Britt & Ben Share All of the Details of Their Engagement!

Hey Lifers,

It's been a HUGE week!
Laura got nits, producer Keeshia won a media week award and as you all likely know, BRITT GOT ENGAGED!
It's been 5 years of us having the privilege of doing this podcast, sharing all of the best life moments and deeply cooked dating lives, whilst praying to all of the Gods that Britt found her penguin! On today's episode, we take a little trip down memory lane of Britt and Ben's love story and then they answer all of your questions about their engagement and future plans!
They speak about:
-Whether Britt knew it was happening
-How the day panned out
-All of the ring details and Ben & Laura's secret messages
-What's going to happen once they're married with where they live
-Any plans for the wedding

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Life Uncut acknowledges the traditional custodians of country whose lands
were never seated. We pay our respects to their elders
past and present.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
This episode was recorded on cameragle Land. Hi guys, and
welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
I'm Laura.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
I'm engaged, but I'm also Brittany.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Have you lost your goddamn mind over the weekend? I
am on a high.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, I'm on high and I haven't yet come back
down to ground.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
It's been a big week for everyone. I'd like to
point it out. So britt as you guys all know,
and as you are here for got engaged.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
But it's not all about me because Laura got nit.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
I got nits on the weekend and I can't wait
to tell you all about it.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
And producer Keisha won a very important award because she
is the best producer of the whole line.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
She won a big media award like at our Australian
Media Week, so we're very very proud.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
On top of that, you looked absolutely bang in.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
When you said that photo, I was like, fuck, you're hot.
Oh thanks guys, And then I was like.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh you were, well, the nicest thing I think not
only was the award for life on cut in total,
but also Mitch, your radio host, was hosting the night.
So I kind of walked into the night thinking that
I was going to be sitting like with a table
with randoms.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Ended up knowing quite.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
A few people from my radio days that were sitting
at the table, and then Mitch was hosting, and it
actually felt like such a nice.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Personal, little little evening, which is why she got so
lit city she couldn't leave the house the next day. Yeah,
I got too excited. I was like a bit nervous
at first, and then I got too excited.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
We are very proud of you because you are a
direct reflection of us, so we were worried for really while.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
But you know, I thank you so much, guys.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
I actually felt so special and I had such a
brilliant night. And it's it's really cool because at the
awards night, the particular one that I was up for
on Screen Producer, and a lot of the organizations that
were in every single category, they were the really big networks.
It was like Paramount nine, there was ones for ARN,
there was ones for SCA, like all of these massive companies,

(02:07):
and then there was.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Just little life on cut, you know, like just a
little fish yo.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
And it actually felt so nice for I don't want
to say the underdog, but in terms of numbers and
in terms of size of a business, it's really full
that we are in there, like, you know, yeah, fighting
it out with the.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Big dog, especially when there's four of us. That's what
I mean, you know. So yeah, and I had a
brilliant time, So thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, I know you guys have come here to hear
all about my knit story, so I'm really thrilled to
tell you as well.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
I actually just realized that I like subconsciously scratched my
head because anytime I hear that word, my scalp just
gets itchy.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
It throws you back into turmoil.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
So a few weeks ago, when we did the radio
show with Midge, I was like gloating because my children
are so bored that they don't catch knits right like
everyone else has had it, all the cousins have had it.
But my kids have such wispy, fine hair and that
knits can't hang on.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Blown off.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
But I mean that's not a quality that most people.
Thin hair is not something that people find desirable. But
like my children. They gained that hereditary gene from me.
They have thin, wispy hair, never to have had nits. Anyway,
We're at the cafe on the weekend and I looked
down at Marley and I was like, just like playing
with her head, giving her a little head massage.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
And I looked down and I.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Was like, oh, god, friend, you've got dan driff and
then the girls five I always call a girlfriend, and.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Then I and then I, and then I had a look.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
A bit closer and I was like, holy shit she had.
I could see them. She had like full on knits
crawling through hair. And she was like, yeah, mom, my
head's been so itchy. So we went home and everyone
has had knit treatments and then I woke up and
I felt itchy. So like the whole family Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
all we've done is knit treat each other.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
We're like monkeys in a zoo that pick bugs off
each other and eat them.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
But you all have to commit, right we have. You
can't half commit. You can't have commitment issues with a
knit situation because they just be like, hey, sucker, I'll
come back tomorrow. They even jump off sometimes and chill
for a minute, like on a lounge.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
I feel it. Well, you have done nothing.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
You were like knit treatment, no sleep, brush, more oil,
comb every day. Feel like T tree and they still
use T trees. Yeah, well, I guess I was like
a T tree oil theme. I've done two treatments on
the girls. I've done two treatments on myself. I've done
two treatments on Nana. And Matt was he was like,
I'm not having it. My hair is so dirty, I'm

(04:23):
not going to get nits. And then last night I
was in there combing his hair. What did I find?
A little nitty nit nit?

Speaker 6 (04:29):
I feel now like you've given it to me, probably
probably given it all of you.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
You probably should do some nit treatments. Guys, I don't
know if my hair is healthy enough anymore.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
I think it's been bleached beyond oblivion because they only
pick healthy hair.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Do they.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
It's very humbling. Let me let me tell you. I
feel like I've entered a new phase of parenting. And
I can't wait for the Daily Mail article to talk
about your engagement and Laura Ben getting new Laura, what
a week for life. We've all had some wins in life,
but no look we know the reason that you're all
here today, and it's the reason that you know. It's
the thing we've been holding on to for hope for

(05:02):
the last five and a half years.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
It finally happened.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
We've been praying to the gods every day, please someone take.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Brittany off our hands.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
No, but last week's episode on Thursday, you guys all
heard it. You saw the videos. It was the biggest
surprise for us. And every time I watched that video,
I cry. It's been viewed millions of times. I think
a million of those views is me, and I think
I've cried a million times as well.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Ben and I said the same thing. Ben and I
have not stopped watching. And at the start it was
in all honesty. Ben is new to this media world, right,
so like he doesn't really do Instagram and online and
he doesn't get it.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Plays football and that's it.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
And when I said, oh, I'm going to surprise the
girls and tell them on camera, he couldn't understand it.
He was like, but why, like why not just tell them?
And I said, oh, because I just feel like I wanted.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Thing as content contact.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
And I had this convo with some lifers actually who
were like, thank you for like including us, And that's
what I wanted to do because your life has been
on the journey with us, all of us for so
oh damn long, like literally five years of the highs
and the lows and you know it all. And I
wanted to make it like an intimate moment but also
bring everyone in and feel included. And Ben was like, okay,

(06:10):
like whatever you want to do. But I don't get it.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Anyway. He watched the video about crying and he's like
I get it. He's like it's so good. It's like
it's so beautiful. I love it, and he can't stop
watching it. Then I'll hear him.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
He's like, I'm just going to the bathroom. I'll hear
him in the bathroom and I can hear the video
playing in the bathroom. I reckon Ben has contributed to
a million of those, it's like two and a half
million views or something.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
I think he's watched them all.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
I mean, this is kind of the thing that like
life on Cut was built on, right, Like we've spoken
about this throughout the years. On one hand, it was
talking about relationships and talking about love, but I think
the real thing that's like set us apart is talking
about female friendship. Like that's been such a huge part
of what makes this podcast joyful, the fact that we
are real friends and get to share in these life milestones,

