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Veruca Salt's Shock Wedding · 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: Amy Torber and coming up on today's show, Veruca Salt's
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Speaker 1: shock Vegas wedding, Abby Chatfield's surprise feature in Adam Hyde's
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Speaker 1: new song, Loz Curtis's breast implant saga, and our Friday
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Speaker 1: news dump. But first, Bachelor alumni Lee Elliott has been
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Speaker 1: spotted with a new woman at the Melbourne Cup. The
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Speaker 1: ex-husband of Georgia Love shared a photo to his Instagram
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Speaker 1: story with his arm wrapped around the attractive blonde. Well,
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Speaker 1: this news certainly puts the Carrie Bickmore rumours to bed
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Speaker 1: because it was only a few months ago that Woman's
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Speaker 1: Day sent the rumour mill into overdrive when they reported
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Speaker 1: that Leigh was spending time at Carrie's house. It seemed
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Speaker 1: like there was something in it when Leigh was spotted
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Speaker 1: liking Carrie's Instagram posts of her at the Logie's. But
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Speaker 1: they ended up attending the Melbourne Cup separately and Lee
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Speaker 1: then uploaded a photo with this new blonde. I really
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Speaker 1: felt for Georgia Love when I saw this photo because
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Speaker 1: this woman is stunning. So her name is Mimi Hoyle
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Speaker 1: and she's got around 5,000 followers on Instagram. And we've
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Speaker 1: done a little bit of stalking. So she works at
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Speaker 1: a creative agency called Plenty Of. And it specializes in
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Speaker 1: hospitality and wellness. Her Instagram feed is so aesthetically pleasing.
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Speaker 1: It's full of all these fancy photos of her at
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Speaker 1: all of these different girlfriends, hens do's, a lot of
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Speaker 1: Aperol spritzers. It appears like she lives in Sydney and
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Speaker 1: Lee is from Melbourne. So I'm not sure what's going
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Speaker 1: on there. Maybe another Raya situation. Yeah. She seems very
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Speaker 1: influencer adjacent though. So she is followed by Bailey Smith,
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Speaker 1: Liv Kelly, Matt Paul, Mitch Orville, Khan Ong. Bailey has
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Speaker 1: been chucking her some likes recently. So I'm assuming she
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Speaker 1: is single and is now dating Lee Elliott. Kate, you
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Speaker 1: said that her page was very aesthetic, but I did
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Speaker 1: the old scroll back. I went back about 10 years
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Speaker 1: and it was hilarious because I was basically trying to
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Speaker 1: work out how old she is. I think she's about 30,
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Speaker 1: so still about 12 years younger than Lee Elliott. But
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Speaker 1: the photos were just not as polished as they are now.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting because we had an insider contact us that
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Speaker 1: knows Mimi. And the tip-off is that she comes from
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Speaker 1: a wealthy family and is in her mid-20s. Oh.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how old she actually is. I'm guessing
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Speaker 1: around 27. She looks around that, I think. I'm pretty
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Speaker 1: sure I went back and there was school formal photos. Oh, wow. Okay. Well,
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Speaker 1: that would make sense if that was 10 years ago.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm on the money. I noticed that she spent
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Speaker 1: Christmas in New York in 2024 and Georgia Love, of course,
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Speaker 1: went to New York for Christmas. I wonder if they
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Speaker 1: ran into each other. It is a pretty big city, Kate.
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Speaker 1: I've got to add though, just when you said her name,
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Speaker 1: Mimi Hoyle, that is a very rich sounding name.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
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Speaker 1: I mean, she gives off old money vibes.
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Speaker 2: Get ready with me to get married to a man
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Speaker 2: I met two weeks ago.
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Speaker 1: Veruca Salt has shocked her followers by marrying a man
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Speaker 1: she met just two weeks ago. The TikToker met the
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Speaker 1: unknown man while she was holidaying in Los Angeles. Now,
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Speaker 1: before we get into the wedding, Kate, can you get
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Speaker 1: listeners up to speed with who Veruca is? Well, her
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Speaker 1: real name is Kimberly Summer Hartley, and she is a
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Speaker 1: 26-year-old influencer from the Gold Coast who is known for
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Speaker 1: being controversial. Her social media career actually took off in
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Speaker 1: 2019 when she sparked a national manhunt after disappearing from
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Speaker 1: a wedding. So Veruca was found by police a week
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Speaker 1: later working at a brothel in Wollongong. And at the time,
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Speaker 1: she said she had flown out for work but left
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Speaker 1: her phone at the wedding hotel and she claimed she
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Speaker 1: was just waiting for it to be posted back to her.
