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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the
hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm
Kate Torber and coming up on today's show, Tali Escane
Shock's followers by listing Dream Barley Villa for sale, the
surprise contestants set to appear on the New Bachelor spin off,
and Megan Markle's Mad March continues.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
But first, Molly May and.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Tommy Fury have all but confirmed their back together after
jetting off on a family holiday to their happy place, Dubai.
The reunion comes seven months after the Shock split following
Tommy's issues with alcohol. So if, an eagle eyed fan
was the first to raise the alarm on Thursday, spotting
them at Manchester Airport.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
This photo was all over by fu page and it
showed the family of three lining up to board their flight. Now.
UK tabloid The Sun ran with the photos straight away,
reporting that they were accompanied by a nanny so they
could spend more alone time together. The tabloid also spoke
to online One Sauce said you would never know the
troubles they've been through. They look like just a normal couple.
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Tommy was very protective of Molly and Bamby, and then
Nanny helped with the luggage. Boarding the Emirates flight, they
took the fast track lane and flew business class, but
were recognized by other passengers. Another said people were delighted
to see them together, but they kept to themselves. I
wonder if this was a situation where people just felt
too awkward to ask.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
For a photo. Oh yeah, I would not have gone off.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I think a lot of people aren't really socially aware
when they come across celebrities, and they wouldn't have respected
that it was awkward. Well, they don't appear to be
hiding the fact they're away together, because both of them
are posting about being in Dubai. They haven't yet posted
any photos of them together, but all of their photos
are in the same resort. It's with their daughter Bambe.
Well that's the thing, because straight away the mainstream media
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started touting this as a secret reconciliation holiday. So I
think that they both thought, well, everyone's talking about it,
we may.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
As well post about the trip.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Did anyone notice that Tommy's photo were a lot better
now on his Instagram story?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I was like, clearly Molly has.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Taken this, but it's not a shot of his Sunday
roast with a Coca Cola. Well, he's been taking some
pretty nice photos of her as well, and you can
read a lot into the captions because Molly keeps calling
this her special place. And Tommy also uploaded a video
of him with Bambi and he was floating on a
pool toy with her and he said the dream. So
I just think that they are trying to soft launch
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that they're back.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Is not a soft launch, this is a hard launch.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I wonder if they are contractually obligated not to publicly
say that they're back together. Perhaps perhaps Prime has said
you can't say it until we air this docor otherwise
no one's going to watch. I think they know that
they're giving the fans what they want as well. I
think they're confident that everyone's going to be a static,
Well most people are going to be a static that
they're back together, So they feel okay to be posting
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it because it looks like the most wholesome true I
just hope they're vlogging it. You know, maybe they can't
put it out right away, but common can you imagine
if you were at the resort watching this, This would
be the best people watching ever. Well, Molly actually put
up a photo of Bambi playing with this older group
of kids and was gushing about how beautiful it was
and they took such good care of her.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I wonder if the parents of.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Those kids were like, go over there, now, what's going on.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Another photo on Molly's story caught my eye.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It was of like a can of coke and then
what looked like two watermelon cocktails, and I was like,
are they mocktails or karely they're mocktails. At first I
thought maybe the soft drink was for Bamby, but now
I'm thinking maybe it was for the nanny. Maybe they
were all just having a drink together and maybe they
were mock taps. Look, they're pretty loaded. They might just
have bought two drinks. Molly might have bought two drinks
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for herself. Oh, I was just more concerned about the
alcohol and it just had her mum in the docker
ringing in my ear. That every occasion seemed to turn
negative with Tommy and alcohol. So I'm very much hoping
that they are mockedtails. It's kind of a strange thing
to post. If you're back with Tommy. It seems like
they've chosen Dubai for a specific reason. It was the
first holiday that they went on with their daughter, Bamby.
