The cricket legend and the sex symbol have some big news.
With a loose leopard-print wrap covering her famous body, Liz Hurley seemed to have something to hide on her Las Vegas getaway with fiance Shane Warne earlier this month.
As our exclusive pictures show, the gorgeous model and fashion designer appeared to be disguising a baby bump!
Liz was careful to keep her swelling belly hidden from prying eyes, remaining covered up in tummy-skimming clothing at the pool, even as her 43-year-old cricket legend husband-to-be flaunted his sporting physique in the steamy weather.
While it’s hard to believe that Liz could be pregnant at 48, Shane’s ex-wife Simone Callahan tells Woman’s Day she wouldn’t be surprised at all. “I think it’s probably really, really unlikely but then nothing shocks me anymore,” she says.
Read more about Liz and Shane and see all of the pictures in this week’s Woman’s Day, on sale Monday, July 15 2013.
The Duchess of Cambridge’s little sister appears to have ‘freshened’ her appearance.
She’s famous for being Kate, Duchess of Cambridge’s gorgeous younger sister, but it seems Pippa Middleton has been giving her good looks a bit of a boost with the cosmetic surgeon’s syringe.
Perched in the Royal Box at Wimbledon, the stunning 29-year-old looked more fresh-faced than ever, raising eyebrows among royal watchers.
Leading Sydney cosmetic physician Dr Tom Parmakellis says speculation that Pippa is relying on cosmetic procedures to keep looking youthful could well be true.
“Her forehead lines are no longer present, and when smiling, the lines around her eyes are less obvious,” he explains. “She could’ve had Botox to her frown lines and possibly also to her crow’s-feet.”
Read more about Pippa’s changing face in this week’s Woman’s Day, on sale Monday, July 15 2013.
Furious, and fed up with playing the victim, the domestic goddess gets tough after her husband’s latest public humiliation.
If Nigella Lawson’s husband Charles Saatchi thinks he’s had the final word by announcing he wants a divorce, he had better think again. Friends say the star is as mad as hell that Saatchi is now painting her as the guilty party in their marriage – and she’s “ready for a fight”.
Without any warning last week, Saatchi told a British paper he plans to divorce the domestic goddess, alleging he is the mistreated one.
The 70-year-old art collector said he had no choice after his wife refused to defend him publicly after photos of him clutching her throat in a heated row at a posh London eatery were published.
What’s more, he claims she does the same to him during arguments at home. Friends say Nigella was “left reeling” by Saatchi’s “cruel” assertions that he had “clearly been a disappointment” to his wife over the past year while they had been “drifting apart”, and that in the weeks since she left their home following the choking incident, she hasn’t returned his calls.
Read more about Nigella’s brave fight in this week’s Woman’s Day, on sale Monday, July 15 2013.
How would you cope if you were forced to leave your home, job and country with nothing more than the clothes on your back? Claire Seaward meets some Syrian refugees who have had to do just that.
I recently met Reema*, a 19-year-old Syrian girl, in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Back in Syria, Reema had her whole life before her. She’d just finished high school, and was about to go to university to study. She was eager to work and set up her future.
Then, her family home was bombed and she, her parents and sisters had to flee. Now she sits in a camp with no chance of further education, no prospect of independence, and — in her eyes — no real hope of a better future.
Sadly, Reema’s story is just one of many among the people of Syria.
Over the past four months, I have met many women refugees in Lebanon and Jordan. I feel honoured to hear their stories. In a crisis such as this, the views and concerns of ordinary people are often hard to find. The voices of women are especially rare.
Many Syrian women are struggling to deal with the reality they face. Like you and me, they used to have homes, jobs, water, electricity, education and healthcare. Some are university professors, architects, and their husbands are landscape gardeners, stone masons and businessmen. Then, one day, it was all gone.
For many mothers I have met — it is their children they are most worried about. Many fled Syria because they feared for the lives of their sons and daughters.
They worry that their children are no longer getting an education, that the water they are drinking is making them sick, and that they won’t be able to provide them with enough food.
Women and children collecting water in a Lebanese refugee camp.
Pregnant women are worried about giving birth and raising children in a camp that is dusty and dirty, where only basic medical care is available.
Listening to these stories, I am struck by how lucky I am to have grown up in a country that is stable and prosperous like Australia.
When I am sick, I go to see my local doctor. When I turn on a tap, I have drinkable water. How would I cope if tomorrow I became a refugee? I honestly don’t know.
It’s not something I’m likely to face. But then, that’s what the women I have met thought too.
One of the most common phrases I have heard refugees from Syria say is: “I never thought this would happen to us.”
Since the conflict started three years ago, 1.6 million people have had to leave Syria to find safety and security in neighbouring countries, sometimes with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.
