Wanna be a Star?

When I say Star, I mean Television Presenter and when I say Television Presenter I mean Infomercialist. Hey, you gotta start somewhere. Its national, its paid and you can add your own brand of style and personality to make it shake and bake baby. Its where most big name celebrities today started out. Im loving the old Leonardo De Caprio and John Travolta commercials below, Also check out the list at of celebrities who do infomercials I found. This competition could be your big break. At the very least you will sleep well at night knowing that you helped someone slice and dice easier, grill their food properly, get rid of their big ass zits or mop the floor effectively. Or maybe your just like me and hoping it may lead to a date with hot blonde receptionist from the TV station who wouldn’t normally talk to you. Is it weird that I left my make up on when I asked her out the other day. I digress.
So make your video and upload it to the Danoz Star Search Site, then get your friends to like it on the Danoz Facebook Like page and the job could be yours! Just for liking your video your pals can win plasma screen TVs, Digital cameras and other cool stuff.

While we’re on commercials.

Hers a cool Japanese commercial starring Leonardo De Caprio.

What about Johno Travolta in some “suss” TV commercials.

Celebrities who have done infomercials :
Delta Goodrem and P diddy: Pro Active
Cher: Lori Davis Hair Care
Alex Trebek: WordSmart, vocabulary-building tool
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Ab Glider
Cheryl Burke: Fullfast Appetite Control Spray
Nick Lachey: Celebrity Trainer for Core Secrets
Judith Light: various
Brooke Shields: various
Alicia Keys: various
Vanessa Williams: Proactiv
Leeza Gibbons: Sheer Cover makeup
Susan Lucci: Malibu Pilates
Victoria Principal: Principal Secret, skin care
Mr. T: FlavorWave Oven Turbo
Dan Marino: Nutrisystem
Chuck Norris: Total Gym
Wesley Snipes: Total Gym
Christie Brinkley: Total Gym
George Foreman: Grill
Cindy Crawford: Meaningful Beauty, skin care
Valerie Bertinelli: Meaningful Beauty, skin care

Mike Goldman

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Coming Soon


Yes thats me behind the guy in the middles armpit. Ever since my starring role in BMX bandits with Nicole Kidman at age 10 I dreamed of making my own film and now that dream is a reality. Other than the fact I was really an armpit EXTRA in BMX bandits, to me I was the star. Why, I hear you bunny hop? Well, I’ll tell you why. Because in my little 8 year old head, burning along Freshwater beach on my blue Mongoose 360 BMX, I had an awesome secret weapon in the shape of my racoon skin hat fresh from Frontier land in Disneyland. It made me feel like the star and stand out from the gaggle of BMX grommets chucking flower bombs everywhere. Yes, I stood out because I broke the law and didnt wear a stack hat. I risked my life for fame and to me It really didn’t matter. I just wanted to do awesome shit in a movie and for my mates to think it was freakin cool.Script meeting
So this movie Im making now is something different to the usual thing you may see at Event cinemas on a saturday night with your willy poking up through the popcorn box to scare your friends. Our movie is a documentary/mockumentary that sends you into outer space, reels you back in and then drops you back off a cliff. A movie that will draw you in and confuse you as to what is real and what is not. We have some amazing people working with us and it wil be a real challenge for me not just as an actor but in so many other ways. Off camera I have to help write the script, get sponsors, locations, produce and get funding. On camera I have to get naked, lose weight, shave my head, shoot people (yes with a gun), fly to LA, shoot there (not people), cut my penis off and become paranoid and delusional. Ok, maybe Im not cutting my willy off. Some ex girlfriends out there may like to but. Everything else is all systems a go from Prescott Goldman Films new office on Mill Hill rd Bondi Junction.

Behind the scenes on a sports commercial

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I’m really proud of what we have written, produced and shot so far. The crew are really excited at the films prospects, its so exciting. Allow me to introduce you to the cast. Yasmin Kassim is my super hot leading lady who eventually gets tied up and shot. WHOOPS!! Should have said spoiler alert! Cameron Knight is my agent in the film, a great actor and super stand up comedienne. We have already shot scenes with Matt Sorum from Guns and Roses and Jessica Sutter from the Pussy Cat Dolls at the opening of the Hard Rock Cafe in Sydney that I hosted too. We’ve shot with bikini babes on the beach in Queensland as a part of a behind the scenes shoot for a TV commercial and we have done a naked voiceover scene at Cutting Edge Post in Brisbane. That wasn’t supposed to be like that but the air conditioning was busted and we just ran with it. >AWKWARD< In a couple of weeks we have scenes to shoot in LA and the big scene on a farm in the Hunter Valley. Today I meet with our psychiatrist working on the film so I can method act my way into becoming a paranoid delusional schizophrenic.Exciting times. For more info on the film or to get involved e mail me direct mike@mikegoldman.tv

