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- 0:01Speaker 1: Tammy Hembrough is Australia's most talked about influencer. At 19,
- 0:06Speaker 1: she made it big on social media when she shared
- 0:09Speaker 1: her fitness journey whilst pregnant.
- 0:11Speaker 2: This is my first vlog again, so it might be
- 0:14Speaker 2: a little bad.
- 0:16Speaker 3: I don't know if it's going to be boring or what,
- 0:18Speaker 3: but I hope you guys enjoy it.
- 0:21Speaker 4: Tammy's life is far from boring. The fitness influencer and
- 0:24Speaker 4: her family are Australia's answer to the Kardashians. In fact,
- 0:28Speaker 4: she's even been involved in a few Kardashian scandals herself.
- 0:32Speaker 1: A model explains why she had to leave Kylie Jenner's
- 0:35Speaker 1: Los Angeles birthday party in a stretcher. By sharing her
- 0:39Speaker 1: life online, Tammy has attracted over 20 million followers and
- 0:43Speaker 1: built an empire worth $ 50 million. What has really kept
- 0:48Speaker 1: her followers glued are her romantic relationships. Over the last
- 0:51Speaker 1: 10 years, the internet has borne witness to three engagements,
- 0:55Speaker 1: three children, one epic wedding, and now a divorce. We
- 0:59Speaker 1: are journalists Amy and Kate Torber, and in this special
- 1:02Speaker 1: Outspoken series, we explore the real story behind the rise
- 1:06Speaker 1: of Tammy Hembrough. When we last left you, Matt Zukowski
- 1:10Speaker 1: had just publicly apologised to Tammy Hembrough on his podcast
- 1:15Speaker 1: for messaging another girl.
- 1:17Speaker 4: He divulged to his listeners that they were in couples counselling.
- 1:20Speaker 4: And they must have had a fantastic counselor because a
- 1:22Speaker 4: month later, they were holidaying in Bali with Tammy's ex,
- 1:26Speaker 4: Rhys Hawkins. So at this point, Rhys was living full-time
- 1:30Speaker 4: in Bali. So the trip provided him with an opportunity
- 1:32Speaker 4: to spend some time with his kids, Woof and Saskia.
- 1:36Speaker 1: And it really was the ultimate display of co-parenting with
- 1:39Speaker 1: Tammy sharing wholesome videos to her Instagram story of her, Matt, Rhys,
- 1:43Speaker 1: and the kids all hanging out together at a beach club.
- 1:46Speaker 1: I remember being so surprised when these photos popped up
- 1:49Speaker 1: and I just thought, How do Rhys and Matt get along?
- 1:52Speaker 1: How do you play this one if you're Matt? I mean,
- 1:55Speaker 1: if you're Matt, it would be super awkward. But at
- 1:57Speaker 1: that time, he was obviously really trying to impress Tammy
- 2:00Speaker 1: and win her back over. Yeah, he was probably on
- 2:03Speaker 1: his best behavior and seemingly in a bid to prove
- 2:06Speaker 1: his dedication to Tammy after the cheating rumors. He got
- 2:10Speaker 1: her name with a love heart tattooed on his hip.
- 2:13Speaker 1: to match the one Tammy got two weeks into their relationship.
- 2:16Speaker 1: So he shared the new tattoo in a photo dump
- 2:18Speaker 1: to his Instagram. I mean, it's always a great idea
- 2:21Speaker 1: to go and get inked just after a cheating scandal
- 2:23Speaker 1: to show how much you love your girlfriend.
- 2:25Speaker 2: I know.
- 2:26Speaker 1: Well, by June, wedding plans were back in full swing,
- 2:29Speaker 1: but things weren't running to plan. So influencer Sophia Begg,
- 2:33Speaker 1: also known as SofaDofa, ended up accidentally leaking the wedding
- 2:37Speaker 1: invite in her weekly YouTube vlog. So in the midst
- 2:41Speaker 1: of an unboxing, Sofa excitedly showed the camera a close-up
- 2:45Speaker 1: of the wedding invite, which gave away key details. Now,
- 2:48Speaker 1: it didn't take long for influencer watchdog account InfluencerUpdatesAU to
- 2:52Speaker 1: share a screenshot of the invite from the vlog. Amber
- 2:56Speaker 1: did quickly take it down, though, upon Matt's request. It's
- 3:00Speaker 1: likely Tammy or Matt also reached out to Sofa as
- 3:02Speaker 1: the portion of the vlog revealing the invite was swiftly deleted.
- 3:07Speaker 1: In terms of the leak, Sofa accidentally revealed that the
- 3:10Speaker 1: wedding was on the 23rd of November in Byron Bay. However, luckily,
- 3:15Speaker 1: the wedding's venue location was admitted from the invite, as
- 3:18Speaker 1: Matt had already revealed on his podcast that it was
- 3:21Speaker 1: remaining a secret until the last minute. Unfortunately for Tammy
- 3:25Speaker 1: and Matt, though, the details that were leaked was enough
- 3:27Speaker 1: information for Super Sleuths to find the online version of
- 3:31Speaker 1: the invite online. which gave even more details away. So
- 3:35Speaker 1: it included the ceremony time, dress code, where the guests
- 3:38Speaker 1: were staying, and the recovery details. Funnily enough, people were really.
- 3:42Speaker 4: Shocked by two details that actually appear on most couples'
- 3:45Speaker 4: wedding invites these days. So the first was that Tammy
- 3:49Speaker 4: and Matt were having a wishing well. So seven news
- 3:52Speaker 4: ran with the headline, Aussie AFR Rich Lister Tammy Hembrough
- 3:56Speaker 4: Worth $ 50 Million. asked for donations at her upcoming wedding
- 3:59Speaker 4: to reality star Matt Sikowsky.
- 4:01Speaker 1: They really did air dirty with the term donations. It
- 4:04Speaker 1: was blown out of proportion because the invite literally read,
- 4:07Speaker 1: your presence on our day is the greatest gift of all. However,
- 4:10Speaker 1: if you would like to gift us something, a wishing
- 4:12Speaker 1: well will be at our wedding for your contribution and
- 4:14Speaker 1: well wishes. This reminds me a bit of Khloe Kardashian's
- 4:18Speaker 1: wedding to Lamar Odom. I mean, they were worth absolute
- 4:21Speaker 1: millions and they still had a gift registry. It's not
- 4:23Speaker 1: like just because you're worth a lot of money that
- 4:25Speaker 1: no one gives you a gift for your wedding.
