Life Uncut - Can Hollywood Stop Selling Us Showmances?

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

Hey Lifers! Britt would like to thank all of the blocked … duct girlies who reached out in solidarity. She’s also realised that ride share drivers can now upload profiles about themselves where they may or may not tell you that they’re saving all of the animals. The halo effect is back! Laura’s 2 weeks away from giving birth and Britt is still really trying to claim her place as the stretch and sweeper/birth partner. Lola has been testing the boundaries and made a very expensive mistake in Laura’s house! Britt’s fringe is back much to Ben’s disliking. She’s convinced that women like fringes but men don’t. We’ll take it to a poll! Can Hollywood Stop Selling Us Showmances? Everyone has been speaking about the ‘are they or aren’t they’ Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson relationship after co-starring in The Naked Gun and whether it’s a real romance or a showmance. We know that chemistry off-screen helps sell chemistry on-screen but are we exhausted from these ‘fauxmances’ being almost a check box of a publicity tour? We also ask if publicists create love stories because we demand them and whether we are more or less into the movie if the actors appear to be in a relationship? 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.

This episode was recorded on Camaragal land. Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura. I'm Brittany. And Brittany has some updates. Actually, we both have some updates. No, I just think, shout out to the lifers this week because I feel like you've come through with the goods. Quite often we get people say, you've made me feel less alone by talking about something we're just here doing god's work yeah we're just trying to make an inclusive platform for people to feel seen and validated blue labias and all credit where credit's due you guys made me feel less alone i spoke i mean we didn't have to refresh it i am making a choice now but we

spoke last week about my blocked cum duct why don't we actually do let's just insert that here no we don't need to actually put the chime in or do you want to be the we can't afford sound effects It was many, many moons ago I talked about having this block come down. You guys hadn't heard about it. We laughed, we laughed, we laughed. Wait, are we putting it in? I don't know. Someone tell me.

Just continue on. Okay. Well, no, because the description of the story in last week's episode was so great. You were like, I just had this one-sided fat labia. Elephantitis labia. If you haven't listened to the episode, go back and listen to last week's because it was a laugh and a half. It was Brit trying to relate to my inflamed labia and vagina through pregnancy and Brit

was like, me too. Yeah, because I didn't know that a blocked cum duck was a thing. And I've got to stop calling it that. It has a name. And the reason I want to say thank you is because I had a lot of you actually, I shouldn't say a lot, some of you in my DM saying you had also experienced a blocked cum duck. Let's call it a BCD. Somebody even didn't even want to privately DM me, like just openly called a spade a spade

on my like Instagram in the comments. Just was like, hey, I had a BCD as well. Gave me the name of it, like reminded me of the name of that. And I went and looked it up because I was like, oh, let's take a walk down memory lane. Okay. Colloquially, it's got a few names. It is called the Bartholin's cyst, but a lot of people refer to it, my doctor did, as a Bartholomew's blockage.

So they're different because you can get different cysts and different blockages. They're different things. Mine was caused, it says the cyst forms when fluid backs up due to the opening of the glands duct becoming obstructed, often by infection or injury leading to fluid accumulation. Now, mine was injury. It was RSR. it was overused it was like too much pound down you know it's back in the days where it's pound town we've just got backed up we've all been there you know those days mid-20s where people

think that that is how you know you know it's been so long i i guess i do remember them but you remember pound town jackhammering is what we refer it to yeah no one enjoys it it's from jackhammering so if your partner wants to jack your partner is jackhammering send him this episode about a BCD but you just like have to and I it just all came back to me I had to bathe it and like massage it so you have to bathe it in hot water and like why are we referring to it like it's a child or something like it's like a an external part of you I had to take care of it I had to put it to bed at night time I tucked it in with a little flannel you do you have to give a little wash at night tuck it in a little massage a little bit of cream okay I'll be honest when you

shared that story there was a moment of me where I was like you really don't have to do this and then even when i listened to it back i was like wow okay i'm not ashamed great you should be and if i can people need to know the repercussions of jackhammering that's true and men might need to know because people don't realize the effect it can have on a woman's body i didn't know it was a thing until i got elephantitis of a label anyway how's you telling british you should be ashamed no i know i know and like like you said the update i've got my own whimsical piano music like, let's take Keisha, let's whimsical back to Pinky and the Stinky. Don't you tell me that I should be ashamed. Keisha's like, I don't have time to go back and find all these edits from

past episodes. No, look, the reason why we're talking about this is because so many, like, honestly, so many of you messaged off the back of last week's episode. We were joking, the whole Blue Labia thing, it came off comedian Catherine Ryan being on Jamie Lang's podcast. You guys would have seen it. I don't want to like rehash it again. But the thing that I'm so, I think, grateful for but also it was startling to me how many of you slid into my dms and in very great and graphic detail described your labias to me it was like reading a novel it was like chat gpt it felt slightly medical but also really personal and intimate i don't know if you think i'm a gp or i confuse you all the time i was really i was into it and then i realized it was getting a bit

weird once i'd read about like the 50th person's labia in my inbox did you get any pictures no no one sent me photos if you want to solicited if you want to send me a labia photo slide on into the dms i think you're gonna regret saying i will talk about it on the podcast i wonder if instagram will block that they'll block it would they i don't know probably i don't block dick pics they do on instagram yeah not my dms i don't do you still receive deep pics in your instagram yeah i'm pretty desirable no i actually don't get many i get one in a blue moon and you can tell that they're just like sicko troll people one person wrote to me i sent this to ben actually a couple days ago one person wrote publicly commented because ben was like what the hell

talking about how i was a loser they were like you're a loser and i'm gonna have so much loser sex with you in my dream or something and i was like what i was like if i'm a loser why do you want to have sex with me this was this was a comment on my page that's a great that's a great kink loser sex you fucking loser i'm gonna fuck you i was like what i only fuck people that i deemed to be losers that's terrible anyway look moving along I discovered something on Uber now I want to take you back to remember a couple of weeks ago I was talking about how I had that really scary like Uber situation where he was like I'm gonna take you home to my wife but not specific to Uber could have happened on any ride-sharing platform it can happen on any

