Speaker 1: Episode one.
Speaker 2: The Uncancellable Influencer, Sky Wheatley became a household name when
Speaker 2: she came third on Big Brother Australia in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: It's Time to Go Sky. While most housemates faded into obscurity,
Speaker 2: Sky turned her fifteen minutes of fame into nine years
Speaker 2: of notoriety. The former barista managed to cultivate an online
Speaker 2: following by sharing every element of her life and we
Speaker 2: mean everything.
Speaker 1: What do you think about our sex?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: Sky's ditzy personality earned her a legion of fans on
Speaker 2: reality TV, her uneducated opinions have got her in hot water.
Speaker 2: Online controversy has plagued her influencer career, from racist remarks
Speaker 2: to blaming domestic violence victims. The scandals just keep coming,
Speaker 2: but somehow Sky remains relevant online. She is still inundated
Speaker 2: with sponsorship deals and has over six hundred thousand followers
Speaker 2: on Instagram. In this series, we investigate what makes Sky
Speaker 2: Wheatley the Uncancellable Influencer. We are journalist Sophie Kate and
Speaker 2: Amy Torbert and this is outspoken plus. Now I want
Speaker 2: to take you guys back to twenty fourteen, when Sky
Speaker 2: Wheatley first shot to fame on season eleven of Big Brother,
Speaker 2: because I think a lot of people don't actually realize
Speaker 2: this is how she became famous. So she was just
Speaker 2: twenty years old at the time and working as a
Speaker 2: barista on the Gold Coast, and she was actually the
Speaker 2: youngest contestant to enter the house in that series and
Speaker 2: was often called shallow and naive by her fellow housemates.
Speaker 2: I remember the producers used to try and niggle her
Speaker 2: into reacting, so one time they took away her makeup bag,
Speaker 2: and she also used to hate it because in those
Speaker 2: series of Big Brother, they didn't allow the contestants to
Speaker 2: have hair straighteners or hair curlers, and she used to
Speaker 2: get so upset because she wasn't able to do her
Speaker 2: hair and make herself look presentable. I remember all of
Speaker 2: them were wearing braids in their hair at the time,
Speaker 2: and she always went off about her regrowth. I remember
Speaker 2: Sophie said, you'd never go into the Big Brother house
Speaker 2: just based on the fact that you couldn't bring hair straighteners.
Speaker 1: Oh, definitely.
Speaker 2: I mean it's kind of interesting now on Love Island
Speaker 2: that they literally have the makeup and hairstation for all
Speaker 2: of the contestants because they know how vital it is
Speaker 2: that they look attractive on TV. Because it's obviously more marketable.
Speaker 2: It's also a good opportunity for them to get sponsors
Speaker 2: through those brands. Now, Sky did have an in house
Speaker 2: romance with the Canadian intruder Leo. It's funny because his
Speaker 2: name was really Ryan, but he couldn't be called Ryan
Speaker 2: because there was another Ryan in the house, and he
Speaker 2: went on to win the show. I actually had to
Speaker 2: google who the hell one Big Brother that year. I
Speaker 2: actually have no recollection of Leo, but I do remember
Speaker 2: the winner Ryan. I think Sky had a crush on him.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He was asked about whether he would pursue a relationship
Speaker 2: outside of the house with Sky and it was a
Speaker 2: big fat no. Well, despite getting nominated a lot in
Speaker 2: the house, Sky was very popular with the outside world
Speaker 2: and she ended up finishing third behind Travis. And also
Speaker 2: Ryan isn't Travis al from the past, Do you remember
Speaker 2: what happened?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: He was that real nerdy guy that had a find voice.
Speaker 1: Was now he was that hot guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was just your typical buff Trady And I
Speaker 2: feel like this was a time where you could only
Speaker 2: be male and twenty years old and attractive to win
Speaker 2: Big Brother for a long time. I think it was
Speaker 2: because a lot of younger girls watch Big Brother, So
Speaker 2: that's why ultimately it ended up being the hot Trades
Speaker 2: that would win.
Speaker 1: Doesn't it just.
