WEBVTT - DANCING WITH ANGIE KENT! 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.720 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:05.720 TV Reload the podcast last week. Don't welcome back guys 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:08.640 to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris and on this 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.720 podcast I go behind the scenes with the biggest players 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:12.360 in television. 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:13.440 Yeah, great questions. 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:15.600 The show's about the game. 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On the podcast, I have Angie Kent, 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.960 who you might know as a darling of reality television 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:57.200 from goggle Box to the Jungle, from the Bachelorette to 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.280 the dance Floor. There isn't a network or production company 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.080 that hasn't hit her up for a job in the 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.080 last few years. Angie wears a heart on her sleeve 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.520 and is one of the most relatable personalities on the 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.000 TV circuit. I feel like we have only just seen 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:13.959 the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.880 Angie is capable of. And if you can't get enough 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.080 of the Pine size Queenslander with her presence on Telly, 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.680 you can catch her with her best friend ev Jones 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.959 on their weekly podcast Two Girls, One Pot. Today we'll 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.240 be talking Dancing with the Stars, which we'll see Angie 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.800 return to the popular format. The All Stars Juggernaut is 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.840 on Channel seven Sunday night at seven point thirty, and 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.480 while I've been lucky enough to see this week's episode 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:43.040 ahead of this chat, I can't recommend enough the chance 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.520 to watch Angie on Sunday Night perform with her partner 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.600 as I'm still bump into the moves and will no 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.960 doubt be rewatching it as that episode goes live. We 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.320 will talk behind the scenes, future projects and all that's 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.600 in between. There's plenty more coming up in the chat, 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.680 and without further ado, I'd like to welcome Angie Kent 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:02.920 to TV reload. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.560 When I was little, I would watch Dancing with the 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.760 Stars Welcome You're Dancing by the Stars All Stars twenty 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.840 twenty two. On the first episode, it looks like that 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:14.880 we're having a punch. 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.400 Up time for reality star Angie Kent. 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.440 I'm never going to remember all these borhroom moves. So 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.360 I'm looking at Angie now and she's just got this 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.440 awesome energy about it. I think Edie and I would 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.760 be up coming back for like us season. You've got 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:29.600 something more to give and I want to see it. 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.960 I think it's important to really just own who you 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.960 are and just do you. Life's so short, and so 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:36.839 I'm predicted more. 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:38.560 Hi, Angie, how are you? 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.800 I'm good, Benjamin, how are you? You know? 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.680 This is really strange doing a podcast with someone you 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:45.880 know personally. 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.280 Yeah, because you have to be like professional. We're not 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.480 too professional where it's like I know who you are. 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:50.640 You don't have to talk to me like that. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.440 I know, I know. And I should start by saying 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.920 congratulations on your time on Dancing with the Stars. I 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:58.400 couldn't be more excited for you. 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.320 I know, what a whirlwind. Here I was thinking I 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.000 would a never get the opportunity to do it again 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.120 because the first time was quite a I don't know, 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.520 cluster fuck of sorrow. And then where I am doing 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.200 it again two years later? Who would have funk it? 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.720 What made you say yes to returning to Dancing with 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:17.919 the Stars or God? 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.360 I figured like, I was like, I'm gonna put my 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.680 reality TV shoes up now because I've done you know, 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.320 well not so many. I do three back to back, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.560 and I was kind of like, yeah, that's enough now. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.960 But then I thought dancing would probably be the only 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.280 one that I would do because the first time round, 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.760 I don't remember it at all because I was so 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.440 exhausted got coming from the jungle bachelorette straight onto the 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.760 dance floor. I hardly remember any of it, and I 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.400 just wasn't myself. I was a bad nerves So I 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.680 was like, yeah, this is perfect, Like I get to 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.520 do it and this time I get to remember it. 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.320 Well, I've been lucky enough to see this week's dance 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.240 and I can't get over how good you were. I 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.120 simply can't wait for Australia to see this. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.800 Really proud of myself and I had so much more 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.800 fun and I think that was the main point of 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.920 me doing this is that I just wanted to have 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:06.680 fun this time. 