WEBVTT - JIMMY NICHOLSON NO LONGER A BACHELOR! 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.360 Welcome back to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris, and 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:05.920 on this podcast, I'll be going behind the scenes with 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:07.560 the biggest players in television. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:08.320 You know. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.320 I want to kick off today's podcast by shouting out 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:13.520 to all of those people who may be locked down 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:15.960 at the moment. COVID is such a pain in our lives, 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.120 and I hope above everything else that these podcasts are 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:21.439 keeping you company. I hear from a lot of people 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:23.400 who are living alone and I'm glad that I can 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.560 connect with you in this way. So keep up those messages. 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.680 I absolutely love hearing from you. 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This week on the small screen, I've been 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.960 keeping up with White Lotus on Binge and rewatching Lux 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.000 Listing Sydney on Amazon Prime as I'm going to have 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.920 Gavin on the podcast next week, so I'm very excited 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.679 about that. I was also really lucky to see a 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.160 preview of Nine Perfect Strangers and Cruel Summer, which are 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.440 both going to be on Amazon Prime. You really need 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.760 to get that streaming service as when Nine Perfect Strangers drops, 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.200 you won't want to miss it, and that comes out 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.400 on August twentieth. This week, I have Network ten's The Bachelor, 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.119 Jimmy Nicholson on the show. He's a breath of fresh 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.280 air and I'm sure you're going to love him. Channel 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.080 ten launched the new series of The Bachelor on Wednesday, 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.959 and it certainly feels like classic batchy but with a 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.320 real sense of romance and some genuine connections. We will 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.160 find out how you become the Bachelor and what happens 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.000 behind the scenes of the show. I'll also find out 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.000 Jimmy's side hustle when he's not flying. He really is 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.080 from another world. The Bachelor is on Channel ten Wednesday 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.960 and Thursday nights from seven thirty Eastern Standard Time, and 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.560 if you want to catch up on previous episodes. It's 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.720 on ten play on demand. However, let's get started with 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.760 one of Australia's most talked about bachelor's. I'd like to 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.080 welcome to the podcast. It's Jimmy Nicholson. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.400 Would you be interested in going on a dating show? 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.160 Your newest bachelor is on the runway to Romance. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:16.760 So I actually just wrote back and said, oh, look, 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.800 I'm sorry, but I think maybe we'll just leave it. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.320 How will he fair in his search for life? 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.360 They do get some great girls on there, so I 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:23.880 wanted it. 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:25.640 You can feel the tension. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.840 Yeah, I just wanted to be myself and be my 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:29.760 own person. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.440 And previously on The Bachelor. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.960 I don't want it to get out because I do 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:35.679 want people to genuinely enjoy it. 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:37.200 Hey mate, how are you? 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.720 I'm good. I'm excited. It's good to finally be able 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.040 to see myself on Telly and see it all unfold 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:43.040 the days come? 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.280 When and how did you get approached to do The Bachelor? 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:46.520 Like? 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:47.960 I don't even know how this happens. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.880 I was approached in about November last year. I had 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.240 a message on Instagram from a talent scout that just 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.320 said would you be interested in going on a dating show? 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.000 And I replied, which one, because there's some dating show 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.160 that I wouldn't want to go on, and they said 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.040 it was The Bachelor, and I thought, yeah, this is 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.799 Actually it's quite good timing. I'm really ready to have that. 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:08.640 I've been in a long term relationship. I've had that 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.200 really important time off a couple of years doing my 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.440 own thing, and I thought, actually, I might be able 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:14.840 to get the time off as well from work with 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.560 everything that's going on. So yeah, I just I just 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.639 went for it and the rest is history. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.680 I'll lockdown a girlfriend on national television whilst COVID's happening. 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:25.880 Yeah, look, it was. It was an interesting year for 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:27.880 a lot of us last year. So I know that 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.880 the Bachelor franchise it works. They've got some couples on 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.359 there that have had numerous babies, marriages and everything to 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.440 come out of it. So I did know they get 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.400 some great girls on there, and I thought, why not, 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.960 Let's just let's see what happens and hopefully I meet 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:40.640 someone and. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.880 I have you can recommend it to people. 