JO-BETH TAYLOR

Jo-Beth Taylor, (born Joanne Guilfoyle on May 29th 1971 in Perth Australia) is an Australian television personality known for presenting on the Nine Network programs Australia's Funniest Home Video Show and Hey Hey It's Saturday in the mid to late 1990s.  She appeared on â€œIn Melbourne Tonightâ€� in 1999, singing I Want You Back.  Also in 1999, she joined the cast of the Australian stage production, Happy Days:  The Arena Mega Musical. She played Laura, a character created for the stage show, who was in cahoots with Jon Stevens' Frank (also an original character) to put the famous diner out of business.  The music selected for the production was almost entirely from the sixties.   Jo Beth's songs included Stand By Me, You Don't Own Me and Tell Him.

In 2000, she hosted â€œStarstruckâ€�; an Australian Saturday night talent quest show, in what was her final television role. Later that year she married tennis player Thomas Muster in Austria, with whom she had one child (Christian). She divorced Muster in 2005. She made a television appearance in 2005 on Australia Unites: Reach Out to Asia, a joint venture by the Seven, Nine, and Ten networks to raise money for the Boxing Day Tsunami. 

In 2006, she moved to Queensland and joined Noosa's radio station Zinc 96.1 FM morning crew with Jamie Dunn and Agro. She co-hosted an Australian version of Dirty Jobs on Channel 9 with Ben Dark … more

LARRY EMDUR

Larry Emdur, since bringing his energetic style and famous smile to the corporate world, he has been in big demand on the circuit.  His unique “corporate game show“ concept coupled with his charismatic and entertaining on-stage antics has made his transition from the TV stage to the corporate stage a popular and successful move.  Larry Emdur began his career as a copyboy at the Sydney morning herald in 1980 and since then has worked on virtually every form of television. Â 

At age 17 he became Australia’s youngest national newsreader presenting the overnight news for channel 7.  After two years reporting and presenting for the 7 news, Emdur was invited to join channel 10s good morning Australia where he travelled the globe interviewing the world’s most famous people and reporting on weird and wonderful stories. He has reported and presented on news, current affairs, lifestyle, infotainment shows, participated in live international broadcasts, hosted five seasons of the uncle Toby’s ironman super series (channel 10).

He’s written, produced and presented the top rating prime time series “The World’s Worst Drivers� (channel 9) Known as one of TV’s most versatile performers, he has hosted good morning Australia, the midday show, tonight live, Sydney current affairs, in Melbourne tonight.  Additionally he was the most regular fill-in host on Hey Hey it’s Saturday.

Larry Emdur, probably best known for his four prime time game shows … more

DANNII MINOGUE

Dannii Minogue:  After a staggering sixteen years in the music industry, nineteen hit singles and four top selling UK albums, Dannii Minogue has finally had a chance to draw breath and reflect on her amazing career.  To mark the occasion, Dannii is releasing a collection of her previous singles alongside six stunning new songs, fittingly entitled The Hits And Beyond.  It's an opportunity for her long-term followers to reminisce along with her but also an eagerly awaited chance for Dannii's many new fans to find out just what they missed. 

Quite simply, it's a unique collection of timeless pop songs that few other artists can boast, a selection of tracks that charmed hearts, transcended musical fads and moved dance floors whatever year they were released and, best of all, a sign there is plenty more where they came from.  Few artists have had as much fun and success as Dannii Minogue, the girl whose friends lovingly call 'Disco'.

Performing has always been in Dannii's blood, though even in her wildest dreams she never imagined her life would turn out the way it has. Brought up on Abba and Olivia Newton John in Melbourne, Australia, she has been singing and entertaining as long as she can remember. "There was a lot of jumping around the lounge room at home singing into a hairbrush," she laughs about those days now … more

RAY WINSTONE

Ray Winstone, had a supporting role in “The Departed� (2006), Martin Scorsese’s star studded crime thriller about a cop (Leonardo Di Caprio) deep undercover inside a crime syndicate run by Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson), a Boston Irish mob boss who has one of his own (Matt Damon) undercover on the police force. As both institutions do battle to bring down the other side, the two moles struggle to reveal each other without having their own cover blown. Winstone played Costello’s loyal right hand, Mr. French. A strong character actor known for his multi-dimensional portrayals of hard men on the wrong side of the law, Ray Winstone burst onto the scene with a riveting performance in the British-made “Scum� (1979).

