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Early on in my career I learnt that for many, ahem, supposedly serious newspaper journalists, the term âgossipâ is something of a dirty word.
And yet just about every cracking scoop â from politics to football â usually starts with loose lips spilling the beans on something salacious and newsworthy that someone, somewhere is trying to hide.
Gossip fodder: James Packer and his first fiancee, the former model Kate Fischer, were together for five years.
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And gossips, along with whistleblowers, snitches, moles, insiders, âwell-placed sourcesâ or whatever else you want to call them, have played a critical role in how thousands of stories have made it onto
Welcome to Sydneywood: megastars descend on harbour city
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The global pandemic continues to fill the harbour city’s celebrity coffers and right now our town is home to probably the largest number of Hollywood megastars than ever before.
And the locals are loving it. Especially the glamorous young mums in well-heeled Vaucluse who have children the same age as their recently arrived neighbour
Among those who have been dropping by Portman’s Sydney pad have been
Sacha Baron Cohen and his Aussie wife