WEBVTT - RACHEL & RYAN: THE BLOCK 2022! 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.720 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:03.600 TV Reload the podcast last. 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:07.520 Week Airline Welcome back to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris, 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:10.040 and on this podcast I go behind the scenes with 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:13.440 the biggest players in television. Each episode you will get 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:18.520 a front row seat with content makers like executive producers, writers, editors, 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.640 and casting agents, plus the talent that we all see 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:25.079 on our screen. TV Reload reloads the shows that you 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:28.080 are currently watching and gives you a better insight into 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.360 our television industry and our streaming services today. On the podcast, 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.839 I have two of the contestants from Channel Lines The 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:39.080 Block twenty twenty two. It is Rachel and Ryan. This year, 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.080 the Block took a tree change and immediately saw two 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:46.199 contestants run for the hills. With five houses situated on 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.640 ten acres of land and weather conditions harsher than any 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.199 season before, It's no wonder. The first week saw the 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:57.440 first couple in block history ghost, the popular Channel nine program. 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.480 So when the going got tough, Ryan got going, turning 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.399 up in less than two days and making their mark 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.040 on the highly competitive show. While their scores haven't yet 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.000 won them the week, many fans have been saying that 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.600 these two are still in good stead to win a 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:17.640 substantial amount of money, and only time will tell. I 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.000 have to say that after I had this chat, I 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:21.959 fell in love with Rachel and Ryan just a little 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.440 bit more. They're really gorgeous people and super passionate about 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.720 what they do. It's actually just really quite infectious, and 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.200 I hope you enjoy this chat as much as I 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.520 did having it. We will discuss which room might be 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.959 one of their biggest regrets, who has become friends for life, 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.200 what they think of some of the comments that are 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.240 being set online, and also what they think of next 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:47.080 year's location. However, let's get started with today's guest. I'd 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.160 like to welcome Rachel and Ryan to TV reload. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:52.760 Very tricky question. 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.800 Here's our new couple, meet Rachel and Ryan, and. 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.600 I feel like they got into a negative whether they 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:00.480 couldn't got out of. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:03.160 Rachel got you care? 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:04.320 How are you? 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.320 I thought when she came in, she walked out, and 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.080 I thought, my god, what just happened. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.480 Rachel and Ryan's first problem was the floor. 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.720 Plan, and as hard as it was, I can't see 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:19.000 them doing this ever again. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:21.440 I think you've got your basics. 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.520 Now go the next level. You know, the crew is 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.120 just a phenomenal on the block, Like, we're going to 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:27.919 be more thankful. 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.200 Hey, Rachel and Ryan, how are you both good? 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:31.840 Thank you? 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.440 How are you fantastic? 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.960 I am so excited to be talking to you because 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.720 we're well and truly into the competition at this point. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.120 Has it even sunk into you two that you managed 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:42.720 to make it onto the block? Oh? 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.920 Look, by now it has. By now, it definitely has. 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.840 We're very aware that we're here, We're very aware that 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.840 we're exhausted, We're very aware of everything that's happening, but 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:58.079 it is still incredibly surreal at the same time. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.600 I like when I heard the story that you kind 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.359 of had been told that you weren't going to be 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.119 on the show, and then I heard that you guys 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.000 were at the pub having a few wines when the 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.400 producers rang you and said because I think it was 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.000 like a Saturday or something, and they were like, can 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.480 you be here tomorrow? And you've put the wine down 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:14.840 and gone, that's commitment if you ask me. 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.760 It was Saturday afternoon and then they called us. 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.160 And they were like, Monday morning, you need to be here, 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.200 and we're like, holy moly, that's quick, and we decided 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:24.119 to work everything out. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.200 Who was going to take care of like all of 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.080 the responsibility? Did you make an emergency phone call? Like 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:30.280 who took over your lives? 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.760 We were pretty lucky. So I truly believe that a 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.800 lot of this is very serendipitous because the people that 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.160 we were at the pub with are two couples who 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.800 were our best friends, and they couldn't have been that. 