Sam and Lara Bundle up in the Big Apple as temperatures hit -4. Picture: Splash.
After revealing to Woman’s Day that she was “quitting Sydney”, it looks like Lara Bingle has found a new home.
The bikini model is making good use of her coat collection as she bundles up and starts a new life in the Big Apple with her beau, actor Sam Worthington, 37.
The 26-year-old celebrity, who made a name for herself as a bikini-clad beauty in her “Where the bloody hell are you?” tourism campaign for Australia in 2006, has now left her homeland once and for all.
In a conversation on Instagram between Lara and New York-based photographer Ben Watts, the brother of actress Naomi Watts, the blonde beauty confirmed the move.
When Ben asked, “When are we shooting…Your in New York City?”, Lara exclaimed, “I’m here to stay! Catch up this week?”
In January, Lara revealed she was fed up with her lack of privacy in Australia.
“Sydney’s my home but I don’t like it,” she confided exclusively to a Woman’s Day photographer. “I can’t even go to the supermarket without getting papped [snapped by paparazzi]. I don’t like the attention.”
Her Aussie boyfriend of five months agrees.
“Sam hates it! We don’t get any peace,” Lara said.
Lara revealed that the pair seem to get papped “everywhere they go”, so we aren’t sure if her new digs will deter paparazzi attention.
She shocked the world and the trainers when US Biggest Loser winner Rachel Frederickson revealed her 70.3 kilo weight loss recently.
Now the 24-year-old has admitted she may have taken things a little too far.
“Maybe I was a little too enthusiastic in my training to get to the finale,” she revealed to People.
Rachel gained criticism over her weight and the nature of the show when she revealed her final weight loss on the NBC’s show’s finale last week.
The 5’4” competitor lost 70.3 kilos, going from 117.9 kilos to 47 kilos in a matter of months, and her record-breaking weight loss saw her take out the competition and the $US250,000 prize.
The weight loss of more than half of her body weight put her slightly below the healthy body mass index, according to the National Institute of Health, and sparked rumours of an eating disorder.
When asked “point blank” by the mag if she has an eating disorder, Rachel replied, “I am very, very healthy.”
While the show’s executive producer David Bloom said all the contestants were monitored throughout the seven-and-a-half months on the show and passed all medical tests, the trainers say they were shocked by her sudden weight loss.
“The first thing that went through my mind was, ‘That’s just too much’,” Rachel’s trainer, Dolvett Quince told the magazine.
Fellow trainers Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper were also visibly shocked during Rachel’s big reveal on the show’s finale.
The show’s producers are now considering making some “small but significant tweaks” to the series’ production including more check-ins and support following the finale.
“There might be more focus on what happens to the winner after they are supposedly done with the show,” a source close to the series told E! News.
More than 150 Oscar nominees descended upon the Beverly Hills Hilton in California on Monday to celebrate the joy of “just being nominated” at the Academy Awards annual nominee luncheon.
The guest list was packed full of stars including Cate Blanchett, Leonardo DiCaprio, Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper and Matthew McConaughey just to rattle off a few.
In a deliberate democratic move, the event encourages mingling between nominees by seating the obscure first-time nominees alongside the most revered directors and famous faces.
Each nominee for best director was also on the guest list, including Alfonso Cuaron, Steve McQueen, Alexander Payne, David O. Russell and Martin Scorsese.
With less than three weeks until the 86th Academy Awards, the race for best picture remains a three-way contest between American Hustle, Gravity and 12 Years a Slave all vying for the Oscar.
Academy members will cast their Oscar votes Feb. 14-25.
The Oscars luncheon sees first time nominees rub shoulders with industry legends.
Cate Blanchett shimmered in silver on the red carpet. The actress is up for a golden statue for her leading role in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
First time Oscar nominee Jared Leto has won praise for his supporting role as a transgender woman who forms an unlikely friendship with a homophobic straight man in Dallas Buyers Club.
It’s hard to believe that The Wolf of Wall Street star Leonardo DiCaprio is yet to get his hands on a golden statue. Many believe this will be the talented actor’s year to take out the Best Actor nod.
12 Years a Slave star Lupita Nyong’o has become a firm fashion favourite at every red carpet event and this appearance was no exception.
Alan Partridge creator Coogan is nominated for two awards – Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture for his work on heartbreaking drama, Philomena.
