Australian gossip

Also why is no-one writing writing posts about the fascinating world of Spanish used car salesmen?

Really?? Why Kochie?? You couldn't have said Karl Stefanovic or even Andy Lee??

R2 I didn’t say I wanna suck it. Andrew O’Keefe can definitely do whatever he wants to me

Yeah not sure why you said Kochie he's fucking gross

I want gossip about Ivan Scannell or Kayne Lawton or David 'Wofman' Williams or the Aussiebum models or those hunks that Paul Freeman photographs.

Am I the only one who thinks Ed Kavalee is hot?

Yes.

R6 i thought he was cute when Thank God You're Here started airing. And i enjoy seeing him on Have You Been Paying Attention.

Hugh Sheridan? Wasn’t there a thread about him a few years ago? Is he aging well?

Hugh Sheridan is hot as fuck and still looks good. He's currently in 5 Bedrooms and had a shirtless scene coming out of the shower

This is bloody exciting, mates!

A friend of a friend’s dad claims to have been in prison with Ben Cousins and to’ve personally witnessed him sucking cock for drugs

[Quote] He's currently in 5 Bedrooms and had a shirtless scene coming out of the shower

I wonder if it will get a second season..?

Need me some good gay gossip on hunk Beau Ryan. Anyone?

I want to know if Hamish Macdonald really did come out in this Insta post.

I miss Michael Hutchence!

Yes, more on Kayne Lawton and the Wolfman please! Just general Aussie rugby gossip would be very much appreciated!

Whatever happened to Andrew McFarlane of The Sullivans and The Flying Doctors?

Any gossip on trannie Hannah Mouncey-does it like pussy or meat?

R6 I think Ed Kavalee is cute. But I also think Sam Pang is cute, much to the horror of some of my friends. As far as newsmen go, I think Paul Kennedy from the ABC is a bit of alright.

R18 not sure what he's up to these days, but I used to see the gorgeous Andrew McFarlane dancing topless and sweaty in the gay cubs of Melbourne when I was an underage teen clubber in the late '80s.

Sam Pang's hilarious.

R12 - re: Ben Cousins - seriously?? Do you think your friend's jail bird dad is reliable? Sadly - think poor Ben will end up exiting the world in some particularly sordid manner. God he was a hottie back in the day...what a downfall. So sad.

Yes to Kavallee and Sam Pang! No to Kochie - or any of the breakfast tv presenters (tho I'll admit Koch had something many years ago - that kinda straight-guy assuredness and swagger - but now? - just no. And the fake stefanovic? Blah!)

ABC Brizzie radio and TV have Craig Zonka - whose love of life and bearish good looks have won him many fans - both male and female. Smart and funny - and seemingly very natural and just himself. Don't care if he is straight - he's adorkable! Love The Zonk!

Who was the 1970s Aussie TV hunk who did a nude photo shoot for a women's magazine? He was walking through a water hole and it shows his flaccid cock. Eric something?

R24 Eric Oldfield.

Thank you R25

R18 His still working. The last thing I saw him in was the film Truth with Cate Blanchett & Robert Redford. Andrew MacFarlane played Cate's lawyer.

Reminds me so many Australian actors are/were gay: Andrew MacFarlane, Nicolas Eadie, John Hargraves (R.I.P.), Harold Hopkins (R.I.P.), Graham Kennedy (R.I.P.) all come to mind.

Lots of lesbians too; Fiona Spence (Vera Bennett from Prisoner), Victoria Longley (R.I.P.), Bunney Brooke (R.I.P.) all come to mind.

Wait, Vera Bennett ... you mean Vinegar Tits?

Not Vera!

WHET Big Pig?

R29 Yep. Her longtime companion sadly passed away a few years ago. They meet on the set of Prisoner.

Any rumours about Paul McDermott, Matt Preston or John Waters? They’re all totally gay right?

Who knew Ed Kavalee looked like this shirtless?

Years ago I heard hunky Dan Ewing from Home and Away was a regular at gay porn store on Park St in Sydney.

I have had a sex dream about Kochie. His shiny bald dome looks like a cock head.

Karl Stefanovic is basically a jowly Eastern Suburbs Frau complete with wedding drama. No thanks. I would take his fratboy brother over him in a pinch.

[quote] Lots of lesbians too; Fiona Spence (Vera Bennett from Prisoner), Victoria Longley (R.I.P.), Bunney Brooke (R.I.P.) all come to mind.

Magda as well!

Is Christopher Egan a Gay?

[Quoite] Years ago I heard hunky Dan Ewing from Home and Away was a regular at gay porn store on Park St in Sydney.

Sounds like a real charmer.

So who else is lesbian from Australian TV shows? Alexandra Fowler? Judy Nunn? What about Joy Smithers? Joy starred alongside Nicole Kidman in Bangkok Hilton and stole the show, was predicted to be the big break out star from that mini-series.

Who's that swimmer who fucked Jackman?

And that guy from the soap who did the AussieBum ads — who's he fucked on the DL?

I had heard rumours in the 1980s that Jimmy Hannan used to give head jobs at some beat. If true he must have been able to open his mouth really wide as he had one of biggest set of teeth the world has ever seen.

The linked article naturally doesn't mention anything about a 'double life'.

[Quote] So who else is lesbian from Australian TV shows?

I think Kassandra Clementi from Home & Away might be. Or bi at the very least.

How about Emily Browning?

When I was just an 8-year-old babydyke her Violet Baudelaire was my dream wife.

Is Hugh Sheridan out?

Gossip please on hot daddy Alex Dimitriades. He played a tweeked out gay in some late 90s movie about Greek immigrants in Melbourne.

R46 he also played a gay cop in the Netflix show Tidelands.

Alex Dimitriades has always pinged to me, even when I was a kid! Don't think Hugh Sheridan is out, but he pings from outer space.

Looks like Alex has played gay a lot.

r47 He also played the lover of trans woman Damon Herriman in Secret City.

R47 He also played a gay high school principle in The Principle (2015) which was on SBS.

The Sydney Theatre Company Insider should pop in on this thread.

Esteban Powell? He most notably played guitarist Phil Collen in the 2001 Def Leppard biopic (he is shown on the far right in the linked pic), and as a kid played the notorious blond paddling victim of Ben Affleck’s bully in DAZED & CONFUSED.

R15 Yes, Hamish Macdonald, 37 is OK in speedos and is on with a younger man named Jacob Fitzroy.

(I feel sorry that Hamish is a freelancer and has to appear on that show for witless lame-brains called 'The Project')

R33, the clue is that Kavalee's married to Tiffiny [sic], one of the exercise nazis from The Biggest Loser.

[Quote] the clue is that Kavalee's married to Tiffiny [sic], one of the exercise nazis from The Biggest Loser.

LOL at the kid's face.

Any gossip on Vince Martin. He was an actor that appeared in a lot of soaps in the 1970s and during the 1980's I walked past him and Tom Burlinson (they both pinged to me but that doesn't prove anything). I know Vince had a child with actress Joanne Samuels (she played Mel Gibson's wife in the first Mad Max film) and it appears in New York doing Jazz.

He was also a Cleo centrefold that I jerked off a lot to as a teenage. He also appeared as the pilot in the Tom Hanks film Castaway. Anyway, he still looks great.

Was Michael Tunn of 1990s Afternoon Show and Triple J fame gay?

R48 R49 he's played gay a few times.

This rather annoying, back-to-front movie has him "masturbating but only his head is shown. After clearly reaching orgasm, the camera backs away so his full body is shown. The male rolls over facing the camera and his non-erect, perfectly flacid penis is briefly visible in the male's hand. Additionally, there is no evidence of semen that one would expect to see."

Richard Wilkins son

I'm quite enjoying Boy George on 'The Voice' this year.

I've also become quietly and somewhat ashamedly addicted to Celebrity Name Game, with 'TV's Grant Denyer'.

STOP. JUDGING. ME.

'Head on' is a great book and quite a sexy/angry little film.

I just wanted to say that I love Benita Collings

R61 Grant Denyer is a pocketful of sunshine.

I saw the Adam Goodes documentary and naturally it featured the invective of Toilet Trader Alan Jones. Don’t his bogan fans realise he’s not only gay, but closeted, and not only closeted by a preyer of boy athletes?

The Adam Goodes "documentary" was a tear-jerker designed to elicit tears in every self-righteous way it could.

A movie with a gushing musical score cannot claim to be a "documentary".

[Quote] I'm quite enjoying Boy George on 'The Voice' this year.

George and Kelly are fun, but this show is so played out.

Always loved hot and hairy Ian Rawlings aka Wayne Hamilton from Sons & Daughters. God I wanted to shoot all over his hairy chest while I sat on his dick

R67 Ian looks good in skinny jeans

R68 yeah he's a good looking dude, sexy voice and a thick dark hairy chest

R61, R66.

Watching this 95 minute show is excruciating.

25 minutes is spent on advertising; 20 minutes is spent with the contestants talking about their emotional back-story; 25 is spent with the judges carrying on like teenagers. And ten minutes is spent on the contestant actually singing.

[Quote] 20 minutes is spent with the contestants talking about their emotional back-story

Yeah, I could not give a fuck. Just get on with it. So manipulative.

Pretty raunchy rumours about Antony Hamilton in another thread

“Yeah, I had a friend who was one of Antony Hamilton's regulars. To call Hamilton a "pass around bottom" would be an upgrade. He was nasty. I have no trouble believing he was discovered in Griffith Park tied to a tree and covered in piss”

I've never had the opportinity to visit Australia. Are there really as many hot men as there seem to be in movies and TV?

The only Australian I care about is Alec Nysten aka The Honey Badger. What's he up to these days? Prostitution, I imagine?

Oh, and I care about Judy Davis as well, of course.

I don't think that's the honey badger. The honey badger was the Bachelor last year, and caused mayhem, when he didn't pick any of the silly tarts in the final.

I actually record 'The Voice' and fast forward through all the crap.

I CANNOT stand Alan Jones. Such an arrogant c*nt. Remember last year when he used an ancient idiom with the 'n' word in it. Crusty ol' c#nt. Saying that, the ol' queen is probably on this site furiously masturbating away to the sexier threads.

Oh, I've just thrown up a little in my mouth.

P.S.

How good is our Prime Minister?

r75 Nope, in the porn world, Alec is THE The Honey Badger. He's huge abroad. Last I heard, Jake Shears rented him for the weekend.

I'm surprised to see that Columbian webcammer Diego Arnary gives his address as Sydney Australia

Olympic swimmer James Magnussen is hot. Any gay rumours?

R78 yeah he pings gay gay gay all the way home

Nearly 90 replies and no mention of Savage Garden/Darren Hayes?

Darren was definitely secretly hooking up with Daniel when they started out, right?

r65 is, in fact, Alan Jones himself.

[quote]P.S. How good is our Prime Minister?

Not very.

We haven't had a good PM for a while now.

Has anyone here fucked Christopher Pyne? I can only imagine how hungry his hole is

Christopher Pyne must be trolling us. On one of those Annabel Crabbe cooking shows - not the one with fag hag Amanda Vanstone - he said his favourite song is Over The Rainbow.

Fun fact - my neighbour is a big chardonnay socialist divorcee in her early 50s and sends big monthly donations to Manus Island refugee *=(and apparent UNSW professor!) Behrouz Boochani. She talks to him and fangirls about it to me. It's all a bit unsavoury.

Tom Waterhouse is gay. My sister and I walked in on him hooking up with another dude and giving him a handjob at an MCN event about 5 years ago.

R27 I see Nicholas Eadie at the railway station occasionally. He is not well.

It seems he has some kind of illness (or is inebriated?, I don’t know). He’s only had one TV role over the last 13 years.

There were rumours in Adelaide in 1997 that he raped another man. And three years ago, it seems, some man in Barcelona robbed and raped him.

That other Australian soap opera hottie Craig McLachlan was back in court today to fight indecent assault charges. Craig was cast in Neighbors in the 80s because he looked like "Kylie Minogue with muscles". He played Kylie's brother Henry Ramsay.

Michale Tunn is gay and was openly so with his friends. I meet him when I was 17 and he had a boyfriend he lived with. A bottom. Alex Dimitriades is straight- his sister is a lesbian. Has no problem playing gay roles. He is totally hot!

Is Marta Dusseldorp in a lavender marriage? Her husband is very hot and pings madly.

Isn’t Craig McLachlan bi? I heard gay rumors about him back in the day.

[Quote] and sends big monthly donations to Manus Island refugee *=(and apparent UNSW professor!) Behrouz Boochani. She talks to him and fangirls about it to me. It's all a bit unsavoury.

How generous of her 😐

R85 She must be a virtue-signaller

This thread is surprisingly entertaining...

[quote]Is Marta Dusseldorp in a lavender marriage? Her husband is very hot and pings madly.

He is ridiculously hot. I saw Ben Winspear in a Bell Shakespeare production that toured to the shitty town I was working in at the time. He glowed onstage and was shirtless much of the time. Dusseldorp seems like a dry society matron.

Winspear and Dusseldorp have two daughters but that doesn’t mean anything. I bet she’s got him on a short lease. I know I would. Damn, he’s a beautiful looking man.

My Behrouz-funding neighbour isn't a virtue-signaller (virtue-signaller? Who are you anyway, Andrew Bolt?) but she very much gets off on communicating with the wild-haired romantic-looking brown refugee.

Idk if they’re a lavender marriage, but Marta seemed much more into Winspear on that soap they were on more than she ever did with that boring plank of wood Brett Climo

Brett Climo had the same dramatic intellectual gravitas as Kylie Minogue.

I am partial to ginger Gilbert off of "Beauty and the Geek Australia Season 3" myself. My dream man.

