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2025 Influencer Predictions

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To ring in the new year, we're sharing our 2025 influencer predictions and reflecting on those we made at the start of 2024. 

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Hello, and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm Kate Torbert, and today Amy, it'ssis you and I because we were joking that Sovia couldn't be bothered, but it's actually her anniversary of her first date with Brandon. Now I thought that you wouldn't celebrate those anymore because she's got married. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of sweet. They

are doing this all day celebration. We are recording this episode on a Sunday, which feels really weird because it is that period between Christmas and New Year's where you have no idea what date actually is. Yeah, I messaged you last night. I was like, geez, we better get some podcast content recorded. So this is a special New Year's edition, but we will be back to our regular

programming next week. But we wanted to get some fresh content out for you, and I'm really excited for it because last year, Amy, you made some predictions for twenty twenty four, So we're going to go through those, see what came true, and then we're going to set some new ones for twenty twenty five. Well, the first prediction was that Mikayla Tester would reunite with Addis Paul. Obviously this didn't come true. Yeah, she's actually engaged to a new guy called Max. He's from the US. He does

look a lot like Adas Paul. So maybe that's when you were looking your Crystal Paul. That's why you got confused. Yeah, Well, do you think they're going to get married next year or do you think this will be a long engagement. I think they'll break up. I think the distance between Australia and America, particularly because there's issues with her being

able to get into the US. Because she shared on her story that her and Max were writing a pros and cons list for each place and trying to work out whether they were going to live in Australia or the US. I think that will result in a big argument and the engagement will be called off. Well that's

a big prediction. Well, my second prediction was that Sarah's Day's stolen Prata sonnies would turn up in her handbag, and it is, of course, after they were stolen while she was posting some letters at a local post office, allegedly because there was a bit of a man hunt for the person that took the sunglasses. There was a mugshot. Yeah, and I don't think that there was ever a conclusion to what happened to them. Maybe she did find them in a handbag and then I never wanted to mention.

Didn't she buy a new pair as well and then lost them? Yeah? She did, so, I mean she's got the cash to splash on new studies now. The third prediction was that Chloe and Mitch would make a big return to YouTube with a family channel. Not true. This never happened. Yeah. I think they made a family TikTok for a while, But Chloe's that really seems to be enjoying taking a step back. I mean this year she did employ a PA that was meant to be helping

her with her content. But again, that didn't last very long, did it't. No, But I think we're seeing public perception around Chloe and Mitch change. I think people like that they have been absent from social media. Mitch has been involved in a lot of podcasts, like as a guest talking about his religion. I wouldn't say that Mitch Orvile's not active on social media. It's more that they're just not family vogging because he's been very caught up in sharing.

It's kind of like the MLM, that business model that they're really pushing. What is it like the e commas coaching? Yeah, business coaching and trying to get people onto this e comm platform. He's pushing his tiny trucks that caused a bit of controvert this year as well. Yeah, so it looks like that they're both focusing on the business side of things and making a lot of money also the home lottery. He seems to be really good friends with her Adrian Poratello, So I think that they're probably just

going to focus on their businesses in twenty twenty five. Yeah. Well, I also predicted that Sky Wheatley would be canceled again in twenty twenty four, but by December everyone's forgotten why. I think that actually did come true. And it's terrible because I can't remember what she actually got canceled for, because there were quite a few things that popped up. The most significant thing I can think that Sky did this year was her fox eyelift surgery in Turkey. That

was massive. But you also have to remember that she was on I'm a Celebrity, Get me out of Here. She won that. So I think Sky has done pretty well in twenty twenty four. Yeah, she continues to be uncancellable, and I think going on a show like I'm a celeb has made her even more powerful and less likely to be canceled because she really does relate to that lowest common denominator who watches a show like that. That's like she's a nice girl? Like, how offensive to the

viewers if I'm a celebrity. Well, I'm just being honest because yeah, Ozzie, Yeah, every day, Ozzie's love her. I mean it's the same audience that watched Big Brother as well that really enjoyed Sky's content. I know we said we were going to leave our predictions to the end, but on Sky Wheatley, I need to talk about her because she did go through a couple of breaks with Lockie this year. Her and Lockey, they always seem to

be breaking up and getting back together. We did have that whole Sausages and Sauna hilarious debacle when he was at his parents' house and he was enjoying some sausages in the sort. Well, you guys, you and Sophie said that he should be the next Big influencer because you were so impressed by his Instagram stories. He is bloody funny and I do enjoy his content, and he has really got much more involved in Sky's content since she was on I'm a celest because he doesn't give a fuck.

