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Radio personality Jackie O Henderson has revealed The Bachelorette producers were willing to pay her $300,000 after begging her to join the dating series.
The 48-year-old said the show producers were adamant for her to go on but she firmly turned it down as no amount of money would make her be around a “bunch of gronks”.
“It came through my manager and I said ‘absolutely not’. No way would I ever do something like that. It is great for your entertainment, but what about me,” she said during The Kyle and Jackie O show on Wednesday.
When her co-host Sandilands pressed her on her proposed salary, the mother-of-one said Ten executives were willing to pay her anything she wanted, hinting at more than $300,000, the same amount Sophie Monk received.
“They asked how much would it cost,” she said.
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“Nothing, I wouldn’t do it. I would just not do it. Not The Bachelorette. They are just making TV in the end and you are just going to get gronks, get weirdos ... I just don’t think it is for me.”
Her comments come after Woman’s Day magazine reported she had signed up for the series for the opportunity to find love.
However, she denied the allegations calling it “all untrue” and “bulls...”.
Henderson has been single since the end of her marriage to British photographer Lee Henderson in 2018.
The couple, who were married for 15 years, co-parent their daughter Kitty, 11.
After smash hit runs in the UK and the US, the global juggernaut TV series The Office is coming to Australia in a new adaptation for Prime Video – and it will star the series’ first ever female lead.
The Australian comedian and actor Felicity Ward will be starring in the hapless middle-manager role originated by Ricky Gervais, who co-created and co-wrote the original UK mockumentary series with Stephen Merchant.
That critically acclaimed cringe-comedy series ran across two seasons in 2001 and 2002; in 2005 the US launched its own adaptation, starring Steve Carell as Michael Scott in a hit show that ran until 2013.
Launching in 2024, and co-produced by Amazon Studios, BBC Studios ANZ and Bunya Entertainment, Australia’s version of The Office will be the 13th adaptation of the original.
Set in a post-Covid present day, the Australian iteration will star Ward as Hannah Howard, the managing director of packaging company Flinley Craddick.
When Howard’s managers tell her they are shutting down her branch and making all staff work from home, “she goes into survival mode”, the announcement from Prime Video says, “making promises she can’t keep in order to keep her ‘work family’ together”.
“The staff of Flinley Craddick indulge her and must endure Hannah’s outlandish plots as they work toward the impossible targets that have been set for them.”
In a statement that accompanied the announcement, Ricky Gervais said: “I’m very excited about Australia remaking my little show from the turn of the century. Office politics have changed a bit in 20 years, so can’t wait to see how they navigate a modern-day David Brent.”
Sophia Zachariou, producer and co-managing director of Bunya Entertainment, said: “To me, Wernham Hogg’s David Brent was a leading light in comedy. The Office UK made the mockumentary form available to a wide audience, and that was its sheer brilliance. I can only hope that global audiences find our Aussie take on The Office as funny, self-deprecating, and believable as those that have gone before it.”
The show will be the first scripted project from BBC Studios ANZ, whose general manager Kylie Washington said: “We figured the world is ready for a lovable, flawed, lady boss, ruling over her packaging empire.”
The eight-episode series will also star Edith Poor, Steen Raskopoulos, Shari Sebbens and Josh Thomson, with production commencing in Sydney in June.
Ward is best known for her appearances on Spicks and Specks, Thank God You’re Here and Good News Week; she has also starred in Wakefield and the Inbetweeners 2.
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It’s a love story and Taylor Swift is hoping Matt Healy just says yes.
According to The Sun UK, superstar Taylor Swift and The 1975’s Matt Healy are set to move in together.
It’s been reported that Healy, 34 — who is the lead vocalist of his band — will move in to help Swift write her next album.
Are they … ready for it? It appears so, as The Sun UK has claimed that the duo have officially started the process of moving in together.
“I can reveal that The 1975 frontman has shipped out his favourite guitar effect pedals, audio interfaces, synths and MacBook Pro to set up home with the Anti-Hero hitmaker,” The Sun article reads.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Taylor Swift and Matty Healy seen leaving 'The Electric Lady' studio in Manhattan on May 16, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Robert Kamau/GC Images) Robert Kamau Credit: Robert Kamau/GC ImagesThe pop megastar is currently performing for her Eras Tour. Credit: Ethan Miller/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Mana
An insider told The Sun: “He and Taylor are so loved up and want to spend as much time together as they can.
