January 6, 2025 • 35 mins
Olivia Roger’s ex husband, Justin McKeone has shocked the internet with news he’s expecting a baby with his on-again, off-again Bachelor star, girlfriend, Tahnee Leeson. The bizarre twist comes just weeks after Justin reportedly vanished before he was due to appear in court to face theft charges.
Molly-Mae and Tommy Fury have sparked reconciliation rumours, after being spotted locking lips on New Year’s Eve, just five months after they announced their shock split.
Chloe Szep turns lifesaver… and why grapes are having a viral moment.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the
hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm
Amy Torver and coming up on today's show, Molly May's Shock,
Midnight Kiss with Tommy Fury, Chloe Zepp turns Life Saver,
and why grapes are having a viral moment. But first,
Olivia Rodgers' ex husband Justin mccahn has shocked the internet
(00:27):
with news he's expecting a baby with his on again,
off again Bachelor's Star girlfriend, Tanny Leeson. The bizarre twist
comes just weeks after Justin reportedly vanished before he was
due to appear in court to face theft chargers. His
former employer alleges he stole almost five hundred thousand dollars
whilst working as head of finance to fuel a drug problem. Now,
(00:49):
despite Justin's legal woes, it didn't appear that any expense
was spared when it came to sharing the baby news,
so the couple hired a photographer to capture a very glamorous,
beach like pregnancy shoe. My draw was literally on the
floor when these photos popped up in my feet. I
could not believe it. I mean We did speculate last
week that the former couple were back together after Tany
(01:11):
shared photos of her and Justin out at a lavish
influencer event. We now know that those photos were intended
as a bit of a soft launch to say we're
back together before dropping this massive bombshell. Now we need
to talk about this Instagram post. So Tarani captioned the
photo starting the new year with the most exciting news
to date. Cannot believe how much we love you already,
(01:32):
So grateful you chose us. It's interesting to note that
Justin has created a new Instagram account. So back when
all the news broke about this alleged theft, he deleted
his Instagram account and also his LinkedIn but he is
back on a very private account with very few followers.
Well because his original account he had around ten thousand
followers on there, so you could have called him a
(01:53):
bit of a micro influencer. It's quite interesting because Tarny
only has six thousand followers, and I think that's because
of the time she went on the Bachelore It's when
people weren't really interested. She didn't make it that far.
But yeah, I find it fascinating that he's basically gone
and made a new Instagram account up, probably to break
this news. Yeah, I mean he was a collaborator on
(02:14):
the post, and he also commented on the post saying,
You're going to be an amazing mum. I cannot wait.
It's not the best look that he's created this fresh
account because it kind of looks like he's trying to
hide stuff on his old account. Well, I think he's
deleted it based on advice from his legal team. I mean,
so many people were following him. Every move is bound
to be tracked while this court case plays out. What
(02:35):
he posted previously maybe used against him, and maybe messages
that were on the account, so it's easier to delete
it because I don't think his legal team would be like,
oh yeah, go make up a new account. I want
to discuss the strategy of this photo as well, because
I personally feel like not enough thought was put into
how these photos were going to land with the general public.
And I might be stereotyping here, but generally, as someone
(02:58):
who has just shared a baby in anouncement recently, it
is the woman who is the one driving the theme
and the style of this post. And when your partner
is up on theft charges and very hefty ones that
I don't know why you would think it's a good
idea to have such an over the top stylized announcement
because in the photos they were literally frolicking on a
(03:19):
beach and Tani was wearing a very flowy white two
piece outfit. Justin was wearing a matching white shirt. It
all looked very stylized and thought out. You know, if
you looked at those photos, you would think this couple
does not have a care in the world.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It was just.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Awkward, wasn't it, Because everyone knows that they've got a
lot of cares in the world, but a purposely trying
to look unfazed by the controversy to somewhat remove themselves
from it. I feel quite bad for Tany in this situation.
I mean, she hasn't done anything wrong. She looked quite
heavily pregnant in the photo, more pregnant than most people
are when they announce their pregnancy news, so you can
(03:56):
see this has probably been weighing on her. There's probably
been a lot of discussions, how do we actually break
this to the public that we're having a baby together.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I know what though, the biggest trend.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well, the new trend coming forward for baby announcements is
apparently people not doing them and just turning up with
a baby. Yeah, it's called raw dogging your pregnancy announcement. Yeah,
they could have got away with doing that, but I
just feel like they've given the media more fodder to
write articles about them because they've got these new photos.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Of the couple together.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So how would you have done it then, because I
don't know any other way they could have done it
without creating the same amount of high pol I would
have done a glamorous photo shoot on a beach. I
would have done something a bit more toned back and casual.
Thinking about Matt poul he and his partner just did
a selfie in a mirror and it looked very stripped back,
very casual. If I was tiny, I would have spent
(04:45):
more time building up their relationship because I know she
did that photo dump in December and he featured in it,
and that was shocking enough because it was clear the
couple broke up mid last year and we didn't even know.
The general public didn't know that they were back together.
So I probably would have breadcrumbed a little bit more
about them. Being back together before just dropping the bomber,
they were pregnant. I think it must have got to
(05:06):
the point though, where she couldn't hide the pregnancy anymore,
and she knew that there were a lot of eyeballs
on Justin and consequently her. So can you imagine if
the paparazzi got shots of her looking quite pregnant and
everyone would have been like, well, where is Justin?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
What's happening?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Well, he's living in Perth at the moment, which is
a new factor to this, and Tarani has spent the
festive season over there. She is from Melbourne. It'd be
interesting to see if she stays in Perth. Now, getting
back to their relationship timeline, that's quite interesting because one
listener in our Facebook group claimed that Justin was on
Bumble as recently as August, and she alleged that her
(05:41):
friend matched with Justin and went on a date. Now,
this is all speculation, but this listener claims that during
the date, Justin was said to have spoken about his
split from Tany and confided that she was living with
a guy.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
In his fifties.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
The listener also claimed that he spent most of the
night name dropping about the the E grade celebrities he knew,
and that it was the most bizarre date of her life. Now.
Another list not also claimed that one of her friends
also matched with Justin and he asked if she wanted
to get KFC with him at midnight on a random
Wednesday night. Look, I do want to reiterate that that
(06:18):
is pure speculation and allegations that are not proven, but
very interesting if those rumors are true, and it does
look like Justin and Tarany got back together for the
sake of this child. I'm just disappointed, Kate, because we
did our twenty twenty five predictions last week. This was
definitely not one of them. Oh this was not on
my Bingo card for twenty twenty five, but we did
predict that the Justin mckeirn's story would probably be one
(06:40):
of the biggest this year, and it is not disappointing
at the moment. I'm guessing that Olivia Rodgers is pretty
happy that Tanny put up this pregnancy photo shoot because
now the media are actually using photos of Justin and
Tarany together as opposed to Justin and Olivia. It does
take the focus off her. This news also puts into
perspective that tick we were talking about last week, So
(07:02):
for those who missed it, there is a TikTok that's
circulating of Natasha Thomas and Olivia Rodgers and it's them
talking with the caption about having like a big, dirty
gossip session. So it turns out that Natasha Thomas was
at the Influencer event that Tany and Justin were at
in December, so perhaps Natasha was feeling in Olivia on
the news. It sounds like things could have got a
(07:22):
bit awkward in Perth over the festive season as well,
because Olivia was in Perth with her new boyfriend, who,
as you guys touched on last week, is the spitting
image of Justin, so he is also a Perth boy.
Can you imagine if they all ran into each other
at the local shops.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I know Perth is bigger than that.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Although we are having a bit of a joke, I
did actually feel for Olivia when this pregnancy announcement came out,
because although she has gracefully moved on, it would be
hard for this news, on top of everything else, not
to affect you because she has publicly spoken about how
she was undergoing IVF when she and Justin were still
together and in a Q and A following their separation,
(08:00):
Olivia said, this has been one of the hardest parts
of the breakup and something I grieve heavily, as I
was actually going through fertility treatment in August September after
trying to feel pregnant for quite a while. And I
just think it would be hard and not human not
to feel anything about your ex husband so publicly announcing
his baby news in this way, particularly if that was
a struggle in your relationship. It would be really hard,
(08:22):
But I think she'd probably feel very relieved.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Not to be in that situation.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
As I said, I am really feeling for Tarni because
this is such a shit situation for her to be in.
