Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the
Speaker 1: hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm
Speaker 1: Sophie Torber and coming up on today's show, Sophie Gwidlin's
Speaker 1: secret marriage appears to be over aspen Ovard breaks her
Speaker 1: silence on her divorce, Martha Califortitas and Michael Brunelli's big announcement,
Speaker 1: And have things turned sour between Mia Plassic and a
Speaker 1: Chapel Street bridal boutique. But first, over the weekend, Justin
Speaker 1: and Hailey Bieber announced the arrival of their baby boy,
Speaker 1: and they're receiving a lot of praise for the name.
Speaker 1: Maybe Yeah. I was really shocked when I saw this
Speaker 1: name drop because listeners of the podcast will know that
Speaker 1: Kate recently gave birth to her beautiful son Jack, and
Speaker 1: the Beebers have copied Kate's name. Look, Kate has started something.
Speaker 1: He can she take claim for that? Because I know
Speaker 1: Jack is a popular name. It's probably it's in the
Speaker 1: top Australian names. Yes, but I did not think that
Speaker 1: a celebrity of this nature would call their kids such
Speaker 1: a normal name. Well, it's a very traditional name. I
Speaker 1: thought they were going to go with something weird. His
Speaker 1: middle name is blue, so I think that's the celebrity
Speaker 1: aspect of the name. But this is a family name
Speaker 1: for Justin Bieber because his dad's middle name is Jack
Speaker 1: and a fun fact, all of the Bieber's have the
Speaker 1: initials JB. So of course Justin Bieber his dad Jeremy Bieber.
Speaker 1: He's got a half sister called Jasmine Bieber and also
Speaker 1: a half brother called Jackson Bieber. I think women always
Speaker 1: have a good argument when picking names, because if it's
Speaker 1: traditional and the child is receiving the father's last name,
Speaker 1: I think that the mother should then have say over
Speaker 1: what the middle name and first name is because they're
Speaker 1: already getting that family name that's him built. But in
Speaker 1: this case, Haley didn't seem to get eib.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, it's been a hot minute since I've been
Speaker 2: on TikTok, but I'm relaunching myself.
Speaker 1: Rumors are swirling that things may have turned sour between
Speaker 1: controversial slickstick owner Mia Pleasik and a Chapel Street bridal boutique.
Speaker 1: The divisive influencer has allegedly been shopping around for wedding
Speaker 1: sponsors since getting engaged in March last year. Amy, before
Speaker 1: we get into it, for any new listeners, who is
Speaker 1: Mia Well. Mia is a serial entrepreneur who currently runs
Speaker 1: a beauty brand called Slick Hair, and she first came
Speaker 1: onto the influencing scene back in twenty seventeen when she
Speaker 1: was beauty influencer Michael Finch's manager, and it's rumored they
Speaker 1: had a huge falling out. Now during the pandemic, she
Speaker 1: came to our attention when she started supporting and attending
Speaker 1: anti lockdown protests, and during this time she allegedly shared
Speaker 1: on her Instagram account that she had planned to find
Speaker 1: a black market doctor to sign a COVID passport for her.
Speaker 1: So she has been very controversial over the years. Doesn't
Speaker 1: that time just feel like so long ago? Feels like
Speaker 1: a nightmare? Well, I keep seeing this TikTok that says
Speaker 1: in just over four months time, twenty twenty will have
Speaker 1: been five years ago, and that blows my mind. That
Speaker 1: is crazy. Now. She also received backlash a few years
Speaker 1: ago for conflating abortion rights with the Victorian government's COVID
Speaker 1: lockdown and vaccine mandates. Now Justin and Mia got engaged
Speaker 1: in Italy in March last year and for a bit
Speaker 1: of background on Justin. He ran as a candidate for
Speaker 1: Clive Palmer's United Party, and this year he faced criticism
Speaker 1: after Mia uploaded a video of him pulling their dog
Speaker 1: Maple away from a dog park by her ear. Now,
Speaker 1: at the time, Mia said Maple is the most rough,
Speaker 1: destructive dog. A little lead of the year. Doesn't hurt her.