Speaker 2: Show that I can't actually remember any of these other people?
Speaker 1: Bass guy?
Speaker 2: Of how successful she has been coming out of this show. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 2: when she left the house, she said that she felt
Speaker 2: like she was born to be on Big Brother, but
Speaker 2: concluded that she wasn't smart enough to have a strategy,
Speaker 2: so was just herself. And I think that's why she
Speaker 2: did so well on the show, because she truly was herself.
Speaker 2: She wasn't putting up a front for anyone. It's quite
Speaker 2: hilarious to watch some of this vision back of her
Speaker 2: on the show. To a certain extent, I think that's
Speaker 2: why a lot of people like her now, because she
Speaker 2: doesn't put up a barrier between her and the followers.
Speaker 2: She does share a lot about her life and it's
Speaker 2: not edited, and I think it was quite clear how
Speaker 2: excited she was to be on Big Brother. Years later,
Speaker 2: in a Q and A, she said it's still her
Speaker 2: biggest achievement, and she said I couldn't describe to you
Speaker 2: guys the joy that I felt when they called me
Speaker 2: and said you're in. It was the most amazing thing
Speaker 2: ever I achieved that out of thousands of people, they
Speaker 2: chose me. What was interesting about Big Brother twenty fourteen
Speaker 2: was it coincided with the rise in popularity of social media.
Speaker 2: I mean, we did have Tarlie Smythe the season before.
Speaker 2: I think she was one of the first Big Brother
Speaker 2: contestants to actually build a following off the back of
Speaker 2: the show, and she has been so successful now she
Speaker 2: is still relevant today. I wonder if Sky took any
Speaker 2: tips from Tully, because while she says she wasn't very
Speaker 2: intelligent and couldn't come up with a strategy for Big Brother,
Speaker 2: she actually cultivated an amazing strategy to stay relevant and
Speaker 2: big on social media. She paired up with influencer Kurt Coleman.
Speaker 2: And I still remember the photos that emerged in the
Speaker 2: Daily Mail of this pair because she was wearing this
Speaker 2: very fluo bikini and they were giving each other piggybacks.
Speaker 2: And it turned out this whole photo shoot was staged
Speaker 2: by Kurt Coleman because he was trying to push his
Speaker 2: own TV show at the time. He was trying to
Speaker 2: do a simple life TV version, and I I wonder
Speaker 2: if Sky was maybe going.
Speaker 1: To be a coast.
Speaker 2: She'd be the perfect coaster for a show like that.
Speaker 2: She actually said in a recent podcast interview on The
Speaker 2: Unhinged podcast that she was motivated by Tani, who was
Speaker 2: one of the Big Brother contestants. She actually had a
Speaker 2: larger following than Sky at the time, and she said
Speaker 2: that she was in awe of how she grew her following.
Speaker 2: It's crazy when you look back at this vision of
Speaker 2: Sky on Big Brother, it really emphasizes the physical transformation
Speaker 2: that she has gone through over the last nine years.
Speaker 2: She previously said she had an obsession with cosmetic surgery
Speaker 2: that stemmed from actually being on Big Brother, and in
Speaker 2: a YouTube video responding to assumptions about herself, she shared
Speaker 2: her struggles with body image. She said, I was always
Speaker 2: very self conscious of my weight, very insecure about everything
Speaker 2: about me, insecure about my eyebags, my skin, how white
Speaker 2: I was, my hair. I would honestly try to cover
Speaker 2: up as much as my face as possible with a
Speaker 2: hat and lots of makeup. I think when I turned fifteen,
Speaker 2: I would pack on the makeup and I still hated myself.
