Margaret Whitlam: A life in pictures
Margaret Whitlam passed away last week aged 92. Here are some pictures from her inspirational life.
Diet and exercise could prevent 25 percent of cancers
About 25 percent of cancers could be prevented by improvements in diet and exercise, a new Australian study has found. Research conducted by the Medical Journal of Australia found that the incidence of cancer in Australia is likely to increase to 170,000 per year by 2025, a rise of nearly 60 percent since 2007. Of […]
Is Bobbi Kristina Brown engaged?
Bobbi Kristina Brown has reportedly taken her controversial relationship with her “adopted brother” to a more serious stage after she stepped out wearing a large diamond engagement ring. But her rep has stepped in saying: “‘Bobbi Kristina is not engaged. She is simply wearing her mother’s ring.” Just weeks after her mother’s death, Bobbi Kristina […]
Brange’s sugar-addicted kids
As they danced wildly through the streets pulling “monster faces”, all eyes were on hyperactive the Jolie-Pitt kids. Superstar mum Angelina Jolie looked harried as she struggled to keep up while carrying two grocery bags weighed down with chocolates, lollies and chips. This noisy New Orleans scene is not unusual according to those close to […]
Bec Hewitt breaks down
Isolated and raising three young children virtually alone while her famous husband tries to resurrect his tennis career, a heartbroken Bec Hewitt is at breaking point. As the always “sunny” Bec watches her invalid, and increasingly depressed, husband limp around their luxury compound in the Bahamas, she is privately seething at his latest betrayal. The […]
Olivia Newton-John: Ian Turpie was my first true love
A broken-hearted Olivia fought back tears at the bedside of Ian Turpie in his final days. It was the swinging 60s and a teenage Olivia Newton-John was just another wannabe singer with stars in her eyes when she met a clean shaven TV host called Ian Turpie. “He was Olivia’s first big love,” remembers a […]
Richard Gere: *Pretty Woman* was rubbish
In an exclusive interview with Woman’s Day, the actor blasts the film that made him a heart-throb. It was the modern-day fairytale that captivated hundreds of millions of film fans the world over. But it seems Pretty Woman holds nothing but regrets for its leading man, Richard Gere. While promoting his new financial thriller Arbitrage […]
The Pippa problem
Kate’s little sister is devastated at being told to butt out of official celebrations during the Queen’s Jubilee year. While Pippa Middleton and her perky rear may have stolen much of the bride’s thunder at last year’s royal wedding, there is no chance she’ll overshadow the Queen during Her Majesty’s upcoming Diamond Jubilee celebrations. That’s […]
Book Review: ‘Blue Nights’ by Joan Didion
Only the great Joan Didion, perhaps, could ask this of us. To return to the well of despair and drink deeply, again, of her pain.
Book Review: ‘Night Circus’ by Erin Morgenstern
A fantastical tale set in the late 1800s about two old magicians engaged in an eternal duel.