WEBVTT - Sonia Kruger - BIG BROTHER - Presenter 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.640 TV Reload the podcast last week that might welcome back 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.200 guys to TV Reload. As you may know, my name 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.000 is Benjamin Norris and this is your podcast to get 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.680 all the inside goss on the popular TV shows that 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:16.040 you may be watching from around the world. Underniably, our 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.759 TV sets are a major part of our home entertainment, 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:21.599 and yet very little is known about how our favorite 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.680 shows get made. So each episode I've been finding the 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:26.920 guests that want to dive just that little bit deeper 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.240 into the shows that they are currently making so that 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.040 you can hear all their exclusive stories and gain access 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.440 to the biggest names in Australian television. I want to 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.640 thank you for downloading or subscribing to this podcast however 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.479 you found me. I love hearing your feedback, so make 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:42.360 sure you leave a review or a comment on your 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:46.360 chosen podcast platform. On today's podcast, I have Sonya Krueger 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.960 who is back on the podcast to talk about Big 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.040 Brother Australia for twenty twenty three, which is starting its 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:56.280 fifteenth season on Channel seven this Monday night at seven thirty. However, 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.600 all is not what it seems with a spicy twist 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.240 to this year a house full of single and ready 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.640 to mingle housemates all looking for love, which coincides with 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.480 the return of Big Brother Uncut. Let me tell you 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.800 you have to actually watch that series to believe it. 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.160 Will Big Brother play Cupid with the housemates? Will he 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.880 mess with their relationships? Big Brother himself is very unpredictable 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.160 at the best of times, and this series is going 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.160 to offer something that has never been done in any 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.600 series around the world. God Log You winner Sonya Krueger 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.800 is more involved this time than ever before. Audiences will 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.039 see Sonya Krueger entering the Big Brother House to evict 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.200 the housemates this year, and that in itself is something 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.480 of a game changing moment that really works this series 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.880 on so many levels. We will talk about the housemates 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.720 and how the twenty twenty three series focus on love 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.360 will affect their gameplay all as Sonya something I've been 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.320 wanting to ask for a while, and that is if 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.240 she would let her own daughter enter the Big Brother 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.720 House when she turns eighteen. Sonya will also share why 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.240 entering into the Big Brother House in the morning can 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.800 sometimes be a little bit awkward for some of those 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.280 male Housemates, Plus, we will get plenty of exclusives from 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.560 behind the scenes of Big Brother Australia, which relaunches Monday 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:12.840 night at seven thirty on Channel seven, and then we'll 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.000 be screened four times a week at that same time 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:19.520 slot with Big Brother Uncut available on seven Plus. Anyway, guys, 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.040 let's bring Sonya into the podcast and I really do 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.200 hope you enjoy this catch up with the Queen of 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:24.880 Channel seven. 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.680 Benjamin, Hi, Sonya, I think I did. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.000 I'm good. I'm good. I think accidentally said that like 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:36.800 Big Brother. Hello, Sonya, you did. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:38.720 Actually he sounded just like you. 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.800 Yeah, my whole life, I've wanted to sound masculine. Anyway, 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:44.440 good to chat to you, although I did try and 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:45.519 call you back last. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.799 Week, Oh what is going on? 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:52.640 I just thought it was really funny because I think 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:54.799 I wrote back to you and said I think I 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.080 knew it was probably a pocketile at that point, and 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.959 I said, well, when the Queen calls, you have to answer. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.440 Yes, yeah, which made me laugh. 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.120 Oh Ben, Oh my god, that's just so funny. But 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.520 it's kind of fine though, because we've now paid each 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.919 other back because I pocket doled you once at four 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:15.560 in the morning, and so Matt right right exactly, we're 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:16.760 kind of even a. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.880 Much more civilized hour for Pokada someone. 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.440 Still to this day. I mean, I've told that story 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.799 to TV executives and they go white when they hear 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.080 that story. Anyway, Buddy, I want to say to you, 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.400 though I've spoken to you before many many seasons of 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.240 Big Brother, but I've just realized something this morning, and 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.520 that you've now beaten Gretel Colleen's hosting record this year 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.760 this season, because you've now up to like eight. 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:43.800 Yeah, that's well, but I know I'm eight. I didn't 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.600 realize that was over Gretel's record. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.880 Well, she did seven and now you've done eight, so 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:49.560 you're the winner. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.880 What Oh gosh, I feel like I don't know why 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:54.840 we feel like Gretel. I think because she was the 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.040 first host, she will always kind of be the you know, 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.960 the queen of Big Brother. In my mind she still is, 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.520 and I think it's one of those things that you 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.040 never really you never really you're just kind of a 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.600 caretaker for these shows, you know. And so like Big Brother, 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.480 which has been going for so long now since to 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.920 WAT two thousands, what year did start? Two thousand and one? 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:19.320 Yeah, yeah, two. 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.800 Thousand and one, so that's twenty two years. They did 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.320 have a little rest, had a little lie down at 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.880 some point, but shows do that too, and I think, 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.680 but I think a show that goes for so long, 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.360 you're kind of a caretaker of it for a while, 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.520 and it's just lovely to have that experience. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.560 But none of these housemates that you've got this year 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.360 would probably even know who grettl Colleen is. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.960 Well this is you know what? Then you met the 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.880 points because they were when they first got into the house. 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.720 I could hear them talking about things like the fact 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.920 that they were even born when Big Brothers started, or 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.120 you know that they have never seen the only the 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.640 only reference they had the Big Brother were the shows 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:01.480 that I'd posted, because that was there when they were 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.440 come growing up as teenagers. That was what they were watching. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:08.640 So they had never experienced the early days Big Brother. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.560 They'd only experienced the reincarnation of it. And it's an 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.520 interesting thing, isn't it, Because the evolution of Big Brother 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:20.400 is something that in equal parts I think fascinates and 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.560 also riles up the fans a little bit, because you know, 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.240 they're a purists, you know, BB purists who want it 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.039 to be, you know, exactly as it was kind of 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.360 from gay Dots. And then there are others I think 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.520 who like the changes and are fascinated by the changes, 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.640 and really to survive in television, you kind of need 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.200 to keep evolving. I think it's a species we need 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:46.120 to keep evolving. So, of course isn't necessarily a bad thing. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:48.919 I just think, you know, can you imagine, because we 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.320 all remember sitting in front of our television if you're 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.760 old enough to do so, to watch that first episode 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.640 of Big Brother and meeting all these people, could you 0:05:55.680 --> 0:06:00.800 imagine a tiktoking female farmer from Bendigo going into the 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.360 show twenty years ago? 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:07.880 Well, no, because there was no TikTok and just so 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:13.200 many different social media platforms now that they still who 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:17.200 went in initially, like you know that Sarah, Marie Fidell and 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:22.320 Pep and Reggie. They didn't have Twitter, they didn't have Instagram, 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.360 they didn't have they probably barely had a mobile phone. 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.159 So you know, there wasn't a lot to kind of 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:31.000 take away from people, was there. But now their entire 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.680 kind of communications structure is gone and they only have 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.679 each other, and it's really, I mean interesting it's always 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.080 interesting to see the dynamic and write from the get 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.960 go of this series. Have you seen anything? 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.080 Yeah, I'm up episode four and I've watched an episode 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.200 of Love the first week. Yeah. 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.039 I love the arrivals. I love the choices that have 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.000 to be made at arrivals. I love the fact there's 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.719 a curveball kind of right off the top, you know. 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.599 Can I just say my favorite thing about watching our 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.400 launch episode of Big Brother is you. They say that 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.479 with singing shows like The Voice and things like that, 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.480 people turn in for the judges. They don't turn in 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.640 for the stars. I mean, you know, for the contestants. 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.920 I feel like I turn up for you to watch 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.000 your comedic talent in a live environment. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.520 Please, Like Glee, it's worting. It's just having to make 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.440 a decision and I know one outcome is going to 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.280 be great and the other outcome not so much. Yeah. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.000 I know it's terrible that to their sense of pleasure. 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:29.560 I get out of it, but I do. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:31.760 Of course, you do it. Of course you can see 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:32.600 it all over your face. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.320 Yeah, when they sign up for Big Brother, he's going 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.640 to play trick. He's going to mess with your mind. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.360 He's going to do all that stuff, So yeah, I'm 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:40.920 there for it. 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.880 Well, the housemates are looking for love this time, which 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.120 is really unusual for Big Brother. You know, we've heard 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.800 all the headlines. You know, it's like love Island in 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:49.760 a warehouse kind of thing. But do you think the 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.520 Big Brother is fit to play Kupid for a whole season? 