Speaker 1: Welcome back to TV Reload. This is my seventh bonus
Speaker 1: episode featuring a quick chat with I'm a celebrity's latest dejectee,
Speaker 1: ex goggle Box and reality star Adam Denston. We first
Speaker 1: met this young man as he was a part of
Speaker 1: the original goggle Box cast, quickly becoming a household favorite.
Speaker 1: It was his quick wit and friendship with his best
Speaker 1: mate Simon that has made him one of the most
Speaker 1: relatable television stars in the last six years. You can't
Speaker 1: help but listen to him when he talks, and you
Speaker 1: always want to know what he will say next. The
Speaker 1: boys certainly have a love of sport and hopefully we
Speaker 1: will see him and Simon look at bringing those talents
Speaker 1: to a footy show on Foxtel. Personally, I highly doubt
Speaker 1: we've seen the last of him, but for right now,
Speaker 1: I'd like to welcome to the show Adam Denston.
Speaker 2: Mate. I could never say that I was sad to
Speaker 2: see Simon go first, because that meant that I was
Speaker 2: still in this Now they are famous for being watched
Speaker 2: watching TV Mate, I would have happily stayed in there
Speaker 2: for about another two or three months. How weird a
Speaker 2: fingernails though, or nails in general, a lot of laughter
Speaker 2: that goes along in the group message. It's like another
Speaker 2: celebrities alright, it's a funny little family that we found
Speaker 2: ourselves apart.
Speaker 3: Her key Colle.
Speaker 2: Hopefully the last image of us is not being punted
Speaker 2: into a pond.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, Adam, you are no longer in the jungle and
Speaker 1: no longer sleeping with snakes and spiders.
Speaker 3: How was the experience for you?
Speaker 2: I loved every second of it made I would have
Speaker 2: happily stayed in there for about another two or three months,
Speaker 2: I reckon as long as it involved like a visit
Speaker 2: from my partner rage. If she could have come in
Speaker 2: for a day and then gone, that's okay. I would
Speaker 2: have happily stayed there for another few months. I loved it.
Speaker 2: It was Yeah, it was brilliant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sleeping in a bed with Rachel does sound a
Speaker 1: little bit more and more normal than sleeping with snakes
Speaker 1: and spiders.
Speaker 2: Hey. Definitely the video that they showed during the show
Speaker 2: of the nighttime critters that were running around and then
Speaker 2: seeing the rat that went into the one pot that
Speaker 2: we cooked from. I had no idea that that happened.
Speaker 2: So I'm now thinking about washing my pots before I
Speaker 2: use them, as well as after.
Speaker 3: It's a good idea.
Speaker 1: You know, were you sad to see Simon go first?
Speaker 1: And did he deserve it?
Speaker 2: Mate? I could never say that I was sad to
Speaker 2: see Simon go first, because that meant that I was
Speaker 2: still in there. So we had a chat about it
Speaker 2: last night, and he knows it's almost better that I
Speaker 2: never bring it up to him that I lasted longer
Speaker 2: than him, because he just knows that it's sort of
Speaker 2: simmering there under the surface, and that's always a bit
Speaker 2: of a golden bult that if I ever need it,
Speaker 2: that that's just a very that's almost too easy for me.
Speaker 1: That's your go to from now on. You know, if
Speaker 1: you lose a bet, oh well that's okay. I beat
Speaker 1: you in the jungle.
Speaker 2: Exactly right now. I just need to make sure that
Speaker 2: we never go on a reality show together that gives
Speaker 2: him a chance to even the ledger.
Speaker 1: A lot has been said in the media regarding your
Speaker 1: first day in camp. I guess you guys kind of
Speaker 1: talked about it on the show about the reaction that
Speaker 1: you've got from the other celebrities, But was it as
Speaker 1: big a deal as what has now been made of it.
Speaker 2: I think storm in a tea cup. It's probably a
Speaker 2: hurricane and the tea up more than anything. We watching
Speaker 2: it back, especially and seeing the everything in context that
Speaker 2: we're coming in. It was thirty five degrees eighty percent humidity.
Speaker 2: We're covered in fish guts and off all. They just
Speaker 2: lost jack, they're tired, they're hungry. You pull those together,
Speaker 2: and I probably wouldn't want to hug me if I
Speaker 2: walked in like that either. Even as an example, when
Speaker 2: we're walking to camp, you get sort of escorted there
Speaker 2: by security to make sure you're going the right way,
Speaker 2: and the security guards had to walk up wind from
Speaker 2: us because they couldn't walk behind us. We stunk that bad. Oh.
