Life Uncut - A Peak Behind the Logies Curtain and Laura's Wedding Scam

Episode Date: August 19, 2024

Hey Lifers, Things are slightly more unhinged than normal due to some sleepy, post Logies Britt and Laura! Laura thinks Britt looks like checks notes Charlie Sheen...We take a bit of a peak behind the curtain of what actually happens at the Logies.We spoke about the highlights and lowlights, who left early, how the red carpet and outfits all work and also we are now Felix Cameron and Larry Emdur stans.Britt speaks about her mum overstepping on what was intended to be a generous offer and Laura finally shares the real story behind her wedding planner who was a bit of a scammer. You can watch us on Youtube Find us on Instagram Join us on tiktok Or join the Facebook Discussion Group Tell your mum, tell your dad, tell your dog, tell your friend and share the love because WE LOVE LOVE! xxSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Life Uncut acknowledges the traditional custodians of country whose lands were never ceded. We pay our respects to their elders past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. This episode was recorded on Cammeraygal land. Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura. I'm Brittany. And we're fresh in rolling off the Logies. Actually, not fresh. Did you just have a testy pump off the Logies?

We're fresh in off the Logies. I feel, and I want to put this down, I don't know what is wrong with me. I feel like I have been hit by a bus and I did not have one sip of alcohol. Like I was stone cold cool. You thought I was going to say sober. I was stone cold sober, but I was cool too. But I feel like I've been hit by a bus. You got out of the car this morning.

And normally I would say, no, Britt, you look great. You physically look great. You actually look beautiful. Anyone who's watching on YouTube, ah, Brittany, stunning. But when you climbed out of the car today. Even the way you say climbed makes me feel like the girl from The Ring. You do actually climb out of the TV. I was like, wow, you look like, what's his name?

Swamp Donkey. No, what's the guy that was on Two and a Half Men? Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen after a night out. I look like Charlie. Are you fucking cooked? You rolled out with your leather jacket like, and I was like, what are you doing, Brittany?

But look, now you look gorgeous. You really pulled it together. No, this is the same person that just swamp donkied out of the car, Laura. This is the same Charlie Sheen from five minutes ago. Should we talk about the Logies and what it was like? No. Charlie Sheen? This is giving Charlie Sheen.

It was the leather jacket and then the hair all everywhere. Yeah, it was giving, had a big night, but you didn't have a big night and I was just as confused as everyone else would be. So I don't know what's worse. There's been two major insults in our time as friends. One was literally you called me swamp donkey. Was it a swamp donkey or did I call you a swamp troll? No, it was swamp donkey.

It's not easily forgotten when you are a four-legged animal, when you're referred to a four-legged animal that lives in a swamp. And Charlie fucking Sheen, who is a 50-year-old alcoholic man. imagine finding a donkey in a swamp and being like britney britney is that you do you need help fuck twice if you're in milwaukee britney is that pretty hot from life uncut wow she's seen better days what sound does a donkey make again how could i forget what the fuck is happening to this episode okay look everyone i started off with being wildly offended thank you i'm so sorry britney i love you and last night you

looked absolutely stunning some of you might know if you're following along on instagram last night well i mean you would probably know it was the logies not from instagram just from general news and media outlets in general if you've been following along on instagram you may know that we attended which was very very exciting we don't play a significant part at all in the logies like it's actually shocking to us that we even get invited excuse me i ate pig's nipple on i'm a celebrity get me out of here to get my spot at the logies okay well i'll speak for myself it's not shocking that you were there but maybe it's more shocking that I was there I mean people so you know people in different parts of media always go to the Logies and there's always a huge radio

aspect at the Logies so obviously we work for radio we work for ARN so that is another reason that you'll see people like us there so even if I don't eat nipples next year which maybe I will anyway but we'll probably still be there well maybe maybe not maybe we'll get uninvited now because Charlie Sheen caused a scene. What? We thought we would make this episode a bit of a peek behind the curtains of what was the Logies. There were truly, I think, some very incredible industry highlights

from this Logies and, yeah, I feel kind of different about it. I don't know how you feel, Britt, but I last year was a little bit disenchanted and I think sometimes TV, especially free-to-air, it's definitely struggled over recent years. And so I didn't feel as excited about going to the Logies this year, but the actual Logies themselves, Sam Peng's, his opening speech, some of the awards, some of the incredible talent who won awards last night, I found myself crying at almost every single award. Yeah, we cried a lot.

