Neighbours actor slashes wrist on set

The cast of Melbourne soap serial Neighbours Source: Supplied
Lily Allen has appeared as one of the guest stars on the popular tv soap. Source: Herald Sun
AN extra on soap opera Neighbours slashed her wrist in front of horrified cast members.
The troubled woman cut herself with a glass from fictional hangout Charlie’s Bar.
She smashed several props, causing filming to be canceled and the astonished cast and crew to be rushed off set last Friday.

Hey Hey looking for Red Faces

Daryl Somers and Ossie Ostrich from Hey Hey It’s Saturday / Supplied Source: news.com.au
THE Nine Network is on the lookout for talent to feature on Red Faces – the segment that sparked outrage for featuring a blackface skit last year.
Nine has issued a call-out for people who want to take part in the segment on the revived variety series Hey Hey It’s Saturday and will hold auditions from March 20.
Host Daryl Somers states they are looking for original ...

Tears behind SVU split up

BD Wong, Dann Florek, Diane Neal, Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay Ice-T, Richard Belzer and Tamarie Tunie from Law and Order: SVU / Supplied Source: news.com.au
Mariska Hargitay / Supplied Source: news.com.au
MARISKA Hargitay has bathed in critical and financial success as one half of the Law & Order: SVU crime-fighting team of Benson and Stabler – but dark clouds are brewing.

Head Tiger Woods mistress crowned

Radio shock jock Howard Stern / Reuters Source: Reuters
COCKTAIL waitress Jamie Jungers took home $75,000 after being named the winner of the Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant, which took place on the Howard Stern Show.
The New York Post reported Jamie Jungers was dressed in a slinky, lingerie-style bikini.
The golf great’s bleached-blonde mistress beat out two other Tiger flames – call girl Loredana Jolie Ferriolo and waitress Jaimee Grubbs – who also appeared on the shock-jock’s satellite radio show to ...

Networks wage AFL show war

Dermott Brereton / Channel 9 Source: news.com.au
THE gloves are off. As it enters the fourth year of its five-year deal to cover AFL, Channel 7 is at last having a crack at a prime-time program that it hopes will erode the popularity of Channel 9’s The Footy Show.
Seven has in the past launched ill-fated and best-forgotten football-variety programs Live and Kicking, hosted by Jason Dunstall and Doug Hawkins, and Dermott Brereton’s The Game.

Neighbours shock as actor smashes set

RAMSAY St – famous across the globe as the setting for iconic Aussie soap Neighbours – was not so neighbourly after an actor smashed up a set and was escorted from the studio by police, the Herald Sun reported today.
Neighbours executive producer Susan Bower stated filming was canceled and all cast and crew removed from the set on Friday after a regular extra suddenly started acting in a very distressed state.
The Herald Sun reports that Ms Bower confirmed yesterday ...

Suicide newsreader took risky drug mix

Charmaine Dragun reading the Channel Ten news. She jumped to her death in November 2007 / The Daily Telegraph Source: The Daily Telegraph
TEN newsreader Charmaine Dragun was hiding was hiding deep and troubling issues when she jumped to her death, an inquest has heard.
Ms Dragun, 29, had been suffering depression for more than a decade and had survived a bout of anorexia.
However, the month before her death she began a program to wean herself off one antidepressant while taking another.

Whoopi Goldberg has a wee problem

Whoopi Goldberg dresses as the Statue of Liberty for the ad campain. Picture: Supplied Source: news.com.au
WHOOPI Goldberg has a wee problem and she is tackling it head on by enlisting the help of several “great women in history.”
Goldberg, 54, is the face of Poise’s 1in3 Like Me initiative which aims to increase women’s awareness of bladder leakage, but this is no ordinary campaign.
The Sister Act star, who has played many characters in her time, impersonates ...

Ex-female cop in threat to Underbelly

Former corrupt policewoman Wendy Hatfield leaves Court / Daily Telegraph Source: The Daily Telegraph
THE much-anticipated third Underbelly series is under threat from a star of the real-life version – an ex-cop who claims she is defamed in the show by being intimately linked with Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim.
Former Constable Wendy Hatfield has launched defamation action in the Supreme Court, even though she hasn’t seen the program, due to air later this month, the Daily Telegraph reports.