ride-sharing platform but mine was in an Uber you know I'm not holding that against Uber it's just a driver but my my point was I always look at the profiles now because I if you miss it I was in an uber where he was just being a bit weird nothing happened he dropped me at my destination there was a moment i thought i would end up in his basement but we avoided that well i didn't know this was a thing tell me if i've been sleeping under a rock if you knew this so now i just go down these rabbit holes i look at all my drivers i click on their photos i do also i also take this is probably a bit too paranoid but when i get into a taxi i take a photo of their thingy like their but you know you can just share your ride with someone you just press share you don't have

to illegally take photos no because that's only if you've booked it so if you like get in a taxi at the airport and you just jump in a taxi there's no way that anyone knows what taxi you're in so I usually only do it at night time and if I'm traveling from the airport because I feel like it's I don't know there's something that's been drilled into me as a kid where I'm like this is particularly unsafe stranger danger maybe how they were like don't talk to strangers on the internet don't get into the cars of people you don't know and now we do both at the same time totally but Who do you send that to? Like Matt or something?

Just to Matt. Yeah. I do it sneaky. Like the guy doesn't know I'm taking a photo of you. And you're like, smile. I need a passport style photo. But also, do you not remember when we were kids and it was like houses used to have that neighborhood watch on the letterbox?

Yeah, you're a safety house. I was a safety house. Yeah, but what did you have to do to become a safety house? Probably not much. Probably pay 50 bucks. Probably back in the 80s, they were like, whatever, sign up, get the sticker, stick it on your letterbox. Kitties, come in.

Do you know how many people would be listening to this right now that have no idea what we're talking about? So if you're a bit younger, there was a thing where if you were just walking the streets anywhere in any city, in any suburb, and there was like a tiny, like, I don't know, 10 centimeter by 10 centimeter yellow plastic emblem that was like drilled into somebody's letterbox. Like you would literally drill it in. And that meant you were a safety house, which means if you're a kid and you were ever in trouble, you could go into that house because it was a safe place.

But like as if you couldn't just make a replica. Totally. It was like a silhouette of three green faces and it was like that's how you knew that was a safety house. Ours were yellow. No, ours was yellow. Mine was yellow. Oh, mine was yellow background with green face.

Whatever. Really irrelevant. Maybe your stepdad made that. Great tangent. It was not a safe house. It was not a fucking safe house. That's what I mean. We laugh about my childhood trauma.

Sometimes I go to say something and you can tell as I'm saying it, I'm like, should I be saying that? It's too far. We've known each other for so long, it's okay. I'll pay for the therapy it's fine back to my discovery so now that I go down these rabbit holes of clicking on their profile and having a look I was on the Gold Coast recently and I was going to the airport and I clicked on my Uber driver's photo and then I discovered that they can upload a profile now did you know this so Tinder or an Uber yes so now I opened a whole

profile on my driver and this is what it said it was like hey my name is Jared that's not his real know hey I'm Jared and I'm currently putting myself through school I'm studying to be a vet the reason that I uber drive is because I'm saving up money to buy a farm to rescue animals oh my god that is such a great way to milk some extra tips man right if you want like the highest amount of tips you're going to be like and my mom is having open heart surgery next week that I have to pay for this is my thought right I'm like okay so all of a sudden even if my spidey senses were like oh I don't trust this guy I'm like oh he wants to save animals yeah I'll go back to your farm with you like that's what i was like if he asked me to go to his farm and pat the baby goat

would i probably i'm like can this be a safe thing what what are we doing now with uber drivers profiles and who is betting that i know i think it's a good thing i think it's a good thing i mean it's more better than the tinder dates you go on and you don't bet them at all but also i mean i don't know how i feel about this i received one recently so we had someone come and deliver food and they pre-sent a message being like hey is it okay if you tip me and then they explained the hardship that they were going through and of course like you're gonna leave a tip but I was like wait wait sorry what yeah I got it what was the hardship no no of course you're gonna leave the tip I'm not leaving a tip if someone's trying to emotionally manipulate me before they've even

delivered my food how about the food turns up first in an edible state yeah I'm such a tight ass I don't know if I'll ever tish Keisha's complained before when they when they added like a two dollar tip to a bill and I stand by that they added a tip at a restaurant I went to and I regularly went there and I had to select a button to remove it and it was just like a Tuesday night dinner it was just two people okay that was a big you know I have a question for you when you go to like somewhere like Macca's or Woolworths and you know how it's like you can pay the actual amount for the items or do you do the charity 50 cent thing do you what do you do I am passionately, I actually want to spread this with everyone.

This sends me insane because you pay your money to donate to the charity, but that organization uses it as a tax deduction. So yes, they give the money to the charity, but like these big conglomerates use that money to reduce the tax that they have to pay because they're like, we've made this donation to a charity. But they still make the donation. But it's your money. Like it's better for you to make the donation to the charity yourself

and use the tax deduction yourself. But no one is. No one's going to make a $2 donation to a charity. Tisha, I mean, to be fair, I do agree with what you're saying, but that's an angle I never thought of before. Fuck the establishment. I'm like, they're just so dodgy. Yes, I want the money to go to the charities,

but I don't want these massive organisations that are probably using tax loopholes as it is to be getting more of their tax. Look at Abby like I'm the devil. I'm shook. So you're definitely the person, you know, when you go and book a flight and it's like you can pay two dollars extra to help with emissions carbon carbon offset you would never press that would you you're such a tight ass just fly less if you care that much about carbon emissions okay she

doesn't even pay her flight she's like can i go under the cabin i don't need a flight i don't need a seat can you just put me in a bag underneath with the dogs and with the other people sorry sorry back to the tip you've had an uber eats person message you before they've even dropped the food off with like a sob story yeah last week i got a message saying hi i'm so and so i'm on my away with your pasta and and they were talking about how they're putting themselves through school and I was like I guess you get a 10% tip all right but then did you tip on the spot or do you wait for them to deliver because if you no I waited for my pasta fuck I'm not this is not my first rodeo I'm not tipping you and then having you eat my pasta but doesn't it lull you into a

false sense of security so like if you got in to an uber or any rideshare I'm not going to slam if you went into any ride share cart and your spidey senses went off a little bit but then you looked at his profile and he was like you know I save animals in my spare time and I really latched on to the animals well I'm just saying does it then give you like a false sense of security and you would feel better about it and it would negate your spidey senses that's a genuine question it's called the halo effect this is a real thing it's a psychological thing where you associate a certain type of characteristic with something that it can usually be someone's job or like we've spoken about it before in terms

of like doctors or like you have more trust in teachers than you would have in the everyday person. It's altruism. Yeah, and it's kind of like remember back in the day when we were really young and you would go out to a club and every guy, I feel like every guy would tell you that he was a dolphin trainer because that was like the thing that people thought was hot at the time.

