Sydney puts a spring in Ellen DeGeneres' step
IN comedy, as in politics, timing is everything. Even accounting for her delayed arrival, Ellen DeGeneres was undoubtedly the most popular woman in Australia yesterday, given the kind of public...
View ArticleEllen DeGeneres's first day in Sydney before public TV show
ELLEN DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have returned to their penthouse suite at the Intercontinental Hotel after a whirlwind day in Sydney. Ellen DeGeneres, her partner, Australian actress Portia...
View ArticleEllen DeGeneres at Taronga Zoo tweets Botanic Gardens Sydney party
ELLEN DeGeneres has gone on a tour of Sydney Harbour in a vintage ferry. Ellen DeGeneres, her partner, Australian actress Portia de Rossi, and DeGeneres' mother were mobbed when they arrived at...
View ArticleAngela Kennedy and Melina Bagnato out of My Kitchen Rules
ANGELA Kennedy has lashed out at rivals Ashlee Pham and Sophia Pou after being eliminated from My Kitchen Rules. The Victorian mum, who teamed with Melina Bagnato, has labelled the New South Wales...
View ArticleDuck sushi
MKR recap You won't like them when they're angry. Ashlee and Sophia ... My Kitchen Rules Tonight on My Kitchen Rules, in a night of firsts, teams will join forces ... which is not so much a first as a...
View ArticleAli Hawkins and Samuel Berechree eliminated from My Kitchen Rules
TASMANIA has suffered a double disaster on My Kitchen Rules. Best friends Ali Hawkins and Samuel Berechree have been eliminated. Ali and Samuel’s shock exit comes after Tassie father and son duo Mick...
View ArticleDuck, duck ... sushi?
MKR recap You won't like them when they're angry. Ashlee and Sophia ... My Kitchen Rules Last night on My Kitchen Rules, in a night of firsts, teams join forces ... which is not so much a first as a...
View ArticleCanapes, horse d'oeuvres and a lot of long faces
All dressed up, but nowhere to go ... except the kitchen. Ah, the Melbourne Cup. Wine, winning, losing, heartache and horses. Change just one letter in just one word - wine to whine - and you have...
View ArticleEnter the polenta
Angela and Melina are facing the chopping block. Get ready because "TERNIGHT" is the sudden death cook off between the Tasmanian non-lovers and the really dramatic housewives from Victoria. It's time...
View ArticleNo time to monkey around, it's a feeding frenzy at the zoo
In reality you should never work with kids or animals but for reality television that is exactly what you should do. Things start well. Everyone is having fun on...
View ArticleContiki cooking as teams cook like uni students
Trouble ahead? Sophia makes her views known early to her team. Tonight's MKR challenge is to cook like Europe, not with fancy flavours and exotic ingredients, but as if plagued by debt and squabbling –...
View ArticleThe fun never stops
It’s a city that caters to various tastes. Shuib Taib has a great time experiencing Sydney’s many offerings Enjoying a Harley ride on Sydney Harbour bridge Beefy men chopping away at the Royal Easter...
View ArticleSydney's surprising stays
Ditch boring hotel rooms and try something out of the ordinary next time you visit. Sydney is all upfront, sexy glamour with its show-off harbour, gorgeous beaches and sunny blue skies. It's also a...
View ArticleNew Year's Eve vantage point map will get you the best view of the Sydney...
There are scores of great spots to see the New Year's Eve fireworks on Sydney Harbour. This map will help you find the best place to see the midnight spectacular! Have you got a "secret spot" that...
View ArticleBeautiful lies by the water
Richard Tulloch undertakes an epic trek without leaving home, and discovers much he never knew about Sydney Harbour. I LIKE the quotes on the Writers' Walk plaques at Circular Quay. "One of the...
View ArticleMKR recap: Babe, babe and more babe
Knives are out as Sophia (pictured) and Ashlee take on Josh and Andi in the sudden death elimination round. It’s Sudden Death night for two teams, and given that one of the teams facing possible...
View ArticleThe zoo ahead of its time
IN 1916, a hesitant elephant was lowered on to an open-top barge and ferried across Sydney Harbour to the newly built Taronga Park. According to records, the 40-year-old pachyderm objected to this...
View ArticleNerds join the mortal combat
Geek week: West Australian gatecrashers Kieran Reidy and Nastassia Jorre De St Jorre. Enough time has passed to recover from the shock of not one, not two, but three teams crashing the MKR party on...
View ArticleMy Kitchen Rules evictee Matt Newell slams Ashlee Pham, Sophie Pou
ELIMINATED contestant Matt Newell has slammed gate-crashers Ashlee Pham and Sophia Pou for their behaviour on My Kitchen Rules. Newell, who was eliminated with dad Mick last night, has branded the...
View ArticleSitting pretty on the point
A charming harbourside guesthouse on the north shore suits Bruce Elder. Some years ago one of the television current affairs programs persuaded me, as a so-called "expert" on accommodation in NSW, to...
