Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on
Speaker 1: TV Reload the podcast last week. That ye. Hey everyone,
Speaker 1: welcome back to TV Reload. I want to thank you
Speaker 1: for clicking and downloading. On today's episode featuring Australian Idols
Speaker 1: host Scott Tweety. This Sunday night, we will see our
Speaker 1: top six take the stage in what I call a
Speaker 1: very very tight six horse race to the Idle Crown.
Speaker 1: Scott has joined me every year to chat about Australia's
Speaker 1: longest running singing competition, and today he's bringing some exclusive
Speaker 1: backstage insights and what better time to have him on
Speaker 1: the podcast than right before the top six finalists battle
Speaker 1: it out. In the episode, Scott shares his favorite performances
Speaker 1: from each of the artists and reveals what these contenders
Speaker 1: are really like behind the scenes. He opens up about
Speaker 1: the future of the show and why he thinks this
Speaker 1: judging panel is a lock moving forward. Of course, I
Speaker 1: couldn't resist digging into Scott's personal life, of course, so
Speaker 1: we will chat about why he is single, especially after
Speaker 1: the rumors that Ricky has been working over time to
Speaker 1: find him a wife. You will hear everything from Scott's
Speaker 1: most famous matches on Riyah, which is a dating app
Speaker 1: if you didn't know what he insists on having stopped
Speaker 1: in his dressing room, and even the hilarious text his
Speaker 1: mom sends him after every show. There is actually so
Speaker 1: much to cover, with plenty of behind the scenes revelations.
Speaker 1: To sit back, relax and get ready as we are
Speaker 1: going to dive into the world of Australian Idol, which
Speaker 1: returns this Sunday night on Channel seven.
Speaker 2: Good will not see you but hear from you again.
Speaker 1: Isn't it weird Like whenever you're doing these chats and
Speaker 1: it's on the phone, you kind of feel very relaxed,
Speaker 1: like you're on a phone call and you forget that
Speaker 1: someone's gonna drop it all on a podcast.
Speaker 2: Your family. You are part of the Idle family. So
Speaker 2: it's all good.
Speaker 1: Oh, I just love this show, like I honestly, and
Speaker 1: you know that because I remember we were talking when
Speaker 1: you got the gig and I was telling you about
Speaker 1: how obsessed I am with this show. My partner does
Speaker 1: think I should be slightly or possibly admitted to because
Speaker 1: he can't escape this show because then throughout the week
Speaker 1: when the show's not on television, I make him rewatch
Speaker 1: all the performances.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Well then I can't wait to hear
Speaker 2: who your favorite going to be. But what I need
Speaker 2: to do. I need to put you and my mom
Speaker 2: in a group chat thing because she she watches it
Speaker 2: live and WhatsApps me line by line her thought, what
Speaker 2: the judges are saying about the performances.
Speaker 1: About the wardrobe, about everything.
Speaker 2: She just had, even about my wardrobe and how I'm
Speaker 2: going I get the full critique from her. So maybe
Speaker 2: I'll chuck you.
Speaker 1: To it or what's out that'd be great. We can
Speaker 1: discuss about how much chest hair. Where we would like
Speaker 1: to see from you.
Speaker 2: Depends our HD. Your TV is really yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's very good. And we have a home cinema
Speaker 1: so like you're you're very big. That sounds weird. You're
Speaker 1: very big in our house.
Speaker 2: Every week, man, I go get into podcast things. Yeah, hell,
Speaker 2: that's where the.
Speaker 1: Money is that now, go and win a series of
Speaker 1: Big Brother and that's what you spend the money on.
Speaker 1: That's where it came from.
Speaker 2: That's smart. That is smart.
Speaker 1: Everyone else probably spend it on alcohol and drugs. How
Speaker 1: have you been and how are you enjoying being back
Speaker 1: in Australia working on Idol.
Speaker 2: Idol is the dream hosting gig this season, are the
Speaker 2: dream contestant, Like, honestly, you know when a a period
Speaker 2: in your life where I feel like life is really good?
Speaker 2: Right now? You know a door working with Ricky Lee.
Speaker 2: I absolutely love the judges, but the contestants this year,
Speaker 2: they keep surprising us, like, I don't know. Every season,
Speaker 2: I'm like, what's going to happen? Who are we going
Speaker 2: to get? I think it's just that younger tower Pool
Speaker 2: as well, a lot of Queensland is I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's just everything seems great.
Speaker 1: Queensland has worked well with reality television. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: Just across the board, I feel like Queensland understands reality TV.
