Life Uncut - Benson Boone Caught With His Pants Down & A Bonus Ask Uncut!

Episode Date: October 1, 2026

Hey Lifers! We have such a special one for you today. If it sounds a little different, that's because we recorded this in Benson Boone's room (yes, he invited us up!). And if you're wondering why Britt is flying solo for the intro, it's because Benson was SUCH a vibe that we spent half our time just chatting and laughing, the interview ran way over, and Laura had to sprint off for kid pick-up. You know Benson from "Beautiful Things", the biggest-selling single on the planet in 2024 and now 12-times-platinum here in Australia. But nothing prepared us for how open, unhinged and genuinely lovely he is. Today he tells us a story he's never told publicly which ends with his pants fully around his ankles. He also opens up about not owning a smartphone until he was 17, nearly becoming an architect, and how "Ghost Town" was literally the first song he ever wrote. He tells us about growing up with four sisters and his one and only celebrity crush (it runs in the family). Then he weighs in on a Lifer who's secretly dating two men at once, and answers the big one: would he ever date a fan? Benson brings the Wanted Man Tour to Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney this November. It's almost sold out, so get amongst it! YouTube Timestamps0:00 – Britt's solo intro: inside Benson's room and how a press junket actually works3:56 – Accidentally Unfiltered: the shared bathroom, the pants-down tradition and the fan who walked in7:45 – Why he didn't start singing until 17 (no smartphone and a plan to be an architect)13:40 – His only ever celebrity crush, and why it runs in the family16:01 – Ask Uncut: "Sally, you are the problem"18:58 – Would Benson date a fan? Why he wants to do the chasing Follow Benson Boone on TikTok and Instagram @bensonbooneWanted Man Tour tickets via Frontier Touring   Keep your questions coming! Slide into the Life Uncut DMs at @lifeuncutpodcast on Instagram Join us on Patreon for exclusive content and bonus episodes You can watch us on Youtube Join us on tiktok Or join the Facebook Discussion Group Hosted by Britt Hockley & Laura Byrne Produced by Sophie Nathan Video Produced by Vanessa Beckford & Lachy Pugsley 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.

Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Brittany and Laura's not here just for a hot second. I just need to set this up for a minute. It's been chaotic, but it has been an absolutely wonderful amount of chaos. So we have just finished a recording with somebody that you could only dream about. Somebody that is a Grammy nominee, somebody that smashes backflips, somebody that had the biggest song in 2024. I'm going to give you a hint.

these beautiful things that I've got. Cut that. Yes, I am talking about the one and only, the very wonderful Benson Boone. Now, where do I start? The reason Laura's not here is because we did have to rush to do this interview in Benson's apartment. Yes, he invited us to his room. Does he invite everyone to his room? Yes.

That's irrelevant. We get to go to his room. You get sort of like an allocated amount. a time just in case people don't know how this works. I think it's really interesting. Sometimes when these superstars come to Australia, sometimes you get an exclusive interview where they hit you up and it's you're it and that's brilliant. Sometimes you get in a bit of a conga line with different media outlets and you get given a time frame and that was this. So we got given a time frame to work with Benson and do the interview and unfortunately,

fortunately, fortunately and unfortunately, he was such a vibe that when we walked into the room, we almost use all of our time just talking shit. He was so great. We were laughing. We were making jokes. He was telling us about his staying in Australia, having a great time. And then they were like, hey, you guys have got like 10 minutes left of your interview. Very luckily, Benson was having a great time. So we did get to extend the interview. But that's why Laura's not here. Laura had to run and go and get the kids because everything was running over. And so you stuck with me right now for the intro. What I will say is he was very unexpected. I think sometimes you get this preconceived idea about what someone that is super famous is going to be like or how much they might give you,

