WEBVTT - Kyle & Leslie - THE BLOCK - Reality TV Contestants 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:03.560 TV Reload, the podcast past. 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:04.000 Deep that line. 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.520 Welcome back, guys to TV Reload. As you may know, 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:09.240 my name is Benjamin Norris and this is your podcast 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:11.920 to get all the inside goss on the popular Australian 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.880 TV shows that you may be watching from around the world. Undeniably, 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.560 our TV sets are a major part of our home entertainment, 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.280 and yet very little is known about how our favorite 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.000 shows get made. So each episode I've been finding the 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.400 guests the wanna di've just that little bit deeper into 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.880 the shows they're currently making, so that you can hear 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.800 all their exclusive stories and gain access to the biggest 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.080 names in television. I want to thank you for downloading 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:36.879 or subscribing to this podcast however you've found me. I 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.120 love hearing your feedback, so make sure you leave a 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.080 review or a comment on your chosen podcast platform. On 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:46.000 today's podcast, I have House one Western Australian contestants Kyle 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.400 and Leslie, the viewers fan favorites from The Block twenty 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.240 twenty three. This season of the Block has been making 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.000 headlines for the tension between Houses two, three and four, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:56.680 which is where we've seen a lot of the drama 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:00.680 so far, but audiences certainly haven't forgotten about File Leslie, 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.520 especially after Kyle shut down a one sided narrative at 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.760 the first Body corporate meeting. The interesting thing about Kyle 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.039 and Leslie is that you know they were a little 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.280 bit quieter through production, but have quickly become fan favorites. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.120 The Block always has divided fans over the show's format, 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.520 as some people are there for the renovations and others 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.880 are there for the drama. I think this year has 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.839 been super juicy because both are actually quite phenomenal to watch. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:27.360 As we know, this season is set amongst the family 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.440 friendly Melbourne suburb of Hampton East. The new series features 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.360 five houses designed and built in the nineteen fifties, but 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.160 all getting the Block treatment in true Channel nine style. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.720 I will talk to Kyle and Leslie about this year's 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.160 conflict and if they were worried that they would come 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.039 across as boring. We will find out how the Block 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.360 has changed their lives and what their kids think of 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.600 mum and dad when they don't get the best results. 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.920 We will talk about the word validation and if some 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:56.160 contestants need more positive reinforcement than others. Plus we will 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.440 get plenty of exclusives from behind the scenes of The 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.840 Block twenty twenty three, which has its next room revealed 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.080 this Sunday night on Channel nine and you can catch 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.120 up on nine now if you've fallen just that little 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.200 bit behind. Anyway, guys, let's bring Kyle and Leslie into 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.040 the podcast all the way from Western Australia and I 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:16.080 hope you enjoy this very fascinating episode of TV reload. Hi, 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:20.440 Leslie and Kyle, how are you very good? Very well? 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.640 I'm very invested in this season of the Block. I 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:24.600 do feel like I'm going to need some help at 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:25.080 some point. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:26.000 I'm professional. 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.320 I think I have professional help. I think we can 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:34.320 all subscribe a group booking for us all. How has 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.040 your life been, you know, for the last few weeks. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.240 How have you fitted this TV show into your life. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.760 It's quite tricky actually, like we were talking about the 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.720 other day, can be quite mentally fatiguing in discussing it 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.880 with all the people because everybody's so invested, so all 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.040 the people like in your bubble. 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.080 Then like working in a school, is you know everyone 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.080 that you work with, and there's all the parents and 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.679 there's just so many people, and if everyone's so invested in, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:02.560 you're having these conversations constantly as well as just enjoying 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:04.880 it because we're watching it the same with everyone. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.640 Else, So we don't know what's happening. We don't know 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:07.960 what's going to happen that episode. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:09.440 So I'm like, do not talk to me between the 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.160 hours of five and seven watching the show. 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.240 I just need to comprehend what's happening. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.000 I feel like you could do like a zoom chat 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.480 with just all the you know, your closest, your nearest, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.560 and your dearest, and just say to everyone you get 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.840 one question each, we're here for fifteen minutes after each episode, 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:24.640 and then leave us. 