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The Greatest (2026) Season 1 Episode 1
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00:02Yes, oh, now that's reality television.
00:06The winner.
00:07The winner is.
00:08Blah blah blah blah.
00:09I was rooting for you.
00:11One for Mike.
00:12F*** you.
00:13That is disgusting.
00:16F*** it.
00:17Oh my God.
00:19Shashay boys.
00:21What is the greatest?
00:23The greatest.
00:23The greatest.
00:24What is the greatest?
00:25The greatest moment of reality TV ever.
00:32Reality TV moments.
00:34Reality TV moments.
00:36Reality TV moments.
00:37Let's go.
00:38I'm down for this.
00:39I've been studying my whole life for this.
00:41This is perfect.
00:42Does anyone remember where reality TV began in Australia?
00:46It was in a little suburb called Sylvania Waters.
00:49Struth, Laurie.
00:50One of these days I'll pack me bloody bags and I'm going out of here.
00:53Truly.
00:54There's more drama living in this house.
00:56Growing up, I'm from Queensland.
00:57But I knew one suburb in New South Wales.
01:00Sylvania Waters.
01:01All because of this TV show.
01:03It was a series like we've never seen before.
01:05And I think from memory it might have been on the ABC.
01:08Which meant it had that cred.
01:09So you see my children eventually will have a stepfather.
01:14And you can have a party for us.
01:15And look at your photos.
01:16Gonna have a barbecue in the backyard.
01:18No.
01:18Piss up.
01:19It was Bogan and we celebrated that.
01:22The fact is as Australians we are Bogans.
01:24And why not celebrate that?
01:26Born and raised Sylvania Waters.
01:27Born and raised Clarence Crescent.
01:29The street this show was shot.
01:30This is my show.
01:32We were family friends with the family from Sylvania Waters.
01:34They've been dubbed Neighbours from Hell.
01:37All over Britain they stopped and tuned in to South Sydney.
01:40To experience a real life Aussie soap.
01:46You're gonna see me as I am.
01:48That's me.
01:49What are they really like when the camera's not on them?
01:51I thought it was going to be just like Neighbours from Hell and Away.
01:55I was horrified and addicted straight away.
01:59I think reality TV in Australia really got turbo charged when Big Brother arrived in 2001.
02:06The winner of Big Brother is Ben.
02:12Peter.
02:15Reggie.
02:20Trevor.
02:23Trevor Logan.
02:28I was living in London when Big Brother really took off in Australia.
02:31So I already knew Gretel Colleen who was hosting as just this fabulous powerhouse kind of female stand-up host
02:39extraordinaire.
02:40And watch from a distance as all sorts of people floated to the surface that we hadn't heard of before.
02:45And then all of a sudden became super important sort of figures in our media landscape.
02:50That's you know went on to fabulous media careers.
02:54Sarah Marie.
02:55Sarah Marie.
02:56Sarah Marie.
02:57Cool I've never been nominated.
03:00And it introduced us to a whole bunch of characters.
03:03Sarah Marie.
03:04Chrissy Swan.
03:05It's so cowardly Ben to throw something up and stir everyone up.
03:10And then just be quiet for a minute.
03:12Blair.
03:13Hot Blair.
03:14Who can forget Hot Blair.
03:17He was on Neighbours.
03:18I think he even did a stint on Home and Away as well.
03:21But he went over to the UK for ages and had like a whole acting career.
03:25And that was all from Big Brother.
03:26I once spent three days, two days sleeping in the Big Brother house.
03:31They did this test where you could go in there as a housemate and they tested all the cameras and
03:35did all that sort of stuff.
03:36You bet your bottom dollar that I showered naked.
03:38Let me just say Big Brother uncut and Big Brother up late served quite the purpose before we had the
03:47internet.
03:48You'd go to school every day and everyone would have watched it the day before.
03:51Big Brother particularly season two was such a big thing in the Who household because my brother was on it.
03:58My sister and my father they're here.
04:00He made this video and it was a really good audition tape and he got in and we were all
04:05like yes oh my god my brother's in the Big Brother house.
04:07Lap it up I say you're going to become a bit of a star as well.
04:10My favourite Big Brother moment of course is Merlin with the tape over the mouth refusing to speak.
04:16He's free the refugees sign.
04:18That is embedded on anyone my age's brain.
04:22I mean how did he get the tape in there?
04:24Where did he hide the sign?
04:26There's still so many unanswered questions Merlin.
04:29Merlin.
04:31Merlin.
04:32Are you going to speak?
04:34That was, it was a where were you when Gretel went Merlin.
04:38Are you going to speak at all?
04:40That was massive and she really stood her own, stood her ground.
04:44Keep in mind Big Brother in those days was live to air in front of a full crowd at Dreamworld.
04:49Huge and you could cut the tension with a knife.
04:51Settle down, settle down, settle down.
04:54I grew up watching Gretel and she'll forever be someone that I, you know, sort of look up to.
05:00Now that I do hosting myself, she's someone that's like, she's at the top of the food chain.
05:05Oh bugger. Oh bugger.
05:07Bugger. Bugger.
05:09Bugger.
05:11Bugger.
05:11Bugger.
05:12Bugger.
05:12Bugger's what Canberra's called.
05:14The ACT.
05:15If the pope's Polish, why is he in the Vatican in bloody Italy then?
05:20I actually just have the most beautiful warmth in my heart when I think of Reggieinallyces 29 per month.
