Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on TV.
Speaker 2: Reload the podcast last week Their Life. Hey guys, welcome
Speaker 2: back to TV Reload. I want to thank you for
Speaker 2: clicking and downloading on today's episode with Courtney and Grant,
Speaker 2: two of the latest contestants on the Block, which has
Speaker 2: been dazzling the audience this year on Channel nine. I'm
Speaker 2: actually a big fan of this couple's work, and so
Speaker 2: far I think they are the most likely to win
Speaker 2: this season. So this is not without their faults. By
Speaker 2: the way, audiences are often quite taken aback by their
Speaker 2: communications style and there are some very interesting theories that
Speaker 2: they are following a winning formula by Stephan Gian who
Speaker 2: we saw last year. I will talk about their relationship
Speaker 2: and what they think of watching their interactions on National
Speaker 2: TV back and that includes some of the reactions from
Speaker 2: the Australian public. You will get to hear us unpack
Speaker 2: their modern Terraneum theme and what influences they actually had
Speaker 2: that led them to that styling. There is some real
Speaker 2: challenges with multiple teams in terms of their builders this year,
Speaker 2: and I'm curious to know why this season so much
Speaker 2: seemed to go wrong in that space. We will even
Speaker 2: get an insight into the production and what they think
Speaker 2: of how this show gets put together. There is a
Speaker 2: lot to talk about, and you know, this season of
Speaker 2: the Block is wild. So sit back and relax as
Speaker 2: we unpack the Block twenty, the biggest season today. Hi, Hi,
Speaker 2: how are you? Both?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 2: Ben?
Speaker 3: Good mate? How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing really well. I don't know why I'm laughing
Speaker 2: because I think I think this season's really shocked me
Speaker 2: in some ways. I think I was like, oh, it's
Speaker 2: the twentieth anniversary season. You know, there's going to be
Speaker 2: balloons and party pis and it's all going to be really,
Speaker 2: you know, sweet and lovely. But it actually is quite
Speaker 2: a dramatic season. So much drama, so much drama. There's
Speaker 2: so much for us to talk about today.
Speaker 3: Let's do it. Let's do it.
Speaker 2: I think the most important question that I have for
Speaker 2: you is what is watching this show back been like
Speaker 2: for the both of you? Do you drink a lot
Speaker 2: of wine? Do you have people come over?
Speaker 4: I mean to know, honestly, it's actually been really fun.
Speaker 1: Yes we have been one, but like that's nothing new
Speaker 1: recording okay in a fun way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, I think we've been pretty low key the
Speaker 4: first few weeks.
Speaker 3: So well, we've enjoyed watching it. We were nothing but ourselves.
Speaker 5: So nothing's really come across and shopped us, if we're
Speaker 5: honest from what we saw of us, yes, and other
Speaker 5: things that shopped us.
Speaker 2: But I think in some ways, because there's so much
Speaker 2: happening in the other houses for you guys, we haven't
Speaker 2: seen as much maybe as what we could have. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of other things happening. What
Speaker 2: do you do when you come on screen? Are you excited, like, Hey,
Speaker 2: this is us? Or are you kind of cringe? Like
Speaker 2: what I want to know?
Speaker 3: Now? We're excited?
Speaker 4: So like last night? Was it last night? Yet whenever
Speaker 4: it was Wednesday, we're watching the episode and it was
Speaker 4: half an hour in. Like, are we even on the
Speaker 4: block in twenty what's happening here?
Speaker 3: I wasn't sure if they booted, couldn't see it anyway.
Speaker 2: They'll edit you in later. I remember doing Big Brother
Speaker 2: in twenty twelve, and I remember thinking, they eliminate me. Now,
Speaker 2: no one will remember me.
Speaker 4: You need the drama.
Speaker 2: You need the drama. So then I just threw drinks
Speaker 2: in people's faces. How has the Block experience. Grant you
Speaker 2: kind of did say it, don't it hasn't shocked you.
Speaker 2: But like in comparison to what you signed up to
Speaker 2: and what you expected to, what is the finished product now?
Speaker 2: Like are there shocks in that?
Speaker 1: Look?
Speaker 3: The only thing that sort of got me by surprise,
Speaker 3: and I still think.
Speaker 5: About it, you know, even here, how quick everything moves
Speaker 5: on the block. That's the only thing that they really
Speaker 5: shocked us in terms of watching ourselves back or anything
Speaker 5: like that. I think Court and I we always said,
Speaker 5: will come in here and be you know, be ourselves,
Speaker 5: and you know it will be nothing. But yeah, it
Speaker 5: defends people. Then it defends people, and if people liked it,
Speaker 5: will then you.
Speaker 3: Know even better. So yeah, that's the only thing I
Speaker 3: look back and.
Speaker 5: Go that I was only surprised by the speed of
Speaker 5: the twelve weeks.
Speaker 2: No, I think that this show is so fast paced.
