Just this morning we were reading the latest "too young to model" fuss, which was, we have to admit, actually quite well-founded: Polish teenager Monika Jagaciak (aka "Jak"; pictured) was booked to walk and pose at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week, not to mention booked to shoot for Vogue Australia... until everyone found out she was 14.

Vogue editrix Kirstie Clements was particularly vocal on the topic and it now seems that when Vogue speaks, the rest of the industry listens:

Rosemount Australian Fashion Week organisers this morning responded to Vogue Australia editor Kirstie Clements' call for a minimum age of 16 for models appearing in the event.

"In light of industry and community concern regarding the acceptable age for models to appear on the catwalk at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week (RAFW), today RAFW revised its industry policy," an official statement said.

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We know that Defamer Australia's model-mad and fashion-fanatic readers have been hanging to read Alice's responses to your questions, however we're quite sure her excuse for tardiness will wash with you: she's been busy shooting the Dolce & Gabbana diffusion line D&G's latest campaign, with superstar lensman Mario Testino. If that isn't the definition of "top" modeldom, our years of reading the Vogue Forums have taught us nothing.

(Incidentally you can check out her ever-expanding book of amazing editorial shots here.)

However, the lovely Alice took a moment from her ridiculously busy schedule this afternoon to let us know she is completing her answers as we speak, so tune in on Monday for the thoughts from Australia's reigning Next Top Model before we begin the search for the next one!

Just days after the Erin McNaught-starring "She likes a cockatoo" campaign for winery Cockatoo Ridge caused a stink, then McNaught herself said she thought the campaign was "rude" (and not in a positive dancehall sense), the ads are being pulled.

Cockatoo Ridge, however, will tell you they've wound up the campaign because of the price of billboards. Later, some monkeys flew out of our butts.

"The billboards were only ever going to run for two more weeks anyway," [Cockatoo Ridge managing director Peter] Perrin told Confidential, adding it will then "only run in Sydney and the entire campaign will cease in May".

Erin admitted this week she was shocked when she first saw the ad, but Perrin insists the slogan wasn't meant to shock.

"We didn't think too much about the double-meaning," he said.

"If we wanted to be silly about it we could have put the ads in FHM magazine or something, but that's not what we are about."

"We didn't think too much about the double-meaning"?! You mean to say, Mr Perrin, that you employed a bikini model best known for the kerfuffle over topless photos surfacing midway through her Miss Universe campaign, made good use of her cleavage, used the kind of "whoops matron" slogan that might've been thought of as a bit much in 1973 Playboy, and you're saying you DIDN'T think about it too much?

Excuse us for a moment, readers, we're just going to go jump off our balcony alongside all these winged pigs that are making their first flights!

She of the most entertainingly seemingly made-up name, Tammin Sursok, aka Dani from Home & Away, has been curiously quiet since leaving the beloved soap in a storm of Logies and "what I really want to do is sing!" press releases.

Evidently the little go-getter has been pounding pavements all over Tinseltown, and it's finally come good - she's now all over The Young & The Restless!

Sursok has signed a three-year contract to the US daytime drama, playing Colleen Carlton - a feisty glamour girl with an appetite for scandal.

"I fall in love with my teacher and then I have an affair with one of the main guys," Sursok said.

Truly, in the world of soaps, this is like trading in the Volvo for a Jaguar. We hope to see Tammin at the next Daytime Emmy Awards red carpet (and are also not ashamed to admit that for years, we thought, "So what, they hold the Emmys in the daytime now? Big deal!" whenever we saw any Daytime Emmys publicity. Oh, how young and foolish we are once were.)

Teri Hatcher has admitted that her performance on last night's Idol Gives Back was "nerve-wracking," and we couldn't agree more. Watching the bat-faced Housewife dry hump the mic stand and hearing her attempt to carry a damaged woman tune about men and how they love to cheat was a very painful experience. Though her DH co-star James Denton is eager to remind us that Hatcher once performed in Cabaret, we're eager to remind him that the likes of Ashley Parker Angel and Joey Fatone have too. As Teri proved last night, Broadway experience does not a talented singer make.