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She was only three months old when they took there,
and at the time, Molly described it as the happiest time.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Of her life since she'd given birth to Bambi.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I feel like they're trying to recreate the magic of.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The first trip.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Was they filming for Prime still? Like they mentioned about
a YouTube, but is this going to be on the show? Hopefully,
surely it will be part of the documentary that winding
up shots. It will be like and they all lived
happily ever after.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Imagine if Tommy.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Proposes over there and that's the next series you have
to propose again now that they've broken up, or if
they get going together, does that mean they're still engaged.
I know we're all very excited about it, but I
do have a few concerns. This relationship only broke up
seven months ago. I wonder if there has been enough
time to iron out a lot of the issues that
Tommy's had with alcohol. It seems like there were further
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issues with their relationship with his partying as well, and
potential women that he'd been with. Well, we'll probably find
out more in the documentary. And Kate, to answer your question,
I think if you've broken up for seven months, you
have to do another proposal.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Another ring. Surely not that ring is big enough.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Well, Molly's seemed really happy in a recent vlog, and
she actually gushed about the upcoming holiday, saying, this.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Going to Dubai with Bambi and we are going for
a little holiday. But I feel like I'm going to
like really have like some like nice time off and
just like really switched off, Like I'm still going to
post and stuff. It's needed this little trip. And I'm
actually like very much as you guys know, like a
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home girl. I love my time at home. I never
really crave the need to go away. Like I'm so
content when I'm at home. It's at my happiest times.
But recently I have been craving a little getaway and
just some time to kind of just like.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
A skate I saw.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
There was so many comments and they were all like,
I'm so happy to say with you with Tommy, have
a great time in Dubuy with Tommy. Well, she did
admit the fact that she was going with Tommy and
again it really does make me think that they have
signed something with Prime. Well, the general consensus, I feel
on TikTokers everyone is happy about this news. There was
a TikToker who actually spotted the couple in Dubai, and
she shared a post saying may or may not have
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just witnessed our favorite blonde with her baby girl and
man in Dubai. I'm all and this led followers to write,
I genuinely feel like they're on a make or break holiday.
We're all rooting for them, whilst another said I love
this one couple I want to work. There are, however,
some people who don't actually think that this means that
they're back together, and maybe they're just very mature and
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a co parenting way. There is no way you wouldn't
be talking about how special this holiday is. You'd be
talking about how challenging it is to be there with
your ex well spare thought for the nanny, regardless of
what kind of trip this is or what relationships sat
as they are. It'd be fucking awkward, wouldn't it. But
maybe it's good that there's someone else there to bounce
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off and you know, you kind of put more of
an effort in when there's a third party.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I never got that, Natty.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
But she's probably off with Bambi doing stuff, letting them
have their alone time. I don't know if they're traveling
around this So I think you need to spare a
thought for Molly's sister Zoe. It is going to be
really awkward for her because she was very vocal on
the Prime doco about how she didn't think that they
should get back together and that he was bad news
and that she clastered with him. Well, what's even more
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awkward is that Zoe recently put out a vlog where
she revealed that she and Danny are actually moving into
Molly's house with her. So they live in quite a
small apartment what looks like an apartment or a unit
at the moment. And she said that now that she's
an influencer, she's so inundated with packages and receiving goods
that they actually don't have room in their house, so
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they don't have enough storage, so they were going to
rent a house, and Molly called her up and said, well, hey,
have you ever just considered temporarily moving in with me?
So a lot of people are saying, well, does this
mean that Tommy and Molly aren't getting back together.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
If they got a sister moving here.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
But this is also called Zoe and her husband are
looking to buy a house.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yes, I mean maybe it'll be for the short term.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Maybe they need a buffer, Kate, as you were saying
with the like, maybe they need Zoe and Danny there.
