Jodi Gordon's network switch angers Channel Seven

[AnnaB]

As I and others have pointed out we have now had 3 versions of the story from the rag mags/tabloids

1. She left of her own volition.

2. She was sacked.

3. She was not sacked - she "pleaded" to be let out of her contract to go travelling then went and auditioned for a show on Channel 9 instead.

It has almost reached a farcial stage now. Since the "bikie bender" incident in June last year she has had her name dragged through the mud at every available opportunity by the tabloids. I am not saying she didn't deserve any bad press but certainly not the amount and frequency of press she has received. Certain "journalists" appear to have gone out of their way to dig up dirt on her and poke into her so-called "lifestyle" with stories about her frequenting strip clubs etc. Now when she quits the show it can't just be left that she just quit - they have to go and question and speculate about it.

What she did was stupid but at the end of the day she wasn't charged with any crime. On the other hand Todd Lasance, who was charged with a crime and did have to appear in court, has received very little publicity. There was the story about him being caught in possession of cocaine and then little or nothing until his court appearance and then the only thing since as far as I am aware was the story about him going to film a mini-series in Perth. I don't see anyone going out of their way to rake up dirt on him or write exposes about his lifestyle or write endless articles about whether/how long he had a drug habit for. I am not saying I would have wanted that to happen because I don't - I am pointing out the difference in treatment and exposure their situations have been given.

I don't find the story about her wanting a break or the suggestion that Channel 7 were prepared to give it to her credible. Why would an employer agree to someone being given an indefinite break to go travelling or whatever and tell them they can come back any time they like or want to bend over backwards to accommodate her particularly given the "scandal" she caused and the upset she caused the Network owner's poor little son (who is now so upset he appears to be dating everything in a skirt according to our tabloid friends).

Hopefully the truth will out soon. Another sad part of all this is that with all the stuff that has been written no-one has bothered to ask WHY she started partying/drinking too hard. Presumably not for the hell of it. I think one article did briefly mention her parents had split up and that she was upset about that but I have no idea if that is true or not. Maybe many wouldn't think whatever the reasons were were not very good reasons but it would have shed some more light on it at least.

Excellent post Sooty, ITA

And I would add, that unless Seven had something akin to a 'non compete' clause in her contract then its actually none of their business why she chose to leave and what she does next!!! Just like it is with any employer/employee relationship.

[WillowsTara]

sooty- I guess he's not as famous as Jodi is (I don't think she's that famous either though) so of course they are gonna drag them through the mud. This is the newspapers we are talking about, and it seems the more famous and hotter you are the more likely you are gonna get screwed over by them. Look at Paris, Britney or Lindsey you think they wanted all of that crap spread through the newspaper? (Well Paris probably wouldn't have cared, just like the publicity but since I don't know her personally then I wouldn't know).

The only way we would get the truth if you knew Jodi personally or if Jodi cleared it all up. This is what they just do, the press jumps at everything little thing a actor or celebrity makes, they make one mistake and they are paying for it for the rest of their life (I could care less about the drugs Todd was taking, it's his life and none of my business just as long he wasn't selling it). And look how everyone was "OMG! BRITNEY SHAVED HER HEAD!"

>.> Seriously I call that an overreaction, (I know it apparently has to do with drugs right? But still she can shave her head if she wants to, and making a big deal well that's offending every bald person, alot who can look attractive, I mean Katherine Heig was still hot looking even with the bald in GA). This is why I don't believe a word the newspaper says.

And Jodi went to a strip club? Of course they are gonna make a great deal. And for those keep taking drugs instead of trying to help their addiction and sent them to rehab the press just makes it worse.

This is why I do not trust the news anymore or magazines or anything. Unless I got to know the celebrity in person then I don't judge considering there's billions of reasons. Maybe one day I will make my own newspaper that only sets out for the truth and the truth only.