I really hope that she's not banking on Justin becoming
a father somehow changing him and meaning that all of
his issues sins are. As we discussed a few weeks ago,
is Justin could potentially be facing jail time. These charges
(08:47):
are not criminal charges yet, there's been reports that the
police are looking into these claims, but if they do
turn into criminal charges, fraud has a very lengthy jail.
I can't help but feel for Tarny, and I wonder
if this announcement is a bit of a tactic for court,
because is there going to be a bit more sympathy
if he's got a baby on the way, even not
only from the court, but in the media as well, like, Hey,
(09:09):
this is a dad, a new dad, who needs to
move on with his life, and he's trying to He's
trying to be a better person. It's interesting that on
the baby announcement that they didn't actually specify a due date.
What I've taken from these new revelations is that Justin
is going to come out swinging against these allegations. He's
not hiding anymore, because initially it felt like he had retreated.
(09:30):
He was off social media, he had somewhat disappeared. People
did not know where he was. But the fact that
his influence a girlfriend is now posting him on her feed.
They did this very ostentatious baby announcement. They're not hiding.
Nothing's happened. Yeah, they're acting like they are untouchable. I mean,
he has also hired a very well known barrister to
(09:51):
defend him. So I think that this is going to
be so fascinating to see play out.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
To be a little bit rap, it's like, shall I
be a little bit rackless?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Molly May and Tommy Fury have sparked reconciliation rumors after
being spotted locking lips on New Year's Eve, just five
months after they announced their shock split. Now, if you
can believe it, photos of the former Love Islanders kissing
made front page news in the UK, so the Sun
newspaper ran what they labeled as exclusive pictures of the
(10:25):
midnight kiss, as well as a video on their website,
which quickly made its way to social media. Well, it
kind of makes sense because they have been portrayed as
being the modern day Princess Diana and Prince Charles, and
if there was any sort of reconciliation between the two
of them, the people's princess, that would be front page news.
Sophia Uoka because while there is a lot of backlash
(10:47):
directed at Molly May, because people were like, why would
she take him back? We have all been rooting for
this to happen, particularly you. I am over the moon,
and again, I think because we haven't actually found out
what he's done, it makes me be able to make
it okay in my head, Like I'm like, maybe he
didn't cheat, Maybe that was all bullshit by the media.
(11:08):
I feel like I've manifested this because over the Christmas break,
I was watching vlogs of Tommy and Molly on holiday
and I was like, they are so cute.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
But when I saw the.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Initial vision, I thought, surely this is fake because it
was so grainy you couldn't really tell if it was
them or not. I think it was very clear that
it was Tommy Fury, but I was like, Oh, is
this some random girl that he's kissing in a nightclub.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Also, I thought Molly May hates to party. What is
she doing out on New is he?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I suppose with AI these days, you never know what
is made up. But when you watch Molly's vlogs, it's
clear that she very much misses him, and that they
have also been co parenting very maturely, like you can
tell that there's something still there between them. So I
was skeptical about this vision initially until I actually read
The Sun's article and I found out more about where
(11:56):
this video was actually taken. So the video was filmed
inside the New Year's Eve party of Manchester United player
Luke Shaw and his partner a Nushka Santos, and so
Molly is friends with Annushka, who is a fellow influencer.
I've heard her talking about her in ner vlogs. Actually,
I was going to say that surprised me after her
viral interview on the Stephen Bartlett Diary of a CEO
(12:17):
podcast because she had said how she doesn't really place
much time in making friends and she doesn't have a
large friendship group. And then I'm like, oh, wow, she's
friends with all of these famous ukay people. It's very Manchester,
isn't it. Because obviously Molly's from Manchester. She's going to
a Manchester United party. Most people probably would have thought,
oh fantastic, she's going to meet a footballer at this party.
(12:38):
So how did Tommy get an invite to the party.
Well it was actually Molly who apparently invited Tommy very
last minute to this party. Can you imagine all of
the girls that have been like just inviting Yeah, well,
I've got to take my hat off to another influencer
who was also in attendance. Her name is Alicia Lee
May and she gave a great insight into the party
(12:58):
through her tiktoks. So this wasn't your typical house party.
It was a catered event. They had very boogie looking twenty.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Twenty five sunglasses. There was a live band.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
They also had beautiful sleek white decorations, plenty of drinks,
and also karaoke and Molly featured in a number of
Alicia's TikTok videos, including one of the guests documenting their
first and last drink of the night, Molly actually drinking
because she does speak a lot about how she doesn't
actually like alcohol and that seemed to be a bit
of a contentious issue within their relationship because Tommy likes
(13:30):
to go out and party and she said it really
doesn't interest her at all. Well, in the vision, you
can see Molly drinking a cocktail as her first drink,
and her last drink of the night is a shot.
Let's throw to the grab.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Sign money and it's my fast drink SI money.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
This just screams to me someone that is trying to
get their X back because in a recent vlog, Molly
was talking about how she doesn't really like having fun
and this was off the back of her going to
her work Christmas party and she said everyone was dancing
and drinking and she just couldn't get into it.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Let's throw the more of.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
What she said, I don't know how many more times
I need to go on like her fun evening or
a fun trip or what something would be stereotypically described
as fun to realize that I don't like having fun.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I think I may have realized that actually, like I
really don't. I just don't like having fun, like and
I'm not even saying that to be like I feel
like that kids kind of picked me vibes like I
just don't like having fun. I don't really like the
way that sounds. But also like guys, I actually don't
like I don't what's wrong with me? Like everyone? I
say everyone, I was like twelve of us, but like
(14:40):
everyone last night dancing, having the time with their lives
and like I'm bopping. I'm like I'm getting involved, but
like I can't fake get up and dance. I what's
wrong with me? And it's not even like I don't
want to be a spoil sport or anything, but I
just it's not like antisocial. It's just that I just
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can't seem to let my hair down.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Why I related heavily to this because I don't drink.
And sometimes I'm thinking it's everyone legitimately having fun, because
I find this so boring, and it seemed a lot
of people actually felt seen from this YouTube video because
this clip went viral on TikTok and so many people
were saying, oh my god, I'm the same. Well, the
thing is, when Molly says she doesn't like fun, and
(15:23):
I don't think that's true. I think it's just that
she doesn't find that particular activity fun. And I think
a lot of people, when they start entering their thirties,
they're over it. They want to spend their Saturday nights
another way. Well, we got a bit of an insight
from the Sun newspaper into what Molly was apparently downing
before midnight. So they reported that Molly and her friends
were taking shots from a one hundred and ten pound
(15:45):
bottle of tequila. So it seems that liquid courage may
have actually assisted with this bid Bye kiss. I find
it so sad that she can't go out for one
night and let her hair down on New Year's Eve
without the Sun reporting exactly what she was drinking, what
she was doing. I mean, I know where chatting about
it now, so that's a little tat hypocritical of me.
But can't she just have a good time and give
(16:07):
her ex boyfriend a kiss? No, no, I am so
happy that the son is reporting on this. All I
want to know is who was the snitch in the
party who took that video? I know, because that was
a very private moment, particularly if this is a party,
like a high end party where there's you know, Manchester's
people of people there like who took the video, because
(16:27):
she would be they'd be fucking it's your low level
influencers that are there. Of course they're going to take
a photo. As you said earlier, she is the people's princess.
This was the biggest news that broke when they broke,
you know. I find so sad the fact that this
person who took.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
The video, they're not enjoying ringing in the New Year.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
They're sitting there thinking, I'm going to take this video
as it hits midnight of them kissing.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I'm probably going to make a fun ton of money
from her. There's a lot of.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Speculation that maybe Molly's manager, Fran took the vision, and
people are saying, well, it's to add more intrigue because
she's got her documentary coming out on January seventeenth. But
I think it has to be that somebody, as you said,
one of these micro influencers, has sold the vision. But
hang on, Becau, wasn't the shot just panning of the crowd.
