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Courier-Mail
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Courier-Mail
Real Housewives of Sydney are shattered at Logie Awards
Don't miss out on the headlines from TV. Followed categories will be added to My News. Seven of Foxtel's eight Real Housewives of Sydney (RHOS) are understood to be shattered at being informed just one member of the program's cast will be going to this year's Logie Awards. Fashion-obsessed program stars Krissy Marsh, Nicole Gazal-O'Neil, Terry Biviano, Caroline Gaultier, Dr. Kate Adams, Victoria Montano, Martine Chippendale and Sally Obermeder had spent months contemplating their couture options for television's glamorous night of nights when a brief missive from an executive, the head of unscripted/development at RHOS co-production partner Matchbox, arrived in their inboxes. In the letter, the executive begins by softening the women up with a note of congratulations. 'Congratulations to each of you on the Logies nomination for RHOS,' she wrote. 'It's a show we are very proud of and we are grateful for all your hard work that helped make it such a great series.' Seven of the eight RHOS cast members missed out on invites to the Logies. Picture: Supplied MORE: Real Housewives of Sydney's secret stash Then came the bitter pill. 'We have one ticket only available for a RHOS cast member … I know this will be disappointing news for many of you..' the email continued. Rather than conduct a ballot or a random draw to determine who the golden ticket would go to, the producers announced they'd drawn a line under the lobbying begun months earlier and made the decision about a Logies representative themselves. The ticket would go to the most anodyne of the group. The woman least likely to cause offence. The woman least likely to get ugly-drunk or hurl abuse should the trophy go to another in Best Structured Reality Program category, a category which sees RHOS in contention with Farmer Wants a Wife, Gogglebox Australia, Married At First Sight, Muster Dogs and Shark Tank. The woman least likely to jump Hamish Blake on the red carpet or try to souvenir a Logie or a kelpie pup. In short, it would go to the most unlikely and least intriguing Housewife of them all. It would go to.... Sally Obermeder. Sally Obermeder was the RHOS cast member picked to go to the Logies. Picture: NewsWire / John Appleyard MORE: Real Housewives star: No one would give me $1300 Victoria Montana spoke for her castmates when she took to social media this week to blast the decision to give two tickets to TV producers: 'I was under no misconceptions about the fact that production would prioritise themselves over the stars of the show. The ladies, who for almost no pay at all, open their lives to the public so that production can make money from our lives.' Channel 7 news feud over Logies snub Seven newsreader Mark Ferguson is said to be steaming that his longtime understudy Michael Usher has been nominated by bosses for a Logie Award. According to network sources, Ferguson feels slighted Usher has been nominated over the prime time news anchor for a Logie in a new category, the Ray Martin Award for Most Popular News or Public Affairs Presenter. The award will be presented for the first time on Sunday night and sees Usher, Seven's only nominee in the category, pitted against Nine's Ally Langdon, Tara Brown and Peter Overton and the ABC's Sarah Ferguson and David Speers. The nomination comes after Usher was tapped to appear on the current series of Seven's reality program Dancing With The Stars where he has emerged as a fan-favourite and, remarkably, a finals contender. Channel 7 news anchor Mark Ferguson with co-host Angela Cox. Ferguson is said to be steaming bosses nominated Michael Usher ahead of him for a Logie. Picture: Jeremy Piper On Thursday insiders told that as a result of the simmering rivalry between the two veteran newsreaders, Ferguson had declined an invitation to attend the upcoming 65th Logie Awards which are set to screen on Seven. The snub comes a week after Seven's commercial rival Nine claimed the news ratings in the Sydney market for 2025, a market Seven has not won since Ferguson was appointed anchor of its 6pm news bulletin in January 2014. Nine also claimed the first half of the ratings year nationally in five capital cities. Ferguson's tenure has long been debated internally at Seven as the network's year-on-year losses to Nine in the news hour have mounted up. As far back as 2016 Seven's longtime director of news Craig McPherson publicly championed Ferguson, telling media outlets the Tamworth reporter with the film-star good looks could have the job 'for as long as he wanted it'. Michael Usher is also winning on the dance floor as a finals contender on Dancing with the Stars. Picture: DWTS/ Seven However McPherson would come under increasing pressure from engaged Seven proprietor Kerry Stokes to introduce changes to the nightly news bulletin. In September 2024, following McPherson's