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Roxy Jacenko’s breast cancer surgery planned for this week

The PR maven will have part of a lump removed in her left breast following her shock cancer diagnosis earlier this year.
Roxy Jacenko diagnosed with breast cancer

Roxy Jacenko has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

The Sydney publicist will undergo surgery this week to have a portion of the cancerous lump removed from her left breas.

The Daily Telegraph reports that her “partial removal” surgery was originally set to go ahead last month, but was delayed for further testing.

“[The cancer] is larger than first suspected, so more testing is required,” the mum-of-two bravely told the publication at the time of the diagnosis.

The Sweaty Betty founder revealed her cancer diagnosis in July, just three weeks after her husband Oliver Curtis was sentenced to a year in jail, for conspiring to commit insider trading in 2007 and 2008.

This week, he celebrated his first birthday behind bars.

To mark the somewhat tainted occasion, the 36-year-old shared a video of her two little ones wishing their daddy well.

“Unlikely you will get this but you might hear about it,” she captioned beside the video, which you can see for yourself in the player below.

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Over the weekend the blonde beauty, who is now the sole carer for the couple’s two children Pixie, four, and Hunter, two, was spotted at Sydney’s iconic Taronga Zoo, accompanied by Nine Network’s 60 Minutes camera crew.

The upcoming episode is expected to focus on the young family’s tough start to 2016, giving viewers a rare, candid look into the couple’s seemingly glamourous life.

And while it’s no doubt been a rocky few months, the brave businesswoman is getting through the storm with the help of her mother, who battled her own breast cancer a decade ago.

“Having my mum by my side who has suffered breast cancer and a mastectomy and come through fighting fit also makes things easier,” she admitted to The Daily Mail.

“Fear isn’t an option, I have my Pixie and Hunter to look after so a clear mind and a proper plan of attack to get over this is the only thing that I think about.”

This article was originally published on Woman’s Day.

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Sharon Stone’s sizzling bikini pic at 58

She looks incredible!

Sharon Stone has showed off her incredible body in a new bikini snap.

The 58-year-old actress posted a stunning photo of herself in the pool of her LA mansion, wearing a white and black bikini.

The Basic Instinct star captioned the photo: “It’s so hot today! #summer16 #staycool”

Speaking with Luxury London recently, the mum-of-three spoke of how comfortable she is in her own skin.

She said: “I like myself and my body. Being nude to me means having fun — fun with myself and my looks.”

“Only women who feel good about themselves and have self-confidence can also be sexy.

“Sexiness comes from deep inside. It’s the feeling of being present, having fun and liking yourself enough.”

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JonBenet Ramsey’s brother set to break his silence over his sister’s murder

The older brother of the slain beauty queen is set to give his first ever interview.

The older brother of the slain beauty queen is set to give his first ever interview.

It’s one of the most notorious murder mysteries of the Nineties after six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in a bloody pool in the basement of her Colorado home on Boxing Day, 1996.

And now, almost 20 years after JonBenet’s untimely passing, her 29-year-old brother Burke Ramsey is breaking his silence.

Burke has never publicly addressed the tragic event – until now.

His three-part interview with Dr Phil promises to “reveal what he knows about his sister’s mysterious murder” and reflect upon the deep impact it’s had on him and his family.

The beautiful blonde beauty queen was discovered by her father John, beaten and strangled with a cord around her neck. It was later confirmed that she was sexually assaulted.

In a terrible turn of events, the focus soon shifted to JonBenet’s parents Patsy and John.

While there was never enough evidence to charge them, that didn’t stop the tide of public opinion turning against them. Reports also alleged Burke murdered his sister.

Patsy and John were finally cleared of any involvement from her death in 2008.

Watch John talk about trying to protect his son in the aftermath of JonBenét’s death in the player below. Post continues after the video…

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Last year, John admitted in an interview with Barbara Walters that he desperately tried to shield Burke from the salacious reports which linked him to his little sister’s murder.

