Speaker 1: Now, you guys are very well aware that I was
Speaker 1: a big fan of I'm a Celebrity this year. I
Speaker 1: watched every episode, well, particularly I was on.
Speaker 2: It last year. Were you not a fan last year?
Speaker 1: That's true, you didn't even watch it last year?
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: I was a fan last year. I was particularly a
Speaker 1: fan this year because my husband, Matty Jay, was on
Speaker 1: the show. But we did meet another celebrity again, Reggie Bird.
Speaker 1: Now Reggie Bird, she was the winner of Big Brother.
Speaker 1: She's won two separate seasons, and I honestly felt, and
Speaker 1: I think most of Australia did, that she was just
Speaker 1: such a standout in this season of I'm a Celeb.
Speaker 1: And Reggie herself that she's vision impaired and she is
Speaker 1: going blind, but she really rewrote what it means to
Speaker 1: have a disability and to be able to show up
Speaker 1: and still do everything that every other person was able
Speaker 1: to do in that campsite, and it was so inspirational.
Speaker 1: I loved every moment that she was on the screen,
Speaker 1: and we have her on the show. Reggie, welcome to
Speaker 1: the pickup.
Speaker 3: Oh thank you for having me. Guys.
Speaker 1: How are you feeling now that you're at home and
Speaker 1: you're back to normal life. Are you missing the jungle
Speaker 1: or are you happy to be out of that hell hole?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Look, it is good to be back in your comfort
Speaker 3: what is it creature comforts or whatever it's called. But
Speaker 3: I am missing everyone, though, Reggie.
Speaker 2: Do you think it was harder or easier than you anticipated?
Speaker 3: Easier than what I've thought? Yes, because my past experience
Speaker 3: of being on Big Brother and doing you know, I've
Speaker 3: spent what three months in Big Brother and being in
Speaker 3: there for a month was a breeze for me, Reggie.
Speaker 3: But not doing those challenges though, Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you looked pretty upset when you had to eat
Speaker 1: that kale.
Speaker 3: Reggie.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, but you spoke so beautifully about
Speaker 1: well about so many things actually, but one thing in
Speaker 1: particular is what you were going through with being vision impaired.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to say it wrong, but is
Speaker 1: it retinitis pigments?
Speaker 4: Is that the retis pigmentosa pigmentosa? And can you describe
Speaker 4: to us, like, what does that mean in terms of
Speaker 4: what's happening with your vision? Because you can still see
Speaker 4: a little bit, but you can't see as well as
Speaker 4: what you were able to.
Speaker 3: No, so because I've just got nine degrees of pinhole vision,
Speaker 3: and I explained to people, it's just like looking through
Speaker 3: a straw.
Speaker 2: Is that going to stay like that? Is that going
Speaker 2: to deteriorate completely?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So they said to me, you've got a fifteen
Speaker 3: year time frame before you'll totally lose all your side.
Speaker 3: So I'm just very thankful that of what I've got left.
Speaker 3: That's why I just make the most of everything in life,
Speaker 3: because one day I am going to wait up and
Speaker 3: never ever see anything ever again.
Speaker 1: You were such an inspiration on the show, and I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, I can only imagine the questions you would
Speaker 1: have had about going in there and doing that, Like
Speaker 1: everybody has reservations about doing it, but going in and
Speaker 1: doing that show without being able to see there must
Speaker 1: have been an additional pressure or fear factor there for you. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I was shit scared anyway going in, especially you know,
Speaker 3: because petrified of everything, you know, especially the heights, siders,
Speaker 3: bags snakes. I only have one really good night sleeping
Speaker 3: there because every night I'd sit there just worrying about
Speaker 3: a spider or some animal coming to get me because
Speaker 3: I can't see in the dark at all, Like I've
Speaker 3: got no night vision at all.
Speaker 1: You had a really beautiful conversation with Matt at one
Speaker 1: point in the show, and he asked you what it
Speaker 1: was if you're going to miss the most when you
Speaker 1: when you lose your vision, and you said it was
Speaker 1: seeing your kids. And I think every single parent.
Speaker 2: I'm not even a parent, and I upsets me.
Speaker 1: It's just I mean, how do your kids, I mean
Speaker 1: they understand what's happening. Obviously me is a little bit older,
Speaker 1: but how do they respond to this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, look for them as they've got older. That helped
Speaker 3: me a lot, and I guess that's all they've ever
Speaker 3: known with me. So yeah, I'm going to miss their
Speaker 3: faces for sure when I lose my side. That's the
Speaker 3: biggest thing.
Speaker 2: People really have no excuse to complain about that jungle
Speaker 2: again if you have got in there. I mean like
Speaker 2: when I was in there, the people complaining left, right
Speaker 2: and center. Oh we didn't get any mengo tonight, we
Speaker 2: didn't get avocado.
Speaker 1: The worst thing is Regietkoo for a whole week. I
Speaker 1: got in there and she was like, I have I gone
Speaker 1: to the toilet.
Speaker 2: Over a week, but like you to go and navigate
Speaker 2: that the way you have, Reggie, it's like you've just
Speaker 2: won over so many hearts in Australia.
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 2: I hope you know that by now, but you really have.
Speaker 3: Oh thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Today it's the first day I've actually got on and
Speaker 3: looked at my social media stuff, so oh man, there's
Speaker 3: some horrible comments as well out there. I'm just like, wow,
Speaker 3: especially about my eyesight, because you know, a lot of
Speaker 3: people saying she's fake and ithright, she's in there for sympathy,
Speaker 3: you know, it's just fall on and I just thinking, Wow,
Speaker 3: there's so many people just are so quick to judge,
Speaker 3: and if they spend to day in my shoes, they
Speaker 3: would understand how I get.
Speaker 1: A Reggie, I'm so sorry that you have to put
Speaker 1: up with that type of commentary because all it really
Speaker 1: shows is that there is such a lack of understanding
Speaker 1: around what constitutes blindness and people think it's black or white.
Speaker 1: You can see all you can't see.
Speaker 2: Nah, we're being too lean on them. There just trolls,
Speaker 2: they're bullies. There's not the lack of education about what
Speaker 2: happens with blindness. That's not it at all. All I
Speaker 2: can say to you, Reggie, is someone that has been
Speaker 2: in that reality world many many times. You will hold
Speaker 2: on to the negative things that people write to you,
Speaker 2: but try to ignore it and look at how much
Speaker 2: support and love and all the beautiful comments you've got,
Speaker 2: because the negative comments stand out. But I would hate
Speaker 2: for you to go through this experience and you listen
Speaker 2: to these keyboard warriors like please don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we adore you, Reggie.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, my sisters, she can't stop reading.
Speaker 1: It's right, She's right, Reggie. We absolutely adore you. Congratulations
Speaker 1: on everything and for coming so incredibly close to getting
Speaker 1: the Crown of the Jungle. We're just so stoked you.
Speaker 3: It was a blast.