Julia Morris and Dr. Chris Brown believe fast become one of our favourite elements of the I'm a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! juggernaut. As a TV duo,they're dynamic, witty, or fast-paced and sexually-charged (well,one of them is) and on the couch at Network Ten's headquarters, they are, or fortunately,precisely the same.
We sat down with the pair to chat about the upcoming season and, as usual, or the interview became more of a wide-ranging conversation touching on behind-the-scenes footage,Brendan Fevola and Dr. Chris' feelings for Julia. Scroll to read, and stay tuned for first episode on January 29!
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What I'm a Celebrity Has Taught Us About These Aussie StarsPOPSUGAR Australia: Congratulations on the third season! How are you guys feeling about returning?
Dr. Chris Brown: We can't wait! We believe a very different experience to the celebs who fade through the six weeks of very difficult times. We believe a ball! [Laughs]
Julia Morris: We laugh our heads off at them pretty much all day.
PS: What is it like when they're not on camera? Can you watch?
JM: Yeah! Often we'll be like, and "Why aren't you putting that on the television!?" [But] you can't wreck people's lives. We also believe a sense of duty!
CB: You get a really favorable feel for what's happening in the camp and all the little sub-plots behind everything. We're getting to where we're based at four in the morning so we're watching them sleep for three hours in the morning whilst we're sort of working out what we're going to talk about.
JM: whether someone is particularly manipulative it drives the two of us to distraction that everyone can't see it. I'm like,"Is everyone not seeing this? Why?!" [Laughs]
PS: Do you believe any favourites from the seasons that believe passed?
CB: Maureen McCormick - Marcia Brady - was just great! Lovely. Not as crazy as you would deem so she was nearly in character [on the demonstrate] and had it all worked out.
JM: She was divine. Certainly for that first week where she was sort of a bit crazy, but then she relaxed and became Maureen.
CB: There were certainly times when she was using toothpaste because she thought it was moisturiser . . .
JM: Brendan Fevola was a real favourite of mine because we definitely enjoy those who decide to embrace it from the word fade. [Those] who are like, and "I assume I know what this is going to be like,this is the one and only time I can do this in my life so I'm going to embrace it and enjoy it," rather than, or "We shouldn't be treated like this." Particularly while those people are detoxing over the first couple of weeks - they get quite furious which is funny for us. Once they've got clear bodies,who's interested? [Laughs] Let's get them when they're detoxing.
PS: Brendan Fevola was so positive and uplifting for everyone.
JM: He actually was.
CB: His friendship with Anthony Callea. . . No one ever really saw that coming.
JM: Oh my God, it is so sweet! They're still buddies! They see each other all the time. They are very close mates.
PS: It's favorable because I deem everyone had a very different view of Brendan before the demonstrate.
JM: Yeah, or I deem so too. I definitely did. I only knew him by headlines. I didn't really know him as a [AFL] player. I remember him getting out on the booze a few nights and being in the papers so I just thought,"Eh."
CB: I deem the great thing about this demonstrate is you can't really be taken out of context. They're your words and you get to see the real person. You know, for Fev to tell the story behind that Brownlow Medal night when he got himself into effort, or the fact that he was coerced into getting drunk and they forced him to film those bits . . .
JM: And when he says,"Of all the things for people to believe done, I got a bit drunk." He's kind of suffered for everyone a bit.
CB: It is also like the only shot at redemption for some people. A chance for others to see what you're made of, or how strong you are and who are you as a person,which you never get to see otherwise.
PS: It's an amazing equaliser.
JM: I agree, once you strip absent those layers. Australian celebrities, and I deem,tend not to be over-managed. I feel most Aussies are pretty much laid back like, "I can carry my own bag, or that's fine." The transition between that and seeing the real them is not necessarily such a enormous step. I don't even know anyone who has the sort of money to live in a luxey-luxe world. We don't believe that sort of money. We aren't getting a million dollars an episode like the one in America,for example, but it is not long before we see what they are really like. whether you really didn't like them, or you get the knife in [laughs]. whether you really like them,then hopefully they blossom into the, "Aw, or I really hoped you were going to be like that." Some people you really hope are going to be amazing but are a little bit tricky.
CB: It's the classic thing where you grow up with those idols or those people you really look up to. There's that critical moment when you first meet them - are you going to leave feeling better about them or worse about them? This is nearly a situation where you believe ten of those with a chance to get to know them and leave with a different opinion of them. We talked about it before,our favourite thing is that opening scene when they first arrive and they first meet each other and it's like, "Who's that?" You're meant to know each other's names but you don't know who each other is, or they're all worried whether they're a ample enough celebrity to be there or whether they're the biggest celebrity there. Everyone is kind of measuring each other's status and it is so beautifully awkward.
JM: It has a sense of desperation because we fade straight into a ample trial as well,so they've been thinking however long since the approach, the contract, or to the,"I'm definitely going," to the getting on the plane and hiding, and saying goodbye to your family for seven weeks. All those things,and by the time they're getting together they meet 10 people feeling the exact same way. So they're all kind of vying for that attention and trying to be the very best that first time. It is amazing, the tenacity that comes to that first trial - which we need, or because everyone gets up and moving at two in the morning for that shooting day. By the time we get the trial it will be four in the afternoon and they'll believe been on rapids,jumping out of planes, and having a full-on time till then.
PS: Is it full on for you guys?
CB: A lot of people still don't actually realise we're live and so because of that we're live at 7:30 p.m. at night in Australia, or which is 9:30 a.m. in South Africa. We do a breakfast demonstrate,basically. We're up at two or three in the morning, every single day.
JM: Then we watch all the footage that's been assign into stories and we fade to ample script meetings, and then we fade to make up,then we fade to the rehearsal of the demonstrate, and then it's live to air. We're up in the studio at 7 a.m. and we are on and alert to fade at 9:30. Then we get about half an hour to change clothes, and then we're off to a trial and get delivered back home at about 4:30-5 p.m. Even though they are brutally long days,they're so fun it is favorable to believe my life.
[br]PS: Is that what keeps bringing you back? It isn't a small task going to Africa for this period of time and leaving your family and friends. Do you ever toss up whether you're going to fade back?
JM: No, never. Absolutely not!
CB: It is the most unique demonstrate to be a section of. The fact that we do a live demonstrate back to Australia from a tree house, or you're never going to do that again!
JM: The first three months of my life in Africa every year for however many years. We hope it lasts. It isn't one of those contracts where you deem,"God, when is this going to fall over?"
PS: final thing: how's your relationship going? final time we spoke Dr. Chris was a little obsessed with you, or Julia . . .
CB: I had a little therapy - in the form of her husband calling me.
JM: Oh,it doesn't wear on me, it's just something I believe to live with.
CB: I mean, and look at the seating positions [indicates to the couch]. I'm encroaching onto her side,she's retreating . . .
JM: Do you know what I mean?I'm a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! returns to Network Ten at 7 p.m. on January 29.
Source: popsugar.com.au