WEBVTT - RICKI LEE COULTER - AUSTRALIAN IDOL - CHANNEL SEVEN 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:01.680 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:04.920 TV Reload, the podcast last week that life. Hey guys, 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.200 welcome back to TV Reload. I want to thank you 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.400 for clicking and downloading on today's episode with Ricky Lee Coolter, 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:14.680 one of the most successful alumnis from Australian Idol and 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.680 she is back this year hosting the reboot on Channel seven. 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:21.640 I have spent so much time with Ricky Lee over 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:23.880 the years. I don't even think she remembers how many 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:25.840 times I've been in the room with her. I couldn't 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:29.000 say that we are close friends, but I could say 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:31.760 that in fact, I'm a part of the fandom of 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:34.479 the Ricky Lee Coulter fan club because I think she 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.519 is talented, I think she's determined, and I am so 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.760 impressed with how she has been able to shape her career. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.360 Australian Idol is back this week and the voices I'm 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.920 going to tell you from previewing a couple of episodes 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.920 are bigger and better than ever. The age restrictions have 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.000 changed and that's actually really exciting to see how the 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.360 show has evolved over time. Ricky Lee will unpack that 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.800 song from Sex and the City that put her on 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.360 the map international. We will chat about her relationship with 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:06.000 the judges and why Kyle Sandalans and former judge Ian 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.960 Dixon have her respect. I find out about her thoughts 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.600 on some of the artists this year and why she 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.600 relates to the pressure that they are under. You will 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.480 get everything from some amazing insights into how her career 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.280 has had some tough choices, what it takes to be 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:26.039 a TV presenter, and how over two decades she has 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.640 stayed grounded. There is so much to talk about, with 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.040 so many inside revelations, So guys sit back and relax 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.559 as we unpack the wonderful world of Australian Idol, which 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.400 launches this week on Channel seven and seven plus. 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.959 Hello, Hi, how are you? 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.280 I'm very excited? Do you know what I just did? 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.120 I just while I was waiting watched at one of 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.800 your concerts. I was in the front row and you 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.480 came down, grabbed gave me the microphone and I sung 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.960 a line of Michael Jackson and I've got it on video. 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.520 So I just rewatched it. I love it. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:01:59.440 Where was that? 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.240 Oh? It's a Crown casino. Years ago for one of 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.640 the might have been like the Royal Children's Hospital. I'm 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.280 not sure it was a charity. Yeah, but you know, 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.760 my partner was like, you're always staring at the singer 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.680 like you want to do it, and he goes, I 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.040 reckon that recently just saw you and was like, that 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.280 guy's desperate. I'm gonna have to give him the microphone. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.200 Oh. I mean, I love handing the microphone out and 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.600 getting people to sing. It's one of my favorite things 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:22.919 to do. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.320 Well, this is super exciting to chat with you today. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.320 And when I was writing out what I was going 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.480 to ask you, I wrote a book so if you 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.080 ever need something to help you with an unauthorized biography. 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:36.720 I was doing. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.160 I was doing like like sometimes people will like email 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:41.600 question like you know Q and A. 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.040 And I have to restrain. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.959 Myself because I start it's like I'm telling my last 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:47.800 story and it's like I'm writing a book when I 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:48.840 do these things, and I'm. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.840 Like, Ricky, I have to tell myself, no one. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.800 Cares they do about like your deep the darkest like 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.680 feelings and thoughts and emotions, just like give a funny 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.040 little quick answer and get the hell out of it. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:00.800 I'm not weirder because I I think of questions that 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.600 I would ask you all the time, and when I 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:04.880 thought about it, I've put this question right in at 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:06.760 the start because I've always wanted to talk to you 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.400 about it. But one of my favorite songs is you 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.680 Can't Touch It, and I wanted to know forever how 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.079 the hell did that end up on the Sex and 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.919 the City trailer and soundtrack. That must have been such 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.560 an unusual thing to have happened. You must have been elated. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.920 I mean I was dying when I the way that 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.320 it all happened because I wrote the song. 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.760 Yeah, we wrote the song in two thousand and seven. 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.600 So when you're a songwriter, if somebody wants to use 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.400 your song in a movie or in a TV commercial 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.200 or something like that, they have to seek permission. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.640 From the songwriter. Yeah, so we got a request through. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.720 And this is like, you know, three or four years 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.480 after the song came out, we got a request through 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:50.240 from from Warner Brothers, asking can we think this song 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.040 in a movie? They didn't say what the movie was, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.720 and then they specify all of the different usages. 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:57.840 That it'll be to be like in. 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.960 The film in the trailer, on the set track, and 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.200 they tell you the parts of the song, the duration 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:04.960 of the song that will be used, and blah blah blah, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.640 and then they give you to see and you basically 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:07.200 just have to. 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:08.560 Agree or not agree to it. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.720 And I honestly feel like, because things like this happened, 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.800 there's another thing that happened and it's kind of similar. 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.640 I feel like it was like an Australian gay that 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.479 that were with working at Warner Brothers US or something, 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.760 and I was like, I can love this song, and 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:32.039 they put forward my song somehow. I just can't imagine 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.120 how my song came across the desk of someone one 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.240 of the big wigs at Warner Brothers in the US, Like, 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.040 I just don't other than it being an Australian gay 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:41.479 that's like, hey, babe, do you want to hear this 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.760 amazing song I heard? And I truly think that that's 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.880 how it happened. So shit, So then I so I 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:52.599 approved the I approved the sink and literally it was 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.919 days I think it was like three or four days later. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:57.760 I came home in the afternoon. 0:04:57.920 --> 0:04:59.960 Remember what did you ever watch a news is like 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.240 Juliana around sick and Ryan Secret of course, so I 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.719 sit on accounts and I've popped on the E News 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.640 and I'm watching Juliana and Ryan and they throw to this, 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.640 like this big thing we've got the new the brand 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.160 new trailer, the first look at the new Sex and 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.080 the City movie, and they throw to it and it 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:20.000 starts out with like empire state of mind, New York 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.520 concrete jungle where dreams are made of and you're seeing 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.760 all of the girls and you're seeing that they're here, 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.600 there and everywhere, and then all of a sudden, it 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.920 just go it drops, and it goes dud dude, dude, 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.200 and the drums for Can't Touch It start. I almost 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:39.560 ship myself. I jumped up, I was screaming, I was 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.360 running around the house. It was just the most I 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.240 wrote that song. I wrote Can't Touch It in New 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.080 York the first time I ever went there, about going 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.800 out with my girlfriend who was with me, and like 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.080 guys trying to hit on us, and then it ends 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.599 up in the movie that is the quintessential show about 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:59.240 New York and the girls and. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:00.599 Going out and finding love. 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.480 It was just meant it couldn't be more perfect. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.960 I remember dancing to it in like a gay nightclub 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:11.320 and it was like wild, like everyone was dancing to it, 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.400 and I remember feeling so proud of you. I had 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.599 the goosies then and I've got the goosies now just 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.039 even talking to you about that story. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.400 Oh, it's such a crazy it's such a crazy story. 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.560 And I still can't believe that it happened. And it's 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.040 like like the song because I we'd released it in 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.240 Australia and it was it got to like number two 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.480 on the charts. It was this huge song here in Australia, 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.400 and it also got released in the UK and was 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.640 like number two on the charts over there as well. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:38.240 We were number one on the dance chart. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.839 And it was just like, so it had had its life, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.200 I thought, and I thought, you know, that was that 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.440 was it. But then it got released internationally, you know, 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:48.119 by a Sex in the City. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:49.080 Basically it was. 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.159 It was in the trailer shown all around the world. 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:53.520 It was released worldwide. 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.240 It was just like and now like I'll be in 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.479 I'll be in another country and it will come on 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.640 and it just guilty this day for me out because 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.880 you know, as an Australian artist, you're like you like 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.520 you're kind of combined to Australia and it's different to 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.320 being in the UK because I know the song got 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.440 released there, but like, I don't know, it's really surreal 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.480 and it's just it's really cool and that song has 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.640 had such an incredible life and I'm you know, I'm 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:18.360 just I'm. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:19.080 Really proud of it too. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.240 Like it's like I've got a little, yeah, a little 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.120 kid out there that's kicking goals and achieving things and 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:26.920 he's like the captain the Fall Team. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:27.120 Kind of thing. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.080 Like it's really it's really cool. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.560 Yeah. I mean, we're here to talk about Idle. And 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.280 the weirdest thing about all of this is that you 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.600 have turned out to be one of the most successful 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.640 alumnis from this program and you have one of the 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.640 most iconic Australian TV moments when you were eliminated I 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.520 think you were it was like eighth or something in 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.000 that competition when you should have won. I wanted to 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.400 know from you personally, do you reckon that if you'd 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.720 made it all the way and won that series, you'd 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:56.920 be where you are today. I would say, from an 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.800 outsider's point of view looking in, I think you've worked 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.040 harder and that moment made you in a way. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:04.840 I absolutely agree. 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.680 I don't think if I had one, like, I think 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.760 it could have gone two ways. Sure, if I won 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.600 and you know, got signed to the record label that 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.840 you get signed to and had the you know, kind 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.640 of a path lay it out for you, maybe maybe 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.640 I would have. Maybe things would have been bigger and 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:21.800 better and more successful. 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:22.680 Maybe I would have had. 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:23.239 More hit songs. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.680 Maybe things would have been different, but they also maybe 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.680 maybe they wouldn't have. And I feel like my success 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.520 I feel like I can really own because I signed 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.760 to an independent label. Like I said no to the 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.840 big Sony record deal when I first came off the 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.959 show because they offered me a single. 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.240 Deal rather than an album, and I. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.199 Didn't feel like that was committing I just thought, oh, 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.280 do you really Is this just that I'm just going 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.240 to throw this at the wall and see if it sticks, 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.640 and if it does, will then sign you. But that 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.440 to me doesn't feel like you truly believe in me. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.200 I also was kind of got the sense that the 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.880 other record labels that I was talking to that were 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.480 majors kind of wanted to put me in a box 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:06.920 and tell me who I was going to. 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.719 Be whereas I was. And I'm proud that as an 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:10.480 eighteen year old. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:14.360 I made the decision and said no to that because 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.280 I think the most important decision of my entire career, 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:18.760 and that was something that I had to you know, 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.720 I had to make that choice at eighteen or nineteen, 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.920 and I think it's incredibly intuitive that I knew that 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.760 I need to carve out my own path, and so 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.880 I ended up signing with an independent record label, which 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.640 to start with, makes everything harder because they don't have, 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.520 you know, the million dollar budgets that every other, you know, 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.960 major record label has. But it just means you have 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.040 to be more resourceful, and you have to be more clever, 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.200 and you have to work smarter, and you have to 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.320 work harder. It's why I feel like I can really 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.520 own my successes because I had to work really hard 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.480 for all of those and they weren't served to me 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.920 on a silver plutter. We had to work for every 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:00.360 chart position that we got, every radio play. I think 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.440 there was a lot of goodwill out there for me 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.640 after I was eliminated from the show. People just wanted 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.840 to back me, and you know, I feel like people 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.760 feeling guilty that I got voted out definitely worked in 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:12.760 my favor for a. 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:17.600 While I heard producers refer to that when a person 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.600 gets eliminated from reality show. I've been on the set 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.480 of some of these shows when it's happened, and I'll 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:22.880 be like, oh my god, I can't believe that person 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.280 went home, and they're like, don't worry about it. It's 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.600 the rickyarly cool to a moment of the season, like 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:32.480 and you know, like to be known as a phrase 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.800 like that is also kind of cool, do you know 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.240 what I mean? Like, I think, yeah, that's a most 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.440 everyone can refer to and immediately know what you're talking about. 