Winspear auditioned to play the role Climo played. The producers really missed a trick.

R100 yes wasnt he the red head? Very hot and surprisingly muscular. Love the Beauty and the Geek makeovers. Do you think they were picked based on what they would look like post makeover?

R94 yeah totally agree! Finally a thread I know who everyone's talking about for a change

I met Marta Dusseldorp at one of those 'Morning Tea' events and she was TINY. Must weigh about 10kg. Hadn't thought about her and the husband but he does ping.

Interesting that Judy Davis and Colin Friels' son got arrested the other week for assault (some sort of bar fight). They keep such a tight lid on everything but I remember more than a decade ago Judy supposedly filed an AVO against Colin? She seemed to try and keep that all buried though, but it's weird that the son now is showing violent tendencies (I think both their kids grew up well in private schools etc.).

Does anyone else remember when singer of crooney old songs, David Campbell came out, years ago? I remember it being when he was known as a singer, and son-of-Barnesy, and before his tv career. I vaguely recall tv ads for women's magazine or celeb mag saying he was happy to finally be open about being gay. (Other details I think I remember bur definitely not as certain about are that he had a boyfriend and Barnesy was ok wth it all.)

Then he went quiet for a while. Next thing he was losing lots of weight, he began getting tv gigs that were more than just singing spots,, and his publicist team/CH9) was making a big fuss in the the glossies about him getting married. To a woman. .And suddenly there was nothing on the internet about that gay period.

Or is this like some kind of gay Mandela Effect ?

I have always thought Judy Davis was manic depressive, I've no evidence that she is, just a feeling I have. She also looks very tortured and neurotic, perhaps that's why.

Oh yeah, and Olivia Newton John. Livvy's a lesbian, isn't she?

Marcus Graham and Peter Phelps are apparently gay

R105 I always thought David Campbell was gay but don't remember him actually being 'out'? I might have cottoned on to him a little later though (like when he did Dancing with the Stars) so the 'clean up' of his image might have already been in action.

R106 I can see it. In my (very few) encounters with her she's always come across as EXTREMELY intelligent, but quite severe and fierce. She's really funny, but I get the sense that when she goes home she isn't always the happiest little vegemite.

R107 Wouldn't be surprised at all. At this point it doesn't really matter though because she'll probably be dead by the end of the year and I don't think she would have had any sordid affairs or anything that could come out later.

R108 I've ALWAYS thought Marcus Graham was gay. Not so sure about Phelps but he did play gay very convincingly in Lantana (brilliant movie).

R105 are you think of Anthony Callea?

Phillip Hughes the young cricketer who died, was gay

Matthew Mitcham's boyfriend does porn under the alias Layton Charles but his real name is Luke Rutherford

Nah, although I do know Anthony came out a few years ago. My memory of Campbell being gay was maybe somewhere around the mid 2000's. I've mentioned this online last year and someone else responded that they knew he'd come out but didn't know he'd had a big flowery, No Idea/Women's Monthly style wedding and was now presenting hetero. And I hate breakfast tv but when I do see the rather drawn-looking David Campbell on the screen, I still can't see him as the definitely heterosexed husband half of a straight couple. .

I didn't think Hugh Jackman (and Zac Efron) was gay until I saw the first 10 minutes of this. Ping, ping, PING.

I remember David Campbell coming out as gay! But I had no idea he was now married. Does he still host the morning show with Sonia Kruger? She's looking like a desiccated cicada on The Voice. Close-ups are not her friend at this stage of her career.

R32 - Re: Paul McDermott - back in the day, heard rumours that he was a real little root-rat - but strictly with women. Also - hygenically challenged. Dirty boy! lol!

R64 - Grant Denyer's little ray of sunshine public persona - I'll lay odds the story behind the scenes in quite different! Remember that expose in the women's mag a few years ago - he and his wife - busted at the expensive Thai rehab resort? They were supposedly overworked and tired. Or had problems with crystal meth. Depends who you believe. At the moment, there are posters of him on the sides of busses advertising his latest game show - and he looks freaky! Photoshopped to within an inch of his life - and fake, glowing, radioactive looking teeth. He's feeaking creepy! Can't imagine anyone more fake or inauthentic.

R90 - know someone who went to acting school with Düsseldorp or whatever her name is. Comes from money - entitled and borderline narcissistic from the get go. If she is in a lavender marriage - then it's not her inclination - or she's changed a lot! - she always liked men in the past - and always the best of them. The hottest, most likely to reflect well upon her, etc - and she was quite competitive and determined to get what she wanted.

The poster who mentioned Nichola Eadie. Very sad. He was pretty much universally loved by all in the industry. That accusation of rape hit him hard. His career seems over nowadays. He certainly had partied hard when he was young - but had to be fairly discreet as he was considered leading man//masculine hunk material professionally - which doesn't marry well with the dance-party and heavy male sex enthusiast in his private life. Must've been awkward - not like he was closeted to anyone in the biz.

I suspect you're right, r109, about Campbell being sanitised up for television. He'd been quite successful in musical theatre from 1996 onwards, and *I think* his coming out was after he'd finished up performing in 2001 musical, Shout! He won a Helpman for his role as Johnny O'Keefe, and so quickly became a bit of a household name. Wikipedia says he scored his first tv gigs, DWTS, and It Takes Two, in 2007, and it was November 2008 when he married English producer, Lisa Hewitt, in St. Philips', an Anglican church. in Sydney CBD's 'Church hill'. Poor guy, looks like he only had a couple of years of not hiding, until he was straightwashed for breakfast telly.

Seems this year's Queen's Birthday honours include a Medal of the Order of Australia awarded to one David "I'm a heterosexual now!" Campbell, for "service to the entertainment and arts". Yeah, R115, FrauDuLent, apparently he's still doing Morning Extra with the Cicada , as well as occasionally filling in for Karl the pisshead on Today. [Prior to that he'd been regular fill-in guy for Larry Emdur on The Morning Show, which led to him co-hosting Mornings]

Interesting about Dusseldorp. She is a good actress. So what is it about her castmate on APTCH being such an Instaho? Isn’t he getting a tad long in the tooth to be doing that? And the Logies are next weekend, right?

I’m referring to Tim Draxl, of course

Draxl is a fag and a sad cabaret singer who thinks he's gorgeous, and younger than he is

[Quote] Does he still host the morning show with Sonia Kruger? She's looking like a desiccated cicada on The Voice. Close-ups are not her friend at this stage of her career.

Lmao! I wonder if it's true that she's the reason Darren left The Voice or if he was just over it?

[Quote] At the moment, there are posters of him on the sides of busses advertising his latest game show - and he looks freaky!

I hope he has better luck with this. It annoyed the shit out of me that they would have Family Feud on all 3 channels.

I thought David Campbell was gay when I first heard of him, when he was still only working in theatre. I was assured by people who knew him that he wasn't, so I've kept a casual eye on him since, in the sense that I'd definitely have read anything that hinted he was gay. I absolutely DON'T remember him ever coming out. TIM Campbell did, of course, and subsequently married Anthony Callea.

As to David Campbell's weight, I'm sure I've heard him say he's been a vegan for the last several years. I think Lisa is too.

R98, if you want to see Brett Climo have chemistry, check this out. He wasn't always a plank of wood.

I guess that's possible, R102, but the show felt so sincere, especially the Aussie version(s), that I didn't mind. I mean, I can't believe looking like Gilbert and knowingly selling himself as the former. So damn cute but with the shyness and sweetness of a little computer nerd. Not from there so wondered if they became local celebrities of sorts with these shows? Gilbert, at least (he was clearly a popular one).

Although Climo and Dusseldorp had little chemistry on APTCH it somehow worked.

R9, R10, R118 Hugh Sheridan and Tim Draxl are both peas in a pod (though one is straight and the other gay)

Both actor/singers are in their 30s with a few crows-feet on their face and both trying desperately to ensnare the gay market. Tim gets semi-nude on Instagram and Hugh is photographed with two socks stuffed down his underpants

R14 Beau Ryan may be superficially sexy but he’s hairless hetero with no waist.

R23 Craig Zonca isn’t gay but every ABC employee is an effeminised SNAG.

R27 I hadn’t heard the late Harold Hopkins was gay.

R34 I used to furtively visit that porn store on Park St in Sydney.

R38 I’ve never heard of Christopher Egan. It seems he was another ex-Home and Away star who got lost in LA

R41 You will need to give us a few more clues as to that alleged ‘swimmer who fucked Jackman’.

David Campbell pings gay but I never recall any 'coming out'.

R106 I've only ever heard how unpleasant Judy Davis is from so many people. Walked by her and hubby Colin Friels (they were coming out of a restaurant we were going in) - I didn't recognise either of them but wasn't paying any attention either. Personally, I would never want any interaction from Judy Davis aside from watching her work (she usually great in anything she does). Honestly, Judy Davis & Debra Winger should appear in a film together. They both appear to be unbearable people but hugely talented.

Hugh Jackman pings like anything - even in photographs. Back in the mid 90's on the back page of a magazine in a Sunday paper was a picture of Deborah Lee-Furness with accompanying article. My partner was looking at the article, I glanced over his shoulder and said 'Who is that queen in the background'. He replied 'That's Hugh Jackman'. I honestly didn't recognise him and he was even that prominent in the picture but his imagine shouted out Gay. Anyway, my partner and I still laugh about that.

R107 There were actually rumours decades ago that ONJ and actress Chantal Contouri were a longterm couple.

R125, are you his agent? Hugh Sheridan is glass-closeted

I just want to add that I do not recall David Campbell coming out. I think [R122] is right and someone has mixed him up with Tim Campbell who is out and married to Anthony Callea.

It's possible R130...but it feels so clear in my mind, because I distinctly remember thinking hmm, how will Barnesy cope with having a gay son.

Anybody watch The Voice tonight? Sonnee Kruegs was looking like an old Barbie whose face had been left on the ducted heating vent overnight. I've got a bit of a hard on for that Denzel guy on Team Kelly.

If David Campbell were out in any way the papers would have been screaming about Barnsey’s gay bastard in order to horrify his bogan fans.

Are you confusing David Campbell confirming he was Jimmy’s son with him coming out?

Hugh Sheridan is gay but the media aren’t about to out him.

Dan Ewing is a strange one. Definitely gay rumours around him and some thought he felt ‘obliged’ to marry the ex wife. Not sure if he’s still best friends with her brother.

Sonia Kruger is fun!! Yes she looks a mess but she's one of the few likeable morning TV personalities.

My friend's mother waxed Toni Collette's pussy at a salon in Sydney and said she was funny but a little rude/coarse. Deb Mailman was nice.

Gay David Campbell is the Australian manifestation of the Mandela effect, this is the only explanation for it!

I've always wondered why the media seem to shield Hugh Sheridan.

You're right R134, Sonia does at least seem fun. I'm glad to hear that about Collette and Mailman, I've always liked both of them.

Seem to remember there was an article/photo essay on David Campbell in the second or third issue of that soft porn gay 'art' magazine - Blue - many years ago.

Think there were tasteful nude pics - without displaying peen - and outta memory - didn't come out - but was being very coy and cool about it - and assume his agent had thought the gig would be a great marketing tool to men who go to cabarets and buy CDs of show tunes...

I had the issue - but sent it to a friend in the States who wanted it - so can't dig it out to confirm. But I think there was a lots of mystery and 'is he or isn't he?' going on.

Anyway - certainly gay-friendly and happy to appeal to our demographic back in the day.

Any money you like r126 directs his preferences to One Nation.

I'm pretty sure David Campbell never came out. He seems to be a very gay friendly, straight theater guy. He is hosting Weekend Today and still a few mornings of the Today Extra thing. I do wonder if he's being groomed to join the Today show full time as a co-host after the sacking of the Stefanovic brothers and co debacle. That show has lost it's zing after Carlos left. It really is bad. It seems like a group of nice people playing at making a show in a shitty little studio.

By the by, I quite enjoy Nat on Sunrise. I like her sass!

Tim Draxl is as ugly as sin.

A police acquaintance who used to work in the Newtown area eons ago said that that Matthew Newton had bean smacking Brooke Satwell around a few times in the years before her makeup artist discovered her bruises. She called the cops on him a few times and didn't take it further.

Matthew Newton has bipolar, could be genetic as Bert had a well publicised mental breakdown when he was young and doctors gave him LSD. Wouldn't surprise me if Bert were gay and an ex lover of Graham Kennedys.

apparently Dame Edna is Barry Humphreys in drag but I can't confirm this. He was her manager for years but they've never been seen together. I'm also told Aggro was a puppet but I beg to differ, I think he just like being fisted.

That made me laugh R142. Your mention of Aggeo just sent me ricocheting all the way back to childhood.

Aggro*

I'm not sure Agro would make it in today's world....didn't he used to 'touch' his sidekick under the table?

I can't imagine Bert is straight, completely. But who knows??

I don't really get the legend that is 'Bert'. He was entertaining and a good host.

It is a joy to see KAK outing her self as a right winged monster these days.

I met Pia Miranda (Looking for Alibrandi, etc.) at a party once and she said KAK played a 5-second cameo in a short film she did, and that KAK was a fucking bitch and yelling at everyone on her set - I think the cameo was shot on the actual KAK Show after they filmed for the day.

KAK is wack!

There is no way Bert is "completely straight", but what he might be is litigious. He's not bipolar - his problem was depression mixed with alcohol. That's by his own admission and I've never seen any reason to question that.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Graham was an undiagnosed bipolar case, though. He was associated with big mood swings, eg going from being the life of the party at the studio to shutting himself off from everyone for weeks at a time except on set. Those who worked with him pointed out he was in a very stressful job, which he reacted to with great anxiety, but from today's standpoint it sounds like more than that. I never thought he was tortured by his homosexuality (he was forever dropping gleeful hints), so it was something else.

