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Speaker 1: This is jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: We're well.

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Speaker 1: Eighteen years ago, Reggie Bird was working at a Tasmanian

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Speaker 1: fish and chip shop and Big Brother came calling and

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Speaker 1: everything changed. She became a dored around the nation for

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Speaker 1: her soul of the Earth attitude and she won season three. Well,

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Speaker 1: all these years later, she's back in the Big Brother

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Speaker 1: House as Big Brother Royalty. She joins us now, Reggie High.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: It's great to have you in here.

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Speaker 4: But it must be strange being back in the Big

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Speaker 4: Brother House because it's totally different to when you were

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Speaker 4: on there all those years ago.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's changed quite a lot.

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Speaker 1: Well, the nature of the show was changed too, hasn't it,

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Speaker 1: And that everyone fell in love with you and therefore

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Speaker 1: you won. There's much more scheming, there's challenges. It's a

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Speaker 1: different game, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Oh totally. It's all strategy, you know, lots of strategic

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Speaker 3: talk and who's going to get who, And I'm just like, oh,

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Speaker 3: my brain can't cope with these. Yeah, I'm like, oh gosh,

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Speaker 3: I don't know. It's yeah, so different because back in

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Speaker 3: my day, oh, in my Big Big Brother, we couldn't

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Speaker 3: talk about nominations. And we would get a strike, and

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Speaker 3: we had three strikes, three strikes, and you're at the door.

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Speaker 3: So this one's all about it, and I'm like, gosh,

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Speaker 3: how am I going to get my head around this?

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Speaker 1: And so before I'm just trying to remember, You're right,

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Speaker 1: you could talk about it in the diary room, but

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Speaker 1: you couldn't tell people no, you're voting.

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Speaker 3: For no, nothing at all. And now it's this time,

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Speaker 3: it's like, well, I'm going to vote for this person

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Speaker 3: and try and get everyone on board to get rid

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Speaker 3: of them. And it's like, oh gosh, this is so brutal.

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Speaker 4: And also when you did it, it wasn't even that.

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Speaker 4: There wasn't even a strategy with Big Brother. You just

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Speaker 4: went on there and you were yourself.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and back then I really struggled back then to

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Speaker 3: vote for someone, to try and think of a reason

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Speaker 3: to get rid of someone. And I'm like, jeez, I'd

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Speaker 3: get in trouble by Big Brother. I remember, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: And not much has changed.

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Speaker 1: Feel sleeping with all those people again, meaning you know

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Speaker 1: this communal living.

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Speaker 3: Oh look, I took in a lot of e plugs, Yes,

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Speaker 3: a lot of e plugs. A lot of snoring happened

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Speaker 3: in there. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and flatulence as well.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, Tim, he was bad for that, I

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Speaker 3: must say, really, yes.

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Speaker 4: Dismissive Tim, because he worked here for a while. We

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Speaker 4: were talking to Sonia about this yesterday. He worked here

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Speaker 4: for about two years. What did he Yeah, but he

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Speaker 4: used to just look straight through us. I used to

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Speaker 4: make this thing, I'd say to a Manda watched Tim

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Speaker 4: ignore me, I get a mate and you go. It

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Speaker 4: was like I was a ghost, really, And then when

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Speaker 4: he left, he suddenly had this giant conversation.

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Speaker 2: And that was it.

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Speaker 4: That's bisarre And I don't know what he was doing.

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Speaker 4: I thought he is this part of his game plan,

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Speaker 4: is part of his act. But then I noticed he

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Speaker 4: led you into the Big brother House. Yeah, and you're

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Speaker 4: you're you've had this debilitating eyesight yep, what what do

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Speaker 4: you actually have?

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Speaker 3: Pigmentary? So it's a genetic disease. No one in my

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Speaker 3: family's got it, just me, you know, my tasman in genetics.

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Speaker 3: But yes, I've got just pinhole vision nine degrees.