05:23Reggie definitely showed us a great Aussie spirit.
05:27I mean, who would have thought that I would fall in love with an Aussie battler like Reggie
05:30Bird.
05:32EnolicĐ’illage Elizabeth.
05:33In a minute.
05:34No, In a minute you go.
05:35Dovall.
05:36In a minute.
05:37In a minute, in a minute.
05:38She's the least exciting to look at.
05:40You didn't think we were going to get away without talking about the Kardashians, did you?
05:44Look at me. I am. I'm the sixth child.
05:49Churi spelt with a K. I love the Kardashians.
05:52Khloe, Kourtney, Kendall, Kylie, Kim, Kris, Katelyn with a C.
05:56She really bucked that trend there, didn't she?
05:58I think I'm the only person in the world to have not watched the Kardashians.
06:02And it's not because I wouldn't like it.
06:05I just know that if I started, I could not stop.
06:09My favourite Kardashian moment is when Kim Kardashian lost her diamond earring in the ocean and had her break down.
06:17My earring's gone!
06:19Are you s***ing?
06:20Oh my God, I'm going to cry!
06:22You do not get better TV than that.
06:25And I was team her, by the way. It's a diamond earring. I'd be crying too.
06:31Kim, there's people that are dying.
06:33There are people that are dying. I mean, that's the greatest quote of all time.
06:36Kim Kardashian's sobbing because there's six-carat diamond earrings in the sea of Bora Bora.
06:40You go through the TikTok comment section and that is always the top comment when someone is out of touch.
06:46Once the Osbournes arrived, you just had to pity anyone called Sharon.
06:50Sharon?
06:51Sharon!
06:52Sharon!
06:53Sharon!
06:54Sharon!
06:54When I think about the Osbournes as a TV show, all I really wanted was a replay of the biting
07:01the bat moment.
07:02I don't, I don't even, we're probably not allowed to talk about that.
07:11I mean, they're hilarious. They're so hilarious.
07:13Seeing them just sort of be like grumpy English people.
07:17It's like, I've just spent a year there. It's like, it kind of, I'm like, that stacks up, you know.
07:21That bastard dog, man. I'm going to throw you in the ball.
07:26Wait, get the out of my house.
07:28I mean, no one will ever forget the whoopsie on my rug, which set the whole place ablaze.
07:33Oh, I'm so sorry. That's not appropriate.
07:35But it's, I can, I feel like I've got a sensory smell.
07:41There's what? Man landing on the moon.
07:43Princess Di and Charles' wedding.
07:45And Cosima with the throat nodules.
07:48That's the three defining TV moments.
07:51If there was ever a reality TV moment where we learned not to judge a book by its cover,
07:56it was this one.
08:08We were pretty used to watching singing competitions.
08:11We'd grown up watching new faces, red faces, young talent time.
08:14But the arrival of Australian Idol, this was a singing competition on steroids.
08:26Everyone has a moment in the car, in the shower, where they think to themselves, hang on a second,
08:29could I win an Aria?
08:31I think my dad had a little Shannon Noel-esque goatee.
08:33When Guy was announced as the winner, you see this lovely moment where Shannon lifts Guy's hand into the air.
08:40And what happens by that stage of reality television, really, it's just the envelope saying a different name.
08:46If you've made it all the way to the finale and you are part of that final three, even,
08:52you feel like you've won the show.
08:53And there were moments that shocked.
08:56It's forced me to make the decision to leave the competition.
09:01It's heartbreaking. It's so heartbreaking.
09:03I swear that you cannot be as famous now as Cosima DeVito's nodules.
09:10Unfortunately, I have a temporary condition that's affecting my voice.
09:14I'd never heard of nodules before.
09:16I think nobody had heard of nodules.
09:18It's up there, there's what?
09:20Man landing on the moon.
09:23Princess Di and Charles' wedding.
09:25And Cosima with the throat nodules.
09:27That's the three defining TV moments, if you ask me.
09:31A gay man.
09:33I cry for Cosima most days.
09:36It's safe to say political correctness was a little thin on the ground and on the judging panel.
09:41You should choose more appropriate clothes or shed some pounds.
09:44I'm sorry.
09:46Wow.
09:48Gold dress gate.
09:49You know, what would Dicko look like in a gold dress?
09:52You know, you've got your own girth issues.
09:55I just think keep it to yourself.
09:56I remember watching that and thinking, oh, that is, you don't, that's not how you speak to a woman, right?
10:03Controversially, cancel me.
10:05I'm not saying that moment was okay.
10:07I love Dicko.
10:09We are friends.
10:10I think when you're looking at an artist, you do need to look at how they dress, what style they're
10:17doing.
10:17It's not just about their voice.
10:19So what Dicko was trying to do was provide constructive feedback and also playing to the cameras.
10:26Dicko, you're an idiot.
10:28When we say we were invested in Australian Idol contestants, we really mean we were invested.
10:34We literally handed over our own hard-earned cash every week, dialling those phone numbers to keep them in the
10:40competition.
10:41My father, Giuseppe, would print out the phone bill and he would walk into the lounge room and he'd yell
10:47at us kids,
10:48who voted for Australian Idol 15 times?
10:52Because it was like 55 cents per vote.
10:54That adds up.
10:56And this guy here, racking it up on a Sunday night.
10:59You're welcome, Guy Sebastian.
11:01You're welcome, Anthony Kalia.