- 4:27Speaker 4: I think the difference with that scenario, though, is the
- 4:30Speaker 4: Kardashians and Lamar Odom probably all have really rich friends,
- 4:34Speaker 4: where I'm guessing, particularly Matt's side of the family, they're
- 4:38Speaker 4: probably not worth millions and millions of dollars. I mean,
- 4:40Speaker 4: I don't want to generalize, but I would think that
- 4:42Speaker 4: most of the people attending Tammy and Matt's wedding probably
- 4:45Speaker 4: earn a regular wage. So I think that's why people
- 4:47Speaker 4: were like, oh, why does she need the money?
- 4:49Speaker 1: Yeah, but a lot of influencers were also invited that
- 4:51Speaker 1: would have been worth a pretty penny.
- 4:53Speaker 5: True.
- 4:53Speaker 1: I mean, I think it was absolutely fine that they
- 4:55Speaker 1: had a wishing well. I just want to know who
- 4:56Speaker 1: got the money. Like, did they split it down the line?
- 4:59Speaker 1: Did they use the money on their honeymoon? I also
- 5:01Speaker 1: want to know how much did people give them? Like,
- 5:04Speaker 1: was there just some cheeky 50 bucks going or, you know,
- 5:07Speaker 1: did people actually spend hundreds and hundreds on them?
- 5:10Speaker 4: Well, at the time there was speculation that the couple
- 5:12Speaker 4: were asking for thousands of dollars and they actually refuted
- 5:16Speaker 4: those claims on Matt's podcast. Now, the second detail that
- 5:20Speaker 4: surprised people was that the wedding was child free. So
- 5:23Speaker 4: a lot of people thought it was a.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Bit strange considering that Tammy has three children herself. I mean,
- 5:29Speaker 1: obviously her own children attended her wedding. Yeah, spoiler alert,
- 5:33Speaker 1: they were the flower girls and page boy. I mean,
- 5:36Speaker 1: I get this though.
- 5:36Speaker 4: There's a difference between having your child screaming during the
- 5:39Speaker 4: ceremony as opposed to someone else's kid. Now, in late September,
- 5:43Speaker 4: two months out from the wedding, Matt Sikowsky decided to
- 5:47Speaker 4: have his future sister-in-laws, Amy and Emily, join him on
- 5:51Speaker 4: his podcast. And I don't know what he was thinking
- 5:53Speaker 4: because it was a shit show from start to finish.
- 5:57Speaker 4: Amy and Emily iconically called Matt out during the interview.
- 6:01Speaker 1: They couldn't have made it any clearer how much they
- 6:03Speaker 1: hated him. Yeah, they literally called him an immature baby
- 6:07Speaker 1: and said that they have massive concerns about their relationship.
- 6:10Speaker 1: Emily even revealed that the Hembrough family had had a
- 6:13Speaker 1: crisis meeting after they learnt that Tammy and Matt had
- 6:16Speaker 1: planned a lope after dating for just three months. Here's
- 6:19Speaker 1: what Emily said.
- 6:21Speaker 3: When you guys said you were getting engaged, I was like,
- 6:25Speaker 3: he must be that delusional. I was really concerned because
- 6:30Speaker 3: she is like, she's spontaneous and she's a fun spirit
- 6:34Speaker 3: and she likes to do what she wants to do.
- 6:35Speaker 3: But for a guy to come in and think that's
- 6:38Speaker 3: okay when she's got a one-year-old, like I thought that
- 6:40Speaker 3: was a big red flag.
- 6:43Speaker 1: It's just interesting going back over all of these details
- 6:47Speaker 1: and being like, how did this wedding even go ahead?
- 6:50Speaker 1: Like how were Emily and Amy able to stand up
- 6:53Speaker 1: there next to Tammy and be bridesmaids? It just blows
- 6:57Speaker 1: my mind. Emily also had a serious chat to.
- 7:00Speaker 4: Matt on Mike about the importance of marriage in And
- 7:04Speaker 4: I feel like this clip is really haunting Tammy at
- 7:06Speaker 4: this point. Here's what Emily said.
- 7:09Speaker 3: I just hope you know marriage is a serious thing.
- 7:13Speaker 5: Yeah, you have said that to me before.
- 7:15Speaker 3: It is actually a serious thing and, like, I hope
- 7:19Speaker 3: you don't make any mistakes. Like, I really pray and
- 7:23Speaker 3: hope that you don't do anything to hurt Tammy.
- 7:26Speaker 5: I'm not going to hurt Tammy. I have no intention
- 7:28Speaker 5: of hurting Tammy.
- 7:30Speaker 1: It's just wild listening back to this and knowing how
- 7:33Speaker 1: quickly this marriage disintegrated.
- 7:34Speaker 5: It is.
- 7:34Speaker 1: And I just love the look on Emily's face. Like
- 7:37Speaker 1: when Matt's like, I'm not going to hurt Tammy. Her
- 7:39Speaker 1: face is just like, fuck off. Like you clearly are.
- 7:43Speaker 1: I mean, how do you listen back to that and
- 7:44Speaker 1: still air this podcast? I mean, we spoke about this
- 7:47Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago on Outspoken's regular episode and
- 7:51Speaker 1: people were like, oh, it was clearly a publicity stunt. No,
- 7:54Speaker 1: it wasn't.
- 7:55Speaker 4: Like, Yes, okay, it did get Matt attention, but you
- 7:58Speaker 4: don't want this negative attention.
- 8:00Speaker 1: Yeah, not the right attention when you're legitimately wanting to
- 8:03Speaker 1: get married to somebody. Now, October 2024 was a massive
- 8:11Speaker 1: month for Tammy and Matt.
- 8:12Speaker 4: At the start of it, the couple created headlines for
- 8:15Speaker 4: dramatically unfollowing each other on Instagram days out from their
- 8:19Speaker 4: hens and bucks weekend. So Tammy's account actually disappeared. But
- 8:24Speaker 4: within an hour, it was back up and she was
- 8:26Speaker 4: just following one less person, her fiance.
- 8:29Speaker 1: Yeah, and interestingly, at the time of the unfollowing, Matt
- 8:33Speaker 1: was visiting the markets with his sister, Emma, who also
- 8:36Speaker 1: unfollowed Tammy. Now, amid the drama going on behind the scenes,
- 8:40Speaker 1: Matt found time to post a photo to his Instagram
- 8:43Speaker 1: story of a Dash Hound merchandise store at the markets.
- 8:47Speaker 1: He wrote, what a cute dashy store. Now this post
- 8:50Speaker 1: probably seems pretty inconspicuous if you don't know the backstory,
- 8:55Speaker 1: but Matt's ex-girlfriend, Genevieve Ward, who he dated just before Tammy,
- 8:59Speaker 1: has a dash hound that he lived with and he
- 9:02Speaker 1: was quite obsessed with this dog. And they also plan
- 9:05Speaker 1: to open their own dash hound business together. So it
- 9:08Speaker 1: seemed like a pretty loaded Instagram story. to upload when
- 9:12Speaker 1: he was fighting with Tammy. Yeah, I mean, what I
- 9:14Speaker 1: took from this was he was either sending a subtle
- 9:16Speaker 1: message to Jen saying, I want to be back with you,
- 9:19Speaker 1: or he was taking a dig at Tammy because Jen
- 9:21Speaker 1: was possibly a point of contention in their relationship.
