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Get A Hobby, Get Laid Or Find God · Outspoken the Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the
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  Speaker 1: hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Kate Torber and coming up on today's show, Brittany Saunders
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  Speaker 1: shocks fans by returning to YouTube, Rachel Dillon's baby news,
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  Speaker 1: and the self-proclaimed tennis wags winning fans at the Aussie Open.
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  Speaker 1: But first, anonymous influencer snark sites are in the spotlight
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  Speaker 1: again after being called out by two high-profile influencers. Indie
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  Speaker 1: Clinton has hit out at anonymous users telling them to
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  Speaker 1: get a hobby, get laid or go find God. Now, Soph,
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  Speaker 1: what prompted this reaction from Indy? Well, all of this
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  Speaker 1: drama kicked off in popular Facebook group Tea Time. So
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  Speaker 1: an anonymous user accused an influencer of not being sun
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  Speaker 1: safe with her kids. She wrote, sun safety, where is it?
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  Speaker 1: A certain influencer has posted to her Insta showing her
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  Speaker 1: children wearing no hats or appropriate clothing to the beach.
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  Speaker 1: And what makes it worse is the visible nappy tan
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  Speaker 1: lines on one child and what seems to be a
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  Speaker 1: severe burn and red raw peeling marks on another's back.
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  Speaker 1: At what point do we start holding them more accountable
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  Speaker 1: for not being better role models and promoting sun safety
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  Speaker 1: over being tanned? The anonymous user added, admins pretty please
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  Speaker 1: do not delete this post and support my theory that
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  Speaker 1: this certain influencer is untouchable on this page. Now, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't take long for people to draw the dots and
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  Speaker 1: realize this post was about Indy Clinton. And while there
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  Speaker 1: were some that agreed with the original poster, the majority
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  Speaker 1: thought that it was a bit of a stretch and
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  Speaker 1: accused the poster of mum shaming Indy. There are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people asking this anonymous poster if they were
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  Speaker 1: a parent and if they're aware of how difficult it
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  Speaker 1: is to actually keep a hat on a child and
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  Speaker 1: really defending Indy. If anything, in general, people thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a bit of a stretch. And I think we're
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  Speaker 1: seeing people piling onto influencers at the moment because sun
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  Speaker 1: safety is really a hot topic, no pun intended, at
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  Speaker 1: the moment on social media because the ABC did a
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  Speaker 1: really great investigation into what's going on on TikTok at
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  Speaker 1: the moment with the promotion of tan lines. We've seen
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  Speaker 1: Sofa Dofa dragged into that drama. And while I applaud
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  Speaker 1: that sun safety is a topic of discussion, this did
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  Speaker 1: seem like a reach. Yeah, you could tell by the
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  Speaker 1: tone of this post that this person already has an
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  Speaker 1: issue with Indy. So they were sort of looking for
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  Speaker 1: something else to have a go at her about. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Indy ended up hitting back on her Instagram story, which
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  Speaker 1: I found really interesting because we interviewed her back in December.
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  Speaker 1: And at the time, she was very frustrated that she
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  Speaker 1: previously had to stay quiet on a lot of controversies
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  Speaker 1: that had popped up surrounding her. And her management had
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  Speaker 1: always told her to be quiet, to let the story die.
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  Speaker 1: But I think her strategy this year is to defend herself,
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  Speaker 1: particularly when it comes to people spreading vicious rumors about
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  Speaker 1: her children. Yeah, when we had a chat, she spoke
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  Speaker 1: about how detrimental tea time and tattle life are to
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  Speaker 1: her mental health and how she has spoken to her
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  Speaker 1: psychologists about ways to deal with that kind of hate.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm really glad that Indy has found her voice
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  Speaker 1: in this instance because there's nothing worse than people making
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  Speaker 1: up rumors about your children. So she shared a photo
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  Speaker 1: of Navy's back and confirmed that it was just a scratch.
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  Speaker 1: And she questioned those criticizing her if they'd ever seen
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  Speaker 1: her children sunburnt before. She continued writing, I'm born and
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  Speaker 1: raised at the beach. I know how to keep them safe. Now,
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  Speaker 1: my favorite part of Indy's clapback was when she told
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  Speaker 1: the anonymous poster to get a hobby, get laid, or
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  Speaker 1: go find God because you need something better to do
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  Speaker 1: than making up stories about me and my kids. That
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  Speaker 1: probably felt really good to say it. She then followed
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  Speaker 1: up with another Instagram story, which said, actually, if you're
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  Speaker 1: posting anonymously on a forum about absolute rubbish, you're probably
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  Speaker 1: most definitely not getting laid. Here's a link to a
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  Speaker 1: good dildo instead. Good luck. I really liked it because
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  Speaker 1: Big Ed, aka her husband Ben, also weighed in saying this.
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  Speaker 2: A person on a forum starts ragging my wife and
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  Speaker 2: my kids about sun safety. He's lived at the beach
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  Speaker 2: her whole life. I've lived in a harsh environment out
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  Speaker 2: in the bush. We understand sun safety. To make an
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  Speaker 2: assumption that our kids are peeling and when one's a
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  Speaker 2: scab and one's eczema, is just next level. The fact
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  Speaker 2: that it's done under an anonymous account just is cowardice, really,
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  Speaker 2: and it makes me really sick, to be honest. It's
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  Speaker 2: not about our situation. It's overall, I think, on social media.
