Australian gossip part 2

Wotcha?

You reckon Folau and Alan Jones bitching is going to devour 600 posts OP or what ?

Bit premature ejaculation Oz Goss Part 2 Mate!

It's the gift that keeps on giving!

Ha R2 I once served Rita the Beater Connors in a shop I worked in. Now there's a name from the past.

What was she like?

She was nice and polite. I was a little star struck as I used to watch Prisoner. Only saw her the one time.

Glenda Linscott has quite a dainty voice, I can imagine her being very pleasant.

I can't actually remember what she sounded like but she was fairly tall and fit looking. She was dressed in jeans and a shirt similar to the prisoner uniform if I remember, which is why I recognised her so quickly.

I still enjoy this great Aussie video

Fishwyck has a gay cruise club, last I heard.

Izzy here I want to say Kenthurst is quite handy to Western Sydney grindr and suits my need to be discreet very much!

I remember when I was a gayling I used to jack off endlessly to Gary Sweet Police Rescue-era. Does anybody remember his Sexiest Man Alive cover for Who? Wish I still had it!

I thought he was a sexy daddy on Police Rescue.

Bob Carr is gay

Gross, R13!

Are there any photoshop nerds in the house? I can never find fake nudes of Aus politicians

Bob Carr was good friends with Gore Vidal

South Ponsett Street used to have a "tubbo" pub that was sweet. Met some real whiffers there, but it's long gone.

Was he really, R15? I heard the two of them on Late Night Live and Gore and Phillip Adams were both "WTF?" over several of Bob's answers, particularly regarding that new-fangled thang the Internet. Vidal and Adams both being older than Carr. Carr always liked to pretend to being a big intellectual: let's just say there was precious little evidence of this is his policy approach.

Also, "friends with Gore Vidal" doesn't necessarily mean anything sexual, since Vidal claimed in his bio that he only ever sleeps with people once, and never with his long-term partners. The DL may know this to be BS, but it's so wacky I thought it was probably true.

All that said, I've heard R13's rumour too.

Yes, Bob Carr is gay. So was his treasurer Michael Egan who is openly gay.

There was also a story about Paul Keating and a violinist.

Anyone remember?

Daytime talk show host Mike Walsh was gay.

Is he still alive?

Was the violinist male r19, because it was always rumoured Keating was gay.

Who was that married politician photographed coming out of a gay sauna ?

R17. It’s not a rumor

Folau’s update, conflicting sources but donations approaching 2 million

Mike Walsh is 81 and still alive.

It's been suggested by those in the know that Folau's case at the Fair Work Commission would cost at most $300,000 - maybe $500,000 if it gets to the High Court. Even engaging Australia's highest paying lawyers wouldn't get anywhere near $3 million. Personally, I think it's fucking hilarious all these people (a tiny fraction of Australians) are giving money to someone with a multimillion dollar property portfolio for a case that costs one-tenth of what he needs to fight a case he will probably lose.

9 mins ago, Donations to Israel Folau surge past $2 million on Australian Christian Lobby fundraising site

Even if he wins, he would have lost a lot

Good. He's a scarping bigot.

Nate Byrne who does the weather on ABC24 is gay.

Paul Keating befriended (ahem) Geoffrey Tozer who was a gifted pianist ignored by Australia's music establishment. He died of liver problems (probably alcohol related) in 2009 aged 56. I saw him perform and met him (because I was working at the venue) in the early 80's. A very shy and awkward person, probably what we would call "on the spectrum" of autism these days. So whilst we can sarcastically speculate about Keating's motives and sexuality, Geoffrey Tozer's sad career is owed some respect.

Sure about that, R30? You'd never know it from his pictures.

Anton Enus

Peter Finch, 1939

Chips Rafferty

It’s Logie Day in Oz!

Mmm Rodger Corser. I’d let him gold Logie me any time.

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David Campbell's veganism is making him look haggard like this person—

Please leave Israel Folau to the Israel Folau thread! It’s too depressing for words and is more a news item when I want to come here and consider how Tom Gleeson has the outlook of an intelligent 14-year-old trying to stick it to the man.

And my talented Jay Ryan.

Dayum, R38. Just...dayum.

Interesting about Paul Keating. He has never been linked to anyone after Annita, as he?

I glanced at the Logie nightmare occasionally on the TV screen while I was doing some humdrum clerical work on my Apple screen. There was NO eye-candy apart from sweet Rodger Corser!

I reckon Norman Gunston has a lot to answer for. He made it acceptable for a whole generation of witless comedians think it funny to appear dorky, unprofessional and witless on stage. Tom Gleeson is painful and Peter Helliyar is a witless, fair baby.

Yeah, watched them both on clips on YT. Both were insufferable. Kerry O’Brien’s speech, however, was fantastic.

OP, are you referring to this homosexual panic on the Narrandera to Sydney train murder?

Amanda Keller's bitchface was a beautiful thing, as were all the Karl Stefanovic jokes.

That reference by Helliyer to Richard whatsisname and pee was really bad.

Chrissy Latham from Prisoner is on Home and Away at the moment, she is legend

R47 I don't know how the super-clever/super-narcissist Waleed Aly can be in the same room as that uber-buffoon Hellyer.

Why isn't Aly where he belongs— in the embrace of the know-all ABC?

Is anyone else madly in love with Jad from Gogglebox?

Paul Keating has lived with actress Julieanne Newbould for 20 years, you queens just want him to be gay

What is the appeal of Peter Hellier? I guess The Project needed your token ugly, common, unintelligent, talentless bogan for ratings. They already had your token bitter feminist misandrist bitch (Lisa Wilkinson), your token politically correct Muslim, academic know-it-all (Waleed), and your token gay (Hamish McDonald)

[Quote] I don't know how the super-clever/super-narcissist Waleed Aly can be in the same room as that uber-buffoon Hellyer.

Is Waleed really that bad?

His ex was cute.

Thorpe has gay voice and gay face for days but he is loaded which is why the young twinky thing stayed for so long I guess.

[quote]Paul Keating has lived with actress Julieanne Newbould for 20 years, you queens just want him to be gay

Julieanne Newbould was hauntingly fragile as Hannah Simpson, Ferguson's plaything on Prisoner.

Ian Thorpe lost most of his money when he was closeted and depressed and living in a house he bought in the Hollywood Hills for no reason.

He didn’t invest his money. Alan Jones (who else?) hooked him up with the head of WestPac to reorganise his debts.

Even know he barely does any commentating work.

R53

[quote]Is Waleed really that bad?

Nah, nothing he says is bigoted or generally incorrect. He can be annoying. He’s the Type A Hermione with his hand shooting up in class and they are never really that fun.

"They already had your token bitter feminist misandrist bitch (Lisa Wilkinson), your token politically correct Muslim, academic know-it-all (Waleed), and your token gay (Hamish McDonald)"

I guess you prefer right-wing assholes who are racist and misogynistic like yourself

r59 Don't worry, that poster is probably the same cunt in the last thread complaining about virtue signallers, the ABC and Adam Goodes.

And seriously, Lisa Wilkinson is a "bitter feminist misandrist"? Lisa is more Taylor Swift than Germaine Greer on the female liberation scale. She's a barely educated teen magazine editor who is married to an obnoxious rugby player.

What about Josh Thomas? No gossip about him?

i LOVED the storyhe told , at a stand up comedy special, of one of his former boyfriends peeing on his leg in the shower and then acting all surprised that Thomas was actually in the shower as well.

r61 He seems like a miserable cunt, like a male Hannah, telling all the other bad lesbians and gays how to behave

I have two pieces of Paul Keating gossip. Forst, I met a woman who was engaged to him before Anita. She said he was selfish and had a big dick. And the second, my friend worked in an independent book store in 10 years ago, and he said when he saw Paul Keating he often had a different 20 something on his arm.

R50 Is Jad who sits on the left? or the one sitting on the right?

R64 on the left. The cute, dumb one.

John Jarratt, who was tv's Mr Nice Guy before his role in Wolf Creek is the latest actor to stand accused in Australia.

Michael Caton likes peculiar sexual play.......apparently

[quote]"They already had your token bitter feminist misandrist bitch (Lisa Wilkinson), your token politically correct Muslim, academic know-it-all (Waleed), and your token gay (Hamish McDonald)"

I find Waleed's wife infinitely more grating on the nerves than he is for some reason.

