Mila Kunis may be married to hubby Ashton Kutcher now, but she’s revealed why she never married her former boyfriend of nearly ten years, actor Macaulay Culkin.
Speaking on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show this week, Mila discussed her relationship with the child star who she started dating when she was 18, and talked about how she was never interested in the idea of marriage.
“He was huge…you couldn’t walk down the street with him,” she said, remembering how fans would react with ‘abnormal’ screams to him [Macaulay.]
Mila was always open about her lack of interest in getting married.
“Not to say that I don’t believe in it, but it’s just not something that’s important to me,” she told Blackbook in a 2009 interview.
Howard Stern questioned her about it, and asked whether it could have been because she wasn’t actually in love.
“Who knows, I honestly just don’t know,” she explained. “Since I was 16, I told my dad ‘Just so you know, I don’t believe in marriage.’ I literally was like, ‘[Marriage] is not for me!’”
But Mila eventually did tie the knot, with her That 70’s Show co-star Ashton Kutcher in 2015.
There’s been so many stars linked to the upcoming Bond film and now our very own Chris Hemsworth has been named as a potential candidate.
Addressing the speculation in the August issue of Foxtel magazine, Chris said he’d gladly accept the role.
“I don’t know many who wouldn’t jump at that,” the father-of-three told the publication.
“Would it be scary and daunting [to play Bond]? Of course. But what isn’t?”
Meanwhile Idris Elba, another hot contender to take on the role, officially shut down claims he’ll be playing Bond.
“I mean, look, I’ve said it a million of times: It’s a great character and it’s an honour to be asked, but it is just a rumour,” he told E! News this week.
If Chris does indeed end up playing Bond, he’ll be the second Aussie to tackle the hearty role following in the footsteps of George Lazenby, who played James Bond in the 1969 film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
Daniel Craig resigend from the role last year after admitting he was “over it”
In a telling new interview, the platinum pop icon has revealed that she was originally in the running to play Angelina Jolie’s part of Jane Smith in the Hollywood blockbuster, Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Speaking on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show on Wednesday, the 46-year-old confessed, “I feel like I almost got it. I went to a bunch [of auditions].”
Adding, “[It was] very competitive and I wanted to do it, but I wanted to do music more.”
The former No Doubt band member split from her husband of 13 years last year.
The Sweet Escape singer previously discussed her missed opportunity in a 2008 interview with Vogue magazine.
“It was between me and Angelina Jolie, and I’m like, ‘Oh, great. I got a shot here,'” she recalled.
“The whole acting thing really feels like something I could do. Whenever I’ve done it, whenever I had moments where it works, it’s just like performing. You hit a moment. And that’s what movies are: a series of moments.”
But alas, it wasn’t meant to be. As fans will know, the mother-of-two ultimately lost out to Angelina Jolie – as did actresses Nicole Kidman and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
We can’t help but wonder what would have been if Angelina wasn’t the one to land the role.
The 2005 film tells the story of a seemingly normal married couple, who have in fact been hired as assassins to take each other out.
Other than earning more than $630 million at the box office, the film famously brought Angelina together with her co-star, Brad Pitt, who later divorced his then-wife Jennifer Aniston.
Speaking to Vogue of the moment they realised they were more than co-stars, the mother-of-six said, “I think we were the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t.”
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“Because of the film, we ended up being brought together to do all these crazy things, and I think we found this strange friendship and partnership that kind of just suddenly happened.”
But the couple didn’t act upon their feelings straight away. “It took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realise that it might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe.”
“And both knowing that the reality of that was a big thing, something that was going to take a lot of serious consideration.”
A mum-of-three from Port Adelaide, SA, is accused of defrauding her friends and family out of $325K by faking ovarian cancer.
Kelly Smith, 38, is alleged to have used her son’s illness plus her own to con people into handing over money.
An anonymous family friend told 7News: “They gave thinking that they could change the outcome for that family and it wasn’t true.
“People have taken from their super, people have withdrawn from their home loans.
“I think when it’s someone close to you and you think they’re going to go through something so tragic, you do everything you can to make sure that doesn’t happen to them.”
The family friend added: “It just hurts everyone and there’s too many people that have given and been hurt by this and trusted her.”
Ms Smith was supposed to front court yesterday but didn’t show up.
Her next court appearance will be in September and if she doesn’t attend, an arrest warrant will be issued.
A 27-year-old Gold Coast father was holding his six-month-old baby boy, Izack, on Tuesday afternoon when a gas barbeque exploded in their faces, throwing them over a metre away.
The blast was triggered when Elliot Slessor accidentally ignited gas that was trapped in one of the smoker’s compartments.
The father and son jumped straight in the pool to calm the burning, with burns to their arms and faces.
They were taken to Gold Coast University Hospital and were discharged yesterday.
Elliot described the horrific ordeal to Gold Coast Bulletin: “Izack was scratched up, with burnt fingers and just screaming an absolutely horrifying scream,” he said.
“I don’t want to go through that ever again.”
Elliot suffered burns to his arm
The smoker barbeque
Elliot was preparing the barbeque to begin cooking dinner when the flame kept going out because of the wind.
He switched the gas off and pressed the ignite button without realising the top compartment was full of gas.
“The fire was off but I pushed the button and it’s just blown back at us,” he recalled.
He and his son were thrown backwards, nearly hitting a wall at the back of the house.
Neighbours called for help and Elliot and Izack stayed in the pool until medics came.
Luckily, the two received non-life threatening injuries.
The little tot suffered burns to his finger and right hand, plus cuts to his face from the fall, and his father’s left arm was burned.
We’ve all heard of William Tyrrell. Every news story that features the missing three year old garners hundreds of comments expressing the same sentiment: bring him home.
But William is only one of a staggering 70,000 people that have gone missing in Australia in the last two years. That equates to 100 people a day, or one person every fifteen minutes. Many of their faces flash across our social media feeds; but only the big cases make the news.
Many of these stories have happy endings; the missing person returns, or they are found safe and sound. But in too many cases they just disappear, leaving a huge gaping hole in the lives of their loved ones.
Amelia Kaiser, 22, says that she has been living in a state of grief, anguish and confusion since her mother, 43-year-old Lorrin Whitehead (formally Lorrin Kaiser) went missing in February, 2013.
“I never thought this could happen to me and my family,” Amelia says.
“We were a normal family- full of love, laughter, mischief and also some hard times. But we always pulled through together with a smile.”
Lorrin was captured on CCTV leaving a supermarket in her hometown Bannockhurn, Victoria, and has not been seen again since.
This CCTV footage is the last time Lorrin was seen.
Coping with the disappearance of her mother has left Kaiser in a constant state of anxiety. “I speculate continuously. If I just make the right call to the right person, I’ll solve this mystery. If I look in the right place, I’ll find her.
“My entire family has been overwhelmed in grief and sadness- we live day to day; One foot in front of the other. We celebrate the little milestones we reach but at each of these celebrations a piece of our heart is missing,” Kaiser explains.
In situations like these, there are often more questions than there are answers. In fact, Kaiser says that she is haunted by questions: “Where did she go? Was she given a ride somewhere? Was she a victim of foul play? Is she in a hospital unable to say where she belongs? Does she feel abandoned, frightened, lonely?”
Dr Sarah Wayland, grief researcher with University of New England has been working with the families of missing people for the last 12 years. She says that the experience of loss when someone is missing is referred to as an ambiguous or unresolved grief.
“Like any aspects of loss there can be a variety of response. Frustration at law enforcement, bewilderment that the person cannot be found, uncertainty as to whether they should keep hoping, a veritable rollercoaster ride of hopefulness and hopelessness,” Dr Wayland explains.
Dr Wayland notes that hope becomes a constant part of life for the families of missing people. “For some it’s the impetus to get up each morning and wonder if today is the day their child/partner is coming home. For others hope can be a double-edged sword – it can signify pain, unrequited yearning and a sense of their hopes being dashed over and over again,” she says.
Often when missing persons cases are in the news, or even depicted in books and movies, the focus is on the resolution – the solving of the mystery. But as Dr Wayland notes, there is often a long period in which loved ones have to wait for news. “We need to support people as they wait,” she says.
Dr Wayland believes that as a community we need to think more about how we can best support those left behind.
“Patience and understanding is what families need – not platitudes or pseudo detective tips, the holding on to hope can be painful. We need to honour that,” she says.
Loren O’Keeffe, 31, is the founder of the Missing Persons Advocacy Network (MPAN). She is painfully aware what it’s like for families when a loved one goes missing. Her brother, Daniel O’Keeffe vanished from his parents Geelong home in 2011 following a period of depression and anxiety.
“There was no need to panic initially; Dan was a very capable 24-year-old man. But when he didn’t turn up to teach his Brazilian Jiu-jitsu class that evening we knew there was something wrong – he would never let his students down,” recalls O’Keeffe.
After reporting Dan as a missing person, O’Keeffe remembers feeling helpless and frustrated. “I asked the police, ‘what can I do?’ and they couldn’t really tell me,” she says.
Daniel O’Keeffe
Loren and her parents decided to take action and started a Facebook page. “It was unprecedented. Four and a half years ago Facebook pages weren’t for missing people, they were for actors and athletes and public figures. Even the idea of ‘liking’ a page for a missing person was very confronting,” O’Keeffe explains.
O’Keeffe believes that Dan’s persona as a “guy next door” shone through and the public became very engaged with the campaign to bring him home. “It spread like wildfire, we had celebrities re-tweeting the poster on twitter, and we had thousands of people following the page. Social media has been instrumental to our campaign,” she says.
The families of other missing people began to contact O’Keeffe and ask for advice and the seeds of an idea were planted. O’Keeffe thought that families of missing people would feel more empowered if they were able to take action. So with the help of a corporate grant, she started the MPAN website and compiled a comprehensive guide of what to do when a loved one goes missing.
“The missing persons guide is a step by step guide of what to do. It’s really easy to use; there are checklists, templates for posters and media releases all the things you need to access in a short amount of time.
“We also give families support, media opportunities and help with the logistics of travel,” she says.
For O’Keeffe the bottom line is that MPAN gives the families of missing people hope. “Not knowing what has happened to your loved one and imagining all of the endless possibilities is torturous,” she says.
O’Keeffe passionately believes that missing people are a community issue and wants to educate the public on the important role that they play.
“We live in a day and age where citizens are empowered to help this kind of cause. You can click a button and share a post – and that might lead to a piece of information that will give peace to the family in question,” she says.
“Printing a poster or sharing a post might not bring the person back – but it is giving their family hope,” explains O’Keeffe. “And hope is invaluable, it’s the only thing that we have.”
The British royals are the height of blue-blooded aristocracy but in a literal sense, how do they really measure up?
It’s hard to get a gage for how lofty Prince Harry really is or how tall the Duchess of Cambridge would be without her trusty LK Bennett pumps so we’ve done some digging and think we’ve got their true height sussed out.
The British royals are the height of blue-blooded aristocracy but in a literal sense, how do they really measure up?
Prince William – 1.91m
Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, née Kate Middleton – 1.75m
The very public divorce between Johnny Depp and his wife of 15-months, Amber Heard, has taken another dramatic turn.
According to E! News, the actor is refusing to give up financial information among other records to his estranged wife.
Documentation obtained by the US publication reveals Johnny’s response to Amber’s demand for monetary records, in which he requests a confidentiality agreement to keep all further information out of the public eye.
The blonde beauty has reportedly failed to sign such agreement.
“Johnny is merely trying to protect the documents and information Amber seeks from unwarranted disclosure to the media and other individuals not involved.”
“Johnny does not dispute that Amber is entitled to the majority of the information sought in her discovery requests and subpoenas. He willing to produce the documents necessary for Amber’s evaluation,” the documentation reads.
“He has asked, however, that a confidentiality agreement be executed prior to the production of documents in order to protect the parties’ privacy.”
“This case has been extraordinarily public since its inception. There have been daily articles in the domestic and foreign press about this proceeding and the parties’ lives.”
“Every detail of this action has been chronicled by the media and it has become one of the most heavily publicized celebrity divorces in recent memory.”
The couple were married just over a year.
The petition goes on to reveal that not one, but two confidentiality agreements have been produced, “yet Amber has inexplicably refused to sign any agreement to maintain confidentiality in this action.”
The telling papers also suggest that the 30-year-old and her team leaked information to gossip site TMZ, which in turn “violated provisions.”
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The couple, who met in 2011 on the set of The Rum Diary, were married just 15 months before announcing their split in May earlier this year.
The actress cited verbal and physical assault as the catalyst for the demise of their whirlwind romance – a claim which friends of the star have denied.
Amber has been granted a temporary restraining order from her former beau as the ongoing, bitter legal battle continues.
Amber was pictured leaving court with a bruise to her right cheek on May 27.
If you’re a woman concerned about breast cancer, you may be wondering if there are steps you can take toward breast cancer prevention.
In Australia about 1 in 8 women have a lifetime risk of developing breast cancer and while you can’t change some risk factors—genetics and aging, for example— there are things women can do that might reduce their risk and help increase the odds that if cancer does occur, it will be found at an early, and at more treatable stage.
Here are five ways to help protect your breast health.
It is difficult to identify why some women get breast cancer and others don’t. Australian women have a 1 in 8 lifetime risk of developing breast cancer and the risk of developing the disease increases with age but there are some things you could try to limit risk.
Be “breast aware”: Touch your breasts and look for changes and see a doctor if you notice something that concerns you. Being aware of the look and feel of your breasts is an important part of being able to spot any changes that occur. Get acquainted with what your breasts look like and how they feel at different times of the month.
If you can try and breastfeed your kids: A recent study by the 2013 the World Cancer Research Fund found that women who breastfeed for at least six months reduced the risk of dying of cancer by 10 per cent. Researchers tracked 380,000 women and found that mothers who nursed also saw their chance of death from circulatory disease drop by 17 per cent.
Avoid a high fat diet: Being overweight or obese increases breast cancer risk and this is especially true after menopause and for women who gain weight as adults. So engaging in a healthy diet is important. A study conducted by the Epic breast cancer study earlier this year identified that high fat diets increase the risk of breast cancer by 20 per cent and heavy consumption of saturated fat elevated the risk of hormone-sensitive breast cancer by 28 per cent.
Exercise regularly: New research from the UK has shown that 15 minutes of vigorous exercise every day could cut the risk of getting breast cancer by one fifth. Oxford University tracked the lifestyles of 125,000 postmenopausal women – around 1000 of whom were diagnosed with cancer during three years of follow up – found that women who did the most physical activity had a decreased chance of getting breast cancer than their sedentary peers. Females who did between 15 minutes and 35 minutes of vigorous daily exercise, like running, were 20 per cent less likely to develop breast cancer compared to those who did not exercise. The study also found that lean women were 55 per cent less likely to develop breast cancer than those with the highest levels of body fat.
Limit alcohol: Alcohol was classified as one of the most carcinogenic substances by the World Health Organisation in 1988 and yet many people still continue to put their health at risk. Research suggests women who have 2 or more alcoholic drinks a day have about one and a half times the risk of breast cancer compared to women who don’t drink at all. The American Cancer Society recommends no more than one standard drink per day for women and two standard drinks per day for men.
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