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Speaker 1: Welcome back to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris, and
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Speaker 1: I will continue on from yesterday as I unpacked the
Speaker 1: latest reality TV series from endemolshein Australia, which is currently
Speaker 1: on Paramount Plus. It is The Bridge. Joining me is
Speaker 1: the winner of the series, Barty, who managed to make
Speaker 1: the controversial decision to keep most of the money. I
Speaker 1: absolutely loved Barty on the show and it's no wonder
Speaker 1: why she won, as most of the cast loved her turn.
Speaker 1: Varty was certainly a team leader with our heart and
Speaker 1: we will learn throughout this chat that she is a
Speaker 1: fantastic human too. The Bridge saw a cast of unknowns
Speaker 1: forced into a situation where not only building a bridge
Speaker 1: was physically exhausting, but mentally, they faced a conundrum that
Speaker 1: would only see one person in charge of how the
Speaker 1: final prize money would be spent. Bardy talks about her
Speaker 1: brutal response from fans, why she took the money, and
Speaker 1: how she feels about that decision now, and why she
Speaker 1: would never do reality TV again. Today's chat is a
Speaker 1: really interesting chat, and I'm sure you'll be thinking about
Speaker 1: it for days. However, let's get started with today's guest.
Speaker 1: I'd like to welcome Barti from the Bridge to TV Reload.
Speaker 2: It's been a ride. I wouldn't change anything.
Speaker 1: You have seventeen days to build the bridge.
Speaker 3: I'm sure a lot of people don't agree with what
Speaker 3: I did, but it's a choice I made and I
Speaker 3: stand by my choice. It is a team effort to
Speaker 3: really pull this thing together. To be completely honest, I
Speaker 3: don't actually know e exactly where it is.
Speaker 1: Should you fail, no one will claim the cat.
Speaker 2: You know, being a woman has nothing to do with
Speaker 2: what you do.
Speaker 3: Will this place change them forever? As they built the bridge?
Speaker 2: The reason you know there's been a lot of talk.
Speaker 2: Why didn't I share with Dean?
Speaker 1: Hi, Barty, how are you hello?
Speaker 3: I'm doing pretty well. I can't really complain.
Speaker 1: I was just saying to Madison, who I was talking
Speaker 1: to before, how unusual his name is to be Madison
Speaker 1: as a boy. But then you also have an unusual name,
Speaker 1: which is BARTI. Where does that name come from?
Speaker 3: So interestingly enough, So Barty is kind of a family name.
Speaker 3: When I was born, mom didn't really know what to
Speaker 3: call me, and she ended up naming me after her aunt, Barty.
Speaker 3: But Barty wasn't really her actual name. Her actual name
Speaker 3: is Marjorie and Barti is just a nickname that they
Speaker 3: gave her.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like a Bardie if you
Speaker 3: cannot feel like your name.
Speaker 2: But I just feel like it suits Madison.
Speaker 1: Suits Madison's so much. And I actually said to his Bace,
Speaker 1: Madison's like regal, but it's also like poison.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: I Madison is just yeah, he's gorgeous, Like he's just
Speaker 3: one of those people who you know. He was like,
Speaker 3: he's just honest, he goes for it, and yeah, but
Speaker 3: he's there.
Speaker 2: He's a real good person.
Speaker 1: I like your name because as I was watching the show,
Speaker 1: I kind of was like, it sounds like Barbie, but
Speaker 1: you're the anti Barbie because, like you know, let's i mean,
Speaker 1: before Barbie went all woke and now there's you know,
Speaker 1: all the different Barbies to fit in with all the
Speaker 1: different sizes of women and all the types of women.
Speaker 1: You can even get a chippy Barbie these days, so
Speaker 1: there is a Bardi Barbie. But interestingly enough, I kind
Speaker 1: of feel like you are the anti Barbie because yeah,
Speaker 1: you're very different to that aesthetic of what we know,
Speaker 1: even though you have the blonde hair.
Speaker 3: Okay, so a lot of people do you know, mishear
Speaker 3: my name because Barty is not obviously a name you
Speaker 3: really ever hear, so people will go, oh, no, Barbie
Speaker 3: and like no with.
Speaker 2: A D because I don't know. I just like I
Speaker 2: don't really.
Speaker 3: Align with being called Barbie. Not in a bad way,
Speaker 3: go her, but I'm kind of just like, no, I'm Bardi.