Sex and the City star’s roof fall drama

Sex and the City’s Chris Noth / AP Source: news.com.au
CHRIS Noth was caught in a terrifying incident at a Purim party held inside Sony Plaza on Madison Ave in New York City
The Sex And The City actor watched as the building’s glass roof collapsed under the weight of ice and snow and sent shards into the lobby below.
The 52-year-old actor was believed to have escaped without injury, even though about a dozen people were treated for minor injuries. ...

Brady Bunch stars feud over lesbian claim

This pic from 1969 shows the cast members of The Brady Bunch (from left) Susan Olsen, Michael Lookinland, Eve Plumb, Christopher Knight, Maureen McCormick and Barry Williams / AP Source: news.com.au
Maureen McCormick as Marcia Brady / Supplied Source: news.com.au
HERE’S the story … of how two TV sisters are still not getting along after all these years.
Brady Bunch stars Maureen McCormick and Eve Plumb reportedly caused the cancelation of a televised reunion planned for this ...

Teens led astray by raunchy TV show

A scene from the British drama Skins / Supplied Source: news.com.au
WHO could have imagined that the French, with their reputation for sophisticated naughtiness, would complain about being led astray by the boring old British?
Skins, a cult TV series about teenagers in Bristol, is being blamed for a French adolescent craze for debauched fancy dress evenings of drinking and drugs.
From Marseilles to Paris, “le Skins party” is a rallying cry each weekend for thousands of teenagers, most from well-to-do families, who ...

Boyle the golden pick for TV Logies

Scottish singer Susan Boyle tipped to be a star guest at this year’s Logies in Melbourne / AP Source: AP
SUSAN Boyle may be headed to Melbourne as the marquee guest at this year’s Logies at Crown.
Industry sources state Boyle is at the top of the list for organisers of TV Week’s huge night, the Herald Sun reports.
The Scottish singer has stated she has always wanted to visit Australia.
She has had enourmous success here – her album I Dreamed A Dream ...

New York Vinnie still speaking sports … in Pittsburgh

For the past two years, he popped up here and there. Maybe you saw him on KCPQ/13 after Seahawks games. Maybe you heard him on KIRO-AM/710’s Mariners postgame shows as a fill-in host.

But New York Vinnie did not have a full-time broadcasting gig anymore, and that absolutely killed him. After being fired by KIRO radio in August 2007, New York Vinnie looked for work in Seattle and could not find it. His adopted hometown did not ...

Lost star Fox denies affair with stripper

Lost star Matthew Fox / Ross Schultz Source: news.com.au
LOST star Matthew Fox denied claims that he romped with a stripper behind his wife’s back, The Sun has reported.
The actor, married to Margherita Ronchi for 18 years, is at the center of a scandal involving 25-year-old Stefani Talbot, who told an American magazine that she bedded the star.
But Fox, who plays Doctor Jack Shephard in the hit show, insists he was never unfaithful.
His representative blasted the claims, saying they were made ...

James Cameron predicts 3D TV explosion

James Cameron states networks need to come up to speed with providing 3D content for viewers / Reuters Source: Reuters
AVATAR director James Cameron states a seismic shift is about to occur in tv in Australia with the advent of 3D content
Cameron, at Warner Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast to check progress on his new 3D motion picture Sanctum, states 3D will be the norm before we know it.
“Oh, it’s all happening at an accelerated rate,” he said.
“For ...

TV review: ‘Lost’ and ‘Idol’ – tune in or not?

I’m forever amazed at the usefulness of a theory of tv watching called the Opt-In/Opt-Out Moment. It’s something we all unconsciously do as we watch new programming and, to a lesser extent, a decision we make about old favorites that suddenly come up lacking.

I’ll give you a classic example of the Opt-In/Opt-Out Moment. During the pilot of “Lost,” where a group of plane crash survivors are on a tropical island, something is heard rushing at one of the characters from ...