You're not going to bring in a buffer who does
not like your partner or ex partner. True. I think
it's just a temporary fix while Molly needs a help
of other babysitters.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Really spend the morning with me. As a self employed
Australian living in at.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Bali, Talius Gaines has shocked her followers by revealing her
three story villa in Iluatu is up for sale. The
Bari based influencer has been documenting the build for the
past two years and touted the luxury villa as her
permanent home now. So if this villa was featured heavily
in Talia's Gone, yeah, because a huge part of Talia's
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channel has been documenting this villa build. So she moved
to Bali with her boyfriend Jake Sajano over two years
ago and they've really taken followers along for the ride.
We've been a fly on the wall for all of
the site checks, the slab being laid, We've seen the
pool going in recently. We also saw a bunch of
custom furniture being installed and intry influencer style. They also
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made up a home account for the villa, which has
six thousand followers, and they gave it a name because
we know that Talia likes naming her village, because she
had a villa with her ex boyfriend Mitch Third, which
was called Villa Tami was at a combination of their names.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I can't remember that it was Mitch and Talia.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Now this villa is called Casas Sue, which means home
at the end of the river.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So even in the name, it has the word home
in it.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
So there was a general vibe that this was going
to be there. Maybe not forever home, but they're home for.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
At least a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Why does a distrmin me of ecken Sue Sue?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
What's bloody nice?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
When you say villa, you kind of think of, you know,
a small maybe one or two bedrooms. This place is
massive and the view is absolutely insane.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
It is so luxurious. Yeah, I mean, I.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Would love to live in this house. It looks incredible.
Tylia said that she wasn't actually planning on opening up
about the sale so soon, because she said there's still
several months until they officially move out, but she said
that she'd been inundated with so many questions about the
villa she felt as though she needed to open up,
so she wrote in a Q and A on Instagram
casas Sue actually just and up for sale. So many bittersweet,
(10:02):
conflicting emotions. Sue is the most incredible home. I am
beyond obsessed and she exceeded Sorry, for some reason, it
cracks me up. They refer to the house as a woman,
and she exceeded all expectations. I've honestly dreaded this day
since before we even started building. But I'm also super
excited for the future. That's a bit of a weird
thing because it gives off the impression that they were
always going to sell. Well. It comes as a shock
(10:24):
to a lot of people because they only just completed
the villa in September of last year, so they've really.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Only lived there for a couple of months.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
When it's been completed, and there was a lot of
speculation that maybe Talia and Jake might be moving back home,
but they later confirmed that they're staying put in Bali. Well,
he is a property developer and this is his bread
and butter. But as you said, it was always touted
as being their home. I wonder if they'd just got
an offer that was too good to turn down. Yeah,
it's really confusing, Kate, because they never promoted it as
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an investment property. As you said, he is part of
a development company in Bali which describes itself as his
premiere property developer, called the Local Villa Group. And as
you said, maybe it shouldn't come as such a surprise,
but they never said it was an investment property. They
said it was their dream home that they were building.
And even up until recently, Taralia created a broadcast channel
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for Casasou and she wrote that she was struggling to
sleep at night because she's that excited about the new
house and she said it's my dream home and she
just can't believe that she gets to wake up to
this every day. Something is going on behind the scenes.
I mean, I remember when Leah Atsinas put her house
up on the market and then suddenly she's obviously moved
to the Gold Coast, so there's always something going on.
(11:35):
Maybe she doesn't want to be in Iluatu anymore. I
wonder if either a really great opportunity for land in
a better spot has opened up, or there's a villa
that they really want to renovate, because she mentioned in
a recent YouTube video that she's working on a new
project that she's not going to open up about until
the end of the year, and she teased, if you
like the journey of Casas Sue, you will like the
(11:56):
latest projects. So maybe they see developing these villas as
part of a content strategy and as part of her brand,
and now that it's done a people going to lose
interest in her content. So how did they actually make money?