There were definitely a lot of tears, but I'm different. I was really excited for the Logies. I love these industry events and I'm excited for the red carpet the most, not because it's a red carpet, but because it's the only time that I can think of, of the entire year that you actually get to socialize with other people in your industry. That's not like a 10 minute interview here or there that's for work. Like the red carpet, isn't just a red carpet. You don't just go and walk it, get your photos and get off. It's like everyone from the industry is seeing each other on the way down. You're talking, you're saying hello, you're catching up. It goes for

a couple of hours and it's like a social event because once you're inside the Logies, there's no socializing really like you're seated at a table and this is some of the questions you guys had but like you're seated at a table and you get served meals and cheese and food and drinks and the awards go for hours so yeah so once you're in there you're very contained to the group of people that you're with which is probably like six to eight people so the red carpet for me yes I love to dress up because we never get to do it but I love just hanging out with other industry people and having a nice little catch-up it's always so funny too because people in entertainment are wild. Like they're always lit. They're always on. They're always

full of energy. So I just think it's a good vibe. It wasn't the red carpet for me. Like, yes, it's fun to see people from the industry, but genuinely the award ceremony this year, I thought was done so well. But look, you guys had heaps of questions about it. We have our own feelings about it and we thought, why not do a little bit of a mini chat around what the night was like from people who got to see it from the back row. we put up a little question box on instagram firstly there were four percent of people who said they didn't want to hear about the logies so sorry to the 300 people which was more than i predicted quite a lot but if you think statistically 96 percent of people did want

to hear about the logies so i had a couple questions come in and they were great questions i thought the same things first one was what was the best part uh best part for me was boy swallows universe is just the fucking best series i don't know if you haven't seen it go watch it trent dalton's book it's incredible but felix cameron who is the actor he's only 15 years old so he won two different logies but he won this silver logie for best lead actor in drama and he was up against his co-star so his other brother his speech was so beautiful and he burst out crying when he was thanking all the people in his life and his mom and son but he also thanked his drama teacher which I just thought was the most amazing part of it that's when he seemed to

get really really emotional and you think like the impact that teachers can have in your life and to think he's this 15 year old kid who literally is still in school who has been going through doing drama classes and and figuring out what he wants to do in the world and then he scored this amazing role it was just so beautiful and it was so pure and you could just tell how much he wasn't jaded by the industry and was so grateful to be there it was incredible incredible that was my highlight by far my highlight for me was definitely sampang hosting he was very funny but for me it was probably on top of that larry finally winning the logi like larry i don't know how many times he's been nominated but years after years he's been in

the industry for like 40 years and he's never won anything and he said he was going to tattoo all the other nominees initials on his butt live on tv this morning if he won and he's doing it anyone. Which also, fair call, because if you make a bet like that, you've got to follow through. Larry, I actually met Larry straight, this is a bit of a weird inception moment, but when I was helping Matt and Ash launch their podcast, Larry Emder was the first guest. So we went to Larry's house to record it. You know, in media, I think when you've been in media for long enough, you meet some people and they are one person to the camera and a different person behind closed doors. Larry was a little bit of that, but in the best way.

He's a lot less professional. He's so funny. And he has heaps of tattoos that he got with his kids. He is so nice, but he is so unwaveringly nice. He is the person that you see him. He's always got a smile on his face. He's always happy to see you. He always has time for you.

He is so perfectly nice. And I'm like, you must be a robot. You can't be a real person inside there. The real Larry's being abducted. And you are a Madame Trussard wax doll. That's what I think. It was funny because I think the most endearing thing about him, he's been with his wife for so long.

They're the type of couple that they just take the piss out of each other. I absolutely stand, Larry. I was so stoked that he won the Gold Logie. They've also been together for a long time and he absolutely worships the ground that she walks on, which I think means so much and really holds him up as such a great guy when someone has been married to their partner for so long and still speaks so highly about them when they're not in the room, when they are in the room.

Yeah, he's awesome. Larry, we love you. Next question. Did you eat the gold lamb? There was also questions about what happens with the food when you get there. Like, do you eat? Is it served to you? There are multiple courses.

So the food, the whole situation with the food is a weird one because you do the red carpet first. It starts very early. It starts at about 3.30 and it runs until 5 o'clock. And at 5 o'clock, that is when the food is served. So 5 o'clock, entrees are on the table and you're being… What is it? Early bird special? I was like, as a parent, I am here for this.

Yeah. But basically it's because they don't want to serve any food during the actual show. So you have your entrees are served at five very shortly after the mains are served. And it's a drop plate. It's like one person gets the fish, one person gets a lamb, one person gets whatever else. And then you just swap it around with whoever at the table. You finish up your meals. And then once all that's been cleared, that's when the show starts.

So you feel like you've already been there for so many hours because you've already done from 5 until 7.30 seated and then the show starts at about 7.30 on live TV. But, yes, the beef or the lamb, sorry, came out unnecessarily, in my opinion, coated in gold. It was actual gold. It was gold flaking. Gold foil, not real gold.

Well, it's edible gold foil, yeah. Did it need it? No, I don't think so. Did we eat it? Yes. Yes, we did. No, you've got heavy metal poisoning. Great.

