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She may have been booted out of the country on Tuesday, but right-wing motormouth Katie Hopkins looks set to laugh all the way to the bank back in Dear Old Blighty. Thanks to a “pay or play” clause in Hopkins’ contract with Big Brother production company Endemol Shine, which creates the show on behalf of the Seven Network, Hopkins is due to pocket all of the estimated $200,000 fee for which she had signed on, despite her aborted appearance. Katie Hopkins mocking the safety rules upon her arrival in Australia. Credit:Instagram: @_katie_hopkins_ A spokeswoman for Big Brother declin...

TV colossus David John Leckie died at age 70 on Tuesday following a decade-long battle with illness Under Kerry Packer and Kerry Stokes, Leckie took the Seven and Nine networks to number one as CEO  Friends knew him as 'Big Wave Dave' and all knew that philanthropist wife Skye wasn't the only love in his life 'He had another mistress for many years, and unfortunately for dad she came in the shape of a ... TV screen' 

David Leckie made his name in an era when television network bosses were larger-than-life characters who could attract as much attention as on-screen stars.  Leckie was a colossus of the industry, stomping across and through its landscape like a dinosaur - which is what some detractors thought he was.  He was big, bold, brash and boisterous. Often blistering and sometimes boorish. Harsh critics called him a bully boy but he could also be a charmer.  Leckie was a noted drinker and prone to profanity, almost as well known for his long lunches as being one of few men to run two television net...