A wealth podcaster has issued a humiliating apology for calling Australians “idiots” in a public discussion about housing affordability.
But She’s On The Money host Victoria Devine’s apology video showed her covered in jewellery, including pearls, diamond rings and a Rolex watch, raising questions about whether she truly understood the pain she had caused.
It all started when real estate company Whitefox announced on billboards that it had been ‘Making houses more expensive since 2017’.
Marty Fox, company founder and The Block judge, defended the slogan as “smart marketing,” despite a massive backlash over concerns about housing affordability, with many shuttering the out-of-touch billboards.
Devine then sent a private message to Fox, who is a friend of hers, saying, “People who talk shit are not your target demographic.” They are idiots. I received it immediately. Bright!!’
Fox asked her if she could post that publicly, Devine said yes and then all hell broke loose and she was criticized for not knowing what normal people are going through.
In a video posted on social media, he said he had seen the comments “about me being deaf and completely out of touch, and I can’t disagree with you.”
‘At the end of the day, the comments I made were tone-deaf and completely out of line, and for that, I apologize. I’m really sorry.’
Victoria Devine’s apology video showed her wearing sparkling jewelry, including pearls, diamond rings and a Rolex watch (pictured).
Continuing the apology as her jewelry sparkled, Devine said she “never made comments like this in the hopes of making anyone feel less than or making anyone feel stupid or foolish.”
“There is no world in which I would want anyone to feel stupid… I want to be very clear: I wasn’t saying that people who can’t buy property are idiots.
“I was saying that people who didn’t understand the sign were idiots.”
He acknowledged that that too “is still very rude, it’s very unacceptable.”
Devine said some of the comments made about her were “really disturbing, but also very confrontational because some of them… you’re not wrong.”
‘I’m a bit out of touch nowadays. I’m a bit unrelatable, but what I want you to know is that I know you because I was you.’
The podcast host said she had also once been “in mountains of debt, not knowing how I was going to pay it off… where I just didn’t think that property would ever be for me.”
“And now I’m in a very fortunate position where I own property and I’m very grateful for that, but I just want to make sure that the people who are in my community know that I would never consider them stupid.” or less than or not worthy of these things.

Devine sent a private message to Fox, who is a friend of hers, saying, “People who talk shit are not your target demographic.” They are idiots. I received it immediately. Bright!!’

Marty Fox (pictured) defended the slogan as “smart marketing”, despite massive backlash over concerns about housing affordability.
Devine said the experience had been “a good lesson for me to think a lot more about what I say online and in direct messages.”
‘I also want to acknowledge that the real estate market and financial landscape these days is very different to when I bought a property and when I was going through my journey. “It’s not comparable,” he said.
“I think the world changes very quickly, and just because I rely on my experience doesn’t mean it’s very relatable to you.
‘So I think this has also been a very good lesson in teaching me that I need to be much more responsive and aware of that in the content I create in the future.
“I’m trying to see the positive aspects of this so that you guys benefit even more.”
She added that she was “grateful to have such a tremendously passionate community that this makes you angry too, because if I’m going to lead this community, I need to be able to take this feedback on board, learn from it, and grow from it.” he’.
However, if Devine thought her apology would lead to immediate forgiveness, she was wrong.
“She says while wearing pearls and diamonds…give me strength,” one commenter wrote.
“Wearing over $50,000 worth of jewelry during an apology for being elitist is INSAAAANNE,” wrote another.
A third asked: “What happened to the ‘sincere’ apology written in the script from the kitchen, without makeup, in casual clothes and in a calm, condescending tone?
‘No, $50,000 worth of jewelry in the podcast studio.
‘Keep in touch with the rules.’
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Devine for comment.