- 9:24Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 9:25Speaker 4: Now, despite the unfollowing, Tammy's hens and Mac's bucks went
- 9:29Speaker 4: ahead on October the 5th, 2024. Matt had a dress-up
- 9:32Speaker 4: party at Topgolf. He actually came dressed as a convict
- 9:36Speaker 4: while Tammy went for a long lunch with close friends
- 9:39Speaker 4: at a fancy house on the Gold Coast. The couple
- 9:41Speaker 4: then met up to do their joint Hux celebration at
- 9:44Speaker 4: a Palm Beach residence. And unsurprisingly, the Daily Mail sent
- 9:49Speaker 4: paps around to Tammy's event and they didn't leave disappointed.
- 9:52Speaker 4: So they managed to get photos of the couple looking
- 9:55Speaker 4: like they were having a tense conversation.
- 9:58Speaker 1: So in one photo, it looked like Tammy was crying. crying.
- 10:00Speaker 1: The Daily Mail ran with the headline, what really happened
- 10:03Speaker 1: at Tammy Hembrough's hen's party that saw her crying and
- 10:07Speaker 1: fighting with Beyonce Matt Zukowski. Now, the Daily Mail quoted
- 10:11Speaker 1: an anonymous source who said Tammy was visibly upset and
- 10:14Speaker 1: Matt was trying to comfort her, but it was clear
- 10:16Speaker 1: she didn't want his affection. The insider also claimed that
- 10:20Speaker 1: they had a big blow up, which had been brewing
- 10:22Speaker 1: for a while over Tammy wanting a prenup. Look, I
- 10:26Speaker 1: just think this whole story was actually blown out of proportion.
- 10:29Speaker 1: I think what happened was the paps got a shot
- 10:30Speaker 1: of Tammy and Matt that looked bad and they ran
- 10:33Speaker 1: with it. Because when you looked a bit deeper, there
- 10:35Speaker 1: were other photos of them in the same spot laughing
- 10:38Speaker 1: and hugging each other. So yeah, I think it was
- 10:41Speaker 1: blown out of proportion. Well, particularly because they went off
- 10:43Speaker 1: and celebrated together afterwards. Tammy ended up addressing the rumours
- 10:47Speaker 1: in a TikTok video. She labelled the claims that she
- 10:50Speaker 1: and Matt were fighting over a prenup as completely and
- 10:53Speaker 1: utterly made up and said that they were in agreement
- 10:56Speaker 1: from the get-go that a prenup was needed. Here's more
- 10:59Speaker 1: of what she said.
- 10:59Speaker 2: Firstly, like, I cry at the drop of a hat. Happy, sad, excited, nervous, scared, anything, whatever.
- 11:08Speaker 2: And in those photos that they literally posted in the article,
- 11:11Speaker 2: we're literally hugging. That's, like, I just.
- 11:16Speaker 2: I just can't watch with these articles. Anyway, the article
- 11:20Speaker 2: goes on to say that the reason is because there
- 11:25Speaker 2: has been weeks of tension because Matthew will not sign
- 11:29Speaker 2: a prenuptial agreement. This could not be further from the truth.
- 11:36Speaker 2: A prenup has not once come up in argument for us.
- 11:38Speaker 2: We agreed previously. pretty much straight away that we would
- 11:43Speaker 2: get a prenup. It just seemed like a smart thing
- 11:45Speaker 2: to do for both of us. So it's like, it
- 11:47Speaker 2: wasn't something that we have ever thought about once, literally ever.
- 11:52Speaker 2: So yeah, this rumor is completely and just utterly made up.
- 11:56Speaker 2: Like it's, there is no truth to it whatsoever. So yeah,
- 12:01Speaker 2: literally not once have we ever in our entire relationship
- 12:04Speaker 2: thought about a prenup. Like that's, that's a non-issue to us.
- 12:08Speaker 2: So I don't know why it's an issue to everyone else.
- 12:12Speaker 1: Considering we are going to be going through divorce proceedings
- 12:15Speaker 1: between Matt and Tammy, it's fascinating that this is all
- 12:18Speaker 1: on the record.
- 12:20Speaker 4: It's quite funny because a lot of listeners have messaged
- 12:22Speaker 4: us saying, do you think Matt Sikowsky can take Tammy
- 12:24Speaker 4: Hembrough's fortune? I mean, we're not divorce lawyers, but I'm
- 12:28Speaker 4: pretty comforted in the fact that Tammy has publicly said
- 12:31Speaker 4: she got a prenup. Let's just hope that the terms
- 12:34Speaker 4: are good.
- 12:35Speaker 1: Now, by late October, Matt found himself at the centre
- 12:38Speaker 1: of another cheating scandal and And this one started when
- 12:41Speaker 1: Matt posted photos of himself on a private jet with
- 12:44Speaker 1: a bunch of mates en route to Sydney. So people
- 12:47Speaker 1: began speculating that Tammy had funded a weekend away for
- 12:50Speaker 1: Matt while she was away on a travel retreat with
- 12:53Speaker 1: fans in Greece. So the shit hit the fan when
- 12:57Speaker 1: photos of Matt talking to several women at a bar
- 12:59Speaker 1: in Sydney emerged on Reddit. And it didn't take long
- 13:03Speaker 1: for the Daily Mail to run with the headline, Matt
- 13:05Speaker 1: Sikowsky spotted chatting up a mystery brunette in Sydney. after
- 13:08Speaker 1: boozy private jet flight while Tammy Hembrough is away in Greece.
- 13:12Speaker 1: I'm still amazed at the Daily Mail's ability to write
- 13:15Speaker 1: such a long headline. Now, it turns out Matt was
- 13:19Speaker 1: actually on an influencer trip with a private jet company
- 13:22Speaker 1: called Flight Club. And while Matt didn't declare the partnership,
- 13:26Speaker 1: he tried to tag the private jet company, but accidentally
- 13:29Speaker 1: tagged Flight Centre instead. So It turned out the women
- 13:33Speaker 1: he was photographed with were influencers invited on this trip
- 13:37Speaker 1: and not some random women he just met at a
- 13:39Speaker 1: bar in Sydney. And that is why influencers really need
- 13:42Speaker 1: to declare their partnerships because people were so confused about
- 13:46Speaker 1: what was going on. Now, Matt came out and he
- 13:48Speaker 1: denied he was flirting with the women. He commented on
- 13:51Speaker 1: a gossip forum post claiming that the women were his mates.
