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April 4, 2011

Kate Middleton is exactly what the royals need enthusiast says

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Like any family in the spotlight, the Windsors have had their fair share of scandal and unwanted attention.

Ninety-year-old royal enthusiast Juliet Moffitt , who has lived through countless royal weddings, believes that Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding is just what the royal family needs.

She believes their modern-day wedding and genuine love for each other will bring a modern youthfulness to the tired royal family.

“I think they are genuinely in love too, the way they react to each other,” she said. “Often in the royal family it was arranged a bit.”

See the full interview with Juliet in the video above.

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April 4, 2011

Royal wedding imposters

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Some onlookers might have thought Prince William and Kate Middleton had abandoned their April 29 wedding and tied the knot early in London recently, but it was all part of a book launch.

The book, Kate and Wills up the Aisle by Alison Jackson (who has made a career for herself photographing celebrity look-alikes), takes a humorous “behind closed doors” look at the royal romance and wedding.

For the book launch, look-alikes of Prince William, Kate Middleton, the Queen and Prince Harry dressed in their wedding-day best and performed a number of stunts around London, starting with a horse-drawn carriage at Waterstone’s Piccadilly bookshop.

Throughout the day the look-alikes posed for paparazzi-style pictures of the royals in risqué poses.

The launch included the royal couple dining at a KFC restaurant before having a fake wedding ceremony at St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden.

See the royal wedding imposters in our video above.

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April 4, 2011

Scientists growing human hearts in lab

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Researchers are growing human hearts in test tubes with hopes of ending long waiting lists for transplants.

Scientists at the University of Minnesota in the US created the organs by “stripping” cells from the hearts of deceased people, leaving behind a tough protein skeleton, known as a ‘ghost heart’.

They then coated eight ‘ghost hearts’ with live human stem cells, which have started turning into heart cells.

The hearts have been growing steadily over the past few weeks, and researchers are hopeful they will start beating in the next seven days.

“The hearts are growing and we hope they will show signs of beating within the next week,” University of Minnesota study leader Doris Taylor told the American College of Cardiology’s annual meeting in New Orleans over the weekend.

“There are many hurdles to overcome to generate a fully functional heart, but the hope is that it may one day be possible to grow entire organs for transplant.”

Taylor’s research team have previously created several beating animal hearts.

Australian experts were thrilled to hear about the success of Taylor’s trials, but say the technology is likely to remain experimental for decades because the human heart is so complicated.

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April 4, 2011

Jackie O sparks parenting row

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Radio host Jackie O has sparked a public row about parenting, with several high-profile women jumping to condemn or defend her.

Jackie attracted criticism last week when a newspaper columnist complained she had returned to work too soon after giving birth to her daughter Kitty last December.

New South Wales Families minister Pru Goward escalated the argument on Sunday, blasting Jackie for bottle feeding baby Kitty as she walked across a Sydney street. Goward said Jackie had unnecessarily endangered her baby, and compared the action to Michael Jackson’s infamous “baby dangling” incident.

“We all were horrified when Michael Jackson dangled his baby out the window and this woman is crossing the road not just holding a baby but feeding a baby and I think it was unnecessarily cavalier,” Goward told The Sunday Telegraph.

“There would be no mother, no parent probably, or even a hardened feminist, in the country who would think that was a good way of feeding a baby, particularly a little tiny baby.”

Goward’s comments have infuriated several high-profile women, who have angrily spoken out in Jackie’s defence. Today host Lisa Wilkinson, newsreader Georgie Gardner, talk show host Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Federal Women’s Minister Kate Ellis all publicly defended Jackie, saying the attacks were too personal.

Jackie said she was “in tears” over the attacks which made her feel like a “second-rate mum”.

Jackie gave birth to Kitty last December and starting working on her radio show from home two months later.

Your say: Do you think Jackie O deserved to be criticised for returning to work two months after her baby was born?

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April 3, 2011

The palace prepares a royal wedding feast!

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Forget the cold-meat platter or salad buffet. Guests at Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding will feast on elegant dishes created to showcase the best of British cuisine.

