It's always great when a new star or starlet joins the cast of a show like Home & Away or, in this case, Neighbours, because the PR department gets them to do a load of totally pointless interviews, and we reap all the benefits.

So it is with new Ramsay Street regular Margot Robbie (apparently pictured chilling out in the Crawfords' bathrooms), who says that being on the soap made her more self-conscious. Or something like that:

"I used to read magazines and think, 'Why would those girls turn anorexic?' Sure, they would have a bit of pressure, but I didn't think it could be too bad," Robbie said.

"But you don't understand what it's like on the outside. You are under heaps of pressure and when you get cast, everyone is stick-thin and you think, 'I need to be like that'.

"When you look at movies the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure."

Yes, and when you look at Neighbours the girls are always gorgeous and thin, and the boys are Toadfish Rebecchi and Paul Robinson.

Hang on, something's amiss here!

Any way you slice it, Gossip Girl star Blake Lively is having one helluva year. Not only is her show a big hit (online, that is), but she's starring in the anticipated sequel to Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants, she got to spend a few minutes flirting with David Letterman and she landed herself on the cover of the new issue of Vanity Fair (and didn't even have to pose with McLovin to do it!). One would think all would be well in Blake Lively's world. However, one would be wrong. You see, there's this pesky problem issue of people getting her confused with Paris Hilton that is, like, so frustrating and stuff to her! As she explains in the new issue of Seventeen:

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We've tried anything and everything — flash cards, spreadsheets, mnemonic devices — to help us keep our Brittanys straight over the years. But bless her heart, Brittany Snow is breaking away from the Murphy/Robertson/Daniel pack with recent stand-out work in Hairspray, Prom Night and now something called On the Doll — "a story of the victims of child abuse, and the pain it visits upon their later lives." Among those pains: a full, NSFW minute of Snow pummeling the shit out of some hapless dude's balls, establishing the rising star once and for all in the canon of serious, gonad-smashing actresses of her era. Congratulations to her, and best wishes for a quick rebound from that whole Tinker Bell-firing thing. What? Fuck. Sorry, we swear we'll get them straight eventually. [On the Doll]

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Look, we know what it's like to try and make it in this heady world of show business; we've seen 42nd Street and A Star Is Born, we know how it all works.

So, we know that when you're a starlet trying to get a leg up, you take what you can get - we're just not sure that going about it the way Jessica Marais has is the way to go:

Rising actress Jessica Marais has shunned walking in the shadow of Hollywood star Cate Blanchett, demanding to be known only on her own merits.

Comparisons between the National Institute of Dramatic Art graduates began to fly after Marais's costume from her final stage production Sweet Charity joined a selection of Blanchett's memorabilia archived at the prestigious school more than 16 years ago.

While the South African-born beauty is flattered by the rare storage move and being dubbed the next Blanchett, she's also aware it could be the kiss of death.

"I want to be the next Jessica Marais not Cate Blanchett," the 23-year-old said this week.

"It detracts from what is unique about you, which is how you get the role."

Sooo... they went to the same acting school at different times, and when said school wanted to raise some funds, it sold off some old costumes, which happened to include gear worn - separately - by both actresses.

At which point did people go from that information to "the new Cate Blanchett"? Admittedly this is equally the fault of the press as much as it is Marais herself, but still.

We're going to adopt this immediately as our new personal PR campaign; just pick a famous person you are not actually being compared to, and then complain about being compared to them.

To wit: "Could people please stop saying Defamer Australia is the next New York Times? We'd prefer to be judged on our own exceptional merits."