Speaker 1: Coming up on today's show, Anna Paul surprises her ex
Speaker 1: with his dream car, Indy Clinton begged Swifties to stop
Speaker 1: attacking her, and is Emmy Lou set to hit our
Speaker 1: TV screens. Hello, and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose
Speaker 1: of the hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week.
Speaker 1: I'm Sophie Torbert and yesterday Amy and I were on
Speaker 1: a shoot with our business, Hula Media, and we were
Speaker 1: working with Callum Hand from Master Chef. We were having
Speaker 1: a bit of a debate over what items should be
Speaker 1: kept in your fridge and on your bench. And some
Speaker 1: of these items that he thinks should be kept on
Speaker 1: your bench really stumped me. So what sort of items Like,
Speaker 1: I don't really keep anything on my kitchen bench, Well,
Speaker 1: you're talking about a fruit bowl. It all started because
Speaker 1: he said that he keeps his butter on the bench,
Speaker 1: and then he started talking about fruit and veg and
Speaker 1: apparently he thinks strawberries should not be in the fridge,
Speaker 1: they should be on the bench. He did lose me
Speaker 1: when he said that he thinks chocolate should be in
Speaker 1: the fridge because every other fruit and veggie he would say,
Speaker 1: I know that can be in the pantry, like tomatoes, grapes,
Speaker 1: all of that. But he said no chocolate should be
Speaker 1: in the thing, maybe because he hasn't got any room
Speaker 1: left on the bench if he's got all of that stuff.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I have a very small kitchen
Speaker 1: and I don't think that I could fit half of
Speaker 1: the things he was talking about on my bench. Well,
Speaker 1: does he put him in the pantry or is it
Speaker 1: so he can easily grab them, because sometimes you do
Speaker 1: forget that you have fruit in the fridge and then
Speaker 1: it goes off. Well, he was saying he had a
Speaker 1: friend in Spain who would have a huge cheese platter out.
Speaker 1: It would be out all day, so when it came
Speaker 1: to after dinner they could just go to the platter,
Speaker 1: take it out, and eat it instant like. Thinking about
Speaker 1: his ants and flies, I assume there must be some
Speaker 1: sort of covering over this cheese platter. I have seen
Speaker 1: on TikTok there is this trend of keeping your butter
Speaker 1: on your kitchen bench in this fancy sort of contraption.
Speaker 1: But people were saying it just attracts mold. What about veggimi?
Speaker 1: Is that in the fridge or is that a pantry pantry.
Speaker 1: I think it's similar to my take on tomato sauce.
Speaker 1: I think tomato sauce should be kept in the pantry
Speaker 1: as well. I think that's a bit of a controversial one.
Speaker 1: I really think it depends what's date you're from as well,
Speaker 1: because the feedback from people in Queensland is that it's
Speaker 1: so hot and humid there that most of their produce
Speaker 1: has to be kept in the fridge. What did Callum
Speaker 1: think about eggs? Because I have heard of people that
Speaker 1: don't put eggs in the fridge, which actually freaks me out.
Speaker 1: He didn't actually say, but one lady who was on
Speaker 1: the chute admitted that she leaves her chocolate in the
Speaker 1: freezer and I just think that is blasphemy. Why she
Speaker 1: said she likes it extra cruntry. I would love to
Speaker 1: hear what everyone else thinks. We will put a thread
Speaker 1: in our Facebook community. Controversial influencer Emmy lu McCarthy is
Speaker 1: set to hit our TV screens on the reboot of
Speaker 1: Ready Steady Cook. So the iconic cooking show is back
Speaker 1: on Channel ten after more than a decade off the air.
Speaker 1: So it's been announced that the first episode will drop
Speaker 1: on March eighth, at seven thirty PM, so unlike the
Speaker 1: original series, it's going to be on prime time. Wow.
