Heart Attack in Barbados

Well…what a night! It was tough looking back on that, especially when my kids got all teared up watching daddy go through a ‘heart attack’ on the TV. I had to explain to them that it was months ago and daddy is OK but they still needed a cuddle!
It is the first time that I have seen the footage that the crew took when I was sick in Barbados.When I first got the pains I thought that they would pass but it just got worse and worse and the medic area was the safest place for me to be. What happened after that was a blur.

The crew went from a mild concern to a real panic as it became clear that they might actually lose me and once I was taken to hospital it was tools down, they all came out to the medical centre to sit in the waiting room to see if I was going to be OK. Six hours of tests and observation came up empty but we think it was a reaction to the fresh fruit and nuts I was eating before lunch.

I was on my way to the local hospital in Barbados but Myles Carney (Milo) our Series Coordinator explained to the medical staff at The Kensington Oval that ‘Granada’ and ‘Seed’ our production companies had full insurance, that meant I went to the private medical centre on the west side of Barbados – he part where Oprah or Bill Gates would go to get fixed if they were sick in Barbados if you know what I mean.

I rang my dad and told him what happened but I couldn’t ring my wife or mum, I don’t know why, I just couldn’t. It was only just before an article in Sydney’s The Sun Herald came out a week or so later about my health problems that I had to step up and tell them, I didn’t want them reading all about it in the paper.

As you saw, I spent a couple of days in bed listening to the cricket and I also watched the entire “Underbelly” series through my boss Matty Weiss’s iPod. Still to this day I do not know exactly what was wrong with me. I have had all the tests known to medical science but still no 100% diagnostics. I carry a few extra kilos and I am on a plan to get myself back to around 100kg – two stone to go. This will help me in all facets of my life and should make me fitter for our next adventure – I hope you watch next week as the Calypso spirit comes to play as we hit the limited over’s cricket!!!

Gus’s Top 5 Cricket Heroes

When I watched Episode 1 the thing that came out and smacked me in the face was...how good is my life! Getting to hang with Viv Richards!

Viv was my childhood hero and I remember my mates and I were always trying to be him when we played backyard cricket...“I’m Viv...I’m Viv” we shouted as we argued about who we were going to be in the match. And whoever got to be Viv, got to be KING! The rest would be Lillee, Thommo, Greg or Ian Chappell. Hookesy was popular too but Viv was THE MAN.

What was shown tonight was only a small part of the day I spent with Viv. I had NO IDEA that he was going to collect me. My Executive Producer Matty Weiss (the boss on a TV show ) just told me to get through customs and go and wait outside near the taxi rank outside the airport in Antigua. When I was tapped on the shoulder I honestly could not believe it, one of my childhood heroes, right there in front of me. Viv.

He was genuinely happy and excited to show me his country. As you saw on the show we cruised around in his soft top car and the people in the streets shouted out at him. There is only so much that you can capture on the show and the stuff that hit the cutting room floor in the edit suites is the stuff that I’ll always remember.

We chatted about his life now as a SIR, what it is like to be a living legend, his thoughts on the West Indies side now and the future of cricket with 20/20 having such a big impact on our game.
The guys in the crew were also in awe of Viv as they all had him as a hero. After we shut the camera down Viv happily chatted away with us, posed for photos and signed the odd autograph. He was exactly the same on camera as off it. Sometimes you can get to close to your heroes… but they can let u down.

So without any further adieu, my top 5:

Viv – of course
Lillee
Thommo
Ian Chappel
Hookesy

Agreed?

EVERY PARENT'S NIGHTMARE, and MIND-BLOWINGLY INAPPROPRIATE are just some of the reviews the new season of Gossip Girl has received.If you somehow missed the point of the ads which blatantly scream SEX! SEX! And yes, MOOOORE SEX! The message should be clear after watching the first episode of the new season. Gossip Girl contains (GAAASSSP!!!!) SEX!

What do you expect? The show centres around a group of hormonally fuelled teens who will jump on anything that moves, so I like our chances of witnessing one or more of these encounters. And let’s face it, it is after all the PG, TV kind of love making which usually consists of a bit of choreographed bump and grind mixed to a soft rock love track and topped off with just the right amount of effective mood lighting (hey, it gets me in the mood)...

