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7NEWS
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- 7NEWS
Sarah Borg shares how to get a glowing radiant complexion worthy of the Met Gala red carpet
Stars of fashion, beauty and politics dazzle on the red carpet for the New York's MET Gala each year. And now, you can get the look at home. On Thursday, makeup artist Sarah Borg joined Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies on The Morning Show, where she shared how to get those eye-catching looks without the expensive glam team. Borg did a number of looks on model, Isabella. Below is a list of the Bobbi Brown products used to create the distinctive looks. - - - -
Daily Mail
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Beloved Channel Seven show 'facing the axe' amid ratings bloodbath
Rumours are swirling that a popular Channel Seven show is facing the axe amid dwindling ratings. The popular game show, The Chase Australia, is reported to be on the chopping block. According to News Corp, a search is 'said to be underway' to find a replacement for the program, which has been running on Seven since 2015. The reason for the shifting attitudes towards the Larry Emdur-hosted game show is apparently lacklustre ratings that have failed to win its 5pm time slot. The long-running series has been consistently bested by Channel Nine game show rival Tipping Point, hosted by Todd Woodbridge which airs at the same time. A look at this week's TV ratings shows The Chase behind Tipping Point each day, albeit by a relatively small margin. Thursday's episode of The Chase attracted 1,315,000 viewers, while Tipping Point gained 188,000 more fans at 1,503,000. It was a similar story for the rest of the week, with The Chase experiencing its best ratings day on Monday at 1,476,000 - still 58,000 viewers behind Tipping Point. The publication claimed that the ratings results are causing 'panic' in the upper echelons at Seven, with the decision to axe or not to axe falling to Angus Ross - Seven's recently appointed Group Managing Director of Television. However, the claims come after Seven recently rubbished a claim by News Corp that the network were looking to replace Larry as host of The Chase in a bid to 'revive' the show. 'The Chase doesn't need reviving. It remains very competitive in its timeslot, delivering a big audience night in, night out,' a Seven spokesperson told the publication in April. 'We are about to launch a new push for the show, offering the biggest cash prize in its history. 'Larry will absolutely continue to host The Chase. To suggest otherwise is nonsense and deliberately misleading.' Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Channel Seven for comment. The rumours come as affable host Larry Emdur took to social media this week, sharing a cheeky post in which claimed an elderly woman had offered to pay him $10 to drop his pants. The alleged incident took place in a public park while the 59-year-old Channel Seven star was taking a morning walk. Larry said that the stranger had offered to pay him the money so she could see his 'a***' which is tattooed with the initials of last year's Gold Logie nominees. The fan favourite, who is notorious for sending up his fame on social media, had his bottom inked live on The Morning Show the day after taking home the coveted TV prize. In the clip, Larry can be seen telling his followers that he scared off the woman - only to reveal that he is holding a $10 note in his hand. 'Good morning. The creepiest thing just happened to me [while] I was having my morning walk,' he said in the Instagram post. He continued: 'A lady was walking towards me and she about 75-80 years old and she saw me - this is the weird life of someone on TV. 'And she turned around and said to me, ''I'll give you $10 to show me the tattoo of the Gold Logie on your a***." And I said what? Larry then explained that the woman repeated her request. 'And I said, ''You're crazy'' - you want me to drop my pants in a public park for $10? 'Anyway, I must have scared her off because she ran off in that direction,' Larry said waving a $10 note. Larry's followers quickly showed their enthusiastic approval for his joke post. 'Thank goodness you took the money!!' one fan messaged. 'This is GOLD,' added another, while a third follower simply gushed, 'Totally hilarious as always.' Larry made headlines last August after securing his first ever Logie Awards on when he took home a Silver and secured the Gold at the 2024 ceremony at the Star in Sydney. And the next day he was forced to make good on a bizarre promise he made the week before, stripping off his pants on live breakfast TV and getting a tattoo on his backside.
