survivors

Pointless Televisual Celebrity Feuds: The Brits Do It Better

10:09AM Clem Bastow | One television trend that hasn’t really made its way to Australia yet (unless you count The Bush Tucker Man) is the whole extreme survival movement. The Brits eat it right up, what with their endless supply of Super Army Soldiers and landscape full of bogs, rivers, snow and wild beasts ready to be turned into edge-of-your-seat Sunday evening viewing. Well, both BBC and Channel Four have their own takes on the theme, and now the Beeb’s survival bloke, Ray Mears, has called Channel Four’s – the excellently named former SAS action man Bear Grylls; that’s him eating the fish with what appears to be extra t-sauce – nothing more than a pretender. This was my favourite bit of the slanging match: Last summer, 33- year- old Grylls was criticised over revelations that his existence during filming his series Born Survivor had been more comfortable than the programme suggested. More »

Cynthia Nixon Talks Openly About Her Recent Breast Cancer Scare On ‘GMA’

7:35AM Molly Friedman | Cynthia Nixon is living proof that bad things happen to good actresses. Speaking openly for the first time about her 2006 diagnosis with breast cancer on Good Morning America today, the happily outed actress demonstrated exactly how a public figure maintains grace under fire. And even after telling us how one goes about telling their kids they sorta have to undergo an operation, and how to deal with the public’s response to her coming out, one of the most intriguing lessons the Sex And The City star shared had to do with which half of a lesbian couple is called “Mom” and which is called “Mommy.” Nixon’s life lessons, after the jump. More »