Speaker 3: I'm good with that, Like that's that survive I'm on.
Speaker 1: I just love it because it is that. I mean,
Speaker 1: you are just not Barbie, and I love that about you.
Speaker 1: You're just the modern age woman. And it all sounds
Speaker 1: so contrived as it's coming out of my mouth, but
Speaker 1: I just think it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's so nice. It's so good to hear. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, I really love I think.
Speaker 3: You know, when I started my apprenticeship and stuff, I
Speaker 3: really struggle to kind of go, Okay, well, I'm a
Speaker 3: woman in a man's world. What does like how do
Speaker 3: I find my femininity here? And how do I feel myself?
Speaker 3: And for a long time, I think I got really
Speaker 3: lost in that masculine place. And so finding who I
Speaker 3: am and showing up truly as I am as a
Speaker 3: woman has been something I've worked so hard towards and
Speaker 3: something I'm really proud of because you know, it doesn't
Speaker 3: matter what.
Speaker 2: You do where you are.
Speaker 3: If you're a woman, then you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 3: It has you know, being a woman has nothing to.
Speaker 2: Do with what you do.
Speaker 1: I agree, and I love this thing about you. I
Speaker 1: just think it's like even hearing you talk about it,
Speaker 1: and I just think of all of the young girls
Speaker 1: that would get to watch you on Telly. Not probably now,
Speaker 1: because they should watch it when they're a bit older,
Speaker 1: but I just think growing up, we didn't have people
Speaker 1: on television like yourself. And yes, you've probably gone through
Speaker 1: the struggle to go through that for yourself, but it
Speaker 1: gives people something to look up to.
Speaker 2: It's so crazy.
Speaker 3: I do get messages and stuff from girls and women,
Speaker 3: especially in the industry that I'm in. I get a
Speaker 3: lot of women reach out, especially from the industry, whether
Speaker 3: they're kind of looking to take on a trade or
Speaker 3: they've taken one on. And they're always so lovely and
Speaker 3: really are thankful for me showing up as myself in
Speaker 3: my journey. And you know, I mean, it's always so
Speaker 3: lovely to have people come to you with something like that.
Speaker 2: And I really do believe that.
Speaker 3: Seeing someone in that place that you want to be
Speaker 3: can be so helpful. But I always, you know, remind
Speaker 3: myself to I can only you know, I can only
Speaker 3: show up that way if I'm in good alignment with myself.
Speaker 3: I'm being true to myself. And you know, I really
Speaker 3: do think when we show up the best for ourselves
Speaker 3: and we're able to show up better for the people
Speaker 3: around us.
Speaker 1: And yeah, where did you get this knowledge from? I
Speaker 1: don't want to say that, you know in a condescending
Speaker 1: way about you being young, but you know you have
Speaker 1: great leadership skills, you have great insight into the world.
Speaker 1: Where does this all come from?
Speaker 2: Where does it all come from? Really?
Speaker 3: I think in some ways, I've just been through it.
Speaker 3: You know, I've just gone through so many different things
Speaker 3: in my life, and each time something's come up, it's
Speaker 3: been you know, it has been hard, and I've learned
Speaker 3: a lot of truths, and you know, there's even times
Speaker 3: I look back at myself and I go, you know,
Speaker 3: I could have shown up a lot better there, But
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think that's just it. I think
Speaker 3: it doesn't really matter how young you are. It's about
Speaker 3: where you've been and where you're willing to meet yourself.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm so I so strongly believe in working
Speaker 3: on yourself and working through the places you've been. And
Speaker 3: I suppose that's a journey I'm on. I'm on that
Speaker 3: journey with myself, and it's a great place to be. Well.
Speaker 1: I think that it's all fantastic and amazing and so
Speaker 1: glad that you got to be on this TV show.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've survived the bridge, You've won the bridge.
Speaker 1: How does that all feel now? Looking back?
Speaker 3: Looking back on my time on the Bridge is so
Speaker 3: surreal and it's so just really difficult to put into
Speaker 3: words because when you kind of do something like that.
Speaker 2: I was, you know, I was so far.
Speaker 3: Out of my element, you know, I just it was insane.
Speaker 3: You know. The reason I actually took on the challenge
Speaker 3: of doing a bridge was because in my life I
Speaker 3: just felt like, you know, I got a bit comfortable.
