Category — Lara Bingle

Lara Bingle appears to be on some sort of promotion fest this week with interviews in both Sydney Sunday papers and as usual she does not do herself any favours.

In an interview with Ros Reines in the Sunday Telegraph which had the title of Lara Bingle I’m No Einstein shows at least she has some insight to her intellect but that was about it.

She was talking about her new reality show Being Lara Bingle which will start filming shortly.

She basically said that Brynne Edelsten’s reality show would not be as good as hers.

It states:

Bingle is not convinced that Edelsten can carry her show but thinks she was “really sweet” when they did Seven’s Dancing With The Stars together.

“Perhaps if Brynne were pregnant there would be more of a storyline going on,” she ponders.

Bingle thinks interesting stuff happens to her like police turning up to her door to talk about her speeding fines. News flash Lara, Police turn up to Brynne’s house because of a domestic disturbance. I know which one is the better plot line. By the way neither of these incidents were filmed on their shows.

Lara has some strange ideas on what will be a good plot line.

“Late-night partying doesn’t interest me,” she says. “I’d rather go to the gym”.

If she thinks viewers want to see her exercising on a running machine she is very much mistaken. And the the $64 million question is what DOES she actually do? She says she is a model but she got the flick from Speedo.

She also talked more about “the plot”of her show to Kate Waterhouse in the Sun-Herald today.

She told Kate the plot line would be:

I’m working on a number of things throughout the show, like sunglasses, skincare, jewellery . . . I’ve had to find manufacturers and everything and the personal life stuff, you can’t script that. I’m moving into a house with [my best friend and manager] Hermione and my brother – that will be a show in itself.

Really? An advertorial for her merchandise and scenes from her share household. Sorry still not convinced.

Her cameo on Celebrity Apprentice Australia gained her few fans. She turned up late to the challenge when she was meant to be assisting and did not take it seriously at all and came across as arrogant.

She does admit to Kate Waterhouse that when she was with her former fiance she was not a nice person.

She said to a question about whether she had any regrets:

No not really. For example, if I stayed with Michael, I would not be the person I am today. Everything was given to me on a silver platter, I had no moral values, I was not a nice person. I had a money tree out the back, clothes, cars, everything was [too] easy . . . but now I put it all in perspective.

It will be interesting to see how she is portrayed on screen but we should expect a slightly narcissistic personality  who does not have a lot of depth.

Lara Bingle is in the “news” again today, having had her licence suspended over unpaid parking fines.  The Herald-Sun reports that Bingle put on a “coquettish” performance and “turned on the charm”, however the officer was unswayed.

The fact that the incident was captured by cameras has prompted many readers to wonder whether this is all part of her up-coming reality show.  I reckon that, with her driving record and surname, perhaps she should look into signing on as spokesmodel for a certain car insurer.

Lara Bingle’s much touted reality show has been picked up by Network TEN to be screened later this year.

Interesting decision by TEN considering from her previous forays on the small screen she has come across as particularly unlikeable. Her cameo on Celebrity Apprentice Australia made her look pretentious and lazy.

The Herald Sun is stating:

The model, 24, has signed a deal with Channel 10 for her own reality show based on her everyday life and says nothing is off limits.

Filming for the show, to be called Being Lara Bingle, will start soon and is expected to hit screens later this year.

The program will explore Bingle’s sometimes complicated personal life, her business opportunities, her friends and family.

Speaking from Los Angeles last week, Bingle said she hoped the program would show the public exactly who she is and what she does.

“My life is very spontaneous, you never know what is going to happen,” she said.

In another story in the Herald Sun on Saturday Lara Bingle complained about the scrutiny her weight had come under by gossips magazines in the past few months.

She said:

“It seemed like it dragged on for weeks and weeks,” she said during the week. “It’s one thing to be talked about who you are dating, but when it’s all about how you look, it’s hard to deal with. I’m happy with how I look.”

Newsflash Lara you are theoretically a model and your whole career is based on your looks so that is how you will be judged.

Her Dancing With The Stars alumni Brynne Edelsten also has her own reality show that will air on SEVEN this year, and I think Brynne will be the person to gain the biggest fan base.

And for the five millionth time there is a newspaper yarn telling us Lara Bingle has shot a reality TV show pilot, and also it appears it has still not been picked up.

Today’s story is about how a ‘sizzle’ reel is doing the rounds of the networks. Has any show ever gotten as much publicity before it has been picked up?

I am not really sure of her likeability factor and this was not helped by her recent cameo on Celebrity Apprentice. However as I have written before is Lara Bingle has the ability to be the Australian Kardashian?

The Daily Telegraph reports:

CAN Lara Bingle emulate the success of Kim Kardashian as the star of her own reality TV series?

It seems one local television production company believes so, with market newcomer Eyeworks backing the project.

Confidential can reveal a sizzle reel has recently been circulated to TV networks teasing a reality series based on the model’s life.

Yesterday producers at Eyeworks were not returning our calls but network sources said the promo reels had landed on programming executives’ desks at the Seven and Ten networks.

