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Brad and Ange torn apart

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The couple’s bickering puts their wedding in jeopardy as their frustrations reach boiling point.

As an exhausted Brad Pitt stalked into his London home and dropped his bag on the first available surface, all he could think about was putting his feet up and forgetting the stresses of the day with a glass of red wine. But no sooner had he slipped off his shoes when his fiancée Angelina Jolie started in on him about the biggest source of contention in their relationship — her clash with his mother.

Ange’s history with Jane Pitt has been long and fraught, with the pair taking opposing views on everything, from religion to child-raising and even Brad’s ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston. Their underlying tension has now come to a head over Jane’s views against same-sex marriage — a cause Angelina, 37, has openly crusaded.

And far from apologising, Jane reportedly offered Ange a gift of a personalised Bible in lieu of the traditional olive branch. “Ange hit the roof!” a source tells Woman’s Day. “She says she’s not having anyone with far-right political views anywhere near her children.” Another source close to Brad adds, “Jane and Ange never really got along, especially since Jane adored Jennifer and stayed in touch with her for a few years after the split. I can see that body language between them every time we all dine together at one of Brad’s homes.”

But as much as Angelina dislikes her future mother-in-law, she’s not about to tell her. “When Ange is upset at Jane, she rages at Brad, not at Jane herself, since they all have to get along to some degree,” explains a family insider. “Poor Brad is the one who gets an earful.” And unfortunately for the 48-year-old star, he’s reportedly copping it from both sides. “Jane told him she didn’t think he should be marrying Angelina because she is ‘immoral, unfaithful, and can’t be trusted’,”another close insider claims.

Read more about Brad and Ange’s, including why Brad isn’t so laid back anymore, in this week’s Woman’s Day on sale Monday August 6, 2012.

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Palace fury as British MP reveals Kate’s pregnant

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The secret is out…that gorgeous glow may be more than wedded bliss.

When it comes to confirming the imminent arrival of a royal heir, Buckingham Palace intends to keep it a closely guarded secret for as long as humanly possible. So when a loose-lipped British politician last week announced to a crowd of 250 people that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting, royal staffers were understandably furious at the blatant breach of protocol.

“I think Kate is pregnant,” MP Claire Perry told the crowd at a gathering at Kate’s former school, Marlborough College, cheekily adding, “It would be good for the economy.” The comments sparked a bump-watch among royalists when Prince William’s wife made several appearances at the London Olympics. While the 30-year-old’s hands were often seen protectively hovering over her stomach, royal experts aren’t confirming the pregnancy.

The politician’s remarks have been labelled “inappropriate”, “crass” and “unhelpful” — among other things. “It’s out of turn and slightly crass,” palace observer Ingrid Seward told the UK’s Daily Mail. “If she is pregnant, no-one is going to know about it. Kate won’t want to take the glory away from the Queen in her Jubilee year.” Royal historian Hugo Vickers agrees, adding, “Unless Claire has visited the same gynaecologist [as Kate] it strikes me as extremely unlikely she might know. It’s none of her business!”

Clarence House has refused to comment, but the infuriating claims have come just as Kate is shining brighter than ever in her role as the future queen. She has stepped up to the plate in the biggest year of modern royal history, representing the Queen at events for the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics.

Read more about Kate and her royal role in this week’s Woman’s Day on sale Monday August 6, 2012.

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Leisel Jones: ‘Thanks for believing in me Australia!’

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The swimming stalwart was intent on proving her critics wrong in London.

Powering towards the finish, her fingernails painted a shade of blue as vivid as the water around her, Olympics veteran Leisel Jones knew she had more to prove than ever in what has been a truly extraordinary career.

As an intensely personal debate raged about Leisel’s race weight, the 26-year-old was determined to go out in style at what may well be her final Olympics. The first Australian swimmer to compete in four Games and one of the greatest breaststrokers in history, Leisel is nothing if not a fighter. And the inspiring athlete made it clear that being subjected to “hurtful” scrutiny over her level of fitness and body shape had only made her all the more motivated.

“It’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I couldn’t ask for anything more,” Leisel declared. “I’m one of those people, you put me under pressure, I’ll show you what I can do. “I did one of my best sessions every day after I’d heard the comments.” Leisel also reveals she had never felt “so loved in my life” after support flowed in from fans after the criticism. And while she has previously admitted to being plagued by depression and feelings of insecurity in her early career, this time she remained focused on doing things her way.

