Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the
Speaker 1: hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm
Speaker 1: Kay Torbert And coming up on today's show, Lillly Brown
Speaker 1: calls out major Australian brands over dressing gown dupe, Jade
Speaker 1: Tunci says she's off the PR invite list now that
Speaker 1: she's a mum. And our Friday Debrief But First, Britney
Speaker 1: Saunders and Matt Hay have spilt some serious tea about
Speaker 1: the meanest influencer in Australia. Talking on their podcast High Scrollers,
Speaker 1: Brita and Matt were discussing the notion of what you
Speaker 1: put out to the universe coming back to you. When
Speaker 1: Matt said this, Oh.
Speaker 2: And people just come to mind. There's one influencer that
Speaker 2: comes to mind, and you know exactly who it would be.
Speaker 2: But she is the nastiest motherfucker in this industry.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she just kicks having the worst luck and
Speaker 3: she keeps like a video after video about how miserable
Speaker 3: her fucking life is.
Speaker 1: Sorry, sorry, we have everyone guessing about it.
Speaker 2: Gets it, bitch, guess it. She is a nasty, nasty
Speaker 2: piece of work.
Speaker 3: What if she.
Speaker 1: Knows because she would know you're.
Speaker 2: Because there's there's one person I don't care bringing on love.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's a reality check that some people need.
Speaker 2: Well, this is the thing.
Speaker 3: She is a nasty, nasty piece of work too, quite
Speaker 3: quite literally. Everyone everyone has a problem, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I would pay a lot of money
Speaker 1: to have confirmation of who this is. I have someone
Speaker 1: in mind. Yeah, I don't know if we should say though,
Speaker 1: who I think it could be. Can you give some clues? Well,
Speaker 1: the influencer I think it could potentially be lives in
Speaker 1: Melbourne and she's in her mid twenties. She used to
Speaker 1: date an AFL player and she recently has been called
Speaker 1: out a lot. I'm wondering if it could be her.
Speaker 1: I know exactly who you're talking about, and she did
Speaker 1: jump to mine. But then I wonder, is this influencer
Speaker 1: located in the same spot as Britt and Matt or
Speaker 1: there aren't heaps of influencers in Newcastle, but it could
Speaker 1: be someone more in New South Wales that they may
Speaker 1: have met at events. And Britney Saunders is such a
Speaker 1: lovely influencer. The fact that she even has a problem
Speaker 1: with this person highlights how horrendous this person must act.
Speaker 1: Oh my other thought is Anna Pole like could maybe
Speaker 1: because obviously everything's turned to shit for her so well Britain, Matt,
Speaker 1: if you would like to slide into our DMS and
Speaker 1: tell us who this influencer is, we'll promise we'll keep
Speaker 1: you a secret, or any of our listeners if you've
Speaker 1: got some guesses. Welcome back to another daily blog. Today
Speaker 1: started super early. We had a massive photo shoot down
Speaker 1: in Byron Bay. Today, Lily Brown has hit out at
Speaker 1: two retailers for allegedly copying the designs of her popular
Speaker 1: viral robe Amy can you tell us more so? Lily
Speaker 1: owns sleep where brand Chill, which has become famous for
Speaker 1: its signature snug robes, and these have been popping off
Speaker 1: on TikTok because they not only look super comfortable they're
Speaker 1: made of fleas, but they're also stopped in these really
Speaker 1: esthetic colors. I'd kind of say they're the Frank Green
Speaker 1: of sleep wear because they've been made in colors like
Speaker 1: butter and maple and tangerine. They're really cool, they're beautiful robes.
