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!

We realise you lot are constantly worried about the state of certain celebrity friendships, tenuous things that they are, so we're always pleased to report on stories where two glittering stars aren't fighting. Thus a recent article in the Daily Telegraph struck us as important to mention.

Rachel Griffiths and Toni Collette are still friends - after all these years'n'all! Hurrah!

Golden Globe winner Rachel Griffiths has denied a rift with Muriel's Wedding co-star Toni Collette.

Reports of a feud surfaced at the opening of Griffiths husband's art exhibition last week, when Collette and her husband Dave Galafassi refused to have their photograph taken with Griffiths or her husband Andrew Taylor.

The Brothers and Sisters star yesterday denied the rumours saying there were no chinks in their 13-year friendship."It's a crap story and disgusting," Griffiths told The Daily Telegraph.

"It was great to see her and I really appreciated seeing both of them. "Dave and Andy are really close and get on like a house on fire and Toni was the first person to see both my babies when they were born."

Just exclaiming "PHEW!" loudly seems like an understatement, doesn't it?

But hang on... why wouldn't Toni get photographed with Rach and her hubby Andrew?

Griffith's said her friend declined to be in a photograph because she felt the exhibition launch was Taylor's time to shine.

"She was there to support Andy," she said.

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Warm the cockles of our cynical heart, that does.