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  Speaker 2: And faceless people saying things or having an opinion that
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  Speaker 2: they wouldn't have in person, that is my main problem.
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  Speaker 2: It's just, it needs to stop. And I think these
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  Speaker 2: forums are actually kind of encouraging this behavior.
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  Speaker 1: There's something just so attractive about when someone's husband or
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  Speaker 1: partner steps in to defend them. And it was really
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  Speaker 1: interesting to hear his perspective. And sometimes it takes for
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  Speaker 1: someone who's not heavily invested in that world to step
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  Speaker 1: back and say, this is fucking ridiculous what is going on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah well what stood out for me was the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Ben got involved showed how just much it had
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  Speaker 1: affected Indy that he felt like he needed to come
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  Speaker 1: online and defend his wife because he for the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of years has played a real background character but
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  Speaker 1: you can see more recently he's becoming a lot more
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  Speaker 1: comfortable in front of the camera and again Indy spoke
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  Speaker 1: on our podcast about how He's actually being bullied by
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  Speaker 1: people at his work for being a part of her channel.
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  Speaker 1: I also think it must be really difficult for people's
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  Speaker 1: partners to sit back and watch them copper online and
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  Speaker 1: feel like they can't say anything. It reminded me of
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  Speaker 1: a conversation that I've had with my husband in regards
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  Speaker 1: to these gossip forums because there is an outspoken thread
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  Speaker 1: on there which we get spoken about quite a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And it's good to have someone who's removed from the
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  Speaker 1: situation just saying that these people basically have no lives
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  Speaker 1: and nothing better to do and how ridiculous it is.
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  Speaker 1: And I also... think that he brought up a really
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  Speaker 1: important point, which is around the anonymous nature of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these forums and also now Facebook groups. So
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  Speaker 1: even in our Facebook group, there is a feature where
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  Speaker 1: you can anonymously create a post, but usually if you
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  Speaker 1: respond to it, your name is visible.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so now you can create an anonymous alias to
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  Speaker 1: comment in there, which I'm wondering if we can turn
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  Speaker 1: off because I do feel like the ability to anonymously
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  Speaker 1: post at all is actually having a really detrimental impact
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  Speaker 1: on our Facebook community. I don't like it. And I
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  Speaker 1: really think at the end of the day, if you
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  Speaker 1: have an opinion to share, you should be willing to
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  Speaker 1: share your name and face to it. Like, Obviously, we
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  Speaker 1: speak about influencer culture and we're happy to put our
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  Speaker 1: face and name to the comments that we make because
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  Speaker 1: we stand by those comments. Yeah. Now, Indy Clinton isn't
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  Speaker 1: the only influencer who's opened up about the detrimental effect
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  Speaker 1: anonymous troll comments have had on her this week. So
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  Speaker 1: Zoe Haig, who is the sister of Molly May, shared
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  Speaker 1: a troll comment that she received about one of her
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  Speaker 1: selfies on a YouTube channel. Let's throw to what she said.
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  Speaker 4: I get comments like this, like a fair amount, and
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  Speaker 4: they don't normally bother me. Bloody hell, face popped up.
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  Speaker 4: Give me a shot. Influence Live is not for you. Honestly,
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  Speaker 4: comments like that never, ever, ever, ever bother me. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know why this one just did. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: because I'm not feeling great. And like, I feel like
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  Speaker 4: I don't look my best. I would never even reply
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  Speaker 4: to a comment like that, nor leave it. But I
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  Speaker 4: just said, great, thanks for ruining my day. Because I
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  Speaker 4: don't want people like that to think they can just
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  Speaker 4: get away with saying stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It was so hard to watch her cry on YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm actually glad that she did share this because
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  Speaker 1: it really shows the reality of What happens when you
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  Speaker 1: send one of these ridiculous comments? Because I'm sure the
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  Speaker 1: person just shot the message off, not even thinking about it.
