exclusive : We can reveal that
Little Britain star
Matt Lucas has quietly slipped into town and will be a guest at this Saturday's
Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras.
And plans are afoot to get Matt to join
George Michael, (living in a Potts Point apartment and
not the Northern Beach's house he
didn't buy last year as reported by a major daily newspaper) on the beloved
Kylie Minogue's own Mardi Gras float on which she will travel from Whitlam Square to Fox Studios via Oxford Street during the parade.
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| Rev Fred |
The
Shuttle has also had a confirmation from the
Reverend Fred Nile that he
will pray for rain this Saturday and reading the weather report, Fred's prayers sound like they will be answered.
Sadly for Fred whenever they are it simply means more clothes are taken off as the Mardi Gras participants love nothing more than cavorting and dancing in the rain.
Still, it's the thought that counts.
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| Clover |
There are also major rumblings over the Mardi Gras committee's insistence that the media pay a $200 fee per person for covering the event. This fee which it's claimed 'covers expenses' has long outraged much of the media particularly as the parade takes place on a public street with large injections of money from the NSW state government.
The
Shuttle's round of inquiries have produced little response apart from
Lord Mayor Clover Moore's office where a representative expressed "shock" at the fee. Wake up folks, it's been there for 15 years now. As for the
Media Alliance, they ignored our request for a comment but that's the usual way for them.
This is the same union which purportedly looks after the affairs of professionally employed and freelance journalists and photographers who are union members. Yet they famously went into battle for the non-union paparazzi when police claimed they had found bugging devices outside
Nicole Kidman's Darling Point house in 2005.
Note to Media Alliance-you can find the
Leveson Inquiry here.
Below is Kylie's Mardi Gras message:
Feature: Kylie Sydney Mardi Gras 2012 Announcement from
mardigras on
Vimeo.
