Sandra Lee

It’s Bath time at six on Seven

July 7, 2009
Channel 7 appoints Chris Bath as first female news reader of number one rating prime time news show

So, journalist Chris Bath has finally scored the coveted 6pm news reading gig over Seven’s new recruit, Mark Ferguson, when Ian Ross retires later this year. Or so she said today on a Sydney radio station. Big deal! It’s not as if it’s a first for women or a break through for feminism. Yes, Seven’s […]

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Newspaper legend Frank Devine files his last story

July 4, 2009
Frank Devine judging Miss World in the 60s

Australian journalism lost a true giant yesterday when the ebullient, talented and enormously generous Frank Devine – editor, reporter, columnist, bon vivant and intellectual giant – passed away after a dignified dance with cancer that lasted a year. He was 77, but don’t let the number fool you. Frank was as vital in his last […]

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Righteous brother Kevin Jonas engaged and about to lose the purity ring

July 2, 2009
Jonas Brothers in Action

Is teen heartthrob Kevin Jonas getting ready to ditch the purity ring he’s been brandishing for the past few years after popping the question to his girlfriend, Danielle Deleasa, on the weekend? At 22, Kevin is the oldest of the Jonas Brothers, all of whom wear the rings as a public statement about their decision […]

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When does using pornography become adultery?

July 1, 2009
marie claire August cover

What would you do if you caught your husband/wife, boyfriend/girlfriend en flagrante with, ahem, the computer? Shut him down? Boot him out? Purge memory and forgive him? Or join in with a little laptop action of your own? I’ve addressed some of these issues in a story about the contentious topic of when exactly does […]

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Russell Crowe and the $1200 tip

July 1, 2009
Russell Crowe as a very cool Robin Hood - no tights!

Academy Award winning actor, Russell Crowe, is manna from heaven for the celebrity pages in newspapers and magazines, but as with most stories written about him, it pays to check with the source to see what’s right and wrong. Earlier this week it was reported in News Ltd papers that Crowe left a $1200 tip […]

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Ruth Madoff breaks her silence,but is it enough or just crocodile tears?

June 30, 2009

Ruth Madoff reckons she’s embarrassed, ashamed, confused, and betrayed by her husband’s fraud. But is she sorry? Not if you read between the lines of her public statement in the aftermath of the (excessive?) 150-year sentence handed to her disgraced Ponzi fraudster Bernard Madoff  in a New York court on Monday. Of the convicted crook with […]

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