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Lucy Kippist

by Lucy Kippist

07 May 11:29am

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OK, so that’s a slight exaggeration of what she actually said, but everyone else is swearing this week. And it’s also not that far off the sentiment of Sharon Osborne’s (wife of wild-man Ozzy) latest outburst, that was aimed directly at us.

Hey! Who are you calling smug, lady? Picture:AP.

Today’s Courier Mail reports that Osborne, while appearing as a judge of US show Celebrity Apprentice, wasted no time in voicing her opinion of Aussie chef Curtis Stone and then Australians in general.

Here’s how it happened:

Donald Trump to Sharon Osborne: “What do you think of Curtis Stone.”

Sharon Osborne: “He’s very smug.”

Cyndi Lauper: “He’s Australian!”

“Yeah, I know,” Osbourne responded. ‘Put another shrimp on the Barbie” . He is too smug for me”.

“Are all Australian’s like that?,” a surprised Ivanka Trump asked.

“Yeah, usually, yeah,” Osbourne responded.

Sharon could be pining for the good old days of colonial rule and would like to see us Aussies put back in our place. But I think she’s just plain rude.

What about you, what do you make of what she said. Are we smug?

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    • Sha says:

      12:58pm | 07/05/10

      We have reason to be smug.we live in paradise and I feel qualified to say that after some years living overseas.So, I think she is correct.

      Reply

    • pisces says:

      12:59pm | 07/05/10

      I think aussie men are smug as a general rule and aussie male TV chefs are extra smug.  Stating the bleeding obvious in a way a female TV chef would never get away with. They can’t believe their luck. Mind you, Curtis Stone has all the right reasons to feel smug and is so lovely that Sharon probably had a menopausal moment and lashed out.

      Reply

    • Henry says:

      01:06pm | 07/05/10

      Not sure about all of us but it is a streak.  And Stone is smug with that horrible slow mock surfy ‘stoner’ style accent.  Even more annoying that Jamie Oliver with his fake cockney.

      Reply

    • stephen says:

      02:06pm | 07/05/10

      I’m not sure it is fake, actualeee.
      And which one up there’s the mother ?
      They breed’em young in south-paw land, what with 6 toes’n banjo playin’ ya’lll.

    • paul says:

      01:07pm | 07/05/10

      when did we start listening to the opinions of panel-beaten chavs?

      Reply

    • maybe says:

      01:40pm | 07/05/10

      LOL too true.

    • julie says:

      01:51pm | 07/05/10

      is it smug to admit that I, and presumably lots of my fellow Australian’s, dont give two hoots about what she or anyone else thinks about what we Aussies are like?

      Reply

    • Scott Glennon says:

      03:19pm | 07/05/10

      Smug is such a pompous word.

      Reply

    • Peter says:

      03:31pm | 07/05/10

      No, we are not smug, we are childish and still a very immature nation. When we have 10 million people walking around this country refusing to acknowledge themselves as migrants or even refuse to accept that the Aboriginies were here first, to me that seems we have to grow up a little… I’ve seen to many examples of this.. To me it suggests we are not getting real history lessons in our schools..

      I saw a report on TV a few week ago questioning whether or not Captain Cook discovered Australia. It is 100% fact that he did not, there were many other visitors here before Cook (ie Dutch, Spanish) and the chinese used to trade with the Aboriginies. As much as it might offend some people, it was the Aboriginies that discovered Australia and no one else…

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    • paul says:

      07:14pm | 07/05/10

      I applaud your capacity to make a post about some mouthy old trout a chance to spray culture war agitprop around like Lewis Hamilton with a magnum of Moet.

    • Notacarrot says:

      08:24am | 08/05/10

      LOL, actually Peter, I have never heard it said Cook discovered Australia. I think you mean colonised.

      Of course these terms are from the European perspective anyway. the same way someone might say they “discovered” a great restaurant.

      Just out of curiosity, how many generations does someone’s family need to live in a place to no longer be immigrants? (though let’s be honest, I’m not likely to see the reply anyway).

    • Josh says:

      05:44pm | 10/05/10

      There’s always got to be one…......

    • Scot says:

      04:07pm | 07/05/10

      hehehe and what could one say about Donald and Ivanka Trump and Osborn’s dysfunctional families. They have made a living out of hanging their dirty linen on the line to the highest dollar. I guess by Curtis being arrogant is one way of getting noticed. Like when we took the America;s cup away from the US and the Osborne fellow country men could not for how many years? And lets get extremley arrogant and smug, don’t mention the cricket to her. And there is no one in NY more rude and arrogant than Donald Trump. Man he needs a haircut so bad.

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    • Darryl Price says:

      04:11pm | 07/05/10

      While we are at it, I think Pandas are smug.

      Reply

    • Lauren says:

      04:18pm | 07/05/10

      She’s a got a point. When a country is this good, its hard not to get smug…

      Not sure what Cyndi Lauper is on about.. “He’s Australian!” So? He’s not an alien!

