Emmylou MaCarthy And The Unpaid Bar Tab, Tammy Hembrow’s Book Deal & Abbie Chatfield’s Mystery Break Up

Published Feb 1, 2024, 6:30 AM

Emmylou MacCarthy has been accused of allegedly not paying her tab at a Melbourne venue. Awkwardly, the Albert Park Hotel made the claims on the influencer’s former fashion brand’s Instagram account, on a post farewelling her from the business. 

Tammy Hembrow shed tears of joy as she announced she’s a published author, with her very own book called ‘Show Up’ set to his bookshelves mid April.

Abbie Chatfield has revealed she’s going through a breakup, which has led many of us to ask, who was she dating? 

Influencer and PJ entrepreneur, Lily Brown has shared her boyfriend Jett Kenny’s dramatic transformation.

AND How Love Island All Stars is keeping  the franchise alive.

On today's show, Emmy lu McCarthy is called out for allegedly not paying her tab at a pub. Tammy Hembro announces her new book deal, Abby Chatfield's unrelatable breakup advice, Jack Kenny's dramatic transformation, and how Love Island All Stars is keeping the franchise alive. Hello, and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm Kate Torba, and there has been a revelation in Our Snakes, a live topic that we did on Tuesday, so for those who missed it, we were shocked to discover that the orange snake is actually flavored apricot, and even more shockingly, the green is apparently lemon flavored. Well that is because Tanya Hannesesy on her TikTok came out revealing what the flavors were, and I even accused Allan's of making up those flavors for pr but a couple of our listeners have informed us that the name of the flavors has actually been on the back of the packet the whole time. I would like to know how long it's been on the back of the packet because I actually don't read the packets very closely.

I've never noticed it before.

I wonder if it's only been on there for a few months. Well, Allen's actually did come out and commented in the media saying, yes, Tanya is correct, but they never pointed to the fact that the flavors were on the back of the packet. Yeah, it just seems like an orchestrated pr campaign. I still believe that may be the case, and that they've had this strategy that we're going to release what these flavors are in order to create some sort of buzz around them, and they've got Tanya Hennessy on board to do it. See it has worked. We're talking about them right now. See, I actually don't think that anymore. I think Tanya Hennessy may have just read the back of the Snakes and just shared it with everyone and it blew up.

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Emmy Lou McCarthy has been accused of allegedly not paying her tab at a Melbourne venue. Awkwardly, the Albert Park Hotel made the claims on the influencer's former fashion brand's Instagram account on a post farewelling hurt from the business. Before we get into all of that drama, I do need to provide some context. So Emmy Lou used to own a fashion brand called Emmy Lou Loves, and back in twenty twenty one, she announced that she was joining established Melbourne fashion brand Zoe Moss and at the time, she explained that the new look brand wasn't being relaunched under her own Emmy Lou Loves range of clothing because Zoe Must already provided a greater production value than she could on her own. I'm so surprised to discover that she has her own clothing brand because she doesn't strike me as someone who is very fashion forward. I understand that she has probably a lot of mums following her, maybe for her relatability, but fashion isn't one of those things I think that she's known for. Well, it hasn't been going too well because she has exited the brand. But back in twenty twenty one, she said, Zoe Must will be the foundation to my next career of moving into short films and feature productions. It's all happening. Let's not get carried away though, and celebrate this moment right now as I am so proud.

We did this.

Without you guys supporting me through my Emmy Lou Loves Fashion range, I wouldn't have had the confidence to think I could take on a project this big. You are the real MVPs here, Dream big and don't let any motherfuckers make you think otherwise.

I'm confused.

What does this fashion brand have to do with her moving into short films and feature productions. I have absolutely no idea, and three years on that obviously hasn't actually happened. So she was doing some stuff for Studio ten, some hosting, so she does seem keen to move into that sort of space. But it's very puzzling.

Yeah.

So it gets even weirder because on Monday, Zoe Moss officially announced that Emmy Lou was parting ways with the brand. So the brand s had a photo of Emmy Lou with the caption from the entire team at z M HQ, we want to shout a big thank you and good luck to Emmy Lou as she embarks on the next step of her journey. We know you'll continue to take the world by storm. Thanks for everything, Lou. Now the post has got twenty comments. However, when you go and click on them, it's quite clear that some of them have been hidden. So it's been very highly moderated. Now enter the Albert Park Hotel. So they commented on the Zoe Moss posts, can you ask her to come pay her tab? She's blocked us. Thanks now. This comment was swiftly deleted, but it didn't stop many people screenshotting it.