Speaker 3: Things were, things were as they were, and I think
Speaker 3: we need a bit of difficulty to push ourselves to
Speaker 3: grow and go to the next level. So that was
Speaker 3: my driving force. I was like, you know, I just
Speaker 3: want to get out of my comfort zone and just
Speaker 3: do something. And the bridge definitely did that. You know,
Speaker 3: I've never worked so hard in my life. I've never
Speaker 3: you know, been so mentally fatigue. It was just something
Speaker 3: like nothing I've ever experienced. And to be completely honest,
Speaker 3: I feel like in that time there, I went into
Speaker 3: a complete transition of even who I am during the experience.
Speaker 1: I mean, they lurius in to these shows with huge
Speaker 1: prize money. Did you commit to winning? Well, when did
Speaker 1: you commit to winning? And were you determined to win
Speaker 1: the money from the start.
Speaker 3: To be completely honest, my driving force every day was
Speaker 3: just this mission to do it. And I was so
Speaker 3: you know, I wanted to go on there and I
Speaker 3: wanted to, like really just get in like, just get
Speaker 3: in there and just be so strong and just push
Speaker 3: myself and just you know, be that person who shows
Speaker 3: up for all the other women who are out there
Speaker 3: absolutely keicky asks because you know, it's not an easy
Speaker 3: thing to do.
Speaker 2: And even one of my favorite things while we were
Speaker 2: filming is watching all the other women just absolutely getting it.
Speaker 3: You know, everyone was from such different walks of life,
Speaker 3: and they were all just going so hard and pushing
Speaker 3: themselves past what they even thought was capable. So every day,
Speaker 3: even as a team leader, I really just it was
Speaker 3: just about the task.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: Obviously, you know, anyone would be lying to say they
Speaker 3: went on it, and you know, you go on it.
Speaker 2: You know there's a prize.
Speaker 3: Of course I was aware there was a prize, but
Speaker 3: coming up to final night, just before everyone did their votes,
Speaker 3: we were everyone went around and said why they want
Speaker 3: to win, and every single person said they would every yeah,
Speaker 3: every person said they would split the money.
Speaker 2: And that's just how it was.
Speaker 3: And at this point I was kind of looking at
Speaker 3: it and I was in this place where I thought,
Speaker 3: you know, this could really be, this could actually change
Speaker 3: my life. This is my opportunity to sit here and
Speaker 3: talk to these people who I build a connection with
Speaker 3: and say, look this is how I'm feeling. And I
Speaker 3: sat there, I said, this money could change my life.
Speaker 3: There's no ifs or bites about that. And you know,
Speaker 3: if we split the money it becomes what does it become?
Speaker 2: Off holiday or whatever.
Speaker 1: Interesting question that I got asked a lot and that
Speaker 1: is have you got the money? How quickly did you
Speaker 1: get the money? Ah?
Speaker 2: Like do I have the money?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, I don't have the money.
Speaker 1: What happened with that money that was in the box.
Speaker 3: The money in the box is not real money. I
Speaker 3: thought it was real. I thought it was real, and
Speaker 3: when I saw it, I mean, you know, I've never
Speaker 3: seen slabs of money before, so it looks one thousand
Speaker 3: percent real. I'm not sure to do it, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm sure if someone will hear that and go, well,
Speaker 3: it actually looks nothing real. But in my case, I
Speaker 3: thought I thought it was real.
Speaker 2: But no I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't you know, leave Tasmania with one hundred and
Speaker 3: eighty thousand in cash.
Speaker 2: That would be a bit red hot.
Speaker 1: When are they going to give you the money? Like
Speaker 1: I remember after Big Brother, I woke up the next
Speaker 1: day and the money was in my bank account.
Speaker 3: The money's on its way, I'm sure. No, the money
Speaker 3: is coming, The money is coming soon.
Speaker 1: Amazing. Well, I think that's interesting, very interesting to hear
Speaker 1: because you know, you were so adamant about setting up
Speaker 1: a business, you know, from the start, and that was
Speaker 1: the story that you were sharing, you know, building business
Speaker 1: with your name on it, which you know the viewers
Speaker 1: really loved and brought into Is that exactly what you're
Speaker 1: going to do and if you started putting those wills
Speaker 1: in motion.
