A Surprise Reunion Left Kate Shocked and Emotional

Today we decided to surprise Kate with a 'Back To The Bay' style reunion. Debra Lawrance and Dennis Coard join us for a Home and Away family reunion that leaves Kate in tears.

Plus, Wippa reveals something he's only just done for the first time today.

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Speaker 1: This is a fitz Whipper podcast.

Speaker 2: Welcome to the podcast. Very special, Welcome to the podcast,

Speaker 2: to the podcast.

Speaker 3: Just throwing this out tg I, you're not.

Speaker 2: We have a big surprise on the podcast tonight and

Speaker 2: it ain't even Christmas.

Speaker 3: I'm prepared to share that story.

Speaker 2: It's it's a surprise for miss Richie. She will be

Speaker 2: blown away by what we've organized behind the scenes.

Speaker 3: Yeah, she wasn't adopted as well, know a different one.

Speaker 3: Damn that was just tom I.

Speaker 4: Actually was adopted. If you want to talk about.

Speaker 2: My look television, Oh you were selling you adopted?

Speaker 4: Are you serious? That's the whole premise of Home and

Speaker 4: Away is the Foster family.

Speaker 3: Away bit of course? Didn't you know that? And what

Speaker 3: about you talk about all the time? How much? And

Speaker 3: it's in our hearts forever. You don't even know the story.

Speaker 4: My parents drowned in a boating accident. My name was Keating,

Speaker 4: Sally Keating.

Speaker 2: Why do they have to go that deep into your backstory?

Speaker 2: When episode one started, why didn't they just go, hey,

Speaker 2: this is an adopted kid called Sally Fletcher.

Speaker 3: Get on with it.

Speaker 4: Because everybody is shaped by their past and childhoods, and

Speaker 4: therefore they could be those.

Speaker 2: Past episode three you go running to Pepper, miss my

Speaker 2: parents and a boat again.

Speaker 3: She took all the foster kids in didn't you know.

Speaker 5: That about Blood in the Sand?

Speaker 3: It was the musical.

Speaker 2: So who was the most famous foster kid is a

Speaker 2: great phone topic, Tommy? Was it Annie or coat Ridge?

Speaker 3: Ah? Yeah, that's a good topics.

Speaker 4: Surely there's a Disney one.

Speaker 3: Yeah, they would be.

Speaker 4: It would be because most things, most films with kids

Speaker 4: in it, their parents are dead, be honest.

Speaker 3: Yeah, foster than people. The artful Dodger. I felt sorry

Speaker 3: for me.

Speaker 5: Didn't have much of an upbringing for Dodger could but

Speaker 5: could flog a wallet.

Speaker 3: That's for sure. Pocket all too, Oh my god. In

Speaker 3: the podcast, yeah, so check out this massive.

Speaker 1: Surprise this he's a fitz Whipper podcast.

Speaker 2: Do you know what Riddle Time I think is hitting

Speaker 2: an all time high. We've got some brand new riddles

Speaker 2: and they're really really strong, guys. Riddle Factory has been

Speaker 2: working overtime.

Speaker 4: So you've strayed out of it.

Speaker 3: Yeah, my rotten Tomato has it at thirty three percent.

Speaker 2: Well, ddle Time wouldn't have thought. So here we go, guys.

Speaker 2: Is everyone ready in thirteen twenty for ten. If you

Speaker 2: want to have a crack at one of the riddles today.

Speaker 4: I'm always ready. I love riddle time.

Speaker 2: What can you lose will call other people to lose

Speaker 2: theirs too?

Speaker 4: Your mind?

Speaker 3: Not dignity, No, damn it?

Speaker 2: What can you lose that will call cause other people

Speaker 2: to lose.

Speaker 4: Theirs to their time, key, the health?

Speaker 2: No, this happens to you a fair bit catridge.

Speaker 4: Oh, here we go?

Speaker 3: What could it be?

Speaker 2: What can you lose that will cause other other people?

Speaker 4: I know what the answer is, but this is not

Speaker 4: the case for me anymore because I don't do this.

Speaker 3: What's the answer then?

Speaker 4: Temper? I don't you need to pause?

Speaker 3: Pause?