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Gracious, we can't think of a more wonderful way to celebrate the end of the week than by hearing news former Home & Away hottie Isabel Lucas has landed herself some prime US heartthrob beef. Or whatever the vegan animal loving equivalent to beef is.

There was only one gorgeous girl in Adrian Grenier's entourage when the actor attended the star-studded premiere - and her name is Isabel Lucas. Confidential hears the super-stud and former Home and Away stunner have become quite the couple since Lucas relocated to Hollywood two months ago.

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Reports today confirm that Natalie Portman will join would-be sexy nurse Scarlett Johansson as a first-time director in the short-film compilation New York, I Love You. First known as the movie where that Hasidic dude walked out on co-star Portman, then better known as the one where contributing director Anthony Minghella hand-picked replacement Shekhar Kapur before he died, NYILY is finding its latest momentum as the film featuring everyone from Brett Ratner to Orlando Bloom to Cloris Leachman pimping out for the city tourism board. "NYC & Co., the official marketing and tourism organisation for the City of New York, is fully behind the pic, throwing its weight into sponsorship deals," writes Variety's Dade Hayes. "A major airline is in final talks to help ferry talent to and from the city and promote the film on its aircraft, for example." The producers, however, cite an "explicit auteur approach" that will keep the art front-and-centre, promising Johansson the latitude to fire a maximum of 10 PA's as she learns to flex her megalomaniacal muscle behind the camera. [Variety]

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While we haven't been avid listeners of Howard Stern since he made the switch to Sirius a few years back (call us crazy or even cheap, but we're morally opposed to paying for radio), we still follow the show pretty closely. And as anyone who has been paying attention knows, Stern sidekick Artie Lange has been on a self-destructive streak for the better part of the last nine or so months. His weight has been ballooning, his already prolific drug habit has only gotten worse and his on-air behaviour has become more erratic than ever before. However, things reached Defcon 6 levels on today's show when Artie flew into a rage, got into a physical confrontation with his personal assistant and abruptly (and from the sounds of it, tearily) resigned from the show. Audio of the incident follows after the jump.

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Here's the brand new official video clip for Radiohead's 15 Step. Enjoy!

Today's Clip Of The Day was sent in by Hirsty, with the concise message "Yeh... I know..." attached. What do you know, Hirsty? Do you know these men? Because we kind of think they're deranged, but also sort of want them to be our boyfriends, so if you can introduce us, we'd be very appreciative. Sure, we'd probably break up in a couple of weeks after the whole drunken-singing-to-a-horse thing lost its charm, but until then, we'd have some good times.

When we first saw pictures of Natalie Portman walking through New York with her new boyfriend, we initially thought Nat had started volunteering at her local homeless shelter, acting as a mentor for one lucky (and possibly blind) hobo. But then they made out. So who is this caveman-esque guy and what on earth is Natalie thinking? While at first glance folksy singer Devendra Banhart hardly looks like a pretty boy, we found some far more flattering shots of Natalie's new arm candy with his guitar from years ago. And even if Devendra's put on a pound or two since they were taken, we still had to do a double take and make sure we weren't looking at photos of Jim Morrison himself. Judge for yourself after the jump.

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Despite her "power lesbian" publicist vehemently lashing out against all those pesky lesbian rumors, Ellen Page still has her work cut out for her when it comes to convincing us she doesn't (even on occasion) prefer girls. The Smart People star appeared on Leno last night to obediently promote the film, and even though Page got slightly more gussied up than usual in a tight-ish dress and heels, her inability to cross those legs comfortably coupled with an imitation of what someone looks like "lifting weights in the sunshine" did little to disspell our suspicions.

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What's a girl to do when the only headlines she's making involve DUIs and smoking the reefer? Why, pose for highly styled, candid-ish bikini shoot with the photo agency widely known for setting up highly styled, candid-ish bikini shoots of course! Mischa Barton put on her designer bikini best, got her hair did and brought along props like books and hats to the beach yesterday to act her way through a series of paparazzi shots, in an attempt to prove to the world that she can read (!) and pick her own wedgies (!).

