Biosecurity Tasmania officials have given up trying to contain the plant fungus blueberry rust — saying “the benefits of containment no longer outweigh the burdens.”
Key points:
The fungal disease causes extensive defoliation and can kill plants with severe infections
Tasmania has been battling unsuccessfully to keep it at bay
Listing it as endemic means restrictions on infected properties will be removed and farmers will have to live with, and manage it
The fungus which first arrived on the island state in 2014 can cause extensive defoliation on blueberry plants and sometimes plant deaths.
Biosecurity Tasmania said it was proving impossible to stop the spread of the fungus, which travels via airborne spores, contaminated clothing or equipment.
“The containment approach that we’ve been undertaking for the past few years clearly isn’t working anymore,” said chief plant protection officer Andrew Bishop.
“It’s worked very well for the first few years, and it was always intended to try and slow the spread to enable producers to adjust to management, but last season we saw a larger number of infections incurring.”
Blueberry rust was first detected in Tasmania in 2014.(Department of Primary Industries Victoria)
Organic farmers expecting price drop
Tasmania’s organic blueberry growers are devastated.
They will now be locked out of their lucrative South Australian market which requires produce to be from rust-free plants.
Organic blueberry farmer Kent Mainwaring is one of those that will lose a market that gave them a premium price.
“It would make our operation here marginal we do rely on getting the peak in the market, if we lost our organic status that would put us on the other side of the ledger,” Mr Mainwaring said.
Kent Mainwaring says he will lose a lucrative market in South Australia.(ABC News: Tim Morgan)
It will also see organic blueberries hit other markets, alongside the conventionally farmed products.
“The South Australian market has traditionally been a very strong market for us … any increase in supply to the markets in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane will decrease prices I believe,” Mr Mainwaring said.
The price drop could be dramatic depending on how many surplus blueberries those markets can absorb.
“We can always hope the consumption of blueberries will increase year on year as it’s been doing,” Mr Mainwaring said.
‘They’ve fought hard’
Researchers are investigating sprays for organic blueberries but a product is still some time away. (ABC News: Clint Jasper)
Fruit Growers Tasmania’s chief executive officer Peter Cornish said those farms infected with blueberry rust were under strict conditions that were affecting their business and it was time to admit defeat.
“All credit to Biosecurity Tasmania and our growers, they’ve fought hard, they’ve fought hard in this battle to try and stop the spread of it,” he said.
“This last year we’ve had very conductive [conditions] for the spread of blueberry rust.”
Since arriving eight years ago, hundreds of plants have been destroyed and tens of thousands of dollars spent as part of an eradication plan, Biosecurity Tasmania.
It was declared a success by mid June 2016 but a second outbreak was detected just a couple of months later and a containment approach was taken instead.
The Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture has been researching and evaluating sprays for use by organic growers.
While that research is coming to an end and has promising results, it’s expected to take some time before a product is ready for market.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The Sixth Street Bridge was briefly shut down again on Sunday as city officials continue to struggle with dangerous and disruptive behavior on the new span.
Since the $588 million bridge opened weeks ago, it has been plagued by activity such as street racing, people climbing the arches – even a barber giving a haircut in the middle of lanes.
The Los Angeles Police Department has had to shut down the bridge several times to discourage such activities.
On Sunday, at one point dozens of bicyclists were seen grouping together and blocking off lanes. Some vehicles were parked blocking traffic.
“Look at the traffic – people are literally parked out here on the side where people shouldn’t be parked, to unload their vehicles,” said Jessie Esparza of La Habra.
As a result LAPD cruisers once again lined up side-by-side to shut down the lanes on Sunday. After the bridge was cleared, it was reopened later Sunday afternoon.
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In the meantime, the city is also working on additional measures to reduce dangerous and illegal behavior.
The LAPD says it has issued more than 57 citations and imposed more than six vehicles over the last week alone.
The city has also approved more than $700,000 for graffiti removal and additional safety measures.
And the City Council is considering a plan to ask city departments for proposals to install more cameras and traffic mitigation measures and long-term efforts to keep traffic on the bridge moving freely without disruption.
Faced with the constant news that everything continues to get more expensive – except for avocadosapparently – Pizza Hut has shared some news sure to make pizza fans, and their wallets, rejoice.