Speaker 1: That blows my mind because I was thinking, we're going
Speaker 1: to have a new generation of kids who want to
Speaker 1: basically gips school in order to catch this show. Don't
Speaker 1: you remember the absolute joy when your parents would let
Speaker 1: you have the day off and you'd settle into Ready
Speaker 1: Steady Cook. I think by the time Oprah was on,
Speaker 1: I was kind of over the TV though. It is
Speaker 1: so funny. We were on a shoot yesterday and this
Speaker 1: girl who's twenty one, she was referencing Oprah and she goes, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm that person Opera and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: The fact that Jens is clearly don't know Oprah. Remember
Speaker 1: Doctor Phil as well? That was an unbeatable combination. I
Speaker 1: remember Ready Steady Cook did have a comeback and they
Speaker 1: did air in this time slot and it just bombed.
Speaker 1: I'm not confident that this is going to do well well.
Speaker 1: I think it actually could do pretty well because they're
Speaker 1: bringing in celebrity chefs like Hayden Quinn Sofia. I know
Speaker 1: you're be excited about that, can On Adriana Sombo and
Speaker 1: also Mindy Wood so they all have pretty big public profiles,
Speaker 1: but they're also reaching out to apparently what they call
Speaker 1: Australia's favorite celebrities. Now, one of those people, as we
Speaker 1: referenced in the intro, is Emmy Lu McCarthy. Now I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if you would classify her as a favorite,
Speaker 1: but her inclusion has already sparked so much conversation, negative conversation,
Speaker 1: but conversation. Nevertheless, it's interesting because she clearly has a
Speaker 1: contract with Channel ten because she was hired to do
Speaker 1: some sort of random hosting gigs with Studio ten. Now
Speaker 1: that Studio ten is defunct, I wonder if they had
Speaker 1: to fill her contract up with a couple of stints
Speaker 1: on this. Well, it seems like a strategy from ten
Speaker 1: to actually have influences on their shows because think of
Speaker 1: the project. There are so many podcasts and influencers who
Speaker 1: were now panelists on there. Yeah, I mean it is
Speaker 1: a clever strategy, but this could backfire because all the
Speaker 1: commentary I've seen has been really negative. So Channel ten
Speaker 1: have been deleting the comments off because people have been
Speaker 1: referencing Emmy Lu's misdemeanors and while the TV show hasn't
Speaker 1: actually confirmed that she's on it. One of the other
Speaker 1: social media chefs that was on it has actually confirmed
Speaker 1: that she is, and people have said that they were
Speaker 1: a part of the live studio audience and have seen her.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be interesting when she actually comes
Speaker 1: out and announces that she definitely is on the show. Look,
Speaker 1: I actually think it's a bit of a win for
Speaker 1: Channel ten because even though you've got people writing negative comments,
Speaker 1: it's all creating engagement and all the people on Tuttle
Speaker 1: who hate her are going to tune in because they're
Speaker 1: going to have a treasure trove of potential means to
Speaker 1: make from that. Can you imagine Sophie Keisha Vers Emmy Lou?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know who to go for. Yeah, what do
Speaker 1: we think? Would Emmy Lou be on Team Capsicum or
Speaker 1: Team Tomato? Team Tomato? I can just imagine people throwing
Speaker 1: Robin toms. It reminds me of on Love Island when
Speaker 1: one of the guys said that you either look like
Speaker 1: a rat or a frog, and it is so true.
Speaker 1: They were able to go through every contestant and identify
Speaker 1: what do you guys think you are? I'd say a rat? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think yeah? They could. I don't want to be either. Well,
Speaker 1: they said, you know Toby, They said, he is the
Speaker 1: only person who's a mix between a frog and a rat. Oh,
Speaker 1: I see a total rat. What about Molly? Is she
Speaker 1: a frog? A frog? Yeah? I think she's a frog?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: What about Callum Kalam's a rat? What's Emmy?
Speaker 3: Lou?
Speaker 1: Then from Yeah, I'd say frog at book Glenn his
Speaker 1: dream car?
Speaker 3: I would have listen, gtr and you doesn't notice a surprise.
