BUSY BINGLE VOWS TO WOW JUDGES

Lara Bingle is determined to prove the judges wrong after copping a barrage for her performance on Sunday night's Dancing With The Stars.

Bingle's commitment was questioned by Todd McKenney after she admitted learning her dance in 24 hours.

"We've seen one Lara in four weeks," McKenney said.

"I know everyone is busy, but you've got to do better than that. If you haven't got the time get out."

Bingle said the comments would drive her to improve.

"At the end of the day constructive criticism is good," she said.

"I guess they do understand how hard we are working, but no one really knows the hours. We're trying really hard and it makes me more ambitious for next week."

Bingle donned a white wig for the quickstep routine with partner Carmelo Pizzino.

She said the pair decided to create a character for the fast-paced dance.

Bingle was also upbeat having regained her driver's licence during the week.

"I can pick Carmelo up now, which is good," she said.

"I usually ride to training but we might be able to go to different studios now."

Bingle said it was a relief to safely go through to the next round after being in the bottom two last week.

"That was the most nerve-racking thing," she said. "I felt so sick last week, but we were pretty blessed this week.

Source: Herald Sun
Date: 31st May 2011

LARA'S BACK ON THE ROAD

Dancing With The Stars beauty Lara Bingle is back in the fast lane.

Bingle is putting her days of cabbing and bike-riding in her wake and is back behind the wheel of her car after losing her licence in December for speeding.

The dancefloor glamour girl headed to the RTA in her hometown of Sydney on Thursday - and the ever-stylish fashionista posed for her new licence headshot in a foxy fur.

Bingle is ready to move into top gear on DWTS after finding herself in the bottom two last week.

Meanwhile, fellow Dancing bombshell Brynne Edelsten will have an extra spring in her step on tomorrow night's show.

Edelsten's mum, Mariel, has flown in from Arizona to see her daughter shake and shimmy on the dancefloor.

Source: Herald Sun
Image: Courtesy Twitter
Date: 28th May 2011

BINGLE AND BRACKEN STILL FRIENDS ON THE DANCE FLOOR

Dancing with the Stars contestants Lara Bingle and Haley Bracken say there will be no murder on the dance floor, insisting they have been friendly since their WAG days.

Reports the two are at loggerheads have been circulating in women's glossy magazines, claiming Bracken is furious at the "chemistry" between Bingle and her ousted cricketer husband Nathan.

But Bracken said it is the other way around, and that her husband - first to be voted off the show - wishes her green-eyed monster would come out more.

"I heard I was criticised for being insanely jealous," Bracken said after Sunday night's show.

"But you know what, Nathan has actually criticised me for not being jealous enough.

"I'm like, 'It is dancing whatever', and he says, 'You have to care more'."

Bingle and Bracken met in cricketing circles, attending the same high-profile events when she was dating Michael Clarke.

Bingle says there is no bad blood and was happy to talk about holding out for a visit from her long-distance lover Jason Derulo - although their schedules are "full on".

"I don't have a personal life at the moment, it is keeping me out of trouble," she laughed.

Meanwhile, he might have been booed for making a quip about being bossed around by women, but Manu Feildel is still a ladies' man.

Whispers are the kitchen Romeo has eyes for DWTS's Luda Kroitor.

Source: Herald Sun
Date: 24th May 2011

BINGLE BEAU DERULO STUCK IN US

Lara Bingle is hoping she will have an A-list supporter soon cheering her on from the sidelines of the sequin-spangled Dancing with the Stars cauldron.

Bingle has her manicured fingers crossed that US hit-maker Jason Derulo, her rumoured beau, will make a lightning trip Down Under to see her trip the light fantastic.

"He is thinking of coming to the show at some stage, but he is not sure when because he is working on his album," Bingle said.

"It is hard because he is doing his stuff and I am doing my stuff, and he is in LA and I am here."

But Bingle was not short of attention at last week's show, with Amazing Race contestant Tyler Atkins moving from his designated seat to one allocated to Bingle's guests.

Seated near Carlton player Ryan Houlihan, Atkins cheered loudly and held up a sign with Bingle's name on it during her routine.

"He has been a friend a long time," she said of Atkins.

Battling a twisted ankle, Bingle did not start learning her tango routine for tomorrow night's show until Thursday.

"I have been resting it and taping it and icing it. It has caused more problems than I thought," she said. "I am worried because the tango is my favourite dance so I really want to do this well."

Source: Herald Sun
Date: 21st May 2011

LIMPING LARA FEELS THE STRAIN

Lara Bingle has become the first casualty on the latest series of Dancing With The Stars after the swimwear model twisted her ankle during a training session on Monday.

Yesterday Bingle, who joked on Sunday night's show that her dance partner needed to be patient with her as her energy levels waxed and waned, tweeted that her physiotherapist had advised her to take four days off after hurting herself.

On Monday she revealed: "Oh NOoooo ... My physio just said I should take 4 days off dancing due to twisting my ankle!" Yesterday she was not taking calls despite being seen strolling in Kings Cross.

The model has been performing well on the dance show where she has been teamed with dance instructor Carmelo Pizzino and finished fifth in the rankings on Sunday night.

