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BONUS: Interview with Real Housewives of Sydney's Victoria & Martine! · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone, this is me just popping in really quickly to let
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  you guys know this is a special bonus episode of mini scroll for
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  you guys. I had the privilege of
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  interviewing Victoria and Martine from Real Housewives of
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  Sydney last month. We got to go to the binge
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  offices. They were so fabulous.
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  They were dressed to the nines as you can expect.
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  So for all of my Real Housewives fans, I hope you enjoyed this
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  episode. Thank you ladies so much for
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  joining me today. I'm so excited to chat with you.
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  Thank. You for having us, Lauren.
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  Thank you. For having us good to be here.
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  Yes, first of all, I am a huge Housewives fan and I have seen
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  the first 3 episodes and we were just talking about how it is
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  explosive already. I am so excited for the rest of
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  the season. So to start off Martine,
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  obviously you are new. How was it coming into this
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  group? It was good.
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  So I obviously knew some people, I've never met others, but
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  overall I think that I was welcomed and and you know, I
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  guess hit the ground running. What made you want to do the
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  show? I like reality TVI like the
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  Housewives franchise, and I just think that I'd like the
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  opportunity to be involved in something exciting, different
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  once in a lifetime. Yeah, you know, you have to come
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  from a place of yes, I think, to live a life of adventure. 100%.
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  Were you nervous joining the group or joining the show?
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  Nervous to join the group, I was actually excited.
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  Honestly, more than anything, I really was excited to be given
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  the opportunity. OK, so I wanted to talk a little
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  bit about your friendship. So is Victoria how you got
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  introduced to the show? Yes.
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  So the conversation, I believe started with Victoria and
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  myself. We were there with our husbands
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  and we were chatting about the show, I think.
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  And then that was the first conversation that we had and
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  Victoria, correct me if I'm wrong, gave my name to a
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  producer. Yes.
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  Yes. And then I chatted to a producer
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  and it sort of kicks off. Look, this is a job.
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  So I think there's this myth around that people get asked to
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  do the show and you just get asked and you appear on screen.
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  Funny. Incorrect.
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  I get really annoyed. I'm going to like it.
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  Can I just, I get really annoyed by this because like every time
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  I speak to every time, but like one in two women will be like
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  they asked me to be on housewives.
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  I said no. And I'm like, that doesn't work
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  like that doesn't work like that.
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  I had two years of preparation. I had interview after interview,
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  screen test after screen test. I had to do things with
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  psychologists like it was 18 months before anyone asked me
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  anything because. It's a business, right?
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  So they have to come up. This is This show is here to
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  make a successful show. So they put you through a
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  thorough, comprehensive recruitment process.
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  You have chats, then you do filmed interviews for Foxtel,
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  then you group task with the group.
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  Filming. Other people that might want to
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  be on it and they ask you questions like, so no one just
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  gets asked and magically appears on screen and then they have to
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  I guess Foxtel, Binge, etcetera. They meet as a group and they
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  present the potentials with different, I guess,
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  configurations of who's going to work with who, right?
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  Because this person might be great, but will they fit in with
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  the group? So yeah, it's extensive.
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  Extensive. And so Victoria, this is
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  obviously not your first season. What made you want to come back?
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  Honestly, like it was like very difficult for me to come back
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  and Martine lived that with me, Nicole lived that with me, and
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  Chrissy lived that with me. It was a lot of conversations
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  and I did actually say no to coming back, you know, after a
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  lot more negotiation, a lot of pep talks, mainly from Nicole
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  pressure. I always said last season that
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  Nicole bullied me to come on the show and she she bullied me
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  again. She she totally bullied me again
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  this season. Last season I finished filming
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  Broken, a broken woman, and this season I didn't finish broken.
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  I think, you know, with time you learn to compartmentalize show
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  life and real life. And you know, I can say with my
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  hand on my heart this season, I'm happy that Nicole bullied me
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  to do it because I'm really proud of the show that you guys
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  are going to get to see. Oh, that's so sweet.
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  And so in terms of your friendship, has the show
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  impacted it, strengthened it? Gosh, one of the things that I
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  think, especially having watched the other franchises is if you
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  make it out of this alive, you've done really, really well.
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  So really what I see on the other ones is it doesn't always
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  happen. So I give huge credit to us that
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  we even making it because you'll see in this season that's not
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  there can be really tricky moments.
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  So I think that we it's a real credit to our relationship that
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  we made it through this show, we're together and as we
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  started. And Victoria, how have you
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  adjusted to the fan scrutiny over the past couple of years,
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  being a little bit more of a veteran, I suppose.