The Great Crusade

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Mike and miranda kerr

Want to be a part of “The Great Crusade? What’s that? You say, religiously sanctioned military campaigns aren’t my thing and its not even the dark ages? Rack off Mike! Fair enough. If that were the case fine, but its not, so please allow me to explain. This is a crusade around New Zealand following the gods of rugby whom we call the Qantas Wallabies and no we aren’t doing it in clanky suits of armour, on horseback, eating off the land. We are doing it in style and luxury. Campervans ladies and gentlemen, luxurious, pimped out palaces on wheels.  Taking in the best New Zealand has to offer, supporting the Qantas Wallabies everywhere they go and partying hard. This amazing experience is the brainchild of Glen Condie and his dream team at “Wonder“. Want to come? All you gotta do is up load a video to www.thegreatcrusade.com.au and show us just how far you would go to support the Qantas Wallabies. Im a judge and looking for originality people. So no boring videos about how you’ve never had a holiday or how you want to clean my car. Make me laugh, make me cry, sho us how big a fan you really are and you may just have yourself a spot on one of the coolest crusades in history.

 

ACA Heart’s BB

Yeah ok, click to watch watch the story here if you like, but if you want a behind the scenes story then read on.
Look at Pete on the far right, he looks so excited to be there, unlike myself who looks so inattentive.

They hated our guts during our 8 years of amazing Australian Television history and played a major part in having the show taken off the air and now ten years later they confess their love for Big Brother with a TV special? Interesting. Gretel Killeen didn’t want to do this ACA story because she thought it was too soon, Kyle and Jacqui O didn’t get asked, so as the only host that worked on the show for all 8 years I was the best way to kill two pigs with the one bird. (Hello Angry Birds Fans) It was kinda weird walking into Channel 9 studios at Willoughby in Sydney to find millionaire BB winner Trevor suited up at reception waiting for everyone to show up. He looks different, he’s shaved his dreadlocks, beefed up and still a barrrel of laughs. BB 01 doonah dancer Pete Timbs was there running around recording housemate interviews for what will probably be a womans day or TV week story in the coming months. He’s doing well with his pizza shop, I think its a Crust franchise or something. When all the housemates finally showed up we headed to a bar near the Channel 9 canteen where we were showered with a few drinks and a catch up. Immediately I thought, hello they’re going to get us really really pissed and make us talk about all the naughty things that happened behind the scenes, but this wasn’t the case. As you may have seen in the story, it was all quite positive, except for the Camilla incident. (gobble gobble)
During the ACA interview we talked up the production company, Endemol Southern Star and its amazing producers which was edited out, fantastic words of praise for Gretel Killeen binned, executive producer Peter Abbott’s attention to detail was also gone with that crazy time we had a nude friday night games with all Big Brother staff and housemates. Umm, ok I can’t back that up, I did suggest it once when our up late ratings looked like they were taking a slide. Hey, everything is a good idea in a brainstorm! I digress. After the interview most of the housemates went to a place called “The Blues bar”, on York st the city, which is an amazing place for dinner and cocktails and then the Ivy for a few beers. We got some strange looks when we were out on the town, one person asked me for an autograph. Unfortunately it was because she thought I was Manu from My Kitchen Rules. I LOOK NOTHING LIKE HIM!! Shock horror we got no free drinks while we were out either. Yeah, that ride finished years ago.
At one point we all looked around and wondered where BB03 winner Reggie was. Then I realized I had a missed call from her on my phone so I called her back and she told me that because shes half blind and can hardly see anything in really low light the poor darling took a wrong turn and got lost between the dark depths of the Mornings With Kerri Anne and Today show sets. Isnt that where the old Hot Dogs Up Late set is? We had to get security to release the hounds and luckily they found her. Back to the Ivy and the loudness continued till about 2am when we split for Camilla’s hotel room. Nobody got hurt, nothing was broken, but there was nothing left in her bar fridge after our visit thats for sure. Great to catch up with everyone and I never thought I would ever be saying this but, “thanks A Current Affair for such an entertaining and positive story”, I knew you guys were fans all along.

Million Paws Walk

Yes it really floats my goat!
Come on out and raise funds and awareness for a great cause. Its on in every state in Australia and bigger and better than ever.

I will be walking with Tigger my physic goat on the day. Come say g’day…..

RSPCA Million Paws Walk from Mike Goldman on Vimeo.