Speaker 3: Yes, definitely. So I'm super excited. That is one thousand percent.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, I can't speak for every chippy or
Speaker 3: anything like that, but I know it is such a
Speaker 3: big dream for so many people, but it's not really
Speaker 3: an easy one. So right now, well, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: actually I still have a few months to go on
Speaker 3: my apprenticeship and I'm also studying my Builder's course at
Speaker 3: the moment, which you need obviously to go ahead and
Speaker 3: have a business. So that's what I'm working towards right now.
Speaker 3: And yeah, that's definitely what I want to do. I'm
Speaker 3: looking into all the ways I can do that and
Speaker 3: make it possible for myself because obviously it's not really
Speaker 3: something you wake up your bang I'm doing Like I'm
Speaker 3: doing this. It's amazing to dream. I dream big, but
Speaker 3: I'm also a realist and I know that there's things
Speaker 3: that I need to put in place so that when
Speaker 3: I'm ready, I'm ready to go. I don't need to
Speaker 3: worry and everything like that. But you know, in the meantime,
Speaker 3: there's lots of things I'm doing that I feel like
Speaker 3: really aligned with where I want to go and the
Speaker 3: kind of business I want to have and things I.
Speaker 2: Want to do.
Speaker 1: Well. You certainly sound like a sensible girl who knows
Speaker 1: what she's doing. I need to ask how did a
Speaker 1: person like you end up on a show line The Bridge.
Speaker 3: I was actually just on my Facebook one day and
Speaker 3: I was scrolling through and castings for the Bridge came
Speaker 3: up and I saw it and I read about it,
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, my gosh, that looks really cool,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. You see something like that
Speaker 3: and you think to yourself, You're like, oh, that looks awesome,
Speaker 3: you know, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's not for me.
Speaker 3: You kind of put yourself in that mindset you're like, oh, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: that's not going to be me.
Speaker 2: And then literally the next day.
Speaker 3: I got a call from someone and they were like,
Speaker 3: have you heard of the Bridge? I really think you
Speaker 3: should apply to go on. And that's when I started
Speaker 3: really thinking about doing it. Yeah, obviously, there's a whole
Speaker 3: process that you go through in order to be cast,
Speaker 3: and you talk to lots of different people. There's it's
Speaker 3: honestly endless, like the health checks that you go everything,
Speaker 3: they check literally everything, and and then it was just
Speaker 3: like it was happening, so very surreal looking.
Speaker 1: Back, very surreal. I mean, this show is a very
Speaker 1: strange show. I have to say that. So you know,
Speaker 1: you've made a decision that will, no doubt play on
Speaker 1: your mind for the rest of your life. How comfortable
Speaker 1: has the decision been to sit with with the.
Speaker 2: Decision to keep the money.
Speaker 3: It was very important to me that in my decision
Speaker 3: I was really honest and even before there was any
Speaker 3: voting done, I was so honest with everyone and I said,
Speaker 3: this is where I see it. I want to take
Speaker 3: the money. I explain why that was, and I to
Speaker 3: be honest. Pretty much at that point I gave up
Speaker 3: the I didn't really think I would win. I was like,
Speaker 3: you know, everyone here wants a share in the money,
Speaker 3: But I thought I'd rather be honest and lose then
Speaker 3: win and feel you know, uncomfortable and be a liar.
Speaker 3: Like that just wouldn't work with how I felt. It
Speaker 3: just wouldn't feel right to me.
Speaker 1: Like do you wake up some days and go, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't believe I didn't give it to Dino? Or
Speaker 1: do you wake up you know, like not regretting. I'm
Speaker 1: going to get into that in a minute, but like,
Speaker 1: how does it sit with you? Have you been comfortable
Speaker 1: with the actual decision or has there been any regrets?
Speaker 3: So as I would say, you know, I was honest
Speaker 3: about my decision. That was one thing that I was
Speaker 3: really proud of, and I went, yeah, okay, this is
Speaker 3: the choice. So you know, Bushy got I shared with
Speaker 3: Bushy because I mean, he's so deserving and he's so
Speaker 3: he just you know, he needs the money. And every
Speaker 3: single person there, every single person would have said yeah Bushie.
Speaker 3: The reason, you know, there's been a lot of talk
Speaker 3: why didn't I share with Dean?
Speaker 2: You know, I obviously was.
