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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 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 » 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 » 
The Force Is Strong In This Nerd Screaming At Briefcases
11:00AM Seth | We think we have a worthy successor to the Star Wars Holiday Special for the most blasphemous use of the property, like, ever. That said, that Darth Banker’s a hard-arse, isn’t he? $49,000? But there’s five large amounts still left in play—including the million! [Deal or No Deal] “Organizers of a major California music festival are offering a $10,000 reward and four festival tickets for life in exchange for ex-Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters’ two-story inflatable pig.” [Reuters] David Blaine will try to break the 17-minute world record for breath holding on The Oprah Winfrey Show, which is fine and all, but it’s no Criss Angel mindfreaking her brains out. [AP] Her new six-hour-a-day workout regimen sometimes requires that Britney Spears walk around the gym wearing nothing but a towel. [Daily Mail] Paramount takes a heavy swig of the Blu-Ray Kool-Aid (which, oddly enough, tastes like raspberry with a slightly bitter after-taste). [THR] More »
‘The Insider’ Sends Undercover Reporter Deep Into The Dangerous World Of ‘Deal Or No Deal’ Briefcase Models
5:42AM Mark | An appalling four months after the brave Deal Or No Deal model-slave known only as Briefcase Number Two took to basic cable to expose the show’s inhumane working conditions (particularly chilling was Two’s showcasing of the scars Howie Mandel inflicted with a cat o’ nine tails for her unacceptable fumbling with a lock on her assigned Zero Halliburton during a crucial moment), the mainstream media has decided to finally take up the mistreated mannequins’ cause. More »
Ellen DeGeneres To Put ‘Deal’ Models In Sensible Lesbianwear
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Ellen DeGeneres promises to liven up the Deal or No Deal proceedings when she makes a guest appearance on the hit NBC game show. But unlike past guests, like Donald “The Banker” Trump and Celine “Open Da Case!” Dion, the canine-regifter will join the show’s Pyramid of Hot Briefcasemodels. TVGuide.com reports: That’s right: DeGeneres will be one of the 26 briefcase-toting, elegant, sparkly dress-wearing women who may or may not be holding the million-dollar bag. Will DeGeneres really wear a dress? More »Briefcase No. 2 Breaks Her Silence On The Inhumane Working Conditions At US ‘Deal Or No Deal’
6:15AM Defamer Hollywood | To the outsider, being a part of Deal or No Deal’s army of briefcase-opening models might seem like an easy gig, requiring little more than standing on a riser and offering the occasional, sheepishly sympathetic smile to a contestant whose dreams of financial independence they’ve just destroyed by revealing a dollar amount with too many zeroes. But as Briefcase #2 revealed on today’s Yo on E!, the job is more demanding than you’ve ever imagined: they have to stand on that riser for a really long time, enduring an isolation that allows them to form meaningful relationships only with the consecutively numbered sisters to their immediate left and right. Also, sometimes their dresses wrinkle, a disaster that causes OCD-afflicted host Howie Mandel to fly into production-halting rages that subside only when the garments are steamed back into their pristine, utterly smooth states. Yo on E! [Eonline.com] More »
