Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on
Speaker 1: TV Reload the podcast last week. They might welcome back
Speaker 1: to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris, and on this podcast,
Speaker 1: I go behind the scenes with the biggest players in television.
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Speaker 1: plus the talent that we see on our screens. TV
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Speaker 1: streaming services today. On the podcast, I have Lara, who
Speaker 1: last week we saw exit the Big brother House. The
Speaker 1: Channel seven series promised us a brand new breed of housemates,
Speaker 1: and I honestly believe we have never met anyone like
Speaker 1: Lara before. I chat up with Lara straight after her eviction,
Speaker 1: but I have to confess I did get COVID and
Speaker 1: so it has taken me a while to publish this chat.
Speaker 1: I didn't want you to miss the opportunity to hear
Speaker 1: what Lara has to say, and there are certainly some
Speaker 1: times where my COVID fog does have me a little lost,
Speaker 1: but I think the integrity of the chat is still
Speaker 1: in its place. Lara has the best intentions socially, and
Speaker 1: she speaks her mind like no one I've ever met before,
Speaker 1: and that is saying something. She was desperately worried what
Speaker 1: her kids would think of her Big Brother experience, but
Speaker 1: with a challenge beast title and a new BFF fat
Speaker 1: of tarrass, she certainly has walked away with a handful
Speaker 1: of great memories. We do talk about her failed friendship
Speaker 1: with Reggie, the most celebrated Big Brother housemaid of all time,
Speaker 1: that final pitch which landed with a thud, but what
Speaker 1: she reveals about her health and how Big Brother saved
Speaker 1: her life is one for the books. However, let's get
Speaker 1: started with last week's guest. I'd like to welcome Lara,
Speaker 1: former Big Brother housemate, to TV Reload now.
Speaker 2: I'm so thankful to Big Brother because it actually saved
Speaker 2: my life this year.
Speaker 3: It's my first birthday. Now I can see why they
Speaker 3: thought there was a divide, and I've invited housemates both
Speaker 3: new and legendary. I can't talk about certain things like that.
Speaker 3: It was on telling will experience be enough to take
Speaker 3: on the next generation of housemates?
Speaker 2: I don't know why anyone would be upset with Lalah's
Speaker 2: a coolist chick ever and.
Speaker 3: The new Contenders out with Big Brother Royalty. But I
Speaker 3: don't have any regrets. I'm really proud of myself. Yes,
Speaker 3: he's big Brother.
Speaker 1: Hi, Lara, how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm great? How are you? Well?
Speaker 1: I'm so excited that we get to talk about big Brother.
Speaker 1: You know, your time later came to an end last
Speaker 1: night for Australia. But how do you think you went?
Speaker 2: I'm really happy with everything I saw, Like, you know,
Speaker 2: it's weird kind of watching yourself, isn't it. And I
Speaker 2: was like heaps worried about what I was going to
Speaker 2: do because I think it's because of my ADHD and
Speaker 2: I'm so OCD and my mind runs a million miles
Speaker 2: an hour, and I did want embarrassed with kids, so
Speaker 2: I begging me not to go on, Mum, don't mum,
Speaker 2: don't do it because you just say the first thing
Speaker 2: that comes in your head, you.
Speaker 3: Know, don't do this. And I went all far out.
Speaker 2: But look, I had the best time and they're all
Speaker 2: proud of me, so it's cool.
Speaker 1: Well, you were quite the fierce competitor in the challenges.
Speaker 1: Do you think that that puts too much of a
Speaker 1: target on your back.
Speaker 3: I probably did hate. I don't know. I didn't really
Speaker 3: think of it, to be honest.
Speaker 2: I just want to go in and like, do the
Speaker 2: best for me, Bloody hell, I can do the best
Speaker 2: I can on the challenges, So I just did.
Speaker 3: I just gave it like everything I had.
Speaker 1: I think he nailed the brief with that. Although your
Speaker 1: strategy to talk to the whole house last night sort
Speaker 1: of fell a little bit flat. Do you think that
Speaker 1: they just didn't buy your story?
Speaker 2: No, at the time, it thought it was a good idea.
