A KISSING stunt planned for 11/11/11, which is Remembrance Day, has been given the kiss of death. Claire Sinclair, the 2011 Playboy Playmate of the Year, was all puckered up to kiss 11 people in 11 seconds at 11.11am under the Flinders Street Station clocks to promote Playboy condoms but after Eddie Everywhere turned Eddie Outraged over the significance of the day, organisers buckled and will hold it tomorrow. McGuire opined on Triple M's Hot Breakfast program: ''It's not a good idea. It's a shocking idea. It should be put to bed straight away.'' Bed being the key word because Sinclair, a Californian brunette and occasional actor, was meant to multi-skill as a preacher and promote condoms to reduce unwanted pregnancies. But just like men only read Playboy for the articles, her message was bound to be hijacked by her curves. PR man Simon Joseph defended the event, saying there would have been a minute's silence at 11am. ''We apologise if we've offended anyone,'' Joseph said. ''It was meant to be fun.'' Then he added: ''Eddie can be right sometimes.'' Sinclair was crowned in Las Vegas by one man who can top Silvio Berlusconi as Mr Fun and Frisky 2011, and that's bunny lover Hugh Hefner.

Stage is set, so is the table

WHEN it comes to dining locations, there's inside a restaurant, outside a restaurant, at home around the dining table, even on the couch in front of the TV. Opera Australia is holding a high society black-tie ''Dinner on the Stage'' at the Arts Centre's State Theatre on Sunday, with performances by principal artists Taryn Fiebig, Rosario La Spina and Samuel Dundas. The idea is to enable guests to experience the ''heart'' of the opera - the stage - surrounded by sets and props while dining on Tasmanian salmon, roasted Western District lamb rack, and milk chocolate marquise. The host of The Opera Show on ABC Classic FM, Mairi Nicolson will MC the evening, which is a fund-raiser for Opera Australia's Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artists Program. At the opera's Melbourne spring season launch of La traviata on Wednesday night, guests will have to sit in their usual seats in the auditorium.

Condom spruik ... Playboy Playmate Claire Sinclair Credit:Getty

Hair-raising news about Clem

PRAHRAN MP Clem Newton-Brown must be using a different calendar to the rest of us because he has started campaigning for the 2014 election. Billboards have popped up around the electorate and he distributed a newsletter, showcasing a pollie's healthy ego by cramming in as many photos of himself as he can. But in a refreshing change from the smiley shots, the Liberal MP is wearing a wig at Mullets for the Mission, a fund-raiser for the Prahran Mission held in September. I feel compelled to point out two things to Newton-Brown: Ted Baillieu has yet to mark the first anniversary of the election - that's November 27, and, second, the next poll is three years away. Newton-Brown, clasping a flyer for a community forum on November 28, said: ''In a swinging seat like Prahran, you can't just pop your head up at election time.'' Especially with this trend hanging over his mulleted and non-mulleted head: the party that wins the seat wins government. There's a third thing that needs to be pointed out: footy tragic Strauchanie can provide mullet hair-care tips.

Two Carols and one Denis

IT'S not Christmas without hot cross buns in supermarkets and Denis Walter in Carols by Candlelight. The resonant voice of the 3AW host will be heard at not one carols singalong but two. First up is Carols by the Bay on December 3 at Geelong's Eastern Beach Reserve, then on Christmas Eve it's the traditional Myer Music Bowl family night. The blue-rinse brigade will be delighted to know that for Walter's final 3AW broadcast for the year on December 16, he will serenade shoppers at the Queen Victoria Market with tunes from his new CD, Songs from a Southern Land, a compilation of great Aussie songs. Putting groove in his oeuvre, Walter sings Nick Cave'sThe Ship Song.