After the race, she declared she was “pretty happy” with a courageous fifth place in her fourth 100m Olympics Breaststroke final. “I know I’ve made myself proud just by being here, and I’d like to think I’ve earned myself a bit of credibility just by being here so long and doing the job that I have,” she said. But it was her spot in the 4 x 100m Medley Relay for which Leisel battled hardest. “That was the biggest one that I wanted out of this trip, and it was the toughest one of them all,” she said, “I had to really fight tooth-and-nail for that medley relay spot.”

Read more about Leisel plus other Aussie Olympic sports stars including James Magnussen and Alicia Coutts in this week’s Woman’s Day on sale Monday August 6, 2012.

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Five things you didn’t know about Sally Pearson

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Sally Pearson

Four years ago, a little-known hurdler called Sally McLellan became an overnight sensation when footage of her celebrating after winning silver at the Beijing Olympics went viral.

Sally was not expecting to place and her enthusiastic reaction to her medal — which was very nearly gold — endeared her to the nation.

Last night, Sally — now with the last name Pearson, after her marriage in 2010 — was back in the Olympic arena with the hopes of a nation resting on her toned shoulders.

And like a true champion, she rose to the challenge, winning gold in a thrilling 100m hurdles final.

In tribute to this fantastic achievement, we have put together a list of things you might not know about Australia’s favourite hurdler.

1. She frequently trains so hard she vomits.

Sally is committed to her daily training sessions, putting so much into them she often vomits on the track. Her coach Sharon Hannan says Sally has always been completely committed to her training, even as a young girl. “She never put something before training, ever, and that’s unheard of,” says Sharon. “Kids have social lives and they have lots of pulls in different directions, but they weren’t pulls for her. Training was first and I’ve never come across a kid before or since with that same commitment.”

2. She suffers from performance-related depression.

Sally was devastated when she finished fifth in the 100m hurdles final at the 2009 World Championships. She had been the favourite to win the event and the disappointment triggered a depression she was still trying to free herself from months later. “I went downhill big-time mentally because I was just so devastated,” says Sally, who sees a psychologist to deal with training and performance pressure. “I couldn’t do what I wanted to do and I wasn’t doing it as well as I wanted to, and that was really hard for me to deal with, but it’s slowly coming,” she says.

3. She has a love-hate relationship with her coach.

Sally has been working with her coach Sharon since she was 12 years old (she is now 25). They are frequently told they fight like mother and daughter. “It’s definitely a love-hate relationship,” says Sally. “Me and Sharon never see eye to eye, but I’m getting a personal best every single year, so if it’s not broken, why fix it?”

4. Sally’s family had very little money, but that didn’t stop her from training every day.

Her mother didn’t have a car, so Sally took a series of buses after school to make it to training. She may have been a perfectionist, but she was no prima donna. “Sal wore rags,” recalls Sharon. “She just wore probably one set of clothes for four or five years until the arse fell out of it. They never had any money, but when they did, it went to catching buses to training.”

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5. Sally is married to her childhood sweetheart

Sally married Kieran Pearson in 2010. The pair went to high school together and started dating in their senior year. When he proposed, six years later, “I just knew,” says Sally. “We get along so well. We barely fight. If you’re happy and comfortable, what’s to wait for?”

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August 5, 2012

Bring some excitement to your vegetable patch

Not long ago, a 'good' backyard vegie garden had neat rows of cabbages and lots of tomatoes. There'd be carrots and green leafed silver beet and cucumbers, and green beans. Vegie gardens are changing.

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It’s time to start dreaming about the extraordinary range of luscious things you can grow cheaply and easily, but most of all enjoyably — because growing your own veg is bags of fun. Even kids will join in the picking (and eating) even if they’re not keen on the weeding, mulching and watering bits.

I start my seed buying each year with beans. This year I’ll grow Purple Kings, or Royal Burgundy bush beans — bright purple on the bush but they turn green when cooked.

I will also grow some red speckled borlotti beans too. They can be eaten like ordinary French beans or left to dry on the bush for ‘dried beans’. Either way, they are wonderfully heat and drought resistant, with a good crop even in the harshest of summers.

Instead of boring old broccoli, look for broccoli Romanesco seeds. They are an elegant ‘Italian’ shape. Boil or steam the heads then drizzle on lemon juice, garlic and olive oil dressing for definite pizazz.

It’s been years since I grew old-fashioned cabbages too. I still have a soft spot for red cabbage over winter — and it does make brilliant coleslaw — but for cabbage in our stir fries we have some of the Asian cabbage types, like ‘Red Choi’, fast growing, heat hardy, with purple-red leaves and delicious tender stems.

This year our carrots will be a blend of white, purple, red skinned, yellow and round orange, though I wish I had ordered some Purple Dragon carrots too, with dark purple skin and a rich orange centre. They are sweet but have a slightly different flavour to traditional orange carrots — not pronounced, just enough to think, ‘Hmm, what have we here?’.