Speaker 3: I had a good connection with Dean, and I can
Speaker 3: understand why people feel that way. The reason I didn't
Speaker 3: was purely because I didn't see how, you know, everyone there,
Speaker 3: in my eyes was also so deserving, So then I
Speaker 3: didn't see how then I could go, Okay, well then
Speaker 3: this person, I'll share with you, But then I'm not
Speaker 3: going to share with these people or you know, as
Speaker 3: soon as you it's like, I.
Speaker 2: May as well split it with everyone there.
Speaker 3: I mean, morally, obviously, the best feeling would be to go, yep,
Speaker 3: I'll share with every single person here.
Speaker 2: I'll split it equally.
Speaker 3: But it just, yeah, I'm sure it's brought up a
Speaker 3: lot of like feelings in myself and a lot of
Speaker 3: people have had a lot of negative things to say
Speaker 3: about it and about myself, and it doesn't feel good,
Speaker 3: of course it doesn't. But I made that decision. I
Speaker 3: stand by the choice I made. I stand by it
Speaker 3: in the honesty I had and the people that I shared.
Speaker 2: The experience with.
Speaker 3: I was yeah, I mean, I was honest, and I'm
Speaker 3: sure a lot of people don't agree with what I did,
Speaker 3: but it's a choice I made, and I stand by
Speaker 3: my choice, and I know within myself that everything I'm
Speaker 3: going to do and the changes I'm going to make
Speaker 3: in my own life are also going to have so
Speaker 3: many different impacts in other people's lives, and you know,
Speaker 3: money isn't everything. And yeah, I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 3: people may think I'm greedy, but money also does create opportunities,
Speaker 3: and it has given me an opportunity to create, to
Speaker 3: create so many different things from this, yeah, I think.
Speaker 1: So, you know, were there conversations with producers or the
Speaker 1: production company, psychologists or even a chance to you know,
Speaker 1: contact your outside relationships before making this decision.
Speaker 3: No, So it was literally like, so we're in the show,
Speaker 3: I pretty much say to everyone, this is what I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do with the money, and then I end up
Speaker 3: being voted and then it's just like by that time,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't even know what time it would
Speaker 3: have been, surely like two o'clock in the morning something
Speaker 3: like that. So then I pretty much went to bed
Speaker 3: just thinking like, holy fuck, like what's going on? You know,
Speaker 3: what the heck? What's going on? And then the next
Speaker 3: day woke up and I walked the bridge and yeah,
Speaker 3: I it was.
Speaker 2: And it was so it was so emotional.
Speaker 3: You know, you see me in there and I am
Speaker 3: crying and I'm so upset, and it's because I truly
Speaker 3: was so upset because you know, sure I would have
Speaker 3: loved to have shared the money with everyone, but I chose,
Speaker 3: and I made the decision to put myself first, and
Speaker 3: that's a hard choice to make to do that. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it was pretty much just myself. I don't know, I
Speaker 3: just made the choice I had. Maddie and Elliott they
Speaker 3: were so so supportive of me. Everyone, I must say,
Speaker 3: was really supportive of me and my choice and was
Speaker 3: happy to have a conversation about it or anything like that.
Speaker 2: Aleiro was really good.
Speaker 3: She came to me and said, whatever you decide to do,
Speaker 3: you're so deserving and just know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a really weird thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, you have all of these people around you,
Speaker 3: but it's also kind of awkward to seek support for
Speaker 3: them in the choice you want to make because it
Speaker 3: impacts them.
Speaker 2: But that's it. That's just I suppose the way it is.
Speaker 1: Did you think that if you gave the money to
Speaker 1: Dean then you would have to go down the rabbit hole? Like?
Speaker 1: Do you think that's what I thought? I was like, oh, Bartie,
Speaker 1: she can't give them. You know, if she gives the
Speaker 1: money to Dean, then she really should have given it
Speaker 1: to Ellie Elliott and Maddie, and so I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: so she just had to cap it at Bushy and
Speaker 1: then not go down the line because the next love
Speaker 1: line down was three more people, which is a lot
Speaker 1: of money to part with, and then the next line
Speaker 1: down after that, considering you did genuinely make connections with
Speaker 1: the rest of them, regardless as to whether or not
Speaker 1: they voted for you, across the bridge was the next
Speaker 1: level down, and then all the money is completely gone.
