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Months after the rocky start to their married life, Monaco royal couple Charlene and Albert seem so cosy, there’s talk of a baby. Love is in the air – or should that be in the heir? – for Monaco’s “runaway bride” Princess Charlene and her husband, Prince Albert II. The royal couple, who are coming […]

Amid growing talk that she’s pregnant, the Duchess of Cambridge is doing all she can to cling to her former life… even heading to the local supermarket. With speculation of a royal pregnancy reaching fever pitch around the globe, the Duchess of Cambridge last week stocked up on an extra-large load of household groceries at […]

Anne Williams has an unusual ability…Astha Gupta meets the mum for whom words have a flavour all their own. Having a conversation with Perth mum Anne Williams is a mouth-watering experience – at least for her. When most of us hear a word, we’re listening to the sound, but for Anne it conjures up a […]

Since his appearance on Dancing with the Stars in the US, Chaz Bono has had widespread support, but no one supported him more than his girlfriend, Jennifer Elia. Now Chaz, the son of Cher, has popped the question to Jennifer on his Emmy-nominated documentary Becoming Chaz, which highlighted Bono’s transition from female to male. Bono, […]

We have loved her ever since she released Locomotion in 1987! Now, Kylie Minogue, the princess of pop, has been inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. Having widespread success in Australia and in the UK, she has had worldwide record sales of more than 60 million. With so many stand out moments throughout her […]

Kris Humphries has a starring role in his soon-to-be ex-wife’s reality TV spin off Kourtney & Kim Take New York, but his former flame Bianka Kamber says he couldn’t stand Kim Kardashian’s reality TV shows. Twenty-eight-year-old Bianka, who bears a striking resemblance to Kim, said that Kris refused to watch Keeping up with the Kardashians […]

Ravaged by years of alcoholism, Gale Lamont was at rock bottom when she started a very special choir that ended up saving her life. Three years ago, Gale Lamont spent Christmas alone in a darkened room, surrounded by empty bottles and overflowing ashtrays. Her 50th birthday was just a month away. She had been trying […]

Parents who claim they love all their children equally are lying, a new book has sensationally claimed. Author and father of two Jeffrey Kluger’s new book The Sibling Effect: What Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us claims that all parents have a favourite child, no matter how much they deny it. “Ninety-five percent […]

Millions of women swooned when he played Mr Darcy, but Colin Firth is uncomfortable with the sex symbol tag. He would rather be known as a clown, a dad and a henpecked husband, he tells Susan Chenery. Well, he still seems like the same old reliable Colin. Looking good, always affable. Still not taking himself […]

Keira Knightley asked for an agent when she was three, starred in a Hollywood blockbuster at 17 and earned an Oscar nomination at 20. Yet, as tells Susan Chenery, self-confidence is a “big problem” for her. In this gilded room, with its Gothic arches, painted ceiling, wood panelling and balustraded balconies, there would once have […]

Her son Banjo misses the beach and catching leatherjackets. So Rachel Griffiths’ plan is to pack up, leave Broadway behind and make a new life in Australia. Sharon Krum meets the superstar mum. When Rachel Griffiths started her acting career in the Victorian community theatre group Woolly Jumpers, she could only dream of her Broadway […]

Win our Book of the Month Be one of the first 25 people to sign up to the Simon & Schuster newsletter and correctly answer the competition question to win a free copy of The Dovekeepers! Alice Hoffman is one of the most popular and memorable writers of her generation, the author of such iconic […]

Can you imagine a world where women sit frightened and alone, too scared to move? A world where a simple trip to the shops could mean another broken bone? A world where the threat of violence is an everyday occurrence? Sadly, many women don’t have to imagine it. They live it. According to UNICEF, domestic […]

Women who are unsure whether their man is faithful are more likely to fake orgasms and engage in “mate-guarding” behaviours in an effort to hold on to their man, a new US study has found. The research, conducted at the HIV Centre for Clinical and Behavioural Studies at Columbia University, is the first to find […]