Speaker 2: It's also one of the only reality shows that I
Speaker 2: think is still on television that quite real, Like we're
Speaker 2: actually capturing a lot of real content where a lot
Speaker 2: of other shows these days are quite manufactured and set up,
Speaker 2: where it's real, fly on the wall kind of television.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been asked for so like what's scripted and
Speaker 1: what's not.
Speaker 4: I'm like, no, no, no, this is this is all real,
Speaker 4: this is all happening, Like these things are actually happening.
Speaker 4: The tears are real, the tears are real, all the
Speaker 4: drama is real. Like it's just you look back now
Speaker 4: after doing it all, you just think, yeah, it doesn't
Speaker 4: really seem like it could be real. But it all happens.
Speaker 4: It all happens very quickly.
Speaker 2: Does it change the way you guys talk to each other,
Speaker 2: because there's a lot of conversation about how the couples
Speaker 2: this year have like a love language that's quite volatile.
Speaker 2: And I've been watching it and changing my own behavior
Speaker 2: with my with my partner because I'm like I was
Speaker 2: saying to him, I'm like, these people are quite outspoken,
Speaker 2: you know, And he goes, you talk to me like that,
Speaker 2: He goes Everyone in Australia talks to their partners like this.
Speaker 2: But I wondered whether or not watching it back has
Speaker 2: made you think about it differently.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about it during filming.
Speaker 5: I think I not held back, but think I became
Speaker 5: a lot more patient because I didn't want to lose
Speaker 5: my temper all the time.
Speaker 1: I feel like you definitely change for better.
Speaker 5: But one thing with Cordy and I was and we
Speaker 5: always you know, it's always been so, even pre block
Speaker 5: was it's always been a two way street. So if
Speaker 5: we're arguing, we're both arguing, it's never been you know,
Speaker 5: we both can give it back. It's just as good
Speaker 5: as we as we get it. So yeah, some people
Speaker 5: might find it weird or confronting, but for us it
Speaker 5: was it's almost healthy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And we still support each other and you know,
Speaker 4: we laugh more than we're arguing, so it's all healthy.
Speaker 2: What was really interesting was when I met the two
Speaker 2: of you. And this sounds bad because I'm making a comparison.
Speaker 2: Everyone that day was talking about there being a like
Speaker 2: some couples going to get a divorce or something, and
Speaker 2: there was a rumor going around that day. So all
Speaker 2: of the media, we're watching you guys so intently, and
Speaker 2: you two in particular, I was watching and whilst you
Speaker 2: guys did have a particular style of language between the
Speaker 2: two of you, I actually thought that you had the
Speaker 2: most genuine relationship out of everyone.
Speaker 4: We have been told that before, Okay, Grant and I
Speaker 4: and I've said this before on the show, like we are,
Speaker 4: We're best friends, like there's no one else we're closer to,
Speaker 4: and we get each other through and through, and I
Speaker 4: think that's kind of what got us through the block.
Speaker 1: And you know, without that support, Like Grant said.
Speaker 4: It's two way and we both support each other through
Speaker 4: thick and thin.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it made us so much stronger.
Speaker 3: Definitely, it put you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm sure having kids also has a similar feeling.
Speaker 4: Like you, it's those really intense moments that make you
Speaker 4: grow as a person and become closer.
Speaker 1: So I feel like the block did that for us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: Well I may touch into this a little bit later,
Speaker 2: but I really want to ask you about what sort
Speaker 2: of preparation, Like I think about if I did the block,
Speaker 2: what the hell would I be doing? Would I be
Speaker 2: thinking themes? Would I be doing research? Would I know
Speaker 2: a kind of guideline as to what I'm going to bring?
Speaker 2: What did you guys try and do as like homework
Speaker 2: preparation before turning up in Phillip Island.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the hardest thing for us is I
Speaker 5: think we got told as one of the last couple,
Speaker 5: so we were told to be days I think days
Speaker 5: before before we got there, so we had a few
Speaker 5: things going on work wise and personal and whatnot, so
Speaker 5: we really didn't even have a chance to breed, to
Speaker 5: be honest, before we got there. We made you know,
Speaker 5: a little bit of a plan, but we came in
Speaker 5: almost very loose.
Speaker 3: Not all our trains were confirmed and everything like that.
Speaker 1: So in terms of design, we had a bit of
Speaker 1: a plan.
Speaker 4: We knew, I mean, we were already planning on like
Speaker 4: hopefully building again in the future, so I already had
Speaker 4: a bit of a mood board, an idea of what
Speaker 4: we'd want to do then. So we thought we could
Speaker 4: just do a similar thing on Philip Island. So I
Speaker 4: came in you know, modern Mediterranean, the Moditerranean term. It
Speaker 4: was week one will kind of just like I fumbled
Speaker 4: my words and we came up with that. But each
Speaker 4: room we had an idea of what we want to do,
Speaker 4: kind of color scheme. But you also don't know, you know,
Speaker 4: you know, you're roughly like who your sponsors are, but
Speaker 4: you don't know like how much sponsorship ships dollars go
Speaker 4: towards different vendors. So I think that's that's one thing
Speaker 4: that you have to really figure out when you get there.