R68 Why is she wearing a tea towel?

R68 She glistens with self-satisfaction. She was beaming like Cheshire Cat at that special dinner with Malcolm Turnbull.

R66 This woman is complaining about 5 inches of John Jarret's penis from almost half a century ago.

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^ Yes, the brother is more handsome.

The sister (Azza Mahmoud Fawzi Hosseini Ali el Seroug) is sitting in Canberra but refuses to marry the father of her children.

I'm in the minority but i don't mind Tom. And some of his Hard Chat interviews are funny. I would've taken up Anthony's invitation lol.

I think Waleed’s beautiful.

I agree, Wilkinson has always crossed me as bitter and has a giant chip on her shoulder for some reason. Her crooked mouth is distracting

^ Yes, very bitter, as though she's sucked a lemon.

And the poor woman has to go home to that giant boofhead who wears a modern Aboriginal's red cotton loincloth around his bald head.

I have never liked Peter Fitzsimmons however he stuck up for gays during the same sex marriage debates and also attacked Folau for his homophobia, and for that I now respect him.

Peter Fitzsimons is retarded. He was kind of hot when he was fat, though

What's with the bandana? He's always been bald.

Any gossip on Joe Davidson, who played Cassius on Neighbors?

Is Sam Mac gay, he really pings.

R18 I saw Michael Eagan with his boyfriend at the Chuavel cinema in the early 00's. The boyfriend was much younger (not by any means underage!) and very ordinary looking.

Used to see Egan around Surry Hills years ago too.

Back in the 1990s The Sydney Star Observer basically outed Carr in the 1990s with an article and used Carr as an example that proved not all gays are glamorous. None of the mainstream media picked it up of course.

Also, when John Brogden (the former NSW State Leader when Bob Carr was premier) resign in disgrace after referring to Bob Carr's wife as a mail order bride to a journalist whilst a bit pissed he wasn't so far from the truth in that Bob & Helena (his wife) clearly have some arrangement but she ain't no 'mail order bride'. She is a very accomplished person in her own right. Its probably a case of they are best of friends and the marriage suits there needs.

Did anyone bother with the Logies (beyond the red carpet)?

R83 no but glad Wentworth and Mystery Road went away with something. I still think Jenna Coleman was awful in The Cry.

Why are Australians so good looking when most of them have British DNA?

Haven't seen much Australian television, have you?

I think it’s something to do with the sun, R85. It comes out a hell of a lot more in Australia than in does in the UK. That vitamin B is truly a marvel to behold.

u mean vitamin d?

r85 It's the convict DNA. Rough trade is always hotter than flabby, pasty pale chinless inbred British upper class genetics. All that manual labor in the convict settlements, working outside in the sun has manipulated the genes to produce tanned muscled gods. No class of course, and they talk like plebs but who cares when you're objectifying them purely for the sake of sex.

And the British sent a dentist on every ship to Oz.

R66 John Jarratt's penis has now found to be 'Not Guilty' of an insertion from over a third of a century ago!

Anyone got any gossip on Costa Georgiadis?

R91 And the jury only took 15 minutes to reach the verdict that they all agreed on: not guilty.

R92 Costa Georgiadis has a big nose and has filled up half the gardening show with stories full of emotional PC twaddle which are barely relevant to gardening

R94 I can't stand him or the show. I liked it when it was on Saturday evening at 6.30pm because my partner and I would usually watch an old Hollywood classic before hand and booze whilst watching. By the time the film was over and the wretched show appeared (which my partner loves) I'd have a nice little nap.

Then the ABC moved it to a one hour show on Fridays. Urgh, my partner watches it religiously, whilst I load the dishwater and do cleaning up.

John J is presumably now free to join Wolf Creek 3 and get off the age pension.

Eric Bana has been shooting a new Aussie crime thriller, "The Dry". This guy is playing a young Bana... I hope he's in every episode.

Hubba hubba!

What is Australia like? It seems like a fairly liberal country but then I hear of how conservative it actually is.

I saw Pamela Rabe today on the street. She is HUGE. You know when you see a celebrity and the first thing you notice is their height? She's way taller than she appears on screen.

R100 I've only seen Pamela Rabe on stage. She played Alice from The Brady Bunch in a Brandy Bunch Revue during the 1990s. She and she show were hilarious.

She is 6 foot high.

[R91] And the jury only took 15 minutes to reach the verdict that they all agreed on: not guilty.

I hope his reputation can be salvaged, after all, he was a host on Play School before Wolf Creek. I wonder if the outcome of this will affect the Craig McLachlan case at all? It's not fair to be judgmental, but if that actress did not like being kissed or touched on stage then Rocky Horror was probably not the right lead for her.

R103 And Craig seems to be getting zero work now

Craig McLachlan can't act, never could, Dr Blake Mysteries are a joke, no one would ever buy him as a doctor. He's just fucking Henry Ramsay from Neighbours with the permed mullet!

Craig McLachlan is a drongo.

We saw Pamela Rabe impersonate Shakespeare's King Richard III. She was off.

The whole production was off. Cate Blanchett was playing Anne. My husband walked out in the first interval. I love the Olivier film version —I've seen it 5 times— but I walked out in the second interval of this bleak Brechtian production performed on an empty, black stage.

Craig's partner Vanessa Scammell commented "We are determined and will do everything we can to move through this and clear his name and for everyone to realise that the person that is 'Craig McLachlan' is not the person who has been painted".

[quote] if that actress did not like being kissed or touched on stage then Rocky Horror was probably not the right lead for her.

Nonsense. They rehearsed the scene and agreed upon where she would be touched. She did not consent to McLachlan tracing the outline of her vagina with his finger.

There are multiple allegations against McLachlan - where there is that much smoke there is sure to be fire.

John Jarratt had one allegation that was of an alleged event over 40 years ago and there have NEVER been any rumours of John Jarratt behaving badly in any aspect during his long career. Like Maggie Kirkpatrick - Jarrott was innocent.

Well, he was found not guilty. Let's be precise.

Now John is suing The Daily Telegraph for defamation.

Anyone find Troy Kinne and his fat-fit bod sexy as hell?

R112 Jesus he got fat

I find John Jarratt sexy as hell

He was cute in Picnic at Hanging Rock but after Wolf Creek I can't look at him the same way. Probably because it's such a realistic performance, there are so many creepy guys like that out there.

Here's a recent pic.

Is there any gossip to be had from those outback shoots by Paul Freeman?

I realise a few of his recent shoots were done in the US and France but his main work is men doing manual labour in a fantasy version of Australian rural life before modern technology took over. They are presumably heterosexual, sexless and almost nude.

He uses a mix of hetero and gay models. And I fantasise that dome of the gay models might have some action in those grubby outback settings.

R117 God yes I love almost most of the models he uses, rugged and hairy.

Their nudity is incidental to their labour in their working day .

Gawd, I hate to break it to you hornbags but that’s some really bad art.

What's your preference, R129?

R120 Indeed, very Cleo centerfold done dirty

I bing watched Bondi Rescue and it was OK but the lifeguards weren't as hot as I hoped...

^ binge

R3. I met Rita the Beater once.

I went into a shop to get some Smiths Crisps. The place looked abandoned but I saw some Smiths Crisps when suddenly a laconic voice called out— 'You right there, Darl?'.

I saw Glenda on stage in a production of Speaking in Tongues which became the film Lantana. .

When I was a kid, I spoke to Glenda over the telephone when she was on TV answering phones on a telethon and I said I would donate $50 if she yelled out "Up the Wentworth Warriors", which she did.

I love Lantana. Why does Kerry Armstrong's do so much dreck? I mean still a good film role every few years, but downgrading herself on the reality series 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here', and currently in a recurring role on Neighbours...? Was she bad with money or something? At least Sigrid Thornton is on Wentworth...

I know about a decade ago she moved further away from Sydney / Melbourne to live a quiet life. She comes across a little nutty to me. They're rebooting Seachange and according to IMDB she will be in at least one episode, so maybe that will help.

^^^Yes! On I'm A Celebrity she came across as a real looney bin. Self-obsessed and a terrible name-dropper too.

