Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on
Speaker 1: TV Reload the podcast last week. That night, Hey guys,
Speaker 1: welcome back to TV Reload. I want to thank you
Speaker 1: for clicking and downloading on today's episode with Candace Warner,
Speaker 1: our second eliminated contestant from I'm a Celebrity, Get Me
Speaker 1: Out of Here for twenty twenty four. When we last
Speaker 1: caught up with the popular reality series, the farewells continued
Speaker 1: in the camp, which on Thursday night, we saw Candace
Speaker 1: Warner leaving the South African jungle behind. But what an
Speaker 1: eventful time Candace had in camp. The former Champion Iron
Speaker 1: Woman proved her worth with icy cold plunges, braving terrifying heights,
Speaker 1: and surviving as shopping spree that even the most retail
Speaker 1: addicted would probably rather avoid. Around the camp, Candace had
Speaker 1: many heart to heart conversations with camp mates, discussing shared
Speaker 1: experiences in the sporting industry, shedding light on the resilience
Speaker 1: and strength required to navigate the highs and lows of
Speaker 1: a life in the public eye, and opening up about
Speaker 1: her experiences of miscarriage, motherhood, and marriage. Nothing was off limits,
Speaker 1: and Candace will certainly be remembered from this series. Also,
Speaker 1: Candace was thrilled with the opportunity to highlight the importance
Speaker 1: of protecting our youth from bullying with her chosen charity,
Speaker 1: Dolly's Dream, which you can go and check out on
Speaker 1: their website. Candace will reveal how the experience in the
Speaker 1: Jungle is exactly as you see it, with the horror
Speaker 1: stories of snakes, scorpions, and the terrifying influences that she
Speaker 1: had to live with while she was in the jungle.
Speaker 1: We will unpack the conversations Candace had with her husband,
Speaker 1: David Warner before going into the jungle, plus how she
Speaker 1: managed to navigate her schedule to make time for this show.
Speaker 1: You will get some interesting insights into what the celebrities
Speaker 1: have been thinking regarding these eliminations being left at the
Speaker 1: end of the series, and I will ask about Tonight's
Speaker 1: shocking walkout from one of her fellow camp mates. I'm
Speaker 1: also going to unpack that polarizing confrontation with Sky and
Speaker 1: find out why she felt the need to speak up
Speaker 1: and defend herself. And we'll talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: how the audience had interpret that situation. There's actually so
Speaker 1: much to unpack with Candace, so sit back and relax
Speaker 1: as we unpack her time in the South African jungle. Hello, Hi,
Speaker 1: how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm very well, Thank you.
Speaker 1: You sound great And that's what I was worried about.
Speaker 3: Oh I feel good, I'm clean, I've had some food
Speaker 3: and I've had a glass of wine last night, and
Speaker 3: I'm feeling fabulous.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Had Denise flown out of South Africa where you were
Speaker 1: able to sit down with her and have a wine.
Speaker 3: No, I think she had already flown out, so I
Speaker 3: didn't get to catch up with Denise.
Speaker 2: But don't worry.
Speaker 3: I will be heading to Queensland in the next few months,
Speaker 3: so I will be catching up with her. And she's
Speaker 3: already told me what she's going to cook me and
Speaker 3: we'll have I think champagne to her drink of choice,
Speaker 3: so I'll have a champagne with her.
Speaker 2: Then.
Speaker 1: Well, I was really surprised that because Kahan was in there,
Speaker 1: and he's a cook. We know that from Master Chef,
Speaker 1: but Denise is one of the best cooks in Australia,
Speaker 1: like she's actually been offered cooking shows before, so I
Speaker 1: was surprised she didn't sort of push him out of
Speaker 1: the way and cook the food for you guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I think she was very much wanting to
Speaker 3: to try her hand in cooking. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: there's not a lot of cooking involved when it's just
Speaker 3: oats with a bit of water on the pop and
Speaker 3: then rice and bean, So you can't do a hell
Speaker 3: of a lot with that. But in saying that, Cahn
Speaker 3: made a mean oats of a morning, we all looked
Speaker 3: forward to that lunchtime he was making this, which fast
Speaker 3: became our favorite meal of the day, this crispy rice.
Speaker 3: And look, it was just fried as much as you
Speaker 3: could possibly fry it. But we got to the point
Speaker 3: it was like, no more bald rice, no more bald beans.
Speaker 2: Just fry it up as much.
