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Daily Mail
3 days ago
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- Daily Mail
The shock secret soapie flings you DID NOT know about - including 'hours of passion' between Heath Ledger and Kate Ritchie
The Aussie TV industry may be small, but it's had its fair share of romantic interludes over the years. Yes, Neighbours' Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan got their airtime in the pages, as did her sister Dannii Minogue and the late Julian McMahon after sparks flew in Home and Away. But what about the rest? Turns out, there is an underground archive of soap stars that slipped into the sheets together and slipped off the tabloid radar without anyone noticing. From Neighbours actors that got too neighbourly to Home and Away stars that couldn't leave their feelings in Summer Bay, the TV circuit proves to be a hotbed of hedonism. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Heath Ledger and Kate Ritchie (Home and Away) It seems Heath Ledger and Kate Ritchie's on-screen romance spilled into reality after the Gold Logie winner made a telling comment about her time acting alongside the late star. Heath, who played bad boy Scott Irwin, and Kate, who played Sally Fletcher, were love interests on the show, both being around 17 at the time. In 2018, Kate sat down for an interview to celebrate 30 years of the hit soap and shed light on her relationship with the Hollywood star. 'Heath was very good looking, very charming,' she said in the trailer. 'There were a few hours of teenage passion.' While the pair never confirmed a relationship or tryst of any kind, Kate did go on to say that she was 'the envy of all the girls on set' as she got to lock lips with hunky Heath multiple times on the show. Tragically, Heath was found dead at a New York City apartment on January 22, 2008, after an accidental overdose, following months of physical and emotional exhaustion. Axle Whitehead and Samara Weaving (Home and Away) Life imitated art for Axle Whitehead and Samara Weaving, who announced their relationship while their fictional romance blossomed on screens. Axle, who played Liam Murphy, and Samara, who played Indi Walker, reportedly dated briefly in July 2012. However, the alliance was over quicker than it started, with both the stars spotted cuddling up with other people in August that year. Axle was snapped with a beautiful brunette at a Surry Hills bar and Samara was seen getting close to her new man in Sydney's inner west, according to Nine Honey. The split appeared sugary sweet, with Axle claiming that they remained good friends with a lot of respect for each other. Samara soon turned her sights to Hollywood, starring in blockbusters Ready or Not, Babylon and Borderline. Axle, on the other hand, spends his time playing music gigs at small venues across Sydney and selling his used music equipment on Instagram. Lincoln Lewis and Indiana Evans (Home and Away) Did you know that Lincoln Lewis and Indiana Evans were an item? These Home and Away lovebirds also enjoyed a brief stint of dating, but called a time out on their romance in 2008 after just a few months together. However, their short-lived romance became the talk of the town in 2009 after Lincoln confessed that he had filmed a sex tape the year prior and showed it to his castmates. At the time, The Daily Telegraph reported that the clip featured a 'teenage TV starlet'. Daily Mail is not suggesting that Indiana was involved in the alleged scandal. 'You do stupid things when you are young,' he told the publication in 2010. 'But you learn from your mistakes, that's part of growing up — this mistake, and what I have learnt, will contribute a lot to making me a better person in the future.' Stefan Dennis and Gayle Blakeney (Neighbours) Before Stefan Dennis and Gail Easdale lived happily ever after, there was a Gayle of another kind on the scene - and the screen. Gayle Blakeney, who played Christina Alessi on the show, dated the longtime Neighbours star between 1990 and 1992. And while their characters wed on the show, the pair didn't make it to the altar in real-life, instead parting amicably and Stefan moving on to another Neighbours castmate... Stefan Dennis and Natalie Imbruglia (Neighbours) It seems Stefan was quite the fan of the Neighbours watering hole, for pretty quickly he was embroiled in a secret romance with another one of his co-stars Natalie Imbruglia. Natalie, who went on to enjoy a successful music career with hits such as Torn and Big Mistake, first appeared on the beloved soapie in 1992 as Beth Brennan. Stefan revealed that the pair struck up a relationship after sparks flew on set, leading to his reputation among the cast as a ladies' man. 'Because of my relationship with Gayle and later, in a well-kept secret, I was also going out with Natalie Imbruglia, there was a rumour that I was making my way through the female cast,' he told Stellar in 2022. The revelation was a shock, not only because it slid under the tabloids' radar, but because Stefan was 17 years her senior. Beau Brady and Bec Hewitt (Home and Away) Bec Hewitt (Cartwright at the time) and Beau Brady's relationship was widely covered at the time, but the early noughties romance may have slipped your minds since it came crumbling down twenty years ago. The couple, taking their on-screen relationship off-screen, dated for four years and were hailed as Australia's soapie sweethearts. Beau even proposed, with the couple enjoying a few months engaged before Bec called off it off in 2004 and broke hearts across the country. In the ultimate plot twist, Bec moved into WAG territory the following year, dating tennis star Lleyton Hewitt for six weeks before getting engaged in 2005 and then married. The pair have now been playing the tennis game that is marriage for 20 years. Speaking with Woman's Day magazine in 2010, Beau broke his silence on their split and also made some shock claims about the fallout of their relationship. 'I'm only speculating, but in the end I'm still not really sure why Bec broke it off. Maybe it was because I didn't own a Ferrari!' he told the mag. Beau also claimed that Bec started texting and calling Lleyton while they were together and that she disappeared for more than a week before dumping him. 'I thought there was nothing to it because - let's face it - I'm a much better looking dude than Lleyton,' he added. Sigh... There's nothing worse than when your former tennis partner starts calling fouls.