Because I understand if you are not a Balinese local,
you can't actually purchase land. Yeah, it's really interesting because
Australians can't own land outright in Bali. They have to
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be listed as a lease holder, so they can only
acquire property rights through this leasehold agreement, where basically the
property owner grants them the right to use and manage
the property for a fixed period of time. In the
case of Kasasu, the property has a lease hold until
December twenty fifty six.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Wow, it's a long time await.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
You touched on before, Kate that maybe Jake and Talia
got an offer on the villa that was.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Too good to be true.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
But they've actually listed it through a very popular Balinese
realtor at the moment, so it's all over their social
So it looks like they don't have a current buyer
and they're putting a lot of marketing into trying to
get the best price possible. It doesn't mean that they
haven't been inundated with offers though, because Georgie Stevenson recently
had some trouble selling her Gold Coast mansion. She's now
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actually renting it out. But it was actually passed in
an auction for the first time they put it up
for sale.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
But she had said that they had had so.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Many different offers over the time that they owned the house,
and they.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Were really big offers.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
So they probably had a few offers come in that
they're like, we actually can't turn this down. Let's put
it on the market and see how many more come
in and pit these people.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Against each other.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I get the vibe that they plan to just sell
this property all along, but maybe they thought Talia's followers
would buy in more if they thought we're following the
journey of you building your dream home as opposed to
we're following the journey of you building an investment portfolio
on property.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I think that's a pretty earnest look at it. I
think that there's more going on behind the scenes than
we know. They might have run out of money and
need to sell it's a heritage brand, but we're bringing
it forward into twenty twenty five. Anticipation is growing for
nine's new spin off of The Bachelor. The new series,
called The Golden Bachelor, will see older contestants can heating
(14:00):
for love with one familiar face getting viewers excited. Yeah
so none of it than Abby Chatfield's mom, Laura, has
been papped on the set of the new series, which
is being filmed in Sydney.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
What an absolute get from the producers.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, well, it seemed like it was only going to
be a matter of time before we saw Abby's mum
popping up on a reality show, because in twenty twenty one,
Abby actually created a petition for her.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Mom to become the Bachelorette. Oh I forgot about that.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And then in twenty twenty three, Abby did an interview
with the Sydney Morning Herald and she was talking about
how amazing her mum would be if there was a
Golden Bachelorette. So this was off the back of The
Golden Bachelor being commissioned in the US, so they've obviously
headhunted her for the show. Yeah. A lot more of
Laura also popping up on Abby's Instagram and TikTok. There
(14:45):
was this funny video where Laura had purchased Adam and
Abby this sex dice. Basically it had all these different
positions for them to.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Strive for her daughter. Yeah, and I was like, oh
my god, what a character.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
It's very clever because Channel nine are going to get
so much free social media publicity with Abby sharing about
this series, and I think the connection to Abby is
going to draw a lot of viewers in well. Abby
has a connection with Chatel nine. She is a judge
on the show, the mask singer, so it ties in
really nicely for them. What's amusing is that the casting
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director has come out and said what a struggle it
was to actually find contestants for this show, and it
has a lot to do with the age demographics. So
the original call out said that they were looking for
people between sixty and seventy five who were looking for
the last great love of their life. The issue is
that a lot of the people who applied apparently didn't
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know how to upload photos and videos online, so they've
had to go to quite desperate attempts, so they've started
contacting retirement homes. They also handsed out business cards to
race goers at Royal Randwick and started advertising on the
oldie radio stations like two GB and three AW to
fill out this cast. I suppose the oldies also don't
give a shit about their social media following, so they
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really do need to find older people who actually want
to fall in love, and I think that's what's actually
going to make this show good. People are going to
be there for the right reasons and not to get
fame on social media. That's one of the big reasons
why The Bachelor got acts from Channel ten because people
had enough of the series, because they were finding that
most of the people who went on were only going
on to become influencers and people were actually missing that
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true love story. Surely a lot of these people's kids
are applying for them. Well, in the initial call out
it did say if anyone knows of anyone that should
be on the show, So surely these people's kids or
grandkids can help them upload a video. Yeah. Well, ironically,
the Golden Bachelor himself is actually a lot younger than
what the casting agencies originally wanted, so he's only in
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his fifties. He's an infrastructure engineer from Sydney and he's
been dubbed as a passionate sailor who has three sons
between the ages of seventeen and twenty one.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And that's a sad.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Story because his wife, Audrey, passed away in twenty eleven
after being diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That's all for.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
What I found funny about the marketing of this show
is they're trying to portray It's like all these oldies
coming on. But this guy, he's not your typical fifty
year old. He looks a bit like Tim Robarts, he's
got a six path. Fifty is pretty young. But the
fact they were going around to retirement village is to
try and cast.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
For this show.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I wonder how he's going to feel. I wonder if
it's going to have a bit of a cougar vibe.