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.280 Alone because the group check gets a bit crazy. I 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.559 think someone with the Italian family. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.120 Of course, to get to a point where I ever 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.720 think to yourself, maybe we won't watch tonight's episode. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:35.800 Oh gosh, no, I could not do that. 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:37.720 Are the kids able to watch the show with you? 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.000 And do they understand what's going on? And do they 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.240 take things too personally if things aren't going mum and 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:42.800 Dad's way. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:43.520 I don't know. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:44.320 I don't think nothing. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.480 So far, they watch it with us and they love it, 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.120 and then you know, you'll come home from school and 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.320 I'll stick on Dan and Danny walk around or they're 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:53.360 fully embracing it. 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.400 But look is old enough now though that you can 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.000 sort of see like someone's talking about something, he's oh 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.960 really an he's sort of having a reaction to, you know. 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.400 What people might be saying about us sort of thing. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.680 But like, for the most part, like doing the challenges 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.600 and then watching that as well, is that was exciting 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.240 because when we were doing the challenges, we thought, oh, 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:13.880 they're really going to love this stuff like the sounds 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.680 sculpting and things like that, and then staying there with 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.400 them and they still find it as amusing when all 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.440 the little banners pop up like dining disaster and they're 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.279 just like, oh, look just for the novels is not 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:25.760 more officers. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:27.840 Yet it's a great show because it is something that 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.520 the family can watch. Sunday Lights particularly. I think you know, 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.000 half Australia seems to watch. 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.240 Yeah, yeah, And I think that was definitely, you know, 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.320 a driving factor in terms of our attitude on the 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.400 show and how we sort of you know, reacted to 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.880 whether it was the feedback wasn't you know what we wanted, 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.880 or when things were challenging that we didn't sort of, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.159 you know, let it get us down too much because 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.120 of how that might reflect for the boys watching it back, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.560 and yeah, potentially them struggling watching ours struggles. So we 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.000 decided to sort of keep a positive attitude and always 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.360 put a little positive spin on everything that was happening, 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.320 even if it wasn't sort of going away. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:01.200 I guess, do you. 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:02.800 Think once you get to the end of this series, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.200 maybe watching yourselves and seeing how you interact with others, 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.040 do you think reality TV can sort of change who 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:10.760 you are as a person or do you think that 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:11.960 this is a moment in time. 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.760 I think it's hard to say, because I think. 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.440 All along the way, we were always who we are 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.800 as people in our normal life. Like we always had 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.600 this perspective that there was life outside of this, you know, 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.760 even though you caught up in the bubble, we always 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.480 had this thing that maybe that was the kids, I 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.080 don't know, but it was this perspective of like, nothing 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.440 can be so terrible in this situation, Like you would 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.720 feel like crap and you get terrible feedback or whatever 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:35.240 it was. 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:36.520 But we always just. 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.440 Had this, well, we just keep pushing through because we're 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.720 here for the opportunity, and we've always sort of had 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.360 that perspective and even coming out of it, and you know, 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.560 of course everyone reads the comments. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:46.719 But for the most part we just laugh. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.720 Like someone's like, oh my god, I can't believe they 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.080 got given the table whatever it's a didn't feed or 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.560 something like that, because you just go, that's not it's not. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.120 Real life kind of thing. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.400 Like the situation is that the money could be end 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.320 but that particular thing that you did at. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:04.800 The time sort of if that makes sense. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.560 I think it's interesting with the two of you as well. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.240 Quite often we read on social media that you two 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.520 are the fan favorites, and it's always really funny when 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.919 you think about social hierarchy inside these shows when productions 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.960 happening versus public perception of everyone. Were you surprised to 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.080 be the couple that the fans seem to like the best. 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:23.800 Well, I don't know. 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.160 I think, you know, I think we are relatable, and 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.520 I think we give an opinion or a perspective that 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.919 people see and I don't know, they draw in too 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.720 that and go that's how I would react in that situation. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:35.840 Well, that's how I'm feeling now. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.560 Watching it, so you know, I mean, they make that 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.320 sort of connection straight away. 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:41.920 I don't know if it was the fact that. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.640 We've probably been a bit more involved in watching the 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.480 show in the past and really well, obviously we wanted 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:48.000 to be on the show. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.040 We've tried out the most out of all the couple, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:50.680 so we were. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.200 Kind of just that was our focus for a lot 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.440 of the time being there is you know, making the 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.640 most of the experience, and we sort of didn't go 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.520 off at any other tangent in terms of drama or 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.400 no creating a stir. 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.839 So there were definitely times that you felt, mean, for 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.520 lack of a better word, boring when you were there. 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.240 That's before the show's even gone to end people even 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.880 see it, because you could already see there were things 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.360 happening that were way more interesting, if you will, and 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:19.920 you kind of went, oh, are we here, Like we're 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:23.240 sort of just getting on with building and renovating and all. 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.200 That sort of stuff, and you sort of went, oh. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.360 Okay, you know, but I guess our role in that 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.000 sense was that we were there to narrate what was happening, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.640 because that's not our style to get involved, you know, 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:34.920 and have conflict with people. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.560 So then I guess the part that we played. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.520 Was to narrate on what was happening, because I mean, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.040 I s don't want to know about what's happening. 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:42.680 I want to talk about it. I don't want to 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.240 miss anything, but I just don't want it to involve me. 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.680 So yeah, I think that sort of became the part 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.840 that we played, just narrating what was happening around the 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.160 place without actually ever having a side. 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:53.400 So to speak. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.480 I think as well, they kind of know the personalities. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.240 They do a lot of psychological assessment on knowing personality 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.400 types and casting you both in there where you both 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.560 aren't going to see drama or bigger personalities and try 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.320 and beat it, but you guys still stay on your level. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.680 Yeah, I think it became pretty clear pretty early that 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.840 there was some big personalities and they were trumped anything 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.080 that we were sort of going to be able to 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.600 bring in that sort of domain. So yeah, I feel 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.160 like it was fairly obvious that where we stood in 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.840 the whole group and it was it was always going 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.080 to be drama packed because you know, I mean, everyone's 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:32.360 competing in each other's backyards and you can see when 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.200 things aren't going right at other people's houses and when 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.280 they are and yeah, it's impossible for it not to 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.280 bring tension and everything that we're seeing on TV. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.400 I think it's weird that people would say, you know, 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.440 boring or anything like that. I don't see that. I mean, Kyle, 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.920 you really did stand up for yourself and give a voice. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.920 In the first I went to say town meeting, it's 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.000 not called a town meeting. In the first the body 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.559 call all the town fucker, we got all the town 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:02.600 folk together. Oh, first meeting. You I thought people could 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.720 have been loud and obnoxious or whatever, and you two 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.640 could have easily just been quiet. But you know, you 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.080 do still speak up and put your point across. It's 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.359 just probably not aggressive, but you know, probably not as dominating, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:14.440 I guess. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.160 Yeah, And I think you know, I mean, that meeting 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.520 had gone on for quite a while up until it 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.840 when I eventually spoke up, and you know, it was, yeah, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.280 I was getting over it, and you know, there was 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.079 just a part of me that didn't like about how 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.319 it was all structured and how it was very much 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.200 It's not to blindside anyone, but then it really was 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:32.720 you know, I got to a stage where I was 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.920 like I don't. Yeah, I didn't want to impose myself 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.480 in an aggressive way or anything like that. I just 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:41.160 wanted to have an opinion and potentially have the opinion 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.120 of others that weren't going to speak up. And that's 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.280 sort of I guess who I am. I'm not someone 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.600 that gets on the front foot straight away. I, you know, 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.680 will assess what's happening and give everyone their chance to 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.960 have an opinion and not shut it down without sort 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.960 of thinking about how I want to go about it. 