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Hughesy spills the beans on major shows set to be axed

<p>Dave Hughes has shared his prediction that <em>The Masked Singer</em> is die to be axed from Network Ten's lineup this year as the network continues to battle dwindling ratings. </p> <p>The host of the show made the admission on his radio show on Tuesday, saying he hadn't been given any updates on when filming was due to commence. </p> <p>“We’ve been waiting on a production schedule. That production schedule has not come through, so as far as I know, <em>The Masked Singer </em>won’t be filmed this year for Channel 10,” Hughes said on his show Hughesy, Ed and Erin on 2DayFM.</p> <p>“We’ve had such a great time over those years, it’s been such a fun show to be on, so many great singers have been on,” he continued. “We’ve had great panels. We started with Jackie O, Dannii Minogue, [Lindsay] Lohan, then Urzila Carlson came in, we’ve got Abbie Chatfield, Chrissy Swan, Mel B. All stars in their own right."</p> <p>“It’s a tough one for the production team.”</p> <p>Later during the radio show, Hughesy and the team called Osher Günsberg to question whether <em>The Bachelor </em>was facing the same grim fate as <em>The Masked Singer</em>. </p> <p>“I tell you what, I haven’t cancelled our trip to Fiji, which is in the middle of the shooting window we normally have [for <em>The Bachelor</em>],” Günsberg, who has been host of the dating show since 2013, said.</p> <p>Osher went on to criticise Australian TV for putting British and American shows on prime time, rather than favouring homegrown talent. </p> <p>“I personally feel we really need to value our own stories, and our culture, and our own voices far more highly,” he said. “And we’ve got to do what we need to do to make that happen on our screens."</p> <p>“If we’re not going to sing our own songs and tell our own stories – we’re just going to be this weird echo of the US and the UK, and that’s not going to work out well for us.”</p> <p>Last year's season of <em>The Bachelor</em> premiered to the franchise’s lowest ratings in its decade-long history, while personalities involved with <em>The Masked Singer</em> have repeatedly said "it is a very expensive show to produce". </p> <p><em>Image credits: Ten </em></p>

Osher Günsberg slammed for "insulting Australians" over Voice defeat

<p>Osher Günsberg has been slammed online after sharing his thoughts on the Voice to Parliament defeat, saying Aussies were "manipulated" into voting No. </p> <p>In the final episode of <em>Q+A </em>for 2023, the TV personality said that Australians should be "asking questions about who flooded the zone (with misinformation)", leading to a landslide defeat of the referendum. </p> <p>A tense exchange kicked off between the panellists when another guest, Liberal party activist Charlotte Mortlock, said the country needed to come together after the referendum defeat. </p> <p id="ext-gen78">Günsberg said during the course of the campaign, Australia went "from mostly wanting to do it" to "Oh my God the UN's coming to take my back yard".</p> <p>He said Australians should be "terrified of how quickly we were manipulated as a country".</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/QandA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#QandA</a>: What is the next step for Indigenous Australians, after the Voice referendum? <a href="https://t.co/KgSoHkRp1d">pic.twitter.com/KgSoHkRp1d</a></p> <p>— ABC News (@abcnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1729098407208440254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2023</a></p></blockquote> <p>"We're really lucky that it wasn't during a khaki election," he said, referring to an election held at a time of war. </p> <p>Ms Mortlock defended the Coalition and No voters, saying, "It's been such a divisive year... I do absolutely think that there is work that we can do to in a constructive way that is going to really unite the country and that's what we all have to focus on."</p> <p>Günsberg was quick to question the Liberal party's real motives behind their No campaign, asking whether she felt Opposition Leader Peter Dutton really wanted to unite the nation.</p> <p>"I do. I think the question really is the how," Ms Mortlock replied. </p> <p id="ext-gen82">Günsberg said, "I don't believe he really wants to."</p> <p>Günsberg and the ABC were both later slammed online for how the program went with some calling the program "insufferable".</p> <p>Others were quick to poke fun at Osher's impressive reality TV résumé, saying, "After the way Osher insulted mainstream common-sense Aussies I will never watch <em>Bachelor</em> again."</p> <p><em>Image credits: Q+A</em></p> <p class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px; letter-spacing: -0.16px; font-family: graphik, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"> </p>