Speaker 4: But an overall style, Like if anyone can prep for out,
Speaker 4: I think that's really important.
Speaker 2: The modern Tranean theme is genius though, So I love
Speaker 2: that you've just revealed to us that you basically fumbled
Speaker 2: across that well done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it really the modern Mediterranean.
Speaker 4: We definitely had a vision, but Moditerranean, I mean, I
Speaker 4: think that was just a fluke immunity, be honest.
Speaker 3: Especially, hey we've got Moditerranean.
Speaker 4: I think it was at Beaumont Tile the first time,
Speaker 4: and I.
Speaker 3: Was like, we grant.
Speaker 2: You were so hilarious because you kept getting corrected at
Speaker 2: the start, you know, this is the theme they have properly,
Speaker 2: and then later on we even call it out like
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen that, but later on
Speaker 2: you're like, oh wow, I just said it correctly. It
Speaker 2: just rolls off the tongue.
Speaker 4: It's converted.
Speaker 2: But after watching Stephanjiwn, I'm so surprised that that's the
Speaker 2: truth of that story because I just imagine, being as
Speaker 2: as smart as I know you both are, that you
Speaker 2: must have looked at Japande last year and realized that
Speaker 2: having a theme like this, having a comprehensive theme that's
Speaker 2: kind of fresh and exciting works on this series, like
Speaker 2: the Block, I.
Speaker 4: One hundred percent agree, And I think what Stephan Jon
Speaker 4: did was amazing, Like they built the most amazing house.
Speaker 4: But I think when you're building anything new, any new house,
Speaker 4: you always have well, like from experience, like it's always
Speaker 4: really important to have a style or a theme. Otherwise
Speaker 4: if you don't, Like I'm one where I'll see something
Speaker 4: pretty and I'll be like, oh my gosh, I want that.
Speaker 4: If I don't have that direction, then you can just
Speaker 4: go in all different tangents. So I think for me
Speaker 4: is just when I'm designing a space, I need that
Speaker 4: I have that at home, like I'll have that one
Speaker 4: any projects I'm working on. I think it's Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: really important to have that directional theme.
Speaker 2: It's a great pull through. And I think, yeah, something
Speaker 2: that's very easy to sell because you've simplified it and
Speaker 2: it actually really does explain your house in a very
Speaker 2: simple way, and that kind of pull through works for
Speaker 2: your branding moving outside of the block later on. That
Speaker 2: must have been a part of the conversation even if
Speaker 2: you started having that in the first week. Oh, come on,
Speaker 2: this is going to be the pool through it. This
Speaker 2: is going to work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think, I mean, we probably didn't and
Speaker 4: realized how important it was until the judges started giving
Speaker 4: us feedback and you know, talking about moderterranean and making it,
Speaker 4: you know, more than what we thought it was. So
Speaker 4: I think that was really encouraging from them.
Speaker 2: I think that there's going to be some rivalry and
Speaker 2: I don't want to start this, but I just feel
Speaker 2: like Stephan Gian with their like when I walked through
Speaker 2: your house, and I may have it and said that
Speaker 2: to you on the day, like it's so comprehensive. This
Speaker 2: is the bathrooms, this is the bathrooms version of it,
Speaker 2: it is the loud rooms version. It's very well done.
Speaker 2: But there are some nodes that seem like have come
Speaker 2: from a very Stephan Gyon world. Do you think there
Speaker 2: could be some block rivalry between the two of you,
Speaker 2: considering that there are some very similar things being worked on.
Speaker 4: I think what is similar is just the both our
Speaker 4: houses have that consistent look so in each space, and
Speaker 4: I think that is really important. Obviously, you've got that term.
Speaker 4: They had Japane, so they followed that throughout the whole house.
Speaker 1: They had that stone.
Speaker 4: So with us doing modern Mediterranean right at the beginning,
Speaker 4: we knew that we would have that same cohesion look
Speaker 4: as well, although it's obviously a very different style. But
Speaker 4: I think like other houses had their own direction as well,
Speaker 4: but then maybe they just didn't permit like what we
Speaker 4: did made a big thing about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean without saying, you know, this is not
Speaker 2: a spoiler, because nothing. We don't know how the show ends.
Speaker 2: I do feel like what you've decided to do in
Speaker 2: that space of modern Mediterranean is going to win you
Speaker 2: the show. And I want to know how you feel
Speaker 2: about audiences already saying that as well, that you guys,
Speaker 2: you know, are pulling comparisons to seven GWN they're going
Speaker 2: to win like last year. This is a very you know,
Speaker 2: how do you feel about the pressure that's on you
Speaker 2: that you guys look like you're going to walk in
Speaker 2: and win it.