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.120 How much preparation did you put into this and what 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.200 was your process like this time around? Was it different? 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.920 Well, it's such a completely different format. So Dancing with 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.320 the Stars last time it was like, I think we 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:22.000 had seven weeks maybe leading up to the first episode, 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:26.680 where you only really learn one dance and then you 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.680 started your next one. But this time you had four 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:33.239 weeks dancing full time with no like without the show, 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.279 and then you have to learn seven dances in that 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.039 four weeks because you never know when you're going to 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.320 get voted off, So you know, I learned every single 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.479 dance for each night, and its kind of just goes 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.880 like one person goes one night, second or third night, 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.040 four nights, so so fast, and you put in all 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.400 this work. Literally you can be voted off the first night. 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.640 You already have six dances up to sleep, so it's 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.480 pretty full off. You're exhausted by the time the show 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.919 starts and the show's kind of over really quick. 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:02.279 What kind of commitment, like time wise, is involved with 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.120 a show like this? Were you there every day. 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.440 You were doing so I flew in from Queensland straight 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.320 into the pandemic. Sydney was in full lockdown at that point, 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.160 so it was quite like daunting, and I was like, oh, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:14.960 do I want to leave a state where it's like 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.159 we haven't been hit by the pandemic to go into 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.960 Sydney's full lockdown. So you kind of just like went 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.480 to the studio, came home to where they set you 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.280 up in a hotel, and like that's all you do. 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.599 So I'd go to the studio at like nine and 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.920 finish at like three or four, and I'd do that 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.000 Monday to Friday, and then sometimes Saturdays we do like 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.800 three or four hours. So you're really, really you're exhausted, 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:37.800 and then you have one week to kind of learn 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:39.760 the first dance, but then by the second week they're like, 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:42.400 you need to start learning the second dance, the third dance, 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.920 the fourth dance, the fifteenth just in case you stay 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.359 until the end. So by the time the show starts, 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.080 you kind of forget your first dance and you got 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.400 to kind of touch on it again. I don't even 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.360 know how our brains remember it, but there must be 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.640 something in the brain that just holds onto things. Because 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.680 I was like, nah, I'm never going to remember all 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.280 these borroom moves a little. 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.599 Bertie told me that as productions started, they gave the 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.000 celebrities a chance to get out of the show due 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.000 to COVID. You know, so for people listening to this podcast, 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.280 they pre recorded Dancing with the Stars and it happened 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:15.360 in New South Wales at a really hectic time of lockdowns. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:20.040 What when they offered you the chance to leave the show? 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.520 What was that process like in your mind? 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:27.080 Yeah? That was so full on. So I actually wanted 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.920 to take it, so I said. I spoke to Julian 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:31.960 and I was like, I've got my movie premiere. It's 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.280 my first movie, and I really like I promised to 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.760 my director that I only took dancing if I could 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:38.960 come back, and they made all the promises that i'd 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.000 be back as well. We promised we'll get you back 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:42.680 as soon as the show's done, You're back, and I 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.760 was like, all right, I'll sign the contract. But little 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.039 did they know that Anastasia was going to shut the 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.120 border and they gave us the opportunity that were like, 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.760 lots of people are you can leave if you want, 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:53.520 And I was like, all right, I'm going to call 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.640 up and I'm going to check. So I applied to leave, 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.400 and the day I applied, I did not get an 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.279 answer until the day I was allowed to leave. So 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.440 even if I did apply, I still wasn't allowed to 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.920 leave the state until I think it was I waited 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:09.800 three months for an answer for her to say you 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:10.480 can come back home. 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.400 Did anyone leave? Did anyone leave the commitment? 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.960 I think a lot of people, well a lot of 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.000 them were from Melbourne, so they were able to leave. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:24.280 There was only me and I think three other professional 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.080 dancers that they just said that they'd stay and they 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:29.920 got stuck as long as I did as well, So 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:31.960 there was four of us all up that got stuck 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.480 out of our home state for three months, three and 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:35.160 a half months. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.320 It is such a huge commitment. I'm always interested if 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:43.280 the celebrities know who their dancing partners will be. Did 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.240 you know that Julian would be back to take you 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:46.080 through the dances? 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:51.480 No, so I was. I knew I knew that I was. 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.360 I mean, I don't think you're supposed to say that 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.480 because we pretend we don't know, but we do know, 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.240 because before you sign, they're like, oh, the beauty of 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.480 this is you know, it's Dancing at the Stars, all Stars. 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.320 So if you can be reunited with your original partner, 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.160 it's kind of like a nice story behind that. Plus 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.320 you get through the first, you know, awkward stage of 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.560 having to get to know somebody quite personally quite quickly. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.640 But I didn't have Julian for the first week. He 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.560 had to do because he came from a hot spot. 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.160 He had to do a week hotel quarantine in the 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.040 poor thing. So I had a different dancer for the 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.720 first week. So Julian and I only had three weeks together. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.360 I know this is a little cheeky to ask, but 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:30.040 I loved watching you in the background, knowing you as 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.960 I do. You were very expressive with Julian. Did Is 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.480 there a bit of a love hate relationship that happens 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:37.480 with your dance partner? 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:44.960 Oh my god, Oh yeah, yes, so I did see 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.839 you on the first episode. It looks like that we're 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.000 having a punch up, like a verbal punch up, but 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.320 when not, we were fully just that's just me talking. 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.679 Just I'm so I use so much expression, which I'm 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.720 surprised I can do because I've got so much photos. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.440 I talk with my entire high pace and I was 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.040 looking and I was like, all that looks like I 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.520 was cross. But we were literally probably just like bitching 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.080 about me and I would have been just carrying off, 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.080 but we do. He was like, he's like my little brother. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.200 I just love watching you be yourself. Is it quite 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:17.319 surreal to see TV legends Darryl Summers and Sonya Krueger 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.360 back on this show. Did this time feel more celebrated 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.720 or more impactful because it was a return to that 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:25.680 og brand. 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.720 Yeah. When I was little, I would watch Dancing with 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:30.880 the Stars and I would just be like, oh my gosh, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.319 it's such a magical show. And it was a bit 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.240 different when it was with ten. I think they tried 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.160 to like really jazz it up and modernize it. But 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.440 this type of show, it's ballroom. You don't need to 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.959 like modernize ballroom. That's the beauty of ballroom is that 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.240 it's like old school and beautiful. So to be back 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.600 there and have it like you know, Channel seven style 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.520 with Sonya and Darryl, I was like I couldn't believe 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.560 I was there. I felt it felt really weird. And 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.360 then to meet Darryl, like I used to watch you 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.920 on Hey, Hey, it's Saturday. I've never met Sonya before. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:09:59.200 It was super surreal. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.480 Beast there with Darryl Summers. I can't even imagine what 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.440 that would be like. But what did it feel like 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.319 for you? And was there something that you took away 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:09.720 from that experience? 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:14.080 Yeah, it was kind of like I had to I forget. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.199 You know, some of these people are probably so used 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:17.840 to being around people like that. Even though I've been 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.520 in the industry now for a few years post Google Box, 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.360 I still pinch myself because I still am that girl 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.080 that just you know, was from the Sunshine Cors, lived 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.120 with her mate with seven dogs and watch TV Like 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.480 that's still me at my core. So when I get 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.800 to meet these people, I still see them as people 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.160 that I watch on TV, even though I've been on TV. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.199 Do you know what I mean? Like I'm chatting right 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.480 now with Darryl. It's weird, Like I get all awkward 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.520 and I say really stupid shit. I notice when I'm nervous, 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.839 I either go really quiet, really polite, or I can't 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.120 stop swearing. So I hope I didn't swear too much. 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.160 Well, there's the headline right there, and you can't swears. 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:55.600 Darryl Summers I know. 