Before meeting Brad Pitt, Angeline Jolie was known for her bad girl behaviour. Most famously for passionately kissing her brother in public, and hanging a vial of Billy Bob Thornton’s blood around her neck when the pair were married back in 2000. But since meeting Brad she has admitted to moving on from being a […]

The Thread by Victoria Hislop, Headline, $29.99. There’s a lot of history in The Thread, but Victoria Hislop’s lightness of touch and warm lyrical style make it a lesson you genuinely relish. This is the author’s third novel set in Greece and here, in the multicultural city of Thessaloniki, she delves much deeper into the […]

Little girls love pink — or do they? Peggy Orenstein looks at the influence of marketing and asks whether girls are born wanting to be princesses or have had princesshood thrust upon them. Here is my dirty little secret: as a journalist, I have spent nearly two decades writing about girls, thinking about girls, talking […]

Sarah Murdoch discusses ‘whingeing’ model wannabes, turning 40 and why her family will always come first. Sarah Murdoch has a message for Generation Y. “I have never heard so much whingeing and as for a work ethic, I don’t know where that’s gone.” The producer and host of Foxtel’s reality TV hit, Australia’s Next Top […]

The Costa family enjoyed an idyllic country lifestyle with their precious children — until a knife-wielding intruder destroyed their sanctuary. Jordan Baker visits a family trying to put the pieces of their life back together. The Costa family considered their farm their refuge, a place where five-year-old Valentina and two-year-old Mikos could forget the punishing […]

Little girls may be sugar and spice, but they are anything but nice when friends let them down. A new study conducted by Duke University has proved that movies like Mean Girls are not as exaggerated as people might think. While previous research suggested young girls were better at forming and maintaining friendships than young […]

A British survey has found that Catholics are the most adulterous religious group in the UK. The research showed that 21.5 percent of the 600,000 members on an extra-marital dating site were Catholic — a high figure for the UK as Catholics make up just 10 percent of the population. The research found that Church […]

If the Australian stars of Celebrity Apprentice had done their research and watched the US version, they would have realised that the show is Russian Roulette for their careers. The show gives us an intimate look at celebrities’ personalities, without the publicists, marketing teams and soft lighting. For those who come off well, it can […]

Forget diet and exercise — weight loss could soon be as simple as chewing some gum. Scientists at Syracuse University are developing a gum that will make chewers feel full, leading them to consume less kilojoules and ultimately slim down. A team of researchers led by chemist Robert Doyle have discovered that the hormone that […]

Hugh Jackman may be a talented actor and heartthrob for many, but his fame and fortune won’t be going to his head if his daughter Ava has anything to do with it. The 43-year-old Australian actor, whose 16-year career has seen him go from Aussie TV, to London’s West End and on to Broadway and […]

Di Morrissey has 19 best-selling books under her belt and another one on shelves now — but despite her success she still feels nervous about every new release. Here, Di discusses her fear of failure, her cadetship at The Weekly and why she once wished she wrote sex books instead of novels. AWW: Did you […]

The secret to happiness past your 65th birthday has been revealed — sex, and lots of it. New research conducted by Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University found that the more often married individuals have sex, the more likely they are to be happy. Assistant professor Adrienne Jackson analysed data from the 2004 General Social Surveys, […]

Given the eclectic bunch that we are, it’s not often that a single TV show will become the subject of water-cooler chat here at The Weekly, but Celebrity Apprentice is that rare beast. As the last remaining contestants square-up for the grand final showdown tonight, I’ve been charged with the responsibility of assessing the form […]

Her plans for an extended summer family holiday back home in Australia have been dashed by the rigours of royalty. It was meant to be the ultimate happy homecoming, Crown Princess Mary’s chance to show her four children a true-blue Aussie Christmas. Sadly for Mary, the demands of her royal duty as the future queen […]

The swimming champ fears losing her home as she fights her estranged husband, ironman Grant Kenny, over their $80 million empire. Just when Lisa Curry thought she had found happiness with her toyboy lover, the swimming champion has been left heartbroken after estranged husband Grant Kenny made moves to sell her home. A devastated Lisa […]