In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Hawaiian Pizza, the fast-food giant is giving away a massive 35,000 pizzas for free throughout the month of August.
Australian Pizza Hut stores sell over 1.8 million Hawaiian Pizzas each year, but don’t fret if you’re not a fan of the number one “most influential pizza of all time”, according to Time mmagazine in 2014.
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Pizza Hut is celebrating 60 years of the Hawaiian pizza. (Supplied)
Even Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has publicly declared his love for pineapple on pizza, but if you prefer another flavour, your freebie can be whatever you like.
“We’re so excited to be joining in on the celebrations and helping Aussies celebrate an amazing 60 years of the Hawaiian pizza,” Pizza Hut Australia’s CEO, Phil Reed, said.
“We thought what better way to celebrate this momentous milestone than to hold an epic free pizza giveaway during the whole month of August and National Hawaiian Pizza Day to help Aussies share the good times and spread the Hawaiian pizza love.”
Pizza Hut will be giving away 1,000 free pizzas for every day of August, plus a massive 5,000 free pizzas on International Hawaiian Pizza Day itself on August 20
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They are giving away 1,000 free pizzas every day in August. (Supplied)
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So how can you get your hands on a free pizza?
To join in all the fun and shoot your shot at winning a free pizza, simply head to pizzahut.com.au where the first 1000 people to enter by 4pm AEST can claim a free pizza voucher – make sure to get in quick, as it’s first in best dressed.
You’ll also have a chance to win a limited edition Pizza Hut Hawaiian Shirt and get an automatic entry into the draw to win an epic family trip to Hawaii.
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You could have your own happily ever after with this fairytale home.
The sea-facing villa located on the site that reportedly inspired Danish writer Christian Andersen’s 1837 novel, Little Mermaidyou have gone on the market.
Located on the Sestri Levante peninsula between Portofino and the Cinque Terre, and listed by Lionard Luxury Real Estate, the palatial nine-bedroom, six-bathroom mansion is dream-like with its own staircase that leads to a private beach.
This villa located on the Sestri Levante peninsula between Portofino and the Cinque Terre is on the market. (Lionard Luxury Real Estate)
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Andersen stayed for a lengthy amount of time on the Sestri Levante peninsula in 1833 and published Little Mermaid in 1837. It’s believed the location inspired the fairytale.
The first film adaptation was brought to life by Walt Disney Pictures in 1989.
The mansion is situated on the site that reportedly inspired Danish writer Christian Andersen’s 1837 novel, The Little Mermaid. (Lionard Luxury Real Estate)Interiors take on a clean and minimalist aesthetic with geometric lines. (Lionard Luxury Real Estate)
Architect Luigi Carlo Daneri designed the stunning villa between 1938 and 1940 and has since been renovated to capture the original aesthetic.
Standout features for the three-storey home include an outdoor swimming pool with breathtaking ocean views, a picturesque sun terrace, a staircase in the main foyer and a mosaic glass wall at the entrance.
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Interiors take on a clean and minimalist aesthetic with geometric lines, while vibrant blue pops of color add an extra dimension.
A standout feature is a staircase surrounded by lush greenery that leads to a private beach. (Lionard Luxury Real Estate)Pops of vibrant blue add an extra dimension to the aesthetic. (Lionard Luxury Real Estate)The master suite leads out to a balcony with undisturbed views of the ocean. (Lionard Luxury Real Estate)
Those with a desire for privacy will no doubt love the mansion’s clifftop location and proximity to 2.3 hectares of parkland.
The villa is also architecturally recognised, having been awarded the title of National Monument of Modern Architecture by the Italian Ministry of Culture.
They describe the villa as “an essential testimony to Italian architecture of the twentieth century”.
A mosaic glass wall at the entrance is another wow factor. (Lionard Luxury Real Estate)
The decision to drop Silvagni, squeezed out by Marc Pittonet’s return, and relegate him to the medi-sub role has been debated by the Blues, and been a major public talking point.
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The versatile Silvagni, predominantly utilized as a forward and an under-sized back-up ruck, has had his best season but the Blues wanted to play frontline ruckmen Tom De Koning and Pittonet, along with key forwards Harry McKay and Charlie Curnow, while maintaining their three small forwards.
