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- 0:03Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Outspoken.
- 0:05Speaker 2: It's your dose of the hottest influencer and pop culture
- 0:08Speaker 2: news twice a week.
- 0:09Speaker 1: I'm Kate Torber.
- 0:10Speaker 2: And I'm Sophie Torber and coming up on today's show,
- 0:13Speaker 2: Veruca Salt has put her baby daddy Charles Njuko on
- 0:17Speaker 2: blast and Sky Wheatley's mansion goes on the market. But first,
- 0:21Speaker 2: Sarah's Day has shocked her followers by revealing she's undergone
- 0:25Speaker 2: a breast augmentation. The OG fitness and wellness influencer broke
- 0:29Speaker 2: the news in a YouTube video entitled, I need to
- 0:32Speaker 2: tell you something. I'm still so surprised about this. And
- 0:35Speaker 2: we had a bit of a tip off from a follower.
- 0:37Speaker 2: So we put up a box saying, oh, what do
- 0:39Speaker 2: you want us to talk about on our subs episode?
- 0:42Speaker 2: And someone said, oh, do you think Sarah's day has
- 0:43Speaker 2: got a boob job?
- 0:44Speaker 1: And I was like, what? Like, no way.
- 0:46Speaker 2: She would never get a boob job. And then next second,
- 0:49Speaker 2: this video comes out. And I was like, oh, I
- 0:51Speaker 2: was not picking up on any of the signs. Yeah,
- 0:54Speaker 2: this story definitely wasn't on my bingo card for 2026.
- 0:56Speaker 2: It actually turns out that she had the surgery two
- 1:00Speaker 2: weeks ago and filmed the sit-down video prior to getting
- 1:04Speaker 2: the procedure done. Now, she said that she chose to
- 1:06Speaker 2: share the news after the surgery because she didn't.
- 1:09Speaker 1: Need anyone else's approval. Reading between the lines.
- 1:13Speaker 2: It also sounded like she didn't want the judgment and
- 1:15Speaker 2: the added noise from all of her followers. And you
- 1:18Speaker 2: could tell this announcement was very strategically put together. At
- 1:22Speaker 2: the center of the messaging was the fact that this
- 1:26Speaker 2: is the decision that I have made for myself. Let's
- 1:29Speaker 2: take a listen to some of what she said.
- 1:31Speaker 3: I just kind of reached the point that I was like,
- 1:33Speaker 3: this is something I really want to do for myself.
- 1:35Speaker 3: I'm in no way projecting any of this onto anyone else.
- 1:38Speaker 3: If you are triggered or if you don't like to
- 1:40Speaker 3: hear about my story, dissatisfaction of being almost concave and
- 1:45Speaker 3: like less than a double A, then this video is
- 1:48Speaker 3: not for you.
- 1:49Speaker 2: Look Kat, you're calling this announcement strategic. And unfortunately, particularly
- 1:53Speaker 2: when we pair the word strategic with a female, there's
- 1:55Speaker 2: usually a negative connotation. I think that this announcement was
- 1:59Speaker 2: strategic in all the right ways and all the positive
- 2:02Speaker 2: ways because it.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Hit all of the right notes.
- 2:05Speaker 2: It really gave the impression, as you said, that this
- 2:08Speaker 2: is something that's really important to her. It's something she's
- 2:10Speaker 2: been thinking about for a long time and it's something
- 2:13Speaker 2: that she wants to do for herself after giving so
- 2:15Speaker 2: much to her children because she spoke about how this
- 2:18Speaker 2: is really reconstructive surgery after breastfeeding for four years.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Played it really well because she spoke about how she
- 2:27Speaker 2: had done years of breastfeeding and that had actually stripped
- 2:29Speaker 2: away a lot of her natural breast tissue and stretched
- 2:31Speaker 2: her nipples. So she packaged it as something that she
- 2:34Speaker 2: was doing for herself and And almost as a bit
- 2:37Speaker 2: of a reward for having three children and going through
- 2:40Speaker 2: such a tough postpartum experience with her son, Harlow. And
- 2:43Speaker 2: I think a lot of mums could relate to that
- 2:46Speaker 2: because being a mum is one of the most selfless
- 2:48Speaker 2: jobs in the world. And you give physically so much
- 2:51Speaker 2: of yourself. Your breasts really do change after breastfeeding, particularly
- 2:55Speaker 2: when when you've been doing it for four years. It
- 2:57Speaker 2: also sounds like having a taste of bigger boobs during
- 3:00Speaker 2: pregnancy was a bit of a motivator. She spoke about
- 3:02Speaker 2: how when she was a little girl, she was really
- 3:04Speaker 2: excited to grow breasts, but it never really happened for her,
- 3:07Speaker 2: which I can relate to. For reference, before pregnancy, Sarah
- 3:10Speaker 2: was a double A and she says now after breastfeeding,
- 3:14Speaker 2: she's less than that previous cup size.
- 3:16Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to more of what she said.
- 3:19Speaker 3: I felt very, not even masculine, I felt really childlike,
- 3:24Speaker 3: particularly after going through pregnancy and giving birth and postpartum.
- 3:27Speaker 3: And I think one of the important things for me
- 3:29Speaker 3: is that I'm not doing this to look different. I
- 3:32Speaker 3: am just trying to restore what was lost because I
- 3:35Speaker 3: just have lost absolutely everything in breastfeeding. No regrets, breastfeeding
- 3:39Speaker 3: is one of probably the best thing I've ever done
- 3:42Speaker 3: and I felt so connected to my boys and like
- 3:44Speaker 3: couldn't recommend it more.
- 3:46Speaker 2: I was really relieved to hear that Sarah said she's
- 3:48Speaker 2: going to go for a smaller, more natural sized implant
- 3:51Speaker 2: because I just had these images of her choosing these
- 3:54Speaker 2: massive boobs that may potentially not fit her frame very well.
- 3:58Speaker 2: She actually said that because her chest is so narrow,
- 4:01Speaker 2: she only has a few implant sizes to actually choose from.
- 4:04Speaker 1: Look, I always think that she was going to go.
- 4:06Speaker 2: For more of a smaller, natural look, regardless of whether
- 4:08Speaker 2: she had the opportunity to go bigger or Now, anyone
- 4:12Speaker 2: who has followed Sarah for a long time knows that
- 4:14Speaker 2: she always says that she researches. She always does her
- 4:18Speaker 2: own research into different medical situations. I mean, it's got
- 4:22Speaker 2: her in trouble in the past. Which, let's face it,
- 4:24Speaker 2: is Googling. I always laugh when people are like, now,
- 4:27Speaker 2: I've done my research. It's like, we all have Google,
- 4:30Speaker 2: we all have chat GPT. It's actually not that hard
- 4:32Speaker 2: to research anymore. Well, particularly when the algorithm now serves
- 4:35Speaker 2: you up things that suits your opinion as well.
- 4:38Speaker 1: That's what's kind of dangerous about it. Yeah.