Now.

It is unclear what Emmy Lou's relationship is with the Albert Park Hotel. It seems like they have some sort of unofficial partnership where she does go into the pub and enjoys a meal. It is interesting that they're now claiming that she hasn't paid a tab. It seems like she thought the relationship was still going.

But they've cut it short. Yeah, and it.

Gets even weirder because, in a bizarre twist, a day later, the Albert Park Hotel shared a photo of Emmy Lou standing with two staff members outside the venue, and the photo was captioned always a lovely time and when one of our favorites, Emmy Lou, stops by and tagged Emmy Lou in the post. Now, the comments were turned off on the post, so presumably the hotel was forced to shut them down after receiving a lot of backlash over their backflip. This whole incident is really odd. You would assume that they have some sort of marketing team in place if they are potentially offering Emmy Lou a contra deal to come in and eat at the hotel. That's why it's really weird for them to then go rogue and start abusing her and accusing her of all of these things on another business page. Well, they might not have a marketing team. It might just be the Emmy Lou frequents this pub. They said, hey, maybe we'll give you this free meal if you post about us like we actually don't know.

Ye, Well, their relationship is. Most pubs do have a marketing team. Will You've worked with a lot of pubs marketing teams in a former job. Yeah.

I have worked with a number of pubs and hotels in the past, and generally there is a marketing person and there is a lot of strategy involved with who you want to invite into the hotel.

Well, it's also quite.

Common for numerous people to have access to the Instagram accounts as well, So in this case, you don't know exactly who left this comment. I mean, I think it speaks volumes that the hotel had to turn off comments on their post because people are clearly not happy. Originally, there are a lot of people that were applauding the Albert Park Hotel for calling Emmy Lou out, particularly those people who do not like Emmy Lou, and there are a lot of those. However, this complete backflip has made them look really pathetic and really spineless. It makes it also look like they got it wrong and they're somewhat having to apologize to her.

I would just love.

To know what went on behind the scenes in that twenty four hours to get that photo outside of the pub, because clearly Emmy Lou has contacted them. I think it's fairly obvious she was keeping a very close eye on the comments on her former Fashion Brands page. She would have seen that and gone what the fuck, Particularly the fact that they claimed that she'd blocked them. It just looked so bad on her behalf. Even though she has appeared in this photo. I do wonder whether we'll see any more promotional posts going forward. Personally, if it was me, I would not want to set foot in this venue again if I was being wrongly accused of not paying the tap. Well, that's why it's so bizarre that she featured in the photo. Like, if say, the claims were incorrect and I was Emmy Lou, I would have demanded that they put out an official statement saying this is not true and we apologize. However, it makes it even murkier because we're not sure who is in the wrong in this situation. What appears to have happened is they've just come together and taken a photo and tried to sweep it under the rug.

How are you feeling, Oh Like, I'm just I'm just really sad, Like I've just farted crying every day. I'm I'm also in the face of the breakup where you're like, oh, like, I'm never gonna love anyone ever again.

Abby Chatfield has revealed that she is currently going through a breakup, which has led many of us to ask who was she dating in the first place. Yeah, I saw this and I was like, oh, I didn't even realize she was in a relationship. To be fair, I haven't been keeping up with her podcast, and I do feel like she's gone a little bit mia on her social channels, or maybe it's just my algorithm. Yeah, I haven't seen her pop up quite as much, which did surprise me because she did quit her recent radio gig so she could concentrate more on her Instagram following. Maybe she's been in this love bubble. I do feel sorry for her because on the podcast she was talking about how she felt really sad and was crying every day. It was a little bit of a burn to her former boyfriend Conrad bien Stevens, though, because she said that she hasn't cared about a breakup in the last five years, and she's at the stage where she thinks that she's never going to love anyone again. She seems to think that there might be some sort of chance that they can get back together.

Who knows. We'll have to watch this space.

I think the fact that she's talking about her on her podcast is probably not going to help the situation in terms of who this mystery boyfriend is. Back in January last year, So Dramatic reported that fans believed Abby was dating Australian actor Ryan Coore. So Eagle Eyed followers Peace together. All the clues Abby had dropped on her podcast. For one, she revealed that she was dating a super talented Australian actor who she met through Instagram. Now, of course everyone ran to see if they were following each other and all checked out they were in fact following each other. Ryan has also been working on a mini series being shot in Sydney and Brisbane, so Abby lives in Brisbane. It checks out now. For those not familiar with Ryan, he recently featured in the Game of Thrones prequel House of Dragon. He's also been a supporting act in some Hollywood blockbusters, including Wolf Creek Too. How I remember him though, is the guy with the bleach blonde, spiky hair from Blue Water High.

