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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Getting her money's worth! TV reporter Angela Bishop wears the same $1,600 designer frock at THIRD major event in a matter of months
Angela Bishop is getting her 'cost per wear' down when it comes to her favourite gown. The TV presenter, 57, has donned the same sleek, black designer dress at three major events this year so far. The $1,599 gown from Rebecca Vallance has proven a wardrobe staple for Angela, who wore it to the Golden Globes, the AACTA Awards and now the Grace Gala in the past few months. Angela was again in the frock this weekend as she attended the gala on Saturday at Hyatt Regency Sydney. She showed off her slimmed-down frame in the off-the-shoulder black number which features a corseted bodice. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. It's proven to be a wardrobe staple for the thrifty television host - who even donned the same heart earrings that she's previously matched with the dress. Angela first wore the dress when she stepped out for the 2025 Golden Globes in Los Angeles January. She then wore the same satin gown again at the 2025 AACTA Awards on the Gold Coast in February. The Channel 10 star was hard at work on the red carpet at the Home of the Arts (HOTA) on the Gold Coast for the glitzy event on the night. The television star has not only been flaunting her favourite frock but her recent slim down. Angela had first showed off her shock weight loss at the Golden Globes in January. At the time, she posted to Instagram to share a very glamorous image of herself before she took to the red carpet for Channel 10 on the glitzy evening. Angela has spoken openly about her weight loss and previously described the key changes she made in her lifestyle to drop the kilos. Back in 2020, Angela told how she made one simple change in her diet rather than hitting the gym regularly. 'I recently gave up my sugar-free energy drink addiction,' she revealed on her morning TV show at the time. 'I was drinking between 2-3 cans a day and changing absolutely nothing else about my diet, I've lost two kilos in three and a half weeks.' She admitted she had a 'painful' withdrawal from the energy drinks but felt 'great' after kicking the habit. 'I had very very bad headaches and didn't feel good at all,' she added. After dropping further kilos, she has been showing off her slender frame in recent months with a string of glamorous red carpet appearances. Angela made a name for herself on Studio 10 but the embattled program was axed in November 2023 after more than a decade on air. Angela, as well as her fellow hosts Narelda Jacobs and Tristan MacManus, remained with Channel 10 and were redeployed into new roles. She now serves as 10 News First's entertainment editor and takes to the red carpet for the program interviewing the stars.
Daily Mail
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Aussie directors reveal shock moment moviegoers passed out during screening for their frightening horror film
They wowed audiences with their terrifying box office hit Talk to Me. Now brothers Danny and Michael Phillippou have made a new horror blockbuster, Bring Her Back. According to the filmmakers, the flick is so scary moviegoers have been passing out during preview screenings. 'We've had three faintings,' Danny admitted during an interview on Sunday's episode of The Project. The twins, 32, were confronted by host Sarah Harris about their new shock movie, which is set to open in theatres nationally on Thursday. 'This film, I'm telling you, are you guys alright?' Sarah joked. She then went to detail her alarming experience of watching the film. 'I was sitting next to a pregnant producer and I was pretty sure she was going to go into labour - they were that many [jump scares],' she said. 'All I can say is that I didn't write it,' Michael said. 'Michael directed it though,' Danny shot back. 'I gotta say it's not just schlocky horror stuff, there is quite a haunting story to it. There's a creepiness that stays with you,' Sarah went on to explain. Bring Her back is about two orphans who find a temporary home with a foster parent who hides a terrifying secret. The film is a follow-up for the Philippou brothers after the international success of Talk To Me. The supernatural horror won a raft of international honours, as well as eight AACTA Awards, and made over $100million at the box office. Oscar-nominated English actress Sally Hawkins, 48, known for her roles in Paddington, Wonka and Happy-Go-Lucky, stars in Bring Her Back. Hawkins plays grieving mother Laura, who attempts to bring her daughter back from the dead using a paranormal ritual. The twins re-teamed with independent production company A24 and Causeway's Samantha Jennings and Kristina Ceyton who produced their first film. It also stars Mischa Heywood, Sora Wong and Billy Barratt. Mischa, 15, recently revealed that filming Bring Her Back was anything but scary. 'It was just like a big party. It was the funnest thing ever,' she said of her experience playing Catherine in the film. 'They're so full of energy and bubbly, which is great because when you're filming something so serious and devastating like Bring Her Back I guess you have to have that fun on set to lighten the mood,' Mischa told Daily Mail Australia of the YouTubers turned horror directors. 'They're just the sweetest human beings.'
