Category — Australia’s Got Talent

What is it with Brian McFadden, and his bad temper? We had the tweets with his ex-Kerry Katona, which really did not make us want to get on Team Brian, and now this –  telling a 50 year old contestant on Australia Got Talent to fuck off.

An article on Nine MSN says that Brian may have put his employment at risk because of his comments.

The article says:

Irish singer Brian McFadden may be kicked off Australia’s Got Talent after he allegedly told a comedian appearing on the show to “f*** off back to England”.

In an exchange cut from the Channel 7 show, McFadden swore at 50-year-old comic Anne Ferguson-Howe after she criticised fellow judge Kyle Sandilands about a radio lie-detector stunt gone wrong, the Herald Sun reported.

Sandilands reportedly began the war of words when he mocked Mrs Ferguson-Howe’s weight after her routine had bombed on the talent show.

British-born Mrs Ferguson-Howe then struck back by asking Sandilands “when was the last time you had a chat about rape?” — a reference to the judge’s controversial radio stunt last year.

McFadden then reportedly told Mrs Ferguson-Howe to get off the stage before she replied “Listen pal, if you’re going to dish it out, you’ve got to learn to take it back.”

McFadden then reportedly removed his microphone, climbed onto the stage and said to the woman “Why don’t you f*** off back to England?”

“I’m a thick-skinned woman of 50 who loves a laugh but if it had been a 20-year-old girl the size I am with low self-esteem, I think I would have gone home and shot myself,” Mrs Fergson-Howe said afterwards.

She made up with Sandilands after the show but received no apology from McFadden.

“I’ve got no problem with Kyle — we shook hands,” she said.

“Brian, I tell you, I’d spit on him.”

Channel Seven told the Herald Sun the exchange was edited out of Tuesday’s show.

I mean seriously why does Kyle always attack women on their weight, but he seems to think it is ok for overweight guys to be on TV. And really Kyle Sandilands can defend himself.

Maybe Seven leaked the story to get some media in the Masterchef Australia glut, but I don’t think so. I know I normally say all publicity is good publicity, however Australia’s Got Talent is very much pitched at the family market.

Just when I start to think maybe Brian McFadden is not a complete tool I go and read something that goes and makes me think he is again.

In the Sun Herald today Kirstie Lau wrote a little vignette about Brian McFadden and he makes it sound like Australia’s Got Talent is lucky to have him.

The article states:

It was always an obvious revenge tactic but Brian McFadden has confirmed Kyle Sandilands jumped on board with Australia’s Got Talent to ruffle Australian Idol’s feathers. McFadden tells S Sandiland’s decision was completely calculated.

“The main reason he’s doing this show is just to piss of Idol,” he says. “It’s just to stick two fingers up and say, ‘Well, your show’s gone and look at my show.’ And that’s the thing about Kyle and what I love about Kyle. I’m not even telling you anything he wouldn’t tell you himself.”

McFadden added that Sandilands purposely lured many of the Australian Idol crew over to Channel Seven.

“The main producer on Australia’s Got Talent, Greg Burness, he was Idol’s producer and Kyle brought him over,” McFadden says. “The Idol team are great with Kyle; it’s only Channel Ten who’s pissed off.”

McFadden was referring to the axing of Sandilands received after a controversial radio stunt.

The Irish singer, who is a judge on the new show alongside Sandilands and Danni Minogue, admits he and Sandilands only accepted their gigs after making certain Australia’s Got Talent would undergo a total revamp. “I was living with Kyle in LA when he got the calls and I’d never seen the show before, so I didn’t know it was quite cheap and shitty before,” McFadden says.

“When Kyle was doing the conversations, the reason he took it at first was because they said they were going to triple the budget to make it like Britain’s Got Talent. We said we wouldn’t want to do the show if ti was the same as it used to be, only replacing Red [Symons, a past judge] and Tom [Burlinson, another judge]. They said they’d give it a massive push. I had to be a part of that then.”

Really he make it sound that Channel Seven should be grateful he deigned to do the show.

However it appears Brian does like to say or tweet what he thinks as he just called his former wife Kerry Katona a “pig faced mole” on twitter.

According to the Herald Sun, this was in response to her claims that he only spoke to his two daughters five times a year. He of course is refuting this and says he speaks to them a couple of times a week. I would have thought by now they would have been skyping each other.

Anyway one thing is for certain neither will be awarded parent of the year.

I have always been on the record regarding my aversion to reality TV producers taking the mickey out of contestants who obviously have an mental illness as they are easy targets and particularly vulnerable.

But also it has been revealed the Australia’s Got Talent Producers were inviting groups to audition on the show to ridicule them.

The square dancing troupe who were ridiculed on the show on Tuesday night had been invited to perform, they had not auditioned.

News.com.au reveals:

And a troupe of square dancers claim they were set up by the show after the producers invited them on, only for the judges to lampoon them. Square dancing caller Darren Taylor says his group members were ridiculed as soon as they came out on stage. “I have never experienced anything like it before,” he said.