Speaker 4: Before everyone goes, Can I just chat with his all
Speaker 4: this one group. Yeah, come in relax for a sec.
Speaker 4: I just want to say something to you. I think
Speaker 4: may be good if we just do it in one go.
Speaker 2: Oh, I like this in an organization.
Speaker 4: Okay, this is my pledge to you. I'm a really
Speaker 4: straight up person, and I wear my heart.
Speaker 3: I must leave.
Speaker 4: I'm not in you to win the game, but I'm
Speaker 4: in you to stay as long as I can because
Speaker 4: I want to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you haven't seen all of me, ed.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I have been holding back on a few
Speaker 4: little things because I only want to embarrassing my kids.
Speaker 3: But to hell with it.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't think I read people too well. Maybe
Speaker 2: that's because I'm on the spectrum somewhat, But look.
Speaker 3: I thought I did.
Speaker 2: I thought, you know what, I'm not going to run
Speaker 2: around and go, oh, can you be my friends and
Speaker 2: I'll be yours? And can you not vote for me?
Speaker 2: And I'll give you my chocolate or whatever they all do.
Speaker 2: I just thought, you know what, sit you all down.
Speaker 2: I've given it my best shot. They all like were
Speaker 2: saying that I didn't wasn't fooling myself because I didn't
Speaker 2: talk about stuff.
Speaker 3: But I can't talk about certain things like that.
Speaker 2: It was on telling you know, they were talking about
Speaker 2: things that you probably talk about in my hair dressings
Speaker 2: saloon or when I was my girlfriends. I wouldn't want
Speaker 2: to talk about it. My son's here and then their
Speaker 2: mates here hear it or something, do.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: So I couldn't sort of get into conversations with them.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's why they were going, you know, going bushit.
Speaker 1: What did your children think of you on the show.
Speaker 2: I thought my oldest son, Grady was going to like
Speaker 2: hate me to death, but he said, Mom, I'm really
Speaker 2: proud of you.
Speaker 3: Good on you.
Speaker 2: And why did they say that, and why did they
Speaker 2: do that? And I said, I don't know. I tried
Speaker 2: to be everybody's friend, you know, but sometimes it's hard,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: I never really had many friends at school.
Speaker 2: People didn't really I didn't have any girlfriends at school,
Speaker 2: and it's taken me a long time to And I
Speaker 2: was always on medication, you know, like for ADHD. But
Speaker 2: I got off of when I was forty five, and
Speaker 2: so since then, I've had to sort of learned to
Speaker 2: kind of read people and kind of get that because
Speaker 2: I am full on and I do do that.
Speaker 3: So I probably aggravated them, but I can't change.
Speaker 2: I like who I am now, and I don't want
Speaker 2: to take medication to squash that because I just feel
Speaker 2: like sleeping all the time when i'm on it, you know, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I mean, what do you think that
Speaker 1: the producers saw on you? You know, why do you
Speaker 1: think that the producers cast you in this format of
Speaker 1: Big Brother?
Speaker 2: I don't know, hey, because I didn't even watch the show.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's why.
Speaker 3: I think that's why a.
Speaker 2: Lot of the older ones didn't like me, because I
Speaker 2: didn't even know who they were. I tried, I was
Speaker 2: going to attend but I thought, but I don't even know,
Speaker 2: like I can't even make up shit because I haven't
Speaker 2: even watched them, so I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 2: Maybe they casting me because I liked my thing that
Speaker 2: I sent in. You know when you talk it on the.
Speaker 3: Thing and you send it a little video. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 1: So you'd never watch Big Brother before, so you'd never
Speaker 1: seen the old Big Brother.
Speaker 2: I watched like a couple of them. When Mary Jane
Speaker 2: wiggled a bum, I think a named you know, she
Speaker 2: wiggled a bum, did the bum dance. I watched that,
Speaker 2: and I watched the challenges and I used to think,
Speaker 2: I want to go on it. I want to go
Speaker 2: on a reality show because I've always I studied theater
Speaker 2: and did acting when I was younger, but I did.
Speaker 2: I was going in my third year in a theater school.
