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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jonesy.

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Speaker 2: Well, we know our next guest quite well. He worked

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Speaker 2: in this very studio with us. That's Bryce. He was

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Speaker 2: our panel operator, the guy that pushes the buttons in

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Speaker 2: our studio, producer.

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Speaker 3: In many a button.

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Speaker 2: Next thing, we knew he'd moved on to greener pastures

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Speaker 2: as a maths contestant, he became casually. I don't think

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Speaker 2: this is probably on his LinkedIn profile, the most hated

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Speaker 2: person to go on this series. So he was called

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Speaker 2: but he met his wife. He met the lovely Melissa.

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Speaker 2: They are still together. They have twins. We're zooming with

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Speaker 2: them right now. Bryce, Melissa and those beautiful little babies.

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Speaker 1: Hello, good morning Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 4: And did I really move on to greener past just

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Speaker 4: when you think about it?

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Speaker 2: Well, there's so much to discuss, but first I want

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Speaker 2: to ogle your babies. Now, which one's which?

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Speaker 1: So I've got tape and lisas Levi, so Levsky and Tady.

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Speaker 2: Top And are they identical? I mean I can't tell.

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Speaker 2: They just to look like two beautiful babies.

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Speaker 1: No, no, not actually, but they look very similar.

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Speaker 3: That's amazing, the beautiful, the cutest little.

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Speaker 2: Thing, cute and it's amazing to look back at your

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Speaker 2: so called journey, because it's easy to be cynical about television,

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Speaker 2: and a lot about Married at First Sight does make

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Speaker 2: people cynical. But in real life, you two have a relationship,

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Speaker 2: you're going to get married, you've got two little babies.

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Speaker 2: It's quite amazing, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, But I think people kind of still accused us

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Speaker 4: of faking it for an image, that type of thing,

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Speaker 4: and it's like, well, it's an extreme length to go

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Speaker 4: to to fake it after a TV show. But I

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Speaker 4: think the way that our narrative was kind of set

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Speaker 4: up on Married at First Sight does leave that open

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Speaker 4: the perception, I guess, and we sit back here in

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Speaker 4: Melbourne and think, oh, you know what, we're talking to

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Speaker 4: you too. Now, I think it's pretty obvious the position

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Speaker 4: we're in and how happy we are, So it sort

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Speaker 4: of doesn't really matter nowadays.

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Speaker 2: You'd been working with us Bryce when people from those

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Speaker 2: kind of shows came in, and so you knew media,

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Speaker 2: and yet you was still taken aback by how manipulated

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Speaker 2: you felt you'd been on that show.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, to be honest, it was probably the worst experience

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Speaker 4: I ever had working in media. For eleven twelve years,

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Speaker 4: so it kind of made me want to get away

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Speaker 4: from it, which i'd have for the past twelve months,

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Speaker 4: and now that I'm about to get back into it,

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Speaker 4: I feel like I've been in a much better headspace,

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Speaker 4: I guess, to approach it mentally and even physically.

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Speaker 1: I think physically it took a massive toll doing the.

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Speaker 4: Huge days, as you would know, the two of you

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Speaker 4: doing big days in radio and TV. But yeah, I

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Speaker 4: think the mental toll is huge as well. And I

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Speaker 4: guess when we did that Sunday night Spotlight program too,

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Speaker 4: that kind of delved into a little bit, kind of

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Speaker 4: tamed it down a little bit to what we actually said.

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Speaker 4: But there's a lot more to our story that would

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Speaker 4: definitely make for a good good story for that in

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Speaker 4: the track. But I think the most important part of

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Speaker 4: our stories.

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Speaker 1: We've got two healthy boys now, even though they were

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Speaker 1: born ten weeks early.

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Speaker 3: Wow, And so you've become brand ambassadors. Now you've Max

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Speaker 3: Marksin's hitched his little wagon to your pony as it were,

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Speaker 3: And how are you finding all that? Is that good?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely?

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Speaker 5: We were watching the Spotlight show back and didn't realize

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Speaker 5: how much weight we'd lost.

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Speaker 1: So just the point of how we actually filmed that.

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Speaker 4: Before we started losing right with Celebrity Slim, so we

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Speaker 4: felt like ba boons to some sort of degree. But

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Speaker 4: now Celebrity Slim have been great with us. We look

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Speaker 4: after the shape side of things. And then Jessica Power

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Speaker 4: that did maths a couple years for us, Yes, looks

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Speaker 4: after the skinny bee wines and the chocolates and stuff.

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Speaker 1: So I think the.

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Speaker 4: Three of us kind of make a good little trio

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Speaker 4: to help Celebrity Slim. The guys from now have been

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Speaker 4: absolutely amazing with us. They've looked after us and the

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Speaker 4: boys very well. And look, I know we're feeling fitter

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Speaker 4: and healthier than ever before.

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Speaker 2: With you, Bryce, you were able to because you were

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Speaker 2: kind of even though you said you made you feel

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Speaker 2: pretty vulnerable on that show, you could combat what you

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Speaker 2: were feeling. Melissa, it must have been very hard for

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Speaker 2: you to be painted as somebody who was the victim

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Speaker 2: of gaslighting and someone who couldn't see the reality of

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Speaker 2: the man you fell in love with.

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Speaker 1: You.

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Speaker 2: How do you find navigating the world with people feeling

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Speaker 2: like that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's hard because I can understand to a degree

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Speaker 5: what was shown how people felt. So it wasn't that

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Speaker 5: I was blind to it. It's just people didn't see

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Speaker 5: the full story. So that's what was upsetting for me.

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Speaker 5: And even now, like I still get messages and on

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Speaker 5: Instagram now from people saying, you know, you're a horrific woman.

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Speaker 5: You've let you've let down women kind because of the

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Speaker 5: man that you're with. It doesn't, it doesn't ever end,

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Speaker 5: but it's it's quite sad because I just I can't

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Speaker 5: say it enough and you just won't change some people's minds.

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Speaker 5: So all I can do is, you know, trust in

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Speaker 5: my relationship and what we created, and just move past it.

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Speaker 3: And look at the spoils of your relationship. Those Levi

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Speaker 3: and Tate, and they haven't got teeth yet, but I

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Speaker 3: would imagine they'll get some nice white choppers when they

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Speaker 3: come out. Will they'd be part of the thing we.

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Speaker 1: Might hold off to get them to doctor Dan.

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Speaker 3: To Well, we just wish you all the best. We

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Speaker 3: love you guys, Bryce, we loved working with you and

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Speaker 3: good luck with all the future endeavors. Okay, looking forward

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Speaker 3: to seeing those boys Grup. They are so key, they

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Speaker 3: are adorable. They are the cutest things I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, and everything's good because the shark's gone. Well

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Speaker 1: at the moment to appreci your luck here.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Bryce, Bryce, and Melissa, thank you so much

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Speaker 3: for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Take it easy.