- 13:54Speaker 1: He said they have the same management companies who have
- 13:57Speaker 1: met at events. He added, the women are engaged and
- 14:00Speaker 1: they were talking about wedding prep and comparing proposals. Now,
- 14:03Speaker 1: one of the women featured in the Candid Snaps with Matt,
- 14:06Speaker 1: Amy Pekovic, backed up his story writing, hi, I am
- 14:10Speaker 1: one of the random girls. Matt and I have the
- 14:12Speaker 1: same agent slash management. This was a brand event mingling
- 14:15Speaker 1: with other people that were also invited is normal behavior.
- 14:19Speaker 1: Y'all need to chill out.
- 14:20Speaker 4: Lifestyle influencer, Olivia White, who was also on the trip
- 14:24Speaker 4: defended Matt's behavior saying, Vision she had shared from the
- 14:27Speaker 4: event was used to build a false narrative. Now, if
- 14:30Speaker 4: things couldn't get any worse, just weeks out from the wedding,
- 14:33Speaker 4: Megan Pastetto dropped a bombshell expose about Matt on her podcast,
- 14:38Speaker 4: So Dramatic. In the episode, she alleged Matt was a
- 14:41Speaker 4: serial cheat who auditioned for Love Island UK while he
- 14:44Speaker 4: was still dating his ex-girlfriend, Genevieve Ward. Megan also alleged she.
- 14:49Speaker 1: Had spoken to sources that claimed Matt was still in
- 14:52Speaker 1: a relationship with his long-term girlfriend, Genevieve, when he started
- 14:56Speaker 1: dating Tammy.
- 14:57Speaker 4: Now, that source turned out to be Genevieve herself. At
- 15:01Speaker 4: the time, she didn't want to be identified because she
- 15:04Speaker 4: claimed Matt threatened to sue her for defamation. Recently, though,
- 15:07Speaker 4: she's given Megan quotes on the record. Now, Matt and
- 15:11Speaker 4: Jen's relationship timeline has always been a bit murky. Unlike
- 15:15Speaker 4: the high-profile relationships we're used to seeing Matt in, Jen
- 15:18Speaker 4: is what you would consider a normie girlfriend, and I
- 15:21Speaker 4: hate using that term, but what I mean by that
- 15:22Speaker 4: is She didn't have a public profile nor tried to
- 15:25Speaker 4: build one off the back of Matt. Now, they went
- 15:28Speaker 4: public with their relationship in August 2021, but in May 2023,
- 15:32Speaker 4: Matt announced that Jen had broken up with him on
- 15:36Speaker 4: his podcast. At the time, he explained they were still
- 15:39Speaker 4: in contact, but the relationship was over. According to Matt,
- 15:43Speaker 4: they had been giving their relationship another go since being
- 15:46Speaker 4: on and off during 2022.
- 15:47Speaker 1: Here's what he said.
- 15:51Speaker 5: Yeah, Jen and I have broken up. Yeah, it's sad.
- 15:56Speaker 5: I guess we broke up for pretty much the reason–
- 16:00Speaker 5: we've been on and off since late last year. We
- 16:02Speaker 5: were giving it another go. I crossed boundaries that I
- 16:08Speaker 5: should not. I disrespected her in ways that– look, I'm
- 16:12Speaker 5: not proud of it. And when I– actually, it sounds
- 16:14Speaker 5: like I cheated on her or something. Nothing like that happened.
- 16:16Speaker 5: It was nothing like that. It was more just– In
- 16:20Speaker 5: a way, I wasn't loyal to her in situations that
- 16:22Speaker 5: I should have been. I definitely lost my way. I
- 16:26Speaker 5: think that I was brought into cultures that are a
- 16:31Speaker 5: younger version of me and I should have just been
- 16:33Speaker 5: more true to who I am now and not done
- 16:37Speaker 5: that stuff. Obviously, it was too much for both of us,
- 16:41Speaker 5: mostly her, and she broke up with me.
- 16:45Speaker 1: Matt also revealed since the breakup that he'd moved back
- 16:47Speaker 1: in with his mum but remained on good terms with Jen.
- 16:51Speaker 1: Jen's story was of course different to Matt's so she
- 16:53Speaker 1: claimed she broke up with Matt because he auditioned for
- 16:56Speaker 1: Love Island UK behind her back. She also claimed that
- 17:00Speaker 1: Matt's podcast co-host Anna McAvoy encouraged Matt to audition for
- 17:04Speaker 1: the show behind her back because she allegedly thought it
- 17:07Speaker 1: would help benefit their podcast.
- 17:09Speaker 4: And according to Jen, the couple continued to date until
- 17:12Speaker 4: September 2023. In fact, they had allegedly agreed to be
- 17:16Speaker 4: exclusive and were even starting a Dash Hound business together,
- 17:19Speaker 4: all while Matt was allegedly dating Tammy behind Jen's back. Now,
- 17:24Speaker 4: that Dash Hound post Matt made when he and Tammy
- 17:26Speaker 4: unfollowed each other just seems even more sus.
- 17:28Speaker 5: Doesn't it?
- 17:28Speaker 1: Yeah, it really does. Now, Jen was absolutely shocked when
- 17:32Speaker 1: the photos of Tammy and Matt at the hotel went viral.
- 17:35Speaker 1: She told Megan Bastetto that Matt would visit her at
- 17:38Speaker 1: work every second day. They would have lunch together. He
- 17:41Speaker 1: sent her flowers. Apparently, they'd also have sleepovers, go on dates,
- 17:45Speaker 1: go on holidays, and even spend every weekend together. I mean,
- 17:49Speaker 1: I can see why she was so shocked. Where did
- 17:51Speaker 1: he find the time? I suppose Tammy being on the
- 17:53Speaker 1: Gold Coast would have helped. Now, according to.
- 17:56Speaker 4: Jen, four weeks into Matt's relationship with Tammy, he was
- 17:59Speaker 4: calling Jen nonstop and on her doorstep begging for her
- 18:03Speaker 4: to take him back. And it got to a point
- 18:05Speaker 4: where Jen ended up blocking his number and also Matt
- 18:08Speaker 4: on all social media.
- 18:09Speaker 1: It gets worse.
- 18:11Speaker 4: The date of Tammy and Matt's anniversary is the same
- 18:14Speaker 4: date as Jen's birthday. And why this matters is because
- 18:17Speaker 4: in August 2023, Matt and Jen celebrated her birthday together
- 18:22Speaker 4: with a staycation at a hotel. Side note, it's claimed
- 18:25Speaker 4: Jen paid for the hotel room. Jen was then shocked
- 18:28Speaker 4: to discover Tammy posting about her and Matt's one-year anniversary
- 18:33Speaker 4: on her birthday.
