NEWSFLASH – PAULINI WILL BE ONLINE TO ASK QUESTIONS TODAY – at NOON!

Well finally, someone has convinced Paulini to come on line and talk to her fans – albeit only very briefly.

Paulini isn't good with the internet so she needs a bit of support and if she has a good enough time maybe she'll do this more often!!

You can ask her some questions today when she will be online somewhere between 12 pm and 1 pm at the Young Divas News Forum HERE .  

I cant make it as I have an appointment so I hope some of you guys can get there – say hi from me if you do

If you can't make it either it looks like you can leave a question for her in the news forum anyway. 

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Brought to you direct from the cover of the Young Divas chart-topping debut self-titled album!

Words of thanks from Paulini on the jacket of the album CD:

"PAULINI thanks:  …… And a special shout out to Hayden, Jackie and Divine Miss P Crew. Thank you guys!".

Yep! There we are in black and grey, right next to the gorgeous black and white photos of the girls. Right after she thanks Em and calls her "O" for awesome! She's talking 'bout US!! How sweet is that?

You're probably curious to know who exactly she's referring to when she writes the "Divine Miss P Crew."

 Well we know she's thinking of people she's met who she knows are active on this site, like Kelly, Oscar, Adam, Di, Mel and Taliah. She's probably also thinking of all those people who have joined and supported the site over the years, such as Andrew, Pete, Adrian, funkiboi, aussiepaulinfan, moz, several fijian fans (whose names I've forgotten – sorry!), shoogahplum, frikki, flo-jo, alan, Mich, rachy, fred, jackm, Paula, karen, pinkline jones, the boys from TwiN, fantanoice, our US correspondent Joseph (idolsmusic.com) and a host of others. I reckon she's also thinking of all the people who've posted in the shoutbox and forum or who've left a beautiful message in the guest book for her. And I'm certain she means all those lovely folks who've helped out by emailing me information, adding news and weblinks to the site, and/or  contributing videos, audio and pictures like Lukey, vindiezel, traxlmaz, jadey and others. And she's also talking about those of you who simply have joined the site and pop in to visit whether it be every day or just once in a while. All of you make this site possible and many of you make it possible for this site to be so very special.

So there you have it. You're all featured on the cover of the Young Divas debut album! Every last one of you have got people all over Australia (and the world?) reading about you when they scour the cover of their newly bought Young Divas CD.

Congratulations you beautiful big Paulini fans you!!!

Gosh! I know SO MANY famous people now! 

 Chat about all this in the forum if'n you wanna!  HERE .

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The Divine Miss P site has got itself a red ribbon to wear for World AIDS day – which is tomorrow – Friday, 1 December 2006. We hope we've helped the World Aids Day Organisation reach their goal of having 7,000 websites wearing the ribbon by Friday. Please click on the ribbon to visit the international site – this will let them know you saw it and where you came from (ie Paulini Online!)! You can also pick up your own "virtual" ribbon for your website or email signature

 If you want to get involved or to find out where to get a real ribbon for yourself go to the Australian WAD website HERE.

Also check out the Australian Burnet Institutes World AIDS Day  "I Promise" campaign which was launched at the Federation square concert a couple of days ago. You can help them by purchasing a red wristband and joining in other "I Promise" activities. Find out more  HERE.

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I know some of us aren't too thrilled with the whole Young Divas caper, but regardless of your position on that controversy, this interview with Paulini and Kate in the Sydney Star Observer is an absolute gem! I haven't posted the entire interview (for now) because it's a recent story on the SSO site, so that wouldn't be right. But here's the start of it and you can read the rest at their site (linked at the bottom). 

LEAVE IT TO DIVAS

POP QUARTET YOUNG DIVAS HAS CHOSEN A COLLECTION OF CAMP CLASSICS FOR ITS DEBUT ALBUM. TWO OF THE BAND’S MEMBERS TALKED GAY ICONS, DRAG QUEENS AND MARDI GRAS WITH IAN GOULD.

Sydney Star Observer Were there some personal favourites among the track selections?

Sydney Star Observer Website

Chat about this article HERE! 

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{mosimage}Great news fellow Curuenavuli-ites!

We now have a myspace site - thanks to Paulinisman – that you can visit at THIS LINK 

Hopefully we can convince Miss P to take the myspace site on as her very own. Who knows – some day she'll have to overcome her techno-shyness – why not start now with a ready-made My Space site. She's been getting some lovely messages there so it's worth checking out! 

DON'T FORGET Paulini and the girls will be on the ABBAMANIA special tonight (Sunday) at 8.30 on the nine network (that's WIN for us rednecks ). Watch for the duet between Paulini and Ricki Lee and we might even  catch site of some of The Divine Miss P's regular personalities in the audience – front row I think!!!

Also, Paulini will be on  2GB radio this Monday in the afternoon talking with Chris Smith about The Young Divas. You can listen online. For more info see this forum thread – HERE . 

