The A to Z of 2022’s best and worst celebrity and A-lister moments and scandals
From Bali benders, to ice pipes, talk of foot amputation and Ricky Nixon versus the world, we reflect on the people and scandals that had us talking in 2022.
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Not the new North Melbourne footy coach but the would-be Jamie Durie. When Clarko was on “gardening leave” earlier in the year he was quizzed and cleared by the cops for lifting some bluestone bricks in Albert Park.
Not the new North Melbourne footy coach but the would-be Jamie Durie. When Clarko was on “gardening leave” earlier in the year he was quizzed and cleared by the cops for lifting some bluestone bricks in Albert Park.
BALI BENDER
There have been plenty over the journey but Jordan De Goey’s ill-timed mid-season misbehaviour in the Indonesian hot spot almost had him sacked from Collingwood. What he did do was put a couple of buxom Instagram influencers on the map. Stark comparison to Bailey Smith’s cocaine confession, the “it” AFL star just can’t be cancelled.
CANDICE’S FOOT
Channel 10 newsreader Candice Wyatt sent social media into a spin when she revealed she was considering amputating her foot because a chronic injury had reduced her to crawling around the house and “missing my old life”.
DANI LAIDLEY
Arrived with a bang at the Australian Open and hasn’t left a ruby rug since. The former North Melbourne coach made history at the Brownlow, wowing in a glamorous gown.
ENTRECOTE
Became the place to be seen in Greville St except if you’re a pair of brawling Melbourne footballers. Steven May and Jake Melksham clearly didn’t take a fancy to the steak tartare and decided to have a really raw tete-a-tete.
FOX LOVE BOAT
If you were one of the Melbourne high-flyers who didn’t get a gig at Lindsay’s 85th birthday cruise from New York to Montreal, you were stiff. It seems like every man and his dog was on the love boat.
GILLON MCLACHLAN
Had his dancing shoes on in his last hurrah as AFL CEO, twirling with Delta at the GF and then grovin’ in the Birdcage. He also found time to upgrade his South Yarra pile, while his brother Hamish was busy building his own compound in the blue-chip burb.
HAYDEN BURBANK
The border breacher opened up about doing time but couldn’t help celebrating his return with a Gatsy-themed party.
ILHAM RUDE RUBBLE
Crazy John’s Patricia Ilham went a bit crazy at a moving-out party at her Brighton mansion, with some profane graffiti, which had the neighbours rolling their eyes. Police were called and the high-pressure washers were brought in to erase the naughty stuff.
JOCKEY TRYST
After some Covid hijinks Melbourne’s top jockey Jamie Kah came clean about her fling with fellow hoop Ben Melham. Were the rumours on the money? A European vacation shortened the odds.
KYLIE MINOGUE COMES HOME
Pop princess Kylie Minogue returned to her leafy Camberwell roots, splashing out $8 million on a place she will now call home.
LIGHT FM’s BEDFELLOWS
Christian brekky radio duo Lucy Holmes and Kel McWilliam went from co-hosts to bedfellows and married the following month. Hallelujah!
MIDDLE PARK ICE PIPE
Lark Distillery mogul Geoff Bainbridge was caught with his pants down after claiming a video of him with an ice pipe in one hand and another pipe in a er, other, was taken in a Bangkok hotel room. He said it was all a set-up but Page 13 sleuthing found the leaked video had been filmed in leafy Middle Park.
NEIGHBOURS SAY GOODBYE
Ramsay St residents delivered the lines the luvvies didn’t want to hear when Australia’s longest running soap bowed out after 37 years.
OZEMPIC HERE’S THE SKINNY
Originally marketed for diabetics, Ozempic become the diet drug pushed by influencers as diabetes sufferers found it disappearing off the chemist shelves, creating a national shortage. Vabbing was another dubious 2022.
PRINCESS MARY STEALTH MISSION
Princess Mary of Denmark was spotted among the Brighton brigade shopping up a storm on Church St and hanging with her besties on a visit to celebrate her 50th birthday.
QUEEN ELIZABETH’S DEATH
Monarchists and republicans agreed Her Maj was a great lady. Her passing at the age of 96 put Charles III on the throne, but for how long in Australia?
RICKY NIXON VS EVERYONE
The disgraced former footy agent was back boxing on, first with health authorities over his IV health infusions, then allegedly with news presenter Seb Costello on the streets of South Melbourne and later for allegedly attacking a heckler in a toilet at Dane Swan’s charity event. Keeping up?
SAUDI ARABIA SOCIAL STORM
Having escaped being cancelled over that cat-in-an-Asian-restaurant comment, influencer Georgia Love faced a backlash for an ill-advised jaunt to Saudi Arabia, promoting the country in spite of its human rights atrocities.
TOM MORRIS WHATSAPP SHAME
The Fox Footy reporter was sacked after vulgar WhatsApp messages were leaked to social media following his confrontation with Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge.
UKRAINE BLOCK SCAMMER
Alleged conwoman Emese Fajk who found herself at the centre of a scandal on The Block, after she made the winning bid but failed to come up with the money, resurfaced in camo gear holding a gun in war-torn Ukraine claiming to be a freedom fighter.
VALE
A heartbroken country mourned cricketer Shane Warne, Xanadu’s Olivia Newton-John and Seeker’s star Judith Durham among many others.
WHITE SUBSTANCES AND WAYNE CAREY
Wayne Carey came up with the year’s most eyebrow-raising excuse when he claimed a white baggy, which slipped out of his pocket onto a gaming table at a Perth casino, was his crushed up, er, anti-inflammatories.
XAVIER JOINS PRIVATE SCHOOL GROSS-OUT
Sexist, misogynistic antics at Melbourne’s prestigious private boys schools continued with Xavier joining in with a classroom award for a joke too vulgar to be repeated.
YE BURGER BATTLE
If US rapper Kanye West wasn’t courting enough controversy overseas with his White Lives Matter and his Neo Nazi attitude, he took on an Ivanhoe burger joint over claims it had ripped off his song titles without his permission.
ZEALOT ANDREW THORBURN
Former NAB chief Andrew Thorburn quit 24 hours after being hired as Essendon’s CEO after
the club declared he had to choose between the club and controversial church City on a Hill.
Popular weather presenter quits Channel 7
Channel 7’s weekend weather presenter Sonia Marinelli is stepping away from her role at the network, as rumours swirl about another weather girl facing a stormy outlook.
Melb heiress, AFL star, wed on same day, in very different way
Two big names have tied the knot in very different style weddings. While Melbourne “it” girl Bella Geminder said ‘I do’ at her family’s Kew estate in an epic society wedding, AFL star Jeremy Cameron was wed on his farm.