He was also impact to the rafters back in the day. What a blast from the past.

I feel like Abby is the vintage where she would have gone home from school and watched Blue Water High. Maybe that led to the appeal of him now. I couldn't help but laugh when Abby shared this breakup tip with her audience.

Won't do a breakup and I'm really really sad and hot. Tip to anyone in life in general, don't date anyone that you could look up interviews with them on YouTube. Because what happensphony break up is you watch interws of them in the background because you missed them, and you go, oh, love that love that you are in my house in my head.

I'm not sure there's too many people that could actually relate to that. Perhaps if she.

Said, you know, going back on your phone and looking at old videos or photos, but there's not many of us who have dated someone that's famous and does into us, well, probably one percent of the population could relate to that. Maybe it's a bit of a flex. I do notice she does this quite a bit in her episodes. It's just silly because it seems like it's some click baity hook to try and get people in, but then they realize, well, hold in a second, this tip doesn't work for me at all.

Yeah.

I think that it was definitely used for clickbait because everyone's like, ooh, she's finally dishing the dirt on her relationship. Because back in November she was interviewed on the project and she said that she wasn't going to talk about the guy that she was dating because it ended so badly last time, and of course this was in reference to Conrad. She also explained that the people that she dates a concern they'll end up as content on her podcast, which it's quite confusing because I feel like Abby has built a brand on sharing very personal details and about her personal life, so I don't think that that strategy is going to work for her. We can already see her doing a backflip and talking about her breakup, but then I don't think it's going to bode well for her if she wants to get.

Back with this guy. Yeah, I'm sorry.

Everyone seems to hold a light and hope that they're going to get back together with their ex, but it generally doesn't happen. It reminds me a bit of Alex Cooper on Call Her Daddy. As soon as she met someone that she genuinely was into, she started putting that person almost ahead of podcast content, and that's when we saw her move away from talking about her sex life to talking or interviewing celebrities.

Really that's all she does.

Now. Do you think it's a maturity thing as well, because sometimes you get to an age where you're, like me, talking about blowjobs is probably not really it anymore. I don't think that's the case, because she's built a brand around talking about sex. I mean, she's just released a butt plug as her new sex toy. I don't think she's going to be shy about talking about sexual things. Yeah, but she's at that stage of life now where it seems like she wants a serious relationship and a lot of the guys that she's dating don't want to be talked about on her podcast. But she's also spoken about how in her life going forward, she wants to have open relationships. So she might have some partners who were happy for her to talk about their sex lives. Yeah, well this relationship apparently wasn't open, So that's the difference, and that's interesting. I mean, we do have to remember that people are allowed to evolve and change, but it is interesting when they have made it their personal brand and how that will affect the brand moving forward.

So basically, for the good part of last year, I've been working on a book.

Oh my god, I feel emotional.

Tammy Hembro shed tears of joy as she announced she's a published author with a very own book called Show Up, set to hit bookshelves mid April. Have you pre ordered this yet because I am very keen to read it. I really want to listen to the audio version of this, because I think that I'm going to find it hard to get into if I read it, because she's already spoken about how this is going to be a mixture of talking about her personal life but then also a motivational self help book, because she said that there's going to be tools that you can use on your journey in life. It all sounds a bit woo woo. I just want the gossip from it. It made me think that they had to add those bits in to pad it out a bit to make it a full book. I am very excited to hear about her personal life, and I was wondering, is this book the reason why she hasn't actually gone into detail about her breakup with Matt Paul Because she went very quiet on it. We've hardly heard anything. I'm hoping that there's some juicy information about that. Yeah, well she did ex explain it's a deeper look into who she is and what she thinks, and she will be touching on past relationships.

Let's throw to what she said about it.

So this is what it looks like.

This is what it looks like.

And I'm so excited and I really want you guys to read it, and I hope you love it, And yeah, I hope it just motivates you a little, inspires you a little, talks about the ups and downs throughout my life.

It talks about things I've experienced, It talks about parenting, it talks about my family, it talks about my relationships, it talks about you know, pretty much everything.

