Brittany Hockley and Abbie Chatfield up for same podcast award after ‘slut-shaming’ feud

The Bachelor alums have traded words online for months, and now they are up for the same award.

What happens when a longstanding internet feud plays out in real life (IRL)? Unfortunately, we may not find out, as The Daily Telegraph understands Abbie Chatfield won’t attending the Australian Podcast Awards on Tuesday night, due to prior commitments.

Bachelor alums turned podcast darlings Laura Byrne and Brittany Hockley are nominated in the same category as Chatfield, who famously called out Hockley for “slut shaming” her on live radio.

This is the first time Chatfield’s It’s A Lot podcast has been nominated for the Best Sex and Relationships Podcast and she’s up against Hockley and Byrne’s Life Uncut.

The duo have taken home the listener’s choice Gold Award for the past three years. “We froth that,” Hockley told The Daily Telegraph. “But we’ve never actually won a category, so it’s a big dream.”

Life Uncut podcasters Brittany Hockley and Laura Byrne. Picture: Justin Lloyd.

Chatfield, who quit her Hot Nights radio show in August, famously lashed out at Hockley in December last year, when she was filling in for Jackie ‘O’ Henderson on The Kyle and Jackie O Show. Sandilands was leading a conversation about Chatfields dating life, while interviewing US rapper Yung Gravy.

Within the interview, Yung Gravy revealed that he had a “relationship beginning” with Chatfield. In response to this revelation, Sandilands said, “Line up.” Hockley also said “I have no doubt,” when the rapper said he had “a date planned” with the TV and radio personality.

Chatfield took aim at Hockley in her podcast, saying she was complicit in his “misogyny” by remaining silent, and also called her a “pick me” (someone that deliberately exhibits behaviour that attempts to appease the opposite sex). Adding that she “wasn’t shocked” by Hockley’s comments in light of their time together on dating show Bachelor in Paradise in 2020.

Abbie Chatfield called out Hockley for being complicit with “misogyny”. Picture: Richard Dobson

Hockley then apologised on social media, which Chatfield refused. Hockley’s co-host Byrne then waded in, calling Chatfield’s hosting gig of reality dating show FBoy Island “absolute hypocrisy”.

Suffice to say, there’s a fair bit of water under the bridge.

“We never thought this would be a job,” Hockley said when asked what separates the successful podcasts from the pack.

“We did it is a side hustle for passion. People can smell inauthenticity a mile away. It’s being real and open and sharing your most embarrassing stuff.”

“I had inadvertently become the face of breakups and being dumped because I’d been dumped on national television. I cannot tell you how many people contacted me for advice,” Hockley continued. “It snowballed.”

“It’s not just about sex and relationships now,” Byrne added. “It grew into all of the things you would talk to your close friends about that our community drove.”

Matty ‘J’ and Ash Wicks are hosting the Australian Podcast Awards at Sofitel Darling Harbour on Tuesday night, with nominees in 30 categories.