andrew o’keefe
Andrew O’Keefe Is Familiar With The Concept Of Christmas Cheer
11:26AM Jess McGuire | Channel Seven’s Deal Or No Deal and Weekend Sunrise superstar Andrew O’Keefe has used his return to television screens to laugh about the recent controversy caused after video footage surfaced which revealed AOK in a less than glamorous state outside late night Melbourne venue Revolver.
He’s never been one to hold back when it comes to taking comic opportunities, and look at him go now!
Andrew O’Keefe has used humour to make light of video footage showing him wildly drunk on his return to live television. Back alongside co-host Samantha Armytage on Weekend Sunrise after a holiday break, the nephew of rock legend Johnny O’Keefe tackled the subject of his headline-making Melbourne bender.
C’mon, Daily Telegraph – what was the zinger? Enquiring minds want to know!
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Andrew O’Keefe Fallout Continues: Tracey Spicer Defends AOK
2:56PM Jess McGuire | What’s that? You’re hungry for more Andrew O’Keefe coverage? Alright, but only for today. We must all move on, sooner rather than later! Thankfully for every sanctimonious Mrs Lovejoy damning Andrew O’Keefe to Hades, there is a sane Tracey Spicer who is happy to put things into perspective
In the modern day equivalent of being put in the stocks and pelted with rotten tomatoes, the Deal or No Deal host has been publicly humiliated for enjoying a few too many drinks before Christmas.
And I thought Easter was the time of year for crucifixions..
If only Andrew had been “turned away from the inn”, old school Christmas style, eh?
More » Andrew O’Keefe Fallout Continues: Some ‘Thoughts’ From Sally Morrell
1:54PM Jess McGuire | If you still can’t get enough of the Andrew O’Keefe-likes-a-drink-or-three scandal that has some folks in the media (Herald Sun, Channel Nine) up in arms but the rest of us thinking “Is that it? Really?”, then you may like to check out the most painful piece of writing I’ve come across in a long time.
It’s Herald Sun columnist Sally Morrell’s latest paragraph-happy piece, and it’s A-OK (themed).
Andrew O’Keefe shouldn’t worry about his drunken antics being publicised, nor should Seven.
These days it’s a non-issue or the punters even expect it.
I have a message for Andrew O’Keefe, lying dead drunk in a South Yarra gutter.
Don’t freak, Andrew, no one really cares.
Or put it this way. Worry heaps, Andrew, because no one honestly cares.
Obviously Sally Morrell has never met an Enter key she didn’t like. Also, do you see what she did there? No one cares about Andrew’s drinking which is a good thing for Andrew, but because no one cares about Andrew’s drinking, society is doomed.
It continues:
More » Andrew O’Keefe: The Nation’s Favourite Party Animal!
10:58AM Jess McGuire | Best story of the weekend? That award goes hands down to the infamous Andrew O’Keefe drinking binge tape, which finally got a public airing.
The four-minute series of videos show O’Keefe struggling to walk, crawling, trying to smoke a cigarette and lying in a gutter with a blonde woman who attempts to help him.
Attempting to control the damaging publicity, O’Keefe and Seven last week released a statement defending his role as a “family man” who “never set out to deliberately offend anyone” during his binge session.
But did he get mad at anyone during his binge session? Why, yes he did!
More » Andrew O’Keefe Would Never Set Out To Deliberately Offend Anyone
7:37AM Jess McGuire | Although it was Andrew WK who once sang “When it’s time to party, we will party hard!”, it seems it is Australian game show host extraordinaire Andrew O’Keefe who is actually living the dream.
Presenter Andrew O’Keefe is embroiled in a scandal involving him allegedly caught out on a video at the centre of a bitter spat between networks Seven and Nine. Channel 9 has claimed rival Channel 7 forked out a large sum of money to keep secret a video of its major star misbehaving.