11:03If there was ever a reality TV moment where we learned not to judge a book by its cover, it
11:09was this one.
11:09Hi, what's your name, darling?
11:11My name is Susan Boyle.
11:13Big fan of Susan Boyle.
11:14I won't lie.
11:15Me and my group of friends still say to each other,
11:18and that's just one side of me.
11:20And that's just one side of me.
11:24If you know, you know.
11:25You could see the face of Simon Cowell just going,
11:28Oh my God, what is this?
11:31I don't know what I can do with this.
11:33Can we sell this?
11:34This is...
11:34And I feel like they were going to write her off.
11:37I dreamed a dream and time gone by.
11:43I've gone back to watch that again and listen to her voice lift and watch those faces in the audience.
11:50Do we not all have people that we would love to see that look on their face?
11:54It's almost Shakespearean.
11:55This woman that is not stereotypically beautiful on a reality show, the voice of an angel.
12:02I mean, it captivated everyone.
12:04It also made every mum think, maybe I could do this.
12:06I could get you a balloon, Danny.
12:09If you're one of the handful of people on the planet who's not scared of clowns,
12:13I challenge you to watch Mark Holden on Dancing with the Stars.
12:17I've got to sit you down on my knee, young girl.
12:19You wouldn't have this clown at a kid's birthday party.
12:22It looks like it's going to murder you.
12:25In a car park.
12:26We watched a minute of that and we're all traumatised.
12:29Whether it's on stage or in real life, just don't, please don't dress up as a clown.
12:33Mainly.
12:34Um, oh, yeah.
12:37That little moment where he bent over and I don't, was it a fart?
12:41Erase that from TV history.
12:43We don't need to see that.
12:44I don't know when it happened.
12:46I don't know why it happened.
12:47But suddenly shirts on Dancing with the Stars became overrated.
12:54I love that show makes men take off their shirts.
12:59Like they need to do that.
13:00It's a dancing show.
13:02Gay men are already watching.
13:06Oh my gosh.
13:07Who knew that he was like smuggling all that underneath those clothes?
13:11For so long.
13:12What is with the Robert Irwin doing it?
13:13That's so unfair.
13:14Robert Irwin being able to do everything?
13:16I don't like it.
13:18Love him, but something's going on there.
13:19I mean, he was made in the lab, I think.
13:21Robert Irwin is one of the nicest fellas on the planet.
13:26Legitimately good bloke.
13:27And his view is, if people look at me with my six pack, and that helps me get my message
13:32of being a wildlife warrior out there, saving the planet, then you know what?
13:36I'm going to go down the beach and, like, help him pick up some plastic.
13:39I don't trust people that take their shirts off on TV.
13:42Because why would you?
13:43Do you hear that?
13:44Oh.
13:44We're going to check.
13:45What?
13:46We're going to be right.
13:47What are you doing?
13:47I've seen this before.
13:48Okay.
13:49Oh, Jesus.
13:50Hey, if something bad happens or grabs me, it's a safe word.
13:53Safe word is help.
13:55He used to have that vision.
13:58They told me they were going to get rid of that.
13:59They lied, don't they?
14:00A lot of lying in TV.
14:02Every now and then, a reality TV show creates a concept, a word, something we never knew we
14:07needed.
14:08Thanks to America's Next Top Model, we learned how to smize.
14:13Smize!
14:15Smize.
14:16Smize.
14:16Smize.
14:16So, Tyra taught me.
14:17So, I do know Tyra.
14:19I love Tyra.
14:19So, what it is, is you start with a smile, then you drop the mouth.
14:25Like I was having a stroke.
14:27I was rooting for you.
14:28We were all rooting for you.
14:29How dare you?
14:30I was rooting for you.
14:32We were all rooting for you.
14:33How dare you?
14:34When you go to bed at night, you lay there and you take responsibility for yourself.
14:38Okay.
14:40People do ask me what my guilty pleasure is, and I think it might be surgical shows.
14:46I mean, I know your lifestyle, you want to be like a doll, but I just don't know how healthy
14:52this is.
14:53There's a show where they, like, don't look at mirrors for three months, and then they
14:56come back to their new face and they're like, oh, hey.
15:02Oh, my God.
15:03I mean, I'm not here to judge because I have my eyes cut out.
15:07As in, they cut out the top and then they open them up and you're like, oh, what happened
15:12to my sight?
15:13And you look fresh.
15:14They're in bandages and bones are broken and this has moved there and that's pulled up
15:19and maybe I'll stop.
15:20For those reveals, though, it is the ultimate before and after shot.
15:24I am on board.
15:26It's so weird.
15:28And when plastic surgery goes wrong, we have another show ready and waiting.
15:33Botched.
15:34Whoa.
15:35Purple.
15:36Is she a cartoon character?
15:37Is she a Martian?
15:38Is she a piece of fruit?
15:40What is she?
15:41I don't know.
15:41It kind of reminds you that there are lots and lots of people out there.
15:46Some of us, you know, like staying home and cooking a pizza.
15:50Other people like to turn themselves purple.
15:55Are you kidding me?
15:57I've never known someone to make such a huge mistake on TV.
16:01There was national protest.
16:03There was riots on the streets.
16:04It was a shutdown of the nation.
16:12What is the greatest?
16:14The greatest.
16:15The greatest.
16:17It's like, oh my God, I'm sticky.
