Speaker 1: I felt like the story was greatly twisted.
Speaker 2: I would be lying if I said it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Hard at all.
Speaker 2: But I feel very comfortable in the skin that I'm in.
Speaker 2: I like to start with just being friends. My last
Speaker 2: three actual girlfriends, we just were friends. We just had
Speaker 2: awesome banter, awesome times together. You know, awesome experiences, and
Speaker 2: you know something greater came from it. Personality trumps looks
Speaker 2: by far. So if you can just be yourself, be real,
Speaker 2: have like that, and you know good values, good morals.
Speaker 2: You know, love and respect others, doesn't matter who they are.
Speaker 3: Hi, and welcome to Outspoken ow Under the Influence episode.
Speaker 3: You're joined by journalist Amy and Sophie Talber. Today, our
Speaker 3: special guest was arguably the most controversial contestant on this
Speaker 3: year's Love Island Australia, made headlines in the villa and
Speaker 3: on the outside when influencer Christie Swaddling accused the business
Speaker 3: owner of ditching her to go on the reality show. Today,
Speaker 3: Maurice sets the record straight and answers some of our
Speaker 3: dating questions. Thank you so much for joining us on
Speaker 3: the program. Maurice. We are so excited to have you on.
Speaker 3: You were probably one of the most controversial Love Island contestants.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I.
Speaker 1: Agree.
Speaker 2: Since I came out, I realized that certainly was not
Speaker 2: my intention, but.
Speaker 1: I think I think it was predominantly.
Speaker 2: Because of a beautiful girl that I was seeing for
Speaker 2: a period of time goes by the name of Christie Swadling.
Speaker 2: But yeah, no, otherwise, my experience overall in the villa
Speaker 2: was amazing.
Speaker 3: Before we get into that, I just wanted to ask
Speaker 3: what was life like for you before Love Island.
Speaker 2: So I have an incredible friend slash brother, that I
Speaker 2: have built a couple of businesses with, and he and
Speaker 2: I are running His name's Magicy. He and I run
Speaker 2: a media company called Icon Media Co. And so my
Speaker 2: day to day Monday to Friday type gig would be
Speaker 2: essentially working with businesses to create content for their their
Speaker 2: their social media specifically social media or their websites. And
Speaker 2: that's what I'll be doing on the regular. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love that because Amy and I run a business together.
Speaker 3: We're sisters. So it's really nice that you've done something
Speaker 3: with your brother like that.
Speaker 2: Well he's my friend, but well he's like a friend
Speaker 2: slash brother because he's just like I've known you for
Speaker 2: so long, so I've got a are you guys triplets?
Speaker 2: I don't know if this is accurate, but yes, that
Speaker 2: is incredible. You guys do the whole like podcast thing
Speaker 2: and businesses together. That's really cool. I actually have like
Speaker 2: three all the beautiful brothers as well, so yeah, it's
Speaker 2: a beautiful thing having having family.
Speaker 1: That you vibe with.
Speaker 3: Definitely, And can you tell us a little bit about
Speaker 3: your family growing up.
Speaker 2: My mum she is from the Congo in Africa, so
Speaker 2: she's half Congolese, half Sudanese, and my dad's from Egypt.
Speaker 2: They arrived here some time ago and they actually met
Speaker 2: at the church in Sydney and ever since then.
Speaker 1: They've hited Officer.
Speaker 2: Really really a romantic.
Speaker 1: Story if you like.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, they had my brother which is he
Speaker 2: is now forty, and my other brother now thirty six,
Speaker 2: thirty thirty seven, and my other brother that's that's like
Speaker 2: twenty nine. So yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker 3: Now getting into Love Island, you worked outed as this
Speaker 3: years Love Island Villain. Come on, so if you've mentioned
Speaker 3: that twice, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Maury's the wounds are still fresh, asked.
