Speaker 1: Welcome back to TV Reload. This is my sixth bonus
Speaker 1: episode featuring a quick chat with I'm a Celebrity's latest
Speaker 1: ejectee AFL megastar Robert Dipper Domenico. This Ossie legend is
Speaker 1: still one of the most famous names in ossie sport,
Speaker 1: and while he has been off the field for nearly
Speaker 1: thirty years, his impact playing for Hawthorne has still made
Speaker 1: him a household name all these years later. From retiring
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety one, Dipper has commented on sport and
Speaker 1: has still massively sought after to join footy shows and
Speaker 1: to share his life story. There's way more to this
Speaker 1: man than just his footy. He's a family man and
Speaker 1: probably hard for some who grew up in the eighties
Speaker 1: to understand he's now a grandfather. This episode will talk
Speaker 1: news headlines, his contribution to I'm a Celebrity, and even
Speaker 1: a shock revelation about his desire to head back into
Speaker 1: the jungle. I'd like to welcome to the show the
Speaker 1: People's King of the Jungle, Dipper Domenico.
Speaker 2: I didn't expect to get all this accolade.
Speaker 1: He were the biggest name in football.
Speaker 2: You happy I did the show? It was a great
Speaker 2: show to be part of. It was great times, but
Speaker 2: you knew that you had to perform. Love the experience.
Speaker 2: I love the conversations I had. I'm a celebrity. Why
Speaker 2: did you take that Ladies tower? I do it again.
Speaker 2: But I'm not an all star.
Speaker 1: I'm just congratulations on your time on I'm a celebrity.
Speaker 3: Get me out of here, you bloody legend.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Ben, I really appreciate that. I
Speaker 2: didn't expect to get all this accolade from the show,
Speaker 2: but I'm really happy I did the show. It was
Speaker 2: a great show to be part of.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and you certainly earned your keep making news headlines
Speaker 1: every day, like I counted them. Every day you managed
Speaker 1: to make a news headline.
Speaker 3: Were you shocked?
Speaker 1: Were you shocked with the amount of interest that you
Speaker 1: created during your time on the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, funny, Ben, because this year we're able to sit
Speaker 2: back at home and watch it. Yeah, normally it's live
Speaker 2: Africa because here of COVID. So we finished filming tenth
Speaker 2: of Descender I think it was, and I was about
Speaker 2: about four weeks into the into the show. And and
Speaker 2: then you sit back and watch it and you go,
Speaker 2: oh my god, did I say that or did we
Speaker 2: do that? But you know what, you go in there
Speaker 2: with open eyes, and I just love the experience. I
Speaker 2: love the conversations I had and I thought, I thought
Speaker 2: the conversations I had on the remarks I made always
Speaker 2: came out with people conversing about what I said or
Speaker 2: what I didn't say, you know, and that opens up conversation,
Speaker 2: isn't it?
Speaker 1: One hundred? And you know, did you watch it with
Speaker 1: your family? I mean, that's the thing most it's a
Speaker 1: family show and it's rating its tits off. Did you
Speaker 1: get to sit there and watch it with all of
Speaker 1: your family?
Speaker 2: Well, actually just my wife and I, Sharyl and I
Speaker 2: we watched it, but we're on the phone to the kids,
Speaker 2: of course, Dylan and my daughter and our grandkids and
Speaker 2: the grandkids watched it as well, and they were sending me.
Speaker 2: They was sending me videos saying, why did you take
Speaker 2: that lady's tow Betty? First out? It's like Rob in
Speaker 2: someone's house. That's from a six year old, you know,
Speaker 2: So there and they and they were going yucky for
Speaker 2: the spiders, I ate and or whatever. But it's turned
Speaker 2: out to be a family a real good family entertainment. Show. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then been watching everybody else do their their trials
Speaker 2: because you come back in the campus say this is
Speaker 2: what we did, and then actually seeing what they did. Yeah,
Speaker 2: two different stories.
Speaker 3: There, absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's funny that they say that
Speaker 1: your grandkids would be like, Grandpa, why is Jess was
Speaker 1: washing your underpants?