Julie Delpy is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Before Midnight which she co-wrote with Ethan Hawke.
Ethan Hawke, Maya Thurman-Hawke and Julie Delpy inside the Oscars luncheon.
Meryl Streep has received her 18th Oscar nomination for best actress for August: Osage County.
Jonah Hill is up for his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in The Wolf of Wall Street.
Martin Scorsese is nominated for a Best Director Oscar for the most talked about film of the year, The Wolf of Wall Street.
Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves smile for the cameras inside the event. McConaughey is nominated for Best Actor for his leading role in Dallas Buyers Club.
Bradley Cooper is nominated for his supporting role in American Hustle.
Steve McQueen is on course to become the first black winner of the best director Oscar after the nominations for the 86th Academy awards.
Sandra Bullock is nominated for her leading role in Gravity. Critics believe the Best Actress in a Leading Role award is a two-horse race with Bullock and Cate Blanchett firm favourites to take out the award.
Sandra Bullock and Pharrell Williams pose for a picture inside the event. Three-time Grammy winner, Pharrell is up for Best Original song for his jam Happy, which her produced for the animated film Despicable Me 2.
Kristen Bell performed songs from animated film Frozen at the event.
American Hustle actress Amy Adams is the only nominee in her Best Actress in a Leading Role category that has not previously won an Oscar. She faces off against Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Dame Judi Dench and multiple Oscar winner, Meryl Streep.
Each nominee is called to the stage as their nomination is read to the crowd.
Darren McMullen has landed himself a role on Nine’s hit TV showHouse Husbands.
The Voicehost will play a love interest on the show this year, and his character is set to ruffle a few feathers.
“Acting has always been a big passion of mine,” Darren says.
“For many years it had to take a back seat when my presenting roles took off around the world. I promised myself at the end of last year that I was going to focus more energy on pursuing interesting roles to sink my teeth into.
“I’m excited to be able to play such a meaty role on House Husbands and to be able to work alongside such an esteemed cast in an award-winning drama. I can’t wait to show people another side to me.”
International star Rachel Griffiths and Aussie favourite Lincoln Lewis have also been announced as part of the show’s cast.
House Husbands Series 3 will air on the Nine Network later this year..
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The Weekly has obtained an exclusive skinny about the 23-year-old’s signing and her hopes of what impact the deal might have on the wider fashion community.
Even over the phone you can hear that Georgina, or Geo as she has been nicknamed since childhood, is smiling. Beaming even. Despite the temperature reading a cool -8 degrees Celsius outside her New York apartment you get the sense that nothing is going to chill the curvaceous model’s excitement about her new career move.
“It’s for sure my most exciting job yet. When I found out I had to keep it quiet for a while but it was hard because I just wanted to celebrate” said Burke.
Torrid, which carries sizes 12-28 and boasts 236 retailers worldwide, services a substantial chunk of the US retail market with a reported 68 per cent of American women wearing above a size 12. Tall and voluptuous with honey blonde hair and cheek bones sharp enough to slice meat on, it’s not hard to see why the retail giant picked Burke to become their first ever official face.
“In the plus-size world, there are not a ton of models and what sometimes happens is you see the same girl over and over. We wanted to find someone newer and fresher that we could make our own,” said Liz Munoz, the brand’s senior vice president of product development.
Georgina appears in the label’s new swimwear campaign and her buxom body and bountiful curves are a refreshing sight from the often underweight norms of the fashion industry. In her first major shoot for the brand Geo’s ample figure is perfectly poured into the garments with her bronzed size 16 frame radiating confidence.
Georgina giggles down the line when complimented on her stunning swimwear shots and reveals that selective hearing is one tool she employs to help embrace her gorgeous girl curves.
“I never care too much about the negative things people have to say. I’ve always been a pretty confident person and I’m very comfortable with my body”, she says.
Geo was discovered as a teen and then encouraged by her Australian agent and director of Bella Models in Sydney, Chelsea Bonner, to make the move to New York three years ago to pursue her modelling career. Bonner is equally excited about her prodigy’s signing and says it demonstrates a huge step forward for the fashion industry. Bonner hopes the deal will open up other brands to the idea of using women beyond a sample size to front major labels.
“Torrid wanted to make a point of signing a model who their customers could relate to- someone with confidence. Geo is that truly confident curvy girl!” says Bonner.