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Unmasked: The real secret behind the celebrity reveals in hit show The Masked Singer

<p>Osher Gunsberg has cleared any speculations surrounding<span> </span><em>The Masked Singer’s</em><span> </span>biggest mystery.</p> <p>Australia has gone mad over Channel 10’s brand new show with 1.16 million people tuning in for Monday’s premier and 1.05 million watching episode two.</p> <p>But despite the success, many viewers had questions as they wondered how the identity of the 12 masked singers were able to be kept a secret as the show was prerecorded a few months ago in front of a studio audience.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center" data-lang="en-gb"> <p dir="ltr">Are you telling me that not one person in this massive studio audience has leaked who the celebs are?! 🤔 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MaskedSingerAU?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MaskedSingerAU</a></p> — Charlotte Batty 🍉 (@CharlotteBatty_) <a href="https://twitter.com/CharlotteBatty_/status/1176431728161767424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">24 September 2019</a></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center" data-lang="en-gb"> <p dir="ltr">Surely those audience members had to sign NDA’s!!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MaskedSingerAU?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MaskedSingerAU</a> <a href="https://t.co/OEdtNTSVIQ">pic.twitter.com/OEdtNTSVIQ</a></p> — 𝙼𝙸𝙺𝙰𝙴𝙻𝙰 𝙶𝚁𝙰𝙲𝙴 ♥ (@goldcoastgrace) <a href="https://twitter.com/goldcoastgrace/status/1176431803193688065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">24 September 2019</a></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center" data-lang="en-gb"> <p dir="ltr">So how has the audience that were at the taping not spilled who takes off the mask?<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MaskedSingerAU?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MaskedSingerAU</a></p> — Adam Ward (@adamward67) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamward67/status/1176082824526303238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">23 September 2019</a></blockquote> <p>So how did they pull it off? Speaking to<span> </span><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/reality-tv/the-masked-singer-australia-osher-gunsberg-reveals-the-truth-about-the-celebrity-reveals/news-story/038a832b2b6ab1cebb1a1fae851521d3" target="_blank"><em>news.com.au</em></a><span> </span>host Osher Gunsberg revealed that the audience wasn’t present when the big reveals took place, so the reaction scenes are fake.</p> <p>“To make sure that everyone could play along and to make sure it was fair for everybody, we kept the audience there until the very, very last moment and then we pretty much emptied the studio of everyone,” said the Channel 10 star.</p> <p>“There were maybe only eight people in the room when it happened. No one who wasn’t supposed to be there was there.</p> <p>“We made some camera people walk out. In the control room, they basically hit record on the machines and walked out. We didn’t even have a photographer!</p> <p>“Every entrance and exit was guarded by security … we protected it really well and I’m really proud of how we did.”</p> <p>Others questioned whether the stars were singing live after a few of them proved that they have impressive skills.</p> <p>But according to Gunsberg, the masked singers are “absolutely” performing live.</p> <p>“Our costume designer Tim Chappel is incredible. He’s won a Tony and an Oscar for<span> </span><em>The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert</em>. He designed the masks in such a way that they can fit a microphone inside the mask which picks up the vocals, and I believe the audio guys do a mix of that one with the handheld mic,” he said.</p> <p><em>The Masked Singer continues next Monday night at 7:30 pm on Channel 10.</em></p>

