mike goldman

The Great Walk to Beijing 2008: Dannii Ignores Mike Goldman, Prefers To Blog On Her Blackberry

9:40AM Jess McGuire | Our Personal Gay (and Euro Correspondent) Will has been flooding our inbox with an assortment of Dannii Minogue-related information, and we’ve just sat down to go through it all – and you know what? We’re starting to get his deep love of Minogue the Younger! Enjoy this short “film”, please. More »

Mike Goldman Announces Good News Of Impending Marriage… At His Wife-to-be’s 21st Birthday

11:12AM Clem Bastow | Mike Goldman is nothing if not a stand up guy. Think about it, he’s even got a bit of culture, narrating Meerkat Manor for Australian audiences; clearly he’s a thoughtful and classy bloke. So we were not surprised to read of his planned nuptials to Brisbane “aspiring model” Tanya Arlidge, since he’s an old fashioned kinda guy. What other kind of man would pick up a 19-year-old shop assistant at her place of employment and then announce the engagement at her 21st birthday party? Friday Night Download co-host Goldman proposed to up-and-coming model Arlidge outside Las Vegas’ Bellagio casino last week. “I was going to propose to her on top of Park City (ski resort) in Utah, but Tan doesn’t ski so she couldn’t get up there,” Goldman said. The 35-year-old, who also hosted the doco series Meerkat Manor, revealed the news at Tanya’s 21st birthday bash on Saturday night. The couple met nearly two years ago when Goldman dropped into a Brisbane clothing store where she was working. Hopefully there was a round of twenty-questions from Daddy Arlidge, and a novelty, key-shaped cake at the party, just to complete the picture. Props to the soon-to-be happy couple – now they can go on a honeymoon to the USA, and Mrs Goldman can legally have a drink! More »

Is It Actually Possible? Are We Facing The Prospect Of A Year Without Moronic Bogans On Our TV Screens?

9:34AM Jess McGuire | Unlikely, as long as televised footy matches of Collingwood games still feature shots of the supporters (we say this with extreme love), but we are indeed looking down the barrel of a Big Brother-less 2008. Big Brother may not return to television screens next year, as television executives and producers remain in negotiations over the show’s future. During this year’s finale show, host Gretel Killeen said the show had been confirmed to reappear on Network Ten in 2008. But less than two months later that claim looks increasingly uncertain. During a time that should be occupied with plans for the next season, the show has yet to be confirmed by Network Ten as part of the 2008 line-up. We’re finding it hard to even remember what Channel Ten programming was like before the crazy days in 2000 when we were introduced to the likes of Blair, Ben and Sara-Marie during the first season of Big Brother. Was there even television before then? Did we go out at night? What happened on Sunday evenings? We didn’t read books or spend quality time with family members or anything weird like that… did we? At least one high profile cast member, involved in pivotal roles on the program in the past, was understood to be considering other projects for next year. Another was said to have told friends that a return to the show was not on the cards. Our bet is that the first ‘high profile’ cast member is Bree, and the second is Ryan Fitzy/Fryzie Fitzgerald. In any case, you know Mike Goldman isn’t the protagonist in either scenario. We’ve no doubt that news of the show’s cancellation would lead to him rocking back and forth in a corner, quietly weeping, whilst texting “Mikey G” to 199 2SAVE repeatedly. Eventually he’d get it together enough to finally leave the house, but even then it’d only be to hit the Gold Coast bars where he’d try to impress roving gangs of blonde-haired scrawny girls wearing midriff tops featuring feisty slogans sprawled across the chest area by slamming his last $50 down on the bar and screaming “WELCOME TO FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE!”. And each night would see him once again leaving the nightclub heavy hearted after yet another youthful lass has stared at him blankly for a few minutes before finally asking “You, like, totally look familiar. Were you, like, my primary school teacher or something? Why are you, like, out? That’s gross…”. Poor Mike-Goldman-in-our-overly-dramatic-dream-sequence :( You never know. Perhaps Big Brother’ll just go on hiatus until 2009. And maybe a year off will do everyone involved in the production the world of good. The idea of a relaxed Gretel fronting a program that doesn’t just feature sixteen half-cut idiots who pretty much spend their days topping up their tan – and their nights donning fancy dress costumes and pashing each other – is sort of appealing. More »