reality TV

Kitchen shame mini sized

September 28, 2010

I never really felt embarrassed that I couldn’t cook the masterpieces that the adult Masterchefs were cooking here in Australia, but watching the talent of the Junior Masterchefs I’m seriously ashamed. I know I liked to think I was a sophisticated little Miss but neither my palette, (tarragon chicken anyone?) nor my discipline was anything [...]

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growing my leaves

August 2, 2010

It’s been a difficult week again. A few things that will I know only seem significant to me. At the beginning of the week I had lots of writing ideas. Now I don’t. But I cane say the Willows leaves are growing again. By Friday I had “crashed”out and was shattered so after coffee with [...]

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As a follow up from yesterday’s post comes this outlining some of the fall out from “Dancing with the Stars”; including comment from Gerrard and his wife, Heather. It includes some advice from Gerrard for the judges: “I know I make a lot of mistakes as a dancer, and I’m happy for Todd and the [...]

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media behaving badly

July 27, 2009

When Sol Trujillo accused Australians of being racist; we told him “Adios’ and proceeded to have a debate amongst ourselves nationally about whether we are in fact racist. When The Chaser aired the  skit attempting to humourise the plight of kids with cancer and the charities supporting them; healthy debate (whatever the result) flared up [...]

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The winner is … talent and, oh, a woman – TV & Radio – Entertainment. This article discussing the gender issues within the recent MasterChef Australia series is interesting. Don’t get me wrong here. I mean interesting in a good way. Within the course of the last week of the show, as the women began [...]

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true confessions

March 27, 2009

Ok. Are you ready? At the risk of making a fool of myself ….. I am hooked on The Biggest Loser. I know what those of you that have known me in real life will think. I am after all the girl that didn’t own a television for 5 years. I used to gloat about [...]

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