- 18:34Speaker 1: The following year. I mean, that really indicates to me
- 18:37Speaker 1: that perhaps Matt was using Tammy for fame. Surely that
- 18:40Speaker 1: was one of the big motivators. Oh, definitely. Particularly when
- 18:44Speaker 1: Jen revealed that Matt told his friends that he still
- 18:47Speaker 1: loved her, but that dating Tammy.
- 18:48Speaker 4: Would be huge for his career. It also ties in
- 18:51Speaker 4: with the claims of Matt having a PR relationship with
- 18:54Speaker 4: Keira Maguire, as well as him auditioning for Love Island
- 18:57Speaker 4: while he was still dating Jen. Also, when Matt was
- 19:00Speaker 4: on Love Island- He went on and on about his
- 19:03Speaker 4: type being brunettes with big boobs, two attributes that Jen has.
- 19:08Speaker 4: While Tammy and Kira, they're both blonde. I mean, they've
- 19:11Speaker 4: got big boobs, but, you know, only one of the
- 19:12Speaker 4: two things that Matt is so strongly for.
- 19:15Speaker 1: It's such an ick for me when men point out that, oh,
- 19:17Speaker 1: their type is just big boobs. You're just like, okay.
- 19:21Speaker 1: I know it's a thing on Love Island where they
- 19:23Speaker 1: all talk about their types, but at least be like Deshawn,
- 19:27Speaker 1: who's on the current series, and be like, oh, I.
- 19:29Speaker 4: Love– Someone that's attractive on the inside and out. Like
- 19:32Speaker 4: come up with something a.
- 19:33Speaker 1: Little bit better with like, oh, big boobs and brown hair.
- 19:35Speaker 1: What the hell?
- 19:36Speaker 4: Now, shortly after the episode went live, it was taken down.
- 19:40Speaker 4: And Megan Passetto claims that she was forced to remove
- 19:43Speaker 4: the episode. On Instagram, she wrote, my Matt zakowski episode
- 19:47Speaker 4: has been taken down by the powers that be if
- 19:49Speaker 4: you would like to listen to these episodes in the
- 19:52Speaker 4: time being until i sort things out you will have
- 19:54Speaker 4: to listen to them on patreon now jen was quick
- 19:57Speaker 4: to respond writing underneath megan's post trying to silence you
- 20:00Speaker 4: like he did me He knows I have the print screens.
- 20:03Speaker 4: And she added a crying with laughter emoji.
- 20:06Speaker 1: Megan quickly reshared Jen's comment to her Instagram story and
- 20:09Speaker 1: added a poll asking her followers if she should publish
- 20:12Speaker 1: the evidence. Their response was a resounding yes. Still waiting
- 20:17Speaker 1: for that evidence. I wonder if it will come. Now,
- 20:20Speaker 1: after obviously being bombarded with questions, Megan followed up with
- 20:23Speaker 1: another post that read, for the record, the episodes were
- 20:25Speaker 1: not taken down by me and not taken down because
- 20:28Speaker 1: of lawyers or defamation. I can confidently back all claims
- 20:31Speaker 1: in both episodes up with evidence. I will explain why
- 20:34Speaker 1: these have been taken down in due time, but it
- 20:37Speaker 1: has nothing to do with me not being able to
- 20:39Speaker 1: back up the claims in the episode. Now, it turns
- 20:42Speaker 1: out that Megan and Matt both were signed to the
- 20:44Speaker 1: same podcast network. And Megan recently claimed in an episode
- 20:48Speaker 1: of So Dramatic that Matt got her fired from the
- 20:51Speaker 1: network for doing the episode on him. It was an
- 20:54Speaker 1: interesting move by the podcast network because Megan Posteto's podcast,
- 20:58Speaker 1: continuously outranks Matt's. And the fact that Megan had been
- 21:04Speaker 1: working with his podcast network way longer than Matt, he
- 21:07Speaker 1: only recently signed to that network, clearly off the back
- 21:10Speaker 1: of his relationship with Tammy Hanbright. I don't think they
- 21:12Speaker 1: would have been interested otherwise. Well, it'd be interesting to
- 21:14Speaker 1: see what happens to the podcast now. Now, Matt didn't
- 21:17Speaker 1: publicly acknowledge the episode. Instead, he stoked the flames on TikTok,
- 21:21Speaker 1: uploading a video with Tammy with the caption, imagine talking
- 21:24Speaker 1: shit about us when we just at sushi train like this. Now,
- 21:28Speaker 1: someone actually tagged Outspoken in it and wrote, Outspoken, we're
- 21:31Speaker 1: looking at you. Matt replied saying, there was a couple
- 21:34Speaker 1: of them going around trying to make a dollar off
- 21:36Speaker 1: of us. We ended up replying, we're looking forward to
- 21:39Speaker 1: the wedding of the year, which we really were at
- 21:41Speaker 1: the time. I found Matt's commentary rather ironic when you
- 21:45Speaker 1: consider everything that's gone down. Now, two weeks out from
- 21:49Speaker 1: the big day, Matt really began milking the wedding for
- 21:52Speaker 1: content and sponsorship deals. Not only did Tammy make another
- 21:55Speaker 1: appearance on his podcast to talk about the big day,
- 21:58Speaker 1: but he also shared back-to-back sponsored reels using the wedding
- 22:02Speaker 1: as a hook. The first one was an ad for OxyShred.
- 22:06Speaker 1: To do it justice, let's throw to some of the ad.
- 22:10Speaker 5: The only thing that I've been stressed about leading into
- 22:12Speaker 5: my wedding is my WedShred. No, jokes aside, I've been
- 22:15Speaker 5: using OxyShred now for a couple of months. I knew
- 22:18Speaker 5: this would be my go-to when trying to lean up
- 22:20Speaker 5: for the big day.
- 22:23Speaker 4: Laugh like was he referring to the stress of all
- 22:26Speaker 4: the speculation that had been happening or just wedding planning
- 22:29Speaker 4: now the second reel was part of an ongoing partnership
- 22:32Speaker 4: with a numbing cream brand ironically matt did an ad
- 22:36Speaker 4: with the company earlier in the year to help him
- 22:38Speaker 4: get through the process of removing a tattoo of genevieve's
- 22:41Speaker 4: name from his ass this time around he used it
- 22:44Speaker 4: to numb his skin before getting a tattoo dedicated to
- 22:47Speaker 4: the wedding i mean clearly he doesn't learn from his
- 22:51Speaker 4: mistakes The tattoo in question said, always and forever, and
- 22:54Speaker 4: was written in Tony Hembrough's handwriting.
