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Australia loves Rebecca Gibney – her Gold Logie proves that. Yet her success has masked enormous pain, as she tells Wendy Squires. It’s hard to comprehend that the story Rebecca Gibney is telling could actually have happened. It seems impossible that the bubbly actress with the twinkling periwinkle blue eyes, easy smile and contagious laugh […]

Turning 50, divorcing Guy Ritchie and controversy over her recent attempt to adopt Mercy, a four-year-old orphan from Malawi, doesn’t seem to have dented Madonna’s fortune – or her bankability. Robert Sandall investigates the business of being a Material Girl. She flagged herself in her 1985 hit as a Material Girl and what a prophetic […]

In her most revealing interview yet, Deborah Hutton tells Michael Sheather about her devastating family tragedy, a new romance and how, at 47, she has come to terms with never having babies. You could be forgiven for believing that Deborah Hutton, one of Australia’s most recognised faces, leads a perfect life, unblemished by the troubles […]

Celebrity chef Bill Granger is well-known for his upbeat personality, yet, as he reveals in an intimate interview with Sue Williams, he has suffered from depression. Lauded around the world for his happy-go-lucky, laidback Aussie style, award-winning restaurateur and TV chef Bill Granger seems to have it all. His books sell in their millions internationally, […]

Is Anybody There? Michael Caine, veteren actor and now knight of the realm, has begun to specialize in curmudgeonly old characters with hearts of gold beneath their grim exteriors. He wheels out just such a chap again in Is Anybody There?, a Channel4-style movie, choc-full of trademark British humour with a bleak undercurrent. Though in […]

Download your exclusive first chapter from The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey here. About this book: An epic and strikingly original love story set in hot, steamy Trinidad. British couple George and Sabine arrive there as passionate newly weds. He is seduced by the beauty of the place, she senses the […]

If you have never knitted before, here’s how to get started… Click here for a full step by step guide to knitting A sneak preview Casting on 1 Wind the yarn around your left index finger to make a circle as shown above. With a knitting needle, pull a loop of the yarn attached to […]

By Leigh Reinhold Pictures: Cameron Bloom Catriona Rowntree is excited about her looming arrival, but worries she may give birth on the side of the road! Radiant, seven-months-pregnant Catriona Rowntree lets out an excited squeal as she sweeps into the lavish baby shower being held in her honour. “It’s absolutely perfect,” the happy TV star […]

By Glen Williams Pictures: David Hahn Emerging from the shadows of abuse, the singer is relishing her role as full-time guardian to her grandsons. Something transfiguring, something dramatically life-changing, has happened to Debra Byrne. You can see it, plain as day, as the iconic entertainer bursts forth with a carefree chorus of Baa Baa Black […]

**By Lucy Chesterton and Jacqui Lang The Aussie acting legend departed this life as he lived it… in a blaze of warmth, humour and love.** Leaving a well thumbed script by his bedside, beloved actor Charles “Bud” Tingwell ended his final day the same way he did so many before — with his lines fully […]