Speaker 1: Something in the water, yeah, or we're just not filtered.
Speaker 2: Maybe we're we're bad at filtering ourselves and we are
Speaker 2: just too authentic.
Speaker 1: There's something very cryptic that John dropped with me the
Speaker 1: other day. So I've been chatting to everyone as they
Speaker 1: leave the show. But I guess I'm probably gonna have
Speaker 1: to give you some context of this. So John was
Speaker 1: going on to say, well, I said to him that
Speaker 1: he is a really good singer, right, I was like,
Speaker 1: I think you're a great singer, but I can see
Speaker 1: you doing home away or TV presenting. I don't know,
Speaker 1: do you see him doing going on to do something
Speaker 1: like that?
Speaker 2: I definitely can see that at him. Yeah, John is
Speaker 2: I also want to like gruff him up a little
Speaker 2: bit more like he's very well presented. Okay if that
Speaker 2: makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is coming from you, who's like very squeaky
Speaker 1: claim my friend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am. So they do spend a lot of
Speaker 2: time polishing me up. But I think I think, deep down,
Speaker 2: once again, I am just a bogan from Brisbane. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I can see John one hundred percent doing that. I
Speaker 2: think he's already he already goes to woppa or has
Speaker 2: been to woppa. Oh, so he's the He's in the
Speaker 2: right lane to be doing stuff like that. I see
Speaker 2: him more the a bit more musical theater. I think
Speaker 2: he adds like another twenty percent of personality and energy,
Speaker 2: So I see him sort of sitting in that lane.
Speaker 1: Well. He then mentioned that he you know, that he
Speaker 1: dropped out of the competition at the same time as
Speaker 1: Ricky Lee and that maybe he would like to follow
Speaker 1: in her trajectory. So I kind of joked that he
Speaker 1: was coming for your job and maybe he would end
Speaker 1: up posting idol at some point. But then he said,
Speaker 1: so you could focus on your love life, and I
Speaker 1: thought that was a bit cryptic. So I want to
Speaker 1: know what the hell is going on with your love life?
Speaker 1: Why did he say that?
Speaker 2: This feels like it is a common theme of this season,
Speaker 2: and I feel Ricky Lee is to blame for there. Yeah, look,
Speaker 2: I'm still single. Ricky's mission was by the end of
Speaker 2: this season to find me a partner. We've got two
Speaker 2: weeks to go. I can confirm there's no partner yet.
Speaker 2: But no. Look, I think between my lifestyle between the
Speaker 2: US and Australia, works still has been a bit of
Speaker 2: a priority. But Ricky was like, nap, I'm going to
Speaker 2: find your white. Did actually even tend a series called
Speaker 2: Scotty Wants a White? I would rather spine my life partner,
Speaker 2: not on a TV production or a show, especially when
Speaker 2: those cameras around. But no, I think all the contestants
Speaker 2: love digging into that as well, which which I love. Okay, hilarious.
Speaker 1: Why are you single? I don't understand this. Like you're
Speaker 1: a good looking rooster. You spend some time in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: which you know is the city of angels, of beautiful women.
Speaker 1: And then you're back here in Australia. You're working out
Speaker 1: of Sydney. I believe you're in Bondi, which is another place,
Speaker 1: a hub of hotties. And then we have single what
Speaker 1: is going on? What are you doing wrong?
Speaker 2: What I do wrong? I think it's just has to
Speaker 2: be my priority right now. I definitely I've jumped from
Speaker 2: long RELATIONSHSIP long term relationships, long term relationships, so I
Speaker 2: always had an amazing partners and now I'm in this
Speaker 2: patch where I'm like, you know what, I'm just going
Speaker 2: to cruise through and I'm sure at some point, at
Speaker 2: the right place, at the right time, an amazing person
Speaker 2: is going to pop up and be there. But I'm
Speaker 2: not playing the dating apps game. I'm not. I'm just
Speaker 2: keeping it pretty chill and it's very fulfilling right now,
Speaker 2: just enjoying my friend's family and stuff like that. I am.
Speaker 2: I'm not easy to date because I lived between the
Speaker 2: US and lay that same.
Speaker 3: Place, live between LA and Australia, so it's kind of
Speaker 3: tricky that someone needs to understand, like, you know, a
Speaker 3: lifestyle and production, a lifestyle of like it's a very
Speaker 3: fast lifestyle, but once again, there will be that partner
Speaker 3: out there.
Speaker 2: I'm just not not really looking right now. I'm pretty
Speaker 2: content with just my life.
