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From our reporters in Melbourne

Smoothly does it

  • Matt
  • 25 Mar 06, 01:06 AM

Mark Nicholas, the host presenter for Channel 9's Commonwealth Games coverage, may be smoothness personified when on camera. But it transpires that's not always the case in every day life. This morning he was spotted entering the media centre here in Melbourne for the usual security checks sipping on, appropriately enough, a smoothie. Somewhat bizarrely he popped his drink on the conveyor belt to go through the X-ray machine much to the amusement of the assembled security staff.

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