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Newton family tears: Our little girl’s fight for life

Australian entertainment’s first family tells Jackie Brygel of the harrowing health scare that threatened newborn baby Eva’s little life.

Pretty as a picture with her rosebud mouth and pink cheeks, the tiniest member of Australia’s royal family of show business is perfectly at ease, safely nestled in the arms of her “Poppy”, Bert Newton.

Producing a contented gurgle for her smitten parents Lauren Newton and Matt Welsh, and maternal grandparents Patti and Bert, Eva Eunice Newton Welsh is blissfully unaware that her young life was in grave danger just a few weeks ago.

Rushed to Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital at less than two weeks of age with severe breathing difficulties, little Eva spent the next six days in the hospital’s renowned neo-natal intensive care unit.

“Eva was born three weeks early via caesarean, but was a good size, so we only ended up staying in hospital for the usual six days after the birth,” Lauren reveals. “Our son Sam was coming in to visit and everything was wonderful.

“Then, as soon as we came home, Sam started to get sick with a chest infection. He wouldn’t sleep during the night, so we’d bring him in to us to have a cuddle, and Eva was also in our room, in the bassinet. Sam (17 months) was so excited about Eva that he kept kissing her on the head and touching her, but then she started to get a rattly chest…”

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*MasterChef’s* Julie: I did it all for love

The firm favourite tells Alex Needs she owes her success to her biggest fan and soul mate — her husband.

With only two weeks to go in the most talked about TV competition in years, MasterChef favourite Julie Goodwin has revealed the secret of her success — the unwavering love of her husband Michael.

While Julie is “shocked” that she’s made it this far, the 38-year-old mum of three knows she couldn’t have done it without the support of the man she’s loved for two decades.

“Michael’s support absolutely inspires me,” Julie tells Woman’s Day. “With my family behind me I can do anything, I can tackle anything that comes my way.”

For many couples, the prospect of spending 16 weeks apart — one off chasing her dreams and achieving national acclaim; the other at home running the family business and looking after three boys — would be a recipe for disaster.

After all, reality TV has a habit of breaking up more relationships than it brings together. But while Julie admits that being apart from Mick, as she calls him, has been “one of the toughest things I’ve ever done”, she wouldn’t have changed it for the world.

Looking after their sons, Joe, 13, Tom, 12, and Paddy, 10, has fallen squarely on Michael’s shoulders, but despite pressure which would make many men crumble, he’s risen to the task.

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Princess Mary as you’ve never seen her before

She’s a 37-year-old mum of two, a wife, a princess…and a red-hot bikini babe with abs of steel.

Aussie-born Princess Mary proudly showed off her incredible new body last week as she holidayed with her husband Prince Frederik on a 54-foot luxury super-yacht off the coast of Sardinia.

While most mums find it a struggle to lose their baby weight, two years after the birth of Princess Isabella, our Mary has never looked better.

She has reportedly lost 12 kilos, thanks to a low-fat diet and the help of Danish personal trainer Tore Munch.

“We had extra focus on centre training — the whole corset of muscle around the tummy and back,” he says.

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The fight for Michael Jackson’s children: A special report

Woman’s Day goes inside the epic custody battle for Jacko’s children, and investigates the true biological parentage of the late King of Pop’s three heirs.

With Michael Jackson’s fortune hanging in the balance, and a number of competing claims over who are the rightful guardians of to his three children and heirs – Prince, 12, Paris, 11, and Blanket, 7 – the battle for custody is set to be one of the ugliest in living memory.

In a will filed last week, Michael stated he wanted his mother Katherine to care for his children in the event of his death. But other women — including Prince and Paris’ birth mother Debbie Rowe — are positioning themselves for possible custody.

The situation is complicated by competing claims about the true biological parentage of the kids. We examine the three possible fathers, as even Debbie’s claim to motherhood comes under question – with the former nurse angrily denying claims she was just a gestational carrier.

