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Brothers Liam and Chris Hemsworth apparently don't think they're likable enough, because they just made themselves way more likable. The two engaged in an Instagram war, defacing each other's magazine covers. Image from Liam Hemsworth Instagram @liamhemsworth

PS BRIEFS

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Karl's pay publicity ruffles Today crew

Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson

Andrew Hornery   Depending on who you talk to Karl Stefanovic is either the $6 million man, the $2 million man or the $1.5 million man.

Private Sydney: Miranda Kerr nude set to grab attention at bookstores nationwide

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Andrew Hornery   Miranda Kerr is set to grab attention at bookstores nation-wide.

Private Sydney: Miranda Kerr reveals her G-string secrets

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Andrew Hornery   Miranda Kerr reveals she wasn't completely naked on a Paris balcony.

Like chalk and (say) cheese

Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett.

Andrew Hornery   It looks as though Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman will both be headed to the prestigious Screen Actors Guild Awards in a few weeks but don't expect to see them sharing a limo to the red carpet.

Miranda Kerr cover puts Harper's Bazaar in territory vacated by Playboy

Miranda Kerr graces the cover of <i>Harper's Bazaar</i> in almost nothing but a pair of towering designer stilettos.

Andrew Hornery   Something very strange is happening in the world of magazines as racy men's publications such as Playboy cover up its centrefolds while fashion bibles including Harper's Bazaar Australia are taking their cover girls' clothes off.

Media a no-no for TayTay's island break

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Andrew Hornery   Taylor Swift had good reason to request the "Aussie press" take it "down a notch" this week.

Goodbye Ros, you will be missed

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Andrew Hornery   In all the years I have been writing 'gossip', it never ceases to amaze me how many people have tried to call it something which sounded a little more, shall we say, worthy.

PS BRIEFS

Jamie Durie's legal stoush with his former business associate was back in the Supreme Court on Friday.

Andrew Hornery   Foodie Maeve O'Meara suffers for her art. During filming of her new series Food Safari Fire, which launches on SBS on January 7 and looks at how different cultures use fire in their cooking, O'Meara found the heat a little too hot in the kitchen during a segment on tandoori ovens.

PS FOODIES

Chefs and Authors. Back Row:- Indira Naidoo, Sharon Salloum, Mike McEnearney, Alessandro Pavoni, Neil Perry. Front Row:- Justin North, Kylie Kwong, Christine Manfield, Julie Gibbs, Giovanni Pilu, Silvia Colloca, Guillaume Brahimi. Photo: supplied.

Andrew Hornery   It felt like a last supper at Paddington's The Centennial Hotel with the cream of Australian foodies gathering to toast publishing doyenne Julie Gibbs nearly six months after she discovered her cookbook division Lantern Books had been shafted by parent company Penguin.

Grant Denyer and the healing power of publicity

Woman Day's spread in 2014.

Andrew Hornery   Grant Denyer has sold photos of his newborn daughter Scout to Woman's Day, the same magazine that last year wrote a story claiming he and his wife went into rehab for methamphetamine addictions.

Gibson sons get in on the action

Mel Gibson and actors on the set of Hacksaw Ridge.

Andrew Hornery   Milo and Christian Gibson have joined their dad on the set of Hacksaw Ridge and have parts in the movie.

'Baldwin a changed man' – bully for him

Alec Baldwin could silence critics by giving his appearance fee to Bully Zero Australia.

Andrew Hornery   Hollywood star Alec Baldwin got a free ride with the Australian media this week – the actor enjoying gushing praise with news that he was coming Down Under to support a charity that aims to rid the world of bullies.

Don't shoot – I'm a celebrity

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Andrew Hornery   It wasn't so many months ago that Sam Frost was working with the dreaded paparazzi to take supposedly candid snaps, like frolicking on a beach and pretending she had no clue there was a lens trained on her, to fuel the publicity machine as her star was on the ascent.

PS MARIAH

James Packer, co-chairman of Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd., right, and singer Mariah Carey stand for photographs at a red carpet event.

Andrew Hornery   What price for love? Well, if you're James Packer it's about $500,000 - that's what he spent on the Olympia diamond necklace created by French bling house Van Cleef & Arpels for his new squeeze Mariah Carey.

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Give Charlie a break after grubby HIV 'outing'

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Andrew Hornery   Look, I'm no great fan of Charlie Sheen, who for much of his career has been a self-indulgent train wreck. But this week I found myself feeling a tiny bit sorry for him.

Francesca Packer hires out Luna Park for 21st birthday party

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 21: Francesca Barham-Packer (Mini Mouse outfit) greeting guests and enjoying the festivities for her 21st birthday party at Luna Park which is closed for the evening to public patrons, for her private celebrations on November 21, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by James Alcock/Fairfax Media)

It had celebrity guests, an outfit change and a picturesque location - but the shindig at Luna Park on Saturday evening wasn't an awards night.

PS: Jupert to grace Sydney with their presence

It was the theatre that did it.

Andrew Hornery   Media mogul and model likely to spend Christmas at Bellevue Hill palazzo.

'He truly was one of a kind'

Eric Robinson, here with wife Patti Mostyn at the 2015 Helpmann Awards, was farewelled on Wednesday.

Andrew Hornery   It was showbiz and rock'n'roll royalty in Port Douglas on Wednesday when the likes of Jimmy Barnes, David Leckie, Michael Coppel✓​ and Philip Jacobsen bid farewell to Eric Robinson.

PS: David Gyngell a stay-at-home dad

Leila McKinnon with baby Gwendolen will remain as a full-time reporter working in the Channel None Sydney newsroom.

Andrew Hornery   Beards, nappies and babies, oh and a bit of surfing?