Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 43, 2021 i New Zealand Woman's Weekly

Festival season continued last week as stars gathered in London for the BFI London Film Festival, promoting their new films and hoping to get their name in the mix for awards contention. George Clooney, 60, may be the one lighting up the big screen, but as he walked the red carpet for The Tender Bar screening, it was his gorgeous wife Amal, 43, who stole the show as she oozed old-Hollywood glamour in a custom 16Arlington sequined gown and matching feather shrug. The couple, who share four-year-old twins Alexander and Ella, looked more in love than ever, and human rights lawyer Amal only had praise for her husband as she opened up about how they both balanced their busy careers in lockdown. “It’s probably like many families where both parents…

1. Put on your Lycra and join Conrad’s team in the Lake Taupo ¯ Cycle Challenge. Visit cyclechallenge21.grassrootz. com/so-they-can 2. Sponsor Conrad and change the future for girls. Visit cyclechallenge21.grassrootz. com/so-the-can/conrad 3. Sponsor a student and provide access to life essentials such as a quality education, food, clean drinking water and sanitation. Visit sotheycan.org/sponsor/ sponsor-a-student 4. Join Luke Mangan and Neil Finn for a virtual cooking lesson, live performance and Global Dinner on November 20, 2021. Visit https://www. sotheycan.org/globaldinner 5. Challenge yourself to move 85km during March 2022 to support vulnerable girls. Visit 1humanrace.raisely.com…

The serious allegations being made against Prince Andrew because of his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are shaping up to be one of the biggest scandals to ever hit the royal family. Here’s a recap of what’s happened. How did Prince Andrew meet Jeffrey Epstein? He was introduced to the US financier by Epstein’s former girlfriend, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who he has known for many years. Andrew says he met Epstein in 1999, but the prince’s former private secretary has said the pair knew each other from the early ’90s. How close were they? Andrew says they were “not that close”, but they attended numerous events, went on holiday together and Andrew stayed at Epstein’s homes in New York, Palm Beach and the Virgin Islands. They were…

Lynley Dodd is one of our favourite children’s book authors and illustrators who brought us Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy and a host of other fabulous books and characters. She lives in Tauranga and at 80 still writes and illustrates books. She had a cuppa with the Weekly during our recent lockdown... What is the best thing about your life right now? We’re all in the same position at the moment. I’ve had my two jabs and am glad to be in level 2. This morning I had a new book idea to put in my ideas book, but I’m not telling you what it is! It was just something wafting around in the ether. How often do you write a book? I write new ideas into my notebook quite…

Grilled vegetable & ricotta bruschetta PREP + COOK TIME 30 MINS SERVES 4 2 tsp balsamic vinegar 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 2 medium courgettes, sliced thinly length ways 2 medium yellow capsicum, sliced thickly 2 medium tomatoes, halved 4 large slices sourdough bread Olive oil cooking spray 1 cup (240g) firm ricotta 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh basil 60g baby rocket leaves 2 tbsp small fresh basil leaves 1 To make the dressing, whisk the balsamic vinegar and 1 tablespoon of the olive oil in a small bowl. 2 Lightly spray courgette, capsicum, tomato and bread with oil. Season the vegetables. Cook vegetables and bread on a heated grill plate or barbecue, in batches, turning occasionally, for 3 minutes or until the vegetables are tender and bread is…

House exterior Put on a warm welcome with a front porch redo! Paint the door in a light and bright colour, then complete the look with plantings that highlight the colour. A small table setting adds a homey touch. The yard • Spreading mulch over your garden soil gives the garden a finished look, but it can be expensive to buy in bags. Some local councils offer free mulch, so check out this option first. Alternatively, buy in bulk from a landscape supply company. • When it comes to plant buying, do a little comparison shopping – nurseries vary significantly in price and quality. • Don’t impulse buy at the nursery. They often place large tables of potted colour where you walk in, but pretty as they are, these are…

• I am one of two children and I have two children myself. I have been married twice • I am related to US President Abraham Lincoln – he’s my first half-cousin, five times removed • I co-founded a company called Section Eight • According to Forbes magazine, in 2017-2018 I made $US239 million • In 1983, I made a movie called Grizzly II, about a bear that attacks the crowd at an outdoor rock concert, that was finally released in 2020 • I spent five years working on a drama TV series that won seven Primetime Emmy awards. Nominated three times, I didn’t win any • I’ve had better luck at the Oscars, being nominated for eight and winning two • I directed and appeared in the 2019 TV…