“Matty has already told the 1975 team that he’ll be doing all the band demos in America for the foreseeable (future).
“He will work on his parts for their collaboration while she is on tour and has scheduled time to attend select shows to gather inspiration for her next album.”
Matt Healy (front) is the lead vocalist of The 1975. Credit: Instagram
Quickly becoming one of the most talked about romances, the couple went public with their relationship earlier this month after Swift, 33, split from actor Joe Alwyn, 32, in February after six years together.
And it seems they are never, ever, ever getting back together.
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn were together for six years. Credit: Jackson Lee/GC Images
This isn’t the first time that Swift and Healy have dated, though.
Nearly 10 years ago, rumours started swirling that the two were an item.
Earlier in May, The Sun revealed that a source close to Taylor said: “She and Matty are madly in love. It’s super early days, but it feels right. They first dated, very briefly, almost ten years ago but timings just didn’t work out.”
The pop megastar is currently in Jersey for her Eras Tour.
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British television personality Phillip Schofield has resigned from all commitments with broadcaster ITV within a week of stepping down as co-host of This Morning.
Schofield revealed in an exclusive statement to The Daily Mail he engaged in an affair with a young, male colleague several years ago during his time at This Morning, and subsequently lied about it.
The affair occurred while Schofield was still married to his wife of 27 years, Stephanie Lowe before they separated in 2020 when the presenter came out as gay.
"I am making this statement via the Daily Mail to whom I have already apologised personally for misleading, through my lawyer who I also misled, about a story which they wanted to write about me a few days ago," he wrote in a statement.
"The first thing I want to say is: I am deeply sorry for having lied to them, and to many others about a relationship that I had with someone working on This Morning. I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague at This Morning.
"Contrary to speculation, whilst I met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television, it was only after he started to work on the show that it became more than just a friendship. That relationship was unwise, but not illegal. It is now over."
Schofield said he lied about the affair to protect his ex-colleague while continuing to respect his privacy by leaving him unnamed. He also apologised to his former wife for his infidelity.
"In an effort to protect my ex-colleague I haven't been truthful about the relationship. But my recent, unrelated, departure from This Morning fuelled speculation and raised questions which have been impacting him, so for his sake it is important for me to be honest now," he said.
"I am painfully conscious that I have lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and friends, to my agents, to the media and therefore the public and most importantly of all to my family.
"I am so very, very sorry, as I am for having been unfaithful to my wife."
An ITV spokesperson said the company felt "let down" as a result of Schofield’s deceit.
"The relationships we have with those we work with are based on trust. Philip made assurances to us which he now acknowledges were untrue and we feel badly let down," they said.
"We accept his resignation from ITV and therefore can confirm that he will not be appearing on ITV as had previously been stated."
British media personality Piers Morgan was shocked about the news, tweeting "Blimey....".
The 61-year-old's last appearance on This Morning was on Thursday, May 18.
He had presented the show since 2002 with Holly Willoughby joining him as co-host in 2009 however reports of a rift between the two fuelled speculation as to why he stepped down from the program.
Willoughby who is currently on leave from her role posted on Instagram to thank Schofield for his time with her on the show.
"It's been over 13 great years presenting This Morning with Phil, and I want to take this opportunity to thank him for all of his knowledge, his experience and his humour," she said.
Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary paid tribute to Schofield's tenure on the show while presenting on Monday, describing him as "one of the best live television broadcasters this country has ever had."
One of Schofield's other major roles that he will leave behind is his role, also alongside Willoughby, as host of Dancing on Ice.
He has also stepped down from hosting the British Soap Awards which will be held on June 4.
Joy McKean, the first winner of the Golden Guitar who was also the wife and manager of Slim Dusty, has died at the age of 93.
Key points:
Joy McKean is being remembered for her talent, empathy and integrity
She told the ABC that Slim Dusty insisted on giving her due credit during the "chauvinistic" 1950s
She is survived by her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren
EMI Music announced her death after a long illness with cancer.
She died peacefully, surrounded by her family.
McKean was a multi-award-winning songwriter and musician who wrote many of her husband Slim Dusty's most famous songs.
She won the first Golden Guitar awarded at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 1973 for the song Lights on the Hill.