The pairing of De Koning and Pittonet, the latter back for his first match since round six, didn’t provide the punch the Blues needed but coach Michael Voss said it was difficult to judge their partnership on “a very small sample space”.
Pittonet had 30 hitouts but only eight disposals and one mark, while De Koning, who also spent time forward, had 13 hitouts, eight touches and three marks but was goalless on a night the Blues again managed only 55 points – as they had done in the loss to Geelong a fortnight earlier.
Silvagni was among the Blues’ best (13 touches, including a key goal midway through the third quarter) when injected into the game after Durdin was subbed out.
Garry Lyon, a long-time friend of the Silvagni family, questioned whether the Blues had pulled the wrong lever by dropping a man considered one of the team’s emotional heartbeats.
“People can say what they want, [that] this is a nonsense, I am not saying it’s the sole reason they lost, but when you have got a team that is still trying to establish their credibility and bona fides coming off a couple of years of disaster, or longer than that, then there is something to be said for maintaining the bloke whose gap between his best and worst is as narrow as probably anyone in the team’s. [Sam] Walsh is up there as well,” Lyon said on SEN on Monday.
Tom De Koning, Patrick Cripps, and Marc Pittonet against the Crows in round 20.Credit:Getty Images
“So, you know what you get – he goes out, he is heart and soul, he is a worker, he is a competitor, at a ground that you can’t, or haven’t been able to, win [at] and you just take him out of the team.
“Michael Voss is absolutely within his right to say: ‘We wanted to try this’, but I just wonder on the back of it, whether or not it had a bigger impact on the psyche of their team and the emotional connection, and the emotional investment as opposed to structurally and wanting to see different things.”
The Blues are keen for robust midfielder George Hewett to return as soon as possible, but his back issues have meant he has been unable to train fully. Hewett has missed the past fortnight and will again be assessed through the week. He has played a key role since crossing from Sydney, averaging almost 29 touches per game, and is behind only Patrick Cripps for most tackles.
Kennedy’s absence could help Paddy Dow return after 17 touches in the VFL, but the Blues will debate whether Will Setterfield and Zac Fisher take on more minutes through the midfield.
Defender Caleb Marchbank, with 16 touches in the VFL, is another subject for selection debate, having succumbed to injury against Essendon in round 13 – his first senior match since round 16, 2019.
Voss lamented that his team had been “out-worked” by the Crows. This, in part, was shown in the Blues’ 23 missed tackles – the most by any team this season.
However, the seventh-placed Blues, having slipped from an 8-2 win-loss record to 12-7, are determined to hit back against the Lions. They need one win from their final three matches – they also face Melbourne and Collingwood – to secure a September berth for the first time since 2013.
‘Warriors down’: The round 20 injury ward
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Collingwood and Richmond are waiting to learn how long some of their players will be sidelined after a round in which several key players went down with injury.
Tigers co-captain Dylan Grimes and Magpies’ leader Taylor Adams await the outcome of further tests.
Hard-nosed midfielder Adams was subbed off before half-time with a groin injury during the Pies’ six-point defeat of the Power. Despite some good news after defender Jeremy Howe was declared “fine” for selection this week, the club confirmed the 28-year-old Adams would undergo scans in the coming days to assess the extent of the damage.
His availability is up in the air ahead of the Pies’ clash with reigning premiers Melbourne on Friday.
Taylor Adams’ availability is in doubt following a groin injury.Credit:AFL Pictures
Howe spent the last half of the final term against Port Adelaide on the bench after suffering a knee to the backside, but coach Craig McRae said after the game that the 32-year-old had suffered no significant injury.
Richmond’s thrilling comeback win over Brisbane on Sunday was marred by Grimes’ suspected hamstring injury, which the player, himself, was not optimistic about.
“I have [Grimes] seems to think it was bad, so we’ll wait and see what that’s like,” coach Damien Hardwick said after the game.
“That’s the challenging thing about AFL football, isn’t it? It’s such a tough game and warriors go down – especially brave ones like Dylan.”