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Speaker 1: So after gaining notoriety from the media attention, Veruca began
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Speaker 1: an OnlyFans account and became one of the platform's top creators.
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Speaker 1: Over the years, she has built an engaged audience on
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Speaker 1: social media with 1.4 million followers on TikTok and 571
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Speaker 1: on Instagram. And I need to point out, Veruca Salt is,
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Speaker 1: of course, one of the characters in Willy Wonka. She's
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Speaker 1: a spoiled little girl. I do love the stage name.
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Speaker 1: It always makes me laugh when I see it. Do
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Speaker 1: you think there's some Gen Zers who haven't heard of
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Speaker 1: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and don't get it?
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Speaker 1: But they actually think that's her name. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
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Speaker 1: very sadly, Veruca's name made headlines again in 2024 after
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Speaker 1: she tragically lost her six-week-old son, Cash, to SIDS. And
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Speaker 1: since then, she has openly shared her experience with grief
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Speaker 1: and her desire to have another baby. She even started
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Speaker 1: a GoFundMe page at the start of the year asking
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Speaker 1: for donations to make that possible. Yeah, and she ended
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Speaker 1: up raising $ 10, 000 and she flew out to the US
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Speaker 1: in May to undergo fertility treatment. And at the time,
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Speaker 1: she was accused of using the donated money to fund
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Speaker 1: a holiday. And to add salt to the wound, and
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Speaker 1: this is no pun intended, Veruca flew back home in
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Speaker 1: business class. Yeah, I don't know if it was the
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Speaker 1: best idea to share that, particularly because she ended up
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Speaker 1: going on two more trips to the US and documenting those. Now,
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Speaker 1: in August, Veruca addressed the speculation around her trips and
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Speaker 1: She revealed sadly the fertility treatment didn't work and since
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Speaker 1: then she's come to the realization that she isn't in
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Speaker 1: the right headspace to have another baby. She also revealed
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Speaker 1: that her two most recent trips to the US were
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Speaker 1: actually paid for by a rapper who flew her out
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Speaker 1: on two separate occasions. Now apparently things didn't go too
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Speaker 1: well with the rapper on the second trip and he
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Speaker 1: had flown her to New York so she traveled to
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Speaker 1: LA and that is where she spent the last couple
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Speaker 1: of months trying to find herself and having some fun.
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Speaker 1: Now that fun includes going on lots of dates and
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Speaker 1: that's how we get to her new husband. So originally
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Speaker 1: Veruca shared on TikTok that she needed a vacation boyfriend,
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Speaker 1: but she's now ended up with a vacation husband.
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Speaker 3: Is it just.
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Speaker 1: Reminding me of Chloe and Lamar? Because they got married
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Speaker 1: after two weeks of knowing each other. Probably this wedding
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Speaker 1: didn't have as much fanfare as they had. It definitely didn't.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was in Vegas. I think that says
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Speaker 1: a lot about it. Now, in terms of the groom,
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Speaker 1: not much is known about him. He is American and
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Speaker 1: he goes by the TikTok handle Digi Premium. He has
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Speaker 1: just 2,000 followers on TikTok, so he's not an influencer
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Speaker 1: and he doesn't post that often. She should give him
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Speaker 1: a Willy Wonka style nickname. What do we think? Augustus
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Speaker 1: Gloop or just Charlie? I like Augustus Gloop. I love that. Now,
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Speaker 1: the anonymous man first appeared on Veruca's social media in
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Speaker 1: October while she was holidaying in LA. She referred to
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Speaker 1: him as her sexy ass boyfriend. Now, from a timeline perspective,
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Speaker 1: they met on the 28th of September and got married
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Speaker 1: 14 days later on the 12th of October. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: until the 2nd of November that Veruca shocked her followers
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Speaker 1: by unexpectedly announcing that they got married. That video has
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Speaker 1: since gone viral and at the time of recording has
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Speaker 1: 4 million views. In the video, Veruca admitted that she
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Speaker 1: knew it was crazy, but she was just having fun.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to more of what she said.