The Sun
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Strictly star slams ‘manipulative' TV industry after quitting fame for OnlyFans – and reveals family member's jibe
A FORMER Strictly star has branded the TV industry as 'manipulative' after quitting fame for OnlyFans. John Whaite rose to fame after winning The Great British Bake Off in 2012. 4 4 The 36-year-old later competed on Strictly Come Dancing, finishing as runner-up behind Rose Ayling-Ellis. Speaking to Gay Times Magazine, John opened up about his experiences in the TV industry. The baker and presenter said: "I think the deeper conversation here is about welfare generally within the TV industry. I think that is still very much an elusive beast. "As soon as Strictly finishes, it's like, get out the hotel, get out the flat, go home, but that is a life- altering event for the individual who's been subject to the headlines, often at the hand of these shows, because these shows sometimes feed stories to the media. "TV is manipulative and it's a distortion of truth, there's always an ulterior motive. "People aren't being fed the unadulterated, objective truth. And I certainly don't subscribe to that." Continuing, John recounted how he was "around 23" during his time on Bake Off. He recalled thinking his "existence hinged on being successful in television." John added: "But I think when you go through all these different permutations of your life, you start to realise that the b******t just does not matter. "What actually matters is your health, your sanity, your loved ones, your family, be it biological or chosen." Elsewhere in the interview, John revealed a family member had called him "disgusting" due to his OnlyFans content. The Sun previously revealed how he made a return to the platform earlier this year. The star had been posting a series of very explicit videos and images for his legion of subscribers on the adult-only website. Sources close to the star – who was paired with Johannes Radebe on Strictly - said: 'John has been telling friends he feels really empowered by posting what he wants. 'He's in amazing shape and is proud of how far he has come. 'He's says it really has nothing to do with money and it's not about helping fund his bakery business. 'John doesn't care what anyone else thinks. "He's really happy with the content he is creating.' 4
Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Trump and Jimmy Kimmel are trading barbs after Stephen Colbert's cancellation
President Donald Trump and Jimmy Kimmel traded shots after CBS canceled Stephen Colbert's show. Trump targeted Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon, saying they'd be next to go and have "absolutely NO TALENT." Kimmel snapped back with a reference to reporting about Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. Stephen Colbert's canceled, President Trump is on the attack, and Jimmy Kimmel is hitting back. Trump said Tuesday in a Truth Social post that ABC's Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC's "Tonight Show," would be "NEXT to go" after CBS declined to renew Colbert's contract. "The word is, and it's a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, Fallon will be gone," Trump wrote. The president slammed Kimmel and Fallon as having "absolutely NO TALENT" and even blamed them for "destroying what used to be GREAT Television." Kimmel clapped back an hour later on Instagram by alluding to The Wall Street Journal's reporting on Trump and disgraced financier and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in 2019. The Journal reported that a letter bearing Trump's name was given to Epstein as part of a book created for his birthday in 2003. In an interview with the Journal, Trump denied writing the letter or drawing the picture, saying, "I never wrote a picture in my life. I don't draw pictures of women," and "It's not my language. It's not my words." Trump has since sued the Journal over the story, alleging defamation. "I'm hearing you're next. Or maybe it's just another wonderful secret," Kimmel wrote in the Instagram post, which featured a screenshot of Trump's post about him. The Journal reported that the letter bearing Trump's name said: "Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret." Kimmel, Fallon, and spokespeople for ABC, NBC, and CBS didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. Colbert's cancellation has drawn scrutiny for its timing, as CBS's parent company, Paramount Global, needs FCC approval for an acquisition by Skydance. This month, Paramount said it had agreed to pay Trump a $16 million settlement. Trump had sued CBS, alleging "60 Minutes" had deceptively edited an interview with Kamala Harris during the presidential campaign. CBS has said that the decision not to renew Colbert's show was "purely a financial decision." Colbert's show was losing roughly $40 million per year, Reuters reported. And as BI's Peter Kafka wrote, the TV business, including late-night, is "very much challenged." Hosts and others in the entertainment community have been sounding off and standing up for Colbert after CBS declined to renew his show when his contract expires in mid-2026. "I don't like it. I don't like what's going on one bit — these are crazy times," Fallon said in reference to the Colbert cancellation to open his show on Monday night. Jon Stewart also blasted CBS's decision during an expletive-filled monologue on Monday's "The Daily Show." "When your industry is faced with changes, you don't just call it a day. My God, when CDs stopped selling, they didn't just go, 'Oh well, music, it's been a good run,'" Stewart said. Stewart and Colbert's shows share a parent company in Paramount. Read the original article on Business Insider Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Critic's Notebook: The Awful Optics of CBS Canceling ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert'
