I was hoping that 2011 would be the year in which we’d get to see a whole lot less of the over-exposed, C-grade actress and Z-grade celebrity Robyn Malcolm.
No such luck!
The New Year was not even a couple of days old when the self-professed, liberal-lefty conscious of the nation popped up on the TV news, lecturing the country again, this time on why the Government should fork out multi-millions of dollars to buy her favourite Coromandel Beach.
I wish she would go bore some other poor saps.
Last year, Malcolm – who played Cheryl West in the long running TV show Outrageous Fortune (mind you, it was hardly acting her playing a mutton-dressed as lamb, Westie slapper) – was seen for the last time on screen in this role as the series finally came to an end.
In a year which should have centred on the end of the series, the actress (ie: out-of work waitress) instead appeared as herself in a couple of controversial issues outside her acting talent.
First – living up to her claims of being big on the environment (which included her voicing the Green Party's election advertisements in 2008) she was in the midst of left-wing protests against the Government’s plans to increase the level of mining in NZ. There is no doubt Malcolm and her ill-informed friends’ high profile antics spooked the Government and this led to its back down on any further mining plans.
Then came Malcolm’s piece de résistance, with the unseemingly row over actors' contracts for The Hobbit movie. It was another high-profile role for Malcolm that saw her taking on Sir Peter Jackson and Hollywood as the self-appointed local rep for Australian controlled actors union
Malcolm took a lot of flak for her role in this fight, which almost saw the Hobbit lost to NZ. When the dispute was finally settled, after Malcolm and her union mates were put in the sin bin and John Key took over, she claimed she was "thrilled and relieved" that The Hobbit was staying in New Zealand.
Yada, yada yada – as they say!
What I find the hardest to believe is that Malcolm was voted NZ’s best TV actress for the sixth time in a row and sexiest woman for the third time in a row in the TV Guide people's choice awards in 2010.
Which only goes to show two things:
1- This country has a serious lack of female acting talent; and
2- TV Guide is read by too many 50-something, single men from Hamilton, who still live with their mothers! (As only hopeless bogans could ever think Malcolm is sexy).
Meanwhile, Malcolm said she did not mind being unpopular while fighting for a good cause. "I really believe in this stuff. I believe in workers' rights."
Snore! The fact is she now is hunting in Australia for work and I am sure her trans-Tasman union mates will help her out. Let’s hope Malcolm stays in the lucky country and bores the hapless Aussies with her self-righteous beliefs rather than force them down the throats of Kiwis – we have suffered enough.
But if Malcolm does continue to reside in God’s Own, I only hope she lives up to her obvious talents and scores a jobs waiting on tables at Starbucks – rather than continually and sanctimoniously telling the rest of us how we should lead our lives!
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