Speaker 2: I hated my teeth, I hated my freckles, I hated
Speaker 2: my nose, hated it. I never learned to accept my
Speaker 2: nose and went and had plastic surgery. That's really sad
Speaker 2: because you do reflect on how young she was to
Speaker 2: be on Big Brother and the fact that ten years
Speaker 2: ago those shows were massive. She was a household name,
Speaker 2: and there would have been, particularly at that time when
Speaker 2: the Internet was flourishing, there would have been a lot
Speaker 2: of criticism held her way. It's crazy because I feel
Speaker 2: like she looks really good on Big Brother. Well, she's
Speaker 2: always looked good, and that's the thing. It's nothing to
Speaker 2: do with her appearance. It's clearly something to do with
Speaker 2: her self confidence. And I do like that she has
Speaker 2: always been very open about plastic surgeries. I feel like
Speaker 2: she was one of the first influencers who was very
Speaker 2: transparent about the procedures that she got, and I think
Speaker 2: that's why she got a lot of traction to her
Speaker 2: YouTube channel in the beginning, because if you take a
Speaker 2: look back at some of the first videos, they are
Speaker 2: talking about her nose job, they're also talking about the
Speaker 2: cosmetic procedures that she wants to get done, and as
Speaker 2: you said, Kate, she did it in a really open way,
Speaker 2: and people hadn't seen that before online because during that
Speaker 2: time people were hiding.
Speaker 1: Whatever they had had done.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of her early videos have actually
Speaker 2: been deleted though, because she did do a vlog series
Speaker 2: about her Bangkok boob job and I'd almost forgotten about this.
Speaker 2: So back in twenty fifteen, she underwent a breast augmentation
Speaker 2: as part of a promotional deal with a medical tourism company.
Speaker 2: Now Sky wanted to get the boob job done because
Speaker 2: she complained that her breasts were asymmetrical, and she said
Speaker 2: that Mehdi Makeovers actually approached her to do a contra deal,
Speaker 2: so in exchange for the boob job, she had to
Speaker 2: promote the business. However, Sky claims that she had the
Speaker 2: consultation a day before the surgery and wasn't informed of
Speaker 2: any possible complications. She also complained that the doctor didn't
Speaker 2: speak much English, and in the end, Sky ended up
Speaker 2: having these boobs that she didn't like. She said she
Speaker 2: had a noticeable double bubble in her right breast and
Speaker 2: was in a lot of pain. It's scary to consider
Speaker 2: that she was only twenty one when they approached her
Speaker 2: for this contra deal, and in twenty fifteen, I don't
Speaker 2: think a lot of us were that aware of these
Speaker 2: contra deals that were taking place. I wonder if the
Speaker 2: brand made her take it down. Well, it's very interesting
Speaker 2: you say that, because in twenty eighteen, Sky actually appeared
Speaker 2: on the episode of Trial by Kyle, So think of
Speaker 2: Judge Dudy, but with Kyle Sandalands as the judge. It
Speaker 2: was a part of Channel ten's pilot series, and in
Speaker 2: the episode, Sky explained that her botch surgery had made
Speaker 2: her even more insecure about her breast and was very
Speaker 2: upset over them and spent nights crying about it. So
Speaker 2: I did feel very sorry for her. But interestingly, the
Speaker 2: company medi Makeover countersued for a breach of contract and defamation.
Speaker 2: So representatives of the company claimed that Sky didn't wear
Speaker 2: her compression bra for the suggested time and performed chess
Speaker 2: based exercises when she wasn't supposed to. It's quite funny
Speaker 2: because the evidence they pulled up to back their claims
Speaker 2: were photos of Sky from Instagram of her walking her
Speaker 2: dog without the compression bra, and also a photo of
Speaker 2: her doing a plank at the gym not long after
Speaker 2: the surgery. So what did Kyle rule? So he actually
Speaker 2: ruled in favor of medi makeovers and said that you
Speaker 2: know that she didn't do the right thing and that
Speaker 2: she needed to apologize. Sky conceded, saying, I did breach
Speaker 2: the contract. Yeah, they probably could have sued me for
Speaker 2: doing that. Well. She actually ended up spending twenty eight
Speaker 2: thousand dollars on corrective surgery and got that done in Australia,
Speaker 2: and speaking about the surgery, she said, I'm having to
Speaker 2: fork out a lot of money to fix my boobs.
Speaker 2: They're too big and fake and are still wonky. It
Speaker 2: is really crazy to look back at twenty fifteen when
Speaker 2: she had the first boob job to see the reporting,
Speaker 2: because there was this disgusting article written by The Daily
Speaker 2: Mail entitled Bangkok Babies out for her birthday Big Brothers.