In a shocking move that reflected just about every deeply felt insecurity in the TV industry, the entertainment industry and perhaps American media at large, CBS announced on Thursday, July 17, that The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will wrap its run in May 2026, following the 2025-26 broadcast season. Eager to emphasize that this wasn't a Colbert-specific thing, CBS, in its statement, said that the entire Late Show franchise is coming to an end. This isn't quite the same, in historical terms, as the legacy shift that would occur if NBC announced the end of The Tonight Show — The Late Show was David Letterman and then it was Stephen Colbert, not an endless and storied parade of hosts — but it's a degree of finality that few could have expected. More from The Hollywood Reporter Jimmy Kimmel, Elizabeth Warren, Ben Stiller React With Shock Over CBS' Decision to End 'Late Show': "F*** You and All Your Sheldons CBS" 'Late Show' Shocker: CBS Ending Late-Night Franchise in 2026 Joaquin Phoenix Explains Reason Behind That Awkward 'Late Show With David Letterman' Interview Actually, the statement from CBS brass had a lot of things it wanted to emphasize. 'This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night,' the statement read. 'It is not related in any way to the show's performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.' Methinks the CBS triumvirate — George Cheeks, Amy Reisenbach, David Stapf — doth emphasize too much, because they don't want imaginations to run wild. And therefore, we must trust them, for official purposes. I'm sure that The Late Show With Stephen Colbert is absolutely ending because of a financial decision against the challenging backdrop of late night and it's not related in any way to the show's performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount. The official reasons for the cancellation are whatever they are, and who am I to question the co-CEO of Paramount Global (and president and chief executive officer of CBS), the president of CBS Entertainment and the president of CBS Studios? Nobody. That's who. But official reasons and optics are two different things, and if the folks in charge at CBS didn't know what the optics were, they wouldn't have released a statement saying that what we think we can see with our eyes and infer with our common sense definitely aren't the truth. The optics here may not have any connection to facts, but man the optics here suck — and they suck on a slew of levels that are ALL addressed in the statement as things that we're not supposed to be thinking about but can't help but think about. So it's not related to anything happening at Paramount! Good to know! What could possibly be happening at Paramount? A merger between CBS' parent company, Paramount Global, and Skydance? A massive deal that was seen as a major part of why CBS just settled a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump over details from a Kamala Harris interview that basically everybody in the news business said was standard operating procedure? The deal, of course, requires FCC approval, and the FCC under Trump is looking a lot less like a nonpartisan commission and more like a direct arm of the Trump administration. And what content could the statement possibly be referring to? Well, Colbert was not a huge fan of the settlement. Colbert has not been a huge fan of the president. If you want to send signs to the FCC and Trump that you really want to be allowed to merge with Skydance, canceling a show fronted by one of Trump's most vocal comic opponents would be a great way of saying, 'Hey, we're playing ball here!' If Trump hasn't already enthusiastically gloated on social media about getting Colbert fired — which he definitely didn't do, because CBS' statement definitely says he didn't do it — he's bound to. (Update: He did on Friday morning.) Then again, Colbert isn't going anywhere for 10 months and it's hard to imagine him agreeing to stick around for a swan song in which his content is being restricted by the network that canceled the show. So let's assume that he's going to spend a season lampooning Trump, even as a lame duck. I wouldn't even say that Colbert has been Trump's stiffest critic in the talk show space. John Oliver is aggressive in his analysis on HBO, thumbing his nose at corporate parents who, all things considered, might prefer that he not do that. Jimmy Kimmel is toward the tail-end of a multi-decade journey from jovial, trampoline-loving young man to angry, dogmatic middle-aged man, eviscerating the current administration at every turn. No matter who is hosting on any given night, The Daily Show takes pride in taking shots at whoever is in power, finding shots at Trump to be particularly easy to come by. The 'A Closer Look' segment on Late Night With Seth Meyers rivals Last Week Tonight as TV's most scathing deep dive into whatever is most immediately infuriating in the current landscape. There are less political talk show hosts. Jimmy Fallon plays his various games and goofs around with celebrities and, you know what? There's room for that! (I want nothing to do with it, but that's OK, too.) And when Seth Meyers isn't taking closer looks, sometimes he's just drinking with stars