Speaker 1: Have you tried rya whatever that dating website is for celebrities.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been a ryer to Riya Hinge and I
Speaker 2: found my ex girlfriend were connected together on Hinge. So
Speaker 2: we dated for a year and a half and she
Speaker 2: was an amazing girl down in San Diego, but wasn't
Speaker 2: the right next. So look, they're good, but you need
Speaker 2: you need to invest the time because man, it is
Speaker 2: like it becomes a bit of an addiction because of
Speaker 2: course that there's a lot of my friend because unlimited supply,
Speaker 2: and I think you kind of just lose that the
Speaker 2: connection and looks the value in someone because it's such
Speaker 2: a fake value thing where you're like, look at it
Speaker 2: photos next, Yes, No, And I don't know. I just
Speaker 2: feel like I prefer to meet someone, know barbecue or
Speaker 2: through a friend or he's such a.
Speaker 1: Sweet guy, that's the right way to meet someone. Like
Speaker 1: I think if someone did stumble across you on a
Speaker 1: barbecue that snap you up. How that hasn't happened is
Speaker 1: beyond me. But the question I love to ask people
Speaker 1: who have been on that app is who's the most
Speaker 1: famous person you've ever seen on Rio?
Speaker 2: In my short stint on it, I saw Camilicabo. I
Speaker 2: saw there's too many celebs to be honest, really just
Speaker 2: like there's a big sort of like influences and all
Speaker 2: that stuff. Okay, but no real big celebts for there.
Speaker 2: It's a bit of a I don't really believe. I
Speaker 2: think of the celebs are on there, they're kind of
Speaker 2: paid to be on there because I can't see many
Speaker 2: of them actually dating are there?
Speaker 1: Okay? Okay, Well I asked someone recently and they were like,
Speaker 1: I got matched with John Mayer and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I was like, this is I think.
Speaker 2: Every one of my girlfriends is matched job Mayo. Ye,
Speaker 2: genuinely on there.
Speaker 1: He's definitely on there. We need to not talk about
Speaker 1: your love life any longer because now people come for me.
Speaker 1: But for being creepy, I was going to talk to
Speaker 1: you about this show. So can you pick who you
Speaker 1: think would be my favorite? Because I have a clear
Speaker 1: favorite that I'm obsessed with and I can't get enough
Speaker 1: of this person.
Speaker 2: I think you're a Marshall Hamburger fan.
Speaker 1: No, I do love him, and I think it's it's
Speaker 1: Gizella's and Hamburger's competition to lose. But I cannot get
Speaker 1: enough of Iolish, like I am obsessed. I may even
Speaker 1: moved to Cold Can.
Speaker 2: Isn't she? I think she's the epitome of what Australian
Speaker 2: idol is all about. Like I think our show has
Speaker 2: so much all the heart to it, and it's because
Speaker 2: of those genuine Australians that just have never been on
Speaker 2: TV before, and they're autheistically themselves. I mean, getting your
Speaker 2: butcher on the show and making special idol sausages like
Speaker 2: please Say No More.
Speaker 1: Doesn't Trylish is the best? But she also looks I
Speaker 1: think you're right, there's something very earnest about her, Like
Speaker 1: you can see her nerves, you can see that she's
Speaker 1: a real person. She's someone that I think as an audience,
Speaker 1: we connect her with because we can imagine that's kind
Speaker 1: of how we may be on this show. However, she
Speaker 1: has this amazing voice that doesn't even look like it
Speaker 1: comes out of her.
Speaker 2: Body's mystery, isn't it a shy country girl? And then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden that music start, it's like, Bob,
Speaker 2: who are we getting today? What rock star do we have?
Speaker 1: Did you get to watch the rehearsals and see her
Speaker 1: do the incy Wincy spider dance and did you think
Speaker 1: it was a good idea or did you think that's
Speaker 1: either going to, you know, go gangbusters or it's going
Speaker 1: to fall on its face?
Speaker 2: Nah? I kind of there was something about her we
Speaker 2: knew from the from day one. As soon as she
Speaker 2: came in with those glasses on, did her thing in
Speaker 2: the auditions, I was like, yeah, she's going to go fast,
Speaker 2: going to fall in love with there for sure.
Speaker 1: Did you like the innc Wincy spider dance that Carlson
Speaker 1: Lance threw out?
Speaker 2: I didn't mind it mind it was terrible.
Speaker 1: So we need to unpack the rest of the top six.
