Archive for May, 2006
May 28th, 2006
Some of my fave, secret informers at my Sunday Telegraph’ gossip desk were apparently in hibernation this week. A silent phone is one of the worst things that can happen to a gossip columnists (even more woeful than bumping into someone on the receiving end of last week’s column). Alas, I was forced to go out on the soiled streets of the city and look for my own scandals, quelle horreur!
I didn’t have to go far to find Luke Ricketson (the man once dubbed Sydney’s sexiest footballer), under seige from a hard working Sydney paparazzi as he had coffee in a North Bondi’ cafe with a woman in a low cut dress and no wedding ring. A gal who was most definitely not Kate Waterhouse from the famous Sydney horse racing family. Luke has been seeing Kate and has already had three action packed, public dates with her including dinner at North Bondi Italian, drinks at Hugo’s for Justin Melvey’s birthday and he also took her to the State of Origin. They’re practically engaged because, as one of the blokes on the scene put it, `you just don’t mess around with the Waterhouse family’. They’re er racing royals. … Thankfully, I can report that Ricketson’s meeting with the non- Kate Waterhouse looked pretty casual and there was definitely not a spot of canoodling going on. But you can still expect to see the photos in one of the trash rags with a line about the former Dancing With The Stars evictee, cheating on Kate. Don’t believe a word of it, yet..
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Meanwhile it was gossip central during Friday’s soft opening of the Gazebo Wine Garden - a funky/Tahitian style eatery on the ground floor of the hotel in the Cross that is shaped like a jar of instant coffee. There was the heroic and fearless Richard Wilkins (well, he launched my novel, didn’t he?), who told me that he is definitely not an item with his old girflriend, Collette Dinnigan - the mother of his youngest child. “We are just friends and we’re getting on well, ‘’ he said. I believe him. Also, trying out the fab food and wine at the Gazebo, was Peter Holmes a Court, who seemed to be in better physical condition than many at Souths (the footy team he co-owns) and Joe Cross, who is best mates with everyone who counts and one of the funniest blokes in town. By the way, guess who is working at the GWG - Karim Gharbi who was Peter Morrissey’s exotic, live in lover right up to the time when he failed to come home one morning…Talk about a brush with fame, I tell you, the place is buzzing.
Wish I could say the same thing from my phone. Honestly, if one more person tells me that I shall be the first to know when anything interesting or dramatic happens in their life, I’ll scream. What, they are planning to tell me before giving their news to their nearest and dearest? He-llo - they promise to jump on the phone to me before they tell their hairdresser? I think not, I’m at least third in line…
Now if you anything to tell me and help keep me off the streets just email me - ros@rosreinesgossip.com. And of course, I never heard it from you ….
May 27th, 2006
Billionaire businessman James Packer’s ex-ex-ex girl friend, Kate Fischer is clearly taking her role in Seven’s reality singing fest, It Takes Two, very seriously. Some of those unfortunate enough to be on her mobile phone list received the following text message first thing on Saturday morning:
“This Sunday 6.30pm Ch 7 watch Katie Fischer call and vote 1902555018 or youre (sic) dead meat and ill (sic) never speak to you again. Love Fish x'’
Well, how terrifying is that? Never to be spoken at again by Kate? And what happened to that laid back vibe of hers that was all part of being a teacher (or was it a student?) of Transcendental Meditation. Personally, the thought of tuning into the mega-curvy Kate bellowing out a song on Seven, is enough for me to stay tuned to Big Brother and use my hard earnt dollars to try to vote off the Machiavellian Michael.
May 26th, 2006
Self-styled Bollywood film star, Tanya Zaetta was spotted getting very close to Orlando Bloom in the appropriately named London reastaurant, Cuckoo, in Soho.
The woman who has the distinction of owning `One Of The Best Five Butts in the World’ according to a men’s magazine, kept everyone fascinated as she kept up conversation with the lustable film star, through several courses.
This is where it gets messy. After the meal at Cuckoo, she showed him a few Bollywood moves on the nearest dance floor. No, that can’t really have happened - it sounds far too cringe worthy even for Tanya…
May 26th, 2006
Seasoned restaurateur Sam Frantzeskos has hit on anther winner in Prahran - Fog at 142 Greville Street - a place so sumptuous that it has been attracting some of the city’s seriously rich and colourful. Among them Heloise Pratt, Sid and Fiona Myer, Alannah Hill, Ty Henschke and the ever delectable Richard Hains. Once you have finished dining and supping there, celebrity nightspot, Boutique is just a stroll down the road..
The Back Bar at Fog
Fog Restaurant
May 24th, 2006
Do not expect to hear the delicious Gravox’ spruiker, Patrick Collins back on the popular Mix FM, talking up food, with his old mate, Sammy Power on breakfast radio any time soon. They had a falling out so massive that even when the air seemed to have cleared, charismatic Collins’ offer to get back behind the mike was not exactly snapped up.
At the same time, he is not currently favoured among some of Channel Nine’s publicity flacks who were perturbed when he recently turned up to a restaurant where the Footy Show’s season launch was taken place and didn’t seem so thrilled to be there. One staffer intimated that he was downright rude which would be quite surprising as that’s not his form at all…
Still he is the face of the Gravox commercial on the TV and a damn fine job he does of it too. Surely, it can only be a matter of time before all is forgiven, can’t it.?.
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