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Australian Olympic swimming hero Ian Thorpe was among the front row invites, but he appeared disinterested as Kaechele was dragged so close to the audience her green-painted nails almost scraped their feet. 

Bizarre scenes as model dragged across floor at AFW

Australian Fashion Week was thrown into disarray on Thursday, with bizarre scenes including a female model being dragged along the floor by another model in front of a star-studded audience. 

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Comedian Dave Hughes has taken to social media to voice his dismay at the Australian Government for letting ‘criminals’ take over the country.

‘Are you in on it?’: Hughesy makes bold attack on Government

Comedian Dave Hughes has taken to social media to voice his dismay at the Australian Government for letting ‘criminals’ take over the country.

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Life Could Be a Dream

The lie behind the Mr Darcy romantic fantasy

Australian drama Life Could Be a Dream is a poignant and quietly powerful film that explores romantic fantasies and family violence.

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Rehearsal: Delta Goodrem performing Eclipse for Australia during the First Rehearsal at Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna 2026.

Why Delta may be forced to mime at Eurovision

A long-standing rule at the Eurovision Song Contest could see our Delta Goodrem forced to ‘pretend’ during her epic song Eclipse.

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Australian singer Delta Goodrem rehearses for the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which starts at 5am AEST on Friday.

Dazzling Delta eclipses the Eurovision drama

With boycotts, political fury and previous calls to investigate voting patterns, Eurovision has become a crucible of controversy.

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Melissa Leong and chef Vaughan Mabee were set to host food show Taste of Art.

TV star ‘disappointed’ after show axed due to controversy

Former MasterChef judge Melissa Leong has spoken out after her new cooking show was axed just days before it was due to air on SBS.

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Actress Elizabeth Hurley has shared insight into her unexpected romance with musician Billy Ray Cyrus.

Hurley gives insight into unexpected romance with Billy Ray

The actress has revealed details about the couple’s relationship, drawing on some of their common threads.

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For more than 70 years, there has been one defining screen version of East of Eden. Netflix is hoping its version can match that acclaim.

Netflix is tackling the white whale of the literary canon

For more than 70 years, there has been one defining screen version of East of Eden. Netflix is hoping its version can match that acclaim.

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Actor Matthew Perry had been receiving ketamine treatments for depression.

Man who gave Friends star Matthew Perry ketamine jailed

A licensed drug addiction counsellor who delivered the ketamine that killed Friends star Matthew Perry has been sentenced.

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Demi Moore has made bombshell claims that the film industry should embrace the rise of artificial intelligence, as “to fight it is a battle we will lose”.

Demi Moore makes bombshell AI claims, sparks health concerns

Demi Moore has made bombshell claims that the film industry should embrace the rise of AI while sparking concerns for her health at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Legends is a satisfying British drama that proves the importance of fundamentals such as writing and performance over showy spectacle.

Netflix thriller based on real-life spy operation

Legends is a satisfying British drama that proves the importance of fundamentals such as writing and performance over showy spectacle.

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Go-Jo (r) and presenter Michael Ostrowski (l) at the first semi-final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest on the stage of the Stadthalle in Vienna.

Go-Jo divides Eurovision fans with questionable interval act

Australia’s 2025 Eurovision entrant Go-Jo has divided the song contest’s fans and the internet after he returned to the stage at this year’s Eurovision.

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With the second, and potentially final, season of Prime Video’s mammoth action franchise, Citadel, arriving with not a bang but a whimper, it’s a damning indictment on what was once going to be the future of the streamer.

Amazon’s $300m spy franchise experiment gone wrong

The first season of Citadel cost a reported $US300 million and arrived with so much fanfare. The follow-up, not so much. It’s hard to imagine how this attempted franchise survives.

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Meet charming Farmer Alex.

Meet the charming farmer getting TV host flustered

This year’s batch of bachelors have been dubbed the ‘hottest farmers ever’.

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