It's but everything, it's just all me.

And then there's little activities and little things you can do that can sort of help you.

And yeah, I wonder if this book will include anything about Matt Sakowski. Well, she has been working on the book for the past year. I personally don't think that there'll be a chapter on him.

I think that.

Perhaps she will have made out a section of the book to him, you know, when they do the notes from the writer. See, I think maybe they'll add in the last chapter being very hopeful about love and touching on the fact that they're engaged, because it wouldn't be hard to add that little bit here.

See.

I think that she'd almost use that as a part too, talking about new love.

Now.

She did break the news of her book launch across all of her social media platform, so she created TikTok. She posted glossy photos on Instagram, and she also shared her emotional reaction to seeing the book for the first time on YouTube. She said it was a dream come true and a pinch me moment. When her publisher, Penguin Random House reached out.

I was surprised to hear it.

Tammy describe herself as an avid reader, because on her account, she's not one of those influencers who's on book talk and actively speaks about the books that they're reading.

But she hasn't plugged Colleen Hoover no now.

But she did say her genre of choice is motivational books, so it's no surprise that her book is going to fall into that category as well. I was pleasantly surprised to see the cost twenty four dollars. I didn't think that was too bad. I do wonder if it will sell out, though, just based on the fact that she is going to give us a tidbit into her relationship. Oh, I think this is going to absolutely fly off the shelves. She has already had her American followers up in arms because they don't yet have a pre order link. I also think that the whole pre order thing is a stroke of genius by the publisher and it's something that we're seeing with a lot of other influencers and celebrities.

Who write books. Because it's a way.

To make sure that they've got enough stock. They can then do another reorder as well make it look popular as though it's sold out. Yeah, it's also a way the authors get on the best selling Yes, it's all based on this presale. The publisher is also doing this deal where if you pre order, you get a chance to get a signed copy from Tammy. I found that kind of funny because there wasn't any information about how many signed copies that will actually be. Sort of you know, when we saw Sarah's Day signing two thousand copies of her book, it was just sort of like, oh, it's the luck of the draw.

You might get signed copy from me.

But I think it will actually make people sign up because it might be a one of a kind.

Do people really care.

About influencers signatures or celebrity signatures these days? If you meet someone, you don't ask for their autograph, you literally ask for a selfie. I think it would be different if it was like you go into the chance to have a faint sea a meet and greet or at a book launch.

Yeah.

True, that is a good point. I think that there are some craze fans out there though, who would want it. Now, the Blue Tick Brigade was out enforced to congratulate Tammy, so Fidfa wrote, what, oh my god, this is such a slay.

What can't you do?

Steph glare Smith said, congratulations, Love, that is amazing. Matt, her fiance wrote amazing, babe. And I did think it was quite funny because the tammy Fit app wrote our biggest inspiration.

The reason I think that's funny.

Is because in the past they've also commented on Tammy's photos like fire emojis and stuff like that, and people would be like, isn't this.

Tammy writing it to herself?

And she's saying that she does have a large team who actually managed those accounts. Yeah, I think it'd be like the kick app writing on Steph and Laura's posts, you know, firemh. She's clearly a whole social media team. I suppose it does look a little bit awkward, but it's called the Tammy Fit. Now. In Tammy's latest vlog, she did open up about how she's struggling with her long distance romance with fiance Matsakowski.

Let's go to what she said, still long distance, My man, it's not fine.

This week has been especially difficult. We just talk about this, scholar. This week has been especially difficult though, this week and last week because I've been so incredibly busy, so it's been hard for us to speak as much as we usually do. And then like yesterday, for example, I was working all day. He was at work all day, and then that night he was at the tennis which is when we usually speak, so we pretty much like barely spoke, Like obviously we spoke, but like bally compet to what we would.

Like, so it was not it's not easy.

He gets here tonight though, so he basically works three days a week in Melbourne and then he's pretty much here rest of the time.

This was a really interesting insight, Kate. We were trying to work out last week what Matt does as a full time job, and she said that he works three days a week in Melbourne and then basically is her living boyfriend for the rest of the week. On the Gold Coat, did she say what he does for those three days of his podcast or she didn't specify. I assume it's his podcast. Again, not trying to do little podcast. No, there is a lot of work that goes into them, but it's just interesting that they're not being specific and there doesn't seem to be any details about when he's actually moving to the Gold Coast or if he is.

Well.

