The Project: Lisa Wilkinson shock over co-host’s communal bath confessions

Lisa Wilkinson couldn’t hide her shock as she learned about communal bathing on The Sunday Project this week.

The presenter, 62, was left flabbergasted after her co-host Hamish MacDonald narrated a news report on the rise in popularity of the experiences, revealing that at least four major bathhouses had opened in Australia in the past year.

Hamish, 40, said he and co-host Jan Fran had spent the commercial break ‘educating Lisa about nudity and bathhouses’, before she told viewers: ‘…I have learnt stuff tonight that I really didn’t come here expecting to learn!’

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Rove McManus was equally as shocked over the topic of discussion, adding: ‘I don’t feel comfortable bathing on my own, let alone with other people around.’

‘And when you’ve got a perfectly good bath at home with a door that closes and locks, why would you move outside of that zone?’ Lisa added.

Rove then asked Hamish about his own personal experiences with communal bathing, saying: ‘Do you take your rubber duck… when you got to one of your little communal baths?

‘Do you flick your little friends with a towel?’

Jan Fran chimed in: ‘I think we’re talking about a very different kind of bathhouse now though, Rove.’

He replied: ‘When you say to me Hamish McDonald goes to a communal bath, you do not want to know where my heads going!’

Hamish went on to say that he and Jan had been discussing Turkish baths, otherwise known as Hammam. 

Hamman is a type of steam bath or a place of public bathing associated with the Islamic world.

‘It’s a cultural experience. You can find it in Morocco. You can get a good scrub down with the loofah,’ Jan said.

‘There’s a very biggish woman who lifts things and moves things, and scrubs things. And I say bring that here, that’s what we need – communal bathing 2.0.’

After Rove said he’d take part, Hamish said Lisa should follow suit – to which she replied: ‘That’s three out of four [hosts]. That’s enough from The Project!’