Honey Badger FOUND! First footage of Nick Cummins since 'The Bachelor' ended: VIDEO

And so, the Honey Badger has been found... but was he really 'missing'?

'A Current Affair' has tracked down Nick Cummins aka 'The Bachelor' from in Papua New Guinea... exactly where he said he'd be, in his interview earlier this week with Lisa Wilkinson in the Sunday Project. See that whole interview HERE.

Here is some footage ACA just posted, with the full interview shown tonight:

TONIGHT: We track down the Honey Badger, at a luxury resort in Papua New Guinea. Having fled the public backlash, he can't escape @reid_butler9 . @ACurrentAffair9.

TONIGHT: We track down the Honey Badger, at a luxury resort in Papua New Guinea. Having fled the public backlash, he can't escape @reid_butler9 . @ACurrentAffair9. pic.twitter.com/cZcB2gsjty

— Jonathan Gwinner (@gwinnerism) October 10, 2018

 

'Hey Hey it's Saturday!' coming back in 2015

A big announcement for one of Australia's most loved TV shows, Hey Hey it's Saturday! happened on 'A Current Affair' tonight. It's coming back for 2015. But online only.

As they say on the ACA site, "it's a whole new ball game for the long-running program."

As Daryl said on ACA tonight, the show has over 600,000 Facebook 'likers' and they always ask when the show is coming back. Now, it will be. Featuring old clips and the promise of new content, Hey Hey fans pining for the old Saturday night staple will no doubt be stoked.

To watch full episodes of Hey Hey It's Saturday, head to the website: www.heyhey.tv

In the meantime, here is a 'Red Faces' clip (and then Sly Stallone… of course):

'Forbidden love': Aussie woman in Lebanon: Sunday Night - VIDEO

On Channel 7's 'Sunday Night' program, they follow the Australian couple who made headlines a few months ago when a young mother fled the country for Lebanon, and later asked the Australian government for assistance in returning.

Here is more to the story, below. But first, from the show's Facebook page:

'The shocking story of an Australian mother controlled by Islamic law - hunted by her estranged husband, charged with adultery and disowned by her family for being with a man who loved her.'

As per the 'Sunday Night' Facebook page:

'We follow the unthinkable struggle of an Australian woman fighting to leave a controlling marriage to be with the man she loves. But Mahassan has been shunned by her family and her culture and labelled a criminal.'

Here is a trailer for the interview, which screens this Sunday:



'Sunday Night' will screen on Sunday (and each Sunday) at 8pm, on Channel 7.

More photos of the couple released to media at the time of the headlines:

'A Current Affair': 'Hey Dad' cast break their silence: VIDEOS

Tonight's edition of 'A Current Affair' featured the cast of TV show 'Hey Dad', who condemned actor Robert Hughes, found guilty in court this week of 10 child sex charges. The crimes were committed between 1984 and 1991.

In the 'A Current Affair exclusive', Tracy Grimshaw speaks with Hughes's former colleagues who very bravely broke their silence. The videos of the show are below.

Here is part one.

Here is part two.

And here is part three.

Tina Hutchence: "INXS show isn't accurate"

Since the screening of the INXS telemovie on Channel 7 'INXS: Never Tear Us Apart', Michael Hutchence's sister Tina Hutchence has spoken out on 'A Current Affair', saying the two part series was not accurate.

For the fill interview, click here.

Tina was also on KIIS1065 radio this morning, speaking to Kyle and Jackie O. Link here.

Anita Cobby 'A Current Affair': VIDEO

You know how recounting certain events take you back to a time and place?

Watching the Anita Cobby story on 'A Current Affair' did that for me tonight.

Suddenly, it was February 1986.

I was 14, in Year 9, and school had just started for the year.

My father had died in December and I missed all of the remainder of the 1985 school year.

It was 1986, a fresh new year, and my best friend's birthday was on February 4. 

By then a crime had been committed two days earlier, on February 2, but in the age of no social media, details had only started to emerge.

There was news of a woman, at Blacktown (in Sydney's west), who'd been kidnapped by a car-full of men as she walked home.