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  Speaker 1: It was probably misplaced aggression. I always think there is
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  Speaker 1: a place to critique influencers' behavior, but I have never
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  Speaker 1: understood why anyone thinks it's their right to comment on
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  Speaker 1: anyone's appearance. It is utterly disgusting. I just can't even
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  Speaker 1: comprehend someone sitting there and thinking... that's an okay thing
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  Speaker 1: to do. I mean, it's absolutely disgusting. Who cares what
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  Speaker 1: she looks like? I mean, she's a beautiful girl anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so it just shows how ridiculous it all is. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Zoe went on to share her thoughts about anonymous sites
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  Speaker 1: like Tattle Life, who speak about not only her, but
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  Speaker 1: her sister on a daily basis. Here's what she said.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, I know it is a troll account because I'm
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  Speaker 4: saying things like influencer life isn't for you. You don't
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  Speaker 4: have to look a certain way to be an influencer. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: I don't look like a lot of influencers. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: get into this influencing life because I looked a certain
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  Speaker 4: way it's not about how you look whenever I do
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  Speaker 4: see comments like that I would honestly pay so much
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  Speaker 4: money like all these horrible forms of people being horrible
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  Speaker 4: about everyone I would pay so much money like probably
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  Speaker 4: every single penny that I own to see who they
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  Speaker 4: were to like line them all up against each other
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  Speaker 4: and be like oh that's the sort of person that
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  Speaker 4: like comments horrible stuff or that is really horrible about
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  Speaker 4: other people because I just can't picture the sort of
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  Speaker 4: person that is like yeah it could be anyone literally
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  Speaker 4: could be someone that you're friends with or someone that
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  Speaker 4: you're passing the street and they're like making horrible comments online.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I really think that if you're going to share
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  Speaker 1: an anonymous comment about someone, particularly when you're picking apart
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  Speaker 1: their appearance, you might be brave enough to share a
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  Speaker 1: photo of what you look like and also your name. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so hello and welcome to my YouTube channel. For those
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  Speaker 1: of you who do not know who I am, my
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  Speaker 1: name is Brittany Saunders. After pulling the pin on her
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  Speaker 1: YouTube career four years ago, Brittany Saunders has shocked fans
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  Speaker 1: by making a dramatic return. The much-loved OG influencer turned
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  Speaker 1: business mogul has vowed to revamp her channel and lifted
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  Speaker 1: the lid on why she quit the platform. So all
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  Speaker 1: feels right in the world now that Brit is back
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube. I was really excited to see her make
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  Speaker 1: this grand return and I was really intrigued to see
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  Speaker 1: at what capacity she would be returning in because when
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  Speaker 1: she started her channel, she was posting four to five
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  Speaker 1: times a week and obviously they were blog style videos.
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  Speaker 1: It was all about her life. And I instantly noticed
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  Speaker 1: when I clicked on her channel that she has renamed it.
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  Speaker 1: So when she first launched in 2011, it was called
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  Speaker 1: Brittany Lee Saunders. For some reason back then, it was
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  Speaker 1: very in vogue to go by your full name, including
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  Speaker 1: your middle name. I mean, Steph Clare Smith and Olivia
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  Speaker 1: Molly Rogers are still doing it. Yeah, I suppose it's
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  Speaker 1: because their last names are quite similar. common. So maybe
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  Speaker 1: someone already had the other handle. I also think the
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  Speaker 1: creators did it to stand out and to have a
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  Speaker 1: unique element. Now, as of 2025, Brit's channel is now
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  Speaker 1: known as Britney Saunders Fate the Label. So It's very
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  Speaker 1: clear to see that her return to YouTube is a
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  Speaker 1: business decision. And a smart one at that. Yeah, she
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  Speaker 1: has spent 10 years cultivating this following. So why not
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  Speaker 1: tap back into this market, particularly when you own your
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  Speaker 1: own clothing brand? It just makes sense. There's no point
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  Speaker 1: in letting a huge platform like this just die and
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  Speaker 1: lay dormant because it's such a waste. Now, Britt's first
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  Speaker 1: video back was entitled Why I Quit and Why I'm Back.
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  Speaker 1: And at the time of recording, it's notched up 54,000 views.
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  Speaker 1: To me, that sounds quite low considering she has a
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  Speaker 1: million subscribers, but I'm guessing it's because she hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: on the platform for four years and the algorithm is
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  Speaker 1: really punishing her at the moment. Well, it's such a
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  Speaker 1: relief that she actually hit 54,000 views because she joked
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  Speaker 1: that if she didn't reach at least 10,000 views, she
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  Speaker 1: would be retiring straight away again. Now, the video was
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  Speaker 1: filmed in her office and she had her large warehouse
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  Speaker 1: visible in the background. And this video was a very
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  Speaker 1: clever mix of a trip down memory lane and also
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  Speaker 1: an update on what she's been up to. I really
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  Speaker 1: liked what she did with this video because it was
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  Speaker 1: really nostalgic. She opened up with vision of her first
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  Speaker 1: YouTube video from back in 2011. So it was an
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  Speaker 1: 18-year-old Brit explaining that she loved makeup and skincare and
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  Speaker 1: thought that she may as well give the whole YouTube
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  Speaker 1: thing a crack. Britt seemed to be very mindful that
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  Speaker 1: this might be the first time that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: her OG followers who only followed her on YouTube are
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  Speaker 1: seeing her again in four years. And she said that
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  Speaker 1: she always felt like they might've been angry at her
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  Speaker 1: for leaving. And she also knew that some of her
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  Speaker 1: most recent fans might've been unaware that she was a
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  Speaker 1: full-blown YouTuber for 10 years. So she decided to share
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  Speaker 1: a montage of old videos. And the ones that I
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  Speaker 1: were fascinated to see were her on brand trips because
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  Speaker 1: she's been very outspoken in the last year about how
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  Speaker 1: her brand Fate is pushing back on offering influencer trips.