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Speaker 2: I am fully aware how insane this is. I want
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Speaker 2: to make that really clear. But there is just like
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Speaker 2: a feeling in me that just feels like this is
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Speaker 2: like the path I'm supposed to take. I don't know
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Speaker 2: how to explain it. Like I just had a weird
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Speaker 2: vibe about it. And obviously I'm scared. Like that's normal.
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Speaker 2: I think you're supposed to be a little nervous on
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Speaker 2: your wedding day.
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Speaker 1: Has she mentioned anything about where they're going to live? Like,
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Speaker 1: is this guy moving to Australia? Is she going to
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Speaker 1: move to the US? So there were a lot of comments,
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Speaker 1: as you can expect following this video. And she ended
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Speaker 1: up replying to one of the comments that said, what's
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Speaker 1: going on with your pets? And she said that she
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Speaker 1: currently has a friend staying at her house who's looking
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Speaker 1: after her animals. And then she will look to ship
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Speaker 1: them over to the US because she's moving to the US.
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Speaker 1: That is crazy because At first I thought, oh, this
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Speaker 1: is just some sort of scandal for TikTok. Like she
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Speaker 1: hasn't actually gotten married. This is just her views. Well,
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Speaker 1: I was wondering if it's legal because as I touched
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Speaker 1: on before, they got married in the Little White Wedding
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Speaker 1: Chapel in Las Vegas, which is a pretty famous chapel there.
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Speaker 1: And Veruca said it really suited her because it was
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Speaker 1: this Vegas rock star wedding and it suited her new
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Speaker 1: husband as well, which a lot of people were like, oh,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't give off rock star vibes to me. She's
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Speaker 1: obviously got the rose colored glasses on at the moment.
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Speaker 1: I just love how she's like, oh, you know, us
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Speaker 1: as a couple, it suits us. You've known the guy
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Speaker 1: for two weeks. You probably haven't even met his parents. Well,
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Speaker 1: in saying that, Veruca actually flew her mum out for
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Speaker 1: the occasion and she was there by her daughter's side.
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Speaker 1: I bet she was thrilled. Well, she looked pretty happy,
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Speaker 1: to be honest. I mean, I suppose she's just supporting
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Speaker 1: her daughter. But I was like, is this wedding legal,
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Speaker 1: particularly because it's in Vegas? And I did some research
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Speaker 1: and Australia does recognise overseas marriages as long as it's
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Speaker 1: valid under the laws of the country they were married in,
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Speaker 1: as well as valid under Australian law. Basically, that means
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Speaker 1: they don't recognise weddings that happen in different countries where
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Speaker 1: the age of marriage is a lot lower than Australian.
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Speaker 1: There's other rules. Well, the Little White Chapel, that's a
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Speaker 1: very famous spot in Las Vegas. I mean, Britney Spears
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Speaker 1: has got married there, Kim Kardashian. Yeah, it's a legit spot.
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Speaker 1: So it seems like, yes, Australia will recognise the wedding
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Speaker 1: as legal, but the issue is around getting a US visa.
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Speaker 1: So marrying a US citizen doesn't automatically grant any immigration
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Speaker 1: rights in the country. Veruca will need to apply for
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Speaker 1: the appropriate visa, which will be assessed on their own merits,
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Speaker 1: not merely because the marriage exists. I mean, just think
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Speaker 1: about 90 Day Fiancé. That's all I could think of.
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Speaker 1: I mean, how good would she be on that series though?
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Speaker 1: I bet they're pissed that they actually got married at
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Speaker 1: the Little White Chapel. Well, a lot of her followers
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Speaker 1: said the same thing. They're like, oh my God, you
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Speaker 1: would have been amazing on 90 Day Fiancé. In terms
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Speaker 1: of the reaction from her followers, it is quite divided.
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Speaker 1: So some of her followers are saying they're happy for her.
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Speaker 1: While most warned that she was making a mistake, one
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Speaker 1: person wrote, girl, please be careful. This sounds like love bombing. Now,
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Speaker 1: the newlyweds actually poked fun at this suggestion, sharing a
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Speaker 1: video from the wedding with the caption, two love bombers
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Speaker 1: that met two weeks ago. Now, a lot of people
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Speaker 1: commenting saying, oh my God, I hope you have a prenup.
