Jetting from Toorak to the cliffs of Santorini: The wedding uniting a Melbourne property dynasty and a YouTube giant

In a high-glamour merger of Melbourne society and international celebrity, the stylish daughter of property rich lister Harry Stamoulis has tied the knot with an American YouTube star in the Mediterranean.

Eleni Stamoulis married Grayson Dolan last month at the Canaves Epitome resort in Santorini, with Melbourne couture label J’Aton entrusted to create her timeless bridal gown. Complementing his elegant bride, the groom, with his impressively chiselled cheekbones, also wore white: a classically tailored ivory three-piece suit.

“God knew my heart needed you,” the newlyweds wrote on a social media post noting their wedding date of July 24.

Eleni and Grayson, who found fame with his brother Ethan through comedy videos on their YouTube channel titled The Dolan Twins, were surrounded by hundreds of white roses and hydrangeas as they exchanged vows overlooking the Aegean Sea from the five-star resort’s sunset terrace.

Ethan, whose wife Kristina Alice also hails from Australia, was Grayson’s best man while Anthea Andrianakos was Eleni’s matron of honour.

With 6.5 million followers on Dolan’s personal Instagram and 9.52 million subscribers on the YouTube account he shares with brother, it is something of an understatement to say the wedding has been noticed by Gen Z.

Back to Eleni, who hails from a Melbourne family of considerable significance that has long been synonymous with property and values their privacy.

Her father, Harry, is the son of the late Spiros Stamoulis, who made his fortune from his Gold Medal soft drink brand. He heads up the Stamoulis Property Group and owns one of Melbourne’s genuine trophy homes on prestigious St Georges Road in Toorak. The property tycoon is also chairman of The Hellenic Museum in Melbourne, which was founded by Spiros in 2007.

Despite Grayson’s enormous online fan base, he and Eleni have managed to keep their relationship relatively private, sharing little online beyond their engagement in Athens and now their European summer nuptials.

The CBA boss, the TV anchor – and the Spotify playlist

Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn and News24 anchor Laura Jayes have done a pretty good job of keeping their personal relationship private. But you can always count on a trail of digital breadcrumbs.

It looks like the pair had a shared playlist on Spotify in April this year, which we’ve seen a screenshot of but has since gone dark. The workout playlist was created by Jayes and followed by an account which appears to belong to Comyn, according to a CBD spy.

The playlist, titled “Gym – Matt re-education”, included oskar med k’s Knock Me Off My Feet and Naarly, Sickluv, and Thabza De Soul’s What I Need. We can almost picture Comyn locked in, the sounds of unobtrusive house music flowing through the weight room.

A Commonwealth Bank spokesman declined to comment. News Corp Australia, which owns News24, didn’t get back to us.

The pair emerged as the nation’s newest power couple (or power friends) after The Australian Financial Review reported last week that they’d been seen together around Bondi in Sydney and even gone on holiday together. That came a day after CBD revealed Comyn had been separated from his wife for “some time”.

Angus Taylor hits the road and loses “bark”

Federal Opposition Leader Angus Taylor made an inauspicious start to the annual Pollie Pedal, to raise funds for the veterans’ charity Wandering Warriors, by falling off his bike.

When he hit the road in Toowoomba for the 101km day one leg of the charity ride on Saturday, he almost certainly did not intend to hit the road literally – but the Lycra-clad Liberal did just that.

In his own words, Taylor “lost some bark on my hip and my elbow, but I got back up and kept riding.”

It was Taylor’s pedalling companion, Tony Abbott – the Liberal Party president – who first piped up on social media about the opposition leader hitting the ground, philosophising that Taylor’s acceptance that “he did fall off the bike” but got back on showed he had the leadership traits required to be PM.

Mind you, he also noted, “some people were more concerned about the bike than about the leader.”

What’s that saying about `with friends like these’?

“He didn’t pretend he hadn’t fallen off the bike, he accepted that he did fall off the bike, but he got straight back on it,” Abbott said in a video.

“That’s what you want in a potential prime minister, someone who just gets on with things and that’s Angus.“

The two ‘mamils’ were back at it on Sunday, day two of the eight-day ride, trying not to lose any more “bark.”

Hunt’s commentary box cameo

The crowd at the match-up between the Kiewa-Sandy Creek Hawks and the Yackandandah Kangaroos at Tallangatta on Saturday could have been forgiven for wondering if they had stepped back in time as Rex Hunt and his trademark “Rex-isms” boomed out of the commentary box.

The one-time king of the footy callers made a very rare appearance behind the microphone in country Victoria, providing special comments for 2AY at the “MCG of the Bush” in the northern Victorian township.

Hunt, 77, brought his well-known theatrics, random asides and hyperbole to the call of the match with the Hawks pummelling the Roos by 51 points.

CBD was curious to know how this surprise calling cameo by the long-retired bearded burbler came about, and it turns out the connection was a funeral business.

The invitation was extended by Gus MacLeod, resident footy caller on radio station 2AY, whose father is James MacLeod, managing director of Tobin Brothers Funerals. James MacLeod and Hunt go back many years, with “The Tobins”, as Hunt used to call them, being long associated with 3AW during his calling heyday. As for future appearances, we are assured it was a much-appreciated cameo, not a comeback.