If the cast of females are going to be in
their seventies and he's only his fifties, it will.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Be a bit weird.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Well, apparently a source told The Daily Male that his
sons are always complaining that he's bringing around the wrong
kind of girls that are too young and hot for him.
Oh so he's into the younger ones. Maybe he's on
there to build his profile.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, he is a lot younger than the US as
Golden Bachelor, so he was seventy two and he ended
up marrying one of the contestants on a TV special,
but they got divorced a few months later. But The
Golden Bachelor was a massive success in the US. It
brought in over six point one million viewers for its
finale episode, and that was the most watched Bachelor episode
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in three years. I think nine are hoping for the
same success. It's because we want some good personalities, we
want a real love story, and I think that it's
something a.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Little bit different.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Well, I think they're going for a bit more of
a feel good vibe because they've got rid of Osha
Samantha Armitage is hosting the show if I like that.
She recently hosted Farmer Wants a Wife and that was
very popular for being a bit more wholesome and authentic.
They just need to get the casting right and also
the promotion, because I always think the Aussie Bachelor has
never been as good as the US one because they
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didn't go there with like the Fantasy Suite. They never
had the Fantasy suite and the opportunity to forego their
separate bedroom. I think The Bachelor was pretty good in
the early stages, like the series where Maddie j got
his heart broken.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
It was probably one of my favorite.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
It was good, but that's because we didn't have a
streaming service and everyone was watching it at home together
and it was like that water call the moment, like
I remember at work before The Bachelor would air, everyone
would have kind of like the Melbourne Cup where they
cut up all the faces of the contestants and everyone
would get one and see who won. But I think
these contestants are going to be so much more likable because,
as you said, Kate, they're not going to be looking
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for Instagram followers. And also the older you get, the
less shit you give. Like I feel like there's going
to be a lot of people who are going to
be really genuine on there, and that's what people are
calling out for. I mean we've even seen it. With
Love Island UK, there was a lot of talk about
how people aren't really wanting to tune into it anymore
because a lot of the contestants are second guessing themselves
because they know so many people are watching. I feel
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like the oldies know that people are watching.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Maybe they just don't care shit.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But look at say Molly May's grandma on her docco
like she was performing to the camera, but it was
comedy gold Like they just don't even know how funny
they'd Yeah, and there was that popular reality show I
think it was called My Mum Your Dad, Remember where
the kids would watch their parents' interrouct I feel like
it's going to be a bit like that.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Queen, what are you saying?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Quinn, Queen?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
You're queen, So I'm not here, I'm not Queen you
you ean? Oh Queen, I'm actually a duchess.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Now Mega Markles mad March continues. In the space of
a month, she's released her Netflix lifestyle show and announced
a second season, as well as rebranded her product range
this week, she also revealed she's dropping a brand new
podcast on April eight. For those following Megan closely, it's
probably not a huge surprise because in February she signed
(20:28):
with an American podcast distributor called Lemonader Media. I had
never heard of them before, but they're best known for
producing Julia Lewis Drivers' podcasts Elane from Seinfeld, and they
also have about forty other podcasts within their network now.
