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Fiona ByrneGossip Queen editor, Sunday Herald Sun columnist

Gossip Queen editor. Writes about TV, news, celebrity, social and entertainment for the Sunday Herald Sun.

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When is Sam’s expiry date?

WITH his 72nd birthday looming and just a year left on his Channel Nine contract, TV veteran Sam Newman doesn’t seem worried about his future as prime-time headline bait.

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The Gatwick Private Hotel in Fitzroy Street, St Kilda is now closed. Ownership has officially transfered to The Block and the property has been boarded up on all sides.Picture: Fiona Byrne (July 26, 2017)

Ex-hotel owners fire final parting shot

ST Kilda’s notorious Gatwick Hotel has been closed and boarded shut before its reality TV makeover on The Block next year — but the run-down flophouse’s previous owners have gotten the last word.

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The new look Footy Show talent in Melbourne. Rebecca Maddern, Eddie McGuire and Sam Newman. Picture: Alex Coppel.

Sam not sorry for on-air sulk

TROUBLE magnet Sam Newman has welcomed the return of Eddie McGuire to The Footy Show, while having no regrets about his extraordinary on-air sulk that plunged the show into crisis.

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How Eddie’s Footy Show deal was done

DESPITE claims this week that Eddie McGuire’s resurrection to The Footy Show was hastily arranged, his return was in reality three years — rather than three hours — in the making.

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The Block contestant (and model) Elyse Knowles working up a sweat on the set of The Block.'  Picture: David Caird

Glamour out for The Block tomboy

THE Block’s model contestant Elyse Knowles has traded glamour for grubby and make-up for mud as she tells of roughing it on the show’s mega Elsternwick building site.

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