- 4:40Speaker 2: So she said that she's very aware of the risk,
- 4:42Speaker 2: but has chosen the lowest risk implants possible. In terms
- 4:45Speaker 2: of all of this research, I couldn't help but wonder
- 4:48Speaker 2: if she had listened back to an old episode of
- 4:51Speaker 2: her podcast, The Health Code. As an avid listener of
- 4:54Speaker 2: that podcast back in the day, I specifically remember this
- 4:58Speaker 2: interview that Sarah and Kurt did with Carissa Puckus and
- 5:02Speaker 2: they spoke for over an hour about Carissa's breast implant
- 5:05Speaker 2: illness and it was so powerful. You've also had Georgie
- 5:09Speaker 2: Stevenson come out and talk about her own experience with
- 5:12Speaker 2: breast implant illness. So many people open up about it
- 5:14Speaker 2: on social media. So I presume she would have come
- 5:17Speaker 2: across it again during the research. I'd love to know
- 5:19Speaker 2: how she feels about it. Of course this would have
- 5:21Speaker 2: come up in her research. I think that she's just
- 5:24Speaker 2: had to balance breast what she wants versus the risks.
- 5:27Speaker 2: And it's quite interesting because a follower wrote underneath the
- 5:31Speaker 2: YouTube video, I truly admire your ability to balance your
- 5:34Speaker 2: devotion to healthy, holistic, natural lifestyle with actually.
- 5:38Speaker 1: Living and experiencing your human life.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Now, Sarah replied to that and said, oh, thank you, lovely.
- 5:44Speaker 2: That's honestly such a refreshing comment to read and truly
- 5:47Speaker 2: a balance I endeavor to achieve in my life. I
- 5:49Speaker 2: am nowhere near perfect, but I do try and balance
- 5:52Speaker 2: my core values, but I'm also human and have desires
- 5:55Speaker 2: that aren't necessarily the healthiest choices sometimes. So I think
- 5:58Speaker 2: that she is very aware that the risks are there,
- 6:01Speaker 2: but I think that she probably thinks that the outcome
- 6:04Speaker 2: outweighs the risks at the moment. I've got to say,
- 6:06Speaker 2: I was quite surprised by the feedback to Sarah's post
- 6:10Speaker 2: because after dropping the YouTube video, she ended up sharing
- 6:13Speaker 2: the news to Instagram in a post that she captioned,
- 6:16Speaker 2: Jump scare. Your girl is back in the titty club.
- 6:18Speaker 2: More info and deets over on my YouTube channel.
- 6:21Speaker 1: It's funny because when I saw that, I thought she said,
- 6:22Speaker 1: I'm back in the itty titty club. And I was like, oh,
- 6:25Speaker 1: hold on. Did she not get them done? But I was.
- 6:27Speaker 2: Actually really surprised because- Sarah's day can be quite divisive,
- 6:30Speaker 2: but the overwhelming response to this news was very positive.
- 6:34Speaker 2: Someone wrote, a decision you shouldn't ever need to justify.
- 6:37Speaker 2: You look amazing. And that comment got over 500 likes.
- 6:40Speaker 2: Another person said, well done for doing something for you
- 6:43Speaker 2: after giving so much of yourself to your sons and family.
- 6:46Speaker 2: Excited to see how they are. I think if she'd
- 6:49Speaker 2: made this announcement 10 years ago, it probably would have
- 6:51Speaker 2: been hit with a bit more negativity, but I think
- 6:54Speaker 2: that there's been a lot more education and discussion around
- 6:58Speaker 2: your body, your choice at the end of the day.
- 7:00Speaker 2: I think whether we need to empower women for making
- 7:03Speaker 2: choices about their bodies rather than judging them and critiquing
- 7:07Speaker 2: them for doing so. Look, I have absolutely zero issues
- 7:11Speaker 2: with women getting cosmetic surgery. If someone wants to get
- 7:14Speaker 2: breast implants, that is entirely their own decision.
- 7:16Speaker 1: And I agree.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Women should not have to justify what they do with
- 7:19Speaker 2: their bodies. But what I'm struggling with is the fact
- 7:22Speaker 2: that Sarah's decision conflicts with the personal brand that she's
- 7:26Speaker 2: built for herself over the last 10 years. She really
- 7:28Speaker 2: has positioned herself as a holistic health princess. And she's
- 7:32Speaker 2: always been very outspoken about what she puts in her body.
- 7:35Speaker 2: She doesn't use a microwave. She's been known to be
- 7:38Speaker 2: a bit anti-vax. She's spruced a natural deodorant. The list
- 7:41Speaker 2: goes on. And she's also been quite vocal about being
- 7:45Speaker 2: anti-Western medicine. And she's got a bit of a reputation
- 7:48Speaker 2: for questioning mainstream health advice. So I have to admit,
- 7:51Speaker 2: I do find it a little contradictory that she's now
- 7:54Speaker 2: choosing to put breast implants in her body for aesthetic reasons.
- 7:57Speaker 2: And I do think it's fair to question how that
- 7:59Speaker 2: fits into the philosophy she spent years promoting. And that's
- 8:02Speaker 2: not because I don't think that she should do it
- 8:05Speaker 2: because I'm against plastic surgery. It's from the perspective of
- 8:08Speaker 2: it doesn't line up with this personal brand and what
- 8:11Speaker 2: we've known of you for 10 years. I totally get
- 8:13Speaker 2: where you're coming from. And I think that you have
- 8:15Speaker 2: some very valid points. But I think the reason why
- 8:18Speaker 2: people are so supportive of it is because she actually
- 8:21Speaker 2: called it a reconstructive breast augmentation. So it doesn't sound
- 8:25Speaker 2: like it's your typical breast. breast augmentation. So a standard
- 8:28Speaker 2: breast augmentation is just solely to increase breast size and
- 8:32Speaker 2: improve the shape and fullness for aesthetic reasons.
- 8:35Speaker 1: Whereas reconstructive breast surgery.
- 8:37Speaker 2: Is when you want to restore or correct the breast
- 8:40Speaker 2: shape or volume when there's an underlying medical or anatomical reason.
- 8:45Speaker 2: So I think that that's why people have more sympathy,
- 8:48Speaker 2: I suppose, in this case, because it's quite clear the
- 8:51Speaker 2: toll that breastfeeding has taken on her breasts and their appearance. Yeah,
- 8:55Speaker 2: but that's why I think she's been quite strategic with
- 8:57Speaker 2: this announcement, because normally when you say a reconstructive breast augmentation,
- 9:03Speaker 2: that term is reserved to a reconstruction after a mastectomy
- 9:08Speaker 2: or something like that, not normally after breastfeeding. And I
- 9:11Speaker 2: think to be fair, the surgery that she is getting
- 9:15Speaker 2: is for aesthetics. Yeah, but Kate, I think you're actually
- 9:18Speaker 2: really underestimating here the toll that breastfeeding can have on
- 9:21Speaker 2: your breasts.
