Speaker 1: Now, guys, I don't usually get mad, and I want
Speaker 1: to preface this conversation with that, but this weekend, yesterday today,
Speaker 1: I was mad. Something really ticks me off and it
Speaker 1: was an article that was written. So over the weekend
Speaker 1: we all went to the ACCRA Awards, which is like
Speaker 1: the Logis for radio, the Oscars for radio. So anyone
Speaker 1: in literally anyone involved in any aspect of radio across
Speaker 1: the entire country get together for this big celebration.
Speaker 2: It was one.
Speaker 1: Hundred years Laura, you were up for an award for
Speaker 1: the best New Radio Talent, so were you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I was up for the awards, so we were
Speaker 2: against each other. I was nominated for best Hairline.
Speaker 1: Best But it's the radio night of night and for
Speaker 1: you and I to be up for an award as
Speaker 1: amazing as like best New Talent in Radio, it's just
Speaker 1: I was chuffed with the nomination.
Speaker 2: It's like no expectations, but like, wow, that's a really
Speaker 2: cool thing.
Speaker 3: Yea.
Speaker 1: There were only two articles written on the Daily Mail,
Speaker 1: which is the meetia that everyone goes to, right unfortunately,
Speaker 1: but the only two articles written about the entire event.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying about me and about anyone, but about
Speaker 1: the entire across event, and one of them was Jackie O.
Speaker 1: Henderson as in Kyle and Jackie O. Jackie OH Henderson
Speaker 1: shows off her weight loss as she leads celebrity arrivals.
Speaker 1: So I mean she's the most she has won the
Speaker 1: most awards in radio out of anyone ever. She's one
Speaker 1: of the best radio hosts ever. But the only comment
Speaker 1: was her weight loss.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's this idea that like her weight loss is
Speaker 4: her biggest achievement because it seems to just be the
Speaker 4: number one thing that is mentioned in every article at
Speaker 4: the moment.
Speaker 1: It's also the way they say it. She shows off
Speaker 1: her weight loss. Nope, she just was there.
Speaker 3: She was just talking venue with her daughter, of.
Speaker 1: All people, she literally just walked in with her daughter.
Speaker 1: Now the article, the second articles about myself. Now, these
Speaker 1: are both written by the same journalists. I want to
Speaker 1: say that, and it is a female. The article for
Speaker 1: me has the headline Brittany Hockley risks a wardrobe malfunction
Speaker 1: in extremely revealing frock at the thirty.
Speaker 2: Fourth at CRA Awards.
Speaker 1: Now, just in like the first little paragraph, I just
Speaker 1: want to read you some highlights. This mentioned nothing about
Speaker 1: any of my career or what I'm doing, which if
Speaker 1: you're gonna write an article, I would love it to
Speaker 1: be about that because we work hard. Nothing about the
Speaker 1: fact that we're up forh nominations, Laura. This is some
Speaker 1: of the highlighted things in the article. Brittany went to
Speaker 1: daring lengths to stand out in a very revealing frock
Speaker 1: that left little to the imagination. She risked a wardrobe
Speaker 1: malfunction as.
Speaker 2: She flashed the flesh.
Speaker 1: She left little to the imagination and put her ample
Speaker 1: bust on display and clinging her dress close to her physique.
Speaker 1: Laura put a little less skin on display, but still
Speaker 1: ensured her trim pins were highlighted in the frock's.
Speaker 2: Thigh high split. That is criptive. That is literally the article.
Speaker 4: Now, firstly, it's unbelievable that that is newsworthy.
Speaker 2: I mean I think that that's a number one thing totally,
Speaker 2: britt I.
Speaker 4: Mean I saw this. I was mad for you, so
Speaker 4: I can only imagine how mad you felt waking up
Speaker 4: the next day. And the most the center of attention
Speaker 4: from the night was you having cleavage.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. And it's a beautiful dress that I
Speaker 1: absolutely loved. It's a floor length gown. I have breasts,
Speaker 1: and I have a butt, and I'm curvy, so anything
Speaker 1: I wear is going to fit my body. I can't
Speaker 1: hide that I have breast and I shouldn't have to
Speaker 1: hide that I have breasts now normally, And I don't
Speaker 1: know what this says about my internalized sexism, but normally
Speaker 1: I would see these articles because there every second day, Right,
Speaker 1: this isn't a one off, and I would scroll past
Speaker 1: it and be like, that's disappointing. They didn't mention anything
Speaker 1: about maccolades or nominations or work, and I would scroll on.
Speaker 1: The reason this one stuck with me is my partner Ben,
Speaker 1: who lives on the other side of the world. We're
Speaker 1: on different time zones, so if there's a big event
Speaker 1: like this, he'll often google me just to see what
Speaker 1: had happened.
Speaker 2: So he'll google us. Oh, I wonder how Britt went
Speaker 2: at the awards.
Speaker 4: He wanted to find out whether you won or how
Speaker 4: we were He did, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Exactly how you did, how I did?
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: And he had messaged me the article. I hadn't seen it.
Speaker 1: He messaged me and he said, I, hey, love, like
Speaker 1: I just tried to find out about last night.
Speaker 2: But it's weird.
Speaker 1: The only article I can find on the whole event
Speaker 1: is on your boobs and your body and how did
Speaker 1: you go? And the comment When I heard that from him,
Speaker 1: I thought, that is so disgusting that the only thing
Speaker 1: that they're going to write about is my bras and
Speaker 1: my butt and nothing else. And my partner can't even
Speaker 1: find out how I went because no one cares, right,
Speaker 1: No one cares about a woman's job or work ethic.
Speaker 1: No one cares about that. They care about how much
Speaker 1: skins she shows.
Speaker 3: It also goes to show that you were so desensitized
Speaker 3: to these articles that you didn't even really It took
Speaker 3: someone else to see it and to point it out
Speaker 3: for you to go, oh my god, I see it now.
Speaker 4: This is not a new thing. And I think the
Speaker 4: big part of this why is so enraging is that this,
Speaker 4: I mean this specific journalist. They have written very similar
Speaker 4: articles about the women who were at the Brownlow event recently.
Speaker 4: I mean, there are so many if you just go
Speaker 4: back through the list, and it's like, why is it
Speaker 4: that the most important thing there is to write about
Speaker 4: is about a woman's cleavage or the whole event that
Speaker 4: is the one thing that stood out. You know what,
Speaker 4: I think that this comes down to. On one hand,
Speaker 4: we can be really angry about the journalism we should be,
Speaker 4: but if this is what's getting clicks, I think we
Speaker 4: all need a little a little bit more conscious about
Speaker 4: what are the articles that we're clicking on. For as
Speaker 4: long as we click on them, people are going to
Speaker 4: write them. So it is also chicken in the egg
Speaker 4: in this situation as well.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm sure you're all on the edge of your seat.
Speaker 1: I didn't win, but thanks for asking. Also, I think
Speaker 1: they're really look great, so don't worry.
Speaker 3: So can I be honest? The real travesty here is
Speaker 3: that I was cropped out of the photo, and to
Speaker 3: be honest, it really gutted me. Was that was That's
Speaker 3: the real travesty.
Speaker 2: Now your finger made it in