Speaker 1: So I want to know from your perspective because you're
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, so you get sort of a backstage
Speaker 1: exclusive on some of these people. And it's one of
Speaker 1: the things about Australian Idol that it did very well
Speaker 1: in its first iteration early days season one. We got
Speaker 1: to see their personalities a little bit more and look,
Speaker 1: we can't have the show go on forever, so we
Speaker 1: probably don't get to see as much of this, but
Speaker 1: you're my eyes and ears. What are these people like
Speaker 1: really behind closed doors? If we start with Gisella.
Speaker 2: Okay, Zella is extremely talented, and what I love about
Speaker 2: Gizella is already where now the top six, there's there's
Speaker 2: certain singers on the show that get super comfortable and
Speaker 2: they almost I think Jazella knows in her core that
Speaker 2: she's genuinely made for this and going to be doing
Speaker 2: this forever. And she's so comfortable now. She is like
Speaker 2: a little diva in the best sense on set because
Speaker 2: she is a star, and so her confidence even though
Speaker 2: she does get very nervous. And I do actually love
Speaker 2: when we do the live shows quickly throwing questions to
Speaker 2: Gizella because she kind of can't hide her nerves either.
Speaker 2: Like she is very stumbly over her words and very
Speaker 2: you know, like sweet and innocent because that's who she is.
Speaker 2: But when she's on stage about to perform, she just
Speaker 2: becomes this new personality. And that's what's happening. Even in auditions,
Speaker 2: she's like owning every step that she does. She's owning it.
Speaker 1: With Gisella, do you have a favorite performance that you've
Speaker 1: seen of hers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say it was the bi gravity and
Speaker 2: I know Kyle hated that, but that also got millions
Speaker 2: and millions of views. But it was once again, it
Speaker 2: was her poise and her ownership up on that stage
Speaker 2: and also knowing how tricky that song is to sing,
Speaker 2: even though it's a musical theater song, I think she
Speaker 2: absolutely nailed it.
Speaker 1: It was amazing, Like that's my favorite as well. I
Speaker 1: don't know what Kyle was smoking that day, but I
Speaker 1: just think it was crazy because that is such a
Speaker 1: song for right now and Kyle really knows his music,
Speaker 1: but I think we just found a category that's his kryptonite.
Speaker 1: Like you can't comment on musical theater.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something's happened somewhere in musical theater. I don't know
Speaker 2: if he went for a role and didn't get it.
Speaker 2: Something's happened there. We've gotta we've gotta, we've gotta unpack that.
Speaker 1: What about Jake With Jake, what's happening behind the scenes
Speaker 1: with him? What do we not know about him?
Speaker 2: Jake's just like the dad you know he is. He
Speaker 2: is like such a cool, calm, collective country boy, even
Speaker 2: though he grew up you know, just outside of Brizzee.
Speaker 2: He's very focused, knows what he wants to do. He's
Speaker 2: already doing big gigs with his band. So he's just
Speaker 2: the sort of guy that's like really taking in this
Speaker 2: experience to brought his horizons with his country music and
Speaker 2: what he's doing with his band. I think he's doing
Speaker 2: everything right. I don't think that you know, Jake has
Speaker 2: the best voice in the competition, But does Jake show
Speaker 2: up and get the crowd going crazy in there? Yeah?
Speaker 2: So he's a born entertainer and he's willing to learn
Speaker 2: and he's definitely wanting to I was lucky enough to
Speaker 2: take him to through Stapleton, Jim and Dylan. We last minute.
Speaker 2: I got ticket through a friend and I was like,
Speaker 2: who I'm going to take? So I took the boys
Speaker 2: and just watching his love and appreciation for that experience,
Speaker 2: I was like, Yeah, Jake's born to do this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a very authentic looking guy. That's what I
Speaker 1: really like. Do you have a favorite performance of his
Speaker 1: stay in Alive that was so unbelievable? I have watched that.
Speaker 1: That's the one performance I think I've watched the most,
Speaker 1: and it's because people who aren't watching the show. By
Speaker 1: the way, I am a full time promoter of this show,
Speaker 1: like I am a hype girl the Channel seven needs
Speaker 1: because I like bring people to my house they haven't
Speaker 1: even watched any of it, and I make them watch
Speaker 1: the best performances well alone.
Speaker 2: When I can hide cant I'll do the track got
Speaker 2: ham the.
Speaker 4: Week, own my boots and I'm the dansom man.
Speaker 1: I just can't lose. You know what's on? It's Okay Live?
Speaker 1: Another team tracks on man Well already or your steam Alive.
