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Hamish and Zoe Blake confirm they’re expecting!

Hamish and Zoe confirm they are expecting first child

Hamish Blake and Zoe Foster Blake have confirmed they are expecting their first child together.

“We just cleared all the final tests yesterday to ascertain that’s it’s definitely a genius and future Olympian, so now we are thrilled to be able to share our news. We’re wrapped.” Hamish said in a press release. “I would also like to deny that it is taking over the Kyle and Jackie O show slot. It will hardly do any radio in its first year, at the most just a weekend show.” The pair initially shared the news via their instagram and facebook pages.

“Having baby with Zoe! First ultrasound pic. Looks like me! Same undies!” Hamish said on facebook, alongside a picture of himself in the foetal position in his underpants. He hastagged the picture with #prouddad.

Zoe posted the same picture to her instagram page saying: “I’m with child! Here’s the first ultrasound. Husband thinks it looks like him but I think he’s bias.”

The pair, who have been together since 2010, wed in December last year at an intimate ceremony with just 22 of their closest friends and family members.

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Video shows amazing Photoshop transformation

An amazing Photoshop transformation.

A still from the shocking video posted online.

The clip, posted on GlobalDemocracy.com, shows a blonde model arriving at a photo shoot bare-faced and with un-styled hair.

The studio’s lighting is then switched on, making the model look slimmer, before a hair and makeup artist works her magic, adding lashings of cosmetics and a hairpiece, dramatically altering the model’s appearance.

The photo is then taken but the transformation is far from complete.

In the retouching suite, the model’s eyes are made bigger, her nose smaller and her lips fuller.

The airbrush then attacks her body, drastically slimming her stomach, arms, bottom and thighs and lengthening her legs and neck.

Her skin-tone is then evened out to make it appear flawless, resulting in an image that bares almost no resemblance to the real life model who posed for it.

The video quickly went viral, being shared hundreds of thousands of times by users around the world.

Many users commented that the clip perfectly highlights how Photoshop is setting unrealistic beauty standards no real woman could ever live up to.

“Without all the fakery, most “gorgeous stars” are no different to the girls in your local pub,” one wrote.

While another added: “Why even have a model in the first place if you are just going to transform her into something else? Just create one on the computer.”

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Prince Charles admits to starting smoking at age 11

Prince Charles

Prince Charles

The once-mischievous heir to the throne told a respiratory nurse he had indulged in the habit as a youngster, but “a few cigarettes behind a chicken coop” were enough to lead him to quit.

At an event celebrating the work of nurses held at Clarence House, the Prince of Wales asked a group of respiratory nurse whether they worked with a lot of smokers.

“I gave up at 11 when I had a few cigarettes behind a chicken coop,” he jokingly told one nurse, who believed his remarks to be tongue-in-cheek.

It’s not the first time the Prince has made light of his early habit, sharing the same story with a group of school children in 1999.

“The good thing is to give them up when you are young,” he told the group of Slovenian pupils who erupted in laughter.

Charles’s son Prince Harry appears not to have taken his father’s advice — the rebellious Prince has long been a casual smoker. The Duchess of Cornwall, Charles’s wife, was once a heavy smoker but it said to have given up years ago.

Prince Charles, who is patron of more than 30 healthcare organisations, made his remarks at the Nursing Times Awards, recognising the pivotal role nurses play in healthcare.

“In general, quite apart from the medical expertise that nursing staff provide on a daily and nightly basis, the reassurance and simple human kindness that they can also dispense is, I believe, vital and must surely impact positively on the recovery of individuals,” he wrote in Nursing Times magazine leading up to the awards.

“Human kindness, reassurance and sympathy are age-old qualities, yet they are as important today as they have ever been.”

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Revealed: Angelina’s new Gold Coast home

The luxury Gold Coast estate Angelina Jolie will reportedly call home for the next two months has been revealed.
Angelina Jolie's new Gold Coast house revealed.

The luxury Gold Coast estate Angelina Jolie will call home for the next two months has been revealed.

Angelina and her six children are living in MotoGP champion Mick Doohan’s lavish house in the riverside suburb of Upper Coomera while she works on her new film Unbroken.

The sprawling home boasts an enormous swimming pool, tennis courts, 16 hectares of private grounds, a helipad, an outdoor kitchen and a stunning riverfront setting.

Unbroken is Angelina’s second directorial project and will be released in December 2014.

Angelina will reportedly spend two months at Mick Doohan’s estate.

