Johnny Depp’s loving daughter Lily-Rose Depp has broken her silence on claims her father abused his estranged wife Amber Heard.
The 17-year-old new face of Chanel posted a touching throwback picture of Johnny holding her hand as a baby with a caption in support of her famous father.
“My dad is the sweetest, most loving person I know. He’s been nothing but a wonderful father to my little brother and I, and everyone who knows him would say the same.”
Lily-Rose’s mother is Vanessa Paradis, Johnny’s ex partner. The former couple also share a 14-year-old son Jack.
Lily-Rose shared a vintage snap of her and her dad to show her support.
Lily-Rose’s statement was one of a few statements reportedly made by people close to Johnny, speaking out about the domestic abuse claims made by Amber.
Vanessa reportedly also made a statement in support of the Alice Through The Looking Glass actor.
Vanessa threw her support behind her former lover.
TMZ reportedly obtained a letter written by the 43-year-old that spoke of Johnny’s kind nature throughout their 14-year union.
“He’s a sensitive, loving and loved person, and I believe with all my hear that these recent allegations being made are outrageous,” Vanessa reportedly wrote.
Amber was granted a temporary restraining order against Johnny late last week.
She continued: “In all these years I have known Johnny, he has never been physically abusive with me and this looks nothing like the man I lived with for 14 wonderful years.
The Pirates of the Caribbean actor’s first wife Lori Anne Allison also spoke out on behalf of her former husband, according to TMZ.
See all the details of the the shocking allegations of abuse leveled at Johnny. Post continues below.
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Lori Anne called Johnny a “soft person” and says she never ever experience physical abuse during their marriage from 1983-1985.
Amber Heard filed for divorce last week claiming irreconcilable differences.
She was later granted a temporary restraining order against the 52-year-old on Friday, amid claims the actor smashed an iPhone into her face and bruised her eye.
We don’t imagine told getting your baby looks the spitting image of a 49-year-old celebrity chef with a fiery temper and a potty mouth might be much of a compliment, but one mother brought the attention on her own kid when she suggested her bub and Gordon Ramsey could be twins.
Claire Dempster took a picture of her cute/steely eyed baby this week and Tweeted it to the cook, thinking she wouldn’t get much of a response.
Claire wrote: “@GordonRamsay this is our baba – have you been in Wales for any reason around 10 months ago.”
Less than a day later the post has been retweeted more than 1,600 times and solicited a response from Ramsay himself saying the resemblance is uncanny.
It turns out he had been in Wales, but the timing is out. He replied: “Yes about 11 months ago”.
The chef then even tweeted a picture of the baby with a joking caption: “Poor kid.”
Let’s hope the little mini-me’s first word doesn’t start with an ‘F’.
WARNING: This content contains references to domestic violence and could be triggering to some readers.
After filing for divorce on Monday Amber Heard has been granted a restraining order against husband Johnny Deep alleging the actor abused her.
Depp, 52 has been told to stay 100 yards away from 30-year-old Heard after the Magic Mike XXL star produced pictures and a statement to an LA court where she claims Depp physically and verbally assaulted her during a fit of drunken jealousy on May 21.
In pictures submitted Heard’s right eye appears red and marked from an incident where she told police The Pirates of the Caribbean star had “wound up (his) arm like a baseball pitcher” and threw her iPhone at her, reports Page Six.
The bombshell accusations of violence are not an isolated incident, Heard claims in her filings – which have now become part of the divorce proceedings she lodged on Monday after just 15 months of marriage.
Heard stated that there “have been several prior incidents of domestic violence with Johnny. In particular there was one severe incident in December 2015 where I truly feared that my life was in danger.”
She also added: “Johnny has a long-held and widely-acknowledged public and private history of drug and alcohol abuse.”
“He has a short fuse … He is often paranoid and his temper is exceptionally scary for me as it has proven many times to be physically dangerous and/or life threatening to me.”
The two actors met while filming The Rum Diary in 2009, but didn’t go public with their relationship till 2011, after the Depp split from French actress and musician, Vanessa Paradis, the mother of his two children.