16:19Try telling you so many times I'm falling in love with you in this villa.
16:24I guess the only way to know what really goes on on a reality TV show is if you get
16:29to ask
16:29someone who's been there.
16:31I mean, who are these people going on reality TV to find love?
16:34It's embarrassing, isn't it?
16:37I mean, honestly, you can't just go out there and meet someone at the pub.
16:40I'm Matty.
16:41I'm 30 years old.
16:43I am The Bachelor.
16:45I grew up watching people like Tim Robards, Sam Wood, falling in love.
16:51And when I went on that show, I thought to myself, wouldn't it be nice?
16:56Wouldn't it be special if I met my wife, the mother of my children, on TV?
17:00And the wild thing is, it works.
17:04I think you are so perfect.
17:07I was so ready for you to break my heart.
17:11Samantha Frost, will you marry me?
17:15Oh, Frosty.
17:17Oh, my gosh.
17:19Sadly, it's over.
17:20Like, what a joke, really.
17:22It's like, he's done a complete 180 in, like, a matter of days.
17:27That poor woman.
17:29I've never known someone to make such a huge mistake on TV.
17:33And Sam Frost, I mean, what a woman.
17:37I mean, any guy would kill to have a wife like Sam Frost.
17:41Matt is absolutely the man of my dreams.
17:43And I've never wanted something more in my life than I do right now to walk away with Matt.
17:49I am quite confident.
17:50And I just think there's no reason that it wouldn't be me.
17:55My heart belongs with someone else.
17:58Standing there at the end, getting rejected as someone who's been there, it hurts.
18:06It's completely heartbreaking.
18:10It really does suck.
18:13It's, there is, there's no way to sugarcoat it.
18:16Although, when one door closes, another door opens.
18:20The winner.
18:21It's Abby!
18:22Yeah!
18:23You did it!
18:24And I think we can all agree Abby's doing pretty well right now.
18:28She's with the hot dude from Peking Duck, or however you say it.
18:32So, sorry Matt.
18:34You snooze, you lose.
18:36But who would go on a dating show and choose nobody?
18:39It's too much for me right now.
18:42I hate hurting people and, uh, I've done that twice today.
18:47You know, it was the first time I watched that season.
18:49I watched the series, Bachelor with the Bunny Better.
18:52Doesn't he play breakaway?
18:53He's just breaking away.
18:55He's just running fast.
18:56He didn't pick me either.
18:59He picked nobody.
19:01Are you kidding me?
19:03There was national protest.
19:06There was riots on the streets.
19:07It was a shutdown of the nation because this man had made people so cross.
19:14So cross.
19:15So angry.
19:15Because they were so invested in his love story.
19:18He's got 24 of some of the best women this country has to offer.
19:23And what's that?
19:25Not one is good enough for you.
19:28You've gone through months now dating every single one and you're happy to just walk away?
19:37By yourself?
19:40Pick Brittany!
19:41I think it made extraordinary TV that he didn't choose either of those two ladies.
19:45Both of those ladies were dreamy.
19:47But the other thing is, which we know in life, if they're not for you, it doesn't matter how dreamy
19:51somebody is.
19:52I think it was brave.
19:55These girls have made a fortune of being, you know, lovable on television.
20:00And I think The Bachelor did that better than many reality shows.
20:03If ratings are anything to go by, we're a nation of lovers and fighters.
20:08I'm just saying, I'm asking you nicely.
20:13Honestly, what a waste of wine.
20:34I don't know what they're feeding them on maths, but it's got to be something good because those contestants, they
20:42are fired up.
20:43Whatever they're feeding them, give them to the Australian rugby team because we need some of that.
20:48It's important for us to find out what drove some of your behaviours.
20:52I think the experts are great because, spoiler alert, they're not experts.
20:56Oh my God, I want to kiss you so bad.
20:58What?
20:59Oh my God.
21:03They're mic'd up.
21:04Like, okay, so we've all been guilty of, like, forgetting that we're mic'd up occasionally and being like, oh, I
21:09shouldn't have said that or maybe I shouldn't have gone to the loo.
21:11But these people know that there are cameras around and they go on a date while they're supposed to be
21:18married to someone else.
21:19Then Dean tried to win back Tracy in the cringiest way possible.
21:28He sang.
21:30He did a rap.
21:32Tracy, my little lady, you drive me crazy.
21:35After last week on the couch, yo, I know you probably hate me, but you gave me a shot.
21:39You're so hot.
21:40Whenever I watch maths, I do think to myself, and it was the gay ones that had to fight for
21:47marriage.
21:49We're the ones that are going to ruin it, are we?
21:54Oh, he's gone political.
21:56You began to wonder, could dating shows get any weirder?
21:58I give you MILF Manor.
22:04That's my mum right there.
22:06It's a beautiful show that tries to match up MILFs, for want of a better phrase, with young men.
22:14And what makes this show even more special is the series where those young men were actually the sons of
22:21these MILFs.
22:22And it just, it's, it's beautiful.
22:27And, you know, I'm just, I'm getting emotional because I just, MILFs do this to me.
22:33From what I understand, they bring the mums together, and then the sons together.
22:40I mean, surely neither group want the other group to see their dating style.
22:44Or, when you finally let your guard down to do a bit of flirting.
22:49It's so chaotic that you're going to be making friends with the other contestants,
22:53who are potentially then trying to go on dates and do intimate things with your mum.