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  Speaker 1: So they did something quite revolutionary and they offered everyday
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  Speaker 1: customers a sort of influencer inspired trip. So she was
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  Speaker 1: really giving back to her community. And it's interesting to
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  Speaker 1: see some of these influencer brand trips that she was
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  Speaker 1: treated to back in the day. So they range from
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  Speaker 1: going to Los Angeles with Tarte Cosmetics to going to
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  Speaker 1: the Hayman Islands. And in one of the clips from 2016,
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  Speaker 1: Britt showed her followers that not only was she gifted
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  Speaker 1: an iPad on one of these trips, but also an
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  Speaker 1: Apple Watch. And in 2016, and I suppose still now,
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  Speaker 1: they were the must-haves. That would have set the company
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  Speaker 1: back a lot of money, particularly to give it to
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  Speaker 1: not only Britt, but all of the influencers that were
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  Speaker 1: on the trip. And she was saying that that time
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  Speaker 1: in her life didn't even feel real. And it was
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  Speaker 1: actually during one of these influencer trips that she realized
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  Speaker 1: that she was more intrigued by how the companies were
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  Speaker 1: working behind the scenes and she often spent a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time talking to the team and trying to understand
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  Speaker 1: how the business worked and also the perspective of why
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  Speaker 1: they would send influencers on these extravagant trips. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: of course led her to starting her own clothing company, Fate,
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  Speaker 1: in 2017. And at the time, Britt admitted that when
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  Speaker 1: she launched the fashion brand, she didn't really think much
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  Speaker 1: of it. Because if you do cast your mind back,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of influencers were just slapping their names on
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  Speaker 1: things and doing it as a bit of a cash grab.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: She said she felt like it just seemed to be
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  Speaker 1: the obvious step for her as an influencer to start
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  Speaker 1: a brand. And she said that she had no idea
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  Speaker 1: how to actually start a business. Yeah. It's funny because
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  Speaker 1: it seems like for Brit, She was the type of
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  Speaker 1: person that would just follow what the trend was. So
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  Speaker 1: I remember hearing in an interview that she said she
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  Speaker 1: didn't even like makeup or wasn't particularly good at it,
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  Speaker 1: but launched a makeup channel because that's what everyone was
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  Speaker 1: doing at the time. It is ironic that this brand
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  Speaker 1: that she didn't think much of ended up growing so
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  Speaker 1: big and becoming her number one passion and actually led
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  Speaker 1: to her quitting YouTube. Yeah, I mean, it's happened for
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  Speaker 1: quite a lot of influencers. I mean, the one that
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  Speaker 1: springs to mind is Shani Grimmon. She used to be
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  Speaker 1: massive on YouTube at the same time Brit was. And
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  Speaker 1: she also has followed in Brit's footsteps. She launched her
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  Speaker 1: own swimwear company. She's recently got a warehouse. So it
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  Speaker 1: is really cool to see these OG influencers doing so
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  Speaker 1: well for themselves. But they always seem to go back
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  Speaker 1: to YouTube. I'm hoping the same will happen with Sharni Grimm.
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  Speaker 1: And I know she's TikTok vlogging, but it's just not
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  Speaker 1: the same as the long form content. I think Brit
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  Speaker 1: is also very mindful that she wants to be seen
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  Speaker 1: as one of the people. She doesn't want to be
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  Speaker 1: seen as this influencer person. who was living this lavish
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle because she also pointed out that one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons she quit YouTube four years ago is because she
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  Speaker 1: felt like she was turning into a sellout. She said
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  Speaker 1: that she was no longer interested in spruiking products and
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  Speaker 1: she didn't feel like she was being authentic to herself.
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  Speaker 1: That is really interesting because- As you said earlier, the
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  Speaker 1: channel is now labeled Brittany Saunders, Fate the Label. So
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  Speaker 1: it clearly was a business decision to return to the platform.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to seeing how she actually promotes
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  Speaker 1: the brand to her followers because I know she is
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  Speaker 1: very clever with marketing and she's not going to just
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  Speaker 1: be like, oh, this try on haul, use my code, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: She is going to be revolutionary with how she does this. Well,
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  Speaker 1: she's committed to putting out a video a week and
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  Speaker 1: she said that it will be behind the scenes of
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  Speaker 1: her business, similar to what she's sharing on TikTok and YouTube,
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  Speaker 1: just a longer format where I'm guessing that she'll be
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  Speaker 1: putting a lot of her personality across and not just
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  Speaker 1: be sharing about all the highs. I'm sure we'll get
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  Speaker 1: a little glimpse on the lows. Well, it's super clever.
