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The Ella Era

Love it or Leave it: Lucinda Light spills on where she's at now ✨

15 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

5.228 - 31.027 Ella May Ding

Hey guys, welcome back to the LA era. Hope you guys are having an amazing day, an amazing week. How am I going? Look, I've got a seven month old teething baby girl with a rash and it is pretty gnarly, I'll be honest. But today... We have got the amazing Lucinda Light, who you guys all met two years, and so did I. We met two years ago on the Australian Married at First Sight season 11.

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31.047 - 53.262 Ella May Ding

And I mean, I fell in love with her and I feel like the whole country, plus let's say the globe has actually fallen in love with her. Now, she was not like anyone we'd ever seen on reality TV. In her 40s, completely unapologetically herself, deeply spiritual, wickedly funny, and absolutely magnetic.

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53.723 - 74.014 Ella May Ding

And then she left the experiment, and instead of disappearing like most reality TV personalities do... She absolutely exploded. She's done a UK tour. She's got a book, a TV hosting gig with Vicky Patterson, a road trip around Ireland, and now celebs go dating on E4 in the UK.

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74.535 - 93.104 Ella May Ding

She has built a global career from one season of Australian reality TV, and I genuinely cannot wait to sit down with her today. This is Lucinda Light. I feel very privileged today and actually quite honoured to have the one and only Lucinda Light in the studio.

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93.224 - 102.381 Lucinda Light

Well, I've just got to mirror that straight back at you because I feel deeply honoured to be here looking at the gorgeous Ella May Ding.

102.867 - 105.31 Ella May Ding

That's so weird. I never hear that. It's so beautiful.

105.33 - 107.593 Lucinda Light

I love your name in its entirety.

Chapter 2: What inspired Lucinda Light to join reality TV?

107.614 - 108.274 Lucinda Light

It's great.

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108.455 - 111.899 Ella May Ding

On that note, Lucinda, is your real surname Light?

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112.1 - 123.916 Lucinda Light

No, it's Riley. So about 15 years ago, I was at a festival and because my name means light, Lucinda, it means like the sparkle on the champagne. Luz, Lucinda, Spanish, Latin.

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124.216 - 124.757 Ella May Ding

Okay.

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124.737 - 143.509 Lucinda Light

And somebody that I barely knew went, Lucinda Light. And it just struck me. It almost just hit my soul and just went, and I was like, oh my God, that's my name. Wow. You know, and actually I was christened Lucinda, but for the longest time I was called Lucy or Lou.

143.529 - 143.609 Ella May Ding

Wow.

143.629 - 155.052 Lucinda Light

And it was on my 33rd birthday I went, I'm going to reclaim my birth name, Lucinda. Wow. And it's sort of all, I don't know, it all transpired. Actually, it would have been about 10 years ago, 12 years ago.

155.253 - 155.393 Ella May Ding

Wow.

155.573 - 156.876 Lucinda Light

That Lucinda Light came down.

Chapter 3: How did Lucinda Light transition from reality TV to a global career?

221.954 - 235.82 Lucinda Light

Wow. But yeah, it feels very me. Like I just don't feel like Lucinda Riley. Even I'm very proud of the life of Riley and Riley. Yeah. You know, the heritage of my family. I just, um, but I haven't actually changed it by depot. Maybe that might come.

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236.382 - 236.582 Ella May Ding

Ooh.

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236.602 - 238.025 Lucinda Light

Just can't be bothered with the admin anymore.

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238.045 - 243.996 Ella May Ding

Oh, I mean, that's why I'm still ding. So it's been two years since you did Married at First Sight. Two, three years. Yeah.

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243.976 - 250.567 Lucinda Light

Well, yeah, I mean, I was just thinking about that then three years since I got married, actually, and the filming happened.

250.587 - 251.228 Ella May Ding

That's right.

251.589 - 258.921 Lucinda Light

But, yeah, two and a half years probably since it came out. And what a wild ride it's been since.

259.402 - 272.584 Ella May Ding

I, like, what haven't you done? It's been a crazy two years. Like, I mean, wow, even when I just think back to you and Timothy. Such a character. Yeah. Bless you, Tim. We love you, Tim. Such an interesting cat.

272.604 - 273.385

Yeah, he is.

Chapter 4: What challenges did Lucinda face during Married at First Sight?

787.803 - 809.14 Lucinda Light

Like everyone had a story and everyone revealed a bit about myself. And I think because I put myself up on the shelf, I was getting a bit dusty. Right. It sort of cleared the cobwebs a bit and it got me back into the momentum of dating, which I have been dating a little bit since I've got back to Australia this time.

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809.12 - 812.845 Ella May Ding

So celebs go dating. Yes. I create an account to watch it.

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812.865 - 813.406 Lucinda Light

Bless you.

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813.867 - 823.901 Ella May Ding

And I'm like, okay, amazing. Get on the couch in my little two-hour nap window. The baby's asleep. Amazing. Park up. Sorry, you can't watch this here. Damn it. Okay. So when are we going to be able to watch it?

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823.921 - 831.793 Lucinda Light

Well, look, I mean, it would be great if one of the Australian networks would commission us. Yeah. That would be amazing. I mean, at this stage, it's sort of a VPN hot stick.

831.833 - 832.354 Ella May Ding

Yeah.

832.374 - 840.705 Lucinda Light

It's sitting on the archive if you're ever in England on the Channel 4. You can get into it that way. Yeah. It's a great watch. It's very binge worthy.

840.785 - 841.145 Ella May Ding

Yeah.

841.165 - 843.948 Lucinda Light

The ensemble cast that I was with was just a hooch.