22:59Maybe you'd like to see your dating show contestants chained up to each other.
23:04A woman begins hooked to four men, but will end with only one.
23:08I don't know who are these psychopaths coming up with these TV show concepts.
23:12And then there's the show where the contestants are all lined up, ready to be chosen, stark naked.
23:18Oh, wow.
23:23Oh, my God.
23:26So, before they even see their faces, you've just got, like, all of these body parts.
23:31When I first watched Naked Attraction, the first thing I did notice, to be honest,
23:35was the landscaping of the gentleman's areas.
23:39But then I just got worried about the ingrown hairs that were two weeks away.
23:44I guess you know what you're getting.
23:46So, why not do it on the first date?
23:50I did learn that there are places that I never knew were possible to have piercings on the human body.
23:55First of all, I'm worried about the stylist.
23:59Second of all, I'm worried about the makeup artist.
24:00That's a lot of moisturiser.
24:03But I don't think I would be ever doing the celebrity version of that show.
24:07Yeah!
24:09Some of our greatest reality TV moments have come after a bit of a rumble in the jungle.
24:13You all right?
24:15I knew I was in big trouble, eh?
24:17Oh, my God, are you insane?
24:18That would be terrifying.
24:19Genuinely terrifying.
24:26What is the greatest?
24:27The greatest?
24:28What is the greatest?
24:29Apparently, a few of our reality TV shows get huge audiences overseas.
24:35And I think there was one big moment that made it a winner.
24:38What happened, mate?
24:41What's going on?
24:42I'm just waiting for a mate.
24:43No eye contact, like a dog when it's doing a poo.
24:45No, I'm just waiting for a mate.
24:47What I love, what stands out for me, is the fake name.
24:50They ask him, what is the name of your mate?
24:53And he goes with James.
24:54Who's your mate?
24:56James.
24:57Yeah, James who?
24:58And he says it with such conviction, such confidence.
25:01He doesn't even, he doesn't hesitate for a second.
25:05I believe him.
25:06Been drinking tonight?
25:08No.
25:08And the front seat, Jack Daniels.
25:10All littered through the front seat of his Commodore.
25:13Even the fact that it's a Commodore.
25:15It's so good.
25:16It's so Australian.
25:17He's mounted the curb.
25:18The tyre is popped.
25:19I'm just waiting for a mate.
25:20Where?
25:21We're on the M4.
25:22But the evidence is everywhere.
25:24I have no idea how they sign release forms.
25:28How does it work?
25:30How would you blow positive or get tested for God knows what,
25:34be positive and then say, yeah, I want my face on TV?
25:37They must pay well.
25:39Just, mwah.
25:41The other show the overseas crowds love is border security
25:44and seeing just what people will try to bung in a suitcase.
25:48What's all this?
25:50Food.
25:51I think it was a carp.
25:52It was in a suitcase.
25:54A fish.
25:54A giant carp, about a metre long,
25:59that looked like it had only been dead for about 10 minutes.
26:02That was the funny thing.
26:03It's always under a beret or a wig or in the lining of a suitcase.
26:07Nothing better than when they zip open that suitcase like it's a lobster
26:10and then you see the dodgy hot glue around the rim of an antler bag
26:15and, oh, the thrill.
26:17You always know too, right?
26:19Like, you always know that they're about to be busted.
26:21Some of our greatest reality TV moments have come after a bit of a rumble in the jungle.
26:26The one where they say, I'm a celebrity.
26:29Get me out of here!
26:38What I loved about that first season of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here
26:41was the shock, the horror on these celebrities' faces
26:45when they realised the truth of what they were going to endure.
26:48Back home in Australia, people thought they were being fed Mars bars through the fence or something.
26:53That wasn't happening.
26:54They were there, they were in Struggletown, they were eating ostrich, anus, giraffe penis.
27:02They were doing the whole kit and caboodle and it was ugly.
27:05I remember getting to the jungle and walking in going, where's the set?
27:09And when the people from 10 said, here it is, like here in the actual jungle
27:14just with a few lights and 700 cameras, I knew I was in deep trouble, eh?
27:18When it wasn't an actual set and we didn't have our own light personal assistance.
27:24And producers, and no one was helping anyone.
27:27I found out the hard way that it was an actual, real reality show.
27:31My favourite jungle moment, look, it's a toss up between eating pig's anus
27:37and being reunited with my children after almost 30 days.
27:42Daddy!
27:46Oh honey, oh honey.
27:49I miss you so much.
27:52It's very difficult to choose one standout moment in the jungle,
27:56but I don't think anything will ever come close to watching Shane Warne
28:03hold that baboon spider to help his team out against everything inside of him.
28:11He did not just have a fear of spiders, he had a proper phobia.
28:15You're going to do it?
28:15Yep.
28:16So you're just going to place it onto your hand, you're not going to flick it,
28:18you're going to control the shaking, shaking is a problem.
28:23And it was a moment that it was twice as amazing in person as it was on the television.
28:31And it was amazing on the television.
28:33But the very essence of facing his fear, and he did it anyway.
28:37Champion, it's nearly over, champion, it's nearly over, champion, it's nearly over.
28:43Obviously it's easy for me to sit here and judge the great Shane Warne,
28:47but I mean, even to the point where Brendan Favola had to stand next to him
28:52to tap him on the shoulder and say, it is going to be okay.