They both literally don't give a fuck what anybody says, and as he said, they're sort of uncancellable. Yeah, so I hope he continues with his content on social media. In terms of their relationship, I actually think they're going to get engaged this year. Yeah, because wasn't he planning to propose at her thirtieth birthday and she caught wind of it and was like, I do not want a proposal on my birthday. Yeah, because for years she was pushing that she really wanted to get engaged, and she

wasn't subtle about it. She would post rings and say that they were looking at rings and I always see that from two kids as well, you're like, fucking give me the ring. Yeah, And then on Lily Brown's podcast, she spoke about how she didn't want to get engaged and she's not interested in that anymore. I think she's just using reverse psychology on him in saying that I think they'll get engaged, but they'll probably have a few

more breaks in between. Yeah. I think definitely twenty twenty five will be a year of people suspecting that they've broken up and then them just posting YouTube content together, just trolling everyone being like, hey, we're back. Oh. And I think they'll finally finish their renovations on their house. Well, this is one prediction that kind of came true. It was that Tammy Hembro and Matt Sakowski would tie the knot, but we predicted it would be in a secret Bahama's wedding.

They did get married, yeah, and to be fair, they were planning to elope so on Matt's podcast when Tammy's sisters joined him for that very explosive episode where it was quite clear that they hated his guts, they drop that he was trying to persuade Tammy into eloping and I mean could have been at the Bahamas. We don't know that. Now. They did have the influencer wedding of the year. A lot of people are predicting that this year they're going to get a divorce. What do you think.

I don't think so. I think there will definitely be rumors that they've split. I think Matt and Tammy will probably unfollow each other a number of times in twenty twenty five. But I think, I don't know. I think the tide is turning a bit with Matt. I think people are actually starting to go, oh, he seems like a nice guy, because he hasn't been talking about their relationship as much. It's only sort of been Tammy sharing all this beautiful content of them on holiday and everyone's going, oh,

he's so good with the kids. So I don't know. I think they're too proud to split up after a year. See, I think, and I hope this isn't true, but I am predicting a rift between Tammy, Hembro and her sisters based on this relationship. So I have experienced something similar with my ex boyfriend from years ago, where you guys absolutely hated him, and to save face, I would try and be like, no, no, we should be together, blah

blah blah. I think it's going to happen with them where she's trying to save face and like, no, I haven't made the wrong decision marrying him, and then he's going to push them all apart. So it's going to be like Matt versus the sisters, and then eventually, maybe in twenty twenty six, I think that will see them split. I do feel bad predicting that Tammy and Matt will split,

especially because they are married. But we put up a Instagram story and we ask people to send us their predictions, and we got so many listeners predicting that this will happen in twenty twenty five. I mean, I can see why Tammy and Matt probably were the biggest story when it came to influences in twenty twenty four, and there's so much intrigue around their relationship, and I can see why after the cheating allegations back in March last year, Yeah,

that was such a big story. Do you think that any more allegations are going to come out about Matt or do you think they would have already leading into the wedding. No, I think we'll definitely see more stuff come out, whether it's true or not, because, as you said, they were the biggest story of twenty twenty four, especially in the influencer world. See. I predict stuff won't come out about Matt because I think that he's going to

be on his best behavior. Yeah. The thing with Matt is he is now a bigger I don't want to say celebrity, but he's more well known now because he is officially mister Tammy Hembro. He's going to be invited to a lot more influencer events. There's more opportunities for him to be seen with other women. I mean, has he officially even moved to the Gold Coast because he

was based in Melbourne. I think any time that you have that time away from your partner, there's going to be chances where the paparazzi will follow him, they'll spot him out with somebody. There's going to be lots of rumors. Yeah, but I do think that he is probably gonna want to prove everyone wrong. But we'll wait and see. There is some truth to this prediction in terms of we said that Molly May would launch a home wears line. It wasn't a homewars line, it was actually a clothing line,

but there had been no indication of this. I'm quite proud. I'm always going to put this down as a win. Yeah, so you went off and wrote these yourself. I don't know if I'm just saying this now because I know she's launched a clothing line, but I never would have said homework because she's not really like, yes, she loves

being at home. But my prediction was based off the fact that she was getting very much into her Instagram account Molly Mason for her house, and I thought everybody loves her Maison, Sorry Maison, sorry, Yeah, but I don't think anyone would have predicted her relationship with Tommy Fury would break down. No, not at all. Now. I also predicted that Lily Brown and Jet Kenny would get engaged. That was another one that everyone was guessing in the

twenty twenty five prediction box. Do you we think it's going to happen this year? I definitely think so. Either that or they'll have a baby. Yeah, I agree. Well, one that I got wrong was that Jeck Kenny and Lily Brown would get engaged in twenty twenty four. A few months ago, I actually thought I would be able to tick this off as a correct prediction because there were all those articles that came out about how Lilly Brown thought she was going to get proposed to in Hawaii.

