SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Tom Daley's knitting hobby, which he took up to deal with self-isolation, is not going down too well with his husband, film producer Dustin Lance Black.

Channel 9 paid $120,000 to a child recovery agency whose operator was previously arrested in Singapore and who have Facebook posts of 'successful' operations which are not theirs.

Craig Michael remains behind bars in Beiruit with charged with kidnapping after the botched child recovery operation of Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner's two young children.

In a segment aired on 60 Minutes on Sunday night journalist Tara Brown defended her crew's involvement in the botched child abduction of Sally Faulkner's two child in Beirut, Lebanon.

The Brisbane mother at the centre of the 60 Minutes kidnapping attempt now has no contact with her children. Sally Faulkner's estranged husband has stopped all contact.

Adam Whittington's Gold Coast family has called on Channel Nine to front up the US$500,000 so Ali Elamine (pictured) will drop the kidnapping charges against him and three others.

It has been confirmed that 60 Minutes presenter Tara Brown will not be attending the event in Melbourne on Sunday night.

Nothing's sacred when comedian Dave Hughes is around, and as he kicked off hosting duties at the 2016 TV Week Logie Awards, he made light of the recent 60 Minutes controversy.

Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner has made a 'guarantee' to bring her children Lahela, five, and Noah, three, back after the botched 60 Minutes child abduction in Beirut, Lebanon.

Despite high expectations he would be freed on bail on Wednesday Australian-British man Adam Whittington remains in a Beirut prison for his involvement in the 60 Minutes child abduction.

The four remaining prisoners jailed in Beirut over the botched 60 Minutes child abduction case have been refused bail after Ali Elamine refused to drop charges against the men.

Long-time 60 Minutes producer Stephen Rice has lost his job after a review by the Nine Network over the botched 60 Minutes child recovery in Lebanon.

Sydney's Ten Eyewitness News presenter Hugh Riminton, who worked for Channel Nine for over a decade, dubbed Mr Rice the 'scapegoat for the 60 minutes fiasco' in a series of tweets on Friday.

Sacked 60 Minutes producer Stephen Rice has enlisted the help of a high-profile lawyer to fight his dismissal over the botched abduction of Sally Faulkner's two children in Lebanon last month.

An email chain has confirmed that the top executives of 60 Minutes knew of the plan to abduct Sally Faulkner's two children in Beirut for three months before the foiled attempt in April.

Australia's reporter Tara Brown's job was on the line before Nine Network bosses decided to sack 60 Minutes producer Stephen Rice over the botched child abduction scandal, it has emerged.

The botched child recovery in Lebanon funded by 60 Minutes has cost Channel Nine more than $2 million in legal fees and compensation.

Child recovery agent, Adam Whittington, has accused the Australian Liberal Government of ignoring him and his family and has urged people to ‘think twice before voting’ on July 2.

Adam Whittington, who allegedly organised the botched attempt to recover Sally Faulkner's children in Beirut, has been released on bail in Lebanon after 100 days in jail.

The man allegedly paid $115,000 by Channel Nine's 60 Minutes to orchestrate the child recovery in Lebanon in April has walked out of jail and says the 'truth will come out soon'.

60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown returned to the show on Sunday night to do a story on the Rozelle fire, but there was no mention of the infamous botched child kidnapping attempt in Beirut.

60 Minutes' Allison Langdon is rumoured to be pregnant with her first child to husband Mike Willesee Junior

Michael Clarke has broken down when talking about the tragic death of late cricketer Phillip Hughes in a preview for his tell-all interview with 60 Minutes. 

Tim Gurner, 35, from Melbourne, who was slammed for his highly controversial comments about young people's spending habits, has hit back at his critics.

Cassie Sainsbury claims there are 'links' between a Sydney brothel where she allegedly worked as a prostitute and a drug syndicate for which she is accused of smuggling cocaine.