No? No, that's just your experience. Someone goes to Keisha, can you tip me? I'm a dolphin trainer. She's like, it's the only thing I'll tip for. I've never ever dated a guy who said he was a dolphin trainer. That's great. No.

Well, I mean, I never dated him, but I remember like when I was 18 and I would go out to clubs and stuff, it would just be like, I feel like people would lie about their job to have a job that would seem more appealing, like in the sense that it was linked to something that you associated with like a moral thing, like an animal activist or something. I once dated a guy who at one point, the stories that come after the start of that Sentence from Laura. Yeah, once upon a time. Had a mattress on the floor, liked to fuck my elbow.

Once dated a guy who fucked me behind the knee. The same guy. Who fucked an apple pie. Is it? It's the same dude. This story is the same story. It relates to the same guy. I don't know how.

I don't know. I met him at a nightclub, right? And I ended up dating him for six years. And I thought he was the love of my life. Did he fuck your knee for the whole six years? Just last four. It's a slow burn. No.

So when I met him at a nightclub, I was speaking to one of his friends first, and I think it was one of his friends who said it. They must have said it as a joke, and I didn't clock it. But they were like, oh, yeah, he's a professional surfer. And I was like, oh, that's cool. Like never had I dated a professional surfer before, nor did I care that he was. But because it was said to me and I clocked it, I like held on to it

and the guy could barely swim, and I found out four months into the relationship. You've been telling everyone he's a pro surfer. You're like, yeah, it's hot. This guy is really, wow. so athletic but then but still didn't turn you off like you find out after four months and he's completely lied about his occupation but you still like sold brit i would have dated anyone okay i'm actually really mean to him i hope he never listens he wasn't as bad as what i make

him out to be it doesn't matter if he listens because no one else knows who he is no one else is gonna look at him and be like you got the fuck laura way are you are you hang on someone's looking in the ocean at someone that can't surf they're like did you fucking armpit once Like no one's linking the two. Sometimes I feel bad, that's all. Do you? Yeah. For our teenie's kink.

Yeah, well, yeah. Do you reckon he still does it? Probably, with his lovely wife. Oh, he's married? No doubt. Yeah, I think so. They don't have kids, do they? All right, look, I have a small update for me before we get into things that are probably

more important than anything we've talked about thus far. Firstly, two weeks. I told you we're doing the countdown, guys. I went and saw my obstetrician yesterday and I was like, get this baby out of me. and he said i can't do that yet he said no i actually pushed laura i said can you go and see how many days early it can come so i can be there yeah because the child brit's leaving no so i walked into my obstetrician and honestly i know i said about a month ago that this is the best pregnancy i've ever had it is technically but now that the baby's posterior and also just

has gotten bigger and it's dropped down i'm so uncomfortable in my hips and my pelvis and so i wake up in the morning and I feel as though my like there's just like so much laxity in my hips that there's nothing holding them together and so I'm like waddling and it hurts and if I sit for too long I get really stiff anyway I'm just in a lot of pain now I'm only just to be honest started watching me waddle the last couple of days because I always say to Laura and anyone that knows Laura in real life but Laura carries her pregnancies very well like it doesn't seem to affect you as besides the fact where you've been vomiting and coughing your whole other pregnancies yeah this This one's been great.

Yeah, you, by all means, like, look like you deal with it really well and carry it really well. And it's only the last couple of days that I've, like, oh, she's hit the point. Like, you're walking differently and you're in pain. Like, you're moaning a lot when you get up and you can't get comfortable. You're actually whinging a lot. I am.

Do you want to shut the fuck up about your cabbage? No. But you, I've only just noticed it. And I am in pain. Like, I'm really, really uncomfortable now. So, like, sitting and, like, working and, you know, just doing everything is harder. Existing.

Being alive is really hard. And then today I woke up and I walked from the bed to the bathroom and I was like, fuck, why is the sole of my foot hurting now? Nothing's happened. I just went to bed. Why is the sole of my foot hurting? Like the sole of my foot is hurting. I think it's just the extra weight.

Anyway, so I went in. I asked if I could be induced. He said no, but he was like, next week I'll give you a stretch and sweep. So Monday I'm having a stretch and sweep. Oh, man, that was my job. Why does a professional get to do it? It's so weird. but i've had them so many times before and they've never done anything right so what actually is it

i joke about wanting to do it i just just need to figure you i don't actually know what it means you get fingered basically your obstetrician sticks a couple fingers in and he like sweeps the membranes of your uterus like trying to clear break the membrane no not break them it's like it stimulates them so it's quite deep so basically you have to have an open cervix already it has to be like a centimeter i think okay if this is wrong and not the correct medical advice I'm not a doctor. Disclaimer is here. Allegedly.

But they stick some fingers in you and they go in as deep as they can and they sweep the membranes to try and stimulate birth. With just their fingers or like a sweeper? No, just fingers. Just fingers. Yeah. As Britt's doing that, she's like got her fingers up saying that she wants to do it.