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    • 6c legs says:

      04:49pm | 07/05/10

      See, you can be as wealthy as Shazza, but because of her working class roots and accent, and because of the country she was born in, it doesn’t matter how rich/famous she or her family are they will never be truly welcomed into or part of the English Upper Class.

      Whereas Curtis Stone (and the rest of us anglo Ozzies) haven’t had “The Class System” rammed down our thoats from birth. Yeah, there are some Australians who think that Australia also has a Class system, but it’s nowhere near entrenched as the UKs is .... and for that little blessing we have every reason to be smug!  LOL

      (plus, IMO anything that gets up her overworked nose can’t be a bad thing. heheheheeee)

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    • biff says:

      05:11pm | 07/05/10

      I think Sharon has stumbled on Ozzie’s stash. Sharon, don’t take the whole lot together, take one every 6 hours or so.

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    • MsP says:

      05:16pm | 07/05/10

      Yep…we are smug because thankfully Australia doesn’t have her and her dippy family living here….....

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    • Sam says:

      09:47pm | 07/05/10

      Curtis didn’t seem smug at all on the greatest cooking show ever made Surfing the Menu.

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    • ABC says:

      02:19pm | 10/05/10

      The New Zealand one was very irritating.  I don’t know how many times that Kiwi said Bender during the course of one episode.  But if you had to knock back a beer everytime he did you’d get plastered pretty sharpish!!!

    • S.L says:

      03:48am | 08/05/10

      It shows even though Aussie media portray us as part of the world community in reality the outside world knows little if anything about us. (Except Unzudders of course because most of them live here).
      One of the most “informed” quotes I’ve heard from the past few years was that nobody member of the lucky sperm club Peaches Geldof who said and I quote “The biggest celebrity in Australia is Harold fron Neighbours!”
      Go to the Old Dart, even London where every pub is full of Aussia bar staff and ask the average Pom any reasonably simple question about us and they have no idea. The Yanks are worse with an interesting statistc I read the other day that only 10% of them have passports.
      True Sharon Osborne is a nobody too but I agree with her opinion about Curtis Stone but not about us of course…..

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    • Samantha says:

      11:33pm | 08/05/10

      Reading these responses just shows how we Australians think we know everything. How many Australiasn have a passport, how many know about other countries and what is going on internationally. Get off your high horses Aussies you haven’t got that much to smile about as does any other country in this whole world. We are all so quick to criticise. Every country should spend some time cleaning up its own messes and keeping their opinions to themselves. Once everyone in this whole world is doing an honest days work and looking after their immediate families and stop sponging off their each other asking for welfare benefits etc then we may have a chance until then stop the back slapping!!

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    • BackslappingAussie says:

      06:17pm | 09/05/10

      Can i have the soapbox now, immigrant or is that ignorant !?!

    • Samantha says:

      07:54pm | 11/05/10

      To “Backslapping Aussie: my statement was just plain and simple every country including Australia has the same types of people who do not know much about anything. Why does it always have to get down to being an immigrant or ignorant when stating the bleeding obvious/truth?  I am a full fledged Aussie mate (with the experience of growing up as a first generation Australian from a migrant familiy who came out here legally and worked hard) and would support Australia anytime and anywhere. I just personally dislike back slapping by ANYONE when this whole world is completely imperfect and its occupants have a long way to go.  Are you ignorant of our problems here in Australia. It just seems like you cannot handle the truth.

    • James says:

      10:28am | 10/05/10

      Ah yes, actually. Australians are getting a well deserved reputation for being arrogant louts not just in the US but in many other places around the world.  I think it is only a matter of time before this reputation is completely entrenched, rather than the friendly Australian reputation that the tourism board want to project.

      You can blame the following people for this:

      Wayne Carey
      A large number of Australian Tourists
      Afl footballers in general
      Rugby Neanderthals
      Cron-magnon Rioters
      Chapelle Corby Types
      Rupert Murdoch
      Fightin Rus
      Underbelly wannabe wannabes
      A majority of people who go out on Saturday night to get blind and “paint the town red”.

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    • marley says:

      10:57am | 10/05/10

      Possibly true, but a Brit is hardly in a position to criticize another nation for its louts.  And I think Rupert Murdoch, current American citizen, major British newspaper proprietor, can be laid at everyone’s door.

    • James1 says:

      11:10am | 10/05/10

      Don’t forget bogans.

    • Jonno says:

      11:10am | 10/05/10

      Sharon Osborne is famous for being the wife of someone famous. That’s all. She has no obvious talent and no redeeming features. People who can cook shrimps on the barbie will always seem smug to a woman who can’t even boil an egg.

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    • James says:

      11:14am | 10/05/10

      Nothing possibly about it, whatever reputation for friendliness Australians once had, it will evapourate once you see a large group of Australians “in action”.  Arrogant, ignorant louts is how we are percieved by a growing part of the world.

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    • Joe says:

      04:22am | 19/05/10

      Its those cocky ‘celebrity’ cheffs that the media seem to love for some reason - they are realy cocky. Just think how they are respected like gods. Can u think of any other sector treated like that?

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