FULL SHOW: Matty J is heading into the I'm A Celeb Jungle!!

Published Jan 15, 2025, 6:00 AM

HUGE NEWS FOR THE SHOW!
Laura's husband Matty J has been announced today as heading into the I'm A Celebrity Jungle! He joins the show LIVE from South Africa. 

We also chat about whether it's ok for your partner to travel while you're 31 weeks pregnant.

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Good Pickup with Britt Hockley and Laura.

Ben Bady, You're worth our windows done the world reason the dust only good, bab bug all round.

I don't much, but yeah I'm not. I'll big get and what I want. It don't matter where.

This is the picker.

Hello everybody, it is the pick Up with Bred Hackley and Laura Ben.

Happy Wednesday everyone, humpday.

No, this is like I feel like, finally I can I can be honest again. I feel like I've been hiding a deep duck secret for the last couple of months.

So I feel like we both have. I've also been hiding the secret. We've been conniving.

Have we what about exactly?

Well it's out now you're better half, my semi other half pretty much your husband.

Also, Maddie j.

Has officially been announced he has gone in to be I'm a Celebrity Jungle.

We're seeing him on the screen.

Wo okay. So Matt got the call a couple of would have been like a month ago. Now he got the call up around to ask whether he wanted to go into the Celebrity Jungle, whether he wanted to do the show this year. And I mean it's a good thing that he's left now and he's not going to hear me say this until potentially later. And that is he didn't tell me straight away, so he had made the decision to do the show, he got all his ducks in line, and then he broke the news to me that I would be solo parenting for potentially six weeks.

Yeah, but that's why that's a really big thing to say.

Hey, I'm going to go and have zero responsibilities and happy the time of my life alone in South Africa for a month, and you can deal with the entire household.

See weeks. Yeah, he's going to be off like eating what is it like Jesticle's pigs but holes and even that is more of a holiday than being a home parenting alongside me, apparently, Like sweet up, that's some.

Questions I'd be asking if you'd be preferring to eat pigs.

But then be at home.

There's questions. No, we're a happy we're a happy family, Britt. I'll have you know. He will be joining us later on today. It will surprise no one that I got exclusive access to my own husband.

How did we get that?

And we're gonna get the very first interview out of the man live on air. He's crossing from Africa, so yeah, hold on to your nickas for that one. Everyone, Maddie Jay's joining us.

I absolutely can't wait before we get into the show.

It is three pm.

You're in that slump. We want to get you out of it.

So we are going to have the pick me Up anthem, a.

Different song every day of the week to get your juices going. Today I have picked Jennifer Lopez.

Let's get loud. I am. I'm all about this song. This just throws me. It's great. Well, it throws me back into being in the club. Yeah, in Glasshouse, back in when I was like nineteen years old, just you know, sweating and I don't know what I was doing, bumping ugly is on some nineteen year old boy. It was great. Sometimes, what memories we all have. Anyway, we've been speaking to Maddie Jane next on the Pickup.

Very exciting things going down here at the Pickup today. I've got a little bit of PTSD I think from it talking about it. But we have an exclusive from the I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here Jungle in South Africa. The very first camp mate to be announced. No one has spoken to anyone yet.

God, he must have been hard to get.

Somehow we got our hands on him all the way from the South African Jungle.

My husband, Maddie jays here, my darlings, hallo, my sweetheart.

I think there was a plural. There was there, darlings.

He does love us both equally.

That's you was included as well. Brick. I I owe you a big thank you for the help you've given me so far.

Well this is I mean, for anyone who doesn't know, this is because Britt was in the jungle last year. So you've walked the walk, you've eaten the zebra, buttholes like you know what's going down.

And I remember my feeling right now, Matt.

In those like couple of days before, I was petrified.

How are you feeling?

Be honest with me. Is it that bad?

Yes?

I feel like it's going to be like a hotel and there's going to be room service and when they say and cut, then I'll come out with blankets and will be a nice air conditioned rooms and that's going.

To be like, yeah, I thought the same thing. I was like, it's still TV and there's still celebrities. They're not really going to starve you out. They're not really going to make you that uncomfortable. And I got the shock of my life. It's better that you are prepared now.

You will never have been hungrier or angrier in your life. Like you're going to have to control your emotions.

We're known for probably about a month now, and the last couple of weeks you haven't shown a lot of emotion around it. How was it when you actually got on the plane, and now that you're in Africa, knowing that soon your phone's going to be taken away from you, how are you feeling about everything?

Look, I've always been that person who's watched someone crying on day or night one and thought, what a loser. They haven't even been away from their family for more than one night, and there crying already. And I cried when I went through security at the airport.

How are you with heights?