News.com.au
08-05-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
Sharp Shooting: Popular Seven show facing the axe
The drums are beating at Seven for afternoon game show The Chase which is consistently being thrashed in its timeslot by Nine's surprise hit Tipping Point. The decline of Seven's once unassailable 5pm game show, the critical lead-in to its 6pm evening news bulletin, has eroded confidence at the broadcaster where tensions and rivalries among the company's newly minted executive class have been exposed. Despite throwing a bucket on industry talk, published here last month, the position of The Chase host Larry Emdur was under review, a search is said to be underway to find a replacement program for the slot in the hope of arresting the slide of audiences to main competitor Nine. In the week to May 7, including May 5 and 6, Tipping Point was in the top 10 programs on national TV each day with a substantial 159,000 audience lead (five city total people, average over three days) over The Chase. The Chase failed to make the top 10 programs on any of those three days. It was a similar story the previous week with Tipping Point beating The Chase convincingly every day, both in the five city metro demographic and the national total average which includes regional markets. The collapse of the program's figures is creating panic at Seven and has pitched a group of recently appointed network executives into an open battle for the support – and ear – of Seven's chairman, Kerry Stokes, and his son and heir, Ryan, as the executives manoeuvre to shore up their positions. While CEO Jeff Howard, who has been in the job 55 weeks, has the backing of Stokes the Younger, he is under immense pressure to galvanise his newly assembled management team and prove his leadership credentials. Under him, his new captains have been busy establishing their own power bases. Insiders are of the view it will fall to Seven's recently minted group MD of television, Angus Ross, the network's former head of programming, to make the call regarding The Chase, which is already warming up the 3pm weekday slot on Seven. This, is addition to airing two ours later at 5pm weekdays. Seven's one-year-in-the-gig news boss Anthony De Ceglie, who enjoys the favour of Seven's chairman (and his ear most days or so we hear) leads a news team pitching a new afternoon show, an advertorial show in the style of the previously dumped Daily Edition. Sydney news director Sean Power has been linked to the show. Departed Nine presenter Alex Cullen or maybe the under-utilised Natarsha Belling are favoured to front it. De Ceglie appears on board with the idea of turning Seven into a news channel in daylight hours. Currently Seven runs news programming from 5.30am, when its breakfast show Sunrise kicks off, through to 1pm via the recently expanded advertorial program The Morning Show and a sponsored one-hour news bulletin at noon. Could another late afternoon news program, as unoriginal and cheap as that may be, be the solution to Seven's issues? It seems unlikely but may be a commercial necessity. Any change to afternoon scheduling will turn up the heat on Seven's chief commercial director-of-15-weeks Henry Tajer, who must sell the airtime to advertisers. Tajer has wasted little time aligning himself with Ryan Stokes following his appointment in January. His appointment (following a decade-long campaign to get into the local TV industry say insiders) saw the reversal of the CEO's decision to dispense with Seven's well-regarded chief revenue officer Kurt Burnette last year, a decision that stunned the industry. Tajer arrived at Seven with some baggage Seven staff have been working diligently to unpack. Having relocated his family from Australia to New York in 2015 to take up the role as Global CEO of IPG Mediabrands, Tajer's return to Australia two years later in 2017 for 'personal reasons' created some buzz. IPG's announcement they would not be replacing Tajer (whose style was defined in ad-land periodicals as 'aggressive') only served to heighten it. A stint at marking company Dentsu Aegis in 2019 would last just 11 months and ruffle feathers. The unconventional adman is thought to now have designs on Howard's job at Seven, as too, or so it's been suggested, may De Ceglie. Where Stoke Sr and Jr sit on these internal tensions is hard to know however all seem to agree on one thing – that if Emdur's game show is moved to a secondary Seven station the host will remain a valued member of the Seven family. 