View Article"She could put fish to sleep": Tensions boil over in My Kitchen Rules
THE ticking time bomb finally exploded on My Kitchen Rules as best friends Ashlee and Sophia got what was coming to them from Victorian housewives Angela and Melina. At Ali and Samuel's Wonderland...
View ArticleBuzz-kill fails to cut the tension
Dressing down: Victorian gatecrasher Angela, left, tells Sophia off, while Melina watches on. Poor Ali and Samuel. They had such simple hopes and dreams. Hopes and dreams of being made semi-famous...
View ArticleLove is in the risotto, but it's all a little dry
Here are the places you shouldn't propose marriage to your partner: at the footy, wearing your team's colours, at someone else's wedding and on a reality cooking show in front of a dozen people you...
View ArticleDone like a chicken dinner, or how to get things down cow pat
Kate Miller-Heidke, that cute-voiced Australian singer once said that “an hour took forever, a day dragged on and on”. This series of My Kitchen Rules, though, is dragging on for an eternity, and with...
View ArticleGatecrashers 'change the game forever'
It's difficult to know whether anyone will even have the energy to engage in kitchen-ruling tonight, after being so thoroughly stunned by last's Twist That Will Change The Game Forever. But the whole...
View ArticleManu finds something to shout about
We begin another week with the joyous news that MKR is to cross over with Deal Or No Deal, beginning the process of MKR-ification by which the show will eventually subsume every aspect of our lives...
View ArticleTo market, to market: Kitchen crew hit the road to pressure cooker
Tasmania's Sam is feeling the farming vibe with his checked shirt. Tonight on MKR it's Market Madness, as Australia's most popular reality program turns to social commentary with an unflinching look...
View ArticleTarts fly and flop as MKR attempts crowd-pleasing dinners
Smiling assassins ... MKR People's Choice round We have seen the contestants endure three gruelling rounds of cooking. Three teams have been banished from the kitchen, never to compete on the MKR set...
View ArticleMKR recap: Driven to the edge
What the truck? Taking the contest outdoors. Tonight we see the contestants compete for the chance to avoid being placed in the position of having to try to prevent themselves being put into a...
View ArticleMKR recap: Kez and Craig on a knife's edge
You can always count on Kerrie and Craig to get heated in the kitchen. So begins the first episode without the constant nit-natter of "babe" every 8.4 seconds, after crowd favourites Ashlee and Sophia...
View ArticleMKR recap: Comeback Kitchen
Face-off: The teams come to blows in the kitchen. And so here we are back in Colin Fassnidge's Neverending Kitchen. Tonight, Angela sinks into the Swamp of Sadness, Matt is chased by a racing snail,...
View ArticleFeeling on top of the world
Exuberant and beautiful, Sydney makes for an attractive holiday destination. WITH a world-famous harbour and dozens of surf beaches on its doorstep, Sydney is a charming city with a penchant for the...
View ArticleSpine-ripping showdown ends up all gooey
Out for blood ... Ashlee and Sophia's claws come out once again in elimination episode. The Sudden Death hype started early. As early as Monday when K.Rudd was spotted on MKR spitting out mango and...
View ArticleColossal mistakes as MKR gladiators await the thumb of sudden death
A deal with the devil? Manu offers Josh the chance to taste victory with (shock, horror) ... packet pasta. Soon, Elle, Jake and Jake's apple-Danish hairdo will battle it out with gladiators, lions and...
View ArticleNo child's play: tempers flare in a pumped-up vegie challenge
This sweet potato is 'as big as a basketball' ... Or your head, Dan. It's time to visit kindergarten again and see how well the My Kitchen Rules children are playing. There is certainly plenty of...
View ArticleDictators reign under the scorching sun
Spoiler alert? Hardly, Kerrie's heatstroke drama has been plugged heavily in the lead up to tonight's episode. The heat is on. This is normal in a kitchen where the oven is working, you may argue, but...
View ArticleMy Kitchen Rules' ousted Joanna calls Sophia Pou desperate single girl
"DESPERATE single girl Sophia Pous jealously over her competitors' contented relationships could explain her "rotten behaviour" according to ousted contestant Joanna Stirn. The happily married mother...
View ArticleMKR recap: death by dessert
Testing times for Jenna and Joanna as they face possible elimination against Kerrie and Craig. The domestic goddesses and childhood sweethearts are on the chopping board for another sudden death cook...
View ArticleMKR recap: hoping for another helping
Matt and Mick, back for another serve. THEY. ARE. BACK. And WE. DON'T. KNOW. WHY. My Kitchen Rules begins the week with a twist: the shock revelation that Channel Seven really, really doesn't want...
View ArticleKnives are out: Ousted MKR cook gives Ashlee, Sophia a serve
If looks could kill ... Angela, left and Melina, have made no secret of their beef with Ashlee and Sophia during MKR. Departing My Kitchen Rules cook Angela Kennedy has labelled controversial pair...
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