Matthew Newton is very talented and no doubt he is bipolar, but he surely couldn't have waged as much mayhem as he did in his youth without a sizeable drug problem. If that was the case, and if he's stopped now, it's a pity his career seems to have been eternally blighted by drug-affected behaviour, repulsive as it was.

R135, I always assumed the studios shielded Hugh Sheridan because, Money.

KAK = Kerri-Anne Kennerley?

Yes, R150.

I will never forget Gina Riley's bang-on impersonation of KAK as "Kerri-Anne Kennel".

[quote]Matthew Newton is very talented and no doubt he is bipolar, but he surely couldn't have waged as much mayhem as he did in his youth without a sizeable drug problem. If that was the case, and if he's stopped now, it's a pity his career seems to have been eternally blighted by drug-affected behaviour, repulsive as it was.

He got a long way on the "I'm not violent, just bipolar" message, but he turned out to be violent anyway. I know heaps of bipolar people and none of them have beaten up multiple partners or attacked taxi drivers. He was never a very interesting actor to watch, so I can't say I miss him. Little wonder Ewen Leslie and Toby Schmitz mopped up all the roles in that demographic.

That's a young Jamie Durie (Backyard Blitz, etc.) as the stripper whose bulge is in Gina (as KAK)'s face. ^^

I thought that was him, r154!

Sef Gonzalez murdered David Breckenridge.

David Campbell is straight but as a young man doing theatre was cast in gay roles for niche marketing. Alex Dimitriades is gay and I have met him. I didn't know about Victoria Longley but I met her once and she was very butch so no surprise.

I wish YouTube has the video from the Logies in 1982 or thereabouts where US soap actress Susan Seaforth Hayes basically outed the actor playing her son.

I was half listening to KAK on Studio 10 the other day. She was questioning Joe Hildebrand about something to do with coal mines. It was a little awkward.

I have a question for Australians about an Australian rugby player who was also a TV commentator I think in the 90s. He was handsome but had an obnoxious personality and he ended up committing suicide leaving a family with small children. Apparently he was bipolar but this fact was a secret. I don't remember his name. Do you know who this was?

R160 Dan Vickerman.

There were whispers about Liv being a lesbian but no concrete info. She has been in LTRs with men all her life. Though her ex husband

r160 Peter Jackson?

Rugby League, though, not Union.

Though her ex husband Matt Lattanzi is quite a strange bird indeed......

R38 Egan certainly played his version of the biblical David on NBC’s shortlived KINGS with a gay slant. He was often in scenes opposite real-life bisexual Sebastian Stan who incidentally was playing gay man.

How does cutie Daniel Webber identity?

He gave a fun, flouncy, flamboyant portrayal of rockstar Vince Neil in THE DIRT on Netflix. He was probably the best actor in it despite having less experience and significantly less fame than his costars like Iwan Rheon & Machine Gun Kelly.

^^he’s from Gosford originally if that helps.

i've heard Aggro likes a good fist too

Did musical theatre performer Philip Quast enjoy the homosex. And did Simon Bailey get work back in Oz after being run out of the UK for being such a manwhore?

"Everlasting Secret Family" pretty out there Aussie film about (I think) young guys becoming the playthings of the rich and powerful.

Anyway, as a kid watching Aussie soaps I lusted after peter Phelps in Sons & Daughters. Of course, who didn't. Oh, and Gary Sweet in some other shows.

R16, I'm still angry with Michael Hutchence! He moved like Mick Jagger but was actually good looking! What a stupid way to die - anybody would have happily fucked him.

Gary Sweet was so damn sexy.

Wake UP Australia! I'm trying to gossip with you. Lazy, uncultured Ozmanauts.

[quote]Whatever happened to Andrew McFarlane of The Sullivans and The Flying Doctors?

Was replaced by the equally tall and handsome Cameron Daddo in the early 90s, who is also straight (despite infidelity).

R171 Paula Yates used to peg him up the ass with a strap on dildo! So he as getting royally fucked at the time..........

R163 - Yes it was Peter Jackson. Thank you.

Gary Sweet was sexy but short.

Peter Phelps went full-frontal in a theatre show. A female friend saw it and reported he was being very coy about showing the penis which was very frustrating but when it was finally revealed, it was underwhelming.

What’s the story on Matt Lattanzi? Gay, right? ONJ sure knows how to pick ‘em

Is anyone going to watch Andrew Denton's interview with Madonna?

Peter Phelps for R170 (and R178).

A mention of Andrew McFarlane! I ran into him and his husband at an event a few weeks ago. He’s still handsome.

Marcus Graham was mentioned above. Not gay when I knew him but I got the impression he would probably have slept with anyone that could help him advance. Like a lot of actors.

R160 that was Peter Jackson

I had the Cleo centrefold with Gary Sweet's thick hairy body but came all over it one time too many

Didn’t Nicole Kidman date Tom Burlinson AND Marcus Graham back in the day? She knows how to pick them.

R186 I have no idea about Tom Burlinson, but Kidman and Graham were a hot and heavy item right up until the second she met Tom Cruise.

Tom Burlinson reminds me a lot of the late Australian actor Jon Blake. A great actor who was really square-jawed and handsome. Blake was destined to become the next Tom/Mel Gibson. The world was just starting to notice before his career was cut short in 1986 with a horrific accident on the set of the film "The Lighthorseman". He was left with devastating brain injuries and never recovered. One of the saddest stories to come from the Aussie film world.

r165 When did Sebastian Stan come out? I know there has been speculation but I can't find anything online where he addresses it....

Will I tell my meeting Alex Dimitriades story again? I told it on an other thread some time ago.

Regarding Vince Martin - he was known as a major pussyhound. I knew a girl who dated him though she was an ice maiden.

Another tale I have told before was when I worked at the Sydney Theatre Company. Hugh Jackman was rehearsing The Boy From Oz there at the time and I laughed when I could overhear Hugh taking voice lessons to talk like Peter Allen.

I saw that play where Peter Phelps was naked. It was called ‘Miranda’ and it co-starred Dee Smart. There was a shower onstage. Five minutes into the show, Peter gets completely naked and pretty much stays naked for the rest of the show (except he put on like a female’s half fur coat which only went up to his stomach, so his dick was not covered for the whole play. It was an awful play. Awful.

He also did The Sum of Us, something I also saw on stage, though not with him. I don't remember any nudity required for that but that was the play I thought my friend said he was naked in.

If we're talking soap stars then Ben Unwin has managed to stay off the radar. He was in Home and Away in the late 90's and around that time I saw him once at Bodyline sauna in Sydney. We made eye contact he he knew that I knew but didn't seem too bothered at being recognised.

Back when he was playing football, Freddie Fittler was known to liking the dick.

Married now with kids so make of that what you will.

Lachlan Murdoch was also known doing the downlow when he lived in Sydney.

I swear I had sex at Obelisk once with a guy the spitting image of Lachlan Murdoch. He even had an American accent. But Lachlan has a Celtic tattoo on his forearm and this guy had no tatts. Tiny, cut dick but very enthusiastic partner. Waved goodbye to me later as he roared off on his motorbike - which I think Murdoch also likes - but since there was no tattoo...??

Lachlan was not bad looking when he was young. Maybe it was one of the other Murdoch brothers? James Packer also not bad looking for half a second when he was young.

Yes please r190.

I caught the last half of The Voice and holy shit at that Jack kid. Why did he have to fuck with his face?

He went to L.A.

Jack Vidgin looks like Bob Hawke's wife Blanch d'Alpuget

I know someone's mentioned Paul McDermott being a little root rat with women back in the day but I've heard rumours in the last few years he's into men. Pretty sure he and others have been sharing cheeky jibes with each other about it too. eg Dave Hughes on McDermott's show Room101, On the other hand, I did hear way back that another Dog Anthony All Star, Tim Ferguson, was gay. I'm still not sure about that one. But it would've disappointed quite a few women who , at the time, used to like him for his boyish looks and floppy fringe.

HA! r102

R202 LOL. He really does.

Speaking of Cleo centrefolds, does anybody remember Brodie Holland's? One of my first crushes.

From behind:

Oops, I mean r202

Awww, that Jon Blake story was really sad. He was amazing looking.

R199 - I used to live in Kings Cross and at one time Alex was doing a play at the Griffin Theatre Company. One day he was at the hairdressers in front of my block of units. The shop's toilet was near the units and frankly I was sick of having to tell every customer where it was. He appeared in my hallway as I was coming home. He asked me where the toilet was and I ignored him. I recognised who he was but still ignored him. He asked me again so I relented and told him, and he smiled at me. I told him I was going to see his play that night, which I was, and he came closer to me. He said to come and talk to him after the show. He was soft spoken which was a bit of a surprise since I had seen him play tough characters. So that night I saw his play with a friend and afterwards he was in the foyer. He was surrounded by people but saw me and smiled, though staying in his group. I might have stayed to try and talk to him but my friend dragged me away, as he was not as interested in talking to Alex. I had heard that he was gay and after talking to him briefly I believed it. It wasn't a lets-fuck right now reaction but he certainly had the vibe.

I never knew what later eventuated for Jon Blake either.

This news clip on his death includes nice vox pop from both Jack Thompson and Peter Phelps.

**I'm inspired to seek out The Lighthorsemen again now.

It was definitely Lachlan of the Murdochs who was the one out and about town getting the dick. Poor Sarah.

I was told a funny story by a friend that Aussie cricket Captain Mark Tubby Taylor used to give blow jobs back in his high school days by fellow school friends.

I always found the part of Blake's legal battle that applied to lost future earnings odd. There was no guarantee he was going to become a big star in Hollywood, so they were lucky to get the settlement.

R212 He definitely had "it" at the time. But "it" could have passed him by quickly. He did sadly look at least in hindsight perfectly positioned to have a solidly successful career ahead of him, if not become a major international star.

Speaking of Home and Away, Ross Newton is gay. I believe he has left the acting business.

R172 & 177 - Gary Sweet was as sexy as fuck for quite a while - but eventually lost it. Knew people who worked with him. Was a bit of an arsehole when it came to women. He was billed as sexiest guy in the country bavk then - and took full advantage of his looks and fame. Compulsive puusyhound - and would compete with younger co-stars to see who could get their end in the most. It was all a game.

So a completely caring, sensitive new age guy really...lol!

Vince Martin I hadn't thought of for years - he was beautiful when young.

Anyone remember the blond, athletic young John Walton? Hod he was gorgeous! He did soaps and had a run in theatre with the old Nimrod company. Not seen him in anything in ages...

John Walton died in 2014.

John Walton was gay.

He is also In The Lighthorsemen with Jon Blake and Peter Phelps and Gary Sweet.

So Todd McKenney used to date his brother in law ?

Todd was on with Simon Gallagher for a number of years way back during their Gilbert & Sullivan days.

Simon married Todd's sister.

Todd publicly outed Simon a year or two ago and essentially ended his sister's marriage.

I got to interview Alex Dimitriades when he came to NZ to do press for 'Head On'. He was stunning, and a total honey. He fucking hated the actor who played his 'love interest' in the film. If you have seen it you will be aware Alex is fucking committed and during the sex scene the other actor turned very difficult and wanted out of the sex scene. Asshole

Also interviewed Bill Hunter when he was here with 'Priscilla'. Said he fucked Ava Gardner when she was shooting 'On The Beach' in Oz. I knew he was on the shoot doing stunts, and when I asked, off air, about the film he stated he had fucked her, actually had a bit of a fling. Very very cool man.

Oh someone up thread mentioned Marcus Graham.....

Ok he was in Wellington shooting a very bad kids S.F show, I was shooting at the same studio, we struck up a friendship, (straightishy).

Anyhoo, I got him some acid, (the great thing about having all the International crews in town is you can always get good A Class in Wellington), and it was fucking nice. I did not realize he had been (mostly) straight since the Nicole shit.

Long story short, he disappeared for two days, missed calls and shoots and it became a semi shit show. And then he left town then and there. Hope he is happy, lovely guy

R166 wasn’t Dougie Booth knocking off him off during the filming of that movie?

Gary Sweet cheated compulsively on Joanna Griggs. They were an odd pairing anyway (she seems so much less intense lol).

R221 His character was not very discerning in choice of partners. The old guy and the fat Asian if I remember correctly

My friend dated an ex bf of Andrew McFarlane

I had no idea that Bob and Eliza from The 100 got married. I remember when she was on Neighbours with the rest of her bogan family. And I think at the time she was dating some cricket player who was in his 30s when she was only 19.

David Campbell was kind of out/outed in the early-mid 90’s. I remember seeing a women’s magazine with the headline “Jimmy Barnes gay shock!” but because of the different surname didn’t make any connection. David had a role in the (very gay) play Love! Valour! Compassion! during the 1996 Mardi Gras season. One of the gay newspapers in Sydney published a very bitchy piece about the torrid ‘love, valour, and compassion’ going on between two of the male cast. No names were mentioned but somehow you just knew it was David Campbell and Caleb Packham (whose acting career didn’t take off and is now a yoga instructor). Around the same time Outrage magazine did a cover story on David Campbell but the closet door had closed (if it had ever really been open). It was such an awkward interview that they sarcastically used on the magazine cover a pic of David biting his lip and looking confused. Can’t find a copy of that cover pic now but it was similar to this one:

[quote]Gary Sweet cheated compulsively on Joanna Griggs. They were an odd pairing anyway

Such a frau.