Speaker 1: That is one of my favorite ones to get out
Speaker 1: because here his arrangement of that was so different, but
Speaker 1: it just worked even with the country sound.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he owned it. It was the pure joy
Speaker 2: to watch. By the way, if you're telling all those people,
Speaker 2: can we thank you because our ratings are growing again
Speaker 2: in this season, so I think it's you the benefit.
Speaker 1: We're going to go on to Jamon. So, Jamon, what
Speaker 1: have you got from our for our Rockhampton boy? What's
Speaker 1: he like behind the scenes?
Speaker 2: Jamin's definitely the cheekyist behind the scenes, such a good bloke,
Speaker 2: but he's a naughty Queenslander, which I kind of love.
Speaker 1: Central I did Breakfast Radio there, I know those people.
Speaker 1: Those people are wild in the best way possible.
Speaker 2: He's so funny in auditions. He's just doing anything to
Speaker 2: try and make Ricky and myself laugh. You know, the
Speaker 2: floor managers like Jamon stop it. He always hears his
Speaker 2: name being yelled out because he's just he's that sort
Speaker 2: of guy. But look, I think he's also one of
Speaker 2: these guys that's just riding along and really enjoying this experience.
Speaker 2: I think he's surprising himself every week of what he
Speaker 2: can do. He was one of the ones that was
Speaker 2: very nervous for big live show, and now he's looking
Speaker 2: a lot more comfortable up there. He's a star touch
Speaker 2: football player, like played for Australia as well. But he's
Speaker 2: definitely that guy that's been the cool kid at school.
Speaker 2: But he's actually got this raw how What I loved
Speaker 2: about Jamine is his tone. It's like he's got this
Speaker 2: beautiful I don't know, it's just just like vulnerable is
Speaker 2: not the right word, but he's got a nice tone
Speaker 2: when he sings. Yeah, I think if he can keep
Speaker 2: exploring that, he will go a long way.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite song of his?
Speaker 2: Two Strong Hearts is my favorite of his is acause.
Speaker 1: John Farnham's like in your DNA like me. That's because
Speaker 1: that's my favorite of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's why. I think that's why I'm
Speaker 2: just hearing once again his tone and knowing how John's
Speaker 2: Farner would have done it. It was just a nice
Speaker 2: Jaman version of it. We've got too strong, We stick
Speaker 2: to again, Luck Honey curing me, We've got.
Speaker 3: Too strong, rich enough.
Speaker 1: Forever Luck River this and then we're moving on to
Speaker 1: Marshall Hamburger, who Ricky Lee is real. We spoke at
Speaker 1: the start of the season, so we really hadn't seen
Speaker 1: many episodes. I think we've seen one or two and
Speaker 1: she was already like talking him up. He's a he's
Speaker 1: an unusual person, like he's not your everyday person who
Speaker 1: see on TV. But every time he sings incredible. What
Speaker 1: can you tell us about what he's what's the Hamburger?
Speaker 2: Like? The Hamburger is what you see is what you get.
Speaker 2: That guy is such a such a sweet person, such
Speaker 2: a sweet human being. He's so awkward, which is so
Speaker 2: nighe He's just I love it once again when he talks,
Speaker 2: because you're like, what's he going to say? Because he's
Speaker 2: going to tell you exactly how he's feeling and not
Speaker 2: going to sugarcoat it at all. But he's just loving
Speaker 2: the ride. He's he's so talented, like him with a piano,
Speaker 2: he can do anything. And he's come from such a
Speaker 2: great family, the Hamburgers, who are a musical family, and
Speaker 2: you can see that. But he does remind me of
Speaker 2: a character of The Big Bang Theory that's now on
Speaker 2: a talent show, and he's just he's just right it away.
Speaker 1: So with his songs, I think you might you and
Speaker 1: I might have the same. On this one, I'm going
Speaker 1: to say, born this Way, what okay, we're on the
Speaker 1: wrong track. We're on the wrong track. Bank easily was
Speaker 1: the Daryl brave Way version of As the Days Go By,
Speaker 1: because that song is so iconic, but he managed to
Speaker 1: do something about that song that I'd never seen, Like
Speaker 1: I've heard people sing that song, you know, and we
Speaker 1: grew up in pubs and clubs going when we're here
Speaker 1: in Australia, so we hear cover band singing that song
Speaker 1: all the time, like you just see that all the time.
Speaker 1: But what he did with that song was made it
Speaker 1: his own in a way that I can honestly say,
Speaker 1: I think it sounds better than Darryl Braithway.
