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1:12PM Jess McGuire | Oooh, I’m excited! It’s been a while since I’ve had an excuse to check in on the relationship between Lara Bingle and Michael Clarke, so I’m thrilled to see that the Pup’s gone and opened up to the papers. Mostly about their dogs, it seems. More »
Bingle’N'Pup Watch: “Why Do People Like Watching Us Picking Up Poo?
1:12PM Jess McGuire | Oooh, I’m excited! It’s been a while since I’ve had an excuse to check in on the relationship between Lara Bingle and Michael Clarke, so I’m thrilled to see that the Pup’s gone and opened up to the papers. Mostly about their dogs, it seems. More » 
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1:05PM Jess McGuire | Brace yourselves, Defamer Australia readers, for it is time for another exciting instalment of Bingle’N'Pup Watch. What’s happening with Confidential’s favourite couple? Are they still together? More »
Bingle’N’Pup Watch: “We Had Eight Cameras Where We Park Our Car In Our Garage”
1:05PM Jess McGuire | Brace yourselves, Defamer Australia readers, for it is time for another exciting instalment of Bingle’N'Pup Watch. What’s happening with Confidential’s favourite couple? Are they still together? More »
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12:25PM Jess McGuire | Oh, I totally forgot that I’d created this incredibly thrilling new Defamer Australia feature last month – my sincere apologies. If you’ve been wondering whether Lara Bingle and Michael Clarke are still as in love as ever, you’d better click through for the latest update in their relationship. More »
Bingle’N'Pup Watch: The Missus Has Been Invited To Cricket Camp
12:25PM Jess McGuire | Oh, I totally forgot that I’d created this incredibly thrilling new Defamer Australia feature last month – my sincere apologies. If you’ve been wondering whether Lara Bingle and Michael Clarke are still as in love as ever, you’d better click through for the latest update in their relationship. More »
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11:55AM Jess McGuire | The other day I was reading the papers, and I was struck by a brilliant idea. What if instead of simply waiting until (I MEAN ‘WAITING TO SEE IF’!) Lara Bingle and Michael Clarke break up and reporting on that cataclysmic event as it actually unfolds, I constantly monitor their relationship via the tabloids and once a week I’ll alert you to the status of their relationship? More »
Bingle’N'Pup Watch: An Exciting New Defamer Australia Initiative
11:55AM Jess McGuire | The other day I was reading the papers, and I was struck by a brilliant idea. What if instead of simply waiting until (I MEAN ‘WAITING TO SEE IF’!) Lara Bingle and Michael Clarke break up and reporting on that cataclysmic event as it actually unfolds, I constantly monitor their relationship via the tabloids and once a week I’ll alert you to the status of their relationship? More »
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10:38AM Jess McGuire | Yet another reason to loathe the cricket as far as I’m concerned – it’s standing in the way of Lara Bingle finally saying ‘I DO!’ to champion sportsman Michael Clarke. Actually, wait… I don’t care. Still, let’s find out more!
Bride-to-be Lara Bingle can not be happy with the news that she may have to put her wedding plans on hold until next year to accommodate her fiancé Michael Clarke’s mammoth cricket schedule.
Yesterday Confidential received word that the high profile couple had finally – after a 10 month engagement – set a wedding date.
Of course, Confidential had to go out of it’s way to shatter the dreams of young idiot lovers. More »
Bingle’N'Pup Nuptials Delayed By The Goddamn Cricket
10:38AM Jess McGuire | Yet another reason to loathe the cricket as far as I’m concerned – it’s standing in the way of Lara Bingle finally saying ‘I DO!’ to champion sportsman Michael Clarke. Actually, wait… I don’t care. Still, let’s find out more!
Bride-to-be Lara Bingle can not be happy with the news that she may have to put her wedding plans on hold until next year to accommodate her fiancé Michael Clarke’s mammoth cricket schedule.
Yesterday Confidential received word that the high profile couple had finally – after a 10 month engagement – set a wedding date.
Of course, Confidential had to go out of it’s way to shatter the dreams of young idiot lovers. More » Despite What Hysterically Squawking Gossip Gurus Would Have You Believe, Michael Clarke And Lara Bingle Are Just Fine!
12:40PM Jess McGuire | When will the haters just back off and give Michael Clarke and Lara Bingle some goddamn space to they can pursue their quiet and in no way media-whorey romance with a modicum of privacy?
Glamour couple Lara Bingle and Michael Clarke have brushed aside rumours that their fairytale romance has hit the rocks. Bingle was photographed leaving a business in Sydney on Tuesday afternoon not wearing her sizeable engagement ring and hiding her face.
And if there’s one thing we can count on for sure in this crazy world, it’s that the shouty excitable showbiz correspondents on breakfast television won’t ever let something like a celebrity being photographed without their sizable engagement ring slip by without making a big deal out of it. More »
Michael Clarke Will Make These Children Paaaaay!