Ooooer! Today in the Herald Sun, Andrew O’Keefe has spoken up about being sprung “flat on his back with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth” and then later “seen crawling along the footpath before struggling to his feet and heading off along the footpath with a blonde female friend” (which incidentally seems like a standard night at Revolver – from what I’ve heard, of course). More »
Seven Takes Another Punt On Andrew O’Keefe; We Get Unreasonably Excited
11:00AM Clem Bastow | Well, it’s possible that I should adjust that headline to “I” rather than “we”, as I don’t know how Defamer Australia’s other half feels about Andrew O’Keefe, but I’m keeping up my “the next Bert Newton” campaign and as such, am very excited by news that Seven will be training the spotlight on O’Keefe, who is to host a variety show on their HD arm (despite The Rich List tanking earlier in the year). Oh-so-wittily-titled This Is Your Laugh, the show will premiere early next year, and O’Keefe is psyching himself up.
“I’m not getting tense about it, though I probably should be,” O’Keefe said.
More » It’s The Day You’ve All Been Waiting For… ‘Dancing With The Stars’ New Cast Revealed!
10:21AM Clem Bastow | After a considerable number of question marks hung over the head of local celebreality franchise Dancing With The Stars, it’s good to see that the “popular light entertainment program” (now that’s a genre title to aspire to if ever there was one!) seems to have gotten its collective shit together and announced its latest cast of stumbling quick-stepping notables – and, in a shocking move, it actually contains stars!
Sort of!
Dancing … contestants (pictured left to right, back to front) Charli Delaney, Toni Pearen, Danny Green, Jodi Gordon, Brooke Hanson, Paul Licuria, Cal Wilson, Luke Jacobz, James Tobin and Red Symons.
Even if the publicity photo looks like something out of Jackie Collins’ broom closet, that’s a pretty decent line-up (you know, if you’re into these sorts of shows, AND I AM).
They still have not announced a replacement for retired host Daryl Somers, but – according to the article – Fifi Box and Andrew O’Keefe are “in the mix”. I’m still pinning my hopes on Larry Emdur, but anything will be better than Somers’ constant dad jokes and mugging. More » Andrew O’Keefe’s Sickie Means “No Deal!” For Studio Audience
1:47PM Clem Bastow | You may think that television hosts – particularly the “light entertainment” variety – are the sorts of troupers who stick to old showbiz adages like “the show must go on”, in which case you’d be wrong, as it seems Andrew O’Keefe had a bit of a sniffle last week and chucked a sickie from Deal Or No Deal filmings, leaving studio audience members fuming.
In an inconvenient and costly situation for the network, the recording was cancelled at the last minute after host O’Keefe called in sick with the flu.
I’m sure the 200 audience members were “furious” and jammed the Seven switchboards once they got home, demanding O’Keefe be replaced with a powerful cyborg who will never get sick and provide confusing money-related entertainment for approximately the next 15 million years.
But really, giving any column inches to O’Keefe’s day off is really just an excuse to post THE most hilarious promotional photo of all time:
Bask in its glory, for he is the light. More »
Andrew O’Keefe Really Is The New Bert Newton!
10:30AM Clem Bastow | For yonks we’ve been holding on to our personal view that Deal Or No Deal host and telethon co-anchor-for-hire Andrew O’Keefe should be being groomed as the new Bert Newton.
Well, it seems our dream may not be that far-fetched, with news that O’Keefe is being tentatively given the a-okay (we know, HILARIOUS!!) for his own late-night (but not late-night) chat show on Seven, after they’d initially turned him away.
Not content with his workload this year, which consisted of hosting Deal Or No Deal, The Rich List, Weekend Sunrise and a cameo on Kath and Kim, O’Keefe has been rewarded for his persistence, after the trial episodes of the Jay Leno-style show was initially knocked back by Seven executives in September.
The former lawyer’s own production company is understood to be reworking the concept, which had the working title of AOK, now likely to be renamed The Late Andrew O’Keefe.
Seven sources told Confidential yesterday that the network’s new HD channel, where the program will appear, had allowed for the extra “air time” to give the show a second shot at the greenlight.
“The show will definately happen, but when it will air hasn’t been decided yet,” a spokeswoman said.
“The Late Andrew O’Keefe”! The man is clearly a genius!
Also, in light of Channel Ten heading down the gurgler faster than a lead turd and Channel Nine dithering, as usual (and we all know the ABC and SBS don’t really count in these sorts of discussions, bless), could this mean that 2008 is the year of Seven?
And just who is Milco?? More » 