The large family is expected to be ‘house-sitting’ for two months.

The riverfront mansion has an outdoor kitchen.

The director was said to have been hunting for a suitable property ‘for weeks’.

And plenty of outdoor entertaining for the large family.

The riverfront home boasts a helipad – a must for any celebrity family.

Brad Pitt is expecting to join the brood for Christmas.

The house is close to filming locations Moreton Island and Warner Bros studios.

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What Princess Mary wore in Sydney

With help from a mixture of Australian and Danish designers, Crown Princess Mary didn't let her style status slip on her homecoming trip to Sydney.
Princess Mary on her royal visit to Sydney

Earlier this year she was voted the world’s most stylish royal and with a little help from a mixture of Australian and Danish designers, Crown Princess Mary didn’t let her style status slip on her homecoming trip to Sydney.

Always polished and sophisticated, the Australian native wore a palette of neutral colours with some torquise, blue and metallic thrown in — a combination that was both reflective of the nation’s landscape, and complimentary to Mary’s delicate skin tone.

Local name Colette Dinnigan scored a couple of spots in Mary’s suitcase alongside international labels like Valentino.

Princess Mary on her royal visit to Sydney.

Danish designer Ole Yde at the Crown Prince Couple awards.

High fashion in Valentino and Prada on Sunday night.

In Australian label Willow on the final day of her tour.

Mary opted for a Danish design in a frock by Signe Bogelund on day one.

Simple black for an evening event at the Sydney Opera House.

In Collette Dinnigan visiting Sydney’s Children’s Hospital.

Mary wore another Collette Dinnigan with her Prada coat.

A more casual look visiting bushfire-ravaged Winmalee.

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Nicole opens up on “intoxicating” romance with Tom

Nicole Kidman opens up on “intoxicating” relationship with Tom Cruise

In recent years, Nicole Kidman has had no trouble opening up the ex-files and she’s at it again.

The actress has once again discussed her failed marriage to Tom Cruise, saying, in the December issue of Vanity Fair, that it was an “intoxicating” relationship in the public eye and a very romantic time of her life.

Nicole, who said she was “so young” when she married Tom, compared their relationship to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s romance.

“There’s something about that sort of existence. That is you really focus on each other and you’re in that bubble, it’s very intoxicating because it’s just the two of you,” she said.

“And there’s only one other person that’s going through it. So it brings you very close and it’s deeply romantic. I’m sure Brad and Angelina have that – because there’s nobody else that understands it except that person who’s sleeping right next to you.”

But her current husband Keith Urban has nothing to worry about. Nicole goes on to say he’s her “great love”. And you know, with no disrespect to what I had with Tom, I’ve met my great love now,” she said.

“And I really did not know if that was going to happen. I wanted it, but I didn’t want it for a while, because I didn’t want to jump from one relationship to another. I had a lot of time alone, which was really, really good, because I was a child, really, when I got married. And I needed to grow up.”

Meanwhile, Keith has opened up to Ellen Degeneres about how the pair deal with being apart for long periods of time – by sexting each other!

“Maybe one cool, kind of… you know… a year, one of those kinds of texts,” he said coyly on her TV show when asked about how they stay in touch.

“What kind of text? What do you mean?” Ellen asked. “Nice sex texting,” Keith admitted. “I’m a little red right now.”

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Will and Jada living apart

Will and Jada living apart

Will and Jada together in New York in April this year.

Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith have always had an unconventional relationship, but are the long-time couple really over this time?

Prompting rumours of marriage trouble and a trial separation, the pair have not seen each other in more than two months, and Jada has reportedly moved into her brother Caleeb Pinkett‘s home.

“Will and I can both do whatever we want because we trust each other to do so,” Jada said recently of their relationship.

“This does not mean we have an open relationship. It means we have a grown one.”

Will is currently filming Focus in New Orleans and has been there since mid-September. He plans to be there for another month Radar Online reported.

Meanwhile, Jada visited Paris earlier this month with her daughter Willow and her mother, Adrienne Banfield Jones.

She recently spoke at a charity event in Baltimore, giving the crowd some insight into her relationship.

“When you are going through a storm with your spouse… stop thinking about what you ‘believe’ a husband or wife should be,” she told the audience.

“I thought success would make me happy… It does not.”

The pair, who have been married for 15 years, have faced split rumours before.

In 2011 their relationship was said to be on rocky ground due to Jada’s close friendship with her co-star Marc Anthony, who dismissed the rumours as “laughable”.