He gravitated towards more complex characters, portraying often violent men with a strong degree of sympathy, as he did playing an abusive alcoholic in his breakthrough performance in “Nil By Mouthâ€� (1997). But it was his turn in “Sexy Beastâ€� (2001), as a reticent ex-con beset by a rabid ex colleague trying to recruit him for a job, which earned Winstone some of the highest praise of his career as well as his supporting role in the Australian filmed romantic comedy “Fool’s Goldâ€� during 2008 working beside Donald Sutherland, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. He also then entered into the realm of the high profile Hollywood feature, appearing in “King Arthurâ€� (2004) before co-starring in perhaps one of the most anticipated summer movies of all time, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skullâ€� (2008), firmly establishing him as one of the most prolific and acclaimed actors of his generation to cross the Atlantic … more

KIM BUNNEY

Kim Bunney, 92.5 Gold FM Presenter; (Born March 1984, Western Australia) Kim is a Network Radio Presenter for Southern Cross Media.  Kim hosts a light hearted fun, radio show and you can hear her weeknights from 6.00pm to 10.00pm on 92.5 Gold Fm on the Gold Coast and 40 other stations around Australia.  Her show ‘30 Something’, is a countdown with a difference every night.  As a matter of fact, it is a different countdown every night of 30 songs with a brand new theme. It could be anything from 30 of the best air guitar songs, 30 Love Songs, 30 artists that rocked a mullet in the 80’s or even, 30 songs from artists whose first names rhyme with caterpillar; Ok so the last one might be a stretch but if they can find 30 songs that fit the theme, then Kim will be doing it with a smiling skip in her voice every week night on air, awaiting your calls!

Kim has been working in radio and moving all over Australia for her career since she was 19 years old.  Starting out at 92.9FM in Perth as a Roadrunner and “Kim the phone chickâ€� on the Hot 30 countdown with Tim Lee, she soon developed a love for the industry, so much so that she jumped at the chance of her first ‘breakfast on air’ gig in Port Hedland WA.  It wasn’t long before she scored a job back at home in Perth on Coast FM as their promotions manager and Nights Top 30 Hit list Presenter. Having the desire to find greater opportunities she headed to Brisbane.  Over the following year Kim worked casually for Sea FM, Mix FM & Gold FM on the Sunshine and Gold Coast, B105 & Triple M in Brisbane … more

GUY PRATT

Guy Pratt has played bass with the biggest names in music over the last twenty five years.  From Pink Floyd, Madonna and Davie Bowie to The Smiths, Jimmy Page, Bryan Ferry and Michael Jackson.  Guy’s wit is the stuff of legend and has got him as many jobs as his musical abilities.  His new book “My Bass and Other Animals� is a hilarious account of life with the gods of music.  It will have you rolling in the aisles and playing air (bass) guitar in the privacy of your bedroom.

Timing was great when Guy Pratt picked up his first bass guitar.  He came of age just as it moved from rock ‘n’ roll’s poor relation to something allot cooler.  In the 70’s, disco had great bass lines, but it was punk that put the bass player on the map.  With its move away from prosaic guitar solos, punk made sure the limelight was shared a little more evenly.  Of course it helped that the likes of Paul Simenon, JJ Burnel and Bruce Foxton were just so bloody cool. Finally for Guy Pratt and a whole host of wannabe bass players, it became an activity that was no longer hidden behind closed doors yet proudly demonstrated in music shops along Denmark Street and Tin Pan Alley, impressing friends and even getting the approval of girlfriends.  The bass player had finally arrived!

Guy Pratt played with Australian eighties icon band Icehouse, who suddenly found themselves supporting David Bowie on his 'Serious Moonlight' tour of 1983. Since then he's played bass with everyone, from The Smiths, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson and Madonna, through to Iggy Pop, The Pretenders and Echo and the Bunnymen. His live show was a … more

STEPHANIE RYAN-SMITH

Stephanie Ryan-Smith has had a steady and successful career as a presenter and model, as well as having worked within the areas of Emcee and event facilitation & coordination over the past several years.  In that time she has modelled for large scale advertising campaigns, appeared in TVC's and had guest roles as an actor in Australian film and television. Since 2005 Stephanie has also worked for various magazine publications in production, styling and media placement.

