Jack Maynard: The Untold Story: How Being Thrown Out The Jungle Changed My Life Forever | E71

That's it. I was like, "My career is over." (dramatic music) Oh, yeah. I had, like, no confidence or no... I was, like, a shell of, like, my former self.

You don't often get to hear about the real human implications of cancel culture. You don't get to hear how it feels for the recipitant. You don't get to see how it plays out in the moment. My next guest, he can tell you. Jack Maynard was caught in the middle of a well-known, well-documented British cancel culture moment when something that he had said almost 10 years earlier resurfaced while he was at the peak of his powers, while he was fulfilling his dream, while he was in the middle of filming I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! a couple of years ago. And the events that would unfold following that cancel culture moment would change him forever. PTSD, anxiety, depression, shame. He even remarked today that there was, uh, a high chance he wasn't gonna make it to this podcast because some of those symptoms still remain. I guess the question is, how do you pick yourself up from something like that? How do those moments feel? What actually happens when you're told while you're in the middle of the jungle in Australia filming a show that the outside world has turned against you? These are the things you can only learn from hearing the truth from someone that's been through those situations. So without further ado, my name is Stephen Bartlett, and this is The Diary of a CEO. I hope nobody's listening, but if you are, then please keep this to yourself. So Jack, um, I did a lot of research on you and your, your background, what you're into, the work you do.

Yeah.

And your sort of professional endeavors are quite eclectic. They... You know, it's hard to pin down whether you consider yourself to be a YouTuber now-

Yeah.

... or a DJ-

Yeah.

... or something else. So I wanted to-

(laughs)

Despite all the research, I wanted to ask you, like... I'm not a fan of, like, l- labeling oneself-

Yeah, yeah.

... but how do you, how do you classify yourself now?

I still do describe myself as a YouTuber, like, to everyone I meet. I kind of say, "Oh, yeah," you know? "I do YouTube." And you still to this day get a look of, like, "What do you mean you do YouTube? That's your job?" But I think, like you just said, there's kind of a collective of things that I do. And when I kind of break it down to everything I do, they, yeah, like kind of fully understand now. Like, very recently as well, people have only just started to understand, like, what it actually is and that YouTube and just social media itself can be obviously a job. So, yeah, I still go for YouTuber as my go-to.