Speaker 3: I mean, we went through so much oil in there
Speaker 3: it wasn't funny. But yeah, look, she is a fantastic cook.
Speaker 3: And Denise was telling me of all these beautiful things
Speaker 3: she's gonna cook me. She's going to make me these
Speaker 3: crumbed this with some beautiful potatoes, and she told me
Speaker 3: how she does her baked potatoes and how she does
Speaker 3: her cauliflower and her desserts and everything. So I cannot
Speaker 3: wait to sit down and have a home cooked meal
Speaker 3: from Denise like water treat take up Loto.
Speaker 1: Put that on the internet. People will love it.
Speaker 3: I will.
Speaker 2: I will absolutely do that.
Speaker 1: Ask about her chicken fried wings as well. I'm just
Speaker 1: going to tell you there's a headlup on that one.
Speaker 1: Maybe she can do that as an entree. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I'm teasing you with talking about so much
Speaker 1: food when technically to that.
Speaker 2: No, that's right, exactly something to look forward to.
Speaker 1: I suppose when you were asked to do this show,
Speaker 1: what sort of conversations did you get to have with
Speaker 1: your husband? Did he give you any dos and don'ts
Speaker 1: on what you could say and do in the jungle?
Speaker 1: Was he worried at all?
Speaker 2: No, he wasn't worried.
Speaker 3: And look, we've spoken about our life and our ups
Speaker 3: and downs so many times that we kind of know
Speaker 3: the boundaries and we know.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I.
Speaker 3: Wasn't going to hold back and everything that I said,
Speaker 3: I'm true to my word and it's what I strongly
Speaker 3: believe in. And you know, other people probably think, well, no,
Speaker 3: and have different opinions, but they also don't know what
Speaker 3: I know. And so I was very clear with what
Speaker 3: I wanted to say. But the hardest thing going on
Speaker 3: the show was knowing that my husband was going to
Speaker 3: be in India that entire time, and my daughter's three
Speaker 3: daughters would be back in Sydney. So it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: who's going to mind three kids. Who's going to be
Speaker 3: willing to make the lunches every day, do their hair
Speaker 3: for school, take them to sport. I mean, Easter was on,
Speaker 3: they had their grand final of cricket, swimming carnivals. It's
Speaker 3: just the coordinating of it all when you know both
Speaker 3: parents are away. That was incredibly difficult. But I'm very
Speaker 3: grateful for my brother and my mom and everyone else
Speaker 3: who helped out. But there's a lot that goes into
Speaker 3: just getting into the jungle itself.
Speaker 1: I think there's a home alone spin off with that.
Speaker 1: You know, Mum's in Africa, Dad's India and the kids
Speaker 1: have to feed themselves. I think, you know, you.
Speaker 2: Know what they probably the kids probably loved it.
Speaker 3: They're probably like, yeah, it's no more structure, no more
Speaker 3: going to bed.
Speaker 2: At this time, Uncle Patty's looking after the kids. We're
Speaker 2: going to have ice cream for dinner.
Speaker 3: So it's probably the kids probably needed it as much
Speaker 3: as we all did.
Speaker 1: You know, when you get cast on a show like this,
Speaker 1: are you required to tell us certain amount of stories
Speaker 1: because of me? Your resume is very interesting, your husband's
Speaker 1: resumes very interesting. And a lot of these shows that
Speaker 1: get made around the world, they do show those stories
Speaker 1: that we get a little bit of an insight into
Speaker 1: sort of more your personal stories. You know, what sort
Speaker 1: of conversations that they say to you, Can you please
Speaker 1: bring up this or do they just let you go
Speaker 1: you know, and let you go wild.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, there's no prompting of conversations. It is purely authentic.
Speaker 3: So it's just when you're getting to know someone, you
Speaker 3: start chatting and then when you feel comfortable, you know,
Speaker 3: you ask more in depth questions to them, which lead
Speaker 3: to you being more vulnerable and opening up to them.
Speaker 3: And I think it's a trust thing. And when you
Speaker 3: feel like you can trust someone and they're being vulnerable,
Speaker 3: then you want to be able to have that same
Speaker 3: experience and talk about your life and what you've been
Speaker 3: through and how you can relate to one another. So look,
Speaker 3: there's definitely no prompting of oh, can you go and
Speaker 3: ask this person this or that. It's just purely authentic
Speaker 3: conversations had in a very private in environment, yet so
Speaker 3: publicly because there's cameras.