- 22:56Speaker 1: I mean, at least there's another opportunity for Numbit to
- 22:58Speaker 1: be a sponsor when he has that one removed. Oh,
- 23:01Speaker 1: there's just ongoing deals here. Let's throw to the ad.
- 23:04Speaker 5: I wanted to get a tattoo to dedicate my love
- 23:07Speaker 5: to my fiancé, but the pain I was not about.
- 23:10Speaker 5: I wanted to enjoy this sentimental moment and not think
- 23:13Speaker 5: about the sting of the tattoo, so I have partnered
- 23:16Speaker 5: with Numbit Numbing Cream, which is number one numbing cream
- 23:19Speaker 5: in Australia pharmacies.
- 23:22Speaker 4: Side note, Tammy Hembrough has the most gorgeous handwriting I've
- 23:25Speaker 4: ever seen.
- 23:25Speaker 1: She really does. It's on par with Meghan Markle's. Now,
- 23:28Speaker 1: the wedding content from Matt continued. He shared a reel
- 23:31Speaker 1: of his final farewell with Tammy before the big day.
- 23:34Speaker 1: And someone commented, you're poo, Matt. And weren't you trying
- 23:37Speaker 1: to get back with Genevieve while you were seeing Tammy? LMAO.
- 23:40Speaker 1: We've seen her screenshots. Now, Matt responded, what screenshots? Two
- 23:45Speaker 1: people talking about me? Anyone can do that. Show me
- 23:48Speaker 1: messages from my number dated, please. Won't find it because
- 23:51Speaker 1: it never happened.
- 23:54Speaker 4: Now, on the 23rd of November, 2024, Tammy Hembrough married
- 23:58Speaker 4: Matt Sikowsky in Byron Bay. The wedding took place at.
- 24:02Speaker 1: A French-inspired luxury estate on the outskirts of Byron Bay.
- 24:06Speaker 1: And controversially, the Daily Mail were the first to publish
- 24:10Speaker 1: photos of the newlyweds after flying a drone over the ceremony.
- 24:14Speaker 1: I mean, it's not totally surprising that the paparazzi were
- 24:18Speaker 1: able to track down this wedding considering the sofa dover
- 24:20Speaker 1: accidentally leaked the invite months earlier. Yeah, so the Daily
- 24:23Speaker 1: Mail ended up getting aerial shots of the ceremony, which
- 24:26Speaker 1: immediately got people talking due to the strange setup.
- 24:30Speaker 4: Yeah, it was pretty unusual because Tammy and Matt did
- 24:32Speaker 4: their vows standing on the top row of these grand
- 24:35Speaker 4: stairs in front of the chateau. And it looked absolutely stunning.
- 24:39Speaker 4: But the issue was that the bridal party and guests
- 24:42Speaker 4: were so far away from the action. So the bridesmaids
- 24:45Speaker 4: and groomsmen stood on a lower level far away. And
- 24:49Speaker 4: as for the guests, they were even further away, seated
- 24:52Speaker 4: within the swimming pool enclosure that was fenced off within
- 24:56Speaker 4: a hedge. The guests also weren't even facing the bride
- 24:59Speaker 4: and groom. They were seated either side of this pool
- 25:01Speaker 4: facing each other. So they had to crane their necks
- 25:05Speaker 4: to watch the ceremony. Then there were the unlucky guests
- 25:08Speaker 4: who had to stand behind the seated guests. As for
- 25:12Speaker 4: Tammy's kids, they were seated within this pool area despite
- 25:15Speaker 4: the fact that Saskia and Posey were flower girls and
- 25:17Speaker 4: Wolf was a page boy.
- 25:18Speaker 1: I saw a video with Matt and Tammy after the
- 25:20Speaker 1: wedding and they were both saying actually everyone had a
- 25:23Speaker 1: great view of the wedding. It just looked weird from
- 25:25Speaker 1: the aerial shots. I wonder if the guests actually back
- 25:29Speaker 1: up what Tammy and Matt said or if they were
- 25:31Speaker 1: just being polite. There were also a lot of questions
- 25:33Speaker 1: around how Tammy actually walked down the aisle because the
- 25:36Speaker 1: pool was in the direct path.
- 25:38Speaker 4: I thought with the budget Tammy had, she may have
- 25:41Speaker 4: had a Perspect runway so she could have walked across
- 25:44Speaker 4: water to get to Matt. However, she ended up walking
- 25:47Speaker 4: down one of the sides of the pool and Tammy
- 25:50Speaker 4: also had to do the walk by herself because her dad,
- 25:52Speaker 4: Mark Hembrough, missed the ceremony at the last minute after
- 25:56Speaker 4: pulling a ligament in his leg.
- 25:57Speaker 1: At the hairdresser.
- 25:58Speaker 4: So he'd gone to get a haircut the day of
- 26:00Speaker 4: the wedding and felt something snap in his leg and
- 26:03Speaker 4: ended up in hospital. He arrived at the reception on crutches.
- 26:07Speaker 1: Maybe that was an omen. It was like a warning.
- 26:10Speaker 4: So many omens. Now, as for Tammy's dress, she wore three.
- 26:14Speaker 4: So the ceremony dress was the most iconic of her looks.
- 26:17Speaker 4: It was a Vera Wang blush pink gown. It had
- 26:20Speaker 4: a corset bodice with an elaborate chill train and a
- 26:23Speaker 4: very long ivory veil. It's believed the dress was gifted
- 26:27Speaker 4: to Tammy by Vera Wang. So back in February, she
- 26:30Speaker 4: shared vision of her trying on wedding dresses at the
- 26:32Speaker 4: designer's Sydney store, despite declaring a month earlier on Matt's
- 26:36Speaker 4: podcast that she'd already bought a dress.
- 26:38Speaker 1: Now, unexpectedly, the dress that Tammy ended up choosing from
- 26:41Speaker 1: Vera Wang was actually off the rack. It wasn't a
- 26:44Speaker 1: custom gown. And the dress was called the Vera dress.
- 26:48Speaker 1: And it's five years old. It retails for $ 12, 800. And
- 26:51Speaker 1: it was actually the last dress that Tammy tried on
- 26:55Speaker 1: at her appointment. And as soon as she put it on,
- 26:57Speaker 1: she said she felt like a princess. She also really
- 27:00Speaker 1: liked the fact that it wasn't white. She said it
- 27:02Speaker 1: appealed to her because her relationship with Matsukowski wasn't a
- 27:06Speaker 1: conventional one. Overall, the dress seemed to be a big hit.
- 27:10Speaker 1: Many of our listeners at the time said she looked
- 27:12Speaker 1: straight out of the Barbie movie and that she'd never
- 27:14Speaker 1: looked better. As for her other wedding looks, she finally
- 27:18Speaker 1: had her white moment wearing the Camille gown from Vivienne Westwood.