Then there are the greens — red-stemmed chicory, curly kale, corn salad, golden purslane, tatsoi, mizuna, red orach — there are so many greens around these days, many of which are red or purple instead of green, but still superb in mixed leaf salads or stir fried.

For lettuce I think we will stick with red mignonettes this year — tiny soft hearts, just enough for a serving for two happy salad eaters.

I’ll probably also be tempted by punnets of ‘lettuce mix’ that have curly leafed varieties, red and green, hearting and the ones you pick leaf by leaf as you need them.

If you grow your own it’s cheap to try veg you may not have eaten before, too: old-fashioned kohlrabi, with a mild cabbage-like flavour — slice the peeled root thinly and stir fry or steam till it’s still slightly crisp, not soggy.

In frost free areas try jicama, or climbing yam bean. You eat the tubers either thinly sliced and raw, or cooked. Celeriac is a form of celery grown for its fat root. It can be steamed, but is superb grated and served in a small mound with your favourite salad dressing.

Even the staples like tomatoes and corn can be dramatic — yellow or purple tomatoes or Black Krim, with their almost black-red shoulders, or grape-sized Thai Pink tomatoes, or any of over a hundred varieties available from seed suppliers or even on your local nursery shelves.

And forget about boring dark green zucchini. Go for round ‘Ronde De Nice’ which have firm sweet flesh that doesn’t go soggy, or warty yellow Crookneck bush squash, which sound hideous but are actually sweet and charming.

And then there are mini watermelons, and small sweet Red Kuri Japanese pumpkins, yellow and white sweet corn, and … look, do you really need the front lawn?

Dig it all up, and get planting — or at least ordering the seeds online or from your favourite nursery, and digging and getting gardens ready.

Spring is in the air, the birds are singing, and it’s time to start dreaming of what you will be planting when the soil warms up … and all the good things you will be eating by Christmas.

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How financially fit are you?

Like any top performing athlete, fitness of the financial kind takes planning, training, time and perseverance to stay on top of your game - so don't let poor fitness ruin your chances of winning gold.

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On your mark

The first step to becoming financially fit is to set some goals and identify what you want to achieve. If you have no fitness at all, start with short distance events, such as paying off one of your credit cards or saving $5,000. Once you’ve identified your short-term goals, you can then highlight some medium and long-term goals. It’s important to set a clear finish line — whether it’s a new home, an overseas holiday or a comfortable retirement. It’s a lot easier to achieve something when you have a clear reason for doing it.

Get set

Just as an athlete will test their fitness level before an event, you should also have a good understanding of what financial shape you are in. Go through your filing cabinet and take stock of what bank accounts, superannuation and insurance you have. Also go through your bills and take a good look at what you are spending your money on. Once you know where you stand, work out a game plan for achieving your Olympic-sized dreams. It’s a good idea to factor in a few easy warm-up exercises, such as reducing spending by taking your own lunch to work.

Go!

Once the starter’s pistol has fired, it’s important to stay focused and keep your eye on the finish line. Athletes are very disciplined and to stay on track financially you need to be equally committed. Simply understanding the principles behind a solid financial plan isn’t enough to get you to the winners’ podium. If you have a shiny new pair of sneakers, it won’t be until you take them to the track, that you will see any results. Don’t forget you have to be willing to make sacrifices to come out on top this financial year. There is no room for excuses in this exercise regime!

Sound daunting? If you find training on your own difficult, it might be worth considering a coach.

A financial planner can help to set goals, plan for your financial future, and keep you on track.

Dianne Charman is an AMP financial planner and mother of two.

Dianne Charman is an Authorised Representative of AMP Financial Planning Pty Ltd, ABN 89 051 208 327, AFS Licence No. 232706. Any advice given is general only and has not taken into account your objectives, financial situation or needs. Because of this, before acting on any advice, you should consult a financial planner to consider how appropriate the advice is to your objectives, financial situation and needs.

To find your nearest AMP financial planner visit www.amp.com.au/findaplanner.

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August 5, 2012

Chihuahua beats police canine unit to missing girls

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When three young girls went missing, rescue authorities didn’t expect the one to find them would be a tiny Chihuahua named Belle.

The girls from Georgia in the US, eight-year-olds Carlie Parga and Victoria Baker along with Carlie’s five-year-old sister Lacey, were taking their dog Lucy for a walk down their street when Lucy picked up a scent in the nearby woods and led the girls off their usual path.

When the girls didn’t return from their walk, their frantic parents called authorities and a search was launched.

Police, the fire brigade and the police canine unit were all called out to the search, but it was neighbour Carvin Young’s three-year-old Chihuahua, Belle, who saved the day.