“We tried to shield him from that. Friends would ask us, ‘what can we do to help.’ We’d say, next time you go in the supermarket, call the manger over when you see our child on the front cover and ask him to remove it. A lot of them did that,” John explained.

In April, a report from In Touch claimed JonBenet was killed by the hands of 26-year-old Michael Helgoth, whose family ran a junkyard near JonBenet’s hometown in Boulder, Colorado.

Burke and John share a hug at Patsy’s funeral in 2006. Patsy was buried next to JonBenet.

While this would be a huge breakthrough for the Ramseys, Michael Helgoth took his own life in 1997.

The Ramsey family were dealt another devastating blow when Patsy passed away from ovarian cancer in 2006, just two years before authorities officially exonerated her from the murder of her daughter.

Burke’s tell all is set to air from Monday, September 12.

Story via Woman’s Day.

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Channing Tatum set to dazzle the world as a merman in Splash remake

Disney just loves creating happy endings… and Channing Tatum plans to jump tail first, right into their next project.
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The studio is rebooting Splash and it’s with a marvellous twist… They’re gender swapping the roles!

1984 cult classic originally starred Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah, catapulting them both into international stardom.

Remind yourself of the magic and check out the original trailer… Post continues after!

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Magic Mike himself will be stepping in Daryl’s beloved role of Madison the mermaid (or is it merman now!?)

Joining him will be Hollywood’s rising comedienne Jillian Bell, with the 32-year-old portraying Tom’s iconic role of Allen. According to Deadline, the whole concept was her idea!

While some fans haven’t been completely on board with gender-reversed reboots (ahem, look how well it worked in Ghostbusters), Twitter has spoken… And everyone is raising their tails for Channing the merman.

Jillian with Channing’s wife Jenna.

The duo have become fast friends and have even performed a rap battle together! Watch it below…

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“Things to make your Monday more OK: Channing Tatum is playing a mermaid That’s all you need,” on user tweeted.

Channing, 36, is no stranger to remakes, bedazzling us with his re-imagining of TV’s 21 Jump Street. The former stripper transformed the show into two hit flicks, which coincidentally is where he met Jillian.

Daryl, now 55, and Tom, now 60, starred in the fantasy over 20 years ago.

Late last year, Tom recalled the nerve-wracking audition during a chat with BuzzFeed.

“We had a read-through of it and I was very nervous. I was trying to score with all my lines and trying to get a big reaction or a laugh because that’s all I had done on TV is sell a script on Mondays and shoot it on Thursdays.”

“And afterward, Ron took me to the side and he said, ‘I know what you’re doing. You’re trying to get laughs, but your job is not to get laughs. Your job is to love that girl.’”

If making the girl fall for you is the task at hand, Channing is your man! Watch his tap his heart out in the player below! Post continues…*

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Splash is a modern take on Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale The Little Mermaid, in which a young man falls in love with a mermaid who has temporarily lost her fish tail to walk on dry land.

No doubt the magic will be recreated, thanks to classic’s original director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer both reportedly on-board for the remake.

Channing, who recently player a sailor in Hail, Caesar!, will have one fan in three-year-old daughter Everly.

Everly surely has given her dad the seal of approval!

We think Channing can get some mermaid tips from another ridiculously good looking person, Derek Zoolander.

Plus Channing already knows how to roll… surely that is an advantage when under the water?

No word on when the film will splash onto the big screen.

But if Magic Mike taught us anything, we know Channing can shake his tail feather… And now he’s gonna splash it.

We’re loving how much women are smashing Hollywood’s glass ceiling! Check out Melissa McCarthy slay it at her Ghostbuster’s reboot premiere in the gallery below!

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Melbourne Zoo’s baby elephant Willow has died

An Asian elephant born at Melbourne zoo has died after a rare condition made it difficult for her to stand.

An Asian elephant born at Melbourne zoo has died on Monday night after a rare condition made it difficult for her to stand.