Speaker 1: So I think it's fair. I don't. The truth of
Speaker 1: the matter is, Barty, no one would really know what
Speaker 1: decision they'd make until they were in your situation. I
Speaker 1: think that the answer for everyone is in the matrix,
Speaker 1: because you know, circumstance will change the way in which
Speaker 1: you see things, and the last things that people might
Speaker 1: have said to you before you made that decision could
Speaker 1: have influenced it. The lack of sleep, the lack of food,
Speaker 1: the fact that you're on television. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: factors out into this scenario, which means that no one
Speaker 1: truly knows what they would do unless they were in
Speaker 1: your situation exactly.
Speaker 2: And I can completely agree with that. It's I think
Speaker 2: it's very easy to have an opinion when you're not
Speaker 2: in the position.
Speaker 3: And if I if I had shared with Dino as
Speaker 3: well as Bushie, I wouldn't have just been sharing with Dino.
Speaker 3: I would have shared with everyone, because you can't. Bushy
Speaker 3: is an exception. Every single person who is there would
Speaker 3: completely understand and agree that with that. He was a
Speaker 3: complete exception to that and so deserving. You know, I
Speaker 3: absolutely love the bloke, but every single person there was
Speaker 3: so deserving of you know, twenty grand, and if Dean
Speaker 3: was to get that twenty grand, so is everyone else.
Speaker 2: That's where I was like, you know, of course.
Speaker 3: I would love to give money to Dean, but I
Speaker 3: would love to give money to everyone. And the choice
Speaker 3: I've made isn't that so I You know, I'm sure
Speaker 3: I could have sucked up my emotions better.
Speaker 1: But can I jump in there and say something being
Speaker 1: on television is one thing, or living something is one thing?
Speaker 1: But then when you watch it back on a TV
Speaker 1: show and you go, I wasn't there when the camera's
Speaker 1: picked up on that. I didn't see those people have
Speaker 1: that conversation. There are a whole lot of new insights
Speaker 1: that come into it. Has anything affected the way in
Speaker 1: which you viewed the experience.
Speaker 2: To me, completely honest watching it back, I don't think
Speaker 2: it has affected at all the way I feel about
Speaker 2: anyone from the experience or anything.
Speaker 3: Really. I mean, you are honestly put in this situation
Speaker 3: that is so out of this world, and what for
Speaker 3: me to look at someone and judge them for something
Speaker 3: they said, for some way they were feeling is so
Speaker 3: ridiculous because it's not normal human life. Of course, we're
Speaker 3: under pressure, everyone's tired, everyone's hungry. You know, you're mentally
Speaker 3: absolutely at your breaking point. You're physically at your breaking point.
Speaker 3: So yeah, if someone's going to say something rude or
Speaker 3: nasty or whatever, like I honestly I couldn't care less
Speaker 3: because that's a situation we're in.
Speaker 2: Like it's made to bring that out in you because
Speaker 2: it's not a normal way of life.
Speaker 1: How have you gone with public opinion? You mentioned this before,
Speaker 1: but people are obviously going to watch a show like
Speaker 1: this and then have a response. You know, what do
Speaker 1: you do to combat those types of people online who
Speaker 1: want to share their thoughts?
Speaker 3: Oh, I have received so much negative backlash that I
Speaker 3: just wasn't I just wasn't prepared for it, and I
Speaker 3: think even the way everything came out at the end
Speaker 3: just really set the tone for a lot of the
Speaker 3: messages I've received. So I have people finding me on Facebook,
Speaker 3: finding any Instagram they can. I actually stopped people from
Speaker 3: being able to comment to me, so they just started
Speaker 3: private messaging me.
Speaker 2: And it's been really.
Speaker 3: You know, when that first happened, and it was just massive,
Speaker 3: Like I had to, I was off my phone.
Speaker 2: I literally air aplane, moded my phone and just I
Speaker 2: just couldn't be on there.
Speaker 3: I've just to be honest, I've just been kind of
Speaker 3: keeping a safe distance.
Speaker 1: Which everyone could understand. I want to switch giars just
Speaker 1: a little bit because it is a bit heavy. I
Speaker 1: want to know what you did with those clothes, because
Speaker 1: you look so beautiful in those clothes. By the way,
Speaker 1: I just thought you looked like you could make an
Speaker 1: action figure out of you. That's how beautiful you looked.