- 9:22Speaker 1: I think I know. I breastfed for nine months. Yeah,
- 9:24Speaker 1: I understand that.
- 9:25Speaker 2: But she's breastfed three children for four years. And obviously
- 9:30Speaker 2: for her, it's something that she feels really insecure about.
- 9:33Speaker 2: And I mean, you literally have the life sucked out
- 9:36Speaker 2: of you and you don't feel like yourself.
- 9:38Speaker 1: You don't feel like your pre-self.
- 9:40Speaker 2: I think where you have the issue is you're saying
- 9:41Speaker 2: that you believe this to be a problem that she's
- 9:43Speaker 2: held since puberty, not one that's just purely been a
- 9:46Speaker 2: problem since being postpartum. I have no problem with her
- 9:49Speaker 2: deciding that this is what she wants to do for
- 9:51Speaker 2: her body. I'm just saying that it doesn't sit well
- 9:54Speaker 2: with me because it doesn't actually match up to the
- 9:57Speaker 2: personal brand and beliefs that she put out there for
- 10:00Speaker 2: 10 years. Also, as you've touched on, we are postpartum
- 10:03Speaker 2: women and I have a similar build and breast size
- 10:06Speaker 2: to Sarah. And I've got to say the references she
- 10:09Speaker 2: kept making to feeling childlike stung. And obviously, as I said,
- 10:13Speaker 2: she's entitled to feel the way that she does. But
- 10:16Speaker 2: packaging the decision up as a postpartum fix I feel
- 10:19Speaker 2: really feeds into bounce back culture. It's sad that we're
- 10:21Speaker 2: still in a place where women feel like their postpartum
- 10:24Speaker 2: bodies need to be, as you kept saying, her breasts
- 10:28Speaker 2: need to be restored and fixed after breastfeeding. And she
- 10:32Speaker 2: has played into bounce back culture before. And I feel
- 10:35Speaker 2: like this is just an extension of that, particularly as
- 10:38Speaker 2: she's pushed that she just wants her breasts to be
- 10:40Speaker 2: like they were before breastfeeding. But actually, you weren't happy
- 10:43Speaker 2: with them before that. You spoke a lot about being
- 10:46Speaker 2: double A and all of that. So I think I
- 10:47Speaker 2: would have preferred if she just said, I've always wanted
- 10:50Speaker 2: bigger boobs. That's why I'm getting them. But I think
- 10:53Speaker 2: she felt the pressure to blame it on postpartum.
- 10:56Speaker 1: Well, it's sad that she does feel that there's pressure.
- 10:59Speaker 2: I don't think anyone should have to justify what they
- 11:03Speaker 2: want to do to their own body. That's why I
- 11:04Speaker 2: feel a little bit uncomfortable about this discussion. I do
- 11:07Speaker 2: understand where you're coming from though, postpartum women feel so
- 11:10Speaker 2: vulnerable and when you do see an influencer that you
- 11:12Speaker 2: follow and like seeming like they have to fix themselves
- 11:17Speaker 2: in inverted commas obviously it does make you think oh
- 11:19Speaker 2: okay well should I be doing the same thing but
- 11:21Speaker 2: in saying that I also think that she's giving a
- 11:23Speaker 2: bit of hope or a bit of inspiration to those
- 11:26Speaker 2: women who are wanting to find their pink again and
- 11:28Speaker 2: put themselves first and feel like they deserve to be
- 11:31Speaker 2: on the top of the list as well. Yeah, but Sophie,
- 11:33Speaker 2: whether you like it or not, Sarah has a million
- 11:35Speaker 2: followers and there is a responsibility that comes with the
- 11:38Speaker 2: messaging she puts out. So while you can say you're
- 11:40Speaker 2: doing something for yourself and you're not projecting it onto
- 11:42Speaker 2: anyone else, her decision still influences the people that watch her.
- 11:47Speaker 2: And look, I understand that she has the right to
- 11:49Speaker 2: change her mind and she doesn't have to keep up
- 11:51Speaker 2: some perfect holistic image but again i do think it's
- 11:54Speaker 2: reasonable for her audience to question the disconnect between the
- 11:58Speaker 2: person that she's presented herself as and some of the
- 12:02Speaker 2: choices she's now making yeah but people are angry about
- 12:04Speaker 2: everything if she had gone and got these breast implants
- 12:07Speaker 2: done in secret and then never touched on it people
- 12:09Speaker 2: would say she wasn't being transparent about the whole situation
- 12:12Speaker 2: as well i think it's a loose loose situation for
- 12:15Speaker 2: her well how do you feel about her documenting the
- 12:17Speaker 2: whole process and putting it out okay can i give
- 12:19Speaker 2: you an honest answer i'm fucking thrilled I love Sarah
- 12:22Speaker 2: Stay's content.
- 12:22Speaker 1: She is a top class blogger.
- 12:25Speaker 2: I want to be transported back to 2017 and watch
- 12:29Speaker 2: the step-by-step guide of this. Yes, do I feel uncomfortable
- 12:31Speaker 2: that it's going to encourage people who shouldn't necessarily have
- 12:34Speaker 2: this done or don't need to have it done? Yes.
- 12:36Speaker 2: But as a viewer, I'm excited to watch it. I'm
- 12:38Speaker 2: going to get the popcorn ready and sit back and enjoy. Look,
- 12:41Speaker 2: I'm also very interested to see the videos, but I
- 12:43Speaker 2: can't help but think In a year's time, are we
- 12:46Speaker 2: going to have what we've seen with a lot of
- 12:47Speaker 2: other influencers, Georgie Stevenson for one of them, a video
- 12:51Speaker 2: a year later saying, oh, this is the reason why
- 12:53Speaker 2: I'm now getting my breast implants removed. It's obviously a
- 12:56Speaker 2: risk that she's willing to take. And at the end
- 12:58Speaker 2: of the day, that's her decision and her prerogative.
- 13:03Speaker 1: I really want to speed up the story because there's
- 13:04Speaker 1: so much more information that I know now. So I'm
- 13:06Speaker 1: really trying to bust them out for you guys.
- 13:09Speaker 2: Veruca Salt has put her baby daddy, Charles Njuko, on blast.
- 13:13Speaker 2: After only recently posting him to her story, she's now
- 13:17Speaker 2: released a four-part TikTok expose on his alleged bad behavior. Now, Kate,
- 13:22Speaker 2: at the time of recording, part five is yet to drop,
- 13:25Speaker 2: but so far, she's not painting a very nice picture. No,
- 13:27Speaker 2: I have to admit, I have been completely sucked into
- 13:30Speaker 2: this saga. The other night, I was scrolling TikTok and
- 13:32Speaker 2: came across part one, and I was hooked for the
- 13:35Speaker 2: next 35 minutes. Like, Veruca Salt is quite the storyteller.