Speaker 2: And then I met someone and got married and that
Speaker 2: was cool, but you know, and I had to put
Speaker 2: all that on hold, so I thought, and it's hard
Speaker 2: to remember lines when you've got ADHD so I kind
Speaker 2: of like ab living. It's kind of better. So I thought,
Speaker 2: you know, reality TV, it'll be fun. And I thought,
Speaker 2: I'm still okay fit enough to do stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's why. Maybe because I wanted to do all the challenges.
Speaker 1: You know, the ogs as we're calling them, the I
Speaker 1: don't know whether it's the old girls or the old
Speaker 1: gangsters or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1: You know, the OG's going against the newbies was a
Speaker 1: really clear divide right from the start. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: that going any other way? It kind of felt like
Speaker 1: it was predetermined or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, now that I watched it on the Telly
Speaker 2: like before that, because I just got a TV. I
Speaker 2: didn't even have TV, so I just got a TV.
Speaker 2: I've been watching it and I thought, now I can
Speaker 2: see why they thought there was a divide. Like when
Speaker 2: we first went in there, like me and Joel and
Speaker 2: the young boys, I kind of took a liking to
Speaker 2: them because they were like my sons, you know. And
Speaker 2: I tried really hard with Gabby and stuff, but she
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: Think she liked me very much.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so they were just like my sons, and
Speaker 2: I felt at home they're doing stuff for them, and
Speaker 2: that wasn't really they were saying, this was the j
Speaker 2: Crew and all this sort of stuff. I never really
Speaker 2: did anybody else say that. But I never really studying
Speaker 2: any of the little chitter chatters about let's vote this person,
Speaker 2: let's do that. I was too busy keeping my own way,
Speaker 2: doing in the laundry, having a bit of a break
Speaker 2: from all the kids because they were driving insane.
Speaker 3: It was I've been in the house with my kids
Speaker 3: and all their friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think they did their own Divide two
Speaker 2: now that I watched it. They were kind of sticking
Speaker 2: together the ogs, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Dave loved me.
Speaker 2: I had a bit of a moment where shaking Dave
Speaker 2: and we sort of said, you know, do you want
Speaker 2: to we'll go together to the top ten top ten together?
Speaker 2: And I'd sort of shaken hands with eight others and
Speaker 2: know seven others, so I still yeah, I still had
Speaker 2: three left to sort of say, oh yeah, I'll give
Speaker 2: you my word to the top ten and I won't
Speaker 2: vote you out to the top ten. And I was
Speaker 2: trying to keep to that, and I think that's why
Speaker 2: Dave stuck with me.
Speaker 3: He was of his word.
Speaker 2: I'm really happy when I watched it, and he is
Speaker 2: a man of his word, and I really respect him
Speaker 2: for that, you know, Gabby wasn't.
Speaker 3: Neither was Sam and Drew.
Speaker 2: They like lie to my face on my yeah, I said,
Speaker 2: because I went up to talk to him and he said.
Speaker 3: Don't worry, Laura, I've got you back. I'm so Sam
Speaker 3: and I said, oh really okay, I said word of honor.
Speaker 2: He said, yeah, a word of He just shook my hand,
Speaker 2: and I think he must kids today just say that
Speaker 2: like it's do you want a bag of chips or
Speaker 2: do you want a lolly? I don't think it really
Speaker 2: meant anything to him. So he shook my hand and
Speaker 2: then a little thumb head voted me out him bearing Gabby.
Speaker 2: So Lulu's a little dull and I'm glad she stayed
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 1: Dave really tried to navigate his own way through the competition.
Speaker 1: Do you think Dave is smart to play big brother
Speaker 1: this way? Or do you think he should be towing
Speaker 1: the line with these ogs.
Speaker 2: I think you should just do what he wants to
Speaker 2: do in his heart. That's what I did. It's not
Speaker 2: good to anyone tell him you what to do. Like
Speaker 2: I did vote for the book.
Speaker 3: One time. The boy said do this, do that, and
Speaker 3: I said, oh really, I don't reckon.