[HAA Girl 08]

I gotta say, Seven get over it. Sorry but Jodi can do whatever she wants with her life if she wants to leave Seven then go audition for 9 then so be it, and I don't really care if there is a contract involved. If she's had a hard time in her life and wanted to leave then so what, she should able to.

Exactly. Why bother dwelling on it? It's not going to stop her from filming her next show.

[~Lynd~]

I can understand why they're annoyed if it's true, but it'll teach them that next time they need put a clause in the contract that says if they want out early they can't work for the remainder of it.

[jodlebirger]

What she did was stupid but at the end of the day she wasn't charged with any crime. On the other hand Todd Lasance, who was charged with a crime and did have to appear in court, has received very little publicity. There was the story about him being caught in possession of cocaine and then little or nothing until his court appearance and then the only thing since as far as I am aware was the story about him going to film a mini-series in Perth. I don't see anyone going out of their way to rake up dirt on him or write exposes about his lifestyle or write endless articles about whether/how long he had a drug habit for. I am not saying I would have wanted that to happen because I don't - I am pointing out the difference in treatment and exposure their situations have been given.

certainly don't agree with this!!!! yes, Mr. Lasance was caught with drugs, but Jodi was caught totally out of it. The only difference is that she had taken the stuff, he hadn't. I know that using drugs isn't illegal, but possesion is... but anyway... I do agree that Jodi Gordon has not deserved to be dragged down like this but Mr. L did also caught a lot of bad press because of his crime. I am not from Aus, but I read a lot of articles about it and they kept repeating that the max. punishment for posession of drugs is 2 years (or something like that). It was said in one article that the amount of coccaine was very small, but nobody seemed to care about that. Read comments like "throw a book at him"... He also got much more bad attention abroad than Jodi Gordon has. He got a role in a small miniseries but Jodi has also gotten a new role. Mr. L did a crime but it was very small, he had only 0.36 of a gram coccaine. When I read the articles I got the impression that he had a lot more...

Jodi Gordon has been dragged through the mud just because of those incidents that happened in June, she got even an article on a Norwegian magazine webpage! And she hasn't deserved all this bad press!!! But in the long run, I do think that Jodi is going to recover from this much faster than Todd.... She has got a lot of bad press, but she has also got a lot of PR too. And a lot of articles has been friendly towards her, between the lines they feel sorry for her and some hints that she hasn't been treated well at the Network that her departure is not her own desicion, because she used to be one of the bosses girlfriend... I think in the long run, she gets a lot of sympathy and she will not have difficulties with finding new jobs in Australia.

But for Todd L, I think he is going to be an another "Dieter Brummer". Because he did a crime he won't get this sympathy. He has got a new role now, but probably will have difficulties in the future. His plans to go to america is on hold. He has a contract with an agent comapany there, but he was supposed to go in January and has probably broken the terms of that contract. He is not so young either, next year he will be 26... I googled Dieter B and he had a role just after the drug incident with a pay-tv-thing (just like Todd L.) and then he dissapeared.

Well, my point is... that neither of those to deserved the huge bad attention that they have got. It is like a hunt, I feel like the press are after HAA... its like a whitch hunt... And that is just sad. In my country soaps stars are not big stars as those are in Aus, and there are more a common attitude that the showbiz is full of danger and there are a lot of people in it who get addicted to drugs. I think the press over here react more like this when an athlete from my country get caught on dope. Then the press are going totally mad at them, and it turns out to be a soap opera in real life. Sometimes when I read stories like this, I get a feeling that we forget that these people are real people...the media wants to squeeze much as possible drama out of the story because that is selling - and we are buying it. And that is really alarming...

(and sorry again for my very bad English. I hoped that it would have improved by now, when I am trying to write a lot on this site... When I started doing this, I hadn't written anything in English since my high shcool days.. But it seems like it hasn't helped )

[jldraw]

But for Todd L, I think he is going to be an another "Dieter Brummer". Because he did a crime he won't get this sympathy. He has got a new role now, but probably will have difficulties in the future. His plans to go to america is on hold. He has a contract with an agent comapany there, but he was supposed to go in January and has probably broken the terms of that contract. He is not so young either, next year he will be 26... I googled Dieter B and he had a role just after the drug incident with a pay-tv-thing (just like Todd L.) and then he dissapeared.

