Speaker 1: Welcome back to TV Reload. This is my fourth bonus
Speaker 1: episode featuring a quick chap with I'm a celebrity's latest dejectee.
Speaker 1: Former goggle boxer Simon love It. Australia fell in love
Speaker 1: with Simon during his time on goggle Box, proving that
Speaker 1: Burton Ernie had found a new life in Adam and Simon.
Speaker 1: Their undeniable mateship and an ability to call it like
Speaker 1: it is has one over Australian audiences for up to
Speaker 1: five years, shocking us all when they finished their time
Speaker 1: on the LOGI Award winning program goggle Box. The boys
Speaker 1: certainly have a thirst for life and a shared love
Speaker 1: of footy, which for most blokes in this country is
Speaker 1: like peas and carrots or should I say a four
Speaker 1: and twenty PI with sauce. But right now, Simon, without
Speaker 1: his mate Adam, is set to answer all the questions
Speaker 1: that you want to know from his time in the jungle.
Speaker 1: I'd like to welcome to the show Simon Love It.
Speaker 2: I was definitely strange at the start. They are famous
Speaker 2: for being watched watching TV and it's weird because you
Speaker 2: don't know what your reception is going to be. These
Speaker 2: are best mates Adam and Simon. I don't think we
Speaker 2: ever expect did anyone to know who we were. Simon
Speaker 2: still lives at home. We don't actually spend all of
Speaker 2: our time together in a no wracking because you've been
Speaker 2: going back rude the archives to work out what you've
Speaker 2: said about us.
Speaker 1: Over the years.
Speaker 2: I'm Google box, ma. That's what the show's good because
Speaker 2: it's like different people. And how are you going to
Speaker 2: interact Simon.
Speaker 1: You are out of the jungle and safe to eat
Speaker 1: food that's not disgusting. How is your experience on I'm
Speaker 1: a celebrity. Get me out of here, mate.
Speaker 2: It is finished. It's done. It was it was. It
Speaker 2: was pretty good. It was pretty good. I mean, look,
Speaker 2: I'm not the best cook, so some of the stuff
Speaker 2: in there that we ate was better than what I
Speaker 2: would be eating at home. So that's fine.
Speaker 1: You're the first person in the history of the world
Speaker 1: to say the food is better in the jungle.
Speaker 2: I was dinner by Fastinich every night. That is a least.
Speaker 2: People are playing big dollars for that type of stuff
Speaker 2: and I just sit there. I mean, look, we had
Speaker 2: braised meats a lot, which was that's fine. Braised meats
Speaker 2: are good and look there was different on the trial.
Speaker 2: The trial food was a bit. I mean the problem
Speaker 2: with the trial food was there wasn't enough of it.
Speaker 2: I was just left being a little hungry or dirvs
Speaker 2: not good.
Speaker 1: Well, you've never had to worry about your weight. Were
Speaker 1: you sad to leave Adam behind in the jungle?
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. Differently, I didn't think I would be as
Speaker 2: sad as I was, not because I don't like him.
Speaker 2: Because I do like him, here's my mate. But I
Speaker 2: thought on that day I was like, no, you know
Speaker 2: what I've seen Adam. He's flying along in here. He's
Speaker 2: having a really good time. He said, he's comfortable. I've
Speaker 2: had a really good time. I'm okay if I go.
Speaker 2: But then as soon as I hit the water, I
Speaker 2: was like, no, I want to be back in this sucks.
Speaker 2: I want to be back in the jungle. It was
Speaker 2: very short lived pleasure.
Speaker 1: I think all of Australia felt more of the concern
Speaker 1: than you guys did, because for us it was like
Speaker 1: Burt and Ernie being removed from each other, which is
Speaker 1: so stressful.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, like everyone's like are they going to be okay?
Speaker 2: It's like, guys, we don't actually spend all of our
Speaker 2: time together. We don't work at the place, so we're okay,
Speaker 2: we will be okay.
Speaker 1: A lot has Ben said about you guys in the
Speaker 1: media regarding the reception of you arriving in camp. How
Speaker 1: did you navigate that and did you feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: the behavior of the celebrities was a little unjust.
Speaker 2: It was definitely strange at the start, and it's weird
Speaker 2: because you don't know what your reception is going to be.
Speaker 2: They were a bit flat.
Speaker 1: We came during the middle of lunchtime, so everyone's like, guys,
Speaker 1: we're eating, Sorry.
Speaker 2: Can you come back? And like an hour. I don't
Speaker 2: think we ever expected anyone to know who we were,
Speaker 2: Like we just sat on a couch and you know,
Speaker 2: on Gogglebox we were tiny snippets. So the fact that
Speaker 2: people wouldn't know who we were, that's not the concern.