(06:52):
and like watching that video back, we're just so lucky,
we're so likecky, we get to work together, we're so
like we genuinely love each other, and that we've been
able to create the community off the back of that.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
And in terms of an announcement, it's your special day.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
But you made us feel so special by doing that,
so Ben, but he actually proposed to all of it.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Ben, You're all about Beyonce. Now we're all engaged. One
of my favorite things to watch back in it. If
you are someone that hasn't watched that video yet, please
go and watch it. But my favorite thing to go
back and I just keep freeze framing on the real
is just watching both of your faces. Keisha, the genuine
shock and then like putting the hands over her mouth
and her eyes couldn't get wider. And then appears to
Laura and I've never seen someone's mouth so wide.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
All I could think was lucky, Matt, if that's what.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Your mouth, I was just like, wo, man, you look
like Luna Park, like that you know, so much judgment
in it as well, like like not in a bad way,
but the moment when I started crying and Laura still
hadn't clocked and she thought it was a listener crying
like an ask on come, and then the realization I
love the entire thing.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
I can't start watching.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
I know that sometimes you guys probably think that we
know everything beforehand, but we haven't asked Britt any details
around the engagement because we wanted it to be like
a revelation to us at the same time. So when
all that happened last week when we recorded on Wednesday,
we then stopped down. We were like, this is not
getting tacked onto the back of an ask gun cut.
We're going to have a whole entire episode dedicated to

(08:20):
the engagement of Britney Secrest. But in order to do that,
we had to wait until today, so we are asking
all these questions for the first time. We also put
out a call out to you guys on Instagram, so
we've got all your questions as well to ask Britt.
But before we do do that, we have a little
surprise for you, Britt, because as you mentioned, it has
been such a journey. You've also brought everyone along for it,

(08:43):
you know, as we always do for these big milestones
in our lives that we share on the pod. And
this is just a little walk down memory lane.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
We've heard it and I'm crying. What's wrong with me?

Speaker 7 (08:52):
What is wrong?

Speaker 1 (08:54):
It's this deep seated issue stealing society and oh, if
you're on your thirties and forties and you're single, there's
something wrong with you. Or ninety nine percent of the time,
I'm proud to be single.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
I'm happy.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yes, I'm looking for a relationship, but I'm still happy
in myself. But in those moments, for a second, even
I felt it. I was like, I don't want everyone
in this audience looking at me being like, oh, like,
well it's her. I'm still no crushing I'm already No,
I'm crushing hard.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
No, I am going to tell you that this is
a disaster waiting to happen personally.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
You know, I have an attraction to people that aren't here. Yeah,
because I'm commitment.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
Fol Oh, so that he's physically not here.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Turn on that you only knew him for two days
and now you're in love with him.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
I'm not in love with him. I'm in lust with him.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
It was three days and we've been speaking for a
long time now.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Of course Britney never learns. I want to know, how's
the guy. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
I feel like it's not overly serious, but maybe then
you're like, like, I can't say that because and what
if he hears this and then he thinks it's serious,
and then you've just said it's serious.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
And I was, dear god, it's a fucking mind field.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
And then this one face popped up and it was Ben.
I was like, wow, that guy's good looking and checking
on the bio his foreign tick athlete wasn't a tick benefit,
but I thought that would be really good if I
was going to have a fling, right, someone like fit
and helping it really go the long hole. And I
was trying to say, like, let's have a little no

(10:21):
strings attached fling. And by the fourth day he was like,
I really like you, and I said I really like
you too. Well, why does that matter if I don't
live here. If we are the people that we would
want to date, let's keep talking. At one part of
me was like, amazing, this makes me feel good. The
other part was like how am I going to tell Laura.
I don't know how you would explain it. I don't
know what the label is right now. It's serious without

(10:43):
being serious.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
I think it's going that way, but it's not there yet.
What are you doing for Christmas? Britt Well?

Speaker 1 (10:48):
I booked flights last night, Laura. Shit, I am going
to lay it all on the line here. You're either
going to get like happy in lust love Brittany, or
you're going to get heartbroken Brittany.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
So we don't nobody can handle heartbroken Brittany again. No
one wants. I don't want that for you. I don't
want you to be heartbroken again. That's a horrible thing
to have to go through.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, we're probably three months deep now to the relationship face.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
I'm fully flushing.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
I am so happy, Like, I'm so happy that you're happy.
All I want is for you to be in a
relationship where you feel emotionally secure, where you feel secure
not just in distance, in how supported you are, in.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
The level of priority that you take in their life.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Like, all of those things are things that I want
for you, and I know you want them for yourself.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yo, girl, head over heels in love.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
I cannot fault him right now in one part of
his entire life, who he is, anything about him, He's
just the most divine human.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'm so happy that you are happy. You are absolutely
emanating excitement and love.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Flash forward him now and I've never been happier.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
And last week on a Beautiful Island.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Asked me to be his Why. I don't want to know.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
What's a cute way to tell my friends that I'm
getting married.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
What I will say is like it was the most incredible.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Every guys, why didn't you prep me with waterproof sky?

Speaker 3 (12:24):
I feel like I've where we got black eyes? That
was like, yeah, white what right?

Speaker 8 (12:29):
What?

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Everyone? Intermission? This is why I producer Keisha were on
the award.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
I was just putting that together, like going back through
so many of the episodes and just finding these little
snippets of you. I was an absolute mess, but it
just reminded me of how much you wanted this, like
really true and beautiful love. And it's like, it's so
beautiful to see this come from you know, because we've

(12:57):
been there. We've been there through your breakups, We've been
there through the times where you were dating and just
like not loving life.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, the guy that wanted me to sit on his
face meat one when I got sold, what about me?
Where's he now?

Speaker 8 (13:14):
To?

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Kind of you know, just listen to all of those moments,
so back to back and you know know where it
got to and know that and now or at this
point where you're just like so overwhelmingly happy and you
know how happy Lauri is for you, considering that it
was initially you know, we thought it was a disaster.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Went I do like to.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Say that I'll eat my own shit, and in this instance,
I will eat my own shit.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
But she was like, this is a disaster waiting happened.
I'm going to have to pick up the pieces again.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
So now you're just got to pick up my arm
off the ground, you know, because it's so it's so
sore from how big my diamond is. No, Okay, before
we start being silly about that. It was always really
hard because like after we had that conversation when you
very first met Ben and you came back from overseas,
you were like, I'm in love, and I was like,
this is a terrible fucking disaster, Like.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
You not you had great sex for a mom Yes,
you're in a sex hole.

Speaker 6 (14:03):
You've got sex blindness. This is an orgasm blindness for it.

Speaker 8 (14:06):
I came back on Crosteous, I was like, that's oh God,
you just hit heaven in Navana.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
It's not real. Come back down to earth.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
No, what happened after that, because I mean, when you
have just seen your friend go through a bad heartbreak.
I think we spoke about parts of it on the podcast,
but probably never to the extent, right, like, you were
so unhappy for such a period of time, And in
my mind when we had that episode, I know so
many people messaged me and they were like, fuck, Laura,
can't you just be happy for her? And I was like, no,

(14:43):
I can't be right now. And it's not because I'm
not happy for her. It's because I'm so worried that
we're going to be back where we were a year ago.
And that's not for me, that's for you.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
You know. I don't want to see you hurt.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
And that was my biggest fear because statistics say that
long distances hard. And at the time, I was like,
this is some random dude. You've mount on fucking raya,
Like I don't know this guy from Barslop. Now Ben's
sitting here and I love him, so Ben, you won
me over. But I genuinely before we get into answering,
like all the questions everything, like I genuinely want to
say from the bottom of my heart, I am so

(15:15):
happy that you were happy, Like I am so little
of great what's wrong with us? So have a peer
fetish watch if you want to lubricate yourself with DearS
without the place to come.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
No, I'm I'm so happy for you, guys. I'm so
happy that you proved me wrong.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
And I don't I hope that you never thought that
it was anything other than just like the protection of
you and not wanting to see you be hurt again.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
No, And I our hundred percent no.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
And Ben's a great guy, but we.