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Speaker 2: So you can see me now, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But I can't see the feller over there forgotten, right,

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Speaker 3: And I can't yet, So I've got to look at

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Speaker 3: you and then like, so you have no peripheral, no peripheral,

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Speaker 3: no night vision, so I can't even see the microphone?

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Speaker 2: How did that?

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Speaker 1: How did that go in the house for you?

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Speaker 3: Once I found where things were, and like it's steps

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Speaker 3: and things, I had to try and remember where they were,

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Speaker 3: and then I sort of knew where I was going.

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Speaker 3: So once I worked out where the toilets were in

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Speaker 3: the kitchen and all that kind of stuff, but stairs

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Speaker 3: at the backyard, I still struggled with that, Like I

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Speaker 3: took my time going up and down because.

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Speaker 2: Those crazy challenges.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's the world of social media has made working

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Speaker 1: in television a different ballgame to when you first went

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Speaker 1: in the Big Brother House. You are so loved, so

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine it would be hard for you. But

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Speaker 1: it's a did you have to think about that before

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Speaker 1: you went in as well? That it's a different world.

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Speaker 1: It's a crueler world.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, terrible. You know, like there's so many people

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Speaker 3: out there who do have opinions and they like to

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Speaker 3: express them in quite a mean way. But you know,

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Speaker 3: I just got to not take that on board. I

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Speaker 3: mean it's already started, you know, people saying that it's

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Speaker 3: I'm faking what eye disease? No, saying not like she

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Speaker 3: can see. And I'm like, oh my goodness, Like why

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Speaker 3: it's not something I wish on anyone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, why would you fake something like that? I know

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Speaker 2: it makes no sense.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't make sense, you know. And I've had people,

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Speaker 3: I mean years over the years, you know, with stories

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Speaker 3: that have been in the magazines. And I remember one

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Speaker 3: gun I saw Reggie driving the other day. Oh, I

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Speaker 3: give anything to jump in the car and drive.

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Speaker 2: That's outrageous. And with this time round.

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Speaker 4: With it all the people from your Alma Marta that

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Speaker 4: were in there, because what have they gone on to do?

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Speaker 2: Like all the people that were back eighteen years ago?

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Speaker 3: Oh sorry, oh gosh. I've kept in touch mainly through Facebook,

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Speaker 3: but I'm stayed in touch with Ben. He is my

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Speaker 3: buddy in the house, and he's done well. He's a

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Speaker 3: lawyer now. So with the family and everyone else got well.

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Speaker 1: Chrissy, yeah Melbourne on TV.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's done really, really well. And the rest have

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Speaker 3: sort of gone off and got married and had kids.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of kids, I know your much loved son

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Speaker 1: has cystick five ros. Yeah, and that's been a challenge

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Speaker 1: too for you, hasn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's a horrid disease to have and you know, like,

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Speaker 3: you know, just do what you've got to do. And

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Speaker 3: he's been on this Druggle can Be for the last

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Speaker 3: two years and that's really helped helped him. He's playing basketball,

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Speaker 3: so he's just passionate about that. And there's a new

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Speaker 3: drug coming that's just got listed on the PBS, the

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Speaker 3: Tri caf Stars.

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Speaker 2: Is that the one that's a big price reduction. Yes,

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Speaker 2: that's amazing.

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Speaker 3: So he should get that in about four and once

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Speaker 3: he's on that, oh gosh, I don't know, you know,

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Speaker 3: sky's the limit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Reggie, it's great to see you.

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Speaker 4: I thank you for having I thank you for coming in.

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Speaker 4: Big Brother Australia is back to Night seven thirty on seven.

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Speaker 1: It's nice to have good humans on televisions. We can't

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Speaker 1: have enough of that.

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Speaker 2: The only good human on TV right now is Amanda.

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Speaker 3: That's two of us.

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Speaker 4: Now, look after yourself, Reggie, he's so much