Joy McKean accepts a Golden Guitar in Tamworth in the 1970s.(Supplied: The Slim Dusty Foundation)
The song was inspired by McKean's experience towing a heavy caravan up the then-notorious Devil's Pinch, near Guyra, on the New South Wales Northern Tablelands.
The trip on the New England Highway on a rainy night was made more difficult because the vehicle's headlight dimmer switch was on the floor near the brake and she could only use one foot because she was wearing a leg caliper.
McKean said it was driving a van like this one on a rainy night up steep that inspired her 1973 Golden Guitar-winning song Lights on the Hill. (Supplied: The Slim Dusty Foundation)
"I'd have my high beam on to see where the next turn was, a truck would come over and I'd cop it fair in the eyes," McKean said.
"I knew if I took my foot off [the accelerator] for too long the vehicle would either stall or start slipping back because of the weight of the van."
Joy McKean and Slim Dusty achieved enormous success together.(Supplied: The Slim Dusty Centre)
The song came to her in the rhythm of the windscreen wipers and by the time she reached Warwick in southern Queensland it was complete.
McKean said when she first starting writing music in the 1950s the industry was "chauvinistic".
"Nobody would have believed I was writing [the songs]," she said.
"I said to Slim, 'We'll fix that — put your name on them.
"He said, 'No, I can't do that.'
"I said, 'Put both names on them' — and so that's what we did.
"Of course then there was a fuss that 'Slim didn't give her a lot of credit.'
"Oh, he gave me a lot of credit — don't you worry."
McKean and Dusty's Golden Guitar collection.(ABC News: Tom Lowrey)
'The Queen of Country Music'
Alongside Slim Dusty she produced more than 100 albums, sold more than eight million albums and earned 45 Golden Guitars.
"She will be remembered as a pioneer in Australian music," the company statement said.
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The Country Music Association of Australia said the singer-songwriter was the "Queen of Australian Country Music".
"Extraordinary songwriter, performer, partner," the organisation said in a statement.
"Joy leaves and incredible musical legacy which will live on forever."
McKean with a bronze statue of Slim Dusty and herself that was unveiled at the 42nd Tamworth Country Music Festival on January 24, 2014.(AAP: Lukas Coch)
Tamworth Country Music Festival co-founder, author and broadcaster Max Ellis first met McKean in the 1960s and said she had a deep understanding of the human condition.
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"Working with Joy has been such a pleasure," he said.
"She was a person with enormous integrity, she was very practical.
"She was a person who really relates to other people so well, and many of her famous songs are about other people, of course — songs like The Biggest Disappointment and Kelly's offsider.
"She was very empathetic of others."
Mr Ellis said McKean was a "remarkable individual who was loved and respected by everyone who had anything to do with her".
"She will be sadly missed by the country music fraternity," he said.
Beccy Cole says McKean and Dusty took her on the road with them when her career was getting started in the 1990s.(Supplied)
'Never forget the legacy'
Country music singer/songwriter Beccy Cole first met Joy McKean in the early 90s as a teenager.
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"I felt like I was in the presence of royalty," she said.
"Well, it was — country music royalty, and Slim gave me my first ever award and Joy shook my hand."
A year later and McKean and Dusty invited Cole to go on the road with them.
"I have such fond memories of those times," Cole said.
"The thing I learnt is they are just about the people, they were always about making sure that everybody felt great and were thoroughly entertained."
McKean at Dusty's boyhood home in the Macleay Valley.(ABC Rural: Kim Honan)
Cole said the couple took a young Keith Urban on the road with them the year before the tour she joined.
"Their tradition of helping up-and-coming young artists has run through the country music industry — we help the younger ones because [they] helped us," she said.
Cole said McKean had a huge impact on her as an emerging artist.
"Her business head was fantastic, very intelligent and very creative," she said.
But as many attest, it was McKean's empathy that enabled her to write with such depth.
"The beautiful lyrics of a song like Grandfather Johnson and Biggest Disappointment — I believe Joy and Slim did more for reconciliation than any politician," Cole said.
"We will never forget the legacy that they have given us."
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'Thank you Joy'
McKean and her children played a significant role in the creation of the Slim Dusty Centre on the NSW Mid North Coast.
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"She pushed and made sure that this happened and she had a huge support from her family," Kemspey Shire Council Mayor Leo Hauville said.
"It's no small measure that Slim Dusty and Joy McKean were the major contributors to what we now have in our local community and the Australian-wide country music scene."