Speaker 2: Well, Grandpa, you know that you never wear underpants. How
Speaker 2: come you want why you wear underpants? Yeah? Look, it
Speaker 2: was great and hopefully I've made some really nice friends.
Speaker 2: So sometimes I watched Sundies and he decided to come
Speaker 2: with me today and we got into the most beautiful chat.
Speaker 2: So nice meeting. In a short time. We know more
Speaker 2: about each other than you know about you know, some
Speaker 2: of the other oh.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. And at one point your social media
Speaker 1: following went up by six thousand in just ten minutes.
Speaker 1: I need to ask you. Are you an influencer now? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got a blue chick. I've got a blue chick.
Speaker 2: So so what happened was Ali Sibson came into the
Speaker 2: camp and what a dear sweet she is. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: a goer as well. She's awesome in the trials and
Speaker 2: she was next to my bunk and one morning we
Speaker 2: have a bit of a chat. I said, oh, by
Speaker 2: the way, how many follows you guys? She goes, oh,
Speaker 2: one point three minutes. I go, what I had? Nine thousand,
Speaker 2: you know, And then I said, that's it. I want
Speaker 2: to get to a million. Well I'm nine hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy thousand short, but I'm getting there, and.
Speaker 1: That is just seriously unbelievable. Have you got any ideas
Speaker 1: on what you might like to flog on Instagram? If
Speaker 1: you've got some things you'd like to sell.
Speaker 2: No, I love doing photography, so a lot of my
Speaker 2: photos are about where I am, what I'm experiencing. But
Speaker 2: it's funny you should say that because there's some people have
Speaker 2: already asked me about, well would your mind flogging this?
Speaker 2: And go, well, let me know about your product to
Speaker 2: see what's going on. But you know, I'm up for
Speaker 2: sale like Dimmies June ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I love those Dimmies ads. I was actually told very
Speaker 1: early on that you were going into the jungle. I
Speaker 1: need to ask, did you find it difficult to keep
Speaker 1: it a secret that you're going to be a part
Speaker 1: of the show.
Speaker 2: Now, I just told my family about two weeks before
Speaker 2: I was going in. I said, oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: I got something to tell you, and I go, what
Speaker 2: I'm going to the jungle And they were all excited
Speaker 2: for me, but no, I had to keep it pretty quiet.
Speaker 2: But it was nice to be asked to go. And
Speaker 2: during COVID here, Ben, Yeah, we had like three months
Speaker 2: or four months of COVID here and I was going nuts.
Speaker 2: And all of a sudden I could relieve myself from here,
Speaker 2: going to quarantine and then know when I was going
Speaker 2: to do something in the jungle. Is fantastic, amazing for
Speaker 2: the space of my head.
Speaker 1: You know, now you and murhughs Now have both been
Speaker 1: in the jungle. You've both been in time a celebrity.
Speaker 1: Who has the better mustache?
Speaker 2: Oh well, if he asked Merv, he has, I think
Speaker 2: he's a ripper. But what happens Ben? He gets hey,
Speaker 2: I know you, you're you're awesome. Actually did he hates that?
Speaker 2: And on the other one, I know you you're a
Speaker 2: ripper actually, Mirv going no, I'm not Morv. So we
Speaker 2: we get confused to saye or people get confused about us.
Speaker 2: But now he's been in the jungle. A lot of
Speaker 2: my ex teammates like German and Shane Crawford and Josh
Speaker 2: Gibson and a lot of footy players have been in
Speaker 2: there as well. But I just hope I did well
Speaker 2: for everybody to see that we're still very competitive. I
Speaker 2: know that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean you can't get rid of that
Speaker 1: competitive spirit, you know, that's a part of being a
Speaker 1: footing player. I have to ask, what did you think
Speaker 1: of the relationship between Ash and Abby. Did you think
Speaker 1: that it was going to amount to something serious or
Speaker 1: did you think it was just a bit of fun
Speaker 1: in the jungle.
