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April 25, 2010

Brad and Ange back on track!

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Life is good in Venice, with the star couple lapping up the romance of the city and their lively kids running wild with Grandma and Grandpa.

Putting to rest recent speculation that their relationship is on the rocks, life in Venice seems happier than ever for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie – and their six children.

With Brad’s parents Jane and William Pitt jetting in to check out the sights – and help out with babysitting duties whenever the need arises – the world’s most famous couple have enjoyed some precious time out together.

Holding hands as they walked the city’s cobbled streets, it seems any recent troubles for Brad, 46, and Ange, 34, are behind them.

“They’re inseparable, and it’s just rare within the universe that you get that kind of love,” says Ange’s close friend, musician Wyclef Jean. “They’re really, really inseparable.”

The family has been staying at the sumptuous 16th-century Palazzo Mocenigo while Ange films her movie, The Tourist.

The $6.8 million property is fully furnished with Italian antiques, features spectacular balconies overlooking the city’s famous canals and boasts a huge private atrium garden – so the family could be excused for staying indoors all day.

However, with the northern hemisphere spring well and truly in the air, they have taken every opportunity to hit the streets of the historical city.

As Shiloh, 3, her big brothers Pax, 6, and Maddox, 8, and sister Zahara, 5, checked out Venice’s Piazza San Marco with Grandma and Grandpa, it seemed there was no such thing as too much gelato.

For the story and pictures of the couple’s venice home see this week’s Woman’s Day, on sale April 26, 2010.

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April 25, 2010

Greg Page: Meet my miracle baby!

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Greg Page has found his smile again, he tells Jacqui Lang, thanks to two of the girls in his life.

Meet the two lovely females who’ve put the spring back in the step of former Wiggle Greg Page: beloved new wife Vanessa, and adorable baby daughter Lara.

For the first time, a very private Greg and Vanessa are revealing their happiness at finding one another.

“Until Vanessa came along, on a lot of levels I was a pretty sad and lonely guy,” admits Greg, cradling little six-month-old Lara.

Nods Vanessa, “It was obvious to me that for a lot of reasons you were very unsettled in your life when I met you.”

Looking at the relaxed, happy couple today, it’s hard to imagine that when they first met up for an innocent coffee a couple of years ago, both were in a fragile state. “We were both undergoing big life changes – but it was our similar approach to life that really brought us together,” Greg reflects.

Newly widowed, Vanessa was still dealing with the loss of her beloved husband, the father of her two children, Hayden, then four, and Claudia, then two.

Greg, who’d been living on his own for several years, was battling the debilitating effects of orthostatic intolerance, the dizzying disorder which had forced him to quit The Wiggles.

“Leaving the group was a major life change. I guess for a while, I lost my direction. The Wiggles had been my career for 16 years, since leaving school,” he says. “Suddenly, everything I knew was changing.”

One day, Greg heard through friends that his old classmate, Vanessa, was mourning the loss of her husband of eight years, who’d died after a lengthy battle with cancer.

“I decided to send her some flowers and a card,” Greg recalls. “I hadn’t seen Vanessa for many years, but our mutual friends had kept me in touch perdiodically with what she’d been going through.”

Vanessa and Greg, both 38, attended the same Sydney primary and high schools, where they remember each other as “good people”, but mixed in different circles.

Several weeks after sending the flowers, Greg got Vanessa’s number from friends and telephoned her; they got talking.

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April 25, 2010

Roberta Williams: I killed Carl

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Multiple murderer Carl Williams should have been out-of-sight, out-of-mind in maximum security in a Victorian jail. But his ex-wife’s taste for publicity made sure he was not forgotten…either by the public or his equally vicious enemies. Ray Chesterton takes up the story.

When it comes to publicity, Roberta Williams can grab a headline as easily as her drug-dealing, multiple-murderer ex-husband Carl could order the ruthless execution of a criminal rival.

Her flamboyance and flashy style made her a natural media target after she was portrayed so vividly on TV in Underbelly, which brought Melbourne’s gang wars between the Moran family and Williams’ hoodlums to a national stage.

