Posts from — December 2010

Oh my God the Argentian version of Dancing With The Stars positively sizzles (don’t watch it at work), I think it is called Stripdance so that will give you some idea what it is like!

Lara Bingle might be a bit coy dancing to this choreography, but Charmaine Palavi if they were smart enough to give her a run. In fact Brynne Edelsten may have even used some of these moves to hook Geoffrey. Speaking of Brynne I am so going to be barracking for her if she signs up.

There appears to be friction between Myer’s and Jennifer Hawkin’s management resulting in Jennifer Hawkins being dumped from the high profile Myer’s G’Day USA event.

The Daily Telegraph reports:

She will now not make the trip and her Cozi label has been dropped from the show.

Jessica Hart, one of Myer’s stable of fashion ambassadors, will replace Hawkins and represent the retail giant at the event.

Myer menswear ambassador Kris Smith will still attend the event.

Myer CEO Bernie Brookes said the shock decision was the “culmination of a number of issues” between the Myer team and Hawkins’ manager Sean Anderson.

Sean Anderson responded by saying:

“This is a personal issue that the head of Myer PR has with me which I’m trying to sort out with Myer privately,” he said.

The article goes onto say Myers were increasingly frustrated by restrictions and constraints placed by her management on what Hawkins would and would not do in her role with Myer and the lack of awareness of her other deals.

I would be interested to know what Jennifer is thinking about all this. She is extremely popular and won’t want anything tarnishing her nice girl image. Her contract with Channel 7 ended this year where she had an up and down time with the Make Me A Supermodel not being renewed after its first season.

Ricky-Lee Coulter pisses of Myers by not wearing one of their designer gowns and instead going with an Alex Perry one who sells through rival David Jones. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

David Hasselhoff aka The Hoff is in town next week for two days to promote Splice ice cream. Sydney Confidential have got an interview and want the readers to submit questions. But ensure your question is innocuous as it won’t get past The Hoff’s publicist. See previous post on it here. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Camille Grammer is set to make up to $50 million in her divorce settlement from her former husband Kelsey. (Source: Daily Mail)

It is that time of year for lists, and the Daily Telegraph has now put out their list of the 25 most influential people on TV. What was interesting was the reality stars that were on the list as well as the ones they left off.

Matt Preston was number 2 on the list, behind Jessica Marais who took out the number one spot. Also George Colambaris and Anna Gare were on there, but where was Gary Mehigan? He did not make the list. If I was him I would be feeling a tad peeved today. As I thought he proved when he was absent for two weeks from Masterchef Australia this year due to an injured knee that he brought some levity to the show.

He is a nice balance to George and Matt more exhuberant personalities, and ham acting.

Other reality stars that made the list were Manu Feidel, Danni Minogue, Peter Maddison from Grand Designs, and Scott Cam from The Block.

Judson ‘Fabio’ Birza has proven it does pay to play the dumb blonde by winning $1 million on Survivor Nicaragua. His strategy was to just pay the goofy dumb kid, who made it to the final three by winning the final three immunity challenge.

However Fabio showed he was not stupid when he basically hung Sash and Chase out to dry in the final tribal council before Holly was eliminated. Basically ensuring the jury knew what a liar Sash was.

I was surprised that Chase got so many votes, as Marty said  he was truly one of the dumbest Survivor contestants ever.

Here is an interview with Fabio where he talks about that he was surprised the vote was so close, and also what he is going to do with the cash. He is going to produce short films. Good luck to him.

Also here is Jeff Probst blog post on the finale.

The much awaited Josie Bones the beer restaurant owned has now opened in Melbourne. It is operated by Masterchef alumni Julia Jenkins and Chris Badenoch.

As you would guess it has a lot of focus on beer and the whole of the beast eating. In fact if you are vegetarian don’t bother going, as there is a headless pig photo above the bar.

However a few tweets are very positive tweets about the restaurant and on other online review sites. Though it does make me wary when the people that love it only have written one review.

However Melbourne food blog Eat, Drink, Stagger rated the food, but had a few issues with attitude from the bar staff. There are no reviews from the mainstream media yet.

The couple have bought in a head chef to lead the kitchen, but I am sure the loved up Masterchef couple were the masterminds behind the menu.

Josie Bones in on 98 Smith St, Collingwood if you have eaten there come and tell us what it was like.

With little fanfare Shadi and Veronica Abraham the Queensland couple who won the first season of My Kitchen Rules have opened a cafe.

The eating establishment called Cucina & Cafe which opened in Coorparoo will draw from their combined Lebanese/Italian heritage.

The South-East Advertiser reports they used some of the $100,000 winning to open the cafe.

It is refreshing to see the couple just getting on with their food dream without having to be in the media or tweet about it every five minutes.

Good luck to them I hope it is a success, and if anyone goes there please tell us what it is like.

Season Two of My Kitchen Rules will commence at the start of the ratings period.

After Granada was dumped by Foxtel to produce  Australia’s Next Top Model because of what is now known as the finale fuck up, Shine Australia has now been given the gig.

This will keep the show in the family as Sarah Murdoch is Executive Producer of the show and Shine is owned by her sister-in-law.

Having said that I am not going to call nepotism on this one, as Shine Australia has shown to be producing some quality TV shows since they started in Australia.

Auditions for the new season are expected to start next month, there has been no news on if there will be any cast changes. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)

David Hasselfhoff will be hitting the shores of Australia very soon to promote a local ice cream, but apparently he is making media demands about what the local press pack can and cannot as ask him about.

According to the Sunday Telegraph, he has said no questions about his private life, and indeed questions have to be submitted prior to media conference.

Now I think David Hasselhoff needs to have a reality check about where he is on the celebrity foodchain.

He has just had his reality show cancelled after two episodes quite a feat in itself. He is currently starring in a Peter Pan pantomime in the UK. Also he was the first person to be voted off Dancing With The Stars so it would appear he has a smaller fan base then he thinks.

Ok Simon Cowell may be giving him a life line to appear as a judge on Britain’s Got Talent but God knows how that will pan out.

There have been numerous stories about his struggles with alcohol issues which has brought the world some memorable YouTube moments. Including the drunken hamburger one (See below).

Also there was that time when he was banned from a flight at Heathrow Airport and then were pictures (which I now cannot seem to find) of him with a suspicious wet patch on his crotch.

So I am not talking high end here. Considering all these demands are rubbing up the local press the wrong way this may back fire on the ice cream company that is paying the big bucks to bring him out. What does he actually think

Personally I think the local media should tell his PR company they won’t be turning up or giving the product any publicity unless he relaxes his media demands. I’m mean serious does the guy think he is Oprah?

Well the record industry didn’t think much of The X Factor talent if Altiyan Child’s the winner of the show is the only one currently with a record deal.

I would have thought Sally Chatfield could have locked one up.

The Herald Sun article also reveals that Altiyan almost left the house three times because of the way the housemates treated him. He is particularly pointing the finger at the under 25′s group.

Altiyan thought that he should have been accorded more respect as he clean their skid marks.

The article states:

He refused to name names.

“I couldn’t believe how people could ignore you in the same house,” he said.

“I’m glad that I still can get shocked by humans and I’m glad that I’m not that insensitive.

“I would say ‘good morning’, tip toe around at night, clean up after their skid marks in the bathroom.

“I did everything out of the goodness of my heart, but I just couldn’t get any love back.

“That was very hard.”

Good news for Altiyan is his record debuted this week at number four on the charts. (Source: news.com.au)

No news yet on whether a second season of The X Factor will be commissioned.