Antonia Kidman the 'face of Floriade'

I’d prefer the Kumars at number 42.

She loves gardening and she lives just up the highway but she’s never been to Floriade before? Do we really need to pay her to come and feign enthusiasm?

Mark Carmody gets snubbed again.

“Although Michael Milton would surely have been an ideal ambassador for the festival, no matter what city he happens to call home.”

and 99% of the country has no idea who he is

I think it’s a good idea to get a hot Sydneysider in the marketing campaign. Don’t have any stats, but geography would suggest there will be a significant number of NSW visitors.

But if the polls are still open in the ‘suggest a local’ stakes, I would like to nominate the very tidy piece of young talent used to promote the last Black Opal racing carnival. Sorry I forgot your name! Floriade and spring racing… there have to be some synergies there.

Worst cultural cringe ever.
Fer cryin’ out loud she’s just the sister of somebody famous (who hasn’t done anything good since Bangkok Hilton IMO)

They’re not pretty enough.

what a waste of ACT taxpayers’ dosh. why not a gardening celebrity at least – how about don ‘i loathe parnsips’ burke or peter ‘i wouldn’t even vote for myself’ cundall?!

Nicole sold her house.

Personally, if we need to have little sisters, I think would liked to have seen Mimi Macpherson erupting out of the bushes. 😛

I’m assuming they chose her because Stuart MacGill, Dannii Minogue and Michael Kowalski were all busy trying on their bridesmaids dresses interstate.

I sure hope she does better for Canberra promoting Floriade than Nicole did for Australian tourism with “Australia”!

a) Never heard of her.

b) If she’s as scary looking as her sister it’ll keep them away in droves.

c) Who’s idea was the pointless exercise in adding a “D list*” celeb to the festival?

*Ok, I’m being generous caling her “D list” more like “Vlit”

Why couldn’t we get Nicole? At least she has a house on the South Coast.

Igglepiggle said :

Why does floriade need a face? Don’t the flowers speak for themselves?

So the Canberra Times will print fluff pieces like that.

Arguing about it on blogs is a bonus.

I am a big fan of Nicole Kidman and have nothing against Antonia. She certainly has a pleasant face, but I am a little disappointed they didn’t choose somebody local.

It’s just a little plastic and fake having to import a ‘face’ from somewhere. ‘Soul’ surely involves a coming forth from the city. Somebody like Elkie or Chanel Cole. Somebody we kind of ‘own’ as a part of our identity.

At least Antonia’s face is capable of expression. Had it been Nicole, they would have had to bill her ‘The Immovable Face of Floriade’

YAY – Will there be signs…. Should we credit the flower festival to the original land owners? Oh – We probably will.

Just need to figure out who they were….

Go The Saxons!

“Why does floriade need a face?”

Yeah. People who like flowers will go, people who don’t like flowers won’t.

I attend many times to take photos of them pretty flowers and it is always packed by 11am.

Sounds like a waste of money if they are paying her.

Unsure what I think here. On one hand, why not have a local pretty face with healthy lifestyle cred as the face of Floriade… but on the other hand, if we want this to be an Australian festival then we need to think outside our Territory borders. Although Michael Milton would surely have been an ideal ambassador for the festival, no matter what city he happens to call home.

I think that it’s all a bit strange really – going out on a spring morning to stare at the reproductive organs of another species … it’s wierd.

Antonia who?

Is this the biggest gig in her unknown career?

Why does floriade need a face? Don’t the flowers speak for themselves?

pikiran yang keruh said :

Why is everything we do here smack of ‘small dog syndrome’?

What exactly is that?

Just sounds like good marketing to me.

Why is everything we do here smack of ‘small dog syndrome’?