Speaker 2: Test Cool.
Speaker 4: Closest Coot Clubs.
Speaker 2: John Bag. I agree with you, actually do agree with you.
Speaker 1: You agree? Okay, Well, we got William, who's the last
Speaker 1: person that we have left in the top six. I
Speaker 1: cannot believe this top six is it is just is crazy, Okay.
Speaker 2: William is also I would say William and Gidella are
Speaker 2: the divas behind the scenes now like they are because
Speaker 2: that I just feel they've got this stardom inside them already,
Speaker 2: so they they're pros. They are putting every second into
Speaker 2: this competition to make sure they master it. And you
Speaker 2: can start with his performances. William is like shining out there.
Speaker 2: I will tell you after his performances his hands are
Speaker 2: like sopping wet because he's a sweating mess, but in
Speaker 2: the best way, because he delivered consistently every time he performs.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, I think I'll confidently say William
Speaker 2: can get the whole theater going the craziest. He's got
Speaker 2: the star power to make everyone in there go wild.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like with him, he's kind of
Speaker 1: an unusual person in the competition and offers something very
Speaker 1: different to the others. But I wonder whether or not.
Speaker 1: I mean, and he could go on to do you
Speaker 1: know Robbie Williams type, you know, dressed in a suit
Speaker 1: doing the swing thing. He could do that very easily.
Speaker 1: The deep.
Speaker 2: Time gratitude.
Speaker 1: I swear they can.
Speaker 2: We're both from March.
Speaker 1: Him. Do you think he's a real contender to win
Speaker 1: this show?
Speaker 2: I think he is because he's winning vote and at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, Australians vote for it. But
Speaker 2: will william stoops, you know, being on of Stereo, being
Speaker 2: on Kiss, being on Nova and all that. Potentially no,
Speaker 2: depending on what sort of music he wants to put
Speaker 2: out there. But I think as an entertainer right now
Speaker 2: he is one of the biggest entertainers out of the
Speaker 2: top six. Amazing, But it depends what Australia deems are
Speaker 2: going to be the most successful idol and they'll vote
Speaker 2: for that. But yeah, I think any of the contenders
Speaker 2: right now, Okay.
Speaker 1: All right, it's an even split with the six. And
Speaker 1: I guess you being a host, you can't really have
Speaker 1: a favorite. You can't really pick a favorite, can you.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: We're hoping they all go well because Obviously every episode
Speaker 2: we go live, we lose two of them, which is disappointing,
Speaker 2: but yeah, we remain very much Switzerland and we just
Speaker 2: want to see each of them do the best they can.
Speaker 2: So Ricky United's making sure they're is the most comfortable
Speaker 2: they can be so then they can deliver their best
Speaker 2: performance because it's not up to us.
Speaker 1: When do you find out if Idol's coming back, because like,
Speaker 1: do they sign you for like five years or do
Speaker 1: they sign you for do they just go year by year?
Speaker 1: Like I feel like because this is the best season
Speaker 1: that we've seen in the three years that seven have
Speaker 1: had at that it's a lock for next year?
Speaker 2: But is that?
Speaker 1: What do we know about next year? Do we know
Speaker 1: if it's locked in? Are you signed for six more seasons?
Speaker 1: What can you tell us? Networks?
Speaker 2: Keep it very hush hush. I don't know if you've
Speaker 2: been in this game or not. Look, it's a lot
Speaker 2: of moving part, so whether a season goes ahead or not.
Speaker 2: But if your show's rating better than what it was
Speaker 2: and you're building an audience, it's a very good sign. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's a very good sign. But for me, it
Speaker 2: gets locked in a little bit later down the track.
Speaker 2: So yeah, for me, it's a season to season thing
Speaker 2: and I absolutely love it. Like every opportunity I have
Speaker 2: to do Idle. It's a compliment to my life and
Speaker 2: I'm such a big fan of the show. So yeah,
Speaker 2: the more that we can get of the musical talent
Speaker 2: out there helping them, because the industry is so hard
Speaker 2: right now, it's a win. So let's hope Idle goes
Speaker 2: for another five seasons because I just want more young
Speaker 2: Ozzie to have that first opportunity to have their mini break.
Speaker 2: But then, obviously, we all know you've got to be
Speaker 2: writing up a film, performing, doing social media, all the above.
Speaker 2: So it's a hard world out there. We all know that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think Idle is such a good feeder
Speaker 2: into the industry right now. You never know when we're
Speaker 2: going to find our next star that's gonna be the
Speaker 2: Matt Corby or Jeff Melboy or Ricky Lee.