Speaker 1: While most ex's leave their partners with trauma, TikToker Anna
Speaker 1: Paul is bucking the trend. She's earned herself the title
Speaker 1: of best ex girlfriend after surprising her ex Glenn Thompson
Speaker 1: with his dream car. TikTok is losing their minds over this,
Speaker 1: and I can see why. Yeah, everyone is going crazy
Speaker 1: over this video. It's already gained five million views on
Speaker 1: TikTok at the time of recording. Now, a lot of
Speaker 1: the excitement stems from the fact that fans desperately want
Speaker 1: Anna and Glenn to get back together. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: They've actually been broken up for six months now, and
Speaker 1: in that time there's been so many conspiracy theories that
Speaker 1: they're getting back together or this is all a pr start.
Speaker 1: You can kind of see why because at Christmas time,
Speaker 1: Anna shared that they spent Christmas together with both of
Speaker 1: their families, and all of these videos continuously attract mass
Speaker 1: views on the million. There's also a lot of interest
Speaker 1: because they seem to be on these very personal journeys.
Speaker 1: So Glenn has been hitting the gym as a lot
Speaker 1: of people seem to do when they go through a breakup,
Speaker 1: and he looks like a completely different person. And on
Speaker 1: the other hand, Anna has also lost a lot of weight,
Speaker 1: but her weight loss has a lot of judgment directed
Speaker 1: at all. I think it's because she has insinuated that
Speaker 1: she's losing weight because she's upset about the situation, Whereas
Speaker 1: people look at Glenn and I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people assume that Anna was the one that broke up
Speaker 1: with him, and people think that he's hitting the gym
Speaker 1: to try to depress her. I have been noticing on
Speaker 1: a lot of Anna's videos that Anna on a zeenpit
Speaker 1: keeps coming up as a suggested term. I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: because her weight loss has come at a time where
Speaker 1: ozeen pick is definitely under the microsop and so many
Speaker 1: influences and celebrities have been using it. Now getting back
Speaker 1: to this gifted car. A day before she made the announcement,
Speaker 1: she actually put up a bit of a disclaimer video.
Speaker 1: Here's a snippet of what she said. I hung up with.
Speaker 3: Glenn yesterday and his whole family, and so something really
Speaker 3: special happened, and I want to post about it, but
Speaker 3: I'm nervous because last time I post to Glenn, a
Speaker 3: bunch of tiktoks came out of people saying that I'm
Speaker 3: a crazy ex and like, Anna seems cool, but you
Speaker 3: can tell she's definitely insane, crazy obsessed with Glenn Paul Glenn.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Anna continued, saying anytime that she creates a video, whether
Speaker 1: it be with Glenn or even a makeup tutorial, her
Speaker 1: comments are flooded with rumors and speculation about her and Glenn.
Speaker 1: She then break down, saying that she can't take any
Speaker 1: more of the negative comments.
Speaker 2: Sucks to be struggling a little bit, and people are like,
Speaker 2: you can tell, like, Anna's really mean since breaking up
Speaker 2: with Glenn, and she you can tell she's just changed
Speaker 2: since breaking up with Glenn, and she's not this.
Speaker 1: It's because I'm sad, Brenda, I don't know why.
Speaker 2: It's okay, it's fine, Like it's okay, it's normal.
Speaker 1: It happens to everyone.
Speaker 2: But don't be calling me mean. I'm sad and trying
Speaker 2: like that's not nice.
Speaker 3: I'm trying and I'm not mean.
Speaker 1: I'm just sad. Anyway, I'm gonna post a TikTok, but
Speaker 1: with Glenn.
Speaker 2: Yes, stay, it's super cute. It's super super cute. Honestly,
Speaker 2: one of the best nights of my life. You guys
Speaker 2: are gonna love it.