- 27:21Speaker 1: As for her third look, it was designed by Carla
- 27:24Speaker 1: Gill and featured chantilly lace detailing and a long Georgette
- 27:28Speaker 1: side train. Now, if anyone likes these wedding dresses, as
- 27:31Speaker 1: we mentioned on our podcast this week, Tammy is currently
- 27:34Speaker 1: selling them. You just have to hit her up via DM. Well,
- 27:37Speaker 1: one thing that's going to take longer to get rid
- 27:39Speaker 1: of is the wedding tattoo. So Tammy joined Matt in
- 27:42Speaker 1: getting a custom tattoo for their marriage. She got their
- 27:45Speaker 1: wedding date tattooed on her wrist.
- 27:47Speaker 4: This is the deal that just keeps on giving to
- 27:49Speaker 4: this numbing cream company. I wonder if they'll ditch Matt
- 27:52Speaker 4: and sponsor Tammy. That's at least two tattoos she'll need
- 27:55Speaker 4: removed now from her body.
- 27:56Speaker 1: This is why I can't stand when people get their
- 27:58Speaker 1: partner's names tattooed on them. You just never know what
- 28:01Speaker 1: is going to happen.
- 28:02Speaker 4: I mean, you'd hope getting a tattoo to celebrate your
- 28:05Speaker 4: wedding would be a surefire thing that you wouldn't have
- 28:07Speaker 4: to get that removed. I mean, in saying that, isn't
- 28:10Speaker 4: the stat like over 50% of marriages end in divorce?
- 28:13Speaker 4: How many end in tattoos? But with Tammy, I mean,
- 28:18Speaker 4: she got the first one two weeks into their relationship.
- 28:20Speaker 1: What was she thinking? Well, maybe because she had that one,
- 28:22Speaker 1: she was like, fuck it. I'm just going to go
- 28:24Speaker 1: all in. Now getting back to the wedding, there were
- 28:27Speaker 1: a bevy of influences in attendance, including Ruby Tuesday Matthews,
- 28:31Speaker 1: Em Davies was also there and she broke the no
- 28:34Speaker 1: kid rule by bringing her newborn daughter Isla. Lily Brown
- 28:37Speaker 1: was also there and of course Matt's co-host Anna McAvoy. Yeah,
- 28:41Speaker 1: Anna ended up being accused of trying to steal the
- 28:44Speaker 1: spotlight from Tammy because she rocked up in a navy
- 28:47Speaker 1: gown with a plunging neckline and a thigh high split. Ironically,
- 28:51Speaker 1: Tammy was accused of doing the same thing at Anna
- 28:53Speaker 1: McAvoy's wedding earlier in the year. The Daily Mail always
- 28:56Speaker 1: accused someone of trying to steal the frigging spotlight at
- 28:59Speaker 1: a wedding. It's ridiculous. Now, Sofa Dover was a notable absentee.
- 29:03Speaker 1: As we touched on earlier, she was the reason the
- 29:05Speaker 1: wedding invite got leaked. Tammy and Matt actually spoke about
- 29:09Speaker 1: having to cut the guest list back on Matt's podcast.
- 29:11Speaker 1: I wonder if she was one of the first to
- 29:13Speaker 1: go she ended up attending a friend's 21st instead that weekend. Now,
- 29:18Speaker 1: a lot of people were dying to see the official
- 29:20Speaker 1: wedding photos from the day, but we were left waiting
- 29:23Speaker 1: because Tammy and Matt's post was delayed due to them
- 29:26Speaker 1: signing an exclusive deal with Vogue.
- 29:28Speaker 4: I mean, thank goodness for the Daily Mail being the
- 29:30Speaker 4: pricks that they are and flying that drone over so
- 29:32Speaker 4: we got the unofficial photos from the day. But I
- 29:35Speaker 4: really did want to see the professional photos because there
- 29:36Speaker 4: was a lot of chat about the Daily Mail turning
- 29:39Speaker 4: up the saturation and Tammy's dress not being as pink
- 29:42Speaker 4: as it appeared in the drone shots.
- 29:43Speaker 1: Can you imagine how pissed off Vogue would have been
- 29:45Speaker 1: that they got those shots? Oh, they would have been
- 29:48Speaker 1: so mad. In saying that though, they did get all
- 29:51Speaker 1: the details thanks to an in-depth interview that they did
- 29:54Speaker 1: with Tammy. They ended up sharing 63 photos from the
- 29:57Speaker 1: big day as well. Another part of the deal with
- 30:00Speaker 1: Vogue was the announcement post. So interestingly, it was just
- 30:03Speaker 1: Vogue and Tammy who collaborated on the official wedding post.
- 30:07Speaker 1: Matt was not a collaborator or even tagged in the post.
- 30:11Speaker 1: His name was simply hashtagged. Now, is this because he
- 30:13Speaker 1: is not as big as Tammy Hembrough or is this
- 30:14Speaker 1: because Tammy had already blocked him by this stage? Yeah,
- 30:18Speaker 1: two days after the wedding, they weren't following each other.
- 30:20Speaker 1: I want to know if this Vogue spread was the
- 30:22Speaker 1: nail in the coffin because TikTok is abuzz with this
- 30:25Speaker 1: theory that Vogue weddings are more likely to end in
- 30:28Speaker 1: short-lived marriages with couples divorcing usually a year or less later.
- 30:32Speaker 1: It's called the Vogue curse and it seems legit in
- 30:34Speaker 1: this instance. I just think this marriage was cursed from
- 30:36Speaker 1: the start. I don't think it had anything to do
- 30:38Speaker 1: with Vogue.
- 30:39Speaker 4: I think you're right. Now, in December 2024, Matt and
- 30:42Speaker 4: Tammy surprised their followers by honeymooning in Lapland. So they
- 30:46Speaker 4: bucked the trend of going somewhere tropical and enjoyed an
- 30:49Speaker 4: early white Christmas. And I think it was at this
- 30:52Speaker 4: point where Tammy's fans started to get a bit of
- 30:54Speaker 4: a soft spot for Matt because Their honeymoon content was
- 30:57Speaker 4: next level. They shared these stunning views of the Northern
- 31:01Speaker 4: Lights and the TikTok content was pretty epic. They were
- 31:04Speaker 4: playing in the snow together, doing all these really cool
- 31:07Speaker 4: Christmassy things. At one point, they even got stranded out
- 31:10Speaker 4: in the cold because Matt forgot to bring the key
- 31:12Speaker 4: card down with him.