He's are fine? I kind of said to them, obviously you have like a lot of meetings, And they ask, what are you scared of? And I said, heights aren't really the problem. It's everything else. I think the one thing that I would hate to do, and I honestly don't know if I'll be able to do. It would be the viper pit where they put you in a coffin and they bury you in the ground with a hundred snakes.

I know we've made lots of jokes about it, but honestly, how do you think you're going to go being away from the girls for so long? Because you play such a big part of their every single day. So I know that they are already asking, like, when's Daddy coming home? How do you think you're going to cope without them? And me?

Obviously obviously yeah, Britt, you'll be very like you'll be missed every single day. Laura, Oh my gosh, it's going to be a nightmare. I think what makes it even harder is the fact that you know Marley's has got one of the biggest moments in her little life coming up in a couple of weeks where she starts kindy. She's going to be at school for the first time, and I'm not going to be able to be there with you, Laura holding her hand, and that breaks my heart. I hate it so much.

They're the moments that you will have to remember and call on when the day comes where you want to walk out. You have to remember that you've left them for this long, you're going to stay for them, Like that's the thing that you're going to have to call back on because you need something.

Well, there is one thing that I've done wrong so far. I've already made a big mistake, and that was I forgot to get a photo of the family printed before.

I left one job.

He's going to miss us so much.

And you talk about having something that you can call back on, and I wanted to have this little photo that I would smuggle in. I'm going to sneak it in there. And it was only until the night before I left that I go to Laura. I let out a big yell and I started swearing and to go, I've forgotten that photo because you don't have any printed photos in the house. And luckily Lola at her daycare had a Christmas decoration that was a laminated photo of the family.

It was someone our tree.

So I brought that with me before I got picked up to go to the airport. I almost made the biggest mistake in my.

Life before anyone here is in terms of production, Matt, I don't want to say this.

You hide that. Well, you pull that up your butthole. I had a photo.

Please don't shelve the family. It's laminated.

Shelve it.

It's laminated. I took a photo of ben In and I smuggled it in. They found it and they took it from me, and I cried.

I was like, what am I going to do with this? It's just a photo of my partner and they took it so shelve that.

I reckon stick it straight in your butt crack. Yeah, just straight down there like a money slot.

They're going to have to pry that photo out of my tight little buttthole.

Well, I mean, as much as I want to speak about your butthole, please stick around because we're going to be hearing more from Matt after the break about going into the I'm a celebrity, Get me out of hear jungle. Matt, you did something really sweet for the girls before you left, and one of the biggest things that you were saying you're going to struggle with is being away from them for potentially six weeks, like no phone, not able to speak to them, and you told Marley and Lola that you have this sign that you're going to do anytime that you're on the screens to just show them that you're thinking of them and show them how much you love them.

But we had this family and there was a discussion of like what will be that sign? You know, whenever I'm on camera, If I can do this little sign, it just means that the girls will know that I'm referencing them. And I think some of the ideas that were thrown out were like a tug of the ear, yeah, or like a scratch of the chin, and I was thinking, people are going to be wondering what the hell is wrong with me, like I've got nits or something on the show. So we eventually landed on a little love heart signal, so both hands over the chest and it seems like an obvious one. So hopefully I can get that in there because they are so excited about my little love sign to the girls.

Yeah, every time that facetimes now they're already doing it. But the cool thing about FaceTime is that as you do a little love heart, confetti comes out and like love hearts and petals fall down.

And you'll get that moment too, like when they'll do a cross when you're all sitting there and they're saying, who's going to the challenge. I don't know if you ever have noticed when from the audience perspective, but every one of the celebrities is doing something Like Tristan was pulling his ear last year.

Someone else was scratching. I think I threw up a love sign.

Remember yours, Julia Morris will be talking and you'd be like, I love.

You, Ben.

Yeah, So that's what you can do.

You're allowed to like you and they expect it.

You're allowed to get two seconds to shout something, so like, be prepared that when they say your name, you can quickly say something.

Okay, Laura, I'm going to be yelling out sweet nothings to you during those crosses.

If you don't scream out I love you Laura at the top of your lungs, like yeah, you'll have some stern words when you come home.

Matt.

We are all like, I mean, I'm not voting for anyone else. I think that's obvious. We are all voting for you. We're all so excited for this Sunday night, when the very first episode goes to air. We will be absolutely in your corner and rallying as many votes as possible, and yeah, just come home safe and sound. We already miss you.

I'm so excited for you, ma'n. I'm genuinely so excited. I can't wait to see you on the other side. The only thing I will say is try not to chew the food.

Just swallow.

Oh that's what they always say, isn't it? Great advice? Bridge everyone out there, I'm a celebrity. To get me out of here. At premieres this Sunday, the nineteenth of January on Channel ten and ten play we love you, good luck, see legend, see him at.

Thanks for your helping. Laura, my darling wife. I love you so much. I can't believe you actually let me go to the jungle. You're amazing.

She didn't have a choice.