how much they might talk about, how open they are. And often somebody's team will say, oh, you need to cut that or you can't use that all. It just becomes very PRable. Benson and Benson's team were not like that. He's so unhinged. He's so open. He was just a really genuinely wonderful guy. And he just filmed very, it feels very normal. He just felt like we were talking to a friend, which I think is really cool. So we covered a lot of ground. Some of the stuff we covered that didn't quite make it on because we hadn't pressed record yet, which is our bad. And the team's fault. They're all sitting behind the camera. Locky looking at you. No, but just he's in Australia having a bit of a holiday. He's having a great time. He froths Australia. He had an Australian

shirt on. And I think that's really cool too. I think if he didn't open his mouth, you would almost think he was Aussie. Like he had that Aussie vibe. We got a bit of a mullet, got the mo. It's one of those interviews where I feel like we could have talked forever and I feel like he almost wanted to. That might be, maybe too narrowed horn. But something really cool. He did say that he hopes we can come to one of his shows, go backstage with him and potentially film some more content. So I do hope that we can bring you more because I think that you guys would absolutely love it. His tour has almost sold out. So he's coming here in November.

So if you guys want to get amongst it, it is called the Wanted Man Tour. And it is brilliant. We're talking about someone who's 12 times platinum here. So, I mean, I don't need to sell it to you anymore. But I cannot recommend him enough. Hopefully we see you there. Enjoy the interview. Benson Boone, welcome to Life Uncutt.

Life on Cut. Although, hey, thank you for such a, that was beautiful. We've never had that response to the podcast. Benson, we ask every single guest. They're accidentally unfiltered. Your most embarrassing story. And I feel like you're going to have a bang-up. Yes, I do.

Okay, I've never told the story. Well, I've told it to people that's not on camera, but I've never said this to the public eyes. This is two and a half years ago. Before I did my first arena tour, we had like one final tour before the arenas. And it's like amphitheaters, like a couple thousand, you know. it was a really big deal to me

and I was really excited for this tour and it was the first show of the tour backstage I didn't have a bathroom for some reason so my the bathroom that I had was shared with the audience bathroom so like anyone in the audience

could be in the bathroom that I was in and I didn't know that and me and my boys I'm very close with the boys there's like five of us and we're all I mean we know each other very well We've grown up together. We've seen, you know, every side of each other.

So we have a bit where when we're in occasionally public restrooms, this was more of the thing we did in high school. We would go into the bathroom and dudes have urnals where you can stand and take a piss. Thank you for the description of a urinal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes we would go into these public restrooms and usually, you know, you just unzip and let it rip and you don't have to like take off your pants, right? Well, we do a thing where we just fully like take off our pants and we're standing there like with a shirt on, but like, but no bottoms. Unnecessary. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it's, it's funny because like you have to, you have to take your pants all the way off and then get them all the way back up before someone outside comes in. Because if someone comes in and catches you doing that, you know, it's really awkward and funny. You guys are hooking up. Yeah, or that, I guess. Well, like, it's my five men are in a bathroom. If you walked into a bathroom and five men have their pants off. And we're naked. Where's your brain going?

Yeah. That's okay. Different brains, and that's all right. I respect that. Thank you. Well, like someone does. I'm a woman of science. So I was at this first show of the tour, and I'm in the bathroom.

And again, I didn't know anyone attending the show could go to that bathroom. So I'm in there with two of my buddies. We all went to the bathroom at the same time. And I'm standing at the urinal, which there's two urinals. They're both in the stall. There's two stalls and two urinals. Small bath. bathroom. I walk in there, drop the drawers. They are fully at my ankles and I have started

taking the piss. So once you start, you can't stop or it hurts. You can't just cut it. No. Well, you can, but it's like, it's really uncomfortable. So I'm standing there and I'm, you know, kind of in my own world, just like doing my thing, taking a piss and someone walks in and I didn't look. I didn't look over because I assumed it would be like, you know, you know, yeah, one of my mates. nights. And it wasn't, it was, it was a fan coming to the show. And he just stopped and goes, and I heard the gasp. And that's when I turned and I was like, yeah, oh my gosh. And I didn't know who it was. And I was like, hi. Oh, wow. Hi. Oh, my gosh. And he goes, oh my gosh, you're Benson

Boone. And I was like, oh, yep, I sure am. Are you coming to the show? And he goes, yeah. And I was like, What are you doing back here? And he's like, this is the bathroom. What are you doing back here? It was so awkward. I was horrified. Luckily, great guy. He was super cool.

