In his new autobiography, Ray Martin details a childhood that saw him flee his violent father, but sitting down with ERIN CRAVEN, the respected journalist says his dark past just made him love his children even more. Ray Martin is renowned for his friendly, mild mannered approach and easy smile. But his happy, successful life […]

As Heath Ledger’s daughter celebrates her fourth birthday, NAOMI TOY learns how much joy the lively preschooler brings to her mum Michelle’s life. Looking more like her late father, Aussie actor Heath Ledger, every day, Matilda recently notched up two major milestones in any little girl’s life. The cute blonde celebrated her fourth birthday, and […]

He’s given the world some of its most famous stage musicals, now Andrew Lloyd Webber is determined not to take his final bow ahead of time, after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. The acclaimed 61-year-old composer behind smash-hit musicals Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Phantom Of The Opera kept the news secret while he […]

The latest disturbing revelations about Angelina’s lifestyle have sent a despairing Brad Pitt into a tailspin. MATTHEW DENBY reports. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s relationship has been rocked by shocking new sex and drug allegations in two forthcoming biographies – including claims that the actress once slept with her late mother’s lover, and details of […]

She is best known for the catchy pop tune ‘Accidentally Kelly Street’, but Jackie Brygel discovers singer Angie Hart is more than a one-hit wonder. As the lead singer of hit ’90s pop band Frente!, Angie Hart toured the globe and hit the headlines for everything from posing near-nude for a magazine cover to making […]

Thrilled to be expecting her third child, Sarah Murdoch talks to Lee Tulloch about motherhood and what it’s like to have married into a high-profile business dynasty. Untainted by power or fame, Sarah has remained her own person, working tirelessly for a raft of charities – and on a documentary series she finds moving and […]

As convicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby enters her sixth year in a Bali jail, her biographer, Kathryn Bonella, charts her slide into depression, despair and mental illness. Schapelle Corby may inhabit a filthy, rat-infested concrete cell in the hellhole that is Bali’s Kerobokan Prison, but she lives in a world of fantasy. She hears voices […]

The Weekly’s November cover girl, Sarah Murdoch, told us she did not want her photographs digitally retouched. So we didn’t. Real. Is a word Sarah returns to often. It’s the “real” stories in Pride of Australia that engage her. It’s the realness of the sausage sizzle and the camping trip and the lining up to […]