Speaker 2: You just kind of want to fit in and be okay.
Speaker 2: So and you know, going in later in the piece,
Speaker 2: you know that you're always going to have those troubles.
Speaker 2: Connections have been formed, people are in a really nice routine,
Speaker 2: and I think us coming in when we came in
Speaker 2: just really heightened for everybody in there that they have
Speaker 2: absolutely no control with what's going on. Jack left the
Speaker 2: day before, so they're all thinking, Okay, I guess we're leaving.
Speaker 2: I guess we're getting ready to the end. And then
Speaker 2: two new people are in and it's like, well that
Speaker 2: that kind of doesn't match up with what we thought.
Speaker 2: And you can see the faces of like Grant and
Speaker 2: Paulini and like their mouths are just wide open, and
Speaker 2: then you know, so with context, I think it's all appropriate.
Speaker 1: You know, you goggle box this show before, so like
Speaker 1: you're very familiar with the format. What was the experience
Speaker 1: like being actually in the show compared to what you'd
Speaker 1: watched previously.
Speaker 2: I mean, I said it on this show. I don't
Speaker 2: think you got on though, but I was talking to
Speaker 2: someone and it felt like we were at almost like
Speaker 2: a real life Madam Two Swords of the show, like
Speaker 2: we were riding the ride of the I'm a Celebrity
Speaker 2: show where you get to walk in and it's interactive
Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, what is going on here? Like
Speaker 2: I'll talk to you and ask a question, and like
Speaker 2: it was almost like Westworld, but I'm a Celebrity version
Speaker 2: where you walk in and you can be a part
Speaker 2: of it and people talk back to you, and then
Speaker 2: you talk back to them.
Speaker 1: I just love the West World reference because I know
Speaker 1: that show really well and so it's kind of again,
Speaker 1: know how you can imagine it. So the girls Evey
Speaker 1: and Angie both competed in the series previously, so this
Speaker 1: wasn't the first goggle Box celebrities to have see in there.
Speaker 1: But did the girls offer you any advice before going in?
Speaker 2: No? Nothing, didn't hear anything going in heard. Angie messaged
Speaker 2: me after and said like, hey, you did great job,
Speaker 2: super proud of you. Well done, which was really nice
Speaker 2: because she didn't have to do that, but she didn't.
Speaker 2: I appreciated it. So but no, nothing beforehand, But that's
Speaker 2: kind of good. You don't want people to spoil the surprise.
Speaker 2: You don't want to taint to you what you think
Speaker 2: it's going to be or your expectation.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess that leads to the question did you
Speaker 1: keep this experience a secret from your goggle Box family?
Speaker 1: Did you let anyone know?
Speaker 2: No one. I told my girlfriend because we lived together,
Speaker 2: so she would notice that I was away for love Week.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get the milk.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly, just a gungry I'll be back, So I
Speaker 2: told her, and then I think I told my mom,
Speaker 2: my mum and my dad just because for the same
Speaker 2: reason my mum would call and it was my girlfriend
Speaker 2: actually was looking after my Instagram while we were in there,
Speaker 2: and I got out and there was we've got a
Speaker 2: mate getting married and he's texting me. He's like, some,
Speaker 2: I really need you to RSVP and then he's messaging Instagram.
Speaker 2: So Gab is messaging via Instagram as me like, oh, hey, legend,
Speaker 2: sorry mate, been a bit busy, like using all of
Speaker 2: the words I said, like ridiculous, it was great.
Speaker 1: How many days we're gone for?
Speaker 2: So we were gone for well, we're in the jungle
Speaker 2: for I was in there for six days, but because
Speaker 2: of where it was and we're from Melbourne, so we
Speaker 2: had to fly up and quarantine for weeks and then
Speaker 2: you go into a holding room or like a holding
Speaker 2: house for about a week or so, and then and
Speaker 2: then from there then you go in. So we were
Speaker 2: away for like a month, which.
Speaker 1: Is kind of a long time. It's hard for her
Speaker 1: to continuously keep it up that she is you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly, what's a hey, legend? Hey, bro, what's
Speaker 2: that name? Hey?
Speaker 1: Knowing I live for stuff like this. You know, it's
Speaker 1: been reported over the last twenty four hours that you
Speaker 1: guys weren't really eager to do reality television. Is there
Speaker 1: any truth that you guys had said to your management
Speaker 1: that you know, you weren't a big fan of these
Speaker 1: sorts of shows or this wasn't something that you really
Speaker 1: wanted to do.
Speaker 2: Nah, not at all. We were kind of the ones
Speaker 2: that teed it up. And then a manager, Millie, who
Speaker 2: is an absolute legend. She just did all of the
Speaker 2: contract work once we kind of put forward that we
Speaker 2: were keen. Yeah, she took the reins from there. So no, no,
Speaker 2: no truth in that at all. That was really weird
Speaker 2: when I heard that.