I love you, Laura.

I want your opinion on this because purely because you're the only one in the room that has been pregnant and had a baby.

I haven't had any secret babies.

There's a woman on Reddit, you know those like am I the a whole threads. She has posted long story short, she's thirty one weeks pregnant, quite early still, but you know, could happen. Her husband wants to go overseas for ten days. She has said it's to see his like mum and dad, Like that's what he's saying. I don't know if I believe that. He's like, I want to go see my family before the baby. Now she's petrified that he's going to miss the birth. This is because he actually did miss the birth of their first child.

He was sas working. It was in COVID lockdowns.

He couldn't quite make it back across the border in time, so she gave birth withouting, which I imagine is like horrible. As a partner, you want your partner there, So would you let your partner Because when I read this, I thought, okay, thirty one weeks. He wants to go for ten days, which is giving the travel time whatever I'm saying, that's two weeks, so that will take to thirty three weeks, which people do go at that time.

The problem is the longer they argue about it, every day you're getting closer.

I think personally, I would let my partner go controversial or not not controversial.

But I'm guessing that they're at like a standoff where they're just not seeing eye to eye on this.

Absolutely that she's saying no, don't go. He's saying, please let me go. His own parents are saying I don't think you should come. It's just him.

He's saying, I really want to go and see my parents.

Which I understand because if you're about to have another baby, the time is now, the time is before the baby comes. You're not going to take off for ten days when you've got a newborn. So if he wants to go overseas and see his parents, I'm just wondering if he's, like, if he's a bit of an expat and the parents are a bit of a cover, like all his friends are still back home.

He's like, I swear it's just see my parents, But it's like a last lad's.

Trip, and he's gonna go on like a five day Oh no, it's wedding of the head, isn't it where they go out after the baby's born. But he's just doing it prior. Look, I mean, I can see why she probably feels as though she's being made that there's just like an unreasonable request, right, Like it's an unreasonable expectation to put on your husband that you can't do anything prior. But the thing is she already has a kid, so she would also be solo parenting for ten days while she's heavily pregnant. I think that's part of it where I'd be like, hey, actually, it's not just about missing the pregnancy. You're gonna go overseas. You're gonna have a holiday that's gonna cost a whole heap of money, and you're gonna leave me here with a kid whilst I'm heavily pregnant. I don't know. I don't feel like it's unreasonable.

Ringing a lot of bells.

MAT's just gone to the jungle on a holiday for six.

Weeks, left you with the kids.

I'm getting some alarm.

Bells going off. Matt did do? I mean fair if he misses the if he misses the birth of his child because he's overseas, that's more of an excuse, isn't it. Because my husband almost missed the birth of my child and that was because he went downstairs to go get himself a sandwich. Very similar Lord, so similar, but something that Matt did do and I it was so hard. So when I had my second daughter, Lola, Matt he had at the time just signed up for Dancing with the Stars, so His training for Dancing with the Stars started pretty much the day that Lola was born. The Man Loves a reality TV show, one might say, So he was gone, and it was really hard because he would go and do these massive training days. They're like six to eight hour training days. He just wasn't home on top of his normal work schedule, and so I was at home with two babies. Our kids are really close in age, and it was possibly the hardest period just having him not around. And I think with this question right, you're like, oh, can I let him go? I don't think you can stop your partner from really doing anything if they want to do it. But there is a flaw on effect, and that is how much it affects you and how much it upsets you and the relationship and everything else. And that was so hard, especially having like he was matched with the hottest dance partner.

She was hot, and I.

Was postpit, she was It was a hard time for all of this.

Ruby she was beautiful and she's so nice. Yeah, and I was so postpartum, and every time I'd see her, I was just like, oh myself.

Every time you saw them dry rating together, you were like a damn it you had vomit on you at home.

He was aftering the charter gyrating on a twenty four year old with a six pack, and I was at home breastfeeding and crying.

I'm going to create, all right, before Laura goes down a really dark place. Back to this question, I'm going to say, I hear you, I validate you, but you're gonna have to let him go. I'm gonna take a guess that it's thirty three weeks when he gets back, that you've still got plenty of time with the baby in there.

So, Oh'm I gonna take a risk. No, I deeply disagree with you. You would. I think you're not being unreasonable. I feel as though there's many other factors here other than the fact that he might miss the birth. I think it's the fact that it puts an unnecessary load on you at this point in time.

He needs to go see his parents before he never gets to see them again because he's stuck at home with a newborn and another kid.

Spoiler, the parents should come here.

They might not be the baby is born, they might not be able to are. Oh, they're coming. That's different. It's a cover.

It's a rouge there's like a Bucks party going on or something over there.

Yeah, thanks for that, producer, Grace for that little tidbit.

Is it on the nose? It changes everything? I didn't see that al right, guys. Well that is it from us.

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