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When Tania Zaetta Is Not Drinking Lemon Detox, She Likes To Film Ninja Movies In Geelong
1:20PM Clem Bastow | After starring in the decade’s most memorable celebrity endorsement deal (”Accused of banging the entire Australian Army? Try Lemon Detox!“), Tania Zaetta has done what most would do in her situation and returned to work – however, her latest project is not another Bollywood hit, but an action movie – to be filmed in none other than Australia’s cultural, G-Banger.
Is Geelong the new Hollywood? Only time will tell!
Geelong film buff Rob Baard says he is close to securing $6 million from backers for his debut feature film, The Ninja.
The production will use North Geelong’s Mill Markets as a studio with scenes shot around the city’s streets.
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Geelong Prepares To Make Ellen DeGeneres An Honorary G-Banger
10:47AM Clem Bastow | This is some news that will no doubt make the author of this tribute video very happy indeed: if we are to believe Peter “Look Ma, I Made A Real Live Career Out Of This!” Timbs’ entertainment reportage, Portia de Rossi plans to bring her fiancee Ellen DeGeneres to meet the family in Geelong over summer before they wed.
This is also good news for the Australian tabloid media, who are always keen to claim a celebrity as “ours” after tenuous connections to the country are established – welcome to the crew, Ellen!
TV Week writer Peter Timbs appeared on Fox FM’s Kyle and Jackie O Show on Monday where he announced the news.
He told radio listeners de Rossi, who grew up in Grovedale, would introduce DeGeneres, a US talk show host, to the family on their first trip Down Under as a couple. But it is de Rossi’s Geelong-based grandmother who is set to get the first visit.
“She (Ellen) actually wants to meet the grandmother,” Timbs said.
“Portia is quite close with the grandmother in Geelong and Ellen talks to her on the phone all the time but hasn’t met her face to face.
“But she is coming over at Christmas time to meet granny at last.”
Aww, dear old nanna Rogers will likely be thrilled to be in the papers, and we hope Ellen enjoys her time in G-Town. Maybe she can visit the National Wool Museum!
NB: that is not some sort of celebrity lesbian in-joke/code, it’s just something to do in Geelong. More » 
Bang, Bang, You’re F–ked: The Universe Creates ‘Underbelly’ Ban Loophole
11:56AM Clem Bastow | Oh, we love this.
Despite still being very much banned from Victorian screens thanks to Justice Betty King’s court ruling, Underbelly has been aired in Victoria – and not even because of the internet; thanks to an odd meteorological occurrence – seriously, you couldn’t make this shit up:
Warm weather has made a mockery of a suppression order banning the program’s free-to-air broadcast in Victoria, with atmospheric interference allowing the $13-million production to beam into the town via Tasmania’s WIN TV frequency, the Geelong Advertiser reported.
Television technicians believe current weather and subsequent changes in the atmosphere are responsible for the relayed signal.
One technician described the interference as fortuitous viewing, a phenomenon where outside signals can be broadcast into foreign areas under certain conditions.
He said the large body of water from Tasmania to the Victorian coast had also allowed the frequency waves to travel further.
We’d like to see the courts or Channel 9 get upset about some wind and clouds. What are they going to do, sue the sky? Claiming that their jurisdiction not only encompasses Victoria’s width, but its airspace as well?
Do your worst, fun-spoiling moral guardians! Geelong and the weather gods laugh in your face! Ha, ha, ha! (Etc.) More » 