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Celebrity Overhaul
''Celebrity Overhaul'' is a reality television and infotainment show on Australia's Nine Network in which celebrities undergo a rigorous exercise and diet regime aimed at improving their fitness, health and general lifestyle, with the particular goal of weight loss. These are coordinated by two personal trainers and a medical doctor. Hosted by Deborah Hutton, there have been two seasons that aired in 2004 and 2005, each comprising five 1-hour episodes. Featured celebrities *Merv Hughes – cricketer (seasons 1 and 2) *Paulini Curuenavuli – singer and ''Australian Idol'' contestant. *Rowena Wallace – actress (season 1) *Kate Fischer – model/former actress (season 2) *Ita Buttrose – journalist/businesswoman (season 2) *Phil Burton – singer (Human Nature) (season 2) *Fabio Lanzoni – model and actor *Trevor Butler – '' Big Brother'' reality show contestant * Melissa Bell – actress and singer *Nova Peris – athlete and politician *Peter Phelps Peter Phelps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Hutton (Australian Editor)
Deborah Hutton (born 20 December 1961) is an Australian media personality. She is a television presenter, magazine editor, ambassador, and spokesmodel. She is a supporter of several charities including the Skin Cancer Foundation. Childhood Born in England, she immigrated to Australia when she was very young. She and her mother travelled extensively from Queensland to Papua New Guinea before finally settling in Sydney. Career Hutton left school and home at the age of 16 for a modelling career. She was on the cover of ''Cosmopolitan'' in October 1978 and then worked for Vivien's Modelling Agency (Sydney). At 18, she was contracted with Ford Modelling Agency in New York City. Television host In 1989, Hutton was co-host of the Ten Network quiz show, ''Superquiz'' with Mike Walsh. The weekly series, a remake of the former long-running quiz show ''Pick A Box'', debuted in July but only lasted until the end of the year. In June 1994 the Nine Network approached Hutton to present the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Fischer
Tziporah Atarah Malkah (born Katherine Helen Fischer; 30 November 1973) is an Australian model, actress and TV host. Early life Katherine Helen Fischer was born on 30 November 1973 at the Queen Victoria Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia, the daughter of Pru Goward and university economics lecturer Alastair Fischer Ph.D. She is the third eldest of ten children. Malkah spent the best part of a year in Pune, India, and Reading, UK, in 1978 with her family when her father took his sabbatical. Once back in Adelaide, Malkah attended Glen Osmond Primary School. When Malkah was nine, her parents' marriage ended, and her mother left the family home, her husband and the children in Adelaide, and moved to Sydney. When the matter of the children came up in family court, her mother said that she did not want her children. During this year Malkah continued to attend Highgate Primary School in Adelaide A year later her mother moved in with David Barnett in Canberra. It was at about tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Network Original Programming
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit Circa 300 BC, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. How the numbers got to their Gupta form is open to considerable debate. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Australian Reality Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tickell
Dr. John Tickell (born 29 January 1945) is an Australian doctor, businessman, author, former athlete and speaker. In his younger days, Tickell played Australian rules football, first with the University Blues team and later with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (now known as the AFL). In a brief career spanning 1965–66, he played 18 games with the Hawks for 2 goals. During this time he graduated from the University of Melbourne with a degree in medicine. Tickell later became a general practitioner, obstetrician and a specialist practitioner in sports medicine. He has written several books, the most notable being ''The Great Australian Diet'' and ''Laughter, Sex, Vegetables & Fish''. He has also appeared on television shows such as ''Celebrity Overhaul'' providing advice on healthier lifestyle. Among his business achievements including the collaboration with Jack Nicklaus in creating the Heritage Golf and Residential Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Phelps
Peter Phelps (born 20 September 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian actor, singer and writer. He is notable for his role as Trevor Cole in ''Baywatch''. Phelps is also known for his roles in the internationally successful Australian series '' Sons and Daughters'' and '' Stingers'' and has appeared in feature films including '' Blackwater Trail'' with Judd Nelson. He is the brother of Professor Kerryn Phelps. Career Phelps began his acting career in the early 1980s with an ongoing role in the Network Ten teen soap opera '' The Restless Years'' produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation. After the series ended he had a starring role in new Grundy soap opera '' Sons and Daughters''. It was Phelps who came up with the 'Pat the Rat' moniker in the series. In 1988, he had a brief role in the miniseries '' The Dirtwater Dynasty''. Peter featured as David Eastwick, the first-born son of the main character Richard Eastwick, played by Hugo Weaving (who is fewer than six months older than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Peris