Did they incidentally get them, because it's not like they
(17:12):
knew that they were going to kiss.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Well, it did look like that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I thought, oh, maybe someone has shared this on Instagram
or something and the Sun's grabbed it. But the fact
that the Sun has put this as their front page story,
it's clear that someone's made a lot of money out
of this because the Sun keep calling it their exclusive
vision and it's only when media organizations pay for a
large sum that they actually want to thrash.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
This vision so much.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
All the things you're talking about, you know, jokes that
maybe Molly's manager Fran film this to create more I
suppose engagement in this documentary that's coming out, but it
seems to have done the opposite effect. Whilst there are
some fans who are genuinely excited by this news, there's
a lot of fans who are pissed off because they
are seeing this as an elaborate pr move. So when
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this breakup first happened, people were saying, Oh, this is
just a PR stunt so that she gets as much publicity.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
For her new brand.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Maybe, and that really did happen because that brand sold
out instantly. Yeah, but I don't think Molly May needs
a publicity stunt to sell out her clothing line. She's
got millions of followers. I'm not saying she does. I'm
just saying that this has been the reaction from a
lot of people.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
They're upset.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
See. I think it is the parasocial relationship at play
here because a lot of people when this news broke,
particularly because people were accusing Tommy of cheating on Molly,
everyone went around and supported Molly May. They protected her.
So it's basically like when your friend gets back with
their dickhead ex boyfriend and you're like, what the hell
I've sat here, I've supported you, I've bagged it out,
(18:42):
and now you've run.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Back to hit us.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Then, because Tommy has been copying it over this five
month period, he has become one of the most unpopular
people on social media. It was interesting because Molly uploaded
a year's ephoto where she looked stunning, and she was
inundated with negative comments. Follower wrote they didn't even really
split money money money, whilst another said using the breakup
(19:06):
as pr for maybe and Tommy's book and documentary, but
snogging Tommy on New Year's Eve convenient.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
She is yet to respond to the backlash. Her team
has also declined to comment to the Sun. It'll be
interesting to see if she does say anything about the
New Year's Eve kiss before the launch of her new documentary,
because she has been sharing a lot of her emotions
and feelings in her December of log She's been talking
about being very down and upset. That's why I personally
(19:33):
was so surprised to see this vision popper. Well, there's
been more fuel added to the fire by Tommy because
Tommy liked Molly's New Year's Day Instagram post which is
as well yeah, and so a lot of people are saying, well,
it mustn't have been just a kiss. And there are
also fresh reports that Tommy and Molly were spotted at
Molly's favorite place, which is a shopping center in the
(19:54):
UK called the Trafford Center. They are apparently holding hands
and it's just been reported today that Tommy was seen
staying the night at Molly's place. Apparently they went to
the movies at the Trafford Center as well, and it
had snowed overnight, so Tommy couldn't leave the house.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Convenient.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Isn't there a Christmas song about that it's cold outside?
Like maybe it's gone outside. Look. I know that people
are up in arms, and you never want to see
someone that you like get back with a dickhead X.
But we need to remember there is a child involved
in this, their daughter, Bambi, and that is a big
part of the reason why I want them to get
back together. It also makes sense why Molly never dished
(20:30):
the dirt on what he actually did. Like if we
being back to her sort of explanation video, you could
tell she was holding back in the hope that maybe
they would get back together. Yeah, because once you air
your dirty laundry, it's really egg on your face if
you take them back. So at the moment, we really
don't know what Tommy did. The only issue here for
Molly May is that her doco is launching on January seventeenth,
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and it has been teased that a lot is going
to come out about the breakup. So Amazon Prime either
has nothing and is trying to use that to hook
people in or there is going to be dirt that's spilt,
and maybe Tommy's not gonna lie I reckon. There's some
editors who were swiftly cutting some stuff. It's like, please
remove what I said about him? Can we spare a
thought though, for Molly's sisters Zoe and her husband Daddy,
(21:14):
because they really took one for the team. So they
it was stuck at Molly's house babysitting Molly and Tommy's
daughter Bambi on New Year's Eve whilst this was all
going on. So Zoe documented this night on her YouTube channel,
and in one clip you can see she was majorly
regretting her decision to spend the night in babysitting.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Now we can enjoy the evening. I don't know if
we've a little bit cut that we're not going to
do anything now, do you feel a little bit like
not gutter, but like no, we've traded stuff like if
we have the option before, were going to do something, well,
at least go for dinner up on them. Yeah, I
feel like spens sat inside or even yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Well they did try to make the most of the
night though, because they set up a cute date night
where they had canvases, and they were painting, and they
had a grazing board. The New Year's Eve kiss did
look a little bit different though, because they were crashed
on the couch in their trackies watching the fireworks on TV. Now,
I think that this is every married couple though, yez.
(22:13):
But I felt sorry for them because Danny was like, Oh,
I'm so exhausted, I'm going to bed, and Zoe was like, well,
I'm going to stay up to see Molly come home.
She obviously wanted to hear the goss.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Oh of course you would.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I mean, if you've taken one for the team and
a babysitting your knees while your sister hooks up with
their eggs, Imagine their faces when they saw the front
page of the Sun.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Like for Fox's sake.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
My favorite New Year's E visual that I ever did
was the groups underneath the tea wall. Grapes really seemed
to be having a moment right now, because over New
Years My for You page was full of all these
young women who were huddled under tables shoving grapes into
their mouths in the hopes of supposedly bringing in good
luck and good fortune for twenty twenty five, and at
(22:55):
first I thought that this must be some sort of
made up TikTok trend, But this is actually a tradition.
The first started in Spain and it's been around since
the late eighteen hundreds. Well on TikTok, this ritual has
evolved because now it's more about finding love than simply
good luck, because there's been so many women posting their
success stories, apparently saying well, I ate grape grapes last
(23:16):
year and went on to meet the love of my life. Yeah.
So the concept is that each grape actually represents a
month of the year, So as you're eating each grape,
you're supposed to make a wish for each month of
that year. The catch is that when the clock actually
strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, in order for your
wishes to come true, you have to eat all twelve
grapes in a minute. So that's why there's clips of
(23:36):
these women literally like stuffing their faces. That's a little
less awkward for the single people, because you know, when
everyone's all the couples are kissing on New Year's even
the single people are kind of just standing there. Do
you know what's fucked? Though?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Because back in the day.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
The rule was that in order for your wishes to
come true, you actually had to eat them in twelve seconds,
So grape was within a second, there'll be people fucking
choking and collapsing on the ground. So I actually first
saw this trend Pophart when Gold Coast influencer Georgia Richard
shed an old video of her from two years ago
eating grapes under a table and in the vision there
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was a dog next to her, and I actually thought
that she was eating the grapes quickly so the dog
wouldn't get it, because grapes are just so poorous, That's.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
All I could think.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Because I am not allowed to have grapes in the
house at all, because we once had an incident where
we were out on a walk and we had our
dog Archie. We went to sit down under a picnic
table and there was this thing of what is it
the stork.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
That we did so he.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Ate the grape and went through this whole thing, taking
him to the vat because they're highly toxic anyway, I
do want to say, though, whoever is doing the marketing
for grapes at the moment, I take my hat off
to them.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Because you have literally made a fruit that is so.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Expensive at the moment it costs ten dollars for a
kilo of grapes. They've managed to make it so desirable
and grapes have been selling. That's actually not that expensive.
Cherries are like twenty or.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Grapes have never been ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
A key for Georgia Richards just back to her. This
worked because two years later she actually has found her
first girlfriend. Ever. She's very much in love, isn't she?
Sally A year doesn't mean well, maybe it takes a
little while, maybe she'd eat them and quick enough. So
she shared vision of her under the table eating the grapes,
and then she showed this year her kissing her girlfriend
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on New Year's Eve. There's actually another Georgia who has
shocked everyone by doing this trend as well, and it's
Georgia Love because she has stoked break up rumors even
further by sharing a photo of herself also sitting under
a table on New Year's Eve eating grapes, and she
captured the photo. Who else was eating grapes under the
table at the stroke of midnight? Ever, of context, this
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is while she is holidaying solo from her husband Lee
Elliott in New York. To be fair, it is about
good luck in general, so maybe she's just wishing for
good luck, not necessarily good luck when it comes to dating.