Doesn't Dannii Minqgue like pussy? She always seemed like a bi-slut to me.....

I'll be anything you want for a decent paycheck and some camera time!

Can someone make a thread about Canadian gossip?

R203 there’s no way Paul McDermott is straight. I’ve noticed bi guys who repress that side of themselves are often the biggest pussyhounds

Is Alan Jones gay ?

John Walton, used to hate him in Heartbreak High as Lee's dad.

Anyway Tina Bursill is a lesbian, was in relationship with Victoria Longley before she died.

Rowena Wallace always pinged to me.

Alan Jones has never married and he was arrested in a public toilet in London in 1988 for committing an indecent act.

Gay actors. Damian Rice (G.P.) & Reef Ireland (Wentworth/Westside).

If Rowena was gay R236 She would have been eaten up by Judy Nunn & Pat McDonald on S&D.

Rowena was a demanding bitch on set

Reef Ireland is kinda cute, he was in a movie called Downriver with some gay elements.

So Hugh Jackman is really gay ?

Home & Away seems to have had a lot of gays working in front of the camera and behind, yet never any really on screen. Bizarre.

Kylie Watson

Justin Melvey

Ross Newton

Ben Unwin

Ray Meagher

Fiona Spence

Ryan Kwanten

Dieter Brummer

Greg Shears

Bevan Lee

Andrew Howie

Jet Wilkinson

Judy Nunn

More known for A Country Practice but was also on Home & Away, Gavin Harrison was fucking Jaason Simmons (Baywatch) when he moved to LA.

Corey Page (The City & Heartbreak High) is gay as well.

Was Pat MacDonald a les? I know Bunny Brooke was.

Noeline Brown was a lez.

R230 - don't know anything about Danni Minogue's sexual inclinations - tho you'd have to think she was into cock from her extensive dating history...

I worked with a woman years ago who wasn't a performer but spent a lot of time when young on the YTT set as her parent worked on the show.

When I knew this woman, there was a lot about Danni in the press - her plastic surgery, love life, dramas - she was such an attention whore - and most here were down on her and thought her vaguely ridiculous. Anyway - this woman always maintained that no matter what went down - she and all the cast and crew of the show all really liked Danni. She was always professional - as well as friendly and genuine - a truly good egg! - and my colleague would t hear a bad word about her.

Otoh - Tina arena? Apparently no one liked working with her. Cold, calculating, ambitious - always about her - and no interest in anyone else. Which used to upset me as I was a huge fan - and thought - and still think! - she's super talented. Ah well - love the art - don't dwell too much on the artist...

R242 really?? Alf??

R244 She LIVED with Bunny Brooke in a Sydney apartment. It was in one of the mags at the time. They were an item but split some time in the 80s.

Oh hell yeah, Rowena Wallace and Ally Fowler are definitely. Together for a while as well , apparently..

The entire Minogue family are very lovely and tight knit. The parents did a great job.

Walked past Hamish From The Project last summer, more handsome IRL than on TV.

KAK is actually pretty great but she should have taken some time out after John’s death. The strain of the last couple years is showing.

[Quote] The entire Minogue family are very lovely and tight knit. The parents did a great job.

How come their relationships never seem to last?? Danii and Kris looked good together.

Dieter Brummer? Like the porn star Deeper Bummer?

Judy Nunn always looked like a lesbian, but I never got any ping vibes from her whatsoever. Many of the actresses from that era are quite butch, so it's sometimes hard to tell. She's also been married to the same man for over 30 years and they seem really settled.

Damian Walshe Howling is gay...gay...gay.

God! Remember pretty, blond Dieter Brummer? WHET?

And remember that other blind lad - Dougie the Pizza Boy - who was 'discovered' in the Pizza Hut ads - and I think then went onto a soap role - and then self-destructed and blew his career?

And what if Gerard Sont - the Son of Alvin?

Alan Jones had a cool warehouse conversion in Newtown back in the 90"s and from my attic bedroom window I could look into his lounge room. He had framed the headlines from his bust in the London toilet and had them proudly displayed around his living room. He had a handsome, muscular black "chauffeur" at the time.

Last year Rowena was telling the story of her passionate night with Peter Phelps, who played her son on Sons and Daughters.

Gerry Sont is straight.

Is she sure it wasn't Kerryn, his dyke sister?

in 2017 Dieter was in Perth working as part of the Dinner In the Sky team. His lesser-known high-rise abseiling skills landed him the job of securing guests in their safety harnesses before they’re hoisted 50 metres for the ultimate in ‘pop-up’ eating.

The Pizza Hut guy was Diarmid Heidenreich.

Aussie Frau Alert: I had posters of Dieter all over my walls, but took them down after a huntsman emerged from behind one. Also, had an issue of Smash Hits with 'Dieter' in bold across the front. My father awkwardly took me aside and told me I was too young to worry about my weight and I shouldn't be reading dieting magazines.

R253 Judy & Abigail were at a nightclub in the 80s in a sort of paid appearance situation promoting Sons & Daughters and she was flirting with women all night, none of which seemed interested in her and some seemed oblivious, whilst Abigail was drinking like a fish and dancing with the young guys.

I know she married Bruce Venables, so maybe she retired carpet munching.

Gerry Sont was really hot in Home and Away, and he also got his cock out readily when he was on Chances.

Seriously R264? I got the Chances dvds and all I saw was Mercia Deane Johns tits bouncing up and down whilst she was fucking on a pool table.

R263 Abigail was really sexy when she was young. I felt really bad for her after she lost her home after the Victorian floodings and she wound up living in emergency accommodation in a church for a while. When ACA found out they turned up on her doorstep with a hidden camera and of course, she did not look glamorous at all when she answered the door. So they had a field day with "sex-symbol gone to seed" headlines.

[quote]Seriously [R264]? I got the Chances dvds and all I saw was Mercia Deane Johns tits bouncing up and down whilst she was fucking on a pool table.

I wore out my recorded VHS copy of Gerard Sonts penis on Chances years ago, it was gloriously handsome!

Poor Abigail. Only turns up in the news these days if it's for some unfortunate reason. Like Rowena Wallace, only makes the news if she is being busted for benifits fraud again or something.

Justin Melvey is gay? He’s gorgeous.

Abigail was also a forerunner to Kylie Minogue, soap actress turned pop singer. Her song Je t'aime was a hit in Australia and also turned up in some commercials in the 80s.

Ray Meagher Judy Nunn and Noeline Brown are not gay

The slightly gruff manner of women like Judy Nunn is very common in Australia, particularly among women of her generation.

R246 Interesting! I would have thought Tiny Tina was too young on that show to throw her weight around or anything. But maybe that came from realising her talent early… she is arguably one of the best voices to ever come out of this country and was slumming it with some of the other teeny boppers even at that age, lol.

R254 He has always pinged to me! Classic ‘gay mouth’ lol. He showed a lot of skin in his brief appearances on the show Satisfaction, I had a bit of a crush at the time.

R271 Is exactly right. Every homosexual known to man has never been married to the opposite sex, ever. Social factors, self loathing, scared to grow old alone, lavender marriages simply do not exist.

Honestly maybe you need to stop reading Woman's Day and stop being so gullible.

r266 everyone involved in ACA needs a punch in the cunt.

R273 Tina is Sicilian right? Very OCD, crazy and nuts in general.

Any goss on Hugh Sheridan ?

I worked with a women who dated someone on Young Talent Time back in the mid-late eighties. She said they were all coke heads. I can't imagine it to be true, but she's not the type to lie or dramatise for attention, so...

^from above, I should clarify.....the older ones of course..........think 'The New Generation'........if you remember that?

R44 Browning quietly dated her younger co-star Liam Aiken for a little bit after the movie wrapped, didn’t she? They were just kids so I don’t imagine it was serious, and given their ages at the time (18 & 17 respectively) I can see why they’d have kept even a casual relationship quiet. I think I remember reading about it on Livejournal.

They were both teens playing in their first big roles for ASOUE with La Streep & Jim Carrey, so that must have been trepidatious. It’s a pity Emily only did movies that were either weird or exploitative & trashy after that, because she is rather good when given opportunity.

I don’t know if she’s ever dated women or ever would but she strikes me as bisexual.

Well its pretty well known that Molly Meldrum is gay. And John Michael Howson.

Is John Michael Howson dead...yet?

Half of Datalounge sounds like John Michael Howson.

I have it on good authority that Russel Crowe is actually part kangaroo.

A lot of us seem to be remembering that time in the 1990s when young David Campbell was very definitely putting his butt out and making use of us for his own career.

R122 He was in the theatre as an unknown 20 year-old starring in an AIDS play called ‘Three Winters Green’ at the Stables Theatre in ‘Gay Land (Darlinghurst) in late 1993.

Then in ‘Relative Merits’ at the same theatre in March 1994 where he played a naive 19-year-old country swooning over his hunky football-playing brother.

Then in another uber-gay play called ‘Only-Heaven-Knows’ in the following year (cute shirtless picture below) .

R228 ‘Love! Valour! Compassion!’ was in the 1996 Gay Mardi Gras at the Footbridge Theatre and it had quite a lot of incidental nudity. He played Bobby, the young blind character and he caused a sensation when he’s nude (and blind) walking forward towards a refrigerator placed at the front of the stage and fooling the audience to think he’d fall off the stage.

And I guess that was the time he did those ‘tasteful nude pics’ in that soft porn named Blue magazine (R137).

He was also doing some solo cabaret shows specialising in old style queeny camp lounge music and Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber there that year. Her appeared with visiting American diva Barbara Cook in 1995.

Then he was picked up by Michael Feinstein taking him to New York and pushing him into some big projects— such as dubbing the singing voice for Ben Affleck in ‘Joseph, King of Dreams’ in 2000.

There may have been more but I guess all of that was ‘under the sheets’.

[Quote] It’s a pity Emily only did movies that were either weird or exploitative & trashy after that, because she is rather good when given opportunity.

I liked Sucker Punch but Sleeping Beauty was just gross.

R285 Click on the picture—

He looks so vulnerable in that picture with his little ears sticking out.

He's being protected by some bruiser (who looks rather like porn performer Cayden Ross)

R283 Yes. Remember his marriage years ago to get a green card to work in the U.S. He even did a photo shot with the 'wife' for No Idea or Woman's Day!

I think John Michael Howson would have set off even the weakest and faulty gaydar...

For what it is worth my mum was friends with Judy Nunn years back and if she was gay my mum would have said so because my mum is an incorrigible gossip. Seriously she's really indiscreet. I think she has a problem.

LOL. Blue Magazine! And it's heterosexual sibling Black + White! I used to look at pictures of unclothed athletes and soap stars at the newsagents while my mum bought the Lotto tickets.

Did Big Brother there ever show anyone enjoying the homosex?

I don't think so. They only ever had on one token gay at a time I think.

Here's the Big Brother house now in all its glory....

[quote] at the newsagents while my mum bought the Lotto tickets.

R290 that little clause made me feel all warm and cosy.

I know we're guests on American DL and should quietly assimilate their lingo out of politeness, but I have to say it is just rather nice to hear Anglo & Aussie terms bandied about here. I feel more at home reading replies such as this. Anyway, as you were gents.

That Big Brother house has so many memories.

But still I prefer 'Love Island' where the participants seem less like 'lab-rats'.

They should bring Big Brother back. And it should be uncut, not the PG bullshit they tried on Channel 9.

Bill Collins: gay?

Bi perhaps R296. He was married to a woman.

R292 No they had two gays together in 2006. David & Rob Wriggly. Nothing happened.

...Except Camilla got her heart broken because she wanted to fuck David. They became friends after a few weird days.

Is this where someone says Bill Collins is dead to me?

What was the deal with Gretel Killeen? I liked her on Big Brother as the host but she always seemed a little unstable. Kind of ready to 'snap', maybe a bit too real for TV. It was so long ago I don't remember any specific incidents, she just seemed a bit tense.

Does anyone else remember this BANGER? I saw Joanne in Melbourne a few years ago singing at a small pub. She's HUGE now (not only overweight but incredibly tall) but she can still sing lol.

R301 - oh god! Haven't heard Jak-Jak-Jacki in years! My partner used to constantly hum and sing it to himself bavk in the day - will hafta play this for him!

So where does Joanne perform nowadays? Reckon she'd be great at torchy old ballads and classic jazz standards!

It was some pub in Melbourne (can't remember the name), not a huge audience or anything but I was surprised and impressed she was still out there doing it!

Has a backing band and they do mostly covers, Motown classics, disco hits, some rock songs, Tina Turner stuff. And of course some of her 'hits', I only recognised Jack-Jack-Jackie which she closed with, and she sounded just as good on it despite it being a million years ago. Everyone was dancing their head off.

Her voice probably would be good on more jazzy stuff though. But she still sounds GREAT. I think she said her and the band had a regular thing there every week and also did other shows here and there.

r299 Wasn't Camilla on the receiving end of a donkey punch? A mild Me Too scandal at the time.

R304 Camilla got too close when the guy on the right was draping his ample genitals around the play room.

^ Mid-200s hair was the worst. Combed forward gelled spikes! Frosted tips!

Do you think hot Asian guy will win Masterchef?

Sexy deep voice. Hope he does well. But my eye is on cutie Ben.

I was watching on Thursday night and wondered if those two had hooked up in the house. I shall presume they have because that would be delightful.

R300 Is Bill Collins gay ?

Years ago there was a story about Bill Collins and his wife selling their home. I was surprised he had a wife. Old queen from way back. Also, Gretel Killeen is just as she appears; a bitter nasty cunt, my best friend worked with her.

I want his memorabilia. What is happening to his memorabilia?

