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Ben Cousins Is Australia’s Finest Bachelor? Well, He’d Probably Know Where To Score Good Drugs…

12:01PM Jess McGuire | Obviously there’s a bit of jesting involved with the headline, because - a) everyone knows Ben Cousins is clean now and has probably deleted all his good drug contacts’ details from his phone, and b) THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOOD DRUGS! THEY WILL ROT YOUR BRAINS, CHILDREN! But the fact that he’s in the running for Cleo’s Bachelor Of The Year competition is indeed true. Cleo editor Sarah Oakes said Cousins was popular with the magazine’s readers. “He’s one of those people that generated a lot of discussion about whether he is or isn’t the kind of eligible bachelor that an Australian woman would be interested in dating,” Oakes said. “It’s good to have those (who) polarise and those people that create some discussion.” And who else are the ladies at Cleo contemplating appointing Bachelor Of The Year? More »

Lyndsey Rodrigues Thanks MTV For Canning Her Show

11:45AM Clem Bastow | For most happening young things on the up-and-up through the entertainment stratosphere, being shipped overseas only to find your golden televisual chariot canned after less than a year would be cause for an ice-cream and Lithium sundae shoveled into your mouth with your hands while you howl “REJECTION, I CAN’T STAND REJECTION!!” as your mascara streaks down your face. Not so Australian expat Lyndsey Rodrigues, who 10 months ago was snapped up (from MTV Australia) to go to NYC and present MTV’s TRL (too many acronyms? DWI), which has just been cancelled; the ex-Sydney VJ is sounding remarkably chipper. “After 10 years of success, TRL has finally been laid to rest, which is actually a blessing in disguise for me,” Rodrigues confessed. More »