Speaker 1: I remember when they got released and literally every influencer
Speaker 1: and their dog was wearing them and I'm like, why
Speaker 1: do I want them? That's really working here? Well, they
Speaker 1: also have a headband which looks like Bear ears as
Speaker 1: an accessory, so you can get a matching one, and
Speaker 1: they are quite pricey. They'll set you back around one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine dollars. I think Lily's done a
Speaker 1: really good job at promoting these robes and having this
Speaker 1: signature product because she's had her pajama brand Chill for
Speaker 1: a couple of years now, and it hasn't been a
Speaker 1: super easy road for her. She's spoken a lot in
Speaker 1: podcasts about how it would have been a lot easier
Speaker 1: for her to just stick with influencing rather than opening
Speaker 1: up a business. I think that she was quite shocked
Speaker 1: that it wasn't as easy as she thought. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: there was all that over the Smelly pajamas a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. We spoke in detail about it, and
Speaker 1: I know that really hurt Lily. Yeah, you can tell
Speaker 1: her business means a lot to her. Obviously, She's put
Speaker 1: a lot on the line to make it successful and
Speaker 1: she is doing a good job, as you said, because
Speaker 1: she has been able to create this level of scarcity
Speaker 1: with the product. Because every time they release a new color,
Speaker 1: it sells out instantly. They also recently did a successful
Speaker 1: collaboration with influencer Jazz Hand and that created a lot
Speaker 1: more buzz around the robe, so they released a special
Speaker 1: robe in the color oak, better known as brown. Okay,
Speaker 1: I prefer oak. I think that sounds bad now. Late
Speaker 1: last week, Lily took to Instagram to air her frustration
Speaker 1: at Bras and Things and Suzanne's for allegedly copying her design.
Speaker 1: She wrote, so I've decided it's not flattering, it's unfair, rude,
Speaker 1: and fucking annoying. Now, to be completely honest, I wasn't
Speaker 1: going to name and shame, but this is ridiculous. Stop
Speaker 1: ripping off small brands with your hundreds of stores nationwide
Speaker 1: and internationally. I don't think it makes much difference to
Speaker 1: either of these retailer's bottom line if they sell a
Speaker 1: few robes here and there. For me, are snug robes
Speaker 1: are my whole life. She went on to say, I've
Speaker 1: continually invested and reinvested back into the business since day one,
Speaker 1: putting everything on the line constantly and taking huge financial risks.
Speaker 1: I literally moved three hours away from my warehouse to
Speaker 1: save money so I can continue to support my business.
Speaker 1: So this is just another slap in the face, especially
Speaker 1: after Bras and Things launched their snug dupe in March,
Speaker 1: after I literally shot a campaign for them and promoted
Speaker 1: their brand on my socials two weeks before they had
Speaker 1: this style on their shop floor. I really feel for
Speaker 1: Lily because I agree with her this is a big
Speaker 1: slap in the face, and as she pointed out, this
Speaker 1: could really affect chules bottom line because the Bras and
Speaker 1: Things dupe will set you back sixty nine ninety nine
Speaker 1: or sue Zan''s priced at seventy nine ninety five. They're
Speaker 1: both around half the price of Lily's robe. The colors
Speaker 1: aren't as bougie as Chills, but they're identical. People are
Speaker 1: going to buy these robes instead of hers, yeah, particularly
Speaker 1: because they have brick and mortar stores where you can
Speaker 1: easily just pick them up instead of having to maybe
Speaker 1: potentially pay for postage as well. I do wonder how
Speaker 1: Bras and Things partnership team feels about being called out,
Speaker 1: because it's really not a good look that this happened
Speaker 1: after they used her in a campaign. Well, it shows
Speaker 1: you how focus Lily is on her brand, because for
Speaker 1: her to call out a brand like Bras and Things,
Speaker 1: other brands might be put off from working with her
Speaker 1: in the future. Yeah. I mean, she has been pretty
Speaker 1: vocal in saying that her business is the number one priority.
Speaker 1: She still does influencing to I suppose pay some bills
Speaker 1: so that she can do her business. I mean, Bras
Speaker 1: and Things is an interesting brand for her to collaborate with.
Speaker 1: There is a little bit of crossover with product I
Speaker 1: suppose with the Sleep Prayer range. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you've got to pay your bills at the end, exactly.
Speaker 1: I Mean what I find so funny though, is that
Speaker 1: back in the day when we were at school, it
Speaker 1: was like social suicide if you were to come with
Speaker 1: a dupe of any product or some sort of like,
Speaker 1: you know, a fake Louis Verton bag. But now it's
Speaker 1: seen as being really cool. The whole culture has changed
Speaker 1: around it, and a lot of that is down to TikTok.
Speaker 1: So we have seen this rise in the hashtag jupe trend.