At the time, Meghan said that she was happy to
be supporting a female founded company and continue her love
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of podcasting. It is unclear, though, how much this deal
is worth, so her previous deal with Spotify for Archetypes
was worth twenty million dollars. Well, they ended up dropping
Megan's podcast in twenty twenty two or in The claim
was that they mutually parted ways, but it was later
reported that Meghan and Harry had failed to meet Spotify's
productivity benchmark. But that's despite the fact that it seemed
(21:12):
to actually rate quite well. I mean, I think there
was probably a bit of hate listening going on.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Personally listened to a few episodes and I was like,
I don't really, I don't have an interest in listening anymore,
but if people do want to listen to it a
part of this new deal with Lemonader, they're actually redistributing archetypes.
Remember there was a huge break between podcasts episodes because
I think it was when the Queen passed away, and
out of respect, they paused the series for a while,
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so it was really difficult for her to build any
sort of momentum. Yeah, and it's kind of like her
lifestyle show. A lot of people were annoyed that it
was just this place to push her famous friendships because
she had Serena Williams and Mariah Carey, Mindy Cator.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I was interested to see.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
What Megan would come out with for hern X podcast.
And the show is called Confessions of a Female Founder
and it will be released weekly. So it's an eight
part series and it's set to feature candid conversations between
Meghan and other females who have launched successful businesses, because,
as we know, Meghan is launching her new business, so
the podcast is basically her picking the brains of other
(22:15):
women who had great success in business. It's kind of
like that as someone who is a female that has
two businesses. I'm really excited to hopefully hear some insightful interviews,
but it does have that two thy sixteen girl.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Boss vibes, which I don't like.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
What I find amusing about the whole thing is even
in Meghan's new show, they were kind of acting like
she just started this small business, but it's like you
were literally the duchess. Well, to be fair, when you
look at it, she started off by selling jams, so
that is a very small, local type of hus but
with a huge in built following, it's got a bit
of a head start on some of the smaller businesses
business owners it.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Might be listening.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I'm interested to see who she's going to interview because
she has been criticized for the guests that she's had
on her TV show. A lot of people have said,
all these are meant to be your best friends, but
seemed like none of you know each other. And then
when it came to her podcast Archetypes, it was that
she had two big of A celebrities on there, So
I'm wondering what sort of entrepreneurs she's going to have
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on there. One thing that Megan and her team seem
really good at is inclusivity.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
We saw it on the show.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I think we're going to hear from a wide range
of women from all walks of life, which will be great. Well, unsurprisingly,
she's already been called a copycat by the media. Everything
Megan seems to do, they seem to say, oh, someone
else has done that. It's like, no, shit, it's a podcast.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Well, it's an interview format. I mean yeah, it's run
of the meal.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Some people are saying it's very similar to the podcast
Confessions of a CEO, while others are saying that she's
stolen the podcast idea from YouTuber Katie Meet, who has
a YouTube series called Confessions of a Female Founder, which
is the exact name of Megan's podcast. I'm guessing the
press is google the name of the podcast, and then
they came across this YouTube and they're like, right.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Well.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Katie has publicly stated in her opinion that it's just
a coincidence, and when asked about the similarity, she said,
I completely understand why people are during connections and truly
appreciate the support and understand their intention, but I also
understand coincidence as well. This highly unlikely Megan ever came
across my channel, But I am flattered by the thought.
What does concern me is how quickly this is turning
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into another reason to drag a woman down. That's not
something I want to contribute to. I know firsthand what
it feels like to have my work actually copied.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
This isn't that.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I love that she stood up for her. I know,
it's so nice and it's very true what she said.
It's like every time Meghan releases something new, everyone's on
this witch hunt to find a problem with it. Well,
particularly for Katie, who's built a YouTube channel on uplifting
other women in business. She wouldn't want to look like
she's dragging anyone down. To point out she has just
over two thousand subscribers.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah, like thet big thing.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
It is not like Meghan's probably one of those and
his copied. She's probably loving the exposure for her YouTube
channel being mentioned in these articles. And I mean, at
this point in podcasting, nothing is a new idea. I
mean is so oversaturated and there's only so many ideas
that actually suit an audio platform. So many podcasts overlap.