But I mean, I personally wouldn't have posted this considering
all the rumors that are coming her way. It came
across as a bit attention seeking because she has previously
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been trying to extinguish these breakup rumors. But why post
when this has become on TikTok a trend about finding love?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Like, yeah, I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And what added even more confusion was that Georgia later
posted a real where she was poking fun at millennials
who instead of having kids, they've got grandpets who their
parents look after, and she referenced her cat, Paudrey Hepburn,
So she said, literally, Paudrey Hepburn is at Lee's parents
right now, with a laughing face. I didn't know whether
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this was to try and prove that she's still with Lee,
because for me, it actually created more question marks because
why isn't Lee if if she's just on a solo
holiday and they're still together, why isn't Lee at their
home looking after her? He's been in Sydney holiday and himself.
So maybe she was just pointing out that they're both
on holidays, but it was a little bit odd. I
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do think it is more to try and extinguish the rumors,
but if you've already posted yourself eating grapes under the table,
then it's not doing a very good job of it.
Chloe Zepp and Mitch Orville have had a very scary
end to twenty twenty four. So the couple were celebrating
a friend's birthday by the pool at Sanctuary Cove when
two kids came running over carrying a lifeless three year
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old who they had just scooped out of the pool.
So Mitch described the terrifying moment on Instagram, saying that
the little girl had turned blue and was unconscious. So
they immediately called an ambulance and Chloe ran over to assist,
and she started smacking the little girl on the back
whilst another person ran over to help and they managed
to get the girl to vomit five times. Now, it's
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very scary because this little girl was in and out
of consciousness for the next fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Now, fortunately this.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Story had a very happy ending and Mitch and Chloe
found out on New Year's Day that the little girl
made it. So what happened is the little girl had
been wearing floaties and took them off in the pool.
I do commend Chloe and Mitch for this because Mitch
took the opportunity to remind his followers to never take
their eyes off their kids in the pool, especially when
there's big groups of people around. Never to just assume
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that someone else is watching after your kids. Chloe also
took to Instagram to praise the two children's quick actions,
writing praise to God and all the angels he placed
in her path yesterday. The ten year old kids are
actual real life heroes. Sunroom founder Michelle Battersby has really
turned her New Year's Eve around. So she currently lives
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in LA with her rugby player partner Bill Meeks, and
she was set to embark on a fifteen hour solo
parenting flight from LA to her hometown of Sydney with
her baby Alfie. So she managed to get herself upgraded
from economy to business class before she actually arrived at
the airport. Then at the gate she got upgraded to
first class. Well, she was actually very strategic about it
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and this was her end goal. That's why she ended
up booking the tickets for New Year's Eve because she
knew not many people would be on the flight because
it's not a very popular time to travel, so she
knew that people would be getting upgraded, and she was
helping out her followers by giving them some tips. And
she said that when you purchased your ticker online, there
is a checkbox that you need to tick that requests
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an upgrade. I didn't even know that this was a thing.
It did have something to do with points. She's clearly
a very savvy flyer. What I love, though, was that
she has traveled business class before, but she was still
so excited to travel first class. I really think that
anyone traveling with a baby should be automatically upgraded to
first class, particularly if they're traveling solo. I just think
it must be so hideous for the parents because there
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is no room to settle a child, But I also
think is equally hideous for those in economy around having
to deal with the baby being on certain but as well.
You probably wouldn't be thrilled if if you had purchase
first class tickets and then someone got upgraded to first
class a baby as well, but they've actually got a
room so the baby can go to sleep. UK influencers
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Saffron Barker has spent a very cozy New Year's Even
with a new boyfriend, Joshua Milne, as well as her
immediate family. So it's quite funny because Saffron has spoken
pretty openly about her hatred of cooking, but she seems
to have turned over a bit of a new leaf
now that she has this new man in her life
who loves hosting and loves good food.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
So the new couple.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Hosted New Year's Eve at her Brighton mansion and they
cooked up in a ray of pasta dishes, state tacos
and salads. It all looked very nice, and Saffron's mum, Wendy,
poked fun at her daughter, saying that josh did all
of the cooking while Saffron merely.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Set up the table.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, I think she had a point there, because he,
as you mentioned, is a very good cook. This didn't
look like the sort of stuff that Saffron served her
friends in the past. I'd give her credit because she
did look after the dessert. So she ordered profiderols and
cookies from Domino's. I mean it looked delicious. Did anyone
see the photos that Saffron's mum, Wendy shared of the
New Year's evening?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I saw a few. She looked very close with Josh.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, there was one where they were cuddling, and I
showed it to Reese. I'm like, do you think this
is weird? He goes, well, I don't know the context. Like,
I'm like, this is the new boyfriend that they've only
just met. Well, living there for all of December, they
probably got to know him well. I wonder if Josh's
family have sent out a bit of an SOS for
him because they haven't seen him for the whole festive
period in Scotland. And the thing is they must feel
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excluded because I noticed that Josh shared a photo where
he wished his own mother a happy birthday, So her
birthday was after Christmas and she clearly missed the opportunity
to see her own son and his new girl. Perfect
for Saffron because she has spoken a lot on her
podcast about how she couldn't imagine having to celebrate Christmas
with someone else's family, and how she expects the boyfriend
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has to come to her family for all days. That's
as much as I have been a bit skeptical about
this relationship, only because Saffron seems to have this image
of someone who jumps into these new relationships, an image back.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I don't think it's necessarily true.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
It's more that she's always in a serious relationship. She
think that he suits her way more than her other boyfriends,
because as we've established, he's happy to drop his life
and his family. He has been very engulfed in her lifestyle.
He is keen to play the role of the aspirational,
supportive boyfriend. I was talking to my husband Brandon about this.
He was saying that this guy is really smart because
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he knows that he could bolster his career and they
could pretty much be the next Zoe and Alfie or
Molly giving Travis Kelsey because he's acting like the perfect
handbag and Kate. You mentioned the photo of Saffron's mum
Wendy with Josh. I think this is a really good
sign because apparently Wendy is very judgmental of Saffron's boyfriend.
She's obviously given the thumbs up to this guy. I
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think mums are sometimes a bit more wise about who
their children should choose. A judge of character, and she's
getting a lot of green flaws. She seems pretty sweet
in the background and stuff. I mean, I am hanging
out for Saffron's next flog because I'm buying into this relationship.
I'm not standing at her anything, but I'm finding it fascinating.
And it's been a good move for Josh because he
has gained seven thousand extra followers since he was hard
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launched on Christmas Day, so he's unter thirteen thousand followers,
which isn't many. But I think what is interesting is
I've been looking at the comment section and Saffron's fans
are shipping this relationship hard. So her TikTok comment section
was full of fans saying, you two are perfect together
and your soulmate, and the way that Josh looks at
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you is so precious. I love that Josh fits into
your family. I know a lot of others being like,
who is this guy? Didn't she do this exactly the
same thing? I'm seeing all positive and fans. One's probably
been deleted.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Fans are saying that he looks like a young Chad
Michael Murray, which I can kind of see.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
With the shaved head.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah, Chadmuker Murray with a shaved head, but that was
never my favorite era of Chad Michael Murray.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
The guy's obviously very built.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
He's we need a bit of by Candy in her video,
it's like, I am I'm keen for this, I'm keen
for this next era of Saffron and I am expecting
here's my prediction, because I wasn't involved in the predictions,
he is going to get down on one knee this
time makes They will be engaged and there will probably
be a wedding.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
It'll be Tammy Hambros.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Everything will be I gets a chance to say this
in the Molly May segment, but Amy, we predicted that
Tommy and Molly would get back together and.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
That was quick you.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I actually disagree with quite of your predictions, but maybe
we'll have to have my own predictions in our subs episode.
We'll revisit that maybe in the middle of the year.
Well that is all we've got time for today. Thank
you for listening to our first episode back, well proper
episode back for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
So nice to be back because I was away last week.
You guys recorded on a weekend.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Which is a bit out of the usual and I
had my anniversary so apologies listeners that I was not
back then. But I'm so excited for this year of podcasting,
and I just think that there are so many fun
topics that we are going to be exploring.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
We've already there's so many topics that we've already got
for Friday.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Because we are now releasing our main episodes, we've gone
back to the Friday. So we sort of flirted with
the idea of doing on a Thursday, decided that that
doesn't work for.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Hoursdays and Friday's our main show.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I could never get over the fact that some people
used to have our Friday episode as their tradition to
get macers on the way home from work. So decided
to go back to a Friday, and that means our
subscriber episodes will now be dropping on Thursday. On that
If you are finding like you've got nothing to listen
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We pay respect to elders past and present.
