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The Olympics is not only an exhibition of the best athletes in the world - in the past it has been a display of some of the worst outfits as well.

Senior prosecutor Mark Tedeschi described Gittany – who threw his fiancée Lisa Harnum off the balcony of their luxury Sydney apartment – as a “cold” and “calculated” killer. Tedeschi recommended Gittany be locked up for a minimum of 20 years without parole because his complete “lack of remorse” proved he could not be rehabilitated. Defence […]

Rumours of an affair between Bill Clinton and Liz Hurley have been quashed, but the fascination with their respective love lives will never die.

Kerry Smith-Douglas made a bizarre appearance on The Today Show this morning to talk about her client Corby’s impending release. When host Karl Stefanovic asked how Corby would celebrate freedom after nearly a decade in Bali’s notorious Kerobokan Prison, Smith-Douglas said she would probably “roll up a big marijuana joint the size of a cigar […]

The model and businesswoman was embroiled in a sex scandal overnight when gossip website RadarOnline published an old recording of her ex-boyfriend Tom Sizemore claiming he had set her up with Clinton in 1998. “Ludicrously silly stories about me and Bill Clinton,” Hurley tweeted this morning. “Totally untrue. In the hands of my lawyers. Yawn.” […]

In what has been described as a “shock move”, the Crown prosecution introduced a friend of Miss Harnum to give evidence at Gittany’s sentence hearing in Darlinghurst today. The woman, who knew Miss Harnum from beauty college and had previously been in an abusive relationship, only came forward after the prosecution closed its case last […]

She was spotted entering the apartment block where Hoffman had until recently lived with his partner Mimi O’Donnell and their three young children. Blanchett gave no comment to waiting photographers, but was reportedly visibly upset. She was also carrying gifts for the children. Blanchett and Hoffman first worked together on the 1999 Oscar-nominated movie The […]

Kim Culmone – the vice president of design at Mattel, the company that produces the doll – rejected complaints about Barbie’s proportions, insisting her rail-thin physique was chosen for purely practical reasons. “Barbie’s body was never designed to be realistic,” she said. “She was designed for girls to easily dress and undress. And she’s had […]

Jewel Moore, who describes herself as “plus-size”, was so sick of the animation giant’s unrealistically thin princesses she decided to do something about it. Jewel launched a petition on website Charge.org entitled: “Make Plus-Size Princesses in Disney Movies!” “I’m a plus-size young woman, and I know many plus-size girls and women who struggle with confidence […]

Monaco royals Andrea Casiraghi and Tatiana Santo Domingo have married (again) in the ultimate fairytale white wedding.