Since her birth on June 15, six-week-old has Willow suffered from a condition called condition called Congenital Carpal Flexure, meaning her feet curled backwards and she was unable to get up to feed from her mum , Num-Oi.

The calf reportedly died in the Elephant Barn enclosure.

“Extremely sad news this morning,” the Zoo’s statement read on Tuesday morning. “We have lost Willow.”

“The team did absolutely everything possible to pull her through, and everyone here is feeling the loss hugely,” spokeswoman Judith Henke said.

Many animal lovers have reached out on Twitter to pass on their condolences.

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PHOTO NOTE: The elephant pictured is baby Asian elephant Mali, who also lives at Melbourne Zoo – the zoo has not released pictures of Willow.

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Heartbreaking tale of Bangladesh’s ‘Benjamin Button’ toddler

The four-year-old boy has a rare medical condition that makes him look like an elderly man.
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Bayezid Hossain does not look like other children his age. With hollowed eyes, sagging skin and deep frown lines, the four-year-old resembles a senior citizen rather than a young child.

Heartbreakingly, this is a condition he was born with called progeria. It ages the body at eight times the normal rate.

Most children with the ‘Benjamin Button’ disease die before the age of 13 from a stroke or heart attack. For Bayezid’s young parents this is a frightening reality.

The child’s family are too poor to be able to afford specialised care outside of their home in rural Bangladesh. Instead they must watch their cheeky and playful son try to live in a body that doesn’t mesh with his youthful personality.

Bayezid’s mother, 18, has expressed her anguish at watching her child suffer, but not being able to take away his pain.

“I was terrified to see him when he was born,” Tripti said. “He was just flesh and bones. He looked like an alien and it was heartbreaking for me.”

“Doctors had no idea what to do, they said they had never seen such a baby. They warned us that there was nothing they could do,” she told The Daily Mail.

The condition Bayezid suffers from inspired the film, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’. In it Brad Pitt’s character is born an elderly man and ages backwards as time goes on.

You can watch Bayezid and his family’s story above.

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Amy Winehouse foundation sets up a women-only rehab

Just after the fifth anniversary of Amy Winehouse's death a women-only rehab facility will be opening in east London.

This year marked the fifth anniversary of the death of Amy Winehouse. She died aged 27 on July 23 2011 at her home in Camden of alcohol poisoning.

Undoubtedly on of the most gifted British vocalists in history, her story was one of incredible success on a global stage. She picked up accolades and awards wherever she went. However, it was also one of tragedy. Throughout her young adult life Winehouse struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, all magnified by the paparazzi’s lens as she attempted to live her life in the public eye.

Following her premature death, the Amy Winehouse Foundation was set up. They work to ‘prevent the effects of drug and alcohol misuse on young people’, offering support to those who need it.

Perhaps it’s fitting that just after the fifth anniversary of Amy’s death the Amy Winehouse Foundation has announced that they are partnering with Centra Care and Support to open a safe space for women recovering from drug and alcohol addiction.

Amy Winehouse playing the Brit awards with Mark Ronson in 2008.

Based in East London, the recovery house will be known as ‘Amy’s Place’. There are 12 self-contained apartments, housing as many as 16 women at a time. Its aim will be to help recovering female addicts as they get ready to return to society.

Speaking to The Guardian, Dominic Ruffy, the Amy Winehouse Foundation’s special project manager, explained that the decision to open Amy’s place came from a frustration at the lack of women-specific addiction treatment services and facilities.

‘There are about six women-only rehabs, and beyond that, there’s an even greater paucity of women-specific recovery housing beds,’ he told The Guardian. ‘There is only one other women-only recovery house in London and it’s only a four-bed with a six-month waiting list.’

Residents of Amy’s Place will take part in a three-month programme. Ruffy pointed out that such a women-only facility is particularly important because female addicts are proven to be far more susceptible to relapse without support and, often, need safe spaces to stay away from ex-partners and address any issues of co-dependency they may have in order to recover.

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Blue Ivy is the cutest lifeguard as she helps grandma Tina Knowles jump off a yacht

Beyonce and Jay Z’s sweet daughter really wants to make sure you know how to swim!
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Beyonce’s mini-me is already a fashion icon and part-time fairy princess, but now we can add lifeguard to the extensive list of Blue Ivy’s talents!

While on a family break to Monaco in between her mama’s sold out Formation world tour, the four-year-old showed her sweet concern for her grandma Tina’s safety as she prepared to jump off the top of a three-story yacht.

With the help of her granddaughter, Tina Knowles was able to make her leap of faith!

In a series of endearing clips shared by Tina herself, Beyonce’s mother first explains that she wishes to take a “leap of faith” to signify that the “world in 2017 is going to be a better, safer place.”

As the 62-year-old measures up the distance between herself and the inviting waters below, Blue can be heard asking, “Do you really know how to swim?”

The family is taking some well-deserved time off after a busy year on tour.

Tina and the family all share a laugh before the brave grandma responds, “Don’t scare me, Blue,” and promptly leaps off of the million dollar yacht into the bay.

And it turns out that Blue’s concern only acted as motivation for the businesswoman!

After her trial jump, she was finally ready to tackle the leap of faith from the very top of the yacht – a feat that had her granddaughter squealing with joy when she made her big splash!

And the couple, who have been the topic of cheating rumours since the release of Bey’s album Lemondade, look more loved up than ever.

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JonBenét Ramsey’s brother set to break his silence

The older brother of the slain beauty queen is set to give his first ever interview.
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It’s one of the most notorious murder mysteries of the Nineties after six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in a bloody pool in the basement of her Colorado home on Boxing Day, 1996.

And now, almost 20 years after JonBenet’s untimely passing, her 29-year-old brother Burke Ramsey is breaking his silence.

Burke has never publicly addressed the tragic event – until now.

His three-part interview with Dr. Phil promises to “reveal what he knows about his sister’s mysterious murder” and reflect upon the deep impact it’s had on him and his family.

The beautiful blonde beauty queen was discovered by her father John, beaten and strangled with a cord around her neck. It was later confirmed that she was sexually assaulted.

The three-part interview will air at the start of September.

In a terrible turn of events, the focus soon shifted to JonBenet’s parents Patsy and John.

While there was never enough evidence to charge them, that didn’t stop the tide of public opinion turning against them. Reports also alleged Burke murdered his sister.

Patsy and John were finally cleared of any involvement from her death in 2008.

Watch John talk about trying to protect his son in the aftermath of JonBenét’s death in the player below. Post continues after the video…

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Last year, John admitted in an interview with Barbara Walters that he desperately tried to shield Burke from the salacious reports which linked him to his little sister’s murder.

“We tried to shield him from that. Friends would ask us, ‘what can we do to help.’ We’d say, next time you go in the supermarket, call the manger over when you see our child on the front cover and ask him to remove it. A lot of them did that,” John explained.

In April, a report from In Touch claimed JonBenet was killed by the hands of 26-year-old Michael Helgoth, whose family ran a junkyard near JonBenet’s hometown in Boulder, Colorado.

Burke and John share a hug at Patsy’s funeral in 2006. Patsy was buried next to JonBenet.

JonBenet would have celebrated her 26th birthday this month.

While this would be a huge breakthrough for the Ramseys, Michael Helgoth took his own life in 1997.

The Ramsey family were dealt another devastating blow when Patsy passed away from ovarian cancer in 2006, just two years before authorities officially exonerated her from the murder of her daughter.

Burke’s tell all is set to air from Monday, September 12.

John and Patsy were finally cleared of any involvement from their daughter’s death in 2008.

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Funniest notes from parents to their kids

These parents hold all the power!

You can tell these parents were a little apprehensive about leaving their children alone – but they’ve handled it hilariously well by writing funny notes.

Click through to see the best ones!

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