Daily Mail
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Channel 10's Angela Bishop shows off her trimmer than ever figure in skin tight jeans after incredible weight loss
Angela Bishop is fighting fit and happy to show off her new figure. The TV presenter, 57, stepped out at the Sydney premiere of new movie Bring Her Back on Monday night and was looking slimmer than ever. The Channel 10 star opted for a pair of skintight jeans that flared to a bell bottom design and sat close to her trim pins. Angela added a well tailored denim jacket in the same fabric over a brown lace camisole. The television host finished the look with a pair of stacked heels and statement earrings as well as a red manicure. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. For makeup, Angela chose a clean and peachy palette with a nude lip gloss while wearing her blonde hair down in waves. Angela has been slimming down in recent months and was looking trim and terrific as she arrived at the 2025 AACTA Awards in February. She was hard at work on the red carpet at the Home of the Arts (HOTA) on the Gold Coast for the glitzy event. The TV star opted for a slinky black dress that clung close to her slimmed down figure. Angela had first showed off her shock weight loss as she stepped out for the 2025 Golden Globes in January. She posted to Instagram to share a very glamorous snap of herself before she took to the red carpet for Channel 10 on the glitzy evening. She showed off her slimmed-down frame in a $1,599 off-the-shoulder black gown with a corset bodice from Rebecca Vallance as she posed in her hotel room. Angela has spoken openly about her weight loss and previously described the key changes she made in her lifestyle to drop the kilos. Angela has been slimming down in recent months. She is pictured in May 2022 Back in 2020, Angela told how she made one simple change in her diet rather than hitting the gym regularly. 'I recently gave up my sugar-free energy drink addiction,' she revealed on her morning TV show at the time. 'I was drinking between 2-3 cans a day and changing absolutely nothing else about my diet, I've lost two kilos in three and a half weeks.' She admitted she had a 'painful' withdrawal from the energy drinks but felt 'great' after kicking the habit. 'I had very very bad headaches and didn't feel good at all,' she added. After dropping further kilos, she has been showing off her slender frame in recent months with a string of glamorous red carpet appearances. Angela made a name for herself on Studio 10 but the embattled program was axed in November 2023 after more than a decade on air. Angela, as well as her fellow hosts Narelda Jacobs and Tristan MacManus, remained with Channel 10 and were redeployed into new roles. She now serves as 10 News First's entertainment editor and takes to the red carpet for the program interviewing the stars. Angela Baikie died in late November 2017 after battling a rare form of cancer. The couple married in 2005.
Sydney Morning Herald
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
The ‘nonsense' that became a cult game show even border security guards love
There is a line that stretches out the door at the ABC studios in Sydney's Ultimo. Young and old, they are here to see a recording of last year's surprise hit Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee. One man has flown over from Perth for the day to catch the recording, while two young women have made T-shirts bearing the show's logo. A couple of primary school kids are here with their parents, while many others are repeat visitors who have travelled hours to see the show. A show about spelling, – that's S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G – it was a surprise hit for the ABC last year, with its mix of pedantry and absolute nonsense earning it a five-star review, solid ratings and a nomination for best entertainment program at the AACTA awards. It also helped that it was hosted and created by the nicest Kiwi on TV, comedian Guy Montgomery, who made the show as a lark with friends over Zoom during COVID and then developed it into a live show and then a TV series in New Zealand. The Australian version is essentially the same – albeit with a slightly fancier set, less confusing accents – with Aaron Chen, whose offbeat humour and star turn in Kitty Flanagan's sitcom Fisk have earned him a cult following, stepping into the role of sidekick. Loading 'You hope people like it, but you've got no idea,' says Montgomery, sitting in his dressing room with Chen. 'Once you put something out in the world, it's not really yours to have opinions on any more. It's up to everyone else. And then the first time, actually, I came back to Australia after it had come out, I was doing a show in Adelaide, and the border security guard was like, 'Oh my gosh, I love your show, it's so funny.' And I was like, 'This is the best welcome to Australia I've ever had, it's so nice.' I mean, it hasn't happened since…' For Chen, the appeal lies in the simple joy of gameplay. 