The Bachelor star Laura Byrne reveals her bizarre find in a bag of chips: 'That's so rank'
Laura Byrne has taken to social media to share a bizarre discovery in a recently-bought bag of chips.
The former Bachelor star, 39, posted a video to Instagram on Sunday showing a packet of chips she had purchased - with a surprise waiting inside.
'Ok... but wtf is that?' she captioned the post, which showed a strange potato creation in a packet of Kettle chips.
'I can't tell if this is an entire potato, a hash brown, I don't know what it is. Or a lot of chips that have gotten stuck on the conveyor belt together,' she could be heard saying in a follow-up clip.
Her husband Matty 'J' Johnson, 37, who she met on the hit reality show in 2017, then asked if he could try a bite of the unidentifiable nugget.
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'If you want to, go nuts. Would you? You're disgusting,' the Life Uncut podcast host said as Matty took a bite out of the bizarre find.
Laura then played devil's advocate, saying: 'It's probably the best bit of all the chips. You know how like when they are really crunchy?'
'That's pretty good!' her husband announced, with his eyes wide with delight, before Laura proclaimed: 'That's so rank'.
Laura recently made headlines for calling out her podcast host husband after he accidentally revealed the name of their unborn baby girl on-air.
In June, the reality star was doing an 'ask me anything' questionnaire on her Instagram story when one of her followers brought up the moment, which she was seemingly unaware of.
'Did you punch Matt in the ovaries for revealing [your] baby name on Two Doting Dads?' the question read.
Laura was clearly caught off-guard as she replied: 'He did f***ing what?!'
Later on, the business owner, 39, brought up the blunder with her husband, 37, as they lay in bed together.
'Matt I have a question for you: did you say the girl's name, the baby's name, on the podcast?' she asked him in a clip posted to her Instagram story.
He looked at his partner confused as he denied the accusation.
'I think you might have,' she told him, cheekily.
'I would never, never. Never would I say that,' he said defensively as the couple both broke out into giggles.
Laura told the camera: 'People always ask us, "how do you know the limits when you're telling stories and stuff on the podcast?" and normally we're pretty good... Normally.'
Matty began to pipe up as he sported a giant smile on his face, clearly telling a fib.
'Whoever is spreading this false information, shame on you, because that's not true at all,' he said.
While Matty may have mentioned the little girl's name, it seems it was edited out of the podcast as it could later no longer be found.
The couple already share little girls Marlie and Lola, and are expecting their third in October.
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