- 13:39Speaker 2: I can see why she's got 1.6 million followers. Also,
- 13:42Speaker 2: let's face it, her life is full of drama. So
- 13:44Speaker 2: my jaw was on the floor while I was listening
- 13:46Speaker 2: to most of this. I just watched this stuff and
- 13:48Speaker 2: I'm like, my God, am I living a boring life
- 13:51Speaker 2: or is this extreme? Well, clearly she posts this sort
- 13:54Speaker 2: of stuff for engagement because it does very well on TikTok.
- 13:56Speaker 1: She's always getting millions of views.
- 13:58Speaker 2: But this time around, she actually opened up about why
- 14:01Speaker 2: she shares such intimate details about her life. And she
- 14:04Speaker 2: said it was her way of processing it and ensuring
- 14:06Speaker 2: she never goes back because it's embarrassing and humiliating if
- 14:10Speaker 2: she does. Yeah, I've never thought about it being a
- 14:11Speaker 2: way to hold yourself accountable because you are going to
- 14:14Speaker 2: look like.
- 14:15Speaker 1: A bit of a fool if you air your dirty laundry.
- 14:17Speaker 2: Say how terribly someone's treated you, and then the next
- 14:20Speaker 2: second you're posting with them again and you're back together. Yeah.
- 14:22Speaker 2: In saying all of that, though, when Veruca first introduced
- 14:25Speaker 2: her audience to Charles, she described him as the devil
- 14:28Speaker 2: walking among us. So it's not like she had a
- 14:31Speaker 2: glowing review, but that sort of changed after he found
- 14:33Speaker 2: out he was the father of her children.
- 14:35Speaker 1: So for a bit of backstory.
- 14:38Speaker 2: She was having a casual sexual relationship with this guy
- 14:41Speaker 2: and another guy called Mike, and she fell pregnant. But
- 14:45Speaker 2: she didn't know which one was the father, so she
- 14:46Speaker 2: got them to do paternity tests. What was interesting is
- 14:49Speaker 2: Veruca opened up for the first time about why her
- 14:51Speaker 2: birth control didn't work. So she was on the pill.
- 14:54Speaker 2: It was the first time she'd been on the pill.
- 14:56Speaker 2: And she says she got liposuction on her chin and
- 15:00Speaker 2: was on a course of antibiotics and didn't realize that
- 15:02Speaker 2: the antibiotics essentially canceled out the birth control. So that's
- 15:06Speaker 2: how she fell pregnant. So a bit of a warning
- 15:08Speaker 2: for other people out there. God, imagine that happening and
- 15:10Speaker 2: having twins like that. It just rocks you to your core,
- 15:13Speaker 2: doesn't it?
- 15:13Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 15:14Speaker 2: And I can see why Veruca was hoping that the
- 15:16Speaker 2: other guy, Mike, was the father because Veruca spoke about how,
- 15:20Speaker 2: you know, she and Charles were having this casual relationship
- 15:23Speaker 2: and she knew her place. She knew that he was
- 15:26Speaker 2: dating a lot of girls, so much so that he
- 15:28Speaker 2: would actually take phone calls with other girls in front
- 15:31Speaker 2: of her. And also show her like good morning text
- 15:34Speaker 2: messages he was getting from girls. At least he wasn't
- 15:37Speaker 2: hiding it Bailey Smith style. Well, he was hiding something.
- 15:39Speaker 2: The fact that he had a long-term girlfriend called Valeska.
- 15:43Speaker 2: And things were pretty serious between them. They were dating
- 15:45Speaker 2: for four years. Valeska has a daughter. Charles isn't the father,
- 15:49Speaker 2: but she still calls him dad. And this all changed
- 15:53Speaker 2: when Valeska found out that Charles had impregnated Veruca. They
- 15:56Speaker 2: broke up and Charles apparently became quite supportive of Veruca.
- 16:00Speaker 2: He said he was happy for her to move to Australia.
- 16:02Speaker 1: He would go anywhere in the world for them.
- 16:04Speaker 2: And he also offered to take in Veruca's two cats
- 16:07Speaker 2: that lived in America while she moved to Australia. So
- 16:10Speaker 2: Veruca thought this was a really positive sign that he
- 16:12Speaker 2: actually cared about her and had changed.
- 16:14Speaker 1: You know, it's true love when someone's willing to take
- 16:16Speaker 1: in your two cats.
- 16:17Speaker 2: Well, apparently he already had two. So he's looking after
- 16:19Speaker 2: four cats at this point. What's confused me about this
- 16:22Speaker 2: whole thing is at no stage has Veruca said they
- 16:26Speaker 2: were together, they were a couple. She's kind of skirted
- 16:28Speaker 2: around that. But what is quite clear to me is
- 16:31Speaker 2: the fact that she seems quite invested in him. She
- 16:34Speaker 2: made a comment that he said to her, oh, you're
- 16:36Speaker 2: just so in love with me and that's why you're
- 16:38Speaker 2: doing all of this. And I hate to say it,
- 16:40Speaker 2: but I think there's an element of that. He's a
- 16:42Speaker 2: very attractive guy.
- 16:43Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen the photos of him.
- 16:44Speaker 4: I have.
- 16:45Speaker 1: I have.
- 16:45Speaker 2: And we've spoken about it before. He kind of looks
- 16:48Speaker 2: like a NFL player. Well, his two brothers are NFL players.
- 16:51Speaker 1: He's a model. He's been in a lot of commercials
- 16:54Speaker 1: in the US. So, okay.
- 16:55Speaker 2: So they weren't actually officially together when the babies were born.
- 16:59Speaker 2: Were they just sort of seeing how things went? Look,
- 17:02Speaker 2: she hasn't actually explicitly said. My take after hearing the
- 17:05Speaker 2: story is that she was open to having more casual
- 17:08Speaker 2: sex with him. They actually did go on to sleep together.
- 17:11Speaker 2: once the babies were born. But I think she wanted
- 17:14Speaker 2: more from it and was probably reading a lot into it.
- 17:17Speaker 1: How old are these babies? They're only a couple of
- 17:19Speaker 1: weeks old.
- 17:20Speaker 2: Wow.
- 17:21Speaker 1: Okay.
- 17:21Speaker 2: Now I need to take you back to just before
- 17:23Speaker 2: the babies were born. So things changed when Veruca woke
- 17:27Speaker 2: up one morning when she was in Australia with a
- 17:29Speaker 2: feeling that something wasn't right. So Charles was in the
- 17:32Speaker 2: US at the time. And she called him and said, look,
- 17:35Speaker 2: are you doing something shady behind my back? And he said,
- 17:38Speaker 2: of course not. You're the mother of my children. I
- 17:40Speaker 2: would never do anything like that. You're family. So because
- 17:43Speaker 2: she was about to give birth, she pushed that feeling aside. However,
- 17:46Speaker 2: she said she was pretty disappointed when he didn't arrive
- 17:48Speaker 2: in Australia in time for the birth. He did FaceTime
- 17:52Speaker 2: during the labor, but Veruca thinks he actually fell asleep
- 17:54Speaker 2: when the babies were born. What shocked me the most
- 17:57Speaker 2: about this whole thing, though, is that Veruca confirmed she
- 18:00Speaker 2: gave birth to the twins vaginally. I remember we were discussing, oh,
- 18:04Speaker 2: surely she had a C-section and we were confused because
- 18:06Speaker 2: she posted this picture of her getting her nails done
- 18:09Speaker 2: during labor. We're like, oh, it must've been beforehand. Surely
- 18:13Speaker 2: she didn't give birth to these twins vaginally, but she did.