She also always says she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Lantana... which never happened, lol. Not that she wasn't terrific in the film, but it was an AFI award she beat Kidman for. Even on 'I'm A Celebrity' she mentioned being nominated for a Golden Globe. Why make up information that people can google?

Obviously broke if she had to go on I'm A Celebrity, which she should never have done, I thought she was ok before she showed her real pretentious, insecure bat shit crazy self, she became tiresome real quickly. I liked her before I knew anything about her. Heather Jelly is a hoot though. Just goes to show, most actors are loons. Love to know more about Judy Davis.

Yes, she really exposed her cocooned inner-city luvvie thinking in the jungle.

Isn't trying to make a living in Aussie showbiz pretty hard? Wiki says Armstrong has three sons and she's not with any of the fathers. I can see why she'd do what she can get. Also, I thought she was the Kerry from that Danny Boyle film, who eventually sucked Mark Rylance's dick on film - so Ms. Armstrong isn't all that well known that she's turning down screen roles to do "Neighbours".

Rebooting SeaChange? Jesus. That was the frauiest show ever.

Will Stephanie Beacham return? The other two are dead, of course.

Kerry Armstrong was part of that horrible Moldavian Massacre storyline on Dynasty.

I don't trust Scott Morrison, he's a nutty fundy Hillsong Christian and he's dumb. He looks dopey. His frumpy fundy wife who wears homely Christian cardigans to fancy international meetings, his chubby ginger special needs kids, yuck. Don't trust him, the religious loon is hovering just below the surface. And they're poor!

R123 Most of the guys on 'Bondi Rescue' are pretty ordinary. They had to hire this guy to for a bit of sex appeal—

R137 Whilst I'm no fan of Scott Morrison I loath Bill Shorten. I did feel sorry for him when he lost the 'unloseable' election. However, that disappeared when a week and a half after the election loss Shorten was blaming everyone for his loss and never acknowledged that the ALP led by him had made mistakes.

However, I have great hope for Anthony Albanese, a politician that have the years have gone on I've admired more and more.

And I'll be upfront here - for the first time in my life I placed the LNP before the ALP! All my life I always wanted the ALP to win big time over the LNP, however this election I only wanted to see the ALP win by a couple of seats. As I live in a safe ALP seat my vote doesn't really count and I wanted to send a message to the ALP as well as the fact that I thought the ALP were going to romp in with a huge majority and any Government having a huge majority is always a worry. Boy, did I make a mistake - if a could change my vote I would have voted informal. Leave and learn, though I have a lot of faith and hope in Albanese.

I have been in meetings with Anthony Albanese. He thinks it's funny to fart during meetings.

When the ALP decided they needed women in the party he put the word on his sad, dutiful wife. His sad wife got promoted upwards and she hated it. The media wanted to turn her into a strong feminist leader but in every interview she said she had no ambition to be a leader let alone a deputy leader.

As soon as their kids finished at their private Catholic school, she finally got relief by divorcing Albo.

They live near the flight paths at Sydney Airport (which is Sydney's biggest and noisiest factory). Albo was the Federal Minister in charge of Infrastructure for more than for five years. And he did nothing.

Turnbull made the long-overdue decision to commence building Sydney's much-needed second airport.

Slomo thinks god helped him win the election, that it was a miracle! Fundy fool! We voted Shorten out, we didn't vote Morrison in, he was the best of a bad lot and the twit thinks we like him! Once Slomo starts to reveal his religious nuttery his days will be numbered and crypt keeper Dutton will be running the joint.

I've had enough of them all. I almost prefer the smarter, smarmier, slimier politicians than these village idiots we keep getting (SloMo is just one of many). Just let Penny Wong lead tbh.

No matter what you might think of Malcolm Turnbull, if it weren't for him we wouldn't have SSM, yes we had the plebiscite but that wasn't his fault, he had to honour cunt Abbott's promise to ask the people what they wanted. We would never have gotten SSM under Scabbott or Slomo.

There was no plebiscite. Why is everyone getting this wrong? It was a postal survey that was won. Then the election was lost. Should've been the other way around.

R141 Very true. Shorten was simply hopeless. He came near in 2016 because he actually had a couple of good sound policies (stopping and grandfathering negative gearing & CGT discounts).

However, in 2019 the economic outlook had changes and those changes were worrying for both investors and home owners paying off properties that were (and continue to) falling in value. Along with the ALP's franking credit policy, which would have been a good policy if they had capped it. Shorten couldn't even answer questions on his feet for fucks sake. When asked by a worker earning $250,000 per year for a tax cut his response was 'I'll/We'll look into that' when it should have been 'Own main priority is for tax cuts for lower income earners, but you will see some benefit from that'. When asked by another reporter would he reconsider the ALP's negative gearing/GCT plans he replied "I'm not for turning" (a similar thing that fucking Margaret "This lady is not for turning" Thatcher said the 1980's in relation to a question, when he should have said something like "Given that housing prices are falling we will reconsider the starting date should we be elected. We don't want to risk affecting home values even further but certainly when the market has recovered and is stable it is our intention to bring in these changes." Shorten is such a loser - I wish he'd fuck off and resign from Parliament. Watch him try to make a comeback as leader of the ALP.

And silly Chris Bowen saying on a number of occasions "If you don't like our policies - don't vote for us" is just crazy. In politics you need to win the hearts and minds of people - not divide them unless you know your going to win, which I suppose the ALP knew was going to happen - much like most people.

But the fact is that people got to have a closer look at Shorten from 2016 to 2019 and didn't like what they saw.

It was indeed a 'miracle' that the LNP won, when almost everyone including themselves believed they were heading for a smashing defeat but the fact was Shorten and the ALP lost it and there are probably about 50 different reasons that contributed to the ALPs shock loose. Certainly nothing that the LNP did because they really didn't have any policies.

Shorten was indeed hopeless. I'm a Liberal supporter but the death of Bob Hawke made me realise what a good leader her was, certainly in comparison to Shorten. Hawke gave us Medicare and everyone, regardless of wealth or whomever they support, benefits from that. Australians don't know how lucky we are to have Medicare. Thanks Bob.

Does anyone have funny stories involving Judith Lucy?

Does anyone have funny stories involving Judith Lucy?

Judith Lucy is own Dorothy Parker.

But I think it's rude to laugh at a suicidal drunk who makes jokes about having maggots in her sex-organ.

Can we laugh at Fiona O'Loughlin?

Fiona used to have those Elizabeth Taylor eyes but then she revealed herself as another Irish drunkard who wasn't coping with life at all.

Judith Lucy needs her own film and TV comedy series.

R152 Definitely! She has her own inimitable Dorothy Parker style and she isn't suitable playing second-fiddle on dumb game shows.

Whereas Shaun Micallef (who occasionally seems to have a stroke of genius and occasionally is a PC-dummy) is a bit more versatile.

Does anyone have funny stories involving Judith Lucy?

When she did a stint on At The Movies the website encouraged feedback on her. I said she had a face for radio but they didn't accept my comment.

Judith Lucy is so dry, clearly she is a depressive. She thinks anything is funny if she says it in a sarcastic voice...not funny.

R156 I mean... she has discussed her depression numerous times over the years. Not exactly a revelation.

I do think her act has gotten a bit stale throughout the years, though I used to enjoy her on all these shows like Rove / Andrew Denton etc. Perhaps because she was a bit less sanitised than the other comedians who appeared on those (Peter Hellier, Hamish & Andy, Dave Hughes). Saw her live once and she was hilarious but it was much of the same. She can be good in the right acting role (The Sapphires, Bad Eggs, Crackerjack, cameo on Kath & Kim).

Then again maybe she's had to regurgitate the same material over and over again because of the gulf in opportunities between her and her contemporaries. Mick Molloy, Paul McDermott, Shaun Micallef, and Tony Martin aren't half as funny as she is, and yet they get given radio shows, sitcoms, film vehicles, hosting gigs, acting roles, podcasts... I would include the likes of Nick Giannopoulos but i'm not sure they 'came up together' like she did with the others. Even her close friend and touring buddy Denise Scott gets HEAPS more acting gigs, was on Spicks & Specks almost every week, constantly getting booked for appearances.