60 Minutes is set to air an interview with Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La) on Sunday. It's the first interview Scalise has given since he was shot at a baseball practice in June.

Tara Brown was sent to Lebanon with three crew members in 2016 in an ambitious bid to reunite an Australian mother with her two children.

Froome is facing another six weeks in hospital after scans revealed he had also suffered fractures to his neck and sternum in the horror training crash that rules him out of this year's Tour de France.

DANIEL BENSON - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF FOR CYCLINGNEWS.COM: Last Wednesday Chris Froome and the Team Ineos squad arrived in the outskirts of the French commune of Roanne.

Some 24 hours before Team INEOS announced that Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal would start the Tour de France as joint leaders, the cycling team offered their defending champion to the media.

Geraint Thomas joked he would be happy with an 'uneventful' Tour de France as long as a Team Ineos rider is stood on the top step in Paris at the end of the month.

MATT LAWTON ON THE COL DU TOURMALET: Owner of Ineos Jim Ratcliffe must have sat in the team car on Saturday afternoon and wondered if he had just bought a cycling team in decline.

Chris Froome has returned to training just six weeks after a crash in a training ride left him in intensive care. The 34-year-old suffered a broken leg, elbow and multiple broken ribs in Roanne last month.

Chris Froome is back in hospital again after cutting his thumb with a kitchen knife. Froome's hopes of a record-equalling fifth Tour title this year were ended in violent fashion in June when he crashed heavily.

Chris Froome has revealed that he does not remember any part of the horrific crash that almost cost him his life during a training ride in May.

Froome posted a picture on social media following the operation, restating his goals of getting back to full fitness in time for next summer's Tour de France and the Olympic road race in Japan.

DAVID COVERDALE IN BERLIN: Michael Morkov had travelled to Berlin from the UAE Tour, which was cancelled after two Italian staff members tested positive for the virus and he is now in isolation.

Chris Froome has thanked French doctors for helping him get back on his bike after a horror crash last year left him with a broken leg. He posted a training video to Instagram on Thursday.

JANE FRYER: As they stood outside the Old Bailey yesterday, Charlotte Brown's family were a vision of dignity, strength and integrity. Everything indeed that James 'Jack' Shepherd lacks

On Wednesday, Boris was spotted in a Tesco Express in Islington, close to his former marital home. Rucksack on back, crumpled as ever, he was in a hurry and, according to a witness.

Roald was plagued by the feeling he had let his 'favourite child' down after Olivia contracted measles encephalitis, writes JANE FRYER. The first vaccine was licensed the following year in the U.S.

JANE FRYER: Over the past six decades his art has embraced everything from German mythology to astronomy; maths to comparative religion; politics to war. And all the while, become bigger.

A.N WILSON: Pays tribute to wine connoisseur Auberon Waugh in time for the republish of the 1980s Waugh On Wine - where Auberon says wine should have 'bizarre side-tastes' including rotting wood.

Prince Albert's cruel notes to Queen Victoria shatter their mythic love story - he called her 'my child' and cut her down - saying 'I feel the dreadful waste of most precious time, and of energies' with her.

A.N. WILSON: Peter Phillips' tacky and absurd milk advertisement, reported in yesterday's Daily Mail, has provoked understandable laughter and contempt.

Theresa May's radical plans for tackling the crisis was a big mistake, but she was right to identify provision of social care in our ageing society as one of the greatest challenges facing the country.

Anyone tuning in to the airwaves over the weekend might be forgiven for believing Theresa May lost the election, while Jeremy Corbyn led Labour to a resounding victory.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The inquiry into allegations of a VIP sex abuse ring codenamed Operation Midland ranks as the most disgraceful episode in the recent history of the Metropolitan Police.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: The FA leadership will have an unlikely say in the appointments of the new chief executive and chairman of the Premier League.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: An FA council meeting on October 24 looks like being pivotal to the proposed £600million sale of Wembley to Fulham owner Shahid Khan.