Sarrah Le Marquand

I mean, I don't think you can go wrong in any of those fabulous places.

I absolutely love that you got there at 50.

It's a bit of a cliche if I say it seems like you're living your best life in your 50s.

So if you forgive the cliche, it is an observation.

What else is still on the list to be done in this decade for you?

Retirement.

Coming up, Chrissie reflects on the backlash she faced just for being nominated for a Gold Logie and the surprising lesson she learned about fame from Hamish Blake.

When you came out of the Big Brother house in 2003, it was such a fabulous environment to have someone like you because an obvious question might have been, well, apart from what we're talking about with the episode of Who Do You Think You Are, you're not on TV at the moment.

Because, you know, those water cooler moments, for example, the final episode of Big Brother felt like everyone in Australia would have been watching it.

Yeah.

I mean, there are a few exceptions, sometimes a really massive global news event or something, but those moments are pretty few and far between now.

We never really know these transitions until they're over.

We're living in the middle of a moment and you often can't see it until it's in the rear vision mirror.

You were saying sometimes the dates become a bit of a blur.

So I'll give a date.

The end of 2022 was when you said goodbye to Chrissy, Sam and Brownie, the breakfast radio show.

And as I said at the start of the show, you're now appearing on radio in the afternoon from two till four on over at the Chrissy Swan Show.

Let me ask you a little bit about the change in just the day-to-day lifestyle and the massive impact of that because not doing breakfast radio all of those years and then your children have become older during that time.

I mean, does your life look anything day-to-day like it did four or five years ago?

Do you mind me asking you a little bit about the fact that you gave up drinking?