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.800 We couldn't have been with better people, to be honest, 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.320 they sprang into action straight away. One of my girlfriends, 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.520 one of my best friends, is a publicist, so she 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.000 sprung into action. The other one was a financial advisor, 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.680 so he was like, let's sort all this in because 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:05.200 obviously your life stops, you know. So it was we 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:06.600 couldn't have been with better people. 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:08.880 Who finished the drinks for you? That's what I want 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.440 to know, drink. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.520 Not only did we finish it, We've got another couple 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.480 of rounds each to work out the logistics. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.719 Let me tell you something really funny, right, So obviously, 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.560 first things first, what's most important was I thought I 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.279 have to get my hair done. Of course, so I'm thinking, 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.440 how am I going? It's three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon. 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:29.040 How am I going to get my hair done? One 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:30.960 of my girlfriends is on the phone in. My hairdresser, 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.680 who blessed her, came in at seven o'clock that night 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:35.799 to do my hair, but I'd had too many drinks 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.200 to drive, so I had to get another girlfriend to 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.960 drive me all around Sydney to get all the things 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.200 done that I needed to get done. Because we've been 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:45.880 at the pub drinking all afternoon. 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.360 I just could have believe how well, I mean, both 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.000 of you are very good. Look, I'm just going to 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:51.680 say this right now because I've met you in person 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.120 and it's kind of a bit ridiculous, but you look 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.520 so calm on the car when you just have a 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.520 rocking up like it just looked like it was this 0:04:58.600 --> 0:04:59.640 is how it was supposed to be. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.520 Well, I guess, like you know, we kind of prepared 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:06.080 ourselves through the journey of thinking that we're going on, 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.520 So it was only a couple of weeks before we 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.040 realized that. We kind of thought, well, I don't think 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.560 we're going on, So we kind of prepared ourselves and 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.880 then with that thirty hour notice, we got everything under control. 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.159 But then the plane ride down. You know, we started brainstorming, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.960 like we kind of like cycked ourselves up for it. 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.320 I don't I also don't think it was calmness. I 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.680 think it was exhaustion because we actually didn't sleep the 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.280 Saturday or Sunday night. And it's so funny. I think 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.240 in the first episodees Jay says, Yeah, they've got they've 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.640 got such a better advantage than us because they've slept. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.440 We hadn't slept. Oh, We've been up for to nights. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.560 It was a horrible for to thirty hours. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.440 You'd had less sleep, you'd had less sleep than everybody else. 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.360 So it was exhausted. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.440 And we also had three kids that were wanting our 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.680 attention that we just couldn't give them because we had 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.880 so much things to sort out before we could leave. 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.200 That's half the reason why Rachel had to come back 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:57.280 after the first week. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.599 But it was crazy. The thirty hours. It was basically 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.320 a warm up to prepare us for the block. 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.279 Anyway, we're going to put the kids into the home. 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:06.640 Did you ever go back and collect the kids, by the. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.719 Way, No, they're still there. That's why we're so calm now, 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:11.800 they're still. 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.599 There, you know, I've got to ask you, do you 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.880 think it was a disadvantage to be only included in 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.880 the eleventh hour when it comes to like the competition element. 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.719 Very tricky question when it comes to the competitional element, 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.960 without a doubt you knows as much as you're not 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:35.120 supposed to forward plan. Everyone knew where we were filming, 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.360 They knew we were in Gisbone, they knew we were 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.760 on you know, acreage. Very some very smart people, I 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.280 believe sus doubt who our suppliers were and what different 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.520 things they could do because some people went in with 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.440 plans in the second week that there is no way 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.440 that they would have been able to get had they 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.120 not thought about it prior, and more power to them. 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:01.080 We missed out on the feedback are during the challenge, 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.960 during the forty eight hour challenge, so that put us 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:08.120 on a big disadvantage for our first room firstly. Secondly, 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.160 and it's something that you know, we never addressed on 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.120 the show. We went so far over budget in our 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:18.320 first room, but that was because we got to the 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.920 block on the Monday. All of our trades got there 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.400 on the Tuesday that had already been organized for us. 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.960 So it wasn't until Thursday when I realized, hang on 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.559 a minute, these trades have been here for two days. 