Speaker 7 (15:45):
Didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
No. And it's so like, thank you so much for
putting that package together, because I mean, that was back
in twenty the end of twenty twenty two. And we
we do these episodes, and we've we've had over five
hundred episodes so often like five.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Hundred and seventy now, just so you know, nearly hundred episodes.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
So we remember what we talk about, but at the
same time, we don't we don't remember exactly what we say,
and then just to walk back to memory lane to
like hear me talking about that first weekend that I
met him, and like I could hear me blushing through
that like the funniness of me, like.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
I yell on booking flights to see some live with
some stranger in the UK.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
But that's what they say right when you know, you know,
And I do feel so lucky that I found Ben
the way that I did, after like a very dark year,
and that I get to look back on it because
of our job like that is such a special thing,
isn't it. It's such a special thing, and that you
guys just put that together for me, so thank you
so much.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
You pulled one on me this time. Well, Ben's gonna.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Be joining us on the aff at some point, but
before he comes on and sort of tells us, like
his side of the engagement story, we wanted to have
the opportunity to grill you first. So we've got all
the questions from you guys, we also have loads of
questions ourselves. I want to kick it off because I
have a few things that I want to tell you
around the ring and around the fact that we all

(17:06):
kind of had an inkling well, actually we knew it
was happening, but we didn't know when. So you played
the surprise so fucking well, because we had a group
text going after Hamilton Island and we were like, do
you think he did it?

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Do you think he did it?

Speaker 2 (17:19):
And then the fact that you held the secret for
so long, which I know that the diary kind of
like enabled that to be the case, but you held
the secret for so long that we all doubted ourselves
completely and thought, Okay, it hadn't happened on that weekend,
he must be doing it at another day.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
I ghastly he gassed it as hard. You played it
so hard.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
But talk us through like the start of the day,
what was happening when you were in Hamilton Island, and
like what was happening in the day prior.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
I wonder if Ben's story is going to be slightly different.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
But the way that I see it is we'd only
been in Hamilton Island one day, and the night before
Ben and I had gone to dinner and he just
wasn't normal. He wasn't that abnormal. But I was like
what I ended up putting dinner? I was like, well,
are you all right? I was like, what is wrong
and he's like, nothing, I'm just tired. Like I'm just

(18:07):
and I'm like, but you're on holiday, why are you tired?
You've done Meanwhile, I've been running in ragged like with
everything booked every day.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
You're like, you're a professional sports player, you do way
more than this. You should be this is a relaxation
for you.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
So there was in hindsight, I look back and I
see that that was because he was nervous, Like that
was the night that he was thinking, oh my god, tomorrow,
I'm having this moment. I'm looking at the person I'm
gonna ask to marry me. But I was like, what
the fuck is wrong? I was like, So then the
next day, Ben was like, I'm gonna make you breakfast
in the morning because we're staying in an airbnb on

(18:42):
the island. So he's like, I'm gonna make you because
he loves to cook, I'm gonna make you a huge, beautiful, big.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Breakfast in the morning.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
We wake up and he's like, oh my god, I
forgot the avocado for the avocado toast.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
And I'm like, I'm like, how could you forget the one?

Speaker 1 (18:53):
It was one of three avocado toast He goes to
SIMC and he's like, I got the bread.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
That'll do me.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
So he's like, I'd better go down to Supermuck and
get it. I was like, oh, come, and he's like, no,
just stay and relax. And I was like, it's fine.
I want to get a coffee.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
He's like, I'll bring you a coffee back and I
was like, babe, I'm coming. We'll get a coffee. We'll
go for a walk.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
And he's like, can I just make you breakfast in bed?

Speaker 1 (19:12):
And I was like fine. For whatever reason, you're like,
you're being crazy. So yeah, So I can't wait to
pick a fight with you about this, so.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
I said in bed.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
And it turns out that I had been stuck to
him like glue since he's been here, that he purposely
forgot the avocados that he could have ten minutes to
go to the Supermarke in the morning to call my
dad and ask my dad. So that was the moment
that he left to call my dad. I mean, you
really left it to the last minute. Bed, I said
the same thing.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
I was like, He's like, you wouldn't leave me alone.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
I was like, babe, I think most people ask like
months in advance of the day.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Of what if he said no, what were you?

Speaker 8 (19:46):
Like?

Speaker 3 (19:46):
What were you going to do? I said, He's like
So he literally caught.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
And was like, I'm gonna ask Brittany this afternoon if
that's cool. I'm like, man, what if you said no,
it's not cool?

Speaker 3 (19:55):
What do you do? Then? So the day was normal.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
We're sitting by the pool and this big, beautiful boat
went past the ocean, so beautiful that I don't often comment,
but I was like, wow, Ben, like, that is a
beautiful boat. I didn't know obviously, but he knew that
was the boat that he had charted because they had
messaged him saying the boat's leaving now blah blah blah
blah blah. So he's like, wow, that is.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
A beautiful boat, and then we left it. Now. I
have said, and I've said it on the podcast before.
So OG listeners, you.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Guys will know I have said before that I've had
conversations with Ben where I'm the planner.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
I'm always surprising.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Him with stuff like hardcore boats and choppers and fishing trips.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
And diving with whales and whatever.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
There's always something I've said to Ben.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Next trip, I'd really like a surprise if you can
do that to me because I like surprises too. So
with an hour to go, we're sitting by the pool.
He's like, hey, I haven't told you yet, but in
an hour we're going somewhere and I said where and
he's like, we're going on a boat.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
So we played it down. He's like, we're going on
a boat and.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
I was like, yes, you did a surprise, like amazing,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
I was like, is it the same kind of a
snorkeling trip we did last time? And he's like yes,
I know you love that so much. He goes out
to the barrier reefs.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
I was like epic.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
He's like, we've got an hour to get ready. So
I put on my togs that just snorkeling.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Gearsk I have my crocs on. I had everything, and
I was like ready to go.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
And with probably three minutes to go, Ben was like, oh,
it's like quite a nice cruise first before we get
to the snorkels, so pack something nice, like why don't
you put a dress on and pack your togs and
I'm like no, it's fine, we're going to be snorkeling.
And it looked gross anyway, and in hindsight, I can
see it playing through his head. He's like, yeah, but
we never get nice photos, like this is going to

(21:34):
be a beautiful boat.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
He's like, it's nicer than last year.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
You're like, we always get nice photos and I put
them on my shrine. Yes, I get professional photos taken
at every location we go to. So I was like, Okay,
I'll take a dress and he's like, no, let's get
take away.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
You know, he goes, let's he goes, We'll get some
nice photos.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
He's like, because there's other people, it's like a sunset
he cruise, you know. Yes, He's like, so let's get
the photos first, and then you can put your swimmers on.
Then we'll go snorkeling, and then you can be gross,
you know, like snorkel gross.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
So I was like fine.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
So he with two minutes to go, he pulled a
dress out because I always bring a white backup dressing.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Cakes ten white dresses.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
So yeah, can you okay, I love this for how long?

