Now to Love

Julie Prior and Mel Gibson were teenage sweethearts. Here, she tells Michael Sheather about the five happy years she shared with the charismatic young man who became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. For Julie Prior, love’s first bloom is no romantic cliché. Tucked between the pages of a yellowed, time-worn photographic album rests the now […]

Julianne Moore loves life at almost 50. Here, she talks to Elaine Lipworth about family, career, Botox and getting older – plus her latest film, The Kids Are All Right, a family drama in which she plays a lesbian parent opposite Annette Bening. It’s 8 o’clock on a Sunday morning and Julianne Moore is exuberant […]

The $37 million sexual harassment lawsuit brought against iconic retailer David Jones has not only dented its name, but served notice on the boys club at the big end of town, writes Jordan Baker. Yet the bigger issue remains – why does harassment still happen? They’re known as the Masters of the Universe, the chummy […]

While chemists’ shelves bulge with expensive weight-loss treatments, researchers have discovered that something as simple and cheap as drinking two glasses of water before every meal could be just as effective when trying to slim down. Instead of messing with your hormones or playing with your body’s chemistry, this weight-loss technique is childishly straightforward: the […]

The cliché of a moment on the lips meaning a lifetime on the hips has been given credence by a new Swedish study that shows that even short periods of binge eating can leave the body more susceptible to weight gain for years to come. Previous studies have linked weight-gain to the ageing process, but […]

I would dearly love to offer a message of hope in the bleak landscape of dementia and maybe I can. The journey with Mum over the course of her Alzheimer’s has been a roller-coaster of ups and downs, and I only wish I knew at the outset many of the things I’ve learned along the […]

The actress cuts loose while an embarrassed Ashton looks on, writes Matthew Denby. They say you’re only as young as the man you feel, and super cougar Demi Moore didn’t look anywhere near her 47 years as she partied like a teenager in a Malibu street last week. And it was her much younger husband, […]

My friend Louise never does anything by halves, which didn’t really bother me until she became a mother. Up until then she’d been as much of a beer swilling meat-eater as the rest of us, but giving birth transformed her into the ultimate organic, free range, ‘my body is a temple’ sort of bore you’d […]

Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock talks about how she chose to play the character in the inspirational movie The Blind Side, available to buy now on DVD and Blu-ray. What is it like to play characters that are based on real people who are not necessarily famous? Do you try to capture their spirit? And what […]

Mental health stimulation through word games and puzzles have long been associated with keeping the brain active and young, but if this isn’t your thing, you will be glad to know there is an alternative. New research from the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service found that adding strawberries, blackberries and blueberries to your […]