Speaker 1: I don't know who seemed miffed the most. It did
Speaker 1: certainly seem like it was a tie between Tony Parrin
Speaker 1: and Pauline.
Speaker 2: Maybe Paulini might have been just a little bit annoyed
Speaker 2: because we interrupted her afternoon nap more than anything else.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Tony and Simon became quite close towards the end,
Speaker 2: so that flipped around pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, absolutely. And you guys, do you have
Speaker 1: like a WhatsApp group now? That you can kind of debrief.
Speaker 1: Like I'm imagining all the celebs are now able to
Speaker 1: sort of text and dispel different rumors all in a
Speaker 1: group chat.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of laughter that goes along in
Speaker 2: the group message. Everyone just sort of points something out
Speaker 2: and laughs at everyone for whatever they have done. But
Speaker 2: it's one of the most supportive places made. It's more
Speaker 2: supportive than most people's actual close friendship group all their family,
Speaker 2: Like everybody really genuinely got close and loves each other.
Speaker 2: So it's quite a it's a funny little family that
Speaker 2: we found ourselves a part of, even though we turned
Speaker 2: up a little bit late. We're just like the cousins
Speaker 2: that turned up late to the family reunion. Oh are
Speaker 2: you guys not?
Speaker 1: Jesus, what's one of the rumors that you've all discussed
Speaker 1: that's just completely false. There's got to be something where
Speaker 1: you guys are like, where did that come from?
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe it's the frosty reception that like the
Speaker 2: in heavy quotation marks frosty reception that we were given
Speaker 2: that everybody just couldn't believe the big deal that was
Speaker 2: made out of it because it really wasn't much at all,
Speaker 2: Like everybody really very much. I feel like to think
Speaker 2: that everybody liked us in the end, but I think
Speaker 2: that's probably the biggest one, is that there's just a
Speaker 2: lot of laughter and sort of shock, and people just
Speaker 2: don't believe how much clickbait and stuff goes around out there.
Speaker 3: That's a popular show. People are like clicking on all
Speaker 3: the articles.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was news headlines every day, which hasn't
Speaker 1: always happened from a celebrity, So, you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's just the general public interest. Now you've goggle box
Speaker 1: this show before, how scared were you that you'd said
Speaker 1: something horrific about doctor Chris Brown or Julia Morris.
Speaker 2: Well, most of the time we say that Chris Brown
Speaker 2: is just too good looking for TV. So the concern
Speaker 2: for us for him was that he would be a
Speaker 2: little bit suspect of us because we complimented him too much.
Speaker 2: And also because Chris Brown is massive. Chris Brown is
Speaker 2: like one hundred and ninety six centimeters. He's like six
Speaker 2: foot five. He's got a massive head, but he's got
Speaker 2: a massive body to match the massive head. So he's
Speaker 2: genuinely cut from stone human being. So if Chris Brown
Speaker 2: wanted to squash me. I'm sure he could do it
Speaker 2: very very quickly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, avoid doing that.
Speaker 2: But they actually, and I say this incredibly sincerely, they
Speaker 2: are even funnier in real life. They are so lovely,
Speaker 2: so supportive, and they also genuinely enjoy each other's time,
Speaker 2: which you can really tell when the cameras aren't rolling
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, you know. Abby even said that she joked
Speaker 1: about searching on Google Adam and Simon Bachelor twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: to see if you guys had said anything bad about her,
Speaker 1: which was hilarious.
Speaker 3: Did you get caught out on anything there?
Speaker 2: Well? I did. Actually after we left, I went back
Speaker 2: and had a look to see if we had said
Speaker 2: anything about Abby, And the bit that we saw was
Speaker 2: when she got left on the rock and Simon and
Speaker 2: I just started yelling and screaming, being like, that's good TV.
Speaker 2: That's good TV. So we're pretty safe in that front.
Speaker 2: Colin had confronted us in the past already, because we
Speaker 2: ran into Colin when we crashed the logis about five
Speaker 2: years ago or so, and he said, I've heard about
Speaker 2: what you said about me on TV, and if you
Speaker 2: say anything more bad, I'll burn your house down. And
Speaker 2: then had a good laugh about that, so we became
Speaker 2: quite close with Colin, so he's he's an absolute ripping blow.
Speaker 2: But I think we're safe. The concerning thing was that
Speaker 2: we'd had five years and ten seasons worth of saying
Speaker 2: things about people on TV. But we don't remember what
Speaker 2: we've said over five years and ten seasons, but they
Speaker 2: might only remember one line. But I think we're pretty safe.
Speaker 2: I think we were Okay.