I ended up pulling up my drawers and shaking his hand before I wash my hands, by the way. So good on him. He's got your D.A. Real big fan. Yeah. Is that the moment? I was going to ask you, like, was there a moment you knew you made it? But was it when you got your own bathroom?

Yeah, I guess it was. Yeah. It's a luxury. Rock on. Rock on. You got into singing quite late. 17 is when you... Yeah.

Why were you such a late bloomer at something that you're so incredibly talented at? Well, thank you, first of all. Well, I mean, look at all these people in the room. You don't need me to tell you. Thank you, guys. It was never something I did much of growing up. I didn't have a phone. I didn't have a smartphone until I was 17.

So I didn't grow up with like any... I couldn't listen to music on my phone. I didn't have something to follow up with any artists. So it just wasn't something I would have ever thought about. I was a sports guy. I loved the outdoors. I grew up in a very lush nature town where like I was always backpacking or hiking or cliff jumping or me and the boys were always up to something. So I just didn't, I didn't think to do it until like right before senior year was kind of when I started singing.

And it was such a, it wasn't like a dramatic change where I started singing and I was like, this is what I'm doing for the rest of my life. Hell yeah. Come over to Hollywood, boys. No, it was like I found out and it was really cool. Like definitely a plus. But it wasn't like I started singing. This is what I'm doing the rest of my life. It just kind of slowly happened.

And I think after high school, I started to pursue architecture and interior design. Like I was going to go a very different way with my life. Well, thank God you didn't do that. Yeah, I know. I would have been a horrible architect. I'm sure you would have made a nice house, but you make better music, I'm sure. How did the boys respond? When you start singing and you come from like the background of like sport and like being with the lads

and then you start singing quite like emotionally intense songs. Yeah. How did they respond to that? Were they like, wow, what a talent? Were they like, dude, this is a side of you we haven't seen before? Were they like, okay, loser? Pull your pants up. I feel like that's what the bros are like.

Honestly, I think that is what most bros are like. But I grew up, I grew up with four sisters. I was always like a, not like this super emotional guy, but just maybe a little bit more than the typical bros. Yeah. So I don't think it was like a shock factor to anyone. And when I did start listening to music, I listened to a lot of, like a lot of Adel, a lot of Aretha Franklin, a lot of older, maybe just more soulful music.

So that's kind of naturally what I started to sing. And I guess what my voice kind of caters to. So none of them heard me do that and we're like, pussy it was just more i don't know are we allowed to say that sorry but lean in yeah so it was it just felt kind of natural i think yeah what was it like going from i mean i don't know if you were a quote unquote nobody but i feel like your fame level of fame came very very quickly i do and i don't want to say you're nobody what was it like being a nobody yeah and then being a somebody and now you're someone like what do you what do you like me in a nutshell yeah yes no i i get

what you're saying. I totally go. But I mean, it happens. Some people, it's a real slow burn and like, their child singers and child actors. But for you, as you said, you were like, I'll try this music thing. And then everyone loved you. You went from sharing toilets to selling out arenas. So like, I mean, do we need to describe it anymore for you? Yeah. Yes. It, um, like was that level of fame so quickly hard to deal with? No, I think it was actually, uh, and it's been very vulnerable, I think, because I think people have seen without even really knowing, because most people, don't know my story nor what I expect them to.

