Talk show host David Letterman has confessed to having sexual relations with a number of his female staff members.

The startling admission, delivered during a live show, comes after the 62-year-old’s colleague Robert Halderman was arrested in relation to the case.

Speaking on his own show, Letterman told viewers he’d been the victim of a $2 million extortion attempt and that the blackmailer had threatened to write a screenplay and book about the affairs.

Letterman, who’s been married for five years and has a young son, reported the threats to police. He then made the decision to go public about the case before the press got wind of it.

“Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would, especially for the women,” he said on the show.

“I feel like I need to protect these people. I need to certainly protect my family.”

Robert Halderman has since been charged with attempted first degree grand larceny and faces five to 15 years in jail if found guilty.

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With his health faltering, Brad takes a stand against the lifestyle he fears could destroy him, report Matthew Denby and Josephine Agostino.

The tired, greying figure who arrived at the San Sebastian film festival in Spain last week has left fans and friends alike wondering what has happened to the real Brad Pitt. And it’s a question even he is now asking — with the star desperate to win back the life he has lost since hooking up with Angelina Jolie less than four years ago.

With his scruffy grey beard, puffy eyes and sallow skin, the actor who was once voted the “Sexiest Man in the World” appears to have aged more than a decade since he left wife Jennifer Aniston in 2005 to be with Angelina.

Endless sleepless nights spent tending to the couple’s six young children, Maddox, 8, Pax, 5, Zahara, 4, Shiloh, 3, and 14-month-old twins Knox and Vivienne, as well as a string of bitter rows with Ange and constant travelling to keep up with her gypsy lifestyle, have all conspired to age him dramatically. “The kids are keeping me up,” Brad recently complained. “They’re a handful.

“They give me so little sleep that I’m trying to get some wherever I can — on a plane, in traffic, wherever.”

With the couple this month finally taking a rest at their property in France, Brad had been desperately hoping for an extended breather — not only for the children but for himself.

However, France was not to be the emotional time-out Brad was hoping for, with Angelina reportedly taking herself off the contraceptive pill and laying on the pressure for a seventh child.

But after months of holding his tongue out of concern for his family, Brad snapped. Angrily telling Ange that she was killing him, Brad put his foot down.

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Five years after Schapelle Corby was sent to jail, her anguished mum tells Glen Williams she wants to take her mentally disturbed daughter’s place.

A mother’s love knows no bounds, and Schapelle Corby’s mum, Rosleigh Rose, is no exception. As Schapelle sinks further into a quagmire of depression behind the bars of Indonesia’s Kerobokan Prison, Rosleigh has made a heartfelt plea to serve the rest of her daughter’s 20-year sentence for her.

“My daughter is innocent, I’m an innocent person too, so why shouldn’t I be able to take her place for a crime she never committed? I have asked the Indonesian and Australian authorities if I could take Schapelle’s place, because she is sick and I’m healthy and I’m strong,” Rosleigh tells Woman’s Day.

“Schapelle’s health, her mental health, is not getting any better, and it will not improve until I have my arms around her and I can nurture her back to new.”

It has been five years since Schapelle was arrested for smuggling 4.2 kilograms of cannabis into Bali, in her boogie board bag. Despite maintaining her innocence, Schapelle, now 32, has no further legal avenues at her disposal and is not expected to be released until, at the earliest, April 12, 2024.

Esteemed psychiatrist Dr Jonathan Phillips says Schapelle is “only hanging on by a thread”. That thread, claims Rosleigh, is becoming increasingly fragile as her daughter is being denied the correct care to keep her mentally balanced.

“Schapelle hasn’t been sane for a long time. We’re trying to get her medication stabilised and Schapelle stabilised, so she can monitor it and give it to herself,” she says.

“Some days she doesn’t take her medication at all, or her paranoia is such she thinks people are trying to poison her and she refuses to take her tablets. Other days she is given medication belonging to someone else.”

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Police were called recently when Wayne Carey’s now ex-fiancée Kate Neilson flew into a jealous rage outside the home the couple shared. She tells Ray Chesterton her side of the story.

It should have been the happiest time of her life, but Kate Neilson’s engagement to Wayne Carey was destroyed when he committed the ultimate betrayal — apparently cheating on her just days after popping the question.

After a turbulent four-year relationship, it seemed the disgraced former AFL star was ready to settle down and change his wild ways when he surprised Kate with a stunning proposal last month.

Interrupting the model during a family dinner, Carey produced a bouquet of orchids and presented Kate with a choice of two elaborate engagement rings before begging her to spend the rest of her life by his side.

Swept off her feet, a besotted Kate readily accepted the unexpected proposal and rushed into the arms of her new fiancé. The romance, however, was short-lived.

Concerned by Carey’s drinking and erratic behaviour following their engagement, Kate cut short a Melbourne business trip earlier this month to check on her beau, and found she had been locked out of the $3m mansion they shared on the Gold Coast — the home which she had helped to plan and decorate.