Speaker 1: She finished, saying everything is as normal as it can
Speaker 1: be and that they're friends who love each other. That's all,
Speaker 1: and that's all there is to it. I find this
Speaker 1: all very confusing because she seems to be between a
Speaker 1: rock and a hard place, because she's the one that's
Speaker 1: continuously putting out this content about Glenn that is confusing
Speaker 1: everyone and making everyone think that they're back together. But
Speaker 1: then she's also copying it because it's almost like she's
Speaker 1: just using it for clicks. I do think it's pretty
Speaker 1: naive of Anna not to expect her followers to actually
Speaker 1: talk about Glenn, considering how much content she is putting
Speaker 1: out and the fact that this isn't a normal breakup.
Speaker 1: Not everybody stays best friends with their It's not even
Speaker 1: about staying amicable with him, it's about gifting him a
Speaker 1: luxury cup. It is interesting that she made a point
Speaker 1: of saying the model of the car, because you can
Speaker 1: easily go and see how much it is. So it's
Speaker 1: a NIS and GTR, so the base model will set
Speaker 1: you back over one hundred and eighty two thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: whereas the top of the range GTR is over four
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. I feel like with Anna,
Speaker 1: she would have gone top of the range as well.
Speaker 1: So how did this surprise actually play out? Well? Anna
Speaker 1: was out at a joint family dinner with Glenn and
Speaker 1: she arranged for the car to be part next to
Speaker 1: her g Wagon. And Anna thought she would ask Glenn
Speaker 1: to come downstairs because she'd recently had high smile wrapping
Speaker 1: put around it. So that's her latest promotion with them,
Speaker 1: and she was going to show it to him anyway.
Speaker 1: This is how it unfolded. And you like this one.
Speaker 3: Even better.
Speaker 4: It's yours, it's yours, it's yours.
Speaker 1: I just have so many thoughts about this. Is it
Speaker 1: possible that Anna Paul, at twenty four years of age,
Speaker 1: is so emotionally mature that she has the healthiest breakup
Speaker 1: that we've ever seen. Well, I mean, she does have
Speaker 1: her parents as role models, because for those who don't know,
Speaker 1: they are divorced, but they live under the same roof
Speaker 1: as Anna. They live all as this happy family together,
Speaker 1: even to the point where the dad apparently gets on
Speaker 1: well with the mum's new boyfriend. Can we just be
Speaker 1: real here. This is obviously for TikTok views. Maybe if
Speaker 1: she'd given it to Glenn and not filmed his response,
Speaker 1: I might have thought, oh, this is just her being
Speaker 1: really mature. So you think this is just all pr
Speaker 1: because it is pretty impressive to be like, look, how
Speaker 1: mature I am. We have the best breakup on the internet,
Speaker 1: you know, bad blood. She's smart because she knows a
Speaker 1: video of an ex girlfriend giving their boyfriend a super
Speaker 1: expensive car is going to get a lot of commentary
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, she was even getting around with her I'm
Speaker 1: the best ex girlfriend top on a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: She seems to be buying into the speculation, which I
Speaker 1: then find confusing because in that initial video she was saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't want this to create more comments, and I'm
Speaker 1: struggling with it at the moment. It also makes me think,
Speaker 1: and I'm not insinuating that this is the case at all,
Speaker 1: but sometimes when someone goes over the top to proof
Speaker 1: that they're so nice and everything is hunky door, it
Speaker 1: kind of makes you think, well, what are they hiding
Speaker 1: because they're so keen to make you think a certain
Speaker 1: way and get you off the set of Maybe something
Speaker 1: wasn't quite right between them Despite them both saying they're
Speaker 1: happy to be friends. It is really rare for exes
Speaker 1: to be friends because quite often one person is holding
Speaker 1: a candle for the other person. And I think it
Speaker 1: makes it so difficult for each of them to actually
Speaker 1: move on, because how is she going to feel if
Speaker 1: next week he has a new girlfriend that he's picking
Speaker 1: up in the car and taking out on dates. Well
Speaker 1: maybe it's a sense of guilt because a lot of
Speaker 1: people have said that Anna has moved on. There is
Speaker 1: a guy that continuously appears in her videos that everyone
Speaker 1: thinks is her boyfriend. So maybe is that she's feeling
Speaker 1: guilty and just is like here have this.
