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Speaker 1: Before we get into today's episode, we want to send

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Speaker 1: our sincere condolences to those affected by the Bondi terror attack.

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Speaker 1: We pre recorded today's episode before the attacks occurred. We're

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Speaker 1: in shock that something like this could happen in Australia.

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Speaker 1: The images coming out from the attack are horrific. If

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Speaker 1: love to the Jewish community and the people of Bondai.

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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Outspoken. It's your bite sized dose

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Speaker 1: of the hottest influencer and pop culture news this festive season.

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Speaker 1: I'm Sophie Torber and coming up on today's show, the

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Speaker 1: horrifying reality of Indy Clinton's nose reconstruction, the truth behind

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Speaker 1: a British TikTok's viral luxury advent calendar, and the Ossie

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Speaker 1: Farmer with a striking resemblance to an OG beauty influencer,

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Speaker 1: the first Tammy Hembro has revealed her social media hiatus

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Speaker 1: is over. The OG influencer has spent the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks offline to film for a new reality show

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Speaker 1: called Shark. So Tammy took to her Instagram Stories on

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Speaker 1: Friday to reveal she's easing herself back onto social media.

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Speaker 1: She's actually been receiving a lot of messages from fans

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Speaker 1: being like, are you okay? Yeah, because she said it's

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Speaker 1: the longest time she's actually ever been off social media,

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Speaker 1: which is saying something. I can see why people are

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Speaker 1: concerned they need their Tammy content. I mean, last week,

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Speaker 1: I think it was one of the first episodes in

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Speaker 1: Tammy hambro Well. She hasn't posted on TikTok since the

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Speaker 1: twentieth of November. She was a little bit more active

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, posting pre recorded ads for Black Friday, but

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Speaker 1: don't know what's going on in her life. I wonder

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Speaker 1: how this hiatus will affect her social media performance because

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Speaker 1: Tammy said it's the first time in ten years she's

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Speaker 1: been offline for this long. For those who aren't across

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Speaker 1: how the algorithm works, the more you post, the more

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Speaker 1: Instagram and TikTok rewards you. So when you do have

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Speaker 1: an off period but you're not posting, your post then

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Speaker 1: doesn't get put out to as many people. I have

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Speaker 1: noticed that slide note with my dog's Instagram account because

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Speaker 1: since having a child. Yes, I haven't been quite as

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Speaker 1: active on there six months iatus for you. No, actually

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Speaker 1: I've posted a bit here and there. But yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: really crazy because he's got like over thirty five thousand followers,

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Speaker 1: but fishing for new followers sometimes, yeah, getting desert. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: you've really got to feed that algorithm. And I wonder

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Speaker 1: if it's worth it for Tammy to be appearing on

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Speaker 1: this TV show, if it's going to ruin how well

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Speaker 1: her post perform on social media? Because I say, bread

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Speaker 1: and butter really yeah, but once she's back, she'll be

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Speaker 1: posting every single day again, I'm sure, and I have

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Speaker 1: missed her content. Do you think maybe she might post

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Speaker 1: something controversial? Because she said that, you know, once she's

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Speaker 1: that's been going on. It was kind of a bit

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Speaker 1: been going on in a private life. And I feel

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Speaker 1: it's good that she's been offline for a few weeks

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Speaker 1: and people are missing her now.

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Speaker 1: I think some influencers can definitely become too oversaturateed, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's been the case for Tammy this year.

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Speaker 2: Where to start this if I'm even going to post this,

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Speaker 1: Indy Clinton has tearfully opened up about her corrective nose job,

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Speaker 1: saying she feels sick to her core about the impending surgery.

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Speaker 1: The popular TikToker is set to go under the knife

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Speaker 1: She has been relentlessly trolled by low lives online who

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Speaker 2: I haven't spoken about this on I guess at deeper

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Speaker 2: But now I'm getting it fixed, I feel like I

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Speaker 2: wishing I have an incredible outcome and I'm in save hands.

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Speaker 2: I know I'm in save. Hans is an incredible surgeon

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Speaker 1: You could sense a lot of fear in Indy's voice

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Speaker 1: She would be putting so much trust in this new

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Speaker 1: all the bullying you have suffered. Isn't fair praying for

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Speaker 1: can't talk about it for legal reasons. Well, it's interesting

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Speaker 1: And Indy also liked that comment, So it's like she's

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think India has a very good case,

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Speaker 1: I mean, clearly something majorly wrong has gone on during

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Speaker 1: It's going to improve, It's going to look better. This

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Speaker 1: They were obviously gaslighting her a bit. Abby Chatfield also

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. This should not have happened. You look

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Speaker 1: incredible always, of course, but this is so morally wrong

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Speaker 1: that someone did this to you. Sending love and this

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that they were friendly at all. Like,

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Speaker 1: it's weird. They seem to be from two very different

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Speaker 1: sort of nice to see Abby reaching out to her

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Speaker 1: is a really difficult topic to broach, because you've got

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Speaker 1: all these horrible people online saying, oh, you know, Indy's

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Speaker 1: I'm also not happy with it. But you feel like

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Speaker 1: if you do acknowledge the fact that potentially it doesn't

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Speaker 1: end of the day, Indy Clinton is a beautiful woman,

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Speaker 1: regardless of what her nose used to look like and

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Speaker 1: And I knows that she can breathe through exactly. Who's

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Speaker 1: Michael Finch? And what do a lot of you keep saying?

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Speaker 1: Me and him are twin brothers or we got separated

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Speaker 1: from birth. An Aussie farmer by the name of Dallas

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Speaker 1: Dwyer has gone viral on TikTok for bearing a striking

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Speaker 1: every Thursday. It's basically an extension of this show, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's much needed, particularly when every other podcast

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Speaker 1: is off on holidays. At the moment, there's nothing around

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Speaker 1: to listen to. So if you want to get a

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Speaker 1: up to Outspoken Plus. It's a great Christmas present. I

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Speaker 1: mean it is, and it's very cheap. It's the perfect

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Speaker 1: i'd say a gift for yourself as well. It's five

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Speaker 1: ninety nine a month. You get four episodes a month.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's actually almost too cheap, i'd say. So

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Speaker 1: this is really a hard seller. Well, this episode was

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Speaker 1: recorded on the traditional land of the Ghana people of

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Speaker 1: the Adelaide Plains. We pay respect to Elder's past and present,

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Speaker 1: and I hope everyone is starting to feel a bit

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