Speaker 1: But what about the judges. Do you get to hear
Speaker 1: whether or not the judges are coming back? Like Mark,
Speaker 1: this lineup of judges, I feel like if we lost
Speaker 1: one of them, the show wouldn't feel the same way.
Speaker 1: They have created like a presence now that there's some
Speaker 1: sort of ownership on it. Have you heard anything? Because
Speaker 1: Kyle wanting to come back is Marsha, you know, wanting
Speaker 1: to come back? What about what about the Shark?
Speaker 2: Do you know whether or not those the three of
Speaker 2: them are all massive fans. They genuinely love it. They
Speaker 2: you know, I can see them when they come in
Speaker 2: before they get their hair makeup done, how much they're
Speaker 2: enjoying the show. So I think all three of them
Speaker 2: would be a big fat hell yes coming back every
Speaker 2: time because they are the three of the best. I
Speaker 2: don't know what the secret source is, but it's there.
Speaker 2: Ever since Marsha came back in it was I don't know,
Speaker 2: it was like this glue between Aim and Kyle, who
Speaker 2: are very separate opinions, and it just works and it
Speaker 2: doesn't feel four no, it just feels like they're.
Speaker 1: So genuine Well, I think that they represent those key
Speaker 1: ingredients that make a show like this work because being
Speaker 1: a panelist on something like this, being someone who comments
Speaker 1: on young people singing, that's a very dangerous job to have.
Speaker 1: But the three of them. Amy is gigging at the moment.
Speaker 1: She is an artist that is current, so she's perfect
Speaker 1: Marsha understands longevity in music, but also she has an
Speaker 1: empathy and a warmth to her that a panel like
Speaker 1: this deserves. And then with Kyle Sandy Lance, you need
Speaker 1: someone who's going to be the Simon cow like, the
Speaker 1: nasty person that's going to say the things that Australia
Speaker 1: might be saying at home. You know, I don't really
Speaker 1: feel like anywhere else in the country could take those
Speaker 1: sorts of role. And I also think I'm happy with
Speaker 1: there not being any of the internationals being there. I
Speaker 1: know that internationals may feel like you're going to bring
Speaker 1: in an audience because they're you know, big names, but
Speaker 1: I just like it being that they're Australian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's that is part of the secret source.
Speaker 2: It's that it feels like it's in our backyard. The
Speaker 2: contestants are from our backyard and we as an audience
Speaker 2: get to watch them grow in front of our eyes
Speaker 2: weak to week, which is happening live. So you know,
Speaker 2: what you see is what you get and that feels right.
Speaker 5: Having three, you know, Australian judges that know our country,
Speaker 5: no our industry, know how hard it is to be
Speaker 5: for them to work to break it here and overseas
Speaker 5: so that they bring that wealth knowledge.
Speaker 2: But yeah, don't ever forget as well. Like Kyle, he's
Speaker 2: been on radio for so long so he's heard that
Speaker 2: many artists come and go, so his taste is usually
Speaker 2: pretty spot on.
Speaker 1: I think that you and Ricky your chemistry as well
Speaker 1: on this show is great, and I've seen you guys
Speaker 1: doing your stuff live. How do they work that out?
Speaker 1: And who gets to say? What do you want to say?
Speaker 1: The clangers like do you want to do the throat
Speaker 1: of the ad break parts? I mean, how do you
Speaker 1: work out which one is going to take what role?
Speaker 2: I think the thing would recygnize it's not about us,
Speaker 2: so it's just whatever's best for the show and makes
Speaker 2: the show work the best it can. Purely down to
Speaker 2: the wardrobe. I can run up and downstairs a lot
Speaker 2: quicker than Ricky Lee, So for having me at the
Speaker 2: back of the theater and then to go all the
Speaker 2: way backstage really quickly, this is an easier thing logistically
Speaker 2: to have me to do that and then be running
Speaker 2: up and downstairs all the time. But also Ricky has
Speaker 2: got that golden touch. As soon as the contestants finish thing,
Speaker 2: She's got that like motherly empathy because she's been in
Speaker 2: their shoes before, so like she worked really well at
Speaker 2: doing that where it's just like, hey, I know that
Speaker 2: wasn't your best, or hey that was your best and
Speaker 2: you know, celebrating with them. So I don't know, just
Speaker 2: like it just found its way to like who does
Speaker 2: what's the best? And her and I just have such
Speaker 2: big respect for each other that we just love working together.