Stephanie's role as a TV presenter working with Southern Cross Network TEN led to more work in the area of television presenting, landing her several ongoing guest presenter appearances on TEN's 'The 9am Show', which have subsequently led to other on-going television presenting work, live MC hosting work and conference facilitation.  Stephanie also held a position as a television game show model that lasted several years.  Having had a lot of on camera, as well as off camera experience gives Stephanie a 360 degree spectrum of knowledge when dealing with all of the ins & outs that are required to make a publicity project work.  

Her university background is in the area of media studies, bachelor of journalism, and her formal training in the performing arts covers classical ballet, acting for television, acting for stage, commercial dance styles and musical theatre. Some of the satisfied clients Stephanie has already represented as their Emcee or television presenter are The Make A Wish Foundation, Tourism Western Australia, Optus, Accor International Hotels, FIFA Games/EA Sports and … more

NATALIE BASSINGTHWAIGHTE

Natalie Bassingthwaighte, after putting her ‘on-camera’ nerves aside, it wasn't long until Natalie was set to take over our television screens in one of Australia's most popular soap operas, Neighbours. Knowing that the job would prove very beneficial to her credibility as an actress, her manager, Mark Byrne put her up for the audition. At first she wasn't particularly eager to work on a soap opera, knowing that music was her first love. She agreed to do the audition, and accepted the role as the conniving Ramsay Street sex siren, Izzy Hoyland, a character she portrayed for 4 years.

Taking on a role so far removed from her own personality wasn't bound to be easy, but Nat really sunk her teeth into the development of the bitchy Izzy. The character was loved and loathed by many, and it shocked Nat when she was constantly being recognised as 'Izzy' on the street. Working on the show became more than a job as she made some fabulous friends along the way.

In the meantime, she had been working on her own demos; mainly songs with an acoustic-rock sound before she was to be recruited for Aussie dance outfit the, 'Rogue Traders' in late 2004. After being presented with their music, Nat went in and met the two masterminds behind the project, DJ's James Ash and Steve Davis. They had auditioned a field of 15-20 girls before Natalie Bassingthwaighte walked through the door, but after she sang 'Voodoo Child,' they knew … more

ROVE McMANUS

Rove McManus, started his entertainment career as a stand up comedian but has gone on to become Australia’s most successful talk show host and one of its biggest producers of entertainment television. Rove got his first TV gig on community television, hosting his own tonight show, The Loft with a budget of $500 a week. Rove hit the prime time schedule in 2000 with Rove Live on Network TEN after a brief late night stint on the Nine Network in 1999.

Rove Live has continued on the Network TEN as a weekly, live tonight show and has made Rove McManus Australia’s most popular television personality. The show has played host to some of the planet’s biggest names with the likes of Cameron Diaz, John Travolta, Drew Barrymore, Matt Damon, The Duchess of York and U2 taking time out to chat with Rove. At the same time Rove’s production company Roving Enterprises has produced two scripted comedy series, a weekly sports panel show and the ARIA Awards, Australia’s equivalent of the Grammy Awards which Rove has also hosted three times.

At the same time Rove has managed to continue touring as a stand up, performing full length shows in theatres across Australia and New Zealand and hosted a nationally syndicated radio program. Rove has also been a three-time recipient of Australia’s most prestigious television, award the oddly named Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality. In 2007 Rove returned to a new time slot, holding down the Sunday 8:30 timeslot, up against Grey’s Anatomy and CSI … more

MAGDA SZUBANSKI

Magda Szubanski, is one of Australia's best-loved and most versatile comedy performers. Magda is recognized internationally for her portrayal of Mrs. Hoggett, one of the few human characters in the animated films Babe and Babe: Pig in the City, Szubanski was also integral to the success of several of Australia's landmark television comedy programs of the '80s and '90s. In 1985, along with friends from Melbourne University's revues, she created and starred in The D-Generation, a cult sketch comedy show that aired for three seasons on the ABC, Australia's highly regarded public broadcaster.

She was also part of the writing and performing team that created the Seven Network's weekly sketch comedy series Fast Forward, a smash-hit that would become the highest rated comedy program in the country's television history and which would earn her numerous awards for comedy performance at both The Logies and The People's Choice.