Speaker 3: Do you know what, Maurice, because you came in on
Speaker 3: the first episode, and I was like, this guy seems
Speaker 3: really cool. He's got a lot going on, he's got
Speaker 3: his business, and I think, as you mentioned, it was
Speaker 3: probably the whole YouTube video from Christy that came out
Speaker 3: to be honest, I hadn't heard of Christy before I
Speaker 3: saw all the news reports that you were apparently dating
Speaker 3: and you'd broke well. I don't know if you'd broken
Speaker 3: your heart, but I did find myself watching the video,
Speaker 3: and I think a lot of people actually watched it
Speaker 3: because it's got over seven hundred and forty two thousand views.
Speaker 3: What were your first thoughts when you heard that this
Speaker 3: had all happens, I suppose when you're unaware in a
Speaker 3: villa in.
Speaker 2: Fiji, I wow.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about how I felt. I felt
Speaker 1: like I felt like.
Speaker 2: The story was greatly twisted, and I just felt like
Speaker 2: I need to be as communicative as possible, especially with Cynthia,
Speaker 2: because at the time, when you know, we received the
Speaker 2: LI Times, the Love Island Times in the villa, Cynthia
Speaker 2: obviously felt a litt it uncomfortable, and I just wanted
Speaker 2: to reassure her, but to make to to really bring
Speaker 2: the story out In truth, Christy and I were were
Speaker 2: simply just seeing each other for you know, two three months,
Speaker 2: nothing official, nothing labeled. And I still think she's an
Speaker 2: incredible girl, a great human being. Uh and and very
Speaker 2: very very smart and savvy.
Speaker 1: With with her.
Speaker 2: YouTube and influencer status. But yeah, we're just seeing each other.
Speaker 2: Neither one of us put the label on it. And yeah, look,
Speaker 2: I think you know too, possibly even three weeks prior
Speaker 2: to being you know, invited onto the show, I didn't
Speaker 2: see things unfolding to the way that I would have
Speaker 2: expected with with Christie and I. So before anything got serious,
Speaker 2: I called things off and and her and I, you know,
Speaker 2: after I called things off, you know, we were still chatting.
Speaker 1: I was still chill.
Speaker 2: You know, we're still fine. And then I think it
Speaker 2: was maybe a couple of weeks afterwards, the amazing people
Speaker 2: at I t V Productions reached out to me to
Speaker 2: see if I wouldn't like to take part in the
Speaker 2: in Love in Love Island. And obviously, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: exploring different friendships to see if there is a spark
Speaker 2: and and uh and that's and and so I thought,
Speaker 2: you know, hey, look, this is an awesome oportunity for
Speaker 2: me to potentially fine love in an environment like Love Island,
Speaker 2: and so I took took it up. And obviously with
Speaker 2: these kind of things, you've got to sign an nd
Speaker 2: A non disclosure agreement. And uh, you know, as much
Speaker 2: as I was still chill and friends with Christie, you know,
Speaker 2: I couldn't. I couldn't share that with her. And I
Speaker 2: think I feel that, you know, the reason why things
Speaker 2: unfolded the way they did while I was in the
Speaker 2: villa was because she was hurt. And then I understand that,
Speaker 2: like I really do understand that, and I really couldn't
Speaker 2: share that with her. Maybe, you know, prompting her prior
Speaker 2: to going in the villa, she she could have felt
Speaker 2: a little bit more comfortable with with things instead of
Speaker 2: you know, finding out, you know, by surprise and maybe
Speaker 2: looking a bit you know, funny to the public eye.
Speaker 2: But yeah, look, I still have absolutely nothing against her.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 2: I have only just recently watched her YouTube video, which
Speaker 2: is her second highest viewed video. Well done, and.
Speaker 3: It's maybe you should make a video responding.
Speaker 2: Well, I I want to. I want to move away
Speaker 2: from that. I don't want to. I don't want to
Speaker 2: start any more light.
Speaker 1: On that just because I feel I just.
Speaker 2: Don't want to. You know, my parents would always.
Speaker 1: Say, don't play fire with fire. It's just like an
Speaker 1: old saying, if you'd like where I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't want to start anything. I just want to
Speaker 2: keep things chill. And if I can't be friends with her, let's.
Speaker 1: Keep things neutral.
Speaker 3: I think that's really lovely. So have you spoken to
Speaker 3: Christie Sins?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I have.
