Unleashed: Socceroos legend Tim Cahill set to welcome first grandchild
From Tim Cahill welcoming his first grandchild to Sydney radio’s newest stars clarifying they are not married, don’t miss this week’s Sydcon Unleashed.
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One of Australia’s most famous Socceroos is becoming a grandfather at the age of 45.
Tim Cahill’s eldest son Kyah Cahill has taken to social media, showing off his pilates instructor partner Yzzy Hunt’s baby bump and announcing to the world that the football legend’s first grandchild will be a boy.
Baby Cahill is due to arrive in November.
The proud couple shared Instagram happy snaps from a tropical beach, captioning one of the gender reveal photos with “life just got so much better”.
Kyah and his younger brother Shae followed in their dad’s footsteps, becoming professional footballers.
Kyah was last rostered on to the Lusail FA football club in Qatar and captained Samoa’s under-19s side when making his international debut in 2022.
Tim Cahill is Australia’s all-time leading male goal-scorer. He retired from professional sport in March 2019.
BLOCK JUDGE SELLS BONDI PAD
The Block judge Darren Palmer and his cosmetics industry operative husband Olivier Duvillard have finally sold their Bondi Beach home.
It fetched around $8.25m through Alexander Phillips and Vince Licata from PPD.
Their patience paid off as it had been pulled from April auction when its price guidance was $7.95m.
The three-storey, four-bedroom, four-bathroom Sir Thomas Mitchell Rd home, cocooned by jungle-like plantings, had initially been listed last September with other agents.
Palmer and Duvillard bought what was a 1930s California bungalow in 2015, paying $2.98m, before undertaking a rebuild in 2022, in collaboration with architect John Deuchrass, with a coastal minimalist style.
“This is actually the longest-term house I’ve had in my entire life, except for when I was a child,” Palmer told Home Beautiful in January.
PPD’s Phillips secured the sale — a street record — to a database buyer on the first day of the new financial year.
Last financial year the Phillips team secured 186 sales, worth $943m.
His 2024 calendar year sales tally, which put him as Australia’s top seller for the 10th consecutive time, had a $962m tally from 196 sales, according to the Real Estate Business (REB) industry website rankings.
The Palmer/Duvillard couple also recently sold their Byron Bay retreat to Candice Rose O’Rourke, the founder of the Zulu & Zephyr lifestyle brand, and her husband Josh O’Rourke, for $2.6m.
Located just 100m from Tallow Beach, it came with a path to the beach from its back gate.
RADIO DUO JUST GOOD FRIENDS
Sydney radio’s newest stars have clarified one major thing – Lu and Jarch are not a couple in real life.
If you Google the pair, it states they’re married.
“Absolutely not,” Jarch laughed with Confidential.
Lu said: “No, no. It says that Jarch is married, not to me, and I have a partner Lachlan.”
The lesson, she said, is “not to believe everything you see” while acknowledging their special chemistry on air.
Jarch added to clarify further: “I think that is a user-generated site where people can alter the info and they have just made it their own.”
Lu and Jarch – real names Luisa Dal Din and Jack Archdale – are the latest Sydney radio hosts to score a big time gig in the highly competitive market.
They rose to prominence after years working in radio to host a hugely successful podcast – We Mean Well – about three years ago.
Now, they’ve just launched as the latest early drive afternoon hosts on Southern Cross Austereo’s Triple M stations nationally.
“I guess we were lucky that it (the podcast) just took off and we were both able to quit our jobs and make it a full-time job, which is crazy,” Lu said.
From the outside looking in, it may seem to some that the pair have been an overnight success.
They have however put in the hard yards. They both worked behind the scenes in different capacities at radio stations from producing to sales.
“I guess we have both been lucky in the sense that it did grow fairly exponentially, fairly quickly,” Jarch said.
“I think we both quit our jobs after six months or a year and it helped that we both started with fairly moderate social media profiles that people actually tuned in to listen and then they just seemed to stay.
“It did grow quickly but there has been a lot of work put into it as well.”
Being “good friends” has been part of the reason to their success, Lu explained.
They’ve worked together so long that they actually finish each other’s sentences.