“When I got to the house at about 7am, my remote control wouldn’t work on the garage and I thought that was suspicious,” Kate says. “And when I went round to the front of the house, my key to the door didn’t work. The locks had been changed.

“The whole house had been shut up, including closing out the view with the shutters. We never closed them. I rang the bell and the phone, but Wayne wouldn’t answer.”

But it was not until Kate scaled the property’s fence and found another woman’s clothes in the back of her car, which was hidden behind the gates, that her worst fears were confirmed.

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The rift between Bob Irwin and his daughter-in-law is growing. Now Bob is fighting to save his son Steve’s conservation legacy.

While he was content to toil in the shadow of his famous son, the patriarch of the Irwin clan, Bob, apparently reserves no such favours for the current management at Australia Zoo — and he’s determined to wrest the spotlight from them in a bid to control Steve’s conservation legacy.

So displeased is he with some of the zoo’s commercial ventures since his son’s death in 2006, the softly spoken environmentalist has declared his intention to personally take on the fight to save our endangered species, insisting that it is his duty to continue Steve’s work.

“Steve is the reason I came out of the bush,” Bob told ABC radio last week in Canberra, where he met with politicians to discuss the wildlife crisis. “While Steve was around I was more than happy to stay in the background. But I feel that I’m now responsible and I don’t want to waste that opportunity.”

Bob also warned that “the wrong people” had been advising the Government on how to ensure the survival of koalas in Queensland, and that the species was in danger of disappearing in just two years.

“Over the next couple of years, if the Government doesn’t get their act together and listen to the researchers, our kids are not going to see koalas in Queensland,” he said. Bob’s comments come amid a long-standing feud between Bob and Australia Zoo over how best to continue Steve’s work protecting endangered species. He is reportedly unhappy about the surge in activities seemingly unrelated to conservation at the iconic institution.

“Bob is angry that the zoo is being turned into a circus and the focus on animal conservation and education is being lost,” one source told a Queensland paper.

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She’s been snapped sightseeing, dancing and dining out with Blue Wiggle Anthony Field, but dancer Caterina Mete tells Jonica Bray…’I’m not breaking up their marriage’.

Blue Wiggle Anthony Field recently made an extraordinary public defence of his six-year marriage. Now Woman’s Day can exclusively reveal the reason the normally reticent Anthony decided to talk out. As these photographs show, the father of three has become close friends with Caterina Mete, 28 … but maintains their friendship is innocent.

The petite dancer, who Anthony affectionately refers to as “Kitty Cat” or just “Kitty”, also spoke out recently, telling Woman’s Day, “I’m not breaking up their marriage.”

And Anthony, who travels with the Wiggles up to eight months a year, says it’s hard to be away from his wife, Miki, for so long and would like her and the kids to join him on tour.

Despite this, Wiggles insiders have revealed that Anthony, 46, has openly spoken about how close he and Caterina have become as friends.

“I don’t know what to do,” they report him saying. “I love Miki and I love my kids, but Kitty Cat is my soul mate.”

During the Wiggles’ recent US tour, Anthony and Caterina spent much of their spare time together. Between long-haul bus trips across the country, they went on a day trip to Elvis’s Graceland in Memphis, had breakfast in Little Rock, Arkansas, and enjoyed a Mexican dinner date in Chicago. They were also snapped together on a visit to Gold’s Gym and again while window shopping.v Anthony was often seen picking up the tab for Caterina, according to a tour insider, and the two frequently travelled on the same Wiggles bus, of which there were three.

Caterina remained by his side until the Wiggles tour ended a few weeks ago — the pair sat together in business class on their Qantas flight home, while the rest of the dancers travelled economy.

For the full story see this week’s Woman’s Day, on sale September 28, 2009.

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The INXS star has left his wild days behind, swapping his guitar for an apron and chopping board.

After seven years of cooking for his fiancée, surfing champ Layne Beachley, Kirk Pengilly is finally getting the recipe right.

As the INXS rocker begins a stint competing on the highly anticipated Celebrity MasterChef, the happy couple reveal their secret ingredients for a good relationship, and sharing the household chores is at the top of the list.

“I do most of the cooking and most of the washing,” Kirk says. “I’m a keeper!”

Doing laundry duty is a far cry from Kirk’s former life as a rock ‘n’ roll superstar, but since meeting Layne, he’s happy to settle down and be a house husband.

“She’s really flat out with all sorts of things,” Kirk says. “So it’s cool — I’ll just stay at home and cook.”

Kirk and Layne announced their engagement in November last year, but since then they have struggled to seta date for the nuptials.

“We do discuss it,” Kirk says. “We’ve got an idea of where we want to do it and now we have to really nut out whether it’s going to be big or small. We’re both so busy, so it’s really hard to even plan that far ahead.”

But while the couple are waiting to wed, Kirk is happy to look after Layne, cooking up feasts that conform to her list of banned foods, which includes red meat, dairy products, wheat, gluten and pasta.

Despite the limitations of Layne’s diet, Kirk still cooks up a storm. “I make a lot of stir-fries,” he says, instead of the curries he used to love.

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