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6:25PM Jess McGuire | Oh lordy. As far as accidentally saying naughty words on television, Fifi Box has certainly gone for gold with her suggestion we all check out some ladybits in our spare time. Sure, she was trying to say “country” – does it matter? What’s important is what actually came out of her mouth on Sunrise. More »
Fifi Box Would Like Us To Check Out What Now?
6:25PM Jess McGuire | Oh lordy. As far as accidentally saying naughty words on television, Fifi Box has certainly gone for gold with her suggestion we all check out some ladybits in our spare time. Sure, she was trying to say “country” – does it matter? What’s important is what actually came out of her mouth on Sunrise. More » 
Small Screen
2:19PM Jess McGuire | I will never tire of writing headlines about Fifi Box, it’s true. Guess what she’s been up to lately? Breaking her wrist in the name of breakfast television entertainment, that’s what. More »
Sunrise Stunt Leads To Injured Box
2:19PM Jess McGuire | I will never tire of writing headlines about Fifi Box, it’s true. Guess what she’s been up to lately? Breaking her wrist in the name of breakfast television entertainment, that’s what. More »
Small Screen
1:57PM Jess McGuire | Life can be stressful for a small screen insider, especially if you’re the kind of person in charge of a wild beast like Sunrise. The Channel Seven breakfast programming juggernaut is constantly battling it out with Channel Nine rival Today, and the ratings war has meant that people like Adam Boland, executive producer of Sunrise, haven’t really had a chance to revel in the world of romance for quite some time. Happily, things have changed for Adam – it’s all fishing trips and man love for the talented telly type! More »
Adam Boland Enjoying A Fine Romance Away From Sunrise
1:57PM Jess McGuire | Life can be stressful for a small screen insider, especially if you’re the kind of person in charge of a wild beast like Sunrise. The Channel Seven breakfast programming juggernaut is constantly battling it out with Channel Nine rival Today, and the ratings war has meant that people like Adam Boland, executive producer of Sunrise, haven’t really had a chance to revel in the world of romance for quite some time. Happily, things have changed for Adam – it’s all fishing trips and man love for the talented telly type! More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
12:48PM Jess McGuire | Or perhaps I should be saying Greg Evans is everywhere… Sunrise!
HAHAHAHA JUST A LITTLE NETWORK RIVALRY HUMOUR THERE FOLKS, I’LL BE HERE ALL DAY!!!! PLEASE TRY THE VEAL!!!!
But if you caught Sunrise this morning, you would have seen the former Perfect Match host performing a mass commitment ceremony for couples – gay and straight – on Channel Seven. It was truly… something. I especially liked the dude who got down on one knee to say his vows. You’re not proposing, you massive nong! As Bob Marley would say – get up, stand up.. mon. Let’s move on before I bang out more ellipses, eh? More »
Greg Evans Is Everywhere Today!
12:48PM Jess McGuire | Or perhaps I should be saying Greg Evans is everywhere… Sunrise!
HAHAHAHA JUST A LITTLE NETWORK RIVALRY HUMOUR THERE FOLKS, I’LL BE HERE ALL DAY!!!! PLEASE TRY THE VEAL!!!!
But if you caught Sunrise this morning, you would have seen the former Perfect Match host performing a mass commitment ceremony for couples – gay and straight – on Channel Seven. It was truly… something. I especially liked the dude who got down on one knee to say his vows. You’re not proposing, you massive nong! As Bob Marley would say – get up, stand up.. mon. Let’s move on before I bang out more ellipses, eh? More »
Small Screen
3:31PM Jess McGuire | Everyone appears to be going nuts over the following clip from Sunrise. I saw people talking about it on Facebook yesterday, and now you’re all emailing me links to it so okay! You win! Let’s watch the fantastic and thoroughly stupid Reject The Recession dancers! More »
Reject The Recession!
3:31PM Jess McGuire | Everyone appears to be going nuts over the following clip from Sunrise. I saw people talking about it on Facebook yesterday, and now you’re all emailing me links to it so okay! You win! Let’s watch the fantastic and thoroughly stupid Reject The Recession dancers! More »
People
11:15AM Jess McGuire | If you immediately felt concerned when you learned that Fifi Box had broken up with her long time lover Tony Woods, I am pleased to inform you that Fifi has turned to the media and reassured them that she’s doing well despite the pain of the break up, and – of course! – the two remain close friends. And work colleagues!
