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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: Home and Away continues to seven o'clock to night on

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Speaker 2: Channel seven. Matt Evans is a twenty five year old

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Speaker 2: Way actor who plays THEO Paulus on Home and Away

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Speaker 2: and Here is LOGI nominated for the most Popular New Talent.

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Speaker 2: The awards are on this weekend. Good morning, Matt, morning guys.

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Speaker 1: Thanks having me, well, thanks.

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Speaker 3: For joining us.

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Speaker 2: Now you're from Way, now you're in Summer Bay. Tell

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Speaker 2: us how that happens. What's the process for getting onto

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Speaker 2: a heritage show like Home and Away?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, there was a bit of a strange process

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Speaker 1: and how I got there. I did the voice in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty because I was always a singer first, and

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Speaker 1: basically my agent now who's in La she saw me

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Speaker 1: on the Voice because she was home for Christmas because

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Speaker 1: the COVID she was watching it, and so she approached

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Speaker 1: me and we started doing some tapes because I've never

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Speaker 1: really done any acting before, and then she got me

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Speaker 1: with my Australian agent and then seven months later I

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Speaker 1: was where I am now. So it was a really

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Speaker 1: crazy fast process where I've got. It's just a very

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Speaker 1: lucky and very grateful for it.

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Speaker 3: That is amazing. The way the doors open. I do

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Speaker 3: think of you with Delta spreading her wings around you. Mate,

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Speaker 3: She'll be forever forever, have that link, won'te you because

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Speaker 3: you're on her team?

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Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, just Sad spreads the wings around me.

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Speaker 1: It's been great to him.

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Speaker 2: Well, Matt, congratulations on the Logan nomination. Have you prepared

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Speaker 2: a speech?

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Speaker 3: You know what?

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Speaker 1: Actually, I like to just kind of speak off the

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Speaker 1: top of my head, but i have an idea of

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Speaker 1: you know who I need to bank and want to thank,

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Speaker 1: and so I've kind of crafted it a little bit,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not going to bring a piece of paper

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Speaker 1: up and read off it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, have you perfected your I'm really happy for the winner.

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Speaker 3: Look just in case I'm just nominated.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, No, I've been practicing in the mirror

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Speaker 1: the first.

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Speaker 2: Look every actor you know, sort of masters. I'm thrilled

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Speaker 2: to just be nominated. Now working in the US at

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Speaker 2: some point in the futures on your to do list?

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Speaker 2: Why is Jason Bateman the main actor you want to

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Speaker 2: work with?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Because he's so funny. I'm really like, in the

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Speaker 1: acting word, I really admire funny actors, like I really

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Speaker 1: enjoy comedy and that kind of stuff that I'd really

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Speaker 1: like to do as I've got older. So he's definitely

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Speaker 1: like my go to favorite guy for that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 1: And I really enjoy like Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Goslings

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Speaker 1: a goggling as well, So I just enjoyed people who

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Speaker 1: have a bit of humor about them. So yeah, he's brilliant.

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Speaker 3: Jason's even funny on Izac when he's landering money for

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Speaker 3: drug cartels and burning bodies exactly.

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Speaker 1: I just I don't know he does it.

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Speaker 3: He's just unique. When you're away and you've been away

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Speaker 3: from home a lot, what are the things you miss

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Speaker 3: about beautiful Perth?

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Speaker 1: Oh? The hot weather, the blue skies. I mean there's

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Speaker 1: like I went there recently to see my family and

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Speaker 1: I just realized how the sky is just blue. There's

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Speaker 1: just no clouds in Perth, which which I missed, But

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Speaker 1: it's just yeah, just nice and hot all the time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a bit it's very different lifestyle from here to there,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, I do always miss the the calmness and yeah,

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Speaker 1: the weather of per for sure.

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Speaker 2: So home and away fans are going to see more

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Speaker 2: of your musical chops on the show soon. I understand,

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Speaker 2: but tell us quickly about your failed career as a

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Speaker 2: wedding singer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So when I finished what I did a degree for music,

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Speaker 1: and then I got into to you know, singing gigs

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Speaker 1: and everything. I was doing wedding singing and I had

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Speaker 1: a music teacher from my high school asked me to

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Speaker 1: do her wedding, and so I put it down in

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Speaker 1: my diary a Sunday, and I was at work on

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Speaker 1: the Saturday teaching music to kids, and I was driving

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Speaker 1: like where are you? And I was like, what do

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Speaker 1: you mean? She's like my sister's wedding. And I was

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Speaker 1: like I remember my heart thinking feeling of that, and

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Speaker 1: my car, and then went straight to the venue and

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Speaker 1: I pulled up. I'm pretty sure I parked in the

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Speaker 1: the signing. So I ran up the back of the church,

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Speaker 1: set everything up, put it all up, and then and

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Speaker 1: then right as they said we're now going to join

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Speaker 1: for the signing, I just like just in time, and

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Speaker 1: I just started playing. And everybody it was like all

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Speaker 1: their next nap. They were like, what is that? I

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Speaker 1: in this bright blural orange T shirt because I came

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Speaker 1: straight from work, and so it was literally like the

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Speaker 1: split second I just made it. And after that I

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Speaker 1: was like, I don't think wedding things for me.

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Speaker 2: Like a scene from Four Weddings, and.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: It was pretty wild.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe an alternative career is a wedding crash. It

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Speaker 3: might be better mate, all of this.

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Speaker 2: Well, listen, Matt, good luck on Sunday night will be

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Speaker 2: We'll be Barras looking for you from the wings and

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Speaker 2: home and Away continue seven o'clock. Gernard on Channel seven.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, thank you so much for having men all right,