Her nails are like. I'd cut them. I told her I'd cut my nails. I'll do anything to do it. Yeah. I'll do anything to birth a little child. So is it? It must be pretty, I don't want to say painful,

but it doesn't sound like it's comfortable if they're literally trying to like separate the membrane from the uterine wall it's not like i said i've had loads of them and they've never worked for me i don't find them painful some women do it's kind of like you know going and getting birth control some people are like oh my god it was the most agony i've ever been in other people like barely felt it like it seems like there's such a varied experience with these types of things but yeah it's happening very soon guys two weeks i will have a baby it will be out of my vagina it's just annoying no sorry it's not annoying i'm gonna have a few tell me how you really feel let me finish my sentence

it's a maternity leave is actually so annoying fuck it's annoying that i'm not here like i'm only away for a week in six months and that's when you chose to have your baby like you did this to me i think i told you about the baby first before you booked your flight i actually booked i was like when's laura having a baby and then i booked my flight way to make it about you no it's just like it's annoying because you'd want to be you want to be here for your friend when that happens and like you want to be around and whatever else also if anyone does want some contraception though I know from one hand we're like heading straight back into the baby years but then on the other hand we've got what Lola and Marley six and five what like you have to think about that what what

have I got what have I got like yeah literally trauma no the other morning Lola so like she's Lola and Marley I feel at an age where they're really pushing the boundaries right like they're normally so that they're amazing kids I don't have anything to complain about them but they want to test like and they want to know the why so if you say don't do that they're not the type of kids that go okay mommy they'll be like prove it tell me why i can't do that yeah prove it to me why it's going to be an issue and their their biggest thing that they're doing at the moment is climbing into the cupboards so like if they want food or they want something instead of waiting for me to get it or like accepting that it's a no if i say no you can't have that to eat two seconds

later molly will have climbed into the cupboard to go and get it for herself so this is this has resulted in Marley pulling the entire shelf out of the cupboard and it falling down on her that's happened once she's fine obviously it was a bit rattled so I thought that the lesson had been learned right and like I've I'm not a yelling parent but there's been a few times where I've yelled at them because I've turned around and they're climbing into the cupboard well I turned into a yelling parent the other day because Lola had been asked it was like fucking six o'clock in the morning and she'd been asking for a cheese stick over and over and over and I was like eat your breakfast and then you can have cheese stick eat your breakfast first then you can have cheese

I turn around for two minutes and I hear this almighty smash and then she starts crying. And I turn around and the fridge door is open and she has used the shelves in the fridge as a ladder and she has climbed the ladder of the fridge. And in doing so, she has dragged and broken every single plastic shelf, like every single plastic shelf. Snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap.

The entire fridge. Every soya sauce, every jam, eggs, like anything that you would put in the door of a fridge is now smashed on the floor along with every single fucking tray did she get a cheese stick she goes you know what she was so upset i gave her a fucking did she eat the cheese she was so upset that i was like just have a cheese i hate my life but this is one of those things you unfortunate for you expensive error but like they don't understand unless they make the mistake like i'm sure she'll never climb again she's not going to climb the fridge again fridge door parts are really expensive i am really coming

across as a tie-dye you are but they're really really expensive and you have to get like the exact right ones because they just change it ever so slightly a couple mil this way different direction so our fridge is a particularly old fridge and it came with the house and so we looked it up to replace all of the drawers in the fridge and it's 860 dollars wow you may as well get a new for the plastic drawers or it's 2500 for a new fridge and I was like well of course we're gonna buy a fridge because the fridge is already so old that buying the drawers doesn't make any sense. So that was like a $2,500 error that she made in the morning. That's an expensive cheese stick. That cheese stick costs so much money. You better enjoy that craft. And you're

going to eat that raw egg on the ground. We don't waste food in this house. And I just didn't have the capacity to deal with it. And you're like, what have I done? I was like, why am I having a third? Don't stretch and sweep me. Keep it in there. Hey, let's just talk about the elephant in the room, my fringe. So if you're watching this on YouTube or any socials, I do have my clip-on fringe in. Now I know what you're thinking. That's a clip-on that looks so real. yes yes it is a clip on I got you I fooled you I am she is wearing a toupee today Britney's toupee I am Donald Trump okay but Keisha got me onto these fringes a little while ago and I was wearing it for a little bit and then I just stopped because Ben was giving me a really hard

time anyway it's come back because I am just trying to cover some of the open wounds I have on my forehead from my skin cancer treatment but I like it I quite like my fringe and I've been thinking like maybe I cut it maybe I don't but Ben has said this morning he was like oh the fringe is back because he knows I wore it yesterday and I explained why this morning he's like oh the fringe is back and I was like yeah I'm kind of vibing it like I think I'm gonna keep it and he was like really and I was like yeah you don't like it at all and he's like not really and I was like not one bit he's like no and I was like how much no and he's like so much no that if you had that fringe on Raya I wouldn't have swiped on you and I was like not even a hookup he's like no I take

that back he's like we would have banged for the one night stand he's like because no one cares about a fringe then but he was like I don't know if we would date it and I was like cool well I hate how you shave the sides of your hair and then we got into a hair flight I really like how you took it to a petty place I like that you were like I'm insulted by something that's actually not mine and it's a chosen piece of something i've clipped into my hair but now he's married me then i'm like i'm almost so petty that i'm like don't just cut a fringe because he said he doesn't want it i think i kind of would to be honest like he deserves it now and he should suffer through your fringe because he did shave his head all this time he thought it was your

personality that won him over it turns out it was your forehead was your forehead i have a great forehead no i mean obviously he's joking he's completely wrinkle free he loves me but i have good news Keisha so our my hairdresser Keisha also took as her hairdresser Alex we love him he flew to Bali with me to do my hair over for my wedding and he stayed with us for a couple of days he's the best shout out to Alex he listens to every episode but he messaged me this morning because he saw my fringe he's like look I the fringe the idea of the fringe is a vibe he's like but I think I need to just order you and Keisha one he's like that I trust and love and cut it to you guys and properly and color and I was like is it not working he's like the vibes there no do you know

why it's because you can see the part of your hair underneath no if I just talk like this it's because I went and got my hair done the other day and I actually took my fringes in so that he could color match them because I've gone a bit blonder and I was like oh my fringe is going to be a bit too too dark now and he looked at it and he was like absolutely not he's not participating in our fringe obsession I will say this though like anyone who's ever because you guys haven't cut a fringe like not for a long time i don't think i've had them a couple of times in the past i love it for the first like four days and then i get so over the maintenance of it because you've got to do it and like both of us are pretty lazy with hair i need to find your