Speaker 1: Trust me, I'd kill Justin or anyone if they hurt
Speaker 1: my girls. Well, now that we're up to speed, Sophie,
Speaker 1: what is fanning these rumors?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: On June first, Mia announced that work had begun on
Speaker 1: her wedding gown, so she shared an Instagram story showing
Speaker 1: a seamstress working on her dress. Now, it appears that
Speaker 1: the dress has been custom made because the seamstress was
Speaker 1: working on a calico corset. So she wrote the first
Speaker 1: prototype type of my wedding gown and tag Champrey Crituur
Speaker 1: in the story, but didn't specify if this was a
Speaker 1: gifted or paid partnership. Now, generally when an influencer tags
Speaker 1: a brand, it is because there is some sort of
Speaker 1: partnership agreement involved. In this case, I'm guessing it's a
Speaker 1: contrad deal. So maybe the bridle store has gifted her
Speaker 1: this gown or is loaning it out to her in
Speaker 1: exchange for exposure on her wedding day. Now the branded question,
Speaker 1: as I said, is Champrey Cutuur, which is a bridal
Speaker 1: boutique on Chapel Street which makes custom made gowns as
Speaker 1: well as ready to wear gowns. Now they have over
Speaker 1: thirty seven thousand followers on Instagram and I have to
Speaker 1: say that designs are absolutely stunning. Now, what was a
Speaker 1: little unusual is that on the fifth of August, Mia
Speaker 1: posted that she and her family were jetting off to
Speaker 1: Santra Pe in business class of course, to embark on
Speaker 1: their European holiday ahead of their wedding in Italy. And
Speaker 1: this was very curious timing as it's only three months
Speaker 1: after she started having her gown designed. So that's cutting
Speaker 1: it very fine, because most dresses would around a year
Speaker 1: to deaygether. They usually recommend ten to twelve months. So
Speaker 1: it seems very strange to start having a custom gown
Speaker 1: made in June if your wedding is in September, particularly
Speaker 1: if you're leaving more than a month out from your wedding,
Speaker 1: and because generally they'll be fittings, particularly if it's a
Speaker 1: custom gown, So this designer must have been working around
Speaker 1: the clock to get this gown completed in time. Well,
Speaker 1: word on the street is that Mia has allegedly been
Speaker 1: shopping around for wedding sponsorship deals ever since she got engaged.
Speaker 1: So I wonder if she struggled to find a wedding
Speaker 1: dress designer who would actually give her a gown, and
Speaker 1: that's why she's left it so late, Yeah, because she
Speaker 1: doesn't have a great reputation, particularly in Melbourne. Now, last week,
Speaker 1: Mia celebrated her bridal shower with three friends at the
Speaker 1: Ritz in London, and she was joined by Melanie James,
Speaker 1: who is married to Blair James, who recently sold Bondi
Speaker 1: Sands for four hundred and fifty million dollars now. She
Speaker 1: called it the bridal shower of her dreams and showed
Speaker 1: us enjoying a high tea with her friends. Is it
Speaker 1: just me or does this kind of celebration seem almost
Speaker 1: a little bit choogy because the way Mia Pleasic posts,
Speaker 1: it's like she's back in twenty twelve and she's just
Speaker 1: bragging so much about having money, when in reality, I
Speaker 1: don't know if she's as wealthy as she makes out. Well,
Speaker 1: she is one of those influencers who looks like brand
Speaker 1: names have vomited on her. But as we have discussed
Speaker 1: in previous episodes, most of her designer gear is fake
Speaker 1: and she has openly spoken about that. Now, what's got
Speaker 1: a lot of tongues wagging is since posting about her
Speaker 1: bridal shower and her lavish couple of weeks in Europe,
Speaker 1: Shamprey Criture is no longer following Mia Pleassic and this
Speaker 1: has led to a lot of speculation that perhaps things
Speaker 1: have turned sour with this partnership and maybe Mia isn't
Speaker 1: upholding her side of the contra deal, so we will
Speaker 1: have to watch this space. Well, it is a really
Speaker 1: strong message to unfollow someone, so more must be brewing
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. I'm just interested to see in the
Speaker 1: next few weeks if Mia ends up wearing a Shamprey
Speaker 1: Criture on to her wedding. Yeah, well, we have to
Speaker 1: wait for a couple of weeks to find out. But
Speaker 1: doesn't have a good track record of upholding her side
Speaker 1: of contrad deals, so a few years ago she was
Speaker 1: called out by a floris called bloom Squad Melbourne for
Speaker 1: allegedly demanding free flowers in exchange for sponsored posts. Now
Speaker 1: remember this. Yeah, so she held a very instagrammable thirtieth
Speaker 1: birthday party, so there were huge balloon installations, She had
Speaker 1: a life size illustration of herself on a media world
Speaker 1: I mean, as you do at your own party. Sure,
Speaker 1: she had custom biscuits, of bar, dessert tables, even a
Speaker 1: live illustrator. And the theme was Capri for a Day,
Speaker 1: which is quite interesting because she is holding her wedding
Speaker 1: in Italy and she enlisted the help of many vendors
Speaker 1: to make this extravagant party a reality. And she ended
Speaker 1: up sharing a post about the party, but she failed
Speaker 1: to properly acknowledge any of the vendors that are jumped
Speaker 1: on board as partners, and this led bloom Squad Melbourne
Speaker 1: to write under the post, were you planning on thanking
Speaker 1: the small business who worked for free at your party?