Speaker 2: I have attempted to speak with her again. She's, from
Speaker 2: what I've learned to engaged. She's maybe still a little
Speaker 2: bit hurt. And I've told her my intention. I had
Speaker 2: no ill intentions and I still don't and yeah, so
Speaker 2: but but yeah, I think I think maybe time can
Speaker 2: can heal where things are at now.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say one of the points that she
Speaker 3: brought up in the video was that she claims that
Speaker 3: you told her that you were just going to be
Speaker 3: in the ad for Love Island. Was there any truth
Speaker 3: to what she was saying there? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: My amazing manager at the time, he found me the
Speaker 2: gig for for the just commercial break for Love Island,
Speaker 2: and then I took part in it and it was
Speaker 2: it was final. It was an awesome environment and one
Speaker 2: of the creative directors reached out to me and said he.
Speaker 1: Should really go for the actual show. We like your
Speaker 1: you know, your your vibe and.
Speaker 2: And uh and then I said to him, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm seeing this girl at the moment, I'm not really
Speaker 2: interested and uh. And that's where where I left things.
Speaker 2: And then that was probably that was probably like a
Speaker 2: couple of months in advance. You know how these things
Speaker 2: work when they where they really do a lot of
Speaker 2: planning in advance for the commercial break anyway, and.
Speaker 1: Uh, I that took place.
Speaker 2: I then went on air, and then obviously she's started
Speaker 2: getting some some d ms and comments online saying that
Speaker 2: that am I Am I going on and and obviously
Speaker 2: the truth was I was certainly not going on.
Speaker 1: And then.
Speaker 2: As as things developed, I I I obviously you know,
Speaker 2: broke things off with both Christie.
Speaker 1: And I and they messaged me.
Speaker 2: When I say they, I mean I t V messaged
Speaker 2: me on or DM me on Instagram and invited me
Speaker 2: to go on again. And I'm I'm a spiritual kind
Speaker 2: of guy, and so I kind of felt like, hey,
Speaker 2: this could have could be something that I should take
Speaker 2: part in. And at that point in time, I was
Speaker 2: not with or seeing Christie. Well, that's how that's unfolded,
Speaker 2: or that's how that panned out.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing what people seem to forget is
Speaker 3: that these opportunities on reality shows, of course you have
Speaker 3: the genuine intention of wanting to find love, but they're
Speaker 3: also a great opportunity to build your career, build your brand.
Speaker 3: So if you are just seeing someone and you're not
Speaker 3: that keen, why wouldn't you go on the show and
Speaker 3: explore the possibilities that the show has to want before?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yes, it's a synthetic environment. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: there are there, you know, there are maybe people that
Speaker 2: are that are on the on the show that don't
Speaker 2: have authentic intentions. But hey like like yeah, like you're
Speaker 2: you're under sent right, you know again, I think you know,
Speaker 2: me literally being in a position that I was in
Speaker 2: with Christy was obviously me being in the mindset of
Speaker 2: exploring the potentialities of being in a friendship, exploring the
Speaker 2: potential of a spark and and developing something into something
Speaker 2: a little bit more serious, and that that obviously didn't
Speaker 2: come about, so and then and then things were called off,
Speaker 2: and then another opportunity can my way, and you know,
Speaker 2: I'm yeah, I think I think that's perfectly fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now we don't often hear about how men deal
Speaker 3: with trolling on negative media attention. Just how hard has
Speaker 3: it been for you since leaving the villa.
Speaker 2: I would be lying if I said it wasn't hard
Speaker 2: at all. But I feel very comfortable in the skin
Speaker 2: that I'm in, and and I feel that I can
Speaker 2: I see myself as an emotional intelligent, emotionally intelligent person,
Speaker 2: and and I just keep my attention to where you know,
Speaker 2: it best serves me.
Speaker 1: And obviously you know.
Speaker 2: I can't. I kind of think that a lot of
Speaker 2: like I think all the Islanders coming into this, Sorry,
Speaker 2: I certainly believe this is the case. All the Islanders
Speaker 2: were well, you know, prompted or made aware going in
Speaker 2: the villa that that you know, there can be some
Speaker 2: publicity that you know, may not be to to what
Speaker 2: they want. And so I guess I guess I was
Speaker 2: aware of that being the case of a potential case,
Speaker 2: and and I guess I just made myself aware and
Speaker 2: ready if anything were to happen. And it did.