It's clear that Tammy wants him there permanently because during her vlog she did make a little jibe at him, so for some context, I found this quite interesting. Tammy's brand, Saski has a match a collab with a local cafe around the area called Alfred's, and it reminds ad me of the Chloe Zepp latte from a few years ago. So the drinking question is called Sasky's Strawberry Matcher. Sounds delicious, it actually does look insane. Anyway, Tammy said that Matt has been so keen to try it, and then she remarked in the vlog if you lived on the Gold Coast maybe you could have tried it by now. Oh, doesn't he live with his mum? That's what I wrote, So you'd be like, well, fucking move.

Out of your mum's house.

You can do the podcast remotely, Like, I'm not trying to downplay the fact that he's got family and friends that he would like to see. But you know, if you're getting into a relationship, if you're proposing to a woman that has three kids, move, he made the decision to fast track that relationship too by proposing. So if it was me, I would almost expect him to make a decision about where he is actually going to live now. It has been a really big week for Tammy. On Wednesday, she said, another big announcement is coming, and at the time of recording, we don't yet know what that is. Kate, do you have any sort of guesses. I'm assuming it's business related. At first I thought maybe it was wedding related, but in the next breath she shared that she was flying over to Sydney to try on.

Wedding dresses, which I found very interesting. Let's throw to what she said. I'm going to try on wedding dresses too.

I've never done that before and I'm so excited and my sisters and my mom is coming.

I'm feeling a bit jaded and skeptical after listening to this, because last week on Matt's podcast, Tammy told Anna Macavoyd that she already had picked out her dress and that she showed Anna a photo of it on New Year's Eve.

So now she's.

Telling her audience that she's never tried on wedding dresses before. I know, it's almost like she can't keep up with what she's said about this wedding. Obviously she's going to try on Via Wang wedding dresses. We've spoken about her at length on the podcast how vera Wang has been reaching out to influencers, and they did send Tammy almost a welcome kit. It had a wedding planner in it. I guess that Tammy may be going for multa looks on her wedding day. But it's a bit weird that she said it's the first time she's tried on a wedding dress when apparently she's already got one picked out.

It's a bit disappointing.

Obviously, she knows that there's going to be a lot of eyeballs on her page and a lot of excitement over this dress. I think that she's reiterating it's the first time she's trying on wedding dresses because she almost wants to downplay her engagements to Matt and Reese as in the other Matt because in the other podcast it seemed as though she was saying that this is the first time she's actually really started planning a wedding. Yeah, but it's clearly not the first time she's tried on dresses. If she's got one picked out, I can't wait to see the content that she actually shares about going to vera Wang.

It will be so interesting.

Because it's a difficult one for bridal brands because you have to wait so long for the influencer to share their actual dress so they pick, so they then have to pick ones that might not look that great on them or the ones that they don't like. But if you're Tammy Hembro, you're probably gonna look great in a lot of the dresses. So I think it's a win win for the brand. Also think that maybe she's trying to push that it's the first wedding dress she's ever tried on because it makes for a snappier TikTok video, doesn't it. Oh yeah, it definitely does, And she's probably thinking, Look, not a whole lot of people probably listen to Matt's podcast, So okay, so big news.

Whose man is this?

Influencer and pajama entrepreneur Lily Brown has shared her boyfriend Jet Kenny's dramatic transformation. So last year, Jet landed himself the role of Viking on Channel ten's Gladiators, So as part of the role, he had to grow a very thick beard.

Have you seen him on the show. I haven't watched it yet.

I did love Gladiators back in the nineties, but I'm yet to get back into the remake of it. I think it's really a show for children, because I did catch a few snippets of him on there, and that was shared on Lily Brown's TikTok because she did a video where she reacted to her boyfriend getting injured on Gladiators and it was all a bit cringe like she was imitating the commentator's voices saying Gladiators and it was hilarious and I was like, Oh, I don't think I could watch a full show of this. He actually disslocated his shoulder in one of the first few episodes, and it didn't look like it took much to pop out because it was one of those games where they have the big field and they have a few gladiators who were trying to stop the contestants from getting to the other end of the field.

Is that when they just tackle them?

Yeah, he tried to tackle one of the contestants and somehow he popped his shoulder out. Did anyone else at sleepovers? Used to play that one where they had big padding on their arms and had to run through a tunnel and you'd use your pillows and just knock your friends over.

It was the best.

There were so many good games born from that show.

Oh what about the monkey bars when you'd get the bark chips in your hand and return it with that tackle powder.