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  Speaker 1: It's literally like a TV show of what's going on
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes at a business and People are going
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  Speaker 1: to get invested. They're going to want to support the brand.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's an incredible idea. There was a really
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  Speaker 1: big reaction to her returning to YouTube. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: her OG followers were saying that they were so excited
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  Speaker 1: and that they've missed her. And they called her out
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  Speaker 1: on the fact that she has privated the majority of
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  Speaker 1: her videos. So she had thousands of videos on the
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  Speaker 1: back channel and a few of her followers said, oh
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  Speaker 1: my God, I love going back and binge watching them.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: So she now has the idea that she'll be releasing
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: these new videos a week, but she'll also be re-releasing
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: an old video. And we've seen a lot of YouTubers
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: do this, but they've privated a lot of their videos.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: And I think it comes down not just to her,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: but generally for damage control, because people keep finding stuff
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: that was said on the internet 10 years ago, taking
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: it out of context or not. taking it for the
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: time that it was set in. Yeah, a lot of
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: things haven't aged well over the last decade. So I
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: can see why she has done that. It is a
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: smart business move to protect herself. Yeah, and obviously she
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: could now cherry pick what videos she wants to put
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: out there. She's got enough staff to check over whether
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: it's okay to put out. I love that she has
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: decided to do her own reruns. Again, another fabulous idea
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: that I think a lot of influencers are going to
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: be copying. Yeah, unfortunately though, her classic catchphrase, peace out doggies,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: will not be making a return. which upset a lot
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: of her followers. So you never know, they might put
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: the pressure on her. Oh, I think we can probably
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: move on from that one.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Good morning, everyone.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: I feel so nervous.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Fitness influencer, Rachel Dillon and Sweat co-founder, Toby Pierce have
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: announced they're expecting their first child together. Now for Toby,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: this is his second child. He already shares a five-year-old
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: daughter with his former fiance and business partner, Kayla had
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: seen us. This is the third influencer prediction that we've
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: got right in the space of three weeks. This is
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of peacocking at the moment. Yes. The thing is,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I need to go listen back to that episode because
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I'm a little bit nervous that maybe we didn't include
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: it in the recording because I definitely had it on
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: my list. I think this was on our list, but
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: we didn't want to include it in the episode because
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I think it's a bit inappropriate to make guesses about
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: people's fertility journeys and whether they're going to get pregnant.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: But in saying that, I think we actually did end
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: up including it. So I need to go back and
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: listen to it. Well, it was beautiful news. And the
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: couple broke it by sharing an adorable family video with
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Anna very much front and center, which I loved. Their
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: sausage dog, P, even made an appearance. So the video
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: showed behind the scenes of a pregnancy shoot. And of course,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: with any influencer pregnancy announcement, I think it's mandatory for
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: everyone to wear matching outfits. And have vibes of a
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Levi commercial. It was very similar to M. Davies. Yeah.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: So Rachel wore unbuttoned jeans and a white sports bra
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: while Toby wore a white long sleeve shirt and jeans
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and Anna wore a very cute white dress. I want
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: to know how influencers managed to get their partners to
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: be involved in these elaborate photo shoots because I found
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: it difficult enough to get Reese to just be in
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: a photo. Is it the dollar signs? I mean, I
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: actually had to take my pregnancy announcement photo again because
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I somehow talked my husband into wearing Christmas pajamas. Matching ones. Well,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: matching ones. Amy originally took the photo. And when he
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: saw them, he's like, oh my God, I'm going to
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: get so much dick from my friends from this. Can
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: we please take a photo in normal clothes? Maybe you
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: have to drop the original photo in like our Facebook
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: community or a private post. It was actually very cute.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Now in this video, Anna is hugging Rachel and Toby.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: She's also seen kissing Rachel's bump and holding up the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: pregnancy test. And I got very confused because there was
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: large letters across it, which said sister. And at first
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my God, are they using this
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: to announce the gender? Are they saying that this is
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Anna's sister? I think they're just saying that Anna is
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: a sister. Yeah, well, I looked at the comment section
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: and no one was leaving pink love hearts or there
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: was no mention of a baby girl. So I was like, okay,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: it must just be because she's going to be a
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: big sister. But it threw me. I did see a
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: lot of references to the fact that she's going to
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: be a big sister. I actually saw something that Dr. Golley,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: who's a pediatrician, quite a famous pediatrician. We all know Dr.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Golley now. Yeah, we do. I think it was actually
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: on Steph Clare Smith's podcast. She was talking about how Dr.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Golley had advised her when she was telling Harvey that
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: she was having a baby to make it sound really
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: special that he's going to be a big brother. Oh, okay.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: So I'm wondering if they've had advice there. Well, this
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: baby is due in the middle of the year. So
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the couple captioned the post simply, coming July. And this
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: news didn't come... as a complete surprise to Rachel's followers
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: because last week she shared an Instagram story saying, I
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: feel so blessed. I get so excited to come home.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: They just returned from another trip. And she wrote back
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: to my routine and back to a very exciting work
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: year for 2025. I have so much to share with
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: all of you. Now, due to that last line, a
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: lot of Rachel's followers speculated that she was set to
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: make a pregnancy announcement. I mean, it's terrible because she
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: did get married last year. And I feel like as
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: soon as influencers get married, everyone's like, when are they
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: having a baby? And then as soon as they have
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: a baby, everyone's like, when are they having a second one?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I hate it. Isn't that just life in general?
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Now, this post was, of course, inundated with congratulations from
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: the Blue Tick Brigade. So Rachel's sister, who created a
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: bit of a stir when she sang at her wedding, wrote...