Speaker 1: But I feel I feel good. I feel good.
Speaker 2: There's actually a lot more love that I receive, then
Speaker 2: people may.
Speaker 1: Expect or expect I have.
Speaker 2: Like some really really beautiful people reached out to me
Speaker 2: on on Instagram showing their love and their their thoughts
Speaker 2: and their opinion of you know, the genuine nature of
Speaker 2: myself and and how some here I am so it
Speaker 2: kind of it kind of bustles out really well, Oh, I'm.
Speaker 3: So glad to hear that some people have been lovely.
Speaker 3: If you don't mind, would you be about to talk
Speaker 3: us through some of the most negative comments you receive,
Speaker 3: just to kind of show I don't know, I feel
Speaker 3: like it's nice to see your real side of someone
Speaker 3: and how it actually is dealing with some of these
Speaker 3: negative comments, because as confident as you are, it still
Speaker 3: would be difficult to cop some of that on Instagram
Speaker 3: or Twitter or whatever.
Speaker 1: It may be such a great question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I I I do a really good job
Speaker 2: to like shutting it out. But let me let me think.
Speaker 2: You know, you know, you are pathetic or like fu
Speaker 2: or you know, happy to do that to Christie and
Speaker 2: and yeah, I see it. And I just I just
Speaker 2: feel as though, you know, people may just be maybe misinformed,
Speaker 2: and you know, they've just let themselves loose, Hey, do.
Speaker 3: You reply to those messages? Because we've spoken to a
Speaker 3: few other people who've been on certain reality shows, and
Speaker 3: they found that when they respond, the people are so
Speaker 3: sort of in awe that they've actually responded that they're like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it.
Speaker 2: I was really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh well, maybe maybe I should respond.
Speaker 2: Not don't.
Speaker 1: I actually don't respond. I just I just delete it,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, because.
Speaker 2: Again, it's it's not serving to you know, my purpose
Speaker 2: or my my you know, my goals to see things
Speaker 2: like that. But you know, obviously, I think even creating content,
Speaker 2: you know that I guess best showcase or represent who
Speaker 2: I am as a person, and maybe the yeah, just
Speaker 2: the truth behind whatever maybe said. It's something that I
Speaker 2: could do. But but I never I never knew that.
Speaker 2: I never really kind of entertained the thought of responding
Speaker 2: to them.
Speaker 3: To be honest with you, Well, the crazy thing is
Speaker 3: that often when you do look at the people who
Speaker 3: are sending the hateful comments, they're they're like twelve year
Speaker 3: old girls. And that's what's kind of scary about this
Speaker 3: whole trolling thing is I think that there needs to
Speaker 3: be some better education at school of you know, you
Speaker 3: don't say like no one would ever come up. I'm
Speaker 3: hoping no one's ever come up and said something hurtful
Speaker 3: like that to you in person. What do you think?
Speaker 3: What do you think you'd say to some of the
Speaker 3: people who might have sent you those kind of messages?
Speaker 3: What would your advice be to that?
Speaker 2: I would love to have a conversation, like I feel,
Speaker 2: I feel like a lot, you know what, to be
Speaker 2: honest with you, A lot of people that I speak with,
Speaker 2: not so much now, but but earlier on that people
Speaker 2: just come contact with me, you know, in public, they're like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, like they've really portrayed you as as
Speaker 2: quite the opposite, like you're super approachable.
Speaker 1: Very down to earth, you.
Speaker 2: Know, and very kind, and so just that has just
Speaker 2: like opened my eyes to you know, awareness, And I
Speaker 2: think self awareness is some self awareness and just having
Speaker 2: a greater, yeah, a greater awareness of you know, what
Speaker 2: could be and maybe asking yourself you know some some
Speaker 2: some I guess, bigger questions about what is actually going
Speaker 2: on here. But then again there's also the aspect that
Speaker 2: I like to entertain is like, you know, even if
Speaker 2: if you've been sold this story on a on a
Speaker 2: person or on a circumstance, you know, like and and
Speaker 2: this just goes with all due respect, like you know, really,
Speaker 2: would you really get out of your way to do that, Like,
Speaker 2: like what's going on in your life?