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:58.200 Ah, well, you do really play stupid, although he don't. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.960 I mean they can't. They don't need any help finding 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:02.880 love in the house if you know what I'm saying. 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.240 Benning put into that place. They're all just going for 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:07.840 makes a. 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.680 Pretty good at finding it for themselves. And I was 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.320 saying the other day, you know how you know, Big 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:18.160 Brother evolved and it became very strategic, and these guys 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.160 they've got games, but it's not strategy. It's not a 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:26.120 strategic game. It's just game in the kind of dating world. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:31.480 And and you can see, you know, the relationships forming 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.400 very early on in the piece. I was just really 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:40.280 surprised at how quickly, you know, certain people kind of 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.880 you know, fell for each other, and then how others 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:44.280 there would be that like there's a bit of a 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.079 love triangle that kind of goes on. At one point, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.040 there's there's a fair bit of jealousy that occurs. I 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:51.440 don't know, if you're up to that city. 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:53.880 Yeah, I mean, I mean, this is just what happens 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.560 when you put a whole bunch of people like this 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.960 in there, that you know, that are single and looking forward. Yeah, 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.960 you know, I mean there's going to be some swapping around. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.120 You know, maybe this person this week, maybe someone else 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:03.480 the next. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:08.920 You know, did you say flopping? Interesting slapping? 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:13.720 Some of them might be slapping, sonya. 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:13.320 Some of them might be flopping. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.640 It's kind of racy. I keep thinking of you and like, 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.679 you know, you've got so many double entendres on dancing 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.160 with the stars, but I always related to you in 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:24.880 the times that I've spent you. I kind of feel 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.559 like we're a bit prutish sometimes, So I wonder, are 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.160 you blushing? Are you blushing watching these people? 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.960 Oh my gosh, world things prude. It's terrible. And that's 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.800 what happened to me. What a likely looking at they're kissing. 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.319 Oh god, they're kissing like they're really CUsing. Yeah, so 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.800 I don't know. I think maybe mother now and I'm like, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.320 oh god, that could be my daughter. But you know, 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.559 young lup, what can you What can you do when 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:53.880 when somebody's you know, early twenty years and they're you know, 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.800 they are all so excited to get into the house 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.840 and to meet each other and to make friends, and 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.120 you know, you can't you can't really blame them. It's 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.120 it is. It is quite spicy. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.360 They're just doing what twenty year olds do, though, like 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:07.599 you know, you're going to put a whole bunch of 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.400 twenty year olds inside a house like that, and then 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.560 you know, even big brother packs they closed away at 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.839 one point. I mean, you kind of that. 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.480 I was trying to mention it because I just thought 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.240 the promo for that and I didn't know if we 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.400 could talk about it, whether it would be a bit 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.080 of a spoiler. But the fact, I think it was 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:28.120 one of the first addictions. They confiscate the house. Think, 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.720 rather confiscate the house, they close And I didn't find 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.920 out until I was just about to walk into the room. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.960 And it's all new to me because normally I've talked 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.280 to them through a camera, I am not in the room, 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:43.160 and now I'm in the room and they're essentially native, 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.760 you know, So that was that was interesting. I mean 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.600 it and I really didn't know, look. 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:49.800 I don't know what to look either. And one of 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.720 the boys, because he was sort of covering himself up 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:53.480 and he was just wearing speeders, it kind of looked 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.360 like he was nude, like completely. 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.600 New exactly exactly. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.360 Yeah, you know why I'm laughing at this, just like 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.600 seems so ridiculous. I love the idea though, that you 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.640 get to go into the house. If you're in the 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:07.640 house more than any other series of Big Brother that 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.160 you've ever been involved in before. Did it feel like 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.400 going into a zoo like as in I can imagine. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.319 It's so weird. It's such a weird feeling. First time 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.440 I went into the eviction, it was I felt really 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.120 kind of nervous because I was right there in front 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.000 of them, and they were even more nervous because all 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.600 of a sudden, when I was talking to them through 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.920 a camera, I couldn't kind of keep eyes on everybody. 