The unlucky-in-love former politician has settled down on the NSW north coast with a popular local man. She’s been burnt by love more times than she might care to recall, so maybe that’s why former One Nation leader and The Celebrity Apprentice contestant Pauline Hanson is coy when it comes to matters of the heart. […]

The Duchess of Cambridge is furious after her sister is dumped by her snobby boyfriend. After showcasing her shapely derriere and perfect poise at April’s royal wedding, Pippa Middleton became an overnight sensation and one of the most desirable women on the planet. Other women wanted to be her. Men wanted to be with her. […]

Fiona Bigmore used to love going to the beach and would lie for hours in the sun perfecting her golden tan. “I used to make a mixture of olive oil and vinegar — the theory was that because vinegar is acidic, it makes you burn faster!” she says. “Anyway, I’d coat myself in it before […]

Princess Mary has ended her official tour of Australia with a bang, looking stunning in a sea green Grecian-style gown at a charity gala in Melbourne. The event was the Danish royal couple’s last official engagement for this visit, but they will remain in the country for a few more days on a private holiday. […]

Danish Crown Princess Mary has charmed almost everyone she has met on her six-day tour of Australia with husband Crown Prince Frederik and their family. So far, she has hitched up her skirt to ride a bike, taken in the scenes at Sculptures by the Sea at Bondi and participated in a cooking demonstration with […]

Nowadays we are faced with so much choice at the supermarket that figuring out which products are healthier options can be bewildering. Here at ‘Mums United’, we know that making healthier food choices needs to be practical for Australian families. We busy Mums don’t have the time to examine the ingredients on every single product […]

My partner has a short temper and little things really get to him and eat away at him and he also doesn’t take criticism well. It scares and upsets me when he gets angry as I’m quite a placid person. When he gets upset he lashes out and hits things, but he says he’d never […]

Kinglake-350 by Adrian Hyland, Text Publishing, $32.95. This is an important book, the first to tackle the horror of Black Saturday, February 7, 2009, when the small settlements around Kinglake in Victoria were hit by the worst bushfires in the nation’s recorded history. We all remember the story but here are the details, writ large […]

The Life by Malcolm Knox, Allen & Unwin, $32.99. The Life is what a famous world champion surfer can expect to enjoy, a magic combination of international trips, adoring fans and the right to raid the hotel mini-bar. The Life is what poor, parentless Dennis Keith from Coolangatta, Qld, works for, and achieves, and is […]

Lucky Bunnyby Jill Dawson, Sceptre, 29.99. Queenie Dove was what many would call a wicked girl. Childhood thief, liar and truant. Her father is carted off to jail, her mother to a mental hospital, so Queenie relies on wit to survive the Depression and the Blitz, while her body blossoms (and she discovers wired brassieres) […]

The Monsoon Bride by Michelle Aung Thin, Text Publishing, $29.95. This is a first novel, shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards unpublished manuscript fellowship last year — so why, I kept wondering, does the story seem vaguely familiar? Then I twigged: it’s (Graham) Greene-land. Meeting place of colonial upheaval, moral ambiguity and tropical sex, […]

The Traitor’s Emblem by Juan Gomez-Jurado, Orion, $32.99. They call Gomez-Jurado the Spanish Ken Follett and it’s not difficult to see why. With characters such as a despicable Nazi, a beautiful Jewish girl and a young patriot haunted by a decades-long mystery, The Traitor’s Emblem is vintage Follett. It’s 1919, and in a mansion in […]

The Ridge by Michael Koryta, Arena, $24.99. Just like Deputy Sheriff Kevin Kimble and local journalist Roy Damus, you’ll ever so slowly be convinced that there’s something not quite human about the dramas unfolding at Blade Ridge. There are the unexplained car wrecks, drownings and suicides. And they’re made even stranger by the number of […]

Portrait of A Spy by Daniel Silva, Harper Collins, $32.99. Gabriel Allon could have been acknowledged as the world’s greatest art restorer if that occupation hadn’t merely been a cover for his true talent. This sensitive and loyal man, a lover of Renaissance art, is Israel’s top assassin. The only thing he can’t seem to […]