Speaker 2: There and you know, we've constantly got microphones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, it's lovely to go into a
Speaker 3: safe environment where there's no judgment and although we're probably
Speaker 3: being judged on the outside, we don't feel that on
Speaker 3: the inside.
Speaker 2: And it's being able to be vulnerable to.
Speaker 3: Strangers who become very close friends by the end of
Speaker 3: the experiment is such a unique experience and something that
Speaker 3: I really enjoyed.
Speaker 1: Well, something that's going to bond you for life. Do
Speaker 1: you know why all of these eliminations have been held
Speaker 1: right to the end. Have you had that conversation with
Speaker 1: why they've decided to do that differently this year?
Speaker 3: And we went so because the thing is in the jungle,
Speaker 3: you try to predict every day what's going to happen.
Speaker 3: I mean, we don't know what time it is because
Speaker 3: there's no clocks anywhere, we don't know what is going
Speaker 3: on the outside world.
Speaker 2: We don't know anything.
Speaker 3: And we just assumed that after a certain amount of
Speaker 3: time on a Sunday night, there'd be in a big
Speaker 3: and then the next day would be in eviction.
Speaker 2: So the fact that no elimination happened until the Wednesday.
Speaker 3: That shocked us all and we were starting to get
Speaker 3: to the point where we're thinking, maybe we're all going
Speaker 3: to be here till the end and there's just going
Speaker 3: to be one winner.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: But it does shake things up, and it does you know,
Speaker 3: every day is completely different and it poses a new challenge,
Speaker 3: a new environment every single day. So I think that's
Speaker 3: what's so great about being on the show is day
Speaker 3: to day we do not know what's going to happen.
Speaker 3: We do not know if we're going to eat, we
Speaker 3: do not know what's going to be thrown at us,
Speaker 3: and it's exciting, but it's also terrifying at the same time.
Speaker 1: I think in the UK recently they've started doing this
Speaker 1: and that's so they can keep all the celebrities for
Speaker 1: the finale. Are you going to fly out of South
Speaker 1: Africa now or are you going to stick around for
Speaker 1: the finale because it's coming up like it's not that
Speaker 1: far away. Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I will be flying out to India.
Speaker 3: My husband in India and my kids now that at
Speaker 3: school holidays they have joined him in India, So I'll
Speaker 3: be flying there. But a long process because you know,
Speaker 3: I have to do about four or five stops to
Speaker 3: get to them, but it's going to be well worth it.
Speaker 1: They won't even recognize you. They'll be like, what's skinny, mum?
Speaker 1: Who is this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I know they'll be like, yeah, exactly, exactly. But don't worry.
Speaker 3: I will be straight into some really good food over there.
Speaker 3: And you know, you know, I missed my wedding anniversary,
Speaker 3: so David and I will have a beautiful dinner together.
Speaker 3: But just you know, seeing the kids watching some great
Speaker 3: cricket and being in an environment where it's such a
Speaker 3: positive environment is you know.
Speaker 2: I couldn't ask for anything more.
Speaker 1: What did you know about the celebrities going into the jungle,
Speaker 1: because I mean, you were probably more recognizable than some
Speaker 1: of the others. Did you know everyone when you walked
Speaker 1: in or was there something you took a little bit
Speaker 1: of time to sort of place in the set.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't know Callum, so that was fabulous getting
Speaker 3: to know him, But everyone else I had recognized, And
Speaker 3: I had met Michelle Bridges once before briefly, and i'd
Speaker 3: met Tristan once before on student ten. So even though
Speaker 3: we didn't have a bond, you sort of had that connection,
Speaker 3: but everyone else know I didn't know, And it was
Speaker 3: fabulous getting to know Brittany and Ellie and Peterdaykos and
Speaker 3: Steven and Frankie I mean, and Scott, I mean every
Speaker 3: single person that I met in there I had some
Speaker 3: sort of bond with And I think that's really unique
Speaker 3: because you don't often get that in a workplace or
Speaker 3: in life where you bond with so many people. But
Speaker 3: we shared such a unique experience that it would be
Speaker 3: very hard not to bond with.
Speaker 1: Denise seemed to struggle though. You're like, you're seeing her
Speaker 1: coming in late. I guess coming in ten days late
Speaker 1: maybe does change the dynamics. Do you think her arriving
Speaker 1: later into the show really affected the way in which
Speaker 1: maybe the Australian public saw her.