Speaker 1: There's been over three billion views on dupe videos. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are even dupe influencers. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: seen them, kay, but they have really taken away the
Speaker 1: taboo of buying the cheaper options. Do you know what
Speaker 1: when you said Jupe influencers, I thought you meant like
Speaker 1: there's a yeah. I thought you meant like some Sene
Speaker 1: or Timu version of the influencer. But no, Jupe culture
Speaker 1: is massive on TikTok And in a way I like
Speaker 1: it because I think it's great to be savvier with
Speaker 1: your dollars and being like, oh, hang on, it's actually
Speaker 1: cool to buy, you know, clothes from km arts. So
Speaker 1: Fidopha led us in on that little secret alone a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, a set no one knew about.
Speaker 1: But again, for creatives, it's absolutely terrible for the industry. Well, historically,
Speaker 1: influencer brands like Chill have been able to really capitalize
Speaker 1: on having this aura of exclusivity. But you can see
Speaker 1: now that this culture of jupes is really threatening this uniqueness.
Speaker 1: It's now not enough just to have a really cool product,
Speaker 1: because somebody is going to come around and they're going
Speaker 1: to copy it and sell it for a cheaper price.
Speaker 1: It's also got a lot to do with fast fashion
Speaker 1: and how quickly trends are being churned out. We are
Speaker 1: seeing people push back though on dupes and micro trends
Speaker 1: at the moment. I mean, we had all of that
Speaker 1: drama around Sofa Do for being named the biggest micro
Speaker 1: trend final Boss at Australian Fashion Week, and there is
Speaker 1: this uncoolness around just jumping on every single trend and
Speaker 1: having what everyone else has. But I mean again, that
Speaker 1: is probably just a small trend that's not going to
Speaker 1: last and people are then going to go back to
Speaker 1: just buying everything again and again. What's crazy is the
Speaker 1: people that don't want the jupes I think are like
Speaker 1: the twelve year olds, they're the don't want them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're the sort of kids that will bully another kid
Speaker 1: that doesn't have a Stanley cup. Like if some kid
Speaker 1: came with the Kama rip off Stanley cup, those kids
Speaker 1: would get bullied at school. However, when your people our
Speaker 1: age and we're like, oh my god, have you seen
Speaker 1: the cheaper version of this? Because we don't have the cash,
Speaker 1: I'm not paying for a Stanley cup. Yeah. The unfortunate
Speaker 1: reality for Lily is there's not a lot that she
Speaker 1: can do about this because even though it seems completely unfair,
Speaker 1: it's not actually illegal because there's a big difference between
Speaker 1: counterfeit products and dupes. So counterfeit products they directly infringe
Speaker 1: on trademark and IP because they're essentially just a complete
Speaker 1: copy of a brand's logo and branding, whereas jupes are
Speaker 1: more ambiguous because they're taking inspiration from a design. So
Speaker 1: with bras and things and Suzanne's robes, yes, they've obviously
Speaker 1: taken inspiration from Lily's, but they're not exactly the same,
Speaker 1: and that's where the gray area lie. The one thing
Speaker 1: you will see some businesses doing is copywriting certain colors.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe that's what Lily has done with chill
Speaker 1: because they haven't released them in her specific colors. But
Speaker 1: it is pretty crazy that there is not much these
Speaker 1: people can do. I mean, that's just how Sheen has
Speaker 1: become such a big business, because they literally copy everything
Speaker 1: and get away with it.
Speaker 4: I don't want to pigeonhole myself as like a mom,
Speaker 4: because I am so much more than that, and I
Speaker 4: do want to do other things with my time and
Speaker 4: my day and my life, but also that's what I'm
Speaker 4: doing right now.
Speaker 1: Jade Tuni has candidly spoken out about the realities of
Speaker 1: becoming a mum when you're a fashion influencer. In a
Speaker 1: seven minute TikTok video, Jadey opened up about her loss
Speaker 1: of identity and the feeling of being in limbo since
Speaker 1: the birth of her son, Fletcher. Let's have a listen
Speaker 1: to what she said.
Speaker 4: When you become a mother, there's like a lot of
Speaker 4: transformation that occurs, especially like a little bit later on.
Speaker 4: I didn't really feel like this in the beginning.
Speaker 1: I was like, what's everyone talking about? Your life changes?
Speaker 4: Like I have a baby and that's hard, but whatever,
Speaker 4: And now I get it. I'm like, Okay, there's a lot.
