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Tuesday February 1, 2011

SUZANNE CARBONE

Another show on the boil in cooking worldTOO many cooking programs do not appear to be spoiling the appetite of viewers. There's MasterChef, My Kitchen Rules, the coming Conviction Kitchen and the shows of former MasterChef contestants ��� Poh Ling Yeow's Poh's Kitchen and Julie Goodwin's Home Cooked! Now, another MasterChef face, Justine Schofield, will host a program filmed in Melbourne and convert couch potatoes into cooks with confidence. Schofield, a photogenic foodie, will be joined by co-hosts who are experts in their field. An entry on public relations website Social Diary states the show is being produced by H-Squared for Channel Ten and Foxtel's LifeStyle channel. The call has gone out for butchers, bakers (no candlestick makers), fishmongers, cheesemakers and nutritionists to send in their bio with a photo. The spiel says: "TV experience is not essential, but we need individuals who are super-confident, engaging, entertaining and really know their stuff." Novices who aspire to Matt Preston-sized fame and fortune are welcome to apply.Caught at silly mid-offFASCINATING two-page cricket feature by the Sunday Herald Sun's Rod Nicholson on the 30th anniversary of Trevor Chappell's infamous underarm bowl, as ordered by his brother Greg, to New Zealand batsman Brian McKechnie. Age staffers could not stop reading it, especially the quotes of then-Australian selector Sam Loxton. Sentence after sentence was lifted from Gerry Carman's Age story in December 2009. Nicholson's story was headed "Underarm smell stills lingers" and the same goes whenever there's a copy-and-paste job.Warnie's 2011 tourTHE media Oprah-tunity in Federation Square took Victoria to the world, but now comes the thrilling news that Elizabeth Hurley may be jetting over to plant her lips on Shane Warne. One location the British beauty is curious about is Tittybong, the north-western town mentioned in Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country. Hurley read the book in the bath and tweeted her delight to Warnie as part of their online exhibitionism and repartee on topics including Hurley's bird Ping Pong. When Warnie picks up Hurley from the airport, the first stop could be Sexyland in Airport West, a venue Warnie went to in 2007 with a wad of cash. It sells a Valentine's Day token of affection called "Love dice", one saying "tickle", the other "neck". Another attraction is Maccas at Airport West shopping centre.On the beaten trackLORD mayor Robert Doyle has been flat-out doing the sums on the grand prix and making "cranky" formula one boss Bernie Ecclestone even crankier. Then the critics pounced after Doyle joined Kate Ceberano at the Church of Scientology's new HQ. When Doyle gets back to roads, rates and rubbish, he should have a word to someone about a sign near the corner of Russell and Lonsdale streets. It states: "Works on side street, March 09 to Dec 09. Long delays expected." The only delay now is in removing it.

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