Below Deck Med’s Hannah Ferrier Weighs In on Her ‘Boring’ Replacement Natasha Webb: ‘Doesn’t Sound Like Interesting Television’

Starz has given a series order to drama The Venery of Samantha Bird, starring Katherine Langford (Knives Out, 13 Reasons Why) in the title role.

WATCH: Kyle Sandilands reveals crass text to Karl StefanovicSpeaking during a panel at The Australian Women’s Weekly’s Women of the Future Awards on Wednesday, Hannah recounted his shocking comments to the crowd.“Kyle Sandilands took it upon himself, a couple of days ago, to express his displeasure with the Kyle and Jackie O Show’s performance in the breakfast radio ratings by calling his team a ‘bunch of spazzes’,” she said.“He also decided to refer to Ben Fordham’s audience as ‘a bunch of fake fibreglass half-dead looking people who are flops in wheelchairs’.”She explained that “spaz” (which is widely regarded as a slur but used here to articulate Hannah’s comments) is “often used as a cultural shorthand having a lack of control, not being good at what they do”.Disability advocate Hannah Diviney with Dylan Alcott.However, the phrase is derived from the word spastic, a legitimate form of medical terminology that applies to her and many disabled individuals."My disability Cerebral Palsy is literally classified as Spastic Diplegia (where spasticity refers to unending painful tightness in my legs),” she has tweeted in the past.On Wednesday she added that the word “doesn’t reflect on my intelligence or anything like that”, but should no longer be used to attack or disparage people.She also announced an opinion piece about Kyle’s comments for The Daily Telegraph, where she called out  Kyle's "eight minute rant ...

APPOINTMENTSRalph W Peer has been named MD of Peermusic Australia. Not to be confused with Ralph S Peer, his grandfather, who founded Peermusic in 1927, or Ralph Peer II, his father, who is currently Peermusic’s Executive Chair.

Victoria’s latest ‘Big’ landmark is coming to Daylesford. The Big Rainbow in Daylesford will be Australia’s first ‘Big’ landmark dedicated to the LGBTQI community. Australian towns are home to a number of iconic ‘Big Things’, including the Big Banana in Coffs Harbour, Big Merino in Goulburn, Big Pineapple in Woombye, Big Potato in Robertson and the Big Ned Kelly at the Glenrowan Tourist Centre.The Big Rainbow Project was unveiled by Tinder in March 2022, and the company said they will donate $100,000 to support regional LGBTQI organisations across Australia.Over 16,000 votes were cast from across Australia to decide the location of the Big Rainbow.

Lily Moayeri Over the weekend, Desert Daze, California’s psych-rock festival (and two-time nominee as Pollstar’s festival of the year), celebrated its 10th anniversary as a destination event for the free-spirited, open-minded, anti-commercial, pro-instrument music fan. It was a veritable Australian takeover of the desert with two out of the three headliners being from that region: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, who are practically the Desert Daze house band, and Tame Impala, who in 2018 had their set cut very short due to weather conditions and were returning to somewhat finish what they started. The hippie-natured festival’s titular ethos has involved several different locations in its decade-long history, with its latest headquarters, on the sand at Moreno Beach, Lake Perris, being one of the most scenic. The backdrop of craggy mountains and a crystal-clear lake is life-affirming for festival-goers who brave the relatively rough terrain of Desert Daze, where the focus is more on the vibe than it is on logistics.

Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson celebrated their special bond recently when they opted for some quality time together at one of their favorite restaurants in Los Angeles.The pair were spotted at Angelini's Italian eatery in Pacific Palisades, where they both have homes. MORE: Oliver Hudson's confession about daughter's schooling - 'She can't read, but she can gamble'According to celebrity Instagram account, Deux Mois, the mother-daughter duo were spotted on an adorable date together and onlookers all said the same thing - how amazing they looked!WATCH: Goldie Hawn's grandchildren - all the details While there were no details on what the pair were wearing, there's little doubt that they nailed it in the style stakes. Kate recently blew her fans away with her appearance and her uncanny resemblance to Goldie, when she shared a clip of herself making a cocktail with her King St Vodka. MORE: Oliver Hudson opens up about his relationship with his biological fatherMORE: Kate Hudson looks just like her famous mom Goldie Hawn with stunning new lookKate wore a beautiful orange gown and looked radiant as she whipped up the drink with ease.

Following the global success of her show Nanette and it’s follow up Douglas, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby announced that she has signed a multi-title deal with Netflix. Gadsby’s announcement came almost a year after the comedian slammed Netflix over its handling of the controversy surrounding comedian Dave Chappelle’s transphobic comments. Gadsby revealed that Netflix had agreed to work with her on a special that would feature genderqueer comics from across the world. Hannah Gadsby.Gadsby had kicked off her ‘Body of Work’ tour in the US in April 2022. The show travelled to Canada, before arriving in Australia.

controversial Dave Chappelle special. Gadsby’s new deal includes her own hour-long comedy special as well as a multi-comic special, according to Deadline. She will also host and produce the multi-comic special, which is expected to feature international jokesters.

Hannah Gadsby is returning to the Netflix fold – nearly twelve months after slamming Co-CEO Ted Sarandos and calling the streamer an “amoral algorithm cult”.

Veronicas star Jess Origliasso has celebrated her engagement to partner Alex Smith, calling her the “woman of my dreams”. The ‘Untouched’ singer took to Instagram on Thursday to reveal that the pair had gotten engaged last week. Origliasso posted a photo of the couple showing off two engagement bands, while pointing their fingers towards the camera. She captioned her post with, “WIFED (still crying a week later)”.“I’ve waited my whole life for you.

Manori Ravindran International Editor “Kim’s Convenience” producer Thunderbird Entertainment Group has appointed Nelson Huynh as director of distribution sales. Huynh will license Thunderbird’s animated and live-action kids series from Atomic Cartoons and primetime scripted series to broadcasters and streamers with a focus on Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Latin America and Asia. Reporting to Richard Goldsmith, president of global distribution and consumer products, he will also work to secure commissions, pre-sales and co-productions for new series from Thunderbird’s animated, scripted and unscripted (from in-house production banner Great Pacific Media) series production divisions.

EXCLUSIVE: French director Alice Diop’s breakout feature Saint Omer has secured distribution in a raft of territories for Paris-based Wild Bunch International (WBI) following its Venice Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize win.

Jon Hamm is setting the record straight! After years of chatter, the actor finally cleared the air on the rumor that he goes commando.

The Daily Mail and said that an anonymous letter was sent to the film’s studio Skydance accusing him of 40 years ago having “touched someone outside their clothes and referring to the female athletes he coached by inappropriate nicknames. Kinder in his interview with The Daily Mail denied any misconduct and further said he was shocked at the news from earlier this week that the film will not move forward. Kinder said he was contacted by investigators hired by Skydance after the letter was received and that he and the other subjects of the film, now all adult women, had informed him there was “nothing there” in terms of the investigations.