Speaker 5: If only the judges thought we're going to win it too,
Speaker 5: because right now we've lost by half a point two.
Speaker 5: It's a compliment, like we we've obviously you know, we've
Speaker 5: met Stephan Giann and whatnot, so and obviously we followed
Speaker 5: their journey last year, so they've done incredible things. No
Speaker 5: matter what, it's a compliment what happens on auction day.
Speaker 5: I think we've learned over you know, nineteen seasons and
Speaker 5: now the twentieth.
Speaker 3: That nothing's guaranteed.
Speaker 5: We genuinely came on the show to experience something that
Speaker 5: not many people can say they've done, prove that we
Speaker 5: could do it and do.
Speaker 3: It without maybe losing our shit every two minutes so
Speaker 3: and just being creative.
Speaker 4: I think that's what the main thing was like, We just.
Speaker 5: We were ready to build again in our own in
Speaker 5: our own life, so we thought, well, why not get
Speaker 5: somebody else to pay for it?
Speaker 3: So whatever way, the show ends where you know, we're
Speaker 3: happy and yeah.
Speaker 5: People think we're going to be successful and win it,
Speaker 5: and obviously that's that's a compliment, but it's nicely.
Speaker 4: You don't always do nice things online.
Speaker 2: You don't stop reading the comments, Cordney, What is wrong
Speaker 2: with you? Don't read I have.
Speaker 4: To stop stop comments.
Speaker 2: Don't read them. You're just as bad ground and both
Speaker 2: of you need to stay away from that. There's no
Speaker 2: can I just tell you. There's a very famous quote
Speaker 2: from Sandra Bullock and she she says, never read the
Speaker 2: comments section, and then she reads out what she read
Speaker 2: on the comments section that day, and they were just horrific,
Speaker 2: Like what, who? Where? Do people feel like? This is
Speaker 2: what I don't understand if you wouldn't say it to
Speaker 2: someone's face, don't get online with your cats and your
Speaker 2: birds and write the ship to people. Come on.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm hoping maybe at the end of the show
Speaker 5: you and I can sit down for another podcast and
Speaker 5: we can read out some of the meanest tweets about me.
Speaker 5: I've already got the theme it of it suggy because
Speaker 5: I don't listen to it.
Speaker 4: Apparently grumpy reads grumpy comments.
Speaker 2: Because you are really grumpy, because then that's one of
Speaker 2: my favorite grant do you know what it's? So you're
Speaker 2: so refreshing on this show because there are some moments
Speaker 2: with you interacting with your builders and things like that
Speaker 2: where I think some people are like, oh, wow, he's
Speaker 2: very grumpy, but I just think that's very real. You're
Speaker 2: just very passionate bloke who says what he's thinking. Isn't
Speaker 2: it better to be upfront than to, you know, be
Speaker 2: wishy washy and meek and mild.
Speaker 3: What you see is what you get with me. You're
Speaker 3: only going to get the truth. You know.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to be the type of person that
Speaker 5: goes in comments about something on Facebook or I actually don't.
Speaker 3: I hate social media, so I'm on it. Don't get
Speaker 3: me wrong, but I do hate it.
Speaker 5: And you know, if somebody, if I've got a thought
Speaker 5: about somebody, I'll make sure that they know it.
Speaker 3: By the end of the conversation. But you're also very
Speaker 3: just honest. It's just I've got no time for bullshit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I feel like you're also very respectful. Until
Speaker 4: someone obviously disrespects.
Speaker 5: Somebody breaks trust or breaks loyalty, they they don't have
Speaker 5: respect anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, pretty pretty much.
Speaker 5: Look, I'll give everybody I grew up in, you know,
Speaker 5: from it in a mind frame where you know, you
Speaker 5: give everybody respect, you give everybody at the time of day,
Speaker 5: no matter what. But until you you know, you break
Speaker 5: loyalty or break trust, then yeah, then that's that all
Speaker 5: gets thrown out the windows.
Speaker 4: To be honest, and you're pretty cut through.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't just love anyone that anyone who takes someone
Speaker 2: to task. I don't know why. It's my favorite thing.
Speaker 2: Just just just get the popcorn out because just.
Speaker 3: Do it like I love it to come.
Speaker 2: Look, grant, I'm not surprised I'm not surprised. I'm here
Speaker 2: for it. You know, I'm wondering extra large boxes of popcorn.
Speaker 3: But you'll need it.
Speaker 2: Come on with this with the way you talk to
Speaker 2: the builders, what do you think about this? Like did
Speaker 2: you get bad builders? Like what what happened? Like what
Speaker 2: really has on down to have you at this situation
Speaker 2: of the show at odds with them?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, I.