Speaker 3: Everyone's like, do you even know who Gracie is.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't even fucking know who sang the song.
Speaker 2: I just lip saying to it because I felt hot.
Speaker 1: Sophia Beg has hit back at her followers for invading
Speaker 1: her privacy. The TikToker who goes by the handle Sofa
Speaker 1: Dofer has vout to keep her private life under wraps
Speaker 1: now after an influencer tee page exposed it's the identity
Speaker 1: of her apparent secret boyfriend. So Sophia shared a selfie
Speaker 1: looking bemused and caption it, you'll beg to know stuff
Speaker 1: about my life and relationship. And then the second I
Speaker 1: share a snippet, you act so weird and invasive, and
Speaker 1: then you all wonder why influencers get super private and
Speaker 1: don't tell you stuff because you're weird about it. Back,
Speaker 1: I go to being private, sof no more snippets of
Speaker 1: my private life. You'll ruined it. This is off the
Speaker 1: back of Sophia sharing a photo dump and she included
Speaker 1: in one of the photos her and a new partner
Speaker 1: looking in the mirror, but his head was cut out
Speaker 1: of it, so clearly from those very small and minute details,
Speaker 1: people were able to piece together who he actually is.
Speaker 1: Is she about surprised though? I mean it's kind of
Speaker 1: like waving a red flag in front of a ball,
Speaker 1: Like people see a tiny snippet and then they just
Speaker 1: want more and more, And it's not necessarily a bad thing.
Speaker 1: It's because people are genuinely interested in her life. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, she seft launched him. What does she expect
Speaker 1: There are people with a lot of time on their
Speaker 1: hands that are very invested in her life. If she's
Speaker 1: giving out details like that, people are going to put
Speaker 1: two and two together. I do find it odd to
Speaker 1: hear her say that she's going to go back to
Speaker 1: being private, because the whole premise of being an influencer
Speaker 1: is sharing your life with people. And it just makes
Speaker 1: you think, well, the content that she is sharing mustn't
Speaker 1: be very authentic and organic if she's like, now, I'm
Speaker 1: not giving you any of my private life anymore, I
Speaker 1: do think because it just adds. I have to say,
Speaker 1: I am quite impressed that people were able to figure
Speaker 1: out who this guy is though, because his face was
Speaker 1: cut out. They must have gone through every single guy
Speaker 1: that she's following in order to locate him.
Speaker 4: Money everyone, Well, we are after school dropped.
Speaker 1: Today Byron Bay Influenza Ruby Tuesday matthew says she was
Speaker 1: targeted in the wild by an online troll who damaged
Speaker 1: her car in a brazen attack. Now, so how did
Speaker 1: this all play out? Well? Ruby said that she was
Speaker 1: running errands with her daughter in her Mercedes g Wagon,
Speaker 1: which does feature very heavily on a social media when
Speaker 1: she re turned to find her car had been sideswiped
Speaker 1: by two trolleys in a shopping center car park. Now
Speaker 1: she shared a photo to her Instagram story of her
Speaker 1: scratched up car, and in the reflection of the car
Speaker 1: you can clearly see that she is holding her daughter holiday.