9:27AM Clem Bastow | It’s always nice to hear that Australia’s model bedding cricketing heroes are doing something for the kids – like WeetBix commercials, or cricketing coaching sessions at the local orphanage.
Or, if you’re Michael Clarke, charging schoolkids $50 to have a photo taken alongside him. That’s the Aussie sporting spirit, Pup!
Except, wait a second, it looks like it’s the school’s bright idea. Even better!
A Brisbane Catholic school has some of its flock in a flap after announcing a plan to charge kids $50 to have their photo taken with cricketing star Michael Clarke and his baggy green cap at their fete.
Clarke and fiancee Lara Bingle will attend the St Columba’s Primary School fete on August 2 in an appearance agreed upon through his manager Chris White, whose children attend the school.
And while pictures of the future Australian skipper without his sacred green cap will be free, a snap of Clarke and the child with the cap on is being sold for $50 – with all money going towards the construction of an outdoor, undercover sporting shelter for the school in Brisbane’s northern suburb of Wilston.
Well, that’s kind of disappointing. It would’ve been better if the story had gone along the lines of Clarke charging the children $100 each just to talk to him, while he and Bingle teased them to the point of tears, and then said something like, “F–k this pie stand, let’s go to the Hog’s Breath Cafe” before turning over some fete stalls and riding out of the school on a Harley.
A girl can dream, right? More » 
They May As Well Just Change The Name To ‘No Idea’ And Be Damned, Now
8:52AM Clem Bastow | We’re almost – almost – starting to feel sorry for New Idea magazine these days. To say it’s been an eventful few months would be an understatement, and things just seem to be getting worse.
Apparently editor Mirella Cestaro – who is only a month into her role as the women’s mag’s editor – decided to cough up mad bucks for the Michael Clarke and Lara “Intellegent” Bingle engagement story. Problem is, if New Idea’s competitors’ decisions are to be believed, her readers probably don’t even want to hear about Bingle.
The Pacific Magazines title paid a massive $135,000 for a two-part love story of the blonde couple’s engagement, despite ACP competitor Woman’s Day pulling out of negotiations at $80,000 – saying it wasn’t worth more because Bingle does not resonate with female readers.
Following poor sales after Monday’s “exclusive”, billed as such despite the fact the news had already broken, Cestaro is understood to be facing criticism for orchestrating an overpriced and unsuccessful deal.
Drunkards, alleged domestic violence perpetrators, gold diggers, dorks – perhaps Cestaro should just make expensive cover deals with unpleasant people her “thing”, and try and own this shaky time in New Idea’s life?
We suggest a tell-all cover story about Ivan Milat’s high school sweetheart, the readers will love that! More »
Pup Gives The Bing A Ring!
7:25AM Jess McGuire | What wonderful news with which to start our post-long weekend recovery period! The papers have just informed us that Lara “Intellegent” Bingle and Michael “Pup” Clarke have gotten engaged while in New York for a romantic getaway!
Cricket star Michael Clarke and his model partner Lara Bingle are engaged to be married after the test player popped the big question while holidaying in the US.
Clarke, who turns 27 next week, asked Bingle to marry him in New York’s Central Park – offering a five carat pear-shaped diamond ring, reportedly valued at $100,000.
$100,000? Expensive and impressive, sure, but not if you are Kylie Minogue’s liver. More » Sports Star Says “Bingle Makes Me A Better Cricketer”
8:59AM Jess McGuire | Hot on the heels of the blissfully romantic news last week that absence had indeed made the heart grow fonder when it came to the relationship between cricketer Michael Clarke and Lara “Waaaaait, Marriage Mean La-La No Touch? Me Confoozed!” Bingle, we’ve now been informed that the batsman credits Lara with making him want to be a better man, or some As Good As It Gets-esque rubbish along those lines.
Young gun Michael Clarke revealed yesterday he wants to be Australia’s next Test captain – and he credited model girlfriend Lara Bingle with giving his life fresh purpose.
Clarke, speaking for the first time about his 12-month relationship with Bingle, said he is a better batsman because he has never been happier off the field.
Clarke believes his romance with the Cronulla model, who shot to national fame after she starred in Tourism Australia’s controversial Where The Bloody Hell Are You? campaign, is helping drive him to become a better cricketer and a better person.
“I think the person I am now, it’s got a lot to do with Lara and theres no doubt that’s the truth,” he said.
“I’m certainly the first guy to say that if you are happy off the field it shows in your cricket.
“I’m wrapped with my life at the moment and I’m really, really happy and I think that will come across in my cricket.
Unless Christo has quietly made his way to Oz and begun wrapping Michael Clarke and his house/car/workplace, we can’t help but suspect the Daily Telegraph meant to write that Clarke was “rapt” with his life. But what do we know?
“Seeing somebody like Lara certainly makes me happy I have something to look forward to when I get home.”
“Seeing” makes sense. We never assumed “talking” to somebody like Lara would bring too much joy to a person’s life, but we suppose just staring at her half-naked body would be okay, if she promised to keep her thoughts to herself.
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