Speaker 3 (22:14):
For how long? Now?

Speaker 2 (22:15):
In terms of your relationship, have you been just packing
a white dress for the occasion.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
So funny to me that you have this idea that
it had to be a white dress, because I've never
heard that from anyone else. It's not It didn't have
to be a white dress at all. But we all
know my entire life, I'm a neutral girl. White is
my favorite color. It definitely didn't have to be white.
I had a number of nice dresses that would have
been a little bit dresser, and so Ben went into
my wardrobe with two minutes, pulled a dress out.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
And he's just put this on. We'll take your swimmers,
and I was like, wow, fun, you really want this photo.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Still didn't think about it because I just knew he'd
made this sunset cruise. So we get down to the
boat and the boat's not there. Then there's this whole
other family with kids, and I was like, I.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Was like, are they on a fucking boat?

Speaker 1 (22:58):
And he's like, well maybe, babe, And I'm like, six
screaming kids on holiday that's on our boat. I was like,
did you book an adult's only boat? Like such a
mole of like what? And he's like I feel personally yes,
I'm like that would be me.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
I like, shut up, you beautiful couple who were like
clearly just want to get engaged.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
Listen to my screaming children who have knits.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
So I just thought this whole family was going on
our boat because there was no one else there.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
And then a helicopter bus pulls up and he's like, surprise.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
It's a double surprise, and I was like, oh my.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
God, we get to go on house.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Okay, surely if you're getting a fucking helicopter to a boat,
there's a little tiny bit of you, even if it's
just your pinky toenail where you're like maybe maybe, so
you'll remember last maybe.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
He's going to pop the question.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
You remember we joked last year how I did the
surprise for Ben at Hamilton Island. I took him on
a helicopter cruise through the Sundays to a private island
where you have a picnic, and the joke was I
handed the engagement to him on a platter, you know,
So I just thought it was the same thing.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
He's like, same as last year.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
I know you loved it, but I still genuinely and
I'll explain why. I didn't think it was going to
happen in that moment. So we land, we take a
few steps towards the picnic. He was like, you left
your bag in the chopper, so I run back to
the chopper. Meanwhile, as we're landing in the helicopter, the
whole beach is beautiful and private. It's white Haven Beach,

(24:17):
one of the most beautiful beaches in the world, and
it is so bare and there's two girls doing a photo.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
Shoot like one hundred meters up with a photographer.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
I thought that they were a gay couple that were
just doing because it looked very lovey and romantic.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
So I was like, oh my god, they're doing a
photo shoot that's so beautiful. They've just crushed it one
hundred meters down the road. Yes, So I was like, well,
how beautiful is that going to be? Again, didn't think
anything of it. The helicopter landed. I take a few
steps away towards the water.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Ben goes back to get my bag and he's like
come in and he's like running up behind me. And
then as I turn around, I'm talking. We had been
out of the helicopter. I don't think the road is
had even stopped. We had been out for like twenty seconds.
And I turn around and he just falls to a knee.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
That was so quick.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
It was an and I in true Prittey style, just
burst into laughter. I could not and bends on one
knee with this beautiful ring. I hadn't even looked at
the ring, and I mean hysteric packling, and he's like,
are you gonna eat?

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:14):
And then and then I'm just don't you know when
you're just so shocked? So I dropped to my knees
as well. He's like, why are you on your knees?

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Stands up and.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Did he actually ask the question? Yes, okay, he said,
I love you. You're the woman of my dreams. Will
you be my forever squid?

Speaker 3 (25:32):
It's very cute. Laura wants to laugh. Do this man?
And I call it cute names are still cute? What
does Mac? Mac doesn't even have a cute name for me?
Be nicer to me. He never proposed.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
He just got down on one knee, cried and then
popped straight back up and never actually said will you
marry me?

Speaker 3 (25:55):
But the ring was a pretty good indicator.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, I mean he gave one also that dropped to
the knee, then the pop up, and then the ring.
It was a good indication that he wanted to marry me,
but hasn't actually asked yet.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
He didn't say yes, still hasn't. Well, I mean Ben said,
well you be my forever squid. So I'm taking that
as will you marry me? So I dropped my knees,
still laughing. He's like, get up. Why are you on
your knees? Anyway, then I noticed the photographer who was
at the helicopter, So the photo shoot was fake so
that the photographer could be waiting on the beach.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
So those girls were not getting a photo shoot. They
were not a gay couple. They were No, they were
actually the wid cameras. They were the women that organized
the whole proposal with Ben. They were decoys. Yeah, they
were a decoy.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Well, you can't just have a photographer roaming around a picnic.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
That's a bit. I thought maybe the helicopter pilot doubled
moon lights. No, but that would have been a giveaway.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
If I was coming down and there was a photographer
sitting there waiting, I was like, oh my god, I'm
about to get engaged.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
But they were doing their own beautiful photo shoot, which.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Happens in Hamilton Island. So I'm laughing on my knees.
He's like, get up, So I get up.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
He gets up, still hystorically laughing, cuddling him, kissing him, whatever.
There's photos of us, me cuddling him with I'm still
holding the ring out behind my back, like I just
haven't even looked at it yet, and he has to
actually physically push me.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
Away and he's like, can you answer me?

Speaker 3 (27:08):
And I was like, oh, what was the question? I
was like, oh my god, yes, and then that was it.
We had this beautiful, beautiful moment. The photographer was amazing.
We didn't even notice her. You know, I don't know,
you're just so I mean, you're so.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Used to enough to being on The Bachelor, you could
have a camera a foot away from you whatever. Literally,
I know it's been a long time, but it is
a very desensitizing thing. Like even on the batch by final,
I was like, what cameras and there's like a whole
crew and I was like.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
Love me exactly, you're think of me. Why do you
have to go there?

Speaker 7 (27:43):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Be here anyway?

Speaker 1 (27:45):
So Ben was like, baby, you haven't even looked at
the ring yet, and I was like, because I don't care.
I don't want to say I've thought about it my
whole life, because I haven't been that person. But since
I've always thought about who my person's going to be,
but I haven't ever cared about that proposal moment as
much as some people might.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
And he's like, how have you not looked at the ring?

Speaker 4 (28:02):
He's like, God, damn it, look at the bloody ring.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I mean it has its own gravitational pool, so like
it's surprising that you didn't just get sucked into its orbit.
To be honest, yes, you're like trying to say I do,
and you're like, ah, I love you anyway, but I yeah,
I do like that.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
He was a bit upset by that, and then I
did cry in between the laughter.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
I was so overcome with emotions.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Like exactly like what we've been doing since we've been
talking about it and laughing, and then I was crying
and then laughing.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
You almost like feel a bit hysterical, don't you.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
With the wave of hysteria from like happy laughing to
like crying to them laughing, You're like, am I is
this a breakdown?

Speaker 3 (28:37):
He thought I was.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Breaking an emotional breakdown right now?

