In the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, the 29-year-old media juggernaut spoke about her decision to speak about politics on her ‘It’s A Lot’ podcast, where she spoke to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and former Greens leader Adam Bandt.

“I wanted to use my platform to talk about politics because it was a very important time. I wanted my audience to understand the basics of the election, like how preferential voting works or the difference between Labor and Liberal,” Chatfield explained.

“I think it was really good to bring in an audience that hadn’t ever thought about the election, that were coming for pop culture and for them to realise, ‘Oh, I shouldn’t just do a throwaway vote. And then suddenly it turned into [a controversy].”

Social media posts featuring the politicians prompted a review from the Australian Electoral Commission after Liberal Senator Jane Hume questioned the posts.

The AEC concluded that the posts did not require authorisation under electoral law.

“The AEC stuff was a whole other level of, I believe, discrediting smaller voices, but also discrediting outspoken young women,” Chatfield said on the podcast.

“It seems that when women do more than one thing, they’re deemed as inept at all the things they do.

“But when men do more than one thing, it’s like, ‘Wow, he’s a footy player and he can read an autocue.’

“The AEC thing made me feel really targeted. I feel I’m often a scapegoat because of how the media portrays me as being the spokesperson on things, and they go, ‘Oh, she’s talking again…’”

Previously, the FBoy Island host has said she’s considered going into politics, telling Good Weekend, in a 2024 interview, “Actually, recently I was like ‘maybe I should go into politics,’ but I’m tired. Maybe if FBoy Island, Season Three, doesn’t happen.”