Remember that she had to climb up the mountain and she couldn't make it because she was so hungover. Yeah, and she said that there was so much pressure to make it to the top because she thought he was going to propose. That'd be absolutely crushing. The next prediction was that Anna Paul would hard launch her new boyfriend. I mean, that's pretty much what has happened. Amork is in every single one of her videos. She might have not come out and spelt it out, but it's so obvious. Now.

Did you see who she spent Christmas with this year? Yeah, with her ex Glenn. Yeah. So for those who missed her TikTok, she posted that her and Glenn had bought a cat like a hairless cat for Glenn's sister, and Amrik was in this video that all enjoying Christmas lunch together. I mean, what the fuck? Yeah? It was that just sort of silence the speculation that she cheated on Amrik. Yeah. I was so confused when it popped up though, because I was like, hang on, is it this is an

old one? Like I had to check the date a few times because she hung out with Glenn last year for Christmas as well. It seems like they do this big event with both of their families, which is so lovely. But I mean, I can't imagine wanting to hang out with my ex boyfriend and my current boyfriend. It just seems too good to be true. Sometimes it always seems like they're living in this Disneyland. I mean, I thoroughly

enjoy watching her content, but it doesn't seem like real life. Yeah, on Anna Paul, What do we think is going to happen to her this year? Because some people on our Instagram question box predicted that she would get canceled. I don't think so. I don't think anything negative is going to happen to Anna Paul. I think she's a breath of fresh air. I think she's just going to continue to grow on TikTok. I think that she's going to

do very well again with her business see Amy. I actually think that this could be true because the Tigers really turned on Anna Poul ever since she launched her brand Paulie, because before she was literally one of the only influencers who wasn't doing any brand deals. She was making money off only only fans. I actually think that she potentially could shut down only fans and focus purely on Paully because there seems to be this moral debate

at the moment around hang on. You know, people like Anna Paul, there's such role models for young people, but they're on OnlyFans. And we saw it at the end of last year when Bonnie Blue blew up all over our news because she was going to schoolies and promoting the fact that she wanted to have sex with just legal god. Anipole's not sharing that kind of content, I know, But I do feel like we're at a point where people are turning against OnlyFans content creat No, Yeah, I

mean I don't think that's the case. Oh. I actually think that it would be more damaging for Anna Paul's brand if she shut down her only fans account. I think it would actually be beneficial for her brand. I mean, I have heard a lot of people say, oh, I didn't even realize that she had only fans. I don't think she needs only fans anymore, particularly if she has launched this big business. Yeah, but I think it's a way.

It's sort of like saying, oh, I think she could shut down her TikTok because she's making so much money. It's she needs both of those platforms to stay connected with her audience. But we've seen a lot of influences. It's like Shanni Grimman, for instance, she was massive on YouTube and massive on Instagram, and then she launched her swimwear company and she really has pulled back from social media and she doesn't share her life in the way that she did. I mean, this is a little bit different.

But I'm not on TikTok. I mean, because that was another prediction was that Shanni Grimman would make a YouTube comeback. She didn't make a YouTube comeback, but she made a vlogging TikTok come back, and she actually said that some of it came down to the fact that we did a podcast series on her and it had invigorated her love of actually sharing her life made her feel nostalgic. What a moment, because she was one of the first

influencers that we actually followed and absolutely loved. Shanni Grimman. Now I got this one correct, that Sovie Kasha would close down Azuru in twenty twenty four. Hang on, it's not closed down. She's just looking for a buyer. But that has gone very quiet. That's a technicality. I think we'll talk that one as a correct one. I'm proud of this one. It's that Morgan Waterhouse would release another

snarky TikTok and then fade into obscurity. I mean he did that a couple of times this year, but in particular, only a few weeks ago, he uploaded a video where he seemingly took aim at Olivia Rodgers. He went through this list to Santa of the perfect woman that he wanted, and he said that he didn't want someone that was in a beauty pageant and that was a nacissist, and that someone that cheated on him when she went into state didn't really land how he wanted it to land,

did it? It did not at all, And I think that he just really showed himself up in that process. My twenty twenty five prediction for him is that he'll start dating some other sort of no named, low level influencer. Well, he was sniffing around Sammy Guggenheim for a while. She was too big for him. If Jonathan Sour and Madison Wooley don't make it, I reckon that he could sniff

around her. I don't think he's I know this sounds terrible, but I think that if Madison and Jonathan break up, she'd be looking for sort of a more mister big kind of guy. It would be someone older that's got money. I don't think she wants to date some other sort of I don't want to say washed up model, but like a model, kind of thirty year old model. She's

looking for something a bit bigger and better. I actually think that they're going to get engaged this year because her best friend Caitlin recently got engaged, and I think she's probably quite competitive and would like Well, she's definitely pushing for that engagement. Yeah, and they've just been living at her parents' house. Now they've got an apartment together, so I think she bought the apartment. Yeah, but he lives there and they've been doing renovations. I don't know.

