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This Sunday, Nine’s 60 Minutes delivers a double dose of stories, tackling both raw human grief and political controversy. In a rare and poignant interview, Tracy Grimshaw sits down with Australian business leader John Singleton, marking only her second appearance on the program since departing A Current Affair. The subject: the tragic loss of Singleton’s […]

60 Minutes Australia: John Singleton Interview & Elon Musk’s Controversial Role...

Tracy Grimshaw joins 60 Minutes Australia for an in-depth profile of supermodel Elle Macpherson. The episode airs on Channel 9 on Sunday, 8 September at 8:30 p.m. Tracy sits down for an intimate interview with Elle Macpherson, who opens up about her life’s challenges beyond her successful career as a supermodel. Known as “The Body,” […]

60 Minutes Australia: Elle Macpherson...

The age-old pursuit of longevity and the mysteries of aging are explored in upcoming television series Do You Want to Live Forever?, premiering on June 17, 2024, on Australia’s Channel 9 and 9Now. Veteran journalist Tracy Grimshaw and medical expert Dr. Nick Coatsworth host the series, guiding viewers through the complex and intriguing world of […]

Do You Want to Live Forever? Premieres 17 June on Channel 9...

The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II has already gone down in history as a once-in-a-lifetime event, with huge praise reaped on both the organizers and the tireless broadcasters coordinating events and beaming them across the world. All except…

Two Australian commentators, Tracey Grimshaw and Peter Overton, working for the Channel Nine network were clearly caught on the hop as they were tasked with naming the high-profile arrivals at Westminster Abbey for the State Funeral service of Her Majesty.

Having announced the likes of US President Joe Biden, French premier Emmanuel Macron and other world dignitaries, they presumably thought their work was done, until a couple appeared out of their vehicle at the front of the Abbey and made their way inside.

Australian presenters Peter Overton and Tracy Grimshaw unable to identify UK Pm Liz Truss. pic.twitter.com/uG0eQPqBqN

— Shahryar Sultan (@Shahryar_Sultan) September 19, 2022

Grimshaw asked: “Who’s this?...

An Australian news channel misidentified Liz Truss as a “minor royal” during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.

On Monday (19 September), the world watched on as the monarch’s life was honoured with a service at Westminster Abbey after her body lay in state at Westminster Hall for four days.

The prime minister, who met the monarch at Balmoral two days before her death, gave a reading of John 14:1-9a during the service.

However, her arrival at the ceremony left Channel 9 presenters Peter Overton and Tracy Grimshaw scratching their heads as they struggled to identify Truss.

“Who’s this?” Grimshaw asked, with Overton theorising: “Hard to identify. Maybe minor royals? Members of the– I can’t identify them at this point.”

“We can’t split everyone up unfortunately,” Grimshaw added. “They could well be royal dignitaries, it’s hard to see.”

Australian presenters Peter Overton and Tracy Grimshaw...

Sharon Stone recently told the Australian interview show “A Current Affair” (via Yahoo) that she is powerless when it comes to stopping the upcoming theatrical release of Paul Verhoeven’s “Basic Instinct” 4K restoration. The director supervised the restoration between 2019 and 2020, and put “bonus material from Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas” back into the movie, according to a press release from UK distributor StudioCanal. The restoration is being released this summer to mark the film’s 30th anniversary.

“They’ve decided to release the director’s triple-x cut for the 30th anniversary,” Stone told “A Current Affair” host Tracy Grimshaw, who then asked if Stone could do anything to prevent the movie from being re-released. “There are new [Screen Actors Guild] rules about that have been made and created, but they were made after I, as a young lady, made this film, and so they don’t apply to me.”

In Stone’s...

What had Et readers buzzing this week?

1. N.M. Men Suspected of Plotting Bieber's Death

Police confirm to Et that two New Mexico men have been suspected of plotting to murder pop sensation Justin Bieber.

As first reported by Albuquerque news station Krqe, the plot was allegedly hatched by two prison inmates and one of their nephews to murder Bieber at a sold-out show at NYC's Madison Square Garden.

According to a police report obtained by Et, a New Mexico prisoner named Dana Martin, serving out two life sentences for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl, enlisted the help of former fellow inmate Mark Staake and his nephew Tanner Ruane to carry out four murders. Two of the reported targets were Justin Bieber and his bodyguard.

The report continues to claim that Martin actually has a tattoo of Bieber on his leg.

The report also delves into the details of the planned murders, which involved...

Audiences of more than a million tuned in to both A Current Affair and Today Tonight on Monday evening as both shows aired tearful interviews with prank call presenters Mel Greig and Michael ‘Mc’ Christian.