28:55It was the same when I was watching the Tony Perrin clip where she gets,
28:59you know, she's got her head in the box and the snakes are all sort of going for her.
29:05And over and over again.
29:07And she wouldn't call it.
29:09She wouldn't say the words, I'm a celebrity, get me out of here.
29:12Just biting, biting, biting.
29:13I mean, she's so delicious, it makes sense.
29:15I can do this.
29:16You're doing it.
29:17I'm doing it.
29:18I'm doing it.
29:19Well done, well done.
29:20Are you alright, bubby?
29:23That woman must be so brave to have done that.
29:27And then, you know, she comes out and she's got like literal snake bites on her face.
29:32It doesn't matter if you know that they're not venomous.
29:34Like, that would be terrifying.
29:36Genuinely terrifying.
29:37George from Bankstown.
29:39George from Bankstown knows exactly what he's doing,
29:42when he's doing it and how he's doing it.
29:44There was nothing about George from Bankstown that wasn't pre-planned.
29:48And good luck to him.
29:50Why not go in there with a clear goal,
29:52knowing what you're going to be, who you're going to be and how you're going to do it.
29:55I'm playing this game so good, no one's resumes comes anywhere near me.
30:00I love King George.
30:01I kneel at the altar of King George,
30:04one of my favourite Survivor players of all time.
30:06There is an episode in one of the seasons,
30:07I can't remember which episode,
30:08where he does like a triple blindside,
30:11and it's just, it's beautiful to watch.
30:13Do you have a king here?
30:15We've got King George at Bankstown.
30:17Hey.
30:18I'll tell you a funny story about George.
30:20This is pulling back the curtain.
30:22George did the amazing race,
30:23and I remember the first time he checked in for a pit stop,
30:26I said,
30:27you're on the third team to check in,
30:28him and his sister, Pam.
30:30And then he said,
30:30oh, hang on,
30:31do you want me to get the shot again?
30:32Actually,
30:33I'll let her talk.
30:34And what he did is,
30:35he ran back
30:36and then kept running back up to check in
30:38and said,
30:39oh, how about you start,
30:39and started like editing and narrating the pit stop.
30:43And I go,
30:44George,
30:44what are you doing?
30:45And he said,
30:46oh,
30:46I just thought you could be better with the intro
30:48and I'll be better with my,
30:49I said,
30:50mate,
30:50you've done too much reality.
30:51Reality TV doesn't just make you a star,
30:54it can make you seriously rich.
30:56Oh.
30:57No, no, no, no, no.
30:58Deal.
30:59Yeah!
31:01Woo!
31:01Woo!
31:02Woo!
31:03Woo!
31:03Woo!
31:04Wild that he's a survivor guy
31:06and then comes on deal or no deal
31:08and wins $5 million.
31:10I mean,
31:11it makes you a bit proud
31:12that it was like an Australian
31:13who took out the top prize in TV,
31:15like ever.
31:15It was ridiculous amount of money
31:17and he doesn't need to work ever again in his life
31:20and here he is back doing,
31:22hosting the show again,
31:24Survivor.
31:25He needs to sit down,
31:26Grant.
31:27You're looking like you're going to faint.
31:30Oh!
31:30When it happened at first,
31:32I thought Grant was just a showman
31:33and he just was turning it on for ratings.
31:35Thank you,
31:35Grant.
31:36But he was genuinely,
31:38when his eyes rolled
31:39and he collapsed into me,
31:41I,
31:41I thought he was nearly gone.
31:43But that stressed me out watching that.
31:45I mean,
31:46you think,
31:46look,
31:47like,
31:47that was the first show
31:48that we think,
31:49these celebrities can get hurt,
31:50you know,
31:51and they're real,
31:51they're humans like us.
31:52I think Amazing Race
31:53is the best reality TV to go on
31:56because you do get to travel the world.
31:59I want to go on it.
32:00This can be my audition.
32:03Sometimes what's on reality TV
32:04can be hard to watch,
32:06but you can't look away.
32:09Get inside it.
32:11Pull it over.
32:13And I'll be 100% protected.
32:16I mean,
32:17who doesn't love
32:17a little camel carcass overcoat?
32:20When you watch Bear Grylls,
32:22I try and be like a sponge.
32:23I'm absorbing all the information.
32:26Is there ever going to be a time,
32:27a place where I need to cut open
32:30the carcass of a camel
32:32to get shelter?
32:33Maybe not,
32:34but if it happens,
32:35I'll be ready.
32:36There is no amount of money
32:38in the world
32:39that would have me
32:40gutting open a dead camel
32:42for somewhere to sleep.
32:44I don't camp
32:45and I'm pretty sure
32:46that's up there.
32:47If that was Airbnb,
32:48that's a one-star review,
32:50so not for me.
32:51Bear loves to take
32:52other celebrities away
32:53and get them out
32:54into the wilderness
32:55and let them
32:56live a real raw life.
32:58And I just say,
32:59Bear, please,
33:00please do not get in contact
33:01for any reason.
33:04The Jungle is hardcore
33:06enough for me
33:06and that's in maximum,
33:08maximum luxury.
33:09Somebody lifts a coffee
33:10to my mouth.
33:12So I don't think
33:13I'll be out with Bear
33:15any time soon.
33:16Mind you,
33:17is Bear single?
33:18Would we have a little kiss
33:19on the lips
33:20while we're out there,
33:20while we're feeling
33:21nervous and scared?
33:22That is just so embarrassing.
