Ricki-Lee Versus Young Divas (Part 1543 In An Ongoing Series)

Ever since Ricki-Lee left the Young Divas to pursue a solo career/make video clips featuring Gays Kissing, there has been a sweet little rivalry brewing between the two camps. True, it’s not exactly Blur versus Oasis (or Oasis versus Robbie Williams, or Oasis versus Bloody Everybody At Some Point Or Another) – it’s a kind of low-key tension which makes it perfectly palatable for the Woman’s Day/New Idea crowd.

Now, last time we checked the scoreboard, the Young Divas had very much hurt the feelings of a newly hitched Ricki-Lee when they decided to skip her wedding. C’mon, Paulini – “in the Hunter Valley raising money for orphans in Uganda”? Pffffft. If you’re going to make up excuses, try to come up with something a little less cliched. We’ve been waiting for Ricki-Lee to produce a suitable jab back in Ms Curuenavuli’s direction, and she’s finally delivered.

Just when you thought the bitchfest between the Young Divas had sung its last, the feud has fired up again, with former headliner Ricki-Lee Coulter taking the place of current Diva Paulini Curuenavuli as a celebrity mentor on It Takes Two.

Coulter tried to dance around the shuffle when told on Friday that she’d shafted her former bandmate for the Channel 7 gig.

When we interviewed Ricki-Lee last year, she assured us that Paulini had a delightful sense of humour, so here’s hoping she responds to the news of Ricki-Lee’s gig “shafting” with a hearty chuckle, before continuing her daily chores (leaving pictures of David Campbell and his hot new lover cut from Woman’s Weekly photo spreads around the Diva office in a mischievous effort to provoke a monstrous tantrum from Bendigo’s own Kate DeArugao/pouring henna hair dye into Jessica Mauboy’s bottle of Head & Shoulders as part of her ongoing hazing campaign).