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Melissa George Forces Former McLeod’s Daughters Star To Abandon Her Blonde Locks

1:45PM Jess McGuire | Melissa George has gone head to head (or should I say hair to hair?) on the set of a new movie with Rachael Carpani, who Channel Nine viewers would lovingly recall portrayed one of McLeod’s thirty seven daughters on the popular program “back in the day”. The result? Melissa George won (Alias + Grey’s Anatomy > Telstra’s Next G advertising campaign) and poor ol’ Rachael was forced to embrace her inner ginger. The blonde leading the blonde is not a sentiment favoured by Melissa George, who reportedly demanded her co-star Rachael Carpani dye her “do” dark so she was the only fair-haired beauty on the set of their new flick. Sources from behind the scenes of Christopher Smith’s new thriller Triangle, which was filmed on the Gold Coast earlier this year, said George requested the McLeod’s Daughters favourite – who was known for her goldilock tresses – dye her curls a vibrant red. For real? Personally I reckon you’d get more blonde bang for your buck by letting Rachael hold onto her normal hair colour, and instead arranging the already “ginge-esque” Melissa George embrace her inner fiery red-headed vixen. It’s not the first time such a “hair war” has happened, either! More »

Melissa George Is Perfectly Okay With Her Latest Lady Loving Role

9:40AM Jess McGuire | It seems like just yesterday Angel was capturing the eye of Shane for the first time while Frente played at the Surf Club, but in actual fact it’s been about three hundred years and Melissa George has come a long way since her break out role on Home & Away. She’s joined the cast of Grey’s Anatomy where she’ll be portraying a bi-sexual hospital type who catches the eye of Callie, and Melissa has informed reporters she’s totally cool with “going there” with another actress. And why wouldn’t she be? It’s not the first time. The former Home And Away star plays a bisexual surgical intern, Sadie, the potential love interest for lesbian medic Callie Torres. More »