That's probably why I feel so off today is why I'm a swamp donkey. She's got a toxin in the gut. You don't look like a strong dog. You do look beautiful, Brit. But you get so many compliments about how beautiful you are. I've got to take you down a peg. No, I don't. I'm going to move it along.

Okay, next question. How many people bail mid-ceremony? A lot of people. It goes very, very long. I think if you're in back tables, you can sneak out a little bit earlier. It does finish at, like, almost midnight. It finishes at 11.45. And for a lot of people, because it was on a Sunday night,

we all had to work Monday morning. By the time you finish, you've been there eight hours. So on our table, a couple of people snuck out before the cold. Sorry, Larry. Was it either of you? Yes. We cannot confirm nor deny. Trying to sneak out.

What were they, little mirrors? Just like clinking along the floor? Laura couldn't sneak anywhere in that train. It was a little sequence. But, yeah, so a lot of people do leave. But the thing that you might not be aware of is that they have seat warmers. Seat fillers. They're not going to put things on your seat to keep your seat warm.

it's not that bougie if you leave your seat for too long and you are within the camera range they have people come in and take your seat and then you can't get your seat back until the next ad break so you've got to wait outside to the next ad break because they don't want it to appear on live tv as though it's empty at all do those people are they like actors that get dressed up in attire that makes you think that they would be a person like a guest they're just staff because you can't see them that closely it's like the cameras just roam overhead so it's just so there's not empty seats. It's pretty smart, actually. People can apply to be seat fillers. So they're the general public, but they have to dress as though they're at the Logies. So they're dressed

in nice clothing. They're not dressed like waitstaff or anything like that, but they are general public who can put in an application or apply or buy tickets to be a seat filler. Keisha's like, I know what I'm doing next year. That just, to me, sounds so interesting because you're like literally a fly on the wall. Yeah. And you don't know where you're going to end up. You could sit next to Hamish Blake. That would be fun. Yeah, it would be. Okay. Next one. Who got wasted? No one. No one that I saw that was of merit. Some people, as in like no like celebrities that I was like, wow. The seat fillers. She said there are a lot of drunk plebs is what Laura's saying. No, there were definitely people that get Lily City, but

none of like the big, the big stars of the night. They were all very welcome. I think there were so many people up for awards that the last thing you want to do is win an award and be drunk on stage. That's such a balancing act, isn't it? Like it's the seesaw. This happened to me when I went to the Media Week Awards because I hadn't drunk all year and I think I had two wines and I was like, whoa. Keisha, I will never forget you at the podcast. I don't want to talk about that. We don't have to talk about it because you got very lady city.

That was one of the more unprofessional moments of my entire life. What, the hooking up? Yeah, fuck it. Let's talk about it. I think it was 2022, 2021. 2021. 2021, yeah, I got too excited by the open bar situation.

Also, we got there so early and we didn't eat because we thought we were going to get food there and we didn't get food. And I got, oh, mate, that was one of the worst hangovers I've ever had in my life. And I made some questionable choices. Would I do it again differently? Yes. Yes, I would. We told Keisha to network, but she took it very seriously.

Well, like, go network, Keisha. You're welcome. Spread your wings. You spread. Ah, something else. Moving along. Sorry. That's true.

But I was saying that at the awards night. I feel like because you're so nervous, especially if you're up for an award and you think there's a chance you're going to get it. I think some people have a couple of drinks of liquid courage and then, you know, by the time they get up on stage. I would have loved to have seen, like, Andy Lee just, like, half sideways laying on a table, but no one is. Everyone is pretty well behaved.

They are at the after party. The after party gets wild. So it's just, like, at a venue straight down below. So everyone just walks straight down and that gets wild. Like that's where you'll see celebrities all off their chops. I feel like that's dangerous because everyone there works in media. I mean, let's say it's 2021 me at the podcast awards. I'm surprised that other people in media don't go and then talk about that.

Nah, it's Fight Club. It's like the unspoken rule. It's a safe place for everyone. And it's because the people who would talk about it don't make it to the after party because we're all too old and tired. I was like, I've got to get up for the kids in the morning. And I was home in bed. No after party for us.

okay so in terms of the seats that you are given and designated firstly it's designated seating right yeah are you allowed to get up and go and mingle with other people or do you have to kind of like stay in your areas and i guess do they have tiers of celebrity that you're not supposed to make eye contact with don't make eye contact with table two three or four you get seated tables of like eight or ten or whatever it is you've got your name plaques or tags and you're seated with people that you work with so like channel 10 might be with channel 10 or a tv show will be with that tv show all the producers and the directors and the actors or whatever else it is streamers the radio so everyone's in their little groups but you can 100 go mingle with whoever you want you

just do it in a respectful way when it's between ads or between speeches or whatever else like that because you don't want to just go and walk around the middle of somebody's speech or a memoriam or something like that. Do people fangirl there or does everyone act cool and collected and demure and mindful? Like is there anyone that just doesn't give a fuck and is like, oh, my God, I'm the biggest fan of you, you know, and goes in between the tables and goes up to the front of the room?

