Wellmania

The comedian, known for her relatable celebrity spoofs, stars in a new Netflix show about the often dubious lengths people go in the name of wellness.

It was hilarious, but I came off it and the surfboard shot up in the air and came back down and cracked me on my nose. About 3 o’clock in the afternoon, I walked out of the house in fishnets, heels and a trenchcoat. Then I was working on my first TV show, “All Saints,” a medical drama here in Australia I was on for five years. I walked up and I was like, “Hi, I’m about to do something. But I think I was like that even before the surgery. I did the complete opposite. I remember looking at a juice cleanse once and I went, “If we did that as is advised, we could buy a car with the amount of money.” I had a lot of s— in me. I had a colonic years ago, but not for the show. When I order a coffee, [I’ll say] “Can I please have a cappuccino?” They go, “Sure, what milk?” And I go, “Just regular milk.” “We don’t have regular.” So, it’s a thing. “I’m very happy to be caught up in that movement and for people to enjoy my content and have a laugh,” she said. I think I had a green juice a week ago.

From creating the popular series The Family Law based on his memoir to becoming a star of Australian Survivor and working as an acclaimed journalist, his list ...

I think Liv discovers that in a really hard way because stuff that she hasn’t taken care of in her past is catching up to her quickly.” “Often very unsuccessfully,” he admitted. And while you may think it’s a jab at the health industry, Law says it is more about “true wellness” than dieting, crystals and enemas. So why why would I want to be here?'” Has she repaired the fractured kind of relationship she has with her family? Now, the 40-year-old has co-created another TV project, and this time, it’s on one of the biggest streamers in the world.

Celeste Barber and the star-studded cast of Netflix's new series WELLMANIA gathered at Event Cinemas Bondi Junction, Sydney for a special cast and friends ...

Despite being offered a dream job that will take her to America, she is prohibited from re-entering the country due to health concerns. After experiencing a major health crisis, Liv is forced to rethink her previous “live fast die young” attitude. Liv throws herself into a wellness journey, trying everything from the ordinary to the peculiar to regain her health and reclaim her life.

L-R: Genevieve Mooy, Lachlan Buchanan, Alexander Hodge, Celeste Barber, JJ Fong, Remy Hii, Johnny Carr, Virginie Laverdue. Netflix last night held a cast ...

Netflix last night held a cast and friends screening of new Celeste Barber series Wellmania at Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction. Celeste Barber headlined a screening of her new comedy last night at Bondi Junction. In attendance with Barber were Genevieve Mooy, Lachlan Buchanan, Alexander Hodge, JJ Fong, Remy Hii, Johnny Carr, and Virginie Laverdue.

Celeste Barber got a taste of the real deal on Tuesday as she stepped out for a special premiere of her new show Wellmania in Sydney's Bondi Junction.

But Celeste Barber got a taste of the real deal on Tuesday as she stepped out for a special premiere of her new show Wellmania in Sydney's Bondi Junction. 'I had to have a colonic,' she said. 'I have to say you feel like you're walking on clouds, it feels amazing. I got all bruised and everything!' She is pictured with co-star JJ Fong She famously parodies red carpet glamour to her 9.5million Instagram followers.

Meet the Wellmania cast — everything you need to know about the Australian comedy series starring Celeste Barber.

Lucy joined the WhatToWatch.com team in 2021, where she writes series guides for must-watch programmes, reviews and the latest TV news. Her favourite TV programmes include Inside No 9, American Horror Story, Stranger Things and Black Mirror but she is also partial to a quiz show or a bit of Say Yes to the Dress! Liv Healy is the protagonist of Wellmania, who is forced to go on a health kick after she suffers a scare which leaves her unable to fly back to the United States. She also appeared in the soap He has also had appearances in Teen Wolf, NCIS, and Criminal Minds. The official plot for Wellmania is: "When food writer and human tornado Liv has a major health crisis, she is forced to rethink her ‘live fast die young’ attitude.

The Australia comedy is adapted from writer Brigid Delaney's nonfiction book exploring the world of wellness, from colonics and microdosing to green juice and ...

Some of it is absolute crap, some of it isn’t, and it’s different for everyone. But I don’t really want to make that show. Not much because I wasn’t willing to do a lot of that stuff. I’d like to make the money that Goop makes! I wanted to do that as well. How do you sort out the expectations of those who want to see your personality front and centre of a project versus the fact you’re also an actor? And on a TV level where it’s not real. I was close to the project from the beginning, and they built it around me. The books are a jumping off point for us, like a springboard into the world to turn it into a TV show of this character, Liv Healey. I know you’re not allowed to say this, but I feel like they’re my friends. And the US embassy won’t issue her with another until she passes a medical exam – not so easy when her blood pressure is sky high. She flies home to Sydney for her best friend’s birthday but what was meant to be a weekend getaway ends up a much longer sojourn when she loses her green card.

This Netflix series from Instagram star Celeste Barber is absorbing, amusing, no-nonsense TV. It's the perfect way to unwind.

Even if Wellmania doesn’t live up to its own high-concept premise, it is still incredibly watchable – the sort of absorbing, amusing, visually slick TV that is (ironically) perfect to unwind to if you are teetering on the verge of burnout à la our protagonist, yet with enough sour bite to stop it feeling too fluffy. Then there’s the slapstick: we get Liv tying herself in knots at the gym in an image reminiscent of one of Barber’s Insta parodies, and later smearing blood on the walls after a cupping treatment gone wrong (a practice popularised – inevitably – by wellness queen Gwyneth Paltrow). [Messy Millennial Woman](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jun/09/messy-millennial-woman-tv-trope-everything-i-know-about-love-this-way-up) – the self-sabotaging, self-absorbed, thrill-seeking and secretly troubled protagonist of a tranche of recent comedy-dramas, from Fleabag to Feel Good, I Hate Suzie to I May Destroy You. She is refused another on health grounds, and must get those cholesterol and blood-pressure numbers down in order to get back to the US to take up her TV gig. Now, finally, she has a vehicle of her own in Wellmania, a Netflix series that purports to puncture the wellness industry – that slippery modern expectation that women must strive to become weller-than-well via a combination of diet, exercise and other expensive quackery, mainly peddled by photogenic social media stars. It seems like the perfect fit for Barber – or it would be if Wellmania did what it says on the tin.