Yeah.

Now, sadly the show officially wrapped a few days ago, and because of that, Jet got a call from a producer saying that he can finally shave his beard off. So he's been growing it for over five months now and it is getting to the stage.

Where it looks very wy. Lily referred to it looking like Pubes, which was quite a spot on. See, I'm not a big fan of beards. I like some stubble.

I think we've spoke about it recently how it's always weird when your partner comes out clean shaven and you.

Haven't seen them like that for a while.

They look like a little boy. What did he end up looking like? I haven't seen the transfer. Yeah, well Lily did create a whole video showing the transformation, and I really enjoyed it because she took her TikTok followers inside Jet Kenny's house, which he lives in with his dad, who is iron Man Grant Kenny, and their house is a fucking.

Mansion, Like he was epic.

They had these huge bedrooms with large on sweets, this really grand staircase.

Makes sense why he lives at home at twenty nine.

Oh yeah, so Jet actually cut the beard off himself, and as all men seem to do, he opted to have these ugly handlebars before he.

Shaved it off.

I can kind of see why you would do that, though, because you're never gonna keep it. But it would be kind of like if you were cutting your very very long hair and you're.

Like, oh, what does it look like? True, like a bob or a lot. My jaw hit the.

Ground when Lily revealed what he looked like without that bed, because he has such a chisel jaw line and he's got these really cute dimples. Why don't the gladiators want him to have a beard because he played a viking, so he's got to have a bed. Wouldn't it have been better to have him as like, I don't know, a hot gladiator.

Yeah.

Well it was funny because Lily then filmed herself cutting his hair, and so he was sitting there in jocks with his shirt off, and she said, I feel like I should be getting people to pay me for this content. At the moment, she ended up completely fucking up his hair though, so he's got to go back to the hairdresser. She did include a plug for her hairdresser, though, saying that she definitely won't get a gig working for them anytime soon. I don't give a fuck about Adam. I don't give a fuck about Adam.

Okay, now we're doing on the second show. I'm tired to.

Bed with you.

With Love Islands Echin, Sue and David Ay have called it quits for a second time.

So in June last year, they parted.

Ways, but rekindled their relationship two months later. However, it looks like things are done for good. Eck and Sue was on the front foot releasing a statement which claimed she made the decision to end their relationship. She said the last eighteen months together have been a rollercoaster of ups and downs, and that they really wanted to make their relationship work and they cared deeply for each other. David Day hit back several hours later, claiming that their split had been a mutual decision, despite the way Ecken Sue framed it. So he wrote, life sometimes reserves surprises and suddenly wakes you up. Ekin and I, just after the skiing holiday, decided to go different ways. It was a joint decision, but I was.

Waiting to make it public to respect her.

Time in the show. I don't know why the agreed statement changed last minute. So the show he's talking about here is a new show that she's in inn called Traders. Was that the show that popped up because I follow both of them on Instagram and there was this bizarre scene where three women were lying in coffin. She was one of them and they were being almost buried alive.

Yeah, that is the show.

Because I couldn't work out if it was her reality TV show or if it was acting.

It was so cringe.

Now. Dave and A did continue, saying that he regarded their relationship as a beautiful story even though they had their.

Ups and downs.

I like the way that they've both emphasized ups and downs. To me, it makes it obvious that there were a lot of downs. He did finish by saying he is taking time to focus on himself and thanked his fans for their unconditional support. Now, as soon as I saw the news of this split, I wondered, is one of them or both of them going to make an appearance on Love Island All Stars?

Fucking hope.

So I have been loving Love Island All Stars. I've been waiting for you to catch up on her. I am about four episodes behind, but it is so good. It's got this X on the Beach element where they keep bringing in all of the exes of the contestants, and it's fantastic. If they brought in Dover Day and Echon Suit fresh from this split, I wouldn't put it past.

Them, though no neither would I.

This Love Island All Stars has been a stroke of genius. So basically, they're bringing back everyone's favorite contestants and the show needed this. It has been so lacklustered the past couple of seasons.

Well, I haven't even been able to watch it. We have attempted.

My partner and I have been so keen to sit down and watch it, and every season we have to turn it off. And it has been reflected in the ratings. In the twenty twenty three summer edition, it was down by one million viewers on the previous year. So in twenty twenty three they had one point three million viewers on the opening night, and back in twenty nineteen when it was at its peak with Molly May, they had three point three million viewers tune in, so it has drastically changed over time. At the moment, they haven't seen a huge increase in viewers in terms of the opening night. However, I feel like there is a buzz about this show and the way they're going in terms of bringing in all these different x's and the.

