Melissa George's Strange Meltdown

There has been lots of chatter about local actress made good Melissa George and her meltdown on the Seven Network's Morning Show last week when host Larry Emdur mentioned her beginnings in the soapie Home and Away.

Melissa launched into a tirade at Larry and co-host Kylie Gillies who are hardly the most threatening talking heads on the teeve and whose questioning has been likened to being lashed with a limp lettuce leaf.

"I don't need credibility from my country any more, I just need them all to be quiet," she said. "If they have nothing intelligent to say, please don't speak to me any more. I'd rather be having a croissant and an espresso in Paris or walking my French bulldog in New York City.
"I've never spoken out about it because I have to be the loyal good Aussie, who goes away and comes home. 

Shurely shome mistake as the British satirical magazine Private Eye would say. On Saturday night our Melissa was interviewed on the top Brit chat show The Jonathon Ross Show which was screened on the ABC at 9.30PM.

As can be see on the clip below Melissa was more than happy to chat to host Ross about her role as Angel Parrish in Home and Away while plugging her hit TV show Hunted. She even took Jonathan Ross roller skating   These thespians, such temperamental creatures !.

An Award for Dame Edna !

She's been thrilling and entertaining West End audiences for 3 decades as well as fronting numerous of her own TV series on the BBC and other British networks.

Now Australia's grand Dame Edna Everage has received another award that she has said is as great an honour as when the Prime Minister Gough Whitlam declared the Moonie Ponds housewife to be a Dame of the Empire at a ceremony at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport in 1975.

At London's Simpsons-In-The-Strand restaurant during a ceremony presided over by TV  personality Terry Wogan for the 'Oldie Awards', Dame Edna was declared Oldie Of The Year  while HRH Prince Philip was declared Consort of The Year.

The Oldie is the stablemate publication of the hugely successful British satirical magazine Private Eye. It was started by Private Eye publisher Richard Ingrams in 1992 and presents  the type of articles written by the personalities that often appear in the BBC series Grumpy Old Woman/Men (screened in Australia on the ABC). Where else could one find on sale a DVD of programs with comedian Eric Sykes ?.

As Ingrams says :""After editing Private Eye for over twenty years, I decided in 1992, along with a group of friends (Auberon Waugh, Alexander Chancellor and Stephen Glover), to launch The Oldie. The aim was to produce an antidote to youth culture but, more importantly, a magazine with emphasis on good writing, humour and quality illustration..."

It's an entertaining magazine and well worth reading. You can subscribe by going here and find out who else received awards.

And here once again is Dame Edna in a moment of brilliance :

Great Minds Think Alike !

 

 

 Our favourite satirical magazine, and probably the best of it's kind in the world Private Eye which has been in print for nearly 50 years  has been "a prominent critic of public figures deemed incompetent, inefficient or corrupt, and has become a self-styled "thorn in the side" of the British establishment, though it also receives much criticism and ire, both for its style and for its willingness to print defamatory and controversial stories "(all according to Wikipedia).

We agree entirely and are pleased they are as on the ball as the Social Shuttle is. At the right is a tale in their current issue dated 6 August to 19 August and below our story from July 28th.

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Daily Mail strikes again...

You have to love the British Daily Mail newspaper and their infected outrage.
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Today they have run a story about the hapless Jon Venables:

"Jon Venables' used mobile phone to take 1,200 pics up women's skirts "



On the same page they have run a tale about singer Alesha Dixon :

"Where's your dress gone, Alesha ?"

illustrating the story is a pic of Alesha...up-skirt!