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Simmone Jade McKinnon Can At Last Walk Down The Street Without Being Accosted By Demented Drover’s Run Fanatics – McLeod’s Daughters Is Coming Back To Our Screens!
3:35PM Jess McGuire | Although I remember random events on Neighbours which occurred back in 1987 with disturbing clarity, sometimes I can’t remember things which happened a few months back.
Thus, I was surprised to learn today that McLeod’s Daughters would be returning to Channel Nine as the last I could recall, stars of the show were selling stuff on eBay and struggling to pay off their mortgages since the show had been axed.
But then I remembered “Ahhh yes, the program was ‘boned’ but the final series hadn’t been televised yet, leaving Simmone Jade McKinnon unable to stroll down to the shops without McLeod’s Daughters fans approaching her and demanding to know when Channel Nine would be broadcasting the remaining 22 episodes… Oh, the tragedy!”
So chin up, Simmone Jade McKinnon – all is right in your world again. Sort of.
McLeod’s Daughters, Australia’s most popular and successful rural drama, promises to go out in a season of great stories when it returns for its eighth and last series on Wednesday, July 23 at the new time of 8.30pm on Channel Nine.
Since its 1996 telemovie debut which produced the Logie Award-winning series, McLeod’s Daughters has captured a unique portrait of life on the land for women, with all its hardship, beauty and romance.
Shot entirely on location in Kingsford, South Australia, the series centres on the vast cattle property Drovers Run and the lives and loves of the women who work it.
And it seems there’s quite a few amazing storylines coming to a small screen near you. Read it all here, but some highlights (for me, because I am a fool) include -
Romance is in the air as new couples hook up and old ones reunite, while a love triangle causes havoc for the women.
An all woman love triangle? Please, say it’s so – Divers Run has much more of a ring to it. I APPROVE.
This series will also feature an all-singing and dancing musical episode, and some familiar characters return to Drovers Run as well.
I would be surprised about this musical turn of events, except Clem assures me she once saw an episode of the show where Jay Laga’aia played the archangel Gabriel, so clearly this program knows no boundaries. More » 
Surely Simmone Jade McKinnon’s Mortgage Repayment Situation Isn’t This Dire?
11:46AM Clem Bastow | Remember a while back we told you how the death of McLeod’s Daughters seemed to have left star Simmone Jade McKinnon’s mortgage repayments in a wretched state?
Well, a little bird in the form of the Hun’s Melbourne Confidential has, while rootling around on the auction site for, er, cargo pants, found some McKinnon/McLeod’s related items on eBay, so naturally I decided to get amongst the eBay bidding frenzy for the casual duds and see for myself – and here they are. From the auctions we can see that McKinnon is a Size 10 in the pants and a 12 in the top, and other such thrilling information.
Has it come to this, Simmone? Is “sambo.no.1” really you?
In any case, and on the topic of McLeod’s related eBay sales, I am more interested in this item, hilariously titled “From the famouse TV show Mcleods Daughter Size 12.”
Sadly, the auction turned out to be for a polo shirt, not an actual McLeod’s Daughter Sized 12. More’s the pity. More »
Channel Nine Viewers Deeply Worried About McLeod’s Daughters Star’s Mortgage
9:24AM Jess McGuire | Reet reet – this just in here at Two Day Old News!
McLeod’s Daughters star Simmone Jade McKinnon, once a member of an elite squad of television lady thespians with “the best boobs in the business” but now just another struggling actress desperately hoping to find some financial security, has revealed fans of the popular show – which revolves around the horse riding antics of notorious South Australian pantsman John McLeod’s assorted offspring – have begun approaching her in the street and expressing their utter dismay over Channel Nine’s delay in broadcasting the program’s final 22 episodes.
The Logie-winner told Confidential she was “sick of being stopped in the street by people and not being able to tell them anything” because the network had not even told the cast when the show’s final season would air.
With 22 episodes yet to be seen, McKinnon fears a flush of new dramas at Nine, including Underbelly, Sea Patrol and Canal Road, would delay the farewell even longer for loyal fans.
Indeed, it would be shame if other productions, perhaps more critically acclaimed than McLeod’s Daughters but featuring a shameful lack of flannel, were the cause of McLeod’s enthusiasts’ suffering.
We enjoyed this bit of the article though.
The show’s axing after eight years has also left her in the lurch, after signing a large mortgage for a property near the South Australian set just a month before the production was abandoned.
“I just thought the show would go on forever, so now I’m kinda in limbo and left with this massive property mortgage on my own,” McKinnon said.
“People are really angry about it and I can understand how disappointed they are.”
It’s heartwarming to know that the passion McLeod’s Daughters viewers feel for the series is so intense, they even manage to muster up strong feelings of fury and disappointment when learning of the mortgage woes of cast members. More » Michala Banas To Leave Drover’s Run
9:09AM Jess McGuire | Sad news for idiotic fans of McLeod’s Daughters today – yet another pair of the show’s great tits has decided to depart for greener pastures.
Michala Banas is leaving McLeod’s Daughters. Following the recent departure of Aaron Jeffery, she has announced she will be next to go.
“After nearly four years with McLeod’s Daughters, I have made the extremely difficult decision to leave the series,” she says. “I am incredibly grateful for the opportunities McLeod’s has given me as an actor, and I will miss the show dearly.
I have sincerely loved working with such an fantastic cast and extremely hard-working crew, many of whom are my dear friends. I would especially like to thank the fans of the show, who have shown my character, Kate, such support over the years, and wish to let them know that Kate will still be working hard at Drover’s Run ’til 2008.”