Speaker 2: I didn't really want to do that, And they said, oh,
Speaker 2: come on, Lara, and I said, all right, all right,
Speaker 2: I'll do that. So I just did it because you know,
Speaker 2: like you would do it for your kids and go
Speaker 2: all right, So I did. But I reckon it's good
Speaker 2: just to do your own thing, because I mainly did.
Speaker 2: I just did my own thing, and I wasn't really
Speaker 2: thinking of the game strategy. I didn't really give a
Speaker 2: shit really much about the money, but I really wanted
Speaker 2: to stay to do the challenges and just be able
Speaker 2: to watch myself on TV a bit longer.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, I could watch you do that raw, you know,
Speaker 1: just to motivate myself to get out of bed every day.
Speaker 3: What the hell? I didn't even know.
Speaker 2: Do you know what that's called? Most muscular poses? And
Speaker 2: girls don't even do that. But I used to just
Speaker 2: joke all the time with my kids, and I'd be
Speaker 2: every time i'd win, like because I had a dojo
Speaker 2: set up at home, and we used to like wrestle
Speaker 2: me and my full sons and like have punch ons
Speaker 2: and stuff because boys get out of hands. So I
Speaker 2: used to set up a jojo and pad them all laugh.
Speaker 3: And say fight it out. In there, guys.
Speaker 2: But I'd get into and so every time i'd win
Speaker 2: against my sons, I'd go, yeah, like that.
Speaker 3: And so that was a bit of a laugh, to
Speaker 3: be honest.
Speaker 1: It's the hero's pose, like you know, that's what you
Speaker 1: do when you know when you you.
Speaker 2: Should read some of the comments. Oh myself, I am
Speaker 2: laughing in my tummy. I was going to say vagina
Speaker 2: because I say that all the time, but I didn't.
Speaker 2: I tried so hard say jina and bum and old
Speaker 2: boobs and stuff, but I did. That's okay. Then they
Speaker 2: made a funny picture of me and it's got vagina
Speaker 2: something that vagina. I couldn't read the big words, but
Speaker 2: I think it said vagina something I knew Vagina.
Speaker 3: I posted on my Instagram too. I think they're cool.
Speaker 3: That's funny.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, Reggie really seemed to turn on you
Speaker 1: last night. I mean I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 5: Anything that was coming out of Lara's mouth was just crap.
Speaker 5: I'm not I'm not buying it at all. The newbies
Speaker 5: are gonna vote Lulu out, and as ags want to
Speaker 5: vote Lara out.
Speaker 1: Was Reggie really different to how you imagined she was
Speaker 1: going to be? In the show he was different.
Speaker 2: That made my heart really sad, actually, like in my
Speaker 2: heart I felt sad and in my face too, like
Speaker 2: I was sad when I heard her say that because
Speaker 2: I actually thought I liked her when I watched on television.
Speaker 2: She's very different in real life than what you see
Speaker 2: on Telly, a lot different. I think she's very smart,
Speaker 2: and she's playing the game like she's actually really playing
Speaker 2: the game more so than a lot of other people
Speaker 2: that they think they are. Depends what they show, and
Speaker 2: when you're in there, you see stuff, and then what
Speaker 2: they show on the television.
Speaker 3: Is kind of different. But that's okay. Look, if she wins,
Speaker 3: she wins good honor. Because I felt.
Speaker 2: Sad for her, really sad when she told me about
Speaker 2: her son and stuff, and it made me cry.
Speaker 3: And I went into big brother and said, I want
Speaker 3: to help her get the money. I don't even want it,
Speaker 3: and if I get I'm going to help her.
Speaker 2: I just was going to keep some if I wanted,
Speaker 2: so I could send my mom to go to Greece
Speaker 2: and my brother because I used to have money when
Speaker 2: I was married because my.
Speaker 3: Ex husband was rich, and then I don't have it anymore.
Speaker 2: So I thought, I want to give my mom a
Speaker 2: go of going first class because I.
Speaker 3: Got to do that once. So I went first class
Speaker 3: on a plane. And you think you're like a movie
Speaker 3: stuff something would you like wine? Yes? Would you like
Speaker 3: anything else? Giving me everything else? I just loved. That
Speaker 3: was all I was going to do.