Yeah, people fangirl. I think that happens all the time. Yeah. But you've got to remember like this is a room full of people who work within the same industry, people who love the industry. And so there, for example, I was standing speaking to Anthony Wiggle. Laura fangirled over the Wiggles. So hard.

And also her name's Katerina, but she's like the red Wiggle. She just had twins. Crazy. She was walking around with her breast pump in her handbag. So I was there talking to them and Celia Paquola, who hosts Thank God You're Here, she came over and she was like, oh, my God, Anthony, I have a two-year-old. I love you.

And so it was really quite sweet to see how people respectfully fangirl people in different industries. And surprisingly, the Wiggles really, like, they're like superstars of the Logies. They've crossed so many generations. They really are. Anthony in particular. He was there when I was a kid.

It's really humbling to know that now the blue wiggle in the Wiggles is Anthony's daughter, Lucia. That's crazy. That's crazy, isn't it? So crazy. That's for all the people who aren't parents. They'll be like, oh, my God, really? But all the people who are parents are like, yeah, we all know.

Okay, two more questions from me. What happens in the ad breaks and how does the entertainment work? In the ad breaks, it's when everyone does that mingling between the tables. So it's when there's stuff playing on the screens back at home and everyone gets up, they go to the toilet, they grab their drinks, they go to other tables, and then you sort of get a little nod that like time, go back, sit down now, like we're going live again. What, do they like ring a bell?

No, you can still be up when it starts. It's a respect thing. When the next presenter comes on the stage, everyone knows it's time to like go back to your seat. Ad breaks is when the celebrities go and do a shit. That's it. It's really time. Laura, Laura.

Laura. Wait, mate, trying to go to the toilet in my dress? You've got four minutes to do a poo. That was one of the questions that came through and that was my last question. Do you get to keep your dresses? How do you go to the toilet in them? So many questions dress related. I mean, maybe some people get to keep their dresses if they buy them, but a lot of people

will just borrow a dress or loan a dress from a designer or someone who they've begged, borrowed and stolen from. I don't get to keep my dress. Damn it. I was going to ask you. Where would you want to wear it to? I wouldn't care. I'd make an event.

So I was very lucky. Kaya who did my wedding dress she is she's just an absolute rock star I am quite good friends with her now and so when I messaged her and I was like I need a dress for the Logies do you have anything she sent me a photo of this dress and she's like are you game enough to wear this she's like disco vibes it feels like adult dress-ups being able to go out there and wear something that's so spectacular because it just never ever happens wouldn't want to keep it anyway like where would you wear it again you know like and especially my dress mine was like a wedding dress almost so So I got mine from Sonia Capilazzo.

She's an amazing designer, wedding designer as well down in Melbourne and I will be taking that back as well. Like you definitely do not keep it but you also feel like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders. Like you can't wreck that dress because it's their pride and joy and it has to go back to them. So like that's why I didn't go to the after party. I was too worried.

I was like this dress needs to go home and get the fuck off me now because I was like this needs to go back in immaculate condition. Well, quite a few people did message us actually, Britt, saying is this a bit of a sneak peek as to what we're going to get for your wedding dress? And maybe you could use it twice. It looks really nice. When I put it on, I was so in love with it.

When I put it on, I was like, oh, my God, maybe I don't want to wear this to the Logies and I want to wear it for my wedding, but it was too big for my wedding. It was like it was. Imagine you in 30 degree heat. Melting. 70% humidity wearing that. Like amazing.

And spending half an hour trying to get into it. You would actually be dead. R.I.P. levitating up to the sky Britney died of heat exhaustion on a wedding day I don't think it's a sneak peek, no I don't think I will have that vibe Why is that funny? You just took it so seriously and I appreciated that

It's a serious question so I'm really thinking about it But also I don't know, I don't have a wedding dress Do you know what? This is a nice segue, let's talk weddings I literally still have nothing planned I have booked the wedding planner I'm not going to tell you guys the exact date yet But it is under a year So it's not that far away.

The only thing I have booked, I haven't booked flights, accommodation, haven't booked a venue, haven't booked food, haven't booked anything. The only thing I have booked is my hair and makeup. Good. Important. So I don't know where it is. I don't know when exactly, but I'm going to look good. That's the only thing I know is that I've got my hair and makeup.

That's all you care about. I have a question though. No photographer? Nothing. Did it come off the back of the Logie? So you were like, oh, I know she does a good job and she's a friend, so I'm going to book her again. Yeah, I asked her.

