Melbourne & Across The Sea

Milliner Phillip Treacy locks lips with singer Grace Jones at the Battersea Power Station

 Perhaps it's the way of future- an extended series of Mother's Day celebrations. Last week we had the launch of the Murdoch Children's Research Foundation garden party in Elizabeth Bay at the Boomerang mansion which will become an annual charity fundraiser and which hopes to inspire numerous similar events around the country,
The following Friday Crown Casino in Melbourne hosted a Mum's Day event with some of the same guests, namely rival media names- the Packers. Attending were Francesca Barham with her grandmother Ros Packer, widow of the late Kerry Packer. Barham is the daughter of James Packer's sister Gretel Packer and British banker Nick Barham (James owns Crown)

At Crown :  Nicole Trunfio         Rebecca Judd              Sherri Biggs             Nadia Bartel       Jesinta Campbel

Meanwhile in London the iconic Battersea Power Station is soon to be turned into apartments- and what a location that will be -they threw their annual party and we have an exclusive video of the night's entertainment- rock royalty Elton John.

Playing Catch Up

We do love Sydney Confidential. It's the gossip column in Rupert Murdoch's top selling Australian tabloid The Daily Telegraph (referred to by some as the Daily Terror for some unknown reason).

But they really should pay more attention to the Shuttle as some British tabloids do like The Sun, Daily Mail and The Independent as they scour these pages gently lifting tiny tidbits here and there.
 Their tale today, pictured here : PJs the centre of the universe is a sort of non-story implying that PJ Lane, a star in the new Underbelly: Badness may be dating gorgeous Jessinta Campbell.
The Shuttle exclusively revealed five months ago that PJ was dating Jessinta's good pal Ashley Talbot when we ran this picture of the pair at artist Martine Emdur's opening night at the Tim Olsen Gallery.