According to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTAM, Nine’s A Current Affair, which featured Tracy Grimshaw interviewing the pair rated 1.094m.

Today Tonight’s, on Seven, rated 1.023m.

The duo discussed for the first time their reaction to hearing that a nurse involved in their call to a hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge had apparently taken her life. They also revealed that they did not know the approvals process within Southern Cross Austereo before broadcasting a prank call.

In the official non-ratings period, it is unusual for these shows to get more than 1m.

Ten’s The Project featured Southern Cross Austereo boss Rhys Holleran. The show rated 575,000.

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Fairfax has dominated the short list for the first Kennedy Awards for journalism in Nsw.

The awards are to commemorate crime reporter Les Kennedy.

The shortlists were announce last night.

Fairfax had 34 shortlistings with News Ltd next in the running with 12. Then came the ABC with nine and Seven with a total of seven shortlistings.

Embarrassingly for Nine Network (four) and Ten Network (three) both were beaten by the new, philanthopically funded website Global Mail which scored five shortlistings.

2Gb was shortlisted four times, Sbs twice and 2Ue once.

The shortlist:

Most Outstanding Regional Reporting – the Paul Lockyer Award

The Daily Advertiser, Wagga Catherine Clifford and Elyse Denman, ABC Tamworth Giselle Wakatama, ABC Newcastle

Most Outstanding Crime Reporting

Matt Doran, Network Ten Yoni Bashan, The Sunday Telegraph Lisa Davies, Iilya Gridneff, Dan Proudman, Fairfax

Racing Writer of the Year, sponsored by the Australian Turf Club

Craig Young, The Sydney Morning Herald Brent Zerafa,...

In this post, Cathie McGinn argues why rewarding the hateful with mainstream media attention perpetuates social media misbehaviour…

In this weekend’s Sunday Telegraph, soi-disant “Tabloid Terror,” gossip columnist Ros Reines devoted almost a full page to calling A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw a hypocrite for her criticism of “social media bullies.”

In essence, it’s a non-story, much like Grimshaw’s original tirade, and in fact, if you keep on going down the rabbit hole, you find yourself lost in the cold dark emptiness of a desolate planet, much like that ad for Tooheys, wandering in and out of a series of increasingly drab house parties where all the booze has run dry.

“Why translate their jaundiced opinions and intemperate language into news copy that’s supposed to actually carry some authority?” asks Grimshaw. Without getting into a debate about the editorial policies of Aca and Today Tonight,...

Tracy Grimshaw has used Twitter to express her anger at comments made by Mike Willesee. The Australian television personality, who is best known for the interviews that she conducts on Nine Network show A Current Affair, responded to Willesee's claims that he is returning to TV because there are not enough good news interviews around. Grimshaw wrote on her Twitter page: "Dear Mike Willesee. Hearty welcome back. But "no interviews on commercial TV now"? There have been a few, actually!" Veteran journalist and former Logie Award winner Willesee announced earlier this week that he is making his comeback to television on Seven Network show Sunday Night. Of news magazine interviews, he said: "There's a big place (more)...

Matthew Newton has insisted that he doesn't blame his parents for his downfall. The Australian actor, whose parents are television personalities Bert and Patti Newton, said that he doesn't want people to judge them for him receiving psychiatric treatment or for his attacks on ex-girlfriends Rachael Taylor and Brooke Satchwell. In a tell-all interview with A Current Affair's Tracy Grimshaw, Matthew admitted that he did struggle with a childhood in the public eye, but added: "It hasn't contributed to my illness. We're just a family. We have a great relationship." Matthew said that he "wasn't thrilled" when Bert and Patti decided to speak publicly about their son shortly after he entered rehab. However, he said: "I completely understand now... I've (more)...

Matthew Newton has spoken for the first time about his assaults on former girlfriends Rachael Taylor and Brooke Satchwell. The Australian actor, who has been in and out of a psychiatric clinic for more than a year after attacking Transformers actress Taylor in a Rome hotel last year, has given a tell-all interview to A Current Affair that will be aired on the Nine Network tonight (November 21). In the interview with Tracy Grimshaw, Newton describes himself as a "walking time bomb" and explains how he tried to escape from his rehabilitation centre by scaling a cyclone fence and jumping off the roof. About the assaults on Taylor and former Neighbours star Satchwell in 2006, Newton tells: "Harming anyone is horrible. It's intolerable to harm a woman. It's intolerable to harm your best friend, several of your best friends, (more)...

