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Your One-Stop Guide to Music • Film • Tv • Reviews YOUR ONE-STOP GUIDE TO MUSIC • FILM • TV • REVIEWS 27 FEBRUARY 2019 CHARLIE COX FROM DAREDEVIL TO DIAMOND GEEZERS TYLER HENRY MEDIUM TO THE STARS GOES LARGE LEIGH PAATSCH BEST OLD CROOKS MOVIES TO STREAM Home TRUTHS How Shaynna Blaze and the Selling Houses Australia team found the bright side of the inside YOUR WEEKLY real estate slump 7-DAY TV GUIDE V1 - MHSE01Z02MA HERALDSUN.COM.AU WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2019 HIT 35 COVER STORY HOT HUGH JACKMAN: ARENA MAN The boy from Oz brings The Greatest Showman to life HARRY POTTER & THE CURSED CHILD Some things are worth paying for. PS: Keep the secrets SHAYNNA BLAZE AND LEAVING HER SELLING NEVERLAND HOUSES Could change how AUSTRALIA CO-HOSTS you view Michael ANDREW Jackson the man. WINTER AND On Channel 10 CHARLIE next week ALBONE (like Selling Houses Australia with large scale rooms.” experts) comes in and sees it Selling Houses Australia has through fresh eyes and says it is been one of Foxtel’s most a bit rundown the homeowners popular shows across its entire almost get offended. run. Last year, Winter was “When we do the initial nominated for a Gold Logie. walk-through we have to be a “Andrew, Charlie and I Selling little brutal. We spend three never auditioned together — days side-by-side with them. we met each other the first day We have to be open to their on set,” Blaze says. feelings and emotions. “We’re really lucky that “You almost feel like a we’ve got this friendship on counsellor because you’ve got screen where we can pick on to guide them through it.” each other and no one gets NOT Blaze’s career has been on offended. STYLE an upward trajectory ever “When we did the first R KELLY TV design queen working with aren’t investment suburb of Pymble have an since she became co-host of series we thought ‘we’ll give it a IS BROKE houses. unrealistic $2.4 million asking Selling Houses Australia in go’. We didn’t know until we Boo-hoo. He’s Shaynna Blaze is “But because people have to price for their five-bedroom 2008. Back then Blaze was finished filming whether it found the money continuing to put have bigger deposits these house. relatively unknown. Her would be recommissioned.” for bail but is back days, there is nothing left The team’s quirkiest profile went to a new level Blaze suffered a personal in court on March her stamp on the for renovations.” makeover is a Gold Coast setback last 22. Pray for justice homes of ordinary That means, more than houseboat, where the “WE’RE REALLY LUCKY August when she ever, sellers have to make experts need the help of announced she Aussies, writes their homes move-in- shipwrights and a degree in THAT WE’VE GOT THIS was separating Colin Vickery ready. The kerb maritime law to get a sale. FRIENDSHIP ON SCREEN from personal appeal also has to “We’ve got quite a WHERE WE CAN PICK ON trainer husband be spot on. None few people who Steve Vaughan here is nothing like a of the homes on have had EACH OTHER AND NO after 18 years. real estate downturn this year’s stressful ONE GETS OFFENDED” Similarly, to test your abilities season of Selling things Buying Blind — and that is what happen in when she joined the judging where couples sign over their GLADYS Houses BEREJIKLIAN: Shaynna Blaze is Australia their lives team on The Block in 2012 and life savings to Blaze, Rich FESTIVAL Tconfronting on Selling Houses qualify. that hasn’t she has been at the centre of a Harvey and Marshall Keen to BUSTER Australia this year. In the first allowed them lot of controversy on the find, buy and renovate a home Sydney — the city For 11 seasons, the Selling episode, Blaze, to (do the Channel 9 reality show. Alysa of their dreams — is in limbo. where you can Houses Australia team — Blaze, Winter and upkeep),” Blaze says. and Lysandra Fraser Last year’s first season of the party like it’s 1899 Andrew Winter and Charlie Albone have to “It is also a unleashed an f-bomb spray on Nine reality show rated Albone — have had the benefit freshen a tired normal mentality The Block: Fans v Faves season respectably — about 650,000 of making over homes in a hot family home when you’re after copping a low score. viewers across the five capital property market. that has living in your Deanne Jolly labelled Blaze cities — but is that good Sure, the premise of the been torn home to put the “a bogan from Wantirna” who enough? Foxtel show is that the houses to shreds blinkers on. You had “no idea of styling” on The “We’ve (Nine and Blaze) the trio take on have been by foster have happy Block Glasshouse. had talks and I would like to languishing unsold for months. cats and memories so Blaze has toured the Grey St say yes (there will be a second But there has always been stripped of you see it from site of this year’s season — five season) but it is a very every faith that once the most of its a different triple-storey terrace homes — expensive show to make. SUNDAY experts worked their magic it furniture. perspective. in St Kilda and reckons the “If we could learn to make it NIGHT wouldn’t be long before a sold A home in “When contestants are set for a world more economical it would be TAKEAWAY sign was out front. Euroa, in rural someone of pain. great. I would love to think it Love Chris and But in 2019 — maybe not so Victoria, “It is going to be quite would come back — maybe in a Julia, but less much. “The whole premise of hasn’t had the confronting for them,” different form — but it won’t be bogan sportsmen Selling Houses Australia is required Blaze says. “It is a straight away.” please selling the unsellable,” Blaze maintenance much bigger says. “The market is bad and and its scale than ever WATCH SELLING HOUSES banks squeezing lending has bathroom before. We AUSTRALIA, Lifestyle Channel, become a big issue. is falling know from past Wednesdays, from March 6, “I think we’ve been lucky apart. A series that couples 8.30pm that the houses we are usually couple in the leafy Sydney always struggle V1 - MHSE01Z02MA.
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