Hawkins’ contract finished last month and she is rumoured to have taken a pay cut in her apparent $700,000 to $1 million annual salary, in return for assurances a more permanent role would be developed for her.

She hosted the one-off Make Me A Supermodel series and was a reporter on The Great Outdoors, but the long-running travel show was reduced to just a few specials this year and will remain so in 2010.

It is believed Hawkins, who has agreed to the terms of the contract and will formally ink the deal next week, has been promised ideas are being developed to give her the right project to work on.

Her agent Sean Anderson said the network wanted to re-sign her and she wanted to keep the association with the network, and Hawkins is to be staying with Seven and is looking forward to working with them over the next 12 months of the contract.

He explained that all Jennifer needed to do now was to formally sign the contract, but she has been in Melbourne working on a photo shoot for Myer’s 2010 winter catalogue.

It is understood Hawkins received offers of interest from other networks, but opted to stay with Seven, her second principal employer after the retail giant Myer.

Prior to her taking out the title of Miss Universe, Hawkins, 25, was making only $70 a game as a bright and bouncy cheerleader in Newcastle.

In an act of good will, the Seven Network backed down from its position to ban Meldrum from after host Daryl Somers pleaded with Seven chief David Leckie.

Meldrum said that Seven was allowing him to do the Hey Hey shows, and he’s a that it is going to be great fun.

Molly Meldrum first appeared on Countdown in the 70s and moved to Hey Hey it’s Saturday in 1987 which lasted 12 years.

Meldrum said he has been incredibly lucky in life, and hopes it doesn’t out when it comes to football, having just painted his front wall in the colours of his two favourite football teams, St. Kilda and Melbourne Storm both in the finals this year.

Springbett has had big shoes to fill, replacing shock jock Kyle Sandilands after he was sacked after a controversial segment where a 14 year-old girl was hooked up to a lie detector and quizzed about her sex life.

Springbett, however, has received some criticism from some fans saying that he’s not as entertaining as Kyle, but he remains unphased by the claims.

But Springbett said he wasn’t bothered.

Jay Dee Springbett said that he was starting to find his feet and that his job isn’t to be a clown, but rather to unearth new talent.

Betting agencies have already began taking bets on who will be the winner of the reality TV singing competition, with Melbourne born, Stan Walker, the current favourite at $4.75.

He’s followed closely by Scott Newnham, a bricklayer from Melbourne, at $5.00 and Kim Cooper from Queensland at $6.00.

Tim Johnston from Newcastle is the least favourite to win at $31.00

Springbett however said it would be quite a while before a front runner, saying that it was too early to tell.

Australian Idol is doing fair in the ratings, but the Sunday night program managed to pull just 883,000 viewers losing some of the viewers to the final of the Seven Network’s Dancing with the Stars, which scored more than 1.5 million viewers.