Speaker 1: Why don't you really give a lot.
Speaker 2: More attention and effort and focus to what's happening in
Speaker 2: your life? And you know, do that and and focus
Speaker 2: on that. You know, it's it's just a poor use
Speaker 2: of energy energy just throwing it on someone else like that.
Speaker 2: It's just and even if it's true or not true,
Speaker 2: like it doesn't even it doesn't even matter. It's just like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's just unkind. It's not nice. Let them
Speaker 2: do their own thing. And and you know, I believe,
Speaker 2: you know, karma is a thing. And you know, if
Speaker 2: I her you know, let's say, cunning or misleading or
Speaker 2: whatever it might be, it will certainly bite me on.
Speaker 1: The bottom, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Do you know What I find quite interesting about the
Speaker 3: whole thing is obviously there's the power of reality television,
Speaker 3: but I think we're becoming a little bit more wise
Speaker 3: to it that you know, we're only being shown what
Speaker 3: twenty five minutes inside a twenty four hour day. I
Speaker 3: feel like you may have copped it online a bit
Speaker 3: more because people view influences as if they're their friends.
Speaker 3: So obviously Christie's got a large following, so when she
Speaker 3: says something, you're like, that's my friend telling me that's
Speaker 3: not a reality television producer. Do you think that has
Speaker 3: had an effect on I suppose the impact or I
Speaker 3: suppose yeah, the amount of comments you've.
Speaker 2: Received, Yeah, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1: As I said, you know, like Christie.
Speaker 2: Is really really good at what she does, and she's
Speaker 2: created a great culture community with you know, her following,
Speaker 2: and yeah, like totally like if you know people that
Speaker 2: that that follow her here that she's hurt and someone's
Speaker 2: mistreated her, if that's what that's been communicated to them,
Speaker 2: then yeah, of course, like they feel like they need
Speaker 2: to say something because, yeah, you're right because the nail
Speaker 2: on the head, it's like it's like their friend being mistreated.
Speaker 2: So that's certainly contributed to a lot of the buzz
Speaker 2: behind Maurice being this villain.
Speaker 3: M hmm. And whilst you were in the villa, you know,
Speaker 3: you had sort of a brief romance with Cynthia. Unfortunately
Speaker 3: things didn't turn out but once she left the villa,
Speaker 3: do you think there's any chance that you guys might
Speaker 3: rekindle anything there. I've got a preface there and say,
Speaker 3: obviously we interviewed Cynthia last week, can we feel that
Speaker 3: we're her friends now? You know, we want the best
Speaker 3: for Cynthia, and I think you guys would be great together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know what, you know, it's funny. The
Speaker 2: day after the podcast went up, well, sorry, the day
Speaker 2: before the podcast came up, I actually had a very long,
Speaker 2: like hour long conversation with this end. We're just vibing
Speaker 2: a lot over the phone, not knowing that she did
Speaker 2: the podcast, by the way, but yeah, we're just.
Speaker 1: Like, it's just very interesting.
Speaker 2: It's very very interesting because one thing that we realized
Speaker 2: with each other, like having awesome banner and conversation over
Speaker 2: the phone, is that the dynamic, the dynamic.
Speaker 1: Is completely different because you.
Speaker 2: Know, being being you know, being watched.
Speaker 1: You know, twenty four to.
Speaker 2: Seven, because you're being recorded, and you know, even in
Speaker 2: the shower and toilet, but it kind of it kind
Speaker 2: of sets a different tone. And I got to know
Speaker 2: a side of Cynthia. I don't believe I was able
Speaker 2: to really connect with in the villa.
Speaker 1: And vice versa. So I look, we did.
