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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's in the news today, but it was actually on
TV Reload, the podcast Last Sleep Never Right. Hey guys,
welcome back to TV Reload. I want to thank you
for clicking and downloading on today's episode with Sophie Monk,
the host of Love Island Australia, which is on Channel nine.
Drop absolutely everything after listening to this chat with Sophie
because episode one has dropped today, and let me tell you,
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the launch episode is so much fun, So yeah, definitely
go and check that out. I have actually always loved
Love Island Australia, and that is because it kind of
feels a bit like the old school Big Brother. We
actually get to know the characters more on ITV Australian Productions,
and I think the fact that it doesn't take itself
too seriously also makes you sort of laugh along with
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these people rather than instead of laughing at them. Sophie
will talk about her run in with Samantha Armitage at
last week's Channel nine event. We will talk about Sky
Wheatley and if Sophie was actually nearly replaced by her.
I will discuss the Hotel Amore Room and why this
year's Twisted is going to make the show so ten
times more interesting because we, as a viewer, will be
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also sort of playing along with the contestants. You will
get to hear everything from if Sophie has ever actually
made friends with any of the cast, how she really
broke her back while filming series one, and I'll even
find out why Sophie thinks some people get the wrong
impression of this show. There's actually so much to talk about,
with so many inside revelations, So guys, sit back and
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relax as we unpack the wonderful world of Love Island, Australia.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Hey, Ben, here you going.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I'm good. I'm good. I feel like so. I saw
you two days in a row last week, so I
feel like I'm friends with you.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Now we're talking each other.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, friends or stalking? Yes? How wild are those Channel
nine up fronts? I mean, you must have been so
exhausted by the end of it because it was like
everyone was sort of pushing their way to get a
photo with you.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Oh, it was actually pretty fun, I thought, Okay, and
I'm starving. So we had the best launch?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Hey, yummy? Was it? I think it was too busy,
like looking around at everything. I think meals kept moving
away from me. And I'd barely even touch the Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Oh no, I was hanging for mine.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
What about these rumors? There was these rumors flying around
that you were going to be a potential host of
the Golden Bachelor, and I was curious because I saw
you talking to Samantha Armitage. Did you guys have a
bit of a chat about that?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, we had a punch up, okay, Jack, No, No,
I was never in the midst, Like well, if I was,
no one told me about it. I think she's the
perfect host, who is like the perfect balance of everyone.
I just yeah, I think it's such a perfect match
for her, and she's super excited. But apparently I was
hosting Lego as well, and Haimish wasn't doing it anymore.
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So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Do you know what I think it is? I think
Channel Line's obsessed with you, because I also then her home. No, no, no,
the channel Mine are obsessed with you, but so is
Australia and so am I. And I just want to
say though i'd heard as well that they had Channeline
had also thought of you being with Roger Corser on
the floor, which might have meant that you weren't available
to do Love Island. So there's a lot of this
going around, right.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I mean, I mean they are all good rumors on it. Oh,
except there was also that I got fired from Loveland
and look to know, Sky Wheatley had my role but
by the time I'd read that news shot already been
fired had.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, so I was like, cool, have you ever met
Sky Wheetley? Like, did you then have a chat with her?
Do you even know who that is? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I do, because she won homoustly Get Me out of
Here in the EP that shows the up blave art.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Alex membridikes, yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I've heard nice things. I've heard really nice things about it.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I know that Alex Medberdyke because he actually was the
producer and said I did, and uh, he's wild and
he is obsessed with you, and I think we keep
coming back to that, But what is your relationship like
with Alex? Like, what's the what's the deal there?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
He's just so cool and I think my favorite thing
about Alex is he's so passionate, so he gets so
and he's so invested in the show, so he comes
in like, oh my god, and Missesslick so excited and
lovely to work with a genuinely caring person to the
cast and the crew, and yeah, no one like Alex
(04:00):
that works with Alex. So yeah, but it's nice here. Yeah.
I don't publicly get to speak about him often, but
he's definitely helped me become a better host as well. Well.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
He was there right at the start. I think I
remember him telling me a story about being in your
ear and feeding you the what to say and what
to do or whatever, and that you were wearing some
pills that got stuck in the floorboards and he nearly fell.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh my god, it was the worse no I felt.
I walked in, Yeah, and my foot got caught in
between It was so thin my heel, it got caught
in between, you know, like around the pool the wood had.
He describe it like, yeah, they like playing and it
just took me out, like I did a backbench. I
don't even know how it was possible broke.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, I think he said something like that was he
started back looking around as if I've just killed Sophie
Mank who's going to host this show? I mean that
it was like that, are you excited for this new
series of the show? I mean, you know, I'm so
excited that this show has been given so many series.
It is a real guilty pleasure for me because it's
one of the only shows that my partner will watch
with me, and we get obsessed with these people.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I know when people say, oh no, it's not with
the show for me, I don't watch it. I think
it's the babes that put people off, like they get
a bit frightened, or like even me, I don't want
to watch it with my partner while I'm meeting pizza
on the couch. But you know, they were like bikinis.
But the first step, that's why I love it. They're
wearing dresses so and eventually it goes back because obviously
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it's round a Paul Space Sha pool. But I think
that can put people off that have watched it and
they don't understand the addiction. But I think there's a
reason that people are just so addicted to this franchise worldwide.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
What I love about this show though, is it's sort
of it does make fun of itself. It's it sort
of leans into the stupidity of how crazy this show is.