Maybe it's a management or 'difficult to work with' issue.

Judith Lucy would be good as a straight woman spitting out sarcastic lines in a Kath & Kim film.

Why are they bringing back that Full Monty show on channel 7?

No one wants to see John Wood or Dipper in a g-string! Matty J is a faggoty bitch, boof-head eye-gouging Burgess, who else was there? The fuckin yellow wiggle they kicked out cause original wiggle was broke, Todd McKinney doing choreography but really there for a perve

r157 none of the people you named are remotely funny unless you're part of their bogan demographic

TBH, I was a member of a surf club as a child and the people who are involved are the biggest nerds you will ever meet.

R140 = ScoMo.

It is grossly unfair to reduce Albanese's "sad, dutiful wife" to a tragic appendage. Carmel Tebbutt was a gifted Minister in the NSW government for nearly 15 years, widely admired by her colleagues and her public servants alike through several different portfolios. If she didn't like doing it she certainly disguised it well.

Anyone else think Todd Sampson is fuckable?

^ That American is so ridiculously arrogant he spends half an hour preening in the mirror

That 'Todd Sampson' was employed in the advertising industry which is a profession which rewards people for behaving like pedophiles to lure stupid people to spend all their money.

What is this horrendous AGT ad i'm seeing? I mean good on all of them for getting work but what a strange lineup of judges. Was there nobody better? Nicole Scherzinger, Lucy Durack, the chef Manu, and Shane Jacobson? (who by the way STAYS getting booked and I don't know why... he's such an awful actor).

Also Ricki Lee as the host? It's amazing how far she's been able to stretch her career. Didn't she only come in like 5th on one of the first seasons of Australian Idol?

^ Ricki gets hired because she has big boobs. But I won't be watching this show.

R167 it is a very random lineup. I don't know what Manu is doing there. And I think Ricki looked better before she lost the weight.

R167 Fuck that Shane thing is a monster piece of shit.That toilet film,,,,, fuuuuuck

R170 That toilet guy is turn-off for me too but it seems he's hosting a second Full Monty Show. It will be full off the usual annoying sentiment but one of the strippers is cute Matty J

The English second season of Full Monty was kinda beautiful, the men really opened up and it was fucking good tv. Hope the Aussie one is also so adult

Shane Jacobson won a fucking Helpmann when he sang Stand Up You're Rocking The Boat in Guys and Dolls. He was fine in that production, but maybe they were short of nominees that year.

[quote]he sang Stand Up You're Rocking The Boat in Guys and Dolls

Close, but no cigar.

Ian Roberts shows up in and around my local Coles every now and then. Bloody huge guy, he is. Anyone see him playing in a white version of the Tiddas [original "What's this then, slut!?" version by Aaron Fa'Aoso and Stephen Oliver] on Black Comedy the other night? He's not bad in comedy.. Speaking of gay sportsmen, who's had Darren Lockyer? And will Tim Cahill ever come out? Is he at least open in his life away from the camera? Any former or current cricketers? [Aside from the now dead, self-defenestrating, paedo-freak bastard]

Darren Lockyer? Now that's hot!

American here who just learned about the Ben McCormack scandal in another thread. What a creep. Apparently now he's hopping from one low-wage job to another.

Ben McCormack was cute (in an Irish way) before he got pulled off TV and got fat.

Ian Roberts has the demeanour of a brick fence.

It takes three minutes to strip your clothes off; I don't know why the TV show 'The Full Monty' devotes so much time on all this supposedly-heartwarming, tear-jerking stuff for its female viewers.

I just want to give a personal "FUCK YOU" to the Lib voters on this thread. Fucking idiots.

R179 Can you offer some sensible debate instead of personal abuse?

If you really cared you'd tell the Labor Party to stop enforcing their stupid, draconian system of Compulsory Voting. I've worked on plenty of elections and I reckon one third of the population couldn't care less which of the bickering bozos was in power down in Canberra.

R179 If you don't like democracy go live in any number of countries around the world were you don't have a say or a told what way to vote.

Anyone watch Celebrity Name Game last week when Damian Walshe-Howling & Ivan Aristeguieta were on it? There was one shot of both of them sitting on the couch, legs spread, both looked pretty hot.

R182 I caught the last 5 minutes. Damian looked hot.

Oh fuck off R181 you mongrel fuckwit. Go back to your bankrupt regional town to your very ordinary life.

R181 Actually I live in Sydney's Inner-West and have all my life. And I'm very open that I have always voted ALP/Greens until the last Federal Election, when I voted LNP for the first time. If you have a problem with the way I voted go and complain to the Electoral Commission - I'm sure they would love to hear your opinions on how I should have voted the way you wanted me too.

I just found r181’s Australia Day outfit

R186 I'd wear it.

Okay I watched that Celebrity Name Game episode on 10play and Damian has never pinged so hard lol. You can also tell how short he is when you put him next to Grant Denyer (who obviously wears lifts too).

I always thought cricketer Brett Lee gave off gay vibes. And in tennis, the Woodies - Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge - also set my gaydar off. Todd especially pings as a total twink.

I used to watch the tennis live in Sydney for the NSW Open and Todd Woodbridge, when he missed shots, would shout “Faggot!” to himself. Ugh! The crowd would boo him. He’s not gay, just a wanker.

I found your tattoo here, r187.

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R192 There is also that young guy from Belgium who disappeared at Byron Bay. All very upsetting.

More fro John Jarratt.

Here is a great article from The Guardian in relation to the ground breaking Number 96 (and The Box - which I never saw). Such a shame the old black and white episodes of Number 96 are no longer with us.

There is a DVD collection of Number 96 with some of the black and white episodes. Just not the one where Joe Hasham comes out to Abigail.

Number 96 was hugely important for the LGBT community in Australia, not for any of the reasons listed in the article, but because of the very clever thing they did. Joe Hasham as Don was positioned as the show's male sex symbol, and it was six weeks or more before it was revealed the character was gay. Because the show was on 5 nights a week and was an instant sensation, across pretty much all demographics, lots of women had already been very open to their friends about fancying him, and lots of men thought he was likeable.

When they found out he was gay, most of those people seemed to pause for a mere moment before going, "Oh, OK." Homophobia at that time was heavily based on fear of the unknown, because basically everyone was in the closet except for the early gay liberationists, who were a bit scary. When this nice, sexy, professional guy that you already liked turned out to be gay it was a really meaningful moment. I've always thought Australia's world-leading reaction to dealing with AIDS could only have happened because Don Finlayson had happened.

Of course, in other ways Number 96 was extremely improbable. As if Carlotta would ever have looked twice at Arnold Feather!

Loved your post, R97, and I’ve never even seen Number 96!

From memory they made Don's lover Dudley Butterfield (what a name) bi and he went off with a woman.

Here's Chard who played Dudley on a TV Week.

Here's an older Chard.

[Quote] Actually I live in Sydney's Inner-West and have all my life.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing??

I used to live there for a long time but it got too crowded for me.

I live in Western Sydney and I'm wishing I was back in the Shire but it's just too expensive.

Lower North Shore here.

I was very little when The Grim Reaper ad was on TV.

There was an excellent article in The Sydney Morning Herald the weekend before last by the usually awful Peter Hartcher on how Australia under Bob Hawke reacted to the AIDs crisis. Having lived through it all I can certainly attest to the articles accuracy.

Australia was the world leader on AIDs prevent and it was and also has been dealt with as a health issue only and not a moral issue, despite the attempts by the likes of the vile Fred Nile.

R206 Hartcher is tiny; he's like a fragile pygmy. His Oriental husband is much bigger than him.

R207 I didn't know Hartcher was gay? Any links or photos?

R208 He's hardly worth it. I was standing next to him and I knew my 6-inch dick would damage his tiny porcelain rectum.

R39 There must be a good helping of metal instability in that family's genes.

His father was a drunk who killed his vocal chords and acknowledges was drinking 'himself to death'. He worked in the duplicitous middle-class entertainment industry while claiming he was "a working-class man".

The son is a sick-looking vegan who claims that his son is a reincarnation of Princess Diana.

My boss went to school with David Campbell in Adelaide. He looked exactly like Barnsey and everyone bullied him in primary school because they knew who his dad was.