photo laws i had this is when my nickname was lego man i had the black jet black hair the heaviest straight fringe you've ever seen how old were you though at the time too old 17 18 okay well no that's young that's that's experimental time but then it went down to my shoulders and it was dead like around my hair it was the I don't know what I was thinking so I post bachelor went through a fringe phase but I went through a curly fringe phase I actually have really curly hair which probably no one realizes because I always wear it back but I went through like a kind of a bob and then I cut a fringe in and Matt at the time was really supportive he was like yes I love that he's like you look great and recently I was like oh I think after I have the baby I might

cut my hair and cut a fringe again he was like oh we shouldn't do that yeah see I reckon guys don't like fringes and I was like what do you mean you always said you liked it and he was like well what was I gonna say he's like I'm not gonna say I don't like it he lied so he lied to me yeah I think that's what men do I felt empowered I kept getting it done because I was like everyone likes this no one's being honest I think fringes and there are certain things in life fashion trends haircuts hairstyles there are certain things that are for women that are not for men you know what I mean, like women do things for women and I think women like fringes on other women and I'm not convinced men do.

And I can't figure out why. I can't get to the bottom of it, but maybe somebody will know. This feels like an Instagram study. You know, when you see them, you're like 76% of men don't like fringes on women. No, we don't know where it came from. We don't know where the stat was pulled from, but you had it here first. I feel like the reverse is mustaches. Like I hate my boyfriend's mustache and he has it more because I hate it.

I feel like he gets a bit of a rise out of it. I disagree. I love a mustache. I like a moustache too Matt when he grows his moustache I think it's hot Really? Yeah get full daddy vibes

It tickles her blue vagina Something everyone's been talking about recently And we haven't touched on it at all But we're going to today But bear with me It's Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson's Quote unquote relationship So to catch up to speed if you've missed it

They filmed a movie The Naked Gun together They're a couple in the movie And there has been this question of like, are they or aren't they together in real life? And the world has been absolutely shipping them as a real life couple, like myself included. Well, because they're both had like, I mean, he's had a very tragic story with his wife passing away and being widowed. And, and then I think everyone fell in love with Pamela Anderson off the back of her documentary that came out a couple

of years ago where she really redefined the identity around how people view her. Like I think prior to that, people didn't have a lot of grace for Pamela Anderson. And then we watched that documentary and we were like I love her too and I think the thing is it's exactly that but with Liam Neeson he has been such a forefront of Hollywood acting his entire life we all love him he doesn't step a foot out of place his wife Natasha Richardson died in 2009 quite a while ago in this really tragic skiing accident and since then he has never publicly dated like he raised his kids and he's always just said you know that she was the love of my life and I think this is a the huge part about why the world got behind them so much as well is because they've both

had this such a turbulent and unfortunate love story totally so whilst the world is behind this love story tmz has come out and said hey we have it on good authority from an anonymous but very close reliable source that this is a showmance or a pr stunt to promote the movie i think that got a lot of people offside now showmancers are not something they're not new we all know about them we know they exist but I feel like in the last couple of years I mean I feel like we're pulling a curtain back to the general public on how prevalent they are and what they do for people and what they do for the movie to promote it but Pamela Anderson came out with this statement a few days ago I do not and will never feed into PR stunts that would be a death sentence I am

authentically driven I'm superstitious when it comes to love and I'm not comfortable sharing any shred of my romantic life for as you can see it is only built up and torn down in days in a media culture that is quick to judge and ruin it. I know I will fall in love again and again on screen. That is my job. There are no silly games being played. I am sincere. Do not mistake my kindness for weakness or my boldness for bitterness.

I am here on this journey not for money or for fame, but to see what I'm made of. In truth, hard work, and to leave behind an honest legacy, my family can be proud of. I think the world's even more confused now because she's adamantly stating like she is not about a showman, and she's never going to do it but they also have never confirmed that they're together yeah look i mean i don't want to go too far down the rabbit hole of just the two of them because i think like

the really interesting conversation in this lays in the fact that this is becoming such a prevalent part of like the press and media tours that we get we get really invested in the characters on a screen and do we need those characters to translate in real life to get around wanting to watch a movie or to feel more connected to the movie or is it like just a really great strategy in order to prolong press for as long as possible, right? Because once the magazines have written about a movie, there's not much else to talk about, you know, except for what's happening in the real lives of the actors.

I guess the thing about this specific situation though and whether Pam and Liam are actually together or aren't together. I still hope they are. I know, but now it's the doubt that's being cast and the lack of validation. And, you know, maybe it comes down to a greater question is like, are we deserving of the validation? like as the public you know and we've said this about so many things in the past like

do you have a right to know are you expected to get an answer to this Pamela's been very very honest saying that she's not going to speak about her relationship she wants to keep things private can you have that privacy whilst also being on a press tour and kissing and canoodling and having these really intimate moments which would suggest a relationship I don't know if those two things are compatible it's too hypocritical to me like I think if you don't want to talk about your private life and that's a boundary you want to have by all means but you can't deliberately try and provoke that type of conversation and then be like oh no no no yeah the thing is it's like of course we're not entitled to something absolutely not and I agree with you

and especially in Pamela's defense or in this very specific situation she's had her sex tapes leaked in a relationship so she feels even more like I've learned like a pretty valuable lesson like I'm going to keep my life private for the rest of eternity. I get that. But I agree with you. It is the teasing of it, but then not wanting to confirm it and not wanting to deny it. And for me, when I read this article, I read this article from Vogue and it incited some feelings that I don't usually have. I don't usually care that much, to be honest. But the article is, can Hollywood please stop selling us press tour relationships? And I agreed with it. I was like, yeah, I'm personally over it. I understand the need for it, but it seems like it is just like a part and parcel

