Being Lara Bingle

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Being Lara Bingle
Genre Reality television
Created by Lara Bingle
Written byClaire Haywood
Directed byBen Thompson
Presented byJack Torracka
StarringLara Bingle
Joshua Bingle
Hermione Underwood
Sharon Bingle
Opening theme"Bop Girl" by Pat Wilson
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes10
Production
Executive producerJohn McAvoy
ProducerClaire Haywood
Camera setupCraig Donaldson
Wayne Vinten
Original release
Network Network Ten
Release12 June (2012-06-12) 
7 August 2012 (2012-08-07)

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]

Contents

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

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 dateViewersNightly
rank
Weekly
rank
112 June 2012925,000 [5] 13 [5] 41
219 June 2012786,000 [6] 1444 [7]
326 June 2012684,000 [8] 17
43 July 2012728,000 [9] 13 [10]
510 July 2012650,000 [11] 16
617 July 2012713,000 [12] 11
724 July 2012768,000 [13] [14]
931,000 [n 1] [15]
9
831 July 2012463,000 [n 2] 20 [16]
97 August 2012
107 August 2012387,000 [17]
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.

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