Speaker 5: Think if I sat here and said that everything was
Speaker 5: smooth sailing and it was a great build, they were
Speaker 5: great builders, and that would be.
Speaker 3: An absolute life the TV show.
Speaker 5: As we mentioned before, they don't try and bend words
Speaker 5: or twist words.
Speaker 3: It is what it is.
Speaker 5: What's shown is what's shown, and obviously it was there
Speaker 5: was a there was a poor level of professionalism then.
Speaker 5: And you know, I'm in an industry where, you know,
Speaker 5: you hold professionalism in high regard. So yeah, I mean, look,
Speaker 5: it's there was also a part of me, and it's
Speaker 5: probably wasn't It was probably the only part of me
Speaker 5: that that wasn't my true self.
Speaker 3: I thought I had to.
Speaker 5: Be loyal throughout that, you know, throughout the period with
Speaker 5: the with these builders, so you know.
Speaker 3: And that's something I probably should have cut ties with earlier.
Speaker 4: And you wanted to see what would play out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wanted to see what play I wanted to
Speaker 5: give them the benefit of the doubt, which I don't
Speaker 5: often do. I should have should have probably followed my
Speaker 5: brooper gut instinct that I had in you know, in
Speaker 5: week one. But you know, it is what it is,
Speaker 5: you know, Hunt, that's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 2: So do you have advice for people that will go
Speaker 2: on the block out to you about their like, can
Speaker 2: you do things? Would you do things differently about hiring
Speaker 2: your builder? And how important is finding a builder that
Speaker 2: is right for you to work straight away?
Speaker 5: It's so important, it really is. Like I think I
Speaker 5: had doubts from day one with our builders, and I
Speaker 5: mentioned that to court anyone when we met them, But
Speaker 5: you know, it is what it is. I would yet
Speaker 5: definitely suggest that, you know, any future contestants that they
Speaker 5: meet a few different types of people.
Speaker 3: You know, it's really hard you're trying to pick these
Speaker 3: trades in them all. For us it was in the
Speaker 3: space of ten days. But I would say, if they.
Speaker 5: Do get on the show and they're not happy, make
Speaker 5: the change quickly because the block happens so fast. You
Speaker 5: know what feels like a minute is actually you know
Speaker 5: three weeks, you've just experienced three three poor weeks, or
Speaker 5: you know, three disappointing weeks where and especially your builders.
Speaker 5: You other trades here, they come in and out, but
Speaker 5: your builders are there every single day. So you and
Speaker 5: when it got to the point where we realized we
Speaker 5: weren't happy the data data to work with them, so
Speaker 5: and it wasn't you. It's not what you want. So
Speaker 5: we get to experience this once if we're lucky. So
Speaker 5: we definitely wanted it to be a positive one.
Speaker 2: I think that builders to me, now, my take home
Speaker 2: is builders are like psychologists, and it takes a while
Speaker 2: to find the right one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so true.
Speaker 2: And personalities need to be aligned. There's a few things
Speaker 2: that need to click into place, you know, Courney, I
Speaker 2: wanted to ask you about your decision to do this
Speaker 2: show because it surprised me when I hadn't met you
Speaker 2: and I read it on paper, because you've really already
Speaker 2: got a very successful styling business. Forgive me for not
Speaker 2: knowing the number off the top of my head, but
Speaker 2: you already had a very large following. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: was surprised by your desire to come on this show
Speaker 2: because you kind of already were there. Does that make
Speaker 2: you nervous as a business owner of what the block
Speaker 2: can do to it?
Speaker 4: Look, I guess so my business, like I designed furniture,
Speaker 4: So I feel like this is in a little bit
Speaker 4: of a different ballgame. I mean, I've got a background
Speaker 4: of interiors and styling, so I think it was more
Speaker 4: for me.
Speaker 1: It was, you know, it was a challenge. Could we
Speaker 1: do it?
Speaker 4: I knew, you know, it was a really hard slog.
Speaker 3: It also was to follow me.
Speaker 5: We never ever, so we're not the type of person like, yeah,
Speaker 5: were actually what the following the business has, But we
Speaker 5: never came on the block to boost our exposure, if
Speaker 5: that makes sense.
Speaker 3: So we came on for the challenge.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and look, if it does wonders for my business,
Speaker 4: then that would be amazing.
Speaker 2: But you don't want to be known as being influencers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm Look, I'm just going to clarify here, Guys,
Speaker 4: I'm definitely not an influence.
Speaker 2: Don't you have like followers or something?
Speaker 4: I know, But I feel like that's in a very
Speaker 4: different ballgame. Like I would love to say I'm a
Speaker 4: bit of an entrepreneur, you know, I've still got my
Speaker 4: full time role where I work in the events industry, and.
Speaker 1: This is still my side business. So I live a very.