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Is this a Tuesday for me? It's so funny. Then after,
immediately after he was like, look, I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
I did expect or hope for a few more tears
less laughing or were made up for it on podcast,
But I didn't think they'd be quite so much laughter
when I asked you to marry me, and I had
to explain to him that for me was shocked. And
that's how I, I mean, we all know laughter and
humors how I deal with everything, Like any emotion, I
just start laughing.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
But I genuinely think for a lot of people, they
probably don't respond in the way that they think they're
going to respond because, like, especially if you are caught
off guard, sometimes not even if you're caught off guard,
like even if you know what's coming, I guess it's
something that you probably played out a version of it
in your head, but when it actually happens in real life,
things don't like connect as quickly as what you expect
them to.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yeah, when I.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Went back through the photos, because I had the dress
has all this open side, and I just had the oldest,
ugliest grayest undies on that you could see, because I
was like, fucking, who cares, I'll get changed into my
summers when I get there. So then as student as
I realized we were engaged, I took my undies off.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
I was like, progress, like, can you wait a minute.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
And I took my undies off and I was like, now,
don't shoot from below. Don't because all the flaps were
ours like everything.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
So I was like, just shoot me. You know, I
have to free flapping in all of your engagement picks.
I free flapped in all the pigs. Yeah I did.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
I did wonder where like the pantelion was. I did
have that thought. I was like, that's an aggressive dress.
I couldn't wear that. Yeah, I couldn't, Like I have
to wear underwear. He'll led me ect to me, Laura,
you didn't do anything.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
You don't have to wear on it. You won't even know.
I look like I have stick on his own. That'd
just be look like a Barbie doll. Again.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
I just thought this was the most incredible day of
my life and I hadn't even really started yet. So
then this tiny little boat turns up to the beach
to the shore in the middle of nowhere, and they
were like, this is your.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Charter, and I was like what. So we get on this.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
Little boat that speedboats as to the big beautiful.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Yacht that we saw originally like three hours before so
Ben and charted like I just felt like a Kardashian.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
I was like, this is my moment that will probably
never happen again.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
This entire boat with a crew just for us, And
when we got on, he had my favorite cocktail waiting,
he had an Ameritus hour waiting. He had like beautiful
food platters, really nice champagne. And we were on that
boat for a few hours to cruise around there with
sundays with the sunset. The photographer came on the boat
with us and kept shooting us on the boat and
we just danced.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
We ate, we.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
Drank, we laughed. We were literally dancing.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Like if you look at his dance, you would have
thought we felt like there were fifty people around us,
you know, like we just felt like so happy. Yeah,
we just felt so happy in that moment. And Ben
doesn't really dance, but he was happy enough to dance.
The funniest thing is, and I'll put a photo up
of this.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
I can only.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Imagine what a boat like that set Ben back for
that moment. But he wanted to be perfect. But he
gets on the boat and he can't fit. He had
hit the roof. He's too tall, and I'm like, oh
my god, you paid so much for this boat.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
On it he had to like dug down. But that
was the day.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
So we went to sunset and then we cruised back,
and then we had a beautiful romantic dinner, and then
we had a beautiful romantic.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Evening, love me evening. Yeah, to be young again. I
was so pregnant. I was so pregnant when Matt proposed
to me, So I don't actually remember any of that, Like,
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
I think I was like, you were seven months or something.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, I really baby trapped the guy, So I no,
you didn't.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
He would have proposed to you anyway.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
He wanted the baby, not you want trap.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Sorry, he baby trapped me. That's right.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
I got baby trapped by my husband. No, but I
remember him proposing, but then I like don't really remember
what happened after. I probably went home and had a nap.
I was like, that's enough emotions for me today. I
am hormonal and need to sleep.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
I almost thought it was like everyone says on their
wedding night, When so many people don't have sex on
their wedding.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Night, NIC's different for your engagement.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
But I FoST didn't want to do it because I
was like, I'm so emotionally exhausted.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
But then I looked at him, I was like, oh,
do it anyway, I'll do it.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
But I had that feeling.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
I was like, won'll be my best performance, won't be
my best Hey, let's do the starfish all right. I'm
gonna get out of here so Ben can come and
answer some of the questions that all of the life
has had. Then welcome back to the podcast as the fiance.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Wow, Okay, if you guys listened to the pick up
version of this, there was a couple of little conversations
we've already had around rings and stuff. But you know what,
you can just listen to this twice because we're gonna
we're gonna hit it all again.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
First, how are you feeling on the day?

Speaker 7 (33:02):
I was okay. On the day, I was really chilled.
I was really nervous.

Speaker 9 (33:05):
The night before, I remember we were lying in bed
and I was like, I can feel my heart pumping.
It's like it's very unusual, but it was. I'm normally
quite like a relaxed person. So but on the on
the day I was I was really fine because I
know she didn't know at the time because I thought
I'll tell her last minute, because if I tell her earlier,
her brain starts sticking over and putting things together. That's
just that's just how you are. So I thought i'd

(33:27):
just tell her in the last minute, you know. And
she's standing there in her swimmers in the bag. I
was like, Okay, that's not gonna work for me.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Thank god I didn't do that engagement.

Speaker 9 (33:36):
And I looked in the wardrobe. I was like, there
are two dresses in there. I was like, is this
one left? I take the right one, that's easier one.
I just put it on, babe. We're going to be
on a boat and you know, get out of the house.
It was a little bit rushed.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
I also find it amazing because when you say, and
I know we spoke about it, like a couple of
weeks ago, you were like, I'm expecting it this year, yah,
which I would then think that if you're expecting it
within the year, you'd be on hyper alertly like any
like semi situation that could be proposal worthy. The only
thing is that you guys do proposal worthy things almost
every weekend, So it's like, like that's what keeps the

(34:09):
mystery alive.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Well, normally, normally I would be probably thinking that this
would be it. But next week we're going over to
see my sister, Sherry and Jay. We have some more
like holiday because every time we're together, like you just said, Laura,
it is a holiday, Like we don't see each other
all the time, so it's always nice. So I was like,
we got three more trips this year, and some of
them are with family, some of them with my sister,

(34:32):
some are over the summer. So I was like, it
probably wouldn't be with this one, knowing that I'm with
my sister in two weeks, so I thought it was
going to be in Europe in two weeks time.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
So it really was a shock for me and thank god.
So Ben really likes to look after himself.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
But just before we were going, he looked at my
nails and my nails were so bad and grown out,
and he goes, Babe, I'm gonna go across the road
and get a pedicure, which he's done before.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
I wasn't shocked.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
He's like, do you want me to see if you
need anything done? And I was like, oh, if you're gonna, yes, okay,
let's I'll get my nails done. And at the same time,
so he was like, thank fuck, then you are the
most considerate. Most men would not even think of that.

Speaker 7 (35:09):
No, I just know that brit would pay attention to this.

Speaker 9 (35:13):
And then I kind of look, I know nothing about nails,
but I could tell they were kind of like they're terrible,
they were growing forward or like you're.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Like I could see that you could climb up a
wall with those talents. I thought you needed to fix them.

Speaker 7 (35:24):
Yeah, so she was wulverine. She would never forgive me.
If she had like a picture of her hands with
the ring and the nesta.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Some scabby nails, I would have had to have done
everything like this.