Speaker 1: A week later, after a lot of back and forth,
Speaker 1: Mia then begrudgingly posted a photo of the flowers and
Speaker 1: tagged the flores. I want to point out that it
Speaker 1: was a fairly average post as well. It was just
Speaker 1: a photo that had been snapped with an iPhone and
Speaker 1: the caption was pretty subpar. It wasn't very glowing about
Speaker 1: the florest. I mean, you'd think if this small brand
Speaker 1: had gifted you a stunning display of flowers, maybe you
Speaker 1: could do a walk through video explaining what you'd been
Speaker 1: given and actually give the small business some exposure, particularly
Speaker 1: because this was around the time of the pandemic when
Speaker 1: a lot of florists were losing work because no weddings
Speaker 1: were on. There weren't many events. I just it's interesting
Speaker 1: to me that Mia acts as if she's got so
Speaker 1: much money, but then yet everything at these events seemed
Speaker 1: to be gifted. Yeah, exactly. It's like she's I mean,
Speaker 1: she's now friends with this Melanie from Bondi Sans who
Speaker 1: legitimately is a multi millionaire, so she seems to have
Speaker 1: to try and keep up appearances. Now back to this
Speaker 1: story about her theird. The florist ended up re sharing
Speaker 1: the photo that Mia had shared and roade. Only took
Speaker 1: a week, but we managed to finally get a tag
Speaker 1: out of her, even though it was her bright idea,
Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed your free flowers. Safe to say she
Speaker 1: is not part of out squad what a burn. I
Speaker 1: think sometimes these influencers forget what a huge thing this
Speaker 1: is for some small businesses to not only donate their goods,
Speaker 1: but it's also their time. Yeah, because they're taking time
Speaker 1: away from other clients that they could be working with
Speaker 1: and then potentially building on their business and making more money. Well,
Speaker 1: the florist also alleged that a number of their vases
Speaker 1: got smashed at this party, so it's really not a
Speaker 1: good look for me. I just really wonder how many
Speaker 1: vendors are going to come out of the woodwork following
Speaker 1: this wedding, because there really does seem to be a
Speaker 1: bigger story brewing here, So I would keep an eye
Speaker 1: out on it. Where do I start?
Speaker 3: It's been a roller.
Speaker 1: Coaster fitness influencers. Sophie Whitland's secret marriage to fitness coach
Speaker 1: Nicholas White appears to be over just four months after
Speaker 1: flashing their wedding bands on social media. The pair have
Speaker 1: now unfollowed each other. Now we say they flashed their
Speaker 1: wedding bands, but they also flashed us the finger around
Speaker 1: this time as well, because we had a bit of
Speaker 1: a run in with the pair. Well, we will get
Speaker 1: into that, but I want to get listeners up to speed.
Speaker 1: With their relationship timeline, because this has all happened very quickly.
Speaker 1: So Sophie and Nicholas first appeared publicly together in December
Speaker 1: last year during a holiday to the mid North Coast. Now,
Speaker 1: Nicholas is a Gold Coast personal trainer who runs Buffalo
Speaker 1: Tribe programming. That sounds like a fake name, Buffalo Tribe.
Speaker 1: It doesn't really roll off the tongue, doesn't.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: They kept their relationship low profile until Nicholas started appearing
Speaker 1: in Sophie's YouTube videos at the start of April, and
Speaker 1: if we remember Amy, he was seen bringing her flowers
Speaker 1: after her breast explant surgery. Isn't this in the same
Speaker 1: YouTube video where Sophie just drops, oh this is my
Speaker 1: husband and the internet freaked out. Oh so it was
Speaker 1: a subsequent video, so she was showing off her body
Speaker 1: building trophies and then casually referred to him as her husband.