Speaker 4: Busy life, and you know, I'm trying to kick start
Speaker 4: that business. But yeah, i'd say more like content creation
Speaker 4: in terms of my furniture, that's what I would be,
Speaker 4: not so much an influencer.
Speaker 5: I guess I think that your ideas and your your
Speaker 5: furniture and your business has the following your personal life doesn't.
Speaker 3: That's two separate things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we kept them more of my my life as
Speaker 4: a business owner. I guess that could be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But granted doesn't help the isn't She kind of
Speaker 2: looks like Courtney Coxon a way with a power Like.
Speaker 2: I'm like, that's not That's kind of a handy little
Speaker 2: side thing to have if you're going to try and
Speaker 2: have a following.
Speaker 3: Looking partner in the relationship. But I think we've realized
Speaker 3: that that's Courtney while watching us on TV.
Speaker 2: No, you're great, you look great. Let's not be creepy
Speaker 2: about this, grant. But you know, I know some people
Speaker 2: that are watching the show that you know, they're in
Speaker 2: the market to buy some Grand T shirts. That's all
Speaker 2: I'm going to.
Speaker 3: Say, to.
Speaker 2: Really get the merch out, get it out. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I was going to talk to you about just go
Speaker 2: circling back on that love language. I really just felt
Speaker 2: like maybe I wanted to ask this question. It's very European.
Speaker 2: The banter that you guys have is the way that
Speaker 2: you guys communicate. Is that learned behavior from your families?
Speaker 2: Is that sort of how you your families have always interacted.
Speaker 3: Definitely?
Speaker 5: Yeah, from my family, I can't say any different, Like
Speaker 5: it's exactly the way we've always spoken to each other,
Speaker 5: and very loud, very loud, you know, f bombs and
Speaker 5: swear words. They get dropped like you know, like no tomorrow,
Speaker 5: my mom does it. It's just really my dad and
Speaker 5: my brothers. But it all happens around my mum, so
Speaker 5: it doesn't. It's never bothered it.
Speaker 3: So you know, if you're not like, if you're not joking.
Speaker 5: And you're not swearing with somebody, then in my head,
Speaker 5: you know you're not you don't really get along with them.
Speaker 5: I somebody will know I don't like them if I
Speaker 5: don't talk to them. It's as simple as that, And
Speaker 5: I'm going to know I won't be mean to them.
Speaker 5: I just got no time for them. Whereas you know,
Speaker 5: if I like you, I'm joking with you, I'm taking
Speaker 5: the piss out.
Speaker 3: Of you and we're having a laugh like that. But
Speaker 3: you know, there's no in between. For me. It's definitely
Speaker 3: the way I grew up. I don't know any different.
Speaker 3: And some people, some people can be a bit taken
Speaker 3: aback by that.
Speaker 5: And I'm sure there's going to be the Facebook Karen
Speaker 5: down the track that that hate Grant and hate the
Speaker 5: way he speaks and sell.
Speaker 3: You know, he's bought a line abusive.
Speaker 5: I can already see the comments coming in Stuggery and
Speaker 5: I can't wait. I can't wait to read those timents
Speaker 5: in twelve weeks with the event, So I can't.
Speaker 2: Wait to do that. Seriously, I'm so excited. It's an
Speaker 2: interesting show as well, because there's so much like there's
Speaker 2: so much media and you guys, you know this is
Speaker 2: the show that you're doing. You know, not been on
Speaker 2: a big show like this. But let me tell you,
Speaker 2: there is more stories that come out about this show
Speaker 2: than any other reality series in the country. Someone gave
Speaker 2: me a stat yes, and I said, more people talk
Speaker 2: about the blog than they do about marrit at first sight? Wow, Wow,
Speaker 2: I want to know from you. With the platform we
Speaker 2: have now, can we talk about if you've read anything
Speaker 2: that is untrue? Have you read anything that you're like
Speaker 2: for you guys, and I don't want to talk about
Speaker 2: the others, but from your time on this show and
Speaker 2: now the first three weeks being on television, have you
Speaker 2: read anything that you're like that's not right?
Speaker 1: I mean to let little comments here in there.
Speaker 3: We've read comments and things like that that aren't true.
Speaker 3: And I'm just trying to think if.
Speaker 4: The influencer tag, I guess I thought that was a
Speaker 4: bit untrue, but like, I'm not offended by it. I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 1: I really try not to read into it too much.
Speaker 4: Everything online has been something.
Speaker 5: I've been mistaken for Christian A couple of times. I've
Speaker 5: actually called Christian, make sure you straighten this out. You're
Speaker 5: the you I told Dan where to go.
Speaker 3: It's very different. I do think you apologize that idea.
