Speaker 1: Welcome back to TV Reload. This is my third bonus
Speaker 1: episode featuring a quick chat with I'm a celebrity's latest dejectee,
Speaker 1: Alie Simpson. You might recognize this talented girl from her
Speaker 1: famous last name, being the sister of Cody Simpson. You
Speaker 1: might have also bought her music, possibly heard her Disney podcast,
Speaker 1: or even remember Justin Bieber once had a crush on her.
Speaker 1: But it's her time in the jungle that has Ossie saying,
Speaker 1: what a bloody legend. Allie certainly had her work cut
Speaker 1: out for her during this season's challenges, navigating insects and snakes,
Speaker 1: but also avoiding difficult love triangles. I simply enjoyed every
Speaker 1: moment we saw of today's guests, and I guess that's
Speaker 1: why she continues to influence her millions of followers online.
Speaker 1: I'd like to welcome to the show Alie Simpson.
Speaker 2: I had no idea I was like part of this
Speaker 2: love triangle.
Speaker 1: She has more than four million followers on social media.
Speaker 3: People sort of ask me that kind of question, you know,
Speaker 3: when it comes to Cody.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Allie Simpson.
Speaker 3: He was really shocked to know that I accepted it.
Speaker 3: To be honest, and that I want to to do
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 2: Hey guys and Alie Simpson and I'm here with a steamer.
Speaker 2: I think I'm a little bit traumatized.
Speaker 1: Say hello to your newest camp mate, Allie sits O.
Speaker 3: I was like, no, I'm gonna do I'm gonna bite
Speaker 3: the bullet and like step outside of my comfort zone.
Speaker 2: And I'm so happy I did it.
Speaker 1: Now, Allie, what an experience you've just had going into
Speaker 1: the jungle. Have you actually started to recover from all
Speaker 1: of those creepy crawlies.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm only just starting to recover now.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 3: There was a giant spider in my hotel room this morning,
Speaker 3: and I still like lost my kit a little bit,
Speaker 3: so I think it might be a little bit of
Speaker 3: PTSD that's really lingering.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. Yeah, I'm still a little bit rattled.
Speaker 1: To be honest, I just to mention this, you know,
Speaker 1: sprider crawling into your hotel room and you just being
Speaker 1: knowing how to deal with it. Oh, well that's nothing.
Speaker 1: Crawl into bed with me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. See, you think I would be like that.
Speaker 3: I wish I was like that, But I think I'm
Speaker 3: a little bit traumatized. I'm like, no, no, I'm keeping my
Speaker 3: distance over one point five meters, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Now, you said that you cried a fair bit throughout
Speaker 1: your time in the jungle. What was your biggest trigger?
Speaker 2: Day two was the hardest for me.
Speaker 3: I think it was the realization that, Okay, I'm here,
Speaker 3: I'm going to be here for a while. I really
Speaker 3: needed to settle in, you know, being without my family
Speaker 3: and my friends, and that was the hardest thing for me.
Speaker 2: I think it wasn't really like being without my phone.
Speaker 3: I think it was more so I'm just so close
Speaker 3: to my family and I talked to them all the time,
Speaker 3: and I hadn't really like settled into camp yet, you know,
Speaker 3: because everyone else had been in there for eight days
Speaker 3: already and had their sort of group, so I felt
Speaker 3: like a little bit.
Speaker 2: Of an outsider. So it was a little bit harder
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 3: But once I sort of had that breakdown, everyone just
Speaker 3: opened up to me and knew that they felt the
Speaker 3: same way on day two, Day three and just like
Speaker 3: welcome me with open arms.
Speaker 2: So it ended up being being okay.
Speaker 1: Well, it was sort of an extrange experience watching you
Speaker 1: go in because you know you are close to your family,
Speaker 1: and you have a very famous brother. What sort of
Speaker 1: questions did the camp mates keep asking you about him?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I definitely got a lot of questions about Cody,
Speaker 3: sort of about you know, our history and what we've
Speaker 3: sort of been through growing up and all that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff, and like in entertainment so young obviously got
Speaker 3: a lot of questions about is dating life, So that
Speaker 3: was just expected. I know your brother was dating Miley Cyrus, Yeah,
Speaker 3: which is not something I would normally know, but I
Speaker 3: know that.