But I think I have kind of shown the world, like, genuinely, the first, like, Ghost Town was the first song I ever released. That is, like, literally the first song I ever even tried to write. And that was the first song that came out. That was the first song that did well. So, like, people don't even really understand that they have been listening to, like, my genuine very first day of writing. They have listened to the start of my career

where a lot of people, you know, like some people I meet have been writing music since they're like five years old. And it's crazy to me to even imagine knowing you have a talent like that when you're so young and I respect that so much. But for me, it was never the case. So I think not that my songs are any better or any worse,

just it's like pure innocence. Like the first like two years, I think, was just the most genuine things I could think of to write about. which a lot of people don't know. It also means that your audience has come along with that journey with you. Like they've come along the storytelling of your life. But you even said yourself just then, you said,

a lot of people don't know my story and I don't expect them to. What do you take, when you're writing your music, what about your story? What do you take from your, whether your childhood or your relationships? What are the aspects that you take when you're writing your music? That's a great question. I think you can write about anything as long as you're connected to that feeling because I don't always write songs about myself.

And a lot of times, like, I have to live my life to write a song. Like, I have to experience a feeling or experience an emotion. Or else I'm writing about something I don't understand. But if I'm observing, like, I've written about my friends' relationships before or things that they go through because I think I'm a perceptive person and I care about the people around me. So, like, when they feel something, I kind of understand what they go. go through to an extent, and I think that's something a lot of people do, is they watch things

that are happening to other people around them or to their family or to their friends. And I use that as inspiration a lot. But also, like, I'm really close with my family. I always have been. So, like, growing up, they were a huge part of who I am and who I've become. So I've written a lot about them, even in songs that you wouldn't know would be about my family. So, yeah, I think I really just write about anything that I feel connected to. Like literally anything. And I think most people do the same. I have a question now that you're a somebody and not a nobody anymore, based around like

celebrity crushes. So who is your celebrity crush before you were a celebrity? Who's your celebrity crush when you're a celebrity? And what are the celebrity crush rules when you're a celebrity? Like, are you allowed to have a celebrity crush when you are also a celebrity? No, it gets weird. Take a shot every time I said celebrity. That is a great, I would be wasted.

That's actually a great question. I've actually only ever had one celebrity crush. And it wasn't like just, it wasn't just because they were a celebrity. It was actually I had a crush on the person that they were in the movie that they played. And it was Galgado's Wonder Woman. That is like, I get that.

You are not the only man to have had that crush. Yeah. I saw that movie. You were crushing more on Wonder Woman than Galgado. Yes. Yeah. Yes. I actually, after that,

that's the first time I've ever done research on someone. I looked up like, I was like, I was like 13. Where she lives? Like 13. or 14 years old. And I'm like, does Galgado have a husband? Is she in a relationship? Does she have kids? I totally have a chance. No. But I watched that movie and I love, I've always loved superheroes and superhero movies and Marvel and DC. So I watched Wonder Woman with my dad. And actually, when my dad was a kid, the only person he ever had a crush on was the original girl that

played Wonder Woman. I don't know what her name was. But runs in your DNA. Yeah. So I watched that movie and it's the first time I felt like emotionally connected to a character where I watched that movie and I was like, wow, I love her. So yeah, but other than that, I've never like, I've never had another celebrity crush. Okay, but now celebrity crush rules if you are a celebrity. I don't think I've quite, and I know what everyone says to this, but I don't think I've quite reached like celebrity level because I think there are like celebrities and then there's like, there's a celebrity, where I would be like one of the other celebrities.

And then there are like celebrities. That's very humble of you. No, but I think it's real. You said celebrity, we would be drug. Yeah, you're right, you're right. But I don't know what the rules would be then. I think it's a pretty fair game, I would feel like. For the guys that I've talked to, they're, you know.

Celebrities. Yeah. And I feel like, I don't know, it's so pretentious. Shoot your shot at that point. All right. We have an ask uncut question. So one of our big things about our podcast, we do listener questions and we have one for you, for you to answer.