Speaker 1: Let's throw to what she said, do you mind I
Speaker 1: can put your name on it. You could have best
Speaker 1: husband of the Year twenty twenty four. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of breadcrumbing going on on Instagram as well, so
Speaker 1: Sophia and Nicholas both started wearing wedding bands in their
Speaker 1: Instagram stories, and at the time, Amber from Influencer Updates
Speaker 1: was reporting that acquaintances of Nicholas had reached out to
Speaker 1: her to say the couple got married overseas. There's lots
Speaker 1: of spies, aren't there. Now. We covered this story back
Speaker 1: in April, amy As You touched On, which led Sophie
Speaker 1: to block our accounts and also make a bizarre rant
Speaker 1: about our segment and the general public speculating about this marriage. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to point out that in the segment, all
Speaker 1: we did was report on the information that she and
Speaker 1: Nicholas chose to point out. So she wrote, Oh the
Speaker 1: irony of the bullshit that is social media when you
Speaker 1: have no idea what someone is going through. Yet, Peel,
Speaker 1: you have the right to say your opinion on a
Speaker 1: story that you know nothing about. She then directed this
Speaker 1: at her haters, saying, judge your way. Just make sure
Speaker 1: your glass house is clean and your husband isn't one
Speaker 1: of the ones in my dms, followed by vomit spaces. Now,
Speaker 1: this was accompanied by a hospital selfie. Now, things didn't
Speaker 1: end there, because underneath a clip of us promoting the episode,
Speaker 1: her husband Nicholas will suspected husband Nicholas wrote, must be
Speaker 1: nice having nothing better to do with your life. And
Speaker 1: we chose to respond to this because I am so
Speaker 1: sick of women's businesses being downplayed and belittled by people
Speaker 1: like this, so we wrote, it's true our podcast does
Speaker 1: take up a lot of our lives, seeing as it's
Speaker 1: one of the multiple businesses we run. Sorry, it makes
Speaker 1: me laugh because I know it. Kate wrote this, I
Speaker 1: suppose you have to put the hard work into crack
Speaker 1: ten million streams. We love what we do and think
Speaker 1: it's important to analyze influencer culture. We're not sure why
Speaker 1: you're so upset over us discussing information your partners so
Speaker 1: willingly shared what a burn. I miss Kate being involved
Speaker 1: in some of the back and forth with influences, but
Speaker 1: she will be vaccimate well. Last week, the rumor mill
Speaker 1: went into overdrive when Sophie and Nicholas both unfollowed each other.
Speaker 1: Now this wasn't only in their own names, but they
Speaker 1: also made sure to unfollow one another on their business profile,
Speaker 1: so the Buffalo Fitness page got an unfollow. Now, Nick,
Speaker 1: who's account has been private since the secret wedding rumors surfaced,
Speaker 1: has also now made his account public, and many people
Speaker 1: are wondering if this is because he wants to share
Speaker 1: his side of events with Sophie's followers and the general public.
Speaker 1: It seems very similar to when her marriage broke down
Speaker 1: only last year with doctor Andrew and his sister went
Speaker 1: rogue and started releasing all this information about Sophie that
Speaker 1: didn't paint her in a very glowing life. So it
Speaker 1: seems to have this effect on people, doesn't she And
Speaker 1: she has been appearing on her Instagram stories without her ring. Yes. Now,
Speaker 1: if this this is true and the couple are in
Speaker 1: fact married, this is sadly her fourth marriage breakdown, and
Speaker 1: it comes less than eighteen months after she ended her
Speaker 1: marriage to Gold Coast dentist doctor Andrew. Now, their marriage
Speaker 1: only lasted four months and they separated after their daughter
Speaker 1: Pixi was delivered stillborn. Now you might be wondering who
Speaker 1: else was she married to. So her first marriage took
Speaker 1: place when she was very young, so she grew up
Speaker 1: as a Jehovah's witness which might surprise some listeners. And
Speaker 1: her next marriage was to Nathan Wallace in two thousand
Speaker 1: and five, who she shared a lot about on her
Speaker 1: Instagram stories. He is the father to a couple of
Speaker 1: her children. I've never understood why so many influences seem
Speaker 1: to rush into marriage, particularly when so many of them
Speaker 1: have had such a string of failed marriage. But you
Speaker 1: would think that you might be a bit hesitant when
Speaker 1: it's fourth time round. And I mean, we don't know
Speaker 1: the ins and outs of this. She might be a
Speaker 1: real optimist, but I just don't understand the need to
Speaker 1: actually get married because it just makes things so difficult financially.