Speaker 2: And there's something about and I've hosted with a lot
Speaker 2: of co hosts for you know, many many years, it's
Speaker 2: like a look you have where I can look into
Speaker 2: her eyes, she can look into my eyes, and we
Speaker 2: kind of can can message each other of like hey,
Speaker 2: do you need help or we got this or what
Speaker 2: are we doing? And we can kind of communicate very
Speaker 2: easily between the two of us. And now at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, whatever happens will be good.
Speaker 1: We've got this. Do you hang out in real life?
Speaker 1: Like you genuinely look like we're watching two people that
Speaker 1: are on a night out, like as in you guys
Speaker 1: look like you genuinely are friends and totally understand each other, Like, well,
Speaker 1: I guess you spend so much time together. Maybe you
Speaker 1: know you don't want to accept those phone calls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, we are. That's exactly right. But it was
Speaker 2: day one of Idol. Well that's a lie. Three weeks
Speaker 2: before once we were both announced as the host. That's
Speaker 2: the first time we worked together. So we didn't even
Speaker 2: do a screen test together. The network, whoever it was in,
Speaker 2: either Eureka or Channel seven, had the minus touch. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I was doing my screen test over in LA. I
Speaker 2: got offered the roll and they said, you've got a
Speaker 2: female co host, but we can't tell you who it
Speaker 2: is yet. So I believe they must have still been
Speaker 2: negotiating with Ricky because at the time, Ricky wasn't really
Speaker 2: planning on doing a lot of hosting, like she was
Speaker 2: doing AGT. Yeah, but I think she got you convinced
Speaker 2: to do it. I didn't think she was planning on
Speaker 2: doing it. And then I heard whispers that it was her.
Speaker 2: And I was with a friend of mine that was
Speaker 2: producing the Amazing race. She was in La. We had
Speaker 2: coffee and she's like, hey, I've heard a roommates Ricky Lee,
Speaker 2: And I was like really, and she's like, I worked
Speaker 2: with her on AGT. If it's her, you're so lucky.
Speaker 2: She's such a professional, so nice. You're going to absolutely
Speaker 2: love working with her, like you and her are going
Speaker 2: to get on great. And so it was one of
Speaker 2: these just like very very very lucky things because I've
Speaker 2: been putting positions before where it's not the easiest match
Speaker 2: because you match because you haven't done that chemistry tear.
Speaker 2: But no, her and I, yeah, from day one, we're
Speaker 2: just loving it. How good is this that? Having fun?
Speaker 2: We're not taking our sales too seriously, so we knew
Speaker 2: what we had to do for the job. So yeah,
Speaker 2: we now get on really well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like the kids at the back of the
Speaker 1: class in a way, and that's what you need from
Speaker 1: some of this. I have to let you go because,
Speaker 1: as you know, I would talk to you all day,
Speaker 1: but you are a very busy man. I want to
Speaker 1: finish the podcast like I do every other time, with
Speaker 1: a behind the scenes secret. Can you give me a
Speaker 1: behind the scenes secret about Australian idol that the average
Speaker 1: punter wouldn't know?
Speaker 2: Maybe? Okay, this is it. I on my rider asked
Speaker 2: for a bottle of champagne every episode.
Speaker 4: I'm not a big drinker, but what I do is
Speaker 4: I fight it away for the rat party. So then
Speaker 4: I can hope all the crew and the judges and
Speaker 4: everyone in my dressing room for a little party at
Speaker 4: the end of the season.
Speaker 2: And Productions doesn't know that I do that they must
Speaker 2: be every episode I'm cheersing through a bottle of champagne,
Speaker 2: but I'm actually dashing it away because I literally will
Speaker 2: only drink like once a month, and so I'm just like, no,
Speaker 2: I want to host the party in my room.
Speaker 1: That is amazing.
Speaker 2: I think I had a candle in my first season.
Speaker 2: I was like, if your room smelled good, then you're like,
Speaker 2: everyone has a good vibe.
Speaker 1: Is here a single man in the basket nighttime with
Speaker 1: your candle?
Speaker 2: I get it. I'm showing my true colors.
Speaker 1: And I thank you so much for being so generous
Speaker 1: with your time. I am literally one of your biggest
Speaker 1: fans and have been in your audience for so long.
Speaker 1: I think you do such a fantastic job on this
Speaker 1: show with Ricky and congratulations.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much. Well, hopefully with see you
Speaker 2: out there in the audience again soon.
Speaker 1: Okay, cheers me.