I’d still rim Gary Sweet.

What happened to that cute guy Tim something who was on Neighbours as Jason and Kylie’s kid?

Tim Phillips.

What happened to the Blakeney twins?

The twins are coming back man!

Neighbours seems to be having a resurgence of late.

By the by, any goss on the cash cow?

Ah, the twins! When everybody from Neighbours was releasing singles, the Twins teamed up with Kylie's producers to turn them into pop stars. When their single "All Mixed Up" flopped SAW dumped them. The rumor is they were working on a whole album with them which never saw the light of day.

I totally forgot about the Blakeney twins.

Which of the two Stenmark twins (those two Aussie male models) is gay? Or are they both? I got a vibe from one of them when they were on Australia's Next Top Model but I also couldn't tell them apart lol.

Also! Prayer circle for ONJ to make it to 2020.

Ahh the late 80s, early 90s.

The golden era of Aussie soap/pop cross over extravaganzas!

Let's not forgot this gem.

'If you wanna wait 'til later, hands off my detonator...'

Also The Chantoozies. All four girls had either appeared on the soaps Home and Away, Sons and Daughters, Prisoner or Neighbours. Tottie Goldsmith (the blonde one) is also Olivia Newton-John's niece.

One of the Chantoozies was on Wentworth too recently in a pretty unflattering role lol (early seasons, can't remember her name). Tottie Goldsmith (ONJ's niece) actually appeared on Neighbours for a brief stint as the unreliable, usually absent mother of Margot Robbie! I recall a scene where she tried to fuck Margot's boyfriend - even though he was still a high schooler.

We've heard about Jack-Jack-Jackie upthread, but any gossip on "Mouth" singer Merril Bainbridge? This song was so big and she probably could have made a small splash as one of those Lillith Fair type singers but she seems to have disappeared.

The Chantoozies are still around and they are...........ummm great.

No, they are really good.

When I saw the Chantoozies on that morning tv show a couple of years ago, after the new vid with Hugh Jackman, Eric Bana and Anthony LaPaglia, it was nearly 30 years after I had seen them in their first video. At first I was confused, all four women, now four brunettes, actually looked younger and thinner than they did in the 80s. Only when I could see the close ups that they had aged, but pretty well indeed.

The Blakeney Twins also sang back up, and starred in the video for The Monitors classic "Nobody Told Me" as kids.

They also wore Kiss make-up for the far out sequel "What Will We Be Singing In The 80s?"

R222 They sound... interesting. The one on the right actually has a decent voice, especially for such a deep smoky one. She's the one who played a junkie on Wentworth, and she was also on All Saints too if I remember correctly. She sang a lot on the show, she was John Howard's character's wife or ex wife.

R226 that's Alexandra Fowler the original star of Sons & Daughters, and also an early actress on Neighbours where she played Stefan Dennis' love interest Zoe Davis. I think she is also returning to Neighbours soon, but playing a brand new character.

The Blakeney twins also weirdly turned up in the video RSVP by alternative metal band Pop Will Eat Itself in the mid-90s.

Do we think Karl will head back to the failing 'Today' show?

I couldn't care less about 'Shoot-from-the-mouth Karl' but I'd like to see him in a proper bitch-fight with that 'Lemon-mouthed Lisa'.

I bit of a giggle...

Why is the media so obsessed with Karl Stefanovic?

I mean, how many people even watch those morning breakfast shows across the entire country? 116 people or a little more at best I'd say.

Because of his long stabby thing

Any of you sluts had Alf, the old poof

R232 That Karl Stefanovic was only hired for some eye candy for the 116 old ladies who watch that show. He's a bone-head but he's prettier than Lisa who looks like she sucked a lemon.

R188 Damien Walsh-Howling is tiny. I saw him in a short gay movie from 2001 called 'Saturn's Return' where I vaguely remember him getting sexy and nudey with Joel Edgerton in an abandoned wood cabin. It seemed sexy and nudey at the time but our standards have changed so much since then.

It seems they're friends off screen as well.

Do you really think Alf is gay??

The fourth 'Thor' movie has just been announced. Any gossip, as to whether it will be filmed on the GC, like 3?

R237 Ha, no, I just love those youtube clips of him being a crazy racist sex mad whore bag

The Australian media is doing their best to drive Karl Stefanovic to suicide all because he dared dump his Caitlyn Jenner looking "wife" and hooked up with a young hottie. Even Lindy Chamberlain wasn't treated as bad.

R239 If you believe that, you must be young, Aussie press were total bastards to her

Most people don't give a flying fuck about media personalities private lives.

I think he was phoning it in, and had become too comfortable, smug and arrogant in the role....that's why people were turning off.

It is sad though when I middle aged guy leaves his wife after so many years and with children.

A gay man would never leave his wife.

Wait....

R240 And now they're licking her ass at every opportunity. Even putting her on Dancing with the Stars.

R241 And Lisa isn't an arrogant cunt? If arrogance is enough to be fired and vilified, Waleed should have been out of a job long ago.

I quite like the project these days. I haven't watched it for years, but have been having it on the last few weeks. I think it's a better fit for Lisa, and of course Hamish is great on it.

Do they still have that Beauty and the Beast show?

[quote]Do they still have that Beauty and the Beast show?

No. Stan died. I used to watch it growing up. It was hysterical. That's how I first discovered Lisa. She was actually nice then. Likewise Carlotta. Here's Jeannie Little in one of her more memorable moments on the show.

Didn't it first have John Laws?

R245 Jesus Jeanne Little, blast from the dark past

No, but they should.

I also think it's time to bring back Agro.

Thanks Wiki. The first version began in 1963 on the Seven Network with host Eric Baume as the "Beast". Baume was later replaced by presenters including John Laws, Stuart Wagstaff, Noel Ferrier and Rex Mossop. The original "Beauties" included Maggie Tabberer, Dita Cobb, Ena Harwood (mother of Andrew Harwood), Pat Firman, Patricia Lovell, Hazel Phillips, Noeline Brown and Freda Lesslie.

Apparantly poor Jeannie has severe dementia.

Remember Jan Murray? She HATED Stan.

Stan was easy to hate.

Stuart Wagstaff's Wiki has no personal life details. I know he was a Brit but he pinged.

^ I agree with Jeannie (as far as the 50th second).

R253 Wagstaff was definitely gay

I was told as much by that foul-mouthed uber-ocker from the (quasi-pedophilic, lying) advertising industry named John Singleton who told us college students in the 80s that "Waggers is a poof". .

ok. I served him once in a shop I was working in and he was very charming.

R250 And Jeanne Little's husband beloved husband Barrie passed away aged 89 a week ago. Apparently, he was in the nursing home with her but he was not suffering from dementia like poor Jeanne.

Does anyone remember Jeanne's brilliant hit single 'Darling are you paying attention?'

Couldn't find a film clip but this is the next best thing.

Jeannie was a honorary homosexual.

I couldn't believe it when she was put in Legends alongside Kerrie Biddell, Toni Lamond, and Nancye Hayes.

R259 Toni Lamond was on Recording Studio a couple of months ago. Still a total darling

Kerrie Biddell died in 2014 with little press attention which is a shame because she was brilliant.

R259 Some Aussies are very sloppy as to whom they describe as "a legend".

They erect statues so they can worship washed-up, old footy-players. They name tennis pavilions for successful tennis players (back in the day when homosexuals were treated as scum) but they withdraw the compliment when the 'Politically-Correct Brigade' demand that that particular social behaviour be reversed.

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AFL is a Melbourne game.

Melbourne is a cold, insular place where people do lots of book-reading and hang out at cafes thinking they're superior.

Nova Peris gurl WHAT are you doing on Survivor? From first ever Indigenous Olympic Gold Medalist, to Commonwealth Games medalist (in multiple sports!), to Australian senator.... to reality TV.

Agree, R261. Kerrie Biddell was an amazing singer, and the arrangements she used were brilliant too. What I was told was that she just couldn't handle any level of fame, so she never reached her potential. I don't know how true that was, but it was a real pity she didn't get the recognition she deserved. Sorry to hear she died.