- 31:13Speaker 1: Well, I think that a lot of people were just
- 31:14Speaker 1: surprised that the wedding had gone ahead. And so we
- 31:17Speaker 1: kind of had to go through this stage of, well,
- 31:19Speaker 1: let's accept this relationship. Yeah, people are probably like, oh,
- 31:22Speaker 1: maybe it is the real deal. Now, in the new year,
- 31:24Speaker 1: Matt really overshared about his honeymoon on his podcast. He
- 31:28Speaker 1: said that he and Tammy had sex under the northern lights.
- 31:31Speaker 1: So on the first night of their honeymoon, he said
- 31:33Speaker 1: they got woken up by their tour company to let
- 31:35Speaker 1: them know that the northern lights were visible. So after
- 31:38Speaker 1: viewing the once-in-a-lifetime attraction, Matt said he and Tammy returned
- 31:42Speaker 1: to their hotel room and ticked something off their bucket list.
- 31:45Speaker 1: Here's what he said.
- 31:48Speaker 5: But then we came back to the resort. And we
- 31:52Speaker 5: went into the spa at like 2.30 a.m. And we
- 31:54Speaker 5: literally watched the Northern Lights dancing above us.
- 31:58Speaker 1: Dancing?
- 31:59Speaker 5: Yeah. Made love under the Northern Lights in the spa.
- 32:01Speaker 5: That's a bucket list one there.
- 32:03Speaker 1: It's just too much. On your honeymoon.
- 32:05Speaker 5: Give us a break. So that's a bucket list thing.
- 32:07Speaker 1: It's the only making love part we want to hear about.
- 32:09Speaker 5: Yeah. So under the Northern Lights, that's a cool thing
- 32:13Speaker 5: to do.
- 32:14Speaker 1: That's a pretty good way to consummate the marriage.
- 32:15Speaker 5: I'd say.
- 32:16Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 32:17Speaker 5: It was cute. Yeah. It was nice.
- 32:20Speaker 2: Oh.
- 32:20Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, can anything be private these days? Yeah,
- 32:23Speaker 1: I'm sure Tammy loved that tidbit being released to the public. Now,
- 32:27Speaker 1: in late January, media publications were abuzz with reports Tammy
- 32:31Speaker 1: and Matt had a public spat at the Australian Open.
- 32:34Speaker 1: So Tammy and Matt were being hosted by Chemist Warehouse
- 32:37Speaker 1: and given VIP suite seats worth $ 914 per person. So
- 32:42Speaker 1: news outlets reported that patrons were shocked by the couple's behaviour.
- 32:46Speaker 1: A witness told the Daily Mail they heard Tammy say,
- 32:49Speaker 1: Get your stuff out of my house. Another onlooker commented,
- 32:53Speaker 1: one thing is for sure, the Australian Open won't be
- 32:56Speaker 1: having them back next year. Tammy ended up returning to
- 33:00Speaker 1: the Gold Coast without Matt while he stayed in his
- 33:02Speaker 1: hometown of Melbourne partying with his friends. Tammy was then
- 33:06Speaker 1: spotted without her wedding rings. However, it didn't take her
- 33:10Speaker 1: long to act like nothing had happened as she shared
- 33:12Speaker 1: a date night with Matt at the movies. Over the
- 33:15Speaker 1: next five months, breakup rumours continued to follow the couple.
- 33:19Speaker 1: It was really clear that they were on a break
- 33:21Speaker 1: at the very least, with Matt relocating back to Melbourne
- 33:24Speaker 1: and working his old job at his dad's pool company.
- 33:28Speaker 4: Yeah, and he was also a notable absentee at key
- 33:31Speaker 4: family events, including Tammy's birthday, Wolf's birthday and Easter. Then
- 33:35Speaker 4: you had the couple constantly unfollowing and refollowing each other,
- 33:39Speaker 4: as well as Tammy posting with and without her engagement
- 33:42Speaker 4: ring And it seemed like it was only a matter
- 33:45Speaker 4: of time until a breakup announcement was coming when Tammy's
- 33:48Speaker 4: best friend, Isabel Laws, unfollowed Matt on Instagram.
- 33:51Speaker 1: Not to mention when Tammy and her sisters launched their
- 33:54Speaker 1: supplement company, Selfish, and Matt was nowhere to be seen.
- 33:58Speaker 1: He was either MIA from his socials or posting about
- 34:00Speaker 1: going to the movies by himself. He threw a spanner
- 34:03Speaker 1: in the works in May, though, when he appeared on
- 34:05Speaker 1: the Inherited podcast where he spoke about the importance of
- 34:08Speaker 1: being a stepdad and his relationship with Tammy and It's
- 34:12Speaker 1: likely though that that episode was pre-recorded. Yeah, it was
- 34:15Speaker 1: a bit of a strange move from Inherited. They're normally
- 34:17Speaker 1: so good with the people that they choose to interview,
- 34:19Speaker 1: but they got a bit of backlash for including Matt.
- 34:21Speaker 4: Now on the 22nd of June, 2025, Tammy announced the
- 34:25Speaker 4: news we were all waiting for. She was divorcing Matt
- 34:27Speaker 4: Sikowsky after seven months of marriage. And after five episodes,
- 34:32Speaker 4: it is at this point where we are going to
- 34:34Speaker 4: wrap up this deep dive Over the last month, we
- 34:36Speaker 4: have covered the divorce announcement and subsequent fallout in depth.
- 34:40Speaker 4: So if you are new here and haven't heard those episodes,
- 34:42Speaker 4: check them out in our back catalogue from June and July.
- 34:46Speaker 1: Amy, I'm absolutely exhausted. I have been in the world
- 34:49Speaker 1: of Tammy Hembrough since March, putting this deep dive together. Yeah,
- 34:52Speaker 1: I feel like this is just on pause though, because
- 34:54Speaker 1: there's going to be so much that comes out over
- 34:56Speaker 1: the next couple of months. I'm sure we will cover
- 34:58Speaker 1: it in our episodes on Outspoken.
- 35:00Speaker 4: Yes, I'm sure by Tuesday, we'll have something new to
- 35:02Speaker 4: talk about with Matt and Tammy and Now, next week,
- 35:05Speaker 4: we're going to be making people feel very nostalgic because
- 35:07Speaker 4: we are dropping our deep dive series on Freely the
- 35:10Speaker 4: Banana Girl.
- 35:11Speaker 1: Gosh, what a blast from the past.
- 35:13Speaker 4: Yeah, it was wild to go back and look at
- 35:16Speaker 4: this time, particularly under the lens of 2025. Like, I
- 35:19Speaker 4: cannot believe some of the things that went on back
- 35:23Speaker 4: in the 2010s. But we can't wait to share that
- 35:25Speaker 4: with you.
- 35:26Speaker 1: Now, this episode was recorded on the traditional land of
- 35:28Speaker 1: the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains. We pay respect
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