- 18:16Speaker 2: That's pretty remarkable. From what I know, doctors generally advise
- 18:20Speaker 2: if there's multiple births that you have a C-section. I
- 18:23Speaker 2: know that people can request not to. Yeah.
- 18:26Speaker 1: I was really surprised by this. She actually said it
- 18:28Speaker 1: didn't go to plan.
- 18:29Speaker 2: So She gave birth to Storm first and then the
- 18:32Speaker 2: second baby, Zion, apparently she says shot out of her
- 18:36Speaker 2: vagina and landed on the floor. So she said that
- 18:39Speaker 2: he actually broke through the sack and broke his umbilical
- 18:42Speaker 2: cord off, which was, I mean, quite a picture she
- 18:45Speaker 2: painted there.
- 18:46Speaker 1: Goodness me. The baby is fine now. They were actually
- 18:50Speaker 1: rushed into the NICU and.
- 18:52Speaker 2: Veruca opened up how she was feeling really disconnected at
- 18:55Speaker 2: this time from her children. She said she couldn't take
- 18:57Speaker 2: them home because they were in the NICU. And she
- 19:00Speaker 2: was feeling really sad, as you would. And this is
- 19:03Speaker 2: when Charles arrived. So he arrived a week after they
- 19:06Speaker 2: were born. And apparently things were really good. He was
- 19:08Speaker 2: really good with the babies. And everything was going well
- 19:11Speaker 2: until Veruca spotted his ex, Valeska, texting him. So apparently
- 19:16Speaker 2: she spotted the name on the phone. And then later
- 19:18Speaker 2: that day, she and Charles ended up getting drunk together
- 19:21Speaker 2: at her house.
- 19:22Speaker 1: And that's when the ex got brought up. And Veruca
- 19:24Speaker 1: was very open.
- 19:25Speaker 2: She said, look, if I found out you were secretly
- 19:27Speaker 2: texting her And sending photos of our children to her,
- 19:30Speaker 2: I would be really upset.
- 19:32Speaker 1: And he said, look, I understand. And then 20 minutes later,
- 19:35Speaker 1: apparently they had sex. I'm so confused by all of this.
- 19:39Speaker 2: How do they have time to get drunk and do
- 19:41Speaker 2: all of this when they have twin babies that they're
- 19:43Speaker 2: looking after?
- 19:44Speaker 1: Or is it because they're in the NICU? So they
- 19:46Speaker 1: were in the NICU at this time. Oh, okay.
- 19:49Speaker 3: Alright.
- 19:50Speaker 1: That's making a bit more sense.
- 19:51Speaker 2: But as I think you touched on earlier, normally you're
- 19:53Speaker 2: supposed to wait at least six weeks to get signed
- 19:55Speaker 2: off to have sex. So there's a lot of things
- 19:58Speaker 2: that are probably going on that shouldn't be going on.
- 20:00Speaker 2: I mean, there's also a lot of hormones at play here.
- 20:02Speaker 2: You're at your most sensitive and vulnerable state. So I
- 20:06Speaker 2: feel for Veruca with all of this. I know, it
- 20:08Speaker 2: just seems like an absolute nightmare that she's going through
- 20:11Speaker 2: at the moment. Now, despite all of this, Veruca then
- 20:14Speaker 2: noticed more texts popping up from Charles' ex.
- 20:16Speaker 1: So she confronted him again about it.
- 20:19Speaker 2: And this led to a big fight where Charles allegedly
- 20:22Speaker 2: started threatening courts and custody battles. And Veruca at this
- 20:26Speaker 2: point told her TikTok followers that She has this fear
- 20:30Speaker 2: that Charles and Valeska are going to try and take
- 20:33Speaker 2: her babies away from her because apparently Charles told her
- 20:37Speaker 2: that he and Valeska always spoke about having twin boys together. Now,
- 20:41Speaker 2: Veruca ended up telling Charles that he could have the
- 20:43Speaker 2: babies and packed a bag and went across the street
- 20:46Speaker 2: to stay in a hotel. She said once she got
- 20:48Speaker 2: to the hotel, though, she rang her mum and told
- 20:50Speaker 2: her to go help Charles with the twins. So this
- 20:53Speaker 2: was by the time the twins were back at their
- 20:55Speaker 2: house now.
- 20:55Speaker 1: Yes, yes. So there's been a few days.
- 20:57Speaker 2: In between where Veruca and him have been fighting about
- 21:00Speaker 2: the ex and the text messages. Now, according to Veruca,
- 21:03Speaker 2: Charles eventually begged her to come back and said he'd
- 21:05Speaker 2: block his ex-girlfriend. However, once she got back to the house,
- 21:09Speaker 2: she realized that Charles had thrown out not only some
- 21:12Speaker 2: of her prized crystal collection, but a sentimental little jar
- 21:17Speaker 2: with a butterfly and some grass in it that was
- 21:19Speaker 2: her first son Cash's. So Cash is her son that
- 21:23Speaker 2: very sadly passed away from SIDS. So that clearly really
- 21:28Speaker 2: upset her, but she said she pushed it down. She
- 21:30Speaker 2: was like, this guy's the father of my other two children.
- 21:33Speaker 2: I'm just going to get on with it because I
- 21:35Speaker 2: want my kids to have their dad in their life.
- 21:37Speaker 1: Why did he throw out the stuff?
- 21:39Speaker 2: Oh, well, apparently he threw out the crystals because he's
- 21:41Speaker 2: very religious and didn't like the energy that they were
- 21:43Speaker 2: giving off. Now, again, despite all of this going on,
- 21:47Speaker 2: Charles and Veruca ended up going on a trip to
- 21:49Speaker 2: the mountains. And Veruca said she woke up to Charles
- 21:52Speaker 2: having a conversation with his sisters, telling them he was
- 21:55Speaker 2: just playing house with Veruca and the baby. That led
- 21:58Speaker 2: on to another big fight. And we are now patiently
- 22:01Speaker 2: waiting for part five.
- 22:03Speaker 1: Of this story.
- 22:04Speaker 2: While we wait for that, Veruca confirmed on her TikTok
- 22:07Speaker 2: on Friday that Charles had gone. So she shared a
- 22:09Speaker 2: video of her with her twin pram out in the
- 22:12Speaker 2: sunshine with the caption, it's hard to dance with the
- 22:15Speaker 2: devil on your back, so shake him off. And she
- 22:17Speaker 2: captioned the photo, he left and the son came out.