But cracks look to be appearing in the couple's professional relationship with Bingle.

A television source said that the reason the relationship has been under pressure in only the second week of the show is that Bingle is working harder than she's worked in her life and the strain has started to show.

In the past fortnight contestants have been working up to seven days a week and training from between 30 hours a week - Bingle's confessed workload - to 50 hours a week, Brynne Edelsten's workload.

Yesterday Bingle looked to have returned to the dance studio, the model tweeting an artistic photo of herself in a dance studio.

"Just me and studio ... " she said ambiguously.

Bingle was runner-up in Channel 9's Dancing On Ice series in 2006 so few are surprised to find that she has emerged as a competent dancer. Her main problem will be being unknown to voters outside Sydney.

Source: Sydney Confidential
Date: 18th May 2011

BEAUTY SECRETS OF THE STARS

Viewers love the smiles, sequins and funky steps but behind the glamour of Dancing With The Stars competitors are put through beauty boot camp.

Model Lara Bingle says it starts with six hours a day of dance practice. She follows that with workouts with a personal trainer to keep the famous body in shape.

Then there are hours spent on teeth whitening, waxing, eyelashes, hair extensions, tans and other body maintenance essentials.

Last week Bingle visited Sydney dentist David Carr to have her teeth laser-cleaned for the debut of the show tonight on Seven.

"I didn't get a fake tan and I have no hair extensions but maybe some eyelashes," she said.

"For me, at the end of the day, I think less is more."

Executive producer Karen Green says contestants can spend many hours in the makeup chair before a show.

"It comes as quite a shock to most people what is involved," she said.

"There's lots of bling, accessories, tanning, hair clipping, manicures, pedicures and all of that."

Among Bingle's competitors are celebrity chef Manu Feildel, socialite Brynne Edelsten, Home And Away actor Dan Ewing, singer Damien Leith and newsreader Samantha Armytage. Feildel is an early favourite to win.

Bingle, 23, hopes the show will give the public a better idea of who she is.

Although nervous to be out of her comfort zone on the dance floor, she plans to have lots of fun.

"I kind of feel I am growing into my own," she said.

"I was in a relationship with another high-profile person and I feel I've come out of that shadow and am doing my own thing. I have never been this busy. I am happier than ever."

Source: The Sunday Telegraph
Date: 8th May 2011

LARA BINGLE IS FOOTLOOSE AND FANCY FREE

Lara Bingle is in a great place after a tough two years in the public spotlight, during which her father, Graham, died and she broke up with Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke.

It is a wiser Bingle who is the star attraction on tonight's Dancing with the Stars.

"Things just happen in life," she said.

"Everything is a learning experience for me. I'm 23 and I'm going to make more mistakes. It has been tough, but I'm not going to complain. I'm in a great position now.

"I feel the things that have happened, like with my dad, I have got this kind of strength to continue and do things like this."

Bingle has learnt to accept the attention she receives. She sees the show as something she is doing for herself.

"If I'm going to stuff up I can't blame it on anyone else," she said.

Dancing With The Stars premieres on Channel 7 tonight at 6.30pm.

Source: Herald Sun
Date: 8th May 2011

LARA BINGLE PREPARES FOR HER DWTS DEBUT

She's been training eight hours a day for weeks and has watched Black Swan plenty of times, but Lara Bingle believes any toe tapping mastery that comes with her Dancing With The Stars debut on Sunday will be a fluke.

Catching up with good mate Teresa Palmer at Kym Ellery's much-hyped fashion show yesterday, she said she was struggling to get the moves to her first dance down pat.

"It's been hard, much harder than I thought it would be," she said.

"All I've been doing is training - the schedule is crazy.

"Whenever I get a move down it's been a fluke and I haven't been able to do it again."

With a stint on Dancing On Ice and childhood dance lessons under her belt, more viewers than normal are sure to tune in for the season premiere to see if Bingle will bungle.

"I'm quite nervous," she said.

Source: News.com.au
Date: 6th May 2011

LARA: RAFW S/S 2011/12 - JOSH GOOT ARRIVALS AND FRONT ROW

Source: Zimbio
Event Date: 5th May 2011

LARA: RAFW S/S 2011/12 - ELLERY ARRIVALS AND FRONT ROW

Source: Zimbio
Event Date: 5th May 2011

FASHIONISTAS ATTEND ELLERY SHOW

Fashionistas flocked to Rosemount Australian Fashion Week to see Jennifer Hawkins modelling for Kym Ellery.

Anticipation was high for the Ellery show and it wasn't just the clothes that caused a stir.

Following her celeb-heavy Perth trunk show in March, Kym Ellery's Australian Fashion Week show today didn't disappoint with a bevy of A-list Aussie ladies.

Aussie actress Teresa Palmer jetted in from LA for a front row seat.

Joining her was former-Speedo model - and BFF - Lara Bingle, who tweeted before and during the show.

Teresa: "Loving sydney but not this jetlag! @MsLaraBingle see u at #ellery show later today wooooo"

Lara: "Team ELLERY! RT @OysterMag: @MsLaraBingle looking smokin' at Ellery show."

Source: The Telegraph
Date: 5th May 2011