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.080 Yeah, I mean, look, I there'd no judgment from me 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.320 when it doesn't work out. With people because there's a 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.520 lot that has to work after the show as well, 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.160 and after the cameras stop, a lot of compatibility levels 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.160 that you don't you can't charge on the show, and 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.320 you know, you see what someone's like when the cameras 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.480 are off, and that's the true test, I think, and 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.120 with stronger and stronger and stronger, and yeah, so it works, 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:04.080 which is crazy. 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.600 I want to know, is there much convincing that needs 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.520 to happen? I mean, you get hit up on Instagram 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.160 to be the Bachelor, you know, that's one thing, But 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.320 then what happens next? Do they pull you aside, do 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.360 they come and meet you? And did you say yes 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.040 straight away? Or did it take some convincing? 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.599 Look, I said, look, I'd be interested. Let's see what happens. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.039 And then I found out a little bit more about 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.240 the show, and we did some video interviews and I 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.200 did a day in the Life of Jimmy video and 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:28.880 send that to them, and then that was like it 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:30.840 went on for a few months, and then by the 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.279 end of it, I was pretty invested, Like I thought, 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.320 this is going to be a great opportunity. You know, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.599 I've done this work for it, and yeah, they do 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.920 get some great girls on there, so I wanted it. 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.240 And then when they finally gave him the nod, the 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:44.880 next step was trying to get the time off work. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:46.840 And so they were really really helpful because I think 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.440 they were pretty keen to get me on board. And yeah, 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.680 we're fortunate that my company were flexible and gave me 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:53.280 the time off. 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.679 I remember getting the phone call to do Big Brother 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.720 and I rang work and said, oh, can I catch 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.760 up and have a meeting? And I was like, can 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.080 I please request some time off? And they were like 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.240 how much time? And I was like, could be a week, 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.760 could be three months, and said I was doing Big 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.080 Brother And the look on their face was wow, that's 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.960 I mean, it's to do reality television. You know, you 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.240 could say you want to do it, but then actually 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.800 telling people that's what's happening is another thing. 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.520 Yeah it is, And for me, I guess I'm fortunate 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.960 that I knew how long I was needed for, so 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.280 you know, it was three months, and with everything that 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.839 happened last year, under normal circumstances, there's not a chance 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.359 in hell that I'd be able to get three months 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.520 off work. So I was really fortunate. I think it 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.920 was for the girls saying to their employees employers, rather, 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.200 I need some time off. It could be a week, 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:39.920 it could be three months. Like it's a little bit. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:41.279 It's a different ball game. 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:42.320 I may never come back. 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.240 True. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, exactly. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.600 What has been your most failed attempt to find love 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.440 before this show? You know, let's talk dating apps bars. 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.320 What's your most failed dating look? 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.440 I have, you know before been rejected? So that's always, 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.560 you know, when you like someone and then they just 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.640 they give you the cold shoulder. That's always big, rough, 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:07.279 and it kind of makes you want them even more, 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.200 doesn't it, Like it's just I think one particular story 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:12.560 for me was that I was supposed to go on 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.160 a date with a girl who I was I can't 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.200 remember how I met her, but it was online. I 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.440 think it was on Instagram and we were chatting and 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.600 whoever slipped in Whoever's DM first? I don't know, very 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.240 very pretty girl, and I said, let's go for a 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.280 let's go and have dinner at an Italian restaurant. I 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.840 think it's a nice, like low key first state and 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.320 going into it. Guys pay the first date. It's fine, 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:34.560 it is what it is, you know, it was a 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:38.000 nice restaurant, but just like good, authentic Italian and great 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.720 first first date atmosphere. And then she wrote back and said, oh, 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.120 how about this restaurant? And I googled it and it 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:47.160 was Sydney's most expensive restaurant, like Ultimate fine Dining, and 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.440 I was a little bit taken back. I'm thinking it's 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.920 a bit presumptuous of her to then recommend this restaurant. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:55.839 And suddenly I was like, okay, I think we're not 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.200 different our wavelengths here. And I said, oh look I'm 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.440 not I'm not all that keen on fine dining. How 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.200 about we go somewhere a bit more low key? And 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.960 then she suggested in his second most expensive restaurant anyway, 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.880 and she said, oh, don't feel like good food anyway. 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.560 I chatted with my female roommate at the time and 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.000 I was like, Alissa, like, what's going on here, you know? 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:14.600 And she said she's not the type of girl you 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.040 want to be hanging out with. So I actually just 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.160 wrote back and said, oh, look, I'm sorry, but I 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.360 think maybe we'll just leave it. I think she's obviously 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.880 used to being taken to these amazing restaurants. And I 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.200 said look, I just yeah, and she said, no, no, I'll pay. 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.520 It's fine, I'll pay. And then I thought, oh, geese 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:28.840 would be nice just to go and sit there. 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:33.200 And I wonder what she's thinking about this now, because 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:33.560 you know. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.160 Yeah, I don't know, but it's Yeah, it's funny to see, 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.160 like even those people that have been rejected by in 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.080 the past and stuff, to see them reaching out now 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.360 is always funny, isn't it, Because it's like I haven't changed, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.800 I'm the same person, but suddenly people know about me 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.280 and you want to hang out again, do it? So? Anyway, 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.320 there's been a few failed. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.120 Has that happened? Is it any of any of the 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.720 ex girlfriends or girls that have crossed your path? Have 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:58.720 they tried to reach out to you now that you 0:07:58.760 --> 0:07:59.480 are the bachelor. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.640 There's been a couple of I've noticed a couple of 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.640 Instagram messages where you look at the message above and 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.120 I might have sent a message like hey, how's the 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.760 day coming, and there's scene you know, no reply, and 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.040 then suddenly I get a reply after. Yeah, it's funny to. 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.840 See, but awkward. Did any of the other bachelors manage 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.840 to give you any advice coming into this show Tim Robarts. 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:22.720 I saw at the gym. He trains at the same 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.120 gym as me, and I've went up to him and 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.160 interrupted his work out and asked him for some advice. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.160 So he was really helpful. And then since filming, I've 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.559 done a podcast Maddie Jay and Laura. I think it's like, actually, 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.320 you know, all of the guys of most of the 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:38.360 guys have reached out to me, Sam, Maddi, Matt Agnew Lucky, 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.160 So they've all sent me messages being like, mate, you're 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:42.880 in for a crazy ride. If you can assist in 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:44.960 any way let me know, which is really really nice 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.640 because they're all great guys. They've they've done it before me, 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.079 and they've probably know where they've stepped wrong with all 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.600 this stuff to come now, so it's nice to have 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:53.120 that support. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.280 Had you watched the show before, like are you a 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:56.040 Bachelor fan? 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.640 I haven't watched it a lot, but I watched a 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.040 bit of Maddie Jay's series, and I watched some of 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.680 the Honey Badgers. But I just wanted to be myself 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.720 and be my own person and hopefully I mean people 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.959 who think like me or not. Of course, you want 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.040 to be liked and you know, Maddie Jay, for instance, 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.480 is someone I think that is because also he's here 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.839 and Laura are really really happy, and he just seems 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:17.319 like an amazing guy. I mean, I've got a bloody 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.480 man crush on him. So of course you want to 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.520 be liked and I want to be like one of 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.880 the great Bachelor's, but just got to be myself. I 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:25.840 didn't want to watch too many of the other episodes 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.120 and try and be someone else, because then the girls 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.760 are falling for well hopefully falling for someone that's not me, 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.240 and then what after it finishes, I'm like, oh, hey, 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:35.920 this is the real me. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.200 I just find it so funny because I've watched so 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.679 many seasons and there's always a bit of a troublemaker 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.640 in there, and you living the experience, you don't necessarily 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.720 see what's happening at the mansion. So I was wondering 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.600 whether or not you'd taken notes to try and look 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.040 out for those troublemakers, because they often stay on the 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.760 series for a really long time and the Bachelor never knows, 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.240 Like the Bachelor just keeps them around and keeps giving 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.320 them a rose, and you're like, hang on a sec, 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.760 don't you know what's happening like the man Chain. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.600 Yeah, yeah, exactly. No, I knew that'd be there's always 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.240 a few troublemakers. But I thought I was a pretty 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:08.800 good judge of character and I thought I'd be able 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.319 to see it. But I guess, I guess the wall 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.760 was pulled over my eyes on a few instances. It's look, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.679 it's disappointing, but it happens and you learn from it. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:20.439 So yeah, there's some troublemakers. 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.720 Are you watching the show as it goes to air, like, 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.040 are you watching it as it's on television or are 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.480 you getting to see some screeners like you're getting a 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:29.360 little bit of a heads up. 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.560 I watch it with the rest of Australia. Oh my god, 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.600 watching it with the rest of you guys, and I'm 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.840 just looking at it that I'm just like, wait, what. 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.400 Of course, I've heard things from my partner. She's told 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.040 me some of the stuff that went down, but seeing 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:48.240 it is different. Thing is different. Yeah. 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.240 Have you ever been to a group viewing of a 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.440 TV show? Like you know that there's these batchy parties, 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.120 So I want to know, like, have you ever been 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.120 with all of your mates to do a viewing? Of 0:10:58.160 --> 0:10:59.640 a particular show back in the day. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.040 I've been to a viewing of a mate surf movie 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.520 years ago. But apart from that, no, I mean very different. Yeah, 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.240 very different. I used to watch with my roommates years 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:12.040 ago and my ex actually we watched one of the series, 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.120 would all get together and watch it. But I was 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:15.760 often at work at night, so I watched a few 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:17.640 of them here and there. But no, but I've had 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:20.560 some great support. Obviously, we're in isolation here, we're in lockdown, 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.480 so it's a bit hard to have a viewing party. 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.560 But some of the some of the stories I've seen 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.480 where people are like with their roommates getting cheeseboards, cutouts 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.600 and everything. Everyone's getting really excited. My best mates girlfriends 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.120 over in the US, she did a massive viewing party 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.679 they're on in lockdown with like twenty of her friends 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.160 with like drinking games. It's been really really nice seeing 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:39.600 the support. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.520 It's a phenomenon, Like it's an actual phenomenon, you know, 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.800 which is pretty crazy. The question I have for you 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.480 is how did you view astray in television growing up? 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.400 Did you see a lack of diversity on screen and 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.320 did that impact the way that you watched television growing up? 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.679 Not really, I mean I just look, there was shows 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.360 that I wasn't able to watch because mom and dad 0:11:58.400 --> 0:11:59.960 weren't care on me watching them. I think I wasn't 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.160 I watch the Simpsons when I was younger. But do 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.560 you mean from a diversity standpoint, is that, yeah, I've 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.160 never Actually it's not until doing this role that I've 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.839 realized that people are getting around the fact that, you know, 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:11.960 I probably don't look like the normal bachelor or you know, 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.280 I've never viewed myself as anything different. I've just always 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.000 thought I'm this tan kid from the Northern Beaches who 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.560 has different features, I guess, but yeah, I've got my 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.040 Fijian heritage, which I'm really really proud. I'm just I 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.520 don't see myself as any different. So but if people 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.000 are getting around it, and people are loving the fact 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.000 that they're seeing someone a bit different, then it's great. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:33.040 I'm all for it. 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.200 When you look back and you think about women voting 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.240 or marriage equality, you think, God, that took a lot 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.880 longer than we thought. So you know, what do you 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.280 think about, you know, taking a bit of time to 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.320 sort of see diversity being reflected on screen. 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.319 I mean I think it's a great thing. A diversity 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.600 in anything's great, you know, whether it comes to gender 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.680 equality in the workplace, all that kind of stuff, like 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.680 it's it's twenty twenty one. People need to get with 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.400 the times. Same with same sex marriage. I think these 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.760 things we often like we look back it now and 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.800 you think, like, how was it same sex marriage on illegalized? 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:05.959 You know, in the last few years. It's pretty crazy. 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.640 And I think it's like people make a mountain out 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.679 of a molehill with these things like it just do it, 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.280 like who cares? It's not impacting of us, Like we're 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.400 all it's twenty twenty one. So yeah, I mean, I 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.000 think it's really really good to see and I think 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.280 people are embracing as well, which is good. So I'm 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.400 happy that if people are happy to see me on 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.480 there is looking a little bit different than great. 