Attending the 16th Costume Designer Awards in Beverly Hills, she wore a sequinned black dress that was cinched at the waist and had a plunging neckline.
It may not have been the two-piece deer skin bikini she wore in 1966 for One Million Years B.C. but it flaunted her curves nonetheless. Although Welch only had three lines in that film, the fur bikini made her a star and instant pin-up girl.
Glowing skin and gorgeous highlights in her long and thick hair made the Golden Globe winner of 1974 look the picture of health and youth.
Raquel Welch
Welch has always denied that surgery has played any role in her long-lasting looks. Rather she thanks a combination of yoga, weight training, healthy eating and clever make-up.
Hatha yoga features in The Raquel Welch Total Beauty and Fitness Program book and videos, as well her views on healthy living and nutrition and beauty.
At this rate, Raquel is the best possible advertisement for her own products.
The “Captain” is a bit of a sore loser — which is unfortunate when you’re one of My Kitchen Rules’ lowest scoring contestants in the game. Ever.
Queensland contestant David Kirk hung up on Nova FM hosts Fitzy and Wippa this morning after he and partner Corinne Wieland scored just 27 points out of 100 in last night’s second-last instant restaurant round.
“Sorry, sorry, I’m on TV, I have to go, I’m really sorry…” David said on-air.
“What do you mean Dave? You’re cooking is as bad as your radio interviews,” host Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli said.
It was unclear from the conversation if Kirk was about to go on television or watch a recap of last night’s disaster.
David from #MKR just hung up on @fitzyandwippa – too funny! Was it something they said?
Rather than redeeming themselves, lovebirds David and Corinne earned the lowest instant restaurant score in the show’s history, scoring mostly ones and twos from the other teams.
Far from the promised “love on a plate”, the entree of corn soup with grilled tiger prawns and avocado was labelled “baby food” by Manu.
Pete complained the soup was thick and gluggy, even tipping his plate upside down to demonstrate that a soup dish should not defy gravity.
Pork medallions with cauliflower puree, green beans and mushroom sauce followed for main but was equally disappointing around the table. “That was probably the worst dish I’ve had in the competition to date,” WA contestant Chloe said.
For dessert, Corinne’s chocolate cake that was actually a flan but also a panna cotta didn’t impress gate crasher Anna, or anyone else really.
“If I was at home, I would have spat it in my napkin,” she said.
Anna and mum Kathy will be the last team to compete in the instant restaurant round on Tuesday night. The pair has established their own competitive streak by strongly critiquing the other teams since they joined the competition.
The news of Leonardo DiCaprio being nominated for another Oscar has set the internet ablaze – after missing out on four previous Oscars, everyone is asking, will this be his year?
With nominations for his leading roles in Blood Diamond, Aviator and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, everyone is scratching their heads wondering why he hasn’t bagged one by now.
This got us thinking about other worthy Oscar nominees who should have won – but didn’t. And there are many worthy winners who have gone home empty handed…
Check out some of the biggest stars who have been snubbed by the Academy here!
Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated four times for an Academy Award but hasn’t won one.
Nominations: Blood Diamond, What’s eating Gilbert Grape, Aviator and Wolf of Wall Street.
Hugh Jackman has only been nominated once – so far!
For his amazing role in Les Miserable. We may be biased, but we think he should have won.
In John Travolta’s entire career he has been nominated twice but never won.
This is despite his performances in Pulp Fiction, Face/Off and classic cult hit Grease.
66-year-old Glenn Close takes the record with six Oscar nominations and no award.
She was even snubbed for her part in the psychological thriller Fatal Attraction.
Even the world’s most attractive man can’t score an Oscar.
Even his roles in these three outstanding films failed to land him the top award.
Hollywood’s top gun, Tom Cruise has received three nominations but won none!
He missed out on Oscars for Magnolia, Jerry Maguire and Born on the Fourth of July.
Four Academy award nominations but Julianne Moore always walks away empty handed.
Her charming on-air persona couldn’t even win her a golden statue for these hits.
Samuel L. Jackson got the nod for Pulp Fiction but still didn’t take home the golden prize.
Overlooked: Jackie Brown, A Time to Kill, Coach Carter and Django Unchained.
Scandalous: Hollywood’s most revered actor Johnny Depp has missed out on three Oscars.
He failed to convert his nominations for these blockbusters.
OK – Cate Blanchett has won an Oscar for The Aviator but will she win for Blue Jasmine?
She has been nominated five times now but missed out on four previously.
Australian model Rebecca Judd and her AFL player husband Chris Judd have raised eyebrows after revealing they are storing their daughter Billie Kate’s umbilical cord.
The 31-year-old weather presenter elected for her obstetrician to collect the blood and tissue of her daughter’s umbilical cord after she gave birth, which will be stored in a cord blood bank for the benefit of future stem cell treatment.
This isn’t the first time the couple have elected for this procedure, after collecting umbilical cord blood from their first-born child, Oscar, now 2.
“It made a lot of sense to store both the cord tissue and blood with our new daughter,” Rebecca told the Herald Sun.
“Of course, you obviously hope to never be in a position to have to use it. But ensuring we stored this important cord tissue and cord blood made sense.”
Stem cells are responsible for generating new tissue and repairing and regenerating damaged and ageing tissues. According to Stem Cells Australia, blood stem cells are currency being used to treat blood and immune system conditions, such as leukaemia, anaemia and autoimmune diseases.
“Umbilical cord blood collected at birth is a rich source of stem cells that can be used in research and in the clinic to treat diseases of the blood and immune system,” Stem Cells Australia states.
