Australia’s comedy Queen Fiona O'Loughlin is now the Queen of the jungle and she plans on telling Dubbo all about it on October 27 at the Dubbo RSL.
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Ms O’Loughlin will regale Dubbo comedy fans with tales both tall and true of recovery, family, winning the 2018 season of I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here, and everything in between all of which occurred on what she has called her ‘Gap Year’.
“Gap Year was originally about the year I kind of bottomed out, it was written before winning in the jungle, so now what Dubbo will hear is a sort of happy ending,” she said.
“I basically had a year where I had a near death experience, went to long-term rehab and came out the other side of a ten-year battle that I was having and for some reason I now have this show, which although it doesn’t sound like it, is really funny.
“So the show is a story of redemption and survival.”
The South Australian comedian realises she will have people in the audience in Dubbo that will want to hear about her win in the jungle and she promises not to disappoint them.
“I was flat out dealing with the hunger and being horrified, so winning was not my first priority,” she said.
“I mean I jumped out of a bloody helicopter, I think I was in shock from that for a week!
“At the end of the day I like that show and I have been astounded by the amounts of cards and letters I received from little girls who were barracking for me, it's beautiful and I now have a whole new audience.”
Ms O’Loughlin continually laughs at herself, but the laughter turns very serious when talk turns to the relationships she formed with boxer Danny Green on the show.
She describes herself as “lucky” to meet Green on the show.
“Danny and I became very, very close friends,” she said. “The last thing I ever thought would happen was that I’d become buddies with Danny Green, he’s a lovely man.”
The sassy comedian says the leeway audiences give her to say things they might not be able to will form a good portion of the show.
“It’s a joy as a comedian to have that leeway, and I can smell a dickhead from a mile away,” she said.
“Audiences don’t pay to be lectured to, but I will be telling them some truth, but in a funny way.”