Speaker 1: The thing it just had been a complete headfuck. And
Speaker 1: this story has been picked up by the mainstream media,
Speaker 1: so The Daily Mail reached out to Sophie for a comment,
Speaker 1: but she has declined to share any details with the publication.
Speaker 1: She is currently back in hospital, though with a mystery condition.
Speaker 1: She wrote on Instagram, thank you for the beautiful messages.
Speaker 1: I've taken some time offline to recharge after a recent
Speaker 1: hospital stay. I'm back home now on the mend and
Speaker 1: looking forward to getting back into it now. This would
Speaker 1: be a very difficult time for her. We will have
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on Nick's social media account though,
Speaker 1: to see if he spills the beans on what has
Speaker 1: actually gone down. You never know, he might suddenly reach
Speaker 1: out to us and dm us. Yes, it's not the
Speaker 1: first time this has happened. It's going to try and.
Speaker 3: Be a little.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be more demure. American YouTuber Aspen over
Speaker 1: It has broken her silence for months after filing for
Speaker 1: divorce from her husband, Parkert Ferris. The divorce news shocked
Speaker 1: Aspen's followers back in April, as it coincided with the
Speaker 1: YouTuber announcing the birth of the couple's third child, now Amy.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have been waiting for Aspen to
Speaker 1: respond to the media report about her marriage breakdown because
Speaker 1: she didn't actually break this news herself. It started gaining
Speaker 1: momentum on gossip forums until US media broke this story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there has been a lot of interest in this story
Speaker 1: because Aspen has over two million followers on Instagram and
Speaker 1: also on YouTube. So for background, Aspen is an og
Speaker 1: beauty influencer who now shares family of log style content.
Speaker 1: So she's been on YouTube for over a decade and
Speaker 1: married Parker when she was nineteen. What makes this story
Speaker 1: even more intriguing is that both Aspen and Parker are
Speaker 1: practicing Mormons from Utah. A lot of people were hoping
Speaker 1: that Aspen would do a sit down, Q and A
Speaker 1: on a YouTube about the divorce, but she's opted to
Speaker 1: touch in it on TikTok. Yeah. So she used the
Speaker 1: current demure trend to address why she hasn't publicly talked
Speaker 1: about the divorce online, and she entitled the video soft
Speaker 1: launch Now if you haven't heard of the demure trend.
Speaker 1: It was made popular by TikTok at Jules Lebron after
Speaker 1: she shared a video of her describing how she gets
Speaker 1: ready for work in a demure way. Now, this time
Speaker 1: is all about being cutesy, clean and mindful, and it's
Speaker 1: about not drawing attention to yourself with an emphasis on
Speaker 1: being productive and navigating your life with quiet confidence. So
Speaker 1: it is kind of tongue in cheeks. Some people will
Speaker 1: use it as a bit of a joke. Let's have
Speaker 1: a listen to what Aspen said.
Speaker 3: You see how I don't talk about my divorce online.
Speaker 3: Very demure, very mindful. You see how I considered my
Speaker 3: children and how it would affect them to have their
Speaker 3: family's personal information shared all over the internet. Very smart,
Speaker 3: very good mom. You see how those magazines and websites
Speaker 3: wrote articles sharing personal information that I hadn't shared yet
Speaker 3: when I had just given birth to a premature.
Speaker 1: Baby who was in Nico.
Speaker 3: Very trashy, very tacky. See how I will continue to
Speaker 3: stay unbothered and not share anything to protect my peace?
Speaker 3: Very demuror, very mindful, very cutesy, very peaceful.
Speaker 1: Now This video has clocked up over twenty two point
Speaker 1: nine million views at the time of recording. A day later,
Speaker 1: she shared a video of her pretending to type vigorously
Speaker 1: on the computer, alongside the caption ME reading every single
Speaker 1: comment and DM to see if anyone has confessed to
Speaker 1: secretly having a crush on me over the years and
Speaker 1: is interested now I'm single. This also clocked up over
Speaker 1: a million views. A few hours later, she also shared
Speaker 1: a video of herself holding her daughter in her car
Speaker 1: with the caption me in twenty years when I get
Speaker 1: paid ten million dollars to do a Tello and she
Speaker 1: mined to this clip part thirty seven. Who the fuck
Speaker 1: did I Mary? So? At this point in time, I
Speaker 1: have filed for divorce, She captured the TikTok. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to share details, but I am gonna make jokes. Well,
Speaker 1: please share the details. You can't just bread crumb us
Speaker 1: like this. We need to know what has gone on,
Speaker 1: and we're not going to care in twenty years time.
