40.960 just started. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:42.920 Well, we'll get you back and we'll do a debrief 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:44.040 on Succession later. 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.560 Succession. I'm bloody loving it, though I'm feeling a. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.800 Little worse for wear today, but that's because we stayed 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.200 awake and watched all of Boyce Swallow's universe, which is 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.520 on Netflix and I have to recommend that to you. 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.880 But anyway, it's not a different network. It's so good. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.600 That's okay. Did you read the book? 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.880 And I found the book really harrowing because it was 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.000 quite bleak, and I always get quite sensitive when parents 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.240 can't look after their children. You know, there was a 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.520 couple of books I read that year that were a 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.160 bit like that where the show has a lot of 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.440 because I'm from the eighties, I grew up in I 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.160 was born nineteen eighty, so anyway, I grew up with 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.919 all of that music that I was the eighties rock. 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.200 I don't know, I just the show's brilliant, So all right. 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.160 I'm looking forward to it because I loved I loved 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:26.639 the book. To me while to get into the book 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.320 to understand it. But once I got into it, I 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:29.560 was like, oh, okay, a little. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.440 Bit melodrama, but yet said in our world. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.399 I love his books that they're written in like said 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:33.920 in Brisbane. 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.480 I haven't read any of his other books, but I 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.679 was in Big w as we are always in Big 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.400 who buying our books because they're like sixteen dollars, and 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:44.480 I saw more of his books, so I was like, 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:45.880 I've got to read it, so. 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:46.600 Yeah, you do. 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.960 How strange I was talking to you immediately after you 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.400 came out of the jungle and won. I didn't think 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.919 I'd be talking to you so soon afterwards. But Liza, 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.480 I have to tell you, there was a lot of 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:01.440 downloads on that particular episode, and the people that loved 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.160 you on that show really translated to my chat with you. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.560 It was oh wow, Yeah, it was quite amazing. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.679 I wonder why, maybe because you brought out the best 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:09.880 in me. 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.480 No, I think it's because you know what, It's the 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.640 same with Gladiators. When I heard you were doing this show, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.200 and I thought back to Mike Hammond and the people 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.280 that hosted that show before. They were able to bring 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.440 a lot of their personality to the show and a 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.200 lot of the humanity or relatability that I think that 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.440 you have. So I think this casting for Gladiators is 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:28.200 just perfect for you. 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:29.000 Oh thank you. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.200 I actually I loved filming it, and what we loved 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.400 when we were doing it was yes, it's entertainment, and 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.760 yes we do it's a lot of tongue in cheek 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.600 and we poked fun at things. But at the end 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.200 of the day, these contenders are stepping up and this 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:42.000 is their World. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.080 Cup and you have to respect that. So you have to. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.960 Bring out the best in them and let them show 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.600 their personalities and really display that they're not just on 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.760 a television show. They're doing something that means a lot 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.720 to them. And that was I think really important. And 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.000 I think we saw that last night. You know, in 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.480 the first episode with Magadonka, you saw what it meant 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.040 to hurt or win through the heats, Like it's not 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.720 just a silly TV show for her, It's a massive achievement. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.200 I feel like with her name when she applies, we 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.120 just did. The producers go, well, she's got to be 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:10.720 on the show, Like, you know, what else is she 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.200 going to do with her life with a name like that. 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:13.120 She's a gladiator. 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:14.720 Yeah, she was fantastic. 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:16.200 And you know the fact that she turned up with 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.359 a photo of her and Vulcan when she was five, 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:20.040 it just goes to show. You know, the thing that 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.440 I love about this show is that it means so 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.760 much to so many people. And just in the last 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.080 couple of days, I've had so many conversations with people 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:27.600 who were like. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:28.960 Oh my god, I love this show. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:30.600 When I was a kid, we used to go to 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:31.920 school and there was a hill and we used to 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:33.760 pretend we're on the pyramid and we had to throw 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.679 each other down. And I love that, but I've also 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.720 loved watching my kids, Like last night, my kids were 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.200 so engrossed it, and my sister sent me a photo 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.000 of her kids, who were fifteen and ten, watching it, 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:46.040 and I said, do they like it? 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.359 She goes, I ask them, but they're two engrossed to it. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.680 They can't answer me, and I'm like, yeah, it's like 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.200 this whole new generation of kids going, this is the 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:54.360 greatest thing I've ever seen. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.400 I remember watching it like it was event television for 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.880 us growing up, So that first run of it in 0:04:59.920 --> 0:05:02.160 the nineties before it came back in two thousand and eight, 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:03.720 which I might have been a bit too old or 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.560 thought I was too cool for at the time because 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.120 it would have been in my twenties. But I just 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.520 remember we used to have furniture that we would stack 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:13.120 up to pretend it was the pyramid, and I love it, 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.040 but we would try to climb it as though we 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.320 were you know, we were just literally wrestling on you know, 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.880 eight stacks of pillows. But isn't it Nostalgiama and so 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.360 brilliant to think that this television show is back and 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.320 that this new generation can enjoy it, hopefully as much 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:28.200 as we did. 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.240 Yeah, and you know, there's not a lot of television 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.479 around that is family viewing, family friendly viewing where you 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.080 can all sit around and you all have a bit 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.320 of a laugh, but you all enjoy the spectacle and 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.320 you all enjoy the contest. And I think that's a 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.719 number of gladiators is at it's very heart. It is 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.919 it's a contest, but then it's wrapped in entertainment, and 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.599 it's wrapped in entertainment that the family can really get into. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.440 So yeah, I love it. 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:51.560 I feel like I need to apologize to all the 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.360 parents out there whose kids are going to start doing 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.839 stuff like putting the pillows up and making the pyramid. 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.120 Any last night, in the last ad break before the eliminated, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.159 my kids just started spontaneously wrestling each other. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:03.720 So I'm like, oh my god. 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.880 If Elie is responsible for broken arms all over Australia. 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.040 Well hopefully they don't do that, but don't trump out 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:10.520 of a couch. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.359 I'm probably responsible for some untidy land drones, but you 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.520 know they did get Channel ten, did get Phoenix at 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.840 the very start to do the whole Hey, kids, don't 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.359 try this at home, which spending your eyes like a 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.479 red flag. The kids go, yeah, I'm going to try 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:25.080 this at home. 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.520 It's just nice to know that there's more vulcans and 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.960 storms and there's a new breed of these people coming back. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.560 You know, what was your reaction to being asked to 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.920 do this show? I mean, because you were so popular 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.839 coming off The Jungle, I'm sure Channel ten bev McGarvey 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.680 scramble for something for you to do. And sometimes when 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.719 someone who as popular as you coming off a show 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.040 like that, they just slapped them into something where this 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.320 is like the right Manutia, like this is the right 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.160 fit for you. What was your reaction to that. 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.520 I was really excited, actually, and I was really wary 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.240 of that because I wasn't that keen initially on doing Celebrity, 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.520 because I thought I've spent all these years building up 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.560 this series, sporting sort of resume as a commentator and 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.000 a panelist and a host, and then. 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.280 To do reality it's a bit like, oh, I don't. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.800 Know so, and then I love doing it as one 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.680 of the best things I've ever done, but I sort 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.320 of thought, I'm going to be really careful about what 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:14.920 I do next because I don't want to just go 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.400 for a reality TV show to reality TV show. And 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.840 then Ten came to me with Gladiators, and I thought, God, 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.840 it's perfect because it allows me to do something completely different, 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.280 but with the DNA of something that I'm really used to. So, 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.760 you know, it's entertainment and it's a bright, shiny, flashy show, 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.440 but at its heart, like it's that sporting contest. It's 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.960 it's people being brave and standing up and doing something 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:40.880 that's well out of their comfort zone, tacking on people 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.280 who were bigger and stronger than them, but who just 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.400 put one foot in front of the other. So yeah, 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.120 as soon as they mentioned Gladiators, I was like, I 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.280 became I became a kid again. 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.360 I was like, yeah, go back and original, Like, were 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.560 you going back and watching the original? Yeah? 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:57.160 And I went back. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.040 And the other other thing that I watched, which was 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.400 really great, was watched the Netflix. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.320 Doco Muscles in Mayhem. I don't know if you've watched it. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.920 It is fascinating and it's about the start of Gladiators, 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.080 so about the actual conception and how they sort of 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:12.760 made it up on the run in the eighties in 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.440 America and how you know, the people who like the 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:17.880 talk show hosts were like, this is this is the 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:18.760 death of television. 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.040 This is the end of television. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.520 Because I'd never seen anything like it, and like, it 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.840 was so fascinating. But I loved it because you know, 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:26.160 I'm a student of history. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:26.880 I love history. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.160 When I was Captain of the Diamonds, I made sure 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.600 that we that I introduced things that gave us a 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.400 real understanding of where we'd come from. So to watch 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:38.439 that doco and get a real understanding of where Gladiators 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.360 has come from over the last forty years was fantastic. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.360 It was like, Okay, this has been around for a 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.040 long time, and I'm really part of rather than being 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.120 just the host, I'm part of a group of people 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.559 who were charged with holding on to it, you know, 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.960 at the moment, and then hopefully we'll hand it on 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.199 to somebody else because it's a sort of format that 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.840 I think will always be around, and you really you 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.880 realize that you're out of a much longer, really interesting 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:02.640 sort of history. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:03.840 So I actually. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.640 Felt, really I felt really privileged after watching it going, Yeah, Wow, 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.920 they've ten of entrusted Bow and I with this, and 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:11.439 at the end of the day, Bow and I just 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:11.920 a couple. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.320 Of idiots on the sideline. But you know, it's all 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:15.240 part of it. 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.560 How did you get along with bo, Because, like, he's 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.800 been hosting a show by himself, so he probably almost 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:22.439 could have been a little bit selfish in the way 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.200 that he could be a host. But there does seem 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.080 to be a bit of a bond happening. There is 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:30.040 he naughty schoolboy to your strict teacher, like, what are 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:30.760 the dynamics? 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:35.520 That's probably he's like this over energetic puppy who just 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.920 bounces around and he's so screamingly funny that the whole 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:41.880 way through every day, I had to get my makeup, 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:43.800 my eye makeup done two or three times because I 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:45.520 kept laughing till I cried, and then. 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:48.160 I make up and cry off. 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:53.520 But to his eternal credit, you're right, he's used to 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.280 hosting TV shows by himself. But he was so generous, 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:57.839 he's so good at his craft. It's the first time 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.000 I'd hosted a show like this, and he gave me 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.120 so much information and helped me understand where the edit 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.440 points were and helped me understand what you do to 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.640 the camera and how different it all is to just 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.560 sitting commentating a netball game or sitting on a panel 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.840 show and hosting it or anything like that. So he 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.520 was generous, he was funny. He's exhausting sometimes, so I'll 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:17.000 tell you that. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.440 But honestly, though, Liz, this is the best thing about 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.080 it was that we've got a news headline today about 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.600 Brendan Favola, and I'm wondering whether or not you got 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:29.559 into trouble for revealing that Brenda Vivola auditioned for this, 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:31.720 like has fev reached out to you? So for people 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.640 who aren't reading the headlines that may not know this story, 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.200 Liz was on what his breakfast show? No, what is it? 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:38.960 His drive show? 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:40.439 Any drive show? Yeah? 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.200 Yeah, So then he asked you, you know, obviously you 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.160 got the gig first, did they screen test you with people? 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.120 And you revealed that you actually screen tested with Brenda 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:54.240 Vivola before bo got the gig. There's Brenda Favola. Because 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.319 it's kind of like a taboo thing and acting, you're 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.200 not allowed to say who you've screen tested. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.319 Again, Yeah, well, I wouldn't have said anything, but I'd 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.760 done fev's breakfast show that morning and he brought it up, 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.160 he said, so when he said that, I was like, oh, okay, 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.040 we can talk about it. Because I walked in, I thought, God, 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:09.760 this is going to be awkward because I knew that 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.760 he had auditioned, and he knew that he'd auditioned because 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.320 we did it together. And I thought, well, I'm not 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.360 going to say anything because that's like you say, like 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.600 you know, you don't say you didn't get the job. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.760 And he was like, oh, I didn't get the job 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.520 because I was too fat, and I was like no, anyway. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.000 So when he said that, okay, we can talk about it. 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.079 So yeah, look, and he and I get along really 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:32.800 well and he's fun, but at the end of the day, 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.480 they just you know, Bo got the job, and I 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:36.160 really I don't care. 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:37.240 I don't mind who I work with. 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.319 They're both fun and they're both good values, so they 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.080 both bring different things. So yeah, but it was like 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.599 yesterday when I walked into Feb's breakfast showing, well and 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:45.640 I was like, oh. 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.640 It's gonna know a little bit of goss on this 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.240 from what I was told that Bo had auditioned. To 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.120 be on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.400 with Julia Morris, And if that had happened, I think 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:58.360 FEV was going to host with you. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.520 That's what I was, you know more than me. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.200 Was just Beth mcgarvy's going to email me later and say, 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:05.240 how do you know this stuff? 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:08.680 You know way more than me. I'll get to say 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.319 a lot of our numbers this week because I like 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:11.040 those as well. 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.960 How much teleprompting was there? I mean was a lot 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:17.160 of ad libbing all. 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.560 Ad libing, So we had some basic scripts we didn't 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.760 have We didn't have an AUTOQ or anything like that. 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.400 We had some basic scripting that we'd go through and 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.440 we knew where we needed to get to with everything, 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.120 but pretty much off the cuff. 