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What is the celebration? or do Z list celebs just have random pool parties for no reason.
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I think the Ivy Pool Deck|Bar is open to the general public and sometimes rented out for private functions.

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Alex Ristevski – Big Brother Series 2.

Ristevski 37 is now the head of Foxtel’s Comedy Channel and it new channel 111 HITS – he lasted eight weeks and came in seventh on BB2. He reveals he still hasn’t watched the show.

He had this to say:

“I’m glad I did it. It’s one of those amazing life experiences. It was a challenge, it wasn’t to find fame. I’d worked in TV and radio production and it was such a phenomenon, so you can either work on it or go on it, and that was part of the appeal.”

“Also being part of this sociological experiment, because I had done a degree in psychology. It is very uncomfortable and intrusive. You’re exposing yourself physically and emotionally. I have no regrets but I could have done things a little differently. I get bored easily and like to have fun so played some mind games and was a bit cheeky. I tried to convince them I was working for BB. I got very cynical and could have enjoyed it a bit more.

“How do you measure success on this show? You can survive a long time but it doesn’t mean you’re better than anyone. It could mean you weren’t as quiet or everyone felt sorry for you.

“[The winner] Peter Corbett has been through quite a bit and his story’s a sad one. I’m glad the public chose him. Everyone’s got a different motive for going on.

“I did the usual dodgy nightclub appearances for the money.

“I ended up marrying the girl, Kirsty, I met two weeks before going in, which was challenging for her. We’ve got a 2-year-old, Zac and another on the way.

“As a producer I don’t question what they did. You’re trying to create a story and characters people either love or hate. I laugh about it every day and am still a little embarrassed.


Source: Reality Ravings
 
pecan said:
Was he another one given a fake name? I just looked him up on wikipedia, and it still has him listed as Alex Christie there, which is what I remember them calling him at the time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_Australia_2002
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I think you are correct, pecan.

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Not sure if this is the correct place to post this? Or a new thread? Mods|Ben please move if you wish.

In the third of a Herald series of commentaries on the state election, Gretel Killeen wonders what difference it will make.

Achievements? Don't make me laugh

March 23, 2010

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Sometimes huge events take place and they somehow pass you by. It happened to that soldier allegedly found in the jungles of Vietnam, unaware the war had finished more then 20 years ago. It happened to my mother when the driving guidelines were published regarding ''use of a roundabout''. It happened to me when everyone else in the world unanimously started to floss, and when female pubic hair became illegal, and it seems to happen to me every time a NSW government does something constructive. Yep, it just somehow passes me by, which could make voting problematic in the state election next year.

It's possible that I missed 20 years of state government achievements because I was a single working mother raising two children and therefore in a functioning coma. But in the past few years my brain has returned, I'm no longer putting the kids in the dishwasher and driving their breakfast bowls to school, and yet I can still only think of five state government achievements:

Causing much of the driving population to incite road rage because they have only got one point left on their licence and are driving at seven kilometres an hour (can you get booked for that?);

The construction of a desalination plant to allow us to survive in our damaged environment by further damaging our environment;

The implementation then alleviation of water restrictions that will be re-implemented as soon as we've used up all the water the restrictions have saved;

The federal government assisted delivery of thousands of free computers to teenagers (even though the last thing you should give a teenager is something that is free, precious and breakable);

The possible construction of an enormous private monolith on Sydney's public harbour foreshore to finance the development of the public foreshore, which will consequently not be fully accessible to the public because of the private monolith. Que? (Could this site not be developed free by the state's entire population turning up one Saturday in July with a shovel and a pair of washing up gloves? Working bees have served the public school system for years.)

See, I know virtually nothing of the state government's achievements, and the question must

be asked, why not? Is it because the subject matter and presentation are too dry and unsexy to be tantalising to my ears? Or does my brain instinctively not absorb such info in an effort to protect me from some form of pain?