Speaker 5: You don't have to lose your temper. If someone else

Speaker 5: loses their temper, you can be quite, can't.

Speaker 4: It depends what kind of relationship or talking to.

Speaker 2: If I rile you up and you're so angry, what's

Speaker 2: the best technique do you think for me?

Speaker 3: Or you probably just not? Yeah? I just say.

Speaker 4: I would say are you okay with right?

Speaker 2: And then would you breathe yourself? If you're angry inside.

Speaker 4: I'd have to keep breathing otherwise I'd pass out.

Speaker 2: Sometimes I stop and see here we go. What grows

Speaker 2: upwards while growing down? What grows a tree that grows

Speaker 2: up while growing down?

Speaker 5: That's a that's a fair call, though, Kate, that's true, right,

Speaker 5: trees go up and down.

Speaker 2: Well, it's not the answer we're looking for. No, it's

Speaker 2: not the correct it's not correct. When you find out

Speaker 2: the answer, you will understand there is a difference. And

Speaker 2: that's what there's a twist, hence a riddle.

Speaker 4: Okay, say it again.

Speaker 2: What grows up while growing down?

Speaker 3: Your hair?

Speaker 2: No?

Speaker 4: What grows up something to do with a.

Speaker 2: Smile while growing down?

Speaker 4: Just because you say down like that doesn't it?

Speaker 5: Is it a lift without an r in it?

Speaker 4: Down?

Speaker 3: Down, down prices.

Speaker 4: That's all I can think of is.

Speaker 2: What grows up while growing down?

Speaker 4: Oh? I know a duck, a goose.

Speaker 3: What grows up while growing down?

Speaker 4: But the feathers don't become down until you pluck the animal.

Speaker 3: Other way the feathers and roots was a way better.

Speaker 2: It's not because down is down the name of down.

Speaker 2: Let's move on to the third riddle. Guys, forward, I'm

Speaker 2: heavy backwards, I'm not? What am I?

Speaker 3: Forward?

Speaker 2: Ford, I'm heavy backwards, I'm not.

Speaker 3: I was going to say whip.

Speaker 4: Ford.

Speaker 2: I'm heavy backwards.

Speaker 3: I'm not backwards.

Speaker 2: I'm not what am I for a forward? I'm heavy backwards.

Speaker 2: I'm not Just read that the thing if you, if

Speaker 2: you understand the ton is correct because backwards I'm not

Speaker 2: o t forwards until.

Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not one of your stronger it's.

Speaker 3: A good riddle. It's a really good riddle. Tomatoes down

Speaker 3: in twenty eight.

Speaker 2: People will take that to dinner tonight.

Speaker 3: Did you say ton? Yeah? How's that spelled?

Speaker 4: It's not how you spell it, but sometimes.

Speaker 2: You put an on it and another in well you

Speaker 2: can in America.

Speaker 3: Otherwise it's like tone Scandina coming. Can we stand on

Speaker 3: these scars whip and see what? See what? It's? Mandy? Hello?

Speaker 2: Which part or the quiz? Can we hang up on?

Speaker 3: Mandy? Don't laugh about two?

Speaker 2: You can encourage that, Mandy.

Speaker 6: I apologize.

Speaker 3: What's your riddle?

Speaker 7: What has everything?

Speaker 4: Inside?

Speaker 8: Everything?

Speaker 3: You can imagine, the wind, the wells, the sky, heaven,

Speaker 3: an as and every seen that comes to your man?

Speaker 4: What am I?

Speaker 3: Is it a mind?

Speaker 5: Or is it like a I'm thinking like a map

Speaker 5: or the solar system?

Speaker 3: Or is it something that you look at? Is it

Speaker 3: that your look.

Speaker 5: Up What's what's a book that has the solar system

Speaker 5: in the earth and everything in it?

Speaker 2: Is it the globe?

Speaker 3: Is it a globe?

Speaker 2: It is it a mirror? Is it a you're just

Speaker 2: guessing now, yeah, that's the idea.

Speaker 4: What has everything in it? Like everything around you? A well,

Speaker 4: it's a letter.

Speaker 3: It's not a letter, but it's got letters in it.