Speaker 2: Sky Wheatley celebrates her twenty first by showing off newly
Speaker 2: enhanced chest alongside pouting power Kurt Coleman. Is it wrong
Speaker 2: that I still think that that headline would fly on
Speaker 2: the Daily Mail? Now? Look, they haven't moved on that much.
Speaker 2: So in the article, it said Sky Wheatley wanted to
Speaker 2: showcase her new boobs aka her bangcock babies as she
Speaker 2: celebrated her twenty first birthday over the weekend. The article
Speaker 2: went on to say the blonde two roaster fame on
Speaker 2: the twenty fourteen installment of Big Brother Australia thanks to
Speaker 2: her airhead person owner and temper tantrums, left little to
Speaker 2: the imagination in her skin tight cookye dress.
Speaker 1: God that took me back.
Speaker 2: They also quoted her as saying that she wants to
Speaker 2: pose for Maxim in a bikini, but she doesn't find
Speaker 2: topless modeling classy. She was then quoted as calling Kim
Speaker 2: Kardashian money hungry and fame hungry for posing nude and
Speaker 2: said I'm not that desperate. Hopefully I can get publicity
Speaker 2: in a classy way now. In December twenty sixteen, Sky
Speaker 2: shed her nose job vlog, which was very new for
Speaker 2: the time, and she started off by saying, I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to harm this generation by putting it out here,
Speaker 2: and she documented each day of her recovery process and
Speaker 2: spoke about how painful the surgery was, and she kept
Speaker 2: talking about being worried about having a pig nose. It
Speaker 2: did make me laugh because her nose was very swollen,
Speaker 2: and she also spoke about the not so glamorous sides
Speaker 2: of plastic surgery, talking about how constipated the medicine made her.
Speaker 2: I feel like this really was the beginning of people
Speaker 2: using YouTube as somewhat of a Google search in terms
Speaker 2: of looking up what will it be like if I
Speaker 2: want to have a nose job, what will the process
Speaker 2: be like?
Speaker 1: What will the recovery be like?
Speaker 2: It's ironic that you say that, because at the end
Speaker 2: of the vlog, Sky said, I've been frantically googling stuff
Speaker 2: about rhinoplasty, which is what I should have done in
Speaker 2: the first place. So I didn't freak out. But when
Speaker 2: does Sky Whitley ever do her research? Never so was
Speaker 2: this a gifted nose job? No, she actually paid for
Speaker 2: this one. She flew to Sydney to have it done,
Speaker 2: so she wasn't trying out any more plastic surgery overseas.
Speaker 2: I do remember a vlog where she entitled it that
Speaker 2: her nose was falling off. I mean, obviously to get views,
Speaker 2: but I mean I think everyone was really curious to
Speaker 2: watch this process. I did like that she was pretty
Speaker 2: honest about it, like it did look horrible, and she
Speaker 2: spoke about being in a lot of pain and showed
Speaker 2: all the swelling. I think it would have probably put
Speaker 2: a lot of people off. I think another huge part
Speaker 2: of Sky's ability to stay relevant was the friends that
Speaker 2: she hung around. So in twenty seventeen, she befriended the
Speaker 2: girl Shanni Grimman, as well as their bestie Michael Finch,
Speaker 2: and Sky quickly began infiltrating Shanny's famous friendship group through
Speaker 2: Michael Finch, who used to be a bit big fan
Speaker 2: of Big Brother. Now Michael Finch became a permanent fixture
Speaker 2: of Sky's channel, and she often appeared in the background
Speaker 2: of some of his vlogs. I feel like she would
Speaker 2: really try and turn it on whenever she was in
Speaker 2: Michael's blogs, also on her own like she seemed to
Speaker 2: be a bit of a performing monkey, like I remember
Speaker 2: she used to be famous for making these orgasm sounds.
Speaker 2: And there was this iconic vlog I was watching while
Speaker 2: I was researching this topic about Splendor in the Grass,
Speaker 2: and she kept screaming famous, Actually, let's throw to a
Speaker 2: clip because I'm not doing it justice.