Speaker 2: And I probably would have helped Dave two and probably
Speaker 2: given some to to I would have had have given
Speaker 2: like five grand to all my friends and stuff. I
Speaker 2: would have done heaps, have had lots of fun given
Speaker 2: it and helping people and stuff that would have been
Speaker 2: the fun part. And bought myself some really expensive icon.
Speaker 1: I would have done that, which you always need. Did
Speaker 1: you try and set up an alliance at any stage
Speaker 1: with people like Reggie uh and? And how did that?
Speaker 1: You know? With the ogs? And how do they take that?
Speaker 1: Were they?
Speaker 2: I was pretty good friends with Leila, but I never talked.
Speaker 2: I never talked the strategies. I never talked strategies. I
Speaker 2: just you should just talk about.
Speaker 3: Stuff in life. That's why I just canceled my phone.
Speaker 3: I didn't talk, I didn't talk about to turn it off.
Speaker 2: I've got an iPhone? What do you reckon iPhone? I've
Speaker 2: got Tika taker, instagrammer and Facebook.
Speaker 3: My bloody do. I went and bought it.
Speaker 2: I've never bought stuff like that because I don't really
Speaker 2: know how to use the stupid things.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I've got it now.
Speaker 2: And it's pretty cool, huh. I know, I look at
Speaker 2: my phone case, you can't see it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: It's and that's a nude lady side note. So Drew seemed,
Speaker 1: you know, quite unpredictable at times. Do you think that
Speaker 1: he should be playing this whole game and this whole
Speaker 1: relationship with Sam differently? Do you think he should be
Speaker 1: trying to divide his time up and spend a little
Speaker 1: bit more time with his friends like Tim and Tully.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know he wasn't even doing that until
Speaker 2: I watched on Telly. To be honest, I didn't even know.
Speaker 2: I didn't even take much notice. I just saw him
Speaker 2: hanging out with her. I don't know if he's quite genuine.
Speaker 2: I think she was.
Speaker 3: Genuinely liking him.
Speaker 2: I didn't get the feel that he was like genuinely
Speaker 2: liking her, because he would like you know, when I've
Speaker 2: got three sons, I know boys, and you know when
Speaker 2: they sort of like behind the back and stuff, you know,
Speaker 2: like that sort of thing, and I thought, oh, I
Speaker 2: don't think that was very nice.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, I.
Speaker 2: Don't think he was as genuine as her, And I
Speaker 2: think that's their whole little game played. Tim's a funny
Speaker 2: little boy, isn't He makes me laugh because he's so mischievous.
Speaker 3: He's like a naughty like he's fantastic.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's you know, we're getting a lot of
Speaker 1: Tim on this series, which is probably because he is
Speaker 1: the most entertaining out of everyone in there. Do you
Speaker 1: think it's time we see more people like Estelle and
Speaker 1: some of the others that we're probably not seeing as much.
Speaker 3: Stelle doesn't really do much.
Speaker 2: She cries a lot and gets upset and sort of
Speaker 2: always looks like she's sad and you try to talk
Speaker 2: to her, but she's she's sort of like, do you know, like,
Speaker 2: do you know, like if you had the worst to
Speaker 2: stay and you just you feel bad and it's like
Speaker 2: one of them days that everything just went wrong.
Speaker 3: She kind of looks like that all day.
Speaker 2: So when you try to have a conversation with it's
Speaker 2: a little bit hard, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like you try to talk to her. She's a little
Speaker 2: bit hard to talk to, and I think she's just
Speaker 2: sad about stuff because I know she was really upset
Speaker 2: with Layla. But Laila's beautiful. I don't know why anyone
Speaker 2: would be upset with Laylah's the coolest chick ever. She's
Speaker 2: so down to earth and real and there's no bullshit
Speaker 2: about her. She doesn't like spin your shit just to
Speaker 2: like being a friend. We had proper like talks, normal chats,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like she's a cool chick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: I think with Estelle she has lost her mum and
Speaker 1: there has been a lot of a lot of things
Speaker 1: going on in her life from what I've been told.
Speaker 3: So I didn't even know that. To be honest, I
Speaker 3: didn't even know.
Speaker 2: I talked to him a bit, but they weren't really interested.