Speaker 2: Your relationship with those two I thought was really funny
Speaker 2: when I met you in person, like you could genuinely
Speaker 2: see there's a real connection. Is it fair to say
Speaker 2: that you connected to them more than the others.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I absolutely love Christian.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm someone that has less than a handful
Speaker 5: of mates and two of them and my brothers. So
Speaker 5: the fact that you know, I met Christian and yeah,
Speaker 5: he's somebody that I really trust. So we have the
Speaker 5: best time together. We went through some some shitty weeks
Speaker 5: and some good weeks. But we've always said at the
Speaker 5: end when we delivered our last room, we looked at
Speaker 5: each other and we couldn't have done it without each other.
Speaker 4: Yeah, with all four of us, like we were just
Speaker 4: you know, we supported each other and it's just such
Speaker 4: a crazy time. I think having people around you like
Speaker 4: we went on We literally went on the show to say,
Speaker 4: you know, we're not going to.
Speaker 5: Make it when I need a friend, we here to
Speaker 5: finish it. Yeah, which we got friends to life out
Speaker 5: of it. Like some of the best memories we've got
Speaker 5: is you know, to me, firstly, I don't know about Courtney,
Speaker 5: but you know when obviously you know, mem and Courtney
Speaker 5: couldn't really lift some of the heavy furniture in the
Speaker 5: living a dining room, and like, yeah, because Courtney and
Speaker 5: MEMI just by the best and the best and laced
Speaker 5: with marble and whatever but Christian would help you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was like Christian will come around, he
Speaker 3: would help me, we'd have a beer.
Speaker 5: And this was like at three or four in the
Speaker 5: morning that I'd go around helped him with his table,
Speaker 5: you know, and just hope to God that we didn't
Speaker 5: break anything in the process, because we don't want to
Speaker 5: be blamed for it. But you know, they're some of
Speaker 5: the best memories that we had. But no matter how
Speaker 5: much stressful were under delivering a room on a Saturday night,
Speaker 5: we'd always make sure that we'd help each.
Speaker 3: Other and we both got there so had we had
Speaker 3: so many lasts. It was so good.
Speaker 2: I think that yet to be shown on TV. But
Speaker 2: my favorite moment of this season that I've seen is
Speaker 2: Courtney you having a few wines with Mimi, Like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, like the two of you need your own show.
Speaker 6: Like and me, Me and I had the best time
Speaker 6: when we were driving to like go shopping and see
Speaker 6: all the different suppliers, and it's such a long drive
Speaker 6: and we're both very talkative, social people, so it just
Speaker 6: made life amazing.
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask whether or not you as a group,
Speaker 2: like as a cast, are you in a group chat?
Speaker 2: Is there a WhatsApp and can you all share what's
Speaker 2: happening each episode? Is there some banter going on?
Speaker 4: We had a group chat through the season, and then
Speaker 4: obviously we change our phones to our normal phones, and
Speaker 4: now there's one on there's one on Instagram.
Speaker 1: But I feel like it's not as active, like I'll speak.
Speaker 4: To I mean the girls, obviously they speak to them
Speaker 4: quite a bit, and obviously Christian, Ammi, Kylie and like Brad,
Speaker 4: like we all kind of speak to each other separately.
Speaker 2: I'd say I was expecting it to be a little
Speaker 2: bit more controversial, like we need to publish that as
Speaker 2: a book at some point, but it's actually not. It's
Speaker 2: not a group chat for everyone to sort of weigh
Speaker 2: in on.
Speaker 3: No, not really.
Speaker 4: Maybe the group chat with me here Christian, me and
Speaker 4: me that no one can see that one.
Speaker 2: I like that as a DVD commentary, you know, back
Speaker 2: in the day you'd buy a DVD in you'd have
Speaker 2: the actors like talking about the show. I think Steve,
Speaker 2: the commentary with the four of you talking about the
Speaker 2: show would be very.
Speaker 4: We've both we both said that we want to go
Speaker 4: on the block again, but I'll go with me, me
Speaker 4: and you can go with Christian and you.
Speaker 3: Won't have any rooms to style and we'll have rooms
Speaker 3: that smote be style.
Speaker 2: Before you go, I think I should ask you, you know,
Speaker 2: did you notice yourselves that there was less drama between
Speaker 2: the houses this year and more drama and tension within
Speaker 2: the couples, Like was that was that something that consciously
Speaker 2: was made aware of?
Speaker 5: For yeah, I think if though what happened last year,
Speaker 5: I think and you know, I think maybe next year
Speaker 5: will be different because it won't be as fresh in
Speaker 5: everybody's mind.
Speaker 3: But I think.
Speaker 5: Everybody, you know, we didn't even sit down and talk
Speaker 5: about this by any means, but I think everyone realized
Speaker 5: the amount of drama that happened between couples last year.