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I mean, I remember when we first started and we
were told that we were copying shameless and Shameless were
told that they were copying Mama Mir and The High Low.
It's like, you know, people can have an interview podcast
where they talk to female founders. It's going to be different.
It's not going to be exactly like the out there.
The draw card is Megan. Yeah, why people are going
to listen? As you say, Okay, it's just a genre
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of podcasts. But do you notice that this type of
criticism is only usually leveled at females. I mean, I've
never heard anyone accuse any of the sports shows of copying. Yeah, like,
oh that footy podcast, probably because no one wants to
fucking listen to that. But in terms of this concept,
what do you guys think? Is this something you want
to hear Megan talk about or is there something else
you'd prefer. Well, it's difficult for her, isn't it. Well
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she's dis the dirt on the Royals, which is what
I want. I mean, yeah, that's that's the number one
thing i'd want to hear. I'd love to hear the
behind the scenes of suits and her acting career. I
want to hear more about her and her life. I
don't necessarily want to hear her interview other people, But
from the perspective, as I said, of someone who runs
a business, I will be interested to hear the insights
from other women. And we've seen from her shows and
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her in the media that she's very smart, she's very articulate.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I think she's going to do a good job interviewing them.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, but I think what people want from her is authenticity,
and podcast format allows you to be a bit more
off the cuff, to be relatable, and I think that
she really needs to show a more unpolished side of
herself and to be a little bit more self deprecating,
and maybe be talk about the struggles that she's actually
had with her business, particularly the trademarking issues, which are
clearly a big issue. I mean, the fact that she
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hasn't even released any of her products in line with
her Netflix show is clearly a big problem for her.
I would really love to hear what has actually been
going on behind the scenes. Maybe that's why she's delayed
and not actually spoken about it.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
She's saving it for a while.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I highly doubt she'd be talking about this. This is
going to be more of an inspirational podcast. One other
thing I would like to hear from her podcast. If
I could have my pick is her in Harry Oh,
I would just find it fascinating. I know we heard
a bit about their love story in the doco they
did for Netflix, but I'd like to hear more about it.
I'd like them to do Is it that one hundred
and fifty questions that make you fall in love? Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yes, that would be amazing.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
You do what did you say the question?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yes? UK.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Love Island contestant Luca Busch has sparked debate about extravagant
proposals after setting up a lavish display for his Love
Island co star Grace Jackson. So Luca pulled out all
the stops during a pay trip to Abby Dab with
a stunning floral setup on the beach. It was very
reminiscent of when Travis Barker proposed to Courtney Kardashian, except
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it had a white theme. Instead, there were a lot
of white roses. There was a huge neon sign. It
looked absolutely stunning. I mean, it was quite clear that
Luca had nothing to do with actually setting it up.
It would have been some sort of party planner. But
the kicker to all all of this was the sign
read will you be my girlfriend. So this wasn't even
a marriage proposal. This was Luca asking Grace to be
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his girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Well, this isn't new behavior from Luca. Bish.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Last time he was on Love Island a couple of
years ago, he did a very extravagant girlfriend proposal to
Gemma Owen. Yeah, so people are slamming him. They're saying
he's just rehashed the same proposal he did for Jemma.
But I had to look back and I actually think
his first girlfriend proposal was more extravagant because he did
it at her family home, which is this huge mansion
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in the UK, because her dad is a famous soccer
player yeah, not short of money. Yeah, and he had
a cello player there. He had a Cartier bracelet waiting
for her. There were balloons in the pool which spelt
out will you be my girlfriend? And he even hired
a videographer. So I wonder if Grace would look back
at that and go, wait a secon this wasn't as nice.