R311 - yeah - collins for married years ago - always assumed it was a lavender marriage/marriage of convenience between two old friends. I mean - he was as gay as a goose! - and out of memory, she was this very grandmotherly, slightly frumpy woman. Hopefully they had a lovely life together - he seemed pretty nice and relatively harmless...

Tho I had a flatmate years ago - early eighties - who had wanted to be a filmmaker. He'd made some super-eight home movies - and somehow his parents brought them to the attention of Collins (don't know exactly if they knew him or knew someone who did!) - and Collins - supposedly was very impressed and for a little while 'mentored' the lad. He was a straight lad - allegedly! - and very nice looking, nearly finished high school. Never heard any mention of anything untoward - but then you wouldn't - I mean - like the guy would ever say anything? And collins certainly wouldn't! But I often wondered...

Oh! And Collins' wife's name? Joan. Not to be confused with a more famous Joan Collins!

that reminded me, do effeminate straight men really exist or are they just pretending to be straight? Yes, she was a homely woman, definitely not the Joan Collins we all know.

No straight men would love movies that much

Anyone here donating to Folau’s GoFundMe ?

^ They aren't donating to Folau’s personal funds. They are donating to the principle of religious freedom.

That Irish Qantas head has already donated tens of millions in his fight against religious freedom (as well as his company's sponsorship of a game which is dominated by drunken boofheads who like to go raping every party they go to).

Collins married his secretary Joan.

Collins was likely gay as a goose as you say.

Although gay, I would say he was asexual in a sense of non practicing in the dark art of SEX!

I think their marriage was genuine in a sense that they shared mutual interests and were just great life companions.

I know marriages like that. Especially as they married at a latter age.

He seemed like a lovely man and demonstrated a true passion for something that he made a career and dream job out of.

Rape doesn't exist to famous football players, just bewilderment, bewilderment that any woman could possibly resist them. In their minds there is no woman on earth who would not sleep with them thus rape doesn't exist to them.

[quote]They aren't donating to Folau’s personal funds. They are donating to the principle of religious freedom.

No, they aren't. They're donating to the principle that it' should be fine to ignore your employer's codes of conduct if it means telling gay people they're going to hell.

Anyone who donates a cent to him is an out and out homophobe.

I saw Bill Collins once in person. He looked very tall - maybe 6'2. I was at that showbiz record store in Sydney Ava and Susan's, which I understand is now gone, and spotted him talking to the owners there. He didn't cruise me or anything.

Bill Collins never pinged to me. If anything he appeared asexual and to my knowledge not a shred of gossip was ever heard. I think the love of his life was list love of movies.

I always loved when Bill Collins would bring out his memorabilia when presenting movies. He had a replica of The Maltese Falcon. I always appreciate how much he loved Douglas Sirk.

He was great. I remember watching his introduction to Leave Her to Heaven even though I had just seen it at a reportary cinema. Bill Collins was a legend. And to think he only stopped presenting films on Foxtel last year.

Oh he died yesterday aged 84.

Call him by his correct name - John Michael ‘Hollywood’ Howson 😂

And call it by its real name - ‘religious freedom’ only seems to pop up when someone wants to engage in hate speech. People like Folau aren’t sanctioned for openly going to church or making positive posts. Only when they tell people they’re sinners going to hell.

J. Klocek?

The guy who played Peter Allen in the TV biopic a few years ago. Anything there?

Joe Creasely had a bit about doing the wash up at an orgy hosted by a Neighbours actor. Anyone know who?

R321 - was t Ava and Susan's fabulous back in the day? Long since closed. Sigh. Great soundtracks - still have a few! Could never work out which of the owners was supposed to be Ava and which one was Susan though... ;)

Collins would plug the store on tv all the time. He was very generous about stuff like that - book and record stores got plenty of business thanks to his mentions on his movie show. But if you started getting into that - I gather it was carte blanche for Mr Collins to have pretty much whatever he wanted from your shop. But hell - worth every penny! You just can't buy that kind of publicity normally...

That swimming mini series had some nice looking guys. The one about the native guy with Olympic talent amid mostly WASPy types. Any family among the cast?

Did any of you guys ever hear much goss about various prominent footballers back in the day?

Remember in the eighties and nineties, various gay guys would tell stories of having had sex with famous, big name footy stars. or if not themselves - they had friends who did. Always took those rumours with a big pinch of salt - they seemed more like wishful thinking to me! But some names - big, masculine, married and supposedly hetero types - kept getting mentioned again and again...

Speaking of footballers: what of the mess that is Ben Cousins! Any WA dataloungers know any of the behind-the-scenes stuff? You just know there's a shit ton that never makes it into the press!

I'm surprised he's still alive really - crystal meth really has a hold on him. Few here have fallen from so high. Imagine how the poor bastard's family must feel. Awful.

I used to see Ian Roberts on Oxford St

Ian Roberts was in the queue in the post office where I used to work, but alas I did not get to serve him. I heard I wasn't his type anyway as he was into twinkies.

Yes Ava and Susan's was fabulous. I started going when it was still a small store and got my 60s Barbra albums there. They had to be ordered from overseas and I got LP albums. Ava or Susan was amused when he handed over the stash to me but I was in seventh heaven.

R304 Camilla got turkey slapped by John & Ashley, which caused a furor, all the while Rita the previous season got turkey slapped in more vivid detail by Heath's long circumcised cock yet no one gave a shit. You also had Michael draping his circumcised cock on Gianna's face after pole dancing, and Christie (with the pockmarked face caked in makeup) and Vesna oggling the guys comparing cocks (Dean had the biggest flaccid and thick too) and Hotdogs was running around grabbing guys dicks. Glenn also full out fucked or finger banged Geneva under a doona in the kitchen and Kate (who was best friends with actress Gillian Alexy) made homophobic comments which Tim chastised her for. Michelle also got fucked.

How I miss Big Brother.

[Quote] Anyone here donating to Folau’s GoFundMe ?

I can't believe how much money he's raised.

[Quote] That swimming mini series had some nice looking guys. The one about the native guy with Olympic talent amid mostly WASPy types. Any family among the cast?

Barracuda??

[quote]I can't believe how much money he's raised.

I can. He's tongan, so he's got the Islanders, he's a rugby goon so he's got the boguns, and he's making himself to be a martyr so he's got the idiots.

Plus many people are still fuming over the gay marriage vote. Payback, sadly.

Discussion about Folau's beliefs belong here—

R339 we can't gossip on both threads??

R242, never really any on screen? Yet the previous part of your sentence asserts that there were lots in front of the camera...

I know a friend who went to school with actress Susie Porter (Wentworth, Two Hands, Puberty Blues etc.). Apparently she's had SERIOUS alcoholism issues throughout the years. Several relationships have broken up because of it. She seems to have it under control now but it has definitely aged her.

Re: the turkey slap, I recall someone getting teabagged on Survivor as well, but i'm not sure if it was the Australian one. There was a REALLY hot guy on there last season (Rob Skibicki), he was naked on the show a lot. Pinged a little to me but he's one of those gym blokes where it's hard to tell.

[Quote] I know a friend who went to school with actress Susie Porter (Wentworth, Two Hands, Puberty Blues etc.).

I'm still bummed Puberty Blues was cancelled. Though i won't miss them using vaseline for lube.

Bunny Brooke's wiki is a trip.

R343 Yeah the show was surprisingly good. Well shot and acted for a network show, on par with the Foxtel Pay TV dramas like Tangle and Love My Way.

Former Wallaby Israel Folau has thanked donors for pouring more than $570,000 into his legal fight against Rugby Australia

And Rodger Corser was great as the abusive husband.

Murdoch's news.com.au has been targeting Folau intensively, which has been good to see.

Though I guarantee that attention whore Joe Hildebrand will pop up soon enough with a supportive story.

r341 , I take it R242 probably means that although there were quite a few gay/lesbian/bi people behind the camera and in front, the 'gay friendly' attitude of the network didn't extend to having L/G/B characters in the show. No more than a token here or there, if that..

I hope Ryan Kwanten IS gay.

R349, so the poster at r242 was listing gay actors whose characters were straight? I'd like r242 to clarify.

Actually, I realise that r242 listed writers and producers as well.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

No gay gossip, R353. You failed miserably.

When are the fucking Logie Awards?

Australian Director Jim Sharman likes to be whipped.

I know because my friend was tasked with the chore once upon a time.

I hated Love My Way because of how Eastern Suburbs it was. Ben Mendelsohn’s vile son and the general terrible teen acting. I couldn’t get into the other Claudia Karvan shows nor Offspring for the same reason.

I liked The Secret Life Of Us back in the day, though.

Holy moly! (Thanks r204.)

R355 And did you —or your friend— whip Jim Sharman? He supposedly shares that interest with the late TE Lawrence.

I came across Sharman once, looking lost and lonely, after midnight on the corner of Abercrombie and Chalmers Streets. I was on on my bike and offered to take him home but he whispered ‘no’.

His personal webpage is still up online but no one offers him work anymore as he’s 74 and entered his own world of misty memories.

And he must have some good memories too— directing a movie which grossed $130,000,000 and dating this muscular leather-man named Rex Cramphorn who was a self-acknowledged ‘sex-pig’ back in the days of free love and free sex.

[Quote] Australian Director Jim Sharman likes to be whipped.

Pats... He's 74.

Ava and Susan's was in the Crystal Palace Arcade - which is where I found it - before moving to the Town Hall Arcade under Sydney Town Hall.

[Quote] Though I guarantee that attention whore Joe Hildebrand will pop up soon enough with a supportive story.

Lol

On Sunday, Netball Australia issued a statement in support of Maria Folau, Israel Folau's wife and Adelaide Thunderbirds player.

She re-posted her husband's posts on her social media accounts, which included links to his website promoting his GoFundMe campaign.

He's too pretty to be faithful, Maria.

Gary Sweet was a swimming instructor at Collingwood Leisure Centre during the 80s. It was while he was playing Magpie on The Sullivan’s. Living proof that Australian actors aren’t paid all that much,

^ Did he wear shimmy little Speedos? — those classic ones made of nylon which drape over your bits?

Ha no r365, but he did wear speedos.

If I recall correctly Gary Sweet did full frontal nudity the film Alexandria's Project back in the 00's.

A friend back in the day said it was considered a bit insulting if you were called Ian Robert’s ‘type’ as he was into skinny, trashy guys.

No gossip about any AFL players?

Well Joel Creasey slept with a Swans player (well he said it was a Swan’s player, but maybe he was just throwing us off the scent when it was actually some other team) so I bet someone knows something about that. There must be rumours.

Ian Roberts indeed went for small skinny feminine types. He touched nothing remotely butch.

Brad Fittler used to go for Mediterranean types back in his football playing days

[quote]He's too pretty to be faithful, Maria.

Have you noticed that his wife looks exactly like him? It's weird.

Liz Ellis has slammed Netball Australia over their reaction. Love Liz !

R41 The Aussiebum model/Neighbours actor is Matt Wilson. I had lots of conversations with him while he installed my kitchen a few years back. He's not gay. He was engaged to a woman at the time and has since married. He is however, very gay friendly and was quite at home around my partner and I. We didn't get even the slightest hint of homophobia from him. He spent the first half hour each morning upon arriving at our home playing with our two dogs. Big time dog lover and all round nice guy.

[Quote] Have you noticed that his wife looks exactly like him? It's weird.

I thought you were exaggerating. She is pretty though.

R40 Don't know what your age is but if you're old enough to remember Number 96, Pat Macdonald who played nosey parker Dorrie Evans was lesbian in real life. So too, was Bunny Brookes who played Flo Patterson and Thelma Scott who played Abigail's mother. Thelma Scott was also the partner of Gwen Plumb, of Young Doctors fame. Betty Bobbitt (Judy Bryant), Fiona Spence (Vera "Vinegar Tits" Bennett) Jude Kuring (Noeline Burke) and Anne Phelan (Myra Desmond) of Prisoner fame are all openly lesbian.

Who's had Dr Chris?

Ruth Cracknell flicked Layne Beachley in the vagina.

R370 Is Ian a bottom? Possibly not...

Is Lee Lin Chin a lesbian? And how old is she, given that she's never disclosed her birthday or age? Is she god?

[376] He dated delta Goodrem. Shudder! If he needs a beard he could do much better.

I'm obsessed with Aussie versions of reality shows. First off, Married at First Sight's Xavier Forsberg. Hot piece with a black man's ass. Any gossip? What's he like? Who's been really fucking? Even if he's straight, something tells me he has a price.

A very good look straight friend of mine offered to give actor Norman Kaye a lift home (this was during the 1980s). Norman offered him a drink in the house which he declined. We all know what was on Norman's mind.

Step One undies model. Any info ?

Jason Dundas?

Jason Dundas has a girlfriend or possibly a wife. Her name is Taylor.

Good news. Folau’s GoFundMe shut down.

Gary Sweet topping Peter Phelps c 1990 is a particular fantasy of mine.

Gary is bald FFS

He wasn’t always r388.

Link r386 because I can’t see that it has.

GoFundMe has removed Israel Folau’s fundraising page from its website and is issuing refunds to all his donors, saying the campaign breached its terms of service.

“Today we will be closing Israel Folau’s campaign and issuing full refunds to all donors. After a routine period of evaluation, we have concluded that this campaign violates our terms of service,” said Nicola Britton, GoFundMe’s Australia Regional Manager.

“As a company, we are absolutely committed to the fight for equality for LGBTIQ people and fostering an environment of inclusivity. While we welcome GoFundMes engaging in diverse civil debate, we do not tolerate the promotion of discrimination or exclusion.

Took a while but it’s finally all over the news r391.