- 22:20Speaker 1: Coincidence? I think not. She also has filmed herself doing
- 22:24Speaker 1: a tarot card reading. And she said that she was calling.
- 22:27Speaker 2: On Charles's father who has passed away in that reading
- 22:30Speaker 2: so she can, quote, ask him why he raised such
- 22:32Speaker 2: a loser so that I don't make the same.
- 22:35Speaker 1: Mistake with my children.
- 22:36Speaker 2: I mean, as I touched on, postpartum is a wild
- 22:39Speaker 2: experience without all of this going on. So....
- 22:43Speaker 1: Thoughts are with Veruca. This sounds horrendous. Yeah, I hope
- 22:46Speaker 1: Veruca's got some good support around her and is looking
- 22:49Speaker 1: after herself. I mean, this is not a great situation.
- 22:51Speaker 2: It's sad that this is all playing out online, particularly
- 22:54Speaker 2: because this is the father of Veruca's children. And I
- 22:56Speaker 2: think she was so keen to have a good relationship
- 22:59Speaker 2: with him.
- 23:00Speaker 4: Yes, we are selling the mansion. Sad but exciting because
- 23:08Speaker 4: the financial burden has been hectic.
- 23:12Speaker 2: Skye Wheatley has admitted she still holds out hope she
- 23:15Speaker 2: will reunite with her ex and baby daddy, Lockie Waugh.
- 23:18Speaker 2: The revelation comes as the couple get ready to put
- 23:21Speaker 2: their infamous mansion on the market. Soph, I know this
- 23:23Speaker 2: interview would have pulled at your heartstrings because Skye and
- 23:26Speaker 2: Lockie were one of your favorite influencer couples.
- 23:29Speaker 1: I feel like I'm still grieving this relationship.
- 23:31Speaker 2: I love Skye and Lockie together while I think that
- 23:34Speaker 2: their relationship did seem a little bit toxic.
- 23:37Speaker 1: I'm selfish.
- 23:37Speaker 2: I love seeing them on their YouTube videos because they
- 23:39Speaker 2: kept it real. Like they would air all of their grievances,
- 23:42Speaker 2: their arguments. I think they were just funny together. I mean,
- 23:45Speaker 2: I bring it up every time as living rent free
- 23:47Speaker 2: in my mind that night that they got McDonald's and
- 23:50Speaker 2: the McDonald's worker forgot the sweet and sour sauce and
- 23:52Speaker 2: they had a big fight over it.
- 23:54Speaker 1: It was just classic YouTube, wasn't it?
- 23:56Speaker 2: Sky herself has said it's delusional of her to hold
- 23:59Speaker 2: out hope, but it's a part of a coping mechanism
- 24:02Speaker 2: of hers.
- 24:03Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to more of what she said.
- 24:05Speaker 5: For me it's like it'll be okay one day like
- 24:08Speaker 5: maybe we'll work it out and be together again as
- 24:13Speaker 5: a family or maybe you won't like maybe you'll really
- 24:17Speaker 5: love this life and I'm just like at the moment
- 24:22Speaker 5: whatever happens happens and it's like so sad because like
- 24:26Speaker 5: we just weren't getting along or seeing eye to eye
- 24:30Speaker 5: and I know that relationships take work and it is
- 24:33Speaker 5: hard like living with someone and um sharing your life
- 24:39Speaker 5: with someone else and being because we would work together
- 24:42Speaker 5: from home like I feel like we never really got
- 24:47Speaker 5: alone time and we never really got time to just
- 24:51Speaker 5: be ourselves like it was just a very stressful and
- 24:55Speaker 5: chaotic lifestyle that we lived and that's going to put
- 24:58Speaker 5: pressure on any relationship you know yeah So like I
- 25:03Speaker 5: don't blame either of us and I don't, yeah, I
- 25:06Speaker 5: don't have anything negative to say because I don't even
- 25:10Speaker 5: know how long, maybe six months or something. But for me,
- 25:16Speaker 5: it does feel quite fresh and it feels like it's
- 25:19Speaker 5: not really happening. But everything around me is pointing to
- 25:25Speaker 5: this is it, this is your new life.
- 25:27Speaker 1: But in my head, I'm like, it's going to go back.
- 25:30Speaker 2: I would love to know the timeline of when this
- 25:32Speaker 2: interview was actually recorded. It dropped last week, but recently
- 25:36Speaker 2: Sky has been less than complimentary of Lockie's behavior. She's
- 25:39Speaker 2: accused him of cheating and moving on too quickly with
- 25:41Speaker 2: someone else. Then a few days ago, when she was
- 25:44Speaker 2: speaking about selling their home, which we'll get into a
- 25:46Speaker 2: little bit later, she said this.
- 25:47Speaker 4: I feel like my emotions have been more heavy and
- 25:51Speaker 4: men just go out and fuck new girls and whatever
- 25:55Speaker 4: they do and distract themselves with someone else. And In
- 25:59Speaker 4: my opinion, that's really weak. Like, just deal with it, dude. Like,
- 26:02Speaker 4: go through the emotion, feel the pain. Like, it's not fun.
- 26:07Speaker 1: It's really not fun.
- 26:10Speaker 2: I mean, she did say that she was going to
- 26:12Speaker 2: use her Instagram stories as a bit of a dating
- 26:14Speaker 2: slash breakup diary, and that's what she's doing, much to
- 26:17Speaker 2: the disgust, I'm sure, of Lockie airing his dirty laundry
- 26:20Speaker 2: like that.
- 26:21Speaker 1: My guess is that this interview.
- 26:23Speaker 2: Was recorded at least a month ago because I remember
- 26:26Speaker 2: Skye was talking about a podcast she was about to
- 26:29Speaker 2: appear on and discuss her DIY charges on. And it
- 26:32Speaker 2: was a podcast in Perth and we were trying to
- 26:34Speaker 2: guess which one it was. I think you could be
- 26:35Speaker 2: right because she actually recounted her full version of events
- 26:38Speaker 2: that led to her being found guilty of being in
- 26:41Speaker 2: charge of a motor vehicle while over the middle alcohol limit.
- 26:44Speaker 1: That was very technical, Kay.
- 26:46Speaker 2: I want it to be technical because She actually spoke
- 26:50Speaker 2: on this podcast about the fact that that was her charge.
- 26:54Speaker 2: So a lot of people have been saying she was
- 26:56Speaker 2: drunk driving and she's like, no, I was actually drunk
- 27:00Speaker 2: while in my car. I wasn't driving it. So, and
- 27:02Speaker 2: there is a difference. You're trying to not get in
- 27:05Speaker 2: trouble there. Yeah. I mean, she labeled her actions as
- 27:08Speaker 2: dangerous and appalling. And she said, ultimately she was grateful
- 27:11Speaker 2: it happened because it was the wake up call she
- 27:13Speaker 2: needed to make a massive change in her life. Let's
- 27:16Speaker 2: take a listen to more of what she said.