Speaker 1: She wrote, cheers to the asshole who fully sideswiped my
Speaker 1: whole car from the back passenger down to the front
Speaker 1: with a trolley, then laid two trolleys down in front
Speaker 1: of my car so I couldn't drive out in the
Speaker 1: car park in Ballina today, Like wow, you know why
Speaker 1: that someone went to the extent to lay down trolleys
Speaker 1: at the front of my car? Like whatever, you hate
Speaker 1: me sideswipe my car, asshole? But do you know how
Speaker 1: hard it was to pick up two trolleys with a
Speaker 1: baby in hand? No CCTV footage and the gentleman who
Speaker 1: works there said he had not seen anything like this
Speaker 1: with the trolley laid down situation. I felt so sorry
Speaker 1: for Ruby. This is absolutely awful. You would feel so
Speaker 1: vulnerable having your car targeted like this at your local
Speaker 1: shopping center, particularly how they even lay the trolleys down
Speaker 1: in front of the car so she couldn't leave with
Speaker 1: her baby. It seemed very aggressive. Yeah, and recently I
Speaker 1: saw this thing pop up on my TikTok and it
Speaker 1: was talking about all these traps that people can lay
Speaker 1: for you in an actual shopping center car park like
Speaker 1: it was saying, oh, if you notice it, this is
Speaker 1: on your car or this or that these people are
Speaker 1: actually waiting for you. It does seem very targeted, especially
Speaker 1: because this car is so prominent on her social media,
Speaker 1: so whether someone has spotted it and followed her and
Speaker 1: done this, it's very scary because you think, what are
Speaker 1: they going to do next. It almost seems like something
Speaker 1: school kids would do in the sense of using a
Speaker 1: trolley to graffiti a car, But if you look at
Speaker 1: her audience and who follows her generally, it seems to
Speaker 1: be mums in their thirty so it's quite disturbing that
Speaker 1: potentially someone has acted out like this, like an adult
Speaker 1: has done this to her. You don't have to forgive,
Speaker 1: and you don't have to forget to move on. You
Speaker 1: can move on without any of those things happening. As
Speaker 1: we gear up for the Sydney leg of Taylor Swift's
Speaker 1: Eras Tour, debate is raging around the ethics of going
Speaker 1: to more than one show. Radio breakfast host and former
Speaker 1: AFL footballer Cameron Ling has come out and labeled those
Speaker 1: who bought multiple tickets to the Eras Tour as the
Speaker 1: biggest flogs in the world. He went on to say
Speaker 1: that he was specifically referring to those who flaunted the experience. Now,
Speaker 1: what I want to talk about is how we feel
Speaker 1: about influencers getting free tickets from brands, because there are
Speaker 1: a few brave influencers who have recently shared that they're
Speaker 1: attending the Eras Tour with a brand. Now, Indy Clinton
Speaker 1: is one of them. Yeah, I think she did underestimate
Speaker 1: the backlash though, because on Wednesday night, she shared that
Speaker 1: she and her husband were making friendship bracelets ahead of
Speaker 1: attending both Saturday and Monday concerts in Sydney. It didn't
Speaker 1: take long for her DMS to absolutely blow up with
Speaker 1: pissed off Swifties, and this led Indy to explain that
Speaker 1: she has tried hard to do a giveaway with her
Speaker 1: plus one ticket instead of taking a friend. However, she
Speaker 1: said due to legal stuff with TS, I wasn't allowed
Speaker 1: to give away the ticket. Just no, I really tried. Now.
Speaker 1: The following day, she shared that she barely got any
Speaker 1: sleep because she was getting attacked by Swifties. This is
Speaker 1: what she said, not sleep.
Speaker 2: Very well last night, partly because my newborn was up
Speaker 2: every three hours, but the other half was I got attacked.
Speaker 5: By Swifties online.
Speaker 1: I had no idea you're not allowed to go to
Speaker 1: a concert twice. I did not know that was in
Speaker 1: Swifty etiquette that you can't do.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm chiefly sorry.
Speaker 1: So I got invited by brands to go to Swifty
Speaker 1: concert twice.
Speaker 5: Right, I'm very grateful.
Speaker 1: I'm lucky, I'm fortunate, I'm blessed.
Speaker 4: I'm very lucky.
Speaker 3: I said that all those words you know, don't come
Speaker 3: at me if I miss.
Speaker 5: Out a word, didn't for contact your ticket or I
Speaker 5: wasn't on ticket sare I wasn't buying like two tickets
Speaker 5: for two different shows and trying to piss you off.
Speaker 5: I promised you I didn't do that, so please get
Speaker 5: out of my dam It's okay, I'm sorry. I'm actually
Speaker 5: sorry that you can't go that. I know that must
Speaker 5: really suck, and I'm sorry, but don't pummel me. I'm
Speaker 5: not I didn't do this.