departure in April that year, Stokes persuaded Macpherson's acquiescent replacement Anthony De Ceglie to welcome a joint-anchor, Angela Cox, to the desk. The decision is said to have bruised Ferguson. According to sources the relationship between the two newsreaders has not been an easy one and now Stokes is once again agitating for change. Sources are adamant the Seven chairman wants to see Usher, who now enjoys a national profile courtesy of his Dancing with the Stars turn, appointed to the plum role. Hamish schmoozes the room following ratings crash Broadcaster and networker par excellence Hamish Macdonald looks confident of having a big bright future at the ABC despite shedding 16 per cent market share in the latest radio ratings survey. Macdonald's sustained ratings nosedive on ABC Sydney was confirmed last week six-months after he replaced Sarah Macdonald at the microphone in January. Given his losses were greater than any of his stablemates in the latest radio survey, there was a sense that Macdonald, renowned for moving on fast from media gigs, might prove a no-show at last weekend's Andrew Olle Media Lecture, held on Friday July 25, just three days after his latest ratings capitulation was exposed. However it was an exuberant Macdonald who turned out for the Olle Lecture at the W (Hotel) Sydney, the ABC-hosted event perhaps too tasty a networking opportunity for Macdonald, who recently lost his lucrative sideline gig on Ten's cancelled The Project, to miss. ABC chairman Kim Williams at the Andrew Olle Media Lecture. Picture: Instagram With a gig on ABC local radio and a second on the ABC's Radio National where he presents a program called Global Roaming on his CV, Macdonald has no lack of options at the ABC. It allows him to choose the company he keeps. And so it was with interest that our sources noted Macdonald's decision not to sit his colleagues from the struggling local radio division but instead with the stars and bosses of the national broadcaster's more prestigious counterpart, Radio National. He looked at home, this column hears, sitting with the presenter of this year's Olle lecture Geraldine Doogue, a friend, and the controversial ABC executive who recruited Macdonald to local radio, Ben Latimer, the ABC's head of audio content who played a role in Antoinette Lattouf's unfair dismissal case. Hugh Marks and Alexi Baker at the Andrew Olle Media Lecture. Picture: Instagram Meanwhile Macdonald's ABC Sydney colleagues including breakfast host Craig Reucassel, drive presenter Chris Bath, retired drive host Richard Glover (Bath and Glover joined by spouses Jim Wilson and Debra Oswald), and a cast of execs and producers including the beloved Peter Wall sat at one of a series of tables earmarked for the local radio team. Also eager to be associated with the high profile oration was ABC chairman Kim Williams and ABC managing director Hugh 'I've been rumoured to be linked to many women' Marks, the former Nine CEO who has said he was unaware Nine had a culture problem when he was running that shop. On his arm at the Olle Lecture was the woman he romanced while playing culture captain at Nine, his former Nine subordinate Alexi Baker. Hegarty spied at Nine 60 Minutes' reporter Adam Hegarty appears to have been welcomed back into the fold following a long interstate sabbatical. Mystery surrounds the decision for Hegarty to up stumps and relocate from Sydney to Melbourne earlier this year though we're informed it followed his break-up with a girlfriend. Hegarty was involved with fellow Nine staffer Amber Johnston in 2024 and into the early months of 2025. 60 Minutes reporter Adam Hegarty is back after an interstate sabbatical. Picture: Supplied. According to sources Hegarty, one of only two male reporters still on the books at 60, then took extended leave from the show although few wanted to furnish us with details on what prompted it. Sources initially claimed he wouldn't be returning to the current affairs program yet a week ago he was spotted back in the Nine bunker. As previously reported by this columnist, not everyone was thrilled when Hegarty was recruited to 60 Minutes at the start of 2024 with some telling us Hegarty's appointment irked some colleagues. Pub icon departs Sydney publican Margaret Hargreaves was given a fond farewell at St Mary's Catholic Church in North Sydney on Tuesday following her death on July 15 at age 90. The longtime proprietor of hotels The Strawberry Hills and The Shakespeare, Hargreaves' pubs were a home away from home for tribes of journalists through the years as well as detectives from the police fraud squad and an array Sydney identities who she collected through the decades and who thought of her as a surrogate mother. Publican Margaret Hargreaves at the bar of her Shakespeare Hotel in Surry Hills. Among those paying respects at her funeral was troubled former game show host Andrew O'Keefe, Foxtel chief Patrick Delany and Real Housewives of Sydney cast member Krissy Marsh. Pallbearers included one-time real estate heavyweight James Dack and car salesman John Altomonte. Hargreaves is survived by her husband John, and four children Elizabeth, Kelly, John-Paul and Angie. Originally published as Aussie reality show stars fuming over Logies snub
