Hey Hey audience loved the gay icon — and Kylie too
Source: The Age July 22, 2010
On Hey Hey, It’s Saturday last night for the Red Faces segment were (from left) Red Symons, Daryl Somers, Kylie Minogue, Rex Lee and Tony Abbott. Photo: Channel Nine
THE preamble provided by Kylie and her 25 ravishing dancers was moderately astonishing even if you’d warmed yourself up for a flavour of The Castro in advance.
Where on earth would Tony Abbott have looked in the green room at Hey Hey It’s Saturday?
Buff blokes in black budgie smugglers and black ankle boots. Was this a homage of sorts to the Liberal leader? Is Tony Abbott a gay icon and your correspondent has somehow failed to catch on?
Then there were those girls in the torn shirts that didn’t quite cover their hot pants, and then the shirts evaporated to reveal leathers. People writhed about on stage simulating intimate gestures.
I hope these ladies are merely engaging in interpretive dance and are saving ‘It’ for a significant occasion as Abbott once advised.
No wonder Abbott sprinted on to the set in his regulation “I’m running for prime minister” suit minus the tie, steam rising from his open collar. Good Lord. What would Dame Pattie Menzies have said?
What on earth was Abbott doing there? Julia Gillard had run a mile from being a judge on Red Faces. It is hard to imagine any political figure in the past 10 years who would have braved that format.
Who watches this show? Is this an audience of swingers? Sorry, voters, that is.
Hey Hey is not quite Kevin Rudd’s coquettish cuddles on the couch with Rove.
Tony Abbott’s entrance last night had been preceded by a burping dog with human hands on YouTube. A picture was produced where a naked man covered his crotch with a hat.
A blonde woman from Townsville knocked back a perfectly good Vespa and plucked a duck in order to win six grand’s worth of curtains and blinds.
Given all the unexploded ordnance lying about, Abbott was keeping his little cameo with Kylie and Red and some bloke from Entourage that I’m not cool enough to have heard of all so low-key.
Just one of Abbott’s characteristic “auh auh auh” laughs escaped.
The entertainment on the Red Faces segment started out challenging. A lady called Loretta penned and performed her own unique song about a family that apparently loved too much. People were related to other people. You get the general drift.
Abbott did reasonably well given the Sundance Film Festival content. He shied away from textual analysis and looked to presentation. “I quite like the Julia Gillard accent,” Abbott said grinning. It scored a laugh.
Kylie was sharper. “Thanks for sharing that touching story,” said the Pop Princess, shimmering immodestly and looking upwards under a magnificent false eyelash.
There were children and animals. Pip the circus dog performed an election-like feat of walking on her hind legs and weaving her way around obstacles, rather like Abbott has done for much of the week. (Abbott liked the dog.)
Then there was a line of little girls in sparkly sneakers doing some cute hip-swaying number. Kylie lurved them. Abbott too. Not so much Red Symons.
Then there was The Hiker from Adelaide, an elderly gent who unaccountably had a toilet roll hanging from his left hip.
Abbott’s verdict: “He’s funnier than I am, but I’m not quite sure he’d keep up on the bike.” The Hiker looked confused and asked Kylie to say hi to his grandkids.
Hi, Kylie purred. Hi Kylie, they no doubt replied in their dressing gowns in front of the telly.
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