Speaker 6: Whorum Baum, Famous, Famous, Famous, Famous, Famous, Famous Simouth Tamas
Speaker 6: famous claws.
Speaker 2: It was pretty obvious she was in awe of this
Speaker 2: group of friends. And I did some digging and I
Speaker 2: found an old Q and A that Sky had done
Speaker 2: after coming out of the Big Brother House, and she
Speaker 2: actually revealed that Sharnie Grimmond was her celebrity crush.
Speaker 1: Let's have a listen.
Speaker 7: Who are your celebrity crushes? Probably Tammy Hambrow and Shiny.
Speaker 7: Would you classify down celebrities?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't really follow celebrities as such. I just stalk
Speaker 7: people on Instagram, So for me, they are like celebrities.
Speaker 7: They are like the two cheeks that are stalk daily.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do you guys remember that infamous trip that they all
Speaker 2: did to New York.
Speaker 1: Oh, wasn't that the beginning of the end for this group?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You could tell that they were also pissed off with
Speaker 2: each other, and it's come out in numerous YouTube videos
Speaker 2: since they all had massive fights with each other. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're actually going to get into that friendship bust up
Speaker 2: in another Outspoken Plus episode. For those who can't remember,
Speaker 2: the people that were on that group trip were Shani Grimman,
Speaker 2: Michael Finch, Lilly Brown, and Rannie Bransbey. Of course, Skuy
Speaker 2: Wheatley was there annoying everyone.
Speaker 9: They all know it, we know it, you know it.
Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, you're right. I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 6: Shut a vanilla syrup because.
Speaker 7: I mean new yucka no, no, made.
Speaker 4: You care?
Speaker 7: Now we're renew ya.
Speaker 1: I think she was really getting on Shanny's nerves.
Speaker 2: You could see in her face because there is a
Speaker 2: clip where Sky is vlogging and you can tell that
Speaker 2: Shanny just wants to get the fuck out of there,
Speaker 2: and not being a vlog you just basically snub Sky
Speaker 2: in the videos. To be fair to Shanny, I think
Speaker 2: that's because she was apparently being left out by Michael
Speaker 2: Finch for the entire trip, but we'll go into that
Speaker 2: in another series. I also think it's because Shanny is
Speaker 2: an introvert, whereas Sky is clearly an extrovert. She probably
Speaker 2: needed some time away from the group recharging her batteries.
Speaker 2: Well have you ever watched Sky's blog and it literally
Speaker 2: seems like it's not been edited and goes for like
Speaker 2: an hour and I can't watch anymore.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: In a time where phrases like couple goals were trending
Speaker 2: and influencers were only sharing highlights from their relationships. Sky
Speaker 2: Wheatley again was bucking the trend, so she wasn't afraid
Speaker 2: to share the ups and downs of the relationships that
Speaker 2: she was in, and she really did give her followers
Speaker 2: an all access pass into her life to the point
Speaker 2: where she would include full blown arguments with her partners
Speaker 2: in vlogs. And in the early days, she shared about
Speaker 2: her relationship with this trade called Cam. I mean, there
Speaker 2: were a million red flags with that guy in the vlogs.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I watched one where she was talking about him doing
Speaker 2: a very smelly pooh and he kind of reminded me
Speaker 2: of LOCKI like, just the way he spoke was very similar,
Speaker 2: and the way she spoke to him, She's like Horney.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: And Sky admits that as soon as she broke up
Speaker 2: with Cam, she jumped on Tinder and started talking to
Speaker 2: this new guy, Locky War. So this was around November
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, and I really loved this era of the
Speaker 2: vlogs because Lockie did become a permanent fixture very quickly,
Speaker 2: and they do look like one of those brother and
Speaker 2: sister couples.
Speaker 1: You can tell a lot of the time.
Speaker 2: He does not want to be filmed though, like he
Speaker 2: is happy to just give her nothing and basically tell
Speaker 2: her a fuck off.
Speaker 1: Well she's filming.