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.560 If people would hate me, let's be the next thing 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.760 is like, who swears at Daryl Summers? Ont of more 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:00.199 of You. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.440 Also got to see some pretty amazing celebrities that joined 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:07.240 you on this series. Who was the most impressive to watch? 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.240 You know? As you got to see the other dancers perform. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:14.200 Oh my god, I was like a little school kid embarrassingly. 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.400 This is why I got really nervous with Courtney Courtney Act. 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.120 I've been watching Courtney Act for so long. I followed 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.120 all of Courtney slash Shane's work when they were in 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.559 London because I'm a massive London TV like I love 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.840 all the English programs and like all the English reality TV. 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.839 I'm a sucker for So when I got to meet 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.040 Courtney in flesh and then obviously shame, I was just like, 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.640 oh my god, Like what I had to call my 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.800 mum because we're obsessed with Courtney. That was the main 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.040 one for me. I was like, I can't believe I 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.200 get to dance. I wish I wasn't on the same 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.280 team as Courtney. I mean, you can't compete with Courtney. 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:46.000 Nobody cat. 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.680 I was watching Courtney's first dance and I think I 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.240 texted you at the time, I felt like they must 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:55.319 have needed special effects to get into some of those positions. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.200 What was it like to see that dance in the fleshy. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.240 That's just Courtney. There was no special unless there's something 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.720 different they've added that I haven't seen. But watching her 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.440 and her partner, Josh, who I'm in love with, they're 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:12.120 both so divine. Watching them together is just like watching 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.679 pure magic. They're just sensational, and that the chemistry they 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.319 have together, it's just magnetic, like it looks like special 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.040 effects because it's just like real life. It's unfair. Nobody 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:23.800 should have to dance next to Courtney and Josh it. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:24.800 She just shouldn't be allowed. 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.960 And of course I want you to win, but you know, 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:29.840 do you have a pick as to who you think 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.160 is going to take out the competition? 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:36.240 I would I would like Courtney to win because I 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:40.440 think that they definitely got rob the first time when 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:45.000 they came when she came second. But there's so much 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:49.200 talent this season, Like everybody is so good. David is amazing, Grant, 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:54.600 Daniel is amazing. I reckon, yeah, out of Dave, Courtney 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.400 or Grant, they're all so amazing to watch. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:59.840 We should have that as Angie's footy tips, you know, 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:01.240 like heard a bed on sports Bet. 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.120 Yeah, that's all hint for you. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.640 So with Celebrity goggle Box returning, I really hope to 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.960 see you and Evie back in that format. I think, 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:11.880 you know, you both would have been great and it 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.679 could have been a real full circle opportunity to acknowledge 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.560 sort of how far you two girls have come. What 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.200 are your thoughts on goggle Box and would you ever 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:21.080 return to that show? 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.640 I love google Box actually doing twenty four hour goggle 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.400 Box marathon on a pop up channel on Boxtel as 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.320 we speak. So Evie and I have been watching it 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.840 because I'm at home healing at the moment post surgery, 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:33.679 and Evie and I have been watching it and just 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.640 texting each other because I have forgotten how amazing that 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.480 show is. I can't wait for Celebrity goggle Box. When 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.320 I saw that they got the Erwins on there, I 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.240 had to like hinch myself because I'm just obsessed with 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.240 the Irwins. I'm such a sticko for them. But yeah, like, look, 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.040 I don't think Evie and I would be classified as 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.520 celebrity goggle Boxes just because like, I don't know, I 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.199 don't know would we I don't feel like we. I 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.280 feel like we've just come back on as like Google Boxes. Again, 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:02.560 I don't family. Goggle Box family would quite like us 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.480 to be. I think they'd be like, wait a minute, 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.040 why don't you just come back on and be with us, 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.520 which I would probably prefer than the celebrity one. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.520 You guys are celebrities now. You know you've been the Bachelorette, 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.920 You've been a celebrity in the jungle. The proof is 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.600 in that title. Did they ask you to come back 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.280 to goggle Box for the celebrity edition? 