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April 30, 2012

The best performances on The Voice

The Voice has captivated Australia, with ratings topping 4 million last night. Take a look back at some of the best moments from the show so far in this video gallery.

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Just when we thought we’d seen everything TV talent shows have to offer, along came The Voice.

Channel Nine’s new show has captivated the nation, with the blind auditions attracting more than 3 million viewers and the first of the “battle rounds” topping 4 million.

The Voice is the first thing we talk about in the office on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings and a topic of constant intrigue throughout the rest of the week.

We’ve compiled this video gallery of the best performances from The Voice for everyone who is just as obsessed as we are. Which is your favourite?

Judges Keith Urban, Delta Goodrem, Seal and Joel Madden.

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April 30, 2012

William and Kate walk up the aisle again

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at an event in London last week.

A year after their own spectacular wedding, Prince William and Kate Middleton walked up the aisle again on Saturday at the nuptials of their friends.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge travelled to St Andrews Church in Wingfield, England, to attend the wedding of close friends Hannah Gillingham and Robert Carter.

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By the time the royal couple arrived, the only remaining seats were at the front of the church, so William and Catherine had to walk up the aisle in front of the entire congregation, leaving guests giggling.

“They sat close to the front of the church, so they had to walk down the aisle together to get there,” an onlooker told Us Weekly magazine. “It made a few people chuckle.”

The duchess’ssister Pippa Middleton also attended the wedding, wearing a showy hat covered in colourful butterflies and a sequined dress.

Catherine dressed down for the occasion, donning a blue lace Erdem dress — first seen during her trip to Canada last year — to avoid stealing attention from the bride.

After the wedding, William and Catherine left Pippa to party and returned to their farmhouse in Anglesey, Wales, so they could wake up in their own home for their official anniversary.

The royal couple stayed in all day yesterday, with their spokesperson confirming: “They’ve been looking forward to a very special day at home.”

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They were reportedly planning a romantic candlelit dinner, with Catherine preparing fish en papillote — in parchment — as a nod to the fact that a couple’s first wedding anniversary is traditionally referred to as a “paper” anniversary.

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April 29, 2012

The Block’s Dan and Dani: We’re not here to make friends

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After bagging the first room reveal, Dan and Dani are out to win The Block.

Over the years we’ve seen our fair share of super-competitive contestants on The Block – Josh and Jenna, Gav and Waz, and Erin and Jake, to name a few. But could this year’s Dan and Dani be the most take-no-prisoners team we’ve seen to date?

While many of the other contestants took time out in the first few days to get to know their neighbours, it was straight down to business for the competitive duo, who admitted from day one that they had their eye on the prize. “[Making friends] isn’t our main priority,” Dan admits. “It’s to win the show.” And if that means their neighbours and some viewers don’t warm to them, well, so be it. “We are who we are – if people don’t like us, oh well,” Dan says.

“We’re not going to hate you for it, but we’re not going to go out of our way to please you.” After the first few days, their fellow neighbours had an inkling the couple at Number Four were totally focused on winning. “Dani is probably the most competitive. She is very secretive – but nice about it,” says Dale. “The others don’t care about telling you what’s going on, but they like to keep things quiet.”

“We are competitive, yep, I definitely agree with that,” Dan says. “But are we the most competitive? I don’t know. We have been slammed for it, but I’m pretty sure there are two or three others who are every bit as eager to win as we are.”

Read more about Dan and Dani’s competitive nature in this week’s Woman’s Day on sale Monday April 30, 2012.

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April 29, 2012

I’m a mum to 240 kids!

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This remarkable Aussie granny has opened up her home and her heart to hundreds of foster children.

Melbourne grandmother Pam Lawrence laughs off the suggestion that she’s Australia’s answer to Mother Teresa. But there are many to whom she is just that. Over the past 24 years, the 61-year-old former hairdresser has taken 237 children in need of foster care into her home.

And while some of her contemporaries are now starting to take life a little more easily, Pam has no intention of giving up her role as a foster mother any time soon. Pam and her husband Joe, 64, – who have raised three boys of their own and have four grandchildren – are currently caring for an infant, as well as a teenager with high special needs who has been living with the couple for many years.

Pam, who first contemplated fostering when one of her boys brought home a brochure from school in 1988, is more than willing to give up countless hours of her time – not to mention sleep – to welcome some of the most vulnerable members of the community into her family.

“I wasn’t working at the time and I just thought, ‘I could do this and I’d still be home for my own kids after school and be able to help other young children as well.’ At the time, we had a big family conference about it,” she recalls.