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Our sweet baby, you are so loved already and your
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: auntie is already so obsessed with you. Counting down the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: days until I get to meet you earthside. Apologies in
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: advance for the 50,000 convos you're going to have to
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: listen to of your mum and I while you grow
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: in her tummy. Her bridesmaid, Isabel Mathers, who copped a
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: lot of flack over what she wore to Rachel's rehearsal dinner, wrote,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: words can't explain my excitement. I love you both so much.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: You're going to be the best mum. And Grace Beverly wrote,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, congratulations. So happy for you both.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Completely non-biased opinion, Australian Open is the best time of
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: the tennis season and we are back.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: The Australian Open is currently in full swing in Melbourne
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: and although I don't know all of the top seeds
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: names like I used to, my appetite for the tournament
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: has been renewed by the self-proclaimed tennis wags. Now while
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the term wag used to be considered demeaning, many of
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the wives and girlfriends currently on the tour are reclaiming
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the title and having some fun with it. God, how
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: has it been a year since the Australian Open? You
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and I went last year. That does not seem a
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: year ago. I'm having FOMO because literally every influencer and
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: their dog seems to be there and I just want
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: to be there people watching. Yeah, you keep screenshotting different
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: influencers at the event and sending them to me and
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: being like, I want to be there. I know because
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I just love the tennis. I'm getting all these Snapchat
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: memories from seven years ago when we went to the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Open and we were really invested and we were going
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: to all the players practice matches. Well, not all of them.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: We went to one practice match. Yeah. And it was when, like,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: we love Nadal. I'm so sad that he doesn't play anymore.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: But this is why I'm more interested in the Wags now,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: because I don't really know any of the big players.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: And if there was a queen of the Wags, it
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: would definitely be Morgan Riddle.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: We spoke a bit about her last year on the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: podcast because she made headlines when, was it she had
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to eat Vegemite?
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: So she dates US tennis player, Taylor Fritz, who is
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: incredibly hot. Like he is probably the pinup, I think,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: of the tennis world at the moment. Has he got
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: anti-erotic vibes from back in the day? He does actually.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's brunette, but yeah, he's very good looking.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I'd recommend checking out his games. But basically she said
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: that if he got into the quarterfinals, she would eat
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: a jar of Vegemite. And this ended up being really
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: funny because I think she went live on her Instagram
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: and she could only manage a spoonful and almost vomited.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, it'd be pretty hard to eat a whole
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: jar of Vegemite. No. And it's pretty crazy because in
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the space of a couple of years, she has been
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: dubbed the most famous woman in men's tennis. And she
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: has a massive social media following. She's got half a
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: million followers on TikTok and they tune in to watch
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: all of her tennis outfits and also get a glimpse
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: of what it's like to be on the tour. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: She is always immaculately presented. I can't wait to see
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: her outfits this year. She has a stylist who pulls
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: together a lot of her looks and she loves to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: dress in theme. It's not Paul Versace, is it? Because
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I feel like he is the only stylist in Melbourne
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: at the moment. No, she has a stylist, I think,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: who travels with her. Oh, okay. Because side note, has
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: anyone noticed that he and Olivia Rogers' appear not to
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: be friends anymore I'm really upset because I actually can't
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: see Olivia Rogers content anymore and I was a big
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: fan of her she ended up blocking the podcast around
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the time that we were covering the story about her
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: ex-husband Justin well she blocked our personal pages no I
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: think when you block the podcast it automatically blocked our
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: personal pages I like to think I think she blocked
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: them as well I was a bit sad about that
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: but I can't see her content anymore more. It's so
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: weird when you follow someone for years and then suddenly
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you don't see their content and it's like they've fallen
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: off the face of the earth. So if anything does
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: happen that we need to report on, please let us know. Well,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: she did have a tennis event, but anyway, getting back
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: to Morgan Riddle, I've really enjoyed watching her updates as
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the tennis tournament started to kick off because she actually
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: spent Christmas in Australia and she's been giving her followers
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: a glimpse of what actually goes on behind the scenes.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: And I always thought that life as a tennis wag
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: would be really glamorous. And her vlogs have confirmed this
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: because She revealed that the Australian Open has a gifting
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: suite for players and their partners.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Most big tournaments have these gifting suites. Kind of makes
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: it feel like an influencer trip. We're going to do...
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: A very quick tell of the player gifts I unboxed
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: from Mecca for my Americans. Mecca is like the Australian
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: version of Sephora. We've got all sorts of goodies, masks,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: dry shampoo. This is one of my favorite products of
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: all time. If you use this on flights, you will
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: not break out.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I go through like one a month. Now among her
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: haul was also a carry-on case from July, as well
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: as clothing, tennis socks, a ton of expensive skincare and
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: makeup products. There was one item that stumped her though,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: and it was a soft toy echidna.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: I don't know what this is, like in real life spiky,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: but if any Australians want to tell me what this is,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I literally.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Have no idea. What's a real life spiky? Is she
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: referring to a porcupine? Because I feel like an echidna
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: is really the American version of a porcupine. It is
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: interesting that they didn't pick a koala or a kangaroo.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Maybe they wanted something that was a bit unique, that
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: didn't get as much airtime. And it is clear that
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: this has been an educational experience for her because She
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: had a lot of Australians shocked that she didn't know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: hitting her up saying, this is an echidna. Well, great
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: for her engagement. I wonder if the Australian Open used
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: to do this gifting suite before social media. I guess
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: they would, but maybe not to the extent that they
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: do it now. It's really interesting because as the partner