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff, Virgin, $45. The richest woman in the world, queen of an enlightened empire, and the lover of two great Roman leaders, Cleopatra made such an impact in her lifetime that she has never been forgotten. From Plutarch to Shakespeare, through to Elizabeth Taylor, there’s always room for another Cleopatra, […]

Empire Day by Diane Armstrong, HarperCollins, $32.99. “It’s strange,” muses one of Armstrong’s struggling-to-settle Eastern European immigrees to Sydney in Australia’s post-war melting pot. “A huge country with hardly any people, an empty centre and no history.” “That’s exactly why I love it,” responds her husband. “A country without a past, but with a big […]

Surviving Maggie by John Fingleton, HarperCollins, $29.99. Surviving his drunken mother, Maggie, ultimately meant that Harold Fingleton was destroyed, in this despairingly bleak tale of history repeating. What Harold, the author’s father, achieved was to halt the descent into a third generation, protecting his five children to a greater degree from his own alcoholism, although […]

Smut by Alan Bennett, Faber & Faber, $24.95. British master Alan Bennett subtitles his latest Two Unseemly Stories, perfectly summing up these short peeks behind the suburban blind at the unconventional sexual lives of two apparently conventional, middle-aged women. For the widowed Mrs Donaldson, taking in lodgers to help make ends meet, it’s the offer […]

The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, Vintage $24.95. The book that sold itself is how I think of Hare. A word-of-mouth sensation, published last year but still selling strongly and dazzling readers wherever it goes. It’s a true but scarcely grabby plot: the author, a noted ceramicist, inherits his great uncle Iggy’s […]

All that I Am by Anna Funder, Hamish Hamilton, $32.95. Anna Funder’s long-awaited first novel has one of the great opening lines: When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The place, Berlin; the year, 1933, and this homely image is a reminder of how mighty historical events can twist and destroy individual […]

Animal People by Charlotte Wood, Allen & Unwin, $29.99. Stephen is having a bad day. Another argument with his mum, a run-in with the neighbour’s dog, he skittles a pedestrian, then his bus seems to have a bomb on board. All this while tossing up which of the 50 ways he’ll choose to leave his […]

Far To Go By Alison Pick, Headline Fiction, $29.99 Even in retrospect, it’s almost impossible to comprehend evil on such a massive scale as Hitler’s Nazi Party. That inability explains a lot about why Jewish families such as Alison Pick’s fictional Bauers didn’t try to flee until it was much too late. Secular and wealthy, […]

Bertie Plays the BluesBy Alexander McCall Smith, NewSouthBooks, $29.95 If Precious Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is the Alexander McCall Smith character I most admire, six-year-old Bertie Pollack is the one I most want to help. The latest of McCall Smith’s popular Scotland Street novels finally gives us a sliver of hope […]

The Cut By George Pelecanos, Orion, $32.99 Stephen King and Barack Obama are just two of George Pelecanos’ legion of fans. If you haven’t read him before, you might still know his work from the cult television hit The Wire — a gritty, understated, crime drama set in the gang-ridden streets of Baltimore. The Cut […]

The Sense Of An Ending By Julian Barnes, Random House, $29.95. Julian Barnes’ books seem to get shorter as he ages, but that doesn’t mean they’re any less engrossing. This one, more of a novella than a full-blown novel, has been long-listed for the Booker Prize and finds the author back in a contemplative mood. […]

The Doll: Short StoriesBy Daphne Du Maurier, Virago, $24.99. Published posthumously, these 13 forgotten short stories — penned by famed Jamaica Inn author Daphne Du Maurier, most of them when she was in her 20s — make for riveting, if somewhat shocking reading. The eponymousThe Dollis the scene-stealer: a macabre tension-filled tale of a man […]

You’ll Be Sorry When I’m Dead by Marieke Hardy, Allen & Unwin, $29.99. A threesome with a prostitute is a provocative way to open this brilliant new novel by Melbourne writer Marieke Hardy. Yet it is the chapters on her mundane life experiences that sparkle. Hardy quickly tires of prostitutes and dumps her boyfriend. From […]