LIBRA Sep 24 – Oct 23 People say it’s important to think big and yet for you, it’s the smaller thoughts that are going to bring the most success. Now is the time to put those clever ideas into action – one or two could even make a big difference to your finances and lifestyle. It’s a good reminder to not ignore the small stuff in life. A small warning, though, you need to be careful with social media and email – check that it is the right person you are sending to. SCORPIO Oct 24 – Nov 22 Life is steady and quite well-balanced, so don’t be tempted to do anything that would rock the boat. Making a major life or lifestyle change could throw everything into confusion. Enjoy…

Since I left my housemate and the Ponsonby townhouse to move into our new family home over the bridge, the standard of the evening meal has diminished considerably. With Les, it was a feast five nights out of seven and each meal seemed to be more fabulous than the last. He is a generous soul and that comes out in his cooking. As my son-in-law says, you need to put the amore into the cooking. It’s no good doing it begrudgingly – then it’s just fuel for the body. If it’s done with a full and generous spirit, food becomes an act of love. I first understood this when I went to Italy for the first time. It was for a television show and we landed in Rome. I was…

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THIS ABOUT ME, BUT I’M VERY GOOD AT… Music trivia. THE SONG I LISTEN TO WHEN I NEED A PICK-ME-UP IS… Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen. IF I COULD PASS ANY LAW, IT WOULD BE… An update to the New Zealand Adoption Act, it looks like it is changing anyway, but I feel it needs to be updated to reflect m modern families which come in many different forms. THE THING THAT I WISH WOULD COME BACK IN FASHION IS… Kozmik fluoro wear. It wasn’t just Suzy Cato wearing it on the tele. Hosting Three show Yahoo! in 1992, that was my go-to. MY GREATEST WEAKNESS IS… Overthinking. THE BEST THING MY PARENTS TAUGHT ME WAS… My wife Carmel became pregnant early into…

Wheelie cute Rachel Hunter, 52, makes the most of the Los Angeles sun and heads out for a bike ride with her favourite furry friend Babee. Hold your horses! Sam Neill, 74, meets some fans while out for a walk and jokes, “Of course they wanted autographs, but like most horses, they never have a pen on them.” STRIKE A POSE Once a model always a model! Even on a stroll through the park, Claudia Schiffer, 51, can find a runway as she models her summery outfit. Dog treat Heidi Klum, 48, spends some down time with the most important man in her life – her dog Anton. CHEEKY POSH Victoria Beckham, 47, goes glam to celebrate the release of her new blush named after her pop alter-ego, Posh! Uptown…

She’s spent the past few years building her successful production company and showing off her dramatic acting chops, but in her latest role, Reese Witherspoon is getting back to her roots with a new Netflix rom-com. Directed and written by Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote The Devil Wears Prada, Your Place or Mine is about two friends who live on opposite coasts of the US who decide to swap houses for one life-changing week. Reese, 45, was spotted filming on the streets of New York last week alongside her new co-stars Zoë Chao, 36, and Ashton Kutcher, 43. Few details have been released about the film, so it’s not known if Ashton will be playing the role of Reese’s friend or love interest, but we can only hope for some…

He may no longer play professional rugby, but that hasn’t slowed All Blacks great Conrad Smith down. In this week’s issue, he shares the details of his Kiwi homecoming, as well as his passion for So They Can. It’s a charity that was set up by mum-of-four Cassandra Treadwell, who I met many years ago when I interviewed her. You meet many people as a journalist and some you never forget. And for me, Cass is one of them. I vividly remember her describing her visit to a Kenyan rubbish dump. After a truck made a delivery, she watched in horror as the dump came alive with children, scrambling through the rubbish in search of food. It was an experience that made her determined to make a difference in their…

She’s been through years of pain after her divorce. Now, Adele can say Hello from the other side. “It was a lot of meditation. It was a lot of therapy – and a lot of time spent on my own,” shares the Rolling in the Deep songstress of the time she spent healing after ending her marriage to charity CEO Simon Konecki in 2018. “I was embarrassed. I was really embarrassed. That thing of not being able to make something work. At the time it broke my heart.” Last Friday the famously private singer released her first new single in six years, called Easy on Me – a song from her upcoming album 30 – and only now is she able to really talk about the life-shattering decision she made…