In 1995, the series Big Girl's Blouse, which Szubanski and Fast Forward friends Gina Riley and Jane Turner wrote, produced and appeared in, won an Australian Writer's Guild Award for Best Comedy. Szubanski’s other sketch comedy credits include ‘Something Stupid’ for the Seven Network and the 2002 ABC award winning series ‘Kath and Kim'. In 2000, Szubanski created, co-produced and starred in Dog Woman. Szubanski wrote the first episode of this murder mystery series, which received a 2000 Logie Award nomination for best telemovie or miniseries and best screenplay … more

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY

Matthew McConaughey, Born November 4th, 1969 - With a rangy handsomeness that makes him look as if he would be equally comfortable branding cattle, Matthew McConaughey found fame shortly after making his screen debut in Richard Linklater's 1993 Dazed and Confused. After being cast in two high-profile 1996 films, Lone Star and A Time to Kill, the actor was soon being hailed as one of the industry's hottest young leading men, inspiring comparisons to such charismatic purveyors of cinematic testosterone as Paul Newman and Tom Cruise.

A product of Texas, McConaughey was raised in Longview. The son of a substitute teacher and a former member of the Green Bay Packers, he excelled in sports as a high school student and was voted "Most Handsome" by his senior class. After graduating, McConaughey spent some time working in Australia and then returned to the States to attend the University of Texas at Austin.

It was there that he met producer and casting director Don Phillips, who introduced him to director Linklater, and, after directing from UT in 1993 with a degree in film production, McConaughey was cast in Dazed and Confused. Although his role as Wooderson, a slacker old enough to know better, was relatively small, McConaughey succeeded in winning a degree of immortality with lines like, "That's what I like about high school girls: I keep getting older, they stay the same age." … more

JANE TURNER

Jane Turner, (born December 1st 1960 in Newcastle) is an Australian actress, comedian and Logie Award winning comedy writer.  She has three children: Rupert, Nicholas, and Anna with her husband, John Denton. Turner has appeared in many popular Australian TV programs, namely Prisoner in a straight dramatic role, with comedy roles in sketch comedy programs The D-Generation, Fast Forward, Full Frontal, Big Girl's Blouse and Something Stupid. In Fast Forward Turner played such roles as: Bobbie Battista, Sveta, Foccacia (Clubbed Out), Allison (MTV host), Ita Buttrose, Sophie Lee (Australian actress) & Karen Moregold (Astrologer). On Fast Forward Turner (Sveta) recorded a song with Peter Moon (Victor), called "Don't Do Your Soviet Bloc".   More recently known as staring in her own TV award winning series ‘Kath And Kim’ with friends and co writers Gina Riley (as Kim), Magda Szubanski and Glenn Robbins.

In the 2000s Turner has received accolades for her performance in Kath & Kim, an ABC (Now Seven Network) comedy series which she created, wrote, produced and starred in with her long time friend and collaborator, Gina Riley. They met when they were 15. They've since become Australian icons, up there with vegemite, Hills hoists and locking little kiddies in detention centres.  Their credits include 'Fast Forward', 'Big Girl's Blouse' and, of course, 'Kath and Kim'.  Please welcome Gina Riley and Jane Turner.  Kath & Kim became the most successful ABC syndicated show in Australian television history. Turner plays Kath, one of the leading roles in the show and an occasional character, Prue, a shop keeper at the Fountain Gate Shopping Centre.  Magda Szubanski also played a key role in this Aussie favourite as Sharon Strzelecki … more

DONALD SUTHERLAND

Donald Sutherland, perhaps one of the most prolific and widely recognized actors of his generation, Donald Sutherland made a career playing some of the most unusual and memorable characters in cinema history. Though best known for playing odd, off-beat roles, like a hippie tank commander in “Kelly’s Heroes� (1970), an anti authoritarian surgeon in “M*A*S*H� (1970) and a stoned out college professor in “Animal House� (1978), Sutherland cut a wide swath of characters throughout his career, mainly in order to avoid being typecast as freaked out weirdos. Critical acclaim for several of his performances especially “Ordinary People� (1980) and “JFK� (1991) was abundant, but he rarely received any awards, a surprising revelation given the breadth and quality of his work.

Born on July 17, 1935 in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, Sutherland was raised in neighbouring Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. His father, Frederick, was a salesman and head of the local bus, gas and electric company, and his mother, Dorothy, was a mathematics teacher.  When he was 14, Sutherland was heard on CKBW as the youngest news reader and disc jockey in Canada. After high school, he studied engineering at the University of Toronto, but he quickly made the switch to an English major and began acting in school productions, making his stage debut in “The Male Animalâ€� in 1952.  He graduated UT in 1956, and then moved to England where he attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts … more