Peaches Geldof was to appear on Foxtel’s Australia’s Next Top Model before her death

IT HAS been revealed that Peaches Geldof, who died tragically last week, was in preliminary talks to join one of Australia’s top talent search shows later this year.

PEACHES Geldof was in preliminary talks to join Australia’s Next Top Model on Foxtel when she died.

This comes after reports surfaced that Geldof was set to relocate to Australia for three months to film a secret TV show before her tragic death.

The 25-year-old television presenter, who died last week, was one of several names considered for a role with the upcoming ninth season of the talent search show, Fairfax is reporting.

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News of Geldof’s relocation to Australia came in a UK magazine interview conducted earlier this year but only published this week, with the former model revealing that she had big plans for the future, including a yet-to-be-announced show that was to made Down Under.

“I can’t say what it is yet, but I’ll be there for three months,” she told Aga Living Magazine, published in Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper.

“Of course [my children] will come with me because obviously I wouldn’t leave them for that long.”

Peaches Geldof and husband Thomas Cohen attend the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in 2012.

Foxtel’s director of television Brian Walsh has confirmed that preliminary discussions had taken place with Geldof but no contract was ever signed.

“Peaches was one of a number of names suggested but we took the decision that it was too soon to make any calls,” he told Fairfax. “The idea was not progressed beyond an initial stage.”

Foxtel bosses delayed plans for the ninth series of Top Model until later this year after model mentor and judge Charlotte Dawson’s shock death in February. This occurred shortly after Geldof’s interview with the lifestyle magazine.

It is understood Geldof was not being considered as a replacement for Dawson, 47, who took her own life after a public battle with depression.

Australia's Next Top Model judges Alex Perry, Charlotte Dawson and Didier Cohen.

Dawson had already announced she was quitting the show in January, announcing via her Twitter account that she had no plans to return to Top Model.

The New Zealand born former model had announced last September that she was quitting television, saying she was “tired of the anxiety that comes with working in media. The graceful thing, the dignified thing, is to walk away.”

Geldof’s interview Aga Living Magazine with would be her last before her death. The second daughter of musician Bob Geldof and writer and television presenter Paula Yates was found dead at her home in Wrotham, Kent, England.

A post-mortem proved inconclusive and toxicology tests are being undertaken to try to determine a cause of death.

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Peaches Geldof with husband Thomas Cohen at the Elle Style Awards in 2013.