Speaker 1: I think what was also funny is that, you know,
Speaker 1: for so many people, they know that you know, your
Speaker 1: brother dated Miley Cyrus, so everyone has their own experience
Speaker 1: of Marley Cyrus. For me, personally, every Saturday night, my
Speaker 1: partner I actually put on Miley Cyrus music video clips
Speaker 1: and we pretend we're friends with her and we dance
Speaker 1: around our lound. Have you ever had a chance to
Speaker 1: dance with Marley Cyrus around your lound room in real life?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I mean around her lounge room. I mean
Speaker 2: I was staying with them over in the States.
Speaker 3: I was filming a movie there in March at the
Speaker 3: beginning of last year, and was able to sort of
Speaker 3: spend a lot of time, you know, with her and Cody,
Speaker 3: and it was really nice. She's super fun and you know,
Speaker 3: super going, so it was Yeah, it was a really
Speaker 3: awesome time.
Speaker 1: She's a great girl, needless to say. You know, your
Speaker 1: reality TV experience was quite different to your brothers, you know,
Speaker 1: being that he was on the mask singer. I want
Speaker 1: to know that was there pressure for you to win?
Speaker 1: Like are you a very competitive family?
Speaker 3: We're really not, Like if anything were the opposite, Like
Speaker 3: a lot of people sort of ask me that kind
Speaker 3: of question, you know, when it comes to Cody, but
Speaker 3: and same goes like when it comes to me. But
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm like Cody's biggest fan, so like I'm
Speaker 3: proud to say, you know, he's my brother, Like I
Speaker 3: get excited about that. And when he succeeds, like nothing
Speaker 3: makes me more excited. Like we just get so stoked
Speaker 3: for each other when good things happen. So like there
Speaker 3: really is no like there's nothing competitive about our family whatsoever.
Speaker 1: What did he have to say about you being in there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was.
Speaker 3: He was really shocked to know that I accepted it,
Speaker 3: to be honest, and that I wanted to do the show.
Speaker 3: Because he was like there's no way because he knows,
Speaker 3: like how how real my fears are of cockroaches and
Speaker 3: spiders and stuff. We're not doing that show. Like he
Speaker 3: literally couldn't believe it. So he was just so excited
Speaker 3: to hear I came out. And I think it was
Speaker 3: a bit shocked to watch a few of my trials
Speaker 3: because it was kind of kind of surreal.
Speaker 1: How did you actually end up on the show? Because
Speaker 1: you know that a lot of people ask about how
Speaker 1: you get onto them. You know, did it come out
Speaker 1: of the blue for you? Was it something that you
Speaker 1: kind of always wanted to do?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was definitely something.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've watched it a bunch of times before
Speaker 3: and I always enjoyed watching the show, but like I
Speaker 3: almost it sometimes because.
Speaker 2: I was so afraid of what was on there.
Speaker 3: So I always like watch it in like admiration of
Speaker 3: the other, like celebrities that had done it before, and
Speaker 3: I was like, that would be really interesting to do
Speaker 3: one day. And it obviously it just came across for
Speaker 3: me through my agency at the end of last year
Speaker 3: and I was like, Okay, I feel like this is
Speaker 3: meant to be, you know, And there was part of
Speaker 3: me that was like, oh, I'm not sure if I
Speaker 3: want to do it, but I was like, no, I'm
Speaker 3: going to do I'm going to bite the bullet and
Speaker 3: like step outside of my comfort zone. And I'm so
Speaker 3: happy I did it now because it was it was
Speaker 3: definitely like transformative.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And you have one of the biggest social media
Speaker 1: followings out of all the celebrities in the Jungle this year.
Speaker 1: How did you manage to keep this experience from all
Speaker 1: of your loyal followers? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 3: I was dying to tell them all because especially like
Speaker 3: because I couldn't really mention it until like because my
Speaker 3: clues and stuff were going to come out. So I
Speaker 3: was dying because I'm obviously like so open with my followers.
Speaker 3: So it was like something I wanted to come straight
Speaker 3: out of the jungle and be like, can you guys believe.
Speaker 2: What I just did?
Speaker 3: But they were all so excited once I'd aired on TV,
Speaker 3: and it was just it was really awesome, and all
Speaker 3: my followers enjoyed it a lot, so it's been a
Speaker 3: great response.