Speaker 2: We did say, YO, definitely want to we definitely want
Speaker 2: to connect, We definitely want to link up and get
Speaker 2: a bite to eat. She's obviously in Brisbane and I'm
Speaker 2: in Sydney. But we certainly said, you know, God willing
Speaker 2: you know this this side of the year, otherwise first
Speaker 2: thing next year will be great for us to connect.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like yeah, I think I think we'll just
Speaker 2: chat and we'll just see where things go. Like anything
Speaker 2: can happen. Like I'm not a I never rule anything
Speaker 2: out in life. I think I think that's the best
Speaker 2: thing about life.
Speaker 3: Anything can happen, right, That's so good. That's That's the
Speaker 3: thing that I found interesting about Love Island was this
Speaker 3: was the pressure on all of you guys, because obviously,
Speaker 3: if you're not in a couple, you face, you know,
Speaker 3: being kicked off the island. Did you feel that pressure
Speaker 3: every day that you know you have to be talking
Speaker 3: to everyone and finding this connection?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Amy, I I felt like I learned so much
Speaker 2: about myself. I learned so much about myself, especially being.
Speaker 1: A lot more.
Speaker 2: Emotionally vulnerable, and and and and that's kind of the
Speaker 2: kind of place where they they take you on the show.
Speaker 2: You know, the producers do an incredible job creating a
Speaker 2: real cool, fun, you know.
Speaker 1: Show. But but you know, you've you've got to talk
Speaker 1: about you know, some some.
Speaker 2: Some uncomfortable things at times. And I got comfortable with
Speaker 2: being emotionally vulnerable to some extent. But yeah, like the
Speaker 2: pressure is real. And and and another thing is, you know,
Speaker 2: you know, you and I might have a conversation in
Speaker 2: a villa and you and I, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: have a cool conversation. But let's say you you take
Speaker 2: something from the conversation that you know may have been
Speaker 2: missed you know, read or whatever it might be hypothetically,
Speaker 2: and you know, you might share it with with someone
Speaker 2: else in the villa and create this this commotion. And
Speaker 2: that's that's what's essentially happened with with some of the islanders.
Speaker 2: All of them are amazing.
Speaker 1: I love them bits.
Speaker 2: But you know, again, the setting does the setting does
Speaker 2: create that.
Speaker 3: You know that kind of it's all Chinese whispers, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yes, it's very interesting. And yeah, again I
Speaker 2: got to say, like I'm very grateful for the opportunity
Speaker 2: because I'm able to learn so much more about myself
Speaker 2: and just you know, it's like a a glorified social experiment,
Speaker 2: and it's just like you learn so much about how
Speaker 2: things are like in the heightened environment, which is what
Speaker 2: Love Island was, in my opinion, how things you know,
Speaker 2: really really come about and unfold with with you know,
Speaker 2: relationships and people.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's very interesting.
Speaker 2: It's very very interesting.
Speaker 3: It is also fascinating. That's why SOF and I love
Speaker 3: obviously Love Island Australia, but I think Love Island UK
Speaker 3: is also so we can't stop watching it. We were addicted.
Speaker 3: Did you watch?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did you? It was like how guilty pleasure this winter?
Speaker 3: Did you watch it? So?
Speaker 2: I never watched Love Island full stop before I watched
Speaker 2: probably like half an episode afterwards, excuse me, And I
Speaker 2: actually probably watched just the opening scene just before I
Speaker 2: went on. But look like a lot of people get
Speaker 2: like lashed onto it. It is.
Speaker 1: It takes you for a rollercoaster ride, it really does.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's very addictive. I was gonna say, stepping away
Speaker 3: from the villa, you're obviously a very eligible bachelor. Besides,
Speaker 3: you know, whatever's going on with Cynthia that we hope's happening,
Speaker 3: and there'd be a lot of young women who are listening.
Speaker 3: I suppose that would love to hear your perspective on
Speaker 3: I suppose some dating situations that pop up. Are you
Speaker 3: happy for us to ask you a few questions that
Speaker 3: some of our listeners might love to know the answer to, Yeah,
Speaker 3: which we're throwing a bit of a curveball because I
Speaker 3: know discusses with you, but we thought it'd be fun.
Speaker 3: So so I suppose one question that young girls listening
Speaker 3: would like to know is, how do you know if
Speaker 3: a guy likes you?
Speaker 1: How do you know, yeah, if a guy likes you?