Read more about Pam’s story in this week’s Woman’s Day on sale Monday April 30, 2012.

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Keith Urban tells: My second chance

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He is winning hearts across the nation, but family is everything to country music sex symbol Keith, who feels blessed to have a second chance after nearly losing his beautiful voice.

As Keith Urban says himself, he has come a long way from his humble upbringing in Caboolture, a tiny blue-collar town north of Brisbane, where he started playing guitar when he was six years old. Keith, 44, may have found a whole new generation of fans with his sensitive and heart-warming performance on Nine’s The Voice, but it was this quiet superstar’s induction into the Grand Ole Opry family two weeks ago that had him jumping for joy.

“Thank you very much: Yee haw! That is awesome!” he told fans around the world after performing his hits Days Go By and Without You – and showing his seductive voice had lost none of its charm despite a frightening recent throat operation. He thanked his parents Bob and Marienne, who “got me into country music and drove me around to all the gigs”, his wife Nicole Kidman, and his daughters Sunday Rose, 3, and 15-month old Faith – but reserved his biggest thanks for his fans.

“It’s a long way from Caboolture to the stage here at the Grand Ole Opry… and to stand in this circle is the most phenomenal thing,” he says. “This opportunity for me is a way to say they [his fans] don’t know how much they mean to me. It”s such a long journey for me to get to this stage.” The four-time Grammy winner wants to be seen as a trailblazer for internationally-born country music singers, but until recently, he feared he may never again sing live, after surgery in November to remove a polyp on his vocal cords.

Nicole wept when she heard Keith’s voice for the first time following a three-week silence after the risky operation, telling W magazine that her handsome husband is her biggest protector. “My husband says I’m raw,” she reveals. “He thinks the world is not a great place for me because he fears that I’ll be hurt. He says, ‘That’s my job: I’ll protect you’.”

Read more about Keith and Nicole’s love story, his musical career and his time on The Voice in this week’s Woman’s Day on sale Monday April 30, 2012.

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April 29, 2012

Darren Hayes dishes: I know the real Delta

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While The Voice coach Delta has received mixed reviews on social media, her friend Darren says there’s more to the star than meets the eye.

Delta Goodrem has been labelled everything from a “goddess” to a “phony” by The Voice viewers on Twitter. But her close friend, the former frontman of Savage Garden Darren Hayes, says far from being a cookie-cutter pop star, Delta is no pushover. “She’s so beautiful and she has an incredible voice, but that’s frustrating if you know her personally, because she is so much more complicated than that,” Darren tells Woman’s Day.

The pair have been close since Darren brought Delta – who was battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the time – and the nation to tears at the 2003 ARIA Awards by performing a rendition of her hit song Lost Without You. “I didn’t know her then. I was just asked by her management if I would come and surprise her,” the singer-songwriter recalls. “She really shouldn’t have been at the awards. That’s how sick she was.”

The pair didn’t get the chance to meet that night but Delta was so touched by the gesture, she treated Darren to dinner at the famous Bondi Icebergs once she had gone into remission. They hit it off instantly. “I see so much of myself in her journey as an artist, and I love her,” he smiles. “She is a lot cheekier than the public know and I like that on The Voice it comes out. My friend is cheeky and she has a wicked sense of humour.”

It’s obvious the love is mutual. Delta personally requested Darren join her in mentoring her team of singers on The Voice. “I like that the show allows Delta to be a woman and a full person,” he says. “She gets into it with Seal, actually, which is quite funny.”

Read more about Darren and Delta’s friendship, plus see the rundown of which parts of The Voice are not to be missed in this week’s Woman’s Day on sale Monday April 30, 2012.

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April 29, 2012

The Newtons: ‘The little miracle we needed!’

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She almost didn’t make it, but little Lola Patricia Newton Welsh is here to stay – and her famous family couldn’t be happier.

Looking over at the little bundle dozing peacefully in the corner, every little part of her fresh-baked perfection, it’s hard to imagine that baby Lola Welsh, born to proud parents Lauren Newton and Matt Welsh on March 26, almost didn’t exist. “She’s our little miracle bub,” says Patti Newton, looking over at her grandchild who, at a month old, has already endured two near claims on her young life.

Lola’s first fight began before she was even born. At the time, mum Lauren, 33, was a few weeks pregnant and as far as she knew, everything was going well. But a routine scan revealed worrying news. “The doctor told me that he couldn’t find the baby in the uterus, and that he was 95 per cent sure it was in the tube,” says Lauren, who was told it was an ectopic pregnancy.