Speaker 1: I'm one of them. I enjoyed it. I've been following
Speaker 1: you for a long time and I thought it was great.
Speaker 1: I saw the ad come up and you know, they
Speaker 1: didn't reveal you, but you just got to see you
Speaker 1: from and I did. I don't know if you saw
Speaker 1: that on so ship you followed me as soon as
Speaker 1: I tweeted, is I tweeted?
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, it's.
Speaker 1: Like, oh no, that's Alie Simpson. I've got it. I've
Speaker 1: got this one in the back.
Speaker 2: That was the best. What a legend.
Speaker 1: Did you already have any personal relationships existing before meeting
Speaker 1: all of these celebrities, Like, did you actually know any
Speaker 1: of them?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I knew.
Speaker 2: I knew a handful of them.
Speaker 3: I'd known Jack Virgin for a while because he was
Speaker 3: obviously making music in LA around the same time Cody was,
Speaker 3: so we knew each other, so that was really nice.
Speaker 3: I obviously knew of Grant. I knew of Abby as
Speaker 3: well because we had a few mutuals. We sort of
Speaker 3: like followed each other on social media already, so I
Speaker 3: was abviously excited to see her and like get to
Speaker 3: know her as a person. I'd met Ash before, and
Speaker 3: then a few others like I'd met a few times,
Speaker 3: I didn't really.
Speaker 2: Know that well, and then there was a few I
Speaker 2: didn't know at all.
Speaker 3: So it was really sort of a nice mix, and
Speaker 3: we just got to know each other really well and
Speaker 3: now we're all like super close friends.
Speaker 2: It's awesome.
Speaker 1: How did you manage to navigate your relationship with both
Speaker 1: Ash and Abby because you know, on paper for the viewers,
Speaker 1: it kind of looked like this was being set up
Speaker 1: as a love triangle before it even started.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean as soon as I went in, like
Speaker 3: Abby had obviously told me that she'd been cuddling with Ash,
Speaker 3: and I got so excited because I'm like, what's the
Speaker 3: jungle tea?
Speaker 2: Like I need to know, because like this is so fun.
Speaker 3: Like I was there for the drama, that's for sure,
Speaker 3: But obviously as soon as I walked in and then
Speaker 3: watching it back, I actually didn't.
Speaker 2: I had no idea I was like part of this
Speaker 2: love triangle.
Speaker 1: I love them the.
Speaker 2: Newbie.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, in all seriousness, it was like more time.
Speaker 3: You know, like I basically had no control over. I
Speaker 3: watched it back and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: I know it is. So it was funny, like I
Speaker 3: was messaging them after just being like I had I
Speaker 3: was oblivious, So it was really really funny. But I've
Speaker 3: met Ash like a bunch of times before, like he's
Speaker 3: a friend of mine and I love Abby, So it
Speaker 3: was just really fun to sort of see how they
Speaker 3: played out.
Speaker 1: And I guess a lot of things get said about,
Speaker 1: you know, relationships off screen and on screen. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, we love in the media to speculate, what's
Speaker 1: the biggest lie You've ever heard about yourself? During this experience?
Speaker 1: Was there anything you saw in the media that went,
Speaker 1: what that that's not true?
Speaker 3: I think I've been one of the lucky ones for
Speaker 3: nothing sort of not true to come out like everything
Speaker 3: that's sort of been written about me that There's been
Speaker 3: no ridiculous rumors or anything either. So it was like
Speaker 3: I was trying to be involved in the drum, but
Speaker 3: not too involved, So I think I steered clear of
Speaker 3: any any bad rumors or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I actually think that your response from the Australian public
Speaker 1: was one of the most endearing to watch because for
Speaker 1: a lot of young people, you know, they obviously know
Speaker 1: who you are, but then for audiences who might have
Speaker 1: grown up watching Tony Perrin and then got a chance
Speaker 1: to get to know you, you seem to have a really
Speaker 1: positive experience. Yeah, are you surprised to see so many people.
Speaker 3: I've been so thrilled with the way Australia has sort
Speaker 3: of accepted me, and you know, I do have obviously
Speaker 3: a younger audience, and it's been sort of really nice
Speaker 3: to have mums reach out and say that, you know,
Speaker 3: I could be inspiring to their daughters, and you know,
Speaker 3: it's been messages like that that have just been really
Speaker 3: eye opening for me, and that means the world to me.