Now there is speculation Roberta’s taste for publicity may have helped focus unwanted attention on Carl, with whom she remained exceptionally close, as he began his 35-year minimum jail term for multiple murders.

Just days after Roberta talked about getting a publisher for a tell-all book she said her husband had written, Williams was bashed at Barwon Prison near Geelong in Victoria and later died in his tiny cell.

“Being high-profile is a dangerous position when you are in jail,’’ Andrew explains to Woman’s Day. “It makes you a target, especially if you’re not particularly tough yourself. Carl always hired other people to do his murders, he wasn’t strong. He didn’t do them himself.

“He also burnt various blokes by offering them money for murder and then dudding them.’’

Williams, whose violent grab for power between 2000 and 2006 sparked a killing spree that left more than 30 people dead, once even fired bullets on Christmas Day at his then wife Roberta, who was pregnant at the time.

The bullets missed, but the attack did nothing to reduce Roberta’s esteem for her slow-thinking, overweight husband. His answer to every question was savagery and mayhem as he chased domination of the Victorian drug trade, gathering an estimated $20 million in profits before he was jailed, and died broke at 39.

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April 25, 2010

Sara and Glenn: “We are ready to have babies!”

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Glenn McGrath’s new love, Sara Leonardi, tells Jonica Bray why they want children…soon.

She’s only 28, but her relationship with cricket great Glenn McGrath means Sara Leonardi has walked into a ready-made family – and she can’t wait to add to it.

Sara has quickly become part of the McGrath household, made up of Glenn and his children, James, 10, and Holly, 8 – and she looks forward to expanding the family.

“Having kids opens your eyes to a whole new world,” Sara says during a candid chat at Sydney’s Royal Randwick racecourse. “You see everything differently, and that’s good.”

While Glenn confirms to Woman’s Day that Sara “isn’t pregnant” yet, he hints the couple might start trying for a baby together.

“Hopefully soon!” the 40-year-old adds.

Sara says she would never dream of trying to replace Holly and James’s mother Jane, who died of breast cancer in 2008. She’s adapted effortlessly to having them in her life, though.

“I absolutely love Glenn’s kids,” she says. “There isn’t one thing not to love about them. You only ever get one mum in your life and I’m never going to be that, but … you can have other women who you look up to and who love you, and that’s what I’m going to be for them.”

On weekend afternoons, Sara often travels with Holly into the city from their mansion in Sydney’s south to go shopping, or she can be found cheering at James’s cricket matches. On weekdays she’ll run the kids to school.

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April 25, 2010

Brian hits back: “I am a good dad!”

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The star prepares to fly back to the UK for his kids, after a vicious public row with his ex, reports Matthew Denby.

Brian McFadden is jetting off to face his ex-wife, Kerry Katona – for the sake of their two children – after publicly declaring she is “dead to me” in a bitter internet rant.

The Australia’s Got Talent judge, who is furious with his ex for claiming he has little to do with their daughters, Molly, 8, and Lilly-Sue, 7, says he will be with the girls when they take Holy Communion next week. The occasion is expected to be fraught.

“People always say it must be really hard for them, and for me not being there with them, but for us, it’s not,” Brian last week told Sydney’s Sun-Herald newspaper.

“We’re used to being away from each other. When Molly was born, two weeks after I went on a world tour with Westlife. We’re used to having that sort of relationship.

“We’ve never had the living under the same roof thing. That’s the way it’s been since day one.”

Brian was outraged by 29-year-old Kerry’s claims that he rings the girls just five times a year, and that Lilly “hardly knows who he is”. Exploding with anger last week, he posted a string of harsh words on his Twitter page, before having second thoughts and deleting them.

“A certain pig faced mole [sic] has suggested my own daughter Lilly doesn’t know me, and that I never speak to my kids,” he raged. “FACT … I call my girls at least twice a week and have a beautiful relationship with my daughters.

“And call me fat! Take the bowl of mayonnaise drenched chips out of your face and look in the mirror!”