Are you free in October? Yeah, it's not October, but yeah, I asked her. Isn't it? No. Laura's not coming to the wedding. I did just say I'm not telling anyone when it is yet. You'll be married by the time and I'll be like, hey, Britta, I'm in Bali. Like you did at my birthday that year.

What did I do at your birthday? You drove three hours the wrong direction. I arrived in time. It's just you said down the coast, so I head down to Shoalhaven, not Shoal Bay, which is up the coast. Understandably confusing. Yeah. They shouldn't have named them something so close.

Especially when they're an equidistance apart and someone says down. so I went down and it wasn't down it was up so I had this conversation with my mom this is so funny whilst I say I haven't booked anything right I know what I want I just need to get the wheels turning a little bit and actually lock them in part of why producer Keisha and I are heading to Bali this week to look at this hopefully a venue and lock it down anyway I was talking to my mom and dad Ben and I and my mom dad were on a FaceTime and we were just chatting away and I was explaining what I want for the wedding and I was telling them like as long as you go from this day to this day the wedding will be somewhere in that week I was like I haven't

locked it in yet. And, you know, mum's like frantically being like, well, we need to book accommodation. And I was like, mum, I'm going to sort your accommodation, right? Like Ben and I are going to pay for the immediate family's accommodation for those few nights. We're going to cover you guys. How far does that extend? Funny you should say that, Keisha. I'm like your second sister. Funny you should say that. So I'm such a star. Put it on the work card. So I was explaining this to them. I was like, I want you guys all to be together. So we're going to book the immediate family's accommodation and they're like oh that's so nice thank you and I was like yeah I just I'll

keep you posted we hang up and 10 minutes later I'm on my phone and I don't have Facebook as such on my phone but I get messenger alerts and apparently there's a huge family chat with not my immediate family but like all my aunties and uncles and all my cousins this is a family chat of like 50 people and I see this message we literally just hang up Ben and I just hang up and I see a message from my mum popped down at the top of my phone she goes hey guys just got off the phone for Brittany she said she's gonna pay for everyone's accommodation from the wedding I was like oh my god Ben and she's like what and I was like surely I've seen this wrong and I click into it and there's a whole message and I was like I messaged mum immediately I was like mum you need

to delete this immediately. You've got this wrong. Before I could even contact mum, my auntie started commenting, oh, my God, that's so nice. That's going to help so much. And I was like, have I just paid for my entire wedding? It's a competition. What are you going to do?

Ben was like, Brittany, you need to do it. I was like, mum, you got this wrong. I'm paying for you guys, like my mum and dad. We need to define what immediate family means. Immediate family is not Aunty Jane's dog sister's cat that lives down the street. Why are you bringing a cat to your wedding? I think we're cut out.

life. So she told my entire family that I'm paying for it. So anyway, I was like, you need to rectify this. This reminds me, I mean, parents are very good at accidentally overstepping the line without realizing. And I think it was Matt's sister, but when Matt's sister gave birth to her first child, right? Like so George, our nephew, and I wasn't in the picture at the time because I met George when he was two years old, but I've heard this story passed down through the family tree. Kate had given birth and Bill had sent some photos around, like her husband had sent some photos around in the group chat,

and Ellie, my mother-in-law, shared that photo widely, not realising that, yes, it was a beautiful photo of the baby, but it was also in the baby was in the foreground, but in the background was the gaping wound that the poor baby had just come from. It was a giant vagina. She didn't. She had to look beyond the baby because the baby was so beautiful

that there was, like, Kate still birthing a placenta in the background basically. Please don't make that into social graphs because I might get in trouble for telling this story. Are you joking? No. How long was the photo up for? It wasn't up.

It wasn't posted to Facebook. It was just shared within the family. You know when you send it on a WhatsApp group? Yeah, but that was before you could unsend stuff. Your brothers didn't want to see that, but they got to. They got to be in the room and experience it together. It's fine. How did Kate react?

I don't know. I should ask her because she's such a trooper. She's such a, she's such a good sport. Surely when you've just been ripped open like that, you don't care that much. You're like, whatever. Good sport. I will call her after this and make sure she's fine with me telling that story. She will be because you've told it like three times. I hope she is because that story has gone around. It's gone. Yeah. It's definitely made the trap. Okay. Well, also speaking of weddings, you might remember on last week's episode at the very end. Now I thought we might be able to get away from this scot-free. But at the very end of the episode, we made a joke how

when it was Matt and my wedding, we got scammed by our wedding planner. And it's been so many years now. And at the time I didn't want to tell it because I was so worried about the backlash or I was so worried that it would blow up in media and we just wanted to enjoy the day, blah, blah, blah. But we got blah, blah, blah. Shouldn't be off the back of, we just wanted to enjoy our wedding day. Blah, blah, blah, blah. We got married, blah, blah, blah. We love each other, blah, blah, blah. Boring. Let's talk about the scamming. So firstly, kind of like full loss, right? Because we kind of semi, oh, I shouldn't say we deserved it, but we, Matt and I got engaged. And then one of the very amazing benefits of being able to share on social