Speaker 2: A bit of fun in the jungle. But fle look,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not one to prive on other people's business,
Speaker 2: you know. But they hugged it out and actually we
Speaker 2: put a little wedding in a dish wedding in a
Speaker 2: way because we broke them up. We broke them up,
Speaker 2: but I think they're back together. No, I don't think
Speaker 2: it was going to go anywhere. But end of the day,
Speaker 2: love the one you're with. I reckon one hundred.
Speaker 1: There was a bit of controversy about you talking about
Speaker 1: Abby in her baths at one point, and you know,
Speaker 1: Ash had his top off and so people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: can you make those comments. But I think the real
Speaker 1: debate is who's the biggest show off out of Ash
Speaker 1: and Abbey.
Speaker 2: She's a dynamite, didn't she. But on that comment there
Speaker 2: was basically it was a throwaway comment, of course, and
Speaker 2: it's sort of watching it now, I understand how how
Speaker 2: it looked and how it shouted to her and I
Speaker 2: really didn't mean anything by it. But it opened up
Speaker 2: a conversation, didn't it. Certainly once again people were talking
Speaker 2: about you know, the young ones will given it to
Speaker 2: me and the go Well, back in our day we
Speaker 2: used to say that and then Ash with his abs,
Speaker 2: but we used we used Ash to wash our clothes.
Speaker 2: We laid him down and just washed our clothes with
Speaker 2: his abs.
Speaker 3: I love it, I love it.
Speaker 2: I show off. I think Abby be the best show off.
Speaker 2: She's a ripper, she got every move and she's she
Speaker 2: speaks so good and she's passionate about what she does. Now.
Speaker 1: Fans were also divided with the Rice incident with you
Speaker 1: and Grant, which was great television. I'm going to say,
Speaker 1: but as you guys seem to really butt heads over this,
Speaker 1: I need to ask you what was it about the
Speaker 1: situation that had really bothered you.
Speaker 3: Was it the grant?
Speaker 1: Maybe he should have pulled you aside and said it
Speaker 1: to you one on one.
Speaker 2: No, what it was is the fact that it wasn't
Speaker 2: my role just to cook as well. And I'm surprised
Speaker 2: how many people can't cook, and they really depended on
Speaker 2: me and Colin hands up by left cooking and so
Speaker 2: so in the morning I started the porridge and the
Speaker 2: way we went, and then I thought, you know, i'll
Speaker 2: start something that I washed the rice, I'll get going,
Speaker 2: I'll start cooking the right and I fell asleep. But
Speaker 2: then you got people sitting down watching the rice burn
Speaker 2: and they go, oh, the rice is burning. Well, what
Speaker 2: don't they get up or wake me up? You know?
Speaker 2: But I think we're all hungry, and we're a little
Speaker 2: bit just tied as well because you have these ups
Speaker 2: and downs. But I'm glad he said something. And I
Speaker 2: said to him, you said that one more time, I'll
Speaker 2: meet you over there.
Speaker 1: I do you think I was out of place and
Speaker 1: saying that maybe if we.
Speaker 2: Went out of place, you just felt what you just said,
Speaker 2: what you felt. It's okay, we did.
Speaker 3: None of us want to lose an entire meal, that's all.
Speaker 2: But show one more time. I'll come and see you
Speaker 2: out of there.
Speaker 3: It was good television.
Speaker 2: But we hugged it out. I tweeked it out with
Speaker 2: Abby and I hugged it out with Grant.
Speaker 1: Now, speaking of things that you eat in the jungle,
Speaker 1: Now you ate a spider, which was hilarious.
Speaker 3: I thought i'd give you this fact.
Speaker 1: Did you know that we eat at least six spiders
Speaker 1: a year in our sleep? This is a weird fact
Speaker 1: I found on the internet. I need to I've always
Speaker 1: been apparently asleep through all the spiders I've eaten.
Speaker 3: And what does it taste liked? What did that spider
Speaker 3: taste like?
Speaker 2: Oh, well, we'll talk about a husband here. A husband
Speaker 2: tastes very squishy and very dry. Because it stuck to
Speaker 2: the top of the roof of your mouth, I couldn't
Speaker 2: get it down quick enough, you know, I sort of
Speaker 2: stuck there with a couple of legs hanging out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you what really grows.