“He wanted to act on it quickly, because I had been having a lot of cramping. He asked me to fast because he was pretty sure he was going to have to remove it [within days] or give me an injection to terminate the pregnancy.” Understandably, Lauren was devastated. “I felt like it was such a miracle that I was pregnant in the first place. I really wanted a third child, but it wasn’t 100 per cent planned,” she said.

“I already had my little boy and my little girl [Sam, 4, and Eva, 2], but this was such a lovely surprise. To have that taken away, I just thought, ‘Why is this happening to me?'” Amid her distress, Lauren couldn’t shake the feeling that she needed to investigate. She sought the help of a specialist in tricky pregnancies and IVF. His diagnosis was markedly different. “He did an ultrasound and straight away said, ‘I think you have been misdiagnosed’.”

Read more about the Newton’s family little miracle in this week’s Woman’s Day on sale Monday April 30, 2012.

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April 27, 2012

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April 27, 2012

Top 10 Beauty Brands

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Olay has come out on top in the ranking of the world’s top 10 beauty brands. The annual ranking of the 50 leading global cosmetic brands was conducted by brand valuation firm Brand Finance who analysed brands with products including hair-care, skincare, makeup and shower products. Olay is one of the most recognisable brands in the world with a brand value of $11.8 billion – both factors that have contributed to its number one title, beating other household names such as L’Oreal, Nivea and Dove. The results also revealed that consumers see value and trust in legacy brands with all but nine of the 50 brands being over 60-years-old, whilst 15 of them are over 100-years-old.

Top 10 beauty brands in the world

The annual ranking of the 50 leading global cosmetic brands was conducted by brand valuation firm Brand Finance who analysed brands with products including hair-care, skincare, makeup and shower products.

Click through to find out which brands made the top 10.

Based in: U.S.

2012 Brand value: $11.8 billion

2011 Brand value: $11.1 billion

Change in value: 6%

Last year’s rank: No. 1

Based in: U.S.

2012 Brand value: $7.9 billion

2011 Brand value: $10.2 billion

Change in value: -22%

Last year’s rank: No. 2

Based in: France

2012 Brand value: $7.7 billion

2011 Brand value: $7.6 billion

Change in value: 1%

Last year’s rank: No. 4

Based in: U.S.

2012 Brand value: $6.2 billion

2011 Brand value: $6.4 billion

Change in value: -2%

Last year’s rank: No. 6

Based in: Germany

2012 Brand value: $5.6 billion

2011 Brand value: $6.6 billion

Change in value: -15%

Last year’s rank: No. 5

Based in: France

2012 Brand value: $5.1 billion

2011 Brand value: $5.7 billion

Change in value: -10%

Last year’s rank: No. 7

Based in: Britain

2012 Brand value: $5 billion

2011 Brand value: $4.5 billion

Change in value: 12%

Last year’s rank: No. 8

Based in: U.S.

2012 Brand value: $3.7 billion

2011 Brand value: $3 billion

Change in value: 22%

Last year’s rank: No. 9

Based in: Japan

2012 Brand value: $3.3 billion

2011 Brand value: $3 billion

Change in value: 11%

Last year’s rank: No. 10

Based in: Japan

2012 Brand value: $2.9 billion

2011 Brand value: $3 billion

Change in value: -2%

Last year’s rank: No. 11

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April 27, 2012

VIDEO: Inside Jessica Simpson’s lavish baby shower

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She may be taking a while to arrive, but when Jessica Simpson’s daughter is born she will be one privileged little girl. That’s if mum-to-be Jessica’s baby shower is anything to go by!

A video of the event, which was held on March 18, has been released showing giant red letters spelling out baby, a roof full of over-sized lanterns, a collection of gifts, a knitting station, a buffet of food and an ice-cream cart.

The guests included her sister Ashlee and celebrity friend Jessica Alba who took daughter Haven along with her.

Jessica’s fiance Eric Johnson also shunned tradition and attended the shower as well, sitting beside his wife-to-be to open gifts.

Due any day now, Jessica is keeping fans up-to-date on her pregnancy via twitter. On April 22 she wrote: “To everyone who keeps congratulating me on the birth of my baby girl…I’m still pregnant!! Don’t believe what you read ladies and gents.”

Days later she added: “I just woke up from a dream that I wore a leopard caftan in the hospital. Fabulous!! Now I need to find one!”

Video: Watch the video of Jessica’s baby shower in the video player above.

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