Speaker 2: They were very set in their ways. Even Reggie, like
Speaker 2: I tried, I wanted to chat to her, and like
Speaker 2: she told me all about her son and all the
Speaker 2: bad stuff in her life and how she lost all
Speaker 2: the money and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: And I felt real.
Speaker 2: Sad for her because she's got a little sun with
Speaker 2: a disorder and yeah, sistyfibressis and she didn't even have
Speaker 2: a back thing, and I was going to sell it.
Speaker 3: I've got some Katie and bikes. I was going to
Speaker 3: sell a couple of bikes.
Speaker 2: I would have brought her it, bought it the bloody
Speaker 2: thing for her, because that's just terrible.
Speaker 3: And then I thought she's going to go blind and
Speaker 3: not even be able to see her son. Like I
Speaker 3: couldn't think of anything worse than not to be able
Speaker 3: to see my baby, especially if I was dying. So
Speaker 3: I felt really sad for her, you know, in that way.
Speaker 1: I think the best thing to ask you at this
Speaker 1: point is, you know, what was the experience like for you?
Speaker 1: Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 3: Bloody awesome? I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: I have got really bad OCD and anxiety, Like he's bad,
Speaker 2: So I hide it a lot because people like think,
Speaker 2: oh she's so fully and she's so bubbly, she shouldn't
Speaker 2: be like that. But like germs and stuff really freaked
Speaker 2: me out so bad, and like public toilets and just
Speaker 2: being around people if say cough on me or something like, I.
Speaker 3: Just can't handle it. So that for me, my kids
Speaker 3: thought I was going to have.
Speaker 2: Like a big spastic and I was gonna get all
Speaker 2: emotional and be crying because I was so anxious. But
Speaker 2: I just pulled it together and I said, bear down, girl,
Speaker 2: you've had four babies.
Speaker 3: Come on your gutsy little thing. Look what you did.
Speaker 3: You've been a single mum.
Speaker 2: You can do this germ thing and you don't want
Speaker 2: it to keep drowning you like it drowns me. And
Speaker 2: so I made myself sit on the toilet, even without
Speaker 2: toilet paper down.
Speaker 3: I did feel disgusting getting the showers.
Speaker 2: I did feel disgusting sitting on the louis after treasuring.
Speaker 3: I got to tell you I.
Speaker 2: Got home and scrubbed yourself. But the good thing is
Speaker 2: so I was really believed. When I left the house,
Speaker 2: I thought, bloody hell, I'm having a clean shower and
Speaker 2: the hotel, which I hate hotel showers.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was like abut paradise for me when I
Speaker 3: got home. I used to public toilet at the shops
Speaker 3: the other.
Speaker 2: Day and I didn't even wash my jacket, like I
Speaker 2: washed my clothes and washed my hair when I come home.
Speaker 2: But I thought, I won't wash my jacket. But I'm
Speaker 2: trying not. I'm gonna try to wear it again. It's
Speaker 2: really helped me heaps with my OCD and my anxiety.
Speaker 2: And I think it could be a really good whatever
Speaker 2: the word is, you know, like a good method for
Speaker 2: people that have HD, have ADHD or someone is just
Speaker 2: one second, I'm just on the thing, okaykind of think
Speaker 2: it's my neighbor.
Speaker 3: You just have to wait, young Matt. He's come to
Speaker 3: the lawns. You know.
Speaker 1: Well, it sounds to me like this Big Brother experience
Speaker 1: has been quite beneficial for you.
Speaker 3: Bloody eight.
Speaker 2: And you know what else happened? So ready, my ocd's
Speaker 2: like heaps better. Oh my godly, I can't even tell you.
Speaker 2: Even my kids said, Mom, feel so much better. I said,
Speaker 2: I'm bloody happy. I feel good, like I don't have
Speaker 2: to wash my hands so much more because they're really dry.
Speaker 3: Like people go, you.
Speaker 2: Look young, and then this man says, you look young, lady.
Speaker 2: I still think you said, but your hands very look.
Speaker 2: And you know what else happened? Join another thing. Right
Speaker 2: before you go on Big Brother, they send you to
Speaker 2: go and have like tests like fear everything, all your
Speaker 2: stuff right.