The concept follows the simple yet effective reality show premise “if it happens, shoot it” and Bingle’s fitness makeover gets an airing. Now if the program’s producers can only persuade Bingle to let them film her uncensored after-dark activities, Confidential is confident the program will find an audience.

Lara Bingle has some similarities to Kim Kardashian. She dates sportsmen, she has her own merchandise line with her sunglasses, and she has no proper career except being a celebrity. It is no surprise Lara is trying to get a reality show going.

However the big thing Lara and the Kardashians have in common is the column inches they generate over nothing.

The latest is the news Lara has put on five kilos. I mean really is this a story? The Sunday Telegraph placed this article quite up front on their newspaper.

Who cares? Surely there must be other celebrity news around.

There have rumours circulating for sometime about the Lara Bingle reality TV show.

Earlier this year she was shooting a pilot, at the time I had thought a TV station was behind it but at this stage this is not the case.

This article in the Herald Sun suggests the only person talking up the Lara Bingle reality show is Lara Bingle.

Reading between the lines of the article it would suggest no TV station has signed up for it yet. The pilot was shot by a UK production company.

Bingle states she is not 100% about the show. She said:

“I took a step back (after watching the pilot) and I am still thinking as to if I would like my whole life to be out there, from when I go to the bathroom to when I wake up.

“If I was to do a reality TV show I would want it to be very real. I believe that is the only way they work.”

I don’t mean to be a bitch, however for someone who is trading on her celebrity she needs to do something to maintain her profile and I suspect a reality show is probably her best option, and this is nothing to cringe about.  I would watch it if it is edited properly and has a compelling story line.

A few weeks ago Lara Bingle was threatening to take an AVO out against a paparazzi because she thought he was harassing her. Even though a few days later she was on the front cover of Who Mag having sold her holiday snaps and story about her romance with new boyfriend Danny Cipriani to them. And yes the photographer went on holidays with them.

This raised the issue of whether  someone whose fame is really just based on her celebrity and who she has dated should be complaining about paps following her. See previous blog post here.

Jo Casamento in her column yesterday in the Sun Herald said that a camera crew for a yet unnamed reality TV pilot has been following Lara around. It will be interesting to see if this makes it to our TV screens, as I am not really sure what the plot line would be.

This probably goes outside the usual reality TV discussions on this blog, however it is an issue related to Lara Bingle and other reality TV stars, but since seeing this cover of Lara Bingle on the Who Magazine cover the issue of do celebrities have a right to privacy has crossed my mine.

In the weeks preceding the Lara Bingle/Danny Cipriani cover and story which they have presumingly been paid for, both of them had been dodging the paparazzi and were not very happy about being photographed.

Which raises the issue of whether as a celebrity who is prepared to sell stories to magazines do they have the right to then turn around and crack the shits when they are being photographed when they don’t want to be.

For people like Lara Bingle and a lot of celebrities of her ilk they rely on stories in the media to maintain their profile, and to be honest she may have just been another pretty girl around the traps if she had not hooked up with cricketer Michael Clark.

Their relationship of what was a glamorous couple resulted in a media feeding frenzy, however they also had some very high profile sponsors which must have come from their media profiles.

Personally my sympathy for celebrities who just want to use the media when they want to promote something, but get angry when they feel their privacy has been infringed is waning.

Is it something they sign up for when they play the fame game?

UPDATE: It is reported in the Sunday Telegraph that Lara Bingle is going to take out an AVO against a pap, Jamie Fawcett. However the article says she also works closely with another paparazzi guy. I think in five years time Lara will be begging anyone to photograph her.

Well the blind item in Sunday’s paper has finally been revealed. It said a person from a dancing reality show has demanded their own make-up person.

Unsurprisingly it is Lara Bingle. The Daily Telegraph writes that Lara has requested the use of her own make-up artist Max May, instead of the Channel 7 make up crew.

It does not say whether she will pay for his services or Channel 7 will. She apparently is being paid $50,000 for her turn on the show.

I am starting to think Lara is going to be a very early casualty as this sort of diva behaviour is not going to endear her to the voting public.

In the battle of the blondes I think Brynne Edelsten will be the babe to come out on top.

News in the Daily Telegraph is that Lara Bingle might face a jail term for taking her friend’s loss of driver’s licence points.

Lara Bingle revealed on Today FM breakfast program:

she [Bingle] lost her licence in December last year following a speeding fine – said: “It was [because of a] loss of points.

“I had too many,” before she added: “I took some for my friends.”

Even Kyle Sandilands knew it was illegal. Of course when you do something illegal it is not a great idea to announce it to 100,000′s of listeners on morning radio.

The RTA is now investigating and it can attract a jail term.

She is now denying she took the points via twitter of course.

However I am sure that won’t happen and we will see her on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars. However will she have the brain capacity to learn the routines?

UPDATE: the hard copy of the paper also says she said on radio that she was getting paid more than $50,000 to appear on Dancing With The Stars. Helloooo Channel Seven have not confirmed you yet, and they were not commenting on it.