Speaker 1: Did you keep them, have you burnt them? Are you
Speaker 1: going to wear them when you need to have a
Speaker 1: warrior day? What's happened?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, to me, completely honest, I have all
Speaker 3: the clothes, so lots of that stuff I actually just
Speaker 3: wear in my normal day at work all my overalls
Speaker 3: and everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of just my vibe when I was watching.
Speaker 3: Back, some of my outfit moments are just hilarious.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: It's like caught between a fashion victim and a fashion icon.
Speaker 2: I think, yes, I.
Speaker 1: Thought you looked amazing. Can you ever imagine going back
Speaker 1: to that location? I mean, do you want to go
Speaker 1: back to that location and see how you feel?
Speaker 3: The location is pretty epic? You know, I probably would
Speaker 3: go back there. I don't. I mean, I'm sure it
Speaker 3: would bring up a lot of different feelings and emotions,
Speaker 3: but yeah, it is. Honestly, when you're out there, it
Speaker 3: is truly the most amazing, breathtaking, beautiful place.
Speaker 2: Like it was.
Speaker 3: It was really nice to be out there kind of
Speaker 3: away from everything.
Speaker 1: I would say, that's I mean just one of the
Speaker 1: first things I thought of is I was like, I
Speaker 1: wonder if you could ever go back to that location?
Speaker 1: I mean, is it even a place that the general
Speaker 1: public can get to?
Speaker 3: To me completely honest, I don't actually know exactly where
Speaker 3: it is. We were completely blindfolded going in and everything
Speaker 3: like that. I'm not familiar with Tasmania either, so I mean,
Speaker 3: if you just sent me out that way to find it.
Speaker 3: There's probably no way I could. I just couldn't find it.
Speaker 2: Nuh.
Speaker 1: I love this. I love the fact that you have
Speaker 1: no idea where that was. That actually is kind of
Speaker 1: exciting to me from it. I just read that the
Speaker 1: cast of the Bridge are furious with their edit? Is
Speaker 1: that a true story? Have the rest of the cast
Speaker 1: of the Bridge been furious with their edit?
Speaker 3: I don't think the word would be furious, But I
Speaker 3: think it's always going to be shocking when you see
Speaker 3: things played out not as you remember them to you know,
Speaker 3: a possible storyline. So it's always going to be shocking, furious,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: But what's the most outrageous thing you've read online? Like,
Speaker 1: what's the most untrue thing that you've read about the brief?
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think. I'm just too be honest. I'm
Speaker 3: just thinking about lots of hate comments I've got. I
Speaker 3: can't really think of anything untrue. I did see a
Speaker 3: comment of someone saying, oh, aren't they all such great actors,
Speaker 3: and in my head I just thought, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: If you can act out here, good luck to you.
Speaker 3: I mean, it is far too stressful to put on
Speaker 3: an act far too stressful.
Speaker 1: Not even the best actors, the Academy Award winning actors
Speaker 1: could pull that off, you know, to look like and
Speaker 1: have those faces, have those reactions.
Speaker 3: Oh, honestly, send them out there, I'd love to say,
Speaker 3: because you know, once you get to that point, it's
Speaker 3: just you know, you're just broken down in so many
Speaker 3: different ways as who you are, so it all comes out.
Speaker 1: Do you think that if they do a series two
Speaker 1: that will be much harder? I mean, knowing what we
Speaker 1: know now, you know, alliances could form very differently based
Speaker 1: on what they saw from you. You guys, How would
Speaker 1: a series two go ahead?
Speaker 2: How would a series two go ahead? Ah?
Speaker 3: Oh honestly, I wouldn't want anyone to lift logs that heavy.
Speaker 3: That was intense. That was so intense that a series
Speaker 3: two there have to be some kind of twist. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure what it could be. I saw overseas they
Speaker 3: did something to do with two teams.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: Maybe they could, you know, there's nothing that comes to mind,
Speaker 3: because I think when we were out there, the twists
Speaker 3: and what happened.
Speaker 2: Was just so wild. I can't imagine it blowing up
Speaker 2: any more than that.
Speaker 1: Would you ever do reality television again?
Speaker 3: Ah, nuh, I think I think for right now, I'm
Speaker 3: pretty good, you know, I'm just yeah, it's been, it's been.
