Being Lara Bingle

Being Lara Bingle was an Australian reality television series that premiered on 12 June 2012 on Network Ten.[1][2] The series followed the misadventures of model and minor television personality, Lara Bingle.[3]

Being Lara Bingle
Genre	Reality television
Created by	Lara Bingle
Written by	Claire Haywood
Directed by	Ben Thompson
Presented by	Jack Torracka
Starring	Lara Bingle Joshua Bingle Hermione Underwood Sharon Bingle
Opening theme	"Bop Girl" by Pat Wilson
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Executive producer	John McAvoy
Producer	Claire Haywood
Camera setup	Craig Donaldson Wayne Vinten
Release
Original network	Network Ten
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	12 June – 7 August 2012
External links
Website

In April 2013, Network Ten expressed that "the extreme youth focus that led to programs like (the similarly unsuccessful) The Shire and Being Lara Bingle being commissioned is not quite right for us" and that Ten would now move on from that focus.[4]

Cast

• Lara Bingle Worthington – Model and TV personality
• Hermione Underwood – Lara's former manager and best friend
• Josh Bingle – Lara's brother
• Sharon Bingle – Lara's mother

Ratings

The series aired in the 8:00 pm–8:30 pm timeslot on Tuesdays. Ratings aggregated by OzTam subsequent to the premiere of the series indicate that the premiere episode received an estimated viewership of 925,000 viewers, during which a peak of 1.3 million was reached.[5]

Episode number	Original air date	Viewers	Nightly rank	Weekly rank
1	12 June 2012	925,000[5]	13[5]	41
2	19 June 2012	786,000[6]	14	44[7]
3	26 June 2012	684,000[8]	17	N/A
4	3 July 2012	728,000[9]	13[10]	N/A
5	10 July 2012	650,000[11]	16	N/A
6	17 July 2012	713,000[12]	11	N/A
7	24 July 2012	768,000[13][14] 931,000[n 1][15]	9	N/A
8	31 July 2012	463,000[n 2]	20[16]	N/A
9	7 August 2012	N/A	N/A	N/A
10	7 August 2012	387,000[17]	N/A	N/A

Notes

1. Numbers were inflated because Being Lara Bingle took in MasterChef viewers when the show ran overtime. On actual screening minutes, it attracted 768,000 watchers.
2. Ratings for this episode dropped lower possibly due to coverage of the Olympics on another channel.

Location

The reality series was filmed at Bondi Beach in New South Wales and other locations including Los Angeles, Melbourne, India, and New Zealand.

See also

• WAG Nation
• The Stafford Brothers

References

1. ""Being Lara Bingle" Reality TV Show Confirmed For Channel 10 – Entertainment News". Pedestrian TV. 26 February 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
2. Knox, David (24 May 2012). "Airdate: Being Lara Bingle". TV tonight. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
3. Knox, David (26 February 2012). "Being Lara Bingle for TEN". TV tonight. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
4. http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/article/16640608/ten-admits-bingle-bungle-in-243m-loss/%5B%5D
5. Dale, David (11 June 2012). "THE RATINGS RACE: Week 24". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
6. Idato, Michael (20 June 2012). "Being Lara Bingle ratings". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
7. Dale, David (18 June 2012). "THE RATINGS RACE: Week 25". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
8. Dale, David (25 June 2012). "THE RATINGS RACE: Week 26". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
9. "Winners & Losers dips below 1m for Seven". mumbrella.com.au. 4 July 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
10. Bodey, Michael (4 July 2012). "Masterchef climbs after The Block finishes". The Australian. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
11. Hayes, Alex (11 July 2012). "Bingle and The Voice US slide further". bandt.com.au. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
12. Dale, David (16 July 2012). "THE RATINGS RACE: Week 29". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
13. "MasterChef wins as Being Lara Bingle grows". Bandt.com.au. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
14. "MasterChef heating up nicely for big final". News.ninemsn.com.au. 13 September 2009. Archived from the original on 27 July 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
15. Meade, Amanda (25 July 2012). "Even the strength of MasterChef couldn't stop Seven from winning Tuesday's ratings". The Australian. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
16. Dale, David (30 July 2012). "THE RATINGS RACE: When Aussie athletes are losing, we find our champions in fairyland". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
17. "Ratings gold again for the Olympics". bandt.com.au. 8 August 2012. Archived from the original on 9 August 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.