Hello, and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the
hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm
Amy Torver and coming up on today's show, Molly May's Shock,
Midnight Kiss with Tommy Fury, Chloe Zepp turns Life Saver,
and why grapes are having a viral moment. But first,
Olivia Rodgers' ex husband Justin mccahn has shocked the internet
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with news he's expecting a baby with his on again,
off again Bachelor's Star girlfriend, Tanny Leeson. The bizarre twist
comes just weeks after Justin reportedly vanished before he was
due to appear in court to face theft chargers. His
former employer alleges he stole almost five hundred thousand dollars
whilst working as head of finance to fuel a drug problem. Now,
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despite Justin's legal woes, it didn't appear that any expense
was spared when it came to sharing the baby news,
so the couple hired a photographer to capture a very glamorous,
beach like pregnancy shoe. My draw was literally on the
floor when these photos popped up in my feet. I
could not believe it. I mean We did speculate last
week that the former couple were back together after Tany
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shared photos of her and Justin out at a lavish
influencer event. We now know that those photos were intended
as a bit of a soft launch to say we're
back together before dropping this massive bombshell. Now we need
to talk about this Instagram post. So Tarani captioned the
photo starting the new year with the most exciting news
to date. Cannot believe how much we love you already,
(01:32):
So grateful you chose us. It's interesting to note that
Justin has created a new Instagram account. So back when
all the news broke about this alleged theft, he deleted
his Instagram account and also his LinkedIn but he is
back on a very private account with very few followers.
Well because his original account he had around ten thousand
followers on there, so you could have called him a
(01:53):
bit of a micro influencer. It's quite interesting because Tarny
only has six thousand followers, and I think that's because
of the time she went on the Bachelore It's when
people weren't really interested. She didn't make it that far.
But yeah, I find it fascinating that he's basically gone
and made a new Instagram account up, probably to break
this news. Yeah, I mean he was a collaborator on
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the post, and he also commented on the post saying,
You're going to be an amazing mum. I cannot wait.
It's not the best look that he's created this fresh
account because it kind of looks like he's trying to
hide stuff on his old account. Well, I think he's
deleted it based on advice from his legal team. I mean,
so many people were following him. Every move is bound
to be tracked while this court case plays out. What
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he posted previously maybe used against him, and maybe messages
that were on the account, so it's easier to delete
it because I don't think his legal team would be like,
oh yeah, go make up a new account. I want
to discuss the strategy of this photo as well, because
I personally feel like not enough thought was put into
how these photos were going to land with the general public.
And I might be stereotyping here, but generally, as someone
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who has just shared a baby in anouncement recently, it
is the woman who is the one driving the theme
and the style of this post. And when your partner
is up on theft charges and very hefty ones that
I don't know why you would think it's a good
idea to have such an over the top stylized announcement
because in the photos they were literally frolicking on a
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beach and Tani was wearing a very flowy white two
piece outfit. Justin was wearing a matching white shirt. It
all looked very stylized and thought out. You know, if
you looked at those photos, you would think this couple
does not have a care in the world.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It was just.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Awkward, wasn't it, Because everyone knows that they've got a
lot of cares in the world, but a purposely trying
to look unfazed by the controversy to somewhat remove themselves
from it. I feel quite bad for Tany in this situation.
I mean, she hasn't done anything wrong. She looked quite
heavily pregnant in the photo, more pregnant than most people
are when they announce their pregnancy news, so you can
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see this has probably been weighing on her. There's probably
been a lot of discussions, how do we actually break
this to the public that we're having a baby together.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I know what though, the biggest trend.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well, the new trend coming forward for baby announcements is
apparently people not doing them and just turning up with
a baby. Yeah, it's called raw dogging your pregnancy announcement. Yeah,
they could have got away with doing that, but I
just feel like they've given the media more fodder to
write articles about them because they've got these new photos.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Of the couple together.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So how would you have done it then, because I
don't know any other way they could have done it
without creating the same amount of high pol I would
have done a glamorous photo shoot on a beach. I
would have done something a bit more toned back and casual.
Thinking about Matt poul he and his partner just did
a selfie in a mirror and it looked very stripped back,
very casual. If I was tiny, I would have spent
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more time building up their relationship because I know she
did that photo dump in December and he featured in it,
and that was shocking enough because it was clear the
couple broke up mid last year and we didn't even know.
The general public didn't know that they were back together.
So I probably would have breadcrumbed a little bit more
about them. Being back together before just dropping the bomber,
they were pregnant. I think it must have got to
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the point though, where she couldn't hide the pregnancy anymore,
and she knew that there were a lot of eyeballs
on Justin and consequently her. So can you imagine if
the paparazzi got shots of her looking quite pregnant and
everyone would have been like, well, where is Justin?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
What's happening?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Well, he's living in Perth at the moment, which is
a new factor to this, and Tarani has spent the
festive season over there. She is from Melbourne. It'd be
interesting to see if she stays in Perth. Now, getting
back to their relationship timeline, that's quite interesting because one
listener in our Facebook group claimed that Justin was on
Bumble as recently as August, and she alleged that her
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friend matched with Justin and went on a date. Now,
this is all speculation, but this listener claims that during
the date, Justin was said to have spoken about his
split from Tany and confided that she was living with
a guy.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
In his fifties.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
The listener also claimed that he spent most of the
night name dropping about the the E grade celebrities he knew,
and that it was the most bizarre date of her life. Now.
Another list not also claimed that one of her friends
also matched with Justin and he asked if she wanted
to get KFC with him at midnight on a random
Wednesday night. Look, I do want to reiterate that that
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is pure speculation and allegations that are not proven, but
very interesting if those rumors are true, and it does
look like Justin and Tarany got back together for the
sake of this child. I'm just disappointed, Kate, because we
did our twenty twenty five predictions last week. This was
definitely not one of them. Oh this was not on
my Bingo card for twenty twenty five, but we did
predict that the Justin mckeirn's story would probably be one
(06:40):
of the biggest this year, and it is not disappointing
at the moment. I'm guessing that Olivia Rodgers is pretty
happy that Tanny put up this pregnancy photo shoot because
now the media are actually using photos of Justin and
Tarany together as opposed to Justin and Olivia. It does
take the focus off her. This news also puts into
perspective that tick we were talking about last week, So
(07:02):
for those who missed it, there is a TikTok that's
circulating of Natasha Thomas and Olivia Rodgers and it's them
talking with the caption about having like a big, dirty
gossip session. So it turns out that Natasha Thomas was
at the Influencer event that Tany and Justin were at
in December, so perhaps Natasha was feeling in Olivia on
the news. It sounds like things could have got a
(07:22):
bit awkward in Perth over the festive season as well,
because Olivia was in Perth with her new boyfriend, who,
as you guys touched on last week, is the spitting
image of Justin, so he is also a Perth boy.
Can you imagine if they all ran into each other
at the local shops.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I know Perth is bigger than that.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Although we are having a bit of a joke, I
did actually feel for Olivia when this pregnancy announcement came out,
because although she has gracefully moved on, it would be
hard for this news, on top of everything else, not
to affect you because she has publicly spoken about how
she was undergoing IVF when she and Justin were still
together and in a Q and A following their separation,
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Olivia said, this has been one of the hardest parts
of the breakup and something I grieve heavily, as I
was actually going through fertility treatment in August September after
trying to feel pregnant for quite a while. And I
just think it would be hard and not human not
to feel anything about your ex husband so publicly announcing
his baby news in this way, particularly if that was
a struggle in your relationship. It would be really hard,
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But I think she'd probably feel very relieved.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Not to be in that situation.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
As I said, I am really feeling for Tarni because
this is such a shit situation for her to be in.
I really hope that she's not banking on Justin becoming
a father somehow changing him and meaning that all of
his issues sins are. As we discussed a few weeks ago,
is Justin could potentially be facing jail time. These charges
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are not criminal charges yet, there's been reports that the
police are looking into these claims, but if they do
turn into criminal charges, fraud has a very lengthy jail.
I can't help but feel for Tarny, and I wonder
if this announcement is a bit of a tactic for court,
because is there going to be a bit more sympathy
if he's got a baby on the way, even not
only from the court, but in the media as well, like, Hey,
(09:09):
this is a dad, a new dad, who needs to
move on with his life, and he's trying to He's
trying to be a better person. It's interesting that on
the baby announcement that they didn't actually specify a due date.