Speaker 2: There's been so many iconic vlogs of when Sky and
Speaker 2: Lockey first started dating. I love the ones when Sky
Speaker 2: first met Lockie's parents and you could just tell that
Speaker 2: they still didn't like her. It's like, what the hell,
Speaker 2: because it's clear that Lockie's parents were quite well to do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they had a bit of money, and I remember it
Speaker 2: was around Christmas time and I don't know if it
Speaker 2: was on Christmas Day or whatever, but they caught up
Speaker 2: for this fancy dinner and Sky literally gave zero fuck.
Speaker 2: She had the vlogging camera out at dinner, she was
Speaker 2: filming the parents. She was all over Lockie and you
Speaker 2: could just see how uncomfortable the whole family felt. I
Speaker 2: feel like my favorite Lockie and Sky vlog is when
Speaker 2: they did that McDonald's muk bunk and went off about
Speaker 2: having no sweet and sour soil. So why didn't you
Speaker 2: get why didn't you check Lockie? Well, to be fair,
Speaker 2: that is very annoying when that happens, and it's just
Speaker 2: so crazy because she seemed to move into Lockey's house
Speaker 2: straight away, and Lockie works as a shop fitter and
Speaker 2: at the time he was recently building his own house.
Speaker 2: They were doing up the garden together and they were
Speaker 2: doing these mini renos. I just remember watching with my
Speaker 2: partner Brandon, and it's so funny because there was sort
Speaker 2: of something for the men and the women, because the
Speaker 2: men liked seeing the reno's and the girls liked seeing
Speaker 2: Sky just being hilarious. It's pretty well because they were
Speaker 2: actually only to get yeah for four months when they
Speaker 2: discovered that Sky was pregnant, and they did break the
Speaker 2: news at the three month mark on Instagram, sharing a
Speaker 2: really cute photo of them sitting amongst a ton of
Speaker 2: cactus plants, gazing at each other with a baby balloon
Speaker 2: in the background, and Sky wrote in the caption, We're pregnant.
Speaker 2: Couldn't think of anything better than starting a family with
Speaker 2: this handsome man.
Speaker 1: They of course, also.
Speaker 2: Broke the news on Sky's YouTube channel with a thirty
Speaker 2: three minute long vlog where they showed them breaking the
Speaker 2: news to their shocked family members.
Speaker 1: Let's throw to Lockie's mum's reaction.
Speaker 5: We've got a little surprise for you. What what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Sky clips Sky's pregnant. What Yeah, no, it's not
Speaker 3: a joke.
Speaker 5: Really yeah, yes, she's pregnant. You're gonna have some more grandkids. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't think so not. Yeah yeah sort of yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: thank you. You're on the oud speaker too, and you're
Speaker 5: being filmed.
Speaker 6: Hi Jane.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So that was Lockie's mom's reaction. I'd say she
Speaker 4: was like, well, I could tell she was super shocked
Speaker 4: at the start, and then she started to think about
Speaker 4: it and it's sunk in. She got like over the
Speaker 4: top excited because she started crying, which is like really cute.
Speaker 2: I feel sorry for Locke's mum because it's a bit
Speaker 2: harsh that they recorded her without her knowledge. I love
Speaker 2: how so deep into the conversation, Lockie's like, oh, by
Speaker 2: the way, you're on loud speaker and Sky's here, and
Speaker 2: then she's.
Speaker 1: Like, hi, Lucky's man.
Speaker 2: Do you think Sky was so naive that she actually
Speaker 2: thought Locky's mum was genuinely excited?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: I think that maybe Locky's mom sort of brought it
Speaker 2: back a bit, like maybe we didn't see a bit
Speaker 2: of the groveling afterwards, because it was quite clear that
Speaker 2: she was not in press, would you be like, after
Speaker 2: your son dating this girl for four months who shoved
Speaker 2: a camera in your face and his family opportunities.
Speaker 1: It was just super awkward.
Speaker 2: That's the only word di Can needs to describe the audio.
Speaker 2: Well Sky actually found out that she was pregnant once
Speaker 2: she and Locke returned from a trip to Balley.