Speaker 3: And so I went had all these tests, and while.
Speaker 2: I was there, I said, actually I might just have
Speaker 2: perhaps mere too, And so she did it and they
Speaker 2: found a tumor on my cervix. Oh yeah, and I
Speaker 2: had cancer cells in it and I had to go
Speaker 2: into hospital the next day. Wasn't even in a private fund.
Speaker 2: Had to pay like twelve grand for this bloody thing.
Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, but they got it. And if it
Speaker 2: wasn't for that, if I hadn't gone on the show,
Speaker 2: I bloody wouldn't have got perhaps me. And I'm so
Speaker 2: thankful to Big Brother because it actually saved my life.
Speaker 2: If I would have left it any longer, it could
Speaker 2: have really like spread. They got it all and I
Speaker 2: was fighting fear, so I was okay still all when
Speaker 2: I was in there, But I just kind of like
Speaker 2: I say to myself, don't think about it, think about
Speaker 2: it tomorrow, and then when tomorrow comes, I go think
Speaker 2: about tomorrow, and then I don't think about it.
Speaker 1: Oh. I think it's a good message for younger people
Speaker 1: that are listening to this day to go out there
Speaker 1: and pity.
Speaker 3: That's the big word I learned.
Speaker 2: But it's imperative that young girls seriously and truly now
Speaker 2: talking all serious, it's very imperative that young girls go
Speaker 2: and do that because I have to go for three
Speaker 2: months now and have a check up, And so I
Speaker 2: told my daughter, go and have one, and just go
Speaker 2: every six months, go and have your breast checked, you know.
Speaker 3: So I'm really keen on that now. And that's what
Speaker 3: a wonderful thing.
Speaker 2: If anything, I feel like the biggest win ever because
Speaker 2: not only did they find that my OCD and my
Speaker 2: anxieties and I'm really going to try the hardest to
Speaker 2: keep them into control. And I just feel really better
Speaker 2: about myself, you know what I mean. And to see
Speaker 2: myself doing that stuff, holy shit, I couldn't even believe
Speaker 2: it myself.
Speaker 1: I just, Lara, your story is quite remarkable, and I'm
Speaker 1: really excited for you that you've had this whole experience
Speaker 1: and it was a joy to watch you on the
Speaker 1: show and then to be able to have this conversation.
Speaker 1: But I am asking everyone who joins the podcast the
Speaker 1: series of questions. It's a bit of a celebration of
Speaker 1: Big Brother because Greta Colleen back in the day used
Speaker 1: to ask these top questions too, the eliminated housemates. So
Speaker 1: we're going to go through them. Yeah, what did you
Speaker 1: miss the most inside the Big Brother House?
Speaker 2: My grandson and my children? My grandson, I missed him. Oh,
Speaker 2: in my bones, I missed him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who was your favorite person in the house?
Speaker 3: To Rass?
Speaker 2: I love to Rask because he's just such a beautiful
Speaker 2: little soul and you're going to see more. I hope
Speaker 2: he's a really good boy. His mom did a good job.
Speaker 1: Who was your least favorite person?
Speaker 3: Oh? It was, well, not at their least.
Speaker 2: I think were just a little bit like school girl
Speaker 2: bitchy sort of thing. It was sort of Tully and
Speaker 2: Gabby a little bit. I don't know, just they were
Speaker 2: like girls at school, you know, and they say stuff
Speaker 2: and just you know that sort of women.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: No, I just could not handle it.
Speaker 2: I don't know she was ping because I didn't know
Speaker 2: who she was because she goes I'm Tully.
Speaker 3: I said, oh, who are you?
Speaker 2: I'm Tully from I just said from where, because I
Speaker 2: don't have a Telly. But I might have insulted her
Speaker 2: little ego a little bit. But yeah, I think that
Speaker 2: kinder off a bit. But she was bitchy. I think nasty.
Speaker 2: I'll just say because I did spoke to Gabby after
Speaker 2: I bumped at the shops, and she was different out
Speaker 2: of the house, and maybe she's not really like that.
Speaker 3: But then she did.
