SydCon Unleashed: MAFS star’s bruise; Buttrose property sale
Former MAFS bride Jessika Power has spoken out after sporting a black eye on social media.
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Former MAFS bride Jessika Power has spoken out after sporting a black eye on social media.
The 33-year-old shared an image of her bruised face to Instagram on Wednesday.
“I posted on social media because I’m always very transparent with anything that’s happened in my life,” Power told Confidential.
It comes after Power went online to explain why she had been ‘MIA’.
“Let’s just say I had an altercation with somebody who is a d***head,” she said.
She did not however detail what caused the bruising.
“I haven’t been on social media for the last couple of days for obvious reasons,” she said on Instagram.
“If anyone has any tips on how to cover this then let me know.
“I am definitely alright,” she said.
“It doesn’t hurt anymore which is good.”
Power rose to fame on Season 6 of MAFS, where she was married to Mick Gould. She was involved in one of the most controversial scandals of the season after she had an affair with another groom Dan Webb.
She has also appeared on Big Brother VIP and Celebs Go Dating.
Besides reality TV, Power describes herself as a “very proud” bisexual woman and says she has both men and women on her OnlyFans site.
Comedy trio cook up a tasty plan
Comedy trio Sooshi Mango have vowed to bring their famous Italian eatery to Sydney.
Leichardt could be the location for the first Johnny, Vince and Sam Ristorante with the comedians lamenting the “sad” state of the once vibrant Forum precinct.
“We went to the Forum a few months ago and there was nothing there, it is a shell of its former self,” Sooshi Mango’s Carlo Salanitri told Confidential.
“Everyone has told us what it used to be in the past so it is sad to see what it has become. “Maybe one day we could bring Johnny, Vince and Sam’s there and see if we can revive it somehow but it is really sad to see.
“One day, yes, we will try. We don’t know if it is going to be in Leichardt but we will definitely bring Johnny, Vince and Sam’s to Sydney one day. There is something else coming, we can’t say what it is but it is something to do with hospitality, bread and something that goes inside the bread.”
Sooshi Mango’s first Johnny, Vince and Sam’s eatery is based in Carlton in Melbourne, where Italian food is served in a restaurant that mirrors a nonna’s traditional dining room.
“We’ve always said that food was the fourth member of Sooshi because nearly everything we do involves food,” Carlo’s brother, Joe, said.
“It was just a simple easy sort of transition to go into food.”
Carlo noted that any move into Sydney would be a while off and that they’d heard parking was an issue in Leichardt.
“I think we would need a bit of council support,” he said.
“If they supported us in the restaurant here, then we would love to but it all has to be aligned.”
Sooshi Mango are cult favourites with an Instagram following of two million.
They sell out arenas with their character-based comedy, where they dress as ‘nonnas’ and make light of multi-cultural Australia.
They aren’t however worried in any way by cancel culture when they tour their Sooshi Mango: Home Made encore shows in August, playing Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on the 23rd and 24th of the month.
“I think our audience understands with anything we do it is not malicious or anything like that,” Carlo said.
“It is done tongue in cheek.”
$10m estate windfall for Buttrose children
The Buttrose family have pocketed $10.75m from the sale of the Vaucluse home of the family matriarch Robyn “Elizabeth” Buttrose.
The six bedroom, four bathroom house on the Parsley Bay Reserve bushland was marketed as a probable knockdown with water views.
Elizabeth, who died last September aged 78, was the widow of economist Will Buttrose who died in 2006 aged 62. He was credited as being a pioneer of economists becoming celebrities in the financial pages of newspapers in the 1980s.
The couple paid $100,000 in 1975.
Their three children were Richard, currently in his final semester of a Bachelor of Laws, legal practice director Evie, and recent James Cook University law graduate Lizzie grew up at the home.
The former ABC chair Ita Buttrose was Elizabeth’s sister-in-law.
Elizabeth vacated the home following a stroke in 2019 which was followed by the appointment of the NSW Trustee & Guardian to manage the septuagenarian’s estate.
Probate was granted in January.
The estate also included a Double Bay house that has been sold for $5.06m.
A small industrial property at Botany goes to April 8 auction.
Darude ready to kick up a Sandstorm
He’s arguably one of the most famous DJs ever, having dominated the dancefloor since the 90s, yet you most likely don’t know his name.
Finnish DJ Darude, real name Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen, is Down Under with his Storm 25 World Tour to celebrate and mark 25 years since the release of his global dance hit, Sandstorm.
“It’s been a pretty wild ride,” Darude told Confidential, sitting down at his Sydney hotel.
“It’s going to be all my music, my old tracks made new. Most of them are fully reproductions, some might be closer to the originals … in a different mood or energy.”
The iconic DJ and producer understandably does not want his fans, old or new, to know him only for Sandstorm, which has been streamed many millions of times and has earned him renown across the electronic music scene for decades.
“The tour is not Sandstorm 25 but it’s Darude’s 25 year anniversary,” he said.
Darude kicks off the “hybrid DJ set live tour’ at Sydney’s Home nightclub tonight (Friday) and said he had been enjoying “diving” back into old music in his live sets.
“I’ve remade a lot of music for this tour,” he said.
“The Storm 25 Tour is a look back throughout my career. I’m excited to connect with a couple more people in different ways.”
Whether you recognise him or not, Darude is hardly finished.
His highly anticipated world tour has only fuelled his inspiration so fans have more music to look forward to after the tour wraps in Australia before he heads to New Zealand, the US and Canada.
“Hearing my own stuff has started a lot of new ideas. I’m quite excited.”
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