33:24I love a cheating scandal.
33:25If that was me,
33:26I would cry.
33:27I know,
33:27it's kind of sick,
33:28isn't it?
33:28Of course,
33:28only a rich gay man
33:30could come up
33:30with a concept such as this.
33:36What is the greatest?
33:37The greatest?
33:38The greatest?
33:39Oh my God.
33:42What are you?
33:44An idiot sandwich.
33:45Refined, elegant,
33:46not a pint of s***.
33:48Nailed it.
33:48Can you tell us
33:49about your flapjack, please?
33:50Started making it.
33:51Had a breakdown.
33:54Bon appétit.
33:55A couple of generations ago,
33:57I don't think
33:57you could have imagined
33:58sitting down glued to the TV
34:00watching people cook.
34:01But kitchen capers
34:03have kept us on the boil.
34:05And quite frankly,
34:06that
34:11is disgusting.
34:13And Matt Preston
34:15dropping the plate.
34:16He drops it like
34:18he hates it.
34:19And everyone's like,
34:20oh my God.
34:21And this poor guy,
34:22I can't remember his name,
34:23he's in a beanie.
34:24And he is a,
34:27he has a heart,
34:28you can see him
34:29having a heart attack
34:30on live TV going,
34:31oh my God.
34:32If that was me,
34:33I would cry.
34:35Disgustingly good.
34:36You know,
34:36next time I go to a restaurant,
34:38I'm going to do that.
34:38I'm just going to be like,
34:40oh,
34:40I am outraged.
34:43Outraged at how
34:44good value this was
34:45and how courteous
34:47your service has been
34:47and how delicious
34:49the food was.
34:50Frankly,
34:51I applaud you all.
34:52I think that was the moment
34:53that I realised,
34:54yeah,
34:55that's who I want to be
34:56when I grow up.
34:57I mean,
34:57look at it.
34:57This is all modelled
34:58after Matt Preston.
34:59I love Matt Preston,
35:01but
35:02he played a character
35:03really beautifully
35:04on Australian television
35:06and
35:07is
35:07forever going to be
35:09in the history books.
35:10I think you've done
35:11an incredible job
35:12honouring your heritage.
35:13I think it's really special.
35:17I'm really proud.
35:17to eat food like this.
35:19I mean,
35:19we all watched it
35:20in lockdown.
35:21There's this really
35:22beautiful moment
35:23that if I watch today,
35:25I will cry
35:27when Melissa Leong
35:30and Poe come together.
35:31Poe has cooked a curry
35:33and it's a curry
35:34that my dad would cook
35:36and I remember
35:38Melissa trying the curry
35:40and just bawling
35:41and I think it was
35:42at a time in COVID
35:44when we were all
35:44missing our families
35:45and I just remember
35:46crying so much.
35:47in that season
35:49because they all
35:50became like
35:51this weird pseudo
35:53family.
35:55Yeah.
35:56MasterChef
35:57has a really big
35:58hold on me.
36:02Curry paste.
36:03Store bought.
36:04You've delivered
36:05your entree in Maine
36:06much quicker
36:08than anybody
36:08at this table
36:09has managed to do.
36:11But what they've
36:12managed to do
36:12is cook from scratch.
36:13I love a cheating
36:14scandal.
36:15It makes any show
36:16better, especially
36:17a cooking show
36:18where everyone
36:19cheats all the time.
36:20No, it didn't
36:21surprise me.
36:22It surprised me
36:23because it surprised
36:24the judges.
36:25What were they
36:26expecting?
36:27You've got normal
36:27people cooking for you.
36:29Let's get real.
36:30Oh God, the days
36:31of Australia
36:31was so easy
36:32when the only
36:33scandal surrounding
36:33Pete was the
36:34jar of curry.
36:35Looking for
36:36cooking from the
36:37heart
36:38and not from a jar.
36:39The amount of times
36:40I have ordered
36:42food to be delivered
36:43to my front door
36:44and then not told
36:45the husband
36:46that they may have
36:47come from a packet
36:48and just presented
36:49on a plate and said,
36:50hey, look, love,
36:51been slaving away all day.
36:52I mean, who doesn't
36:53cheat when it comes
36:54to dinner?
36:55Everybody will know.
36:56Never.
36:57Everybody will know.
36:57Go near my husband.
36:58Everybody will know.
36:59You understand that?
37:01Never go after my husband.
37:03Never go after my husband.
37:04When it comes to
37:05the reality TV universe,
37:06nothing is as big
37:08as the real Housewives.
37:10There has to be something else.
37:12Oh, you're stripping?
37:13You are stripping?
37:15There's that one scene
37:16where Teresa,
37:18I think it's the
37:18New Jersey Housewives,
37:20and she starts by just
37:21being a little bit annoyed.
37:22Then she gets more annoyed
37:24and, like, pounds her fist
37:25on the table.
37:26We're f***ing days
37:2719 times!
37:29Then, within no less
37:30than 10 seconds,
37:31she's gone from normal
37:32to flipping the table.
37:34F***ing...
37:36And her husband
37:38is, like, holding her back,
37:39and then just as quickly,
37:41he's like, you know,
37:42baby, you need to settle down,
37:43blah, blah, blah.
37:44And she's like,
37:44oh, yeah, okay, yeah,
37:45I really lost it.
37:46She just drives me crazy.
37:47Then they kiss,
37:48and she just goes and sits
37:49down back at the table
37:50like nothing happened.