Well Todd Lasance's situation is a little bit different from Dieter Brummer's. If you check imdb after H&A, roles for Dieter really dried up and it had nothing to do with drugs. Melissa George has given some interviews over the years where she has spoken about how difficult it was to work with Dieter on H&A. She basically said on her website that he unprofessional and wasn't respectful of the position he had been given. In remember reading another interview where she said that for the last few months of Dieter's contract it was as if everyone on set had to tiptoe around Dieter Brummer because he was unhappy with the show or his character or whatnot.

So if that is all true I wouldn't be surprised if that is why Dieter Brummer despite his enormous popularity at the time didn't have much of a career after H&A. I'm sure if this is all true that word was already around about him throughout the industry that he was hard to do business with.

PS: For all you Dieter Brummer fans out there he will have a role in "Underbelly 3: The Golden Mile" alongside Marc Furze and Jessica Tovey later on this year.

[jodlebirger]

But for Todd L, I think he is going to be an another "Dieter Brummer". Because he did a crime he won't get this sympathy. He has got a new role now, but probably will have difficulties in the future. His plans to go to america is on hold. He has a contract with an agent comapany there, but he was supposed to go in January and has probably broken the terms of that contract. He is not so young either, next year he will be 26... I googled Dieter B and he had a role just after the drug incident with a pay-tv-thing (just like Todd L.) and then he dissapeared.

Well Todd Lasance's situation is a little bit different from Dieter Brummer's. If you check imdb after H&A, roles for Dieter really dried up and it had nothing to do with drugs. Melissa George has given some interviews over the years where she has spoken about how difficult it was to work with Dieter on H&A. She basically said on her website that he unprofessional and wasn't respectful of the position he had been given. In remember reading another interview where she said that for the last few months of Dieter's contract it was as if everyone on set had to tiptoe around Dieter Brummer because he was unhappy with the show or his character or whatnot.

So if that is all true I wouldn't be surprised if that is why Dieter Brummer despite his enormous popularity at the time didn't have much of a career after H&A. I'm sure if this is all true that word was already around about him throughout the industry that he was hard to do business with.

PS: For all you Dieter Brummer fans out there he will have a role in "Underbelly 3: The Golden Mile" alongside Marc Furze and Jessica Tovey later on this year.

I have read somewhere that D.B was caught with drugs years ago (1995 or 1996, straight after HAA)... he had problems with his career after that. But of course there are probably a lot of other reasons why he hasn't been very successful...

[superman's girlfriend]

Ugh, are we meant to care about HOW she left? Or why, for that matter. It doesn't matter; she left, point blank.

Yeah, she probably shouldn't have given a false statement about 'taking a break from acting,' but everyone A) makes mistakes (as the newspapers so "kindly" like to point out at any given chance with Jodi) and B) changes their minds. I can see another report about how Channel 7 will "take action" with Jodi about the contract issue. Ugh. I really do wonder if Channel 7 enjoy making themselves look silly when it comes to reporting, or whether it's stupid tabloid articles that do it for them. The more they report on this, the stupider they'll look.

Not suggesting Jodi didn't want the part on channel Nine but if anyone would wanna make Seven look bad it would be Jodi

and that's maybe how they're playing it, making eachother look bad through out the media.

I never got why Ryan Stokes reported his girlfriend missing to the cops without it being leaked.I thought it was to save his name from whatever Jodi was doing (cause he didn't know where she was hanging out so to speak) while Jodi wanted to drag him with her through the mud because of whatever relationshipproblems they alread were having for months.

Whoever tipped off the media about Jodi stripclubdays... Cam's storyline is long over. untill now (a while ago) Seven managed to keep it secret and they practically own the media.