You're Fired !

Dancers at the Janus opening party in May.

Arriving at the recently opened Janus restaurant tonight for the launch of a new food website, the Shuttle was disappointed to find the doors firmly closed and chained.
 It was just 3 weeks ago Janus celebrated it's opening with a Brazilian themed party but as winter closes in and the Sydney social scene slows to snail's pace, it seems the customers are staying home in droves.
One guest expected tonight at the Janus party was TV celebrity chef Peter Everett who was co-incidentally fired this week from Celebrity Apprentice.

And the food disasters don't end there. A few months ago we attended a party to launch a new model search quest at the Darlinghurst restaurant Alibi opened with great fanfare by Dane & Alex Bouris, the sons of millionaire businessman Mark Bouris, host of Celebrity Apprentice which draws to a close next week.
Bouris took to Twitter last August to condemn thieves who broke into Alibi and rifled through cash registers just a week after it opened.
Alas Alibi too has bitten the dust and the doors have remained closed for 4 weeks now.

A Sydney Pad for Ricky Martin (& kids)

He's due to arrive in late February with the family in tow : Ricky Martin is looking for somewhere to bed down in Sydney and live La Vida Loca with partner Carlos Gonzalez Abella and of course, their twin boy bubs and presumably a coterie of assistants and nannies.

Martin is replacing Keith Urban on The Voice for 2013 and is looking for digs near Fox Studios where the show will be filmed. The Shuttle's hears a Martin rep has been in town for 2 weeks checking out suitable  properties and several have taken his eye with details dispatched back to Martin who has just taken possession of a new New York apartment.

First up is the sensational Altona in Point Piper, once the home of Rupert Murdoch's nephew Matt Handbury and his wife Fiona. Fiona scored Altona as part of a divorce settlement and sold it for around $29M before fleeing to the UK and joining the aristocracy as the Countess of Dartmouth.

Altona is on the market for around $54M but it can rented for $40,000 a month. It comes with a harbor side swimming pool and a jetty with a boathouse (handy for security guards).

Altona                                                                                  The Astor                                Packer's Bondi beach house

 Another property looked at is the grand 1920's apartment block in Macquarie Street in the city :The Astor. The 2 storey 5 bedroom luxury apartment is being sold by Yellow Brick Road boss Mark Bouris who fronts the TV show The Apprentice as a local Donald Trump but with better hair. The Astor apartment is going for four grand a week and was once owned by Barry Humphries. It has superb harbour views.

And discreet inquiries have been made about James Packer's luxury Bondi pad that was recently put quietly on the market for $20M.
 Ricky can basically pick and choose from any number of Eastern Suburb mansions. Many have lingered on the market for years now while owners ask impossibly high prices.
As for Martin's spiritual health- he is a Buddhist -we also hear his rep made a visit to the Nan Tien Temple (right) in Woolongong.