37:50F***ing pissing me off!
37:53I love you.
37:53Take it easy.
37:55I have to admit something,
37:56and it's going to make me
37:57a very bad gay,
37:58and I'm going to have
37:59my membership card revoked.
38:01I've actually never seen
38:02any Real Housewives.
38:04I kind of feel like
38:05if I want to see
38:06a bunch of drunk women
38:07at lunch fight,
38:08I just go and see
38:10my aunties and my mum.
38:11My wife loves all of them,
38:14but I don't want to get
38:15addicted to that,
38:16because you'll see...
38:17My wife will be up to
38:18season 50, episode 71.
38:20Like, it feels like that
38:22would take too much
38:23of your life.
38:23I also love Beverly Hills,
38:25because for me,
38:26as a celebrity
38:27entertainment reporter
38:28who has a bird's eye view
38:30into this sort of stuff,
38:31publicists couldn't stop
38:32the celebrities
38:33from doing their thing.
38:35I mean, I just loved it.
38:36The lips on Lisa Rinna.
38:38She's married to Harry Hamlin.
38:40He was hot.
38:41Hasn't aged as well
38:42as I thought he would.
38:43Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
38:44Gina Liano's a lawyer.
38:45I don't know if she's told you.
38:47She did tell everyone
38:48that about 7 million times.
38:50I'm a barrister.
38:51You could probably
38:52describe me
38:52as a professional fighter.
38:54Oh, well, look good.
38:54I'll tell you next time,
38:55any time, why not?
38:56Not.
38:58F***ing hell.
38:59Gina Liano is terrifying
39:00in real life,
39:03because she will call you out,
39:04she'll tell you what she wants,
39:06when she wants it,
39:07how she wants it.
39:09We've made good,
39:10but there were some
39:11difficult times
39:11we had to break through
39:12in our earlier stage
39:14of our relationship.
39:15They're just so out of touch,
39:17and that is why
39:18Housewives is so great.
39:19Of course,
39:20only a rich gay man
39:21could come up
39:22with a concept such as this.
39:23So what is the greatest?
39:24What is the greatest?
39:26My greatest moment
39:26of reality TV ever.
39:36So what is the greatest?
39:39What is the greatest?
39:43My greatest moment
39:44of reality TV ever.
39:46It's a person
39:47that lives in my head
39:49as one of the greatest
39:50people ever,
39:51and it is Reggie Bird,
39:53Big Brother.
39:55A bit of a soft spot
39:56for Reggie.
39:57I think my favourite
39:58reality TV moment
40:00of all time
40:00is Cosima DeVito
40:02and her nodules.
40:04We were all so heartbroken
40:07by it,
40:07because we wanted her
40:08to win.
40:09There's also a moment
40:10where Jess Mowboy
40:12as a teenager
40:14is standing
40:14in the desert.
40:15She's sort of surrounded
40:16by red dirt.
40:17I think Gula Roo
40:18is in the background,
40:20and she just starts
40:21belting out
40:22Whitney Houston.
40:23Don't make me close
40:25one more door
40:26I don't want
40:28to hurt anymore
40:30She sort of like
40:32wanders in,
40:33and everyone
40:34is just like
40:34blown away
40:36by the sheer talent
40:37of this like
40:38little woman.
40:39You know,
40:40as an Aboriginal
40:40Australian watching that,
40:42that sort of
40:43for me resonates.
40:47In series one,
40:49we decided to bring
40:49all of our celebrities
40:51in via choppers,
40:52these fabulous,
40:54big,
40:54there was like a huey,
40:55there was all sorts
40:56of different types
40:56of choppers,
40:57and up they came.
40:58It was literally
41:00like Apocalypse
41:00Celebrity Jungle,
41:01and they flew
41:03across the skies,
41:04and just the rhythm
41:05of the helicopters
41:06made it feel like
41:08something amazing
41:09was about to kick off,
41:10and of course,
41:10we really did.
41:12Look,
41:13the Grant Daniel moment.
41:14Oh, right.
41:16Okay.
41:16We made the map.
41:17It was one of the most
41:18elegant collapses
41:19I've ever seen.
41:20What's your name?
41:22Mary Emda.
41:24He's back.
41:25I love nothing more
41:25than a bunch
41:26of drag queens
41:27standing in front
41:28of mirrors,
41:29putting insane makeup
41:30on,
41:31talking about
41:31childhood trauma.
41:33I'm the low-end
41:33version of Courtney,
41:35so she's sad.
41:36I may have used
41:37that term,
41:37lump.
41:38The best lip sync
41:39ever on Drag Race
41:40is Shut Up and Drive.
41:42Look that up.
41:47Every gay knows
41:48where they were.
41:49Season 9,
41:50episode 9,
41:51Valentina,
41:52the frontrunner
41:52of the season.
41:54Valentina,
41:55this is a lip sync
41:55for your life.
41:56We need to see your lips.
41:57I'd like to keep it on,
41:58please.
42:00Iconic.
42:01And she gets sent home.
42:02She goes home.
42:04Sashay away.
42:05Oh,
42:06it's such good TV.
42:07And Australia
42:07has made their decision.
42:09It is brilliant
42:09and inspiring.
42:11Congratulations
42:11to all the winners.
42:12Thank you so much
42:13for watching.
42:14Good night, Australia.
42:15Night, guys.
42:15Bye.
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