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Celebrity Overhaul
Celebrity Overhaul was a reality television and infotainment show on Australia's Nine Network in which celebrities undergo a rigorous exercise and diet Diet may refer to: Food * Diet (nutrition), the sum of the food consumed by an organism or group * Dieting, the deliberate selection of food to control body weight or nutrient intake ** Diet food, foods that aid in creating a diet for weight loss ... regime aimed at improving their fitness, health and general lifestyle, with the particular goal of Losing Weight, Weight Loss. These are coordinated by two personal trainers and a medical doctor. Hosted by Deborah Hutton (Australian editor), Deborah Hutton, there have been two seasons, (5 episodes x 1 hour) each respectively in 2004 and 2005. Featured Celebrities *Merv Hughes – cricketer (Seasons 1 and 2) *Paulini Curuenavuli – singer and Australian Idol (season 1), Australian Idol contestant. *Rowena Wallace – actress (Season 1) *Kate Fischer – model/former actress (S ... [...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 Inc. Born in England, United Kingdom, she immigrated to Australia when 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 n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Fischer
Tziporah Atarah Malkah (born Katherine Helen Fischer; 30 November 1973) is an Australian former model and actress. Early life and career Kate Fischer was born on 30 November 1973 in Adelaide, South Australia, the daughter of future Australian politician Pru Goward and university lecturer Alastair Fischer. She is the eldest of three daughters. She attended the Canberra Girls' Grammar School before going to Narrabundah College. In 1987, at the age of 13, Malkah won the '' Dolly'' Covergirl of the Year competition and was touted as the next Elle Macpherson. By the early 1990s, she had become a high-profile model working in Sydney and New York. She did shoots for Bloomingdales, ''Glamor'' magazine and ''Mademoiselle,'' and was featured on the covers of '' Black + White'' magazine and ''Vogue Australia''. In 2005–2006, Malkah was the face of AMP Capital Shopping Centres in Australia. In 1993, Malkah had a role in the Australian film ''Sirens'', playing alongside Elle Macpherson, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Network Original Programming
9 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 9 or nine may also refer to: Dates * AD 9, the ninth year of the AD era * 9 BC, the ninth year before the AD era * 9, numerical symbol for the month of September Places * Nine, Portugal, a parish in the town of Vila Nova de Famalicão * Planet Nine, a planet proposed to exist in the outer Solar System * Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, a closed town * The 9, a residential portion of Ameritrust Tower in Cleveland People * Louis Niñé (1922–1983), a New York politician whose surname is usually rendered "Nine" * Nine (rapper) (born 1969), a hip hop musician * Tech N9ne (born 1971), an American rapper Fictional characters * The Nine, epithet for the Nazgûl in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium * ⑨, a derogatory name for Cirno, an ice fairy from the dōjin game ''Touhou Project'' Literature * ''The Nine (book)'', a 2007 book by Jeffrey Toobin * ''NiNe. magazine'', a magazine for teenage girls * ''Nine'' (manga), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Australian Reality Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin 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 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 compli ... [...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 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 Country Club in Victoria. He ... [...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 that 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 mini series '' The Dirtwater Dynasty''. Peter featured as David Eastwick, the first-born son of the main character Richard Eastwick, played by Hugo Weaving (who is less than six months older than Phe ... [...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 Australian federal election, 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. Sporting career Peris was a representative in the Hockeyroos, Australian Women's Hockey team at the 1996 Summer Olympics, becoming the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal. In 1997, she switched sports and a year later she became a double gold medalist in the 1998 Commonwealth Games (Kuala Lump ... [...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 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 (TV series), 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 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 ''Paradise Beach'' is an Australian television series made by Village Roadshow Pictures. It was made in association with America's Genesis Entertainment which later merged with New World Television for the Nine Network, and aired between 1993 ...'', playing surfer Emily Harris. She later appeared in several lifestyle programs, ... [...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 Network 10 (commonly known as Ten Network, Channel 10 or simply 10) is an Australian commercial television network owned by Ten Network Holdings, a division of the Paramount Networks UK & Australia subsidiary of Paramount Global. One of five ..., 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 (Australian season 2), Big Brother 2'' that had been eschewed in favour of twists and surprises in ''Big Brother (Australian season 3), 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 beginni ... [...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). As well as being the first, and currently the only, contestant to win the million prize money, as opposed to previous seasons, when the prize money was previously $250,000, and is also the highest prize money awarded in Australia game show history, and making Butler, one of the highest paid 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 previous contestant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabio Lanzoni
Fabio Lanzoni (; born March 15, 1959), known mononymously as Fabio, is an Italian-American actor, fashion model, and spokesman. Lanzoni is known for his wide-ranging career including appearing as a romance novel cover model throughout the 1990s; his acting and television roles, including multiple cameo appearances as himself; and his 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 younger sister, Cristina. Lanzoni's father wanted Lanzoni to become an engineer and take over the family business. When he was 3 years old, Lanzoni sampled liquors that were left on the kitchen counter, leading to him being hospitalized. Lanzoni claims this unpleasant experience "left a lasting bad impression" and caus ... [...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, October 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