Speaker 1: We want to know now. I think it's a clever
Speaker 1: way for her to address the rumors without really having
Speaker 1: to touch on them too deeply, because she's been able
Speaker 1: to confirm to the world that she is single, but
Speaker 1: she's also basically said, what the fuck was this guy?
Speaker 1: There's more to the story though, one hundred percent as
Speaker 1: more to the story. If Molly May pulls this shit,
Speaker 1: I will be so fucking unhappy. I think it's kind
Speaker 1: of classy, though, because she's been able to say, look,
Speaker 1: my husband obviously has done me wrong, but I'm too
Speaker 1: demil I'm too classy to talk about that. In reality,
Speaker 1: she I don't like this because she's a YouTuber. She
Speaker 1: has shared herself giving birth. We know all the ins
Speaker 1: and outs. We can't be there for all of the
Speaker 1: good times and then not be let in on the
Speaker 1: bad times. I think we deserve to know what's gone to.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing I worry about. Because these clips
Speaker 1: are a bit of a tease for her devoted followers,
Speaker 1: and we've spoken about before how some fans will then
Speaker 1: turn against that YouTuber that they love and they'll start
Speaker 1: it creative. Yeah, and I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: that going online right. I think this will be a
Speaker 1: real problem for her, particularly when you look at the
Speaker 1: fact that a fan came across Aspen's divorce papers. This
Speaker 1: is how it all came out. A fan posted it
Speaker 1: on Reddit and that's where the media picked up on it. Well,
Speaker 1: they're going to find out what's happened, is it these followers?
Speaker 2: One way or another, I fix this so the angle
Speaker 2: isn't so shocking and I don't look like Lord Farquha.
Speaker 1: Martha calor Fetitis and Michael Brunelli have announced they're starting
Speaker 1: a new family series with Martha's mum, Mary So. Mary
Speaker 1: appeared on Big Brother back in twenty twenty one, and
Speaker 1: she has been a constant feature on both Michael and
Speaker 1: Martha's social channels since the couple moved back into Martha's parents'
Speaker 1: home in twenty twenty three. I think that Mary is
Speaker 1: the real reason that Martha and Michael are still so relevant,
Speaker 1: because she just adds so much to their content. She
Speaker 1: is so funny and brutal. Honest, Well, I would argue
Speaker 1: that she's becoming more popular than Michael and Martha because
Speaker 1: her one liners are hilarious. She's become a TikTok sensation
Speaker 1: and followers have been calling on the family to have
Speaker 1: their own reality show, So watch out, hembros. I mean
Speaker 1: that series has never aired. Could we see a calif
Speaker 1: Titis family reality show in the world. Well, I suppose
Speaker 1: all three of them have proven that they're popular on
Speaker 1: free to air reality show, so it wouldn't be that
Speaker 1: difficult to get it potentially across the line. Well, for
Speaker 1: a moment, followers actually thought that the couple were announcing
Speaker 1: that they had a reality program because they shared this
Speaker 1: teaser reel on Instagram and it was announcing a new
Speaker 1: project called The Morning Roast. So the promo began with
Speaker 1: followers comments popping up on the screen, which we're all saying,
Speaker 1: we want to see you on a reality show, and
Speaker 1: then the real showed highlights of Martha and Michael's TikTok accounts,
Speaker 1: as well as vision of the trio taking part in
Speaker 1: a photo shoot in their pajamas and they were all
Speaker 1: seen sipping coffee. The video then finished with a series logo,
Speaker 1: which is a character of Martha, Mary and Michael. Now
Speaker 1: there was a lot of confusion around whether this was
Speaker 1: a podcast announcement or if they were starting their own
Speaker 1: YouTube series, because Michael Martha have been involved in co
Speaker 1: hosting podcasts in the past, and I actually thoroughly enjoyed,
Speaker 1: in particular Michael's show. He was a natural on there,
Speaker 1: he spoke really well. He was partnered up with Josh
Speaker 1: from Love Island, and Josh has now gone on to
Speaker 1: do the show with someone else, Love Island. Get Cassidy
Speaker 1: who used to be on Love Island. Yeah, I haven't
Speaker 1: listened to it since Michael has left, but just back
Speaker 1: to this teaser. So fans were really excited. They all
Speaker 1: started following this new Instagram account. It's got nineteen thousand
Speaker 1: followers already, and on their Instagram stories they asked fans
Speaker 1: to send them questions, saying nothing is off limits. So
Speaker 1: this made me think, oh, well, this is clearly a podcast.