The Briny CafeBy Susan Duncan, Bantam Australia, $32.95. They say the best fiction writers draw from experience. So when high-flying magazine editor Susan Duncan left the hustle of Sydney to live in a house on Pittwater — accessible only by boat and built for Dorothea Mackellar in 1925 – it’s not much of a stretch […]

Tasting India By Christine Manfield, Lantern, $89.95. Sydney chef and restaurateur Christine Manfield has a special place in her heart for India. “On each and every visit, I surrender myself to the procession of life before me, as India begins to pulsate through my veins,” she says. This exceptional, lavish book is a visual and […]

Cain by José Saramago, Harvill Secker, $29.95. You know that Woody Allen film Zelig, about a man who inexplicably bobs up in the background at key moments of history? Well, that’s what Cain — the murderous brother of Abel in the Bible — does in this last satirical novel by Nobel laureate Jose Saramago. And […]

The Quarry by Johan Theorin, Doubleday, $32.95. The Swedish crime wave rolls on. The interesting thing is how good these books are; turns out there was a talented crowd banked up behind Stieg Larsson. And within the genre is emerging a sub-genre centred on remote islands; the winter locks them off, bad things happen there. […]

This is Di Morrissey’s 20th book, arriving 20 years after she published her first — though she’ll be selling a lot more copies, having spent those years building a strong and supportive base of readers. As the title suggests, The Opal Desert is set in and around Australia’s remote opal fields, in a small imaginary […]

Snowdrops by A.D. Miller, Atlantic, $19.99. In Moscow, a snowdrop is not a flower but a slang term for a corpse which “blooms” during spring when the snow melts and exposes the body beneath. A useful way to conceal a murder … This literary thriller starts as thirtysomething expatriate lawyer Nick Platt discovers his own […]

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, Sceptre, $29.99. Take The Great Gatsby, throw in a little Breakfast At Tiffany’s, and mix it up with a whole lot of attitude in a cocktail shaker and you’ve got Rules of Civility, a sophisticated coming of age story set in 1938 Manhattan. Katey Kontent is a typist in […]

I Am Half Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley, Orion, $32.99. Flavia de Luce may be a delightful innocent, but she’s well acquainted with murder and easy in its company. In her well-stocked chemistry laboratory in a wing of her crumbling family estate, neglected Flavia explores the fascinating world of poisons, while her older sisters […]

The Year After by Martin Davies, Hodder &Stoughton, $32.99. It’s 1919 and, still grimy with Flanders dust, Captain Tom Abbott returns to a strangely muted London. Before the war, he’d vowed never to return to Devon and rose-scented Hannesford Court, the home of the charming Stansbury family. Yet a yearning for music, noise and bustle […]

The Affair by Lee Child, Bantam Press, $32.95. Jack Reacher fans are wildly possessive of him and there’s a guerrilla reader movement against casting Tom Cruise in the upcoming Reacher film. Their passion prompted me to read my first Reacher novel, the 16th in the best-selling series. I got lucky with the chronology. The Affair […]

Tiger Men by Judy Nunn, Random House, $32.95. Spanning 65 years of Tasmanian history from 1853 to 1918, actor and best-selling author Judy Nunn follows the fortunes of three disparate yet inexorably linked families in the sweeping saga Tiger Men. Where the term used to describe the bounty hunters who hunted the Tasmanian tiger into […]

Adventures in Correspondentland by Nick Bryant, Random House, $32.95. For five years, until he hung up his headphones last month, Nick Bryant was the BBC’s man in Australia. For 11 years prior to his posting Down Under, Bryant roamed the globe as a foreign correspondent. His reflections on this time as a microphone-wielding witness to […]

Matilda Is Missing by Caroline Overington, Bantam Australia, $32.95. It sounds like it could be dry and grueling content — a novel about a custody fight for a little girl from a family torn apart by divorce. Yet Matilda Is Missing is so much more than that. It is a gripping and emotional tale of […]

Lola’s Secret by Monica McInerny, Penguin, $29.95. Lola Quinlan’s 12-year-old great grand-daughter approvingly likens her to Lady Gaga; kitted out with panache in pink tights and leopard-print dress. Family saga author Monica McInerney’s 84-year-old creation also loves the internet and slips in smiley emoticons on emails like they are going out of fashion. Lola’s secret […]