Okay. Okay. Hi guys. I need your help. So for context, my last relationship was a few years ago and I've been happily living my single life, dating and mating. In the last few months, I've started seeing two people quite regularly. Both know that we are not exclusive, but it started to get to the point where I'm seeing

both of them every week and I kind of feel like I should at some point decide. Now, the problem is, I really like both men. I really enjoy their company. I'm having fun. But I also don't want to be, quote, unquote, a fuck girl and mess them around. Is it okay to keep dating two people if they are both fine with not being exclusive? Or should I be choosing one or being honest that they both exist? How would you navigate this?

So, wait. So at the end there, did she make us aware that they are not aware of each other? They are not aware of each other. but she's been dating each of them individually frequently for quite some time now. But they know that they're not exclusive, but they don't know that there's so much frequency. Interesting. I think that's all a problem. I think, okay, I think if you're, I think if you're dating, like openly, you know, kind of just like seeing people and you are very communicative that you're like, yo, I am seeing other people and I am seeing other people and they can do whatever they want with that information.

that's totally, you know, that's fair for other people, whatever, do your thing. But no, I think if you're, I think if you're seeing two people and it's, it sounds like they've been together for a while, whoever this is, let's, let's give her name. Sally. Sally, um, listen up. Sally, you are the problem, for sure, 100%. Uh, I would say you're in the red zone. Red zone is wrong. I'm not saying you're like a bad person, you know, I can understand how we got to this point, but, I think you got I think she's got to tell she's got to dig up yeah you've got to say hey I've been I've been seeing someone else and you got to put the ball in their court because if I if I was a dude and I liked a girl and she was talking to another man that I was you know not I wasn't aware

I think I'd yeah I think I'd be pissed but if you liked a girl and you was in that situation wouldn't you straight up say hey you've seen anyone else like let's lock this down 100% yeah so you would have locked it down. Yeah, and if they're not aware of each other, I'm assuming they've asked. Well, I don't know. I think it's when it's like when you have this like non-exclusive kind of label, people think as though that it's a free for all, you know? But then that's, yeah, I agree. That's just, yeah. I don't, I think if you're going to put a majority of your eggs in one basket, like you should keep your other eggs to yourself and maybe, and maybe not spread those eggs out. Hey, last question, Benson.

Would you, I know you're single from my Googling. Would you date a fan? Do they have a chance? Do they have a chance? Well, don't do it. Listen, I think like... Like a smoke show is in your DM and she's like, I'm a huge fan, but I think you're a great person. I heard you on Life Uncut.

I'm just not going to lie. I think, okay, this is going to sound very dushy and potentially maybe really cocky, but I think you guys can understand where I'm coming from, and I think a lot of people could as well. I get used to a lot of people, and I'm not saying a specific type of person, just people in general, telling me like, dude, your voice is so good.

Dude, you're so cool. Dude, you do backflips. Dude, you sound amazing. Dude, you're the best. Dude, what's it like being you? Dude, this, dude, that. And I'm like, okay. We don't get that.

Sorry. Thank you so much. Like, it's a really great feeling. And obviously, I get a lot of negative things, too. But, like, I get a lot of compliments. And a lot of really good words that come my way. And I get used to that. So I think when I look for someone, I look for someone that wouldn't pursue me.

Like, I think a little more thrilled to chase is... Like, would you prefer someone that didn't know who you were? You met me in a bar or something? Or just someone who, like, has no interest in DMing me or messaging me or coming up to me on the street and talking to me. me first. I would rather be the person to talk to them first or reach out to them first and make an effort at making it feel like I don't know. I think nowadays a woman or a man or anyone can be whatever they want. But like in my opinion for my relationship with someone, I think a woman should be pursued. That's just how I feel. So it's also probably the only way you'll get

normalcy in your relationships. Exactly. Benson, you're a delight. Thank you so much for You guys are at the line. I wish we had longer with you. So maybe when you come back in November, come hit us up. I'm so... Slot into our DM. We'll pretend we don't know who you are. Okay, okay.

We'll play hard to get. Deal, deal, deal. Can I please get an interview? Please. And I'll be like, someone look this guy up. Who is he? It looks familiar. Thanks so much, Levin.

Thank you guys so much. Thank you.