Speaker 4: There's a lot that changes, and there's a lot of
Speaker 4: like kind of shifts that you go through. And one
Speaker 4: of those shifts for me, and I know for a
Speaker 4: lot of other moms, is like the shift that kind
Speaker 4: of happens in your career and especially in my line
Speaker 4: of work, like what I do every day kind of
Speaker 4: brings me that kind of work.
Speaker 1: Jade went on to explain that a lot of her
Speaker 1: content previously focused on clothing holes, but she's not in
Speaker 1: a position to share that type of content right now
Speaker 1: because their priority is no longer dressing up and going
Speaker 1: out to dinner. It's being a mom. God, I couldn't
Speaker 1: relate to that one even more. I feel for the
Speaker 1: last year, all I've been wearing are leggings and oversized jumpers.
Speaker 1: I mean fashion, what is that? And I mean Jaraday's
Speaker 1: in a position though, where that used to be her
Speaker 1: job and it would be really difficult because she doesn't
Speaker 1: have time to dress up. Or We were laughing the
Speaker 1: other day, Kate, because we were saying that we've been
Speaker 1: setting the bar really low for our husbands in terms
Speaker 1: of our appearance, because both of them are like, oh,
Speaker 1: thank god, you're wearing jeans. You look amazing, and we're like, wow,
Speaker 1: Ree's compliment to me because we were going to a
Speaker 1: friend's fortieth and I came out yet literally in a
Speaker 1: cardigan and jeans, and he goes, oh, you look really nice.
Speaker 1: I can see you've made an effort. You've got a
Speaker 1: belt on, just like a belt. And the saddest thing
Speaker 1: was I actually got that belt for my birthday because
Speaker 1: I was like, I need to dress up my casual
Speaker 1: clothes with some accessories so I look like I'm making
Speaker 1: more of an effort.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Charda also spoke about how she really doesn't want to
Speaker 1: pigeon herself as a mummy creator, and I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people may have wondered if she would go
Speaker 1: down that route because she and her husband Lucky Bricky
Speaker 1: have just announced they're expecting their second baby boy in December.
Speaker 1: But I actually really respect jar Day for coming out
Speaker 1: and saying, look, that's not really what she's interested in doing.
Speaker 1: It surprised me though, because I think her content has
Speaker 1: really changed since she became a mum. I really didn't
Speaker 1: relate much to her content before. I obviously am a
Speaker 1: mum myself as well. You didn't relate to her fashionista content.
Speaker 1: I mean no, because I'm joking. I'm not very fashionable
Speaker 1: now as a mum, and I wasn't really into fashion
Speaker 1: before either. I struggled in that set too. But ever
Speaker 1: since she's had Fletcher and I feel the connection to
Speaker 1: her because I had my son a couple of days after.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know those influences who are pregnant at
Speaker 1: the same time as you. I've just really enjoyed her content.
Speaker 1: I feel like she's been really authentic and shown the
Speaker 1: reality of what it is like being a mum. So
Speaker 1: I was surprised to hear that she doesn't want to
Speaker 1: be a mummy vlogger because I think it would be
Speaker 1: extremely lucrative to her. In fact, she was talking about
Speaker 1: how a lot of brands that she works with have
Speaker 1: turned their back and it almost sounded like she's struggling
Speaker 1: to get deals, which surprised me because I think the
Speaker 1: mum fluencer space in terms of partnerships is massive. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's a case of she doesn't want to
Speaker 1: just be defined as I'm a mum, like she wants
Speaker 1: to actually have her own autonomy and fashion is what
Speaker 1: she's clearly interested in. But as you said, Kate, she
Speaker 1: revealed she's no longer getting invited to the same events
Speaker 1: that she normally would. Let's have a listen to what
Speaker 1: she said.
Speaker 4: Also, feel like I've been a little bit like shoved
Speaker 4: to the side, you know, like I had a couple
Speaker 4: of contracts that were kind of still going before I
Speaker 4: had Fletcher, and then after I had Fletcher, they just
Speaker 4: kind of fizzled out and like disappeared, and that you know,
Speaker 4: people kind of said like, oh not, you know, it's
Speaker 4: not super aligned anymore, and like that's kind of it.
Speaker 1: That does hurt a little bit.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie, it does it's kind of like, oh,
Speaker 4: it feels like you're a mum now, all good.