Demi Moore has announced that she is filing for divorce, ending her six-year marriage to Ashton Kutcher. The 49-year-old actress released a statement today, confirming she was ending the relationship with “great sadness and a heavy heart”. In pictures: Demi and Ashton in happier times The statement also hinted at Ashton’s rumoured infidelity, saying: “As […]

She’d always feared the deep ocean. But in 1981, that’s where Hollywood actress Natalie Wood died. She had been sailing on the yacht Splendour with her husband and a friend. They thought she had gone to bed, but she was later found floating in the water, wearing only her nightgown, a down jacket, and socks. […]

Demi Moore has announced that she is filing for divorce, ending her six-year marriage to Ashton Kutcher. The 49-year-old actress released a statement today, confirming she was ending the relationship with “great sadness and a heavy heart”. The split comes two months after Ashton was accused of cheating on Demi on their six-year wedding anniversary. […]

After attempting to repair her marriage, Demi Moore has announced she is divorcing her husband of six years, Ashton Kutcher. In a statement to Associated Press the 49- year-old said it was with a “heavy heart” that she announced the news. “It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to […]

It has been a big year! So, here are the most shocking celebrity stories of 2011.

Sofia Vergara is famous for her curvaceous body, but when she first moved to Los Angeles her publicist told her she needed a breast reduction if she wanted to be taken seriously. The 39-year-old Modern Family star moved to the US from Colombia and tried to pursue a career in television. In pictures: The worst […]

While they are yet to publicly speak about the breakdown of their marriage, it seems Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher have continued working on their relationship behind closed doors. So where did the estranged spouses chose to meet to work over their problems? The pair escaped to Demi’s ex-husband, Bruce Willis’ holiday house in the […]

We usually see US soldiers returning from Afghanistan to surprise their children, but in this case National Guardsman First Lt Charles Jacobs surprised his parents. The pair were being honoured with dropping the ceremonial opening puck at the Boston Bruins’ hockey game and didn’t know their son had just arrived home on leave. The Bruins […]

Denmark’s littlest prince and princess celebrated their first birthday on Sunday with matching Eskimo cakes. Crown Princess Mary’s youngest children Vincent and Josephine spent their big day at home at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen with their older siblings Christian, six, and Isabella, four. An official photographer captured the family celebrating the occasion in a series […]

We’re constantly reminded about the perils of the sun. Although crops wouldn’t grow, solar panels would be wasted and vitamin D in our skin would be deficient without it, the sun is often given a bad wrap. Yet when we look at the irreversible damage it causes to our skin, we do need to make […]

Summer is the time for kids in the garden — school holidays, and hopefully fun and fresh air instead of square eyes from watching too much TV. Today’s gardens though often don’t tempt kids outside. They’re neat designer gardens, created to impress onlookers, rather than with spots for cubbies, and trees with handy branches to […]

While swimming is an important part of Australian culture, drowning remains one of the highest causes of accidental death in children. The recent National Drowning Report compiled by Royal Life Saving shows child drowning deaths in Australia have again risen. Between July 1 2009 and June 30 2010, 48 children aged 0-14 years drowned. The […]

Resuscitation is a skill every Australian should have — the life you save with this knowledge may be a loved one, and should an emergency situation arise, the precious minutes wasted before response can be a matter of life and death. These essential facts come from Royal Life Saving Society — Australia. What is resuscitation? […]

Hollywood actor Brad Pitt has spoken about the 60 minutes interview in which he said he would stop acting at the age of 50, explaining that he wasn’t putting an expiry date on himself. “I wasn’t actually putting an exact deadline on my expiration date, but I see it coming. I just have other interests […]

Speaking through her management today, Jessica Marais has confirmed that she and fiancé James Stewart are expecting their first child. “James Stewart and Jessica Marais announce they are expecting their first child,” the statement from her management said. “The couple are excited and looking forward to this next phase of their lives.” The pair, who […]

