When food writer and human tornado Liv, Celeste Barber, has a major health crisis, she is forced to rethink her ‘live fast die young’ attitude.
After she scores a once-in-a lifetime job that will catapult her into the American mainstream, a series of unfortunate events in Australia sees her banned from re-entering the States unless she fixes her health. Throwing herself body-first into a wellness journey, she tries everything from the benign to the bizarre in an attempt to get well quick, and reclaim her old life.
Cast: Celeste Barber, JJ Fong, Genevieve Mooy, Lachlan Buchanan, Remy Hii, Alexander Hodge, Simone Kessell, Virginie Laverdure, Johnny Carr.
Produced by Fremantle Australia, Celeste Barber and Warren Clarke (The Heights) are Wellmania’s Executive Producers. Bree-Anne Sykes (Here Out West) will serve as Producer. Benjamin Law (The Family Law) and Belinda King (Cleopatra in Space) are co-Executive Producers. Romina Accurso (Class of ‘07) is Script Producer and writer, Rachel Laverty (Home and Away) is Script Editor and writer, and Nick Coyle (Sarah’s Channel) and Amy Stewart (Hardball) will serve as writers. The eight-part series is inspired by the book Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness by author and journalist Brigid Delaney, and co-created with Benjamin Law.
Wellmania – launches 29 March, 2023 on Netflix
Media Release – Netflix
