on 21-08-2013 10:09 AM
Yea this one is doing it real hard NOT.....
Bagging Tony Abbott all in a day's work for actress Susannah Hardy
THE actress mother hired to bag Tony Abbott in a negative Labor TV ad campaign actually lives with her parents, enjoying their gourmet food and wines, while whingeing about the price of Spanish handmade tiles.
Susannah Hardy is being paid by Labor to pretend she fears cutbacks from an Abbott government while, in real life, undertaking expensive renovations to her dream Sydney home, complete with a "stylish stainless steel dishwasher that only makes 42 decibels of noise".
Hardy, whose acting credits include Packed To The Rafters, Blue Heelers and Wish You Were Here, has become the "Sour Susie" of the 2013 election, reviving memories of Bob Hawke's "Whingeing Wendy" in 1987
Her agent said yesterday Hardy, who also writes articles about kitchens and bathrooms for glossy home magazines, lives in Paddington, in Sydney's leafy east.
Her posts on her blog reveal a woman who loves to live with style - rather than fretting about the number of nurses and teachers employed by governments like the hard-working mother she portrays in the attack ad
The 44-year-old boasted on her blog last weekend that her lawyer husband and their two daughters, aged 5 and 2, had been living with her parents for the past 10 weeks while undertaking renovations.
"Being a Parent Never Ends - at least not for my parents,'' she wrote. "I've cooked about three meals in 10 weeks and yet have enjoyed countless gourmet dinners.
"Apart from one vacuum, I've done no cleaning and not really sure if I've changed our sheets or towels. My parents wine supply is slowly diminishing because my husband and I have whole-heartedly embraced the pre-dinner drink and chat.''
Hardy's parents are also helping by looking after the children. "Friday night, they babysat our children and I think we're going out next Saturday night as well," she wrote.
But life can be hard when you've got renovations to worry about - even if you aren't concerned about whether Mr Abbott has got something to hide.
"I was furious!'' she wrote earlier, referring to a misunderstanding over a bill. "I hadn't been told about a courier charge, which would add another $15 onto my expensive Spanish handmade tiles. Not a lot I know but it's the principal [sic]."
Hardy tells how she once lived in Paris and "before kids . . . was known for my shoes". "Then pregnancy, childbirth and a mortgage changed everything," she laments.
But the thought of one day being in her new kitchen, with "sexy" appliances, lifts her spirits: "The only thing that keeps me going is the fact that somewhere in a factory in Sydney is a dishwasher with my name on it - a stylish stainless steel dishwasher that only makes 42 decibels of noise.''
"So now when my builder calls, I take a deep breath and visualise myself stacking the dishwasher and all those extra costs and potentially disastrous household features simply slip through my tense little fingers.''
But it's unlikely Hardy's star political role will help her achieve the New Year's resolution she set at the start of the year.
"I want to be subtle. I want to be mysterious. I want people to ask: 'Who is that woman and what's her story?' . . . So this is the year of keeping things a little closer to my chest.''
Labor campaign director George Wright confirmed last night that Hardy was a professional actress,
on 21-08-2013 10:15 AM
are you serious? I think most people know ads are made with actors.................
on 21-08-2013 10:17 AM
i have no idea who she is
not many election ads on foxtel
on 21-08-2013 10:21 AM
News Flash! Romance between Rhonda and Ketut exposed as fake.
The Whiskas cat not actually purple.
Etc.......
on 21-08-2013 10:22 AM
Is this the joke of the day?
on 21-08-2013 10:22 AM
on 21-08-2013 10:24 AM
We have the aids copycat ad & the whinging wendy reruns but none of this negative advertising seems to be working for Labor.
People are sick of Labor, they are waiting to vote them out, it's a fact of life,when your time is up there's really nothing you can do about it.
The political posts have become a desperate contest to see who can be driven off. We are served up the one line time bombs designed to activate the argy bargy & the incessant reporting.This is not what I believe these boards are for but that's the way it is now.
on 21-08-2013 10:40 AM
tubby lehmann and stalker cuneo are pretendin' to be writin' something that's pretendin' to be news
on 21-08-2013 10:54 AM
It's the incessant posting of political rhetoric (written by the paid to brigade) that is probably the reason most posters are sick of it. Could be the reason for all the disgruntled bp'ing too.
on 21-08-2013 01:21 PM
If the ads are getting up the noses of some people so much that they feel compelled to rush onto a public chat board to whinge about them, then I guess they must be doing their job pretty well.