Another 4.25 million people are still inside Syria, but have had to flee their homes to try to find a safe place to live.
Oxfam, and many others, is able to help with the immediate problems facing refugees.
For example, we are working with local organisations to provide cash and vouchers so families can buy food and pay for a roof over their heads — whether that roof is a basement, part of an abandoned building, or plastic sheeting to make a tent.
The aid that governments like Australia and individual people give is truly making a difference — it is saving lives.
The UN has just asked for US$5 billion to provide people affected by the Syrian crisis with life-saving humanitarian assistance during 2013.
It’s a huge amount of money, but to provide essential aid such as food, water, shelter and medical care to the millions of people affected, it is the amount we need.
What aid agencies like Oxfam can’t do is make Syria safe enough for people to go home. Governments and the opposition groups inside Syria need to do that — and we strongly urge them to find a peaceful solution to the crisis as soon as possible.
The women I have spoken to desperately want to go home. They love Syria. But until it is safe to do so, they sit in limbo in countries like Lebanon and Jordan — not knowing their fate.
Claire Seaward is a campaign manager for Oxfam. Having grown up in Harvey, South West Australia, Claire went to the University of Western Australia in Perth where she completed a degree in commerce. After moving to the UK, Claire began working with Oxfam as a campaigner. Over the past eight years with Oxfam, Claire has campaigned for better lives for the poorest people, through education and healthcare for all, more and better aid, debt relief, land rights for poor women farmers, global regulation of the sale of small arms and faster and better assistance during humanitarian crises. She has spent time in Pakistan, west and southern Africa, and Nepal, and has worked with colleagues across the world. Claire has been leading Oxfam’s campaigning on the Syria response since late February 2013. Based in Jordan and Lebanon, she has been campaigning for a faster and better humanitarian response for refugees and people inside Syria. She normally lives in Sierra Leone.
The end of their relationship was splashed across the front pages but Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi have reportedly negotiated a swift divorce to avoid more of their dirty being aired in public
The violent end of their relationship was splashed across the front pages but Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi have reportedly negotiated a swift divorce to avoid any more of their dirty being aired in public.
Documents detailing the division of their estimated $250 million in assets were filed with England’s High Court last week after Saatchi brokered a deal directly with his estranged wife’s lawyer and cousin Fiona Shackleton — who represented both Prince Charles and Paul McCartney in their divorces.
The couple are believed to have signed a pre-nuptial agreement before they wed in 2003 and Saatchi was reportedly keen to come to a settlement agreement quickly to avoid court, where details of their private life and relationship would have been made public.
“Fiona prepared a full court document, every detail of every asset was listed, and an agreement was reached with no dispute,” a friend of Saatchi’s told The Daily Mail.
“They have agreed never to make public the terms of the divorce or financial settlements. Fiona lodged the divorce document with the court last Friday.”
Saatchi and Lawson’s marriage erupted last month when he was photographed apparently choking her outside a London restaurant.
He brushed the incident off as a “playful tiff” but the photographer came forward and said he had witnessed “27 minutes of madness” as Saatchi repeatedly abused his wife.
Lawson moved in with her sister in the aftermath of the event but was said to be “blindsided” when Saatchi announced he was divorcing her in an open letter to a Sunday newspaper.
The Duke of Cambridge’s cousin Peter Phillips has spoken out about what great parents William and Catherine will make.
Peter, who is Princess Anne’s son, said the whole royal family was excited about the new arrival.
“They will make great parents and it’s great to be able to welcome another child into the family, if not from a selfish perspective for my two girls to be able to grow up with a playmate,” he told CNN’s royal correspondent.
With the little prince or princess due any time now, the Duke and Duchess are excitedly preparing for the birth of their first child and the third in line to the throne.
Peter has no doubt that the Duke and Duchess will ease into parenthood, even as the world eagerly watches on.
“He or she will be under a great deal of scrutiny,” he said.
“That being said, both of the baby’s parents are used to that and I think there is the structure and infrastructure around them all to be able to protect them to a certain extent.”
The child, whose royal title will be HRH Prince or Princess of “name” Cambridge, is officially due on July 13th. Journalists are already on constant watch outside St Mary’s Hospital, where Catherine is due to give birth.
The Canadian actor was found in his hotel room on the 21st floor of the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel on Vancouver’s waterfront at about noon Saturday.
Cory was found by a hotel staff member after he failed to check out on time.
The cause of death is yet to be confirmed, but police say there was no foul play and that Cory was alone in hos hotel room at the time of the incident.
Cory, who is famous for his role as Finn Hudson in the hit TV series Glee, voluntarily entered rehab for substance abuse problems in April.
