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Debbie SchippDigital News Director

Debbie Schipp is the Daily Telegraph’s Digital News Director, with a background as a sports writer, editor and columnist and TV writer, editor and columnist, and in print and digital production.

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EMBARGOED FOR SWITCHED ON USE ONLE BEFORE MAY 27: DO NOT PUBLISH!! Claire Holt as Charmain IN Aquarius. Picture: Channel Seven -- (Photo by: Jim Fiscus/NBC)

Actor: ‘I failed drama in year 9’

SHE has landed her big break in new US TV series Aquarius, alongside David Duchovny, yet this 26-year-old Aussie failed high school drama.

Music

Guy is Australia’s grand Eurovision

IT’S kitsch. It’s ridiculous. And this year Australia has Guy Sebastian competing in it. Here’s why we’ll happily join Eurovision’s 60th anniversary.

EMBARGOED to MAY 24, 2015, Sunday TV Guide MAGAZINES FIRST USE. Paul West for River Cottage Australia season 3. Picture: Nick Wilson for Foxtel

River Cottage Australia’s turning point

‘DO I make a full-time TV show or do I become a full-time farmer?’ Paul West on the challenges of River Cottage Australia.

STRICTLY EMBARGOED to MAY 10, 2015 Sunday TV Guides first use. Jeremy Piven for Mr Selfridge. Supplied by Channel Seven

‘I would be very disappointing to you’

FROM the brash Ari Gold in Entourage to the audacious Harry Selfridge in Mr Selfridge Jeremy Piven tells how he swapped the fast lane for sedate period drama.

STRICTLY EMBARGOED to MAY 10, 2015 Sunday TV Guides first use. How To Get Away With Murder, Matt McGorry. Supplied by Channel Seven (ABC/Craig Sjodin)

Who are you calling ‘Doucheface’?

MATT McGorry was in two minds about How To Get Away With Murder — especially when he was told the name of the character he was auditioning for.

Reality

STRICTLY EMBARGOED to MAY 10, 2015 Sunday TV Guides first use. Real Housewives of Melbourne's Gamble Breaux. Supplied by Foxtel MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 29TH2013;Real Housewives of Melbourne Series 2 Reunion on 28th of March 2015 in Melbourne Australia. (Photo by Martin Philbey) *** Local Caption ***Real Housewives of Melbourne Series 2 Reuniion ***NOT FOR ARCHIVING***

Real Housewives walkout

TEARS, tantrums and a walkout …. The Real Housewives of Melbourne Reunion packs plenty of punches, Gamble Breaux reveals.

Reality

Johanna Griggs pictured at Nova FM in Sydney.

House Rules host is a Joh of all trades

FROM swimmer to sports presenter to TV show host, Johanna Griggs has proved herself the master of career renovation.

Reality

Johanna Griggs for House Rules 2015 Channel 7

Joh warns rivals: ‘You’ve been tricked’

HOUSE Rules host Johanna Griggs has told contestants who moved to rival show Reno Rumble they’ve been tricked by Channel 9.

Logies

Host Carrie Bickmore On Set So You Think You Can Dance for Switched On Jan 29 Picture: Supplied

Can Carrie be Logies’ golden girl?

WILL it be fourth time lucky for Gold Logie nominee and new mum Carrie Bickmore? She can’t wait for tonight’s Logies but for different reasons.

Reality

House Rules contestants 2015 Picture: Channel 7

New House Rules — just one tradie

CONTESTANTS on the new third series of House Rules are so inexperienced they’re like “deer in headlights” says host Johanna Griggs.

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