Golden Guitar and ARIA award-winner Fanny Lumsden took to social media to pay tribute to the icon.
Lumsden said she would "draw strength" from McKean as she continued to play her music in halls throughout regional Australia.
"Thank you Joy," she wrote.
McKean is survived by her children, Anne Kirkpatrick and David Kirkpatrick, four grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Joy McKean, the first winner of the Golden Guitar who was also the wife and manager of Slim Dusty, has died at the age of 93.
Key points:
Joy McKean is being remembered for her talent, empathy and integrity
She told the ABC that Slim Dusty insisted on giving her due credit during the "chauvinistic" 1950s
She is survived by her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren
EMI Music announced her death after a long illness with cancer.
She died peacefully, surrounded by her family.
McKean was a multi-award-winning songwriter and musician who wrote many of her husband Slim Dusty's most famous songs.
She won the first Golden Guitar awarded at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 1973 for the song Lights on the Hill.
Joy McKean accepts a Golden Guitar in Tamworth in the 1970s.(Supplied: The Slim Dusty Foundation)
The song was inspired by McKean's experience towing a heavy caravan up the then-notorious Devil's Pinch, near Guyra, on the New South Wales Northern Tablelands.
The trip on the New England Highway on a rainy night was made more difficult because the vehicle's headlight dimmer switch was on the floor near the brake and she could only use one foot because she was wearing a leg caliper.
McKean said it was driving a van like this one on a rainy night up steep that inspired her 1973 Golden Guitar-winning song Lights on the Hill. (Supplied: The Slim Dusty Foundation)
"I'd have my high beam on to see where the next turn was, a truck would come over and I'd cop it fair in the eyes," McKean said.
"I knew if I took my foot off [the accelerator] for too long the vehicle would either stall or start slipping back because of the weight of the van."
Joy McKean and Slim Dusty achieved enormous success together.(Supplied: The Slim Dusty Centre)
The song came to her in the rhythm of the windscreen wipers and by the time she reached Warwick in southern Queensland it was complete.
McKean said when she first starting writing music in the 1950s the industry was "chauvinistic".
"Nobody would have believed I was writing [the songs]," she said.
"I said to Slim, 'We'll fix that — put your name on them.
"He said, 'No, I can't do that.'
"I said, 'Put both names on them' — and so that's what we did.
"Of course then there was a fuss that 'Slim didn't give her a lot of credit.'
"Oh, he gave me a lot of credit — don't you worry."
McKean and Dusty's Golden Guitar collection.(ABC News: Tom Lowrey)
'The Queen of Country Music'
Alongside Slim Dusty she produced more than 100 albums, sold more than eight million albums and earned 45 Golden Guitars.
"She will be remembered as a pioneer in Australian music," the company statement said.
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The Country Music Association of Australia said the singer-songwriter was the "Queen of Australian Country Music".
"Extraordinary songwriter, performer, partner," the organisation said in a statement.
"Joy leaves and incredible musical legacy which will live on forever."
McKean with a bronze statue of Slim Dusty and herself that was unveiled at the 42nd Tamworth Country Music Festival on January 24, 2014.(AAP: Lukas Coch)
Tamworth Country Music Festival co-founder, author and broadcaster Max Ellis first met McKean in the 1960s and said she had a deep understanding of the human condition.
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"Working with Joy has been such a pleasure," he said.
"She was a person with enormous integrity, she was very practical.
"She was a person who really relates to other people so well, and many of her famous songs are about other people, of course — songs like The Biggest Disappointment and Kelly's offsider.
"She was very empathetic of others."
Mr Ellis said McKean was a "remarkable individual who was loved and respected by everyone who had anything to do with her".
"She will be sadly missed by the country music fraternity," he said.
McKean and her children played a significant role in the creation of the Slim Dusty Centre on the NSW Mid North Coast.
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"She pushed and made sure that this happened and she had a huge support from her family," Kemspey Shire Council Mayor Leo Hauville said.
"It's no small measure that Slim Dusty and Joy McKean were the major contributors to what we now have in our local community and the Australian-wide country music scene."
Golden Guitar and ARIA award-winner Fanny Lumsden took to social media to pay tribute to the icon.
Lumsden said she would "draw strength" from McKean as she continued to play her music in halls throughout regional Australia.
"Thank you Joy," she wrote.
McKean is survived by her children, Anne Kirkpatrick and David Kirkpatrick, four grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