Richmond has expressed concern over Dylan Grimes’ hamstring injury. Credit:AFL Pictures
Hardwick said he was concerned by the look of the tumble, but the club maintained no official decision had been made yet over Grimes’ availability against Port Adelaide on Saturday, noting the 31-year-old would be further assessed early in the week.
“I don’t want to speculate, but it’s not great at the moment,” Hardwick acknowledged.
“It’s a little bit challenging at the moment, and emotional for all of us because he’s such an important player to the fabric of our footy club.
“We hope it’s not too severe. We’ve got our fingers crossed at this stage.”
Melbourne narrowly avoided a major injury blow of their own as star ruckman Luke Jackson passed all concussion tests after sustaining a knock to the head, clearing him of any further concussion protocol requirements and setting him up for selection against Collingwood on Friday.
Phillips to helm the Power
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Port Adelaide has named AFLW star Erin Phillips as captain of the expansion side’s inaugural season.
Despite beginning on the basketball court, Phillips has become a hot commodity on the field for her ability to kick goals. The 37-year-old joined the Power for their first season in 2020 after leading the Crows alongside Chelsea Randall since 2017.
Port Adelaide captain Erin Phillips and her father, former Port Adelaide player and AFL hall of famer, Greg Phillips.Credit:Port Adelaide Football Club
“It is a huge honor to be named captain of Port Adelaide,” Phillips said.
“I feel incredibly privileged to be trusted to lead this amazing group of women, both on and off the field this season.
Phillips’ captaincy allows the powerful midfielder to continue the legacy of her father, Greg, who played 343 games for the Power between 1976 and 1993, including a stint as captain.
“My dad always said to me the only thing better than playing for this club is being captain of this club, and he was right,” Phillips said.
“Telling him the news that I had been named captain was a very special and emotional moment for both of us.
“I’m so excited to be following in his footsteps and can’t wait to lead the team on to the ground for the first time. It will be yet another special moment for this group and for Port Adelaide.”
The two-time WNBA champion and Olympic basketballer made her transition to the AFLW in 2016, quickly becoming known as a prolific ball-winner and a consistent contender for best on ground.
Soon to follow in Port Adelaide’s footsteps are fellow expansion sides Hawthorn, Essendon and Sydney as they decide who will take the helm of their teams ahead of their own highly anticipated inaugural seasons.
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More warning signs at a popular lookout spot in Victoria’s west could have prevented a woman’s deatha coroner has found.
Rosy Loomba was taking a photo with her husband at the Grampians’ Boroka Lookout in December 2020 when she fell to her death.
Mother Rosy Loomba tripped over the edge of the Boroka Lookout in Halls Gap. (Supplied)The Boroka Lookout in Halls Gap. (Nine)
Mrs Loomba died from multiple injuries, including skull fractures and a dislocated spine.
While the lookout spot is fenced off, Ms Hawkins said it was common for people to climb over the “easily scaled” wire fence to take photos on the rock ledge.
At the time of Mrs Loomba’s death, there were 30 other people waiting to take their photo.
Ms Hawkins recommended Parks Victoria install extra signage in the area that expressly stated people have died and been seriously injured at the location.
A map of the location of the Boroka Lookout. (Nine)
“Mrs Loomba’s death is a reminder of the dangers associated with ignoring signage and fencing which is put in place to keep people safe.”
The coroner’s report noted Parks Victoria installed additional infrastructure and signage at Boroka Lookout this year.
Parks Victoria will provide a written response to the coroner within three months, setting out how the recommendations will be addressed.
“We’re reviewing the existing signage at the Boroka Lookout, including reviewing the recommendations from the Coroner’s Court,” a spokesperson told AAP in a statement.
Anatoly Chubais, who resigned as a high-ranking adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin and left Russia shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, was reported to be in intensive care in a European hospital for a neurological disorder
Anatoly Chubais, who resigned as a high-ranking adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin and left Russia shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, was reported to be in intensive care in a European hospital on Sunday for a neurological disorder.
Ksenia Sobchak, a Russian television personality and family friend of Chubais, said on Telegram that she had spoken with his wife, Avdotya, and that he was suffering from Guillain-Barre syndrome. She did not say which clinic he was in.
