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The pulling power of Whitney Houston is still as high as ever. Her exclusive interview, her first in seven years, helped the rating of Oprah’s Winfrey’s 24th season premiere soar. Rather than calling it a comeback, Oprah referred to Whitney’s re-emergence as a “coming-through” when talking on American television showEntertainment Tonight. And it seems Oprah […]

Blessed is based on the award-winning Australian play, Who’s Afraid of the Working Class?, which is a collection of four short, loosely overlapping plays, written by award-winning writers. The short plays in Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? were Trash, written by Andrew Bovell (who also wrote the screenplay for Lantana, and the play on […]

Actor Patrick Swayze today lost his two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57. Swayze, who trained with the Joffrey Ballet School in his twenties, had his major breakthrough aged 35 as Johnny Castle, the dancing instructor from the wrong side of the tracks in the coming-of-age classic Dirty Dancing. His celebrity rose further with […]

Both Magda Szubanski and Jackie O have endured a week of hell at the hands of radio’s Kyle Sandilands, writes Jonica Bray. With her usual good grace and wit, Magda Szubanski put on a brave face last week after shock jock Kyle Sandilands launched into a bizarre string of on-air insults about her weight battle. […]

After years of being a serial bride on TV, Kate Ritchie finally gets the chance to plan her own wedding. Erin Craven and Angela Mollard report. Even as a child, Kate Ritchie’s romantic side was obvious. In between scenes on Home And Away, the now 31-year-old could often be seen singing into a mirror about […]

Michael Jackson‘s sister Janet has opened up about her brother’s tragic death almost two months ago, speaking to Harper’s Bazaar about her memories of Michael and about how his children are coping since losing their father. “He loved to laugh,” says Janet. “The last time we were together, he’d laugh so hard, he would just […]

Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are the proud new parents of baby Sparrow James Midnight, a younger brother for their 19-month-old daughter Harlow Winter. “In the middle of night, the very early hours of September 9, 2009, Sparrow James Midnight Madden was born to Nicole Richie and Joel Madden,” read an announcement on Nicole’s website. […]

Tasma Walton and Rove McManus’s engagement wasn’t your standard ‘down on one knee’ affair, but who would expect this colourful couple to do things the old fashioned way? They may have kept their recent wedding a secret, but Tasma is happy to share how she proposed to her TV host boyfriend some months earlier. Having […]

Far from finding new love with a much younger man, Lisa Curry has learnt she was actually sharing him with a string of women, Jo Knowsley reports. When Lisa Curry and Melbourne businessman Adrian Hunter embarked on a passionate relationship last month, the golden girl’s obvious happiness was the talk of her Mooloolaba hometown. The […]