For most people, home movies are nothing more than a way to embarrass your children at their 21st birthday parties — but for one British family, a short clip of their two sons has earned them a cool $155,000. Howard Davies-Carr uploaded a short clip of his sons Charlie and Harry onto Youtube so the […]

Meryl Streep has received more Oscar nominations than any other star and looks likely to get another one for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in a new film. The 62-year-old actress plays Britain’s legendary prime minister in The Iron Lady, which is scheduled for release in January, just in time for the awards season. In […]

Brad Pitt has announced he is quitting Hollywood on his 50th birthday. In a candid interview that aired on 60 Minutes last night, the actor vowed he would not appear in another film after December 2013. But while Brad is certain his acting career has a use-by date, he’s not entirely sure what he will […]

The entire Jolie-Pitt family of eight arrived at Con Dao Island airport in south-east Vietnam on Friday, from Japan, where Brad had premiered his new film Moneyball last Wednesday. The stop-off is particularly significant to seven year-old Pax who was born in Vietnam where Angelina adopted him from an orphanage in 2007 when he was […]

The mystery man who was part of Kim’s life talks exclusively to Woman’s Day about her, and his new love. As Kim Kardashian dashes across the globe in the wake of her split from husband Kris Humphries – frantically fulfilling work commitments and meeting with Kris for “closure counselling” – the reality TV queen’s Aussie […]

Tom Cruise’s only son infuriates his superstar father by abandoning the family business. When Connor Cruise took his first few tentative steps into the film world with a small part in the Will Smith movie Seven Pounds and a role in the blockbuster remake Red Dawn, his proud father wasted no time in telling Hollywood […]

Domestic violence is more than black eyes and bruises – the emotional and psychological scars last forever. Our favourite stars have united with Woman’s Day, Mission Australia and White Ribbon to speak out in support of women and White Ribbon Day on November 25.

Schapelle Corby’s apparent crocodile tears and outrageous web of lies are exposed in an explosive new book, which claims her late father Mick Corby packed her boogie board bag full of marijuana and sent her to Bali as a willing drug mule. Schapelle Corby might just be the greatest actress of all time. Since her […]

Danielle Guttridge is proof the tragic cycle of domestic violence can be broken. Engulfed by laughter and the lively chatter of her three daughters, Danielle Guttridge is a picture of perfect calm and serenity. Danielle, 26, from Cootamundra in NSW, loves nothing better than to hear that happiest of sounds – little girls giggling at […]

Camilla Parker Bowles might not be everyone’s favourite royal, but Kate Middleton made her affection for William’s step-mother clear yesterday. The Duchess of the Cambridge joined the Duchess of Cornwall at London’s Cenotaph for the country’s Remembrance Day ceremony. Kate and Camilla — both dressed in sombre black — made their affection for each other […]

Prince William and Kate Middleton will be forced to spend six weeks apart next year when William is posted to the Falkland Islands. The Duke of Cambridge will complete a six-week tour of duty in the South Atlantic region in February 2012. It will be the longest time William and Kate have spent apart since […]

The Australian Women’s Weekly is not only the country’s most-read magazine — it’s also the fastest-growing. The Weekly has had an incredible year, growing 5.9 percent to 2.34 million readers per month — up 131,000 from the same time year according to the latest Roy Morgan Readership Survey. This amazing result is the biggest year-on-year […]

If Kate Middleton is upset about Prince William’s posting to the Falkland Islands, she wasn’t showing it last night. The Duchess of Cambridge looked absolutely stunning in a silver Grecian-style gown as she and William hosted a charity dinner at St James’s Palace. Kate and William seemed relaxed and happy at the event, and shot […]

Just as soon as they had landed they were off again! Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have packed up their brood of six and left Japan after just 48 hours in the country. And it seems one of their children, six-year-old Zahara, wasn’t too happy about the constant travel. She gave waiting photographers an icy […]

George Clooney has discussed losing his virginity, his first orgasm and his love of farts in a candid new interview. The 50-year-old actor is usually guarded about his private life, but opened up in the interview with Rolling Stone magazine. In pictures: George Clooney’s girls Clooney revealed he lost his virginity at the age of […]