Instead of pursuing the post limelight job hunt in reality television judging panels, branded fragrances or taking profiles offshore to the lucrative Japanese advertising market, a trend is emerging for celebrities to find their second calling in more unlikely fallback career options. Peter Andre has enjoyed fame and fortune as singer, songwriter, and reality TV […]

These well-known Australian women know what it feels like to succeed at a job they’re passionate about, but here, Elizabeth Burke discovers their more charitable side. Claudia Karvan — The Wayside Chapel They say charity begins at home and Claudia Karvan hasn’t strayed far from the place where she grew up to find her charitable […]

One day, she’s doing chores on a farm, the next, she’s walking the red carpet in Cannes. Life as an actress is all about extremes, says Rachael Blake, but the highs and lows are easier to handle with actor husband Tony Martin by her side, Susan Chenery writes. No one was more surprised to find […]

Rob Lowe appears buff and topless on the cover of the May issue of Vanity Fair magazine, looking like the perfect sex symbol. But in 1988, Lowe was embroiled in a sex scandal so sordid it almost ended his career for good. Scandalous: Celebrity playboy Shane Warne Lowe was filmed having sex with two women, […]

Jane Fonda became an international sex symbol when she starred as a sexy intergalactic detective in 1968 science fiction film Barbarella. Forty-three years later, Jane wants to make a sequel to the hit movie, despite being a 73-year-old grandmother. In a world increasingly obsessed with youth, it is refreshing to see Jane and other older […]

It seems US actress Halle Berry and her former partner Gabriel Aubry won’t be making peace anytime soon. The situation between the pair, who are currently tied up in a bitter custody battle over their two-year-old daughter Nahla, has gotten worse following claims that Canadian model verbally threatened Berry. An unnamed source told website TMZ […]

Goldie Hawn’s former husband is looking to cash in on his relationship with the movie star by selling a book about their relationship. Bill Hudson, father to movie star Kate Hudson, is shopping around a tell-all memoir under the title So You Are a Star, the New York Post has reported. In pictures: messy celeb […]

He may have been given People magazine’s world’s sexiest man title in 2009, but this year Johnny Depp is mourning the loss of the title, which was given to Ryan Reynolds. In an interview with MTV News, the sexy 47-year-old star joked about losing the title to the 34-year-old Buried star. “I feel emasculated,” he […]

Gwyneth Paltrow’s personal trainer has been speaking about how the actress lost 10kg after her latest film role. The perennially slim 38-year-old actress apparently had to put on the weight to play an alcoholic singer in Country Strong. In pictures: low fat and delicious meals Trainer Tracy Anderson, who has worked with the US star […]

Despite the shocking circumstances surrounding Charlie Sheen’s latest scandal, where he was found naked and causing a disturbance in a New York hotel room late last month, he says he isn’t worried. “If a guy has one bad night, everybody goes insane and panics,” he said. “I’m not panicking,” he told US TV show Extra. […]