when a PR firm is putting their promotion together. It's like, okay, so we're going to go and do this promo here and we're going to do this. And obviously you guys are going to pretend to be in a relationship for six months. And it just seems like it's coming, becoming a standard part of promotion, but it's actually doing the opposite for me. And I wonder how many people feel the same way. It does not make me want to go and see that movie at all. It makes me annoyed. It makes me annoyed because I'm like you're like I'm enlightened now I will not be fooled we don't I personally don't need to see a fake relationship in real life and are they or aren't they to be like oh I wonder what their chemistry is like on screen in a rom-com like you don't need to fool me into

seeing the movie if you're promoting a movie well enough then I'll want to go and see it but I find the opposite effect now and I felt it with Sydney Sweeney and Glenn Powell yeah they're a really interesting one so I mean you guys might remember the movie and like all the press that followed on from that the movie's anyone but you and interestingly i have like a little tiny peek behind the curtain of this i don't know whether this is going to get me in trouble saying it or not but well whatever it's done now we'll let it out it's been so long so they've come out since and said that they lent into the pr ability of people assuming that they had some sort of off-screen chemistry sydney sweeney was engaged and glenn powell was in a relationship with his

american girlfriend for three years she was in australia so very interestingly we had a tony photo shoot right so we booked this beautiful model who was here from America she was there in studio we were doing the shoot and she was like oh yeah I'm here with my partner he's filming a movie things are not great at the moment with him and and we were like I was like tell me more had no idea that her partner was Glenn Powell and they'd be in a relationship anyway she mentioned that there was like some stuff going on in their relationship and whatnot and she was like oh I'm finding it particularly hard this version of what he's filming I didn't really understand any of it at the time I didn't pry into it but then you know six or seven months later when the

film came out and I put all the pieces together and then I saw it in the news that this model girlfriend I was like how that's the girl from our campaign we should have got her for an interview I know I know it is not too late but I I question a couple of things because I'm like imagine being in a relationship having someone who you love who you're committed to and also feeling as though you need to lean into the real life PR ability of this this showmance that potentially is or isn't real like and how damaging that is to the other people in your lives and the thing is with their relationship and why that was so when I say their relationship I mean Sydney Sweeney and Glenn Powell the reason why it was so interesting is that we seem to as a public completely excuse the potential of cheating

or the potential of infidelity if we have shipped those characters on TV screen because we've convinced ourselves that they belong together. We've convinced ourselves, but their chemistry is so undeniable that of course this was going to happen. Like they fell in love in a movie and then it transcended to real life and it cares if they're married. And they're acting.

It's not real, but also it has real implications on the people's lives that they actually do have relationships with. It's fascinating to me. I think patient zero of this was like Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Absolutely. Angelina Jolie like everyone kind of shipped that to an extent because they had this hot sexy chemistry on screen and I think I'm kind of wondering about whether that or at least

relationships like that may have spurred on the insistence of PR firms and PR people to kind of say well the scandal of that made the movie one of the biggest things of the decade you know and it turns out that that relationship continued and Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt broke up and sometimes I like to take a step back and go we can blame the people involved in this we can blame the actors we can blame the movie directors or whoever we can blame the people doing the PR are we the reason that this happens you know absolutely like in a way I'm kind of like have we kind of done this to ourselves because I feel like it's it must have been the fact that we were also invested you know Twilight with Robert Patterson and Kirsten Stewart and Jennifer

Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson like all movies are made around that time I think were the ones that maybe started this desire to have that relationship be real in real life yeah and i think it is a case where there has been so many instances where real relationships have transpired and the public have like it there is something pretty enough yeah there's something pretty magical about watching a couple and the love story of a couple on screen okay bachelor all right mate let's not run it in all right there's something so magical about falling in love on screen no there is though I mean what about the notebook like watching that relationship unfold to then know that they actually have a relationship in life like you kind of there is

this fantasy element around it like does it match up to what they shared on screen no but I think there was that when it was organic and real and now it is so manufactured and I want to use this as an example don't worry darling Harry Styles Olivia Wilde most of you I'm going to assume maybe not most of you are probably like me and you know so much about that relationship and what happened and how it unfolded and the fighting and the controversy age gap and the divorce the divorce papers that were served on stage all of this stuff how many of you know about the movie I didn't see it I didn't know it I don't know what it's about but I know everything about it I think sometimes it can overshadow the film itself and it takes away from it personally

I think the question is does a showmance add to your desire to go and watch a film I think it used to when it was real and organic and romantic and we were sucked in without them trying and now I think it is so over manufactured that it's turning people the other way I think that people have become very cognizant of it and we're very aware and like with anything with social media with transparency from influencers with transparency from acts like we have become so much more aware of when we're being fooled as a general public I think we have less allowances for bullshit you know and so I understand why people like you Brit you you see that and you're like oh I find it really frustrating and actually turns me off like gives me the ick about the movie

because I don't want to be lied to anymore yeah it just feels inauthentic and it feels like it lacks transparency I kind of you love it I don't love it it definitely doesn't rile me up in a way that makes me like stay up at night I kind of like with the whole Glenn Powell thing and Sidney Sweeney I was like oh they do kind of look like a cute couple and then I watched the movie and I was like well that would have been nice wouldn't it obviously it wasn't real but isn't it funny that then it takes away and it goes back to a point kish just made but it's wild that it can take away from the real life situation of people cheating on their partners we just don't care as much yeah even like with brad pitt jennifer aniston angelina jolie i was always team jennifer

but it didn't make they still were a hot couple like angelina and brad was still a hot couple and as much as even the fact that we're like as a society saying what team are you because it was always team angelina or team jennifer the fact that we're not actually seeing two people that lives are being ripped apart we just we're okay with it because they're famous and they're hot and they're feeling love on screen yeah totally like we just give a free pass to them and also at the end of the day like we're all watching this as a spectator sport like we have no actual insight into any of these relationships into the reasoning why they break down yeah i mean a small conversation that happened on a photo shoot when I like had to put the pieces together

afterwards like I would say it's still a drop in the ocean of whatever is going on but we're seeing it now like I mean there's the new movie that's out everyone is now talking about Zoe Kravitz and Austin Butler and it is fascinating and I do think we have this incredible appetite for celebrity couples and for the fantasy of what those celebrity couples could be a little bit of peek behind the curtains almost and we just hope I think the the way that the showmance is kind of the evolution of them or the lifespan of them when they're not real is that they're all in the press they're all hot and heavy during the tour period there's lots of flirting there's lots of just like that that on-screen chemistry is off-screen chemistry and all becomes very blurred but then