Speaker 1: How many times have you boys been approached to do
Speaker 1: this show? I mean, you guys have been on the
Speaker 1: rumor mill, like every year the magazines come out and
Speaker 1: speculate who's going in. It's your two names there every time.
Speaker 1: You know, had they been approaching you every year?
Speaker 2: Maybe we're the ones leaking it to the media to
Speaker 2: just keep our names in the fold. But we actually
Speaker 2: approached them, so we were We sort of asked. We
Speaker 2: had a chat to a few people at ten and said, oh,
Speaker 2: we saw some things that are coming up next year
Speaker 2: and wanted to do some things. And they said, how
Speaker 2: would you like to go to the jungle and we
Speaker 2: said one hundred percent yes. I think so. Simon as
Speaker 2: a little inside knowledge, Simon is the worst reply to
Speaker 2: any message in the world so much so that we
Speaker 2: have two streams. So we have an I Message stream
Speaker 2: for friend chat, and then we have a WhatsApp stream
Speaker 2: for work chat. And if he gets a WhatsApp he
Speaker 2: knows he needs to reply to it. And he replied
Speaker 2: to the WhatsApp saying do you want to go to
Speaker 2: the jungle within forty seconds? Normally it would take him
Speaker 2: a few hours. And he was like, yes, We're We're in.
Speaker 2: We're in. So we didn't even think twice about it. Mate,
Speaker 2: I would do it again if they want to have
Speaker 2: us again next year, mate, put me in.
Speaker 1: Adam said that you guys lied to a lot of
Speaker 1: people about your jungle experience. Did anyone get close to
Speaker 1: cracking the mystery when you guys went missing for a
Speaker 1: month in November.
Speaker 2: I think a few people got close. They were very suspect.
Speaker 2: I mean a lot of our friends, to be honest,
Speaker 2: A lot of our close friends don't watch TV at all,
Speaker 2: so they have probably never seen an episode of the
Speaker 2: show as it was, and they only have watched I've
Speaker 2: actually had some of my closest friends, so one of
Speaker 2: the groomsmen in my bridal party to be watched the
Speaker 2: first episode of us going in and then he said
Speaker 2: that was too much for me. I'm not watching it again,
Speaker 2: and so made a lot of our friends aren't interested
Speaker 2: enough in the show to even care where we've gone
Speaker 2: away for four weats.
Speaker 1: Have the producers of goggle Box called you up and
Speaker 1: said that they miss you guys, Like, is there an
Speaker 1: open door for you guys to return to goggle Box
Speaker 1: considering that you do have such a large popularity.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. You'd probably have to ask them. We're
Speaker 2: still friends with a couple of the producers and they're
Speaker 2: really really lovely people. They're as much friends as they
Speaker 2: are colleagues. And the show is I mean, the show
Speaker 2: is probably getting bigger and better without us, Mate, we
Speaker 2: are it's probably too big for us now. They probably
Speaker 2: don't need us anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the door would be still open if you
Speaker 1: could make a suggestion, maybe for you know, a suggestion
Speaker 1: to some of the producers about who you'd like to
Speaker 1: see next in the Jungle from goggle Box.
Speaker 3: Who would that be?
Speaker 2: I mean it has to be I mean it has
Speaker 2: to be Lean Keith, doesn't it Lean Keith in the
Speaker 2: Jungle would be brilliant, mate, any one of them I mean, obviously,
Speaker 2: Jad from Maddie, Sarah and Chad is a guy who
Speaker 2: needs a thousand wet wipes on a regular day. And
Speaker 2: to put you around with snakes and spiders, bugs would
Speaker 2: almost be too much for the laser cut facial hair
Speaker 2: of him. I don't know how we go without a
Speaker 2: haircut for more than a week.
Speaker 3: He wouldn't be looking good.
Speaker 1: You know. There was some pretty interesting conflicts in the show.
Speaker 1: We had Rice Gate, we had Tower Gate. They all
Speaker 1: involved Dipper. Was he the most difficult cast member in there?
Speaker 1: Or was it just that he found himself in these
Speaker 1: troubles accidentally?
Speaker 2: Mate, Dip is the big alpha of the group. Dip
Speaker 2: was the big silver back that walks around. So whenever
Speaker 2: there's anything happening, Dippers involved. Mate, If you had to
Speaker 2: tell me the nineteen eighty nine Premiership Grand Final playing
Speaker 2: a Dippy a Dominico, what I mean doing the wop
Speaker 2: dance in here, no chance at all, but there he
Speaker 2: was bang bang bang. Look his bed as well. I
Speaker 2: don't know whether the TV does justice to what the
Speaker 2: campsite was like, but it's like an amphitheater, like a
Speaker 2: big coliseum, and Dipper's bed was in the middle runk,
Speaker 2: So there was Jess was up in the penthouse up high,
Speaker 2: and then there was the corners where everybody else was.