Speaker 5: And I don't think any I know, we personally did
Speaker 5: enjoy watching that part of it. We enjoyed more watching
Speaker 5: like the bans between Eliza and Liberty and Stephan Gion
Speaker 5: and things. I thought Leslie was the funniest people ever.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, I also think in day to
Speaker 1: day life, like we're not bitches.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Grant and I am going to sit there and
Speaker 4: I would say the same as like the majority of
Speaker 4: the contestants, like we're very honest. If we have a problem,
Speaker 4: we'll say it, but we're not going to dwell on
Speaker 4: it and bitch about it behind anyone's back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there is a little Yeah, there is
Speaker 5: a little bit that comes out throughout the season and whatnot.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think everyone's honest and said it to
Speaker 5: their face from what I understand.
Speaker 3: I know we did, you know, whenever, whenever it came up,
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 2: Remember carrying that. Mimi was like she heard that someone
Speaker 2: had written somewhere that she was the villain of the series,
Speaker 2: and then she was like, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not that she is. She is to me, if
Speaker 3: you're listening, you villains.
Speaker 2: I just wonder whether or not when that stuff gets
Speaker 2: written about in the press, whether it changes who you
Speaker 2: are on the show. Like I think, you know, it's
Speaker 2: sometimes disappointing when something like that gets called out while
Speaker 2: the show is in production, because it may change the
Speaker 2: way in which people behave.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and I look like these other thingings, like,
Speaker 5: I mean, the only thing it's different, it's not about
Speaker 5: what's in production, but I mean, now it's post production
Speaker 5: and whatnot. But Christian and him being a suppose criminal
Speaker 5: and he's cutting corners, and you know he's an asshole.
Speaker 5: He's like one of the nicest pep you've ever come across.
Speaker 5: He's so genuine with his heart on his sleeve. But really,
Speaker 5: so you really can't take any of those comments seriously.
Speaker 2: Honestly, guys, I had so much fun talking to you
Speaker 2: too today and I genuinely could talk to you for
Speaker 2: at least the entire afternoon and Grant.
Speaker 1: We should do it again.
Speaker 2: I'm circling back. I'm circling back, especially for those mean tweets.
Speaker 2: I think that's.
Speaker 3: Ben like you have no idea about.
Speaker 5: I am so ready to do that because I keep
Speaker 5: screenshotting them, because I'm the top person that I'll read
Speaker 5: these comments and go here an absolutely, dear, it does
Speaker 5: not phase me whatsoever. Sit behind your laptop and do
Speaker 5: what you want to do, so please end of the series.
Speaker 5: Let's read them.
Speaker 4: Out than them in the meantime.
Speaker 2: Don't you think it's something great about the fact that
Speaker 2: you two are watching this show and not taking it
Speaker 2: too seriously. There's something in that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's exactly who we are. We're honest when we
Speaker 3: needed to be honest. We're angry when we needed to
Speaker 3: be angry, So why are we going to get the
Speaker 3: ships with that? Right?
Speaker 5: And then anyone on Facebook that tries to challenge our
Speaker 5: room designs, I challenge to come on the block and
Speaker 5: build a better house because of you won't do it intelligent?
Speaker 2: Is someone to a breakdown before we go? Yeah, everyone
Speaker 2: gets asked this question. What is something from behind the
Speaker 2: scenes though, something that we as an audience maybe have
Speaker 2: not had a chance to see, something ridiculous that has
Speaker 2: happened on the show that we won't see what.
Speaker 5: You mentioned challenging, Like I'd still be a PTSD about
Speaker 5: the master digit. No, the whole Way domain challenge that
Speaker 5: week was study like that was you know, that was
Speaker 5: the only time where I've looked around going this is
Speaker 5: the hardest week.
Speaker 3: Gave up.
Speaker 4: But I think what people and I was saying, like,
Speaker 4: you just don't realize how tough the experience is.
Speaker 1: It's not even about just the work.
Speaker 4: Yes, you're on two hours sleep, you're not eating right,
Speaker 4: you're not exercising, you're not in a normal like routine.
Speaker 4: But it's so much more than that. There's just like
Speaker 4: it's so easy to get a little bit unhinged, and
Speaker 4: I feel like you're not your best self on this show,
Speaker 4: Like you're walking like you're a zombie. So I think
Speaker 4: that's really important for people to see as well. They're like, oh,
Speaker 4: you know on a Sunday, like why don't you do this?
Speaker 4: And why do you that?
Speaker 1: Like I was really dead?
Speaker 3: Why didn't you put the door Why don't you put
Speaker 3: the doorstop ten centimeters? Shut up?
Speaker 1: Parents, fell asleep, Candy.
Speaker 2: I've never seen two people look so good that a're
Speaker 2: so tired. You both always look so great, So I
Speaker 2: don't know what the secret is. Send me, send me
Speaker 2: the rest of the how to the moisturizing a good shower,
Speaker 2: amazing makeup, so over time. But thank you both for
Speaker 2: being so generous and chatting with me today. It's been
Speaker 2: a lot of fun and I can't wait to watch
Speaker 2: this journey and see how it all unfolds. And good
Speaker 2: luck on the wind. Thank you so Much's see you guys,