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Peter and Katie: The bitter battle continues

Katie Price

The bitter battle between Katie Price and Peter Andre has intensified after Katie’s New Year’s Eve party, which the couple’s two children attended, reportedly became rowdy and violent.

The celebration, held at Katie’s house, got out of hand when her current boyfriend Alex Reid and ex-boyfriend English pop star Dane Bowers allegedly became caught up in a fight, the UK’s Sun reported.

Dane, who is currently on the UK’s Celebrity Big Brother, spoke about the fight saying it was an incident between a few people being “silly”.

“I don’t know why I got involved … to try and help out. I don’t think it’s worth getting into that exactly,” he said on the reality TV show’s diary room.

“Just because Alex and I were in the same vicinity, Alex’s name was brought into it as well and suddenly it turned into me and Alex fighting.”

The UK’s Daily Mail reported that Peter is furious about his two children, two-year-old Princess Tiaamii and four-year-old Junior, being at the party.

Pictures have emerged on guests’ Facebook pages of the children at the party despite guests being asked to sign confidentiality agreements to stop photos being published.

Peter is reportedly consulting his lawyers over the incident and it looks like the couple, who are constantly feuding over their children, are heading for another legal battle.

Before the New Year’s Eve bash the Aussie singer and Katie were feuding over who the children would spend Christmas with.

Peter wanted his children to join him in Australia where he spent Christmas with his family, but Katie refused.

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The love they said would never last

Paul and Linda

It was a romance that no-one expected to last, but Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski are still together 25 years after falling in love on the set of Crocodile Dundee.

Looking relaxed and carefree, this middle-aged couple barely turned heads as they strolled along the famous strip of golden sand at Byron Bay, lost among the crowds.

All but a few failed to recognise Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski, who slipped into Australia unnoticed for a low-key holiday on the NSW far north coast and a Christmas celebration with Paul’s six children.

“They were keeping a pretty low profile, but when they came down to the beach, it was pretty clear they were still very much in love,” confirms one holidaymaker. “He looked tired but relaxed and was very, very attentive to Linda on the beach. She has put on a bit of weight and gone from blonde to brunette, but looks really happy.”

Yes, Linda, who celebrates her 52nd birthday this Thursday, still has those famous curves Hoges fell in love with 25 years ago when they met while filming Crocodile Dundee, the smash hit movie that made him an international superstar. A still fit Hoges almost looks his 70 years, with his shock of blond hair now fading to white and his famous face deeply lined – despite persistent rumours of cosmetic surgery – after spending years in the sun while working as a painter on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

When he and Linda fell in love, Hoges was widely criticised for leaving Noelene, his wife of 32 years and the mother of five of his children, for the glamorous blonde Hollywood starlet 19 years his junior.

“I resisted that for quite a while,” he told Andrew Denton in an interview in 2003. “I resisted that because of the on-set romance thing that happens all the time. These people meet on a set and they get carried away … It’s like what they call shipboard romance.”

When the pair got together, Linda was written off as a home-wrecking bimbo, while our favourite larrikin copped a bucketing from even his most loyal fans for his midlife crisis.

“She was unjustly crucified or blamed, or whatever,” says Hoges, who admits Linda sacrificed a promising career to stay by his side and raise their now 10-year-old son, Chance.

“It’s so stupid of anybody to sort of pass judgment on other people’s relationships. That was just hard for her, because the great thing about us when we were mostly living over there [Santa Barbara] and in Byron Bay was that nobody cared.”

The “shipboard romance” that no-one thought would last is still going strong almost a quarter of a century later, and the couple now spend most of their time at their Colarado cattle ranch in the US. They avoid the spotlight and red carpet events, preferring to ride horses on their ranch and ski at Aspen. There is no doubt the couple’s son Chance helps strengthen their bond. As Paul’s work schedule winds down, he says that his experience as a second-time dad is more satisfying, as he spends so much time at home.