media is that sometimes you get things offered to you. And so we had a wedding planner who offered her services to us because she wanted to be promoted as a wedding planner. And so at the time we were like, look, that's amazing. We were obviously paying for everything else, but she was offering her time in exchange for promotion of her business as a wedding planner. So we got engaged and we had quite a couple of years between when we actually got engaged and got married. Firstly, it was COVID. I was pregnant with Marley, had a baby. It just like, it kind of just kept getting pushed down the list of priorities. But we had always had this wedding planner who had kind of like being a part of this journey for years. And we would go and have meetings with her. We would

talk about what we wanted and we would organize, we'd book things in, we would like pay deposits for stuff. Like all of that was happening with this one wedding planner. It's not like she was a scammer, like a ghost online that wasn't real. You were meeting her. She was very much in your life. She was a real person. She had a real business. She had a real office. We were six weeks out from the wedding or actually we were about eight weeks out at the time. And I was becoming increasingly nervous because the only things that I had received receipts for were the things that I had physically booked in myself. So I had booked in the venue, I had booked in the photographer, but the other things like, I'm talking like the transport for our family,

the car that was going to get me to the wedding, the cake, flowers, decorations, like everything that you need to kind of bring the wedding together, which is what she was organizing. I hadn't seen receipts for anything yet so I hadn't actually seen confirmation emails everything had been said yeah yeah it's booked it's sorted it's sorted it's sorted had you like paid any money for deposits and that kind of thing we'd paid some deposits but we'd also confirmed suppliers at certain quotes and stuff as well so like we'd receive quotes for chairs suppliers were all confirmed deposits were paid anyway so that all happened and it was about eight weeks out from the wedding when Brit sends me a screenshot from Wedshed so Wedshed is a very

very popular wedding website that a lot of people use if they're getting married for suppliers or to talk about services or whatever because my sister sherry was getting married so i wasn't just in a wed shed group four years ago i just want to really if i want to put that down i wasn't lurking in a wedding group my sister sherry was getting married at the same time as laura like i think you guys got married a month apart or something so sherry was in a group and she had because she's part of life uncut she had known who laura was using as her wedding planner and she saw a post go up in the group. Oh, so it's like a Facebook group. It's a Facebook group. It's like our discussion group, but it's for weddings. So she saw one post go up that triggered her and I'll let Laura tell

you what it was, but then she sent it to me and she said, I don't want to alarm anybody, but I think you need to pass this on to Laura. So I was like, oh shit. So I passed it on to Laura. So what happened was basically this post in WedShed, and if you're getting married, please go join Facebook and join the WedShed Facebook group. It's a really, really great group for brides or for people who are organizing weddings. And this post was somebody who had organized their flowers and stuff so this wedding planner was organizing their floral arrangements and basically they'd shown up at their wedding on their wedding day and they had spent so much money on flowers and there was almost nothing there except for a couple of little vases

of flower decorations that were on the table and nothing else and they paid thousands of dollars for their flowers like an obscene amount they'd put into their flowers and then it was just this onslaught of people who were jumping into the comment section who had had similar experiences or they'd rocked up at their wedding and nothing was there or the person had shown up to the wedding hours late to drop off their bridal bouquet. Like it was insane the number of people who had had similar experiences around thinking that things were booked in and showing up

and just nothing was there on their wedding day. Like a snowball. I was going to say an avalanche. It was an avalanche-y snowball of people that were coming out of the woodworks being like, this happened to me, this happened to me. God knows how it had gone on for so long. It had gone on for so long.

and very luckily like we had not promoted her at all so I do want to say that because I would worry for anyone to think that we were like promoting someone who was scamming but basically this all went down we contacted her and we're like can we please get the confirmations for the suppliers that we have locked in and nothing kind of came through from that so anyway we were six weeks out from the wedding when Matt finally because I'm such a people pleaser that I struggled to pull the plug on it I was like no she's gonna come through maybe this can't be right which is It's crazy because you've just seen also like I get that, I'm like that too, but when you've seen like 30,

40 people coming out and saying she did the same thing, it's funny that you were still like, I'm going to give her another go. It's sort of like your dating history. Literally. Yeah, I'll just give them another smidge. They'll come through. I can fix her. I can make her good again.

I'll be the exception. She'll change for me. Pick me. She'll be there. She'll bring me flowers. But also because we've met her so many times face-to-face that I couldn't believe it because she is actually a genuinely lovely person.

