Being Lara Bingle

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]

Being Lara Bingle
Genre	Reality television
Created by	Lara Bingle
Written by	Claire Haywood
Directed by	Ben Thompson
Presented by	Jack Torracka
Starring	Lara Bingle Joshua Bingle Hermione Underwood Sharon Bingle
Opening theme	"Bop Girl" by Pat Wilson
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Executive producer	John McAvoy
Producer	Claire Haywood
Camera setup	Craig Donaldson Wayne Vinten
Original release
Network	Network Ten
Release	12 June (2012-06-12) – 7 August 2012 (2012-08-07)

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

• Lara Bingle Worthington – Model and TV personality
• Hermione Underwood – Lara's former manager and best friend
• Josh Bingle – Lara's brother
• Sharon Bingle – Lara's mother

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 date	Viewers	Nightly rank	Weekly rank
1	12 June 2012	925,000[5]	13[5]	41
2	19 June 2012	786,000[6]	14	44[7]
3	26 June 2012	684,000[8]	17	—
4	3 July 2012	728,000[9]	13[10]	—
5	10 July 2012	650,000[11]	16	—
6	17 July 2012	713,000[12]	11	—
7	24 July 2012	768,000[13][14] 931,000[n 1][15]	9	—
8	31 July 2012	463,000[n 2]	20[16]	—
9	7 August 2012	—	—	—
10	7 August 2012	387,000[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.

See also

• WAG Nation
• The Stafford Brothers