A few days later, a female police officer - Debbie Wallace, I recall - donned similar clothing and re-enacted Anita's train trip home in the hope of jogging people's memory. Soonafter the NSW Government posted a reward for information on the killers - the $50,000 was deemed a lot of money back then.

After tip-offs, and a recording device planted on 'Miss X' (it's funny the details you remember), arrests were made: three brothers (Les, Michael, and Gary Murphy), and John Travers and Michael Murdoch. These were names Australians never forgot. The Anita Cobby murder also signified a kind of loss of innocence for Aussies, especially for women who suddenly didn't feel safe. Walking home from the station alone at night took on a new siginificance, now with a new level of terror, as women unfairly felt terrified doing what they'd done for eons.

The book 'Somebody Else's Daughter' (written by Julia Sheppard) was written and many talked about the horrendous details of Anita's death in the book. It still is one of the most harrowing books I have read to date.

The parents of Anita Cobby - Gary and Grace Lynch - were the most stoic, respectful people you'd ever seen, reserved in the face of such horror and adversity.

I recall they went on to become the founders of the Victims of Homicide Support Group, a community support network helping families deal with horrific crimes, and campaigned so hard in seeking 'truth in sentencing' laws.

Gary Lynch died age 90 in 2008, suffering from Alzheimer's, and Grace Lynch died of lung cancer in 2013, age 88.

The report this evening on 'A Current Affair' was centred around Anita's younger sister Kathryn. It was a breakthrough in that she has never publicly spoken to media about her sister, and the impact it had on her and her family. And how she is continuing the fight her parents started in honour of Anita.

Here is the video from this evening's ACA report.

'What Is Love' - William and Glad on love, marriage and dementia: VIDEO

"She's my princess, and I'm her William."

Those words made me bawl when I heard them uttered a week ago on 'A Current Affair', during a special report on dementia. My husband walked in, asked why I was crying. I played the clip back. He understood.

They were said by William, the husband of Glad, and they have been married 50 years. Glad was diagnosed with dementia eight years ago, and devoted husband William has stepped up to take care of her in the most incredible way.

Watch the entire clip here:



And here is William's response to people's reactions to the video above.



William and Glad were profiled tonight on 60 Minutes Australia and the report was beyond moving and emotional. Clip from the show up soon.

This story has also bee published on my 'Sandwich Generation' blog.

'A Current Affair' Mel Grieg and Michael Christian - Video

Mel Grieg and Michael Christian spoke to Tracy Grimshaw tonight about the phone hoax linked to the tragic death of UK nurse Jacintha Saldanha. Click video below:



What are your thoughts?

I cried along with Michael and Mel quite simply because I am human.

None of what happened could have been forseen.

However, a few things are certain moving forward:

A prank call which is made at the expense of someone else will always end in some kind of humiliation and deep embarrassment.

Calling a hospital and impersonating someone while asking for medical information is wrong by any standards.

A hospital must surely have strict standards in place where no information is given out to anyone, ever over the phone.

Imagine how Prince William is feeling: his wife and unborn child in hospital. And then this tragedy. Again, with media meddling, someone loses their life. First Diana. Now the deeply sad death of Jacintha. And Kate: the beginnings of a woman's pregnancy under such intense scrutiny and now forever linked to this sad set of circumstances.

Having said the obvious, the DJs need as much of our support as possible, not condemnation. They are human, deeply hurting, and deeply remorseful. "Baying for blood" is equally futile and wrong. Some of the comments on social media sites about them are abhorrent. Ideas for radio segments are discussed by a team of people, and after ideas are executed they are sent to their legal departments to be cleared. At that point, the responsibility is on radio management. Once the sound bite is done and in the can the whole team need to be held responsible should something go awry. In this instance, tragic.

What are you thoughts?

'A Current Affair' - Mel Greig and Michael Christian speak

'A Current Affair' will screen the interview with Mel Grieg and Michael Christian tonight at 6.30pm.

UPDATED: for the link, click here.

In anticipation for the interview, Tracy Grimshaw has stated on Twitter:

tracy grimshaw ‏@tracygrimshaw

Let me say clearly that our interview with the 2Day FM hosts for tonight's A Current Affair was NOT paid for. Neither asked nor offered.

For a backgrounder, go here and here and here.