Speaker 3: So I think it's just been a really awesome experience
Speaker 3: for me, and I'm so glad that Australia has been
Speaker 3: able to sort of see a new side of me,
Speaker 3: and in people that didn't know me has sort of
Speaker 3: seen the real me and are so accepting of it,
Speaker 3: and it's just been so special for me.
Speaker 1: This is a tricky question for you, but had the
Speaker 1: show involved nominations, Yeah, you know, if you had the
Speaker 1: chance to nominate, could you tell me who you give
Speaker 1: one point to save and one point to evict out
Speaker 1: of all the camp mates.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I couldn't even imagine what I would do because I'm
Speaker 3: like too nice, Like I could physically not like evict
Speaker 3: someone like I just I would cry.
Speaker 2: I'd be like, I don't I love you? Though?
Speaker 3: Like this doesn't mean I don't want you to be
Speaker 3: in the jungle, Like I would hate that so much.
Speaker 3: I honestly, there wouldn't be anyone that I'd be like, Okay,
Speaker 3: you're out of here, because like there was just no
Speaker 3: one I had any conflict with, Like I know there
Speaker 3: was some people that had a few conflicts and or
Speaker 3: you know, we were some group, like everyone just loved
Speaker 3: each other and it was almost strain. But for points,
Speaker 3: I mean, I give definitely give a point to Grant Daniel.
Speaker 3: I think like and especially watching him back on the show,
Speaker 3: I think we've just been such a well he's first
Speaker 3: of all, so hilarious and he's really made the show,
Speaker 3: and then like watching him be to so vulnerable and
Speaker 3: open about his life struggles. I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people are learning from him and you know, being able
Speaker 3: to talk about their struggles thanks to him as well.
Speaker 2: So I just think what he's doing is amazing.
Speaker 1: We've already just seen Simon come out of the jungle
Speaker 1: last night. But from the people that are remaining in
Speaker 1: the show at this particular point, who do you think
Speaker 1: Australia would like to see win?
Speaker 3: There's oh man, I mean I'd be happy to see
Speaker 3: anyone win, and I think, like, for me, everyone's playing
Speaker 3: for such amazing charities, so whoever's gonna win, Like we
Speaker 3: all said that to each other, and they're like, whatever
Speaker 3: happens happens, because like we'd be so happy for like
Speaker 3: whatever charity was going to get the donation, because like
Speaker 3: everyone's playing for so many amazing things. So I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know, Like so many people contributed to camp
Speaker 3: in their own ways. Like I wish I could be
Speaker 3: like more brutal and be like this person, this person,
Speaker 3: but I just like I just can't.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I love everyone.
Speaker 1: You're too Switzerland for everyone. Now, walking out of the jungle,
Speaker 1: have you taken away any weird souvenirs out?
Speaker 3: Well, I didn't get any souvenirs because we couldn't really
Speaker 3: take anything of our own in And then when we
Speaker 3: went to the elimination nights, like the ejection nights, we
Speaker 3: really only took our backpack, and you know, we get
Speaker 3: ejected into the into the swamp, so everything you had
Speaker 3: to sort of leave behind or it was going to
Speaker 3: get wet, so you couldn't actually like leave with anything
Speaker 3: physical because then you just get sent home. So Lin
Speaker 3: the just send all your sort of backpack and camp
Speaker 3: get to you later on.
Speaker 2: So unfortunately didn't get to keep anything fun. I wish
Speaker 2: I did nothing at all. I really wanted to. I
Speaker 2: really liked that hat.
Speaker 1: That's so surprising that they don't let you keep those
Speaker 1: those outfits. I mean, they'd probably be smelling pretty bad,
Speaker 1: but well, that'd be nice to have them.
Speaker 3: They would they would send them to us once we
Speaker 3: were announced, because like they didn't want me obviously walking
Speaker 3: around like the Gold Coast and of Ali's shirt before
Speaker 3: I was heed. I think they kept us from out
Speaker 3: from our outfits until the show's done.
Speaker 2: I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Well, I just want to say thank you so much
Speaker 1: for your time. You've been so generous to talk to
Speaker 1: me today. You were so fantastic to watch on the show,
Speaker 1: and I hope that we'll get to see more of you.
Speaker 2: Definitely, thank you so much. It was good to chat