Speaker 1: Sea, Yeah, Like that's how it feels.
Speaker 4: And I guess that's kind of like a bit of
Speaker 4: the downside of building a career in what is like
Speaker 4: what kind of was cemented in a lot of it
Speaker 4: had to do with how I looked. Let's be honest,
Speaker 4: it's hard and I'm trying my best to show up,
Speaker 4: but it feels like I'm starting from the bottom again
Speaker 4: when I've kind of grown this thing for fifteen years
Speaker 4: that I'm really proud of. It feels like I have
Speaker 4: to like start from scratch because I've become I don't know,
Speaker 4: and unrelatable and unhot, and it's like I need to
Speaker 4: make myself interesting again so that people will want to
Speaker 4: have me around.
Speaker 1: That's kind of how it feels. Jar Day finished off
Speaker 1: by saying that part of her was scared to share
Speaker 1: how she felt, as it might scare off new work,
Speaker 1: but she wanted to be honest with her audience. I
Speaker 1: personally found that really fascinating because I've been noticing this
Speaker 1: shift with influencers, so being in my thirties, a lot
Speaker 1: of the influences now that I've followed are similar age,
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit younger, And now there's this new
Speaker 1: wave of influencers who are getting invited to Coachella. I mean,
Speaker 1: I remember when it was Coachella a couple of months ago,
Speaker 1: and influencers like Steph Klesmith and Tully Smyth were doing
Speaker 1: throwback saying, oh my god, look how young we were
Speaker 1: at Coachella. Were handing the baton over. So I feel
Speaker 1: like there is this awkward transition for influencers who are
Speaker 1: in their thirties. They may have had a baby or
Speaker 1: a couple of kids, but they don't want to be
Speaker 1: mummy bloggers. But they're also now not fitting that demographic
Speaker 1: of the party girl that goes out traveling and wears
Speaker 1: nice clothes. And then there seems to be that level
Speaker 1: of the Bet Judds and the Nadia Bartels whose kids
Speaker 1: are a little bit older, so now they're back partying
Speaker 1: at Coachella. It seems like the influencers that are in
Speaker 1: that in between stage they almost need to decide if
Speaker 1: they want to be booktalkers or mummy bloggers, because that
Speaker 1: seems like BookTalk. It seems like it's like, oh, actually,
Speaker 1: you're around thirty, you like plants, you like being indoors,
Speaker 1: You want to go to BET nine PM, become a
Speaker 1: book talker, yes, or become really interested in organizing your
Speaker 1: house one of these organization pages. I mean, I'm laughing
Speaker 1: about that stuff. I mean, I'm not into BookTalk as much.
Speaker 1: Well I'm at all. Really, I don't have time to read.
Speaker 1: I really want to be someone that reads, but I
Speaker 1: just don't have time. I like the YouTubers who do
Speaker 1: the BookTalk videos in terms of not when they're talking
Speaker 1: about the books, but when they try and show off
Speaker 1: their lifestyle of journaling. But I don't really care about
Speaker 1: the books they read. I've no idea about any of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like those organizational influences. Love watching them clean,
Speaker 1: love watching their house organized. Do I do it myself? Well,
Speaker 1: not like the pigsty of a house. Watching them organize
Speaker 1: their books, it made me wonder who the high end
Speaker 1: brands are that aren't being nice to Jarde. Toun't she
Speaker 1: because I'm not about that well. Jar Day is known
Speaker 1: for working with high end brands like Louis Vaton and Gucci,
Speaker 1: and I have seen she's done recent work with them.
Speaker 1: But jar Day flagged that the brands haven't renewed their
Speaker 1: contract with hers, so it's still unclear as to which
Speaker 1: brands are the luxury ones that are no longer doing
Speaker 1: work with her. I wonder if Jaday's reluctant to move
Speaker 1: into the mummy blogging space after all the criticism she
Speaker 1: copped after she spoke about sleep training. Did you see
Speaker 1: those I didn't see the posts, but it doesn't surprise
Speaker 1: me because anytime you mentioned sleep training and children, people
Speaker 1: go off about it. Yeah, because she's been having issues
Speaker 1: with her son Fletcher's sleep for around a year. She
Speaker 1: has been very open about the fact that her and
Speaker 1: Lockie have been not getting any sleep. They've been having
Speaker 1: to sleep in Fletcher's room with him next to him
Speaker 1: in a bed, and they got someone into sleep train him,
Speaker 1: and she said it was of her own mental health.