Speaker 1: Kind of a strange question. But you know, with the
Speaker 1: you guys being so well known from goggle Box, can
Speaker 1: you give a referral to the next family or the
Speaker 1: next person that should go into the jungle, because you know,
Speaker 1: come on, we're going to see more hopefully.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine Maddy, Sarah and jad in the jungle?
Speaker 2: Has to be? Does it like? It would be so good?
Speaker 2: Because I think Maddie and Sarah would dominate obviously, she'd
Speaker 2: just be like, Yep, no worries, let's get on with it.
Speaker 2: But then jad Nematulla, Oh, it would be the best.
Speaker 2: It would be the best. He'd have rig out all
Speaker 2: the time. He'd be like ash style and he'd just
Speaker 2: the grooming. I don't know what he'd do. I'd love
Speaker 2: to see how he questions, like a mirror or tweezers
Speaker 2: or whatever he needs out of it.
Speaker 1: Maybe m Silbury could go in as well, and you know,
Speaker 1: she could be the oldest person, someone in their nineties
Speaker 1: in the jungle.
Speaker 2: Mate, How good would that be? Mate? She'd win, m
Speaker 2: Silbury would win. Unfair to put.
Speaker 1: Her in, dip Her and Grant Regarding this ris to Barkle,
Speaker 1: which you saw live, Yeah, whose side are you on?
Speaker 1: Who side are you on?
Speaker 2: With this? Ah? Mate? I actually ate it? So it
Speaker 2: was fine, Like there's a little clip on there when
Speaker 2: the highlights come through and eye it cuts to me
Speaker 2: and I go, oh, it tastes kind of ruty. But
Speaker 2: everyone else is kind of like, oh, this is disgusting.
Speaker 2: But I'm like it tastes kind of fruity in a
Speaker 2: good way, like, oh, a bit of flavor, you beauty.
Speaker 2: So I was just a bit kind of really caught
Speaker 2: me off guard when that blew up. I'm standing, I'm like,
Speaker 2: why are we fighting? What's what's happening here? Why we
Speaker 2: was upset about what? I kind of missed it. I
Speaker 2: was a bit naive to the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I do you think I was out of place and
Speaker 1: saying that maybe if if if we.
Speaker 2: Went out a plasure, you just felt what you just
Speaker 2: show what you felt. It's okay we did. None of
Speaker 2: us want to lose an entire meal. That's all for show.
Speaker 2: One more time. I'll come to see you over there. Look,
Speaker 2: if you see burning rice, should you pick it up? Maybe?
Speaker 2: If you're putting right, should you go to sleep? Probably not.
Speaker 2: So maybe I'm going to walk a diplomatic tight rope
Speaker 2: and go Maybe they're both it felt, man, they could
Speaker 2: have been going at each other.
Speaker 1: Some people watching the show was like Grant called out Dipper,
Speaker 1: you know, calling him out. Maybe it was that a
Speaker 1: bit bitchy. Was that a bit of a hard thing
Speaker 1: to do. Had Grant had not done that, maybe the
Speaker 1: whole thing would have gone unnoticed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. And I think it's always a consideration,
Speaker 2: especially something around that feelings are on tenderhooks. So maybe
Speaker 2: it's the way you kind of go about it. So
Speaker 2: maybe with Big Dip, you know he's a proud man,
Speaker 2: he maybe just pull him across to the side and say, hey,
Speaker 2: because the rice is already burnt, so it's not going
Speaker 2: to be unburnt. So you just go with it gently
Speaker 2: and you go, hey, Dip, maybe just on the rice
Speaker 2: and you know, you just have it maybe a little
Speaker 2: bit more private. I think that's probably where Dipper was
Speaker 2: a bit more hurt. It was just like the public
Speaker 2: forum of it.
Speaker 1: I just like older people from the different generation how
Speaker 1: they enter into debates really differently, Like Dip is just
Speaker 1: like I'm some people be like, oh, I can't fight
Speaker 1: with Grant Daniel. He's the host of family Feud, where
Speaker 1: Dippers like, let's go just going to call you out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to fight you on this one, mate.
Speaker 2: That's what the show's good because it's like different people
Speaker 2: and how you're going to interact and what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: And it was it was wide when it happened. You're
Speaker 2: just like, what's happening here? Why are you guys fighting?
Speaker 2: It's burnt, right, Let's just chill a little, but you know,
Speaker 2: they'd been in there a bit longer they were, they'd
Speaker 2: gone a little bit more crazy.