Tracy Grimshaw has returned to work for the first time since her mother's death. The Australian broadcaster and host of A Current Affair lost her 77-year-old mother Barbara to cancer four weeks ago and has been off work since. She also took time off her TV show during the year when she was caring for her mum. Grimshaw told the Sunday Herald Sun: "We are absolutely bereft at the loss of mum. She fought her illness with grace and stoicism, and if anyone deserved a victory it was her. "I'm so grateful to friends and family for their love, and also to my friends at Nine."

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Lady GaGa has revealed that she wants Australia to legalise gay marriage. The 'Judas' singer, who is currently in the country to play a one-off concert at Sydney's Town Hall this week, told Tracy Grimshaw on A Current Affair that it's up to her Aussie fans to make Prime Minister Julia Gillard "hear their screams" about equality. Lady GaGa said: "It's 2011, get on with it. I am so against the way certain laws and restrictions send messages that one person is better than another. I urge all of you to mobilise your voices so the prime minister can hear you scream that you want to be equal." The musician said that she is "very excited" about her upcoming (more)...

Tracy Grimshaw is celebrating 30 years on Australian television. The 51-year-old Aussie television personality, who is best known as the host of A Current Affair, will receive a tribute on Channel Nine on Wednesday night to mark the anniversary of her joining the network in 1981. Grimshaw told the Herald Sun: "I can hardly believe it's been that many years since I turned up at the GTV9 newsroom, wearing a beret and an outfit I'd sewn myself, ready for my close-up. "I thought I'd hang in for as long as I could before they realised they'd picked a dud and shuffle me back off to suburban newspapers." Grimshaw revealed last year that she does not regret choosing her career over (more)...

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has apologised for insulting a beloved Australian TV personality after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd branded him a "new form of low life".

The foul-mouthed chef caused a stir at the weekend (begs06Jun09) during an appearance at the Good Food and Wine Show in Melbourne, when he publicly likened TV interviewer Tracy Grimshaw to a pig and insinuated she was a lesbian in front of a 3,000-strong crowd.

Grimshaw, who hosted Ramsay on her show A Current Affair last Friday, followed suit by branding the chef an "arrogant narcissist", prompting Rudd to applaud the on-air personality for her cutting remarks.

Rudd told Fairfax radio, "I think I can describe his remarks as reflecting a new form of low life. I just drew breath when I saw the sort of stuff which was said about her, I just think that's off and offensive. Good on Tracy Grimshaw for coming out and giving him a left uppercut."

But Ramsay is blaming the rowdy audience for his "off the cuff" comments.

His spokesperson says: "Gordon was giving a live cooking demonstration at the Australian BBC Good Food Show last weekend in front of a large and boisterous audience. His comments relating to Tracy Grimshaw, who had interviewed Gordon the previous evening, were off the cuff and in response to heckling from the audience. His intention was to make a joke and indeed he did raise a big laugh at the time.

"However, with hindsight, he realises that his comments were inappropriate and offensive to Tracy Grimshaw, and he has unreservedly apologised both to her and anybody else who may have been upset."...

Gordon Ramsay has apologised to Australian TV host Tracy Grimshaw after launching a public attack on her at a live cooking demonstration. The celebrity chef was alleged to have described Grimshaw as a "lesbian" and an "ugly old pig" as he addressed fans at the Melbourne Good Food and Wine Show on Saturday. Ramsay later insisted that his remarks had been "blown out of context", adding: "I never ever once used the word lesbian." In a new statement, a spokesperson for the star has explained: "His comments relating to Tracy Grimshaw, who had interviewed Gordon the previous evening, were off the cuff and in response to heckling from the (more)...

Tracy Grimshaw has responded to a verbal attack from celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Ramsay is said to have made the comments at a food and wine show on Saturday after being interviewed by the journalist on Aca show A Current Affair the previous day. He reportedly held up a manipulated photograph of a naked woman with the features of a pig and told onlookers that the image was of Grimshaw, who he also called "a lesbian" and "an ugly old pig". Ramsay continued: "I had an interview with her yesterday - (more)...

Maybe Gordon Ramsay should stick to using his mouth for food tastings from here on in. Fox News reports that the famously abrasive Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares host shocked and outraged an Australian audience by engaging in a sexist, homophobic rant directed at a prominent journalist. The incident occurred during the Good Food and Wine Show in Melbourne over the weekend, when Ramsay, in front of an audience of several thousand people, insulted A Current Affair personality Tracy Grimshaw on a variety of levels. Ramsay's foul-mouthed tirade began when he showed he audience a picture of a woman on her hands and.