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Speaker 1: Another popular comment was, nobody falls in love faster than
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Speaker 1: a man with no place to stay. Now, Veruca addressed
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Speaker 1: this comment directly on TikTok, revealing that she was currently
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Speaker 1: staying at her husband's house. So it was her that
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Speaker 1: needed a place to stay. She also explained that she
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Speaker 1: hadn't been posting content with her husband because he's scared
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Speaker 1: of her fans. Well, I'm kind of on the side
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Speaker 1: of the concerned fans. I mean, anyone who says I've
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Speaker 1: met a man and I'm marrying them two weeks later,
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Speaker 1: I think there are red flags that are waving in
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Speaker 1: the wind there. I mean, obviously Veruca is going through
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Speaker 1: a lot. She's been very open about the fact and
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Speaker 1: the fact that she was recently going through fertility treatment.
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Speaker 1: Now she's decided that she no longer wants to go
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Speaker 1: down that avenue at the moment and then rushed into
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Speaker 1: this wedding. It seems like she doesn't quite know what
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Speaker 1: she wants. I agree that she should just be having fun,
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Speaker 1: but I feel like this has almost been taken a
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Speaker 1: little bit far. I mean, I was wondering if it's
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Speaker 1: a bit of a content opportunity because as I said earlier,
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Speaker 1: the announcement video got 4 million views while all the
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Speaker 1: subsequent videos have also been getting millions of views. Hilary
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Speaker 1: Duff is set to release her first single in 10 years. Now,
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Speaker 1: when you hear this, the single will be out there.
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Speaker 1: It's entitled Mature, but we have not heard it yet
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Speaker 1: at the time of recording and It was created alongside
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Speaker 1: her music producer husband, Matthew Comer, and I'm expecting big
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Speaker 1: things from this single. Well, he worked on Hillary's most
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Speaker 1: recent album, which was the one 10 years ago, and
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Speaker 1: it didn't fare as well as others. But I think
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Speaker 1: that's a bit of an unfair reflection in his work
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Speaker 1: because You know, the first couple were released when she
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Speaker 1: was in her absolute prime. But most people have said
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Speaker 1: that that album was actually very underrated. If you go
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Speaker 1: back and listen to it, it had a lot of bangers.
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Speaker 1: I love the snippet that Hilary shared from the recording
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Speaker 1: studio with her and her husband because they're having a
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Speaker 1: bit of a laugh about the song being called Mature.
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Speaker 1: And he made a little bit of a pot shot of, oh, well,
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Speaker 1: the song suits you. Actually, let's throw it at the clip.
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's the.
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Speaker 2: Right first move.
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Speaker 1: I think so. You do?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You're a mature gal. You're going to.
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Speaker 1: Die tonight.
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Speaker 3: It's your last day on earth.
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Speaker 2: Did you know? You're a mature gal. You're dead.
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Speaker 1: How cute is Hilary Duff's voice? Like it just takes
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Speaker 1: me back to my childhood. Well, I mean, teenage years,
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Speaker 1: she could be 11. If I close my eyes, she
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Speaker 1: could still be 11. Well, yes, Kate, she still does
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Speaker 1: have the same voice as she did when she was
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Speaker 1: on Lizzie McGuire. I love Hilary Duff. Um, I think
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Speaker 1: OG listeners will remember we actually met Hilary Duff. How
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Speaker 1: many years? Was it like 20 years ago? I don't
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Speaker 1: want to do the sums, but probably. I think we
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Speaker 1: were 17 at the time, but we were obsessed with her.
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Speaker 1: So this was like the biggest thing ever that we
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Speaker 1: actually got to meet her. We had stalked her at
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Speaker 1: her hotel and we happened to be walking past at
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Speaker 1: the exact same moment she and her bodyguard, Troy, were
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Speaker 1: walking out. I just remember she smelled so good. And she,
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Speaker 1: of course, had her perfume with love out, but she
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Speaker 1: wasn't wearing with love. It was a different sort of
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Speaker 1: vanilla-y perfume. Maybe it was like that Tom Ford vanilla perfume.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it was just her sweat. It's like she wasn't
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Speaker 1: even wearing it. It was probably just her. Well, in
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Speaker 1: an interview with Variety, Hilary said that she always knew
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Speaker 1: she was going to return to music. She said, I
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Speaker 1: needed to feel safe and I needed to have the
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Speaker 1: right people in my corner and be absolutely 100% ready.
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Speaker 1: She went on to say that the album feels like
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Speaker 1: the inner workings of her brain and she's so excited
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Speaker 1: to connect with people again on that level. I can't
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Speaker 1: get over how good Hilary Duff looks at the moment.