'Not for everyone' The radio boss who signed off on Kyle Sandilands and Jackie 'O' Henderson's $200 million 10-year KIIS FM contract and to-date unsuccessful Melbourne launch addressed shareholders at ARN's annual general meeting on Thursday. ARN CEO Ciaran Davis touched on the breakfast duo's failure to penetrate the Melbourne market admitting '(Kyle & Jackie O's) content is not for everyone,' but adding the program was a 'multi-year commitment'. Comparing the duo to the company's other hot property, Christian O'Connell, who bolted to the top of the FM ratings on ARN's second mainstream radio station GoldFM in Melbourne, Davis's statements implied Sandilands and Henderson could be given a time frame similar to O'Connell – two years – to crack Melbourne. 'Shifting market behaviour takes time. We're realistic,' he said comparing the duo to O'Connell. Davis largely bypassed the myriad issues that have plagued The Kyle & Jackie O Show since its Melbourne launch – the lewd and obscene content issues that have turned away listeners and contributed to the duo capturing only a 5.8 per cent market share in that city, the advertiser boycott that has impacted revenue, the damning broadcasting authority investigations that found the program repeatedly breached broadcasting standards and concerns for Sandilands' health – while acknowledging the show's expansion was a 'legitimate topic of investor interest'. 'We stand firmly for freedom of speech, we stand firmly against censorship, bullying and for the role that broadcast media plays in reflecting a wide range of voices and entertainment formats within accepted standards,' Davis said. He added the controversial duo had been number one in Sydney for 50 consecutive surveys and had a large audience that was 'double the audience of Australia's top TV show'. Separately ARN board member Alison Cameron, whose proud family media company Grant Broadcasters was acquired by ARN in 2022 for $300 million, said she didn't believe Sandilands was 'misogynist or sexist' but admitted she was not a regular listener of the show. Radio industry sources afterwards speculated on the likelihood the meeting, also fronted by ARN chairman Hamish McLennan, would be Davis's last. Pundits predict Davis will be back in his native Ireland by Christmas and snugly ensconced in a new home he recently acquired there. ARN stocks finished Thursday slightly up, at 58c, after hitting a record low of 53c on Tuesday. Out of style The future of popular women's magazine InStyle is under a cloud again following word the current editor and her team have signed off after three years at the helm. Editor-in-chief Justine Cullen paid tribute to the magazine and her staff in a social media post this week. In the post she described the latest iteration of the Australian/New Zealand edition of the magazine as 'an act of wild optimism and a real labour of love'. 'The Autumn print issue will be the last made by me and the team,' she posted. Cullen was appointed editor-in-chief of the magazine in 2022 by independent publisher True North Media CEO Simon Bookallil. Cullen was also chief content officer of True North, which was owned by Bookallil's Bashful Group creative agency. Bookallil was a former partner and director of Australian Fashion Week. He was overlooked in Cullen's post. 'F**king legend' Singer Tex Perkins has paid tribute to Australian drummer James Baker who died this week, aged 71, a decade after being diagnosed with liver cancer. 'I've known Baker since 1983. I was 18, he was like a father to me. We drank a lot of beer together, whether at the Southern Cross Hotel, the Hopetoun Hotel, the Trade Union Club or on his couch in front of the TV at his house in Chelsea St watching re-runs of Green Acres,' said Beasts of Bourbon and Cruel Sea frontman Perkins. 'A lot of beer, never anything else, just beer. 'And in all the time I've known him we never had one argument, not one disagreement, not one shitty word. I can't even remember one misunderstanding. In 42 years! He was always sweet, cool and often very funny! We laughed a lot.' Perkins went on to describe Baker, who was born in 1954 and was inspired to become a drummer after seeing Ringo Starr play with The Beatles, as 'one of my all-time favourite drummers – nothing flash or unnecessary, just solid beat!' Baker spent his formative years in the seventies refining his energetic swampy punk-rock style in WA bands before joining The Scientists with Kim Salmon and, notably, the Hoodoo Gurus in 1981, playing on their landmark 1984 debut album Stoneage Romeos and catapulting a generation onto the dancefloor with his infectious surf beats. The Beasts of Bourbon with Perkins and Salmon followers and afterwards The Dubrovniks. 'Put simply, James Baker is a f**king legend. I feel blessed to have known him and I loved him, always have, always will.' Baker is survived by partner Cath and two daughters.
