Speaker 1: Do you know what's starting very soon something that I
Speaker 1: am particularly excited about. What try to guess come at
Speaker 1: me with something.
Speaker 2: Oh god, I don't know your period.
Speaker 1: No, it's Maths, guys, Married at first Sight, And I
Speaker 1: know out of you lot you guys don't watch it,
Speaker 1: but I'm obsessed and I've watched every season and I
Speaker 1: just am sick for the drama because there's something fundamentally
Speaker 1: wrong with me. But what I wanted to tell you
Speaker 1: guys about is that recently there was this woman on TikTok.
Speaker 1: Her name is Julia. She created a TikTok which was
Speaker 1: all around the interview process for Maths. So she was
Speaker 1: one of the contenders that were in the running for
Speaker 1: this year's Maths. She was like shortlisted for twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: but she decided last minute that she didn't want to
Speaker 1: do it. Now, she kind of had this bait and
Speaker 1: switch because she made it all the way through the process.
Speaker 1: She got to do all of the interviews, she did
Speaker 1: all of the paperwork, and it's such a long journey
Speaker 1: like towards like so when you're doing these interview processes,
Speaker 1: there's so much time and there's so much information that
Speaker 1: kind of you get you get exposed to, and she
Speaker 1: decided that she was going to share it, so she
Speaker 1: created this TikTok. It went viral, and then we were
Speaker 1: going to get her on to talk about it today,
Speaker 1: and now she has changed her mind because of legal ramifications.
Speaker 1: The TikTok has gone down and no longer is she
Speaker 1: going to speak about it. But some of the some
Speaker 1: of the things and the hoops that they have to
Speaker 1: jump through the participants is pretty hairy, and I would
Speaker 1: love to unpack, like what is it that's required of
Speaker 1: these mass contestants?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I love that she was like almost so at first sight.
Speaker 3: Like, well, that's what it was, right, I personally don't
Speaker 3: think she gave us that much information. Like I know
Speaker 3: everyone's frothing this video that this tell all TikTok, But
Speaker 3: from what I can see, all she said was it
Speaker 3: was an interview where they made sure I was a citizen.
Speaker 3: They did an STI check, which you know that's not
Speaker 3: rocket science to do that everywhere, and then there was
Speaker 3: just one line that she said where I was like,
Speaker 3: are you just trying to tell us that you speak
Speaker 3: five languages? Because one of the things she said was
Speaker 3: the producer said to me, Julia, you have three university
Speaker 3: degrees and you speak five languages. Are you sure you're
Speaker 3: going to find your intellectual eco on this show? Like
Speaker 3: that's got nothing to do with anything, that's not a.
Speaker 4: Crazy audition process.
Speaker 1: No, I disagree. I think that this is her showing
Speaker 1: how from the very get go they try and manipulate
Speaker 1: you into trying to figure out, Okay, are you a
Speaker 1: girl's girl? Are you going to fight?
Speaker 2: Anyway?
Speaker 1: We have Brent on the line now. Brent was from
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two when he was on the show Mass
Speaker 1: he was partnered with Tamara. If anyone, if you remember
Speaker 1: and cast your minds back to this, Brent, Hello.
Speaker 5: Okay, oh okay, I want the four one one on this.
Speaker 5: Do you like, what was your experience like when you
Speaker 5: were going through the application process and now with the
Speaker 5: beauty of Hindsight? Do you think that there were some
Speaker 5: things in the application process that were a little bit dubious?
Speaker 4: No, I actually don't think it was dubious for me.
Speaker 4: I was giving out it because I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: she's quite smart. Without divulging too much, they really play
Speaker 4: it well. I mean, first of all, they want to
Speaker 4: make sure that you're not, you know, a bit of
Speaker 4: a nightcase, and then secondly that you're I guess if
Speaker 4: they're they're doing it the right way. They want to
Speaker 4: ensure that you're going to bring entertainment to TV, I mean,
Speaker 4: which is probably the smartest thing. I guess. They really
Speaker 4: are good in trying to pair up your personality and
Speaker 4: what you would be like, I guess under pressure and
Speaker 4: that's kind of how they mix and match, which I
Speaker 4: think is brilliant considering we do get good TV out
Speaker 4: of the show.
Speaker 3: But Brent, I'm thinking back to when I was on
Speaker 3: the Bachelor. Of my audition, I had to do some
Speaker 3: crazy things. They made us line up in front of
Speaker 3: each other, like all the girls and put ourselves where
Speaker 3: we thought the best looking in the best dress.
Speaker 2: Was like, really choose ourselves and.
Speaker 3: Put ourselves in the line, and then look at each
Speaker 3: other and tell each other what we didn't like about
Speaker 3: each other. It was brutal. Is that kind of stuff
Speaker 3: happening in the maths?
Speaker 2: Auditions give us the juice?