We can’t keep up – is Kate yet another of the Federline-ly potent Jack McLeod’s daughters? Will Kate’s farewell necessitate the writers of the show to create a new character, perhaps a petite little thing named Khanh Kim-Ly, born nine months after Jack McLeod’s final night in Vietnam where he had been serving in the Australian Task Force and blessed with a mysterious ability to wrangle livestock? Should we start watching the show so we actually have a fucking clue about these kinds of things? Please say no. More » 
Our Pop Stars Just Can’t Compete With The British In Terms Of Scandal (Part Two)
10:50PM Jess McGuire | The Sugababes have been a pop group unafraid of the odd drama. Despite the average age of group members being around 12, they’ve been around since 1998 and have seen more line up changes than TISM.
TISM?
Oh what, you’re going to dispute us on that? HOW ON EARTH COULD YOU TELL EITHER WAY! But yes, we lied for the sake of it. Let’s move on.
Amazing original member of the Sugababes Siobhan Donaghy left early on to pursue her own pop career (and her stuff, we wish to note, is fucking great), which meant some hot blonde bird named Heidi had to take over her duties. Then Mutya, another original member, skipped out to go solo, and the fetchingly named Amelle Berrabah stepped in.
But how long is Amelle going to last now it seems management are planning on making her choose between the group and her boyfriend? Her boyfriend, we should add, has been accused of raping her sister.
Barely 18 months after finding new member Amelle Berrabah, she is on the verge of being fired – unless she dumps her boyfriend Freddie Fuller.
Sugababes have been in meltdown talks over the past week and have now delivered Amelle, 23, an ultimatum – “It’s Freddie or us”.
Fuller is now on bail accused of raping Amelle’s younger sister Samiya, 20 – which will be heard in a trial later this year.
But Amelle has stuck by her man despite fierce pressure from her record label and management to dump him.
Keisha Buchanan and Heidi Range are tearing their hair extensions out with worry.
It’s all a bit hideously Jerry Springer, isn’t it?
In Australian pop news, Dean Geyer still hasn’t placed himself inside Lisa from The Veronicas, and that chick who played the first of McLeod’s seventeen thousand athletic, farm loving daughters has released an album about her post-divorce feelings.
Wake us up when something truly gasp-worthy happens, please. More » 
Aaron Jeffrey Discovers The Tits Are Better In New Zealand, Decides To Quit McLeod’s Daughters
3:41PM Jess McGuire | Fans of McLeod’s Daughters should prepare themselves to lose the last remaining original cast member of the show. Aaron Jeffrey is skipping out in order to work on… oh, we can hardly bring ourselves to say this… to work on a New Zealand television production. Has he no sense of national pride? Is there some kind of telly-terrorism hotline number we can ring to report him?
Aaron Jeffery has spent more than six years playing Alex Ryan on McLeod’s Daughters but has left the show because he was exhausted and unhappy with the show’s direction.
“Unhappy with the show’s direction”, eh? Which, in light of his Logies speech, means only one thing. The “best boobs in the business” are heading rapidly southward and Aaron Jeffrey is simply not prepared to waste valuable ogling time pretending nothing’s changed on the set of the program.
While we realise Channel Nine is in the middle of some serious tightening of purses strings, we strongly urge them not to cut costs in the wardrobe department. Expensive can-tastic undergarments are an investment not an expense. More » Not Content With Just Featuring The Best Boobs In The Business, McLeod’s Daughters Tackles The Topical Issue Of Industrial Relations
12:08PM Jess McGuire | Among the list of story topics we expected writers of McLeod’s Daughters to approach in future episodes*, we can most assuredly confirm that industrial relations did not feature in any way, shape or form.
Isn’t this a pleasant surprise then!
The industrial relations battle has reached soapie scripts, with conflict over workplace deals featuring in McLeod’s Daughters.
The latest episode of the Channel 9 soap has Phil the mayor sacking young Patrick at the garage so he can rehire him on a “workplace agreement”.
Phil says it involves a new title of assistant manager, more flexibility, more responsibility.
“Less money,” snaps Patrick in the episode shown Wednesday night. “Much less money.”
Patrick is not impressed by the promise of more pay through bonuses for hard work and rejects the workplace agreement.
“Well it’s not actually your choice,” says Phil. “It’s either my way . . .”
“I’ll take the highway,” says Patrick. “I quit.”
Thankfully the episode wasn’t totally weighed down by boring stuff like politics.
A synopsis of the plot for episode 183 of McLeod’s Daughters makes clear the confrontation and the related industrial relations issues were not at the centre of the dramatic action.
Tayler, who quit in protest with Patrick, later sneaks back to work for Phil because she needs her car fixed.
Patrick is furious, “but forgives her when he finds a baby joey and realises just how much Tayler needs her car”.
Man finds baby joey and has life-changing realisation is the oldest story in the book, but we’ll forgive the writers for indulging in cliche.
*So far, our list consists of -
Abi Tucker’s character releases an album!
Wet t-shirt competition!
Aaron Jeffrey’s character gets kicked in the cock repeatedly by a surly filly (EQUINE OR FEMALE CHARACTER)!
A mad scientist is discovered living in a secret laboratory somewhere “out bush” – he has vials and vials of Jack McLeod’s frozen man-milk and has dedicated the last twenty years of his life to impregnating women across the country with Jack’s highly potent sperm! Thus ensuring the series can run forever! HALLELUJAH. More » 