Daily Mail
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Real Housewives of Sydney star Nicole O'Neil sensationally slams TV host Osher Gunsberg and takes a swipe at Binge over budget controversy: 'It's a very convenient narrative'
Real Housewives of Sydney star Nicole O'Neil has called out Osher Gunsberg and Binge on Instagram after the explosive reunion episode saw her catapulted into the centre of production budget controversies. The reality star, 45, who has been a regular face on the show since its inception in 2017, was absent from the season three grand finale on Tuesday night, a fact TV host Osher pointed out as her fellow castmates took to the couch. RHOS ' Terry Biviano proceeded to slam the housewife for her decision to tune in via video link and Osher went on to say that Binge offered to pay for her airfare, but she declined, implying that she wasn't happy with economy class. Now, Nicole has responded to the bombshell claims on Instagram, coming out with guns blazing - and receipts. The business-owner posted a picture of an email chain between her and Binge which revealed producers knew she had 'prior engagements overseas' when they had organised the reunion. 'There's a difference between not showing up - and being set up. If we're talking commitments, then let's talk facts @osher_gunsberg,' she sensationally wrote in the post's caption. The business-owner posted a picture of an email chain between her and Binge which revealed producers knew she had 'prior engagements overseas' when they had organised the reunion 'The reunion was filmed long after the official production window. I'd already made several international trips for filming dates that never happened,' she revealed. 'And for the second year in a row, they scheduled the reunion during a time they knew I was unavailable.' Nicole then went on to reveal the measly amount producers offered her to make the trip back to Australia after expecting her to foot the airfare. 'I was never offered "an economy ticket" - just a token amount, barely enough for a one-way fare, and only a month out from filming,' she wrote. 'A 48+ hour round trip, at the expense of critical work commitments, for a reunion months after it was initially planned for.' 'I made the effort to be there via satellite. But I didn't write the storyline, production did - and it turns out it's a very convenient narrative.' Real Housewives of Sydney's explosive reunion episode aired on Tuesday night and was jam-packed with feuds, fiery showdowns and friendships coming to a close. However, a comment made about Binge's budget was the real shocker of the reality show's grand finale, after weeks of speculation over the streaming platform's tight purse strings. Real Housewives of Sydney's explosive reunion episode aired on Tuesday night and was jam-packed with feuds, fiery showdowns and friendships coming to a close TV host Osher welcomed Krissy Marsh, Caroline Gaultier, Victoria Montano, Sally Obermeder, Terry Biviano, Kate Adams and Martine Chippendale to the couch, but notably pointed out that one of the housewives was missing from the lineup. 'Nicole is not on the couch tonight,' he told viewers, adding that she couldn't make it the third season's finale as she was in the UK, but would appear virtually on a video call. Terry was quick to bash her castmate for missing the sit-down, saying that they 'all signed up for the same thing' and had made sacrifices to be on the show. However, it was Victoria that butted in to reveal the real reason Nicole was absent from the reunion. 'She did offer to come back,' Victoria iterated. 'She said 'pay for my flight and I'll be there' and they said 'no',' she told viewers, seemingly referring to Binge's producers. 'Why should they pay for her flight?' Terry questioned the housewife, adding that she had changed family plans for a wedding to attend the sit-down. TV host Osher was quick to put out the flames of Victoria's fiery accusation, saying that it was Nicole who turned down Binge's travel arrangements. Terry was quick to bash her castmate for missing the sit-down, saying that they 'all signed up for the same thing' and had made sacrifices to be on the show, however, it was Victoria that butted in to reveal the real reason Nicole was absent from the reunion 'Well, the facts are Victoria that, yes, she did offer to fly back. There was a budget for that. It was economy class and that was not acceptable,' he said. 'And it's totally unacceptable Osher, like, I agree. It's a very long flight,' she quickly retaliated. Terry then reentered the showdown, asking why Nicole didn't just upgrade herself if she was unhappy about the class of the airfare. 'Because usually you don't pay for work expenses,' Victoria sensationally said, ending the line of questioning.