R391 excellent news 👍

Alright, who's had Mark Weber and that big boxy jaw of his?

Dr. Chris and Delta only dated in the pages of magazines.

Dr Chris has a sense of humour and doesn’t take himself too seriously, Delta is the complete opposite. I doubt he’d ever really be interested in her. She was already an exhausting pain the arse at 17 when she dated Blair McDonough.

I didn't know that Guy Sebastian and Delta Goodrem dated. Or that she was his hall pass lmao.

Who’s got dirt on Matt Preston? Has anyone had their cock worshipped by Nasser from MAFS?

If there is a God, please tell me Luke Casey likes cock?

Can't stand Joel Creasy he makes my skin crawl

Dr Chris is ticks every box on the closet case checklist.

R399 Weren’t there some nudes ?

R15, R54 - if not, I think he did here

Anyone else think Falou is a closet case? Those who yell the loudest have the most to hide and all that. Wouldn't surprise me.

No r404, I just think he’s brainwashed. He’s not the brightest candle on the cake.

R404 at the very least, he's a hypocrite. Calling out adulterers when that's the majority of athletes.

Folau looks like your typical downlow married guy. Gayface.

Izzy's latest speech at his Western Sydney church...

Matt Preston is a cool guy.

I’ve heard Guy Sebastian has a big dick.

We've seen it all before. The future is predictable enough. Falou will be outed with undeniable evidence, and eventually embrace his gayness. Only I doubt many on either side will forgive him.

It appears Falou is heavily influenced by his Preacher father. Word was he was going to take down the offending posts but it was his father who convinced him not to.

Very likely self hating closet gay

The most sickening thing to me about the Falou situation is the backup he's been getting from Alan Jones. The same Alan Jones who was arrested for sexual offenses in a public toilet in London back in the 1980s. Jones is no long content hating himself, now he's helping other closet cases hate themselves.

R46, R59, The movie was called Head On, and he was not playing a gay man in that movie. He played a Greek bisexual man who didn't have a good relationship with his father in the movie. He was attracted to a girl in the movie and he gave her oral sex. He was a bisexual whore. At the very end of the movie, he is narrating as himself, and he comes to the conclusion that he is "simply a whore", and the movie ends like that.

Jones has pretty much lived in the closet his whole life.

Yes, he has surrounded himself with pretty young things and usually handsome, troubled sporting figures but I don't think he has ever had a fulfilling male relationship.

In some ways, I think he has this underlying pathological resentment of gay culture today that has had so much more acceptance that was denied to him from his distorted perspective.

A pathological stance of if I could never find love, then so you can't either.

And if you do, then life has to be difficult for you as it was for me.

And of course his perspective is all of his own making and not necessarily reality..

Why has Sydney/Australia let this bigoted, self-hating queen have such an outsized influence over all manner of social and political issues for the last, what, 40 years?

[Quote] Word was he was going to take down the offending posts but it was his father who convinced him not to.

Ugh

I read that someone donated $10k to the GoFundMe.... wh ich is INSANE to me. I always forget that Christians have that much $$ to burn. Couldn't that go to like... a childrens hospital, or poverty relief, something else? That's a lot of money just to donate to someone's *~*freedom*~*...

R416 The right wing populist loons love Alan Jones. The rest of the country thinks he's a joke.

GoFundMe is going to go out of business when Facebook's Libra gains traction and people fully fund causes overnight, with zero oversight.

Folau is such an attention queen. Definitely a closet case.

Alan Jones has a show on Sky News with Peta Credlin, spouting their right wing views.

Jones has made a fortune being a fraud. I guess he’d rather pretend to be something he’s not and wealthy, than true to himself and poor. But he’s delusional if he thinks he’s fooling anyone that isn’t intellectually stunted.

SMH

The Australian Christian Lobby has launched a new fundraising page for Israel Folau and donated $100,000 to his legal efforts — and it’s drawing an incredible response.

The page was launched overnight and quickly climbed past $253,000 by 8.45am (AEST) as Australians woke and started donating.

It looks capable of passing the donations made to his original page — which reached upwards of $750,000 before it was shut down — inside a day

Yeah, the culture wars are in full swing all over the world. But we knew this showdown was inevitable. Hopefully, the church will alienate the moderates and the younger people even more as a result.

I'm all for these fools throwing their money away. I say let 'em keep donating away.

Then watch future people be wary of donating to church affiliated organisations when they see their money going to legal cases for millionaires.

Agreed R424 The nasties in the Christian church are digging their own grave in the long run. Christianity is already seen as synonymous with ignorance and hatefulness to a lot of people. Gay people are more integrated in Australia than ever before. Most straight people now lay claim to gay family and friends and work mates. We're no longer the scary monsters we were thought to be. It's only the right wing snowflakes who are terrified that their heterosexual/white/male/Christian domination is under threat of being taken away from them that still fear us. I think most Australians actually view religious people with some degree of suspicion as it is.

It wasn't even about religious freedoms or homosexuality, it was all about breaking the stipulations of his contract. They can raise all the money in the world for him and it won't help him, he broke his contract.

I've always wondered how Alan Jones can have so much influence and I wonder if when he was speech writer for Fraser, was he privy to the private lives of closeted high ranking homosexuals? Jones has a boyfriend who lives in Toowoomba and owns land adjacent to that of the wealthy Wagner family. He, Jones' boyfriend, had a falling out with the Wagners and that's why Jones attacked them on radio and subsequently had to go to court. Jones has a lot of very rich and influential friends and his following are largely older conservatives who would leave him in droves if he admitted he was gay. Jones is good friends with Ian i'm not gay Thorpe. Jones had to leave an influential Sydney boys school where he taught and was a boarding house master for getting too close to the boys. I don't know how this and the incident in the London toilet don't haunt him in the media, someone is protecting him.

Christopher Pyne, of course, is gay. Napolean Pedis is gay and was in a lavender marriage till recently. Wouldn't surprise me if Alex Perry was too he pings to high heaven.

Pyne is gay ? I don’t think do

do=so

the same Christopher Pyne whose twitter account was linked to gay porn sites? No, he's not gay at all. Have you ever heard the man talk? Makes Liberace sound butch.

Yeah but, Adelaide voice. Look at Alexander Downer and Bruce McAvaney

This entire Falou thing is like the plebiscite all over again. Arseholes arguing about whether we're actually human or not. Makes me sick knowing there are people that support that shit stain. Now I'm back to wondering again who the "good" straights are.

Being well spoken doesn’t make you sound like a screaming queen and yet Pyne does. Of course he’s buried so far in closet he’ll never burst out like he so clearly wishes he could.

The Falou stuff is really just the revenge of the anti SSM brigade.

They went around spreading falsehoods and claiming they were the silent majority.

WRONG. You were but merely a third. Two thirds of the populace rejected you and now you are going down this path.

Well and good. Waste your millions in futile court cases.

The power paradigm has changed and a secular society will no longer tolerate the State of the Church dictating all morality and public policy.

Folau is:

"Pray the gay away, don't admit there is bisexuality. Blame the gays for your impure thoughts. They are the devil's agents making you fantasize about other men. It's hard to remain faithful to my wife so I will blame the gays."

A large proportion of internet gays in Australia:

"Folau, he's really gay. No such thing as bi. Anyone with the slightest bit of same sex attraction is a total closet gay. I can be as creepy as I want and hit on much younger strangers online. I only like young guys. I'm miserably invisible to hot young guys, My fantasy is sex with a married tradie in footy shorts. I don't really like gay men they are scumbags. "

I find that Australians in general likely to be racist and homophobic under the cloak of just “telling it like it is”. It’s really very jarring how many would spew racist shit to you assuming you agree just because you’re white. If Australia was part of the United States, they’d be a guaranteed vote for Trump and the Republican Party.

R436 Is a woke Indian fan of American hip hop music, hates Muslims and middle aged women and wants African students to be petrol bombed.

Australia is, has always been, and will continue to stay, a massively homophobic country! Men in Australia push heterosexuality and heterosexual masculinity and behaviour, more than any other nation on the planet. It's miserable and difficult in Australia for every homosexual guy. A lot travel or move overseas because of how bad homophobia is in Australia.

It's the bogan convict mentality; toxic masculinity and a hatred of anything remotely cultural, artistic or academic. Bogan, roided up, heavily tattooed tradies and football players head up the social hierarchy here.

439: Extremely accurate. It's been like that since the beginning in Australia, and it's getting more homophobic each year.

Forgive me for being a snob but I reckon I could tell with some certainty the people who have convict heritage here and who doesn't.

by here I mean Australia, not Data Lounge

Look up Isaac Butterfield on YouTube, and notice how massive his following is. Every homosexual guy in Australia has to encounter and put up with fucking homophobic bogans like him, in day to day life. Most Australians, especially Australian males, are like this and ridicule homosexual men regularly in all different settings. It's entertainment to/for them.

Butterfield looks like your typical bogan dickhead but I do remember watching a video he did on same sex marriage where he surprised me by supporting it, but I do know what you mean. Sometimes homophobia can be a class/intelligence thing, or lack there of, if that makes sense?

Only in Australia would a tradesman earn more and be more revered than a doctor

I think it depends where you live. I live in inner city Melbourne. I don’t encounter homophobia. I’d say racism is more prevalent. I live next door to two AFL players who know I’m gay and don’t care. They’ve invited me to their parties and they have a couple of gay friends. Recently I was in a hardware shop in Fitzroy, a guy with a full beard and wearing a dress came in, bought some paint and other crap then left. I expected the two guys behind the counter to snigger or roll their eyes after he left, nope, they just went right back to talking about football. They didn’t flinch.

ONTH go to far North Queensland and you may as well go to Alabama. A guy was racist to my face while I was holidaying up there. It depends on where you live, like anywhere else in the world.

R444: He fakes being okay with it so that he doesn't come off as a complete homophobic bastard. But if you watch every video of his, including his most recent video, he is constantly saying cock sucker, and dick sniffer; to emphasise to his audience how inferior and wrong homosexual guys are. But he loves lesbians.

So according to r446, all Folau’s backers are in Far North Queensland?

R446: Well Isaac lives in Newcastle, New South Wales. You are a tiny bit right, but I've found most Australia males regardless of where they live in Australia, equally as homophobic. And not just a little bit homophobic. I'm talking...immensely homophobic!

Australian males* - spelling correction ^

You're probably just ugly and sleazy R449.

Homophobic AND racist.

R436, 452 and R449 must be the occasional trolls who visit every thread in DL mentioning Australia and spout their MASSIVE generalisations about a nation of 20 million.

R451: You no Jack shit, including what Australian men are like. According to your logic, as long as the homosexual guy is hot and not sleazy, heterosexual Australian men will welcome him with open arms. You are a fucking idiot. They will treat you like shit regardless, simply because you are a homosexual male. Lesbians in Australia get elevated though.

I don't think all Australian men are homophobic, a lot just don't care. I find the younger generation more accepting. It can depend on class, intelligence, socioeconomic and religious background as to your attitude towards homosexuality. I do find however that a lot of Australian men aren't homophobic so much as they're effeminate- phobic. If you look and behave masculine and you're gay, you're ok, but if you look and behave effeminately, you're not. Unfair, but true. You've just got to be very careful who you let in your life.

R453: Australia has 25 million people idiot, and secondly, I'm an Australian homosexual male who was born and raised here. I know more about the Australian culture than you, and the homophobic spirit and mindset is very much celebrated amongst A LOT of heterosexual dudes here. Even a lot of homosexual guys engage in the same high level of homophobia here, because it's very prevalent in Australia. Of course not all 25 million Australian's are homophobic, that's fucking obvious. But at least half, or almost half, are very homophobic. You notice it frequently in Australia no matter where you go here, or where you live here.

R454 You sound like you're bitter because you only like the people who don't want you.

In my personal experience I have found middle- aged Australian women to be worse than any man! As long as I didn't try it on with the guys they couldn't care less, the women (straight women) have been absolute cunts; nasty, petty childish bitches! I find that very strange. They just cant help themselves, gossiping, backstabbing cunts who cant get past your sexuality to see you as a person. In their eyes all they can see is anal sex and that's all you will ever be to them.

R457: No, they are the facts about my country you fucking moron. I'm not bitter about Australian heterosexual men not wanting me. I made it clear I don't like them, but somehow your brain thinks that I do like them and I'm bitter because they don't like me back. I am telling you what it's like here fucktard, nothing more.

Mate, your anger is widely disproportionate to the topic at hand.

R458: The women are vile here too, that's damn accurate! They can definitely be worse than the men, and far more homophobic! I've experienced the same as you too with the vile homophobic women, but more so in the workplace. Outside of the workplace, and I've had constant problems with the homophobic men that hunt in packs.

They are vile bitches, but why? I don't find the straight women in other English speaking countries homophobic, most are understanding as they too like men. Is it because these cunts very rarely travel out of Australia to experience different cultures etc, therefor they're very naïve and ignorant. Or is it because they know you could never like them? I've encountered a few very good looking women in the workplace who don't like me because, unlike straight men in the office, their feminine charms don't work on me and they don't have me wrapped round their little finger.

Misery loves company.

R460: To you it is, because you seem like a robot who doesn't think, feel, or get angry at anything.

R462: It's because they know you aren't remotely interested in them or attracted to them in any way, that brings out their true vile nature! Australian heterosexual women just can't handle it the most compared to other English speaking women, when a guy who is truly homosexual doesn't want them in any way. And yes, they go into extra vile mode when they realise none of their attempts work on truly homosexual men who will never be attracted to them or want them whatsoever.

R462 Australians travel a lot,so I think you’re just making shit up. I think you travelled to Australia once in 1982 and think you understand the culture. You clearly don’t. Wherever you are, you’re out of touch.

