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UP 1. DR CHRIS BROWN
POSTERBOY for veterinary science Dr Chris Brown became this column's hero of the week when he was first on the scene at a Logies' afterparty on Sunday night to attend the unconscious form of Bo Phillips, the music promoter brother of television's Kids WB show presenter Lauren Phillips. Phillips, who later said he didn't recall what prompted Catching Milat actor Malcolm Kennard to throw a knockout punch at him, hit the deck at around 3.20am on Monday after an exchange with Kennard on the balcony of Club 23 at the Crown Casino complex in Melbourne.
Witnesses have told this column Phillips had been drinking and initially revellers thought he had fallen but it soon emerged he had been hit by Kennard who only hours earlier was covered in glory as a Logies nominee. 
Brown was talking to fellow television personalities at the Nine Network party when Phillips hit the deck. He then moved quickly to offer medical assistance, rolling Phillips over and checking his vitals before asking another Logies' reveller to call an ambulance. Brown, star of Bondi Vet, I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here and Network 10's The Living Room, is more accustomed to rescuing injured dogs than humans. He once stopped during a 4km ocean swim to save a hawksbill turtle in distress - then finished the race.
Brown has maintained his silence on the ugly punch-up in the week that was, declining to bask in media attention.
2. ANNA O'BYRNE HER name is not yet instantly recognisable despite starring roles on the musical stage in Phantom Of The Opera, Love Never Dies and West Side Story, but this column suspects that will soon change when Anna O'Byrne steps into the corsets ofEliza Doolittle in the forthcoming production of My Fair Lady.
With Julie Andrews directing and coaching her in the role, 30-year-old O'Byrne has come of age.
O'Byrne came to musical theatre after falling in love with opera in Vienna during her gap year after high school. London-based, O'Byrne is currently starring in the UK season of Guys And Dolls.
Andrews paid tribute to O'Byrne's talent this week and said she was "excited to welcome lovely Anna O'Byrne" to her cast and the role that catapulted Andrews herself to international stardom.
DOWN 3. GRAHAM RICHARDSON HE said he was "unkillable" and he seems determined to prove the point. It emerged this week the political commentator's wife and young son were called to Graham Richardson's hospital bed two weeks ago and told to say their goodbyes after the former senator - post surgery for the removal of organs to stave off the spread of cancer - developed blood clots and then an infection that became "septic".
After five days in a critical condition, Richardson sat up on Mother's Day and spoke. He started taking fluids this week and is "critical but stable".
3. FIRASS DIRANI THE Crown Casino security guards are some of the most uncompromising and on Sunday night House Husbands' star Firass Dirani fell foul of them when he tried to take his informally dressed mate Kristian "Krit" Schmidt into a Logies afterparty.
Dirani did his best to talk security into admitting Schmidt, an MTV VJ, but failed, the pair leaving with Dirani, who was nominated for the Silver Logie for Best Actor, audibly annoyed.
Dirani was told he could stay - but took a walk instead with his mate, reportedly telling observers he was "cooling off". Schmidt later posted: "Caught up with the Lebanese brother (Firass) tonight! Long story short, there was a slight misunderstanding with security but nobody popped off."
2. SARAH STINSON IN her almost two decades in the TV business she has never put a foot wrong and her star has been consistently on the rise. Then this week Channel 7's The Morning Show and The Daily Edition executive producer Sarah Stinson was dealt a shattering blow when she was convicted of high- range drink driving.
On Thursday Stinson fronted Downing Centre Local Court and pleaded guilty after being charged on   April 15 after recording 0.173 blood alcohol reading at an RBT. Stinson, 36, was disqualified for seven months, placed on an 18 month good behaviour bond with mandatory 24 month interlock and fined $1500.
1. MALCOLM KENNARD ONE minute he was Most Outstanding Actor nominee at the Logies, the next Catching Milat star Malcolm Kennard was knocking out a fellow reveller at a Logies afterparty. He wasn't charged.
Kennard was at the Logies as a guest of independent production company Shine, producer of the miniseries for the Seven Network.
He later joined guests as the Nine Network party and took issue with what little known music promoter Bo Phillips was saying or doing and hit him.His management at Marquee yesterday were still making no attempt to explain their client's behaviour, offering only an ambiguous "can't help you with that" response when Confidential checked in.