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Speaker 1: She doesn't look like she's aged a day since she
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Speaker 1: last released music. Like it's absolutely insane. She has always
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Speaker 1: looked good. I'm really interested to see how this album
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Speaker 1: goes for Hilary. I actually think it's going to be
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Speaker 1: a big hit because we have seen a lot of
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Speaker 1: demand online for Hilary to release something. And we're also
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Speaker 1: seeing a lot of other artists from the early 2000s
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Speaker 1: and 2010s having revivals. Like I am seeing Jesse McCartney
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Speaker 1: everywhere on TikTok. He's currently touring in the US at
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Speaker 1: the moment. And according to Rolling Stone, Hilary Duff's Spotify
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Speaker 1: searches have gone up by 400% since she announced her
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Speaker 1: music comeback. I mean, the docu-series following Hilary's personal life
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Speaker 1: and return to the studio is also going to help dramatically.
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Speaker 1: So The series is directed by Sam Wrench, who worked
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Speaker 1: on Sabrina Carpenter's Christmas special as well as Taylor Swift's
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Speaker 1: Era's movie. So she's in very good company. I cannot
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Speaker 1: wait for this to be released because do you remember
13:55
Speaker 1: back in the day we had that DVD that went
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes of Hilary's tour? And I remember this
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Speaker 1: specific scene. She was walking in these stiletto knee-high boots
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Speaker 1: and she got the shoe stuck in What is it,
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Speaker 1: like a manhole kind of thing? Yeah, it was bloody hilarious.
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Speaker 1: It's actually sad how obsessed we used to be with
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Speaker 1: Hilary Duff. I want her to tour, but I don't
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Speaker 1: think she will come to Australia because she has got,
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Speaker 1: is it four children now? Don't put that negative energy out.
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Speaker 1: She can bring the kids with her. One of them
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Speaker 1: is in high school. Remember that interview back in the
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Speaker 1: day that she did on Rove and she was obsessed
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Speaker 1: with Hello Kitty and she was talking about how she
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Speaker 1: had a Hello Kitty sandwich maker, no, toaster, and we
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Speaker 1: went out and found the exact same toaster. Sorry, I'm
14:35
Speaker 1: making you see my absolute weirdos, but well, I mean,
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Speaker 1: if the shoe fits. Abby Chatfield's boyfriend, Adam Hyde, has
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Speaker 1: revealed an audio snippet of he and Abby having sex
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Speaker 1: will feature in his new song, More. Speaking on the
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Speaker 1: Stellar podcast, Adam, who's better known by his stage name,
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Speaker 1: Kelly Holiday, said the idea came to him whilst he
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Speaker 1: was having sex. It's pretty funny because Abby compared the
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Speaker 1: experience of hearing the snippet to hearing your own voice
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Speaker 1: on a microphone, but a million times worse and said
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Speaker 1: her mum isn't allowed to listen to the song. Just insane.
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Speaker 1: whole thing makes you feel really uncomfortable. Like imagine being like, okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: hit record. I mean, it just all seems very performative.
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Speaker 1: Like it's not like going to be a natural sound,
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Speaker 1: is it? I think they were halfway through when he
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Speaker 1: decided to press record. And apparently you can't actually hear
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Speaker 1: that much because it's muffled by the bedsheets covering the microphone.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't personally make me go, I really
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Speaker 1: want to listen to this song I must say I
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Speaker 1: do really like his current song that's up for an
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Speaker 1: ARIA award, Dancing. Well, that's about Abby. That's a beautiful song.
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Speaker 1: Everyone got behind that song. I wonder how this one
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Speaker 1: is going to fare because, I mean, to be honest,
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Speaker 1: Abby isn't very popular at the moment on TikTok after
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Speaker 1: the defamation case and then there was also that stolen
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Speaker 1: necklace thing that she was dragged into completely unfairly. She
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Speaker 1: had nothing to do with it. She seems to have
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Speaker 1: been copying so much trolling recently. Yeah, I feel for
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Speaker 1: Abby because it seems like everyone– has just used the
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Speaker 1: past couple of weeks as an opportunity to pile on her.