Excuse me cunt, I've lived in Australia my whole life and the bitches I'm talking about were middle aged frau who'd never been out of the country in their lives and this happened in the last 5 years. Don't presume to know anything about me or tell me I'm making things up thankyou.

R391 Nicola Britton is a capitalist, trend-chasing hypocrite.

GoFundMe is a capitalist organisation which takes a commission for every dollar passing through their website. And they take money from Religious organisations—

Well you sound like you live and work in some hideous backwater surrounded by the uncultured bogans you deserve to be surrounded by. Enjoy your shitty lot in life, I’ll hang with the regular members of society.

Are people speaking about Australia as a whole or particular areas. I've visited many times but have confined my visits to Sydney and Melbourne. I've heard the farther you go out of the city limits it gets more dangerous for gays and minorities. But you can say that about almost every metropolitan city.

R469: As a whole!

Dear R441, you’re an absolute buffoon

R466 is a ridiculous psycho r469 posting from some remote village in the Northern Territory. Pay no attention. As a whole it’s fine. Yes, the further out you go the more rednecky it becomes. The cities are fine. Like any western country.

468 and tell me why I deserve it?

Yes, the place I was posted for regional placement after graduation was a redneck backwater but I'd like to know why I was deserving of the people there and why that makes me a psycho? I'm sure you know much more about my life than I do so I await your insightful reply.

[quote]They are vile bitches, but why? I don't find the straight women in other English speaking countries homophobic, most are understanding as they too like men.

What you find deplorable about Australian men is actually celebrated and encouraged by many Australian women. It’s true other macho cultures. The straight women will be the first to mock you for not being “a real man” and abuse you for “taking it in the arse”.

r471 The convict bogan genes are strong, they always manage to express themselves.

I agree with Israel on some matters

I'm wary of Liars and I hate Thieves.

I don't like Drunks because Alcohol causes nearly 6,000 Australian deaths in one year. . . that's about one every 90 minutes.

I'm partial to male homosexuals but I don't care about the others.

The crux of it is that everyone on Falou's list of sinners chose to sin, except homosexuals. Same sex desire is innate and not a choice.

Is this the Oz gossip thread? It seems to have derailed somewhat into yet another bashing thread infight about cultural mores as every other thread touching on Oz seems to on the DL.

I'm enjoying our local goss. Can we keep it on topic a little more please my fellow DL local lurking mates and mukkas?

Because look at your posts, you’re nasty and hysterical just like all bigotsr474. Instead of explaining properly why you feel the way you do, you call everyone a cunt, accuse most people of being homophobes and racist while not giving a single example of why you feel this way and not seeing the irony of then following it up by being completely sexist. You disregard any other people’s experiences because it doesn’t align with sweeping generalisations. You sarcastically imply that I don’t know anything about your life, but amazingly it turns out you know the inner thoughts of every other Australian, including whether they’re from convict stock which you couldn’t possibly know. The hypocrisy is strong.

R475: We know. We acknowledged that. The straight women are the worst, the most vile, and the most homophobic in Australia. But the men will bash you and rape you outside of the workplace. The straight women and men in Australia who are the embodiment of vile homophobia, take turns though in outdoing each other on who's the most homophobic. Homosexual men are ridiculed tremendously by both of them, whether the gay guy is masculine or not. I've seen it endless times.

In reference to Alan Jones; you have to understand him in the context of his time and generation. He knew he was gay, he was also very ambitious. Anyone of his age/generation who was gay and wanted to be successful, especially in the public eye, had to supress and or deny their homosexuality. Michael Kirby wanted to enter politics but knew if he didn't have a wife and kids and if his sexually was exposed, it would be hopeless, and he wasn't prepared to fake a marriage and so settled for a career in law. Milly McMahon was apparently gay and not even Julian's father.

# That's Billy not Milly

Where did you hear about billy McMahon r483

Never knew that - excellent scoop R482- R483 ! Now that's more like it!

Why did Fox studios close down in Sydney?

r480 You've combined two posters into one and can't distinguish between the two. I'm the less hysterical. But you know everything so persist in your generalisations. I also said 'In my experience,' i,e. I am acknowledging that I don't believe my experience is representative of everyones. And the comment about convict stock was a joke referring to the feral bogans that inhabit Australia. Are you from convict stock yourself? Did I hit a nerve?

R486 Sydney's Fox Studios included production studios as well as an amusement park.

The amusement park closed but I believe the production studios are still active.

Apparently Harold Holt liked teenaged boys but you never know what to believe. He certainly had many mistresses, one of whom was nearby when he went missing.

Does anybody know why Matthew Mitcham broke up with Lachlan Fletcher? They were together for a decade and now he’s tossed him for a porn actor! Is MM back on the meth?

R484 Its pretty common knowledge Billy McMahon was gay. Just google it. Sonia (as classy as she was and I never heard a bad word about her personally - absolutely love person) was a former good time girl - nothing wrong with that in my book - its just something people do. And Julian is not Billy McMahon's child - rumour has it he is Billy Sneddon's child.

Julian McMahon has a sister who stays out of the spotlight who suffers terribly from Schizophrenia and has been in and out of mental facilities her whole life. She was rarely on speaking terms with Sonia. Sonia was a terrible snob.

Prompted by R483 R83 just found this - good read BTW - if only for how it's written too plus the Billy bizzo for some insight too into prevalence of homophobia tainting especially Oz powerbroking and political culture even now.

**As a Gough Whitlam fan for the legislative chsnges, am disappointed by his attitudes at the time.

R493: It's just a picture of a bird.

Does anyone remember reading Peter Phelps’ book about his adventures in Hollywood? The book was called ‘Sex Without Madonna’. If I remember correctly, the first chapter was about Peter Phelps and Gary Sweet in L.A., I think, and they met a famous Hollywood star who was trying to pick up the two Australian actors in a hotel room. I remember back then thinking it was John Travolta who was putting the moves on the two Aussies.

R490: Matthew Mitcham was never stable. He is also friends with Davey Wavey. That alone tells you about his character.

Matthew Mitcham is filth and so is his family. And his bf is a regular on Bentley Race

R493 Gough was also racist. Like, his my favourite all time PM but the man had his flaws and though forward thinking in some respects was a product of his times.

R497: Agreed.

Has anyone else heard about the Mark's Park beat murders in Sydney in the late 80's early 90;s? A bunch of meatheads went round bashing and killing gay men at Mark's Park. They called it 'rolling fags' whereby they rolled the bashed men off the cliffs to their deaths. About 25 were murdered or went missing this way including a newsreader called Ross Warren. No one was ever convicted of anything and apparently the cops were just as homophobic and corrupt and didn't care anyway.

Oh so butch! I mean how this little queen can still be in the closet makes my brain want to have an aneurism

Alex I'm Not Gay Perry and I think sunglasses are a substitute for hair.

R501: I can't stand him!!!! My cousin knows him in real life, and knows that he is bisexual.

R485 - i thought everyone knew about the Mcmahon marriage f convenience? It's hardly a scoop!

He wasn't the only PM Who dabbled in make/make sex on the side either. I wonder if anyone could get away with that now - given someone is likely to pull a phone out and record you talking or take a picture - or forward a pic - or text.... it's hard to believe anyone much could stay scandal-free nowadays -

Unless you're a very high profile media pundit who is happy to be used as a voice of the right - who know all your secrets - and are happy to protect you and go silent on any of your antics - so long as you're a useful little puppet - and rate well!

And speaking of a certain radio announcer - R427 - I know he was 'asked to leave' (dismissed) from Brizzie Boys Gramnar back in the eighties - didn't realise the same thing had happened to him at a school in Sydney as well? I gather no one will ever don him in. He never went for the femme boys - only the masculine rugger lads. He abhors effeminacy and bullied the lads who didn't live up to his standards of masculinity. Apparently he was vile to the ones he thought sissies. What a piece of shit he is.

R503 bisexual my left foot

Jones was a mentor to Ian Thorpe. I bet it was he who told Thorpe not to come out and lie in his book that he'd only ever had sex with women. Thorpe is very conflicted about his sexuality.

Trying again - tho the discussion progressed whole I was away. Thx heads up stinky link R494

R505: Look I know why you say that, but the problem is, the femininity a guy expresses does not rule out a guy being bisexual. I use to think it did, but learnt quickly that really queeny men can still be bisexual.

Anyone know anything about that fruit loop son of Richard Wilkins, Christian, who calls himself The Prince Wilkins and thinks his father is some A grade celebrity?

R506: He's a fucking loser. A very weak man.

I thought Thorpe was now out and proud?

R495 I didn't know such a book existed! Sounds interesting. Thanks for the info, i'll try track it down.

I don't know why Alex Perry still tries the 'straight' thing. It's like Napoleon Perdis back in the day. At this point I think it's just because he's vehemently denied being gay for so long that he would feel embarrassed to come out because of all that lying, more than actually being embarrassed to publicly admit to liking men.

I am surprised at how small his instagram following is, and even his international recognition. Almost every big star has worn his gowns but he still hasn't 'broken through' as a huge name designer, except in Australia.

511 He is now but he went through a lot of internal shit before he came out. He appears very comfortable in his skin.

513: He's still a loser. And he is fugly. Let's be real.

Good. He seems like a decent bloke. (But there again, so many gay blokes are.). Ooh! and straight blokes. Shit. It's hard just giving a simple compliment in 2019!!!

Apparently Billy McMahon used to parade around nude in the change rooms of sports club. He'd stand there and start up a conversation with a stranger buck naked, towel hanging over his shoulder. Once he got punched in the face and got a black eye as he was coming on too strong to someone. This was before he was Prime Minister.

Don Dobie, the member for the seat of Cook, was McMahon's longtime lover and when McMahon was PM Dobie was appointed a special position of Assistant Minister assisting the Prime Minister.

Link posted to a picture of Don...

R514 Each to their own but I've always found Ian Thorpe very sexy.

R517: Fair enough.

R513 Thorpe probably realised he had a choice to be out and happy, or in the closet and mentally damaged like Alan Jones. Thank goodness he chose the former. OK R514 Thorpe might not be the best looking man out there, but why is he a loser?

Thorpe had an incredible body when he was fit.

R487 my parents aren’t Anglo Saxon. But surely you’d know that as you know everything.

You know Gough Whitlam dabbled in the man sex.

R498 who was Gough racist towards? He certainly liked Europeans enough to learn Italian. He spoke it fluently.

R522 I don't know Whitlam dabbled in the man sex but I don't believe assertions on an anonymous gossip site.

I do believe he was a class traitor pretending to lead the Working Classes while behaving like Julius Caesar and Cicero combined.

I saw Thorpe at an airport once, he wasn’t out of the closet yet. I saw him from behind so initially had no idea who he was, but he stood out because he was tall and very broad. His arms were huge. I knew it was a gay man because he was wearing an expensive skin tight, cream coloured jumper, the kind a straight man would never wear. He eventually turned around and I realised it was Thorpe. I remember he looked miserable. He seemed uncomfortable with people looking at him, but even if you had no idea who he was he stood out because of his height and body and that alone attracted attention.

Did Izzy get called Israel Fellatio in primary school?

R525 I don't find Thorpe physically attractive but I felt sorry for him from the time he was just a confused kid of 13.

Channel 7 signed him to an exclusive contract and he was constantly followed by a cringe-making middle-aged female interviewer who constantly badgering him about potential-girlfriends.

The guy who was B2 of Bananas In Pyjamas was gay.

[quote]Has anyone else heard about the Mark's Park beat murders in Sydney in the late 80's early 90;s? A bunch of meatheads went round bashing and killing gay men at Mark's Park. They called it 'rolling fags' whereby they rolled the bashed men off the cliffs to their deaths. About 25 were murdered or went missing this way including a newsreader called Ross Warren. No one was ever convicted of anything and apparently the cops were just as homophobic and corrupt and didn't care anyway.

My friend was large on the gay scene in Sydney at that time, and he knew several of the other murdered gays. It went unstopped over many years so paranoia was understandably rampant and it ended up going fever-pitched according to my friend. Surprisingly, there was not a lot of mainstream attention of these deaths, at least outside of Sydney.

My friend remembered it like it was yesterday, and when he told me about it, it was the only time I ever saw him fearful even though I was not familiar with it. There were apparently many rumors, and it just about killed the entire gay scene as it was starting to go mainstream. In the end, it did create a lot of solidarity and acceptance as well as fear.

Gay bashing stories were commonplace among rough teenage boys in those days.

Here's a pic of Ross Warren.

He could still be alive since only his keys were found at the base of a cliff at a Tamarama gay beat in 1989. His body was never found though the deputy state coroner, in 2005, ruled Mr Warren was a homicide victim.

What happened to Theo Hayez?

I reckon the Bowraville killer got him.

Here's Ian Thorpe and his younger boyf.

Thorpe’s batting above his average.

Anyone else have this fold out poster with Ian Roberts in black speedos dripping wet coming out of a pool? I jerked off to this more than any other images back in the day.

I saw Ian Roberts in Newton about 13 years ago. I had just moved to Sydney from Melbourne so realised that I recognised his face, but couldn’t place him from where. I must have been staring at him because he glared at me in a “what do you want” way. My bf realising that my Victorian eyes couldn’t quite place a NSW rugby league player whispered that’s Ian Roberts the only footballer on earth to have turned out to be gay. I had to stifle a laugh for fear Ian would think I was laughing AT him, rather than the absurdity that there was only one gay footballer across all the codes of football, and kill me on the spot. He was with a guy who wasn’t a skinny twink as posters seem to think he favours, but the guy was very good looking. Certainly better looking than Ian, but Ian had a great body. He looked more like an AFL player than a bulky league player.