or making fun of his own errors. And you know what? There's room for that! And if Netflix would renew Everybody's Live With John Mulaney, I'd like to believe there's room for doing a talk show episode blindfolded or fighting a trio of 14-year-old boys on live television. Or is there? As the CBS statement wanted to emphasize, this is about 'a challenging backdrop in late night.' Even before All of This, CBS had already ended The Late Late Show after James Corden departed, replacing it with After Midnight, only to cancel After Midnight when host Taylor Tomlinson opted to focus on other professional projects. At some point, CBS might just air whatever procedural or reality show is in the 10 p.m. slot, kick to local news and then play the national anthem and go black, just like back in the good old days. And might everybody else do the same? Talk shows aren't watched like they used to be. Sure, they're one of the best vehicles going for movie stars looking to promote their latest aspiring blockbuster or politicians looking to show they have a sense of humor, but it's been 10 years of increased focus on YouTube and viral clips and nobody has quite figured out how to eliminate the pesky 'late night television show' aspect of things. But it sure feels like they want to try! So the reasons CBS is actually ending The Late Show With Stephen Colbert are what they are. The reasons it FEELS like CBS is ending The Late Show With Stephen Colbert FEEL like they include a precarious situation in which a multibillion-dollar corporate deal might hinge on doing everything possible to kowtow to a commission that isn't supposed to be political, but absolutely is; a political climate in which outspoken opponents to the current regime are more vulnerable than ever before to silencing ripples; and an entertainment economic landscape in which one of the most venerable of television genres is no longer profitable, and thus might go the way of live anthology drama and broadcast Westerns. And even if none of those things has anything to do with anything … It sure looks awful. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise Solve the daily Crossword
CNN
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Taylor Sheridan shows like ‘Landman' and ‘Yellowstone' are popular with everyone but the Emmys
Actor, writer and director Taylor Sheridan is one of the most successful people in the TV industry, except by one measurement. The creator of shows, including the 'Yellowstone' franchise, 'Landman' and 'Tulsa King,' among others, has featured A-list talent such as Kevin Costner, Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford, Billy Bob Thornton, Demi Moore and Sylvester Stallone. One thing has eluded Sheridan, however: Emmy Awards. While 'Tulsa King' and 'Lioness' were nominated for best stunts and '1923' scored nods for production design and costumes, his six eligible dramas were shut out of Emmy nominations in major categories this year. Despite the incredible popularity of his many shows that have been an audience bonanza for Paramount+, Television Academy voters have not shown Sheridan the same love. The shows he has created, 'Yellowstone,' '1883,' '1923,' 'Tulsa King,' 'Lioness,' 'Mayor of Kingstown' and 'Landman' have made Sheridan much more famous than his former acting roles - or his Oscar nomination for original screenplay for 'Hell or High Water' - ever did. Sheridan is not exactly a Hollywood insider, however. Not only does he live the cowboy dreams his shows often portray at his enormous ranch in Texas, he's become the man most synonymous with 'rural America' in the TV industry, thanks to his salt of the earth characters. During an appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast last year, he explained why he thinks his TV work has not received critical acclaim in alignment with how prolific he's been. 'It's not surprising that critics hate it because it's designed for them to hate,' Sheridan told Rogan. They have 'no plot, really,' according to Sheridan. 'In that, I have a lot of opportunities to poke fun, but also kind of point out different points of view and kind of really study a way of life and a world,' he said. 'There's a lot of defiance in the way I do it.' He also displayed that he's given some thought to the differing ideologies between liberalism and conservatism, noting a passage from a book which discuses why the opposing ideologies are so polorizing. 'Essentially, it's stated that the liberal point of view was that crime and all these social ills is a social construct and that if you could find a way to level the playing field for everybody, crime would be eliminated, all these issues would go away, poverty would go away, all of the social ills that we have would disappear if everyone had the same opportunities and the same stuff,' Sheridan said. 'The flipside of that is the conservative view which is, 'There's evil in the world, there's good in the world, we're gonna try and manage the evil as best we can and create an opportunity for people to succeed, or they can f**k up and best of luck.' 'One side seems naive, one side seems extremely harsh, but those are the beliefs and that side can never compromise with this side and vise-versa because you're abandoning your own ideology,' he added. Sheridan will give the Emmy voters even more material to potentially ignore as he has another 'Yellowstone' spinoff, 'The Madison,' in the works as well as 'Nola King,' a 'Tulsa King' spinoff reportedly set to star another acclaimed actor most associated with movies - Samuel L. Jackson.
