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He respects Hughesy’s ‘passion’, but Peter Helliar is staying on the silly side (opens the original)
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Peter Helliar never imagined that, after a 30-year career as one of Australia’s best-loved comedians, he’d wind up taking a gig on a cruise ship. Yet here he is, aboard the Sun Princess, hosting new TV series Chefs Ahoy. Over four episodes, Helliar will emcee culinary duels between Australian chefs and cooks, as they vie for the approval of guests at the “captain’s dinner”. “You hang around this industry long enough, and you get these lovely little surprises,” says Helliar. “It was a pretty quic
‘I don’t have a death wish’: The Aussie chef who swapped restaurants for the wild (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Cooking shows are boring, and supermarket shopping is too easy. So says Mario Kalpou, a Sydney chef who ditched restaurants to hunt his own food in the wild. His debut TV series, Man Eats Wild, saw him travel from the Amazon jungle to the ice floes of Greenland. Still firmly of the belief that food “tastes way better, and the reward is much sweeter, once you’ve almost killed yourself catching it”,
Too pretty to be funny? Why Brooke Shields is still fighting to be taken at more than face value (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Brooke Shields can’t play funny because she is too pretty. So say some male network executives with whom she locked horns over her new murder-mystery, You’re Killing Me. In the series, by Mother of the Bride writer Robin Bernheim, Shields plays crime-romance novelist Allison Chandler, the bane of the local detective (Tom Cavanagh) in a cosy fishing village in Maine, the kind where nothing much hap
Meet the architect who designs the houses on The Block (opens the original)
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There is one member of The Block cast whose job is so fundamental to the project that, without him, there would be no show. He’s not a contestant, a tradie, or foreman Dan. He isn’t a judge or a host. He’s the man standing quietly at the starting line of every three-month build – the architect. Julian Brenchley has been designing the houses for The Block since the series began in 2003. This year, he is tasked with creating five new homes in the blue-ribbon Victorian peninsula suburb of Mount Eli
Want to turn Melanie C’s head on The Voice? It takes more than talent (opens the original)
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Even with a career break like the Spice Girls, which catapulted five unknown British singers in 1996 to international stardom with the single Wannabe, Melanie Chisholm, aka Sporty Spice, knows success is hard won, and not easy to sustain. Since the highest-selling female pop group of all time disbanded in 2001, she has – under her stage name of Melanie C – recorded nine albums, trod the West End boards and enjoyed a side hustle as a DJ, the latter marking a return to the rave scene she adored as
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