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"It is what it is": Home and Away star shares secret diagnosis

Aussie actor Kyle Shilling has shared the details of a secret health battle, after fans were quick to point out his unusual appearance. Shilling, who plays Mali Hudson on Home and Away, took to his Instagram story to address the complaints about his facial hair. After Friday night's episode of the Channel Seven soap, social media was flooded with comments about his patchy beard, with one person writing, “I wish Mali would shave his beard line along his jaw rather than halfway up it." “It’s all I can see whenever he’s on screen. Very distracting.” “Thanks, that’s all I’m gonna see now too,” wrote another. Shilling responded to the comments, revealing his recent diagnosis with alopecia. “For all those Home and Away fans complaining about my beard line,” he wrote. “Not too long ago I was diagnosed with alopecia on the beard region, mainly my neck. Alopecia is a hair loss disease which can be caused by stress." “The makeup team on Home and Away do the best they can to help cover this ‘insecurity’ I now have." “It should grow back eventually, but for now it is what it is.” He added, “I’m not asking for sympathy, as it could be a lot worse. “I’m simply shedding light on alopecia so people have an understanding about it. Thanks fam.” In a follow-up message, he wrote. "Because of my recent story about alopecia, I've received an overwhelming amount of messages. Majority are from people who have gone through it with a worse experience. big love to you all, keep on keeping on." "This is a reminder not to openly say something about someone's appearance, as you may not know what the reason behind it is. Think before you judge." Image credits: Seven

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Russell Crowe opens up about tragic loss of puppy

Russell Crowe has opened up about the grief he’s endured from the <a href="https://www.oversixty.co.nz/lifestyle/family-pets/russell-crowe-loses-best-friend-in-tragic-accident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">death of his beloved puppy</a> Louis the Papillion. In an appearance on the Kyle & Jackie O Show, the actor introduced his new furry friend Ezekiel to the hosts, which was quickly met with the radio titans asking how he dealt with the loss of his other dog. "At first we were both like well he's irreplaceable, we can't get another puppy," Crowe said. "That was just a really difficult hole to fill.” "We put so much emotion into that little dog and then he died as tragically as he did," he continued. "The only way we could really stop that from being so harsh was to get another puppy.” Later in the interview, the star revealed that he had the dog flown over from South Australia to Sydney in a private jet. "I'm dealing with Britney whose level of grief was so deep that yeah I put her on a little jet and sent her to go see the dog, then she picked up the dog and came home," Crowe admitted of his girlfriend's pain. "I know it makes me look like a bit of a tosser but you know it's about 'what do I need to do right now to help Britney’." His tragic confession comes just two months after Louis the Papillion’s death. Image credit: Instagram / TikTok

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“This is bulls***”: Kyle hits out on censoring of Pauline Hanson

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s has sparked more controversy, after she was censored for attempting to undermine Australia’s vaccine rollout on one of Sydney’s biggest radio shows. Ms Hanson was sharing her anti-vaccination views on KIIS 106.5’s Kyle and Jackie O Show, when producers intervened and began censoring the audio mentioning vaccinating. While Ms Hanson was describing why she was choosing not to be vaccinated against COVID-19, all the audience could hear was a drawn-out “bleep”. The show is on a 30-second delay and has a censor to block any comments that can’t be verified live or that could cause trouble for the network. When callers alerted him to the censoring, host Kyle Sandilands had a strong reaction when he found out the reason behind it. “Can somebody tell me what’s being beeped out and why it’s being beeped out?”, Sandilands asked producers. “Our censor is saying some of what Pauline is saying is not government approved,” one producer replied. “We’re not a government show,” he said. “This is not the ABC.” The same producer told Sandilands the show has to “be mindful of what we’re telling listeners”. “Based on what?”, Sandilands queried. “[Based on] the public health system and what they’re telling us,” they replied. Sandilands then apologised to Ms Hanson, who said it wasn’t the first time she had been censored for her views on vaccinations. “I’ve been censored also by Channel Nine and 2GB because they won’t have me on because of what I say,” Hanson explained. “You can’t have a difference of opinion in this country anymore because they shut you down. So therefore you’re letting the authorities control what you say and think. “I’m a member of parliament, surely I have a right to actually express my opinion.” A spokeswoman for ARN, which represents the popular radio show, said the live to air censor “monitors all content and makes a decision on what is appropriate to be broadcast on air and be published in accordance with the station’s regulatory obligations”. “Kyle and Jackie O don’t shy away from talking about the hot topics that matter to their audience,” the spokeswoman told news.com.au. “KIIS1065 makes every effort to fairly represent the views of its guests but has an obligation to balance freedom of expression against expression of views that may be out of step with government health advice. “We take our responsibilities very seriously, and appreciate that some views expressed by guests on the station may not always be shared by the wider community.” ARN said the governing body for broadcast media, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, has a “focus on protecting the Australian public from misinformation about COVID-19 and information that is out of step with government advice.” Pauline Hanson’s claim on the show that COVID-19 vaccines haven’t been tried and tested like those for diseases such as measles and mumps is unfounded. According to National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance’s (NCIRS) <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.ausvaxsafety.org.au/safety-data/covid-19-vaccines" target="_blank">AusVaxSafety</a> surveillance initiative, 53.9 percent of Australians who have been vaccinated reported no adverse event, while 46.1 percent reported adverse side effects including fatigue, headaches, injection site pain, and muscle aches. Image: Instagram

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Hollywood A-lister made Hugh Jackman clean up vomit in his trailer