Speaker 1: And still there were so many negative comments about it
Speaker 1: and people judging her. So maybe she's like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: probably easier just to post about fashion. Yeah. Well, as
Speaker 1: you said, Kate, being a new mum, I have enjoyed
Speaker 1: her content more recently and you can see that she
Speaker 1: does share different content on TikTok than she would on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Like Instagram it's all high fashion, more aspirational content, whereas
Speaker 1: TikTok she keeps it a bit more real. But I
Speaker 1: had a look at Social Blade and it surprised me
Speaker 1: because jar Day over the past thirty days has lost
Speaker 1: one thousand, five hundred Instagram followers, So it looks like
Speaker 1: maybe the people who did follow her for the fashion
Speaker 1: content aren't interested in her mum content at all. Like
Speaker 1: she's obviously announced recently that she's expecting her second child.
Speaker 1: Normally you get an influx of followers, but maybe people
Speaker 1: have gone, oh, I'm not really interested in this load
Speaker 1: of mum content. That surprises me because she's one of
Speaker 1: the only big Australian influencers whose following has moved across
Speaker 1: to TikTok, so she's got around half a million followers
Speaker 1: on TikTok. If you look at influencers like Steph Claire
Speaker 1: Smith and Sarah's Day who have over a million followers
Speaker 1: on Instagram and then you go over to their tiktoks,
Speaker 1: they've only got a couple of hundreds. So clearly Jida
Speaker 1: Twin she is doing something right on TikTok if she's
Speaker 1: attracted so many new followers or even moving followers across
Speaker 1: to that platform. Yeah, and I thought it was really
Speaker 1: good of her to actually shine a light on this
Speaker 1: issue of mum's feeling like they have this lost sense
Speaker 1: of identity because being on maternity leave, I can see
Speaker 1: how it gets like that. If you're spending all of
Speaker 1: your time focused on just your child and you're away
Speaker 1: from work, you're no longer doing all the things that
Speaker 1: you used to do, you are going to feel a
Speaker 1: bit like you don't really know who you are anymore.
Speaker 1: And that's what Jai Da talked about, and she said, no,
Speaker 1: my job isn't completely relatable, but this idea of feeling
Speaker 1: a bit lost when you've had a baby is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really resonated with me as well. Let's get into
Speaker 1: our Friday debrief. And I've had such a good week
Speaker 1: because my son Jack turned one on Tuesday, and it
Speaker 1: just blows my mind because it feels like he's been
Speaker 1: around forever, like he's been a part of the family forever.
Speaker 1: Yet when I reflect, I'm like, how was it a
Speaker 1: year that I went into hospital? Because you and Sophie
Speaker 1: were sending me all the snapchat memories of everyone waiting
Speaker 1: in the waiting room for hours and hours and hours
Speaker 1: and mum buying blue flowers, and I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, that feels like yesterday. It does feel like yesterday,
Speaker 1: but as you said, then it feels so long ago.
Speaker 1: And I want to say hats off to you, Kate,
Speaker 1: because you pulled off the most amazing first birthday. If
Speaker 1: you go and have a look at Kate's instagram, she's
Speaker 1: shared a few photos and it was bear themes and
Speaker 1: it was so I found it very aesthetically pleasing. It
Speaker 1: was very cute with all the teddy bears had little
Speaker 1: birthday hats and your cake. You pulled out the Women's
Speaker 1: Weekly Bear cake. It looked elite. It also tasted really
Speaker 1: good because I don't know if there's other mums out
Speaker 1: there or people who grew up having or eating the
Speaker 1: Women's Weekly Birthday cake. A lot of people use packet cake,
Speaker 1: but you decided no, I'm actually going to make a
Speaker 1: red velvet cake. Thank you. I'll give you that ten
Speaker 1: dollars I promised if you would pump my ties a
Speaker 1: little bit for me. But yeah, I Sophe's like, why
Speaker 1: aren't you making the nostalgic packet cake? And I'm someone
Speaker 1: that loves baking. So I've got a really good red
Speaker 1: velvet recipe. It's actually just the Jane Petisserie one if
Speaker 1: anyone wants to try. It's not my own or anything.