While rare, the Torrid signing isn’t without precedent. Of late, voluptuous models such as Kate Upton, Tara Lynn and Aussie supermodel Robyn Lawley have all graced the covers of some major style bibles like Vogue Italia, Elle France and even the coveted CR Fashion Book, the brain child of former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld.
Georgina says that her new venture with Torrid has been met with overwhelming positivity and believes this reflects mainstream society’s hunger for more size diversity in fashion campaigns.
“It might sound silly but since this went public I have been getting so many messages from people on social media. People are like ‘Finally a model that is actually curvy’ which means people are happy to see bigger models working for the labels they love”.
Geo says that while living and working in New York is already a dream come true, she really hopes that now she can use this career move as a stepping stone to help inspire other women to love themselves.
“I want women to embrace their bodies and I’m happy to be seen as a confident healthy role model to help them do it.”
The 31-year-old Brit, a Muslim convert who officially changed his name by to Ashraf Islam in 2010, handed himself in to the police the day after Drummer Lee Rigby was brutally killed in south-east London in May last year saying he intended to kill Prince Harry because the royal “had blood on his hands”.
Even though Islam didn’t act upon his plans and they were found to be “vague and unlikely to succeed” Judge Richard McGregor-Johnson deemed him a risk to the public and sent him to prison for three years. Islam had carried out “extensive research” the Judge said and “had given the matter considerable thought”. The plot involved Islam using a low-calibre pistol at close range.
“I accept that there is nothing here that could be described as professional plans,” the Judge said, adding that he had considered a longer sentence.
The defense lawyer claimed her client had a “personality disorder”.
These crazy products all promise to help you lose weight – but the only thing they prove is that people will try anything except exercise!
Diet glasses with deep blue lenses that are supposed to turn you off your food because it’s the wrong colour, leggings that are infused with anything from caffeine to tiny gold particles that don’t just claim to hide cellulite but eliminate it, ab-belts that give your muscles a workout through electrical stimulation … there is no shortage and no end to the incredible claims made in the name of weight loss.
But perhaps the ultimate promise comes from the Hawaii chair, which is essentially an office chair that spins and vibrates to keep you constantly off balance: ‘if you can sit, you can get fit’!
Leggings infused with anything from caffeine to gold particles claim to eliminate cellulite by boosting circulation.
These diet glasses with blue lenses are supposed to turn off your appetite by making the food look unappealing.
The ab-belt claims that electrical stimulation contracts muscles, causing them to get a workout without exercise.
The Calorie Breath Weight Loss Program says that the more oxygen in your blood the faster your metabolism. So breathe harder!
A Beverly Hills doctor sews prolene mesh patches to tongues, the rationale being that it makes it uncomfortable to chew solid food, so you don’t bother.
This soap made from seaweed claims to have resulted in 20 per cent reductions in body fat by eliminating fat layers.
This device which reduces your bite size and mouth volume, stays in your mouth for a year, and conditions you to eat differently.
The Hawaii Chair’s seat spins and vibrates to keep you constantly off balance.
The oldest and craziest fad of them all – swallow tape worms, they nest in your gut and feed off digesting food.
The neckline slimmer goes under your chin and creates resistance as you imitate a fish – chin sit-ups!
Yes it causes excessive sweating, but you can also pay a lot of money for a wrap that claims to be detoxifying, thus aiding weight loss.
The baby food diet is self-explanatory, with Cheryl Cole and Jennifer Aniston reportedly using it. Photos: Getty Images
Drinking olive oil supposedly cleans blood from fat and curbs an appetite and even increases the metabolism.
Clearly meant only for use in the privacy of your own home, the face trainer makes facial movements harder, thus creating resistance training.
A woman who posted candid images of her post-cancer surgery body online was horrified when more than 100 people “unfriended” her because they deemed the pictures “offensive”.
Beth Whaanga was diagnosed with cancer on her 32nd birthday last year and underwent a double mastectomy and a hysterectomy.
Her various surgeries have left her body scarred but she was determined not to be ashamed so asked her friend Nadia Masot, a photographer, to capture her new figure in a series of portraits.
Beth was thrilled with the images and shared them on Facebook but was horrified when more than 100 people immediately “unfriended” her, saying the pictures were obscene and disgusting.
