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Bobby Fox will be appearing at Carols By Candlelight at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Christmas Eve.

FIRST HOME

Ireland will always be my first home. I was born and raised outside a very small town in the

middle of Co. Longford right in the centre of Ireland. I am the middle child too so there’s quite a theme going on here – perhaps why I felt the need to escape to the other side of the world. I came from such gloriously modest means. Mam and Dad raised five kids on a shoestring budget and I wouldn’t change a bar of it.

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CURRENT HOME

A FULLY rendered house that sold to a Maserati-driving Melbourne buyer has been crowned the Gold Coast’s most viewed home of 2022.

According to PropTrack data, a house named Ruin X at 31 Beaconsfield Drive, Burleigh Waters racked up 68,000 views on realestate.com.au.

That interest translated to an action-packed auction on-site in March.

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Melbourne buyer Chris Shao walked away victorious after he paid $2.713888 million to secure the home after seeing it on social media.

Matt Jamieson and Emma Sweeny were the brains behind the one-of-a-kind rendered house full of arches and curves.

“We wanted

It may have been named Australia’s “Sh*t Town of 2022” but this major regional Queensland city has some cracking real estate at prices that will make cityslickers stuck in gridlock start frothing at the mouth.

Townsville, the unofficial capital of the North, was given the controversial title by satirical Facebook page ‘Sh*t Towns of Australia’ for the second year in a row.

“Brownsville won in an absolute mudslide, registering more than twice the votes of its nearest competitor,” the announcement on the social media site said.

“This is Towntown’s second successive brown crown, capping another successfully sh*t year for the Queensland craphole.”

Townsville secured 30 per cent of the vote ahead of Mount Druitt (14%) in NSW and Alice Springs (12.7%).

Other towns to make the list included Port Pirie (SA), Frankston (Victoria), Port Hedland (WA), Fyshwick (ACT)

Actor, writer and prolific funnyman Damian Callinan has sold the Preston pad where he honed his creative talents for a variety of comedy shows to a globetrotting fan.

And he exited with a joke, informing his agent he had drunk the Moet & Chandon champagne they left for the buyer and replaced it with a bottle of Aldi moscato.

Callinan move into the 1/18 Gilbert Rd two-bedder in 2016 and it was where some of his best gags were conceived for recent comedy shows including Wine Bluffs and his Mayor For A Day series.

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The property’s sale was finalised on December 13 for $450,000, within the $445,000-$480,000 price