there's no longevity to it obviously like they dissolve very quickly those relationships and you're left within a couple of months being like but are they together or did they break up what happened and there's never any clarity whereas laura's like give me the clarity but they never they never put out a public statement they never acknowledgement respect my privacy it's always the same thing and i think that's what makes people feel angry it's not that we feel as though we're entitled to know yes or no it's that we don't want to be led down the garden path to then be told respect my privacy and it's like no that's not about privacy you lied to me to get me invested and now you're telling me that I can't be invested

because you got what you wanted out of me, which was my eyeballs on your film and my investment of my money. So I do think that there is a reason why people kind of are at a point where we're like, fuck, we're over it. Yeah, one extra layer of criticism that I've started to put onto these kinds of things is that I'm like, firstly, is the movie so shit that you have to have a fake relationship to get press about it?

Usually, yes. Is people's word of mouth not good enough? Secondly, what are you trying to hide? like why are you so willing to get into a fake relationship is it because you want to grow your audience size is it just because you know instructed to do it so that it gives you know PR for the film or like do you have some type of scandal going on that you're trying to avoid you trying to write your image in a better way like you know I mean they help each other all of those relationships with people help each other for whatever reason one of them has something

coming up that they need to promote one of them is usually a bigger person one of them might have been a bad boy that needs to clean up his image and date like a golden girl and I say that because I know I know a couple that did that from Hollywood I like through insider sources I know that there are people that call and say hey this person's going through rough PR at the moment is there someone on your books like they call PRs and managers there's someone on your books that you think might have something coming up that's wholesome that can like help clean up there it's it's a hundred percent a tactic that they use and I think at the end of the day whatever that's okay I don't really care that much and Pam and Liam they're a good example and I feel bad using them

as an example because I love them and I don't think that they're bad people but I don't think as close as I am with Liam I don't think he would I don't think he'd do this I think with his life and who he is and his morals I don't reckon he's leaning into a showman that's who you like the fact I love each other the fact that you even say that is so funny that you have this like idea of the person that you think Liam Neeson is I know purely because he's been through a great tragedy I think sometimes the halo effect again yes we look at great tragedy and then we go oh there must be a great person it's not the tragedy it's also he's he's shown who he is for the last 20 30 years like we've seen he can rescue you if you've been kidnapped in France he will find you he will

find you if you're under the bed he'll find you and he will have a very specific set of skills he will fuck up that perpetrator uh look I mean the last thing I want to ask though in this and I know we've kind of full circled back to Pamela and Liam do you actually think they're in a relationship genuinely I think that they have formed a really beautiful connection I think that they probably love each other in a way I'm not convinced they're in a relationship but I'm not convinced it's a showman so I think they genuinely care about each other and I know they're like their kids are the same age and their kids have become friends and I think that they have intertwined their lives but I'm not convinced they're in a full-on relationship but I think

there's something there for sure I am still questioning it like obviously it's based on nothing but my my feeling is that platonic relationships don't evolve into that type of behavior I don't think like not as in a totally platonic heterosexual relationship where you're super flirty and kissy and like grabby and I don't know for me I'm like I'm yet to experience that and for it to not have waiting I'm yet to have a platonic relationship like that that doesn't actually have any of the sexual chemistry that i've offered to stretch and sweep you multiple times why are you being the fact that you're so incessant on giving me a stretch and sweep it's just confusing sexuality it's just funny that you're not brits apparently it's fun just

funny that you can say you're still waiting for that platonic relationship to escalate and i've offered it to you like that's what that's my point i don't know what about you case do you think they're in a relationship or do you think it's part of the pr stunt no i i think i could end up regretting this but i am zero percent chance like i just don't think they are i think that you know their affection towards each other I have that type of affection with a lot of my gay friends you know like where we're touchy and we'll kind of like cuddle into each other and be very like you know very affectionate with each other I don't think that if you were in the early stages of a relationship especially someone like Pamela who has just been so fucked over by the

public in terms of her relationships being exposed in ways that she didn't consent to that type of person would be ultra careful about you know having a relationship that they weren't in control of the narrative around and I also think if you preach privacy in what you speak you behave privacy in what you show because I think you know these celebrities they've done the dance they know how to have privacy when they want it and they know how to give it away when they don't yeah and I do really like both of them but that's why that comment she made at the film festival where she's like I do not and will never feed into PR stunts I'm like that's just not true though like you have been feeding into it whether it's been jovial or whether it's been like you

know pretending to make out and get caught on the today show behind the scenes like you have been leading into it so don't pretend as though you're like morally above it no and i think what she's doing there is and fair play to people yeah what she's doing emotional manipulation uh but no i think what she's doing is and they've been clever with it they've never been seen actually kissing or doing anything like that like they've kissed on the lips which you do with a friend or somebody you care about they cuddle they do all of these things that could be something that is a best friend it could be someone that you've hooked up once it doesn't you know they've been very careful with exactly what they show so that she's not she can't be caught in a lie but i also think we have

to remember liam neeson's 73 and pamela anderson is 58 nearly six years old but a 73 year old relationship looks different they're not going to act in the same way they're not going to speak in the same way i'm not being an ageist but when you're in your 70s the way that you show up in a relationship or projected or talk about it is very different to when you're Sydney Sweeney in your 20s and you're you know being overly sexualized or whatever it's hard for us I think to put our lens on what a relationship with a 73 year old how is a 73 year old hard launch in a relationship we I don't know well I don't know what they're doing in the newspaper yeah like it's I don't know it's it's interesting but it's you know we're getting too stuck on them it's not

about them it's just about the idea of like do we actually need it anymore and are we over showmancers to sell a movie it's time for accidentally unfiltered and uh i've been forbidden from reading ahead on this one so i don't know what this is which only means it's good no it had reference to you but it was very funny oh fuck no not not a bad way can laura please stop talking about her blue vagina no probably worse than that so similar to laura when my kids come across my vibrators i say that they are massage guns for my neck how often are your kids coming across them like mine's happened once in my entire life so like put that somewhere higher yeah because the statement isn't when my kids came across my vibrator it was when my kids come across my