Officials expect the 600 VIPs invited to Buckingham Palace’s Blue Drawing Room and other state rooms to devour 10,000 snacks with champagne and wine from the royal cellars.

A team of chefs will create up to a dozen varieties of savoury hors d’oeuvres and half as many sweet ones – all approved by William, 28, and Kate, 29.

Delicacies likely to feature include smoked salmon on beetroot blini, confit duck-leg terrine with smoked duck and pear chutney, and quail eggs with celery salt, goat’s cheese, caramelised walnuts and parmesan crisps.

For dessert there’ll be chocolate truffles, blood orange pate-de-fruit and raspberry friands.

“It will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” says the Queen’s head chef Mark Flanagan (bottom, on the right). “We want to ensure nobody says, ‘Wasn’t the wedding amazing? But the food wasn’t up to much.’ It’s all about fine detail.”

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April 3, 2011

The Farmer wants a wife reunion: Back to the farm

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Five years on from the first hit season, host Natalie visits our favourite farmers.

Four weddings, two engagements, two babies – and two more on the way – is proof that Nine’s hit series The Farmer Wants A Wife sows seeds of love every season. And when the show sent host Natalie Gruzlewski around the country to catch up with the stars, she found those seeds have grown fruit of their own!

Jenny Blake, the first female farmer, has been lucky in love. When the series ended so did Jenny’s relationship with on-screen suitor Owen… but her story has a happy ending.

Jenny was asked to think of a farmer friend she could recommend for the next season, and when she thought of one – her mate of 10 years, Mark Geppert – she fell for him herself! They married just eight months later.

“When someone comes along like this you don’t muck around,” Mark says. Now Jenny and Mark are parents to Olive, born 10 months after they married in 2009. “When there’s just two people it’s one thing, but when you have a family it’s a different thing altogether. It completes the circle,” Mark says, and Jenny is equally thrilled.

“I give Olive a million kisses a day,” she says on The Farmer Wants A Wife: A Reunion Special, which airs Wednesday, April 6 at 8.30pm. “Being a mum is the best job ever. I love it. I just wake up thinking I’m the luckiest girl in the world.” Proud parents Jenny and Mark aren’t alone in hearing the pitter-patter of tiny farmer feet.

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April 3, 2011

The Biggest Losers make-overs: Half their size!

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They’ve lost 270kg between them and never looked better.

This year’s remaining seven contestants in The Biggest Loser are scrubbing up very well. Just look at the hotties who’ve been hiding beneath their workout gear of lycra leggings and tatty oversize T-shirts!

“I feel so good,” says Lara Whalan (Westren family), 25, who’s lost 37kg. “I’ve never been the girly type because I haven’t been able to fit into dresses. I’ve always been in tracky-dacks. This is amazing!” Our makeover reveals beautiful bodies – and inspirational stories.

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My husband will fall over when he sees me!

It’s been five years since Kellie Moon, 33, weighed less than 100kg. Now, standing in front of a mirror, she can’t believe what she sees. “I thought it was a trick mirror – I didn’t think it was me!” she laughs. Mum-of-two Kellie has lost more than 35kg, and is back to the weight she was before starting a family. “I have always wanted to buy a designer dress, but haven’t because I’ve never fitted into one,” she says.

But now she can – and is! Her husband had better watch out! “I think he will fall over when he sees me,” Kellie says. “I wasn’t a nice person before – I feel sorry for my husband. I must have been such a cranky wife and mother. “I look forward to so many things now with my husband and kids.”

Read more of The Biggest Loser contestant success stories in this week’s Woman’s Day, on sale April 4.

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April 3, 2011

Lisa McCune: Family, food and love

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Lisa McCune is rarely without her infectious smile. The actress we all grew to love when she played Maggie Doyle in Blue Heelers has a life overflowing with love, and counts her blessings every day.

She has many awards and an enviable lifestyle, but it is the simple things in life that keep Lisa so happy – cooking and caring for her three young children and her husband, Tim Disney.

“All the complicated things happen at work, while my life is really simple and I intend to keep it that way,” she tells Woman’s Day. “I don’t have a lot of space for negativity.