The drama is all the more disturbing since Michael’s children are now without the most important person in their lives.

“Michael was a mother, a father and a best friend all rolled into one,” reveals Michael’s friend and the children’s godfather Mark Lester.

“They were a tight family and were always together.”

Another friend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, agrees. “They would cry whenever he had to go do anything. They were very attached to him.”

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Jodi’s secret strip club life

The wild night that cost Jodi Gordon her relationship with Channel Seven heir Ryan Stokes started in a seedy pole-dancing club — a regular haunt of Jodi’s, reports Frank Thorne.

Disgraced Home And Away star Jodi Gordon is preparing to leave the country amid revelations she regularly paid for private lap dances at a strip club in Sydney’s Kings Cross.

The troubled star likes to watch naked girls dance at the Bada Bing nightclub, which is popular with bikies, according to employees and patrons.

Staff and drinkers at Bada Bing describe Jodi as a “crazy party girl”, claiming she regularly attended the pole-dancing strip club and paid for strippers to dance for her in a private booth.

So regular were her visits, the staff said she regarded some of the club’s strippers as friends.

The strip club is where Jodi met Rebels bikie and former male model Mark Judge on June 2 — the night on which she disappeared and later reportedly admitted to police she had used cocaine before suffering hallucinations.

“I was here drinking at the bar on that Tuesday night when Jodi went missing with that bikie guy,” the source says.

“She was gone, man. Off her face.”

These fresh allegations come as colleagues confirm Jodi’s plans to leave Home And Away and move to Los Angeles to put the scandal behind her and resurrect her acting career.

It is a move that would also help her overcome the pain of her break-up with Seven Network heir Ryan Stokes, who dumped Jodi after she was found cowering in the bedroom of Judge’s Bellevue Hill apartment the day after he reported her missing to police.

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Life in pictures: Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie Voight was born June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California. Her parents, actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand seperated when she was just 1 year old.

The actress has been long estranged from her father. “My father and I don’t speak. I don’t hold any anger toward him. I don’t believe that somebody’s family becomes their blood. Because my son’s adopted, and families are earned.” She stated.

On March 28, 1996, Jolie married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her co-star in the film Hackers (1995). Her wedding outfit was black rubber pants and a white shirt, upon which she had written the groom’s name in her blood. Jolie and Miller separated the following year and subsequently divorced on February 3, 1999. They remained on good terms and Jolie later explained, “It comes down to timing. I think he’s the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I’ll always love him, we were simply too young.”

Angelina has starred in over 30 feature films, amongst her most acclaimed roles are Lisa Rowe in 1999 movie ‘Girl, Interrupted’, Mariane Pearl in 2007’s A Mighty Heart, mother Christine Collins in 2008’s Changeling.

Angelina met American actor Billy Bob Thornton in 1999, and subsequently married him on on May 5, 2000.They were famous for frequent public declarations of passion and gestures of love – most famously wearing one another’s blood in vials around their necks. Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003. Asked about the sudden dissolution of their marriage, Jolie stated, “It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it’s scary but… I think it can happen when you get involved and you don’t know yourself yet.”

At the 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards, she won the award for ‘Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television’ for her role in Gia, the 1998 television film about the life of model Gia Marie Carangi.

Although highly regarded for her acting abilities, Jolie’s films to date had often not appealed to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) changed all that and made her an international superstar.

The film is an adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogame, and Jolie was required to learn a British accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the title role of Lara Croft.

After her parents’ separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, Marcheline Bertrand, intially in New York and then Los Angeles. When Angelina was 14, her mother controversially let Angelina’s boyfriend live with them. > In 2007, Marcheline, aged 56 years old, died after battling cancer for more than seven-and-a-half years.

In 2002, in a move contrary to her renowned reckless behaviour, Jolie adopted a baby boy from Cambodia, the country she fell in love with while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. She named him Maddox, and put only her name on the adoption papers, a move that implied a rift in her marriage with Billy Bob. The pair divorced the following year.

