Daniela Elser
Daniela Elser is the entertainment editor of news.com.au.
She started her career at ABC Television News in production, later moving to current affairs where she worked on the production teams of the 7.30 Report and Lateline.
Her work has been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Sun-Herald’s ‘Sunday Life’ and The Sunday Telegraph’s ‘Sunday’. She has also been regular contributor to The Punch since its launch.
Daniela owes the government quite a bit of money for the years she spent studying for her Arts degree at Sydney University and journalism at the University of Technology.
Articles by Daniela Elser
Sorry seems to be the hardest word for Matthew Newton
If Matthew Newton’s A Current Affair interview was his opening shot at public redemption, it was a misfire. Both the…... Read more
Kim Kardashian 2: Things to admire about Kim
Think Kim Kardashian is nothing more than a walking, talking exercise in narcissism and lip gloss? After all, she’s a…... Read more
‘Foxy Knoxy’ and the shock of a hot chick in the dock
Amanda Knox’s looks shouldn’t matter, but they do. In court, it wasn’t just the university student who ended up in…... Read more
Eating disorders: A more weighty issue than you think
Repeat after me: Models do not cause eating disorders. Really, they don’t. The news which hit the headlines this week…... Read more
1048 friends, 4598 followers, 1 lonely soul
We worry if we’ve got too much or too little; we notch up our conquests and proudly slip that number…... Read more
Should we force kin to suffer the unkindest cut?
Should circumcision be banned? Is it mutilation or a culturally and medically significant practice? That’s the question facing legislators in…... Read more
Pop princess Lady Gaga’s no Material Girl
Poor Stefani Germanotta. Not only does she have to clomp and totter around the globe in monstrosities masquerading as shoes…... Read more
Once upon a time, being a princess didn’t suck so much
Who in their right mind would want to be a Princess? In the last week, the royal bride lark has…... Read more
Luxury bags have lost their shine among the masses
I’m now the owner of a designer handbag and I’m not sure I want to keep it. The story of…... Read more
Miley Cyrus: Beware the smiley siren
Beware of Miley Cyrus. She might look oh-so-sweet with those dewy kewpie doll eyes blinking as she tries to come…... Read more
What a load of Goop; celebrities are no gurus
Lord save us from the celebrity lifestyle gurus. Save us from their nettle mayonnaise and organic cotton t-shirts handmade by…... Read more
Zara’s fast fashion is as unhealthy as fast food
Zara is here, as this video of somewhat hysterical shoppers in Sydney today shows. Whether you’re hysterical, trepidatious or completely…... Read more
“Generation Yes” needs to learn the word “No”
Oh god, it all could have been so different; for the 17-year-old girl; for the AFL; for the St Kilda…... Read more
The spinner who shagged me: why we love Warnie
There’s something about Warnie. A strange thing has happened in recent days while the Australian public has been on Shane…... Read more
Faddish, foolish and futile: why detox diets don’t work
Cookie diets, lemon detox diets, juice fasts, vegan weeks, the master cleanse. Magazines are full of them, friends bang on…... Read more
In case you missed the Golden Globes…
Not planning on spending three hours of your life watching Ricky Gervais gamely work his way through his agonizing but…... Read more
A horror movie, right there on my TV
There will come a time for introspection, but for now we watch the tide. Before dawn broke this morning much…... Read more
Is it the end of the world as we know it?
Is the end nigh? After all, 100,000 fish have washed up dead in Arkansas; 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell from the…... Read more
Sydney sparkles to hide the rot beneath
Tonight, the City of Sydney will squeeze into its glad rags and put on the pyrotechnic razzle dazzle that has…... Read more
Playing the media can be a dangerous game
Who is the real victim in the AFL nude scandal case? The 17-year-old girl who alleges she slept with a…... Read more
Can men handle women economically on top?
The battle of the sexes is over. Sorry to break the bad news blokes, but women have won. Well, this…... Read more
Assange has prompted a troubling double standard
In the last 48 hours only one thing is definite about the Julian Assange sex assault case – the hyperbole…... Read more
Instead of paying them to Tweet, let’s pay them not to
RIP Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Serena Williams, and Elijia Wood. For today at least, they are dead,…... Read more
It’s not the X Factor in reality TV, but the cringe factor
This week one and a half million odd people who tuned in watch the NSW fork lift driver Altiyan Childs…... Read more
Can Kate save the English Royal family?
He’s finally done it. After nine years together, approximately 76 fascinators and most of Will’s head of hair, the second…... Read more
Sex by powerpoint puts the bar into bar graph
Sex, booze, a Power Point presentation. The latest raunchy tale to hit the airwaves in the US has all the…... Read more
A slightly sozzled toast to bad mothers everywhere
New York journalist Lenore Skenzay let her 9-year-old son Izzy ride the subway by himself. The result was nothing short…... Read more
Cult leader Oprah will send her followers Down Under
The screams are still ringing in my ears. Oprah’s audience, and every Australian Tourism authority, are no doubt still trying…... Read more
Young voters trampled in stampede for family vote
To the 100,00-odd, predominately young voters, who courtesy of Get-Up, will be making their first quivering steps towards the polling…... Read more
A political WAGS tale
The visibility of Australian political partners in previous elections has largely been limited to a cursory podium-left guest appearance at…... Read more
The rise of the hot mess
The Lindsay Lohan story is not a cautionary tale about sexuality: to present the media coverage which has surrounded Lohan’s…... Read more
Women are fussy, and so we should be
They’re back, those four Manolo Blahnik-shod Manhattanites, and by all accounts, they’re well past their culturally relevant prime. Reading initial…... Read more
The other inequality behind gender imbalance at work
The German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom announced recently they would introduce a dictate that by 2015 30% of middle and…... Read more
Bieber: underage boy and sex object for older women
Sydney barely averted a potentially violent mob scene last week that would have been caused by 5 foot 3 of…... Read more
Turning thin fashion chic on its emaciated derriere
Oooh la la. French women might not get fat, but they’re happy to hold up a very curvy woman as…... Read more
How feminism became the dirty new f-word
It’s time to put our “I Heart Germaine” t-shirts away for another year now International Women’s Day has passed. For…... Read more
Woman who wants to be world’s fattest reveals more
“We wanna see the pig in action!!” This is but one of the many comments that appeared on the UK…... Read more
Could women actually be the losers from maternity leave
Where the heart dares to tread, politicians’ chequebooks follow in an election year. Tony Abbot embraced his (sort of) inner…... Read more
Finally, modern TV masters the art of humiliating the fat
So long, farewell, and thanks for all the flab. Goodbye “Dance Your Ass Off”. Goodbye to the lurid outfits and…... Read more
Waity Katie needs to get a life
Dear Kate Middleton, Get a life. A job would be a good start. Thing is, your boyfriend’s grandmother, the one…... Read more
Tune in, drop out, get drunk, become a hairdresser
There are currently some 700,000 university students in Australia, which I would estimate represents 145,478 cases of Chlamydia, 49,678 one-night…... Read more
Wanted: youngster to write about drugs and blow jobs
Gen Y may garner more column inches than Sarah Palin, the GFC, and Madonna’s immobile forehead combined but they are…... Read more
GFC is coming up roses for us non-material girls
Is the GFC turning out to be as good for you as it is for me? Save for any poor…... Read more
Knocked up, knocked down
Look down- do you have a uterus? Yes? Good luck with that, because no matter what choice you make concerning…... Read more
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