Joshua Fox

And it's when they had Jessica Power and Dan Webb on.

And the questions that Shelley and the other journalists, I think it was Ben Fordham, were asking Jess and Dan,

basically led to them just breaking up live on air and having a huge fight.

Listen to how uncomfortable this is.

Now, don't get me wrong.

The questions they were asking Jess and Dan were valid.

You know, Shelley and the ones on the panel are journalists and every fan wanted these answers.

But the moral question, I suppose, Channel 9 bosses faced themselves in the aftermath of that when Jess...

was not doing very well, particularly.

I know that because, funnily enough, minutes after that interview aired, that night, when she was like, what the fuck has just happened?

She just broke up with Dan live across the country.

She was texting me like, whoa, that was a lot because I'd connected with Jess during that series.

That was the series I launched, the Mass Funny Instagram page.

And yeah, like I suppose for Channel 9, in the aftermath of that, which was heavy and intense and a lot for Jess in particular to deal with,

Channel 9 kind of had to ask themselves, like, how far can we, as a network, push these people?

Like, whatever happens on the show is one thing, because that was all filmed.

But to then, like, be the ones facilitating moments that they know will cause even more distress, this is, like...

when the decision, I believe, was made to axe Talking Married.

And it did briefly return in 2020 as an online-only thing, and each episode was then pre-recorded way in advance, you know, to avoid pushing the cast too far or pressuring them or causing more distress and, like,

they did one season of that prerecorded because it just didn't work and it didn't have the same effect.