Mercilessly teased as a child, singing sensation Susan Boyle now has fame and fortune, but it has taken a huge toll on her. Look at her up there, shining like the star she never dared dream she would be. Susan Magdalene Boyle, coiffed and gleaming, the fastest-selling debut artist since records began and the woman […]

After his beloved wife Jane died, Glenn McGrath thought he could never love another woman. Yet fate has proved him wrong. Glenn McGrath is clearly a man in love. You can see it in the way he walks, the way he speaks, the easy way he breaks into a smile. Yet most of all, you […]

So You Think You Can Dance judge Bonnie Lythgoe tells Jordan Baker why she had to leave the love of her life for another man. At home in Britain, she is the wife of a famous man, but in Australia, Bonnie Lythgoe is best known as the sentimental, motherly judge on So You Think You […]

Older woman seeks young man for good times – no strings attached … Lee Tulloch reports on the rise of the cougar and asks whether she’s a symbol of liberation or insecurity. Rose Hantos, 52, a divorced community worker and grandmother of two from Sydney, is in search of a toy boy. Every now and […]

America’s baby beauty queens pout and preen. Are our children following in their spangled footsteps? Jordan Baker reports on a disturbing trend. Beneath a 15-storey fake waterfall, little girls as young as two are spray-tanned, made-up and zipped into $2000 dresses. Some carry a pile of curlers in their hair, others rehearse with their coach […]

Since she turned 38, Meryl Streep has been waiting for her career to collapse. Instead, at 60, she’s a box-office powerhouse – most recently, she has been energetically pursued by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin in the romantic comedy It’s Complicated. Leslie Bennetts talks to the (un-Botoxed) face of a Hollywood revolution In one of […]

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The Aussie sweetheart shares a special bond with a young man from the other side of the world, discovers Lucy Chesterton. At just 11, Bindi Irwin is fast becoming a little lady, and she has a new number one fan to prove it ? her boyfriend! Australia’s most famous child star has developed a close […]

Pictures: Yianni Aspradakis. Alone and in terrible pain, the former game show host has suffered five heart attacks. Adriana tells Glen Williams how her faithful companion came to the rescue. For years, as the undisputed queen of quiz show Wheel Of Fortune, Adriana Xenides turned as many heads as she did letters. But now, she […]

Luck continues for the first Aussie to win Winter Olympic gold — when every other finalist fell over — as he fathers twins. Rose Fydler reports. Spiky-haired speed skater Steven Bradbury is famous for being in the right place at exactly the right time. But when his wife Amanda went into early labour with twins […]