Oh, and Stuart Wagstaff was definitely gay. I'm pretty sure he gave interviews later in life where he said so. His father was a bastard and he escaped him by joining the Navy, which was how he ended up in Australia. I think he said he never had a long-term relationship. For some years he and Graham Kennedy used to take a Mystery Flight together on Christmas Day because they didn't have families to go to, and nobody much else was flying that day so they weren't bothered by fans.

[quote]Nova Peris gurl WHAT are you doing on Survivor?

Girl's gotta pay the bills. We all do. Unless we're kept whores.

OMG.........I served that Singleton dick in a restaurant once. He totally humiliated me in front of the table. Although, i thought I carried on regardless, afterwards he came up to me, apologised and gave me a $10 tip.

^ I thought him thoroughly obnoxious trying so hard to be a brainless ocker.

He must be close to death now. I hear he gives money to that Ashfield soup kitchen as well as other charities.

Peter Fitzsimons is being laughed at even by Triple J.

R269 - how did Singleton humiliate you?

R271. Peter Fitzsimons is an-ex-footy boofhead.

He's also a parasite; he takes other people's research and parades it as his own. This sentimental boofhead is now described as 'Political editor' at 'The Sydney Morning herald' which perfectly demonstrates how this once-important city newspaper has descended into tabloid trash equal to 'HuffPost.

The Herald has someone on staff called Caitlin Fitzsimmons so I hope that's not another example of the Bandana-man's nepotism.

So, do we think George is going to be fired, or quit Masterchef? Cannot see how he can stay

Also Tim for the win, love a ginga that cries

R274 if he's smart, he will quit.

R275 If he had class, he will. Presume it will be announced right after the final

I don't think George Calimari can come back from this one. People already found him douchey and unappealing, to keep him on after the controversy would just be bad press. He's not exactly 'irreplaceable'. They'll probably go with a female. Donna Hay isn't doing anything right now. I'm sure Maggie Beer would love more camera time.

R277 He eats like a fucking animal, licking food off his fork.

I adore Maggie, maybe they will put in one of the old winning contestants as a judge, that would be cool I vote for Pong or Poo or whatever her name is

I love Poh! Actually met her once and she was really funny. Very infectious laugh. I wonder if she has the 'box office appeal' necessary though, since most of her shows have been on ABC/SBS/SBSFood.

She also doesn't eat like a grunting farmhouse pig which is already a huge step up from George.

R279 Seemingly she is the most high profile winner, and is good talent. And a woman on the judging panel would rock!

I think George will stay. They'll play grand final of Masterchef on Tuesday, and by the time the next series starts all will be forgotten.

[Quote] I'm sure Maggie Beer would love more camera time.

Well now I would love some of her ice cream 🍦

I thought adding Kylie Kwong a few years ago was a great addition to Masterchef. Did you see her Anh Do's Brush with Fame episode. She's very articulate and engaging.

I also think Poh would be a great addition. Australia needs to move away from all white hosts. Quite disappointed that all of the Masterchef finalists are white too. Derek was robbed!!

In saying all of that, I'm a vegetarian, so I want Simon to win.

R283 If you think Aussie TV needs to move away from all white hosts, you should tune to the ABC where you can have POCs like Stan Grant, Jeremy Fernandez and Karina Carvalho (who has some awful vocal fry). Channel 9 has Brooke Boney (who I've never seen).

[Quote] Channel 9 has Brooke Boney (who I've never seen).

Great surname!

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R284 Jeremy Fernandez is hot as fuck. Always prefer to see him reading the news rather than Juanita. Apparently he is tiny in real life.

Stan Grant was on CNN for a while, wasn’t he? I liked him.

R288 Stan Grant was also on Channel 7 years ago - way beneath him but he has found his true home at the ABC. Speaking of which I really wish the ABC would move Leigh Sales from The 7.30 Report - she is weigh too light weight and would be better off on their morning breakfast show. She is not up to interviewing on the run and all the politicians run rings around her. Stan Grant has proved, when filling in for Leigh Sales, they he is way way more capable.

Yeah, Leigh is a bit of a lightweight.

Stan Grant is an excellent interviewer - there aren’t that many great ones in Australian news. I think he is still getting blowback for splitting with his wife for Tracey Holmes.

Speaking of Maggie Beer, what's the goss on her Cook & Chef co host Simon Bryant? I think he's hot but screams 'closet'.

I like Leigh!

And Annabel.

My Timmy got sent home, sob. Seemingly the blonde George keeps eye fucking will win now

The judges have quit Masterchef, they get over a million bucks each and wanted 40% more. Fat fucks Replace them with three women

Maggie Beer, Poh and Donna Hay

I would watch the fuck out of that

Good riddance! That obnoxious cunt George can just fuck right off.

Three overpaid, fat, obnoxious morons who probably can't even wash their own asses. What are they even getting paid for? Eating food and saying it's good? Getting all that free promotion for their restaurants? They don't even have to cook on the show lol...

Kill them Poh!!

Matt Preston reminds me of Stephen Fry.

^ I hope fat Matt doesn't have a skinny little toy-boy hidden away who's one third his age and one third his weight.

Movie star Tina Arena???

I like Poh and Maggie. My dad had a weird man crush on Curtis.

R299 looks like a LOOKING TOR ALIBRANDI prequel.

R299 looks like a LOOKING TOR ALIBRANDI prequel.

r302 Loved Looking For Alabrandi, was so sweet. Whatever happened to the lead girl?

She’s in the next series of Survivor.

What happened to Anthony LaPaglia is another question. He had Tv series after TV series then nothing.

R304 Anthony LaPaglia is on the new season (or TV movie) of Halifax with Rebecca Gibney.

Nice to see between that and Wentworth, there are a few roles around still for older actresses. Not enough though, there are many great actresses of that age group who hardly work. Speaking of Wentworth, did anyone see the first part of the end-of-season cliffhanger last night? Truly shocking.

Margaret Fulton died. She was 94.

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Heaps of people with mental illness don't destroy public property. This pollie is a pig.

I wonder if this new fat pollie is as hopeless as that monster from Iguana-gate

[quote]For some years he and Graham Kennedy used to take a Mystery Flight together on Christmas Day because they didn't have families to go to, and nobody much else was flying that day so they weren't bothered by fans.

Oh, the Ansett mystery flights!

My neighbour in Sydney won one in a school raffle and they didn't want to fly to Canberra, so they drove to the ACT to take the flight from there. They flew back to Sydney.

r308 why did he smash it? All the fat shit had to do was lean against it and it would have caved in.

What happened to Tushka Bergen?

ER, Mystery Flights did customarily bring you back, R311. It would have been a strange service indeed otherwise.

Who's going to win Australian Survivor?

Pia?

Nova?

Boost Juice lady?

Pia is already too vulnerable after the first week. She probably thinks her 'good performance' at the council stopped them from voting her off, but really she's lucky Nova went out and saved her ass and somehow got them BOTH off the chopping block considering they were the first names bandied about (but i'm VERY glad that annoying little ballerina got eliminated instead).

I think one of the contenders will win it this time. Not sure which one yet, someone under the radar perhaps.

E.T the former rugby hunk already gives off cranky old man vibes. Despite looking so fit for his age, he has been underwhelming at the challenges too. Boost lady looks ROUGH without all her Shark Tank makeup. And the big wave surfer is already deadweight.

I just want that bogan Luke from 2 seasons ago gone. The pro wrestler and ice cream maker from the contenders team are both annoying too, as well as that girl (Fiona? I think it was?) who keeps bossing everyone around also from the contenders.

I'm rooting for Nova. She's actually done some stuff for our country (off the show), also she cooked for everyone in the tribe and was the only person who could start a fire. She also proved to be good at organising people and getting numbers. At least keep her around for a few more weeks.

There's a bit of eye candy this season, not as much as before (and the male model just looks sort of weird despite the hot bod), but Shaun Hampson still looks so good... want to see more of him in that speedo.

any photos of him in speedos?

This is an Australian version of an American franchised show so I bet speedos are banned.

But I hope I will be proved wrong.

Luke's looking pretty unfit, and his cockiness is entertaining/irritating.

I always want a nice underdog to win. I enjoy watching the women get rid of the alpha males. It was a delight watching Shane destroy all last year with her charm and finesse.

