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Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz arrived in Sydney at the weekend to be with her new husband Benji Madden. Rock star Madden, who is in Australia filming TV show The Voice, met the 42-year-old Charlie’s Angels star at Sydney Airport before whisking her off to a luxury hotel suite. Diaz is no stranger to Australia having lived in Kings Cross for three months when she was 19 years old and working as a model. Now she…
A boozer in Brisbane has been voted the best bar in Australia. The Gresham in Brisbane was voted Bar of The year in the annual Australian Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Awards for its old-world charm, comprehensive range of whisky’s and cocktails and its’ award-winning bartenders. The venue has also been nominated for eight top honours at next month’s Australian Bartender Magazine Awards. A string of venues, restaurants and bars across Queensland have won top awards. Crosstown…
Hollywood star Cate Blanchett is selling her Sydney home and hopes to make a 100% profit. The Australian actress is quitting the country of her birth and moving to America with her director husband Andrew Upton. The celebrity pair is putting their home up for sale for $20 million. The couple paid $10.2 million for the property in 2004. The house, called Bulwarra, in Sydney’s Hunters Hill area was built in 1877 and is a…
New movies starring Kate Winslet, Anthony LaPaglia and Oscar-winning director Scott Hicks’ latest film will be highlights of this years’ Adelaide Film Festival. Hollywood star Kate Winslet (pictured) will feature in new movie The Dressmaker, based on Rosalie Ham’s novel. The film, also starring Liam Hemsworth and Judy Davis, will be one of the headline attractions at the festival that opens on October 15. The world premiere of Scott Hicks’ Highly Strung – filmed in…
Movie star Hugh Jackman has sold his Melbourne apartment for $740,000. The Australian actor, star of hit movies such as X-Men and who appears as pirate Blackbeard in the new Peter Pan movie, owns a number of properties in Australia and Los Angeles and has decided to divest himself of the two-bedroom apartment. Jackman bought the property in Melbourne 20 years ago and, thanks to a booming market that has seen prices soar, the actor…
Singer/songwriter Olly Murs is performing to capacity crowds on his current tour of Australia. The English mega-selling star kicked off his ‘Never Been Better’ down under tour on August 4th at Perth Arena and is set to perform his last concert at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on August 11th. “I am so excited to be heading back down under for my Australian Never Been Better Tour in August,” said Olly. “My last tour was only the…
TV broadcasters in Australia are running to catch up as millions of viewers switch to streaming video services. In the recent past top-rated Aussie TV shows could attract regular audiences of around two million. But new prime-time shows from major TV networks such as Seven and Nine have been a ratings disaster, attracting audiences of just 784,000 over three nights, the lowest audience being a little over 400,000. Viewers are deserting traditional TV in favour…
Hollywood star Mel Gibson has returned to Sydney to make a new film about a WW2 war hero. The American-born actor, who first found fame in Australian cult movie Mad Max, is to direct World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge, to be filmed in Sydney and New South Wales where he lived during his teenage years. “I’m so glad to be here again, working here again, bumping into people I’ve known for years and decades….
Former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are to return to TV with another car-based show. Clarkson revealed the trio’s plans as they flew out of Australia following a series of highly successful live shows, aptly-titled Cr-ASHES. Around 14,000 people watched each of the four shows in Perth and Sydney that saw Jeremy battle against a team of Australian sport and TV personalities after entering the arena on a hovercraft. Clarkson’s…
Rising stars Florence + The Machine are set tour Australia later this year. The British star who stepped up to the big league with her recent headline show at Glastonbury, will perform six concerts in Australia in November. Group leader Florence Welch has been compared to female singers such as Kate Bush, Siouxsie Sioux, PJ Harvey and Björk. Florence says that Grace Slick is a major influence and her “hero”. Florence and the Machine’s image…