What I've taken from these new revelations is that Justin
is going to come out swinging against these allegations. He's
not hiding anymore, because initially it felt like he had retreated.
(09:30):
He was off social media, he had somewhat disappeared. People
did not know where he was. But the fact that
his influence a girlfriend is now posting him on her feed.
They did this very ostentatious baby announcement. They're not hiding.
Nothing's happened. Yeah, they're acting like they are untouchable. I mean,
he has also hired a very well known barrister to
(09:51):
defend him. So I think that this is going to
be so fascinating to see play out.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
To be a little bit rap, it's like, shall I
be a little bit rackless?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Molly May and Tommy Fury have sparked reconciliation rumors after
being spotted locking lips on New Year's Eve, just five
months after they announced their shock split. Now, if you
can believe it, photos of the former Love Islanders kissing
made front page news in the UK, so the Sun
newspaper ran what they labeled as exclusive pictures of the
(10:25):
midnight kiss, as well as a video on their website,
which quickly made its way to social media. Well, it
kind of makes sense because they have been portrayed as
being the modern day Princess Diana and Prince Charles, and
if there was any sort of reconciliation between the two
of them, the people's princess, that would be front page news.
Sophia Uoka because while there is a lot of backlash
(10:47):
directed at Molly May, because people were like, why would
she take him back? We have all been rooting for
this to happen, particularly you. I am over the moon,
and again, I think because we haven't actually found out
what he's done, it makes me be able to make
it okay in my head, Like I'm like, maybe he
didn't cheat, Maybe that was all bullshit by the media.
(11:08):
I feel like I've manifested this because over the Christmas break,
I was watching vlogs of Tommy and Molly on holiday
and I was like, they are so cute.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
But when I saw the.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Initial vision, I thought, surely this is fake because it
was so grainy you couldn't really tell if it was
them or not. I think it was very clear that
it was Tommy Fury, but I was like, Oh, is
this some random girl that he's kissing in a nightclub.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Also, I thought Molly May hates to party. What is
she doing out on New is he?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I suppose with AI these days, you never know what
is made up. But when you watch Molly's vlogs, it's
clear that she very much misses him, and that they
have also been co parenting very maturely, like you can
tell that there's something still there between them. So I
was skeptical about this vision initially until I actually read
The Sun's article and I found out more about where
(11:56):
this video was actually taken. So the video was filmed
inside the New Year's Eve party of Manchester United player
Luke Shaw and his partner a Nushka Santos, and so
Molly is friends with Annushka, who is a fellow influencer.
I've heard her talking about her in ner vlogs. Actually,
I was going to say that surprised me after her
viral interview on the Stephen Bartlett Diary of a CEO
(12:17):
podcast because she had said how she doesn't really place
much time in making friends and she doesn't have a
large friendship group. And then I'm like, oh, wow, she's
friends with all of these famous ukay people. It's very Manchester,
isn't it. Because obviously Molly's from Manchester. She's going to
a Manchester United party. Most people probably would have thought,
oh fantastic, she's going to meet a footballer at this party.
(12:38):
So how did Tommy get an invite to the party.
Well it was actually Molly who apparently invited Tommy very
last minute to this party. Can you imagine all of
the girls that have been like just inviting Yeah, well,
I've got to take my hat off to another influencer
who was also in attendance. Her name is Alicia Lee
May and she gave a great insight into the party
(12:58):
through her tiktoks. So this wasn't your typical house party.
It was a catered event. They had very boogie looking twenty.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Twenty five sunglasses. There was a live band.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
They also had beautiful sleek white decorations, plenty of drinks,
and also karaoke and Molly featured in a number of
Alicia's TikTok videos, including one of the guests documenting their
first and last drink of the night, Molly actually drinking
because she does speak a lot about how she doesn't
actually like alcohol and that seemed to be a bit
of a contentious issue within their relationship because Tommy likes
(13:30):
to go out and party and she said it really
doesn't interest her at all. Well, in the vision, you
can see Molly drinking a cocktail as her first drink,
and her last drink of the night is a shot.
Let's throw to the grab.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Sign money and it's my fast drink SI money.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
This just screams to me someone that is trying to
get their X back because in a recent vlog, Molly
was talking about how she doesn't really like having fun
and this was off the back of her going to
her work Christmas party and she said everyone was dancing
and drinking and she just couldn't get into it.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Let's throw the more of.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
What she said, I don't know how many more times
I need to go on like her fun evening or
a fun trip or what something would be stereotypically described
as fun to realize that I don't like having fun.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I think I may have realized that actually, like I
really don't. I just don't like having fun, like and
I'm not even saying that to be like I feel
like that kids kind of picked me vibes like I
just don't like having fun. I don't really like the
way that sounds. But also like guys, I actually don't
like I don't what's wrong with me? Like everyone? I
say everyone, I was like twelve of us, but like
(14:40):
everyone last night dancing, having the time with their lives
and like I'm bopping. I'm like I'm getting involved, but
like I can't fake get up and dance. I what's
wrong with me? And it's not even like I don't
want to be a spoil sport or anything, but I
just it's not like antisocial. It's just that I just
(15:01):
can't seem to let my hair down.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Why I related heavily to this because I don't drink.
And sometimes I'm thinking it's everyone legitimately having fun, because
I find this so boring, and it seemed a lot
of people actually felt seen from this YouTube video because
this clip went viral on TikTok and so many people
were saying, oh my god, I'm the same. Well, the
thing is, when Molly says she doesn't like fun, and
(15:23):
I don't think that's true. I think it's just that
she doesn't find that particular activity fun. And I think
a lot of people, when they start entering their thirties,
they're over it. They want to spend their Saturday nights
another way. Well, we got a bit of an insight
from the Sun newspaper into what Molly was apparently downing
before midnight. So they reported that Molly and her friends
were taking shots from a one hundred and ten pound
(15:45):
bottle of tequila. So it seems that liquid courage may
have actually assisted with this bid Bye kiss. I find
it so sad that she can't go out for one
night and let her hair down on New Year's Eve
without the Sun reporting exactly what she was drinking, what
she was doing. I mean, I know where chatting about
it now, so that's a little tat hypocritical of me.
But can't she just have a good time and give
(16:07):
her ex boyfriend a kiss? No, no, I am so
happy that the son is reporting on this. All I
want to know is who was the snitch in the
party who took that video? I know, because that was
a very private moment, particularly if this is a party,
like a high end party where there's you know, Manchester's
people of people there like who took the video, because
(16:27):
she would be they'd be fucking it's your low level
influencers that are there. Of course they're going to take
a photo. As you said earlier, she is the people's princess.
This was the biggest news that broke when they broke,
you know. I find so sad the fact that this
person who took.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
The video, they're not enjoying ringing in the New Year.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
They're sitting there thinking, I'm going to take this video
as it hits midnight of them kissing.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I'm probably going to make a fun ton of money
from her. There's a lot of.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Speculation that maybe Molly's manager, Fran took the vision, and
people are saying, well, it's to add more intrigue because
she's got her documentary coming out on January seventeenth. But
I think it has to be that somebody, as you said,
one of these micro influencers, has sold the vision. But
hang on, Becau, wasn't the shot just panning of the crowd.
Did they incidentally get them, because it's not like they
(17:12):
knew that they were going to kiss.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Well, it did look like that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I thought, oh, maybe someone has shared this on Instagram
or something and the Sun's grabbed it. But the fact
that the Sun has put this as their front page story,
it's clear that someone's made a lot of money out
of this because the Sun keep calling it their exclusive
vision and it's only when media organizations pay for a
large sum that they actually want to thrash.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
This vision so much.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
All the things you're talking about, you know, jokes that
maybe Molly's manager Fran film this to create more I
suppose engagement in this documentary that's coming out, but it
seems to have done the opposite effect. Whilst there are
some fans who are genuinely excited by this news, there's
a lot of fans who are pissed off because they
are seeing this as an elaborate pr move. So when
(17:58):
this breakup first happened, people were saying, Oh, this is
just a PR stunt so that she gets as much publicity.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
For her new brand.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Maybe, and that really did happen because that brand sold
out instantly. Yeah, but I don't think Molly May needs
a publicity stunt to sell out her clothing line. She's
got millions of followers. I'm not saying she does. I'm
just saying that this has been the reaction from a
lot of people.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
They're upset.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
See. I think it is the parasocial relationship at play
here because a lot of people when this news broke,
particularly because people were accusing Tommy of cheating on Molly,
everyone went around and supported Molly May. They protected her.
