Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Winner Of Celebrity Treasure Island NZ 2023.... James Mustapic!

Episode Date: October 25, 2023

We chat to the winner of CTI NZ James Mustapic!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Deliberately Treasure Island, the final last night on TVNZ2, and it was won by comedian James Musterpich in a very windy, emotional scene. You're almost speechless. James joins us in the studio right now. Firstly, congratulations. That moment, very emotional for you. It was, yeah. Although, yeah, I didn't cry at the time.

I think we were all just like, get us off this bloody island. And nightmare for the sound, too, with that wind in your eye. Oh, very windy. Congratulations, because this was filmed the beginning of the year, sort of February, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah. How many times have you been asked, did you win? And what has been your stock standard reply?

Oh, so many people ask. I've tried to lie, just being like, no, but I've made it far or whatever. So that, you know, kind of telling the truth, but kind of not. My mum was like, not going to watch. Oh, you didn't tell your mum? No, because I wanted her to be surprised. But then she was like, I'm going to. Oh, you didn't tell your mum? No, because I wanted her to be surprised. But then she was like, I'm going to my choir group.

I'm not watching. Maybe you should. Can you skip one week of choir? Now, you are, I self-confess, a super fan of the show. So going into it, you'd seen a lot of it. What is it like going on it? And are you now still a super fan of the show? Yes. If I'd got eliminated first maybe i

would have been not a fan anymore right yeah i love it it was great it was um very hard pretty um pretty sad at points but very fun do you think that prepared you uh more than maybe some of the other celebrities the fact that you'd seen a lot of it you kind of knew what you were getting yourself into and for yes and i know lots of lots of comedians who have been on so got advice on things to sneak in and stuff like that oh oh good contraband let's say what you snuck in just well i like chicken salt and like salters things like seasoning it's just great for like the beans making them taste better you know yeah out of all the items like i snuck in some chicken salt guys do we want to know how you snuck it in Or is that a

Safer radio story Oh I can't reveal I can't reveal Okay It also looks like Celebrity starvation camp Like how much weight

Do you lose over the filming Yeah I lost like 5kgs maybe Jeez Yeah And I was already quite And this is over Like how long is the filming

18 days So 18 days 5kg Wow Now you're not a fan of the outdoors. I think anyone you're like, I find it disgusting. So, you know, you're going into this. I mean, what was your biggest concern? Because I kept watching it and I love how you've got peroxide and sort of blonde hair.

I'm like, how's the regrowth situation going to be the longer you are in the game? Yeah, I was hoping that that would be a prize for one of the challenges. You won some some broccoli. What was the hardest thing? Was it sleeping with mosquitoes and possums? Was it the bathroom? And what's the bathroom situation? Oh, we're not allowed to talk about that.

It's pretty dire, though. It's pretty dire. What went on in the bathroom? Let's just say there was a giant lake. That was the curly question. Hey, now we want to play a game with you. This is the beep test with James Musterpich. Now, you were on, obviously, the entire season of CTI this year,

Celebrity Treasure Island. So we've beeped out certain words, and you've got to try and figure out what you were saying. Now, you would have said a lot of stuff, so your memory might be hazy. Never eat soggy. Never eat soggy weeper yeah never eat soggy weeper yeah well done there we go that's a good way of remembering north

south east west right yeah yes god damn it that's scheming little scheming little um wench god damn it that's scheming little minx oh minx oh you went with minx on that occasion

and finally one more another bloody sack in Courtney's bloody s*** what was

another bloody sack in Courtney's was it basket what was it okay another bloody sack in Courtney's... Was it basket? What was it? Another bloody sack in Courtney's bloody basket. Yay!

Well done. $100,000 for your chosen charity, which is? Thank you. Gender Minorities Aotearoa. Oh, good. That must be stoked. Yeah, yeah. They are a very small charity, so it's very nice. Oh, James Musterpik, the 2023 winner of Celebrity Treasure Island.

Congratulations. Congrats to the charity as well. Lovely to see you, buddy. Yay. Thanks, guys.