Page Six reports that the alleged iPhone incident occurred one day after the death of Depp’s mother, Betty Sue Palmer.
In the wake of speculation Depp’s reps addressed the split in a statement to PEOPLE on Thursday: “Given the brevity of this marriage and the most recent and tragic loss of his mother, Johnny will not respond to any of the salacious false stories, gossip, misinformation and lies about his personal life. Hopefully the dissolution of this short marriage will be resolved quickly.”
The actor has yet to address the latest allegations of abuse made against him.
If you or anyone you know is danger of domestic violence call 1800-RESPECT or 1800 737 732. And if there is immediate danger call 000.
There are always a few surprises come campaigning season but the news of former Australian Idol host James Mathison taking on ex PM Tony Abbott for his seat of Warringah has certainly added a little more spice to the mix.
The electorate, which encompasses suburbs like Manly, Mosman and Neutral Bay, is a seat which Mr Abbott has sat comfortably in for 22 years, with a current 15.4 margin.
Mathison, 38, went public with his plans of running as an Independent candidate for the Northern Beaches area on Saturday morning, vowing to use social media to capture the youth vote.
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Telegraph the Frenchs Forest resident and father-of-two said he only made the decision to run a fortnight ago, after watching Mr Abbott announce his election campaign on Sky News.
“I just thought ‘who is holding him to account?”, Mathison told The Tele, suggesting Mr Abbott failed to deliver on many promises and he is out of touch with the public.
“I don’t think his stance and the stance of the far right of the Liberal Party reflect the community and that’s what we’re going to try to tap into. The Greens are too extreme. People here don’t overly trust Labor but they can’t stand Tony, so what do they do? They just sleepwalk into the polling booth and do what they’ve always done,” Mathison said.
Pushes for marriage equality, refugees and climate change will all be key campaigning points for Mathison, but he says right now his focus is letting people know he’s serious about his parliamentary aspirations.
“Letting people know you’re running is easy. The hard part is convincing them this isn’t a joke, it’s not a prank, or a stunt, that I really care about the community and I really care about changing the way we do this,” Mathison said.
“Maybe it’s crazy to think you can win a safe seat like this, but I think it’s even crazier to reward someone who has just not delivered for the community and has deceived the nation over and over and over again. I think that’s even crazier.”
The political hopeful – who earlier this month was taken away by police during a protest to stop Moreton Bay fig trees being cut down at Moore Park in Sydney – changed his Twitter and Facebook accounts overnight to read: “Warringah deserves better”.
And whether he likes it or not Mathison has already won the support of another high profile Independent in Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambi.
“I love independents,” Lambi told the Today show on Saturday. “You go for it, James. Put those budgie smugglers on and give Tony Abbott a run.”
Using the Twitter hashtag #TimesUpTony and the slogan ‘Our Chance For A Change’ Mr Mathison, who may have drawn inspiration from American Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, told the Daily Tele he would crowd-fund his campaign and post his policy platform online in a series of pre-recorded video messages.
Taking to Instagram to share the wonderful news, Morgan posted a photo from their nuptials.
“It was a beautiful day to marry the man of my dreams,” the blushing bride penned alongside a shot of the pair holding hands at the aisle.
Morgan looked breathtaking in a backless, beaded wedding gown, while her blonde tresses were swept up into a chic bun. She finished off her look with a silver headpiece and a long, white vail.
The setting for the day was lush and summery with the pair saying “I do” under a floral arrangement made up of sunflowers and roses.
“It was a beautiful day to marry the man of my dreams,” Morgan gushed.
The happy couple announced their engagement last year.
Ryan, who was flanked by three groomsmen, looked dapper in a grey suit which had a yellow rose pinned to the lapel.
Following the ceremony, guests were treated to an incredible outdoors reception at Sails Restaurant Noosa Beach.
Proud mum Lisa took to social media to congratulate the happy couple.
“Beautiful day with @mark66andrew for the wedding of our beautiful daughter Morgan to the love of her life Ryan,” the former Olympian shared as she cuddled up to her Elvis impersonator boyfriend, Mark Andrew.