Speaker 4: Everything?

Speaker 3: Is it a is it it's something? Yeah, it's something

Speaker 3: that you're looking at.

Speaker 7: Is it a book or a what kind of bookycher?

Speaker 2: Well done, have a good one man, You have a

Speaker 2: great weekend.

Speaker 3: Last look, I.

Speaker 2: Don't think it was a it was a riddle. It

Speaker 2: certainly wasn't the best one for this time. What's rotten

Speaker 2: tomato at?

Speaker 3: Now? Damn?

Speaker 2: We should go home now we started so well.

Speaker 1: Here's a fitz Whipper and hate podcast. This is a

Speaker 1: fitz Whipper in Hay podcast.

Speaker 4: I want to talk about pickleball now. I know we

Speaker 4: chatted about pickleball quite a bit towards the end of

Speaker 4: last year. Do you think we got big? And in

Speaker 4: the UK they call.

Speaker 2: It paddle It's pickleball and paddleball the same thing, racquetball pickleball.

Speaker 2: And then.

Speaker 3: I feel sorry for squash. I think that's getting pushed out.

Speaker 4: If you like squash a little bit and you also

Speaker 4: like tennis, then paddle yeah.

Speaker 2: But sorry, can I stop you? It's padel? What many

Speaker 2: people pronounce it?

Speaker 3: Padel places that you.

Speaker 2: I went into a tennis racket store the other day

Speaker 2: and I said, what are all these ones? Is a pickleball?

Speaker 4: He said, no, it's it would be Padel the way

Speaker 4: it's spelt. I'm guessing, but I'm not going to say

Speaker 4: to anyone, would you like to take me on in paddel?

Speaker 3: Well, that's right, and I'm not going to take up Tenise.

Speaker 2: No, sounds like.

Speaker 4: A school's name. Who dates Feodi sent Denise?

Speaker 2: Yeah, and Denise the eyes.

Speaker 3: Nothing wrong with the name Denise.

Speaker 4: By the way, Denise is different to Deenise, isn't it.

Speaker 4: There was a tanil in the street that my cousins.

Speaker 3: Grew up in. Hello, you want to do his share

Speaker 3: to all the toils.

Speaker 4: Talking through all the names of all the girls that

Speaker 4: I've ever met in my life?

Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be great?

Speaker 4: Okay, I want to talk about I'm just going to

Speaker 4: call it paddle, right, and you make up in your

Speaker 4: mind what you want it to be.

Speaker 7: Because really the cricket anything that uses a bat and

Speaker 7: the ball.

Speaker 3: I thought it was sport sport theme. That's all I know.

Speaker 3: Very doing, very well cricket.

Speaker 4: I want to talk about two things. Should you play

Speaker 4: any kind of sport with your partner, because it can

Speaker 4: get heated, it gets quite competitive. I know that when

Speaker 4: I've attempted to play sport with people that I have

Speaker 4: been in a relationship with.

Speaker 2: You'd be fine.

Speaker 3: You're just as competitive as they are.

Speaker 4: No, come on in and I'm like, well, you go

Speaker 4: and find someone else to play with, and then they

Speaker 4: usually do. Be careful what you wish for.

Speaker 1: That's here's a fitz Whipper in Hay podcast.

Speaker 2: We mentioned earlier that I was doing something today that

Speaker 2: I've never ever done before, and I still don't really

Speaker 2: know what I've done. What I can tell you is

Speaker 2: it was an extraordinary experience. In forty six years, never

Speaker 2: before have I been to a podiatress.

Speaker 3: No, no, no.

Speaker 2: Pity.

Speaker 5: Yesterday, Whipp had told us at the end of the show,

Speaker 5: I'm going to get the dead skin taken off my feet.

Speaker 3: I'm going to a podiatrist.

Speaker 5: And we're like, they don't do that, mate, they don't

Speaker 5: do that unless you've got a condition.

Speaker 3: Or you're in pain. That's the only.

Speaker 4: Reason it's a year. Don't please don't drag me. I'm

Speaker 4: not sure whose team I'm on here, because you're saying

Speaker 4: that we said that. I'm not sure I said that.

Speaker 3: Bah backed me up. Bro.

