Long time Defamer Australia readers will know how much we just love seeing the Australian press wet themselves when one of ours is touched by the hands of the gods and gifted with an award nomination on the hallowed shores of America or Britain, so they'll no doubt be rustling their Thesauruses in glee at the news that Rachel Griffiths has picked up her fourth Emmy Award nomination.

Break out the Bolly, sweetchops!

Rachel Griffiths has picked up her fourth Emmy Award nomination for her role opposite dual Academy Award winner Sally Field in US drama series Brothers and Sisters.

In Australia filming Rachel Ward directed and Bryan Brown produced feature film Beautiful Kate, Rachel Griffiths, 39, happily toasted the best supporting actress nomination news with close friends and family following the announcement after 11pm last night.

"I got a call telling me I had been nominated when I was out to dinner with friends in Australia," the mother of two told Variety magazine.

"We were just finishing up and were determined to go home not too drunk and not too late. Then we heard the news and got champagne and stayed an extra hour."

Bless. Also, I feel we should take this moment to welcome Griffiths in our "top celeb chicks we'd sink the piss with" list (she now breathes the same rarefied air as Sienna Miller and Charlotte Church).

And that's a nomination to write home about if ever there was one!

How utterly thrilling - the prisoners of Dreamworld have finally been given the chance to bitch about each other through the magic of nomination night!

Just like in previous years, Monday night saw Big Brother in full NIDA graduate mode, dramatically berating the housemates reasons for nominating as though viewers actually find his crankypants attitude intriguing in the least.

We took a tonne of notes during the show because we have absolutely no life, and you can check 'em out after the jump.

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