Speaker 3: So I suppose if you if you like someone, Maurice,
Speaker 3: what are you putting out there to the girl?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, like I I I'm a very intimate guy,
Speaker 2: you know, I personally, you know, I like I like
Speaker 2: having awesome conversation. I like connecting, not just like physically,
Speaker 2: but like intellectually as well. I think that's super important.
Speaker 2: I think I think that is. I think that's the
Speaker 2: you know, to something lookout for, you know, being a girl.
Speaker 2: You know, what kind of quality of conversation are you having?
Speaker 2: You know, are you just talking.
Speaker 1: About the physical type stuff, because if you are, you.
Speaker 2: Know, what's his real intentions? And that's that's that's that's
Speaker 2: a giveaway for me. You know, I like to start
Speaker 2: with just being friends. My last three actual girlfriends, we
Speaker 2: just were friends. We were just friends and we just
Speaker 2: had awesome banter, awesome times together, you know, awesome experiences
Speaker 2: and and you know, something greater came from it. You know,
Speaker 2: if you can have you know, cool, you know, conversations
Speaker 2: and experiences without having to get all sexual, you know,
Speaker 2: then then you know you've got something a.
Speaker 1: Lot more deeper, deeper than just you know, service level sex.
Speaker 3: And what do you think some signs are that, well,
Speaker 3: I suppose maybe some red flags that if you're seeing
Speaker 3: a guy and maybe some things pop up. What do
Speaker 3: you think, Yeah, some red flags are that girls can
Speaker 3: look out for that maybe this guy is not willing
Speaker 3: to commit they joined love. I'm joking, you're Mara. You
Speaker 3: know that was a job. I'm sorry Amy through this
Speaker 3: segment and I didn't know this was happening because I'm
Speaker 3: I feel like if I was young, and I feel
Speaker 3: like if I was young and single, i'd want to Well,
Speaker 3: I am young, but if I feel like if I
Speaker 3: was single, I'd love to hear Maurice's advice. So sorry, Maurice.
Speaker 3: So that question was, what are some red flags that
Speaker 3: a guy may not be interested in you? Is it
Speaker 3: he's not getting back to your text messages or he's
Speaker 3: not that engaged to.
Speaker 2: Make your priority, Like like, I know, when I'm interested
Speaker 2: in a girl, like no one else is like no one,
Speaker 2: Like I'm pretty absolute, like I don't, I don't you know,
Speaker 2: I don't like you know, having small talk with other
Speaker 2: girls and all this kind of stuff and just keep
Speaker 2: my options open. I'm interested in a girl, you know,
Speaker 2: I give her my attention and I make her priority.
Speaker 2: And what that means is making her as a priority
Speaker 2: is you know, yeah, getting back to her text you know,
Speaker 2: within a suitable amount of time, you're calling, calling her
Speaker 2: you know regular, you know, not not And like like yeah,
Speaker 2: girl with your friends will also make time for her
Speaker 2: and incorporate her into like family and friends kind of
Speaker 2: events as well. Like that's a that's a big thing
Speaker 2: because you know, guys guys that just have a relationship
Speaker 2: or just like a mess around raisia with a girl,
Speaker 2: they don't want to, you know, take them out to
Speaker 2: family gatherings, or you know, friend like friend events or
Speaker 2: whatever might be. So yeah, just just really really gauging
Speaker 2: whether you are a priority in this guy's life.
Speaker 3: That's a good one. I like that. What about if
Speaker 3: you're a single girl and you're out at a bar
Speaker 3: and you see someone you like, should you approach them?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think it's very I think it's hella attractive.
Speaker 2: I think it's and it doesn't really matter who does what,
Speaker 2: Like it was the twenty first century, Like, you know,
Speaker 2: gentlemen doesn't need to go up there and you know, talk.
Speaker 1: To him in such way.
Speaker 2: I feel like, I feel like it's flattering, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: It's like it can it can still work. Just just
Speaker 2: don't throw yourself out there, you know, in a cheaply
Speaker 2: manner or cheaply fashioned you know dos in class.
Speaker 1: You know, it's I think it's totally.