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.199 So when you're sitting in front of them, you can 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.839 see in parishal vision if someone is talking to somebody else, 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.240 someone's rolling their eyes, or you know, there's reaction going 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.360 on around the room. You're much more present, and so 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:50.640 you're much more involved in the the The word for it, 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.120 you know, the unpacking of everything that's gone on. 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.720 Well, yeah, and you're a very good observer. You're always 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.679 absorbing and watching and you're sort of evolving your opinions. 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:02.640 And then I think it's the best thing about this 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.800 new series. And I'm surprised we have taken so long 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:06.960 to get to it, you know, we're up to season sixteen. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.560 I think it is for the host to be inside 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.800 the house watching them, and it's really worked for you. Like, 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.199 I think that whole what do they call it, whether 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.320 they're doing the where they sort of have to plead, 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.560 what's that room called the not the King and Queen, No, no, no, 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.559 no, no no, the room where they deal with the evictions. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.439 What's that the eviction room or whatever it is, the 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.960 fiction room. Yeah, that all works much better than it's 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.640 ever worked before this season with you being in there. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.520 Yeah, it is kind of I mean I found it 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.200 really right up until the point where I say it's 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.480 time to go, because there are three people, say in 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:43.320 the hot seats, and I found I had to look 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.440 above them. I couldn't look at them because if I 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.760 look at them while I was saying those words, it 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.880 was like me, she's looking at me, you know what 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.680 I mean, really not to actually make eye contact with 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.559 anyone as I was saying those words it's time to go. 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.240 So it was really it was a learning curve for 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.320 me as well, because you know, there moments where things 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.320 get really hated, you know, and there are must where 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:12.080 there's a lot of emotions, you know, somebody upset or 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.200 there's you know, or it just gets completely out of 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.920 control and someone's yelling at somebody else, and you know. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.080 You know what I thought was really funny was that 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.480 I remember you saying in my series of Big Brother, 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.840 which now is eleven years ago. So in twenty twelve, 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.760 you made this comment Josh, and you said, I've got 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.319 He flirted with you on camera and it was live 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.160 and this is where Brugs you do the best work 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.120 is when you're live and off the cuff. And you 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.080 said to him, mate, I've got t shirts older than you. 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:44.360 I've eaten cheese just to show like it's just so good, 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:44.760 you know. 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:46.280 Anyway, it was gorgeous. 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.040 He was really like, yeah, really harsh. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.040 But over the years, contestants have flirted with you on camera. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.440 Can you remember a contestant that's flirted with you? The hardest. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:14:00.280 Wow, that's a really good question. Do you know the 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.680 time I'm oblivious to it, I think, and the other 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.520 housemates pick up on it. Somebody throws something out that 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.400 is a bit clotatious. I kind of end up just 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.040 carrying on, but the other housemates will definitely clock it. 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:17.960 And it's sort of like stopped sucking up the son 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.120 stopped trying to be the piece's pets, you know. I 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.320 think that's really really funny. It's like, most of the time, 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.320 it goes straight over the top of my head. 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.280 No, it's true though, because I think that there was 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.120 oh I don't know, there was probably like eight men 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.520 in my series, and my admiration through you was different 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.480 because you've got the wrong plumbing for me. But I 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.280 just remember that all the boys were obsessed with you. 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.200 They were like, which, who do you think Sonya would 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.040 be with that of all of us, and they almost 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:45.360 got into a fight over it. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.520 That's funny because they're having series where I can't remember 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.520 which one was exactly, but I could hear the housemates. 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.640 A couple of the guys actually because I've taken them 0:14:55.680 --> 0:15:00.240 to task over some behavior and they really did didn't 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.440 like it. And I could hear them really having a 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.800 bit of a moan about me after the show, because 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.640 I was back in my dressing room and it was 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.640 quite funny sitting there listening to the speech about you, 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.240 and you can hear them. But that's the whole thing 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.360 about Big Brother, you know, when you know we would record, 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.600 we would play back and said the last supper sample 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.200 and here's what everybody said about you through the series, 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.920 and there was some really you know, it's a bit 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.560 of an eye opener. All it does to me is 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.640 it just reinforces that idea what other people think of 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:33.880 me is none of my business. 