{"id":409980,"date":"2026-01-13T11:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409980\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:15:07","slug":"meet-the-contestants-of-australian-idol-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409980\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the contestants of Australian Idol 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDigital Editor &#8211; The Australian Women&#8217;s Weekly<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensweekly.com.au\/author\/orlaith-costello\/\" class=\"c-block-author__name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOrlaith Costello\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tDigital Editor &#8211; The Australian Women&#8217;s Weekly\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-block-author__bio\">Orlaith Costello is the Digital Editor (Lifestyle) for The Australian Women&#8217;s Weekly, covering all things lifestyle from celebrity profiles, to news, lifestyle, travel, food and everything in between. Orlaith (pronounced Or-lah) graduated from The National University of Ireland, Galway (majoring in Creative Writing) and has been working in Australian digital media spaces since 2016 for Concrete Playground, The Plus Ones, WithWine.com, Cellarmasters, Smarthouse and ChannelNews. When she&#8217;s not moving around commas and dashes for The Weekly, you will find her flexing her green thumb with her ever-growing plant collection, sipping on whisk(e)y, and planning her next road trip or camping adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Digital Editor &#8211; The Australian Women&#8217;s Weekly Orlaith Costello Digital Editor &#8211; The Australian Women&#8217;s Weekly Orlaith Costello&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,112922,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-409980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australian-idol","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}