The mother-of-three also published a stunning family photo with her ex-husband Grant, daughter Jaimi, who acted as a bridesmaid, son Jett and the new husband and wife.
“Classy and beautiful as always. So blessed to see such a gorgeous couple. Thank you to all the friends and family who helped make the day one to remember,” she penned.
Mother of the bride Lisa Curry shared this shot from nuptials with her partner, Mark Andrew.
The former Olympian opted for an eye-catching fuchsia dress with a plunging neckline.
Lisa, 54, opted for a fuchsia pink dress which she accessorised with an elegant statement necklace.
Morgan announced her engagement to Ryan at the start of last year and her parents, who separated in 2009, have welcomed him with open arms into the family.
“Celebrating the engagement of our beautiful daughter Morgan to the most caring, kind and wonderful young man Ryan Gruell. Congratulations to the beautiful couple and welcome to our family,” Lisa said at the time.
Ryan was overwhelmed with the support he received from his fiancee’s family. “Your kind words mean so much and I cannot express how excited I am to be a part of such an amazing family,” he said.
The wedding reception was held at Sails Restaurant in Noosa.
No doubt her father Grant, brother Jett, sister Jami and mum Lisa were thrilled to see Morgan say “I do.”
Ryan also hails from from the small beachside town of Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast, but it wasn’t until dancer Morgan landed her dream role at the Moulin Rouge in Paris in 2011 that their relationship took a more serious turn.
Keeping in regular contact, the young couple’s relationship blossomed despite the distance, eventually making them stronger than ever.
According to reports from TMZ, during an altercation Johnny slammed his iPhone into his wife’s face before shattering various objects in their apartment.
Amber said to the judge that she had called a friend during their fight, and when Johnny grabbed her phone from her she screamed, “Call the cops!”
The actor had reportedly fled the residence when police arrived, but a report was taken.
TMZ also reveal that Johnny had offered money to Amber in an attempt to keep the encounter quiet, but she’d made up her mind to file for divorce instead.
Us Weekly can confirm that a restraining order was requested and granted by the judge, and as a result Johnny is required to stay 100 yards from Amber.
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The new reports emerge after a rep for Johnny spoke out yesterday, addressing the demise of their marriage for the first time.
“Given the brevity of this marriage and the most recent and tragic loss of his mother, Johnny will not respond to any of the salacious false stories, gossip, misinformation and lies about his personal life,” the statement read.
“Hopefully the dissolution of this short marriage will be resolved quickly.”
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, you can ring the Domestic Violence Line for help on 1800 737 732. The Domestic Violence Line is a nationwide free-call number and is available 24 hours, seven days a week.
In news that will surely make your day, Network Ten is giving all of us Offspring fans a cheeky way to watch the entire fifth season and new exclusive, web-only mini-episodes for free, ahead of the new season’s debut.
From this coming Monday, May 10, all 13 episodes from the much-loved fifth season will be available to watch on Tenplay, giving all of us a chance to relive the hilarious antics of our favourite dysfunctional family, the Proudmans.
Too soon… Patrick’s shock death still brings tears to our eyes.
“Offspring is hugely popular online, with a dedicated and engaged audience on tenplay and across social media,” said Network Ten’s general manager Liz Baldwin.
“Since we announced that Offspring is returning in 2016, fans and viewers have been beyond excited about one of the television events of the year.”
“We’re thrilled to be able to offer exclusive online content ahead of the start of the new season that will engage fans and hook those yet to experience the Offspringphenomenon.”
Nina will be back with her little one, Zoe in season six.
As promised by the Ten team, we will also have access to a whole new world of exclusive goodies.
From mini web-episodes and interviews, to fashion notes and image galleries, they’ll be plenty to keep our Offspring addictions at bay until the debut of season six.
Watch the first trailer in the video player below to get excited!
The Weekly met Dame Elisabeth Murdoch's grand-daughters, Judy and Penny (pictured below left and right), and daughter Janet (middle) at her much-loved Cruden Farm.