News.com.au
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Popular TV personality Osher Gunsberg reveals surprise new TV gig: ‘A chance to test myself'
Osher Günsberg hyped up audiences on Australian Idol and charmed viewers on The Bachelor when he hosted the popular programs. But now the much-loved Aussie TV personality has the unenviable task of roping in the feisty and fabulous cast of The Real Housewives of Sydney. Günsberg has been announced as the host of the upcoming Season 3 reunion episode of the hit BINGE series, which airs next Tuesday, May 6. And while he says his new gig sounded daunting, he was up for the challenge. 'You don't get many opportunities in your career to test your skill set at the highest level,' he tells ahead of next week's reunion. 'I've built some pretty strong muscles holding space for difficult conversations through hosting The Bachelor shows over the years – but hosting a Real Housewives of Sydney reunion? That's Olympic-level TV work for me. What a chance to test myself!' Stream The Real Housewives of Sydney on BINGE, available on Hubbl. With the drama that has unfolded this season between housewives Terry Biviano, Caroline Gaultier, Dr Kate Adams, Krissy Marsh, Nicole O'Neil, Sally Obermeder, Victoria Montano and newcomer Martine Chippendale, Günsberg absolutely has his work cut out for him. But as a fan on the genre, he was hellbent on making sure all 'unanswered questions' were resolved and no stone was left unturned. 'I wanted each cast member to walk away feeling they'd had the chance to say what needed to be said. That they had clarity, closure, and nothing left unsaid,' he says. 'Being on a reunion show is a big deal, and I wanted them to walk away knowing they were heard. And let me tell you – they came out firing. 'It was like [rugby league player] Dane Gagai in Game 1 of the 2017 State of Origin: try within five minutes. My bum barely hit the couch before things took off.' The seasoned host said he was already familiar with what transpired as his wife, Audrey Griffen, is a make-up artist on the show and gives him a debrief. But still, he made sure to do his research before taking the hot seat. 'Thank goodness I did my homework – there were so many tangents and callbacks to moments that weren't clearly set up. I had to provide context on the fly and bring in others to make sense of it all,' he says. 'At one point, a surprise guest shows up – and it is chef's kiss magnificent. There's some delicious, juicy reality TV to feast on in this reunion.' Drama aside, Günsberg says he has nothing but the utmost respect for the Housewives because of the lives they've built. 'There are people in this cast I find incredibly inspirational. They've built businesses and made entrepreneurial moves that are absolutely gobsmacking,' he says. 'They've created unbelievable lives for themselves.' 'They're also powerful. You don't get to that level of success without serious drive. And it's hard to switch off that energy … There was a lot of energy on that set.' Despite his own fame, Günsberg says he in no way runs in the same social circles at the RHOS cast. 'These women are upper echelon – I'm middle-class celebrity at best,' he says. 'They live completely different lives to me. I hang out with my family, sit in the sauna, go to bed early, wake up to train, write books, make podcasts. I don't go on the kinds of holidays these ladies do.' 'But I'm absolutely familiar with them – they're high-profile, successful women who've worked hard to build their careers.' As for potentially making a cameo on the show in the future? Günsberg doesn't rule it out, but there are some conditions. 'Only if they wanted to join me for a 5am kettlebell session,' he jokes. 'But I don't talk much during those – just a lot of Viking metal and heavy lifting. They'd have to wake up at 2am to get ready. So I doubt that's ever going to happen.' One person he would like to see join the cast is fellow TV and media personality Abbie Chatfield, who he met when she placed runner-up on The Bachelor in 2019. 'She's the biggest fan of the [Real Housewives] franchise. She'd be perfect,' he says. 