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Jana Rawlinson: I still feel sexy without my boobs

Jana Rawlinson

Jana Rawlinson got breast implants to feel more womanly, but had them removed three months ago – and says she doesn’t miss them.

Jana Rawlinson knows she’ll win no medals for being glamorous.

But like most women, this athletic heroine wants to love the reflection she sees in the mirror – and for many years she didn’t, which is why she had a breast enlargement in July 2008.

It is also why she had her implants removed in September last year. “Yep, I’m back to being flat as a pancake, so I need all the help I can get,” she says good-naturedly. Cupping her hands protectively over her push-up bra, she tells Woman’s Day about the secret surgeries – not one, but two – she underwent in the space of 14 months.

“I absolutely loved having bigger boobs, but finally I’ve grown up enough to know myself; to be honest about who I am when I look in the mirror. I don’t want to short-change Australia either – I want to feel the most athletic I can, to know that I’m standing on the track in London [2012 Olympics] the fittest I can be.

“I don’t need to be glamorous, not at this point in my life. I can always get my breasts enhanced again when I finish my career. I know there are no medals for being beautiful.”

Her first operation in July 2008, which boosted her breast size from a 12B to 12D, was the result of years of doubting herself and her appearance.

“I was always really unhappy with the way I looked,” admits Jana. It’s a surprise revelation from an outwardly confident 180cm tall woman – a two-time 400 metre hurdles world champion admired around the globe for her athletic physique and power on the track.

“When I looked in the mirror I just saw muscled arms, broad shoulders and big, strong legs,” she says. “These are assets I need to run well, but they didn’t make me feel like an attractive woman.

“There are a couple of girls – who I won’t name – in world athletics who are Olympic champions, but they look like men – and I don’t want to be like that. I feel masculine enough as it is. “That’s what pushed me into getting the first surgery for the enhancement.

“I’d always envied girls who are naturally petite, with hourglass figures. The only time in my life that I’ve felt feminine was when I was pregnant.”

Jana’s breasts went to a DD when she was expecting her son Cornelis, 3, and while she was breastfeeding. “Then I felt like a different person, soft and womanly, and I absolutely fell in love with my big boobs.”

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Trishna and Krishna’s mum’s heartfelt letter

Trishna and Krishna

Since Woman’s Day brought Australians the heartbreaking story of Trishna and Krishna’s birth mother, Lovely Golder, support for her has been overwhelming.

Offers of money to help bring her to Australia from her home in Bangladesh have poured in.

Lovely told us how she was blindfolded during the birth of her girls, and why she felt she had no choice but to surrender the twins to the Missionaries of Charity in Dhaka so they could get proper medical care. But in the nearly three years since she has seen Trishna and Krishna, her dearest wish has been to hold her babies once more.

Last week, a ray of light seemed to shine on Lovely’s dreams as the twins’ co-guardian, Atom Rahman, suggested he was in the process of organising for her to come to Australia.

But Lovely says when she spoke to him there was no talk of travel plans. She is still waiting for the pieces to fall into place for this overdue reunion, which must be authorised by Trishna and Krishna’s legal guardians.

Lovely also wants to personally thank the dedicated team at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne who miraculously separated the conjoined twins, As she waits for her simple wish to be fulfilled, Lovely penned this heartfelt letter to her girls on the special occasion of their third birthday.

She has graciously allowed Woman’s Day to share it with our readers.

To my dearest sweethearts Trishna and Krishna,

How are you? I can see you on television screen being released from the hospital and going back home. I can’t stop my tears when I see you being safe and recovered; ready to face the world with your individual identity.

I keep waiting for hours in front of the TV screen; even all night to have just a glimpse of you two – my babies I gave birth to three years ago.

Three years! I can’t believe it’s been three years since I have seen you! Now you two are so different from the day I saw you last. Today you are individuals, you have been freed from your birth defects. What else can a mother do except keep wondering how you look now.