Speaker 1: And this is really.
Speaker 2: Awkward audio that I will plan a second because she
Speaker 2: said that she realized she was sick because on the
Speaker 2: plane she was drinking a lot, and then the next
Speaker 2: day she felt really unwell, but it wasn't the normal
Speaker 2: hangover unwell feeling.
Speaker 1: Let's throw to the clip.
Speaker 6: Well, I could pretty much already tell that I was
Speaker 6: pregnant because I'd had a bit to drink on the plane,
Speaker 6: Like I had some red wine on the plane.
Speaker 8: I think I had like three or four glasses of
Speaker 8: red wine. And the next morning I woke up feeling
Speaker 8: so so sick. So I was like, hm, I might
Speaker 8: be pregnant because like, normally my hangovers aren't that bad
Speaker 8: and I don't feel like that shit. So I kind
Speaker 8: of had a fair idea and I was like, yep,
Speaker 8: we really need to go get a pregnancy test. So
Speaker 8: we went and did that, and I peed on the
Speaker 8: stick and it was positive.
Speaker 6: In case y'all thought I was lying, here's the proof.
Speaker 2: Probably some of those details could have been left out
Speaker 2: of the pregnancy announced in it.
Speaker 1: I also thought it was.
Speaker 2: Classic how she had the pregnancy stick to prove to
Speaker 2: everyone that she was in fact pregnant because no one
Speaker 2: believed her. That's how she shocking this news was at
Speaker 2: the time. Well. During a recent interview on The Unhinged podcast,
Speaker 2: Guy explained that they weren't using any protection and were
Speaker 2: open to the idea of having a baby together.
Speaker 1: Straight away, Let's row to what she said.
Speaker 9: It wasn't necessarily an accident because we did talk about it.
Speaker 9: We were like, we're like happy for it to happen.
Speaker 9: If it happens, it happens, you know. So we weren't trying,
Speaker 9: but we weren't preventing. Yeah, so that happened. Felt pregnant first,
Speaker 9: go took a pregnancy test, found out I was pregnant.
Speaker 9: I honestly kind of freaked out. Lockie was really happy.
Speaker 9: He was actually really.
Speaker 3: Cute to see.
Speaker 7: That's really nice.
Speaker 8: It was cute to see.
Speaker 9: His reaction, like he was actually stoked. But he was
Speaker 9: a little bit older than me, but still.
Speaker 2: I was quite surprised to hear that this was somewhat planned,
Speaker 2: that the two of them were open to starting a
Speaker 2: family so young together, because you don't really hear about
Speaker 2: that anymore. So it was nice to hear that Locke
Speaker 2: was really genuinely excited to find out this news. I mean,
Speaker 2: they probably were in a bit of a honeymoon stage
Speaker 2: their relationship, and I do feel like once people have kids,
Speaker 2: they probably want to go and put out on the record.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it was kind of planned.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: Not long after the announcement, Sky opened up about a
Speaker 2: health scare she experience during an early ultrasound. So She
Speaker 2: said she was concerned about the development of her unborn
Speaker 2: baby since she was drinking heavily on her holiday before
Speaker 2: she found out she was pregnant. So Sky told NW
Speaker 2: magazine that the sonographer couldn't find the nasal bone of
Speaker 2: the baby, which can be the first sign of down syndrome.
Speaker 2: She said when they went back for their thirteen week scan,
Speaker 2: the nasal bone was then visible in the scans. I
Speaker 2: had forgotten about this because this would have been incredibly scary,
Speaker 2: especially for a.
Speaker 1: Young couple to find this out.
Speaker 2: It brings me back to Sarah's day, obviously telling her
Speaker 2: audience that something was wrong in her pregnancy. From memory,
Speaker 2: Sky did open up about this once she had the
Speaker 2: all clear. It's a real blast from the past to
Speaker 2: hear about NW magazine, even though it wasn't that long
Speaker 2: ago now, the early stages of Sky's pregnant see well
Speaker 2: quite eventful. She did lose her license for six months now.
