Just a few weeks after parting up with her longtime boyfriend, Julie Bishop has opened out about her sexy private messages and explained how she gets eggplant emojis, which are used to depict penises, from lustful admirers.
The former foreign minister participated in a segment on The Project on Tuesday when it was discussed how most people believe messages are incomplete without emojis, according to a recent research of 1400 worldwide office workers.
But according to the survey, 58% of participants couldn’t explain what an emoji meant and were unaware that they could indicate different things.
Ms. Bishop advised the panel to “simply take the literal meaning” and “don’t mull over the interpretations” in reaction to the findings.
“Hey Julie, look out my eggplant,” someone would send me. I mean, it is an eggplant, right?
“So that means they’re in the grocery store,” you say.
The audience laughed at the joke, which caused host Peter Helliar to raise an eyebrow.
Some fruit and vegetable talk, please. Offer made by Waleed Aly.
Hold on, Ms. Bishop said, “it’s a big piece of fruit, not a vegetable.”
Carrie Bickmore was entranced and remarked that Ms. Bishop must send and receive some really intriguing private communications.
Wow, I bet your direct communications are amazing, said Bickmore.
Have you ever mailed a PM an eggplant?
Ms. Bishop said, “Pardon?” after bursting into laughter.
Well, you might have been shopping and, you know, Bickmore continued.
Ms. Bishop laughed and said, “Oh no, I’m a recipient, I’m not a giver of eggplants.”
But do you enjoy shopping? In joking, Bickmore.
I believe I am blushing, Ms. Bishop retorted.
The realization comes shortly after Ms. Bishop’s ex-developer boyfriend ended their eight-year romance.
According to sources close to the former lawmaker and current chancellor of the Australian National University, Mr. Panton’s unexpected choice “blindedsided” her last week.
Bishop has reportedly been working hard to keep the flame burning bright with Panton throughout Covid despite the difficulty of living on different sides of the country, according to insiders.
According to reports, Ms. Bishop had been seeking out opportunities to spend time in Sydney with Panton and had been eager to accompany him to London in late June, when they attended a royal dinner with Prince Charles.
However, a week later Panton publicly stated that the two were splitting up and in a statement to a newspaper wished Bishop “all the best in her ongoing brilliant career.”
On July 11, Bishop made her first public appearance since their breakup, grinning broadly for photographs at a mining conference in Perth.
However, insiders claim the 65-year-old is still reeling from the breakup and was taken aback by Panton’s abrupt decision to call it quits.
One political insider close to the former deputy prime minister claimed, “She legitimately envisaged a long future for the two of them and worked hard at the relationship.”
Everyone else, obviously excluding David, “seemed alright,” as far as I was concerned.
Regarding the abrupt end of the romance, a different source close to Bishop was a little less kind, suggesting that Panton’s inclusion in Bishop’s inner circle had ‘split’ some of her friends and associates.
I’m going to be focused on living in Manly and Melbourne for the foreseeable future, the Sydney-based developer who also has a property in Melbourne close to his ex-wife Karen and their three children, revealed the separation to the Sydney Morning Herald on July 6.
Since going back to being single, Panton has maintained a noticeably low profile and has avoided being seen by the general public.
According to sources, he hasn’t even taken his typical morning dips.
However, “JBish,” as she was known in Canberra, remained enamored.
One said: “His demeanor didn’t always mesh with everyone. Let’s just say a few might be pleased that it’s over.”
He is reportedly still based in Manly but is thought to have moved close by after renting out his beachside flat in April.
The ‘glamour couple’ of Australian politics, who were first introduced in 2014, appeared at hundreds of red carpet and A-list social events over their cross-continent affair, including an unexpected invitation to Karl Stefanovic’s four-day wedding in 2019.
And even if there was some public skepticism in the beginning, the connection continued for eight years on red carpets and in corporate marquees.
It has survived a number of blows to its reputation, perhaps most notably when Bishop came under fire for allowing Panton to strangely accompany him to a UNGA meeting in New York in 2015.
He also appeared to be struggling to shake off the derogatory moniker “Julie’s handbag,” which he had earned for silently accompanying Bishop to a lot of social occasions.
Bishop, who is permanently based in Perth and who recently teamed with Estee Lauder skincare, was candid about the difficulties of a long-distance relationship and claimed that the couple largely relied on FaceTime to get through the Covid epidemic.
She remarked in 2020, “It’s not great, but it’s all you can do because he can’t get in here (WA) and I can’t travel there without getting an exemption.”
Although it is exceedingly tough, I am aware that many families have been split apart in this manner.
It is quite difficult.