Speaker 2: It's been a ride. It's been a ride.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't change anything I have. You know, I don't
Speaker 3: have any regrets about what I've done. But to do
Speaker 3: reality television right now again, no, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. It would have to be something epic.
Speaker 1: Maybe the block get in there and get out. But
Speaker 1: the block would be good because you know, being a chippy.
Speaker 1: I think that's a trade that would work really well
Speaker 1: on that series.
Speaker 2: Oh, just on the tools, say, that's the thing.
Speaker 3: I feel like I was really able to throw myself
Speaker 3: into and love the bridge because I'm you know, I'm
Speaker 3: a physical person and that gets me going and you know,
Speaker 3: just that go and that drive and come on, let's
Speaker 3: get it done. That amp up. But if I was
Speaker 3: to do something like Big Brother or anything like that,
Speaker 3: I don't think I could do it because I need
Speaker 3: to have that stimulation and be on. I think I
Speaker 3: would just I would go, honestly, I would go truly insane.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you did it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, it's very different these days like when I
Speaker 1: did Big Brother. You weren't even allowed to talk about strategy,
Speaker 1: so you couldn't even say who you were nominating, so
Speaker 1: there was no strategy. There was no talk of nominations,
Speaker 1: so that really changed it. It was based on personality
Speaker 1: and whether the public voted every week to keep you
Speaker 1: in the show.
Speaker 3: I remember those days. Those are like Australia's Funniest Home
Speaker 3: Videos days. They were good times. They were good times.
Speaker 3: I just remember, you know. I think it was like
Speaker 3: Friday Albo going to my grandparents' house and just sitting
Speaker 3: back and just laughing at Funniest home videos, and then
Speaker 3: we'd watch Big Brother.
Speaker 2: I still remember.
Speaker 3: I think it was Reggie winning, and my grandparents were
Speaker 3: just buzzed off anything, just so excited.
Speaker 1: Like a pot a wind, I know. Crazy that she
Speaker 1: got to do it all over again and got another
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty, which means that maybe in eighteen years,
Speaker 1: which was the time difference for her, the bridge will
Speaker 1: come back and you will be asked to come back
Speaker 1: as an.
Speaker 3: Og ooh eighteen years. I mean, for a breath, if
Speaker 3: you do it, so can I I'm coming. I'm coming
Speaker 3: in hot eighteen years.
Speaker 2: You'll see me. You'll see me in there swinging an
Speaker 2: axe and telling them about the good old days of
Speaker 2: how we did it.
Speaker 1: I love it and I am one hundred percent of
Speaker 1: your audience for that. I don't know, I think that
Speaker 1: sounds like a great idea. Something I ask everyone who
Speaker 1: joins the podcast is what's something from behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: Something that we did not see that we won't see?
Speaker 1: Kind of a behind the scenes secret from your time
Speaker 1: on the bridge, something.
Speaker 2: You didn't get to see.
Speaker 1: Oh what could it be?
Speaker 2: There was?
Speaker 3: I feel like there were so many things that won't shown.
Speaker 3: But truly, I think I had so many really nice
Speaker 3: moments just spent with Maddie.
Speaker 2: And she is just an.
Speaker 3: Absolutely beautiful, beautiful person, and you know, I feel so
Speaker 3: lucky to even have her there. But I just shared
Speaker 3: so many funny and good times with her. Yeah, even
Speaker 3: when we when we did get I think it was
Speaker 3: the twenty five meters of bridge at the start, her
Speaker 3: and I went in, collected it together and paleled it back.
Speaker 2: And yeah, just any time with her was awesome and
Speaker 2: I wish that we hadn't seen.
Speaker 3: More of that.
Speaker 1: And are you going to be a bridesmaid when she
Speaker 1: marries Elliott?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I hope so.
Speaker 3: I mean probably not that I hope say I'll definitely,
Speaker 3: I'll definitely be there.
Speaker 1: Well, I absolutely loved this series of The Bridge and
Speaker 1: I think it's a fantastic show. And what an honor
Speaker 1: it has been to be able to have this chat
Speaker 1: with you. Turn off your phone, never respond to anyone
Speaker 1: that says anything mean online, block ignore and just enjoy
Speaker 1: it for what it is. And good luck starting up
Speaker 1: this business. I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: It's honestly being just such a pleasure talking to you.
Speaker 2: It's been really nice. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2: IT'SO privilege.