At the time his onscreen and real-life girlfriend Lea Michele said that she loved and supported Corey and was proud of him for seeking help.
Margaret Turner and Terry Hutt are stationed outside the hospital waiting for the royal baby.
Royal watchers around the world are in baby countdown mode as the arrival of the first child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge draws near, but none are more dedicated that 69-year-old Margaret Turner.
The renowned royalist and collector — “named after Princess Margaret,” she’s quick to point out — has set up camp alongside camera crews and journalists near the entrance to hospital wing where Catherine is due to give birth.
Margaret has famously turned her Wembley home into a royal museum housing more than 10,000 collectibles, and she’s brought a bit of her enthusiastic royal decorating style to the site she’s set up for the wait for Kate’s baby.
Surrounded by Union flag fare, congratulatory signs, balloons (pink and blue options, just in case) and bags emblazoned with images from the royal wedding, Margaret and her partner-in-royal watching Terry Hutt will wait outside the Paddington hospital for “as long as it takes”.
Margaret and Terry have two cards ready for a baby Prince or Princess.
“I’ve been watching the television but I just had to be in the atmosphere, it’s an enormous occasion,” the Margaret tellsThe Weekly.
The royal watcher isn’t making any guesses as to whether the baby will be a boy or girl, what the name will be, or even when the new prince or princess will arrive, but whenever that is she’ll be ready to celebrate with tea in hand.
“I’ll drink a lot of tea!” she says.
“There’ll be champagne on the go, of course, but I’m not a drinker. I’ll just be so happy for the family.”
A new specially-made cabinet has just been installed in Margaret’s home to display the royal baby memorabilia she’ll be purchasing to celebrate its arrival, adding to the “bits and bobs” she’s already collected.
So why does the self-acclaimed most dedicated royal watcher think the royal baby is so special?
“It’s William and Catherine, isn’t it,” she says.
“Catherine is the face of the royal family now, and I think the Queen — her majesty — is very pleased with them.”
“It’s a big thing isn’t it and she’ll be so pleased when it’s over. Whether it’s going to be a boy or girl it’s going to be the future king or queen of England so I mean no pressure there.”
Margaret will have to break from baby watch duties to attend the Queen’s Coronation Gala festival at Buckingham Palace on Sunday and she’ll be spending the nights in a nearby apartment she has decorated with some of her royal memorabilia collection and equipped with a telescope facing the hospital in case anything happens.
They’re also ready to celebrate when the young royal family move into Kensington Palace.
But 59-year-old Terry will spend as many nights as it takes camping out waiting for the arrival.
Terry is ready to welcome the royal baby whenever it arrives, and whether it’s a boy or girl.
“What I’ve done is I’ve got two cards, one for a boy and one for a girl, because we just don’t know,” he tellsThe Weekly.
“You hear people say boy or girl, but what I want to see is a healthy baby. It’s their first baby, this is special.”
The Weekly has joined the countdown on the ground and will be bringing you all the latest royal baby news live from London.
Katrina Price, Cameron Sims and Clint Butler from Perth have caught royal baby fever in London.
Australian’s generally don’t need a reason to visit London, the city is swarming with them.
But the prospect of being in the city that is home to the royal family when the Duchess of Cambridge delivers her first child and soaking up the atmosphere of the historical event is providing extra incentive.
Perth native 23-year-old Katrina Price only have a few days left in London and she’s keen to spend them hanging around London’s royal haunts.
“It’s pretty exciting,” she tells The Weekly at the gates of Buckingham Palace.
“Hopefully it will come when I’m here and hopefully it will be a girl. I’ll be disappointed if the royal baby arrives just after I leave.”
Ann Broadhurst and grandchildren Jakob and Caitlin are staking out Buckingham Palace to soak up the excitement.
Ann Broadhurst has brought her grandson Jakob all the way from Hong Kong with his cousin Caitlin who are all very excited about the royal baby.
“We’re here to enjoy London and we came to Buckingham Palace to see if there was anything happening about the baby,” Ann says.
“With another royal family member pregnant, Zara Phillips specifically, it’s quite an exciting time,” Jackob adds.
Michael, Natasha, Sara and Naeve Schofield from Hobart.
The Schofield family have been travelling around Europe for three weeks and are pleased to be in London where there is such a buzz around the royal baby, though it wasn’t on their list of attractions.
Parents Michael and Natasha from Hobart “aren’t huge royalists” and it seems daughter Naeve will follow in their footsteps: “What baby?” the five-year-old says when asked her view on the royal arrival.
“It would be good to say we were here when it happened, but we’re not hanging out for it,” Natasha says as her husband chimes in: “we hope it’s healthy, just like any other baby.”
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