The Source: Former gangland glamour Danielle McGuire becomes a grandmother at 49
The one-time glamorous squeeze of fallen underworld kingpins Tony Mokbel and Mark Moran has become a grandmother at 49.
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Putting the squeeze on Victoria’s movers, shakers and headline makers.
Once gangland glamour girl Danielle McGuire is a granny.
In news to make you feel older, The Source has been told her daughter Brittany recently gave birth to a healthy new baby.
McGuire was once in a relationship with slain underworld figure Mark Moran.
She was portrayed with playful distinction by Madeleine West in the hit TV mini-series Underbelly.
McGuire, thought to be 49 or 50, was also the long-time partner of crime baron Tony Mokbel.
She was with him in Greece when the police swooped on the bewigged “rug lord” in 2007.
McGuire was also once close to former bikie strongman Toby Mitchell.
She made some high-profile visits to Mitchell in the Royal Melbourne Hospital after he survived a shooting ambush in Brunswick in 2011.
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De Goey ribbed by boxing champ
Collingwood bad boy Jordan De Goey played on the right wing in world boxing champion Tyson Fury’s five-man entourage formation at the No Limit Boxing Fight Night in Melbourne on Wednesday.
“Who the f--- is Jordy?” Fury joked as a beaming De Goey strutted proudly beside the heavyweight hitter and his crew.
Fury was in town to watch his good friend Joseph Parker fight, and defeat, Faiga Opelu in a first-round knockout.
Days earlier, at the weigh-in, De Goey presented Fury with a Collingwood jumper. Fury has also been out sightseeing, and was spotted enjoying lunch at the Saint Hotel in St Kilda on Wednesday.
Another noteworthy appearance at No Limit was senior Wurundjeri elder, Aunty Joy Murphy, fresh from her biffo with AFL bosses. Aunty Joy claimed she was disrespected by footy chiefs at the recent Dreamtime game at the MCG.
Melbourne identity Mick Gatto was also ringside with Mick Molloy, Tommy Little, Dave Thornton, Anthony ‘Lehmo’ Lehmann and past and present footy stars Tom Mitchell, Jamarra Ugle-Hagan, Jason Dunstall, Ben Dixon, John Platten, Mitch Robinson, and Nathan Jones.
Pain no Achilles heel of veteran silk
One of Victoria’s top silks proved this week that nothing will prevent his defending of a client, not even a moon boot.
Peter Morrissey SC has wrangled some massive cases in his time, from defending Bali Nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran who were killed by firing squad, and acting in two trials for killer dad Robert Farquharson.
But this week he wrangled a giant shoe as he trudged into court 19 with an injured Achilles to represent his latest client in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court.
The onerous boot didn’t stop the high profile barrister from rising to his feet when addressing Magistrate Andrew McKenna from the bar table.
Mr Morrissey told the Herald Sun even if he wanted to stop us from filing this match report he would be “too slow to reach the practice court!”
The injury, which is “not too bad”, came about because a 63-year-old was trying to be as cool as a 55-year-old.
Well, they do say 60 is the new 40.
Australia’s last Covid mask grouch falls silent
It appears we will be spared the scolding cry of “put your mask on” in federal parliament for the foreseeable future.
The parliament’s chief Covid compliance inspector Monique Ryan has laid down her mask and finally joined the 99 per cent of other Australians who’ve moved on from their pandemic panic stations.
Earlier this month the World Health Organisation declared that Covid is no longer a global public health emergency.
And now Ryan, the member for Kooyong, has confirmed what WHO had already told us, and unmasked.
She had lapsed in the past, including footage of Dr Ryan dancing maskless at a community trivia night in a packed school hall.
The event in late August last year followed her infamous squawk of “put your masks on” at Coalition MPs after they interjected during Question Time.
Great wall of silence over Dan’s China forum
Big names are expected to speak at the “Post Pandemic China-Australia Economic Forum” hosted by the China Chamber of Commerce at the Park Hyatt on June 5 and 6.
The event is co “supported” by the Australia China Business Council and the China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy, whose vice chairman Feng Wei will speak at the opening ceremony.
It might be noted, at least according to author and researcher Alex Joske, that the institute is staffed by veterans of China’s Ministry of State Security.
The ubiquitous Chinese ambassador Xiao Qian will speak at the opening.
Another speaker is thought to be Premier Dan Andrews, who recently went to China sans media for a series of unreported meetings, where he did not raise the case of Victorian journalist Cheng Lei, imprisoned in China for the past two-and-a-half years.
Do we assume that Andrews will not provide “a running commentary” on the upcoming event, given his office has ignored media requests to confirm or deny Andrews’ appearance at the forum?
Sleazy barrister barred from chambers
A prominent barrister notorious for his chronically clumsy offers of unwelcomed marital affairs has been relegated to working from home.
The barrister recently went looking for some new chambers on William St.
Our man presumed he would be a shoo-in, anywhere, given he is old, and some old barristers mistakenly assume that they are respected barristers.
Becoming a tenant in Melbourne’s prestigious barristers’ chambers typically requires the approval, by vote, of their house committee.
To the dismay of some of the dinosaurs of the Victorian Bar, William St is no longer the boys’ club it once was.
Of Melbourne’s 2000-odd barristers, roughly a third are women.
It is the talk of the town that this barrister’s many applications to move into new digs in the legal district were repeatedly voted down.
Leading the charge against the pants man were the women of the Bar, who now rightly sit on committees, and who are totally fed up with being leered at and propositioned by awful old creeps.
One chambers, with tongue somewhere near cheek, offered him an olive branch, saying they would reconsider his application to move in if he agreed to undertake a long course of sexual harassment training.