vibrator multiple times it's multiple also also i know kids can climb we established that at the start of the episode but they're not climbing for vibrators they're just not yet she thought it was a cheese stick okay so when my kids come across my vibrators i say that they are massage guns for my neck but when i have a headache because we do actually have like a proper massage gun so I thought that this was a good cover. I mean I have one of those massage guns they do look different. They're very different imagine pounding your vulva with a massage gun has anyone tried? Oh yeah imagine I reckon that would feel terrible. Yeah how did Brit get that baffle and you think? I said yeah exactly I said I just had a sore groin. Anyway I thought this

was going to be a good cover. So one day my mum was visiting and she brought my 86 year old nan along for the visit too when I asked my nan how she's been going she mentioned she's been great but she's been getting these ongoing headaches shortly after that my two and a half year old appeared with not one but three of my vibrators saying here nanny this is for your headache I literally fell off the couch trying to get them before everyone caught on but it was too late I did not succeed and he placed them in her hot little hands three vibrators for her headache What a caring child. You've raised, like, such an empathetic child.

That's sweet. Do you think the 86-year-old grandma knew or just started rubbing them on her neck? I don't know. I reckon she knew. I reckon she knew. A hundred. They weren't around back in the day. People know now, though.

They're everywhere. They're on every news site. They're in every magazine. Vibrators can look cute now. I don't know. If a two-year-old brought to an 86-year-old and was like, this is a massage gun, there's a chance that she might actually start to rub it on her neck. Go for gold Nana. I hope it makes you feel better. It's all about self-care these days. Let's go back to the elephant in the room. How

are your kids finding your vibrators this frequently? And you know, you know that you can just tell them that it's a massage gun and then move it to a new location. That's what I've done. I've moved it to a different location about three times now. And like, all I'm waiting is for Matt to cotton on and be like, why does it now keep moving all the time? Like how often are you using it? Find my vibrator. Where is it today? He's like, you're not having sex with me, but You're still using this thing because it's fucking popping up at 17 different locations a day. It's just like out in the spa.

I'm still horny. I'm just lazy. I can't be bothered. Anyway, it's too much information for everyone. All right, guys. It is time. It is time for Suck and Sweet. We're going to make it snappy because we have 8% battery left on the camera.

Britt, what is your suck for the week? I'm glad you asked that, Laura. It's your face. My suck for the week, it has to be my face. I'm not going to harp on about it because we've spoken about it, But it is the suckiest thing about it. But it's almost from my eyes down, I'm pretty healed. But I had to double down on, triple down on my forehead actually.

I had to have three treatments, which is where the fringes come in. So like from my eyes down, I look okay. And then from my forehead up, it's still not great. So another day of the fringe. I think it looks fine. Like surprisingly fine. I was shocked by how fine you looked. I thought it was going to be worse.

We did come in and Laura, on the first day, sorry, I was a bit crusty. And Laura was like, do you want to film on high definition 4K? Or do you want the soft lens on the camera? And I was like, I'm not afraid, put 4K on. We've put Paris filter on all of this, just so you know. And what is your sweet? My sweet for the week would have to be just having like a night that I haven't had in a long time, which is like that girl's night in.

So there were four of us that went to Keisha's house and had to pay for our own dinner. Oh, I saw, I saw. I mean, I was down the coast, but I was sad. Yeah, I know. It didn't, it wasn't meant to be a thing. I just thought, because, you know, you were saying that you were going to have this treatment and you were going to stay in.

And I was like, look, I'm just going to stay in too. If you want to bring Delilah over, then the girls can play together. And then one of our friends was egg freezing, so she couldn't go out either. So it was just all of the losers that had nothing to do, basically. There is a guy who wants to have sex with you, though, so don't worry. If that loser sex is going to be really good. I think that's where it came from.

So that was my suite. It was just like the wholesome, like, girls' night in that we needed. Yeah, so my suck for the week is that all my friends went and had dinner together and didn't invite me. And your sweet for the week is what? No one wants to have sex, loser sex with you. No, no, no, no. I joke.

I went down to the I went down the coast this weekend with Matt but look we actually had some real sucky stuff that happened this week and I'll tell you about it when I can actually tell you about it properly sorry we got six percent left it's not for today yeah it's not for today's suck but I had a suck three percent oh we're on three percent okay I had a real suck on Sunday morning so like after a very chaotic Saturday night which I'll tell you about at some point Lola got up and she'd only had a few hours sleep because we had to come back from Ulladulla literally middle of the night she woke up i was downstairs and she fell face first down the stairs and like full tumble mode and i like audibly screamed and ran to the stairs and got her because my i was like oh

this is a hospital trip we're going now and she was upset but she was fucking she's fine that she literally has fallen down the fridge this week stuntman now she's fallen down the fridge and she somersaulted down the stairs like a wooden flight of stairs and was absolutely fine she's got a couple of bruises on her hips but she was like sweet i'm good mom she was scared anyway so that happened that sucked um and then my sweet for the week is on saturday we had a really really beautiful saturday down the coast with girls and it was just like oh i saw the river playing marley was wrestling an anaconda in the river and that was digging a hole when i saw that it looked like some giant snake when she was in the if you watch laura socials like marley was just

basically in a little creek but with a big tree branch but there was this i reckon you probably We got a lot of messages. There's this moment where it looked like she had an anaconda on her shoulder. I did watch it back and I was like, it does look like my child is wrestling a sea serpent and my husband is digging a hole. What the fuck dystopian world is this? You're trying to make her as resilient as Lola. Yeah.

Well, that'd be the anaconda. If you're not following Lady and the Cat, that's all my Instagram at the moment. Anyway, that's all we've got time for. That's it, guys. We're out of here. If you've got any questions for Ask Uncut, slide on into the DMs. If you want to leave us a review, a nice one, go to Apple Podcasts, leave a review there. you can also join the discussion on Spotify

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