Guillain-Barre is a rare disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks the nerves. Sobchak said Chubais’ condition was “unstable,” but she quoted him as saying it was “moderate, stable.”
Although Chubais did not state his reason for resigning in March, it was presumed to be because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.
His was the highest-level of a series of official resignations. Chubais had most recently been Putin’s envoy to international organizations on sustainable development. He is well-known in Russia, having held high-profile posts since the early 1990s, when he oversaw privatization efforts under Boris Yeltsin.
Australian renewable energy company Genex Power has rejected a proposed $300 million takeover offer from a consortium led by Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar’s private investment firm, but says it remains open to a revised proposal.
ASX-listed Genex Power, which has $1 billion of renewable energy assets across Australia, told the market on Monday the 23¢ a share bid from Farquhar’s Skip Capital and global alternative investment firm Stonepeak undervalues the company.
Scott Farquhar’s investment fund has had its bid for ASX renewable energy company Genex rejected as too low.Credit:Brent Lewin/Bloomberg
“However, the board is willing to constructively engage with the consortium to explore whether the consortium can submit a revised proposal that is capable of being recommended to Genex shareholders by the board,” the company said.
Genex Power is the only pure renewable energy and storage company on the local sharemarket, with a key asset being its Kidston pumped hydro storage project in far-north Queensland within its Kidston Renewable Energy Hub.
The company also operates solar, wind and battery storage projects in the state, while also managing the Jemalong solar project in NSW.
Billionaire suitor Farquhar – who started software giant Atlassian alongside fellow clean energy advocate Mike Cannon-Brookes – co-founded Skip Capital with his wife and former investment banker Kim Jackson, who now heads the fund, in 2017. The investment firm says it invests in high-growth technology companies and “future-aware infrastructure projects”.
Genex Power said it would now provide the bidding consortium with “certain limited due diligence information” to help submit a revised takeover offer for the company. The company said it had an attractive future with 100 megawatts of existing solar projects benefitting from currently high energy prices, while it had 300 megawatts of renewable energy storage under construction.
The renewable company’s shares rose significantly after the takeover bid was announced at the start of last week, jumping from about 13¢ a share to 22¢ – a price not seen since October last year. Genex Energy shares were relatively unchanged on Monday after the company announced the bid had been politely rebuffed, eventually closing 2.3 per cent lower at 21¢ a share.
Explorations in UI/UX design: The link between technology & art
As humankind continues to shape digital technologies to behave as an extension of their own almost instinctual thought processes, designing user interfaces has morphed from being perceived as a scientific process filled with linear pathways, to a more creative and perhaps even intuitive, multi-dimensional art form in its own right.
Admittedly, not all UX designers will readily refer to UI or UX design as an ‘art form’, particularly because there is a fair amount of behavioral psychology that goes into producing intuitive user interfaces.
Even so, there’s no denying that this branch of technological design requires just as much imagination and ‘outside-the-box’ thinking as it does require critical thought.
But how does UX differ from UI, and is it right to label either avenue as more technical or artistic as the other? We’ll be taking a closer look at these two interlinking disciplines in order to help Aussie students learn how best to hit the ground running when starting a career in either UX or UI design.
The role of the UX designer
While user interface design is isolated to creating two-dimensional or purely digital products, UX (or ‘user experience’) can involve developing both physical and digital creations.
Regardless of whether you’re building a physical product or digital interface, UX design projects are naturally concerned with maintaining a user-centric or ‘human-first approach’ to the design process.
This user-oriented process is what enables UX designers to produce structural design solutions that actively cater to user needs and address common user pain points that were observed in past implementations.
Simply put, it is the responsibility of the UX designer to use design theories in accordance with historical data and findings from user testing and prototyping to create the best possible technological solution to fulfill a set of defined user needs.
The preliminary stages of any UX design project will always involve the process of UX mapping. The nature of UX mapping generally requires user experience designers to also be good spatial thinkers, with an ability to map out and follow a wide selection of ‘pathways’.
As UX design also often involves connecting pre-existing pathways up to sections of an interface that’s still being developed, UX designers are also expected to think in the abstract on a regular basis.
If you possess the skills we’ve outlined above and hold a passion for the technical side of the design process, chances are you may just have what it takes to be a talented UX designer.