'Guy is extremely funny and I love the format,' says Chen. 'I've competed in the live version of this and the Zoom version, and it was both very fun and also really funny, but really simple. I appreciate honest gameplay, games that actually work as games.' Chen also wanted to join the show – 'I had compromising photos,' jokes Montgomery – because it gave stand-up comedians an opportunity on TV in something that's not another news-of-the-week panel show. 'For a long time, Australian television hasn't put on TV shows that are made by comedians,' he says. 'Especially stand-up comedians that are already funny and fully formed, and just like, let them do their own thing. And this felt like a beautiful opportunity.' The pair is dressed for that evening's recording: Montgomery in his green blazer and wide brown '70s tie and Chen in his trademark mint green suit and ruffled shirt. They are filming two episodes a day, over two weeks, with a rotating line-up of contestants, including carry-over champ Tom Walker, newbies Hannah Gadsby, Rove McManus and Julia Zemiro, as well as one contestant who sets the record for the longest winning streak. On paper, the show's format is remarkably simple – a spelling bee, where contestants are asked to spell words of varying degrees of difficulty. For example, for the first round, words are chosen out of three containers – The Coward's Cup (easy, one point), the Person's Purse (medium, two points) and the Bucket of Bravery (difficult, three points) – and the joy comes in seeing contestants who are either completely stumped or supremely confident in their spelling abilities. It's a dream come true for word nerds. For everyone else, it's a waking nightmare. Of the two shows I see being filmed, a couple of contestants are like rabbits in the headlights, unable to comprehend the question or what they are being asked to spell. At one point, someone in the audience feels so sorry for them that they yell out the answer. 'Spelling is nonsense,' says Montgomery. 'It's a universal access point. We can all relate to it. We all understand it and do it. But it's not a marker of actual intelligence or brightness, or what you contribute to the world. Ultimately, it's something we can all measure ourselves on, but the outcome has no relevance to the world or your life. But people who are good spellers, it's probably a harder show for them to do because then they feel as though they do have something to lose.' Loading He name-checks Kiwi comedian Abby Howells, who will appear on season two, as someone who embodied the life-or-death drama of the series. 'She came on the New Zealand version and she's like, 'Oh, I'm a brilliant speller. I love this. I've got a PhD,'' he recalls. 'And then she just had an absolutely appalling episode. It's amazing self-contained storytelling. A whole episode of someone coming out and being like, 'I'm gonna do this' and then just slowly, everything falling away from them. I love that.' So what makes a good contestant? 'It's just anyone who will just play the game as it comes to them,' says Montgomery. 'You want people to interrogate the internal logic and be openly annoyed towards me. Anyone who just feels the confidence to come out and play it exactly as they see it.' What about Chen – whose role as game assistant involves him acting out games for the contestants, such as cooking a dish that the contestants must spell – what does he think makes a good contestant? 'I think the love of spelling makes a beautiful contestant,' he deadpans. 'If they can spell nice, that's one of my favourite types of contestants.' Adds Montgomery: 'Aaron is a good speller. Joseph Moore, who I do the bulk of the writing on the show with, he and I were running words because people always pillage the Bucket of Bravery. It's the one that everyone goes for, as much as you try to guide them away from it, people want to have a go. And we were having to source and write material for more words, and we were running them on Aaron, and Aaron's a gun speller. He was getting a lot of them right.' Chen then chimes in with a challenge for me: 'Spell inchoate.' 'I-N-C-H [insert nervous pause here] O-A-T-E.' Asks Montgomery: 'How did that feel? You can obviously choose if you put this in the story.' I got it right, so of course I have put it in! But it did feel weird. Spelling out loud is not something anyone does often outside primary school, and one of the fun things about the show is seeing how contestants approach it: some write out the word with their fingers in the air, others whisper. 'You can ask for a definition and stuff like that,' says Chen. 'Do you want the definition for inchoate?' Go on… 'It means, 'Not fully formed, like Guy's opinions on immigration …'' I think that's spelt B-O-O-M T-I-S-H.
Sydney Morning Herald
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
How do you spell ‘nonsense'? Ask Guy Montgomery and Aaron Chen.