So it's basically like when your friend gets back with
their dickhead ex boyfriend and you're like, what the hell
I've sat here, I've supported you, I've bagged it out,
(18:42):
and now you've run.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Back to hit us.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Then, because Tommy has been copying it over this five
month period, he has become one of the most unpopular
people on social media. It was interesting because Molly uploaded
a year's ephoto where she looked stunning, and she was
inundated with negative comments. Follower wrote they didn't even really
split money money money, whilst another said using the breakup
(19:06):
as pr for maybe and Tommy's book and documentary, but
snogging Tommy on New Year's Eve convenient.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
She is yet to respond to the backlash. Her team
has also declined to comment to the Sun. It'll be
interesting to see if she does say anything about the
New Year's Eve kiss before the launch of her new documentary,
because she has been sharing a lot of her emotions
and feelings in her December of log She's been talking
about being very down and upset. That's why I personally
(19:33):
was so surprised to see this vision popper. Well, there's
been more fuel added to the fire by Tommy because
Tommy liked Molly's New Year's Day Instagram post which is
as well yeah, and so a lot of people are saying, well,
it mustn't have been just a kiss. And there are
also fresh reports that Tommy and Molly were spotted at
Molly's favorite place, which is a shopping center in the
(19:54):
UK called the Trafford Center. They are apparently holding hands
and it's just been reported today that Tommy was seen
staying the night at Molly's place. Apparently they went to
the movies at the Trafford Center as well, and it
had snowed overnight, so Tommy couldn't leave the house.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Convenient.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Isn't there a Christmas song about that it's cold outside?
Like maybe it's gone outside. Look. I know that people
are up in arms, and you never want to see
someone that you like get back with a dickhead X.
But we need to remember there is a child involved
in this, their daughter, Bambi, and that is a big
part of the reason why I want them to get
back together. It also makes sense why Molly never dished
(20:30):
the dirt on what he actually did. Like if we
being back to her sort of explanation video, you could
tell she was holding back in the hope that maybe
they would get back together. Yeah, because once you air
your dirty laundry, it's really egg on your face if
you take them back. So at the moment, we really
don't know what Tommy did. The only issue here for
Molly May is that her doco is launching on January seventeenth,
(20:53):
and it has been teased that a lot is going
to come out about the breakup. So Amazon Prime either
has nothing and is trying to use that to hook
people in or there is going to be dirt that's spilt,
and maybe Tommy's not gonna lie I reckon. There's some
editors who were swiftly cutting some stuff. It's like, please
remove what I said about him? Can we spare a
thought though, for Molly's sisters Zoe and her husband Daddy,
(21:14):
because they really took one for the team. So they
it was stuck at Molly's house babysitting Molly and Tommy's
daughter Bambi on New Year's Eve whilst this was all
going on. So Zoe documented this night on her YouTube channel,
and in one clip you can see she was majorly
regretting her decision to spend the night in babysitting.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Now we can enjoy the evening. I don't know if
we've a little bit cut that we're not going to
do anything now, do you feel a little bit like
not gutter, but like no, we've traded stuff like if
we have the option before, were going to do something, well,
at least go for dinner up on them. Yeah, I
feel like spens sat inside or even yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Well they did try to make the most of the
night though, because they set up a cute date night
where they had canvases, and they were painting, and they
had a grazing board. The New Year's Eve kiss did
look a little bit different though, because they were crashed
on the couch in their trackies watching the fireworks on TV. Now,
I think that this is every married couple though, yez.
(22:13):
But I felt sorry for them because Danny was like, Oh,
I'm so exhausted, I'm going to bed, and Zoe was like, well,
I'm going to stay up to see Molly come home.
She obviously wanted to hear the goss.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Oh of course you would.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I mean, if you've taken one for the team and
a babysitting your knees while your sister hooks up with
their eggs, Imagine their faces when they saw the front
page of the Sun.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Like for Fox's sake.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
My favorite New Year's E visual that I ever did
was the groups underneath the tea wall. Grapes really seemed
to be having a moment right now, because over New
Years My for You page was full of all these
young women who were huddled under tables shoving grapes into
their mouths in the hopes of supposedly bringing in good
luck and good fortune for twenty twenty five, and at
(22:55):
first I thought that this must be some sort of
made up TikTok trend, But this is actually a tradition.
The first started in Spain and it's been around since
the late eighteen hundreds. Well on TikTok, this ritual has
evolved because now it's more about finding love than simply
good luck, because there's been so many women posting their
success stories, apparently saying well, I ate grape grapes last
(23:16):
year and went on to meet the love of my life. Yeah.
So the concept is that each grape actually represents a
month of the year, So as you're eating each grape,
you're supposed to make a wish for each month of
that year. The catch is that when the clock actually
strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, in order for your
wishes to come true, you have to eat all twelve
grapes in a minute. So that's why there's clips of
(23:36):
these women literally like stuffing their faces. That's a little
less awkward for the single people, because you know, when
everyone's all the couples are kissing on New Year's even
the single people are kind of just standing there. Do
you know what's fucked? Though?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Because back in the day.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
The rule was that in order for your wishes to
come true, you actually had to eat them in twelve seconds,
So grape was within a second, there'll be people fucking
choking and collapsing on the ground. So I actually first
saw this trend Pophart when Gold Coast influencer Georgia Richard
shed an old video of her from two years ago
eating grapes under a table and in the vision there
(24:07):
was a dog next to her, and I actually thought
that she was eating the grapes quickly so the dog
wouldn't get it, because grapes are just so poorous, That's.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
All I could think.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Because I am not allowed to have grapes in the
house at all, because we once had an incident where
we were out on a walk and we had our
dog Archie. We went to sit down under a picnic
table and there was this thing of what is it
the stork.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
That we did so he.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Ate the grape and went through this whole thing, taking
him to the vat because they're highly toxic anyway, I
do want to say, though, whoever is doing the marketing
for grapes at the moment, I take my hat off
to them.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Because you have literally made a fruit that is so.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Expensive at the moment it costs ten dollars for a
kilo of grapes. They've managed to make it so desirable
and grapes have been selling. That's actually not that expensive.
Cherries are like twenty or.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Grapes have never been ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
A key for Georgia Richards just back to her. This
worked because two years later she actually has found her
first girlfriend. Ever. She's very much in love, isn't she?
Sally A year doesn't mean well, maybe it takes a
little while, maybe she'd eat them and quick enough. So
she shared vision of her under the table eating the grapes,
and then she showed this year her kissing her girlfriend
(25:17):
on New Year's Eve. There's actually another Georgia who has
shocked everyone by doing this trend as well, and it's
Georgia Love because she has stoked break up rumors even
further by sharing a photo of herself also sitting under
a table on New Year's Eve eating grapes, and she
captured the photo. Who else was eating grapes under the
table at the stroke of midnight? Ever, of context, this
(25:40):
is while she is holidaying solo from her husband Lee
Elliott in New York. To be fair, it is about
good luck in general, so maybe she's just wishing for
good luck, not necessarily good luck when it comes to dating.
But I mean, I personally wouldn't have posted this considering
all the rumors that are coming her way. It came
across as a bit attention seeking because she has previously
(26:00):
been trying to extinguish these breakup rumors. But why post
when this has become on TikTok a trend about finding love?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Like, yeah, I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And what added even more confusion was that Georgia later
posted a real where she was poking fun at millennials
who instead of having kids, they've got grandpets who their
parents look after, and she referenced her cat, Paudrey Hepburn,
So she said, literally, Paudrey Hepburn is at Lee's parents
right now, with a laughing face. I didn't know whether
(26:30):
this was to try and prove that she's still with Lee,
because for me, it actually created more question marks because
why isn't Lee if if she's just on a solo
holiday and they're still together, why isn't Lee at their
home looking after her? He's been in Sydney holiday and himself.
So maybe she was just pointing out that they're both
on holidays, but it was a little bit odd. I
(26:51):
do think it is more to try and extinguish the rumors,
but if you've already posted yourself eating grapes under the table,
then it's not doing a very good job of it.