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: of a tennis player, you also get access to all
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: of the player cafes and you literally get given free
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: food and drink. And Morgan explained that she is a
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: huge fan of Australian coffee. She said that American coffee,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: tastes like dish water in comparison. She did try Australian
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: bacon though, and described it as a very unpleasant experience.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: So it's made me curious. I mean, I am vegetarian.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I have had bacon before though. What's the difference? There
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: is a difference because when I went to Utah with
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the 36ers, we stayed at a hotel and because it
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: was a work trip, we had to just eat at
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the buffet every day. So unpleasant. And they do have
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: a different type of bacon. Oh, okay. It kind of
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: looks like fake bacon. It looks very processed.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Any Americans, let us know. I also found it quite
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: fascinating because a lot of the tennis players' partners are
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: also using the Australian Open as an opportunity to hold
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: brand launches. So the girlfriend of an Italian tennis player
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: called Mia Savo, she launched her own tennis-inspired athletic brand.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: So she isn't from Melbourne. She's obviously from Italy and
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: she doesn't have the social media reach that Morgan does.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: She only has 5,000 followers, but she invited Morgan as
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: well as a couple of the other tennis players' girlfriends
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: along to a launch that she held at a private
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: tennis club and overlooked a grass tennis court. They even
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: served tennis teenies. What's a tennis teeny? Well, it's basically
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a martini with lychee balls that look like tennis balls.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: So it was very, it was very cute. I wonder
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: how the tennis players feel, though, if they're happy to
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: share their spotlight like this. Well, I think it's only
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: fair that if their partner has chosen to travel around
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: with them on the tour, that they can also continue
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: to work. And influencing, as much as people don't like it,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: it is a genuine job. And a lot of these
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: women may actually be earning more money than their partners
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: playing tennis or similar. That's the thing. A lot of
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: these tennis players' partners... are in fact influencers. And my
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: TikTok algorithm knows me too well because it has also
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: introduced me to Paige Loren, who is the girlfriend of
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: American tennis player Tommy Paul. Now she shares a lot
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: of similarities with Morgan as not only is she stunning,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: but as I said, she also has a huge social
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: media following. So she also has half a million followers
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: on TikTok and she shares a lot of lifestyle and
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: fashion content. And the New York Post has dubbed Paige
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: as the female Pete Davidson of Because she has had
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: quite a number of high-profile partners. Who's she been with? Well,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: she initially started to grow her following online because she
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: started dating an NHL hockey player. She then gained even
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: more followers when she dated Armie Hammer. And she has
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: also dated country singer Morgan Wallen and also TV personality
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Tyler Cameron. I have to say, though, I wouldn't call
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: it Pete Davidson because Pete Davidson more gets this rap
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: of being this ugly guy who dates all of these
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: hot actresses. This woman... is stunning. Yeah, it's not like
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: she's batting above her average or anything. Okay, you have
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: to check out this video because Paige shared how she
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: prepped for her big travel to Australia. Boyfriend is playing
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: in the Australian Open and I'm about to leave for Australia.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: It's a long travel day, so I want to do
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: a little vlog. I was super confused by this video
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: because Paige then started to prep food for the flight
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and she called it an aeroplane snack. This seems to
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: be an American thing. Yeah, but it was a full-on
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: meal and She did have the awareness to point out
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: that it wasn't normal. So she made a healthy homemade
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: pasta salad. And then she packed herself a cheese board
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: in a container. And she described the whole process as self-care.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I'm just glad to see people promoting the fact that
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: they eat normal things. Like imagine if it was like,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I'm cooking up this ultra healthy meal. Like I love
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: that she had a cheese board. Yeah, I mean, it
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: looked delicious. But I want to point out she wasn't
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: flying cattle class. She was flying first class. So she
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: had her own little pod. She had access to amazing food.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: So I was very confused why she would pack her own.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's just because she travels so often that she
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: doesn't really like the food. Like personally, I mean, I'm
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: obviously not traveling first class but airplane food always upsets
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: my stomach I did get upgraded once to business class
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: and the food was so much better. I have to
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: say though, if I packed myself a whole cheese board,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I think that would upset my stomach.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: True.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Now, unsurprisingly, the flight attendants went above and beyond to
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: make her feel very comfortable.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: We took off and then another, one of the sweetest
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: men I've ever met in my whole life, literally offered
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: to make me my bed to sleep.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: He was so cute and nice.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: I literally could cry.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I wanted to give him the world. He literally, like,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: tucked me into bed. I could sob. He was an
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: angel on this earth. Did she film herself being tucked in? Like,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: was this?
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, God. This was so awkward. I mean, this is
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the definition of pretty privilege here. I'm sorry, but those
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: flight attendants aren't just tucking anyone in. No. This was
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: an older man who tucked her in. Oh, God. Now,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: if there's anyone else I should be following, any more wags,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: please let me know because I just love being a
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: fly on the wall of their life and vicariously living
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: my dream of being a tennis wag. Well, you've got
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: your phone in your hand at the moment. So I'm
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: sure TikTok is listening to every word you're saying and
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  Speaker 1: is going to serve it up in your algorithm. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get into our Friday features. So if I'll kick us off,
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  Speaker 1: my Friday feature is the return of Love Island UK
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  Speaker 1: All Stars. So it is now streaming on Nine Now.
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  Speaker 1: It started on Wednesday and I am so excited because
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  Speaker 1: Ek and Sue is back. Ek and who? And that
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  Speaker 1: means one thing. Davide is definitely returning as a bombshell.
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  Speaker 1: If he comes in as a bombshell, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: put it out there. This is going to be the
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  Speaker 1: best series of Love Island. All of my favorites are back.