- 27:18Speaker 5: Those mistakes in your life then you can't learn from
- 27:21Speaker 5: it you know like I don't I think that in
- 27:25Speaker 5: all honesty if I hadn't have fallen asleep at the
- 27:29Speaker 5: wheel that night and gotten in trouble for it I
- 27:32Speaker 5: probably still would be doing the same thing which is
- 27:35Speaker 5: trying to drink and numb the pain and avoid the
- 27:38Speaker 5: feelings and avoid grieving and avoid all of the emotions
- 27:41Speaker 5: that I'm having now and if it weren't for that
- 27:45Speaker 5: moment of being like, okay, this is like a massive
- 27:48Speaker 5: wake up call.
- 27:48Speaker 2: I was actually quite impressed with the way Sky articulated
- 27:52Speaker 2: herself in this interview. There was a lot of self-reflection
- 27:55Speaker 2: and a lot of transparency. I think it's because she's
- 27:58Speaker 2: in therapy at the moment and she's been able to
- 28:00Speaker 2: really work on herself and talk it through. And that's
- 28:03Speaker 2: why she's able to then articulate it on a podcast. Now,
- 28:06Speaker 2: Sky also went into details about what happened that night.
- 28:10Speaker 2: So she says on the way home from the airport
- 28:12Speaker 2: after a work trip, she went through the Macca's drive
- 28:15Speaker 2: through for a frozen Coke. And it was at this
- 28:17Speaker 2: point that she posted a video of her driving to
- 28:20Speaker 2: social media. She clarified this because that video went quite
- 28:24Speaker 2: viral at the time. And a lot of people were questioning, well,
- 28:27Speaker 2: were you under the influence of alcohol while driving and
- 28:30Speaker 2: filming yourself? I mean, we actually included that clip in
- 28:34Speaker 2: our reel when we reported on what was going on.
- 28:37Speaker 2: But she claims that Gossip Page has got it wrong
- 28:39Speaker 2: and she was completely sober when she posted that video.
- 28:42Speaker 1: There was a lot of hair flicking going on, I remember,
- 28:44Speaker 1: in that video.
- 28:45Speaker 2: And it did look at times like she didn't have
- 28:47Speaker 2: complete control of the vehicle. Also, the frozen Coke thing
- 28:50Speaker 2: is confusing. So she says she got her frozen Coke
- 28:53Speaker 2: on the way home from the airport. But then when
- 28:55Speaker 2: she got home, she was actually expecting Lockie and their
- 28:58Speaker 2: boys and dogs to be there. But they weren't home.
- 29:01Speaker 2: And that was when she was hit with this overwhelming
- 29:03Speaker 2: feeling of emptiness and depression. because she realized, wow, that's
- 29:07Speaker 2: actually not my reality anymore. I'm not going to have
- 29:09Speaker 2: my family here with me. And it was at this point,
- 29:12Speaker 2: she said, that she got back in her car and
- 29:14Speaker 2: drove to the Bottle-O and bought a massive bottle of
- 29:17Speaker 2: Jim Beam. She then said she returned to Macca's for
- 29:20Speaker 2: another frozen Coke. Let's take a listen to more of
- 29:23Speaker 2: her recount.
- 29:25Speaker 5: Went back through the Macca's drive-thru, got a frozen Coke,
- 29:28Speaker 5: opened the Jim Beam, poured it in the cup, drank
- 29:31Speaker 5: the alcohol, sat there all night, my friends were calling me.
- 29:34Speaker 5: They're like, come to where we are. Come, come, come.
- 29:36Speaker 5: We'll come pick you up. I'm like, I just want
- 29:39Speaker 5: to be alone. like I need to be alone and
- 29:42Speaker 5: I fully had like the biggest crash out just trying
- 29:45Speaker 5: to numb the feelings that I was feeling which was
- 29:50Speaker 5: dumb obviously and then the Macca's worker actually came out
- 29:54Speaker 5: she's like you need to leave because I was there
- 29:56Speaker 5: for so long like my car was just parked in
- 29:58Speaker 5: like the loading zone for hours. And I was like,
- 30:02Speaker 5: I'm not going to leave. I think subconsciously I knew
- 30:05Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm, I'm over the limit. Like I cannot drive.
- 30:09Speaker 5: And then I ended up falling asleep and woke up
- 30:13Speaker 5: to a knock on the window and it was a cop.
- 30:15Speaker 5: And he was like, I'm going to, I'm going to
- 30:18Speaker 5: do a breath test on you. And I just remember
- 30:22Speaker 5: bawling my eyes out and being like, this is not right. Like,
- 30:26Speaker 5: this is not a good situation. And you know that
- 30:29Speaker 5: it's wrong. And then I went to the cop shop and, yeah,
- 30:33Speaker 5: we did it again.
- 30:34Speaker 1: And that was that.
- 30:37Speaker 5: Was your car on? Yeah, I had the heater running
- 30:40Speaker 5: and the music going. But the fact that I just
- 30:43Speaker 5: like passed out because I hadn't been sleeping, eating, like
- 30:48Speaker 5: I just was not mentally okay. But again, like I said,
- 30:54Speaker 5: I'm grateful for that happening and it's what I needed,
- 30:57Speaker 5: I guess.
- 30:59Speaker 1: It's sad to hear all of this. It's clear that
- 31:01Speaker 1: she wasn't in a good place, but I do question.
- 31:03Speaker 2: Why you would get in a car, drive to a
- 31:05Speaker 2: bottle shop to get a huge bottle of spirits and
- 31:08Speaker 2: then sit in the car drinking it.
- 31:09Speaker 1: Because how else are you going to get home? Yeah,
- 31:11Speaker 1: it doesn't make a lot of sense.
- 31:12Speaker 2: Also the fact that she was parked in a loading
- 31:14Speaker 2: zone for hours and hours.
- 31:16Speaker 1: Like imagine if you were waiting to get your food.
- 31:18Speaker 1: You're like, could you just move?
- 31:19Speaker 2: Like just the thought of the Macca's worker coming out
- 31:22Speaker 2: and being like, here's your miss, can you just move along?
- 31:24Speaker 1: Particularly because she.
- 31:25Speaker 2: Does sound like she frequents that McDonald's quite a bit,
- 31:28Speaker 2: you know, from.
- 31:29Speaker 1: Watching her vlogs. They probably know her quite well. What's
- 31:32Speaker 1: sad to me, though, is this feels like it was.
- 31:33Speaker 2: A cry for help, yet none of her friends seem
- 31:36Speaker 2: to come and find her and get her and take
- 31:38Speaker 2: her home. Well, to be fair, they might not have
- 31:40Speaker 2: known where she was. But upon reflection, it doesn't seem
- 31:43Speaker 2: like she's got the best group of friends because after
- 31:45Speaker 2: she was charged with drink driving, it was one of
- 31:48Speaker 2: her friends that tipped the Daily Mail off about it.