Chapter 5: How has Lucinda changed since her reality TV debut?

1096.821 - 1116.315 Ella May Ding

Now with Celebs Go Dating, you described it as a spiritual journey. Um, which I feel like most people wouldn't describe these sorts of experiences like that. You know, what do you think for celebs go dating? What was your most spiritual moment during filming?

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1117.342 - 1142.357 Lucinda Light

Oh gosh, there was quite a few. I mean, all of these containers, because you know, they've got a start, a middle and an end. They do feel like a medicine journey because you sort of arrive there and set your intention and you're in, you're in the container. And it's sort of, I always see them as opportunities to self-develop. to sort of inquire and to grow.

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1142.417 - 1168.811 Lucinda Light

There was one particular night I had a double rejection from two guys. You know, I remember having a bit of a frog in my throat and going, oh, gosh, this is a bit of a public humiliation and I'm a bit embarrassed. But in that moment, all of the other celebs just sort of enveloped me in this huddle and And I just thought, Lou, it's okay. Just let it go. It's all alignment. It's all frequency.

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1169.072 - 1180.55 Lucinda Light

Again, deep trust. They weren't right. You know, it's another journey of letting go. Like, don't take it personally. I really try to. I am a bit of a sensitive being, but aren't we all?

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1180.67 - 1180.911 Ella May Ding

Yeah.

1180.931 - 1186.58 Lucinda Light

But I do try to live by the Toltec traditions, the four agreements. I don't know if you've.

1186.6 - 1187.041 Ella May Ding

Oh, I've read that.

1187.141 - 1187.882 Lucinda Light

Brilliant. Brilliant.

1187.862 - 1194.212 Ella May Ding

That book changed a lot for me. I read that when I was going through a lot about a year and a half ago.

Chapter 6: What unique experiences has Lucinda had in her travels?

1564.844 - 1565.785 Lucinda Light

Do you know human design?

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1565.846 - 1566.146 Ella May Ding

I do.

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1566.226 - 1567.047 Lucinda Light

Do you know what you are?

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1567.027 - 1571.592 Ella May Ding

I am a manifestor... Generator.

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1571.672 - 1595.059 Lucinda Light

Generator. You're a manifesting generator, which is a beautiful thing to be. Well, I'm a pure generator. And what we are is just the cogs in the wheel. And we just respond to life as it happens. We're not great at manifesting. We're just better responding to opportunities in life as they roll in. That's the pure generator, which I am.

1595.258 - 1598.106 Ella May Ding

I see you just like soaring with everything that you're doing.

1598.126 - 1598.828 Lucinda Light

Bless you.

1598.848 - 1606.99 Ella May Ding

But I do, I mean, I've traveled and, you know, been on the highs and just taken every opportunity as well. And I remember times it would get lonely.

1608.775 - 1612.623 Lucinda Light

The good old loneliness epidemic. It is upon a bit, isn't it?

Chapter 7: How does Lucinda view relationships after her reality TV experiences?

1918.178 - 1947.747 Lucinda Light

Yeah, but I'm definitely a high-functioning one. And because I'm quite a creative polymath, I sort of get a lot of my – and I would say I'm ADD because I'm quite – there's probably a bit of the attention deficit but not so much the hyperactivity, I would say. But, yeah, all of my creative interests and the hundred tabs and all the different things going on, the tendrils are out.

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1947.727 - 1949.69 Lucinda Light

And it sort of works for me well.

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1950.471 - 1965.25 Ella May Ding

And I think that it can. Because I, I mean, I definitely, everything that you just said is also. Yes. But it's, yeah, it can be quite questionable how I even get things done if I'm doing 10 things at once. It's just crazy how things.

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1965.551 - 1970.157 Lucinda Light

And you flow with it like Shakti. It's very fluid and energetic.

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1970.272 - 1976.359 Ella May Ding

But I feel like my whole life every day is on 1.5 speed. It's like... I should start doing that.

1976.94 - 1978.582 Lucinda Light

It's all about optimal living, right?

1978.602 - 1992.397 Ella May Ding

It's like we've got to... Yeah. Because I can talk quite slow too, like if I'm processing something or speaking out loud. But I need to listen to things fast. And, like, I feel like that might be a bit of an ADHD thing. Proper pain?

1992.838 - 1992.938

Yeah.

1992.918 - 2001.209 Lucinda Light

But then you're maybe not absorbing, like you're not really taking it in. Sometimes I do worry that I'm not really taking a moment to smell the rose.

Chapter 8: What insights does Lucinda share about her spiritual journey?

3321.852 - 3323.354 Lucinda Light

And you really engage.

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3323.594 - 3327.019 Ella May Ding

I honestly like forgot that we were recording a podcast for the listeners.

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3327.059 - 3327.319 Lucinda Light

Yeah.

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3327.52 - 3329.542 Ella May Ding

Maybe you can leave us with a piece of advice.

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3330.804 - 3353.878 Lucinda Light

It's been dingle dangling around my head for a while, but I would just have to say love it or leave it. Like love her or leave her. Like what are you doing? Like what am I doing? We've got to check ourselves. And if it's not aligned, if it's creating dissonance in our soul and our being and we're not enjoying her, we need to reassess. And it's okay to let go.

3353.898 - 3373.151 Lucinda Light

You know, energy and time is a finite resource. And I think if we can keep really going with our heart and doing what we love, sharing with the people that we love and, you know, feeling good about ourselves, you kind of can't go wrong.

3373.191 - 3374.573 Ella May Ding

Love it or leave it.

3374.593 - 3375.876 Lucinda Light

Love it or leave her.

3375.896 - 3376.637 Ella May Ding

I love that.

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