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.960 And you know what's also great about this format is 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.960 that you're allowing us to get to know the gladiators. 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.440 And I feel like more so you're doing that with 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.440 this reboot than when they rebooted it in two thousand 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.680 and eight. You know, they kind of just tried to 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.040 sort of action action action the whole thing. Where I'm 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:50.400 enjoying that we're getting dialogue continuously from the people that 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.320 are competing in the show, but towards you, which allows 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.640 those personalities to grow and for audiences to feel more 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.480 ownership over it. I guess yeah. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.640 And we want the audience to all in love with 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.360 the gladiators. There's a gladiator there for everyone, but we 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.560 also want them to really admire their contenders and to 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:08.880 fall in love with them, because at the end of 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.760 the day, they're who you're cheering forward to get through. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.520 And so I'm wrapped that we're we're able to spend 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.520 a bit of time each show getting to see the 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.680 silly side of the gladiators by getting to see what 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.040 doing this means to the contenders as well. 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.000 Did you know what sort of changes they were going 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:24.600 to make to this time around or do you know 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.640 were you part of those sorts of conversations as to 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.599 whether or not it was going to be a strict 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.920 sort of remake of what it was in the nineties, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.480 Like what sort of conversations were there about any changes 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.760 that may needed to have happened to have it here 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:36.800 in twenty twenty four. 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:41.000 Yeah, Well, when the idea was like first floated with me, 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.720 the way it was floated was that it would be 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.559 it would be largely true to the nineteen nineties version, 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.160 but it would be fun and there'd be a fun element. 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.280 There would be an element. 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:52.880 Of behind the scenes, and that's what you get with 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.839 the gladiator's locker room and the contender's locker room, and 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.439 that Bo and I or whoever the hosts were, it 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.439 would be our job to really or the personality out 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.760 of the contenders and to you know, bounce off the 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.200 gladiators for different things. So yeah, that was always part 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.160 of it, and I think when Bo and I turned 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.880 up and started watching it, we're also really came to 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.240 make sure that the athletic contest was something that was 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:17.720 really showcased as well. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.200 But I think as well, you know, the two of 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.680 you love people like you're both curious, and even in 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.160 presenting in acting, I find that word comes back to 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.160 me a lot. And that's where you do your job 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.840 so well, is when you stay in that curious space 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.080 where you want to know more about people, it comes 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.560 across very authentic. I think, thank you. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.040 Yeah, well that's and you know, all of our contenders 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.040 have really great stories and they're not TV people, right, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.360 so we had to make sure they were comfortable to 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.920 want to talk to us because suddenly they're in the studio, 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.120 there's lights, there's cameras, there's stuff going on, there's someone 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.840 doing their makeup. Like it's just like, well, actually there's 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.160 someone doing my makeup. The contenders in wear makeups. It 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.160 would have ended up all over the gladiators, but like, 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.800 you know, you need to make them comfortable and so 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.280 I think, you know, the thing that really sort of 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.160 prepared me for that was the work that I've done 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.400 over the years on radio and interviewing people on radio, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.760 because you get the best out of people when they're comfortable, 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.800 when they trust you. So that's what we're trying to do. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.920 And we spent lots of time chatting to the contenders 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.280 off camera, so they knew us. And you know, I've 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.440 got a beautiful message last night from one of the 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.920 contender's mums, you know, thank you me for looking after 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:22.360 her girl. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.320 So you know, that was just so nice. 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.840 It's lovely, and they're the connections that make your job 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:27.520 really fun to do. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.360 How long are you How long does it take to 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.360 shoot an episode? I think people love to know that 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.840 kind of stuff. You know, last night we watched it 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:36.720 on television, you know, with ads and everything. And so 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.720 it's you know, an hour and a half. But are 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.800 you able to shoot it quite quickly or does it 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:41.600 take a lot of time? 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.640 Thanks for over So each episode took us a day 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.720 to shoot. Wow, yeah, so a full day. So filming 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.360 we generally started about midday, so you get in early. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.800 You'd have all your meetings, go through all the scripts 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.880 and everything, and work out where you want to get 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.200 to with each segment. 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.280 Hair and macer wardrobe. I took longer than bow obviously. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.320 And then it's like that when he wakes up. I've 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:05.920 been with them him when he's gotten up in the 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:07.640 morning and I'm like, are you wearing any makeup? And 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.040 he's like no, And I'm like, you just normally look 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:11.360