Speaker 2: Cool and and yeah, the one thing I love about
Speaker 2: a girl is confidence, Like and to do to go
Speaker 2: up to a guy, Yeah, that that demonstrates confidence in
Speaker 2: my opinion.
Speaker 3: Do you know what our little cousin he actually had
Speaker 3: two girls approach him at a bar over the weekend,
Speaker 3: and their pick up line was, I really like your
Speaker 3: T shirt where did you get it from? And he
Speaker 3: was like, oh, I don't remember. And they're like, can
Speaker 3: we look at the tag? He was like, what, so,
Speaker 3: maybe girls are listening, don't do that. I think that
Speaker 3: do not do that. I know. He was like, you
Speaker 3: guys are being freaks. I'm sorry. So, Maurice, I suppose
Speaker 3: what are you looking for in a woman? Then? I
Speaker 3: suppose you know you've left Love Ireland. What would be
Speaker 3: your dream woman for the girls that are listening, that
Speaker 3: might be wanting to approach you at a bar.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I think one thing that very much stood
Speaker 2: out to me. One thing I learned and I knew
Speaker 2: this prior in advance, but it's just was made incredibly
Speaker 2: obvious to me is personality. Trump's looks by far. So
Speaker 2: if you could just be yourself, be real, have like
Speaker 2: and and and you know, have like good values, good morals.
Speaker 2: You know, love and respect others, doesn't matter who they are,
Speaker 2: no need, no need to know backbite or talk about
Speaker 2: other people, you know, unnecessarily, the goal orientated, you know,
Speaker 2: want more out of life, be ambitious. These are qualities
Speaker 2: that I personally look forward to seeing in it in
Speaker 2: a girl.
Speaker 1: Personally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh well that's lovely. Thank you so much for
Speaker 3: asking me a little Sophie, He's got one more. Sorry, no,
Speaker 3: this is this isn't a dating question. I was just
Speaker 3: going to say, what do you have planned, you know,
Speaker 3: for next year? What are your goals? Obviously you've got
Speaker 3: this business. Is that where you're putting all your energy
Speaker 3: or do you have any other side projects on the go.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you asked.
Speaker 2: So I I'm I'm segueing into the performing arts. So
Speaker 2: that's film and music, and just recently I've got a
Speaker 2: huge spark for excitement, especially for Hugh Jackman, because he's
Speaker 2: he does a lot of stage type stuff, and I
Speaker 2: think the performing arts gets me excited because it's all
Speaker 2: about expressing yourself. And I think life's all about a
Speaker 2: feeling right and and the performing arts kind of kind
Speaker 2: of gives you that.
Speaker 1: Outlet to to express yourself.
Speaker 2: So I'm working on some projects. Last last year, a
Speaker 2: year and a half ago, I actually finished a feature
Speaker 2: film which I was the main actor for, Grateful for
Speaker 2: Which film is that?
Speaker 3: I have to check it out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, it's not out yet. It's called Girl Addicted.
Speaker 3: Oh I like that title.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm gonna be working on some film music
Speaker 2: and getting myself comfortable with stage because I find I
Speaker 2: find that a little bit challenging and I love challenges.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's where I see myself going.
Speaker 1: At the moment.
Speaker 3: So you've got obviously a beautiful speaking voice, so can
Speaker 3: you sing as well? Is that obviously where the music
Speaker 3: comes in or are you playing instruments?
Speaker 2: So I am literally heading to my vocal coach after this,
Speaker 2: which is really exciting.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I do, I do sing. Yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to hear.
Speaker 3: You sing now, but I feel a bit mean to
Speaker 3: make you sing down the phone.
Speaker 2: I think you've heard melf earlier in this conversation. I
Speaker 2: am not in any position to sing.
Speaker 1: But I will certainly think be a one point.
Speaker 3: Oh look, I mean I'm in no position to be
Speaker 3: interviewing anyone with my croaky voice. Maurice, We'll just have
Speaker 3: to wait. We'll have to wait for this, so we'll
Speaker 3: hold you to that one. Well, thank you so much
Speaker 3: for joining us this afternoon.
Speaker 2: We've had enjoyed that so much fun.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: God bless guys.