In early 2005, Angelina was involved in a well-publicised Hollywood scandal when she was accused of being the reason for the divorce of actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.

Whilst Angelina always denied an affair on the set of the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith in which her and Brad starred, she did admit that they “fell in love” at that time.

On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt’s child and thereby confirmed their relationship for the first time in public.

Following her adoption of Maddox, Angelina went on to extend her family with: – Zahara Marley, a six-month-old girl adopted from Ethiopia, in 2005.

She then gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, in Namibia, by a scheduled caesarean section, in 2006.

In 2007, she adopted three-year-old boy Pax Thien, from Vietnam.

In 2008 she gave birth to twins – Knox Leon, a boy, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, in Nice, France.

Angelina has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In Pakistan she donated $1 million for Afghan refugees in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal. She insists on covering all costs related to her missions and shares the same rudimentary working and living conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of her visits. Asked what she hoped to accomplish, she stated, “Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon.”

Angelina and Brad continue to dodge comments about the supposed unhealthy state of their marriage. They are based in France.

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Super models: Then and now

Known for her signature mole, Cindy Crawford changed the all American girl look from blonde hair and blue eyes to sexy brunette.

Once studying chemical engineering, she without a doubt made the right choice in modelling and went on to feature on magazine covers for Vogue, W, People, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle and Cosmopolitan among others.

Cindy stopped modelling in 2000, but continues to offer celebrity endorsement on a number of projects. She has also launched a beauty range and a furniture line.

During the height of her career Cindy was married to Pretty Woman actor Richard Gere between 1991 and 1995. She has been married to former model Rande Gerber since 1998 and the couple have two children.

Notorious for her partying lifestyle, British super model Kate Moss was unlike the typical tall and curvaceous models of the 1990s.

The uncommonly short model was discovered in 1988 at age 14. Her modelling career took off soon after and she is reported to have earned more than $9 million in one year.

Most recently, after hitting the runway for a number of designers, Kate has designed her own range of clothes for UK chain store Top Shop.

Apart from modelling, the popular beauty is also famous for her on again off again relationship with musician Pete Doherty.

At age seven Naomi Campbell starred in a music video for Bob Marley. Just 10 years later she appeared on the cover of Vogue Paris as the first dark-skinned cover girl.

Throughout the 90s Naomi was in high demand as a catwalk model which quickly lead to her starring in a number of advertising campaigns.

The super sexy model has also starred in a number of music videos for Madonna, George Michael, Michael Jackson and Jay-Z.

Naomi has had a string of assault charges since 2000, the most recent being her arrest at Heathrow Airport in 2008 after she assaulted a police officer.

It has also been reported that Naomi, who has been doing run way shows for 25 years, has plans to quit modelling to become a mother and marry her billionaire boyfriend Russian real estate entrepreneur Vladislav Doronin.

Claudia Schiffer has gone from not wanting to be noticed because of her long legs to super model stardom.

Discovered at age 17 in a German nightclub, Claudia shot to fame during the 1990s after appearing on her first cover for French Elle magazine.

She has modelled for some of the biggest names in fashion including Versace, Jil Sander, Dolce & Gabbana, Ralph Lauren and Valentino.

Now, she is front row at Paris Fashion shows rather than on the runway and throughout her career has appeared on more than 500 magazine covers.

When it comes to men Claudia’s most publicised relationship was with magician David Copperfield between 1994 and 1999. She then dated film producer Matthew Vaughn and married him in 2002. The couple have two children together.

Initially Elle “The Body” Mcpherson, started modelling to pay her way through her law degree at Sydney University, little did she know it would turn her into one of the world’s most famous super models.

The highlight of her career was shooting a record five sports illustrated covers the first in 1986 and the last in 2006. She quickly became part of the super model pack and shot covers for of Elle magazine, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue magazine, and Playboy.