There is a line that stretches out the door at the ABC studios in Sydney's Ultimo. Young and old, they are here to see a recording of last year's surprise hit Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee. One man has flown over from Perth for the day to catch the recording, while two young women have made T-shirts bearing the show's logo. A couple of primary school kids are here with their parents, while many others are repeat visitors who have travelled hours to see the show. A show about spelling, – that's S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G – it was a surprise hit for the ABC last year, with its mix of pedantry and absolute nonsense earning it a five-star review, solid ratings and a nomination for best entertainment program at the AACTA awards. It also helped that it was hosted and created by the nicest Kiwi on TV, comedian Guy Montgomery, who made the show as a lark with friends over Zoom during COVID and then developed it into a live show and then a TV series in New Zealand. The Australian version is essentially the same – albeit with a slightly fancier set, less confusing accents – with Aaron Chen, whose offbeat humour and star turn in Kitty Flanagan's sitcom Fisk have earned him a cult following, stepping into the role of sidekick. Loading 'You hope people like it, but you've got no idea,' says Montgomery, sitting in his dressing room with Chen. 'Once you put something out in the world, it's not really yours to have opinions on any more. It's up to everyone else. And then the first time, actually, I came back to Australia after it had come out, I was doing a show in Adelaide, and the border security guard was like, 'Oh my gosh, I love your show, it's so funny.' And I was like, 'This is the best welcome to Australia I've ever had, it's so nice.' I mean, it hasn't happened since…' For Chen, the appeal lies in the simple joy of gameplay. 'Guy is extremely funny and I love the format,' says Chen. 'I've competed in the live version of this and the Zoom version, and it was both very fun and also really funny, but really simple. I appreciate honest gameplay, games that actually work as games.' Chen also wanted to join the show – 'I had compromising photos,' jokes Montgomery – because it gave stand-up comedians an opportunity on TV in something that's not another news-of-the-week panel show. 'For a long time, Australian television hasn't put on TV shows that are made by comedians,' he says. 'Especially stand-up comedians that are already funny and fully formed, and just like, let them do their own thing. And this felt like a beautiful opportunity.' The pair is dressed for that evening's recording: Montgomery in his green blazer and wide brown '70s tie and Chen in his trademark mint green suit and ruffled shirt. They are filming two episodes a day, over two weeks, with a rotating line-up of contestants, including carry-over champ Tom Walker, newbies Hannah Gadsby, Rove McManus and Julia Zemiro, as well as one contestant who sets the record for the longest winning streak. On paper, the show's format is remarkably simple – a spelling bee, where contestants are asked to spell words of varying degrees of difficulty. For example, for the first round, words are chosen out of three containers – The Coward's Cup (easy, one point), the Person's Purse (medium, two points) and the Bucket of Bravery (difficult, three points) – and the joy comes in seeing contestants who are either completely stumped or supremely confident in their spelling abilities. It's a dream come true for word nerds. For everyone else, it's a waking nightmare. Of the two shows I see being filmed, a couple of contestants are like rabbits in the headlights, unable to comprehend the question or what they are being asked to spell. At one point, someone in the audience feels so sorry for them that they yell out the answer. 'Spelling is nonsense,' says Montgomery. 'It's a universal access point. We can all relate to it. We all understand it and do it. But it's not a marker of actual intelligence or brightness, or what you contribute to the world. Ultimately, it's something we can all measure ourselves on, but the outcome has no relevance to the world or your life. But people who are good spellers, it's probably a harder show for them to do because then they feel as though they do have something to lose.' Loading He name-checks Kiwi comedian Abby Howells, who will appear on season two, as someone who embodied the life-or-death drama of the series. 'She came on the New Zealand version and she's like, 'Oh, I'm a brilliant speller. I love this. I've got a PhD,'' he recalls. 'And then she just had an absolutely appalling episode. It's amazing self-contained storytelling. A whole episode of someone coming out and being like, 'I'm gonna do this' and then just slowly, everything falling away from them. I love that.' So what makes a good contestant? 'It's just anyone who will just play the game as it comes to them,' says Montgomery. 'You want people to interrogate the internal logic and be openly annoyed towards me. Anyone who just feels the confidence to come out and play it exactly as they see it.' What about Chen – whose role as game assistant involves him acting out games for the contestants, such as cooking a dish that the contestants must spell – what does he think makes a good contestant? 'I think the love of spelling makes a beautiful contestant,' he deadpans. 'If they can spell nice, that's one of my favourite types of contestants.' Adds Montgomery: 'Aaron is a good speller. Joseph Moore, who I do the bulk of the writing on the show with, he and I were running words because people always pillage the Bucket of Bravery. It's the one that everyone goes for, as much as you try to guide them away from it, people want to have a go. And we were having to source and write material for more words, and we were running them on Aaron, and Aaron's a gun speller. He was getting a lot of them right.' Chen then chimes in with a challenge for me: 'Spell inchoate.' 'I-N-C-H [insert nervous pause here] O-A-T-E.' Asks Montgomery: 'How did that feel? You can obviously choose if you put this in the story.' I got it right, so of course I have put it in! But it did feel weird. Spelling out loud is not something anyone does often outside primary school, and one of the fun things about the show is seeing how contestants approach it: some write out the word with their fingers in the air, others whisper. 'You can ask for a definition and stuff like that,' says Chen. 'Do you want the definition for inchoate?' Go on… 'It means, 'Not fully formed, like Guy's opinions on immigration …'' I think that's spelt B-O-O-M T-I-S-H.