Maybe I just think state politics is a version of Revenge of the Nerds. Then again, perhaps I'm ignorant of the state government's achievements because it has a hopeless PR machine, because it really has achieved nothing, or because governing is an incredibly hard job and I just don't understand the nuances.

How hard is it to be the government of NSW? Seriously, how hard is it? We're a state that, by and large, has a population that has a growth rate that is predictable; we're a population that contributes a predictable income to the government through innumerable versions of taxes; thank God we have not recently suffered a catastrophic emergency.

So what is so hard about organising and achieving things? Isn't governing just a case of writing a simple list of expenses and incomes, prioritising according to your party's morals and values, and then actioning your conclusions? Why is state governing so flummoxing when the only massive variable in the equation is the longevity of the parties' leaders?

Despite having declared my ignorance, allergy or immunity to state politics, I'm breathless for the election, yearning to once again experience the intoxicating logic of political campaigns telling us of grand and vital programs proposed, which cannot help but raise the simple question: if they're so great, why aren't you already doing them?

The real winner of the election will, of course, be the advertising industry, which has almost to endlessly rewrite and re-record TV and radio advertisements, which costs a lot of money.

Ah yes, bring on the state election. I only hope for two things. First, that the competition for leadership be between two divorced mothers. Women are good leaders because they are tireless workers. Mothers are good leaders because they happily tell inconsequential lies for the greater cause, i.e., ''Yes, there is a Santa'' or ''Of course I've never taken drugs.''

But a ''divorced mother'' is even better, because she is used to keeping a steady course while being bombarded with criticism from the opposition.

Second, I hope the election includes a referendum on the notion that any premier be required to wear P-plates and not be permitted to make any decisions of any consequence whatsoever for the first six months in power.

(Is this too long? Do NSW premiers stay around for six months? OK, maybe we should make it a week. After all, what would I know? I've only just learnt how to floss.)

Gretel Killeen's new novel I Love You, Zelda Bloo, is not about politics (Penguin $19.95).

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/achievements-dont-make-me-laugh-20100322-qra6.html
 
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We knew her as the scene stealing “bum dancer” from Big Brother. Nine years on, Sara-Marie tells Glen Williams about her new outlook on life.


The beautiful dark-haired girl running carefree and playful through shallow water has an air of familiarity about her.

You feel you know her, but can’t quite place her. Then you hear the madcap laugh and booming voice that turned the Big Brother favourite into a household name.

How could we ever forget Sara-Marie Fedele? One minute, she was in our faces, wearing bunny ears and shaking her behind at the cameras in what became a dance sensation. The next she had transformed into a best-selling author and released a successful range of pyjamas, and even a CD.

Then she allowed herself to slip from the public eye. “That was nine years ago, and the hardest thing for me has been people expecting me to still be that girl,” says Sara-Marie. “I knew the celebrity thing wasn’t real. I went off and had a ball learning childcare.

“I re-emerged to do Dancing With The Stars. That was a lot of fun, but then I’d come straight back home to be with the kids at kindy. The kids were a joy, how they made me laugh. I deliberately took myself away, took time out and found contentment.”

That contentment shows on her face; she radiates good health. “Yes, I’ve changed,” she says confidently. “But as you get older, you gain a different outlook, and handle yourself differently. I used to have a weight issue, but you have to remember, when I was on Big Brother, I had a different lifestyle – eating pizza and drinking a lot.

“I haven’t had a drink in a long while and that’s just by choice. I just surround myself with people who have a healthier lifestyle.

“It’s not because I drank too much and one day woke up and said, ‘That’s it’. It was just for myself. I’ve now surrounded myself with people who have a different outlook on life. They don’t drink, so I don’t drink.”