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.880 Yeah, it's pretty wild, it really is. 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.400 I love that things don't happen in a straight line, 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.560 and I love looking back at the stuff when I 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.040 was probably not where I thought I would be. And 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.080 I remember I went to the opening of The Lion 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.839 King and you sat next to me with some guy 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:56.440 from Neighbors at the time. I know you were very 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.760 good friends with him. Oh my god, dad, yes, escapes me. 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.720 Two of you brought with you some either it was 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.240 tiny teddies or shapes that you brought along to eat 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.560 while you watched the line there bringing the line inking, 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.000 and I remember thinking, HOLLI fuck I'm sitting next to Ricula, 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.240 called her, I'm obsessed with her. And then when I 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:14.960 watched you eat those packet of chips, I was like, 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.360 these are the moments that I just think, you know, 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.920 look where you have come and you kind of never forget. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.880 I think for you, you've never really forgotten who you are. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.200 So go ricularly cool to and eat your tiny teddies 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.600 or your shapes or whatever they wear at the Lion King. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.960 Oh my god, I still put I still put, like, 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:35.200 you know, champagne in my drink bottle. And then when 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.439 I'm going somewhere on it on a long triper, I 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.240 put like snacks in my bag, like those things. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:41.840 I feel like I just I. 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.680 Saw people that I knew well, and I saw so 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:50.960 many people in the industry changed when they quote unquote. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.400 Made it, and I just thought it was so such an. 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:57.800 Ugly trait, like you are who you are. There's nowhere 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.840 that says that when you become successful you need to 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:02.200 be a dick to everyone. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.400 Yeah, Like I just. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.160 Think it that they do, and people do forget where 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.400 they come from, and they think that their God's gift 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.360 to music, it's entertainment and they're the greatest thing that 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.280 ever happened, and I just think that kind of self important. 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.960 I don't know, maybe just the way that I grew 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:19.880 up just doesn't allow for that. 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:21.040 You know, I. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:24.200 Watched my parents, you know, we had nothing when I 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.000 was growing up, Like I was scrounging around and putting 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.640 five different pieces together so I could buy hopefully a 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.040 pie at school when I got there, or like it 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.600 just to I watched my parents work their asses off 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.840 and try things and create a business and make something 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.800 that was successful. And that kind of work ethic has 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.120 always stuck with me. Like I'm driven and ambitious and 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.559 hard working. I always want to be the hardest working 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.960 person in the room. And I just don't think that 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.520 kind of a work ethic and drive allows you to 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.200 become a douchebag, because you can always be better, you 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.240 can always have done better, you can always work harder, 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:02.520 There's always. 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:02.679 More to do. 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.800 And I think when people feel like they've kind of 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.880 reached the peak, it just doesn't sit well with me, 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.120 and it's just never been Maybe it's just yeah, I 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:11.080 wasn't raised that way. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.360 Congratulations though, on the success of the Riculae. Tim and 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.320 Joel show what a joy to partner that up though 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.640 with Australian Idol, and I think that keeps you busy 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.079 enough to avoid all of those celebrity daggy reality shows 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.680 that you'd be asked to do every year, because you're like, no, mate, 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:28.880 I'm busy. I'm a recording artist, to have a number 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.680 one radio show, and I'm also on one of the 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.760 most iconic Australian TV shows of all time. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.240 I certainly have had, you know, all the all of 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.720 them approach, and there's too many other things happening and 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.440 it's just not really, it's not really my jam. I 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.240 like sitting at home in my track is watching those shows. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.560 I don't want to be on one of them, you 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:49.199 know what I mean? 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.440 Though, You'll be so busy till you're like fifty and 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.240 you'll be like one of those you know where there's 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.160 Nicky Buckley, she's on I'm a celebrity at the moment, 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:58.760 but she's like, that's when you'll be on. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:13:59.959 Oh my god, she's amazing. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:01.240 Think she's so beautiful. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.120 No, I'm going to be like retired and living in 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.200 like Homa or something like I'm working really hard, Like 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.120 I will just disappear off the face of the earth 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:08.800 and people will. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.520 Be like, what happened to that girl? That was like 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:11.640 always in our face? 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.880 I will be gone and you'll never hear from ging 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:15.720 ever again. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.520 This is your third season though of hosting the show, 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.040 And do you know what I've been to watch you 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.880 live recording the live episodes. 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:23.160 For oh really? 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.320 Yeah? Yeah, I've been there and watched you and Scott 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.720 Tweety in full action. What I find amazing about you 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.200 is how you've brought so much of who you are 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.600 as a personality to your presenting. Because I was thinking 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.720 you could almost impersonate Osha or James and or you 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.240 could almost watch other presenters and steal things from them. 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:47.880 But I always see you in your teleprompting, in your 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.120 live moments, which are very stressful. I've done those before. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.080 You still are yourself. I don't know how do you 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.960 do you meditate backstage to do that? Like, how do 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.800 you consciously still try and be yourself without sort of 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:01.840 impersonating being a presenter. 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:06.080 I don't think I can't pretend I'm really like, I 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:11.040 feel like I just always am authentic and genuine and 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.680 what I'm thinking feeling you can I like, if I 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.080 if I think something you can see it on my face. 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.200 There's not like I can't hide it. I'm not an actress. 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.240 I cannot hide it. I can't pretend. 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:23.280 So I'm kind of. 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:25.360 One of those. With your radio show as well, I 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:29.960 can I can see what you're thinking audibly. That's so random. 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.840 I've heard Joel and talk to you on that show 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.440 and ask you a question, and your pauses and your 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.200 delivery always allows the audience to know what the clogs 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:41.240 are doing inside kul. 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.080 But like, that's that's who I am, right, And I 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.360 think anything I do, I always bring that to who 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.560 I am, to bring that to what I'm doing. And 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:53.040 like when I was asked to host the Third Thing, 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:57.200 I was asked to host AGT. Yeah, and my host, 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:58.440 I mean, I've. 0:15:58.320 --> 0:15:59.680 Never I can't. I'm not a host. I don't know 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.280 how to I can't host. I can judge. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.640 I've got opinions, so I could be a judge. And 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.800 they were like no, the people that asked me to 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.080 host AGT were people that worked on Australian Idol back 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.640 when I was on it. So the executive producers of 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.000 AGT worked on Australian Idol back when I was on it, 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.680 and they said, we know you, We know you so well, 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.000 and we know you more than an Australia and people 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.920 know you, and there is you are the only person 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.080 that can do this role because you're silly, you're daggy. 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.280 You know, your sense of humor is perfect for this. 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.280 You can be glamorous, you can put on the dresses, 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.160 but you're also a bit of a dag you can 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.320 have a laugh, you don't take yourself too seriously. 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.600 This is the perfect role. You have to do this. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:41.760 We're not taking over an answer, And I was like, well, 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.360 how big the check night for Skinny No No, And 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.080 I just I just never thought that I would be 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:50.840 able to do it because I don't know how to 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:52.960 host the TV show. I don't know how to read 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.840 a Telly prompt. I can read, but I don't know 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.000 how to host. I don't know how to listen in 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:58.880 my ears to the director and take ques and do 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.160 all of this was like my training ground basically, but 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.200 I went head first into hoping one of the biggest 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.439 TV shows on Australian TV. It was so stressful and 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.879 the only thing that I could do that was company 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.760 was just be myself. And the whole way they just said, 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:14.240 just be yourself. 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:15.120 That's enough. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.919 Don't try and be something else, just be yourself. And 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.439 then from that then Australian Idol came back around and 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.320 they said, Ricky, you have to host this and I 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.320 can't follow Osher and James like they're the greatest. 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:27.160 They are, They're the. 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.920 Best in the business. Osha is incredible and I don't 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:31.520 think I'll. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:32.840 Ever be able to do that. 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.320 That's what I think is incredible, because I mean just 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.880 I got asked to host Australia's Got Talent the year 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.479