Speaker 2: But eating that bowl of pig's blood, fermented egg, two
Speaker 2: fish eyes, one ratch tail, and some worms. That was
Speaker 2: a killer. But we did it, and we became world champions.
Speaker 3: What was the worst thing you ate?
Speaker 2: I reckon the worst thing I ate was a fermented egg. Ah,
Speaker 2: that's talking about it. The smell of it. Now.
Speaker 1: Just a bit of a serious question here with one
Speaker 1: of the conversations you have with Jack Vigeon, when it
Speaker 1: comes to sort of homosexuality in sport, do you think
Speaker 1: that we'll see footballers coming out soon?
Speaker 2: I think we're all grown up, haven't We had the
Speaker 2: last maybe twenty years. Have a good thing about today,
Speaker 2: especially the young people who now talk about their issues,
Speaker 2: their feelings. I think it's you know, if anybody does
Speaker 2: come out, it's acceptable. I mean, it's acceptable anyway, but
Speaker 2: I think we all understand where people coming from now.
Speaker 2: And having that conversation with Jack and I asked him
Speaker 2: about his sexuality and he was happy to talk about
Speaker 2: because he's I had a feeling that he was ready
Speaker 2: to talk about it. He's ready to sort of say
Speaker 2: the world, Hey, I'm out, you know. I said to him,
Speaker 2: you own it. It's beautiful, young man, and yes.
Speaker 3: Bitch, hey, I loved his catchphrase.
Speaker 2: Will say it. I love that. And his other say
Speaker 2: was these lips may not be real, but they speak
Speaker 2: the truth.
Speaker 3: When it sounds like he needs to be in the
Speaker 3: Real Housewives of Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now the format changed a little this year with people
Speaker 1: being eliminated in a different way. Ejected should I say?
Speaker 1: But if the nominations process had been put in place
Speaker 1: and you guys were evicting each other, who would you
Speaker 1: have given one point to save and one point to evict?
Speaker 2: I would think that I'd give just one point and
Speaker 2: I would think that who will I get rid of?
Speaker 2: Probably sick of his body?
Speaker 3: Stop rubbing it in my face, like stop it?
Speaker 2: Like you know I used to be like that thirty
Speaker 2: years ago, and we know.
Speaker 1: I think I've still got my footy card of you,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I'm still oh my old.
Speaker 2: Now I think ye just won that that beautiful bedroom
Speaker 2: on the line, have to sleep up there with a
Speaker 2: beautiful cook breakfast. And everyone voted for her because she's
Speaker 2: such a Bogain and she's just a lovely Bogain. She
Speaker 2: she loves being a boga. She did everything and anything
Speaker 2: for anyone.
Speaker 1: Well, it's down to the final choice and the public
Speaker 1: will decide who's going to win this thing.
Speaker 2: Well, I think Granted is a favorite, you know, and
Speaker 2: he really opened up what a journey he's had, work
Speaker 2: a whole has break him back, not believe in himself,
Speaker 2: and I think he really got a lot of out
Speaker 2: of the Jungle. I think it's between those two.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'm going to take those I'm going to
Speaker 1: take those suggestions to sports bet and see see if
Speaker 1: I win any money. I'll get back to you on
Speaker 1: that one. It was so fantastic to be able to
Speaker 1: have this chat with you. You were fantastic in the show,
Speaker 1: and I just I can't wait for you to do
Speaker 1: the next celebrity show, maybe Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2: Now, I'd love to go back on this show. And
Speaker 2: how good would it be doing the Jungle every year?
Speaker 2: I might start something. I might be the bandy rider
Speaker 2: in the Jungle.
Speaker 1: Well, I actually think that there's been a rumor floating
Speaker 1: around for a while now for a All Stars season,
Speaker 1: So you know, we've seen so many seasons of the show.
Speaker 1: Would would you go back and do it again next
Speaker 1: year for All Stars?
Speaker 2: I'd do it again, But I'm not an All Star.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just.
Speaker 1: Well mate, fantastic to have this chat with you. Thanks,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for your time.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.