Speaker 7 (35:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
So I know I mentioned this to you last week, Britt.
But so when you were in the jungle, I got
a message from Ben and it was when we were
on our holiday break in maybe April, Yeah makes sense, March. Okay,
So I got a message and it was actually I'll
read you the message. Hi, Laura, it's Ben with a
little flag. I need your help and expertise. Now that
brit is out of the way, it's the perfect time

(35:55):
to talk.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Well, I'm not dead. You were in the jungle.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
You were, Yeah, you were gone and this has a
little ring emoji and that said, just gathering some info
from you and also from Sherry for the perfect one.
Can we arrange a quick call when you're free to
talk about some ideas that would be great? Have a
great day, Ben. And at the time I was overseas,
so I was.

Speaker 6 (36:13):
Like bad exclamation that I had to keep this a
secret from you and from everyone right and an island
you said to me, do you think you're going to
get engaged, because like just to really rub it in
because I didn't know, because then Ben went silent. So
we had been talking a little bit back and forth
around different ways to set the stone, different ways in
which the best way to set a diamond also like

(36:34):
what you might like. So the thing that was very
very convenient was at the time britping in the jungle,
I had access to your full social media, so I
was doing I was managing like all Brits socials at
the time through like Instagram. They were from Mitch and
I went through and luckily Britt had done her absolute

(36:54):
due diligence and obviously was very looking forward to the
day that she was getting proposed to, and she had
started to save not one, but many engagement rings, all.

Speaker 7 (37:04):
Of these different ones, yes, but all of us.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
There was so many saved.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
It was actually had a whole photo of just like
wedding and engagement rings. But the thing that was very
apparent was although they were all slightly different shapes, there
was only two.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Shit, there was like oval and cushion cut. That were
the only two.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
But there was one thing in common, and that was
that they were fucking massive.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Every single one was so obnoxiously big.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Yeah, dream big, manifest your perfect rings, save them and
make it easy. So anyway, I then screenshot all the
ones that I thought were very much like your most
recent style, and I sent them to Ben and then
from there the perfect ring was created and you did
so well, it is so beautiful.

Speaker 9 (37:41):
Well, I obviously knew you were with the other business
that you were. You know, the person to speak to,
you know what to do, you kind of know the
ins and outside of Yeah, so I thought you spend
every day together, so I'm sure you would have come
up at some stage like if I wanted to get information,
you were the one because you had the expert.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
I did try and give you the information.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
I was like, she wants yellow gold finally, so you
sent me a ring that you were like, hey, what
about this one? And I was like, absolutely not. It
was a white gold for Prong diamond ring. You sent
me a photo of it, and I was like, will
not want that. She does not wear white gold, she
will want yellow gold. And it sent you into a
headspin because you were like, I must confirm.

Speaker 7 (38:19):
This when we talk about Juliet.

Speaker 9 (38:21):
I know she likes gold, but obviously different kind of
gold and on all that kind of But the way
my brain works is I do things step by step. Ye,
so I would have just focused on the actual diamonds
and not knowing that it's actually important what kind of
gold it is.

Speaker 7 (38:36):
You know, white gold, the world was gold or whatever.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
So I was just like, and you're like gold as gold, all, yeah,
gold is gold.

Speaker 7 (38:41):
But I was like, is this the right diamonds?

Speaker 3 (38:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (38:44):
So I'm just I'm not paying attention to the ring
at this stage because I'm working in like a set order.

Speaker 7 (38:49):
In my head.

Speaker 9 (38:50):
I focus on I focus on the diamond, which is
I thought it's the most important, and then I got
into the four seas or three seeds or whatever, clarity
and cut, and then what's the set and yeah, what's
the setting, what's the ring?

Speaker 7 (39:03):
And then ring size.

Speaker 9 (39:03):
So I was just focusing on the actual diamond and
going right, I got the diamond, right, what's the setting?
And then I just worked my way down till I
have all the information I needed. You were which is
confusing for some people.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Well, I know, I feel like it's the opposite for
someone who works so because like I spend most of
my days working with people who are getting engagement rings done.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
You were so thorough, you.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Knew so much. I did my research like incredibly. Sorry,
most men rock up and they're like, my girlfriend wants
a ring. But you, I mean, you did an amazing job.
It is so so beautiful. How did you feel when
you got the ring?

Speaker 7 (39:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (39:35):
I got the ring and I opened the box. I
didn't know it had this light. So it has this
light which shines directly onto the diamonds.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
From the box. It's also where did you because you got.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
It made in I got it made in Dubai, bye,
and you got the diamond sourced in Dubai.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (39:49):
So I had a friend, my agent helped me out
with this, who said, hey, I've had my ring done
for my wife. Quick turn around, because I thought, because
we talked about it, we thought, you know, it's going
to be six to eight weeks and whatever, and is
the ring going to come from your factory to here
and I pick it up or whatever?

Speaker 7 (40:04):
You know.

Speaker 9 (40:04):
It was just too hard. So I thought I'll get
him made in Dubai. I had somebody bring it over.
And then I looked at this box and it had
this light and I didn't know it came with a light,
and I opened it and I was like, oh.

Speaker 7 (40:16):
What is that. It looks like a toy box. You know,
he was but he was sparkly, you know. It was nice.

Speaker 9 (40:21):
And then to be fair, it looked great on the video.
It looked nice in the box, but it doesn't look
as nice as it does on your finger. It looks
so much better.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
It's beautiful.

Speaker 7 (40:32):
I'm glad you approved.

Speaker 9 (40:33):
You obviously know what you're talking about, but I'm really
happy it came out this way. And then last minute,
obviously I realized it's quite a big stone, and I
thought I need to break down the ring a little
bit optically. So I thought that I get this little
hidden halo kind of thing, which obviously I didn't know existed.
But you know, I did my research, and at one
stage I was listening to some girl doing an Instagram
life talking about rings and settings, and I'm just like,

(40:56):
I'm just like on the team bus, like just looking
at engagements in way although all the boys are watching
football and stuff, and I'm like, okay, so.

Speaker 7 (41:03):
Hidden you were so far.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
You sent me one message and you were like, I
think I'm going to go hidden, halo, pave setting, and
you like lsted all the things. And I don't think
in my entire time, like I'm talking fifteen years of
doing this, have I ever had someone be that specific
and know what the actual technical terms.

Speaker 7 (41:19):
Were if I do they do it properly? Yeah, like
I want to.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
I get that impression like you've seen a fiance. Yeah,
that's that's all over the other thing.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
That's very cool.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
And I also think that this is interesting for people
who maybe haven't gone down the path of looking for
an engagement ring is that there's so many more accessible
sources for diamonds now and so what you guys went
and chose is they call it a lab grown diamond,
but I want to be very specific because it's the
exact same composition of an actual diamond, A lab grown diamond.
They're obviously still certified, they still go through all the

(41:52):
same processing, but they are very ethically created.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Well, I had only I mean, whenever Ben and I
in the past had spoken about it, I had said
the one of two things, I want one just I
want yellow gold and the other thing. I always wanted
lab grown diamond because of that exact reason. Yeah, I
was like, and Ben didn't really know about it then,
because why would you. But He's like, don't you want
a real diamond? And I said, it's identical. It is
exactly the same, except ethically sold.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Then A very big question for you guys, and something
that so many people are interested in from the outset
is obviously you still are doing long distance at the moment,
how do you plan and the conversations that you've had
around how does this change things? What are your plans
moving forward? And also like, how do you maintain the
foundation of an amazing relationship as you're doing this long distance?