The Hollywood star wasn’t happy when Hugh Jackman’s best mate since kindergarten – Gus Worland - vomited in his trailer and he made the Aussie actor clean it up. Worland recapped the whole story on KIIS FM’s Kyle and Jackie O Show today and then he challenged listeners to call in and guess who the Hollywood star was. The incident happened in the earlier days of Jackman’s career when Worland was visiting Jackman on a movie set. One of Jackman’s co-stars invited them both to have a drink in his “much bigger trailer”. Worland said he walked into the trailer “… and it’s got a Cuban cigar in each corner with a cigar cutter … and there’s a tub of drinks and stuff.” “We sit down and start having a conversation and I’m struggling to get the words out because I’m so excited that I’m in his company,” Worland said about Jackman’s co-star. Worland’s nerves got the better of him and he said he was “drinking a little bit too quickly” and he found himself not feeling well, he said on the radio show. “Jacko’s looking at me going: ‘Are you OK, mate?’ I said, ‘I’m fine, I’m fine.” But he wasn’t. He added: “I’m smoking this cigar, I’m drinking these drinks and I’m hammered within an hour. I just go, ‘Oh no, I can’t hold this.’ I tried to shimmy out of the horseshoe [table] set up … which is a difficult thing to do … and I don’t quite get to the door of the trailer and I throw up everywhere.” Worland said that Jackman found it fairly funny but the other celebrity didn’t have the same sense of humour about the situation and he told Jackman he’d have to clean the whole thing up. “That takes Jacko about 20 minutes,” Worland recalled. Kyle Sandilands asked Worland: “He got Hugh Jackman to mop up your chunder?” “Yeah,” Worland said. So, who was the Hollywood A-lister who wasn’t impressed? Eventually a listener called through with the right answer – it was John Travolta and it was when Travolta and Jackman were filming Swordfish. Worland was on the Kyle and Jackie O Show to promote a new initiative for his Gotcha4Life Foundation called the ‘Mind Your Mate’ campaign. “I want everyone to write down a list of all the people in their life that they love and actually go to our website <a href="https://www.gotcha4life.org/">gotcha4life.org</a> and pledge your mateship to them,” Worland said. “And I can send you some tips and tricks to make sure your relationship is stronger than ever before.” Gotcha4Life is an Australian mental fitness charity which Worland set up which takes action to engage, educate and empower people to improve their mental health and end suicide. Image: Getty Images

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"Stop It!": Nat Barr shuts down Kyle on live TV

Sunrise host Nat Barr told off Kyle Sandilands during his appearance on the breakfast show this morning. Making a guest appearance on the show to celebrate his radio show with Jackie ‘O’ Henderson claiming the title of Sydney’s number one breakfast show in ratings for the first time, the controversial shock jock got a strong reaction when he started joking about Nat’s husband. After chatting about their latest success, Kyle pulled out a copy of Nat Barr’s cover of The Australian Women’s Weekly to show her. “Look what I’m reading Nat,” he said, with Nat replying, “that’s so nice Kyle!”. Kyle then went on to compliment Nat on her sons. “These are good looking boys,” he said. “Just by looking at the photos, I can tell what a great mum you are. Those kids, they look at you with adoring eyes. I admire that.” After Nat admitted the photoshoot was a bit “scary” as they had never done anything like that before, Kyle asked why her husband wasn’t included. “Where’s your husband? How come he’s been kept out?” the 50-year-old asked. “He won’t do anything,” Nat said. “He hates publicity … He’s got his own life and his own job. He’s like, yeah, leave that to you.” Nat has been married to her husband, Andrew Thompson, who is an Oscar-nominated film editor, since 1995. “I think press media should track down what Nat’s husband’s doing,” Kyle quipped. “Let’s do a whole exposé on a day in the life of Nat’s husband.” Nat went from laughing as she had throughout the segment, to raising her finger and giving the radio host a strict warning. “Kyle, I’m going to go all mum on you,” she said. “Stop it.” Earlier in the show, Kyle had explained why he thinks he and Jackie have been performing so well lately. “We’ve been doing radio a bit different to everyone else,” he said. “Everyone else has the same rule: Speak for three minutes, have a little laugh at the end and play the ad break. “We’ve changed it. We talk for 20 minutes about something, because you can’t always get a good conversation in in three minutes.” Kyle also mentioned that the breadth of voices on their show helps. “We don’t just have the man and the girl, we have the full ensemble of all the other cast - the newsreader, all the producers, it’s like an episode of Seinfeld.” Image: Channel 7

Jackie ‘O’ flips on Meghan Markle

After spending months defending Meghan Markle, radio host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson has declared she is now “anti-Meghan Markle”. Getting into a discussion about the royals with her KIIS FM co-host Kyle Sandilands on Thursday, the 46-year-old admitted her change of heart. “The more I sit back and think about it, the more I don’t like what happened there,” she said about the Duchess’ Oprah interview. The conversation started with the hosts talking about Prince Harry’s latest chat with Oprah for his documentary The Me You Can’t See. “Remember when we thought Harry was going to get with Britney Spears?” Kyle asked, referring to rumours swirling when the prince was a teenager. “Well, I think he’s gone the wrong way anyway. I think he’s made a mistake with Meghan,” Jackie replied. She said she turned on Meghan after she alleged Kate Middleton “made her cry” at her wedding during the Oprah interview. “I thought she threw Kate under the bus in that interview. I thought that was really unnecessary,” she said. While Jackie admitted that Kate might have been acting like a “b**ch”, she disliked that Meghan mentioned it after the pair had moved on. “Well you know what, don’t throw her under the bus, because it’s unnecessary! Like she even said, ‘I don’t dislike Kate, she apologised,’ so really … “The more I sit back and think about that interview, the more I don’t like what happened there,” she continued. “I don’t know. I’m torn. I think they should be able to say what they want, but I just didn’t like what Meghan said about Kate.”

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