Gold Coast celebrity news: The weird and wild stories of 2021 including Chris Hemsworth

From a footy WAG scandal to tragedy to Chris Hemsworth’s party, it’s been a wild start to 2021 on the Gold Coast for celebrities. These are the ones that have us talking. SEE THE FULL LIST

FROM a footy WAG scandal to tragedy to Chris Hemsworth’s party, it’s been a wild start to 2021 on the Gold Coast for celebrities. These are the ones that have us talking.

‘Unfathomable loss’: Tributes for beloved children’s doctor

Dr David McMaster in 2011.

OFTEN seen at the bedside of his patients on his time off, Dr David McMaster was remembered by his countless grateful patients, colleagues and friends as a medical giant and beloved children’s doctor with “bottomless kindness” who dedicated his life to his community.

Dr David McMaster the director of paediatric services at the Tweed Hospital and John Flynn Private Hospital passed away in January.

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Footy WAG’s guilty plea over bizarre theft

AN AFL wag whose barely there bikinis have been worn by Kylie Jenner and Rhianna has been ordered to pay $860 for stealing an iPhone from a car wash six years ago.

Rebecca Jane Klodinsky, the former girlfriend of convicted killer Dione Lacey and partner now of Geelong Cats player Lachie Henderson, pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing in the Southport Magistrates Court.

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Shammi Prasad, Emily Jade O’Keeffe and Chris Hemsworth have been in the news.

Hemsworth and star friends party 80s style

HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Chris Hemsworth has celebrated a friend’s birthday in style, dressing with his close mates in 80s-style attire.

The Thor star on Sunday posted to his Instagram pictures of himself dressed in a white singlet that was tucked into Adidas track pants, with a gold necklace topping of his 80s-based costume.

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‘I don’t think it will stop me’: ‘Nervous’ Coast prankster’s stance

A SOCIAL media prankster who was facing a maximum penalty of $1 million fine or seven years in jail for allegedly sinking a car and boat in a river in January got in hot water for a separate stunt.

Willem Ian Ungermann, also known as Willem Powerfish, has built a cult following by uploading videos of himself to social media dressed in skin-tight Lycra while playing out outrageous pranks mostly on fishermen in the Tweed.

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‘Badly hurt’: How TV star ended up in Coast hospital

A POPULAR breakfast TV show has had to go to air without a host after a surf stunt went wrong on the Gold Coast.

The Today Show went ahead on Friday morning on the Gold Coast without host Allison Langdon, who injured herself in a stunt on Thursday afternoon.

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How viral Smith photo delivered Coast league bonanza

MUDGEERABA Redbacks player welfare officer Savili Sega didn’t think much of it when he spotted two guys kicking around on Firth Park as he arrived to open the club in February.

By Tuesday evening he was a viral sensation trending on every social media platform.

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Veteran Coast radio presenter’s heartbreaking cancer diagnosis

IT was not the announcement that ABC Gold Coast breakfast presenter Nicole Dyer wanted to make.

But it was one she had to reveal.

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‘I’m shaking’: Emily Jade O’Keeffe announces split with husband

RADIO personality Emily Jade O’Keeffe in January revealed her split from husband Gerard Murtagh in a heart-wrenching Instagram post.

“Eight weeks ago my life as you and I knew it changed forever and Gerard and my marriage is over,” she wrote.

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Shammi’s party bar opening ... and then closure

AN Australian online pranking sensation – who infamously turned off the Melbourne Cup mid-race in a packed pub – has been forced to shut his own Gold Coast bar.

Memory Lane – launched by Shammi Prasad and his brothers in Broadbeach two months ago – announced its closure on Instagram saying it had gone “further than our control now”.

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