Speaker 9 (42:38):
And I don't think much is going to change. I
propose because I'm in love so that that thing doesn't change.

Speaker 7 (42:43):
Is it?

Speaker 9 (42:43):
Probably for some people the normal way of doing it,
because we haven't really lived together.

Speaker 7 (42:49):
We haven't had that day to day together.

Speaker 9 (42:51):
So for some people it might be a little bit unusual,
but it doesn't really doesn't really change for me or
for us. I think we got into this relationship knowing
what the relationship is going to like. Obviously, the end
goal is to live together, of course, I think as
many people are aware of that. Somewhere down the line
after my career or just before my career comes to
an end.

Speaker 7 (43:10):
I'd love to live in Australia. I love Australia.

Speaker 9 (43:13):
I love the people, how friendly are they are, Love
the country obviously the way there's a nice upside to
maybe some parts in the UK.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
So sorry about the spartas and the snakes and stuff.

Speaker 9 (43:22):
Yeah, you got to say there that is a big problem.
But I've stayed away from them, which is nice.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
A lot of people don't understand and it confuses a
lot of people. And I understand that we do get
those comments, and we have got a few of those comments.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
How can you get engaged and not live together?

Speaker 1 (43:35):
But not all relationships are created equal, and it's not
the same for everyone. And for us, this is just
worked well for now and it will keep working because
I'm not currently saying yes to marry somebody because of
the day to day I'm saying yes to marry a
person that he is and the person and the things
that we have together. And we have to work maybe
a little bit harder to make our relationship the same

(43:58):
as somebody else's that lives together the day to day.
But we've spent and Ben, you know, Ben says, oh,
we don't get the day to day together. We spend
two months at a time together sometimes, so it's not
like we're not spending the time together where we're living
with each other. Then we go away for two months
and we come back. Also, I would say, I mean,
if you guys haven't listened to it. We interviewed Aaron
Holland on the podcast earlier in this year, and she

(44:18):
spoke so beautifully around her long distance relationship and how
you know, she was engaged, she was married, and they
were still navigating that long distance aspect and so everybody's
relationships are quite different. And I think had I not
heard her speak about it and speak about how they
were doing it very very successfully despite people's perceptions around
their relationship, and the way she described it was like

(44:38):
the hardest thing that we deal with. Isn't the fact
that we do long distance, it's that people think that
it can't work when it does work. And like, I
really appreciate her perspective on that because I think that
really changed the way I feel about it. And we
are working towards it. This isn't forever, but right now
in our life. We know we love each other, we
know we want to spend our life each other, we
know we want to get married, we know we can't
currently live together.

Speaker 9 (44:58):
Like, these are just all straat any relationship. It's just
it's just a face.

Speaker 6 (45:02):
You know.

Speaker 9 (45:02):
The way we got to know each other was maybe
different than other people do their dating life. You know,
they probably choose a partner who lives within half an
hour an hour where they are based. You know, we
just happen to live really really far and maybe do
it what some people call it the hard way. But
it's not hard work because we love each other. Yeah,

(45:22):
we love each other, so it's not a chore to
talk to each other. I wake up in the morning,
I'm excited to call her. You know, we have a
long day. I'm excited for her to wake up and
call me and we talk about the day and everything
and that works for us. Is that what we probably
would have wanted before we met each other. Absolutely not,
which I think I made pretty clear on our so

(45:43):
called one night stand. But now we're here and we're
making the best of it, and I think we are
really happy the way it's gone now. But we are
working to an end goal, which is obviously living together
and being together and being at the same location.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
And this is something which comes with a lot of
privileges well, in the fact that you guys are in
such a fortunate situation with work and with the way
your lives are structured. Most people wouldn't be able to
do long distance in the way that you do it
because it is very expensive to fly and see each
other all the time. It does take a lot of
time away from normal work, so if you work on
normal nine to five, you couldn't have that flexibility. The

(46:19):
way in which your lives are is not the norm
for most people, and that's like such an exception to
the rule as well, I think, which is what makes
it work. If you had all those other constraints, maybe
it would be too hard. Oh, definitely, one hundred percent.
You have the ability to be able to get on
a plane and if things are tough to go, you know,
and to be together.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
The thing is we don't really financially.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
It is very very expensive and we definitely have to
and I do all the flying. Basically, we definitely had
to make a conscious decision that, like, if we're going
to do this, it's going to cost us a lot
of in flight to year, We're going to have to
make some sacrifices elsewhere. But in terms of being able
to get on a plane when we want, we both
can't do that.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
Ben gets four weeks off a year.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
That is it.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
So for the people asking why Ben never comes to Australia,
he football is a job and he works six days
a week. They get one day off a week if
we're if they're lucky, and they get four weeks off
a year, which is right now.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
So that is it. For me.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
I'm here and I'm on radio. I can't leave either.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
So we do have very structured Every two months, I
get two weeks with radio that gives us off and
then I'll go over there. So it's actually not as
free flowing as I think people think.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
It's funny when you were in the jungle, when you
were doing I'm a Celeb. I got into a fight
with someone on the comments on I'm a Celeb because
every day people were writing like, I don't get it.
Why doesn't she just go? She just has a little podcast.
She can do that from anywhere. And I got to
a point where I was so sick of that conversation
because I was like, firstly, obviously, if you could do that,

(47:47):
you would do it. And secondly, it was almost this
like narrative that was starting to play out, and I
could see it. It was like that I'm keeping you from going,
And I was like just going to jump in here.

Speaker 7 (47:57):
Hi, everyone since warmed up.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
I know I'm trying to keep her from you, but
that's actually my my evil plan is to keep it myself.

Speaker 8 (48:06):
No.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
I was like, I hate this narrative that it should
be you that just gets up and goes because you
have a job.

Speaker 7 (48:12):
That leave her career behind and she should follow me.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
Yeah, And everyone says, oh, but like Ben has a
career and he can't leave, he can't leave the Celtics
and just come to Australia, and Britt, you just you
do a podcast. You can do that from anywhere. And
I wrote this comment back and I was like, I
just want to make it really clear. We have one
of the biggest podcasts in the country, we have staff
that are dependent on us, we run a radio show.
I was like, this is not something that you can

(48:36):
just jump online and do an hour of I was like,
there is so much work that goes into running a business.
And also, why is BRIT's career so invalidated in this conversation? Ben,
you can play soccer anywhere, come on over. Sure you
won't get paid as much, but like we've got we've
got the what was it.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Central Coast Birth Sydney like, but you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
I was like, people can be so quick to invalidate
BRIT's career as the female in this relationship, but nobody
invalidates yours. Everybody understands why you don't come here, but
nobody understands why Brick doesn't just go to you. And
I feel the defensiveness over her because I've seen what
you have created. And when that time comes and you're
making it of the volition of yourself and you're doing

(49:16):
it for the greater good of the two of you.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
Will make it work. We absolutely will make it work.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
And I have so much respect for that, but I
don't respect other people's opinions when they're like, well, why
doesn't Bridge just do this because it invalidates the businesses
that you've created one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
And also like podcasting technically can be done anywhere. Yes,
so people are right when they say that it does
make it a lot harder with time differences, but people
underestimate I think how hard we've worked to get to
where we are in terms of radio and our career
in media. Physically, I have a Monday to Friday job
as well as the podcast. Radio is Monday to Friday,

(49:51):
Like we do have a media job here as well,
so and I'm really proud of that and I love it.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
So I also don't want to give that up.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
And Ben doesn't want to give his career up because
his career is an infinite it has an end date.
They are athletes, retire and he will never kick a
football again except for maybe with kids, maybe with the
local teams. He'll probably always playing with the kids. But
like that is a huge reason that totally people don't
understand why we are long distance for now.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
But I'm both proud of that.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
I just say this with the utmost respect for both
of you, like and the fact that you are making
it work, the fact that you both are able to
prioritize relationships but also have goals that you're passionate about
that are individual to you, that you care about.

