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So we won Best Program on community TV! I’m blushing, so many people to thank, Max Markson, Jonathan Holmes, John ‘turkey slap’ Bric – we had them all on. We had prostitutes, swingers, Christians, and even, in one particularly out-there episode, a bureaucrat. A big win like this isn’t bad for a little show filmed in the basement of Paddo Town Hall. Congrats to EP Linda Mirabillio and Tilly Boleyn especially, as well as all the Metro staff and students who worked like miners to get a great program to air each week. Now Metro, UWS – commission a new season! Take a look at episodes 6, 10 or 14 here.

You’ve got to feel for the poor final seven contestants in MasterChef. I can tell you, as a former reality TV contestant, they must be furious. For months they’ve been busy cooking their hearts out, excitedly doing interviews to camera, pretending to be all sorry when their mates get chopped and keeping a straight face at George’s ridiculous gesticulations. For week after week they’ve been away from their families and friends being poked and prodded by producers hell bent on squeezing out every tear, every lip tremble, every tanty. Read more.

What’s it like when your little sister get’s more famous than you? What happens when your stellar career stalls and your big brother suddenly gets more famous than you? Well these are all the pitfalls of being a celebrity sibling. Read on.

OK, so imagine this. You’ve got the central part in the biggest movie franchise in a generation. You’re dating your co-star who just happens to be one of the most desired men on the planet. You travel the globe on promotional tours and according to Vanity Fair, $US16 million ($18.8 million) last year alone. Oh, and you’re only 20. Does that sound like fun?  Would that be in some way pleasant? Read on.

WHEN Ridley Scott’s latest film ‘Robin Hood’ opens today it will be the 53rd time the swashbuckling woodsman has appeared on our screens in the last 102 years. The classic story of the arrow slinging rebel who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor was first made in 1908 as a silent movie called Robin Hood and his Merry Men. Read more.

Getting a normal person’s tick of approval is one thing. But getting a pat on the head from a skeptical person is quite another. So I was delighted when cult busters and atheist campaigners Rachael Dunlop and Richard Saunders came round to quiz me on my research into groups like Scientology, Hillsong and Freedom First. Listen to the podcast here… it’s episode 65.

You’d hardly expect a Soy latte to send you to the hospital with a bung thyroid gland. But it’s already happened to 10 Aussies. Bonsoy, a Japanese Soy Milk, was banned in December because the seaweed extract squirted in it punches its Iodine levels through the roof. But still some coffee shops are selling the stuff. And we, with the help of some A Current Affair style tactics, went to catch them out… watch it here on NINEMSN.

It’s only when a TV show gets all controversial that you really wish you’d been watching it! So it goes with Skins the SBS program that is meant to be inspiring our youth to have drug fuelled sex parties.  Chris and I yakked about that on Sydney’s top rating radio station 2GB on Monday and also about the nastiness heaped on Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska the Canberra chick who plays the lead in Alice in Wonderland. Listen here.

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So Lara left the keys to her Aston Martin in her Range Rover – something, let’s face it, that could happen to any of us. Unfortunately some local Bondi kids used them to go for a joy ride… And Ruby lost her dog… these are the big issues if you are a gossip columnist. But should it matter to us?  And does it matter if it does? I spoke to Luke Bona over at 2GB to get to the bottom of it. Listen here.

Yakked to Luke Bona filling in for Chris Smith and talked entertainment news. Had a massive scoop with my news that Carlotta is retiring after 44 years on the cabaret circuit. Yes the inspiration behind Priscilla Queen of the Desert is bowing out. Also talked about the new John Lennon biopic Nowwhere Boy which is great and Jodee Rich’s outrageous claim that Kerry Packer was evil. Click here to listen.