She located the girls after they had been missing in the woods for more than two hours.

Carvin said that as soon as he knew the girls were missing he joined the search and took his dog with him. Belle soon picked up the girls’ scent and began running until she reached them.

“She started wagging her tail and scratching and jumping up on me,” Carvin said.

“She is a good dog and everybody loves her.”

Carlie and Lacey Parga’s mum, Rebecca, said her daughters play with Belle almost every day and the dog is very familiar with them.

All three girls, who say they were scared after becoming lost, were found unhurt.

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Five minutes with Liam Neeson

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One of Hollywood’s true gentlemen opens up about defying stereotypes, looking sexy at 60 and…

Being an action star

“I don’t know really where the action tag has come from. Just look at the success of the film Taken…I thought it was going to be a straight-to-video release. That is actually one of the reasons I did it. I felt like three months in Paris, I’d get to do all this physical stuff that no one would think of me for, and that the film would go straight to video. Then Twentieth Century Fox picked it up and it became this big success. I was a tiny bit embarrassed by it, a tiny bit, but then people started sending me action scripts.”

Getting older

“You should have seen me this morning! No, it is what it is. There is nothing you can do about it. You do think about your mortality more. Without getting heavy about it, you do think about mortality a lot more because you are a dad. That’s a concern to you. Anyway, I keep pretty fit.”

Staying in shape

“I used to do all that, but now I have stopped. I gave that up a couple of years back. I gave up smoking and I am very pleased to have done that 17 years ago. I do still have a few habits. I love drinking wine.”

His first real job

“Yes. I guess it was Excalibur in Ireland. I remember falling in love. I saw Helen Mirren 50 yards away dressed as Morgana Le Fay and it was like, ‘Cool!'”

Getting Rihanna’s autograph on the set of Battleship

“It was for me! She is so cute. She is terrific in the film, too. Sadly I didn’t get to work with her much directly on set but in my first scene I am making a speech to some 500 cadets on a battleship and Rihanna is in there. We had a holding area on the ship, a sort of green room, and she was in there with her little posse.”

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August 3, 2012

Soft drinks are ‘evil’ and should be avoided

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A leading researcher has urged people to stop drinking fizzy beverages immediately or risk serious health problems.

Dr Hans-Peter Kubis has just finished a study of how soft drinks affect our bodies and has reached some shocking conclusions.

Kubis has now sworn off “evil” fizzy drinks, and thinks everyone else should do the same.

“Having seen all the medical evidence, I don’t touch soft drinks now,” Kubis said. “I think drinks with added sugar are, frankly, evil.”

Kubis and his team from Bangor University found that as little as two cans of soft drink a week can wreak havoc on our health.

Previous studies have suggested that even moderate consumption appeared to increase the risk of heart disease, liver failure, pancreatic cancer and hypertension.

Kubis’ study — published this week in European Journal of Nutrition — found that such drinks might also alter our metabolisms so we rapidly gain weight.

The study concluded that sugary drinks can change the way we burn fat, making our muscles more inclined to burn sugar instead.

This results in weight gain and a reduced ability to regulate blood sugar, increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes.

Australian researcher Dr Bamini Gopinath from Sydney University’s Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research conducted a study investigating the link between soft drink consumption and heart disease in children.

He has also stopped consuming soft drink as a result of his research, and thinks other Australians should too.

“I’m not sure if they are ‘evil’ but there’s certainly no nutritional value in drinking soft drinks,” he said.

“They have been associated with so many chronic disease it is best to avoid consuming them. Australians should definitely stop drinking fizzy drinks.”

The Australian Beverage Council has rubbished Kubis’ study, saying the small sample size and lack of control group make any findings invalid.

“This highly flawed study cannot be used to state that soft drinks are directly responsible for weight gain, diabetes and other chronic health problems,” the council’s Chief Executive Officer Geoff Parker said.

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Parker also rejected claims that soft drink is contributing to the obesity epidemic, saying no one product can be singled out for blame when so many factors contribute to an unhealthy lifestyle.

“People consume many different foods and beverage so no one single food or beverage is responsible for people being overweight,” he said.

“All calories count and it is the total diet or overall pattern of foods and beverages eaten that should be the focus of a healthy eating style.”

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August 3, 2012

William can’t keep his hands (or eyes) off Kate

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Royal protocol bans William and Kate from kissing or cuddling in public, but the young couple couldn’t help themselves yesterday, throwing their arms around each other as Britain won another gold medal.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge watched the British men’s cycling sprint team ride to victory in the velodrome.

The young royals were overjoyed by the result, jumping up and down when team GB crossed the finish line first.

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