Speaker 9 (50:29):
It's also one of the things I'm most proud of
that she is so driven, successful and you guys are
doing so well. And I think it's a classic case
of like, you know, a bow to respect.

Speaker 7 (50:39):
What do I care what other people think? Britta and
I are happy.

Speaker 9 (50:41):
Yeah, And that's that's the woman I'm going to spend
the rest of my time with, not with someone who
come on something on Instagram. One of the things I
was like, I'm so glad she's independent, she's driven and
goal focused, and she wants to do well and she
wants to live her passion. But at the same time
she lets me live my passion and pursue my career.
And like I said, we know there's a name goal
and if we work hard at what we love to

(51:02):
do right now, hopefully our life will be better down
the line with all the stuff we work for.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Guys, I'm so happy for you. When is the wedding
going to be and what can we know about it.
We're thinking probably this time next year. I don't want
a long engagement.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
And I say that because we still want to go
on the kid train, like we still want to go.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
I mean, you can have kids and then get married.
I know someone in the room who did that. No,
I think because.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
We know for us it's highly likely kids will be
IVF which is a whole fucking another kettle of fish,
Like it's you really have to commit there to the process,
to the process, because it's expensive, it's long, it's emotionally draining,
physically draining, like there's.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
So much that goes into it.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
So I just don't I wouldn't want to be going
through that, and also saying what if I get pregnant
when the wedding happens.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Or what if?

Speaker 1 (51:48):
You know, so I would rather just be fully committed
when that time comes.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
So yeah, probably this time.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
Next year, we think maybe it'll be like maybe a
destination wedding somewhere islandy that bends family doesn't have to
travel quite as far.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Someone nice, warm and tropical.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Could be Balley, it could be Hamilton Island, could be
I don't know, Fiji.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
You know, you get the idea.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Like somewhere because it'll be Australian winter, so I would
like it to be a bit warm warm, so it
can be like a couple of days of wedding stuff
and then everyone has a holiday.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
Yeah, do you think it'll be a big or a
small wedding?

Speaker 7 (52:17):
What's considered the big wedding?

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Over one hundred, I would say is a big wedding.
I would say under eighty is a small wedding.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
Small.

Speaker 9 (52:25):
Yeah, I mean because my side of the family or friends,
they have to travel a long way. Obviously, we're going
to have to see how many people actually make it over.
That's why we want to have like a nice destination
wedding so people can have a holiday and maybe combine
it that.

Speaker 7 (52:38):
Maybe it also weeds wants to come.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
Yeah, destination weddings like only it weeds out people and
only the people who really want to commit and like
you're really important clothes people come, don't you reckon?

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Is that rude?

Speaker 8 (52:48):
No?

Speaker 3 (52:48):
I think that that's exactly why people have destination wedding.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Yeah, it's like only people who really care about you
or really really want a holiday, they are the only
two people that come.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
It's hard because obviously a destination wedding will never make
it Europe, where it's super expensive for people. It's always
going to be close to Australia because it expenses a
part two, like, it's really expensive living right now, and
it's just unfortunate that our families live on the other
side of the world and we have to try and
find it a halfway kind of place.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
In terms of like how many people from your side
of the family and stuff, Ben, what do you think
would be like how many people do you think would come?

Speaker 7 (53:17):
It's hard to say.

Speaker 9 (53:18):
I think if all my sort of close friends are
able to make it will probably be between twenty and
thirty With partners obviously, it will be between twenty and thirty.

Speaker 7 (53:27):
Max.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Yeah, we have a small wedding. It was like seventy
five people and it was perfect. It's a perfect size.

Speaker 7 (53:32):
I think it will be around that.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
Yeah, fifty to seventy people. I reckon amaze, which is nice.
It's amazing, Okay. And if you guys have kids, will
they be bilingual?

Speaker 4 (53:41):
Well not from Melish?

Speaker 3 (53:43):
Do have do you try? Like have you tried to learn? Yes?

Speaker 4 (53:46):
I try, Donkey Shasasi's quitsy. No, they will hopefully be
tri lingual, but it will all be Ben's.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
It's not going to be me. What languages do you speak?

Speaker 7 (53:56):
Obviously I grew up German.

Speaker 9 (53:57):
We have a Swiss German sort of like accent, which
is basically the same. We learn French and English obviously
in school, and then later on you we would we
would learn Italian, which is I can understand more than
I can actually speak.

Speaker 7 (54:12):
But that's kind of the main.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
So funny when we met, we were talking about languages
the first, you know, and I was like, so, what
languages do you speak? Can He told me, like write
it off four And he's like, what do you speak?
And we're like English, there's nothing more Australian. I was like, English,
we don't speak anything. I've felt so stupid.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
There is nothing more Australian than only knowing one language,
and it's embarrassing for us.

Speaker 9 (54:33):
But I definitely think me and the kids need to
gang up on Britain speak another language behind their backs.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
Ben is committed to teaching minimum two languages to the kids,
which is a big effort, like because it means constantly
he has to speak German or Italian.

Speaker 7 (54:47):
It's a great thing to have in life, I think.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
But it also means at that point in your life, Britin,
you'll obviously start to learn it too, like that will
that will change.

Speaker 7 (54:54):
You've been learning and we're not.

Speaker 3 (54:57):
Bridge takes a while or something. Have you tried speaking German?
It's really hard? That is it? From us?

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Guys.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
We are like I can't say enough times, we're so
so happy for you. Welcome to the podcast that now
just talks about wedding content for the next year at least.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
The last thing I do want to say is genuinely
from the bottom of my heart, like I was overwhelmed.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
I was gonna make me upset again by the more crying.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Just the the love from the life is like the
love from just everyone. It was so much more than
I ever expected. And I'm not just saying that it
was overwhelming. And I want you guys to know that
I have tried to read every message and every single comment,
but there have been literally been like thousands upon thousands,

(55:43):
but I had tried to read them. I probably can't
write back to you all, but Ben can attest to this,
like I've cried so many times reading them. He reads
them out to me sometimes like he'll see them or
he'll get them, and then just from strangers, like I
feel like my faith has been restored a little bit
in humanity like that, like thousands of strangers saying I
don't even know you girls, but I'm so happy for

(56:04):
you and like the love that you have and just
the response has meant the world to me. And I'm
so glad that you guys could all come along this
journey because I've waited such a long time and you
have been there for the whole whole ride. And I
guess it's it's the next chapter. Now you get to
come on the the wedding journey now.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
And then hopefully one day the kid journey. For this tear,
it's so slow, go fast, look at it.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
So a big humungo thank you. And to my beautiful fiance,
I adore you and I love you and I can't
wait to spend the rest of my squidty life with you.

Speaker 6 (56:37):
And you know the drills, tell you to your friends
and said love.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Because we are loven.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
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