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Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee - host Guy Montgomery (left) and sidekick Aaron Chen.

TV of the year: 19 shows and moments we couldn’t stop thinking about

End-of-year critics’ lists don’t always catch what made us laugh, groan or cry. So here’s the best and worst of the rest.

  • Louise Rugendyke, Craig Mathieson, Kylie Northover, Meg Watson, Michael Idato and Debi Enker

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Rebel Wilson.

Determined, tone-deaf and glib: Rebel Wilson tells her own story

Wilson is a talented actor, but she can’t replicate that talent in her memoir.

  • Stephen Brook
Sacha Baron Cohen said Rebel Wilson’s account of making Grimsby was ‘a shameful and failed effort to sell books’.

Sacha Baron Cohen chapter cut from Australian version of Rebel Wilson book

Rebel Wilson’s book will finally be published in Australia, but the chapter about Sacha Baron Cohen will be missing.

  • Jason Steger
Rebel Wilson’s memoir, Rebel Rising, has been delayed until May.

Rebel Wilson’s controversial memoir delayed amid legal drama

The actor’s controversial memoir has been held back by publishers in Australia and the United Kingdom.

  • Jason Steger
Rebel Wilson has delayed the publication of her memoir amid a row with former co-star Sacha Baron Cohen.

Rebel Wilson’s book delayed amid row with Sacha Baron Cohen

Publication of the Australian star’s memoir has been pushed back after the Borat actor denied her claims he was an “a--hole”.

  • Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
Sacha Baron Cohen and Rebel Wilson have different versions of events.

Sacha Baron Cohen denies Rebel Wilson’s claims about his behaviour on set

The Australian actor claims Baron Cohen has hired a public relations crisis team and is trying to stop her from publishing a chapter of her memoir.

  • Nell Geraets
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Max Mercer plays the abandoned Archie Yates in the Home Alone reboot, Home Sweet Home Alone.

Atrocious Home Alone reboot takes cynicism to a whole other level

Home Sweet Home Alone just about ruins the classic ’90s story of a cute kid left alone at Christmas.

  • Jake Wilson
Sascha Baron Cohen, who has moved his family to Western Australia, is rumoured to be performing as Freddie Mercury at this year’s AFL grand final.

Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen call Perth home

The two global stars have moved their family west and are settling in.

  • Stephen Brook and Samantha Hutchinson
Simone Ledward Boseman, right, accepts the award for best actor in a motion picture drama for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom on behalf of her late husband Chadwick Boseman.

Golden Globes: tears and controversy as Borat, The Crown dominate

There were tears for actor Chadwick Bosman but harsh words for the Globes voters, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

  • Michael Idato
Performers impersonating Borat arrive for the red carpet for the movie "Borat" at the Rome Film Festival on Friday.

'Very nice': Kazakhstan overcomes, then embraces ‘Borat’

In 2006 the Kazakh government banned the Sacha Baron Cohen film. Not this time.

  • Joel Stein

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