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Kim Kardashian's bum is like a water bomb, says Aussie TV host Chrissie Swan
Staff writers | From: NewsCore | April 23, 2010 8:47AM

  • Kardashian offers squeeze of famous rump
  • Host Chrissie Swan describes it as "juicy"
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CHANNEL Ten talk show host Chrissie Swan has caused international headlines after she got what many men can only dream of, a squeeze of Kim Kardashian's famous rump.

Kardashian has been on a promotional tour in Australia this week and managed to squeeze in a TV appearance on Channel Ten's new morning program The Circle.

Talk soon turned to her famous derriere, prompting the US beauty queen's offer of a free feel to Swan.

Swan duly obliged, saying that it "felt like a water bomb."

"It feels so juicy and real," Swan, a former Big Brother runner-up went on.

Speaking exclusively to news.com.au the bubbly host said on reflection Kardashian's rump was more like fresh bread than a water balloon.

"It’s like a fresh cob loaf straight out of the oven, springy and warm... it is clearly superiour to the average bottom, it is an outstanding derriere," she said.

Swan says she didn't premeditate the squeeze, but just casually mentioned it in an ad break.

"I didn’t know much about her and was asking my friends and everybody talked about her ass," said Swan.

"In the break I said 'I’d really love to squeeze your bottom' and she said 'yeah sure'.

"Christine Nixon was on the show next and I thought about squeezing her bottom but then thought better of it.

Swan says the all-female environment of the show may have encouraged Kardashian to let her guard down.

"She felt really comfortable from the get go and I guess she just felt comfortable enough to offer them up – that’s what girls do see, we get together and show each other our boobs, I think she just got swept up in the female camaraderie," said Swan.

"The crew made me shake all their hands afterwards to achieve proximation to what I had achieved.

"The international websites have gone crazy with it because she is usually quite reserved and doesn’t want to talk about her bottom let alone have strangers grope it," she said.

"I always think with interviews 'What would the people at home want to know? What would they want to do?' there’s nothing worse than being on the couch at home and screaming ‘Ask them that, ask them that’," said Swan.

Read international coverage of the squeeze in the Sun of London.

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There's a video there too.
 
was watching a gossip "entertainment show" called "Daily 10" on E today and they covered the story....so weird seeing chrissie on american tv
 
Peter Timbs BB01, (Doona dancer with Christina), Was on Today Tonight 5th May discussing Post Logies inapropriate comments made my 2 journalists.......

Another of the old housemates from 07, Jamie, Andrew and Thomas......
 

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Finally done it, Anyone ever on BB is listed here, Its getting to the stage we need a photo to identify the names in some cases!......Oddly enough the last 08 series is most forgettable to me.





BB01

Ben Williams
Blair McDonough
Sara-Marie Fedele
Christina Davis
Jemma Gawned
Anita Bloomfield
Peter Timbs
Lisa Standing
Rachel Corbett
Gordon Sloan RIP 12 9 07
Todd James
Sharna West
Andy Silva

2002 series

Peter Corbett
Nathan Martin (Marty)
Sahra Kearney
Jessica Hardy
Kieran Tanner
Mirabai Peart
Nathan Morris
Brodie Young
Turkan Aksoy
Shannon Cleary
Nicole Dickmann
Aaron Benton
Katrina Miani
Damian Hoo

2002 Celebrity Big Brother

Dylan Lewis
Vanessa Wagner
Imogen Bailey
Adriana Xenides
Anthony Mundine
Kimberley Cooper
Kyle Sandilands
Sara-Marie Fedele


2003 series

Regina Bird
Chrissie Swan
Daniel McInness
Patrick Flanagan
Vincent Amato
Jamie O'Brien
Kim Drury
Saxon Small
Joanne Ashton
Claire Bellis
Ben Archbold
Belinda Thorpe
Carlo Marino
Jamie
Irena Bukhshtaber
Leah White

2004 series

Trevor Butler
Bree Amer
Paul Dyer
Ryan Fitzgerald
Catherine Tremolada
Ashalea McWalters
Monica
Wesley Dening
Violeta
Kane Dignum
Terri Mann
Merlin Luck
Bree Quartermaine (Elle)
Krystal Ince
Igor Vurmeski
Aphrodite Vuitton

