''Being Lara Bingle'' was an Australian
reality television
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series that premiered on 12 June 2012 on
Network Ten. The series followed the misadventures of model and minor television personality,
Lara Bingle
Lara Worthington (née Bingle) (born 22 June 1987) is an Australian model and media personality. She is known for appearing in the 2006 Tourism Australia advertising campaign '' So where the bloody hell are you?'' Her own reality television seri ...
.
In April 2013, Network Ten expressed that "the extreme youth focus that led to programs like (the similarly unsuccessful) ''
The Shire
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'' and ''Being Lara Bingle'' being commissioned is not quite right for us" and that Ten would now move on from that focus.
[http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/article/16640608/ten-admits-bingle-bungle-in-243m-loss/]
Cast
*
Lara Bingle Worthington – Model and TV personality
* Hermione Underwood – Lara's former manager and best friend
* Josh Bingle – Lara's brother
* Sharon Bingle – Lara's mother
Ratings
The series aired in the 8:00 pm–8:30 pm timeslot on Tuesdays. Ratings aggregated by OzTam subsequent to the premiere of the series indicate that the premiere episode received an estimated viewership of 925,000 viewers, during which a peak of 1.3 million was reached.
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Location
The reality series was filmed at
Bondi Beach in
New South Wales
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and other locations including
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,
Melbourne
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,
India
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, and
New Zealand
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.
See also
* ''
WAG Nation
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The first season of ''WAG ...
''
*
The Stafford Brothers
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References
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Network 10 original programming
2012 Australian television series debuts
2012 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian reality television series
English-language television shows