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.440 Like I was saying, we've been there for quite some 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:06.679 time and everyone had tried attempted to say something, and 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.920 if you weren't on board with what the narrative of 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:10.840 the meeting was, it was like, you know, you were 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.440 just getting spoken over. So I think he got to 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:13.559 the point where it was like enough. 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.440 But I guess as well, do you think that there's 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.319 been enough balance in who is being shown on the show. 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.199 It's hard because I think the storyline with there and 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.920 Ash and even the four of them, it's so relevant 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.760 to the whole experience for all of us, So I 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:33.120 think not showing it doesn't really do justice to everyone's experience. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.079 So even though it's very one side in terms of 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.480 what we're seeing. I do believe that the potentially that 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.959 will swing later on and as you know, the rest of. 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:44.000 Us get closer. 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.680 Yeah, it'll give a bit of balance and I guess 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.840 maybe give a bit of insight and so what was 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.559 happening before and what happens at the end maybe, And. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.640 It's positives coming out of that as well. 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.920 So as much as you're sort of seeing the same 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.320 people on TV all the time in a negative way, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.280 behind that, there's the positive that the relationships that we 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.840 were all starting to make with each other. And so 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.640 I think, like like Well said that that all has 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.400 to be told as part of the story because that 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.679 continued from that moment right to the end and then 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.120 beyond the show. So people are going to get a 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.640 chance to see how that developed. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.280 Watching the show back. Though, who's shocked you the most? 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.200 I guess you know both of you were there every day, 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.520 but in terms of being the most different to how 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.240 you had perceived it whilst production was on. 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:27.560 I don't know. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.560 To be honest, I'm not haven't been shocked about anything 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.120 that I've seen so far. Like, obviously you don't know 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.280 what's being said and nothing that's been said in interviews 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.480 or at anyone's house has related to you by producers. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.480 They're not trying to say, this is what someone said. 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.560 What's your response? Like that doesn't happen. 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.240 So you know you're hearing things a lot of the 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.640 time for the first time with everyone else, but you know, 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.360 I mean, you're around it still, so you would hear 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.000 other things that haven't been shown that. So what you 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.160 do see hasn't surprised me or hasn't shocked me. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.880 I guess the only thing that shop was that's how 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:02.160 early it started happening. 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:06.000 Yeah, the one gave them cap or something. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.640 Yeah, so that did shock me a little bit. Closers 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.320 like how didn't even have an opportunity to form an 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.480 opinion on anyone in the first week, And yeah, others 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.040 had obviously they hit. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.000 The ground running. I want to know is the drama 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:21.760 still going? I mean, do you know if Steph and 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.720 Christy and Leah are they are they all friends now? Like, 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:26.600 are we heading to a happier place with the three 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.280 of them? Or do you think that this is the 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:29.280 calm before the storm? 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.640 I think even from what we've seen and as it's 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.320 going to develop, it's very hard to come back from 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.800 something like that, and for us it happens later on 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.319 in the show. You know, we become you know, someone's 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.640 focused sort of thing, and so I think it's difficult 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.080 to always come back from something like that. We're all 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:45.640 adults at the end of the day, and you can 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.679 be amicable, but I think you know when you're going 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.479 to leave with a genuine friendship and something that continues 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.360 beyond the show, and when you're not, and you just 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.640 sort of that's that's absolutely fine. There is ten different 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.480 human beings and you are also different that you can't 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.360 be have a close relationship with everyone. 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.120 It was always going to have it. But do you 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.600 think that being in House one and where you were 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.440 situated was a blessing in disguise as you're kind of 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.240 on the outskirts of it, like you're kind of down 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.160 the end of the block, so less likely to be 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:15.439 in the thick of it. Do you think that sort 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.760 of helped or would you have preferred to have been 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:18.280 in the middle. 