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.840 The thing I have walked away with that I really 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.079 enjoyed so far is the moment with your dad. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.920 Dad's very proud. He really wanted to be an airline 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.480 pil that he couldn't afford to do the training so 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.680 he could never do it, so he's super proud. I 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.959 think the day that he was putting on my wings 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.320 when I graduated, there's a lot of tears. So, yeah, 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:42.160 super proud. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.959 What did he think about you doing the Bachelor was? 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.240 He is just as proud he Dad does. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.840 Look, he's a very proud man, and once he realized 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.319 what the Bachelor was, he's really embraced it. And also 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.200 they're really happy because they know I've met someone that 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:58.760 I probably will spend the rest of my life with. 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.440 And now it just makes it even more exciting to 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.720 watch it all unfold. Of course, the drama is always 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.120 entertaining as well. But Dad's quite funny. He would always 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.520 slip into conversation like he's very proud that I'm a 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.080 pilot because he always wanted to be a commercial pilot. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.040 And Dad's in real estate. He's got a very successful 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.800 business up on the Northern Beaches, and he's like a 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.079 social butterfly, you know, he's always talking to people. Hey, 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.640 walking on the beach. He's always like, Hey, Tim, Sarah, 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:22.960 how are you going? So Dad will always casually drop 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.640 into conversation like someone might call him a batter house. 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.800 Oh look, I'm interested in his house, and Dad will 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.600 be like, yeah, my son's a pilot and they're like 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.960 cool that yeah, so the house, Oh yeah, Like he 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.560 just like segue. It's really cute because he's he's really 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.000 really proud of me, and I think when it comes 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.760 to the Batchel that he's super proud as well now 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:43.560 because he knows it's a successful kind of franchise and 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:45.160 he knows I've met someone amazing. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.040 From him, it's a long phone call now when he's 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.120 selling a house, because he's got to drop in that 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.400 you're a pilot and you're the bachelor. You know these 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.280 people like alrighty, enough about Jimmy. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.680 Oh Dad, like, don't don't sound like a way gun 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.560 like and he just Dad is such a genuinely lovely 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.920 man and he just like he doesn't have a negative 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.080 bone in his body. And yeah, he just says it 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.880 because he's proud. But I'm like, oh dad, luck, I'm 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:11.720 thirty one years old and you're still embarrassing me. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:15.480 Like that's what parents are for, and there's nothing better 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.840 than parents that are proud of their children. It gets 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.000 me every time on television. So obviously you have finished 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.840 filming and you know what happens. How good are you 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:25.400 at keeping secrets? 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.240 I'm pretty good at keeping secrets. Yeah, once I realized 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:30.720 that there was someone, a couple of people that were 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.240 there for me and that I was really interested in. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.200 I think it's really important to make an entertaining TV 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.080 show as well. I think that's what it'll be good 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:39.040 about this season, is that, like, I'm really happy I've 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:40.960 met someone that's great, and if we can get a 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:42.640 bloody good television show out of it as well. It's 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.320 entertaining for me, it's entertaining for my mates, it's entertaining 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.520 for Australia. So it's nice knowing that it's worked out 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:50.720 really well for me. But also I'm loving seeing all 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:52.800 the drama and stuff that goes on as well, because 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:54.200 people love that stuff as well. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.280 They love the drama, you know. I actually was at 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:00.440 an event back in twenty thirteen with Tim Buds who 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.280 were talking about earlier one of the previous Bachelors, and 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.000 he had filmed the show but the series hadn't started, 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.120 so we were at this event and he was on 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.160 his phone trying to ring Anna on hide her name, 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.400 you know. So I just think I'm too stupid I 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.680 would accidentally give it away. Have you got a secret 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:18.760 name that you've managed to put her number in on 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:20.560 your phone, or like, how what are you doing? 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.280 Geez, Dave's getting a red hot run at the moment, 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:28.240 He's getting some nice lovey dove techs, so's she's saved 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.240 under a male name on my phone. I want it. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:31.760 I don't want it to get out because I do 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.600 want people to genuinely enjoy it and keep guessing, and 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.520