Inside Michael Campbell's plush home

Former US Open champion Michael Campbell is selling up and moving his family to Sydney. Photo / Martin Sykes

Golf enthusiasts with a spare $6.8 million in change and a wanton desire to move to East Sussex may get their chance now that former US Open champion Michael Campbell, 40, has just announced he's selling up and moving his family to Sydney.

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Campbell has put his plush pile on the market with Winkworth estate agents, which has taken the unusual marketing step of advertising this multi-million-dollar estate via open home, meaning die-hard golfing fanatics can have a nosy around the Campbells living space.

The sprawling family house overlooking Brighton has a reception room, study, conservatory, seven bedrooms (four in the main house and three in a separate annexe), four bathrooms, a gym, sauna, hot tub, cellar, pond, three-car garage, a beautifully landscaped garden, and a putting green and bunker for the avid golfer.

Behind electric security gates on prestigious Withdean Road, the world-renowned Kiwi golfer has lived in luxury with his Sydney-born wife Julie, 45, and their sons Thomas, 10, and Jordan, 8, for nine years.

The couple bought the property in a fairly dilapidated condition for £810,000 ($1.99m) and spent around £500,000 on renovations. These may be recessionary times, but the couple are asking for a staggering £2.75m ($6.8m) for their sprawling estate

Joe Cotton jazzes up More FM's breakfast show with an old dog and a new trick

Auckland's iconic More FM breakfast programme re-launched this week with two new-ish faces, Joe Cotton and Jesse Mulligan, who leave their afternoon slot on the station to join Jeremy Corbett in the hot seat each morning.

Corbett, who has been at the helm for the past 16 years, said adios last week to colleague Kim Adamson, a veteran at the network with more than 40 years experience in the radio industry. Adamson told the Herald on Sunday recently he was "a little hurt" his contract had not been renewed. Leaving the show was not his choice but was "something that the management had decided," he said.

Industry insiders told Spy Adamson represented an old guard that the network was "keen to shelve in favour of a fresh new approach that was more reflective of their audience".

Cotton, 30, is well respected in media circles for her biting wit and her down-to-earth approach. She will bring a much welcome female voice to the breakfast show that has been missing since Hilary Barry upped and moved to join Marcus Lush in the mornings to read the news on RadioLive.

Mulligan, who may be unfamiliar to some, hails from the world of stand-up comedians. He was previously at More FM Wellington for many years before signing on to the Auckland branch earlier this year.

Programme Director Rodger Clamp told Spy he was excited Jeremy was joining forces with Joe and Jesse. "If they have half the laughs on air as they do in the office every day, I'm sure our listeners will enjoy this new show."

Original host Corbett is looking forward to his new young co-stars: "For me it's a bit like Joe and Jesse are a new pair of shoes. Funny shoes. With colourful laces. And having worn them around the house a bit I'm now very excited to wear them out... in public. Obviously with pants and stuff too."

Casting call

One young extra who's eager to make her name in the world of acting told Spy about a casting call she's taking part in on the set of hit American TV show Spartacus currently shooting in West Auckland.

Casting agents are looking for girls to play servants. Modesty is not an option. The role calls for frontal nudity and casting agents are preferably looking for girls with their own pubic hair, otherwise, I'm told, the girls will be fitted with wigs.

No joke! A frontal falsie! Is there some sort of specialist crotch-toupee stylist to fit them?

Admittedly, this prudish columnist is completely clueless to the inside machinations of film sets and broke out into hysterical fits of adolescent giggles when this story crossed my lap, er desk, but it appears thesps I've spoken to are a lot more mature. Being fitted for a merkin is par of the course, apparently.

In fact, the show's leading lady, Lucy Lawless, told EW.com last month that she was offered a pubic wig for her first full-frontal nude scene, but admitted there was pressure on the Spartacus set to go au natural.

She said: "I haven't worn it [the pubic wig] yet... I was like 'have you got a red one?' We have one just in case. We have one person in the cast who insists on being naked... I think that person thinks it will surprise the person they're acting opposite."

She added of the show: "There's full frontal male nudity. You see plenty, trust me. I'm a little traumatized."

Rachel Glucina

Pictured: Michael Campbell. Photo / Martin Sykes