Saturday, November 8, 2008
Melissa George Forces Former McLeod’s Daughters Star To Abandon Her Blonde Locks
1:45PM Jess McGuire | Melissa George has gone head to head (or should I say hair to hair?) on the set of a new movie with Rachael Carpani, who Channel Nine viewers would lovingly recall portrayed one of McLeod’s thirty seven daughters on the popular program “back in the day”.
The result? Melissa George won (Alias + Grey’s Anatomy > Telstra’s Next G advertising campaign) and poor ol’ Rachael was forced to embrace her inner ginger.
The blonde leading the blonde is not a sentiment favoured by Melissa George, who reportedly demanded her co-star Rachael Carpani dye her “do” dark so she was the only fair-haired beauty on the set of their new flick.
Sources from behind the scenes of Christopher Smith’s new thriller Triangle, which was filmed on the Gold Coast earlier this year, said George requested the McLeod’s Daughters favourite – who was known for her goldilock tresses – dye her curls a vibrant red.
For real? Personally I reckon you’d get more blonde bang for your buck by letting Rachael hold onto her normal hair colour, and instead arranging the already “ginge-esque” Melissa George embrace her inner fiery red-headed vixen.
It’s not the first time such a “hair war” has happened, either! More » 
YouTube Clip Of The Day
12:21PM Jess McGuire | Reader Alice sent in this clip – thanks, Alice!
It’s not technically a YouTube video, but my god! It does my head in. More » Top Gear Australia Angers Car Companies
10:45AM Jess McGuire | The folks at SBS’s Top Gear are apparently in trouble with some big name car companies, with the Herald Sun reporting that the program caused over $200,000 worth of damage to vehicles which appeared in the first series of the show. Now that’s some good driving!
Filming of the Australian series of Top Gear has turned into a demolition derby with a repair bill close to $200,000. Eager driving and wild stunts have left a trail of destruction behind the Top Gear team that goes beyond the expected bill for bald tyres from slides and burnouts.
Luxury cars have needed total resprays because of flying stones, and lesser brands have reported damage from silly stunts created for the SBS TV series, which is unofficially confirmed for a second series in Australia in 2009.
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9:27AM Jess McGuire | Been missing Naomi Robson’s presence on the small screen? Dude, me too! Thankfully, it appears Naomi will be back in the spotlight sooner rather than later, with the former Today Tonight host mysteriously informing the Daily Telegraph “All I can say is I’m working on something I’m developing”. Fantastic! So she’s either heading to a television near you, or she’s taken up photography. Good to know. Source More » Vale Richard Marsland
8:45AM Jess McGuire | I wish that our first story for the week on Defamer Australia wasn’t so frightfully sad, but I’m afraid it is. Triple M radio personality Richard Marsland apparently took his own life over the weekend.
Fans and friends have paid tribute to Melbourne breakfast radio host Richard Marsland, who was found dead in his car on a lonely stretch of road in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges.
A park ranger raised the alarm after finding the 32-year-old’s body in his car at Shiprock Falls around 10.30am (AEDT) on Saturday but despite police resuscitation efforts, Marsland was later pronounced dead.
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Smile With Your Ears
11:02AM Seth | Tyra went to Disneyland to help Minnie and Mickey work on their runway walks and general fiercitude. That’s right, terrorists: Feast your eyes. Ain’t never gonna take this away from us. Ain’t never! Oprah will bring her long-running syndicated show to an end in 2011 to focus on OWN. But will she bring her ass-kissy expert panel of Ali Wentworth, Mark Consuelos and Gayle King along with her? On her marriage to Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman said, “I thought, I don’t deserve to be here. We would go to the Oscars and I would think, I’m here to support him. I felt it was my job to put on a beautiful dress and to be seen and not heard.” She then grew profoundly melancholy for a moment, but you’d never know it from her forehead. Nice try, CNN. Those were tomograms, not holograms. Here’s a peek at Hollywood’s newest 24-hour post-partying eatery, called Our Colour Scheme Will Coax The Puke Right Out Of You Sweet Love Hangover. Uh—pardon us if we’re the last person on the planet to realise this, but Barack Obama has a Flickr photo stream. With, like, tons of backroom pictures of election night. Riveting. We wish we could just leap in there and restyle Michelle! More »
10:02AM STV | Pushing Daisies Cancelled? Word from an informant on the set of ABC’s long-struggling show hints that Daisies has baked its last pie. We can’t say we didn’t see it coming, but at least it died painlessly: The author who yesterday cited an anonymous sophomore series doomed by internal strife later assured us Daisies was not the victim — just another casualty of terminally ill ratings. Expect ABC to rerun the Obama infomercial in Daisies‘ slot indefinitely until an official replacement is announced. [The Film Experience Blog] More »
Dave Chappelle Shows James Lipton The Joys Of Being On The Biographical Ass-Licking Receiving End
9:39AM STV | Dave Chappelle’s most recent AWOL streak ends Monday on Bravo, when he will appear on the 200th episode of Inside the Actors Studio. Except, in a clever twist we’re presuming occurred only because Diana Ross was unavailable, Chappelle will interview Lipton for the whole show. More »
Courtney Love Reveals Her Confused, Anti-Gay ‘Yes on Prop 8′ Vote
8:38AM Kyle Buchanan | Now that California’s Proposition 8 has passed, many celebrities are decrying the anti-gay rights measure — and then there’s addled songstress Courtney Love. Your Defamer put in some time phone-banking for the “No on 8″ cause before the election, and often we discovered that people thought they’d be granting gay people equal rights by voting “yes” on the proposition, a misconception they needed to be hastily disabused of. Sadly, Love never got the memo, and she took to her Myspace blog to brag about her yes vote and celebrate the proposition’s passing: More »