Speaker 2: But Dipper was smacked bang in the middle. So if
Speaker 2: anything was happening, Dipper was always involved. And hence why
Speaker 2: he became the judge, the very corrupt judge of Towergate,
Speaker 2: because he was right there in his robe at.
Speaker 1: The time, and he's always starting the fires but putting
Speaker 1: them out exactly.
Speaker 2: Right mate, as maybe arsonists might be a little bit
Speaker 2: too far to go for him. But if Dipper was
Speaker 2: setting the spark light and then he was the one
Speaker 2: that was following up with the hose and taking credit
Speaker 2: for putting.
Speaker 3: It out as well, it made great television.
Speaker 1: I thought it was so funny to watch, you know,
Speaker 1: with COVID making this series quite different. I've asked this
Speaker 1: question to everybody. Had the format involved a nominations process
Speaker 1: instead of this quite fair way of eliminating the contestants,
Speaker 1: if you had to give one point to save and
Speaker 1: one point to evict out of all of your celebrity
Speaker 1: camp mates, who would those points go to?
Speaker 2: At one point to say, it goes to Colin because
Speaker 2: you need to eat one hundred percent you need to eat.
Speaker 2: If anyone wants to butcher a duck, the only person
Speaker 2: I would back in there to butcher a duck would
Speaker 2: be Colin. It wouldn't be certainly wouldn't be Ash. Ash
Speaker 2: was learning how to boil rice in the camp, so
Speaker 2: he was starting from a pretty low base. And then
Speaker 2: my one point to a victim mate, it goes to
Speaker 2: Simon because I need to stay in there longer than him.
Speaker 2: It's all about self survival.
Speaker 1: Now, you know, the public is going to vote and
Speaker 1: it is their choice to see who wins. We have
Speaker 1: seven people still left in the show. Finale is tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: Who is your Who's your pick? Who are you taking
Speaker 1: to sports Bet?
Speaker 2: Well? I think if mate, if I'm putting my house
Speaker 2: on anyone, it's Grant Enya because he has already won
Speaker 2: a national popularity contest and he's opened himself up. He's
Speaker 2: told a lot of vulnerable stories and Grant Danya is
Speaker 2: the ultimate professional he is, He's the performer. He knows
Speaker 2: exactly what's going on. So I'll be shocked if Grant
Speaker 2: doesn't win. I reckon Jess will come second. But I
Speaker 2: still would love to see my mate Colin take it out.
Speaker 2: It'd be nice. Back to back chefs is always good.
Speaker 2: But Colin and I became quite close because our beds
Speaker 2: were so close to each other, that right next to
Speaker 2: each other, and we spent a lot of time lying
Speaker 2: on there and just talking about life and talking about
Speaker 2: our histories and things like that. And then one of
Speaker 2: mine during memories is just us giving and our use
Speaker 2: quotation that marks again, but the encouragement to people during
Speaker 2: the dymnasium exercise class of us just lying there and
Speaker 2: saying we're all in this together. Teamwork makes the dream
Speaker 2: work and encouraging everyone.
Speaker 1: Well, you're a fantastic person to watch you as such
Speaker 1: a great contributor to the show. Hopefully Foxtail will pick
Speaker 1: up that footy show because there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: out there. Very sad it didn't happen that COVID swallowed it,
Speaker 1: but hopefully we'll get.
Speaker 3: To see that on ice screens in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: Thanks mate. Yeah, hopefully there's plenty more stuff in the
Speaker 2: future for us. We're certainly keen to hustle down and
Speaker 2: work and appear again on some screens and some radios
Speaker 2: and wherever else in our podcast and whatever else. We do.
Speaker 2: Hopefully there's a little bit more to come and it's
Speaker 2: certainly not the last year. Hopefully the last image of
Speaker 2: us is not being punted into a pond. Hopefully we
Speaker 2: can come back and.
Speaker 1: Do something out there. Definitely wanting it. I want the socks.
Speaker 1: Can you still buy your socks?
Speaker 2: Mate? I do you want someone? I've got a I
Speaker 2: literally would have a hundred years If you want someone else, mate,
Speaker 2: I've got a couple of bears. Send me through your address.
Speaker 1: And I'm amazing, amazing, I love, I love asking for
Speaker 1: free shit.
Speaker 2: Mate, free freeze just the right.
Speaker 1: Price if you ask, absolutely all right, Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for your time, mate
Speaker 2: Thanks mate, see you later.