Now, living in the UK, Elle is involved with a number of advertising campaigns and running her own business venture of Elle Macpherson INC.

Elle was briefly married to Gilles Bensimon whom she met on the set of an Elle Magazine shoot. She has two sons with French financier Arpad Busson which whom she shared a long term relationship.

Brazilian beauty Gisele Bundchen is estimated to be worth $150 million. The cashed-up supermodel began her career at age 13 when she entered a modelling competition with her sisters.

Her first cover for vogue in 1999 was accompanied by the headline “The Return of the Sexy Model”.

Gisele has consistently worked with a number of acclaimed photographers such as Mario Testino, Steven Meisel and Nick Knight.

The Victoria’s Secret model is married to New England quarter back Tom Brady but before marrying him, she had relationships with Leonardo DiCaprio and professional surfer Kelly Slater.

Gisele and Tom are expecting their first child together in December this year. Rumours have circulated that she is having a boy, but Gisele says she is yet to find out the sex of the baby.

Born and raised in the small town of Gunnedah in New South Wales, Miranda Kerr is now one of the world’s hottest super models.

Her fame and fortune is all thanks to winning the 1997 annual Dolly Magazine/Impulse Model Competition.

Miranda moved on to model in Paris and New York and has been invovled in a number of run way shows for Alex Perry, Baby Phat, Lisa Ho, Levi’s, Bettina Liano and Seafolly Swimwear.

Miranda is now the face of Clinique Happy, is a Victoria’s Secret model and took over from Megan Gale as the face of David Jones.

The beauty has been in a loved-up relationship with actor Orlando Bloom since 2007.

NEW! Celebrity cosmetic surgery pictures!

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Plastic surgery stars

Botox surgeon Martin Braun once said Nicole’s face was so “over-Botoxed” it gave the industry a bad name, but the red-haired actress has denied ever going under the knife. She insists her smooth skin is down to fruit, water and regular yoga classes.

Kylie should be so lucky that she looked like this naturally… the 40-year-old has recently admitted to being a fan of Botox and revealed she has had other enhancements too.

Meanwhile the other Minogue sister admitted she got “hooked” on Botox injections when Kylie was undergoing chemotherapy for cancer.

Once voted the sexiest man alive, George Clooney seems to have gotten better with age – but it’s not all nature’s doing. He once told Julia Roberts in a public interview: “I had my eyes done. Can you tell? I think it’s important to look awake.”

With a husband 15 years her junior by her side, there’s no doubt Demi still feels like she’s in her youth. And with several hundred thousand dollar’s worth of plastic surgery reportedly done to her face, she looks it, too.

Victoria Beckham’s painful-looking breast implants recently came down a few sizes. She underwent surgery in July 2009 to have them reduced in order to fit her new image as a fashionista.

Both the Simpson girls have reportedly gone under the knife. Ashlee is said to have had her nose and chin worked on, while Jessica once admitted to a disasterous lip injection that took months to wear off.

There’ nothing funny about comic actress Goldie Hawn’s gravity-defying face. At 63, the once stunning blonde has opted not to age gracefully.

Her husband Antonio Banderas insists he wants his wife to grow old naturally, but it might be a little late for that. The 51-year-old actress has had plastic surgeries to correct for old plastic surgeries, with worrying results.

NEW in pictures! The world’s greatest supermodels – then and now!

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Couples who met on set

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie famously fell in love on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith.

Young Twilight stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart got cosy during the filming of their vampire flick, with a pregnancy rumoured to have been the result of their real-life love affair.

Tom Cruise got together with Penelope Cruz while working on Vanilla Sky, years before he fell for another gorgeous brunette.

Sarah Michelle Gellar and husband Freddie Prinze Junior first met on the set of I Know What You Did Last Summer in 1997, but the two did not begin dating until three years later. After they were married they starred opposite one another in the 2002 kid’s movie Scooby Doo.

Claire Danes met her fiance Hugh Dancy while filming the 2007 drama Evening.