Speaker 1: She then went on to say that she wasn't on
Speaker 1: ticket tech buying tickets to multiple shows to piss people off.
Speaker 1: She asked people to get out of her dms and
Speaker 1: said she didn't take anyone's ticket and while she's sorry
Speaker 1: people couldn't go, it wasn't her fault. I do understand
Speaker 1: the backlash as a Taylor Swift fan myself. If I
Speaker 1: had not gotten tickets to her shows, I would have
Speaker 1: been livid to see a whole bunch of influencers there
Speaker 1: who clearly don't give a fuck. Yeah. Well, the other
Speaker 1: influencer who has also been gifted a ticket from a
Speaker 1: brand is Ja Dae Tunci, and her story is a
Speaker 1: little bit different because I think she is legitimately a fan.
Speaker 1: She did spend six hours in the lounge trying to
Speaker 1: get tickets, and anyone who went through that ticket buying
Speaker 1: process will know just how bad that was. Now it
Speaker 1: appears that she's only attending one show and she has
Speaker 1: been gifted the ticket. So she shared an Instagram post
Speaker 1: with a picture of her and her pregnant sister in law,
Speaker 1: and she wrote, so my sisters in Laura and I
Speaker 1: were a couple of those unfortunate people who sat online
Speaker 1: for six plus hours across two different days and didn't
Speaker 1: secure the most sought after tickets of the year. I've
Speaker 1: been lucky enough. Honestly, luck doesn't cut it to have
Speaker 1: been gifted tickets with a core all Pacific, including the
Speaker 1: most incredible vip all suite. I've been invited to have
Speaker 1: the perfect weekend away on my birthday with my sister
Speaker 1: in law staying at the Porthouse Hotel in Sydney. We
Speaker 1: are taking our peggy selves to the biggest show of
Speaker 1: the year at a Corp Stadium. She immediately got us
Speaker 1: some beads so we could get started on our friendship bracelets.
Speaker 1: We still can't believe it. It's glaringly obvious that she's
Speaker 1: including a lot of disclaimers in this post because she
Speaker 1: does not want people coming for her. I think the
Speaker 1: first half of the post was perfect, mentioning that she'd
Speaker 1: been in the lounge for six hours. You know, it
Speaker 1: made all of us be like, oh, look, she must
Speaker 1: really want tickets, she must be a swiftie. However, when
Speaker 1: she started talking about the fact that she was being
Speaker 1: put up in this nice hotel and she's going into
Speaker 1: this VIP suite, that's where she lost me. Because she
Speaker 1: always gets kissed on the dick with opportunities like this.
Speaker 1: She's always getting sent the best of the best branded stuff,
Speaker 1: designer stuff. She's always been put up in home hotels
Speaker 1: to go to events like the Australian Open. So I
Speaker 1: don't think my heart bled for her, and I think
Speaker 1: that there was some solace in the fact that some
Speaker 1: influence has actually missed out on tickets. It almost felt
Speaker 1: like justice because even though the whole ticket tech process
Speaker 1: was unfair, it was unfair to everyone. Yeah, because it
Speaker 1: was like, even if you're rich and famous, you can't
Speaker 1: trick this lottery of the ticket system. And it seems like, well,
Speaker 1: actually they can, because these brands just went and bought
Speaker 1: a bunch of tickets and have given them to them.
Speaker 1: I do wonder if this is going to blow up
Speaker 1: in the face of the brands as well, because clearly
Speaker 1: here jar Day has had to outline that she's going
Speaker 1: on this lavish, all expenses paid trip with the brand.
