Category — Alex Perry

The Daily Telegraph are saying Australia’s Next Top Model judges Charlotte Dawson and Alex Perry are suing Nine MSN and Facebook over allegations she bullied a university student during a vicious online exchange. (Previous blog post on the issue here).

The stoush cost Charlotte an $18,000 contract.

The article says:

Dawson said she initially joined the Facebook slanging match, believing it was “one of our friends joking around”.

“But as soon as we started, the responses became really full-on and the messages we were sent were so explicit,” she said.

Dawson said comments described her as a “disease-ridden prostitute” and “crack whore”.

“I was so fascinated people would write such hateful things and when I wrote back they’d say, ‘Oh, we love you, we were just having fun’.”

But the online “fun” allegedly ended in death threats to the pair, who now plan a joint action against a Ninemsn report which documented the thread.

In the piece, Dawson reportedly conceded calling the page’s creator a “westie scrag” and its members “f … ing losers”.

Ninemsn head of news Hal Crawford defended the article yesterday, stating: “Charlotte Dawson confirmed with [us] that she had made those comments.”

I think this will be an interesting court case to watch, and wonder if it will set case law in relation to social media comments.

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New Reality TV Show For Alex Perry On Foxtel

Designer and Australian Next Top Model judge Alex Perry will start filming a reality TV show next month. It is a bit unclear what it will be. He said it will be something “fun and different” and not a Big Brother style behind the scenes snapshot of his crazy life.

He said he would love to do a bridal aspect because the craziest stuff happens at weddings!

Now that would be cool our very own Bridezilla, though I am sure the society babes he designs for won’t agree to that.

Expect to see his celebrity clients trying to raise their profile on his show.

Link to story here.

Australian Idol Contestant Sex Predator Finally Convicted.
In an article here in the Herald Sun it is revealed a sex offender has finally been convicted on charges for sexually assaulting 10 girls between 14 and 18 between 2003 and 2005.

Previously the Idol contestant had been through a harrowing court case with this same person for sexually assaulting her in the late ’90′s when she was 15. A jury did not convict him of the three sex related charges.

She states she is happy she had made the allegations against him. Did the jury get it wrong? Because of the nature of the charges the singer nor the year she was on Idol can be revealed, and out of respect for her I won’t bother speculating.

Andrew G’s Australian Idol Top Four Predictions
Andrew G reckons the top four will be Wes Carr, Mark Spano, Brooke Addamo and Roshani Priddis. I found the most interesting aspect in an article here where he reveals his and his wife’s Noa’s plans for kids.

Make Me A Supermodel Are Trying To Boost Ratings By Promoting The Best Bits Of The Upcoming Episodes.
Last week it was the stolen bottle of Bollinger by Hannah and this week it is the fight between Billy Bishop and Tom Penfold which is broken up by judge Jackie Frank. Apparently would be model Courtney was also injured in the melee.

This strategy appears to be working with the show cracking the over 1 million viewer mark for the first time last week.

The link between these to controversies appears to be Jackie Frank – will she turn into the Charlotte Dawson of this show, taking away the attention from the bland hosts?

Grant Hackett’s Channel 7′s Contract In Danger Because Of His Refusal To Go on Dancing With The Stars.
Now I always knew this guy had integrity and this confirms it by him refusing to go on that awful boring show Dancing With The Stars. Apparently he said no and David Leckie head of Channel 7 said he had to. Rumour has it that Hackett may be looking for a new contract elsewhere. Full story in the Daily Tele here.

Now I know this is off topic but can someone tell him to take his wife Candice out for a good feed as she looked incredibly scrawny at the Olympics.

In other Dancing With The Star News James Tobin from Sunrise (I have no idea who he is) and Renee Bargh from Channel V may be doing the wild thing.

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Australia’s Next Top Model publicity team has really cranked it up this week in preparation for the start of the show’s fourth series on Fox 8 on 22 April at 7.30pm.

Last years winner and international success story Alice Burdeau will be flying in next week. I am not sure if this is timed to coincide with the start of the show, or to do with some lined up commitments with Vogue. She will doing a shoot, plus be an ambassador at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week.

Last night the show was launched and Vogue editor Kirstie Clements said this year’s contenders had not produced the ‘obvious’ winner she saw in Alice last year.

Alice’s success overseas has definitely validated the show as a launch pad to a modelling career.

In an article yesterday in the Daily Terror Alex Perry one of the judges said at a glance, Burdeu can a look a plain Jane, and one of the interesting aspects of the show is that it explains the mysteries of fashion modelling.

Perry says the interpretation of beauty is a big thing.

“The girls who are the most famous and achieve that really high status are never the beautiful, blonde-haired, blue-eyed beach babe that people think Australia’s Next Top Model should be,”

“They are not the girls who work for Vogue international and do all those international shows. It’s getting down to basic, it’s the bone structure those girls have.

For success on the show Perry states:

“They have to have the whole thing,”

“Their bodies have to be perfect, their skin has to be flawless and they have to have good personalities and can get on with a lot of people – and translate that on to film.”

Personally I didn’t think someone like that existed.

It was interesting to read that judges avoid footage of the girls in the mansion which does show a more realistic view of the contestants personalities.

“We hear a few reports but the only thing we see weekly is the elimination process and we never see them at home, “

“When I finally watch it going to air, it surprises me, some of the behaviour, and if I was watching that as it was happening during judging, it would taint my view.

“Some girls last year – I thought “Are you kidding me?”

“So I prefer to go on what they’ve done on the catwalk and in photographs. It’s not a personality competition -it’s about what they can deliver as a model.”

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