And I think maybe there was some big things happening in her life at the time. Who knows what the actual story was, but she was a really lovely person to speak to. So I was like, surely this can't be real. Anyway, Matt then was like, look, I'm going to cancel this wedding planner. And he's like, I'm going to call some suppliers and figure out if these bookings and confirmations have actually gone through. So for example, one of the suppliers that we had was just for chairs. So for people to sit down on just white chairs at the ceremony, that's it.

nothing exciting so that nana you know and great nana had a little seat to sit in that was it and we call up the supplier and like we got married down the south coast molly mook is a relatively small town so there's not loads and loads of suppliers who can supply these items and they were like no we don't have your booking comment we sent the quote we don't have the booking confirmation they were like and also the chairs are all booked out now so you can't get chairs through us like so sorry but they're not available so the only people who could supply chairs were Canberra. That was this close. It's a three hour drive from our wedding venue to get chairs. So the quote no longer was $300. It went to three and a half thousand dollars. So this was

happening on repeat because all the suppliers that we thought we'd booked in, none of them actually had been confirmed. And we were six weeks out from the wedding and everything had been booked up in the area. It's even more frustrating because it's not, you didn't even have a normal like wedding planning length of time. You put it back two years. We had two and a half years. There were years to plan and get the best bargains and the best supplies a neck minute.

You're like, that's $5,000 per chair. Sit your ass down. And that's why when I was walking down the aisle and there were a few empty chairs, I was like, sit on that chair! Sit on that chair! Aunty Betty, sit your ass down! Buster, up. I literally saw some empty chairs and I was like,

I will stop walking down this aisle right now and I will get you, all of you people in the back to go and sit on that chair. I wanted people to be twofold on the chairs. I laid across the lab. You needed chair fillers like the Logies. Where are my chair fillers? I was like trying to get the wait staff to sit in the chairs. But anyway, it wasn't just the chairs. It was the cake. It was the flowers. It was everything. Nothing had been organized. And so amazingly, Matt used to work in a marketing company. His main role was organizing big scale events. Like he used to work at concerts and put on like Vodafone activations and stuff. So like He is great in a crisis, Matt. So within the next two weeks, we had had, you know,

a cake organized. We had flowers organized. We had everything done. The wedding was amazing. We hired, her name is Hira Bridesmaid. Kirsten is her name. She was based in Cronulla and she was incredible. She became our wedding planner in the space of six weeks. Pulled it all together, did all the rest of the organizing. And so it was magical, but it was unbelievable, the stress six weeks out and it all came to light because of one single post on WedShed. The way the world works is crazy because you only found that out because my sister was getting married at the same time, who has a connection to the podcast, who happened to be in that exact wedding group, who happened to overhear that you were using that wedding planner. It never

would have come to light. We were so, so lucky. And also I just feel, I feel for everyone who was affected negatively. Like imagine rocking up on your wedding day and not having things there or finding out four weeks prior and not being able to turn things around. And we are very fortunate that we were able to still deal with some of the financial burdens that happened because of the short timeframes. Like you say wedding, everything goes up by zero.

You say wedding in a six-week period, everything goes up again. So like we were and are very privileged that we were able to manage that even though it still hurt us. But then we got there on the day and it was the most magical day. So, you know. That chair was great. The chair was the best chair I've ever sat on. That 15 minutes on that chair, I will never forget.

I'm so glad that you guys really, really spent some time on the chairs. I did. I did. It's time for Accidentally Unfiltered, and this one is an absolute banger. I used to work for a phone brand, and at Christmas, they held a Christmas party slash like an awards ceremony for the region. Now, I'm talking region as it is the whole of the Scotland stores. Oh, Scottish listener.

Hi. Shout out. Hi. Love Scotland. But doesn't live there anymore. She misses it. I live in Romania now. She lives in Romania.

They had serious awards like best sales record, blah, blah, blah, boring, boring, boring. Then the ones that we were really interested in, such as best dressed. Anyway, I won best dressed. Fantastic. I was delighted and spent all night telling everyone who would listen that I couldn't believe I won best dressed. Whee!

Fast forward to the next day and I woke up with a very sore head. I turned to my friend in our shared hotel room and repeat the line, oh, my God, I still can't believe I won best dressed. To which he proceeds to tell me, Sarah, you did not win best dressed. Sarah, you did not win best dressed. You were only nominated. And then when they announced the other girl who actually won, you thought they said your name.

You skipped up on stage, pretending to act shocked, took the award out of the girl's hand who actually won, thinking that she was just there presenting it to you. Not only did you do that, but then when you were leaving the stage, your shoe heel got stuck in the stage and you limped off, trophy in one hand, shoe in the other hand, thanking everybody for their votes. Imagine being that maggot. Imagine being that drunk. Also, what a baller move.

If you don't win something, just act with the confidence that you did. But imagine being the girl on the stage with the trophy that won. It's screaming Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, isn't it? What was this award? What was the best dress for? I don't know if it was best dress of the night or best dress of like your year at work. Like where were they doing best dress? In her office.