I just wonder how you will walk after a few days. I wonder how you would have smiled at me when you were going back home with Moira Kelly. I wish I could also walk through the way. I wish I had wings like birds so that I could fly to my babies. Today I have the strangest feeling. I feel like the happiest mother on earth, whose children have survived the largest crisis of their life. In the contrary, I am the unlucky mother – who can’t take her individual kids in her lap, take them close to heart, kiss and adore them.

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Angelina’s shock confession

Brad and Ange

Angelina Jolie opens up about the vicious arguments she has with Brad Pitt – and the couple’s unusual attitudes to fidelity.

Angelina Jolie has finally blown the lid on her tempestuous relationship with Brad Pitt, revealing in an interview how she recently physically attacked the father of her six children.

She has also hinted that they enjoy an open relationship.

The couple have long been the subject of reports that their relationship is being torn apart by vicious rows, and Ange last week admitted to German magazine Das Neue that she has physically confronted her partner.

“The sparks fly at home if the nice Brad fails to see that he’s wrong and reacts in a defiant way,” she was quoted as saying. “Then I can get so angry that I tear his shirt.”

The admission adds fuel to talk that Brad and Ange’s home life has become a war zone, with police recently called following reports of a screaming match, and Brad struggling to cope with the fiery actress, who is described as having a “temper like a cobra”.

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Suri’s life gets weirder

Suri

Seeing her dad in a clinch with his co-star is yet another twist in a bizarre childhood.

Little Suri Cruise looked on wide-eyed and confused last week as her father Tom embraced his on-screen love interest, Cameron Diaz, on the Spanish set of his film Knight & Day.

Although being around a movie set is quite normal for this three-year-old, Suri looked puzzled and upset by what she was seeing. Mum Katie Holmes belatedly rushed in to scoop her up and remove her from the scene.

Child psychologist Philip Gosschalk says that at her age, Suri may be unsure about what is real and what is make believe.

“She can be expected to be confused about why her father is embracing another female in such an intimate way,” he says.

However, watching her parents go to work is just another facet of the defiantly adult way that Tom and Katie are raising their daughter.

With Scientology fostering the notion that children should have “self-determination”, Tom lets Suri make her own rules. She eats what she wants – including drinking from baby bottles – and stays up as late as she pleases.

Unsurprisingly, this has made her moody, sullen and sleepy during the day. “Suri seems to be tired a lot of the time and has a lot of tantrums, but it’s not her fault,” says one on-set catering worker. “The Cruises are not what you would call a typical family.”

Little Suri at times appears abnormally shy in social situations and suffers from attention issues that have her mother worried about her development, say sources close to the Cruise family.

“She finds it hard to integrate and engage in even the most simple of social situations,” a family insider says. “But this could just be borne of minimal contact with children her own age, or her bizarre lifestyle.”

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Charlie Sheen: I’ll win her back

Charlie Sheen

Despite allegations he pulled a knife on his wife, the TV favourite insists his marriage will survive.

It should have been the picture-perfect Christmas for Charlie Sheen and his second wife Brooke Mueller. A lavish rented home in the snowy celebrity haven of Aspen warmed by an open fire, and plenty to celebrate, with their nine-month-old twin sons, Max and Bob, enjoying their first festive season.

But as the wine flowed for the couple – both of whom have reportedly been troubled by drinking problems in the past – and as the hours ticked over from Christmas Eve into early morning, things turned ugly.

According to an affidavit by attending police officer Rick Magnuson, Brooke told him that after she demanded a divorce and custody of their kids, Charlie threatened her life – a claim he denies.

“My husband had me with a knife,” Brooke told a 911 dispatcher. “I was afraid for my life and he threatened me.”

Now Charlie is fighting to save not only his marriage, insisting they still love one another, but also his freedom, as he risks a lengthy stint behind bars.