He politely declined, and instead works from a spare bedroom.
Feathers fly over Chicken and Wiz’s birthday bust-up
Former high flying AFL agent Ricky Nixon has hit back at Warwick Capper, saying he’ll host his own party.
“My 60th will now be my own party with my own friends and family after someone’s idea of a joint party involved pics of him everywhere, and red and white balloons,” Nixon fumed on Facebook on Tuesday night.
Nixon added: “80 per cent of invites from him and all about him, him, him. Fair to say my friends are all sick of this selfish p--- and his b-shit, so are most people in the footy world I speak to, and none of them are going to his ‘look at me, look at me’ party.”
Nixon’s party will take place on July 8.
“Stay tuned for the line up,” he added.
His outburst followed an apparent cold shoulder after trying to muscle in on Warwick Capper’s 60th birthday.
Nixon posted a picture with Capper on social media saying there had been a planning meeting for “Wizzy & Chicken’s combined 60th Party of the Century”.
But Capper says Nixon, who turned 60 in April, has enough of his own friends.
Capper wants the limelight all to himself at the July party at the Pier Hotel in Port Melbourne.
The former footy star and legendary larrikin has engaged Shannon Noll, Boom Crash Opera, Taxiride and Brian Mannix to perform and promised he’ll get up on stage too — wearing nothing but a pink leopard skin outfit.
Friends on the invite list include Nixon, Wayne Carey, Anthony Koutoufides, Matthew Richardson and Sam Newman.
New AFL boss buries hatchet over biffo
After three decades or so, a make-up of sorts occurred during Ormond Amateur Football Club’s recent Fifth Day Lunch at the McKinnon Hotel.
AFL CEO-elect, Andrew Dillon extended a forgiving hand to former Ormond champion player, Mark Gilmore.
As the story went, Gilmore made very forceful contact to a young Dillon’s face during an Ormond v Old Xavs match in 1990s.
The evidence of the Old Xavs player was indisputable at the tribunal – a very large and black left eye.
The tribunal’s decision was a four match penalty for Gilmore.
Dillon reminded Gilmore of his injury at the lunch, even produced photographic proof – his driver’s licence from back in the day, in a picture taken a couple of days after the incident.
Bit air-kissing weekend for Melb’s top pouters
The iCals (calendars, not calories, dear – but on second thoughts, probably that, too) of Melbourne’s top pouters and Insta-famous faces were packed with must-attend air-kissing events at the weekend.
First up were twins Sally Crinis and Suzy Eskander who are known to have “come from nowhere and married well” around the more curled of lips within our upper echelons.
The wives of former Crown executive Peter Crinis and bookmaker Alan Eskander respectively, the twin girls from PR roots celebrated their 43rd birthdays with their Insta famous friends and media wall at the ready.
The following day, it was the hen’s party for Sarah Lew at her Society restaurant with many of the same bevy of girls, including Michael Clarke’s ex Pip Edwards from Sydney, designer Effie Kats and redeemed plate princess Nadia Bartel, fresh from her triumph at Afterthought Australian Fashion Week.
Ms Lew will soon marry restaurant king Chris Lucas.
Drag star’s read on story time
Australian drag performer Courtney Act has sashayed into the drag queen story time events controversy declaring: “Drag queens don’t want to read to children, it’s not on our top priority list. It’s something queer parents asked us to do.”
Act, the drag alter ego of Shane Jenek, said a recent spate of drag queen story time events in Victoria being cancelled due to abuse and threats of violence, was disappointing.
“It’s not like (drag queens) have a desire or motivation to do it, apart from any other human being who wants to spark the joy of reading in children,” Courtney said on the red carpet at a VIP event.
“If you think about kids, and the things kids love, it’s usually clowns and fairies, characters in costumes at Movie World, and Disney princesses – and these are all forms of drag.”
NRL legends trash talk AFL’s lame promo skills
Two NRL legends who appeared in iconic commercials with Tina Turner to spruik rugby league to the world say the AFL’s efforts to promote their game on a global scale is … simply the worst.
Wayne Pearce and Benny Elias crash-tackled the AFL’s promo skills while strutting the opening night red carpet at TINA: The Tina Turner Musical, at Sydney’s Royal Theatre.
Pearce and Elias appeared with Turner in two hit campaigns – What You Get Is What You See in 1989, and Simply The Best in 2005.
“Those campaigns won worldwide acclaim, and they bring back some great memories,” Pearce said.
“It resonated with kids and women, and the popularity of rugby league was never greater due to those two campaigns.
“We rubbed shoulders with Tina, and we danced with her,” Elias said.
“The instructions were, ‘Just get a little but wild out there,’ and we did.”
Asked for their thoughts on how the AFL promotes the game, Elias replied: “We smash the s--t out of AFL. We have the professionalism and the vision. When the song (Simply The Best) starts, you think of rugby league straight away. That recognition is classic.
“The AFL has nothing like that.”
Tippa’s generous gesture to Demitriou’s son
His father blessed the 2011 AFL Grand Final with the gift that kept giving: a performance by the late great Meat Loaf. So, of course, it was time for the game to give back.
“Tippa, can we have your boots?” a hand-drawn sign, held by a young man, most notably the son of the former AFL boss Andrew Demetriou, quietly implored.
Sacha Demetriou, and his school friend Billy White, asked Bombers cult hero Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti to gift them his footwear after a cliffhanger win against the Tiges at the weekend.
Sure enough, McDonald-Tipungwuti obliged their request; one boot for each kid.
Andrew Demetriou said the mates will split the boots, adding: “(Sacha) was very excited. It made his day.”
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