Lucinda PRICE

Meet the comedian and presenter everyone wants to be best friends with

Lucinda Price was three years old when she made someone laugh for the first time. “I ran into my parents’ room one morning, looked at my dad, smiled, then bent down and did a shit on the carpet,” she recalls. “I smiled at him again and ran out of the room.” Twenty-two years later, Price is still making people laugh and testing the boundaries of her shamelessness as one of Australia’s most exciting new comedic talents.

Better known as Froomes, she made a name for herself as the unofficial face of Pedestrian.TV. There she presented on red carpets, interviewed everyone from Dua Lipa to Samuel L Jackson and went viral for her love of Shane Warne – all with an innate ability to tap into the millennial zeitgeist and say what we’re all thinking. Last year saw her expand and cement her comedic talents: broadcasting her Bumble date in real-time via Instagram

Live, having Flume and G Flip help produce her first original song, which premiered on triple j, and campaigning to be the

2021 Bachelorette. “It’d be the one thing to make me really nervous,” she says.

While she waits for Osher’s call, Price is taking on the podcast world with Where are all the Baby Pigeons? The show mines the possibilities of one of journalism’s greatest tools: the pub test (that is, asking the general public their opinion on a topic or issue). “It examines what you’d call ‘sacred cows’; things that are kind of myths, but they’re widely held as truths,” says Price, who hopes that interrogating universally held assumptions will expose our shared commonality. “It’s a bit ‘Kumbaya’, but people are very similar in a way we don’t give credence to. There’s power in realising that everyone feels alike; it makes people feel less alone.”