Speaker 2: I'm trying with facts.

Speaker 3: Bro.

Speaker 4: All I know is that if you've seen the pediatrist,

Speaker 4: it's not like going to the nail bar, right, And

Speaker 4: I do think they do get rid of messy feet.

Speaker 2: She well, when I walked out the door, because Lisa

Speaker 2: made this booking because she said, I don't like you're

Speaker 2: sitting on the couch with your feet like that, and

Speaker 2: I went, oh, we'll put some socks on. And then

Speaker 2: so she made the booking, What's wrong with your feet?

Speaker 2: Even when I had to write in the medical form

Speaker 2: why are you here?

Speaker 3: I just wrote wife.

Speaker 2: And then as I walked out the door, she said,

Speaker 2: when you come back, your feet will be as soft

Speaker 2: as a baby's bottom.

Speaker 4: So they did do that.

Speaker 3: That's all they did.

Speaker 2: What The one thing that was embarrassing was I took

Speaker 2: my shoes off and I'd forgotten that Francesca had painted

Speaker 2: my toenails. So I had these lovely red toenails. Yeah,

Speaker 2: and then.

Speaker 4: Loose with the door again, which is.

Speaker 5: That party caught up with your last changed?

Speaker 4: They dig under your toenails?

Speaker 2: Not really, they clippered toenails. And then do you want

Speaker 2: to show you my feet? Do you want to have

Speaker 2: a look now, like you'll go, oh my god.

Speaker 3: That's beautiful? Did they What did they think of the bunions?

Speaker 2: I don't have anyons.

Speaker 4: It's just do you know what I love about.

Speaker 3: Men with the not the pressed hair.

Speaker 4: When they take their socks off and the ribbing at

Speaker 4: the top of the song has created an imprint.

Speaker 3: Of like slippers, hair too tight because he's.

Speaker 2: Got my foot there, Like, it's a pretty good looking foot.

Speaker 3: It's very very hairy.

Speaker 5: You're a hairy man, so the hair does go down

Speaker 5: to the or did you dry reach then coat?

Speaker 3: It's not The smell.

Speaker 4: Is just imagine you had to draw a big giant's

Speaker 4: foot in cartoon form with bit be hairy told the yeah,

Speaker 4: and where the hair will probably crawl up your legs

Speaker 4: and strangle you in the middle of the night.

Speaker 2: That's what that looks, you know what was amazing though,

Speaker 2: So here I am thinking, what are my feet like?

Speaker 2: I've never had them. I've never had them assessed in

Speaker 2: forty six years of getting around on these things. Part

Speaker 2: of my body is hair.

Speaker 4: Yeah, I understand that that would be weird.

Speaker 3: That was did he take the hazmat suit off? To time?

Speaker 2: To you?

Speaker 3: After?

Speaker 2: She beautiful girl, Sally, She knew what about feet and that.

Speaker 4: I think they look great. They look clean, and they

Speaker 4: don't look callousy, don't have an infection.

Speaker 2: She said, you've got you've got an athlete's foot.

Speaker 3: You've got athletes for it.

Speaker 2: Your feet an athlete almost athletes ever said to me

Speaker 2: before all your feet have done so much work, probably

Speaker 2: growing up, muscle memory.

Speaker 3: You have got athletes for.

Speaker 5: And you could be the next world champion darts problem.

Speaker 2: I wasn't sure, but I just took that as anything.

Speaker 2: If there's any athlete in the title of what I

Speaker 2: might have, then I will hang on to that to

Speaker 2: the day I die.

Speaker 3: What what was?

Speaker 8: So?

Speaker 3: What did she actually do? Did she take the dry skin? Yeah,

Speaker 3: she's got like a sander out.

Speaker 4: You actually have quite considering you have a big fat tongue,

Speaker 4: you have small, slender feet, hairy hairy ladies feet.

Speaker 2: All right, well, let's have a look at Kates we're

Speaker 2: going to come back from Rodrigo.

Speaker 4: No one, no my feet.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 3: So anyway, great to get the title of an athlete. Yeah,

Speaker 3: expect that.

Speaker 1: Today is a Fitz Whipper Haye podcast. This here's a

Speaker 1: whipper hate podcast.

Speaker 3: All right.

Speaker 2: We mentioned this a little earlier on Fitz. We have

Speaker 2: a surprise guest in the studio.

Speaker 4: Now it's everybody knows me.

Speaker 2: Now's the time to reveal the surprise guest is linked

Speaker 2: to you, Kate Richie. This is a surprise that fits

Speaker 2: you and I have put.

Speaker 3: Together for you. Why don't I.

Speaker 2: Run through a couple of clues. Clue number one. This

Speaker 2: person has appeared on both the stage and the screen internationally.

Speaker 3: Okay, let that sink in.

Speaker 4: So it's not Troy cassa daily Oh.

Speaker 2: Okay, classmates at night with Mel Gibson.

Speaker 4: I know who it is you, Wow, I actually do,

Speaker 4: because I know exactly who you're talking about now.

Speaker 2: Known them since you were young. They're famous for hanging

Speaker 2: around the jungle. Would you like to have a guest

Speaker 2: before we welcome this person in.

Speaker 4: I know exactly who it is and I was thinking

Speaker 4: about them this morning because I need to buy tickets

Speaker 4: to their show. Is it Deborah Lawrence.

Speaker 2: Today happen to give her a hunt. This is so

Speaker 2: exciting peop her from Home and Away mother and they.

Speaker 5: Are getting so that's beautiful.

Speaker 3: Oh, that is so beautiful. He's getting a bit emotional,

Speaker 3: I mean on set, mother and daughter.

Speaker 8: Because I haven't been in touch about coming to the show.

Speaker 8: That's fine, don't You're quite busy.

Speaker 2: Come up next to the microphone. Even hearing your voice

Speaker 2: brings so much comfort to so many Australians because it's

Speaker 2: so familiar and we grew up loving it.

Speaker 8: Yeah, isn't it. That's funny because you know I've got

Speaker 8: wish hair now and look completely different. But I'll be

Speaker 8: sometimes be at the supermarket and people say, I know you,

Speaker 8: do know you? And they often ask if I was

Speaker 8: their primary school teacher.

Speaker 3: How funny?

Speaker 8: And then I say, no, were you were Home and

Speaker 8: Away watcher and they go, oh, it's the voice.

Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Can you remember the day that you first

Speaker 3: met Kate?

Speaker 8: Yeah, because I had to go out on location because

Speaker 8: it was Carly's Carly and Ben's wedding.

Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's Julian mat.

Speaker 8: In Angel in Heaven and so I but I had

Speaker 8: to be in the wedding photos to put in the set, right,

Speaker 8: so I had to come out and meet everybody.

Speaker 4: But that's when I met you.

Speaker 8: You're in a little flower Girl's frock And I have

Speaker 8: to say Kate was a little bit suspicious of me

Speaker 8: at first. Not well, I'd say suspicious because she had

Speaker 8: such a strong bond with Vanessa, understandably because Vanessa had

Speaker 8: known her from the age of a vulnerable age of

Speaker 8: in a huge show, from the age of age, and

Speaker 8: then suddenly this interlow so she was my mam.

Speaker 2: Yeah, what does it mean to see Kate?

Speaker 3: Or when you see some of the other.

Speaker 8: Look, well, Kate's really the only one we see because

Speaker 8: we have got a very close bond. I always say

Speaker 8: Dennis and I are her daytime parents. So you know, Kate,

Speaker 8: Kate has got exceptional taste in decorating, clothes, style. I mean,

Speaker 8: she's we haven't seen it.

Speaker 4: Yeah, I have someone here that knows me from my

Speaker 4: real life outside before radio.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 8: And she's an amazing cook. And so she used to say,

Speaker 8: just dead, what are you having for lunch today? And

Speaker 8: I would describe in detail the same which I was

Speaker 8: going to get at the canteen.

Speaker 2: Do you know what I think it's amazing. I've said

Speaker 2: this to Kate before. You'll never understand the reach that

Speaker 2: your show and what you had in everyone else's lives.

Speaker 2: It's simply impossible unless they tell you. But it's such

Speaker 2: a big part of our hearts.

Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, well that it's yeah, thanks.

Speaker 4: Yeah, he means that he was yeah.

Speaker 3: All of us.

Speaker 8: Yeah, so everybody's mum. Do you know? I called a

Speaker 8: veteran and a icon a legend, which is terrific now

Speaker 8: because I'm nearly seventy, But the favorite thing I have

Speaker 8: is Australia's mum, do you know? And so many people,

Speaker 8: you know, I wish they wish that I was their mum.

Speaker 8: They wish that they were Sally Yeah as a mom

Speaker 8: like that, which means that there are people sitting having

Speaker 8: their dinner in front of Home and Away who were

Speaker 8: unhappy yep, and could see a true escapist television confident. Yeah,

Speaker 8: exactly right, and it's some appointment TV for people. You

Speaker 8: remember when they moved it from six thirty to seven,

Speaker 8: and oh the outrage because people had to change their

Speaker 8: dinner time.

Speaker 4: Nan had to say, don't call me at seven.

Speaker 2: Now you think you're structured, you night around it Kate.

Speaker 2: God one surprise to me is never enough, never enough

Speaker 2: on a day like today.

Speaker 3: So we thought we'd welcome your foster dad.

Speaker 2: Who's here too, Dennis Cord Tennessee, you're there, mate, Come

Speaker 2: into the studio.

Speaker 3: Look here, hugs all around this beautiful gosh, this is

Speaker 3: teas around.

Speaker 2: Oh wow, how are you, Dennis?

Speaker 3: I'm great, Thank you, Welcome buddy, thank you.

Speaker 2: I mean it made sense if Deborah was coming in

Speaker 2: that you were here.

Speaker 3: As well, tagging around somewhere there.

Speaker 5: Yeah, it would have been I mean, Kate, Kate's spoken

Speaker 5: about starting so young in the industry.

Speaker 3: I mean it's tough, like tough to go to school,

Speaker 3: tough to go to work. Then you're well known all

Speaker 3: across Australia.

Speaker 5: Did you feel like you did have to sort of

Speaker 5: nurture Kate a little bit through this and help her

Speaker 5: through this period?

Speaker 3: Far from it.

Speaker 6: She was even at that age she was much more

Speaker 6: experienced than I was as an actor. But as she grew,

Speaker 6: what she shared with me a lot was sarcasm, nasty,

Speaker 6: and I get that from my kids as well, my

Speaker 6: real kids, my team kids.

Speaker 3: But I realized that the day they would stop.

Speaker 6: Doing that, I'd get worried, you know, because they know

Speaker 6: you can take it, and that's trying to better you

Speaker 6: and catch you off guard. And just when you think

Speaker 6: they're being nice, they pull the rug out from That's

Speaker 6: the craft, isn't it.

Speaker 3: She's quick? Oh yeah, am.

Speaker 4: I surprisingly funny.

Speaker 2: But Deborah, we also want to talk about your show

Speaker 2: still Magnolia's. This is very exciting. You can grab tickets now,

Speaker 2: it's still Magnolia's play dot com. But I can speak

Speaker 2: to Deer and see if we.

Speaker 3: Can get a know.

Speaker 4: I'm more than happy to pay for my ticket.

Speaker 3: Can get you a ticket?

Speaker 4: And you're working, I mean lots of beautiful actresses, but

Speaker 4: Lisa McCune is in.

Speaker 8: Lisa mckun and Belinda Giblin I've known for a hundred years.

Speaker 8: But we've also got Mandy Bishop, who's who's really well

Speaker 8: known for her Julie Gillarde the Review. So we've only

Speaker 8: got until Sunday in Sydney Machine Evening and a Sunday

Speaker 8: Machine Great about three o'clock and then we're off to

Speaker 8: Woollongong and then we're off to Canberra Perth and then

Speaker 8: we do Melbourne.

Speaker 3: Well, we love surprises.

Speaker 2: We have one more Olie, if you've gonna open the.

Speaker 4: Door, I'm seeing him for dinner.

Speaker 3: Thank you for coming in.

Speaker 4: Guys, so nice to see you.

Speaker 1: Thank you. This is a Fitzy Whipper and Hay podcast