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  Yeah, it's funny. Like, I think that I probably
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  had the toughest first season of maybe any housewife globally in
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  the world. And I realized really quickly,
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  and I'm really lucky that 50% of the people watching like you and
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  50% of the people don't. And that's not just about me.
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  That's about everyone. So I don't read comments
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  anymore. But for those first few weeks
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  when I was really getting, you know, I was having a really hard
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  time, You know, Kate was on her social media media blasting me,
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  ruining my, you know, my, my baby, which was this beautiful
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  business that I still still love and still run to this day.
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  And you are starting to read the comments.
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  And it was funny when you start to read the comments, the ones
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  that don't get deleted. People were angry at her as much
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  as they were. Leave her alone.
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  And and then I realized, shit, I'm going to stop reading the
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  comments. It's even Stevens, you know, And
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  I just live with that motto now. I don't read any comments, and I
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  don't worry about what people think because not everyone can
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  love you. Yeah, like real life.
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  And that's just like, real life, you know?
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  And I've said it a few times in interviews.
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  It's really about being authentic.
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  So the more authentic you are when the cameras are rolling, I
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  think the more people like you. So if you go on camera with a
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  plan, you know, maybe Kate kind of shot herself in the foot last
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  season because she went with this big plan and this big and
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  it was not authentic. It's not authentic to her
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  because she's, you know, wearing Louis Vuitton, which still sells
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  fur every day. She's got big, you know, it was
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  all this. And I think she shot herself in
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  the foot. Whereas I just kind of like shut
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  up and was myself like, fuck, this is on camera.
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  I'm like, this makes me sad. I'm going to try to change.
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  Maybe I can't change. Like, and I went through it like
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  how I would in real life, you know, and that's the the magic
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  otion of reality TV. Just be yourself for yourself.
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  Was that some advice that you gave Martine?
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  I don't, I'm not really a big advice giver.
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  Like I will give advice to Martine, like where she should
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  go on holidays, but you should, but like not important advice.
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  Like I don't count myself as like the wisest person going
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  around town. So like I try to not give sage
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  advice to people unless they ask me, but you know, I can give you
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  restaurant recommendations like. That obviously you were just
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  announced as a cast member. Have you found the reception to
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  be positive? Have you had any fan
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  interactions yet? Anyone like in your DMS?
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  Yes. So that's been probably thus far
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  the most fun part of this experience.
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  And the thing I've loved the most has been reconnecting with
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  people I haven't maybe seen since university or I'm
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  originally from WA, I'm from Perth.
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  So many people from Perth saying I feel like I knew you were born
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  for this one, I knew you in high school.
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  People I've known from shopping in this shops that I haven't
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  seen in 15 years saying you and John are amazing, like can't
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  wait to see you on TV. It's really, really, really
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  heartwarming. I know it won't all be positive,
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  but so far just that connecting with people that I haven't seen
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  for a while has been a blessing. And then new people coming in
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  that I think already had an idea and have probably even been
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  following our friendship by Instagram, being really excited
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  because we obviously are friends in real life and, you know, we
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  are on each other's pages and they're really excited to see us
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  together. So yeah.
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  Yeah, that's cool. And how did your family and
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  friends react? Were they really supportive?
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  Yes, so everyone have been really.
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  I think of course when you go on to this, they're a bit nervous,
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  but most people, they know I'm quite a calm person.
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  I guess they thought that I would be able to handle myself.
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  I've had a corporate job, I've had people scream in my face in
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  a work environment before. This is, you know.
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  Par for the course it's. OK.
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  I love that. What are you most excited for
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  viewers to see this season? Vic.
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  Probably I'm most excited for the viewers to see the overseas
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  trip, which I'm not allowed to tell you guys what it is, but I
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  think it's really different to anything that's ever been done
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  on Housewives before. And so that is really exciting
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  to me. I think the vistas and the views
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  and the camera work there is just absolutely spectacular.
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  And then I guess second to that, I'm really, I think what we
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  bring, and I know fashion such a big thing on housewives, but
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  it's not so much fashion as in saying, you know, who's the best
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  dressed? Who's that's not what I mean.
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  I think we've got such a distinctive style in Sydney
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  because it's like this beach culture.
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  And I just think that the viewers are going to love that
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  because this season, you know, I think the girls have all really
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  tapped into who they are as a person.
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  Martine and I were saying before, like, although we would
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  never dress like Caroline, she's just so uniquely herself, you
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  know? And that's interesting.
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  One of the big storylines of the series is, you know, Sally
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  getting a stylist, for example. And it kicks off the whole
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  thing. So I think there's, like, quite
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  a fashion focus this season. It's that.
