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Rebecca Gibney: WINNER

12:45PM Jess McGuire | Our incredibly belated Logies coverage continues…. I’d like to extend my personal congratulations to Rebecca Gibney for winning the coveted Gold Logie for her role as the matriarch in Packed To The Rafters. But was that really the role that earned her the most important award presented during Australian Television’s Night Of Nights™? More »
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Rebecca Gibney And Mick Jagger Have NOT Made The Beast With Two Backs

2:05PM Jess McGuire | It’s strange… I hadn’t really wondered whether Rebecca Gibney, the Australian theatrical icon of Flying Doctors and Packed To The Rafters glory, had ever had sex with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. But I suppose I must be one of the very few people out there who had never heard the rumour of their horizontal dalliance. Unlucky me! Now that I do know such a rumour exists, I can quickly dismiss it as Rebecca has very kindly cleared things up on the Mick-Jagger-rutting front. Rebecca Gibney has a long-standing urban myth about her younger days and a supposed relationship with legendary lothario and Rolling Stone Mick Jagger. More »

Rebecca Gibney Is Desperate To Leave The Infectious Cesspool That Is Sydney, Longs To Return To Health Giving Tasmanian Countryside

9:05AM Jess McGuire | Beloved Australian actress Rebecca Gibney recently had to move to Sydney in order to film her role in the Channel 7 drama Packed To The Rafters, but as Tasmanian newspaper The Mercury gleefully notes, she’s not really enjoying her time in the Emerald City, and longs to return to more southerly digs. The star, with artist husband Richard Bell and son Zac, 4, packed up her fresh-air Tassie farm in the Tamar Valley for the big smoke in February to begin shooting new Channel 7 drama Packed to the Rafters, which hits screens after the Olympics. Now Gibney can’t wait to get back to her rural retreat after filming on the first series wraps in two months. “Sydney is a beautiful city, and it has been fun to have everything at your fingertips, but we have been constantly sick up here for the past four months,” Gibney said. “There have been bouts of pneumonia, the flu, it’s definitely a sign to return to the country. And possibly a sign that health officials need to investigate where exactly Gibney’s been spending her time in Sydney, as it sounds dangerously as though the World Health Organisation need to step in and issue an early warning of some kind. I can only hope Sydney’s most recent visitors, the Papalpalooza Massive, made it out of town free of illness. More »

Newks, Rebecca Gibney, Leo Schofield And Friends Join Forces To Mess With Malcolm Turnbull

3:15PM Jess McGuire | Did you know Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull catches the bus and ferry to and from work each day? We didn’t, until today. This fact mildly interested us. Something else that mildly interested us was news that some high profile Australians have decided to collaborate in an effort to become an irritating bee in Malcolm’s electoral bonnet. High-profile figures such as actor Rachel Ward and former tennis star John Newcombe have joined the battle against the proposed Gunns pulp mill in Tasmania’s picturesque Tamar Valley. An advertisement organised by Geoffrey Cousins, a former adviser to Prime Minister John Howard, has been signed by more than 120 people. It will appear in tomorrow’s Wentworth Courier, in Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s marginal electorate. Among the signatories are film director Phillip Noyce, actors Bryan Brown and Rebecca Gibney, playwright David Williamson, celebrity chef Kylie Kwong, Fairfax Media deputy chairman Mark Burrows, Rowena Danziger, a member of the Publishing and Broadcasting board, and Leo Schofield, a former director of the Sydney Festival. The ad urges the public to contact Mr Turnbull’s office to ask him to allow “a full and just public hearing” on the pulp mill. … The ad says: “Is Malcolm Turnbull the Minister for the Environment or the Minister Against the Environment?” It says Mr Turnbull can insist on all voices being heard. “But will he? So many questions, so far no answers … Will Malcolm Turnbull insist that a proper public hearing be implemented before he decides on the building of one of the world’s largest pulp mills in Tasmania’s Tamar Valley? When Kylie Kwong and the ex-Mrs Jack Jones from Southern Sons have teamed up to conspire against you, it is time to take heed. Your move, Mr Turnbull. More »