ANYWAY...my point is, I find Gossip Girl’s so called sex scenes no more offensive than a modern day music video. If 'Madge' can share her 'Vag' with the entire universe, then so too should theUpper East Side teens be left in peace to dirty dance with whomever they please!

Kyle V Clark

I love Kyle and I love Clark but if it came to the crunch I don’t know which one I would choose as a hot superhero (ish) boyfriend. And obviously when I say Clark I mean Smallville Clark and not Christopher Reeves (RIP) Clark.

They’ve got a lot of similarities like;

They’ve both got some serious superhuman powers

They’re both ultra moral “good guys”

And, they’re both in love with the girl next door who has a jock boyfriend standing in the way.

Which one is better boyfriend material?

We’re in season 2 now and well into it so it’s kind of easy to forget how it all started, we thought I’d give you a quick rehash to where it all began…

A teenage boy is lying on a forest floor. Naked. Kyle XY looks around at his surroundings, unsure of what he is actually seeing. A rattle snakes lunges at him to attack. He grabs it by the neck and stops it hissing.

Every species is born with instincts that create a balance with nature, all except the species Kyle was born into.

Walking through the forest Kyle comes across many things that are alien to him, like two people having sex in a tent. Making his way through the city Kyle eventually and inevitably gets arrested and sent to a Juvenile Detention Centre where he meets Nicole – his saviour.

After examining Kyle’s unusual tendencies – he seems to be unable to speak, his innocent mimicking but most of all, smooth skin where his belly button should be – Nicole takes him home to meet her family.

Stephen her husband – the astute business man very reluctant to have a ‘problem case’ in the house, Lori the party and boy crazy teenage daughter and Josh her young son, at an age where reading dirty magazines in the bathroom is essential.

After so many unexplainable and amazing incidents – fixing Stephen’s computer, saving Lori, outsmarting the cop and all the mimicking – Nicole decides that Kyle needs special care and should stay with her family instead of being shipped off to state care.

She tells her family of her plan and they don’t react well but once they all sit down for dinner that night young Josh pours Kyle an iced tea while Lori tenderly piles his plate with vegetables.--

Love it or hate it?

We’re in season 2 now and well into it so it’s kind of easy to forget how it all started, we thought I’d give you a quick rehash to where it all began…

A teenage boy is lying on a forest floor. Naked. Kyle XY looks around at his surroundings, unsure of what he is actually seeing. A rattle snakes lunges at him to attack. He grabs it by the neck and stops it hissing.

Every species is born with instincts that create a balance with nature, all except the species Kyle was born into.

Walking through the forest Kyle comes across many things that are alien to him, like two people having sex in a tent. Making his way through the city Kyle eventually and inevitably gets arrested and sent to a Juvenile Detention Centre where he meets Nicole – his saviour

After examining Kyle’s unusual tendencies – he seems to be unable to speak, his innocent mimicking but most of all, smooth skin where his belly button should be – Nicole takes him home to meet her family.

Stephen her husband – the astute business man very reluctant to have a ‘problem case’ in the house, Lori the party and boy crazy teenage daughter and Josh her young son, at an age where reading dirty magazines in the bathroom is essential.

After so many unexplainable and amazing incidents – fixing Stephen’s computer, saving Lori, outsmarting the cop and all the mimicking – Nicole decides that Kyle needs special care and should stay with her family instead of being shipped off to state care.

She tells her family of her plan and they don’t react well but once they all sit down for dinner that night young Josh pours Kyle an iced tea while Lori tenderly piles his plate with vegetables

Love it or hate it?

Who says cartoons are for kids? Family Guy and American Dad creator Seth MacFarlane tops Entertainment Weekly's list of the 25 smartest people in television.

The magazine says Family Guy DVDs and merchandise have earned a reported $US1 billion ($A1.55 billion). MacFarlane is the highest-paid writer in TV, with a Family Guy spinoff called The Cleveland Show in the works.

"That frat-boy persona is only a cover," says Entertainment Weekly.

30 Rock creator and Sarah Palin imitator Tina Fey is second on the magazine's list. CBS Paramount Network Entertainment chief Nancy Tellem is third. Oprah Winfrey came in sixth.