BAD NEWS: For those who don't know, a couple of days ago the owners of Australian Idol – Grundy Television – removed all Australian Idol related videos from the popular YouTube site (literally hundreds of them removed in one day!!). This means people can no longer re-live, or discover for the first time, the magic of Paulini's time on the popular television show all those years ago. It's a sad development as it means Paulini and other ex-contestants no longer have that free world-wide access to their performances which increased their profile and brought new fans on-board from all over the world.

It seems unfair that all the other countries Idol shows still have that advantage (and Grundy is owned by Fremantle Media who own all the Idol shows). 

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QUICK UPDATE: 23 Nov 2006

So Over You (co-written by Paulini) has been out of the Urban Top Singles Chart for two weeks now. Looks like it's finally finished it's run after 23 weks. Not a bad run for a girl's first self-penned ditty!

ANOTHER UPDATE!!! 6 November 2006

{mosimage}OH MY GOD!!! I can't stop grinning here. Paulini's single – So Over You has RE-ENTERED THE URBAN CHART AGAIN!!!

Granted it's only popped back in at number 39 but this is the second time its come back in and this now marks her 23rd week in the Urban Top 40 singles chart. Both times it's only dropped out for a week and last time it re-entered at 21. And all this while Sony/BMG have abandoned her Official Site and her solo career so the single's been getting zero promotion. Incredible!

That song just wont quit.

If you don't have it yet – go out and buy it and be part of this unusual popping in and out of the charts thing she's doing. We might as well join in the fun!

I'm tempted to go buy it again myself just because this is so bizarre!

WELL DONE GIRL!  

PS Just imagine how she'd be doing in the charts if Sony/BMG were putting some energy into her solo career. The mind boggles! 

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{mosimage}Ahhhh the ARIAS!! 

Meaningless one moment, irrelevant the next.

Still, our girl looked cute in her "disco ball" get-up and the ARIA gods abandoned their snobbery toward all things Idol-connected long enough to include a shot of her in their official photo gallery of the night. Guess it's impossible to ignore something that OH-SO FINE!

From AAP news service and various newspaper stories:

Paulini from the Young Divas opted for a short silver shimmering Ruth Travalis dress.

"I feel like a disco ball," She said.

"I got up at 10am for this look. There's a lot of work goes into looking this good."

And looking at that pic I don't know what Paulini was on about when – in a recent magazine article – she was jokingly asked if she'd like to have Ricki Lee's breasts and she said "Yes, please! I've got nothing!" (from New Weekly interview with the Divas about body image – full story and pics HERE ).

I'm pretty sure there's a certain somethin' somethin' there!{moscomment} 

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Our very own Superwoman!

Well as most of you probably don’t realize (as she tends to keep these things to herself hehe) today is actually JACKI’s birthday!!! So I thought that I would write a little something on behalf of everyone….

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Jacki, you truly are an amazing person! You have dedicated so much of your time and energy in Paulini and her amazing music career and for this we are all so grateful. We wouldn’t be able to support Paulini the way we can without you… and I know Paulini really does appreciate everything you do and the support that you have helped to build for her through this site!

It was so surreal being able to meet you back in august, and I will never forget that concert at the National, it was the best night ever!! It was great to witness you seeing Paulini live for the first time and watch you stand in awe like I do every time I hear her gorgeous voice!

Thanks again for all you do, it truly is very much appreciated. I hope you have the best day ever with your gorgeous puppies and many happy years to come!

Happy Birthday!

love

‘The Divine Miss P’ (which doesn’t really have a name still hehe)

You can leave Jacki a birthday message in her birthday thread in the forum! {moscomment}

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For some reason, there are pictures of Paulini floating around the news pic sites, taken during the shooting of a video for The Young Divas on October 19. I'm guessing it's a clip for the Divas new single.

Here's what the newspix caption says:

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{mosimage}What a sweet discovery! A user at YouTube called Lilleah has posted a video she put together, made up of clips and photos of the Young Divas concert in Melbourne on August 19th. She is a Kate fan so a lot of it contains footage of Kate, but she also has some great pics and clips of everyone else.

For those of us who were there, the interesting thing is that she has included a brief clip of Paulini filmed when she was singing So Over You. Lilleah must have been sitting right next to us because the footage is of Paulini just as she passed Kel, Di, me and Hayden. I remember it because she laughed at Kel and Hayden as she passed us and that bit is in the clip! [Aside: This is at the 1:25 mark] The clip also shows a little bit of how great Paulini's moves were in her solo performance. I wish it was longer!!

I was thrilled to come across this little video because it brought back memories of my fantastic night in Melbourne and it was so much like the way I saw the concert – I could have taken the footage myself!!

For those who missed The Young Divas in concert this will give you a really good general idea of what it was like and Lilleah has put so much work into it – it's really worth checking out.

see THE CLIP here!

I probably know "Lilleah" so my apologies if I have forgotten who you are!!  

 And don't forget to read Kel's review of the night in the article "Live and Pretty-ful: Part 2" below. There are more videos included in that article and you can also find links to vids of Paulini and the Divas in the forum.{moscomment} 

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