Can we talk about Folau in the other thread? This was a fun gossipy thread and he depresses the fuck outta me.

R523 Racists attitudes to Asians. However, he was also the first western leader to visit China. I do suspect his views lessoned over the years through. After it was up until the 1960s that Australia had it White Australia immigration policy.

R528 I thought the Bananas in Pyjamas were both gay? I got 'gay best friends' vibes, but they might have been a couple originally.

SBS did a good miniseries (and also documentary) about the late 80s early 90s gay bashings, especially along the coast. The series was called Deep Water (starring Yael Stone, Noah Taylor, and William McInnes).

Speaking of Yael Stone, what do we all think about the Geoffrey Rush situation? Is he guilty or innocent? The original accuser (Eryn Norvill)'s story was a bit wishy-washy. I mean I could imagine it but I don't think it would have held up in court. Respected figures like Judy Davis went to court to vouch for his character. But then Yael Stone came out with her own Rush story, and Lebanese hottie Firass Dirani (Househusbands, Underbelly, etc.) wrote on his instagram story alluding to the fact a "known scumbag in the industry" got off scot-free (and then deleted it).

[Quote] and Lebanese hottie Firass Dirani (Househusbands, Underbelly, etc.)

I think he was a Power Ranger too lol. I always meant to check out House Husbands.

R542 I believe Geoffrey Rush is quilty via the testomony of Eryn Norvill & Yael Stone. Judy Davis' testimony means nothing simply because she was a big star before Rush was and he would not have dared tried any of that shit around her - she'd rightfully rip his balls off. So Ms Davis really wouldn't have anything to tell the court because Rush is a sleazy shit who only targeted young up and coming actresses.

Murray Bartlett is a whore

Re Billy McMahon: if memory serves me correctly, when he finally lost government the headline on The National Times was "Gay Lib Steps Down". There was as big a fuss about it at the time as there could be when the people fussing really didn't want to call any more attention to it.

Judy Davis has always been scary, as well as highly respected. I don't know anything for certain about Rush, but most predators target the vulnerable, not someone who's a bigger star than them with a rep for metaphorically kicking you in the balls if you look at her sideways. I do find it hard to see why Yael Stone would have come forward if her story weren't true.

The poorly understood thing about the Rush case was that what the court was asked to find was not whether he was innocent, but whether the newspaper defamed him. As far as I could see, the prosecution case was all about their not having enough facts to have gone to print. They tried to get STC's records under freedom of information laws, but the judge stopped it by saying they had no right to do that AFTER being charged with defamation (and it kinda proved the prosecution's point). So the article was found to be defamatory, but not because Rush was found not to have done anything, which was not a question before the court. I haven't read the judgment, so I stand to be corrected by anyone who has, but from the news reports that's what I understand.

R545 Thanks for the explanation, i'm not very good at following court cases / legalese! I agree that based on what Yael said especially (and even Firass who might have some industry knowledge - gossip tends to travel) it's probably true that he's been at least a bit pervy and inappropriate. It's not like Rush is suing or attacking her for defamation.

Either way it was the very left-wing (and frankly poor excuse for journalism) Daily Telegraph that got sued so not exactly a terrible result.

Judy was brought in as a character witness, having made about 5 films with him and done several plays as well. Of course no smart actor would try anything on her, she's fought back against very powerful film people (like David Lean) in her time even before it was popular and when she wasn't even 'in' Hollywood. But for such a private person, who barely leaves her Birchgrove garden, it was odd to me that she would show up for him, even if they happened to be friends. Her and Colin Friels' son was just arrested in Sydney the other week for assault (a drunk bar fight over sport apparently). I'm sure she was furious.

PS thread creator - we may need a part II soon! Thanks.

R546 someone already made a second thread.

Here's Jack Friels with Coin.

Daddy’s still hot.

Judy and daughter Charlotte.

FWIW, the Geoffrey Rush case was about defamation. The Telegraph claimed they didn’t defame Rush, they were just reporting.

The fact that their front page headline was “King Leer” and not words to the effect of “Actor Geoffrey Rush accused of X...” proves Rush’s case.

R551 You are correct but what sucks the case was that judges summary he criticised Eryn Norvill as something along the lines of unreliable. This in my view a gross statement as Norvill never went to press, did not want it to be public knowledge, ect.

That The Daily Tele is appealing based on the judges comments are justified. The whole case was about The Tele defaming Rush and any criticisms that the judge had should have been solely in relation to The Daily Telegraph, not the alleged victim who had absolutely no hand in The Tele's reporting.

Anyway, Rush's career is over but boy I feel very sorry for Eryn Norvill as she is the real victim here.

R550 Wow the daughter looks exactly like Colin as well. Not awful looking but his features definitely suit a male face more than a female one. Dead @ Judy not even bothering to do her hair for whatever event that is. It actually looks like the same dress she went to the golden globes in however many years earlier.

I also feel for Norvill. Her career is probably dead now, given that she still hadn't broken through into the screen industry and on stage the majority of work was with STC, specifically Rush's friends Kip Williams and Neil Armfeld. She's in that awkward early 30s age range too where she won't be able to get a lot of 'mum' roles.

Maybe a move a move stateside would benefit Norvill. I could see a TV show taking her on (partly) for the positive publicity.

I agree totally with R552. It looked to me like Norvill just did the right thing (she took the complaint to HR) and someone else leaked it. It was not till the world ganged up on her that she seemed to determine to have her day in court.

Mind you, Eryn Norvill, while perfectly OK, does not routinely set the stage on fire, so her career may not have taken off in any case. However, there are plenty of women directors in film and showrunners in TV (to the extent that there is any local drama made), and they are quite likely to take her up.

Rush's career being over or otherwise is rather moot at his age, but I wouldn't be so sure. He has powerful friends, certainly in Australia, and you don't have to make money consistently in subsidised theatre. My bet is if word got round he was giving a great performance people would go, especially since the press hooted that he'd been vindicated by the court.

A really interesting sidelight on this is that the primary complainant in the Craig McLachlan harassment case, the brilliant Christie Whelan-Browne, has worked with Rush several times, in both straight plays and musicals, and I didn't see any comment from her on the Rush matter. She lacks Norvill's naivety, so my guess is McLachlan has a fair bit to answer for.

Wow, I'm impressed that a thread about Australian gossip has grown so fast.

Does this thread also include New Zealand actors like Josh McKenzie? He's a hottie.

It should, R556. Australians always claim New Zealanders if they like them. We'd be saying Jacinda Ardern was Australian if we could possibly get away with it.

Judy Davis is nuts and Colin is an alcoholic.

They're both weird people. Very volatile together.

R555 I'm a bit confused by the McLachlan/Whelan-Browne harassment case. She claims a part of the harassment happened on stage during the Rocky Horror Live show when he kissed her body in an aggressive manner when under the sheets... He is also making claims that she sexually harassed him, both on and off stage and also made comments about his genitals.

Christie said he chose parts of her body not agreed upon when blocking the scene. Neck (agreed). Breasts (Not agreed). He also trace the outline of her vagina, prompting her to bat his hand away.

A receptionist has said that he told her he had to do this/something, before coming around her desk and kissing her full force with tongue.

A female PA had to meet him at the airport. She said he pointed the air conditioning towards her, saying that he wanted to get her nipples hard.

Australian gossip: Basically, every hot guy was once a male stripper and the women are all on reality shows.

What's the name of that long haired comedian who had a recent stint on Neighbors? While trying to make it in Hollywood, he'd done some modelling for old pervs and even some tickling videos. Did anyone see his not quite porn work? There may have been wrestling vids as well.

Are you thinking of Ash Williams r562?

R563, that's him. I don't find him attractive enough to try to find any vids he may have made. But I do wonder how far he went. He was a regular on a podcast I liked.

We had a family friend who worked on Neighbours when Craig McLachlan was on it. He always said that Craig’s nice guy public persona was an act. Not a nice guy at all in reality. And apparently both women and men have accused him of sexual harassment, which isn’t surprising because I was never convinced he was entirely straight.

Apparently he’s never done porn r564, but he did do a tickling video which sounds not far off, and he told a story on Nova about how he considered being an escort. He seems to have had no success in LA and spent his time there broke AF. He now seems to be juggling a lot of stuff, comedy podcasts, spruking random stuff for anyone who’ll let him, but never quite succeeding at any of it. One of those guys who’s always in the cusp of making it, but never quite does.

So did Rush receive more compo than Rebel Wilson ?

He got 2.9 million.

Rebel got $4,500,000 which was reduced to $600,000 on appeal.

Wasn’t Rebel donating it to charity?

You think Rebel would get more than Rush on account of their ages. Longer earning capacity and such

Isn’t Rush donating too ?

Don't scream me down for saying this, but I couldn't give a flying fuck about hearing gossip about straight people and their problems. They're in our faces 24/7 as it is. Is it asking too much to stick to stories about gay men and gay women? This is a gay website after all.

I was actually surprised that the accusations pertaining to Rush were made by women. He's always pinged to me.

R573 The title is not Australian gay gossip

If you have some gay gossip about any Australian celebrities feel free to contribute r573.

Maybe not R573 but don't you get enough hearing about them in mainstream media?

He didn’t ping to me r574, but then again I didn’t pick him as a creepy old letch either.

R555, perhaps the reason Geoffrey didn’t try anything with Christie when they did those shows together is because her husband Rohan Browne was also in those shows and maybe they were friends. All three were in The Drowsy Chaperone and then ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To the Forum’.

Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis and Colin Friels were all at NIDA together. So was Mel Gibson. That 1977/78 graduate year was a golden one for the drama school. No surprise if they're all still close and supportive now. And as someone mentioned above, Erin Norville confided to a staffer at the Sydney Theatre Company about Rush's sleazy behavior then it became front page headlines... Irrespective of what Rush did, someone in the Company betrayed her trust. She was done over twice.

Rush didn't attend NIDA, he tutored there and of course acted on stage with young and beautiful Mel.

Anyway, Alan Jones supports decriminalising crystal meth because of the strapping young rural addicts.

Marr, who is family, gets cutting on Folau and the Catholic Lobby and Sydney's Catholic Archbishop in the Guardian today.

Oops! - should read Christian Lobby ^^

R573, please go and tell the rest of the DL to stop gossiping about Judy Garland and Bette Davis, on the grounds that they were straight. WTF?

Geoffrey Rush attended the Jacques le Coq school of clowning and mime in Paris: no theatre schools in Australia. Judy and Mel were in the same year at NIDA, and I can't imagine that they got on. In case everyone hasn't noticed, Mel's a terrible actor and they had to play Romeo and Juliet. They've never acted together since leaving NIDA.

Colin Friels was there at the time but not in their year. Steve Bisley, Goose in Mad Max, is the other famous graduate of Mel's year.

I don't remember Rush and Gibson ever appearing on the same stage, but will be happy to concede if you can name something. I also don't remember Rush and Davis on stage together as someone said upthread, though they've made at least two films. (Rush and Blanchett together on stage, yes, though maybe only once - ironically, in Oleanna.)

R584 There was actually a documentary made in 2008 about that group, called the 'Class of 77' (Mel Gibson, Judy Davis, Steve Bisley, Debra Lawrence, Robert Menzies, Wayne Jarratt and Annie Byron, etc.), made by one of the female classmates. Judy chose not to participate or comment on it... lol. Even Mel appears and gives on camera interviews. If you go to NIDA to this day there are framed photos of productions there from this era, including the Romeo and Juliet featuring Judy and Mel.

My mistake, it appears Rush and Davis haven't been on stage together (I did see them doing a poetry reading together for charity a few years back though). But yes have made several films together (Swimming Upstream, The Eye of the Storm, Children of the Revolution, Hoodwink) and both share a lot of friends and collaborators in common.

Ausstage is a good guide but they are missing a fair few as well (including the two plays Judy recently directed at NIDA, and some of the other early ones).

Any Real Housewives gossip?

This has turned out to be a really interesting thread. Thanks, Aussies!

But what about Jason Donovan? I think he enjoyed the homosex before he ended up married with kids.

R587: Jason is a typical sociopathic bisexual coward fucktard.

R588: Nearly all of the ones mentioned on this thread are.

Any Murray Bartlett gossip?

I wonder if Murray asked Grant to pull out his pendulous dong for Murray to worship backstage at Guiding Light.

[quote] I don't remember Rush and Gibson ever appearing on the same stage, but will be happy to concede if you can name something.

Then concede on your knees, cunt. When Rush broke out with Shine, their decades-old production of Waiting For Godot was reported everywhere.

I’m guessing that suggestions Judy hates Mel is fanfiction. She said in interviews he was very funny and good-looking. Given she said that much, If she thought worse of him, we would know. When he presented a film about 5 years ago at the Sydney Film Festival, Judy was on stage with him prior to presenting awards to short filmmakers and chatted away with him.

The Logie Awards are on Sunday night? I expect some good shit from you Aussie bitches on Part 2 of this thread.

Yaaaah, Marcus Graham was just on 'Reef island', he looked alive

Bajour!

R595 Early, and the wrong thread, BUT, ya gotta love drunk show queens

Hugh Jackman was serving coffee out of a truck in Boston's Quincy Market Friday morning.

We have Australia to blame for this.

I voted during the nominations period for the Logies this year. The only person I was interested in, Jay Ryan in Foxtel's low-budget The Fighting Season, didn't get nominated.

I laugh at when foreign actors in local productions are nominated. Guys, Jenna Coleman won't turn up, ok?

Logie Day in Oz!

R599 Jay is an absolute sweetheart