Mullet gold miner is a fun watch though.

I never would've thought that Larissa was going to win Masterchef in the first week, so I'm reluctant to choose a winner at this early stage, but what the hell...

I think the final will be between Pia and Mullet gold miner!

There are definitionally speedos! Why wouldn't there be??

Does anyone know what that story is about on 60 minutes this Sunday.

The ridiculous, over the top ad, implies it's HUGE!

????

R322 My guess the deregulation of the building industry across all the states over 20 years ago which has lead to numerous building no considered unfit to live in?

I think it’s about Hugh Jackman touring his show around Australia starting next month.

Mullet gold miner could get it

ET from Survivor is still fucking hot

ET from Survivor is still fucking hot

ET used to be gorgeous in the 80s

He's only 53. That's not old, except maybe in gay years.

R322 I think its about Chinese gangs and the Sydney Star Casino - its splashed all over the Sydney Morning Herald and considering the SMH is now owned by the same people that own Channel 9 its nothing more than cross promotion.

It's all about Crown and Packer.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Clearly just hyperbole to make you watch and generate ratings.

Anyone else been watching Ninja Warrior?

Thank goodness for Survivor

Jason Donovan is coming to Oz to play Billy Flynn in Chicago. And his daughter has joined the cast of Neighbours.

There's nothing in that speedo

He's waiting for you, R336, to turn him on.

Why isn't Shaun on the Champions team? He's an ex-AFL player plus Megan Gales partner, lucky bitch.

[Quote] plus Megan Gales partner, lucky bitch.

Isn't she supposedly an asshole??

^ She looks like a Tongan man in drag but Shaun is much prettier.

R340 she does??

Right? Especially when there's some skeevy looking D-list model on the champions tribe. Could they not have done a swap? In fact give Hampson his modelling career too, he's prettier.

I wasn't TOO familiar with Steven Bradbury but kind of had this impression of him as this affable, amiable guy who didn't take himself too seriously and poked fun at his accidental Olympic success. But on the show he comes across as such a psycho... just this weird old lizardly man who is constantly aggressive at all times. Very 'angry dad at the BBQ waiting to snap at any moment'.

I'm annoyed they sent Nova home instead of him for literally no reason. But I don't think she was going to last anyway. The contenders should be embarrassed that when they met the champions, not a single one of them knew who she was.

I felt bad for Nova Peris on Survivor. I bet that’s the last time she’ll stick her neck out for a white guy (Steven Bradbury). Only women contestants voted out so far, too.

It was such a pointless elimination. They obviously weren't that pissed about Steven bullying blondie after all (that loser model looked like he was going to punch him out on the beach, so dramatic).

Nova was the only one who started the fires, gathered food, cooked for everyone, and saved Pia in week 1. But she should have seen that it was a sinking ship anyway with everyone yelling at him and cast her vote for Steven just to be safe herself and add to his numbers.

No idea why they don't even bring up Luke's name, considering he's very obviously playing them all, and also was shit in challenges. They're still stuck with psycho Bradbury and that deadweight big wave surfer who can't do anything well. No wonder they lose challenges.

Also on the topic of general Aussie gossip, I saw Marcia Hines at a health food store today... I didn't realise how tiny she was! She was asking the staff a lot of questions and I don't think she ended up buying anything except a coffee lol.

^ Marcia Hines must be in her 60s but she looks 35.

I used to go to a gym that Marcia frequented. She came in overweight and got a trainer to get her fit. The trainer told me that he had an affair with her but then she dumped him. He was very bitter abut it but I don't now why because he was very hunky and could easily get someone else. I thought I saw this trainer at a sex backroom, but he told me it was his twin brother.

R345 Black don't crack

[Quote] I used to go to a gym that Marcia frequented. She came in overweight and got a trainer to get her fit. The trainer told me that he had an affair with her but then she dumped him. He was very bitter abut it but I don't now why because he was very hunky and could easily get someone else. I thought I saw this trainer at a sex backroom, but he told me it was his twin brother.

I think you have the bones of a script there.

She did look great, short boxy body but quite sporty too. Her skin looked.... tough? That sounds like an insult but I mean it looked strong and smooth and tight, no blemishes and I think she has quite a bit of muscle on her face and body. It didn't look botoxy (though I wouldn't put it past her), but almost like her skin would be hard to penetrate. I am guessing she eats a lot of organic food (it was that kind of shop and she knew her stuff based on her extensive questioning).

Was wearing a big tacky fake fur drizabone type thing though.

Marcia has severe diabetes

Jenny Morris used to go to the same gym and she was tiny. I loved her band QED which she was in before going solo. I hear now she can't sing anymore.

Ben Mendelsohhn used to go to the same gym as me.

Did you talk to him?

Ben Mendelsohn was a heroin junkie for years. It's so funny hearing American critics praise him to the high heavens for being able to play 'dark and brooding' so well, as if he hasn't played that exact Animal Kingdom character in at least a dozen Aussie projects.

Crazy that he got a huge Hollywood career out of just one movie. You have to think there are other actors he's worked with many times (like Claudia Karvan or Brendan Cowell, for example) who are talented, hardworking and versatile, who are wondering 'why him and not me?'

Where did you hear about Ben Mendelsohn being a heroin junkie?

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Its pretty well known that Noah Taylor had a similar habit.

R350 Marcia also has asthma. In spite of that she can certainly hold a tune with the best of them.

Don't get me started on Noah Taylor. I was at St Martins Theatre in Melbourne at the same time as him in the mid 80's. I stage-managed a season but didn't work with him thankfully. He was still in his early teens and I was 24 - about a ten year age gap - my main memory is of him lounging around on sofas chain-smoking. Yet he was revered as someone special... Why??? An untalented hack compared to a lot of the young actors I had the pleasure to work with back then. But I also heard he has a wealthy, well-connected family.

r359 was Noah Taylor gay or straight?

I always get Noah and Ben confused for each other, as they do both have the identical junkie look and always play the same type of characters, (junkie losers)

AGT certainly is pulling on the heart strings. But Nicole keeps going on as if the show has been going for years, is this the first season, reboot or continuing, cause otherwise I have been smoking too much and missed it

Fat toilet guy is so fucking tiresomely middle australian. Manu could get it. Who is Lucy

^ What do you mean by "middle australian"?

A milder form of Traditional Ocker?

An ordinary man who hasn't been brow-beaten by the 'feminists and fags' who now dominate the ABC Elite and the Twitterati ?

Ah, so there are [italic]are[/italic] aussie-based alt-right trolls on DL (i:e, R362)?

R363 has a short fuse. He must be a member of the ABC Elite or the Twitterati

Is he why Tziporah became so crazy?

Tziporah caught the bipolar from James Packer

Tziporah seemed to have it all once and threw it all away. She blames her mother, Pru Goward, for all her problems claiming she was too obsessed with her career to care about her which I don't doubt is part of the problem as Goward does come across as a bit of a bitch. Come to think of it every woman I know called Pru is a cunt. It's such a cuntish, snobbish name.

Speaking of Noah Taylor being well connected, why is Hugo Weaving trying to force his family members on us?

I've also noticed this young Indigenous actor Hunter Page Lockard in sooo many TV shows and movies (and plays), and he's almost always terrible . Wentworth, the leading role in Cleverman on ABC, etc. I was wondering how he was getting so many opportunities when other Aboriginal actors in his age group like Aaron McGrath are so much better. Just found out that his parents run the Bengarra Dance Company (which has ties with ABC, Foxtel Arts, the Sydney Theatre Company, etc.).

Nepotism in Australia is just as bad as overseas. At least Lincoln Lewis has a hot bod to make it (slightly) worthwhile.

[Quote] why is Hugo Weaving trying to force his family members on us?

I only know of Samara. Who are the other family members??

Samara's sister Morgan is also an actress.

Samara's father (Hugo's brother) is a filmmaker who got his start through Hugo's connections.

Hugo's own son Harry has also benefited from the nepotism too, getting big projects like Hacksaw Ridge, Gallipoli, and Bad Mothers. He's changed his stage name to 'Harry Greenwood' as if nobody will notice that he looks exactly like his father who is the only reason he gets employed.