“The way I see it is that I’ve got three healthy children, I have a job, I’m not working down a coal-mine, I can go to the supermarket and buy food. The simple things in life are what you need and that makes me happy. I don’t want for anything more.”

Lisa, who recently celebrated her 40th birthday in typically unassuming fashion, with an outing to the beach with family and friends, has never really been one for making a fuss. While she relished raising more than a few eyebrows with her recent flesh-baring role in naughty ABC comedy/drama Rake, Lisa has always preferred to keep her real life drama-free.

And now she wants to share her grassroots philosophy for keeping her family happy – with the release of an intimate cookbook she has written with her best friend, Di Thomas. Hopscotch And Honey Joys – Food For Your Family And Friends captures Lisa where she is happiest – at home playing mum to Archer, 9, Oliver, 7, and Remy, 5.

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April 3, 2011

Bridal shopping with Olivia Newton John and Chloe!

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Olivia Newton-John wants everything to be perfect for her ‘little girl’ when she ties the knot and she couldn’t wait to take Chloe shopping for a dress!

It seems like only yesterday Australia’s favourite daughter, Olivia Newton-John, was welcoming baby Chloe Lattanzi into the world. So it’s hard for us to believe that in a few months she will watch Chloe walk down the aisle into the arms of future husband James Driskill.

In true Olivia fashion, this rite of passage is being celebrated and relished, and the girls are busy planning an intimate wedding that will showcase Chloe’s personality. Wedding-dress shopping has begun in earnest, and Olivia is helping her daughter with the details of planning a dream wedding. Woman’s Day was invited along to share in their adventure in Los Angeles…

“It’s coming together slowly but surely,” says Chloe, 25, as she and Olivia, 62, pay a visit to Hartnell, the beautiful bridal salon of designer Hanna Hartnell in Santa Monica. “I had no idea how difficult it would be, down to the smallest details of the colour of the flowers, the tablecloth and even the type of silverware. The fun stuff is planning who is going to be there, picking out the dress and the venue and who the DJ is going to be for the after-party.

“The most important thing for me is that everyone I love will be there and that we have a great night,” she adds. Olivia sees her role as supporting Chloe and James, 27, in any way she can as they head towards their big day – and you can tell she is soaking up every moment of it! “As mother of the bride, I am looking forward to helping Chloe plan the many aspects of her wedding, and just being there to help her make it the day she and James envision for themselves,” she says.

Chloe’s visit to Hartnell helped her envisage the direction she’ll take with her wedding dress. “In fact, the first dress I tried on is very close,” she confides to Woman’s Day. “It fit me perfectly and it’s definitely along the lines of what I have been thinking about. “I want something which is not frou-frou or pouffy. I’m going to be semi-traditional.

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April 3, 2011

Darcey Freeman: The haunting truth

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Justice was served last week with a father found guilty of murdering his little girl. But this is little solace to a mother trying to come to terms with such a senseless loss.

His chilling words still haunt her. “You’ll never see your children again”. They always will. And even as her former husband, Arthur Freeman, awaits sentencing in prison after last week being found guilty of murdering their four-year-old daughter, Darcey, Peta Barnes knows no court-imposed sentence will ever really feel like justice.

Nothing can ever truly make up for her losing her beloved little girl, who was callously flung to her death like a rag doll from Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge in January 2009, or the darkness that still envelops her as she struggles to battle on with life with her two sons.

But one thing is for sure. She feels no sympathy for her former love, the man who has since become a monster in her eyes. Indeed, Peta didn’t show any emotion as she sat in Court 11 of the Supreme Court in Melbourne last week, listening to evidence of how Freeman – a man who’s life she had once shared – tossed her only daughter over the bridge to her death.

Apart from an occasional shift of weight from one leg to the other and brief, succinct answers to questions posed, she remained composed when others could not.While most witnesses broke down in tears, it was what Peta Barnes didn’t do that spoke more than words ever could.

Upon entering the courtroom, she refused to walk past Freeman, as if such a gesture would acknowledge he existed – that he was a human being of worth. When he was referred to as her husband in testimony, she politely pointed out that he was no longer anything of the kind, as if the connection were intolerable. “He’s not my husband, by the way,” she quickly reminded the court.

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