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Flotsam & Jetsam
9:03AM Jess McGuire | Are you ready to start your Monday with a brilliant commercial featuring the stars of Young Talent Time hawking Kambrook heaters? It is truly excellent. It features Dannii Minogue AND Tina Arena, and it goes for about thirty seconds longer than it should. More »
The Young Talent Time Team Were Quite Enthusiastic About Heaters
9:03AM Jess McGuire | Are you ready to start your Monday with a brilliant commercial featuring the stars of Young Talent Time hawking Kambrook heaters? It is truly excellent. It features Dannii Minogue AND Tina Arena, and it goes for about thirty seconds longer than it should. More » 
Small Screen
1:41PM Jess McGuire | It seems like former Australian Idol host James Mathison is the frontrunner to become the new judge on Australian Idol in the wake of Kyle Sandilands’ sacking. Well, that’s according to Sportingbet Australia. Check out the list of contenders they came up with! More »
Could James Mathison Replace Kyle Sandilands On Idol?
1:41PM Jess McGuire | It seems like former Australian Idol host James Mathison is the frontrunner to become the new judge on Australian Idol in the wake of Kyle Sandilands’ sacking. Well, that’s according to Sportingbet Australia. Check out the list of contenders they came up with! More »
Music
12:39PM Jess McGuire | I have a huge soft spot for Tina Arena because she was ten kinds of lovely when I met her in March (and she happily agreed to let me stick a giant photo of her face on the wall during future Melbourne International Comedy Festival hit production Musical: The Musical so it can rightfully be advertised as an “Arena spectacular”) so it’s probably very wrong of me to want to bring your attention to a moment in her career she’s notorious for wanting people to forget. More »
Tina Arena – “I Need Your Body”
12:39PM Jess McGuire | I have a huge soft spot for Tina Arena because she was ten kinds of lovely when I met her in March (and she happily agreed to let me stick a giant photo of her face on the wall during future Melbourne International Comedy Festival hit production Musical: The Musical so it can rightfully be advertised as an “Arena spectacular”) so it’s probably very wrong of me to want to bring your attention to a moment in her career she’s notorious for wanting people to forget. More »
Music
2:41PM Jess McGuire | On Saturday night, I put on my finest grown up clothes and headed off to Melbourne’s Hamer Hall to catch the musical stylings of one Ms Tina ‘Pina’ Arena. Admittedly, attending such an event is slightly out of character for me, but from time to time it is nice to do things that will impress my mother. Also, one of my favourite people in the world was playing on stage with Tina, so I got to go for free. Hurrah! Here’s everything you need to know about what “went down”.
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Tina Arena In Concert!
2:41PM Jess McGuire | On Saturday night, I put on my finest grown up clothes and headed off to Melbourne’s Hamer Hall to catch the musical stylings of one Ms Tina ‘Pina’ Arena. Admittedly, attending such an event is slightly out of character for me, but from time to time it is nice to do things that will impress my mother. Also, one of my favourite people in the world was playing on stage with Tina, so I got to go for free. Hurrah! Here’s everything you need to know about what “went down”.
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Things Are Already Looking Amazing For Australian Idol ‘08
1:23PM Clem Bastow | After the fizzer that was 2007’s effort, this latest season of Australian Idol is already having “isshews” – and it’s not even on the air yet!
After much fanfare regarding the show’s overseas auditions for expat Australians, the Los Angeles round has already been cancelled. The excuse they’re using is Kyle Sandilands’ busy schedule; is that what they’re calling “no one turned up” these days…
The United States auditions were due to be held on Sunday with Sandilands presiding over the judging.
Just hours after Tina Arena and Darren Hayes were announced as guest judges to scope the talent at the show’s London auditions, an Australian Idol spokesman said Sandilands’ conflicting schedule had caused the endeavour to be scrapped.
Production being stretched for its London auditions was another big factor, the spokesman added.
“London has been massive for us and we’ve had an overwhelming response to London,” he said.
“Kyle’s timetable was a factor of us not being able to do all our commitments as well.”
We shouldn’t be too quick to judge Idol ‘08, however; the article goes on to reassure us all that audition numbers were up 30% this year… in Newcastle.
We’re not going to start holding our breath just yet. More »
A Special Eurovision Report From Our European Correspondent
9:02AM Jess McGuire | Will Fop, formerly Defamer Australia’s UK Correspondent, recently moved to Paris and shall be referred to from this point on as our European Correspondent. As Eurovision fast approaches, Will Fop will be submitting sporadic reports to discuss pop’s tizzied up night of nights, and today he has filed his first story. Happily, it involves two Australian celebrities!
I hope you are all aware that Tina Arena could well be representing France at Eurovision this year. Kylie is also being frequently mentioned in the press in France and on ESC messageboards as a rumoured possibility. I feel this to be less likely (though she is desperate to hock ‘X’ in France presently for some reason, so it would make some sense in light of her current promotional strategem).
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