Details of what occurred are clouded by Brooke’s reported refusal to further co-operate with police, but Charlie’s reputation is now in tatters after he was booked for second-degree assault and menacing, and criminal mischief.

Tension between the pair had been building for some time, and was on display when they joined friends for dinner that night. Charlie, 44, and Brooke, 32, couldn’t contain their contempt for one another as the alcohol flowed late into the evening, say insiders.

“They were fighting and it continued until the next morning,” a source close to Brooke told US magazine People. “They both have histories of issues with alcohol and have made every effort to stop. Things got out of hand.”

Following a number of worrying incidents with exes – including the accidental shooting of his then fiancée Kelly Preston in 1990 – Brooke reportedly told police Charlie throttled her in their bedroom. He angrily denies it.

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Nicole’s miracle wedding day

Nicole Miller

Nicole Miller survived a random rock-throwing attack to marry the man who stayed by her side while she recovered.

The bride was late, as brides often are. The fact she was there at all was nothing short of miraculous.

Her very presence, an answer to prayer. This was the beautiful day many feared they’d never see, and the moment wasn’t lost on anyone, especially the quietly awestruck groom.

For there she was, radiant and tearful beneath a white veil, walking towards the stoic young man who only a short time ago had spent endless hours by her comatose body, begging her to return to him.

Nicole Miller, the girl who captured our hearts when she suffered horrendous head injuries after being hit by a rock hurled from an overpass, has married her childhood sweetheart, Andrew Timbs.

The ceremony was held by the sea, at Wollongong’s Novotel Northbeach, just south of Sydney. As soon as Nicole appeared, resplendent in an organza and Swarovski crystal gown on the arm of stepfather Ross Tillett, joy and tears became intermingled.

The catch phrase, “I never thought we’d see this day,” was whispered by guests, with thankfulness.

Nicole had chosen to walk down the aisle to Celine Dion’s Because You Loved Me, the lyrics summing up the role Andrew has played these past 16 months. “You were my strength when I was weak, you were my voice when I couldn’t speak, you were my eyes when I couldn’t see.”

“I’m more in love than ever with this beautiful man,” says Nicole, who has returned to her job as a beautician. “He’s a very quiet man with great strength. He doesn’t give too much away about the pain he’s gone through. The song sums it up best; he did everything I couldn’t do, and it was all because he loves me.

“He had to make the decisions for me … He’s been there with me every step of the way.”

It was in the early hours of July 22, 2007, that Nicole’s life changed forever.

“I was coming back from what was meant to be a nice night out,” she says, her voice trembling with the memory. “I hardly ever went out, as I was always working. The one night I decided to go out with girlfriends to Wollongong, and that happened.”

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Dayton hits broadway!

Dayton Tavares

Young Aussie dancer Dayton Tavares, in the US to star in the musical Billy Elliot, is being hailed as the next Hugh Jackman.

Starring in the New York production of smash-hit musical Billy Elliot is all in a day’s work for down-to-earth Sydney boy Dayton Tavares.

While the talented 13-year-old is the youngest Australian to land a lead role on Broadway, he’s also happy that, as far as he’s concerned, nothing beats the pizza in the Big Apple.

“That’s my favourite thing that I’ve eaten here!” he says. “They have a sausage pizza with cheese and tomato that’s really good.”

For Dayton’s proud mum, Sharon, talk that her only son is being hailed as the next Hugh Jackman brings tears to her eyes.

“That’s a pretty big thing to say,” she says. “What an honour! I get a bit speechless and choked up when I hear something like that.”

After taking the Australian theatre world by storm for two years in the Melbourne and Sydney productions of Billy Elliot, Dayton was stunned to receive a call from the creators of the Tony Award-winning show inviting him to Broadway.

“It was surreal when we got that call,” Sharon recalls. “It still is a bit surreal to think he’s performing on Broadway. Dayton said, ‘Mum, you’ll have to pinch me!’”

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