News about Gina Riley

US pop star Lady Gaga has taken on a track known best to Aussies as the opening theme to the iconic comedy series Kath & Kim. The song, originally written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley for the 1964 stage musical The Roar Of The Greasepaint - The Smell Of The Crowd, is performed by Gaga for her film Joker: Folie à Deux. To most Australians, it is the bold and brassy version sung by Gina Riley, who also plays Kimberly Diane 'Kim' Craig (née Day) in the legendary comedy.

A drag parody show, based on the iconic Australian sit-com Kath & Kim has been hit with death threats from online trolls. Fountain Lakes In Lockdown: A Drag Parody Play is currently touring Australia's east coast and writer and performer Thomas Jaspers has revealed that the production was forced to involve police following threatening comments online. Thomas said the virtual hate had been coming from 'far-right snowflakes.'

It was once a TV icon. And now the property which was 'home' to Kath and Kim in fictional 'Fountain Lakes' has been replaced with a new chic property and is completely unrecognisable to millions of fans of the show.  Located in Patterson Lakes, 38kms from Melbourne, the original two-storey blonde brick home, which was used as a filming location for the beloved series between 2002-2007, was completely demolished in 2022.

Fans of the iconic Australian comedy series that has been taken from a streaming behemoth have taken to social media to protest it's demise from a streaming giant. On December 26, the series was taken from Netflix, and angry fans took to Twitter to express their indignation at not being able to watch the show any more. 'Absolutely enraged.' I turned on the TV to watch one of my favourite sitcoms only to find out it has been taken off? Describe yourself,' one outraged fan sniped.

On Sunday night, viewers of Kath & Kim's 'Our Effluent Life' special on Channel Seven were left dissatisfied with the Australian comedy series's 20th anniversary. Loyal viewers took to social media to condemn the network, saying that they were 'cheated' and 'disappointed' that only ten minutes of new footage had been broadcasted. A mix of newly minted scenes as well as never-before-seen scenes, as well as numerous bloopers and blunders were included in the 74-minute film.

Magda Szubanski took to social media this week after revealing that the Kath and Kim characters' iconic hairdos were not wigs. Gina Riley and Jane Turner's character wigs in a dressing room alongside Magda's in a snapshot posted on Twitter. The Babe actor shared the photo to celebrate the Kath and Kim: Our Effluent Life 20th Anniversary Specialty which airs on Sunday evening.

Gina Riley came to fame in the early 2000s on the hugely popular sitcom series Kath & Kim, and it will make a comeback to screens this year. But despite the fact that female-led comedy has become a household name, the actress, 61, claims that women were still shocked when the series first began, and that it was seldom funny. She said, 'the show had a rough birth,' as a result of the feminist comedians' attitude, she told Herald Sun on Saturday.

The actress who played Epponnee-Rae as a baby on the famous Australian sitcom Kath & Kim is expected to return to the show for the first time. Zara Harrington, who has aged 19 to 30, played Kim and Brett's daughter from the age of three to six months. Two photographs of Zara as a baby and then as a teen were shared on the official Kath & Kim website, alongside Kath (played by Jane Turner) and Kim (played by Gina Riley).

Gina Riley and Jane Turner, a Kath & Kim actress, revealed on Thursday that the ABC was close to canceling the iconic show when it was still in development. During the 2002 development process, actress Gina Riley, 61, explained that the ABC lost faith in the show and told them they did not want to be associated with it. It was Friday, and we were going to pre-production on Monday.' "It's no longer the direction we want to go in," Riley told The Age.

Magda Szubanski has debunked rumors of a Kath & Kim revival once more, giving viewers a sneak peek at what to expect from the film. On Thursday, when speaking to Fifi, Fev & Nick, the 61-year-old said that although she 'can neither confirm nor deny' persistent rumors,'something is coming around the corner.' 'A little something coming around the corner,' Magda said, it would be amusing.'