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Belinda Emmett's brother Shane has joined the cast of Home and Away temporarily. Shane said that his sister, who played Donald Fisher's daughter Rebecca in the Aussie soap before losing her battle with cancer five years ago aged 32, haunted him all over the Home and Away set. He told The Sunday Telegraph: "Of all the gigs, I knew it would be difficult because Belinda spent so much of her professional time there. "There are a lot of the characters Belinda used to work with still there, so I found myself surrounded by her." Shane further explained: "I'd come out of the green room and there'd be Belinda on the cover of TV Week on the wall. In many ways it was a little sad, but it was also nice to be able to connect with her in that (more)...

Belinda Emmett's brother Shane has joined the cast of Home and Away temporarily. Shane said that his sister, who played Donald Fisher's daughter Rebecca in the Aussie soap before losing her battle with cancer five years ago aged 32, haunted him all over the Home and Away set. He told The Sunday Telegraph: "Of all the gigs, I knew it would be difficult because Belinda spent so much of her professional time there. "There are a lot of the characters Belinda used to work with still there, so I found myself surrounded by her." Shane further explained: "I'd come out of the green room and there'd be Belinda on the cover of TV Week on the wall. In many ways it was a little sad, but it was also nice to be able to connect with her in that (more)...

Rove McManus has opened up about the death of his first wife Belinda Emmett. The 37-year-old Australian chatshow host and comedian, who recently relocated to Los Angeles with second wife Tasma Walton, said that life stopped for him when Home and Away actress Emmett lost her battle with cancer in 2006. McManus told National Features: "Everything switched off. Then one by one, little switches would come back on - where I could feel there was a little seed of happiness in there somewhere." He added that eventually when he got together with Walton, they "expressed [their] feelings" and he started to look to the future. He also said that he found it difficult to restart his stand-up career in La, saying: "[I was thinking], 'Can I still do this? [Are] people [back home] laughing because they knew me? Have I gotten lazy? Have I (more)...

Catherine Deveny has been sacked after attacking various stars on Twitter during the Logie Awards. The Australian comedian, who wrote for Melbourne newspaper The Age, sparked the most outrage when she suggested that the late Steve Irwin's 11-year-old daughter Bindi should "get laid". Deveny also wrote that she hoped TV star Rove McManus's new wife Tasma Walton "didn't die too", referring to his first wife Belinda Emmett losing her battle with cancer in 2006. Her former boss, editor Paul Ramadge, said in a statement: "We are appreciative of the columns Catherine has written for The Age over several years but (more)...

Rove McManus and Tasma Walton's nuptials have been voted the best Australian Celebrity Wedding of the Year in a poll carried out by The Daily Telegraph. The chatshow host, whose first wife Belinda Emmett died from cancer, wed actress Walton in a shoeless beach ceremony in Broome earlier this year. Also featured on the list were Kristy Hinze and Jim Clarke, Jules Lund and Anna Dusek, and Geoffrey Edelsten (more)...