Osher Günsberg’s pens emotional letter to wife and new baby boy

<p>Osher Günsberg and his wife Audrey Griffen have welcomed their first child together, baby “Wolfie” Wolfgang. </p> <p>The<span> </span><em>Bachelor Australia<span> </span></em>host shared a sweet post in honour of his newest addition to the family - with a heartfelt message to both Audrey and baby Wolfgang. </p> <p>"I am in complete awe of my wife," he wrote.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ldaeEgcwd/" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ldaeEgcwd/" target="_blank">A post shared by Osher Günsberg (@osher_gunsberg)</a> on Aug 25, 2019 at 4:29am PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>"What I witnessed her do, the power I saw her summon from within her to bring this boy into the world was utterly astonishing. ⁠⁠As he came closer and closer, her body began to unleash an incredible energy that was absolutely not going to be held back. ⁠⁠</p> <p>"Yet Audrey was able to harness it, guide it, and use it to transcend the extraordinary pain she was feeling and channel it all towards an energy that brought this boy alive and well into the world.⁠"</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/ByNG3DqDKYE/" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/ByNG3DqDKYE/" target="_blank">A post shared by Osher Günsberg (@osher_gunsberg)</a> on Jun 2, 2019 at 3:56am PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Günsberg and Griffin first met on the set of<span> </span><em>The Bachelor<span> </span></em>back in 2014. </p> <p>"That I've known Audrey for over five years, and yet had no idea that within her this whole time was an almighty divine force capable of bringing life into the world like this blows my mind and was astonishing to witness," he continued.</p> <p>"⁠⁠I can't think of any single thing a man does in his life that physically equates to what I saw Audrey do. ⁠⁠</p> <p>"For me – any marathon or endurance event I've ever raced is essentially a wander to the kitchen compared to what I saw Audrey do on Friday."</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BfN95JWBb8b/" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BfN95JWBb8b/" target="_blank">A post shared by Osher Günsberg (@osher_gunsberg)</a> on Feb 15, 2018 at 5:00am PST</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Gunsberg also mentioned his step-daughter, 14-year-old Georgia, who in the past he has called the “light of his life.” </p> <p>“Less than an hour after he was born, Wolfie met G for real - and she’s the best big sister he could have ever hoped for,” the Studio 10 TV presenter added. </p> <p>While she wasn’t able to be in the room to witness her mother give birth, she managed to give her own gift to welcome the arrival of her new brother. </p> <p>Georgia prepared a playlist for the occasion - with the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Beyonce and Khalid serenading the room. </p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BfVVKO9hq0f/" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BfVVKO9hq0f/" target="_blank">A post shared by Osher Günsberg (@osher_gunsberg)</a> on Feb 18, 2018 at 1:38am PST</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Osher announced he and Audrey were expecting back in February.</p> <p> "Our lives are already so full of love and adventures and I’m blessed to have such an amazing daughter in Georgia. Looking forward to meeting this little one and expanding my heart even more," Audrey wrote at the time.</p>

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“People think you are being rude”: Osher Günsberg reveals health issue for first time

<p>He’s been a mainstay on our television screens for over two decades but if you see Osher Günsberg on the street, don’t be offended if he doesn’t respond when you try to say hi.</p> <p>"People can think you are ignoring them or being rude when that’s not the case," Osher says. "I simply can’t hear you."</p> <p>Osher, 43, is part of the 17 per cent of Australians who suffer from hearing loss. And he now wears hearing aids in both ears.</p> <p>He suffered industrial hearing loss when he worked as a roadie in is late teens. But he only noticed to problem a decade later when using his car radio.</p> <p>"I used to put my stereo up to 14 [but I had started to] put it up to 18 and that still wasn’t loud enough," he recalls. "That was the first moment I realised something was really quite wrong."</p> <p>Osher also has tinnitus, a persistent ringing sound which is "the loudest noise [he] can hear in any room".</p> <p>Osher is the first to admit his hearing loss makes it difficult to work as a television presenter but he says the bigger impact is on his wife and 13-year-old stepdaughter, Georgia.</p> <p>"Try and imagine 200 camera flashes recharging around your head while you’re trying to listen to your wife or your child tell you something really important. But you have this extraordinarily loud noise in your head that they can’t hear."</p> <p>Osher is ambassador of NSW children's charity The Shepherd Centre, which provides support to over 500 families of children with hearing impairments each year.</p> <p>"It can be very isolating to have hearing loss as an adult, so I can only imagine what that would be like for a small child," he says.</p> <p>This week is Hearing Awareness Week, and everyone is encouraged to check themselves and loves ones for the <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/health/hearing/2015/04/signs-of-hearing-loss/">tell-tale signs of hearing loss.</a></span></strong></p>

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