On the outskirts of Melbourne, beyond a modest wooden sign saying “Cruden Farm”, 130 lemon-scented eucalypts stand sentry along a narrow drive leading to a two-storey neoclassical farmhouse with soaring pillars.
Generations of the Murdoch family have grown up on this Langwarrin property, milking cows and herding sheep amid the majestic oaks and elms, walled gardens and a lake complete with charming stone bridge.
Just a short walk from the kitchen door is the picking garden – a technicoloured riot of roses, lavender, catmint, poppies, honeysuckle and zinnias.
Every morning, the irrepressible Dame Elisabeth Murdoch would be up before sunrise, watering her beloved garden and picking flowers, either for the arrangements scattered throughout her home or for the friends she was seeing that day.
“When Granny came to Melbourne, she’d always bring posies,” recalls Penny Fowler, grand-daughter of the much-loved philanthropist, who died in 2012 aged 103.
“Arranging flowers has always been a part of Cruden Farm – you’d come down here and there were beautiful flowers everywhere. It was a big part of Granny’s life.”
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch used to get around the farm in a golf buggy.
According to grand-daughter Judy Paterson, Dame Elisabeth was still scaling Cruden Farm’s elm trees to pick branches for her arrangements when she was well into her 80s.
And even after she had turned 100, the matriarch continued to whiz around the 54-hectare property in her golf buggy (an 80th birthday present from son Rupert), making plans with her long-time gardener, Michael Morrison.
A wedding gift in 1928 from her husband, newspaperman Keith Murdoch, Cruden Farm was a lifelong passion for Dame Elisabeth.
A natural, hands-on gardener with an eye for beauty, the mother of four presided over the property for more than eight decades, creating a garden that would become one of the most celebrated in the country.
(Clockwise from top left) The 54-hectare Cruden Farm is awash with colour; Dame Elisabeth’s grand-daughter Penny and daughter Janet with gardener Michael Morrison; Landscape designer Paul Bangay; and, the stunning Brilliance rose.
Today, three of Dame Elisabeth’s grand-daughters – Penny, Judy and Julie Kantor – and her daughter, Janet Calvert-Jones, gather in the garden with world-renowned landscape designer Paul Bangay to mark the upcoming campaign for the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI), which Dame Elisabeth helped establish 30 years ago.
“She cared very much about looking after kids when they were sick,” explains Janet, “but she thought that if people could find causes and prevent illness, then that would be even better.”
In honour of Dame Elisabeth, the MCRI is inviting Australian women to host a garden party to raise money for the institute and is releasing the Brilliance rose for sale in July, with part of the proceeds going to the research organisation.
MCRI ambassador Paul Bangay describes the Brilliance as a full, bushy hybrid tea rose that looks good in the garden bed.
“It’s a lovely white flower and it’s a good one for picking,” he says.
“It’ll flower the whole season, starting in early spring and finishing in autumn.”
Dahlias, irises and sweet peas last quite well inside the house, he says, but roses are the standouts for hardiness, particularly hybrid teas, which have been bred for picking.
Old-fashioned varieties, such as David Austin roses, look and smell beautiful in the garden, says Paul, but collapse as soon as they are cut – as do the helleborus, anemones and some types of hydrangea.
The hydrangea macrophylla, however, will last inside for weeks.
“With hydrangeas, you want them out in full flower [when you cut them] because otherwise they won’t come out in flower in the vase,” he says.
“With roses, you can pick them just as the bud is starting to swell.”
A landscape designer for 30 years, Paul laments that people have given up on gardening and that the knowledge once handed down the generations has been lost.
“People are outsourcing their gardens, which I think is sad,” he says.
“I think growing flowers and bringing them inside encourages people to select their own plants, become passionate about their garden and not think of it as something you just get a gardener to come in and do.”
Paul, who met Dame Elisabeth in 1982 as a horticulture student and became friends with her over the next 30 years, says one of the things he admired most was her 80-year commitment to one garden.
“She was never afraid to pull something out,” he says, “or experiment with new things.”