2005 series

Greg Mathew (Logan Greg)
Tim Brunero
Vesna Tofevski
Melanie Smerdo
Richelle Benson (Kate)
Christie Mills
Rita Lazzarotto
David Mathew (Logan David)
Dean Glucina
Simon Deering (Hotdogs)
Heath Tournier
Glenn Dallinger
Geneva Loader
Rachael Burns
Michelle Carew-Gibson
Michael Farnsworth
Gianna Pattison
Angela Aiken
Nelson Russell
Constance Hall

2006

Jamie Brooksby
Camilla Severi
David Graham
Max Panebianco
Chris Everden
Krystal Forscutt
Claire Madden
Darren Bowley
Perry Apostolou
Gaelan Walker
Michael(Ashley)Cox
Michael(John)Bric
Rob Rigley
Lauren Clayton
Katie Hastings
Danielle Foote
Dino Delić
Jade Stack
Michael McCoy
Anna Lind-Hansen
Karen Forscutt
Elise Chen
Tilli Clapham

2007

Aleisha Lee Cowcher
Zach Douglas
Chris "Billy" Bentley
Travis Perkins
Joel Scalzi
Zoran Vidinovski
Daniela
Michelle
Thomas Haynes
Andrew Temmet
Laura Hass
Jamie MacDonald
Rebecca Dent
Emma Cornell
Susannah Murray
Nick Sady
Hayley Zalewski
Demet Sahan
Bodie Czeladka
Theresa jane
Kate Gladman
Harrison Rhoades
Kara Otter
Travers "Cruz" Chue

Host 2001-2007 Gretel Kileen

2008

Alice Redwood
Barney
Ben McCallum
Bianca Benigno
Brigitte Stavaruk
Ed Cherry
David Tchappat
Dixie Crawford
Michael Crafter
Nathan Strempel
Nobbi Tanaka
Rebecca Morgan
Renee Black
Rhianna Baxter
Rima Hadchiti
Rory Ammon
Saxon Pepper
Terrence Hardie
Terri Munro
Travis Keyser

Hosts 2008 Jackie O and Kyle Sandilands.

Other notables

Mike Goldman
 
Good work Darknstormy. I was a BB addict but can't remember a good number of those people.
 
I've just started watching the 07 series for the first time since recording it, and I'm up to the 3rd of 4th night when "Billy" enters the house and Hayley does her impression of a stunned mullet when she realises her ex just walked into the house!.......I think 07 is my favourite BB, and Aleisha was one of my fav HMs.
I really miss it even after 2 years:(......and yeah 08 was pretty forgettable for me as well, worst BB by far.
 
BehindTheMike said:
I've just started watching the 07 series for the first time since recording it, and I'm up to the 3rd of 4th night when "Billy" enters the house and Hayley does her impression of a stunned mullet when she realises her ex just walked into the house!.......I think 07 is my favourite BB, and Aleisha was one of my fav HMs.
I really miss it even after 2 years:(......and yeah 08 was pretty forgettable for me as well, worst BB by far.
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I can't blve you have all the episodes on tape. I found BB07 dragged on way 2 long but yes, I can remember that part with Billy walking in and the look of dismay on Hayley's face :eek:
 
I have BB7 on my hard drive too, its a favorite of mine. Thats the only BB I went to the launch and saw all the HM's in person. My Daughter was also one of the golden key winners, got hers in the first week of the competition. I liked the phone call to the UK house as I was watching the UK series too at the same time.

Also liked Aliesha winning. BBUK08 Brian was one of the HM's on the other end of the phone to Aliesha and he was a hugh fan of Aussie BB. I met him when I was in the UK in 2008 at Nikki's party and he asked me about Aliesha. :)
 
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