Speaker 3: I think possibly, because when you do go into the
Speaker 3: show so late, people have already established their favorites in
Speaker 3: the jungle. We have already had such strong bonds with
Speaker 3: everyone from the moment we walked into doing trials with people,
Speaker 3: so it was very hard for her, but she did
Speaker 3: such a terrific job, Like I don't know any other
Speaker 3: seventy five year old person.
Speaker 2: Who would go, yeah, I'll give that a crack.
Speaker 3: And there was no you know, unlike other years where
Speaker 3: people have had been pampered or been given anything in
Speaker 3: the top toki or behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: She did it as rough as we did.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And those beds were dreadful, so she would have been
Speaker 3: waking up so stiff and sore.
Speaker 2: She was eating what we were eating. She was doing
Speaker 2: exactly what we were.
Speaker 3: And you know, there were times where we had torrential
Speaker 3: rain and storm and she was the one that got
Speaker 3: up and made sure that our clothes were you know,
Speaker 3: not getting wet, or she was the one that was
Speaker 3: putting taps on.
Speaker 2: Brittany and Tristan.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how much you guys see,
Speaker 3: but she was really quite motherly in there and looking
Speaker 3: after us. And there is a generational gap, there's no
Speaker 3: doubt about that. But she comes from a very good place.
Speaker 3: And I got along with her really well.
Speaker 1: And said that to me yesterday. She said, you know,
Speaker 1: she'd been watching the show and so she said, you know,
Speaker 1: she had an idea of who she thought everyone was
Speaker 1: going to be, but particularly singled you out and said
Speaker 1: how much she enjoyed getting to know you. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was interesting.
Speaker 2: That's so lovely.
Speaker 1: It was really interesting to hear about her takes on
Speaker 1: everyone because she said that she did struggle with some people,
Speaker 1: I mean typical dedicates. She didn't say the ones that
Speaker 1: she struggled with, but she did.
Speaker 3: And there were definitely times where, you know, people may
Speaker 3: not have given her the time of day because you know,
Speaker 3: they just weren't interested.
Speaker 2: But you know, you've got to respect what she's.
Speaker 3: Done, and you've got to respect that she is because
Speaker 3: she could be someone's grandmother, you know, with her age
Speaker 3: and what she was doing was quite heroic and she
Speaker 3: didn't have to be there, but she chose to be
Speaker 3: there and she gave it the best crack that she
Speaker 3: possibly could.
Speaker 1: Well, she talked about you know, maybe there's some people
Speaker 1: faking it, and you know what, it's interesting with her
Speaker 1: pedigree of her career, she's been around enough people to
Speaker 1: see whether people are genuine and if they're not. Did
Speaker 1: you notice that some of the people in there were
Speaker 1: maybe acting up to the cameras or faking it to
Speaker 1: progress the Necker?
Speaker 3: Yes, Oh, look, Denise is a very smart lady. What
Speaker 3: she observes, she sits back and she observes, and she
Speaker 3: takes people for who they are, and she treats people
Speaker 3: the way they treat her. And look, there are people
Speaker 3: that are on the show for very different reasons to
Speaker 3: myself and very different reasons for Denise.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean that they're bad people. They just
Speaker 2: are on the show for different reasons.
Speaker 3: And if that means to act up to get more
Speaker 3: Hemra time or airtime, then so be it. But you
Speaker 3: can't take away from anyone else's experience and why they're there.
Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting because I mean your confrontation with Sky
Speaker 1: and I mean, I guess you haven't had a chance
Speaker 1: to watch this sort of stuff back, so you have
Speaker 1: to kind of take my word as I explained it
Speaker 1: to you, but sort of confronted Sky in a way,
Speaker 1: and that really polarized the audience into picking sides and saying,
Speaker 1: you know, a team Sky, team Candas, did you think
Speaker 1: the time something as small as talking about some contraband
Speaker 1: would be such a big deal for audience as watching
Speaker 1: this show.
Speaker 3: Well, look, I don't know what was shown, but how
Speaker 3: it played out was I we were all throwing our
Speaker 3: contraband in and I had a private conversation with her,
Speaker 3: just privately, I said, look, maybe you know you push.
Speaker 3: You've got your lip gloss, maybe go get that and
Speaker 3: put in your bag. And she didn't want to, and
Speaker 3: I just said, come on, I would hate it to
Speaker 3: be at the detriment of the team. And then once
Speaker 3: we all handed it everything in, she just started pointing
Speaker 3: fingers at me, saying, you threw me under the bus.
Speaker 2: And I was like, what, I didn't throw you under
Speaker 2: the bus at all, and she kept going, you did,
Speaker 2: you did, and I mean I didn't.