And that's where I think people might not necessarily understand
it until they've watched it that it is actually laughing
at itself.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yes, that's right, that's exactly what it is. And I
think with one of the voiceover he brings what you
thinking at home.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And also the way I hosted The Little Bit Tongue
in Chig, the intros and you know, and finale and
stuff like that, Yeah, is what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
We call it out. I love your banter with them
as well. It's very real. I don't know if any
other TV relationship dating show host that is as relatable
and clicks with these people like you are just being you.
What you're saying to them, I can imagine is what
girls say to each other in pubs. You know, Well,
that's you.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And I think because I've been on the other side
of it, I think I've been in so much reality
as well. I've got so much empathy for them because
it's so easy to set outside and not put yourself
in it. But if I know what they're going.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Through, and I think that's what you need though, because
there sometimes is a bit of a standoffish nature when
you're hosting these sorts of shows with the contestants. There's
I'm the host and you're the contestant and you really
feel that where with you you're like, are you going to
meet some boys? What are you into? And they say stupid, yes,
you call them out. Well, I think one girl this
year says, I'm looking for a man with teeth? What
big teeth? Like what? Yeah, what's up teeth.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I've noticed that with some hosts as well. I think
they maybe they're not thinking, you know, or because it's
such an emotional thing going in reality shows, Like often
people sit back and go, why are the tears? I'd
never but all of the people in there, like I
took the girls out for lunch like on the show,
and they were like, I promised myself I would definitely
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wear makeup every day and I wouldn't cry. And here
I am, you know, like, no makeup crying. I totally
get it now, you know. Like, so I think it's
so easy to say what you do, you know, sitting
at home with it, whereas when you're in it, it's
so emotional and you have to be so vulnerable. So
I think, yeah, I just I.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Care about them. Well you can see that, and I
wanted to know, you know, And in many seasons that
you've been doing the show, have you ever made friends
with any of these girls? Like do you still talk
to any of them? Or like once the show is over,
you move on.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, I mean like not hang out all. I'm not
on social anyway. But Aaron for the first season, she's
just such a cutie and such a good person. I
think I did, you know, fit some pieces and stuff
like that talk to her throughout these and yeah, I
was like, I followed them on Instagram and I can
write on their photos and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, that'd be obsessed with that. You know. This year,
I was talking to Alex about this whole hotel amor thing,
and I was like, that is the most bonkers creative
that I have ever heard, because it is giving away,
it's giving up the right to have video and audio
of what actually happens in the hotel and more, which
sets the cat amongst the pigeons obviously. And what did
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you think when you were told about that concept about
putting them into a room and turning off the cameras.
What was your reaction to that.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I think it's genius because your guard goes dan right,
So if you've had a guard up, it's going to
come right back down. And the problem is with humans
in general. You know, they say there's no honor amongst
these kind of saying, and it's like one's always.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Going to talk, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
So I think, get you know, because you worried that
no one's going to see what happened, but it always
comes out.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I love the idea of putting two people in a
room and they see this. I mean that whole scenario
of putting two people in the room they see the
same thing, and then you interview them separately and they
say that exactly different. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, the way they tell the story, the perspective is
very different. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So it's going to be like that for the viewer
as well, because if you oh yeah, yeah, you're really
as a viewer, going to play along with this show.
It's something very inclusive because you yourself will be second
guessing what you didn't see and who you will try.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Exactly, 're deciding whose side you're going to take.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, okay, So I have to let you go because
you're the most busiest person working in Australian television, I
believe at the moment. I mean, just reading the magazines
and finding out what shows you could or could not
be doing that must be a job in itself.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I don't have time. But also I love my jobs
and I'm pretty lazy.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I don't really need more.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I'm cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Well, the best thing to ask you is this season
the most controversial season? Do you think this is going
to be the most bonker series of Love Island that
we've ever seen?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I just say it's the best season. I shouldn't say that,
not anything against the other seasons. I just think a
Love Island Australia as a whole is just like up again,
like a different level.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
What's good teas? The last thing I ask everyone whos
joints of my podcast is what something from behind the scenes?
Can you give me a little just a small secret,
something that happened that happened while you were there in
Spain this year? Did anything bonk has happened? Did anything crazy?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Haven't lastings off camera with the contestants? If something with me?
And oh, I've got a big rash on my chest.
I've got a heat rash. You can actually see it
in the ad in the commercial with the Orange Stress.
It's said I've got like acne all over there that
it was just like it was so hot. Yeah, I
broke out in my heat rash for the first up.
But luckily the lighting in that house in the villa
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is so amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
You can't hide anything, you can't hide anything better everyone
everyone looks so hot in Spain, so it's such a
good location. I'm so glad you're back there. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And the lighting in there in the villa.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You just walking and it was just perfect lighting everywhere.
I love a selfie, so I'd just be taking photos
of myself. Oh you'd love it.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Oh yeah, you should just stay in the hands of it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So if you have the best time chatting about this
show with Australia, I hope everyone tunes in and gives
it a go who hasn't seen it before. If anyone
is listening to this podcast now, is like no other
reality show that is on Australian television. It is very stilly,
it's very intoxicating and it's addictive. So exactly, Thank you
so much, amazing have the best days so you too,
(11:11):
Thanks for that.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Bye, Baye