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  Speaker 1: We've got Luke Abish. He is a controversial favorite because
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  Speaker 1: he got a bit of a bad rap in that series.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was hilarious. I mean, He was told
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  Speaker 1: he was controlling. Yeah, I want to see him without
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  Speaker 1: Gemma because he really locked himself down early with her.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see him be a bit of a player. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he was very respectful because it did get brought up
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  Speaker 1: on the show. What would you do if Gemma was
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  Speaker 1: brought in? And he said he would actually leave because
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  Speaker 1: he would want her to have a great experience there
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  Speaker 1: without him. And I think that people wanted to try
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  Speaker 1: and get the dirt about her. And he was very respectful,
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  Speaker 1: didn't say anything. People are saying that he seems to
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  Speaker 1: have a crush on Ekansu. I haven't watched it yet
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  Speaker 1: because we are pre-recording this on Wednesday before the episode
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  Speaker 1: has dropped. I've only seen a few little features on Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: but people are like, oh yeah, he's definitely keen on Ekansu,
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  Speaker 1: but doesn't want to say anything. I'm a little concerned
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  Speaker 1: because there have been reports in The Sun that Ekansu
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  Speaker 1: only agreed to come back on the proviso that Davide
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  Speaker 1: does not make a return. I'm hoping that's bullshit and
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  Speaker 1: that they're trying to just not be ultra obvious because
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  Speaker 1: last year when the All Stars series aired for the
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  Speaker 1: first time, it was quite a surprise to see Love
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  Speaker 1: Island bringing back people's exes. It felt very much reminiscent
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  Speaker 1: of Ex on the Beach. It was a great new
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  Speaker 1: element though. Have you seen they've brought back Casey for
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: a third year in a row? He was on I
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  Speaker 1: think the 2024 series, he then returned for the All-Star
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: series and he's back again. I'm not interested in seeing him.
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  Speaker 1: I know you liked him on TikTok. Oh, that's why
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  Speaker 1: he's back because he's super popular on TikTok. That must
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: be why. There were some people I didn't recognize. Like, again,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: we are pre-recording this. I haven't actually sat down, but
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I'm like, who is that? And who is that on Instagram?
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  Speaker 1: I thought that Curtis was Andrew. Oh, Andrew. Yes, with Tash.
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  Speaker 1: I got so confused because I'm like, aren't he and
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Tash still together? But Curtis. Curtis has actually been partnered
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  Speaker 1: up with Ek and Sue. So Ek and Sue picked him,
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  Speaker 1: which really surprised me. I cannot see the two of
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  Speaker 1: them getting along at all. See, I can because he
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  Speaker 1: and Maura didn't make sense. But then they kind of worked.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they were together off the show for a
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: little while. Maybe he wants a very strong woman like
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  Speaker 1: Ek and Sue. I mean, I can't see Ek and
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  Speaker 1: Sue sticking with the first person that she picked. She's
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: going to be making out with someone on the terrace. God,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: if only they could get Molly Mae and Tommy Fury
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  Speaker 1: on there. Like how much money do you think they'd
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: have to pay to get them back on the show?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's any money in the world because
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Molly Mae has worked very hard to distance herself from,
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  Speaker 1: I suppose, the perceived tackiness of the show and be
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  Speaker 1: seen as this celebrity in her own right. Imagine though
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  Speaker 1: if she popped up as a bombshell. She won't. There's
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: no way in hell that she will. Now Soph, what's
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: your Friday feature? So I want to talk about my
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  Speaker 1: recent Christmas present I received and it is a Smeg mixer.
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  Speaker 1: So I was shocked to receive this because I knew
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  Speaker 1: that we were giving Amy a Smeg mixer for Christmas
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  Speaker 1: and my husband's family were very generous and gifted me one. Luckily,
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  Speaker 1: they're different colors. So I've got the white, Amy's got
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  Speaker 1: the black, you've got the pink. Imagine leaving them around
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  Speaker 1: each other's houses and getting confused.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I haven't used it yet because I feel a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pressure because you, Kate, are the queen of
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen. Thank you. I, growing up, very much loved cooking,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: but I was your sous chef. And I want to
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: learn how to make your cinnamon scroll. So I've asked
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  Speaker 1: for the recipe, but you have told me that there's
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: a few tricks with this recipe, adding extra butter. So
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  Speaker 1: I will have to share how I go over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So the recipe is from Ambitious Kitchen, but I actually
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: tried to make it, I think three or four times
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  Speaker 1: before actually mastering it.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: So I found that the dough was too dry, so
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I add extra butter. I'm actually very nervous now to
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: hear that this has taken you quite a number of
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: attempts because my husband was like, could you please make
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: cinnamon scrolls? I love Kate's cinnamon scrolls. Oh, does he
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  Speaker 1: actually like them? Yeah, he likes them. I need to
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  Speaker 1: cook them again. I hope because the machine is so
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  Speaker 1: aesthetically pleasing, it will somehow make my cooking better. I
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: hate to tell you, but it won't. Okay. Well, at
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  Speaker 1: least I don't have to get a sore arm from mixing.
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  Speaker 1: I think that is all we have time for today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us for this episode.
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