“I’ve been calling for 22 years. I know that it has a bad reputation as being a bit ‘yeehaw’ and that’s why I was concerned about going on in the first place.

“We didn’t apply. They called us and said they really wanted square dancers this year because they wanted it to be a community show.

“But as soon as we walked out Brian (McFadden) buzzed us. He said one of our girls looked like a toilet-roll doll. Dannii (Minogue) also zeroed in on what we were wearing and Kyle said I had my jumper tucked into my pants.

“It was embarrassing. When we finished we had to stand there for minutes while the audience laughed at us.”

Mr Taylor said that many contestants had left the stage in tears.

“One person was teased for their stutter,” he said. “They only showed about one quarter of what they said to us. If they’d showed it all, people would have been shocked at how harsh they were

In other shows controversy Melbourne woman Heather Cook says she was left speechless when Kyle Sandilands lambasted her before she’d even opened her mouth to sing, mocking her weight and questioning whether she was a man or a woman.

She said:

Ms Cook was “devastated” by the remarks of Sandilands, who asked her: “Are you male or female?”

The contestant, who dreamed of being a professional singer and had spent hours training with a professional coach, said she had performed for TV’s other notorious mean judges – Bernard King and Red Symons – and had received constructive feedback.

“They (Symons and King) could be harsh but they were also fair, this Kyle just tears people down,” she said.

When she tried to make light of being asked if she was male or female, the controversial judge then made a joke about Ms Cook’s weight, saying “You’re a belly full of laughs”.

“I felt the whole experience was devastating, and very unfair and unnecessary, and he destroyed any opportunity I had of demonstrating my voice to its fullest potential.

“To my way of thinking there is a lot of bullying going on around schools … so why promote a person such as Kyle to encourage people to be rude and disrespectful?”

With reality TV being the most watched genre on TV after sport maybe it is time a Reality TV Code of Practice was drafted so there is at least some ethical standards in this industry.

Kyle Sandilands is incredibly canny if an article in the Daily Telegraph is true. His wife Tamara Jaber apparently is to be a contestant on Dancing With the Stars.

Was this part of the deal Kyle Sandilands cracked with the Seven Network when he signed on as judge on Australia’s Got Talent? If so it is a good way to increase the profile of his wanna be popstar wife, Tamara Jaber, whose career has really not gone anywhere since the reality TV pop group Scandal’us broke up.

She should do well on the show as I think she has had some dance training when she was younger.

Her appearance will coincide with the release of her new single, for those who missed her last one here it is.

It is official Brian McFadden will join Kyle Sandilands and Danni Minogue on the judging panel of Australia’s Got Talent. Channel Seven have overhauled the show and is trying to obtain a younger audience.

Also Brian has revealed he has for a second time tried to get custody of his daugthers but failed. The Daily Telegraph article states his attempt to obtain custody occurred after his ex-wife Kerry Katona was caught snorting coke in her bathroom at home.

This is pretty crap for him, and I  am astounded that the UK courts think it is ok to let the kids live with someone who appears to go from crisis to crisis.

The only thing I can think off was if he requested them to come and live in Australia and the judge thought it was too far away.

The other job recruiting Australia’s Got Talent has done from Australian Idol has been two executive producers from the show. Does this mean Idol is not going to be revived ever? (Source news.com.au)

Australia’s Got Talent is having an overhaul this year with judges Red Symons, and Tom Burlinson not having their contracts renewed.

Bad boy Kyle Sandilands has been announced as one of the new people to sit beside Danni Minogue on the panel, and it is expected this week they will announce Brian McFadden to be the other one.

Now I have to mea culpa on Brian as last year as I wrote how I had not wanted him to be a judge on Australian Idol, however his guest judging spot was one of the bright moments in a rather dull Idol year.

David Leckie aim is to capitalise on the demise of Australian Idol and attempt to get in a few more younger viewers to watch the show. And he knows Kyle and Brian attract that demographic.

Kyle Sandilands has signed on to be a judge on Australia’s Got Talent  this season. The article in the news.com.au.

It is not known which of the judges he will be replacing. Currently Red Symons, Danni Minogue, and Tom Burlinson are the current panel.

Danni is pregnant but filming should be finished by the time she gives birth.

In other not surprising reality TV news Celebrity Masterchef  will not make it to a second series, but the Junior Masterchef will go ahead. (Source news.com.au)

The Sydney Morning Herald’s TV section The Guide is suggesting British producer Simon Cowell hopes to have his franchise The X Factor on Australian television. He will be holding a series of meeting in February with Australian network representatives about the show.

The X Factor was a flop last time it was made here with Kate Cerbrano, and Mark Holden as judges, but with fresh judging talent, plus the singers that would normally have auditioned for the now cancelled Australian Idol it could be a success.

Australia’s Got Talent is currently holding auditions as well. So if you were thinking of auditioning for Australian Idol this year, you could now tryout for the popular Channel Seven show. Go Channel Seven’s website if you are interested.