Chloe Zepp and Mitch Orville have had a very scary
end to twenty twenty four. So the couple were celebrating
a friend's birthday by the pool at Sanctuary Cove when
two kids came running over carrying a lifeless three year
(27:13):
old who they had just scooped out of the pool.
So Mitch described the terrifying moment on Instagram, saying that
the little girl had turned blue and was unconscious. So
they immediately called an ambulance and Chloe ran over to assist,
and she started smacking the little girl on the back
whilst another person ran over to help and they managed
to get the girl to vomit five times. Now, it's
(27:35):
very scary because this little girl was in and out
of consciousness for the next fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Now, fortunately this.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Story had a very happy ending and Mitch and Chloe
found out on New Year's Day that the little girl
made it. So what happened is the little girl had
been wearing floaties and took them off in the pool.
I do commend Chloe and Mitch for this because Mitch
took the opportunity to remind his followers to never take
their eyes off their kids in the pool, especially when
there's big groups of people around. Never to just assume
(28:01):
that someone else is watching after your kids. Chloe also
took to Instagram to praise the two children's quick actions,
writing praise to God and all the angels he placed
in her path yesterday. The ten year old kids are
actual real life heroes. Sunroom founder Michelle Battersby has really
turned her New Year's Eve around. So she currently lives
(28:22):
in LA with her rugby player partner Bill Meeks, and
she was set to embark on a fifteen hour solo
parenting flight from LA to her hometown of Sydney with
her baby Alfie. So she managed to get herself upgraded
from economy to business class before she actually arrived at
the airport. Then at the gate she got upgraded to
first class. Well, she was actually very strategic about it
(28:44):
and this was her end goal. That's why she ended
up booking the tickets for New Year's Eve because she
knew not many people would be on the flight because
it's not a very popular time to travel, so she
knew that people would be getting upgraded, and she was
helping out her followers by giving them some tips. And
she said that when you purchased your ticker online, there
is a checkbox that you need to tick that requests
(29:05):
an upgrade. I didn't even know that this was a thing.
It did have something to do with points. She's clearly
a very savvy flyer. What I love, though, was that
she has traveled business class before, but she was still
so excited to travel first class. I really think that
anyone traveling with a baby should be automatically upgraded to
first class, particularly if they're traveling solo. I just think
it must be so hideous for the parents because there
(29:27):
is no room to settle a child, But I also
think is equally hideous for those in economy around having
to deal with the baby being on certain but as well.
You probably wouldn't be thrilled if if you had purchase
first class tickets and then someone got upgraded to first
class a baby as well, but they've actually got a
room so the baby can go to sleep. UK influencers
(29:47):
Saffron Barker has spent a very cozy New Year's Even
with a new boyfriend, Joshua Milne, as well as her
immediate family. So it's quite funny because Saffron has spoken
pretty openly about her hatred of cooking, but she seems
to have turned over a bit of a new leaf
now that she has this new man in her life
who loves hosting and loves good food.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
So the new couple.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Hosted New Year's Eve at her Brighton mansion and they
cooked up in a ray of pasta dishes, state tacos
and salads. It all looked very nice, and Saffron's mum, Wendy,
poked fun at her daughter, saying that josh did all
of the cooking while Saffron merely.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Set up the table.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, I think she had a point there, because he,
as you mentioned, is a very good cook. This didn't
look like the sort of stuff that Saffron served her
friends in the past. I'd give her credit because she
did look after the dessert. So she ordered profiderols and
cookies from Domino's. I mean it looked delicious. Did anyone
see the photos that Saffron's mum, Wendy shared of the
New Year's evening?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I saw a few. She looked very close with Josh.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, there was one where they were cuddling, and I
showed it to Reese. I'm like, do you think this
is weird? He goes, well, I don't know the context. Like,
I'm like, this is the new boyfriend that they've only
just met. Well, living there for all of December, they
probably got to know him well. I wonder if Josh's
family have sent out a bit of an SOS for
him because they haven't seen him for the whole festive
period in Scotland. And the thing is they must feel
(31:12):
excluded because I noticed that Josh shared a photo where
he wished his own mother a happy birthday, So her
birthday was after Christmas and she clearly missed the opportunity
to see her own son and his new girl. Perfect
for Saffron because she has spoken a lot on her
podcast about how she couldn't imagine having to celebrate Christmas
with someone else's family, and how she expects the boyfriend
(31:34):
has to come to her family for all days. That's
as much as I have been a bit skeptical about
this relationship, only because Saffron seems to have this image
of someone who jumps into these new relationships, an image back.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I don't think it's necessarily true.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
It's more that she's always in a serious relationship. She
think that he suits her way more than her other boyfriends,
because as we've established, he's happy to drop his life
and his family. He has been very engulfed in her lifestyle.
He is keen to play the role of the aspirational,
supportive boyfriend. I was talking to my husband Brandon about this.
He was saying that this guy is really smart because
(32:11):
he knows that he could bolster his career and they
could pretty much be the next Zoe and Alfie or
Molly giving Travis Kelsey because he's acting like the perfect
handbag and Kate. You mentioned the photo of Saffron's mum
Wendy with Josh. I think this is a really good
sign because apparently Wendy is very judgmental of Saffron's boyfriend.
She's obviously given the thumbs up to this guy. I
(32:35):
think mums are sometimes a bit more wise about who
their children should choose. A judge of character, and she's
getting a lot of green flaws. She seems pretty sweet
in the background and stuff. I mean, I am hanging
out for Saffron's next flog because I'm buying into this relationship.
I'm not standing at her anything, but I'm finding it fascinating.
And it's been a good move for Josh because he
has gained seven thousand extra followers since he was hard
(32:58):
launched on Christmas Day, so he's unter thirteen thousand followers,
which isn't many. But I think what is interesting is
I've been looking at the comment section and Saffron's fans
are shipping this relationship hard. So her TikTok comment section
was full of fans saying, you two are perfect together
and your soulmate, and the way that Josh looks at
(33:18):
you is so precious. I love that Josh fits into
your family. I know a lot of others being like,
who is this guy? Didn't she do this exactly the
same thing? I'm seeing all positive and fans. One's probably
been deleted.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Fans are saying that he looks like a young Chad
Michael Murray, which I can kind of see.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
With the shaved head.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah, Chadmuker Murray with a shaved head, but that was
never my favorite era of Chad Michael Murray.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
The guy's obviously very built.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
He's we need a bit of by Candy in her video,
it's like, I am I'm keen for this, I'm keen
for this next era of Saffron and I am expecting
here's my prediction, because I wasn't involved in the predictions,
he is going to get down on one knee this
time makes They will be engaged and there will probably
be a wedding.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
It'll be Tammy Hambros.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Everything will be I gets a chance to say this
in the Molly May segment, but Amy, we predicted that
Tommy and Molly would get back together and.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
That was quick you.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I actually disagree with quite of your predictions, but maybe
we'll have to have my own predictions in our subs episode.
We'll revisit that maybe in the middle of the year.
Well that is all we've got time for today. Thank
you for listening to our first episode back, well proper
episode back for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
So nice to be back because I was away last week.
You guys recorded on a weekend.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Which is a bit out of the usual and I
had my anniversary so apologies listeners that I was not
back then. But I'm so excited for this year of podcasting,
and I just think that there are so many fun
topics that we are going to be exploring.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
We've already there's so many topics that we've already got
for Friday.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Because we are now releasing our main episodes, we've gone
back to the Friday. So we sort of flirted with
the idea of doing on a Thursday, decided that that
doesn't work for.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Hoursdays and Friday's our main show.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I could never get over the fact that some people
used to have our Friday episode as their tradition to
get macers on the way home from work. So decided
to go back to a Friday, and that means our
subscriber episodes will now be dropping on Thursday. On that
If you are finding like you've got nothing to listen
to at the moment, because every other podcast seems to
be on holidays, why don't you become an Outspoken Plus
(35:13):
subscriber because we've got a massive back catalog of episodes
that you can binge And this Thursday, we're releasing an
episode about our ins and outs for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Well, it's one way that you can support the podcast.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
And if you haven't already, we would love if you
could leave us a five star review. This episode was
recorded on the traditional land of the Ghana people of
the Adelaide Planes.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
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