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Speaker 1: Meghan Markle is reportedly set to make a return to
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Speaker 1: acting eight years after quitting hit show Suits to join
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Speaker 1: the royal family. The Sun is reporting that Meghan will
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Speaker 1: appear alongside Lily Collins, Brie Larson, Henry Golding and Jack
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Speaker 1: Quaid in the upcoming movie Close Personal Friends. She will
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Speaker 1: be playing herself though. It's going to be interesting to
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Speaker 1: see how Megan fits into this movie because it is
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Speaker 1: a rom-com about two couples. One of the couples is
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Speaker 1: meant to be famous. So perhaps she's a friend. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they come out to her Montecito home and have
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Speaker 1: a dinner party or something. I think it's really interesting
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Speaker 1: when celebrities play themselves in a TV show or a
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Speaker 1: movie because it's quite reflective of how they see themselves
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Speaker 1: or if they take the piss out of themselves. Yeah. Well,
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Speaker 1: this news actually comes off the back of Harry and
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Speaker 1: Meghan being booed at the LA Dodgers game. Did you
16:49
Speaker 1: see Meghan's new Instagram story this week? It was of
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Speaker 1: her and Harry celebrating the Dodgers win in what appeared
16:55
Speaker 1: to be their movie room. I saw that, but I
16:57
Speaker 1: didn't know the context. I was like, oh, has Netflix actually,
17:00
Speaker 1: you know, done a backflip and they're going to get
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Speaker 1: her show to return or something? Well, I've seen quite
17:05
Speaker 1: a few impersonations of this moment on TikTok. And for
17:09
Speaker 1: those who haven't seen it, it's a shot of Meghan
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Speaker 1: and a friend jumping out of their seats celebrating. And
17:14
Speaker 1: Harry appears quite subdued in the vision. I mean, to me,
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Speaker 1: it just looked like Harry was like every other husband
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Speaker 1: who didn't want to be filmed for Instagram. He was
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Speaker 1: kind of just happy chilling on the couch. Yeah, but
17:24
Speaker 1: let's remember he's English. He probably doesn't give a shit
17:26
Speaker 1: about the LA Dodgers. Maybe if it was like a
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Speaker 1: soccer match or something. Former Love Islander Chris Hughes has
17:32
Speaker 1: opened up about his mental health in a recent podcast.
17:36
Speaker 1: The 32-year-old, who's better known as Jojo Siwa's boyfriend, revealed
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Speaker 1: former One Directioner Liam Payne reached out to him following
17:43
Speaker 1: a terrible period in his life. So Chris told the
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Speaker 1: podcast that he'd been involved in a stash with the
17:48
Speaker 1: paparazzi a few years ago and received backlash online. Let's
17:52
Speaker 1: have a listen to what he said.
17:53
Speaker 3: Obviously, you know, seeing everything what happened to him was
17:57
Speaker 3: just obviously extremely upsetting for millions and millions of people.
18:01
Speaker 3: But knowing he cared about my mental health at the
18:05
Speaker 3: time was, yeah, it was tough. That was tough when
18:08
Speaker 3: I saw the news about him because he reached out,
18:10
Speaker 3: he sent me a message saying, And Pacey said, look,
18:13
Speaker 3: stay strong. Like, don't worry about what, you know, what
18:16
Speaker 3: people are saying to you. Essentially along the lines of like,
18:19
Speaker 3: I know he actually sent me a morning, the morning
18:21
Speaker 3: after that incident, he was just like, no, you'll be anxious.
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Speaker 3: It happens. It's normal. Which is basically normalised it to
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Speaker 3: make me feel better, which I thought was.
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Speaker 2: Says a lot about his character.
18:31
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, Chris went on to explain that he'd only
18:35
Speaker 1: ever met Liam once a few years earlier and And
18:38
Speaker 1: this showed what an amazing person he was to reach
18:41
Speaker 1: out to him. It seems like a lot of people
18:42
Speaker 1: have recently been coming out in interviews and sharing their
18:45
Speaker 1: experience with Liam Payne. And it just seems like he
18:48
Speaker 1: was such a lovely guy that was really misunderstood. Just
18:52
Speaker 1: makes this whole situation even sadder. Loz Curtis has revealed
18:56
Speaker 1: she's considering having her breast implants removed. It's interesting because
18:59
Speaker 1: she actually got them done in Thailand in 2011. And
19:04
Speaker 1: now she's received a quote from an Australian surgeon saying,
19:08
Speaker 1: for $ 21, 000 for the explant surgery. Now, she told her
19:12
Speaker 1: followers she was tempted to go back to Thailand to
19:14
Speaker 1: get the explant surgery. However, she didn't like the idea
19:17
Speaker 1: of staying in Thailand for 10 days. She said last
19:20
Speaker 1: time it felt like she was there for months and months.
