Former The Bachelorette lead Brooke Blurton has revealed that her hotel room was broken into when she was staying in Uluru, and thieves took off with her $2,500 drone.
The reality star headed to Uluru last month with her friend and Nova podcast co-host Matty Mills. While they were there, Matty explained on the Not So PG podcast that he and Brooke headed back to their own rooms at the end of the night when she called him and said her door was smashed.
“I’m lucky for this shift of energy because normally the old Brooke would have been like having a mental breakdown that my shit got stolen. That is my biggest fear, my violation of privacy, space. You know, that for me is just the worst thing that could happen. I can’t even tell you in my past how much my privacy has been violated. And in that moment, I didn’t give a fuck. I didn’t even realize that I had lost my drone, my airplane bag and my also my work phone. Didn’t even realize, like I was unfazed.” she explained.
Matty said when police asked Brooke about a drone they’d found, it clicked that hers was missing. “A two and a half thousand dollar drone by the way,” Brooke added.
“I didn’t even realise. Also, everything is insured so all good.”
In the same episode, Brooke and Matty spoke with First Nations person Isaiah Firebrace about why he is celebrating Australia Day this year.
“I have never celebrated Australia Day before. I’ve never thought of that as a day where I should be celebrating this country, like, I’ve always been opposed to Australia Day, I’ve always been opposed to the date. And yeah, like growing up, I never really cared about Australia Day, I and the reason why we should be celebrating the country. So I mean, like my involvement in the Australian Day concert is to, is to represent and not to really to celebrate,” he told the hosts.
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Isaiah added, “I think on the 26th, you know is a day they tried to get rid of us and stop First Nations people from ever existing. And me personally, me being there for me, it’s kind of like putting it in their faces that we’re still here. And I can get up on this day in front of white Australians, stand proud and represent, you know, the very thing that they tried to take away from us. Yeah, I’ve never celebrated it at all.”
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