“These pictures are in no way pornographic,” Beth’s sister Emma Rayner said. “They represent the truth about cancer and what measures some women will need to take to survive.
“I think it’s brave that she can show her scars and I think many more women will hopefully check their own bodies every now and then.”
Beth says she is proud of her body because it has beat cancer. Warning: confronting images featured.
Beth Whaanga enlisted photographer friend Nadia Masot to shoot the images as part of their Under the Red Dress campaign.
Beth wanted to encourage other women to get regular breast checks.
She was horrified when more than 100 “gutless” people unfriended her on Facebook because they were disgusted by the images.
Model Claire made headlines last month when she posed for a series of brave portraits showing off her own post-surgery body.
Claire had both breasts removed in February 2010 and had reconstruction surgery two months later. She chose not to have the extra surgery to rebuild her nipples. Photography by Byron Atienza.
“I feel so positive today. If I’d waited a year to get the mastectomy, I’d probably be dead. Photography by Byron Atienza.
Claire wanted to show she is proud of her new body. Photography by Byron Atienza.
Claire in her modelling heyday.
Claire and her husband Gus have two young daughters.
Claire was one of Britain’s most successful models in the 1980s.
Some of us consider ourselves lucky to be given a love letter on Valentine's Day but Nicole Kidman receives one each night she and Keith Urban are apart.
Some of us consider ourselves lucky to be given a love letter on Valentine’s Day, but Nicole Kidman receives one each night she and Keith Urban are apart.
“For every single night he’s away he leaves me a love letter,” Nicole says. “Every single night of our relationship.”
In an interview with InStyle magazine, Nicole opened up about the couple’s seven-year marriage, and how it retains its romance despite their careers taking them all over the world.
“We always say to each other, ‘If you ever need me, I’m there,'” she said.
Nicole Kidman InStyle
The Academy-Award winning actress also discussed juggling family life with film sets and music tours.
“Keith and I are both gypsies at heart,” she said. “We can make our home wherever we are. The girls are like that too now, so we take them everywhere.”
She regularly joins her husband on tour, saying “That’s basically how I’ve seen most of America, on that bus,” and she even admitted to living a true on-the-road lifestyle.
“Keith and I eat at Wendy’s,” she said. “We do drive-throughs!”
Nicole is known for maintaining close ties with her family in Australia despite living in Nashville in the USA, coming back regularly to visit her parents in north Sydney.
Miranda Kerr the centre of attention. Photo: Getty Images
In a candid interview for the ABC’s Family Confidential, the Kerr family revealed an acute deterioration in their relationship with Miranda as the famous model has become more and more distant.
Kerr’s family say they haven’t seen her or her son Flynn in more than a year and that they only learned of the failure of her marriage from her estranged husband Orlando Bloom. Kerr and Bloom split late last year after three years of marriage.
“We have been best friends for most of our life. We used to talk every day,” Miranda’s mother, Therese said. “I would send her text messages during the day.”
Photo: ABC
But the once close family unit broke down after the former Victoria’s Secret Angel moved to New York to pursue her modelling career in 2009.
That decline steepened last year when Miranda told her family “now that I’m 30, I’m going to take control”, her father John said.
She later fired her mother Therese from her role as managing director of her skincare line KORA Organics.
“Miranda’s life is so different now [and] she’s surrounded by ‘yes’ people all the time,” her mother said.
Photo: Getty Images
“It’s so important for me to be real, to be true, to be who she needs me to be.”
Kerr’s brother Matthew said that he wanted to spend some ‘one on one’ time with Kerr without “an entourage of people we don’t know”.
Therese and John Kerr are particularly concerned with not seeing their grandson.
“You have to be in the media to be able to get your message out, but then our little Flynny doesn’t know what it’s like to walk outside without paparazzi,” said Therese.
Photo: Getty Images
Kerr’s grandmother Ann also worries for her great grandson and famous granddaughter, whom she accompanied to photo shoots when she was younger.
“I miss the baby and I think he’s missing out on family, that closeness that we have always had,” she said.
Photo: Instagram
A spokeswoman for the model says she is “grateful to her parents, brother and extended family in Australia for their ongoing support and love”.
Kerr was recently announced as the newly signed face of international brand H&M, and is rumoured to be dating Australian billionaire James Packer.
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