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:35.080 We're actually paying for this THO by that Thursday we'd 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.760 already gone over, so you know, we spent and that 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.600 had already been organized for us. In my mind, I 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:45.040 was thinking, there must be some kind of agreement here. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:49.280 It's Thursday afternoon. No, no, no agreement. It was up 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.760 to you to send them home. You didn't. They're all here. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:54.840 You need to pay the bill, and now we're going 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.680 to talk about how far over budget you've gone the 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.120 whole time. So look, it was I do think think 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.960 that it was a disadvantage in us coming in late 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.960 in terms of the competition. Sure, in terms of our 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.360 experience on the block, there's been one hundred and sixty 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.440 i think participants on the block and no one has 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:15.480 ever done what we've done, so that's unique. So we 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.520 got to look at it from that point of view 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.920 as well. You know, we've had such a unique experience. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.240 I have to also say, so there was the big 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.760 controversy about the couple that walked out. You know, let's 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.200 not mention who they are, but you know, it was 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.440 a bit of controversy. Do you think that they've had 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.760 any regrets? And I wanted to know, had they reached 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.200 out to you to say good luck? Or did you 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:35.840 ever hear from them at all? Or were you just 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.800 as easily ghosted by them as the rest of the competition. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.080 Yeah, we didn't hear from them at all. They'd never 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:42.280 reached out to us at all. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.400 I wouldn't expect them to. But I think we're in Sydney. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.400 I was, I was in Double Bay yesterday and I thought, 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.240 oh my god, what if I see l you know, 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.800 like I don't expect them to. If I was to, 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:55.840 if we were to see them, I would go up 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.959 and introduce myself and say hello, you know, and thank 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:03.240 them because leaving gave us an opportunity. And do I 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.920 think that they've had regrets? Absolutely not. Oh, and I 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.240 don't think that they should. I don't think that the 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:15.320 show was suited to them. I especially don't think that 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.280 this season was suited to them. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.360 I just wish that I could be flying the wall 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.840 whilst that meeting happens, because you know, it is a 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.840 small town. You could easily run into them, and I 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.040 just would not your reactions, but I'd love to see 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.840 their reactions. But that's the sticky beak in me. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.760 Yeah, I'm a sticky beak too. I'd kind of just 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.240 want to see a reaction as well, and so should 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:36.640 be fine. 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.920 At the end of the day. It doesn't matter because 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.480 they're often we're on it is what it is, It 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:42.199 is what it is. 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.960 I have been really enjoying your style and I think 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:47.920 that you have had more of a classic style and 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.080 something that I can relate to a little bit. And 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.640 while you might not have excited the judges every week 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.160 and had these bigger scores, I actually think that at 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:56.640 the end of this, when it comes to the buyers 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.120 seeing the house, then you guys might do very well. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.240 Have you coped though through the scoring so far. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.280 Like we had our ups and downs, and the style 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.319 that some of the other contestants have been doing and 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.920 what we thought the judges wanted from everyone is not 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:15.120 our style at all. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:16.640 We don't like that style. 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.319 We went in there with our vision of what we 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.160 wanted to build a country style home, and that wasn't it. 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.679 We changed a little bit for those first that second 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.839 and third week to try and you know, well, we've 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.880 got to win some money and we're getting really bad feedback. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.280 We thought, let's try and change it. 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.000 You know, we've got to give ourselves a chance to 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.800 try and win some money each week, and it didn't 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.920 go well. So we got to Master Bedroom week and 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:39.360 we're like, you know what, screw this. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:40.400 We're doing what. 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.079 We originally wanted to do here. Whether we win or 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.880 whether we don't, it's how we finished this house and 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.640 how the flow of the house needs to be very continuous. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.240 So we stick to our guns from that room, and I. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.240 Think as well, you know, with the feedback from the judges, 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:59.600 it's two out of three that aren't vibing with our style. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:04.679 Darren Palmer absolutely loves us. He's our biggest supporter. We're 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.520 also in our minds we have to think about, you know, 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.760 past history with the judges and you know they hated 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.960 Mitch and Marx last year. Mitch and Mark won what 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:20.040 they're seemingly wanting from us. We think that we're giving it. 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.199 We think that we're giving a country home. We don't 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.720 necessarily agree with homes where every single room you walk 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.959 into and it has to make such an impact. We 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:35.480 believe in like a really beautiful, calming, serene feel and 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.320 that's what we think we're delivering. And you know what, also, 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:39.880 at the end of the day, we had to really 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.440 make decisions where if our house doesn't sell and we 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.240 have done what we think is best and our house 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.200 doesn't sell as well as we think it should, well, 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.240 then that's on us. But if we change what we 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.920 believe and what our gut instincts are telling us to 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.800 suit three judges and then our house doesn't sell, well, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:01.520 then that's on them. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.679 And we know, like you know, Mitch and Mark last year, 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.360 you know they're at the moment sleeping in bags of cash. 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.880 So you know, we can't really take all of that 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.360 to heart. So I guess it'll all come down to 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.560 it at the end. I know you've already had a 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.480 fair share of high emotions. You said, you know you 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.520 had to go home to sort some things out. But 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.440 what's the biggest hurdle in taking part of this show 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:20.880 so far? 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:22.079 I know what yours is. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.080 Oh, the biggest hurdle for me is dead set. The 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:25.760 cold weather. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:30.880 Oh man, it is freezing cold down there, unbearably cold. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:32.240 And then and then the mud. 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.559 The mud is just like you know, you're building these 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.880 beautiful rooms and spaces and not only do you have 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.240 you know, thirty to forty trades coming through each day, 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.240 you've also got production walking through and they've all got 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.480 two inches of mud on their boots, and it's just like, 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:47.960 you know, it just never ends. 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:49.800 It just seems to be mud everywhere. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.640 Was it you guys that had the slippers in the 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.280 little bin for people to put on, which no one 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.960 else did. That to me was a sign of frustration 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.120 of we have had enough of your money feet in here. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.720 You know, this isn't about your comfort, this is about us. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.240 Put the fucking slippers on, you know, exactly right. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.080 But it was also like it's freezing your toes. Everyone 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.040 had to take their shoes off, your toes will freeze. 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.640 Have some beautiful, warm, comfy slippers. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.800 It was the perfect idea because we've got polished concrete 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.640 throughout most of our modern extentsion And as Rape said, 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:23.280 like if you want, no one's going to take their 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.320 shoes off without slippers on because the claws too cold. 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.480 Well right now, you know, but there's heating. There's heating, 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.880 there's heating. I'm just crazy. 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:33.680 I want people to know. That's funny. I went and 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.000 did like a set tour for people. You know, you 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:37.400 guys know that I was there, but I did the 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.679 set tour. Those shoes that I wore that day are 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.920 still on my balcony and they are just there blocks 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.720 of mud, like it's they're just blocks of mud, and 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.160 so seem to be believed when you try and tell 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.920 people about the weather conditions. Because I'm still recovering. 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.880 I'll tell you a really funny story. So both s 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.160 J and I had these this one day with our 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:05.120 kids where Claire was upset and my kids were upset, 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.800 and I had been talking to my kids and I 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:10.880 came out of my house and I was like walking 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.680 down our path, my path, and I was really teary. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.640 And Sj's walking down in front of her house and 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.400 she's really teary, and I kind of gave her a 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.680 big cuddle and we're both crying, and I said to her, 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.160 it's all right, babe, like, you know, not much longer. 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.480 We're doing it for them. Blah blah blah. I'm crying. 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.640 She goes, what are you talking about? And I'm like 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.360 the kids. She goes, I'm crying because of the mud. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.400 I just cracked up laughing. 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.040 That's how bad it was I'm obsessed with Sarah Jane, 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.080 and it's so funny because she's a little bit polarizing 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.000 to some audience, where I just think that she's kind 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.400 of the right amount of batshit crazy for reality television. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:52.400 If you asked me, without a doubt, we're very close 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:53.640 with Tom and Sarah Jane. 