Drama that they are creating. I think that it will grow.

What is different this time is that the producers are trying to tap into the All Stars Instagram following, so some of them have millions of followers, so they're promoting the upcoming episodes on those channels, which is only going to grow the viewership. Well, they're personally, not the people that are looking after their accounts to But this was actually banned the last couple of series, so we didn't see anything of the Love Island contestants on their social channels because there was so much bulling going on and they just said, we're just going to shut them down. Well, they said it was too difficult for friends and families to cop all of the abuse, so those accounts just lay dormant, and that's actually had a negative effect on the recent contestants because their social media followings just did not grow to the standard that we're used to seeing. I'm absolutely living for the storyline between Callum and Molly. So they were on the show around three years ago and Callum was the douche bag that stood up Shorner. So she was this beautiful girl, most popular contestant on that series, and he went off to castro or Moore and hooked up with Molly and there was this iconic scene between the pair of them where she called him out.

It was absolutely epic.

Now, Callum and Molly were together for three years and they only recently broke up around six months ago, and now the first episode they bring them together, they're living in the villa together and strangely they coupled up.

Well, they would not do they.

Were the two bombshells. So Callum had the choice of coupling up with a new girl or staying with Molly, and he said that he stayed with Molly out of.

Respect for her.

Fast forward to a couple of episodes and they're playing a truth or Dare game and he gets asked how many people have you slept with since breaking up with Molly? He came out with sixteen women that he's slept with since, and she was not happy.

I love all of the guys, are just like, why would you not have lied?

The worst thing is he originally got a different question and he was like, no, no, I need to hold one fucking lie mate, like I know, or don't be so specific, because the way he came out with sixteen as if he's been counting them and just gave me the complete easing.

I also don't like his new turkey teeth. No, I'm not a fan of them.

It's clear though that Molly seemed open in the beginning to getting back together with him. She seemed quite hurt by the way that he'd acted since, but I don't think they're getting back together. I love how they just keep doing it though. So on the recent episode I watched, I Am a couple behind, but they brought in Tyler, who used to be with Kaz on the show, and it's just like, this is brilliant. I really want them to bring in Luca Bish unpopular opinion, but he was one of my favorites on the series.

A couple of years ago. He dated Jemma Owens and he.

Was infatuated by her, so I love him them to bring him back to see what he's like as a player. What about if they brought back Maura Higgins. I think she is in a relationship, but she used to date Chris Taylor, who at the moment is hooked up with Arabella. It sounds like it might have been a bad move for him to go in because he was a fan favorite. Everyone seemed to think he was really sweet and it was quite endearing because in the season that he was originally on, none of the girls were interested in him. But now he has had a lot of interest and people are saying that they now prefer Anton, who was a bit of a womanizer in his series, because he's grown up and he's a nice guy.

Anton was a womanizer. He wasn't that popular on his own.

Didn't he act like a bit of a dick in castroom?

All?

I just remember his mum shaved his arse, so that's all I remember, and that no one wanted to hook up with him. I actually tend to agree with the feedback around Chris Taylor.

He's given me a bit of an ick.

He's coming across as a bit of a douche, and that is what's also fascinating because these contestants are now entering after having a level of fame, so there are extra egos in there.

I feel really sorry for Liberty. Yeah, why did Jake leave so quickly?

Though? That was a bit unexpected. I didn't think he'd really care about Liberty being there. The other thing is I'm shocked at how many hookups have happened between all the contestants. I mean, I probably shouldn't be surprised, but why do they all like Toby, Like Toby has hooked up with Georgia and Arabella. My partner and I were having this conversation because we both really disliked Toby and I just find him to be this juvenile child, and I don't get by all of these smoking hot women are.

Interested in him.

My partner said, does he appeal to you all?

I said, absolutely, see.

I kind of liked him more at the end of the series that he was originally on because him and Chloe were quite cute together the majority of the series. He just irritated me. He came across is extremely immature. I wonder if they're going to bring Chloe in because he was eluding that Chloe was the one that did him dirty.

So I would like her to clear that up.

Well, she has recently been in Australia, so I don't know. I mean, she could make the journey back.

It's not a big flight, just get back on a plane. Now.

I do feel like we need to wrap that up because we could probably talk about this show all day.

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