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.200 I mean, they didn't ask us, but maybe if they 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.480 did another one, I would be up for it. I 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.400 don't know if it's too far gone now and they 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.920 might be a little bit like, no, you left, so 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.120 you can't come back. I don't know how they I mean, 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.360 they let Adam and Simon come back for just the 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.040 standard Google Box, so maybe they'd let us do celebrity. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.000 Maybe they'd let us do standard. I think Evie and 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.160 I would be up for coming back for like us season. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.040 It'd be different because we know everybody we're judging now 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.480 or talking about. I watch some of it now and 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.560 I'm like, oh, mate, Like you can't say that, Like 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.000 I ring at my twenty six year old self, my 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:56.400 twenty six year old undiagnosed celiac swollen face self. I'm like, 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.520 ill shut your little tiny swollen face. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.240 You know. Would have been fun is if Bidding came 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:04.840 down with the flu and you had to fill in 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.280 and that you were then sitting with the Irwins. 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.800 God, I would be so nervous and awkward, That's what 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.920 I would be, really polite and I'd be like, yes, 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:14.600 missus Irwin. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.520 She's like, eh, I can imagine you'd be goggle boxing 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:18.400 them in real life. 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.920 Awkward. I'd like, still staring at me, your sicker. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.440 I also want to say, I'm really appreciative of how 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.720 vocal you are about dating shows these days and talking 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.280 about it on social media. Do you kind of feel 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.360 like you have a lot to share with that community, 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.480 with that reality TV community. 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.600 Obviously living it you gain more of an insight and 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.360 then obviously being a view are it's two different things. 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.240 I just feel like I'm one of those people that 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.200 probably offers my opinion even if people don't want to 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.680 hear it. It's just something I've always kind of done, 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.240 and I get asked to do the recaps for things 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.200 like Maths or The bachelorettam Bachelor, so obviously somebody wants 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.520 to hear it, and I just go off plastic speriences 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.600 or what I think of dating. I know it can 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.480 offend a lot of people, especially sis gender men. They 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.360 hate my opinion that my audience isn't thought, isn't them. 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.360 So if they don't like it, they don't look darling, 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:12.120 just don't look. 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.640 But I kind of think that the way you've been 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.040 able to find your voice is really important for women. 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.280 You've been sort of paving a way for people who 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.920 are in your audience to speak up. 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.880 I think so true. I feel like growing up I 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.040 was so many women were told you have to just 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:33.520 look good, don't talk back, think before you speak, And 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.080 I think it's so great now that we don't have 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.320 to do that, and you should say whatever you want, 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.800 and you should act however you want to act, and 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.760 do it for yourself, don't do it for some random 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.120 dude that probably doesn't even know your last name. We 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.000 don't need to live to serve the dudes anymore, do 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.040 you know what I mean? I think it's important to 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.520 really just own who you are and just do you. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.480 Life is so short and so unpredictable. Everybody should just 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.680 not take themselves so seriously and have fun. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:01.400 Well, I guess it's kind of your thing. I mean, 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.960 you don't take yourself too seriously. You can have an 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.160 opinion and then you have a bit of a sense 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.720 of humor about it. I guess that's probably why you've 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.800 become like the darling of reality television, is that you're 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.000 extremely accessible that way. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.520 Well I hope. So. I know I'm not everybody's cup 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.760 of tea, but you know, if you're not laughing with me, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.840 you can laugh at me, and I guarantee you're going 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.000 to be doing either of those two. But you're laughing, 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.679 So what's the problem. I'm not making you cry, so 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.119 it should be a good thing really. 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.560 Okay, So this is a real naughty question as well. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.919 What would you like to see happen as the twenty 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:39.159 twenty two Bachelor and Bachelorette seasons come back? You know, 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.879 what do you think they need to do to the format? 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:43.760 Because people are saying that it's going to get shaken up. 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.880 It's so tough because I feel as though the franchise 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:52.320 is exhausted for sure. I think that well, My season 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.040 and Matt ad New season was the last season before 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.600 COVID hit, and ever since then, ratings have just been 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.080