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April 25, 2010

Pauline Hanson’s travel nightmare

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Just days into her exciting new life, Pauline Hanson tells Glen Williams about her embarrassing travel saga, and her fears for the Australian flag.

She wanted to see the world, but Pauline Hanson’s time in jail is proving a stumbling block. The fiery redhead got as far as New Zealand, only to be halted by an immigration officer at the airport.

Despite Pauline’s criminal conviction being completely quashed, red-tape has seen the former One Nation leader tarred with the same brush as a convicted criminal.

“I don’t like it,” she says, using one of her trademark phrases. “I need to have this cleared up. I am not a criminal.”

Pauline was on her way to join two friends and a guide for a three-day hike through the South Island’s spectacular Hump Ridge Track, when she was stopped at New Zealand’s immigration.

“They have a card that asks if you’ve had a criminal conviction of more than 12 months, so of course I had to tick yes. It didn’t ask whether the conviction had been quashed. I was then asked what I had been in prison for.

“I explained I was Australia’s first political prisoner,” she laughs. “The poor man called for his supervisor, who called me over to the side.”

Pauline, 55, says her ordeal was carried out in front of other Australian travellers. “I felt terribly embarrassed. I basically felt like a criminal. I was taken to another room and asked to ‘please explain’ about my time in jail.

“Immigration said they had no record of my conviction and asked me if I had ticked the same box when I last visited New Zealand

in 2004. I honestly couldn’t remember if I had or not.

But you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Had I not ticked the box this time, and they had a record of my conviction, then I would have been put straight back on the plane and that would have caused me more problems.”

Thankfully Pauline was permitted to enter the country, and despite her ordeal, says she had the most amazing time on the trek.

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April 25, 2010

Georgie Parker’s $99 Logies frock!

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She’s broken records for Logie wins, but Georgie Parker tells Wendy Squires she won’t break the bank buying a dress to wear on the night.

When Georgie Parker attended her first Logies back in 1990, winning Most Popular New Talent for her role in A Country Practice, she not only shopped for and bought her own frock, she also did her own make-up.

Fast forward 20 years – two Gold Logies, five Silver and 11 nominations later – and little has changed for down-to-earth Georgie in terms of her low-fuss approach to TV’s night of nights.

“It doesn’t have to be an enormously strenuous and stressful process to get a great dress,” the 45-year-old Play School host explains as she previews the gown she’ll wear to this year’s ceremony on Sunday night – a stunning off-the-rack purple chiffon Katies dress that costs just $99.95.

“I’m a real advocate of not spending lots of money on dresses,” adds Georgie, a Katies ambassador.

“There’s a great misconception that women have to spend a fortune to feel good. Exclusivity limits choice for a lot of women – how they want to look, what they want to wear and who they can wear. So, I love the inclusive quality of affordable fashion.”

The other thing Georgie loves is comfort, always choosing a dress she “can move in”.

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April 24, 2010

True Confessions Agony Aunt: Affair dilemma

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The guy I met was very honest with me from the start about having a girlfriend and a little girl and tells me he has no feelings for his girlfriend any more and doesn’t care for her at all. He feels he loves me more but he’s frightened he’ll lose his little girl if he’s caught having an affair with me.

I know we shouldn’t be doing what we’re doing but I feel the same way about him as he feels about me. I never felt this way about my husband and I really feel that he’s the one for me.

The sex we have is amazing but it’s very hard to have a passion like this and then for him to go back to his girlfriend. He’s all I can think about and I’ve realised what life can be like if you are with the right person.

We’ve tried to stay away from each other so he can try to sort himself out but that only lasts a day or two before he calls me constantly on the phone telling me he misses me and loves me more than anything and we’re forced to see each other and so it all starts up again. And I do feel guilty about us cheating on his girlfriend and his baby girl but I love him and I don’t know what to do.

No matter how passionate you feel about each other, his home life and responsibilities change this from being a thrilling new relationship into a potentially sad situation for everyone involved.

