Neighbours' actress Carla Bonner has been charged with driving offences after an incident in a suburban shopping centre.
Bonner, who plays long-standing character 'Steph' was charged with careless driving, reversing when unsafe, driving when unlicensed and failing to give her name and address.
Newspaper reports state she allegedly reversed into another car last July, causing minor damage.
Source: The Age
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The girls of America's Next Top Model are making Australia their next destination in the upcoming series to air on Foxtel.
Four episodes were shot in Sydney late last year which saw the girls plus host Tyra Banks and judges at Sydney Harbour Bridge and Maroubra Beach.
The girls met local modelling gals Jodhi Meares and Erika Heynatz.
The new series starts on Wednesday September 5 on Fox 8.
Press Release:
From the showrooms of our top designers to learning Aboriginal dancing and Aussie slang, Tyra Banks’ America’s Next Top Model contenders get a whirlwind experience of Australia’s culture and fashion industry in the episodes recorded “Down Under”, which begin premiering on FOX8 next Wednesday, August 8, at 8.30pm.
The America’s Next Top Model touring party - including show creator and host Tyra Banks, creative director Jay Manuel, judges ‘60s fashion icon Twiggy, runway expert J. Alexander, photographer Nigel Barker, and six would-be “Top Models” - departed their Los Angeles’ base and arrived in Sydney late last year.
They recorded four episodes here, including the season eight finale, and these shows along with a recap special (August 15) will premiere Wednesdays, at 8.30pm over the next five weeks on FOX8.
In the Australian episodes of America’s Next Top Model:
* The girls meet a range of Australian fashion identities including FOX8’s Australia’s Next Top Model host Jodhi Meares and her agent Priscilla Leighton Clark, former ANTM host Erika Heynatz (who is familiar to US viewers since the Australian-made series has been airing on Vh1), designers Sarah Jane Clarke and Heidi Middleton of Sass & Bide, Wayne Cooper, Jayson Brundson, Kit Willow, Tina Kalivas, Alice McCall, Arabella Ramsay, and Lill Boyd and Anna Hewitt of the Anna & Boy label.
* The girls try to master an Australian accent in order to shoot a cosmetic commercial – with results more closely resembling a tribute to the late “Crocodile Hunter” than any of the polished work of Elle MacPherson or Sarah Murdoch.
* Tyra photographs the girls on a sexy swimsuit shoot at Sydney’s Maroubra Beach.
* Photographer Nigel does a shoot with two of the girls atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge, achieving gorgeous results even in the regulation BridgeClimb overalls.
* The change of hemisphere does nothing to staunch the tears, tantrums and tirades amongst the girls as week-by-week their ranks are culled until the winner is announced.
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Seven is to air a documentary Diana: Her Last 10 Days in Pictures.
The special will air at 10:00pm on Sunday Aug 12.
It promises to screen never before seen photos and interviews.
Aug 31 marks ten years since her tragic death.
Nearly a decade on, the world is still fascinated by Diana, her love life, and the manner of her untimely death. This documentary features dozens of candid photographs, many of which have never been seen before and interviews that reveal and uncover the truth behind those iconic shots. With exclusive access to the archive of 'Big Pictures', we follow her final trail, from Al Fayed's yacht in St Tropez, to the Ritz in Paris and her last journey, which ended so tragically in the Alma Tunnel.
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The TEN Network appears to have ducked for cover with remaining eps of Mark Burnett's ailing Pirate Master.
After previously moving the Thursday eps to Sunday arvos, TEN is dropping the ep on Sunday Aug 5 for eps of Everybody Loves Raymond.
This last week a former contestant on the show is said to have died from an apparent suicide and CBS recently cancelled the show outright, dropping all remaining episodes.
The death is one of several linked to television programmes, including the suicide of an English teenager who appeared in SBS' Australian production of The Colony.
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Nick Giannopoulis has been announced as host of Foxtel's new Singing Office show.
The international format which allows ordinary office-workers to warble their vocal chords will see Giannopoulis joined by Julia Morris.
The show is due to start in September.
Press Release:
FOXTEL today confirmed that production has commenced on a local version of THE SINGING OFFICE, the world’s most-talked about new television format.
The hot new entertainment spectacular heralds the return to Australian television of one of the country’s best-loved entertainers, Nick Giannopoulos, who will host the 13-part series.
THE SINGING OFFICE takes everyday working Australians and transforms them into singing and dancing superstars. The keenly-anticipated new series will air only on FOX8 from early September.
Each week THE SINGING OFFICE will introduce five workers from two very different Australian companies. They will audition, learn to sing and dance, and finally, the two companies face-off in the ultimate office sing-off in an action and emotion packed one hour.
Host Nick Giannopoulos said: “Now we’ve all come across people at work who boast that they could have been, or one day will be, the next Kylie Minogue or Robbie Williams, well THE SINGING OFFICE gives them a chance to prove it! The results are not only very funny but also at times quite surprising.”
Joining Nick will be comedienne Julia Morris, who has returned home from London to especially coach a team of workers each week. Australia’s most vocal cricket fan, Gus Worland (FOX8’s An Aussie Goes Barmy), will also add his humility and encouragement to a group of employees keen to make their mark on the stage.
As Julia and Gus coach, encourage and assist our brave Aussie workers the two teams will follow an intense singing and dancing boot camp each week, and then have the opportunity to dazzle an expert panel of judges with their live performance. The judges will decide each week’s winner, who will then move through to the grand final.
“FOXTEL is delighted to have secured the rights to the hottest TV format currently sweeping the world”, said FOXTEL Executive Director of Television and Marketing, Brian Walsh.
“THE SINGING OFFICE will be a must-watch for the whole family. Our brave workers put it all on the line for their colleagues as they try and master the art of singing some of the world’s biggest hits. We are confident the fun new show will really hit a chord with FOX8’s audience.”
THE SINGING OFFICE is a 13-part prime time feel-good entertainment series where the most unlikely people will become an overnight sensation and is produced for FOXTEL by dSP BEYOND.
THE SINGING OFFICE is an exclusive subscription television property and will debut on FOXTEL’s flagship channel FOX8 in early September.
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