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:35.880 Yeah, very true. But I mean it's also the very 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.320 essence of this show. You know. We love to be 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.000 a fly on the wall. We love to hear the 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.080 things that people would say when they think that people 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:43.680 are not listening, do you know what I mean. I 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.800 think it's kind of the minutial that's Big Brothers. Why 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.960 it's been so successful globally, you know, yep. 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.080 Exactly in the UK have just they've just come back 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.280 with Big Brother too, and it's it's interesting. I did 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.200 see an article we have that I don't know, I 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.680 don't know, I don't know what the future is the 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.040 big but it did reference sort of going back to 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:04.960 that live environment and it's really interesting to see whether, 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:09.320 you know, we ever would find ourselves doing evictions live again, 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.920 you know, because there is something in the I don't know, 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.320 it's the electricity of the moment. 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.960 It has public lists come out. I think that's actually 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.640 And also the programming Department have actually referenced the fact 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.640 that whilst Big Brother UK is on, they've got eyeballs 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:27.840 on it to see how it goes and how that 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.160 how that exists and whether we could do it. And 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.760 I think, you know, producers have also said for many 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.920 years you kind of Australia watches, America and the UK 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:38.760 have got more money to try these things again and 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.360 see if they work and if it does work in 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.480 the UK, which I'm watching it by the way, it's 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.240 it's like being in a time machine because you know 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.800 it is it does have all of these elements of 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:51.320 Big Brother. That's that was from twenty years ago, and 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.240 right it's just fascinating. So look, I mean I hope, 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.200 I hope that they both can exist in a weird way, 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:58.400 you know, because. 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.600 That's that's I think I think they can coexist. I 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:05.240 think you can. You can cut together a great show, 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.920 which is essentially what used to happen back when Big 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.760 Brothers started. Anyway, the daily show was cut from the 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.879 day before. It turned around really quickly. That's right. So 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:16.800 I'm sure there is a way we can we can 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.879 sign to make those two things coexist. So and again, 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.280 it just gets back to the evolution, doesn't it of 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.160 the show? Any show? I think, you know, most shows 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.840 change a little bit, you know, year and year out. 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.680 Like if you look at art even and you look 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.639 at the way and we're culture and trends, we circle 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.760 back fashion, you know, absolutely we circle back. 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.919 So fashion, I'm not actually son, you. 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:42.520 Can wear a garbage bag. I don't know what you're 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.960 talking about. Where anything any fashion came back. High stockings, 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.680 low stockings, nose stockings, it's all happening. It's fine. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:55.399 Stocking, do you do it? 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:00.800 Shoulder pads, working girl, It's fine. But I think with 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:02.680 this new series, and I know a lot of people 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.040 talk about, oh, it's dating now, but what I find 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.919 Big brother also really works with relationships on these shows 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.560 and watching young people. For me, now I sound so 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:15.800 old watching young people dating as me and my forties 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.440 is actually really fascinating to see whether men are chivalrous 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.600 anymore or do girls want them, you know, the doors 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.280 to be open for them. You know, how does all 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.399 of this work these days? That's what this series is 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:28.280 doing really well. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.680 Now, Yeah, what's changed and what hasn't. I mean, at 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.679 the heart of it, you know, chemistry and attraction and 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:38.600 those kinds of things. They're unquantifiable and you don't know 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:40.919 how it's going to happen, who it's going to happen with. 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:45.679 It just happens. But how people operate and exist in 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:49.560 those relationships is definitely has definitely changed. I would say, 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.280 you know, the girls at one point, I think you 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.920 see the girls who are kind of like band together, 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.600 and that's an interesting dynamic in itself because there's a 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.679 bit of a girl power moment in there. You know, 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.200 we can't really say which way it goes because that 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:08.880 gives the game away, but just the cohabitation I think of, Yeah, 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:12.800 the guys and the girls and how society is evolving. 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:15.320 There's that word again. It's so weird, isn't it. It's 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.159 about yeah, And I think that's the thing I think people, 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:20.800 you know, it's big brother twenty years ago. There were 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.520