You can’t say that you cannot stay apart. You are both adults and while there’s something very dramatic about the way you describe being unable to stay away from each other, if you want to salvage any dignity about your relationship you have to be far more honest. Do you expect him to leave his girlfriend? Is that his intention and when does he plan to do it?

It won’t be easy but if this is the way forward you both need to start acting like mature adults, put the grand passion on hold for a while and sort out the practicalities and legalities, including access to and the support of his baby.

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April 22, 2010

Immune boosters

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Winter’s on its way and so is cold and flu season. To stay healthy, during the colder months, there are some easy, natural ways to boost your immunity and help protect you.

Food can be an immune booster

Enjoy plenty of fresh fruit, vegetables, wholegrains, legumes, nuts and seeds so that your body gets vital nutrients for building a strong immune system. Specific nutrients with potential immune boosting effects include:

Iron, which is found in green leafy vegetables, legumes, wholegrain bread, fortified breakfast cereals and lean red meat;
Antioxidants, including vitamin E, C and some of the phytochemicals found in fresh fruit and vegetables, legumes and wholegrains; and
Selenium, which is found in wholemeal flour, rice, almonds, Brazil nuts, egg, cheese and fish.

Whole foods are best

Protective compounds naturally found in plant foods — particularly antioxidants — are often more effective when eaten as part of the whole food rather than taken as supplements. Fresh, whole foods have a wide range of protective elements that interact with each other to make them beneficial.

Weight cycling

Significant fluctuations in body weight — such as those you get with fad dieting — may weaken your immune system. While more research is needed, this observation certainly reinforces that a balanced, long-term approach to weight loss is a far healthier option.

Exercise

Moderate physical activity boosts our immune system and can mean we are sick less often. Enjoying some form of activity for 30 minutes most days of the week is ideal. However, intense, strenuous physical activity (at the level of a professional athlete or serious “weekend athlete”), can depress your immunity in the short term, especially if you’re also stressed, malnourished and tired.

Rest and relaxation

High levels of stress and lack of sleep can weaken the immune system. To help improve the quality of sleep you’re getting, try to get your body into a routine of sleeping and waking by going to bed and rising at the same time — even on weekends. While a long sleep-in feels nice, it can often leave you feeling extra-tired.

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April 21, 2010

Sandra Bullock has a divorce ‘master plan’

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It’s Sandra Bullock’s level headedness and resilience that is helping her through the aftermath of the affair allegations that have destroyed her marriage. But she is determined to action a divorce “master plan” on her terms.

Since details of her husband’s sordid affairs emerged soon after she was awarded an Oscar for her role in The Blind Side, Sandra has maintained a dignified silence. But behind the scenes she’s not only been mourning the loss of her relationship but also coming to terms with the most painful of betrayals.

An insider told Fox 411.com Sandra has definitely come to grips with the fact that Jesse James, who had been married twice before meeting Sandra, was not the guy she thought he was.

“Sandra got to be with a side of Jesse that he rarely gave to anyone else and now she’s seeing what everyone else always saw,” the unnamed friend said.

“They were truly from different worlds and Sandra sees that Jesse lived a double life with her. She’s so level-headed and grounded and that is what is getting her through this.”

The same friend revealed that Sandra, who’s tortured by her concern for Jesse’s three children whom she cares for dearly, has a master plan to end their six-year marriage.

“[The infidelity scandal has] broken her heart and they will divorce,” the source told Fox411.com.

“She is trying to pick her way through the mess and all the stress of knowing his three children will be hurt no matter what happens. The kids are what is holding her back from filing for the divorce immediately. It’s been tough and she wants to find a balance for them — they deserve some stability, even through the divorce,” they said.

“With Jesse in rehab, she is trying to tread lightly. Sandra is doing this on her own timeline and refuses to budge or give in to people who say she should divorce him immediately,” they told Fox411.com.

“Jesse and his children are her family and in some ways always will be. She is not ready to scrap it all as fast as possible. She’s taken some time off and plans to stay out of the spotlight. Sandra and Jesse will talk again, but divorce will happen. She has a master plan.”

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