By the way, I think Hugo is a hugely talented actor. One of the best male actors the country has produced. But when the Aussie film/TV/theatre industries are already tiny and hard to get work in, it feels wrong to have these stars import their entire families into it. Sometimes they turn out to be worthwhile (Miranda Otto), hard working talents, but I know so many young kids who could never even hope to get a foot in the door.

R367 Pru Goward has always struck me as a complete cunt. Anyone know if there are any truth to the rumours that Goward and that slimy rodent John Howard had affair. It was apparently one of the reasons the cunt Janette Howard set up house at Kirriblli rather than The Lodge in Canberra where she should have been.

Ok, so we know one of the Scott twins is gay; which one is it- Brad or Chris?

I loved Tziporah in Sirens. She almost quietly stole the movie from both Elle Macpherson and Portia de Rossi, but as she was engaged throughout her biggest potential earning years to Packer, and they seemed like such a solid match, I guess she felt show-biz was not worth the hassle of pursuing. She really got treated badly by the press during those Fish-Packer years. At least she did get to be one of the hosts of The Bugs Bunny Show along with Sophie Lee.

I am vaguely acquainted with Simon Weaving, Hugo's brother. He definitely did benefit with getting his start thanks to his name and connection. His daughter, Morgan has given up acting and last I heard graduated from university, and was maybe studying a PhD?

Lincoln Lewis has a hot body but he's going bald like his father and he has shit for brains

[Quote] and he has shit for brains

So like most actors......

R375 Lincoln Lewis' apparent dumbness is part of his appeal. He's so dumb that he doesn't even know his pants are falling down.

R370, are you sure Harry Greenwood changed his name? I don't think Hugo and his partner are married, though they've been together forever, and that's her name, so IDK what the kids were brought up as.

And to be fair, Harry is a NIDA graduate, though I don't doubt it's easier to get into NIDA if you're connected either. But at least he did his 3 years and got a degree.

I saw Harry Greenwood a couple of months ago in the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof co-starring his dad Hugo. Harry had a long naked shower scene onstage (back only view to the audience, although people on side seats probably got a good view of the front}

[371] 100% correct. A friend of mine in Sydney had a senior role in the public service and spent a lot of time in Canberra back then. It was common knowledge that Jeanette Howard insisted on living in Sydney, not the Lodge, because when in Canberra John would shack up with Pru Goward.

Speaking of kids getting a step-up because of their famous parents... Matthew Newton?

fuckin loathe John Howard. During the same sex marriage debate he said he and Jenette had been married for 40 something years then in the next breath said 'No, I won't be voting yes.' Smug cunt, rubbing it in how he can be married for 40 years but denying other people the right to!

So you voted 'yes' to be 'equal' to a smug cunt?... I voted 'no'.

R379 Harry Greenwood has a supporting role in The Nightingale which opens in August (in the US & Australia) - no nudity but he is very good.

Lincoln Lewis inherited his dad’s hairline.

Meanwhile, Lambs Of God was absolute shit. With the exception of Essie Davis, Australian actors can’t really do decent English accents. They just speak in an affected cultivated Australian accent, like Geoffrey Rush.

Lincoln Lewis inherited his dad’s hairline.

Meanwhile, Lambs Of God was absolute shit. With the exception of Essie Davis, Australian actors can’t really do decent English accents. They just speak in an affected cultivated Australian accent, like Geoffrey Rush.

R381, that's hogwash.

Matthew Newton is MORE talented than either of his parents. Much more. He clearly has a large array of problems, but talent isn't one of them.

Reading between the lines, it seems mental illness has ruined Matthew Newton. Who knows what he could have achieved without it. Very sad.

Congrats to the happy couple.

Who is that?

That's some guy from some show.

I love Survivor. I am gutted that's it's only on 3 nights a week.

I sat down on Wednesday to watch it and was confronted with that Bachelor nonsense! Oh the humanity!

I am going for little Pia! She's adorable. All the big guys get voted out. The ones who 'play' the game, get voted out.

It's the ones who are nice, go under the radar, but know exactly what's going on, who win.

Strap yourselves in. It's going to be a bumpy ride!

By the by, I had know idea about the John Howard/Pru romance. Great gossip.

I'm all for more Canberra gossip!

Bring it on!

Does anyone else remember Alison MacCallum? She had a hit in 1972 with the song "Superman" and did lead vocals on the Labor Party's campaign theme song "It's Time" for the 1972 election She has disappeared from public view but is now aged 68.

Oh yeah. I spotted Jack Thompson in the chorus.

Jacqui Weaver is in the chorus too. Most of them are dead now though. Best political add ever (and best PM ever in Gough Whitlam).

r390 That's the guy from the ABC series, Hiding- About a family in witness protection, starred Jenko (Kate Jenkinson) from Wentworth, and him in lead characters.

Ok, just looked him up, his name's James Stewart, and he's probably better known for being in Packed To The Rafters, and Home And Away

ok. He transformed.

Canberra gossip: Kevin Rudd has a seething temper and short fuse (not hard to imagine). My brother works in politics (god knows why!) and worked in Parliament House while was Rudd was Prime Minister. There were carpenters in Rudd's office on a weekly basis patching up holes he had punched in walls.

r396 neither picture looks real. Looks like his head has been photoshopped onto each body

I'm not surprised about Kevin. We need to talk about Kevin. This famous video supposedly shows a man off the rails and a man with a temper. However after watching it again. I just think it's a tired frustrated man.

A friend in Canberra told me that he had absolutely no idea how to deal with bureaucrats, whereas Julia excelled in this area, which is why she was so well liked in Canberra.

R399 By the time Gillard had left politics she was still really liked. However, as time has moved on some of her appointments to heads public service departments have been questionable - notably Kathryn Campbell who was appointed by Gillard and oversaw the Robodebt debacle.

I think history will judge Gillard well for a number of major issues - action on climate change with a carbon omission trading scheme, lifting the tax free threshold from $6,000 to $19,4000 (a big help for low income earners but a plus for everyone) and the Royal Commission into Children Abuse.

Rudd was a fool - who on earth did it get leaked that George W. Bush asked Rudd what the G20 stood for?

Either Rudd stupidly told someone or had staff in the office when he had the phone call with Bush. For fucks sake that's the sort of thing you leave for an autobiography once you've left politics - don't leak it to the whole world and damage the relationship with our closest ally no matter how stupid the president may be.

Anyway, that Kathryn Campbell sounds like a real nasty piece of work. She wanted to run the Defence Department but after fucking up with Robodebt she didn't get the job. Hahahahaha. Her name will be dragged through the mud once more comes out with various court cases pending to the disaster.

Anyway in the end we haven't had a great leader since Paul Keating, though I feel Gillard had great potential but at the end of the day she did achieve more positive things than any PMs since Keating.

But I speak Mandarin!

R390 that's James Stewart. He used to date Jessica Marais from Packed To The Rafters. I think she's more known for being bipolar these days.

R392 That's somewhat reminiscent of the huge bicentennial of Australia campaign of 1988. Today it would be considered Nationist propaganda. Actually, it was considered it back then too, the song redubbed as "Masturbation of a nation, give us a hand!"

How many personalities can be counted here? I got Burt Newton, Victoria Nicholls, Jeannie Little, Ding Dong Drysdale, Pat the Rat, Jon English...

R403 Rick Price and Keren Minshull provided the vocals for " Celebration of a Nation" who are both good singers.

Karen Minshull later became a singer with 90s dance group Euphoria. It caused a bit of a minor scandal when it was revealed that she was 42 years of age.

Karen was a fantastic singer and performer, and provided vocals for what became their huge hit - "Love You Right". After the video came out, she found she had been cut from it, with models miming her vocals. Although she was a very nice looking woman, the record label wanted a younger and blonde lead singer. She finaly got her place in the next video "One in a Million" which became a bigger hit.

Azaria Chamberlain

Unfortunately, the beautiful blonde from Euphoria, Holly Garnett commited suicide in 1998. She had left the group in 1993. Model Jodie Meares replaced her for a little while, who then also went on to marry James Packer.

Cate Blanchett’s next film looks to be a bomb.

Just realised Miguel Maestre is bi as fucj

Whose had big swinging dick Kochie? And pocket rocket Grant Denyer?