When she picked flowers for her home, each room called for a specific colour palette: flowers of a pink or brown hue in the sitting room; and apricot-coloured roses in the entryway.
Known for her frugality, Dame Elisabeth refused to install central heating at Cruden Farm and would never have bought a bouquet either.
“It just wouldn’t have been in her psyche to go buy flowers,” says Paul.
“The fact that you can grow your own flowers was very important to her.”
Gardener Michael Morrison, Dame Elisabeth’s right-hand man at Cruden Farm since 1971, adds, “She was always anxious, being practical, that flowers lasted, so she always loved to put a lot of budding flowers in her arrangements.”
Over 40 years together, Michael and “the boss” arranged flowers for the weddings, funerals and parties of countless Murdoch friends and relatives.
“She enjoyed the flowers in her garden,” says Michael, “but it gave her enormous pleasure to share them with someone else.”
It is more than three years since Dame Elisabeth died, and yet Michael still makes sure there are always fresh flowers in every room of Cruden Farm.
What a fitting tribute to the extraordinary woman who lived there.
Within a matter of months, the three Page sisters Sharee, 34, Annette, 35, and sister-in-law Lindsay, 38, all learned the devastating news that they all had cancer.
First it was Lindsay with the news that her angiosarcoma (cancer in the inner lining of blood vessels) had come back with a vengeance to her liver and lungs. In April two months later, it was Sharee with Stage II breast cancer, and then two weeks later it was Annette with Stage III breast cancer.
Both Sharee and Annette learned they each carried the BRCA2 gene.
But despite the terrible circumstances to have fallen on the family, the three women – who live close to each other in Utah, US, are all in good spirits and trying to do the best they can.
Lindsay, a stay-at-home mum with four kids, tells People: “We all decided early on that we weren’t going to let this get us down. I don’t know where I’ll be a year from now, and that’s a scary thought.
“But you have to have faith, hope and humour. You can sit around and be sad. What possible good can come from that?”
Sharee, who works for a time-management company and is single, is documenting her journey on YouTube with a light-hearted videos, saying: “I love to laugh. Why let cancer get in the way?”
She continued: “It just hit me that everybody has a trial or hardship of some kind. It’s how you choose to face those hardships that matters.”
One of Sharee’s videos documented Annette – who works for a nutritional supplement company and is also single – helping shave her head. They now call themselves ‘the bald sisters’.
The one positive? Speedy showers.
Sharee said: “There’s no shampooing, no conditioning and no hair to clean up. We all agree that it’s a real time-saver.”
They call themselves the ‘the bald sisters’.
Lindsay is currently on a new immunotherapy trial treatment and is hopeful – her last scan showed that her tumours were no longer growing.
Annette’s cancer is particularly aggressive and has spread to her lymph nodes, but the three women are still full of hope.
“Attitude means everything when you’re trying to get through cancer,” says Annette.
Sharee adds: “We’re optimistic that one day the three of us will look back and say, ‘Remember that time when we all had cancer?’”
Watch Sharee get her head shaved below and to see the full video, click here.
60 Minutes producer Stephen Rice has been sacked over the botched Beirut child abduction story.
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“Stephen Rice, the producer of the Sally Faulkner story, will be leaving the company effective immediately,” a statement from Nine said.
“Other staff involved in the planning and execution of this story have received formal warnings.”
A review was held by the show’s founding boss Gerald Stone, former corporate consultant David Hurley, and general counsel Rachel Launders, News.com.au reports.
“The crew continue to receive counselling related to the events in Lebanon and the other team members will return to work soon.”
The 60 Minutes team travelled to Beirut where a team from Child Abduction Recovery international were paid to grab the two children of Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner.
On April 7, Faulkner and the 60 Minutes crew – which consisted of Rice, reporter Tara Brown, sound recordist David Ballment and camera man Ben Williamson – were detailed by Lebanese police.
A rumoured $1 million payment to the children’s father Ali Elamine enabled them to be released.
However, Faulkner was also forced to relinquish full custody of her two children.
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