Julia Morris: No more jungle... but finally a Gold Logie?
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What led Julia Morris to reflect on her time in the jungle?
Hello and welcome to Something to Talk About, the Stella podcast. I'm Sarah Lamarquand, your host, and every week I sit down with some of the biggest names in the country because when Australia's celebrities are ready to talk, they come to Something to Talk About. For almost 12 years, Julia Morris has spent every summer in the South African jungle. As a host of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, she became one of Australia's longest-serving reality TV hosts and one of our most popular entertainers.
We're very sad to see it go, but also like it filled our marrow with joy for a long time.
Now, for the first time in more than a decade, there's no jungle on the horizon.
How does Julia feel about her fifth Gold Logie nomination?
No celebrities eating weird things or melting down in the heat. No scouting for leopard print purchases to pack in her suitcase. Instead, Julia finds herself heading into another Logie season with the fifth gold Logie nomination under her belt as she starts to write a new yet to be defined chapter.
I just thought I was hopeless all along. And it's kind of sad that it takes you to get to nearly, what, 58 to go, that's not true.
On today's episode of the Stellar Podcast, Julia opens up about life after I'm a celebrity, her friendship with Robert Irwin, that elusive gold logie, and why, at the age of 58, she now realises that she's not even out of first gear. Julia Morris, welcome to the Stellar Podcast. Thank you so much. I couldn't be more thrilled to be here. And I'm speaking to a newly minted fifth time Gold Logie nominee. Now, what's the saying?
What insights does Julia share about her friendship with Robert Irwin?
It's a classic.
It's a fifth time. The lesser known charm. Look, you don't have to win an award when you've been nominated five times because people just think, Five times? How is that woman seriously not going to have a lie down by now? I think the general public don't tend to notice it as much. They're like, I think the Logies might be on tonight, whereas we're like, oh, block, six weeks.
Well, I mean, when the nominees were announced, I guess that's sort of where the quote-unquote campaigning begins. So you've assembled your team, the posters are up, the billboards, the cross-country tour.
Well, as you can see, by the absolute lack of any of us putting anything on line... You mean to get around to it, but we're already in the middle of a hustle. Everybody's always trying to work.
How has Julia's ADHD diagnosis changed her perspective?
You know, in Australia, that job is nearly over always. Not just in Australia, on television, if that's your area. So any minute you can have a thousand shows, I'm so tired. Next minute, you're like, oh, I don't understand why they won't take my phone call. It's a forever changing landscape. But... After my 41 years on Australian television, over all that time I work out, it is a bell curve. It is a bell curve. You are kind of, I don't know, popular is the right word, popular that you've got a job, not popular, popular, non-popular. Different people will be able to tell you many different versions of me. Some people will say she is the most exquisite human I've ever worked with. There'll be other people who go, oh, she's revolting.
What challenges does Julia face as a mother of neurodiverse daughters?
I hate the way she is condescending. Or whatever that is, everybody will have a slightly different version from such intense work. But I do say people get the version of me that they deserve.
Julie, let me ask you then on that bell curve, 41 years on TV, where you are at the moment because we've just spoken about this huge accolade, fifth Gold Logie nomination, but of course also bittersweet and a sad time in many ways in that the show that you have helmed for I have 12 seasons. Yeah. Recently announced that it's been shelved. So how does this feel?
The problem with the jungle is it was such an exquisite experience that it's still ricocheting around our nervous systems to the point where it's not that we haven't accepted that we are more than likely not going back. Our bodies refuse to accept it. Like I've practically already got the bags out. I'm still walking through shops seeing shades of leopard print that I adore and thinking, oh, do I need that for the day?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What led Julia Morris to reflect on her time in the jungle?
0:08–0:50
2
How does Julia feel about her fifth Gold Logie nomination?
0:50–1:50
3
What insights does Julia share about her friendship with Robert Irwin?
1:50–2:33
4
How has Julia's ADHD diagnosis changed her perspective?
2:33–3:19
5
What challenges does Julia face as a mother of neurodiverse daughters?
3:19–4:27
6
How does Julia navigate her career transitions after 41 years in show business?
4:27–5:10
7
What experiences has Julia had with celebrity dynamics in the jungle?
5:10–5:57
8
What does Julia envision for her future beyond television?
5:57–43:12