Speaker 1: And I was like, nah, I'll make that so it
Speaker 1: actually tastes good. But Sophie was like, oh, hang on,
Speaker 1: but what if the red comes through into the icing?
Speaker 1: And I was like, nah, nah, it won't. And then
Speaker 1: I put Jack down for his afternoon nap and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I've hopefully got two hours like i'd pre made the
Speaker 1: cakes to cut them out and decorate it. Oh, the
Speaker 1: pressure was on and I did the first crumb coat
Speaker 1: and I was like, fuck, like v on my understanding,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what a crumb coat is. It's
Speaker 1: like the coat of icing that you put on that's
Speaker 1: meant to contain the crumb so crumbs do come out.
Speaker 1: But I was thinking, I've got such a big ball
Speaker 1: to put this cake on. Normally you put the cake
Speaker 1: in the fridge so that the icing sets a little
Speaker 1: bit before you put the second coat on, but I
Speaker 1: couldn't do that. So fortunately the second coat worked, but yes,
Speaker 1: it was so much fun. I actually made Jack also
Speaker 1: the one cake for Tuesday, because I was tossing up
Speaker 1: between the two and the one is just so nostalgic.
Speaker 1: And I put all the Smarties on in a way
Speaker 1: it was so delicious. There's something just about Smarties and
Speaker 1: icing that is just elite. It's got me a bit
Speaker 1: nervous because now I'm thinking, oh my god, what am
Speaker 1: I going to do for Harry's first birthday? Like do
Speaker 1: I have to do one of the Women's weekly cake? Well,
Speaker 1: if anyone is planning a first birthday, my recommendation would
Speaker 1: be to have it somewhere else that's not at your house,
Speaker 1: because I had it at a pub. I know. We
Speaker 1: spoke a lot about where I should have it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was so good because he rocked up. I
Speaker 1: could just focus on picking out decorations that I liked
Speaker 1: and then the cake, which were the two important things
Speaker 1: for me. So I'm glad that I did that because
Speaker 1: I'm like, if I had to clean my house on
Speaker 1: top of all this, look, Dale and I had gluttons
Speaker 1: for punishment because when we left your birthday or Jack's birthday,
Speaker 1: I should say I said to him, so, what do
Speaker 1: you think we'll do for Harry's Birthday's? Like we'll have
Speaker 1: it at our house. We'll probably do a barbecue.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I was talking to Dale at the
Speaker 1: bar when we were getting a drink and he's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: did you have to pay room higher? And I was like, nah,
Speaker 1: because it's June. There's no room higher, no minimum spend.
Speaker 1: And I almost thought like, oh, maybe he was considering it,
Speaker 1: and then recent and I spoke about it and he's like,
Speaker 1: there's no way they'll do it at their house here. Well,
Speaker 1: I've got a recommendation for anyone who's looking for a
Speaker 1: YouTube series to watch over the weekend. I mentioned on
Speaker 1: our Monday episode how I've become really invested in Georgia Richard's,
Speaker 1: Sophie Jane Miller, and Rachel Catherine's YouTube videos. The three
Speaker 1: of them are over in New York at the moment,
Speaker 1: and I have thoroughly been enjoying their content. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's a bit of escapism for me while
Speaker 1: I'm feeding Harry, Yeah, but I have been loving seeing
Speaker 1: them over in New York. They've been going to the Hamptons.
Speaker 1: It's summer there at the moment. It's always interesting when
Speaker 1: a group of influencers go on a trip and then
Speaker 1: they all produce content from that trip and it's all
Speaker 1: slightly different but has crossovers. Yeah, I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: just this mindless stuff I put on in the background.
Speaker 1: It's been fabulous, so I've been really living for their
Speaker 1: content at the moment. If anyone can hear cute little
Speaker 1: baby noises in the background, we are recording at our parents' house.
Speaker 1: We're actually in your old bedroom, Amy, which has been
Speaker 1: turned into the grandchildren's room, and Harry is I think
Speaker 1: he's kind of sleeping. Well, he started making all of
Speaker 1: the cooing noises, which is very cute. Yeah, he's just
Speaker 1: such a cute little boy. Well, I think on that note,
Speaker 1: Harry is waking up, so we will wrap things up there.
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