I think it's the crunch here for them. If he doesn't propose, I think that relationship's over and she will. I think the next guy that she meets will be someone, as I said, a mister big type figure who will then get down on one knee immediately on Madison Woolly. Another prediction was that she would closed down twenty third in Madison. Well, that basically kind of happened, that she wasn't producing anything for ages and then she re launched with some new collections that I mean she was pushing

that they got some traction. I don't know. I there's a bit of a question mark over that. Yeah, I mean I actually think some of the campaigns were quite good that she put out, Like I just don't think that she has enough legitimate followers to actually be, you know, in the league of say Sammy Robinson. Yeah, and you never know how big these drops are because like, oh, this dress sold out, but how many of them did

you produce? On the prediction of her and Jonathan getting engaged, I think another sign that that is something that she wants is that she did release a bridal collection recently. So I mean, you're not really sketching up brid or outfits if you're not wanting to be married. Now, this one I got wrong was that Mitch Third would become

a dad. I mean, he's kind of really fallen off the face of the influence the earth, hasn't he like talking about he caused heaps of scandals this year, Like what there was heaps of stupid misogynistic shit that he said. I mean, did he's found God? Yes? And he did speak about how he has realized that he wants ten kids or something. Yeah. Well, I actually think that next year Kati Milan, this is my prediction that she will

also find God. Yeah, because at the moment she has had a big friendship breakup with Ashton Wood, so they had a march of business together that has shut down. I could see that happening because I think when your backs against the wall a bit like mitch auviel And, everyone sort of turns against you, people often do find God. When she's quite a spiritual as well, I mean on the Matcher company. I also predict that Sophie Jane Miller will start her own match of business. I don't think

it will do well. I mean, there's so many influences starting their own match of business. See. I think maybe she will have her own Marcher spinoff with Georgie Stevens company. Yeah, Naked Harvest, because her best friend Georgia Richards did her own line with Naked Harvest. Well, I'm going to brag here because in a subscriber epis, Sophie and I did some midyear predictions and I predicted that Georgia Richards would get her first ever girlfriend. This has happened. I'm so

happy for her. She's yet to hard launch who the Girl is. She's currently been sharing shots of her arm or the side of her face in evlogs. It's gonna happen soon on that I'm gonna have my own humble brag because I think a couple of weeks ago we were talking about Saffron Barker how she was soft launching her new Scottish boyfriend and at the time his voice was just appearing in her longness, and I said that

she will hard launch him on Christmas Day. That happened. Tick. Yeah, So he is now probably loving life because he's going to be in a hell of a lot of evlogs coming. His follow account has skyrocketed since she tagged him in that post. Now, I also got this one right. It was that Steph Claire Smith would grow back her long locks while those who copied her purchase new hair extension. Well, her hair hasn't grown out completely, but she has been vocal about the fact that she is over her bob

and she wants her long hair back. I think by this time next year it will be long and lushous. But I think she may have a few hair extensions in there because she is pregnant with her second child. I am currently going through the postpartum hair loss and yeah, your hair definitely goes a lot thinner. Well, that's why I think she'll do the bob again after she has a child. I mean, my other prediction for hair is that in twenty twenty five she will start sharing Harvey

and the new baby's face. Yes, it's going to be very interesting to see what she does with her new baby's face. I think that she will be sharing the new baby's face from the get go because she probably will say, oh, but all babies look the same. Yeah, definitely. I mean. The last one was that Olivia Rogers and Matt Agnew would start dating. I mean, this was incorrect, but Olivia did drop her new relationship online with the Justin lookalike. Hugo is his name. It looks lovely, he does.