Earlier this year Jada addressed the ongoing split speculation, telling Gala magazine: “These rumors are completely untrue. I travel a lot because of my work, just like Will does.

“But our lifestyle hasn’t changed. Before we had the kids, we were already far away from each other quite often because of separate projects.”

When contacted for comment on the couple’s marital issues, Will’s mother, Carolyn Smith, told Radar Online, “Isn’t that personal? Thank you for your concern.”

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The Queen’s day out with Camilla

When Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall was invited to tour an equestrian club, she could think of no one better to accompany her then her mother-in-law.

The Queen attended a tour of the Ebony Horse Club in Brixton, south London with Camilla where they met young riders and volunteers and watched horse riding skills demonstrations.

“They aren’t your typical polo ponies, are they? But they have a lot of spirit,” said the Queen said of the steeds on show.

See all of the pictures here!

The Queen’s day out with Camilla.

The Queen wears a Stewart Parvin geranium wool crepe coat.

The pair were all smiles at the event!

Camilla makes firends with a bag of mints.

The pair take in the horse skills demonstration.

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University tells women the key to getting a good job is tight clothing

How to ace that job interview

The offending image that was emailed out to Californian university students.

The Career Centre at the University of California Irvine sparked controversy on Monday when it sent out an email entitled “How to Ace That Job Interview”.

While the words contained in the message body were inoffensive, one of the pictures used left many female students outraged.

The image showed an Asian woman “before” and “after” an apparent job interview makeover.

The “after” image advises job-seeking women to don a full face of makeup, a “feminine top”, a tailored skirt and “leg-lengthening” heels to give themselves the best chance of getting a job.

Trousers, flat shoes, a bare face and a “boxy button-up” shirt are all frowned upon and presented as the quickest way to ensure you don’t succeed.

Countless appalled students forwarded the email to feminist blog Jezebel, who quickly discovered the university had stolen the image from a Boston blogger named Jean.

Jean had created the image two years ago for her blog Extra Petite – which gives fashion advice to short women working in corporate environments – after a reader wrote in to ask for tips on how to gain confidence and feel “less like a kid” in the office.

Jean was horrified her image has been misappropriated by the university and felt her message was completely lost in the email.

She says she was not trying to say pants and flat shoes should be banned, but rather that all clothes should fit properly.

“To illustrate my point, I used the only two pieces I could scrounge up at home that did not fit, which happened to be an old button up blouse and pants,” she told Jezebel.

“I used flats to emphasise my point about fit because too-long pants dragging on the floor is not professional. It very well could’ve been an ill-fitting dress, skirt, etc., but the principal of looking neat and tidy remains the same.”

“It’s harder for that to come through when the image is taken out of context, as my post explains that what fits well and what generates confidence is not the same for different individual and different body types.”

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Robyn Lawley: Why I hate the dangerous ‘thigh gap’ trend

Robyn Lawley: Why I hate the dangerous 'thigh gap' trend

Plus size model Robyn Lawley has addressed the disturbing "thigh gap" trend.

Robyn Lawley has weighed in on young women’s desire for a “thigh gap” – a disturbing social media trend encouraging users to be unhealthily thin.

The 24-year-old Australian model expressed her disgust writing about the proliferation of the trend, which encourages women to pursue a “thigh gap”, defined as the space between one’s thighs.

“Everywhere online, users are posting aspirational pictures, used as inspiration for weight loss and dieting,” she writes on the Daily Beast, going on to quote shocking messages from Pinterest users who have succumbed to the trend.

“I want the thigh gap. Right now, I could start a fire between my thighs,” she quotes one girl as saying.

“No goal was ever achieved without a thigh gap.”

Lawley, who has become a role model for young women spreading her positive body image message, says that while the trend is new to social media, in the modelling industry she has been inundated by images of the “thigh gap” since the age of 12.

“Staring down at my own thighs, I can safely say that has never been the case for me,” the size 16 model writes.

Lawley describes how surprised and appalled she was to find herself on a pro-thigh gap Facebook page recently when an image of herself bending forward, so a space could be seen between her legs, was posted as inspiration for young women wanting to be thin.

She found the experience “degrading and humiliating”, and has described the online trend as just another “tool of manipulation” to keep women from loving their body.

“I want the opposite: I want my thighs to be bigger and stronger. I want to run faster and swim longer,” she says.

“I suppose we all just want different things, but women have enough pressure as it is without the added burden of achieving a ‘thigh gap’.”

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