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.760 You could see that with you girls a couple of times. 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.840 I'm a few episodes ahead. I think I'm about two 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.520 weeks ahead, but you can definitely see that there's a 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.800 kinship between you girls, and even though you're both very 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:03.400 different women. 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.360 Oh, it's really funny because the Esja was the first 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.000 person that we met, okay, and I thought when she 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.000 came in, she walked out, and I thought, my god, 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:17.840 what just happened? I had no idea what had just happened? 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:19.360 Where is this girl from? 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.600 And then the more that you spend time with her, 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.560 she and you know what, the viewers are starting to 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:33.400 see it as well. When she coped the most unfair 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:38.480 criticism from viewers in the first few weeks, really really 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:43.520 really they went to town on her. And now people 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.760 are like, didn't like you at first, and now I 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.640 love you because she just says it. How it is. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.280 She's so unfiltered. She wears a heart on her sleep. 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.720 She has the biggest heart I can confirm she has. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.360 People are you know she's she's polarizing. You meet her 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.520 at first, you're not quite sure. The more you get 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.400 to know her, the more you know is to love her. 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:03.800 I like people who are genuine, you know, So I 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.480 don't care if people are mad. If you're genuinely mad, 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.120 that's great. I think that's fine. Exactly, I met her 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.280 and I walked into this room and we were alone, 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.520 and papasist were everywhere taking us on the tour, and 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:15.360 I don't think you were supposed to be left alone 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:19.280 with you know you guys. And she was within one 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.880 minute in a full conversation as though we had been 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.640 friends forever, and she was confiding stuff into me about 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:27.960 you know, telling me about I bet you couldn't believe this, 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.040 and I don't even I just felt like, to be honest, 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:32.440 it felt like I was back in the Big Brother 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.720 House with a contestant that i'd been in there with 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.440 for like, you know, three months. That's how immediate that 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.360 kind of kin, that sort of relationship form. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:41.680 So she's a good egg. 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:43.840 Yah, both good eggs. 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.640 Well, you both have a much calmer approach to the competition. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.360 I have to say, compared to some of the others. 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.480 Do you think it's time some of the other houses 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:52.880 play up to the cameras. 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:54.880 Look, yes and no. 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.080 But the one thing I can say about the block 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.680 is you go in there and you have no time 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:03.120 to be anyone other than yourself. Okay, all you see 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.720 with all the contestants, how they're reacting, how they are. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:09.000 I know shaz and unks are getting smashed, but there's 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.960 a certain level of you have to be yourself because 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:13.800 you have no time to think about trying to be 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:14.400 someone else. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.560 Yet, Look, I like I agree to a certain extent, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.240 like it's the block is a pressure cooker. Sure, it's 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:27.000 definitely a pressure cooker, and I feel like, you know, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.639 people are being themselves, definitely, but you don't know how 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.320 you're going to react if you've never been in a 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:34.280 pressure cooker like that. 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:35.400 Sure, so I. 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.119 Think play out for the cameras. The cameras are on 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.960 his twenty four seven. You know they're on you twenty 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:45.240 four seven. I am watching some things where I think, like, God, 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:45.880 what are you doing? 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:46.280 Stop? 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.080 There's a camera on you. You know. But then I've seen them. 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:53.440 They've got me at sometimes and they're hiding behind different things, 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.960 and you know, you just and I'm thinking, stop talking, rage, 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:58.840 there's a camera on you. But I didn't even know 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.000 that there was anyone on me, you know, So it's 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.479 just interesting. I don't know how much is anyone playing 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.240 up for the cameras. I think the boys play out 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.240 for the cameras a little bit, you know, but they're 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.240 very cheeky, and I think once there's a camera on them, 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:18.080 that cheekiness just ups. It's anti but in like a 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:19.639 fun joking way. 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.159 But yeah, I'm not laughing with them. The funny thing 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.840 is like they're laughing hysterically at the jokes that they're making, 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.879 which are just not funny. But I'm so warm to 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.440 and diard to them because of that. I'm like, good 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.840 on your boys. You're definitely having a lot of fun. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.920