'That would be wild. I'd come back just to host that reunion.' Before Günsberg came on as the Season 3 reunion host, designer Alex Perry and radio star Joel Creasey steered the ships in Seasons 1 and 2, respectively. Pretty big shoes to fill so Günsberg called in the reinforcements. 'When you talk about big shoes to fill – Alex Perry and Joel Creasey's shoes couldn't be bigger or more fabulous. So, I called up Melissa Byrne, who's styled me for years, and said, 'I need the most magnificent boots possible.' I think they were Alexander McQueens,' he says of his footwear in the reunion. 'What I've learned from watching those guys is that you have to meet the ladies where they are, especially when it comes to fashion,' he says. 'You can't just show up in any old suit. You don't wear a regular outfit to a bedazzler fight.' But looking the part was only half of the job, he says. 'When it comes to handling the actual hosting duties, anyone who's seen Joel or Alex do it knows it's no easy feat,' he concludes. 'They took some heavy artillery, and I learned a lot from watching them. Hopefully, I was able to honour the incredible work they did.'
Daily Mail
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Real Housewives of Sydney star Lisa Oldfield rushed to hospital with serious health scare
Real Housewives of Sydney star Lisa Oldfield has revealed she was rushed to hospital after suffering a medical emergency, undergoing surgery for a painful bout of perforated diverticulitis. The 50-year-old reality TV star took to Instagram on Thursday to share a candid selfie from her hospital bed, revealing the shock diagnosis was definitely not how she planned to spend her week. Wearing a blue surgical cap and nasal oxygen tube, Lisa appeared remarkably composed in the photo, which showed her hooked up to monitoring devices with a blood pressure cuff on her arm. 'I like to plan my week ahead. Perforated diverticulitis was not on my to do list,' she wrote in the caption. 'Thanks Jimmy for getting me seen to and operated on quick smart, my doctor is the best vet on the Northern Beaches,' she added, cheekily comparing her medical team to a vet. Fans and friends flooded the comment section with well-wishes, with one follower writing, 'That can be very serious Lisa - it killed my dad. So glad you were seen to early.' The reality TV star shared an image that showed her recovering in a hospital bed with a breathing tube in her nose and what appeared to be electrodes attached to her forehead 'Wishing you a speedy recovery,' added another, while a third shared, 'Have experienced this!! Extremely painful. Good luck with recovery.' Perforated diverticulitis is a serious and potentially life-threatening condition where small pockets in the bowel wall become inflamed and infected, sometimes leading to a rupture. Lisa, who is known for her sharp wit and no-nonsense attitude on RHOS, has not yet revealed how long she'll remain in hospital but appears to be on the mend. It's not the first time Lisa has shared photos of her facial injuries to social media. In July, she posted a similar image to Instagram, which captured a trail of blood running down her forehead from her scalp. 'I am the clumsiest person on the planet,' she wrote in her caption. 'I sneezed really hard and managed to bang my head on the door I was closing at the time'. Lisa also revealed to her followers in March that she had been diagnosed with myocarditis - an inflammation of the middle layer of the heart wall. Lisa also revealed to her followers in March that she had been diagnosed with myocarditis - an inflammation of the middle layer of the heart wall 'I thought it was the thrill of the win on Saturday, but turns out I have myocarditis,' she wrote on social media. 'Bit scary but with lots of rest I should make a 100% recovery,' she continued. One follower enquired: 'Is it from your vaccine? Several friends of mine have myocarditis too and got it after they vaccinated. Lisa was quick to address their concern. 'No from my osteomyelitis from my broken toe,' she responded. Lisa, who is the ex-wife of One Nation co-founder David Oldfield, rose to fame after starring The Real Housewives of Sydney in 2016.