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  Yeah. OK so I have a few rapid fire
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  questions to close off the interview and these are going to
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  be about your cast mates but they're not that shady.
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  So Victoria, I interviewed Chrissy and Caroline last week
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  and they told me if they could swap lives with anyone it would
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  be you on the cast. Who would you swap lives with?
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  I would swap lives with no one. OK?
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  I honestly, I do love my life. I would.
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  I cannot. I cannot give it up.
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  I'm sorry, Lauren, I cannot give it up.
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  I can't give it up. I love that Victoria.
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  Who do you think is the cast member the most likely to get
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  Botox in a back alley if their injector was fully booked?
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  Probably me, like I'm not a beauty girl.
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  Yeah, you know, so short of like having an injector come to my
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  house and me ending up in hospital like those poor ladies
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  the other week. I am not really married to where
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  I'm going. I do have a preferred Botox
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  lady. We both go to the same one
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  Doctor Van Park, but you know, if I'm desperate, laser clinic.
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  Here we come. Yeah, yeah.
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  Who on the cast has the most savage clap backs?
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  I think Caroline she she is very witty and I think like probably
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  myself, Martine and Caroline are like the wittiest in terms of
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  like quick, but Caroline can go like to like a darker place in
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  like a great way. That's that's not me throwing
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  shade like they're funny, but they're like savage.
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  Martina, who was the biggest pot star this season?
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  Oh, I I don't think there's a clear winner there, No.
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  Maybe that's what makes this season good viewing.
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  I I don't know if there's a someone I.
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  Think, no, no, I feel like, I feel like Kate and Terry are
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  natural robs, so they naturally bring fire to every scene and
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  that's their job, you know, and we sort of stir has to stir.
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  I understand. And I think, like, I feel like
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  the producers and Sally, because Sally's worked in media, have
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  got like a really strong relationship where they can rely
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  on Sally to understand where the story needs to go better than
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  some of us. You know, she often knows where
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  the producers want us to. And I think Chrissy, naturally,
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  she's like a born housewife. So she knows that there has to
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  be a beginning, a middle and an end to this scene.
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  Otherwise, we don't fucking wrap up, you know?
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  So I think like between those for me personally.
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  Four, Yeah, OK, if we spread it out.
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  If we spread it out like they both do, they all four do
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  something totally different. Agree.
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  And then the last question that I have for both of you, what is
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  one thing that you hope viewers learn about the cast or about
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  you this season? I think is that if you are
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  watching a show like this, is that you can just to be inspired
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  to be your own kind of housewife.
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  You know, for me, I've come on to this show and I kind of make
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  a thing about, you know, I love to just hang out with my husband
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  and my dog. It's not exactly true.
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  We exaggerate, but you can be your own kind of person into
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  what you want to do and it doesn't have to be an exact
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  formula to live your best life needs to be you should do what
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  you want to do. I'm.
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  Sort of I don't need anyone to learn anything about me.
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  If they like we're going to learn, they were going to learn
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  something about me. I probably just hope that after
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  this season they can tell that like I take myself 0 seriously,
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  like I'm just a class clown, that that's all I am learn about
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  the cast. I think that we are a great
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  cast. I think that we are electric
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  together and doing a reality TV show is hard.
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  So I guess maybe to round that up is what I want the viewers to
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  learn is like, you know, we're doing this as a job for your
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  entertainment. So I do think that everyone has
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  done their best. All eight women.
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  I even think though like don't forget if someone really annoys
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  you that's part of the show. You don't want them off the show
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  you. Got you want them on the show
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  you? Want someone like the Big
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  Brother thing? Do you remember when Big Brother
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  started and people would vote off the really annoying person
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  and then it got boring. So if you watch this show and
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  you're like I can't stand Victoria, I can't stand my team,
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  that's probably means we've got the ingredient.
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  That's what I'm saying. Like that's this is a great
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  cast. Like, yeah, all of us are in our
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  own way, so polarizing. And usually that is not probably
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  the best word to describe someone.
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  It carries some negative connotations.
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  But in the world of housewives, like, it's bloody important.
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  Like if Martine and I just went on and were like, I love you so
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  much and everything you do. Like that's so boring, right?
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  Like you can like call your mom or your grandma and like talk
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  shit like that. And to be willing to be
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  polarizing means we've all done our job right, because it means
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  you're willing to put yourself out there that is hard.
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  I love that. Well, thank you guys so much for
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  joining me. This is great.
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  Thank you. All right, thank you so much to
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  Binge for helping us bring that interview to life.
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  Of course, thank you to Martine and Victoria for sitting down
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  with me. You guys can catch Real
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  Housewives of Sydney every Tuesday on Binge.