Speaker 2: Say, no, I was the same, but she was nicer
Speaker 2: when I met her in the shops than what she
Speaker 2: was in the house.
Speaker 1: Who had the most annoying habit.
Speaker 3: Oh Trevor.
Speaker 2: If he slept behind me and farted really stinky farts.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's in his belly and snored and burped.
Speaker 1: Who was the funniest person in the house?
Speaker 2: Taras made me laugh? I nearly peed my pants. He
Speaker 2: made me laugh that much. I love that little boy.
Speaker 1: Who was the laziest person in the house.
Speaker 3: Johnson Johnson.
Speaker 2: He would leave skinny unders everywhere, the little grub, but
Speaker 2: he loved me picking them up.
Speaker 3: He'd say, thank you, Lara for picking everything up. You're
Speaker 3: the best. Thanks for doing that, Thanks for doing that.
Speaker 3: And then he would and said all that funny stuff.
Speaker 3: But it was funny. I laughed at that. I think
Speaker 3: he just wanted to a potential.
Speaker 1: What's your greatest regret for what in life? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: we'd be here all day if we were talking about
Speaker 1: our greatest regrets.
Speaker 2: He brother, I don't have any regrets. I don't have
Speaker 2: any regrets at all. I had heaps of fun. I
Speaker 2: probably wouldn't have done anything different. Now that I watch
Speaker 2: the show, I probably would have maybe gone out and said,
Speaker 2: how come we don't like, can we read you?
Speaker 3: Or something? Maybe, But I don't have any regrets.
Speaker 2: I'm really proud of myself and I had the best
Speaker 2: time ever and I played it true to my heart.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm glad I loved it.
Speaker 1: Who will be out? Who did you think?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Not what you know now, because you obviously know a
Speaker 1: little bit more, but who did you think would be
Speaker 1: out next? Who would follow you out of the house?
Speaker 2: If Joel doesn't win every challenge, he'll be out. They'll
Speaker 2: vote him out because they're just intimidated by him.
Speaker 3: They were intimidated by me. I bloody love that. I've
Speaker 3: never intimidated anybody in my life.
Speaker 2: That is just so good that they thought I was busy. Yes,
Speaker 2: but I and take it back to me. But yes,
Speaker 2: probably Joel, I want him out for sure.
Speaker 1: Who do you think will win Big Brother twenty twenty two?
Speaker 3: Look, I don't know. It depends on how Big Brother shows.
Speaker 2: Them on television, because I think I know who'll probably win,
Speaker 2: But it depends how Big Brother shows. If they show
Speaker 2: all the things they do, maybe people might see a
Speaker 2: different side of people.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean? But look, I hope
Speaker 3: the right person wins it. And you know, they all
Speaker 3: are deserving. They've all got their little plights why they
Speaker 3: need the money, you know.
Speaker 2: What I mean? And good on them, and I hope,
Speaker 2: I hope Dave, Reggie, Joel, I hope they all have
Speaker 2: a chance of winning it.
Speaker 3: Good on them.
Speaker 2: It's just a fun thing to be a part of.
Speaker 2: And if you get two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: you know you can do heaps of fun things to
Speaker 2: be your friends and stuff.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Well, something I ask everybody who joins the podcast is
Speaker 1: what is something from behind the scenes that we didn't
Speaker 1: see that we won't see that fans might appreciate from
Speaker 1: your experience on Big Brother.
Speaker 2: Behind the scenes, what that we didn't see on the Telly? Yeah, me,
Speaker 2: me do want He's more funny stuff. Like I guess,
Speaker 2: I didn't see a lot of myself. Yeah, you'd have
Speaker 2: seen more of me, like I would.
Speaker 3: Have liked to have. I wanted to watch myself more.
Speaker 2: I'll just keep I kept trying to see myself and
Speaker 2: then when I rewatched it, I paused and it was
Speaker 2: just fun.
Speaker 1: Me something we didn't see enough of.
Speaker 2: Darling.
Speaker 1: Well, Laura, it's so fun chatting with you today. You
Speaker 1: are a ball of energy.
Speaker 3: Thank you, a little spunk. Thank you so much