19:23
Speaker 1: I was pretty surprised that she was even considering that,
19:25
Speaker 1: especially considering how much Sky Wheatley has spoken about her
19:28
Speaker 1: botched surgery in Asia. The whole thing just sounds so
19:31
Speaker 1: frustrating because obviously she didn't have a great time after
19:34
Speaker 1: she got the breast implants. Now having to go back
19:36
Speaker 1: to remove them, it would just be such an awful experience.
19:40
Speaker 1: It's something we're seeing a lot of influencers go through.
19:43
Speaker 1: And I'm glad that they do document it because it
19:45
Speaker 1: seems full circle. Like if you shared when you got them,
19:48
Speaker 1: I think it's only fair to share your experience getting
19:50
Speaker 1: them removed. Kate Jones, better known as Dedicated Lifestyle, shocked
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Speaker 1: her followers on Sunday night by revealing she's pregnant with
19:58
Speaker 1: her first child. The popular influencer shared a reel showcasing
20:02
Speaker 1: special moments from the first trimester with the caption, the
20:06
Speaker 1: biggest little secret we've ever had to keep. She really
20:09
Speaker 1: managed to pull the wool over her followers' eyes because
20:11
Speaker 1: she's only just gotten back from a trip to the US,
20:14
Speaker 1: which she fully vlogged on YouTube and shared across her
20:16
Speaker 1: social media. A lot of her followers were like, oh
20:19
Speaker 1: my God, how did you not manage to raise suspicion?
20:21
Speaker 1: So she said she ended up wearing a lot of
20:23
Speaker 1: baggy clothes and mostly posed for photos with her back
20:26
Speaker 1: to the camera looking over her shoulder. She also said
20:29
Speaker 1: it makes a big difference when you're in control of
20:31
Speaker 1: the angles when you're vlogging. And it really shows you
20:34
Speaker 1: can't trust anything on social media. Like everyone is manipulating
20:37
Speaker 1: the angles. It's like that trend on TikTok where the
20:39
Speaker 1: husband's put up, this is what my wife looks like
20:41
Speaker 1: on Instagram. This is what she looks like sitting on
20:43
Speaker 1: the couch. It's like, this person looks like completely different.
20:47
Speaker 1: They've always got an hoodie or like a rug on.
20:49
Speaker 1: I am someone... Even now that it's getting slightly warmer
20:52
Speaker 1: in Adelaide, I mean, that's a bit of a joke.
20:53
Speaker 1: The weather's been shit. But I always have to have
20:56
Speaker 1: a rug on. I'm actually recording from my couch now
20:57
Speaker 1: with a rug on. It's like my security blanket.
20:59
Speaker 2: How old are you?
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Speaker 1: Are you like 90? I love it. You were saying
21:01
Speaker 1: the other day how you suddenly felt old, Kate. I
21:04
Speaker 1: think that's actually just confirmed it. Well, I'm mixing it
21:06
Speaker 1: up by having a Squishmallow behind me. I feel like
21:09
Speaker 1: that kicks me a bit young. No, I think that's
21:11
Speaker 1: just sad. Kate, I actually thought you were going to
21:14
Speaker 1: say about Woodies that they're a birth control device. That's
21:17
Speaker 1: what some of my friends have been saying. They're like,
21:20
Speaker 1: no one actually looks good in an Woody. Anyway, back
21:23
Speaker 1: to Kate Jones's pregnancy. So I really enjoyed the announcement.
21:27
Speaker 1: I loved Kate's reel, especially the appearance of her two
21:30
Speaker 1: sausage dogs. Oh my gosh. They were the cutest sausage
21:33
Speaker 1: dogs I've ever seen. I'm wondering how they're going to
21:35
Speaker 1: deal with it because I feel like sausage dogs are
21:38
Speaker 1: a little bit overprotective of their owners. Oh, I think
21:40
Speaker 1: they'll be fine. I loved the video where she shared
21:43
Speaker 1: the news to her friends and family because quite a
21:45
Speaker 1: few influencers made the cut. So Brittany Saunders, Matt Hay
21:49
Speaker 1: and Georgie Stevenson were all in it. And it's quite
21:51
Speaker 1: funny because Kate captioned the video saying, made the most
21:54
Speaker 1: amount of fucks you'll ever hear in a video. And
21:56
Speaker 1: she was not wrong. All of her friends are like, fuck.