But it's so weird because over Christmas she shared that she was hanging out with Hugo's family in Perth and no surprises here. He's it appears his family's absolutely loaded. She's definitely got a type. Again. I do hate to predict break cards, but I don't see this lasting that long. I think that I actually think that this time next year, we'll be talking about another breakup that she's had with another Justin McKean. Look like. I think it's going to be a bit of a tough year for her as well,

with Justin's court case. See, I think that's going to bring her and the new guy together. I think she'll be engaged this time next year. All right, we'll see who is right. Now, let's run through some of our predictions for twenty twenty five. All right, so we did knock a lot of them off within that. So who else have we got? So Sammy Robinson and we haven't

spoken about. I think that she is going to get into a serious relationship with again, we're going to reference a mister big type of guy, because she is around her mid twenties now, she's just opened up her own

store for one mile of her fashion label. I see that becoming an eight figure business and her hob nobbing with business folk and finding a guy that's a bit older than her when she's been dating all these kind of like flitty type guys NRL players, and I think kind of when you've gone out with a few of them, you realize that you want more out of life. I think it's going to be a big year for Sammy Robinson. Yeah. Well, I predict that Abby Chatfield and Adam Hyde will announce

their engagement. I can see that happening. Some people said that they predict that Abby Chatfield will have a baby, but she has been pretty vocal about the fact that she doesn't think her and Adam will have a baby together because of global warming. Now on that Sarah's day, I think that she is going to fall accidentally in

a verticoma is pregnant to baby number four. She's spoken a lot about how this third baby was their last planned pregnancy, but I think she really wants a girl and I could see her going for round four but then saying, oh no, it was an accident. And I also think that allowing baby, she will finally launch her pregnancy Guy, because that pregnancy guide has been around since Malachi, who I believe turns three on March fourteenth, fun fact, our birthday, so it's you know, it hasn't been launched

for bloody years. Yeah, I can see that happening, But I think she's fall pregnant later in the year because she's been struggling with the birth of her third child. She's been very honest about this on social media. I think it's once those happy hormones come back that people go, oh, yeah, whatever, I'll just tell about the baby, forget about all the grind that you've been doing. Now. My prediction is that Mia Plasik will launch a bone Broth brand for babies. Now.

This is off the back of her sharing these very over the top recipes and food that she has been feeding her son, because she's become a bit of an earth mother, hasn't she She has watch out Chloe's eeb. Now I could see wooden toys her releasing a set of wooden toys. H it's definitely bone Broth now. Michael Finch, I think that he will launch his own cookbook. Yes, I mean I would buy that cookbook. Yeah, Well, he

recently won Tiktop Food Creator of the Year. I think there'd be a lot of publishers that would be interested in it. Do you think we'll see Sophie Jane Miller's book come out? Because I think it was like maybe four months ago she was putting up vlogs about this photo shoot she had for her book, and then we've heard nothing about it. Yeah. I mean, I don't think it would sell as well as Michael Finch's book, but I do think that she has a very tuned in audience. Yeah,

and it will sell quite a few copies. I think that Molly May and Tommy Fury will get back together. Yeah. I think off the back of seeing how sad she was on Christmas Eve that this could happen. There are some big rumors about Tommy Fury and why they broke up. I do wonder if we'll learn more about it in her doco that is coming out very soon. I'm so excited for that, so am I. Now. My next one

involves Indy Clinton. So I predict that her husband Ben will leave his corporate job to pursue full time content creation. So after we spoke with Indy on our Christmas special, she was very vocal about the fact that there are some douchebags at her husband's work that are bullying him about her content. And around that time, Big Ed actually launched his own Instagram account and did his own brand deal.

So I think potentially he could start his own content creation and also join Indy on her podcast because she has said that she's going to change things up with her podcast. She doesn't want to just do an interview podcast. I don't want to shit on your prediction, but I don't think that's going to happen. I mean, I think maybe he could go out on his own in his real estate. Maybe he's creating his own business so he cares less about what the people at his work think.

I can't see him becoming a full time content creator. I don't actually think that he enjoys being in content that much. I think he just is quite a supportive partner to Indy see in that. I don't think that he would be as good in the content if he left his job, because I think what makes it funny him just like being himself and being in the back and getting grumpy. Now we have a few quick last predictions.

I think Shanning Grimman will get gauge to her boyfriend Jacob, and I think the Sophie Guidland will get married again. That was a popular one. A lot of listeners were saying that they thought this prediction would happen in twenty twenty five. We'll just have to wait until next year to see how many would tick off. Yeah, I actually can't wait to go through those predictions. This time next year,

hopefully we were a little bit more successful. I think we didn't do too badly though, I mean we got quite a few quick we're saying we you came up with them, so I actually don't think you were that successful. Y Well, I think that's all we've got time for. Thank you so much for listening to another episode of Outspoken. If he did enjoy the episode, we would love if he could go and leave us a five star review

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