Another Saw point might be that this post appears to
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have been sponsored, like the whole trip they were on
was sponsored in Abu Dhabi. So on Instagram, he shared
the photos and wrote I'll keep this one, and he
tagged a beach club saying thank you for bringing my
vision to life so perfectly. Wouldn't have wanted to do
this in any other place. I'm not surprised that this
was sponsored. It's clear that as soon as the guys
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leave Love Island and they're with a partner, some party
planner or event person reaches out and says, hey, can
we do something extravagant? Because I saw Ronnie and Harriet
they had the similar sort of thing where Ronnie had
filled the whole room with balloons, like it's nothing new.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
And what's quite.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Interesting though, is jen Za's in particular think that they
need to have a really grand way to ask people
to be their boyfriend or girlfriend. It's the same with
Valentine's Day. Now you've got to ask someone to be
your Valentine. You don't just assume. And it was quite
interesting because I was looking at the comment section and
there are a lot of millennials saying I didn't even
have a conversation with my partner about this, like I'm
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about being boyfriend and girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
It was a shoe.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Well, one of our listeners said, my husband just changed
his Facebook relationships data, and I was like, Okay, I'm
guess I'm his girlfriend now. But isn't this a step
up from what we used to experience in our early
twenties because the guys that I dated never ever wanted
to put a label on something and then you had
to have this awkward conversation about what are we am?
But I actually think it makes it harder because it
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makes it look like it's an even bigger deal to
just be in a relationships at the end of Instagram,
because it looks like it's some massive.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Proposal at least she proposed.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
At least it's kind of like, well, this is the
done thing, so we mustn't be boyfriend and girlfriend because
I haven't. But I just think it shouldn't be that
big of a deal to be boyfriend and girlfriend. I
mean in saying that I expected for my husband now
boyfriend at the time to ask me to be his girlfriend,
but he said he didn't know that that was a thing.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
And I think it's because my first.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Boyfriend asked me by giving me flowers and it was
a big deal on sign Well the reason but the
reason that he made it a big deal was because
literally rewind a couple of weeks before, and he was
off on a med camp sleeping with a bunch of
about the girls. So I think that I was going
to ask Kate, how did res ask you to be
his girlfriend? I think I was just a general understanding
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that we were boyfriend and girlfriend. I don't think we'd
use the label when I visited his parents, and I
think once you're visiting the parents, you are. That's the
day I lasked me. He literally said, will you be
my girlfriend? I mean, it wasn't as grand as Luca
Bish's a proposal. What do you do if, like say,
Luca Bish ends up with Grace, what's he going to
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do for the engagement?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Like, you know, how do you top that? I didn't
watch the full.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Series of Love Island. I had to tap out because
it just got quite boring. But Luca Bish is one
of my favorites, and I really like Grace as well.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I have watched both of.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Their seasons individually, and I don't see this relationship lasting.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I like them together, I don't like them together either.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I think that they're both lovely individually, but they just
don't seem to match well. And I think that this
will be a very short lived relationship. I think that
this might be similar to his relationship with Gemma Owen.
I think that this big grand proposal could be the
kiss of death.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Maybe it might.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
It might give the part the girls a bit of
the One listener compared the proposal to you remember on
Laguna Beach, Remember when they'd.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Ask if they'd go to prom with the That is
such a good call.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
It was cute, though it wouldn't it be so great
being a high school and the guy that you like
does something really creative and cute, like yeah, again, if
you're on the other end of it and no one
asks you quite heartbreak. I pulled our listeners on Instagram
and I asked, is the girlfriend proposal over the top?
And eighty nine percent of you said it was over
the top. Well, eleven percent said all guys should do this.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
I think this.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Reflects our strong millennial listener base, because I think that
there's a lot of listeners who probably weren't even proposed
to win such a grand way like this and think
it's it's.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Almost seems very showy and all.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
For Instagram, a lot of people said it's just cringe.
It is cringe. Well, that's where we're going to leave
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