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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Sian Cain

    Always a joker: Magda Szubanski reveals Heath Ledger asked to play her stalker on Kath and Kim - AOL (opens the original)

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    It was the pash that stopped the nation. At the 2006 Australian Film Institute awards, Heath Ledger was being interviewed by a TV journalist when a screech made everyone jump. Magda Szubanski, who was wandering the red carpet in character as her graceless Kath and Kim character Sharon Strzelecki, screamed at the sight of Ledger – who, without blinking, kissed her passionately. Szubanski promptly pretended to faint. Now, 20 years later, Szubanski has revealed that Ledger was such a fan of this en

  2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Sian Cain

    Always a joker: Magda Szubanski reveals Heath Ledger asked to play her stalker on Kath and Kim (opens the original)

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    In her new memoir, I Can’t Tell You But I Will, Szubanski recalls how Ledger enjoyed their improvised kiss so much that he asked to be on the sitcom It was the pash that stopped the nation. At the 2006 Australian Film Institute awards, Heath Ledger was being interviewed by a TV journalist when a screech made everyone jump. Magda Szubanski, who was wandering the red carpet in character as her graceless Kath and Kim character Sharon Strzelecki, screamed at the sight of Ledger – who, without blinki

  3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Sian Cain

    The rise of Dom Dolla: what the DJ’s record-breaking stadium show for 60,000 fans tells us about music today (opens the original)

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    Dom Dolla’s enormous show in Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium set a new record for a solo EDM artist in Australia, and proves how the genre is dominating “Abandon all hope, ye who enter,” it says on the wall – no, my mistake, that is just the sign for the Johnnie Walker bar at Marvel Stadium. I have a theory that what everyone is drinking at a show can tell you a lot about the mood of a crowd, and based on the stacks of Hard Solo and Walker cans strewn on the streets outside Dom Dolla’s bi

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Sian Cain

    Andy Griffiths on Terry Denton’s genius: ‘He was a true clown. He could make something funny out of nothing’ (opens the original)

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    The children’s author remembers his friend and collaborator of 35 years, whose ‘seemingly inexhaustible flow of nonsense’ drove their bestselling Treehouse books Terry was assigned to me as my illustrator when I wrote an educational book called Swinging on the Clothesline, back in 1991. The publisher said, “We know this guy’s got a good sense of humour. We think you’ll get along really well.” They were absolutely right. Terry drew these kids swinging on the clothesline at a very hi

  5. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Sian Cain

    Emmys 2026: Widow’s Bay dominates as Matthew Rhys and Jean Smart land historic wins (opens the original)

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    Rhys becomes first actor to win lead acting awards for different shows in the same night, while Hacks’ Smart is the first woman to win for every season of a show Emmys 2026: red carpet looks and outfits at TV’s biggest night – in pictures Matthew Rhys has become the first actor in 78 years of Emmys history to win multiple lead actor awards for performances in different shows in the same year, for Widow’s Bay and The Beast in Me. The 51-year-old Welsh actor won outstanding lead actor in a

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