Speaker 1: But on Saturday afternoon, Martha, Michael and Mary did a
Speaker 1: live on Instagram, sharing a forty five minute video and
Speaker 1: it was quite funny because normally when people start lives,
Speaker 1: they talk to the camera and they explain what they're doing,
Speaker 1: but there was none of this. It was very much
Speaker 1: like their TikTok videos they put out. It was literally
Speaker 1: like you were a fly on the wall just watching
Speaker 1: all their interactions. But Martha put fans out of their
Speaker 1: misery around fifteen minutes in when she confirmed what fans
Speaker 1: could expect from this new project. Let's have a listen.
Speaker 1: It's not a podcast.
Speaker 2: It's a vodcast, which is a video, but it will
Speaker 2: have audio as well, so YouTube you'll be able to
Speaker 2: watch on you And look, we're aiming to do it
Speaker 2: like morning, like every morning, but it's probably oh we've
Speaker 2: changed that obviously, meeting three morning, three mornings a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Speaker 2: We're going to be posting.
Speaker 1: So this is basically a podcast, but you can also
Speaker 1: watch it on YouTube. Well it's a video podcast on YouTube.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of a vodcast before. Well, everyone's saying
Speaker 1: that video podcasts are the biggest, greatest thing that's happening
Speaker 1: right now, Like every podcast is on video, which I
Speaker 1: actually hate. Like, the best thing about having a podcast
Speaker 1: is being able to wear really daggy clothes and not
Speaker 1: worrying about what you look like. I bring you up today,
Speaker 1: Amy is that I cannot film today. I just was
Speaker 1: not feeling it so you were literally sitting here in
Speaker 1: a matching gray Well, I don't even think that the
Speaker 1: grays are matching, but a matching gray tracksuit. Well, I
Speaker 1: saw Alex Cooper from Caller Daddy and all she wears
Speaker 1: is matching tracksuits. Don't not as nice as hers. I
Speaker 1: don't know. You've got Caller Daddy vibes going on at
Speaker 1: the moment, but lazy Bumvie lazy vibes. Well, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of work for them though, three
Speaker 1: video podcasts a week. I love that. Martha just dropped, Oh,
Speaker 1: aren't we doing it every day? Do you think that
Speaker 1: there's a team backing this or is this being independently
Speaker 1: run by then? Well, I'm not sure. They haven't confirmed
Speaker 1: if a team is involved. They did keep referencing meetings
Speaker 1: that they'd been involved in, which imply maybe there is
Speaker 1: someone else involved. But Michael was setting everything up, so
Speaker 1: he was setting up lights. The light nearly fell on
Speaker 1: Matha twice, which she wasn't happy about. And he was
Speaker 1: also handing out microphones during this live, so I wonder
Speaker 1: if he will actually be filming a lot of this content.
Speaker 1: Sounds like it's going to be chaotic, but I will
Speaker 1: be tuning in because I think that they have a
Speaker 1: great dynamic in chemistry together. Yeah, I really like them.
Speaker 1: And just lastly, a little bit of goss. Some followers
Speaker 1: thought that during this live Martha had accidentally let slip
Speaker 1: that she and Michael had secretly married so many secret marriages.
Speaker 1: In this episode, Amy well, because she said in the video,
Speaker 1: I'm regretting that I married you. However, Michael quickly responded, well,
Speaker 1: we've been engaged for seven years because I'm still trying
Speaker 1: to work out whether I want to go through with it. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's all we've got time for today. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for listening to another episode of Outspoken,
Speaker 1: and thank you so much to some of the kind
Speaker 1: people who ended up leaving some really positive reviews. Thank
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Speaker 1: episode was recorded on the traditional land of the Ghana
Speaker 1: people of the Adelaide Plains. We pay respect to elders
Speaker 1: past and present,