Speaker 2: She had previously lost her license in twenty thirteen before
Speaker 2: appearing on Big Brother for driving under the influence of alcohol,
Speaker 2: and in a separate occasion, also lost all but one
Speaker 2: demerit point for speeding. Sky did open up in a
Speaker 2: Q and A saying she lost her license for speeding
Speaker 2: in a school zone. She explained she was on her
Speaker 2: way to F forty five and thought the school zone
Speaker 2: was over, however it was still very much in place.
Speaker 2: She said she drove sixty kilometers in a forty kilometer area.
Speaker 2: Not a good look speeding in a school zone. But
Speaker 2: I mean when you hear that, you think that someone's
Speaker 2: absolutely fanging it.
Speaker 1: But she was clearly doing sixty ks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you would assume that it was fifty k's
Speaker 2: in the area. Well true, I mean maybe not on
Speaker 2: a main road.
Speaker 1: Some schools in the main road.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, she had only one demerit point left, so
Speaker 2: she did immediately lose her license for a month. I
Speaker 2: do recall just before she gave birth, she was out
Speaker 2: shopping for like a push present car and Lockie bought
Speaker 2: her like this flash car even though she couldn't drive.
Speaker 2: You know what was so funny in the video where
Speaker 2: she's opening up about losing her license, She's like, as
Speaker 2: soon as they get in my car, I'm gonna fuck shit. Uh,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna stick to all of the road rules.
Speaker 2: Do you guys remember the buzz around her pregnancy though,
Speaker 2: because it was around Christmas time and she was sharing
Speaker 2: constantly on her stories about you know, is this the day.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give birth?
Speaker 2: And it ended up it was Christmas Eve in twenty
Speaker 2: eighteen when she gave birth to her first child, Forest,
Speaker 2: and she actually broke the news on Christmas Day, sharing
Speaker 2: a photo of Forest bundled up in a blanket with
Speaker 2: the captions so in love and I think there was
Speaker 2: a bit of debate about whether Sky would actually share
Speaker 2: a photo of Forest, or perhaps if she was going
Speaker 2: to set up a magazine deal. Well, in the first photo,
Speaker 2: she was quite strategic because she did cut out Forest's space.
Speaker 2: She also then hours later posted up a photo of
Speaker 2: Lockie cradling the baby and wrote best Christmas present and
Speaker 2: you could sort of make out his face. But it
Speaker 2: wasn't until a week or so later that she uploaded
Speaker 2: a labor vlog where she revealed Forest. So she didn't
Speaker 2: have any deal in place, she just announced it immediately.
Speaker 2: As we all expected, Sky did not hold back in
Speaker 2: the labor vog. It did go for thirty three minutes,
Speaker 2: and you really felt like a fly on the wall
Speaker 2: as she was going through her first contractions. She also
Speaker 2: showed herself driving to the hospital and puffing back on morphine,
Speaker 2: saying she felt like she was off her face. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and we also saw the first moment that Forest was
Speaker 2: put on her chest for the first time. Her pregnancy
Speaker 2: was a couple of months before Sarah's day, so I
Speaker 2: feel like it was really that time when there was
Speaker 2: so much anticipation of these influencer kids, and it was
Speaker 2: the first time a lot of us were seeing these
Speaker 2: labor vlogs in full swing. What do we think of
Speaker 2: the name?
Speaker 1: I wasn't a fan of the name.
Speaker 2: I say that in knowing our best friend's dog is
Speaker 2: actually called Forest, I feel like it's more of an
Speaker 2: animal's name. Yeah, it's a nice name for a dog.
Speaker 2: I just think of Forest Gump. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 2: do think it suits him. Now, these names always grow
Speaker 2: on me. It's sort of like Sarah's Day's child Fox.
Speaker 2: I mean, now, I couldn't think of him being anything
Speaker 2: else but not my personal cup of tea. Well, that
Speaker 2: is where we are going to leave you today. In
Speaker 2: next week's episode, we will dive headfirst into sky Wheatley's
Speaker 2: biggest controversies, promaccusations of racism and cultural appropriation to the
Speaker 2: shaming of domestic violence victims. This episode was recorded on
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