Speaker 4: Well not really, I mean that sounds quite brutal in itself.
Speaker 4: I think more it was they're trying to see what
Speaker 4: you're willing to do interesting in terms of, you know,
Speaker 4: how you have to choose the faces of certain people.
Speaker 4: I mean, we had to do it in the show.
Speaker 4: You have to put the people in lining, You've got.
Speaker 2: To rank your yeah, the partner, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: So they do stuff like that. But I mean, I
Speaker 4: guess you know what I think. I think they just
Speaker 4: want to see how far you're willing to to to
Speaker 4: poor yeah, and you will push back, and I guess
Speaker 4: to see how brittle you can be with your honest answers.
Speaker 2: Brent. I've had friends that have been on different reality
Speaker 2: shows and they've told me that, I mean, legally, part
Speaker 2: of the process is you have to be provided a
Speaker 2: therapist or someone you can talk to back end at
Speaker 2: these shows to I mean, if you're struggling, which we've
Speaker 2: learned in the press that these contestants do struggle, you
Speaker 2: can go to and canfide in backs behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: But a friend who's been on the show has told
Speaker 2: me that the therapists then go to the producers and
Speaker 2: fill them in on all the issues that you're having,
Speaker 2: which then just get cycled back into the show, which
Speaker 2: I think is psychopathic. Is that something that you experienced?
Speaker 4: Is that really I mean, it sounds likes something that
Speaker 4: would probably happen, but well, they definitely need someone to
Speaker 4: speak to at times. I guess you could have vent
Speaker 4: and get your chest and whatnot. So I don't know
Speaker 4: when then they report back. I definitely have no idea,
Speaker 4: but I definitely had to vent a few times.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, Britainlaurae, you've been on the Bachelor, did is
Speaker 2: that something that happened?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean my experience was seven years ago,
Speaker 1: and when we were on the Bachelor, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: You had a therapist, a psychologist who you could go
Speaker 1: and you had unlimited access to, but no one told
Speaker 1: you that when you were speaking to them, the things
Speaker 1: that you talk to them about it's not private that
Speaker 1: that stuff can filter back through to producers.
Speaker 2: And so you have this.
Speaker 1: Moment where you think, Okay, I have this tiny little
Speaker 1: I have this piece of time, and I had this
Speaker 1: person that I can you know, talk to about how
Speaker 1: I'm feeling, and really nobody and nothing is safe in
Speaker 1: that environment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think. I think at the same point, I
Speaker 4: don't think i'd been the vault in too much, Tom regardless,
Speaker 4: because they want enterity. I'm like yeah, I don't know
Speaker 4: if I'm going to tell you just how far my
Speaker 4: thoughts are going right now.
Speaker 1: But Brent, you even said earlier you said, you know,
Speaker 1: without divulging too much, now, you would have had to
Speaker 1: have signed a non disclosure agreement saying like we did
Speaker 1: back in the day. But do you actually think that
Speaker 1: the producers and the production company would ever sue someone
Speaker 1: or hold someone financially liable for the things they talk about?
Speaker 4: That's a tough one. Will we will had these conversations
Speaker 4: before anyone in reality TV to see, you know, whether
Speaker 4: they really would. And I think, I guess if you
Speaker 4: really really are the person that throws off an entire
Speaker 4: season out that causes them that much about house, why
Speaker 4: is probably? I mean, look, if I was in the
Speaker 4: business aspective, I probably would too, because there's a lot
Speaker 4: of people out there just talking and then give me
Speaker 4: out all the information and can't help themselves. I reckon they.
Speaker 2: Would, you know what I find interesting? And for you
Speaker 2: and for you Laura and you Britt Laura, you you won,
Speaker 2: you got Maddie j Like, good for you. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: We're all jealous. Brit hate to bring it up. You
Speaker 2: lost in a really big way. The honey Badger didn't
Speaker 2: pick you. Did they run up to you, Britt and go, Laura,
Speaker 2: they gave you a ring of flowers? But Britt, did
Speaker 2: they run up to you and go sign this? Sign this,
Speaker 2: sign this? Because I imagine the experiences you both have
Speaker 2: were very different. Nah.
Speaker 3: They grabbed me by the ponytail, dragged me out of there,
Speaker 3: threw me the limo. They're like, bb, you sign your
Speaker 3: life away. They went extra hard on us because we
Speaker 3: had an unprecedented ending, like it had never happened before,
Speaker 3: and they thought it was got to be God's gift
Speaker 3: to reality TV, So they went hard on, like really
Speaker 3: making sure that we didn't tell us.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I think? I think they just
Speaker 1: drive the fear into you so much that it's you know,
Speaker 1: no one wants to say the wrong thing, No one
Speaker 1: wants to step out of line for fear of the
Speaker 1: legal ramifications. But I don't think in Australian history has
Speaker 1: anyone ever actually been sued yet.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: I agree