You would think that those responsible for one of the biggest-selling calendars in Australia would have more of a celebrity status. But the 28 firefighters chosen to be part of the 2011 Firefighters Calendar have still established their own kind of stardom and it’s all in the name of charity. Despite their seemingly tough exteriors […]

Carol (35) looks like she has it all — loving husband, beautiful children, great job. But for the first time in her 12-year relationship it’s not quite enough… When Rob surprised me with a week’s holiday on Hamilton Island I couldn’t believe my luck, especially since he’d organised his parents to look after everything at […]

Can she and Mark renew their vows a record breaking 100 times? Clare Rigden reports. Denise Duffield-Thomas had dreamed of walking down the aisle and saying “I do” to her Prince Charming, but she never imagined she’d do it again and again, in some of the world’s most exotic places. Denise, originally from the NSW […]

Tina Watson had been married for just 11 days when she died scuba diving off the Great Barrier Reef. What part did her husband Gabe play in her death? This exclusive extract from new book Honeymoon Dive sheds some light on the tragedy. It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, but for […]

My friend Louise never does anything by halves, which didn’t really bother me until she became a mother. Up until then she’d been as much of a beer swilling meat-eater as the rest of us, but giving birth transformed her into the ultimate organic, free range, ‘my body is a temple’ sort of bore you’d […]

A spectacular guest swooped in to make this couple’s big day truly magical, writes Glen Williams. It may not have taken an eagle-eyed observer to spot the true love shared by Belinda Brown and Shannon Eckstein, but it didn’t stop one swooping in to help them celebrate their big day. When the couple married on […]

My daughter – Jade – is 5 years old and is starting to get invited over for sleepovers by her school-friends. She has a very good circle of friends at school and she desperately wants to spend as much time with them as possible. The problem is that I’m paranoid and maybe a little overprotective. […]

Holy wedding bells, Batman! This wacky wedding between the Caped Crusader and Wonder Woman was enough to leave the Incredible Hulk green with envy. Comic book lovers Neil and Sharon Vaughn were hoping their wedding would be that extra bit special. So it seemed natural they would bring their hobby to life by staging a […]

I’m 37 and I was bored and fed up 18 months ago for lots of reasons. My wife hardly ever wanted to make love and was always saying she was tired so I started going to the pub whenever I could and I met my girlfriend there. We had brilliant sex and a lot of […]

Last week, I received a letter from an old friend. I hadn’t seen Carol for twenty-five years. She wrote to congratulate me on my recent appointment of Professor at a university of great renown – she’d read about it in the papers. Carol wrote of how her husband, Brett, left her only a few years […]