Nova Maree Peris (born 25 February 1971) is an Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician. As part of the Australian women's field hockey ( Hockeyroos) team at the 1996 Olympic Games, she was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal. She later switched sports to sprinting and went to the 1998 Commonwealth Games and 2000 Olympic Games. She was elected to the Australian Senate at the 2013 federal election, after then Prime Minister Julia Gillard named her as a "captain's pick", installing her as the preselected Labor candidate over incumbent Labor senator Trish Crossin. She retired from the Senate in 2016. Early life and education Peris was born in Darwin, Northern Territory. Her biological father was Indigenous rights activist John Christophersen, although she had no contact with him between the ages of 2 and 16. Her mother, Joan, had been removed from her own mother, and raised in the Catholic mission on Melville Island, as one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Bell (actress)
Melissa Bell (born 7 November 1972) is an Australian actress and fashion designer. She is best known for her roles of Bonnie Tait in '' E Street'', Lucy Robinson in ''Neighbours'', and Emily Harris in '' Paradise Beach''. Bell also made appearances in '' Home & Away'' and '' Water Rats''. Career Acting Bell had earlier appeared in the soap opera '' E Street'' in the guest role of Janine. She left the role of Lucy in ''Neighbours'' to return to '' E Street'' to play a new character, the eco-crusader Bonnie Tait. After '' E Street'' ended Bell made several brief returns to ''Neighbours''. She also acted in another soap, '' Paradise Beach'', playing surfer Emily Harris. In 1994, after returning from overseas, Bell secured guest roles in '' Over the Hill'' and '' G.P.''. She later appeared in several lifestyle programs, such as '' Celebrity Overhaul''. Fashion design Bell later become a fashion designer, selling kaftans and party wear from a boutique in Double Bay, Sydney. Pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Brother 4 (Australia)
''Big Brother 2004'', also known as ''Big Brother 4'', was the fourth season of the Australian reality television series '' Big Brother'', and was aired on Network Ten, starting on Sunday 2 May 2004, with the housemates entering the day before, and ended on Monday 26 July 2004, lasting 86 days. The season was billed as "back to basics, but with one small secret". In a return to the basic format of '' Big Brother 1'' and '' Big Brother 2'' that had been eschewed in favour of twists and surprises in '' Big Brother 3'', all housemates were let into the house together and former surprise elements such as swimming pools and gym equipment were all exposed from the beginning. The only main twist of the series was the prize money - which was raised from $250,000 to $1,000,000, but this was kept hidden from housemates until later in the season. Evicted housemates also received larger prizes than any season before, with every evictee receiving a top of the range Mitsubishi Lancer VR-X. Two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Butler
Trevor Butler is a TV personality, best known for being a contestant and winner of ''Big Brother Australia'' series 4 (airing in 2004). He known for being the first, and currently only, contestant to win the million-dollar prize, as opposed to previous seasons when the prize money was $250,000. The amount is also the highest amount of prize money awarded in Australian game show history, making Butler one of the highest paid Australian TV personalities. Butler also boosted interest in the final eviction night by proposing to his then-girlfriend Breea Forrest live on the eviction stage. There was some controversy regarding how much of his winnings could be claimed as tax. At one point the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) considered it to be payment for spending the time in the house, and therefore wanted to take nearly half of the winnings away. The ATO eventually gave in and did not take the money. Butler returned as a contestant for '' Big Brother 14'' alongside other previ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabio Lanzoni
Fabio Lanzoni (; born March 15, 1959), known List of one-word stage names, mononymously as Fabio, is an Italian actor, fashion model, and spokesman. Lanzoni is known for his wide-ranging career including work as a romance novel cover model throughout the 1990s, roles in film and television including multiple cameo appearances as himself, and music and books. He has been a spokesman for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! and the American Cancer Society. Early life Lanzoni was born 15 March 1959 in Milan, Italy, to Flora Carnicelli Lanzoni and Sauro Lanzoni, a mechanical engineer and owner of a conveyor-belt factory and/or company. Lanzoni has an older brother, Walter and a younger sister, Cristina. Lanzoni's father wanted Lanzoni to become an engineer and take over the family business. During the first five years of Lanzoni's life, he was raised primarily by his grandmother, whom he has called "the most influential woman" in his life. She died of cancer when Lanzoni was 13, having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Nature (band)
Human Nature are an Australian pop vocal group, which formed in 1989, as a quartet featuring Toby Allen, Phil Burton and brothers, Andrew and Mike Tierney. Originally they were established as a doo-wop group, called the 4 Trax, when the members were schoolmates. After signing with Sony Music as ''Human Nature'', they released their debut album, '' Telling Everybody'', in 1996. Four of their albums have reached number one on the ARIA Albums Charts, '' Counting Down'' (May 1999), '' Reach Out: The Motown Record'' (November 2005), '' Dancing in the Street: The Songs of Motown II'' (October 2006) and '' Gimme Some Lovin': Jukebox Vol II'' (August 2016). Three other albums reached number two, '' Get Ready'' (November 2007), ''Jukebox'' (October 2014), and '' Romance of the Jukebox'' (August 2018). Their top 10 hits on the related ARIA Singles Chart are " Wishes" (October 1996), " Don't Say Goodbye" (March 1997), " Everytime You Cry" (duet with John Farnham, Octobe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