Speaker 3: And then so a private conversation that we had then
Speaker 3: became quite public. So and that's where I was just like, well,
Speaker 3: hang on a second, holder, if we're all throwing.
Speaker 2: Our contraband in, then it's only fair that you do.
Speaker 3: And if you're going to say that I've thrown you
Speaker 3: under the bus, I will call you selfish. And look,
Speaker 3: we both said things that we probably didn't mean, but
Speaker 3: it wasn't long until we're made amends and we got
Speaker 3: over it and we were buddies again. So look, the
Speaker 3: emotions are running very high in the jungle and people
Speaker 3: are on lack of sleep, missing home, no sugar, no caffeine,
Speaker 3: different diet.
Speaker 1: It's a very different. So tapping in and tapping out
Speaker 1: of this show, could really ever truly understand those can
Speaker 1: be you know, and there needs to be a bit
Speaker 1: of forgiveness. I've run out of time. And the sad
Speaker 1: thing is, oh, no, everyone is talking about who has
Speaker 1: walked out of the camp and you've probably signed an
Speaker 1: ND eight and you might even not even know who's
Speaker 1: walked out of camp.
Speaker 3: But no, I just found out, just like you did,
Speaker 3: that someone has walked out, and I'm like, oh my goodness,
Speaker 3: could you see?
Speaker 1: And we can't talk about who it is because we
Speaker 1: don't want to ruin the show. But like, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're surprised by the person who's walked out? Is that
Speaker 1: something you might have predicted?
Speaker 3: Look, I know that there's people struggling. I know that
Speaker 3: we're close to the finish line. But everyone is missing
Speaker 3: their homes. Everyone is hungry, and as people start to leave,
Speaker 3: everyone's emotions are starting to up and down, and some
Speaker 3: people are going, I just want to be home now.
Speaker 3: I bet canuses with her kids and cuddling them. So
Speaker 3: I'm surprised that it hasn't happened earlier. But if you
Speaker 3: always wrap your weight.
Speaker 1: Feet, I mean, I'm sorry to interrupt you there, because
Speaker 1: something is I'm running out of time. But like I think,
Speaker 1: if someone walks out, you know, or says I'm a celebrity,
Speaker 1: to get me out of here, is there anything where
Speaker 1: you can say I've made a mistake after a few
Speaker 1: minutes of leaving, and they can put you back in
Speaker 1: or once you're out.
Speaker 3: I'm sure, I'm sure they try to talk the person
Speaker 3: out of it, but once you made your mind up
Speaker 3: and you're clear on your decision, you're out of there.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, all right, that's a good teast before you go.
Speaker 1: The last thing I ask everyone who ever joins this
Speaker 1: podcast is what is something behind the scenes, something about
Speaker 1: behind the scenes secret for your time in the jungle?
Speaker 1: Is there anything that you think was a sort of
Speaker 1: a funny anecdote from your time in there. I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't know what we've seen, but maybe something fun
Speaker 1: you'd like to share.
Speaker 3: Oh goodness, it's so hard to know what you've seen,
Speaker 3: but it's just real, it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, I saw petrified of everything.
Speaker 3: I was walking to the waterfall one day and a
Speaker 3: cobridge just walked.
Speaker 2: In front, like, not walked, but just in front of me.
Speaker 2: I was questioning that.
Speaker 3: I was on a bike and there was a snake
Speaker 3: right in front of me, So it is real, Like
Speaker 3: there's no we don't see anyone in camp. We talked
Speaker 3: in the top talkie to a camera. We have no
Speaker 3: idea who's on the other side. But there is snakes,
Speaker 3: I've seen scorpions, I've seen absolutely everything. It is as
Speaker 3: real as you can imagine. I didn't sleep much. We're
Speaker 3: hearing all sorts of noises. You have no idea if
Speaker 3: they're clothes, if they're in camp, if they're in the trees.
Speaker 2: But it is real.
Speaker 3: And if I knew how real it was, who knows
Speaker 3: if I would have signed up for it. But loved
Speaker 3: my experience and I've loved chatting to you, so thank
Speaker 3: you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Oh you've been fantastic, you know. Congratulations on your time
Speaker 1: in there. I thoroughly enjoyed watching you. And good luck
Speaker 1: on save travels to going in.
Speaker 2: I'd appreciate it.
Speaker 1: The family, have a good weekend.
Speaker 2: You Chase a lot, See you later. Bye,