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| Talking to the Stars: Hannah
Hearsay It's the interview Australia has been waiting for - AussieTheatre.com editor Troy Dodds catches up with Hannah Hearsay, this website's superstar and very much in-demand columnist.... TD: Hannah, you’re impact on the industry has been wide and varied. Would you agree with this statement? HH: Listen, it's an interesting statement and I am glad you brought it up. It's been a long and winding road for me, and I suppose you can describe a road as "wide and varied". Full of turns, and bumps and surprising potholes that send you spinning off the bitumen and down a cliff face into a heap of twisted metal and rubber, trapped, alone and afraid as oil and petrol splash down on your face and then the motor explodes and everything catches on fire and you start screaming for help but nobody can hear you because you are in the middle of NOWHERE. This is what I believe my impact on the industry has been like - full of surprises. Some good, some apparently bad. I often get people criticising me for being both a professional performer and a gossip monger/journalist. The difference for me is - I admit I am a gossip monger. Unlike other performers who do it behind their hands or at parties, I publicly share factual gossip with my readers/fans, who know that the stories that come from me are reliable because of my involvement as an entertainer in the business. So yes, I suppose "wide and varied" is a good way to describe my impact. TD: Are you aware some people believe you don’t really exist and are just a performer working under an alias? HH: (Hannah laughs). When you reach a certain level of fame or popularity, people consistently want to tie you up and smack you down. For example, Marilyn Monroe dies - so everyone claims she's alive somewhere. Same with Elvis and Princess Di. It's a popular thing to do to a "celebrity" - make up non-factual-gossip about them. In fact, I read a piece the other day that claims Maria Venuttii is actually a woman! (Hannah laughs). So you see, people will say anything to get a story out of it. There have been alot of rumours going around to suggest that I may be this person or that person. I have heard that I am Shaun Rennie, Genevieve Lemon, Margi de Ferranti, Phil Scott, Lucy Durack - which I found insulting and made me sick, Tamsin Carrol...the list goes on. I provided my photo, I gave my stats - I am Hannah Hoolihan Hearsay, simple as that! I do understand, though, that my rise to fame as both acclaimed writer and a performer can make it difficult for people to believe I exist, I suppose. TD: You’ve had some terrible luck at auditions – what do you put it down to? HH: No I haven't. I want this question removed. TD: Your feuds with several performers have not helped. Belinda Wollaston, Lucy Durack, Tim Draxl – the list goes on. HH: No it doesn't. The list does not go on. That is the list, Troy. And you know that damn well. I have to admit your constant fence sitting on the issue of evil-walking-among-us is getting pretty infuriating. But if you insist on taking this interview down that path, I guess I have to follow you. Let's get one thing straight: I do not have a feud with them, Troy, they have a feud with me. Honestly, I feel that this interview has been weighted a lot to favour those three and put me in a bad light, actually, and I don't really appreciate it. Let's set a few things straight: Belinda Wollaston FAKED injuries and LIED about me to win a part at an audition. Lucy Durack and Tim Draxl murdered an innocent animal that belonged to me. Let's take these two events seperately. When Belinda beat herself up in the NIDA toilets, what was I guilty of? NOTHING. All I had done was thoroughly prepared for an audition and sung my best. And that drove her nuts. I am actually not allowed to talk about this too much because it is not healthy for me. But her feud was with me and she has been dripping with jealousy for years now. I am just disgusted that someone would reward her for that. Secondly, Tim Draxl and Lucy Durack. Where do I even start? In this situation what am I guilty of? Huh...what? (Hannah starts to cry) Loving a man? is that a crime? Well smack on the f%!*ing handcuffs and throw me in the slammer then because, yes, I am guilty of loving a man! And what did I get out of it? A slap on the face and a dead poodle, that's what. People might claim that Lucy Durack is sweet and pretty and innocent and all of those things but she is a deceptive, meddling, jealous little madam who will do ANYTHING to knock out the competition. I have heard she isn't even seeing Tim anymore. SO I guess she has brains. He cheated on me with her. So let's call a spade a spade. Lucy Durack is a jezebel. But - if you can believe it - that's not the part that hurt the most. No... then they murdered Sheila!?! I mean why!?!? I would understand if I had killed his dog to pay him back, but why on earth did they kill mine? So if we are talking about feuds, Troy, perhaps you should forward these insulting questions to them. Haven't I been through enough? All I am guilty of is being talented and loving a man. So put me in the electric chair for it, why don't you? Really, I want this interview to stop for a second. Turn off your tape recorder. Turn it... (Hannah takes a break) TD: What about the people who dare say your stories just aren’t true? HH: I suppose, Troy, they are the same people who say your stories just aren't true. So tell me, how do you respond? (Hannah sits back in her chair and raises an eyebrow) Hmm? TD: Hannah, have any rival websites been interested in your services? HH: HEAPS of them. Contracts come up in a month or so, so I will decide if I will stay with aussietheatre.com or not then I guess. (Hannah raises her eyebrow again) But there are alot of changes that would have to take place for that to occur. ALOT. TD:
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* Hannah Hearsay is a satire column on AussieTheatre.com