“What’s funny about that, and I hadn’t realised until when I was watching the show,” Babe starts, before interrupting herself to say she’s “only watched it once”. “When I was watching, I had no idea Leroy said that was a painting of me.
“Honestly, with Bondi’s make-up skills and Khloe Kardashian’s surgeon and the entire special effects team from Star Wars, I could never look like that. She was a 20-year-old pin-up.” [HuffPost UK would like to note that Kardashian has always denied having plastic surgery.]
“Anyway but that was sort of funny,” Babe says. “I’m a mad, mad art lover and that’s what was interesting about the show. I’ve had many, many emails from people asking where I got the barbie prints and all of the art.”
Babe and Bondi made the most memorable entrance of the series when they headed straight into a ditch outside the first Instant Hotel in Humpty Doo.
“I nearly tanked the car,” she laughs (Babe laughs a lot, unsurprisingly). “I was like hello! And people ask if it was real and I’m like, ‘Of course it was real’.
“I didn’t see that big ditch but I never should never have been behind the wheel… What’s that great quote about, ‘If you can’t drink and drive’ what’s the point in driving?’.
“We turned up, we made a bit of an entrance, but we had no idea what to expect.”
“All of it was a bit of a magical mystery tour because the producers don’t give much away,” Babe explained, adding that the guests didn’t actually get to choose their activities either.
“They [the producers] choose it all,” she says. “We were like guinea pigs really but that was the fun of it. I love going to places and I think that was my favourite part of the show. We saw places in Australia that I probably would never have seen.”
In between it all, they have to film hours of interviews: “Every day the producers would go over, it felt like, every detail and every moment of that show.”