21:59
Speaker 2: Off, get fucked.
22:00
Speaker 1: It's just so good. Well, as life milestones do, the
22:04
Speaker 1: reel got a huge response from Kate's followers. So to
22:08
Speaker 1: put it into perspective, she has 196,000 followers and this
22:12
Speaker 1: reel got over 32,000 likes, as well as notching up
22:16
Speaker 1: 360,000 views. From a social media perspective, that is really
22:20
Speaker 1: strong engagement. Now, the influencers were out in full force
22:23
Speaker 1: congratulating Kate. Ashley Bynes, Georgia Richards, Em Davies, Simone Anderson,
22:28
Speaker 1: Olivia White, Sova Dofa and Brittany Saunders were among the well-wishers. Now,
22:32
Speaker 1: on Tuesday night, Kate actually jumped on her Instagram story
22:35
Speaker 1: and apologized to her followers for dropping such big news
22:38
Speaker 1: and then ghosting everyone, particularly since it was such a
22:41
Speaker 1: hard launch and she hadn't dropped any clues in the
22:44
Speaker 1: lead up. She was also going on about how weird
22:46
Speaker 1: it was that everyone knew now because she'd been sitting
22:48
Speaker 1: on the news for so long. The following day, she
22:51
Speaker 1: gave her followers what they were calling out for and
22:53
Speaker 1: did an Instagram Q & A where she answered everyone's questions.
22:57
Speaker 1: So what we found out is the baby is due
22:59
Speaker 1: in April and she's feeling a lot better now that
23:01
Speaker 1: she's in the second trimester. Unfortunately, between week six and 13,
23:05
Speaker 1: she was suffering from morning sickness. She also touched on
23:08
Speaker 1: briefly that her and her husband, Nick, had taken a
23:11
Speaker 1: little bit longer than they expected to in their trying
23:13
Speaker 1: to conceive journey, but they were so grateful that they
23:16
Speaker 1: naturally conceived. And she said that she would be keeping
23:19
Speaker 1: that journey a private one. Let's get into our Friday debrief.
23:23
Speaker 1: And Amy, I'm still feeling so nostalgic from yesterday because
23:27
Speaker 1: we filmed a very special project with Wilson. They've recently
23:31
Speaker 1: opened a new store in Burnside Village, which is absolutely beautiful.
23:35
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with everything in it. And we ended up
23:38
Speaker 1: going down to the old tennis courts at our high
23:40
Speaker 1: school to shoot the vision. We picked the worst possible
23:43
Speaker 1: timing because it was just as the school bell rang
23:46
Speaker 1: and all the students were coming out. I was having
23:48
Speaker 1: PTSD from my high school experience. Yeah, it would have
23:51
Speaker 1: been all right if we were just going down for
23:53
Speaker 1: a legitimate hit of tennis, but we had like my
23:56
Speaker 1: big cameras. We were filming something quite funny. At one stage,
23:59
Speaker 1: there was a little girl who was watching because we
24:01
Speaker 1: were throwing tennis balls at Sophie as part of the video.
24:04
Speaker 1: But this was such a dream collaboration. Like we got
24:06
Speaker 1: an email this week being like, oh, you know, would
24:09
Speaker 1: you like to work with Wilson? And Being a huge
24:12
Speaker 1: tennis lover, I was like, are you serious? Like, is
24:14
Speaker 1: this actually for real? Yeah, because when we were 18
24:17
Speaker 1: at uni, we used to go down to the local
24:19
Speaker 1: tennis courts and have a hit every night until it
24:22
Speaker 1: got dark. Then we'd drive home. I remember this phase
24:25
Speaker 1: of having like vanilla Coke and baked beans as well.
24:27
Speaker 1: It's just that time is just so fresh in my mind.
24:31
Speaker 1: It was so long ago.
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Speaker 3: It was.
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Speaker 2: I was open.
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Speaker 1: Well, you have to stay tuned for what we were
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Speaker 1: filming down at the tennis courts. I personally think it
24:36
Speaker 1: was pretty funny. I think that is all we have
24:38
Speaker 1: time for today, though. Thank you so much for listening
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