Speaker 1: Last year we heard that you guys were ready to
Speaker 1: do a new footy show, which a lot of people
Speaker 1: were very excited about for Foxtel, is I know and
Speaker 1: COVID swallowed so many jobs for so many people. Which
Speaker 1: is really disappointing is their plans that that show may
Speaker 1: re emerge and can maybe you tell us what we
Speaker 1: missed out on, Like what was really that show going
Speaker 1: to be?
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, so it was going to be it was
Speaker 2: called Premierships and Footy Trips, and it was about talking
Speaker 2: to players of the generation that I watched, which is
Speaker 2: nineties into early two thousands, and just talking about those
Speaker 2: urban legend stories that happened off the field, because you
Speaker 2: hear whispers and rumors of these footy trips and what
Speaker 2: happens and what goes on and how did you celebrate
Speaker 2: a premiership And it was just going to get a
Speaker 2: collection of different people through the ages to tell us
Speaker 2: those stories. But then, as you said, COVID kind of
Speaker 2: struck that down and then this year we'll see, you know,
Speaker 2: the AFL season is still pretty crazy at the moment,
Speaker 2: just with restrictions going into Sydney and having people fly back,
Speaker 2: So I think Fox Foody will be figuring out their schedules.
Speaker 2: Make fingers crossed. We get a phone call did.
Speaker 1: You get to do like a little a preview episode,
Speaker 1: a bit of a sampler with did you pull Dipper
Speaker 1: aside and go? Because you boys remember all of that
Speaker 1: stuff which is really the magic behind the premise of
Speaker 1: that show. Did you get to live that sort of
Speaker 1: dream a little bit? And asked Dipperson questions about his career.
Speaker 2: So we didn't. Yeah, well, I mean dipp has got
Speaker 2: stories for days, so you can just kind of be like, diep,
Speaker 2: what about this? What about this? A little set up
Speaker 2: of premierships and footy trips? And look, had we consulted
Speaker 2: with you earlier.
Speaker 1: He's still in the jungle talking about those He's still
Speaker 1: in the jungle telling those stories. You asked him a
Speaker 1: question in November exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: We should have consulted with you first, because we should
Speaker 2: have got an episode up. We had Travaco, we had
Speaker 2: Dipper ready to go. We sat them on the stool
Speaker 2: and gone, right, this is it. We're going to have
Speaker 2: two f's of premierships and footy trips jungle.
Speaker 1: Style ready to Go. My last question for you is,
Speaker 1: had the format involved nominations, like a nominations process, can
Speaker 1: you say who you would have given one point to
Speaker 1: save and one point to have.
Speaker 2: I would have saved, well, Adam, surely you know, surely
Speaker 2: come on, although you know maybe or not, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And then one person to leave. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: like Trev Varco because I love him so much, and
Speaker 2: like I knew how much he missed his kids, and
Speaker 2: like that letter from home, like how much he just
Speaker 2: wanted to see Frankie and talk to her. So I
Speaker 2: probably wouldn't have felt as bad if he was going home,
Speaker 2: because I know he would have been happy. Whereas, like
Speaker 2: you know, you give it to you like a dipper
Speaker 2: or a grand or someone. I mean, all of those
Speaker 2: guys really, you know, they were all missing home so much.
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone would have been too unhappy at
Speaker 2: that point to go home. So I think you could
Speaker 2: probably send it everywhere. How is that I gave you
Speaker 2: kind of half an answer.
Speaker 1: I just love how diplomatic you are. It's like you
Speaker 1: get you're the first person, and I think we're up
Speaker 1: to episode four, so you're the fourth ejected person and
Speaker 1: you answer the question, so we'll give you a point
Speaker 1: for that. But you did basically what I did in
Speaker 1: Big and that was I worked out with nominations. I
Speaker 1: never nominated anyone for anything serious. I said, I nominate
Speaker 1: Sam because he's like a vanilla latte and I'm lactose
Speaker 1: intolerant and so yes.
Speaker 2: So I was like, oh, look, I might give everyone
Speaker 2: a vote because they wanted it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I swept sad that he missed his children. I wanted
Speaker 1: him to be reunited with them.
Speaker 2: It's a good thing, exactly. Look, I'm just a good guy.
Speaker 2: This is what it is. Mate.
Speaker 1: We absolutely love watching on the show. Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for your time of being generous to chat with me
Speaker 1: and have a few laughs. We can't wait to see
Speaker 1: that footy show get up and running because you know,
Speaker 1: I think there's a real need for it, and people
Speaker 1: obviously really enjoy seeing you and Adam on the screen together.
Speaker 1: It's magic TV.
Speaker 2: No, I appreciate it. Thank you for having him on.
Speaker 2: I've liked it. Very good chat, very fun