Morning Show with Kylie and Larry on Seven

Its been over a year Ive been doing these segments now and I keep threatening to post one. So here it is. I cant believe we actually get on a national TV show and talk about plastic bags and Kate Middleton in the same segment. Love working with Sammy Lukas, shes a hoot.

Mikes random rants on the Morning Show on Channel 7 from Mike Goldman on Vimeo.

THE MACHINES ARE TAKING OVER!!!!

The first time I saw one of these was in L.A, it was being operated by a beardo in a trenchcoat hanging out in the park near where I was staying. (beardo=weirdo with a beard)
Its a remote controlled Quadrocopter otherwise known as a an AR DRONE and it will definitely give you a brainspin. These things are so amazing, they’re scary. Next thing you know there will be speakers and guns attached to them and they will be flying around patrolling the streets of Sydney like in Robocop or Terminator Rise Of The Machines. Heres the official video from the makers having a play outside with some dopey soccer players to show if they can do it anyone can.


I had a go at flying one around my lounge room. As Im uploading these videos my chopper is rooted because I flew it into the wall one too many time. So dont fly it inside if you get one. I stuffed it and burnt my cash. Boooooo!!

Sharks are people too….

My aunt Jane is one if the greatest underwater photographers this side of Atlantis and a friend of legendary great white shark chaperons Valerie Taylor and Rodney Fox. Aside from their amazing shark conservation crusades, Valerie once put on a chain metal wetsuit with fish in it and let sharks munch on her. As for Rodney, in the 60’s he was bitten so hard by a shark that his intestines fell out. Luckily the shark spat him out, he got to the hospital quick enough to save his life leaving him with some two hundred and fifty stitches. Lucky for me they had a spare seat on their amazing South Australian Shark Adventure so I put on a nappy and went along for one hell of a ride.

*cue Jaws theme* dan dum, dan dum, dandumdandumdandumtututuuuudandumdandumdandum...

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If you don’t know who those guys are, theyre those friendly creatures who swim around you when you’re at the beach.
I have been diving since the age of thirteen, following in the footstep of my mum the seal trainer and shark feeder at Oceanworld on Sydney’s northern beaches. When the opportunity came up for me to go to Port Lincoln with Jayne on a Rodney Fox Shark Expedition, lead by his son, shark legend Andrew Fox I couldn’t say no. Get ready for one hell of an adventure that will blow your freakin’ mind and completely change your perception of the Great White Shark.

*cue Jaws theme*

dan dum, dan dum, dandumdandumdandumtu tutuuuudandumdandumdandum…*

I have always been freaked out by sharks imagining them as big evil monsters from the movies. Once when surfing alone at main beach in Port Macquarie I saw a fin splash through the water in front of me, turned and paddled into shore faster than a piranha on a pork chop, only to hit the sand and hear a little kid saying “look mum dolphins”. So doing this shark cage diving thing may just turn my wetsuit brown. The trip guided by Rodney Fox’s marine expert son Andrew who is a leader in shark research takes you on a once in a lifetime roller coaster ride into the world of the undisputed king of the deep. Andrew an his team have been successfully tagging and tracking great whites for years using the latest in technology.

Andrew even tagged a few sharks while we were on the trip, what a show that was.
Andrew Fox tagging a great whiteSharks love to pose for pictures....

There are two surface cages, a one man and a four man plus a four man bottom cage. The top cages are great for watching the sharks get tagged as they come up close and the bottom cage is an incredible to be a part of sharks in their natural environment. Rodney Fox Shark Adventures is one of the only dive company’s in the world where you can do the bottom cage. I kind of felt like a really tasty shark lollies that the poor little sharks couldn’t figure out how to unwrap. Well actually, they weren’t little, up to five meters in length and have been seen in the area up to six and a half meters. That’s bigger than my Toyota Hilux!

Check out my video!

 

Diving With The Sharks off Neptune Island, Port Lincoln, South Australia from Mike Goldman on Vimeo.

 

The idea is to keep your hands and arms inside the cage at all times, but my new West Australian buddy Ash forgot this when taking some pictures while leaning outside the cage. While taking some snapshots of little baby fishes, a big monster fishy, otherwise known as boomerang the five meter shark crept up from behind him. The shark was only seconds away from chomping his arm off as I yanked Ash back into the cage by pulling on his tank. As he fell back his arm lifted centimeters away from Boomerangs gaping mouth elbowing him in between his massive mouth and pointy shark nose. Kind of rude to take away a sharks meal like that but I’m sure Ash appreciated keeping his elbow where it was. So when you go on a shark dive its a good idea to keep all limbs inside the cage.

Thanks Andrew Fox and the team at Rodney Fox Dive Expeditions for making the video and for putting on such an amazing adventure. Check out their site!
Rodney Fox Shark Expeditions