Christmas party awards. I missed the start. Before I checked out of the whole Black Swan School. Also, speaking of best dress, guys, I need to drop this in. We can't get through this whole episode without having one moment for it because it's possibly the best thing that's ever happened to me. and I know that I have had two children, but I've fucking peaked. Fashion Critical.

Do you know Fashion Critical? I didn't know Fashion Critical until they talked about my toes. Oh, my God, tell me more. Fashion Critical is an online – she's an online fashion critic. She's anonymous. She's sassy. She's got really mean things to say about people's fashion, so she has a Facebook page.

She critiques people's fashion choices. I now remember her. I only heard of her last year because she roasted Mitch Turi at the Logies last year. That's where I heard of her. So last year she said that Mitch Turi was covered in spitballs and wearing kitchenware shoes. With a camel toe.

This year she said he has camel toe. And she always has something to say. I remember in 2017, the very first time I ever went to the Logies, I read my Fashion Critical review and I can't find it, unfortunately, but it was mean and it made me sad. This year, guys, the reason why I need to talk about it off the back of that story is because fashion criticals said I was best on ground. She said she called you a bog.

She called you a turd. I'm a bog. Your boobs looked better than I've ever seen them in my entire life. Laura always talks about how her boobs are like, oh, they're on my knees. And then I was like, they're poking my eye out. You refer to them as empty balloon sacks. They're not balloon sacks. Empty socks with sand in the bottom.

They're your words. Empty, like a sandbag that's only a quarter filled. Laura, you can't say that and then also post a video of your boobs last night. They're not congruent. It's not, but let me just preface this. If you did see my titties last night, guys, I want you to know there was a lot of internal supporting structures that helped them defy gravity and they were painted with L-effect.

They were not really – they were as close to having a boob job without having surgery. That's what I did last night. No, they're not. You just put them in a dress. Just own your banging tits. They're about 15 centimetres higher than where they naturally sit. Is that your sweet?

Is that going to happen again? That's my sweet. Yeah. No, it's not. Second suite. Okay. My suck for the week. I had my stepdad's funeral, which was the biggest, saddest, but simultaneously most joyful day. So that was the Friday. Then I was down in Ulladulla yesterday and then back up. It has been a week on steroids is how it feels. I would say the suck was saying goodbye. It looked like, to be honest, it looked like,

it reminded me of my aunties, but it looks like a party. Like everyone was vibrant. Everyone was It looked more like they were celebrating life as opposed to mourning in a way. So the funeral, the funeral itself was really, really sad. I think it always feels like that when it's someone who's so young and it feels like their life has been cut short. But like I said, Neil was such a big member of like the music community of Wollongong. So there was hundreds and hundreds of people at the wake. It felt like a wedding.

There were so many people there. But two of his bands that he's a member of or was a member of, one of them's called Short and horny because it's a brass band and they're all short so short and horny brilliant so they were playing music and the music itself was so joyful so the kids were up dancing and it just was not what you would expect from awake but it's exactly what you would expect from neil so yeah and it was sad because we were like god he would have loved to have been here he would have had the best day all his favorite people in one room together that's really special yeah it was really really sweet but that was my that was my suck and my sweet forever for a very long time

that will probably be my suck of my sweet. That's really nice. My suck would be, I'm at this stage. So you guys know I get my migraine Botox, or if you've missed that episode, I get migraine Botox. I've had migraines my whole life. And I only recently discovered this year or qualified for the migraine Botox protocol. So you have to qualify with a GP, go to a neurologist. It's a whole thing, but I've worked out how long it lasts for me now. And it lasts a shorter amount of time. and so there's always this couple of week period before you can go and get your next injections where you know it's worn off and I've got that down to a T now and it's devastating

because I didn't realise how well it worked for me until now it wears off because usually the next lot of the Botox would overlap so you don't really fall back into that migraines but mine now started again last week and I don't get them at all when I'm on these Botox and I've had three in the last two weeks. That's amazing that it was so effective for you. so effective for me and I don't want everyone to think that it's going to work for you it's obviously the specific types of migraines I get because there's a lot of different types

and I tried a lot before that but so yeah so I've got another week or two before I get my injection so I'm just back feeling like a turd burger like a swamp donkey so that's my suck I just might need to speak to them and see if you can I can get it earlier my sweet would be it hasn't happened yet I know that's not allowed but in two days it is producer Keisha's and my birthday joint birthday I love that you put me first. Yeah, you're more important than me. Yeah, we're born on the same day for those that didn't know and we are going to be romantically spending that together in Bali.

We've got separate rooms. No, I booked just the honeymoon suite. I wanted to trial it out for me and Ben. Yeah, these guys are going to Bali for a couple of days. That is it from us, guys. Please keep your Ask Uncut coming in to Instagram. Just write Ask Uncut at the top. You'll always be anonymous and you're accidentally unfiltered.

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