Speaker 1: But I think that there's going to be a lot
Speaker 1: of backlash directed at this brand because I didn't even
Speaker 1: think that brands were allowed to snap up these tickets
Speaker 1: as well. I don't actually see the point of brand
Speaker 1: sending influences. It would have been much better pr if
Speaker 1: they actually did a ticket giveaway to swifties like the
Speaker 1: Biggest Swifty, because all they're doing now is pointing attention
Speaker 1: and hype to a concert that's already sold out. All
Speaker 1: I'm in my feet at the moment is Olivia White,
Speaker 1: who's a mummy blogger acting as some sort of correspondent
Speaker 1: about Taylor Swift, Like did you see that she was
Speaker 1: trying to put it out there that Travis Kelcey had
Speaker 1: caught a jet starf line. I mean that was wrong.
Speaker 1: He has caught Taylor Swift's personal jet, well private jet.
Speaker 1: Now she is someone else who's copped it in her
Speaker 1: DMS because she revealed that she'd been to two shows
Speaker 1: in Melbourne. She shared a statement saying it's not okay
Speaker 1: to attack people who went to multiple shows. She wrote,
Speaker 1: everyone paid their way. It was the luck of the draw.
Speaker 1: We all know how hard it was Slash has been,
Speaker 1: and I know I'm grateful, and yes, it's easy to
Speaker 1: say when I got to go. We don't get to
Speaker 1: decide who is a bigger swiftye or who's more deserving,
Speaker 1: and then abuse people because we deemed them unworthy. I
Speaker 1: was saying to you before we recorded that I feel
Speaker 1: like a lot of Melbourne influencers probably got off scott
Speaker 1: free because there would have been so many that were
Speaker 1: there who had gotten free tickets from brands. However, I
Speaker 1: think because we've had this full week to sit on
Speaker 1: TikTok and get jealous over everyone's videos and have this
Speaker 1: massive fomo over the Sydney concert, people are now out
Speaker 1: for blood. They're like, this is bullshit. I think some
Speaker 1: people thought maybe they'd win competitions or somehow luck out
Speaker 1: and get a ticket, and they haven't. I do think
Speaker 1: it is a dog act to go to several shows,
Speaker 1: because there's so many people who were genuine fans who
Speaker 1: missed out, and I just think it shouldn't have been
Speaker 1: allowed in the ticketing system. Yeah, I mean that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Do we blame the die hard fans because a lot
Speaker 1: of people have been interviewed on this topic and one
Speaker 1: Swiftie said that why is it unfair? She has paid
Speaker 1: for them and it's not the first time she's done this.
Speaker 1: She said that when it was a red tour, she
Speaker 1: went to multiple shows. I think there is a difference
Speaker 1: in this situation though, because we knew from the get
Speaker 1: go when the Australian dates were announce said this was
Speaker 1: was going to be an absolute dog fight. We saw
Speaker 1: it in the US. We saw that tickets were hard
Speaker 1: to come by, and people knew that there were Swifties
Speaker 1: that were missing out. And I mean, I would have
Speaker 1: loved to go to multiple shows and we could have
Speaker 1: kept trying for tickets, but there was a part of
Speaker 1: me that was like, I just want it so unfair
Speaker 1: if you're going to multiple shows. It would be pretty
Speaker 1: hard though, to turn down free tickets from a brand.
Speaker 1: If a brand reached out to us, now I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I would probably go. Would I publicize it though, because
Speaker 1: that is the big difference. But they have to publicize
Speaker 1: it because it's a branding opportunity. True but this is
Speaker 1: an event like no other that we've seen before. People
Speaker 1: not only want to go because they're big fans of
Speaker 1: the music, they want to be seen, they want to
Speaker 1: create content there. This is why it is causing such
Speaker 1: a big drama online. It also appears that Anna Poula
Speaker 1: has been gifted tickets as well, so she shared on
Speaker 1: TikTok that she is currently driving from Brisbane to Sydney
Speaker 1: with her family for the concert. She hasn't flat out
Speaker 1: said that they were gifted, but she said the trip
Speaker 1: is very last minute and that she hasn't got an
Speaker 1: outfit organized. It's fairly obviously he's a gifted tickets. Otherwise
Speaker 1: Anna paul would have flights booked in in advance, like
Speaker 1: she wouldn't just be driving for a couple of days.
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