Daily Mail
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Larry Emdur reveals wild encounter with elderly woman in public park who asked him to 'drop his pants for $10' - but not all is what it seems
Gold Logie winner Larry Emdur took to his social media on Wednesday with a cheeky post in which claimed an elderly woman had offered to pay him $10 to drop his pants. The alleged incident took place in a public park while the 59-year-old Channel Seven star was taking a morning walk. Larry said that the stranger had offered to pay him the money so she could see his 'a***' which is tattooed with the initials of last year's Gold Logie nominees. The fan favourite, who is notorious for sending up his fame on social media, had his bottom inked live on The Morning Show the day after taking home the coveted TV prize. In the clip Larry can be seen telling his followers that he scared off the woman - only to reveal that he is holding a $10 note in his hand. 'Good morning. The creepiest thing just happened to me [while] I was having my morning walk,' he said in the Instagram post. He continued: 'A lady was walking towards me and she about 75-80 years old and she saw me - this is the weird life of someone on TV. 'And she turned around and said to me, ''I'll give you $10 to show me the tattoo of the Gold Logie on your a***." And I said what? Larry then explained that the woman repeated her request. 'And I said, ''You're crazy'' - you want me to drop my pants in a public park for $10? 'Anyway, I must have scared her off because she ran off in that direction,' Larry said waving a $10 note. Larry's followers quickly showed their enthusiastic approval for his joke post. 'Thank goodness you took the money!!' one fan messaged. 'This is GOLD,' added another, while a third follower simply gushed, 'Totally hilarious as always.' Larry made headlines last August after securing his first ever Logie Awards on when he took home a Silver and secured the Gold at the 2024 ceremony at the Star in Sydney. And the next day he was forced to make good on a bizarre promise he made the week before, stripping off his pants on live breakfast TV and getting a tattoo on his backside. The Morning Show host found himself in a compromising position on Monday as he got the initials of other Gold Logie nominees etched permanently into his skin. Larry lay face down on a portable tattoo table in the middle of the breakfast studio as co-host Kylie Gillies watched on. The big reveal of Larry's tattoo saw a line drawing of the Logie Award holding the TV, and within the TV were the letters 'JM RI AK SK TA AL'. The letters were the initials of the other Gold Logie nominees that Larry beat on Sunday night - Julia Morris, Robert Irwin, Asher Keddie, Sonia Kruger, Tony Armstrong, and Andy Lee. The TV star has been a recognisable face on Aussie screens since the age of 19, but has never before secured a win at the prestigious awards ceremony. In a milestone victory, Larry was crowned as the most popular presenter as he took home the Bert Newton Award in his first ever Logies win.
7NEWS
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- 7NEWS
The Chase host Larry Emdur talks about biggest win ever on popular Channel Seven game show
Having been a game show host for more than three decades, Larry Emdur is no stranger to delivering life-changing news. But his latest, awarding the biggest prize ever won on The Chase, was an 'unreal' feeling. One of Australian television's best-known faces — thanks to game show compere roles dating back to The Main Event in 1991 and including Wheel of Fortune and The Price is Right, and now the popular Seven afternoon quiz show — the 60-year-old said hosts got to know contestants in the studio, making major victories special moments. The latest major winning episode of The Chase will go to air next week and will forever change the lives of four contestants. Emdur, also the co-host of The Morning Show, said the big prize meant a lot to the lucky winners, given the cost-of-living crisis affecting so many families. 'For some people it's going to make a whole lot of difference,' he told The Sunday Times. 'Everyone has different needs and wants in their life, but when you start talking money like that, you know you're gonna make a big difference to somebody — and as a game show host for like 30 or 40 years that's a really special place to be. 'I really love being there for those moments. 'In this environment, in this climate, I think it's great, everyone's looking for a bit of extra cash, and I just think it was a terrific opportunity,' he said. 'It's such a big milestone for The Chase, I think now people know they can come in and play for proper money . . . if they have a good go in there, they can walk away with a whole lot of money.' Emdur said the cash gave the contestants, everyday Aussies, a chance to achieve bucket-list activities or pay off a mortgage. 'Some people ordinarily will have a mortgage or some credit card debt they've desperately been trying to clear, or often you hear people who've got an old car they haven't been able to replace,' he said. 'It's not a $70 million Lotto win, I know that but you come in to have fun for an hour and then walk away with something that can absolutely make a difference,' he said. 'When I started I was young and didn't really appreciate it. It hasn't been until lately — people I see at the airport, at the shop or online — (where it's) getting to me. 'That for me is very special. I feel very lucky to be in that position.' Emdur has hosted The Chase for the past four years but has confirmed he doesn't have a favourite of the show's experts, known as Chasers, who challenge the show's contestants. 'I love them all for their qualities and what they bring to the table, and I'm usually surprised to know who's coming out most of the time,' he said. Winner of last year's Gold Logie for most popular personality of Australian TV, Emdur says life has changed little since his victory, apart from the tattoo on his backside. He promised to tattoo his bum with the initials of his fellow nominees and her pulled through, getting the ink on live TV. 'That was weird but it was really special to me,' he recalled. 'I've been in Sydney for a long time and it was very, very special to be recognised in that way. 'Both of those Logies mean a lot to me and and aged 60 I never thought I'd be celebrating that sort of thing and it was a very special moment 'I was basking in glory for a long time but now back to normal running and my mate's are like, 'Shut up, we never wanna hear about the Logies again'.' As for the trophy itself, Emdur's wife Sylvie 'keeps moving it around' and it may be at the 'back of the bar'.
