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Television Week Your handy 7 day lift-out Dismal Arizona Amy delivers debut NEW renovation series House Rules bombed on debut, when it had worst launch figures than last Ramsay a real gobful year’s shockers Being Lara Bingle, The Shire and Excess Baggage. GORDON Ramsay (pictured) has see what was happening and The first episode of Chan- finally met his match. screamed expletives and demanded nel 7’s reality show on Tues- Her name is Amy Bouzaglo, they leave. The police were then day night could muster only owner of Amy’s Baking Company, called. 803,000 viewers, according to in Scottsdale, Arizona. Unsurprisingly, when the show OzTAM ratings. Bouzaglo and her husband aired at the weekend, the response In comparison to last Samy’s restaurant was the subject was instantaneous. year’s flops, Channel 10’s of the finale of Ramsay’s cable TV Amy and Samy made the mistake The Shire pulled 941,835 on show, Kitchen Nightmares, which of responding to online criticism. debut, while Being Lara screened in the US last weekend. Reddit had a field day as online Bingle attracted 924,950. What happened was beyond nuts haters and the restaurant owners Channel 9’s first episode of and sent social media into traded barbs. Excess Baggage was watched by 885,482. meltdown as the couple swore at In a surreal turn, the couple their staff, their customers and Seven gave itself a tough apparently took to their Facebook task by launching House Ramsay threw up his hands in page to rant and rave at their many despair and refused to help them Rules against a live elimin- critics. ation round of The Voice fix their problems. K But their defence quickly de- and at the same time, the Ramsay had turned up at the scended into numerous expletive- Federal Budget was being Y notorious restaurant, only to en- filled statuses, which only fed the handed down. counter two owners prone to tan- fire when the posts spread online. Nine claimed the first two M trums that put the fiery Scotsman’s Each of the restaurant’s posts places in the ratings on C in the shade. had received thousands of com- Tuesday with The Voice As Amy herself says: ‘‘The cus- ments. Some claimed that the rest- (1.597 million) and The tomer isn’t always right.’’ aurant used photos of products not Block Sky High The day before the celebrity chef created by the bakery. (1.308 million). arrived at the restaurant for film- One post said (in capital letters): It is the second night in a ing in December last year there ‘‘I AM NOT STUPID ALL OF YOU row The Voice has not were massive issues. ARE. YOU JUST DO NOT KNOW topped 1.6 million, after COLOR: Amy was the only cook, cooking GOOD FOOD. IT IS NOT UN- regularly pulling audiences one ticket at a time. Diners were COMMON TO RESELL THINGS. around the 2 million mark. waiting more than hour for their WALMART DOES NOT MAKE As for House Rules, the 11 meals. One eventually complained ‘‘You could hear Amy yelling in vations for 6.45. By 9.30, we still THEIR ELECTRONICS OR real test will come on Wed- and then tried to leave without the kitchen and Samy was running hadn’t received our pizza. TOYS SO LAY OFF!!!!’’ nesday when it goes head- paying for drinks. all over the dining room,’’ the diner The customer eventually ap- By Tuesday, the comments had to-head with Nine’s The Block Sky High and The Big Amy threatened to call the police was quoted as saying. proached Samy about his food’s been deleted and the Bouzaglos PAGE: no-show, only to be told to ‘‘go Bang Theory. and Samy tried to physically block ‘‘Other tables were complaining were claiming their Facebook page The failure of House Rules f... yourself.' them from exiting. and people were leaving because had been hacked. did not affect Seven’s family On the day of filming, it got even they were waiting so long for their And, according to the diner, it The FBI has apparently been drama Packed To The more fiery, according to one diner. food. My partner and I had reser- wasn’t long before Amy came out to called in. Rafters. St Philip’s College Senior Drama proudlyp y presents p That’s Gold: Smith voices her issues 21-MAY-2013 GUY Sebastian’s backing Her animated self wears a my boundaries. It has been a The singer, who has been vocalist Carmen Smith has hit red replica of the blue year and it is my music, I’m not busy recording her own songs out at being dumped from The jumpsuit she wore during the with a record company, I do it and touring with Sebastian DATE: Voice last year in a cheeky show last year before she was all myself so whatever,’’ she since her departure from the animated video for her new ousted for ‘‘breaching the said. ‘‘People are going to love wildly popular talent show, single Breaker Of Hearts. spirit of the show’’ by appear- it or hate it . as long as they said she was devastated when The clip created by her long- ing in the video for Sebastian’s watch it. It’s tongue in cheek.’’ she was booted off Team Joel. time collaborator Shannon single Gold. She even allowed Pope to ‘‘I spent a couple of days in Pope casts the cartoon’s vil- Smith said she had reser- cast her in one scene as a bed wallowing in self-pity and CADV lain in a Voice-style chair and vations about a couple of the character inspired by Side- then I got up, called Guy and the audience as zombies as scenes designed by Pope but show Bob because Smith’s red told him I could do his tour,’’ Smith runs on a hamster decided to go ahead because corkscrew curls drew compari- she said. PUB: wheel on the stage. ‘‘he is always making me push sons with The Simpsons’ star. ‘‘I can laugh at it all now.’’ Lady Diddy or didn’t he appear MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL Audley’s FIRST came the Twit- As the characters ex- favourite show of all COMEDY FESTIVAL ter announcement that perience the outbreak time. ‘‘Yes, I am an Secret he was joining Downton of World War I, Diddy Abbey-head proudly, ROADSHOW Abbey, now the first says to the camera, yes, yes, yes,’’ he said. 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