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Just when we'd finally erased those awkward on-set pictures of Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn kneeling in the sand from our memory, Cameron Diaz has swooped in to kiss a co-star on the beach and remind us. Photo agency JFX snapped photos of the boy-crazy Diaz manhandling long-forgotten former hunk Jason Patric into a makeout session on the set of their film My Sister's Keeper, while co-star Sofia Vassileva looked on. And normally we'd assume Diaz and Patric were simply filming a scene, but the severe lack of make-up and styling, not to mention the severe presence of Jason's plumber butt, suggest the cameras weren't rolling at the time.

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If it weren't for the petition featuring nearly 168,000 signers calling for his head, we'd probably leave well-enough alone when it comes to genre-hack whipping-boy Uwe Boll. But not even his own targets can resist his thickly accented self-defence, with similarly skill-challenged fauxters Eli Roth and Michael Bay — whom Boll labelled a "fucking retard" in a video released on Wednesday — publicly deflecting Boll's attacks over the last 24 hours. Naturally, with tens of thousands of dollars worth of free publicity at stake, Boll came back against all his haters in yet another stream-of-consciousness slam:

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Just in case he hadn't officially lost all his "punk" cred already, Pete Wentz has successfully sealed the deal by getting engaged to lip sync queen Ashlee Simpson. And proving they're the ultimate modern couple, Ashlee made the announcement via (of all things) the website friendsorenemies.com in a post last night: "Yes, we are thrilled to share that we are happily engaged...We consider this to be a very private matter, and we wanted to be the first to tell you." Why exactly a "very private matter" is the sort of thing one willingly announces in the form of a blog post is beyond us, but one issue Pete feels more than comfortable discussing is his love of cross-dressing. As the bassist told Fox News recently,

"I love Jessica Simpson's stuff, especially the shoes. I dance around my house in them all the time."

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A dirty little secret of the Sundance Film Festival is out over at indieWIRE, where editor Eugene Hernandez relays an anecdote that this year's award-winning (but undistributed) documentary Trouble the Water — about the odyssey of African-American survivors of Hurricane Katrina — might be off buyers' radar because its "too black":

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It's really a shame that the storylines we see on The Hills aren't as "real" as MTV claims they are, since the blonde cast's off-screen lives seem far more colorful than what we see on the show. This season we've trudged through (yawn) yet another ongoing catfight between Heidi and Lauren, and barely kept our eyes open while slowest speaker in the world Whitney learns how to cope with a new job. But rumours surfacing today involving real-life catfights between Lauren and roomie Audrina, plus not-so-blind items suggesting the entire cast is fed drugs by producers, make us wish this "unscripted" drama would throw out the scripts already.

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All kinds of drama unfolded Wednesday in one of the more turbulent days of the Anthony Pellicano trial, with ex-journalist Anita Busch following fork-tongued Michael Ovitz to a slow death on the witness stand. As if you had to ask, the cross-examination showdown between Busch and Pellicano — whom the writer all but accused in court of infamously harrassing her out of writing articles about Ovitz after joining the LA Times — did not go smoothly:

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Robert De Niro shuffled through Endeavor's busy revolving door Wednesday in the agency's third high-profile move of the week, marking the end of the Oscar-winner's long tenure at CAA. The addition comes days after Ashton Kutcher fled Endeavor for the confines of CAA, and nearly a week after the seismic defection of comedy power broker Nick Stevens and two partners from UTA. As Variety's Michael Fleming notes, De Niro "hit his payday stride" with his $18 million turn in Meet the Fockers; the move sets him up for continued forays into safe, tightly packaged middlebrow humor franchises that will secure his legacy as a shell of the standard-bearing American legend we grew up with. Bon voyage, Bob. [Variety]

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Try as it might, Universal is facing another orgy of resistance to its big-screen efforts on behalf of the Incredible Hulk comic franchise. This time around, five years after Ang Lee's expensive, cheesy The Hulk flatlined into muscly green oblivion, The Incredible Hulk has studio flacks spinning, onlookers shrugging and temperamental star Edward Norton naturally pouting over the whole drama. Reports NY Timesman Brooks Barnes:

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