The main type of stem cell being collected from the umbilical cord is haematopoietic stem cells, which are used to regenerate red blood cells and immune system cells.
Mesenchymal stromal cells, which can be used to grow into bone, cartilage and tissue, are currently being researched to see if patients could benefit from this also.
Umbilical cord storage allows people to store their stem cells for future use – like a blood bank – and in no way harms the mother or baby during the process.
The attractive couple are believed to have paid $3000 for the privilege of storing the umbilical cord of their daughter.
Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member of the von Trapp family singers who were immortalised in the stage musical and film The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 99.
It was due to Maria’s ill health that Captain Georg von Trapp arranged for a governess to be seconded from a nearby convent in order to tutor the children.
Maria Augusta Kutschera, played by Julie Andrews in the film, arrived and she and the Captain soon fell in love and later married.
The third eldest of seven children, Maria’s name was changed to Louisa in the stage musical and film versions of the Trapp family’s story, probably to avoid confusion with the governess.
The fictitious von Trapps. Photo Getty Images
She outlived all of her brothers and sisters from her father’s first marriage, remarkable according to a family friend who runs the von Trapp Villa Hotel in Salzburg. Marianne Dorfer told the Austrian Times, “It was a surprise that she was the one in the family to live the longest, because ever since she was a child, she suffered from a weak heart.
“It was the fact that she suffered from this that her father decided to hire Maria … to teach her and her brothers and sisters. That of course then led to one of the most remarkable musical partnerships of the last century.”
The real von Trapps in 1937.
Maria von Trapp the daughter had written similarly on her family’s website: “As a result of scarlet fever, I was too sickly to walk the three miles to school every day, and the doctor advised that I stay home. This condition brought Maria Augusta Kutschera to teach me first grade gymnasium, the equivalent of middle school. She came to us as my teacher and after three years became our second mother.”
Unlike the film, which ends when the family flee Salzburg in 1938 after the Nazi invasion of Austria, the real von Trapps were already outside of Austria when they elected not to return and instead began a new life touring Europe as a family singing group. They settled in Vermont, USA, in 1942 and eventually opened a ski resort.
Captain von Trapp and Maria Augusta married and had three children of their own.
Maria’s half-brother, Johannes von Trapp, referred to his sister as a “lovely woman who was one of the few truly good people.”
Em Mastronardi created the Change.org petition on Sunday asking the federal and state governments to take action against so-called online “trolls” who violate anti-bullying and harassment laws. In its first 24 hours the petition received more than 30,000 signatures.
“Charlotte fought hard for a reform into cyber bullying; she campaigned so hard for something so simple – a better world,” the petition reads.
“In life Charlotte dreamed of eradicating negativity on social media. In death we will continue fighting for her and make her proud of our continuing battle. Charlotte’s death cannot be in vain.”
The petition also calls for social media companies to take a more active role in preventing cyber bullying.
Charlotte was found dead in her Sydney apartment on Saturday morning. She had been battling depression for 14 years and had been embroiled in a well-publicised fight with anonymous online bullies since 2012.
Troubled Olympian Grant Hackett had guests at Melbourne’s packed Crown Casino looking on in shock as he emerged from his room early on Saturday morning, with only a singlet wrapped around his nether regions, to search for his missing four-year-old-son, Jagger.
The former swim champ was captured on film half-naked in the hotel’s foyer, asking everyone who passed by if they had seen the boy.
Grant is believed to have woken up and noticed his son was missing before heading out, sans clothes, to look for him himself.
Fortunately, Jagger was found with the help of casino security and taken back to his room, where he was staying with his dad and twin sister, Charlize.
While Crown Casino have confirmed that the incident occurred, they are not revealing where the boy was found, just that it wasn’t in a restricted area.
“He was absolutely not found on the gaming room floor or on any licensed premises,” a spokeswoman told The Herald Sun.
Grant’s casino-foyer wanderings must be cause for concern for his ex-wife Candice Alley, who went through a messy divorce with him in 2012.
Despite his stellar swimming career, it’s his out-of-pool antics that have brought him attention in recent years.
His marriage breakdown to Candice, the trashing of his own penthouse apartment, and subsequent sacking as the ambassador for the Alannah and Madeline Foundation – a charity to prevent violence against children – have tarnished his career and reputation.
This is yet another bizarre public incident to add to his woes, but was he acting like a mad man or just a concerned father?
Judi Dench is suffering from macular degeneration, an age-related condition that causes blindness.
The actress, 79, who won an Oscar as best supporting actress for her role in 1998’s Shakespeare in Love and received a nomination as best actress this year for her lead role in Philomena, suffers from macular degeneration, an age-related medical condition that results in a gradual loss of vision, particularly in the centre of a person’s field of vision.
“I never want to make much of it, but it is difficult – very, very difficult,” she told The Hollywood Reporter.
“I can’t read any more. I can’t paint like I used to. I try to watch movies, but it’s quite difficult. But these are all of the negatives. I don’t want to really think about all that. What I can do, I do. And I somehow get by.”
She also said that in the past she has relied on fellow actors to help her learn her lines – and she has no intention of letting the condition slow her down.
At least, that’s according to Australia’s incoming Governor General Peter Cosgrove. The incoming GG inadvertently confirmed the intention to bring Prince George along on the upcoming royal tour after meeting the Queen in London last week.
After his audience with Her Majesty prior to taking up his post in March, Cosgrove said: “That’s going to be a very welcome visit. They’ll bring with them Prince George, the little one. They’ll be in Sydney and then in Canberra after their sojourn in New Zealand.”
But when asked if he’d possibly said too much, he backpedalled saying : “I hope he’s coming, I’m not yet the Governor-General.”
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