Fifi Box has opened up on her split with boyfriend and manager Tony Woods, telling Confidential she remains very much in love with the man who remains her best friend.
Remains very much in love? Gracious! In which case, what on earth is to blame for their relationship being torn asunder?! More »
Box Opens Up: “I’m Gonna Be Just Fine!”
11:15AM Jess McGuire | If you immediately felt concerned when you learned that Fifi Box had broken up with her long time lover Tony Woods, I am pleased to inform you that Fifi has turned to the media and reassured them that she’s doing well despite the pain of the break up, and – of course! – the two remain close friends. And work colleagues!
Fifi Box has opened up on her split with boyfriend and manager Tony Woods, telling Confidential she remains very much in love with the man who remains her best friend.
Remains very much in love? Gracious! In which case, what on earth is to blame for their relationship being torn asunder?! More » ABC2’s News Breakfast Stealing Viewers From Sunrise And Today!
11:06AM Jess McGuire | Check out my positive spin! Yes, the brand spankin’ new ABC2 breakfast news program – cleverly titled News Breakfast – has launched, and the Sunrise and Today teams should be quaking in their boots, as the show is already stealing their viewers! Sure, only 8000 for now… but we’ve all gotta start somewhere, right?
What if they launched a live three-hour TV breakfast news show and nobody watched? It was a question the ABC2 News Breakfast team were digesting yesterday. Ratings showed only 8000 people nationally tuned in to watch the digital channel show.
According to OzTam figures (which are not to be questioned), absolutely no one in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth bothered to tune in. More » 
Channel Ten Skips Breakfast
9:47AM Clem Bastow | Despite the fact that most ordinary humans (i.e. the Defamer Australia team) aren’t awake early enough in the day to watch it, breakfast television is probably second only to the Friday and Sunday night ratings in terms of one-eyed network rivalries. With Seven’s Sunrise and Nine’s Today currently in battle, and ABC2’s Virginia Trioli vehicle on the way, Channel Ten has stayed reasonably tight-lipped – and they’re sticking to that stance, despite word that they are about to enter the field.
A Ten spokeswoman yesterday denied the network was dumping its kids line-up for news entertainment. “We were shooting for the regular 6am bulletin. I don’t know where this talk of a breakfast program has come from,” a Ten news publicist said.
More » Thoughts On Malcolm Turnbull’s New Job
1:23PM Jess McGuire | When the team from Sunrise asked me to contribute my thoughts regarding Malcolm Turnbull’s new role as the leader of the Liberal Party for their website, I wish I could say I was surprised. But to be honest, I’ve always envisioned myself as a political pundit, so after I finished sending Laurie Oakes a menacing email telling him to watch his goddamn back, I settled down and wrote some stupid responses to the questions I was given.
If you would like to read these thoughts, then go to the Sunrise website and take a look. Also, “media commentator and political bandit” is going straight onto my business card. And by business card, I obviously mean the About Me section on my Facebook page.
MORE: Turnbully? Turncoat? How Defamer sees Turnbull More » 
Fifi Leaves Radio For The Box
9:07AM Clem Bastow | After hearing her voice thrown into the “who’ll get the Dancing With The Stars gig?” mix a few times (and as we all know, Daniel MacPherson got it; yay.), you could’ve been forgiven for thinking Fifi Box was launching an assault on the televisual world – and, had you thought that, you would’ve ended up correct. The brassy (and yet, strangely lovable) radio personality will be leaving Triple M at the end of the year and running into the open arms of Channel Seven, where she will present a “wacky” weather segment a la Grant Denyer (who is too busy driving brrm brrm cars now, or something):
Channel 7 continued to deny a rift between Doyle and co-host David Koch over salaries, stating Box’s appointment was an addition, not replacement, to the Sunrise team.
Box said she was “absolutely thrilled” to be joining the TV show.
“Television is an exciting new challenge for me and the chance to work with (the Sunrise team) Mel, Kochie, Nat and Beretts, who have been wonderful friends to me over the years, was an opportunity I could not resist,” she said.
“I’m over the moon – I’m still pinching myself.”
Spare a thought (oh, okay, don’t) for the lads of The Shebang, the Triple M breakfast show Box has left in her wake, which will be packing up its meagre belongings in a red-spotted hankie tied to a stick at the end of the year, and trundling off down the road. The entertainment industry’s a harsh mistress! More » 