- 31:52Speaker 2: And she ended up getting a call up from one
- 31:54Speaker 2: of her contacts at the publication and saying, hey Sky,
- 31:58Speaker 2: just a warning. One of our paparazzo is following you.
- 32:02Speaker 2: Make sure you don't drive your car anywhere because this
- 32:05Speaker 2: photographer wants to get a photo of you doing the
- 32:07Speaker 2: wrong thing.
- 32:08Speaker 1: That's super interesting.
- 32:09Speaker 2: Imagine how much trouble they would be in if anyone
- 32:11Speaker 2: found out who they were. As a former journo, I
- 32:13Speaker 2: wonder if there's some mind games going on there. We're
- 32:15Speaker 2: going to gain your trust by tipping you off about
- 32:18Speaker 2: one of our paparazzo. I mean, Sky actually said it
- 32:22Speaker 2: was a relief that she was tipped off because She
- 32:25Speaker 2: felt like the universe was looking out for her because
- 32:28Speaker 2: the headspace she was in at that time, she said she.
- 32:30Speaker 1: Probably would have actually just driven her car.
- 32:32Speaker 2: It turns out, though, the paparazzo found her at her
- 32:34Speaker 2: friend's house and ended up stalking out the place for
- 32:37Speaker 2: 24 hours. There's just so much going on in Sky's
- 32:39Speaker 2: life at the moment. It must be incredibly overwhelming because,
- 32:42Speaker 2: as you touched on at the start of the segment,
- 32:44Speaker 2: she and Lockie are about to sell their family home.
- 32:47Speaker 1: It's about to go on the market.
- 32:49Speaker 2: This is, of course, the mansion that they have been
- 32:51Speaker 2: renovating for the past eight, nine years. Skye described it
- 32:55Speaker 2: as exciting but sad. She said while she'll bawl her
- 32:58Speaker 2: eyes out and throw up once it's sold, the financial
- 33:01Speaker 2: burden has been hectic. She said it's time for the
- 33:03Speaker 2: house to go. As an avid Sky Wheatley follower, I
- 33:06Speaker 2: have to say it really hurts that this renovation never
- 33:09Speaker 2: got completed because while they got so close, they actually
- 33:12Speaker 2: had to stop the final phase of the landscaping and
- 33:16Speaker 2: renovating the pool house in February because they essentially ran
- 33:20Speaker 2: out of money.
- 33:20Speaker 1: And it's really not hard to see why.
- 33:23Speaker 2: On Sky's podcast last year, she said that the renovations
- 33:26Speaker 2: were a $ 5 million project and ended up listing some
- 33:30Speaker 2: of the big ticket items. So she said that the
- 33:33Speaker 2: stone in the kitchen cost $ 200, 000, the staircase cost $ 40, 000,
- 33:38Speaker 2: and the oven cost $ 14, 000. Jeez, that is a lot
- 33:43Speaker 2: of money to put into a house. I just feel
- 33:45Speaker 2: like renovations always go over budget, don't they? I mean,
- 33:48Speaker 2: this is obviously to the extreme, but it was a
- 33:50Speaker 2: massive property. It was this completely abandoned mansion. They had
- 33:54Speaker 2: to do up every single room, every single acre of land. Yeah,
- 33:58Speaker 2: because when they bought it, it actually hadn't been lived
- 34:01Speaker 2: in for six years and they got it at such
- 34:03Speaker 2: a cheap price. So they purchased it back in 2019
- 34:06Speaker 2: for $ 927, 000. I hate to think what they're going to
- 34:10Speaker 2: get for it now, but will they break even considering
- 34:13Speaker 2: how much money they've poured into it? I mean, the
- 34:15Speaker 2: other factor here though- is the immense strain that this
- 34:18Speaker 2: renovation has put on the couple's relationship. Had they just
- 34:22Speaker 2: moved into a house that had already been done up
- 34:24Speaker 2: or only needed a few minor things.
- 34:26Speaker 1: Would they still be together? I know that is a
- 34:28Speaker 1: big question.
- 34:29Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see what it gets because Georgie
- 34:31Speaker 2: Stevenson lives in a similar area and she ended up
- 34:34Speaker 2: losing on her investment. In saying that, she paid a
- 34:38Speaker 2: lot more than Sky and Lockie did. Didn't her house
- 34:41Speaker 2: get put up as a home lotto or something?
- 34:42Speaker 1: Yes, it is. Everyone keeps sending it to us.
- 34:45Speaker 2: Back to Sky and Lockie's house though, I'm very interested
- 34:47Speaker 2: to see how they market it because Sky says that
- 34:50Speaker 2: process is about to begin. And I wonder if real
- 34:53Speaker 2: estate agents are working in overdrive to reel her in
- 34:56Speaker 2: a bit because on her Instagram story the other day,
- 34:59Speaker 2: she was giving this whole marketing spiel saying how amazing
- 35:02Speaker 2: the house is and it can be used as an
- 35:04Speaker 2: Airbnb or a photo shoot house. And then in the
- 35:07Speaker 2: next breath, she dropped that she's going to be at
- 35:09Speaker 2: the open home and invited her followers to come down
- 35:13Speaker 2: and meet her and see the house. She was like, oh,
- 35:16Speaker 2: you know, you've got to see it in person and
- 35:17Speaker 2: make sure that this experience is exciting for me because
- 35:20Speaker 2: I'm done with all of this emotional shit. It kind
- 35:23Speaker 2: of sounds like she's doing her own block auction where
- 35:25Speaker 2: it's a bit of a spectacle. So we reckon Adrian
- 35:27Speaker 2: Portelli is going to rock up. Surely he'd be happy
- 35:29Speaker 2: if you saw that guy walk through the door. Surely
- 35:31Speaker 2: she's got some connection to him, but no, I don't
- 35:33Speaker 2: think he's going to be there. It's funny because Sky
- 35:37Speaker 2: even floated the idea of her selling the house herself
- 35:40Speaker 2: to Lockie. And he was not happy about it. I
- 35:43Speaker 2: can kind of see where she's coming from with that.
- 35:45Speaker 2: It is so expensive to get a real estate agent
- 35:47Speaker 2: and do the whole marketing campaign. Like when you've literally
- 35:50Speaker 2: got more than half a million followers, why not just
- 35:52Speaker 2: chuck it up and see who wants it? Yeah, but
- 35:53Speaker 2: I think she was more wanting to be in charge
- 35:55Speaker 2: of all of the negotiations and stuff because she's like, oh,
- 35:57Speaker 2: I know the price we need and I'm pretty good
- 35:59Speaker 2: at negotiating.
- 36:00Speaker 1: I actually think she'd be a pretty good negotiator.
- 36:03Speaker 4: No, she wouldn't.
- 36:04Speaker 1: She is an open book. So if she were to
- 36:05Speaker 1: tell you how much they needed, it would be terrible.
- 36:08Speaker 2: I think that is where we are going to leave things.
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