Dabbling in UI design & development
But what if you’re more passionate about the aesthetics of interactive elements over the formatting and functionality of those elements? Well then you’re likely to be more aligned with UI design over the highly technical process of UX design.
UI (or ‘user interface’) design is the yin to UX’s yang. The two processes work together in order for user interfaces to be highly user-friendly, both with regards to their structure and their presentation.
That being said, UI design does entail so much more than just fine-tuning color palettes. There are also elements of strategy behind good user interface design, with UI designers also tasked with pinpointing where best to include visual elements to enhance or draw user attention to specific functions.
For instance, mobile apps with swiping mechanics are likely to include a small animation to denote to users that they can swipe between pages. But what happens when a user swipes to the ‘end’ of a swipe side menu?
And what about what happens when users interact incorrectly with other navigational styles? UI designers are actually the ones who decide here. All the animations or small responsive actions created by your interactions with an app are likely to have been created by UI designers.
As UI designers are concerned with designing a user interface’s intuitive responses, typography, button design, imagery, and all other visual elements, UI design is generally considered to be a more ‘right-brained’ approach to digital design.
And whilst UI design is arguably less technical than UX, this design discipline still possesses its fair share of theory, including explorations within the realm of behavioral psychology.
The art of problem solving in UX/UI design
Believe it or not, but the way we interact with our digital interfaces says more about the human brain than it does our collective design thinking capabilities.
UX and UI design principles were actually developed to revolve around user behavior over user expectations, which is precisely why some user interfaces can feel like an extension of your mind and thought processes.
The whole mechanism of swiping down to move down a screen and vice versa is in itself, a natural response that the majority of human brains are likely to have.
Alongside this, designing in accordance with behavioral theories can also inspire users to perform certain actions both within and surrounding a user interface. A great example here is an app using emotive language or imagery to elicit a sympathetic response from users, or sending notifications with rhetorical questions or calls to action to inspire user engagement.
This is precisely the reason why many UX and UI designers believe that the process of interface design is far more scientific than it is artistic. And to be fair, they aren’t wrong here either.
Even so, there is a level of undeniable artistry in the way that both UX and UI designers go about solving user problems. Finding the most novel and still intuitive pathways in order to fulfill a user need or inspire a desired user interaction requires creative thinking just as much as it does critical thinking, which is why UX and UI design still fall under the umbrella of digital design rather than ‘development’.
How to get started in UX & UI
If human-first approaches to design sounds like a fascinating area of study for you, then we highly encourage you to enroll in a UX or UI design course. There are an abundance of UI/UX courses available to students who are eager to learn, including both on-campus and online programs.
Alongside enrolling in tertiary courses, students can also take full advantage of all the physical and digital learning resources available to them.
There are a growing number of UX design blogs, digital magazines, and online forums that can be accessed anywhere in the world so that students can engage in self-study alongside seeking academic and professional opportunities.
As user interface and experience design are both fairly young disciplines that are growing rapidly alongside the digital transformation of global industries, there truly has never been a better time than now to start picking up these highly employable and highly ‘future-proof multidisciplinary skills.
Lea Michele is set to take over from beanie feldstein as the lead in the Broadway musical Funny Girl v. soon.
Feldstein recently departed the lead role as Fanny Brice in the iconic Broadway musical following heinous reviews.
Her replacement was later announced as none other than controversial actress Lea Michele.
In the same announcement where it was revealed that Feldstein was being replaced, it was also revealed that Michele’s former glee Cost jane lynch (who played Coach Sue in the cursed series) was also leaving.
Following mass speculation from fans that Lynch had quit because she did not want to work with Michele again, after she infamously terrorized the glee set, Lynch has now released a statement.
“We have been in touch about it,” Lynch told Deadline when probed about Michele and her abrupt departure.
“You know, it was just a really strong idea to have Feldshuh and Lea premiere together. That’s the only reason [we won’t appear together.] I adore her. She’s just going to take this show and make it her own. I’m so glad she’s getting the opportunity in real life to do the show and not just on glee.”
Sounds like a bunch of BS to me, but sure…
Her sudden departure the literal day that Michele was cast speaks volumes!