“And we can give each other a bit of shit and it doesn’t come across as mean, kind of like you’d talk to your mates, so people seem to resonate with that sort of banter,” Lu, 31, said, Jarch chiming in: “We have got fairly thick skin and that seems to resonate because we take the piss out of each other and people seem to enjoy that, sometimes too much.”
Don’t mistake the tomfoolery for a lack of dedication to the job, though.
“The fun is a by-product,” Jarch, 35, said. “At the end of the day, the podcast is our baby and we have cultivated it overthe three years.
“We are lucky that it is fun and we love to do it but, as with everything, there is a competitive edge and we want the content to be quality and evolving while still maintaining what we think is important.
“We don’t just get in there and f..k around.”
While the majority of radio shows are on hiatus for the coming fortnight, Lu and Jarch will remain on air as they work to cement their audience and maintain momentum.
ALBO’S TOP 10 BANGERS
You can take the boy out of Marrickville, but you can’t take Marrickville out of the boy. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has returned to his music-loving roots and thrown together a play list of classic rock tunes for triple j’s 50th birthday.
DJ Albo revealed his votes for the youth radio station’s special Hottest 100 of Australian Songs, admitting it was “hard to narrow (it) down to just 10”.
His picks:
● The Angels, Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again
● Cold Chisel, Flame Trees
● The Fauves, Dogs Are The Best People
● The Go-Betweens, Cattle and Cane
● You Am I, Purple Sneakers
● Hunters & Collectors, Throw Your Arms Around Me
● The Triffids, Wide Open Road
● Spiderbait, Buy Me a Pony
● Midnight Oil, Beds Are Burning
● Paul Kelly, How To Make Gravy
The countdown will be announced on Saturday, July 26, from 10am on triple j.
DOG OF A DAY FOR UNIS
It was meant to be a bold move to connect with students, but universities jumping onto TikTok – with vice-chancellors front and centre – continue to give off a bad vibe.
Western Sydney VC George Williams is the latest to join the trend, with the Distinguished Professor dancing to a remix of a Justin Bieber tune.
The constitutional law expert was decked out in the uni’s latest threads — a white T-shirt emblazoned with the WSU – alongside the caption “new merch who dis?” to promote an Open Day giveaway.
He’s not the only one.
The University of Canberra recently posted a video featuring its vice-chancellor, entitled “When you’re bored and remember Bill Shorten is your VC”.
The premise? Two students awkwardly dance in front of an emotionless VC Bill Shorten who is sitting at his desk and patting his beloved British bulldog Walter.
After it was labelled “cringe” by students, the comments attached to the video were turned off. Remarkably, it has reached 328k eyes on Instagram.
But we think Walter can take most of the credit.
STENMARK TWINS WORK OUT WHO’S FITTEST
These genetically blessed fitness twins don’t just look the part, they are the real deal.
And in true go big or go home style, they’ve decided to enter the world’s wildest fitness competition with only days to prepare.
Australia’s most famous twins, Jordan and Zac Stenmark, are jumping headfirst into F45’s HYROX Sydney, the global fitness phenomenon that’s become the hottest challenge around the world.
More than 20,000 Aussies will be sweating it out this weekend in the largest HYROX event the world has seen.
While it usually takes months of training, the Stenmarks are winging it – and loving the chaos.
“I couldn’t think of anything better than suffering together,” Jordan told Confidential.
“We’ve always been fit and active people and have always said if someone asked us to do a random challenge would we be able to do it? And it’s actually come to that day,” Zac added.
SWEET! LUU HEADS TO BANKSTOWN
Sydney newest dessert sensation is Clifford Luu. He is known for turning classics like tiramisu into visual wonders, and counts Merivale’s Dan Hong and Masterchef’s Reynold Poernomo as fans.
Basically, he’s the dessert master Sydney is happy to queue for.
Luu had an unlikely path to his baking career. A former project administrator, he would bake on the side.
Now he’s one of Sydney’s most exciting new bakers, with close to 200 000 followers on instagram.
Luu is now set to host a pop up in the most unlikely of places - Bankstown Sports Club.
For every weekend in July, Luu’s Maker’s Day will be bringing treats like the Magnolia-bakery inspired hybrid of Matcha Brookies with Banana pudding as well as his viral Asian-inspired tiramisu to southwest Sydney.
Desserts are available to dine in or take-away.
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