Funnyman Ben Stiller met his wife Christine Taylor while filming a TV special that never went to air. The loved-up couple have since frequently appeared on screen together in movies such as Dodgeball and Zoolander.

Reese Witherspoon met her current squeeze Jake Gyllenhaal on the set of Rendition.

Will Smith was still the Fresh Prince of Bel Air when he met his future wife Jada Pinkett, who auditioned to be his girlfriend on the show in 1994. She didn’t get the part, but she did get the real-life equivalent! The couple married three years later.

Kate Hudson met her on-again, off-again partner Owen Wilson while filming the romantic comedy You, Me and Dupree in 2006.

Peter Andre and Katie Price fell in love in front of the viewing public during the UK reality show I’m a celebrity, get me out of here!.

Julia Roberts has no trouble falling in love under the spotlight. She dated Keifer Sutherland after starring opposite him in Flatliners, became engaged to Steel Magnolias co-star Dylan McDermott and eventually found husband and cameraman Daniel Moder on the set of The Mexican.

Ben and Jen first met on the set of 2001’s Pearl Harbour. They later co-starred in the 2003 film Daredevil — but it wasn’t until 2004 that they officially started dating. After starring together in two box office flops, their relationship has fortunately fared a lot better. The pair were married in 2005 and have two daughters, Violet and Seraphina.

Courteney and David met on the set of the 1996 film Scream, where David played “Dewey”, Courteney’s character’s love interest. The pair went on to co-star in two sequels and were married in 1999. They welcomed a daughter, Coco, in 2004.

Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl met her musician hubby Josh when she appeared in a video clip for his 2005 single Only You. The pair were married in 2007 — what’s the bet the lovebirds played Only You at their wedding?!

Aussie actor Heath Ledger and former Dawson’s Creek star Michelle Williams played a young husband and wife in the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain. Life imitated art when the pair became engaged and welcomed a daughter, Matilda, later that year. Sadly they separated shortly before Heath’s tragic death in January 2008.

Jessica and Cash met on the set of Fantastic Four in 2005 but unlike most celebrity couples, Cash wasn’t an actor — he was working as a lowly production assistant. The pair are now married and have a daughter, Honor Marie. Marrying Jessica Alba must have done wonders for Cash’s career because he’s now working as a movie producer!

The chemistry between teen star Miley Cyrus and Aussie actor Liam Hemsworth continued after the cameras stopped rolling on The Last Song. The pair were spotted re-enacting one of the movie’s hot kissing scenes before Liam boarded a flight back to Australia after filming rapped. 16-year-old Miley announced her feelings for the former Neighbours star on Twitter, writing, “Against all odds I fell in love.”

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes met in April 2005 and quickly became inseperable. Their first date was reportedly on board his private jet.

The relationship made headlines worldwide when twice-divorced Tom jumped on Oprah’s couch to declare his love for Katie. They had been dating a month.

After two months of dating, Tom announced he proposed to Katie at the top of the Eiffel Tour in June 2005.

Katie gave birth to baby Suri in April 2006, a year after the couple first met. Both mother and baby’s abscence from the media fuelled speculation that Katie’s pregnancy was a fake. This faded away once little Suri’s pictures started appearing around the globe.

In November 2006, the couple married in a dream Italian wedding. Katie admitted later that her teen crush came true – she had posters of Tom on her wall as she was growing up in Ohio.

Little Suri takes her first steps in Berlin while mum looks on.

Tom and Katie remain good friends with David and Victoria Beckham, despite rumours of a feud between the women.

In April 2008 the couple defied allegations of a trial seperation and appeared more loved-up than ever.

In November 2008, gorgeous little Suri is named the world’s most influential tot by Forbes magazine. Tom announces he thinks some of the paparazzi shots of his daughter are “incredible”.

The family have dodged countless questions over their Scientology beliefs and remain one of the most highly regarded families in the world.

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