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.280 No, I was pretty comfortable being House one, and yeah, 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.400 you sort of did feel like you were sheltered a 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.319 little bit from everything else, so we could sort of 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.360 get on with what we were doing and avoid you know, 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.000 some of the prying eyes. Maybe so in terms of 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:35.839 what I wanted my experience and the show to be, 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.560 I was I was happy to be sheltered a little 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:39.079 bit from it. 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.720 I mean, the snipes from Leah, Ash and Christy were 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.440 sort of coming in thick and fast this week. Do 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.800 you think that they should have all started to focus 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:47.959 more on their building of their houses or do you 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.800 think it's just normal to make comment on your work 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.960 colleagues or you know, your fellow contestants. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.360 I think it's that water cooler stuff, you know, like 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:00.679 that happens in every workplace everywhere where you like, did 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.160 you see what Susan did or this one's and it's 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:04.960 it's just that kind of thing with you in an 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.160 office job, whether you're on in a hospital, in it wherever. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.559 I think it's just something that does naturally happen. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.200 But I think the most interesting part is that it's 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.880 recorded and we get to watch it, because I think 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:18.520 if you went to an office block and then you 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.920 played it on the screen for everyone to watch what 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.880 people were saying about who was at the photocopyer, people would. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.840 Be like, oh my god, I can't believe they said that. 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.720 And it's not like we didn't do that, you know, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:29.280 it's true. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.160 We didn't talk about what was happening, just how we 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.960 spoke about it was never yeah, malicious and in that 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.960 tone you know, you comment on something, Oh, someone struggled 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.280 with this, they had to restumble. There was never a 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.000 malicious tone. It was never a where they're getting help 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.400 from or why is that happening? Or their favorites or 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.800 there was never anything like that. So I think that's 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:50.440 where that the difference came. 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.480 Leslie. There was that thing that they said that you 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.520 know tonight on the block, Leslie. I don't think it 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.160 was the ad. I actually think I read this online 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.640 somewhere it was like, Leslie storms off because she can't 0:14:58.640 --> 0:14:59.760 take the bitching anymore. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:01.400 Did that happen? 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.640 Did you storm off because you were a jack of 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.280 these girls having these problems? 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.400 I laughed at the story when I saw the story, 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.000 because that for those particular pictures didn't even match the 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.360 week that I actually lived. But I left for very 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.640 planned outing, which I came back home for. But yeah, 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.760 I mean later on it does get a bit tiring. 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.040 I mean we were like, just get me out. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.200 Of here, So you haven't stormed off yet, but it's 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:28.840 going to happen. It's on its way. What about you know, 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.480 reading about the commentating the commotation of this season, you 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.680 obviously would see or be tagged in a lot of stuff. 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.600 What have you read about yourselves that's been completely untrue? 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.560 We've been lucky in terms of the response to us, 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.200 So I don't really think there's been anything that's been 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:43.280 too far fetched yet. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.640 The most savage just our dining room planning. 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.080 I mean, the word validation got thrown around a lot 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.600 this week. Do you think that people these days need 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.840 too much validation? Because I feel like the drama that's 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.800 happening this week about validation comes down to, you know, 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.440 people want to be told that they're doing a good 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.520 job all the time, where I feel like we don't 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.120 always need to be told we've done a good job 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:05.960 to keep going. 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:06.480 Yeah, don't. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.480 I don't think everything everyone needs validation. I feel like 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.160 it's hard if if the only opinion that you give 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:17.120 is negatives, then you know, I mean, that's difficult to 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.160 take all the time true, And you know what I mean, 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.160 we would always try to be very constructive in terms 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.840 of what we thought of someone's room, whether we liked 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:27.520 it or not. You know, even the things that we 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.080 didn't like, we weren't ashamed to go and speak to 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.640 that person and let them know. But that wasn't the 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.280 sole purpose of the conversation to say I didn't like this, 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.360 this and this, see you later enjoy the rest of 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:37.680 your week. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:38.880 It wasn't sort of like that. 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.480 And I think especially the girls, like they got beat 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.760