Tottie Goldsmith is an Australian actress and singer. She picked up the acting bug from her mother actress Rona Newton-John. In the early 1980's she appeared in Australian soap operas 'The Young Doctors', 'Starting Out' and 'Prisoner', and was a panelist on such programs as 'All Star Squares'. From 1986 Goldsmith was one of four female lead vocalists in Australian band 'Chantoozies' ... who weren't big in Japan, but who are currently touring around Australia.
She has done various musicals such as "The New Rocky Horror Show", "Grease", and a farce "Don't Dress For Dinner" when it toured Australia ..... She also acted in TV drama series 'Fire', in police drama series 'Blue Heelers', and in 'The Secret Life of Us' .... before moving in to radio as the breakfast program host on Melbourne radio station TTFM. In 2006 she returned to TV and later was a contestant on the series 'Celebrity Singing Bee'. Finally in 2009 she did a 3 month stint in serial 'Neighbours' before guesting on various shows.
She didn't hesitate to use her looks from early in her career, and
she posed nude for art magazine Black+White in August 1996. She followed this up by hosting Sex/Life (a Network Ten copy of an earlier Network nine show (Sex) in the mid-1990s), gaining her a large teenage male fan base.
But the
really big Oops moment came in January 2011 she was
stopped for alleged possession of cocaine at the Hot Barbecue festival in Portsea, Victoria ... According to a number of reports in various news outlets including News.com.au, Goldsmith was entering the dance-heavy festival when she and another woman were caught with what was probably cocaine, detected by sniffer dogs ..... oddly no arrest of Goldsmith was made, who was said to have later partied in the VIP area at the festival. Onlookers said there was chaos as the drug dogs swept the car park. It is believed people were trying to hide the drugs in panic, including in other people's bags. Police said that they found an "extraordinary" amount of drugs on buses used to ferry people to the event.
Her management company issued a statement .... “
Tottie wishes to express her total disapproval and embarrassment that drugs belonging to other people were found in her beach bag. The drugs were not hers nor were they for her use". Police Inspector Shayne Pannell said no one was above the law under these operations, and according to the news reports, she may be forced to
undergo a diversion program and
seek therapy if she pleads guilty to carrying the drug.
Trivia:
- Her great grandfather was German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born.
- Olivia Newton-John is her aunt.
- Bass guitarist Brett Goldsmith her elder brother.
- Racecar driver Emerson Newton-John her half brother.
- In 2005, she appeared in a 15-second television commercial for Hyundai.
- She released two meditation and relaxation CDs called "Unwind Your Mind" and "Falling Asleep".
Pictures:
She has a
thread here already, so only a few illustrative pictures and any follow ups to her thread please.
