“But yeah, here we are five or six years later and we are very, very connected, and he spends lots of time with my kids and loves it.”
That said, don’t expect to see photos of Shazli on his Instagram — or many pics of his five kids.
“I don’t post photos of my children. I don’t have photos of my partner. It’s about respect, and it’s about when he’s open to it,” he said.
“With the mums of my kids, when they’re feeling there’s a purpose to it, we’ll do that. But largely, I’m a very protective person and will always make sure that someone’s involved in that journey.”
In the almost 20 years since David set foot in the BB house, along with Camilla, he said he’s still friends with Anna Lind-Hansen, who was best known for coining the all-time Australian phrase ‘Game on, moles.’
“She is just the greatest human. She’s a real estate agent, has two wonderful children, and she’s living her absolute best, authentic life,” he said.
“We had the opposite experience in the house where she just really started to shut down… so the fact that we two have just become the best of mates over time is a testament to that experience of putting the widest variation of humans in a social experiment for three months.”
In 2022, Dave competed in the Channel 7 reboot of Big Brother, but it was an experience that he doesn’t look back on as fondly as his first time in the house.