Dolly Parton was just 18 years old when she met her husband Carl Dean. Two years later, in 1966, the pair tied the knot, but despite Dolly’s stratospheric career, her other half has remained nothing but a shadowy figure. Just a handful of photographs have ever surfaced of the pair – she, a Grammy award-winning superstar, he, a businessman – throughout their long marriage. One, however, appeared recently when the Jolene singer revealed her rather unusual gift to Carl for his 79th birthday. A heartwarming video shows Dolly, 75, appearing in full Playboy bunny costume for her husband, recreating her racy 1978 Playboy magazine cover shoot. While all eyes were understandably on Dolly, fans were also treated to a rare glimpse of Carl enjoying the spectacle, although it was just…

• Get a good night’s sleep. Powder magnesium with taurine is wonderful. Take the supplement early evening to get the most benefit. • Take care of your gut health. You can supplement with pre- and probiotics. • Combine sage essential oil with a mixing oil such as almond, coconut or olive to use for a massage to lower your body temperature, which helps with hot flushes and sweating. Oils such as sweet fennel, cypress and clary sage support relief from hot flushes and night sweats. • For mood swings, drink relaxing herbal teas such as lemon balm and St John’s wort. Burning essential oils of geranium and bergamot is also lovely. • For anxiety, try lavender oil on your pulse points and include banana, raspberries, avocado, nuts and seeds in…

A go-to family recipe from Miss Polly’s Kitchen, uses @meadowmushroomsnz for a tastier and more nutritious swap for your traditional meatballs. Ingredients: - 1 medium brown onion - finely chopped - 250g Meadow Mushrooms White Button, Small Portabello or Swiss Brown - very finely diced - 3 garlic cloves - crushed - 150g spinach leaves - Olive oil - 2 x 400g can chopped tomatoes - 1 tsp Italian herbs - 1 1/2 cups fresh breadcrumbs (we used Vogels) - 170g feta - 1 egg - whisked - 1 cup grated parmesan cheese - Big handful of chopped basil - 1/2 cup olives – cut in half - Parmesan cheese – to serve - 300g spaghetti Method: 1. Preheat oven to 190°C. 2. Prep and dice onions, mushroom and garlic.…

DO THIS • Watch mindless telly • Read a few chapters of a good book • Take a warm (not hot), scented bath • Dim the lights • Reflect on your blessings, write in a gratitude journal • Meditate, do a little gentle stretching • Snuggle with someone special NOT THAT • Sip a little too much vino • Indulge in late-night snacking • Smoke • Start an argument • Stress over things you can’t control • Check your work email • Chug too much water (you know why!)…

One of the more enjoyable business letters we get yearly has arrived. It’s a formal letter in a huge white envelope from the publishers of a book I wrote 11 years ago. It sets out how many copies of my book have been sold worldwide over the past 12 months, how much money it’s earned for the publishers and how much I get. This may not seem much fun on the face of it. Eleven years after publication, most books have disappeared off the shelves of bookshops. The only sales, if any, are likely to be ebooks, which sell for about $8 each and earn around $1.60 each for the author. But that’s what provides all the hilarity. When I read out the letter disclosing that the worldwide sales of…

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This was an appropriate book to read during a long lockdown because I could completely relate to the way the main character feels trapped inside her own perfectly nice life – although I wouldn’t go to the lengths that she does to find an escape. Set in 1950s New York, the woman of intelligence in question is Katharina (Rina) Edgeworth. On the surface, Rina has an enviable existence. She is married to a handsome surgeon, lives in a fancy Fifth Avenue apartment and has two young sons. But Rina is struggling with motherhood and domesticity. She is stuck in a gilded cage and misses the life she used to have as a career girl who went drinking cocktails after work with her best friend. The freedom of the past for…

He had a stellar career that saw him on the winning team of two Rugby World Cups, but now Conrad Smith is switching codes and is set to embark on his next big challenge. And this time, he’s not doing it for a shiny gold trophy – but to save lives. The former All Black is competing in the Lake Taupo¯ Cycle Challenge, which is a surprise even to him, because he is supposed to be living overseas, but instead he and his family have returned to New Zealand. ‘Once you see what is going on over there, you can’t forget those things’ Due to the pandemic, Conrad, 40, and his wife Lee-Anne Snowdon, 36, moved their family back home to New Plymouth earlier this year after five years in…

His siblings want him out. His nephew thinks he’s a threat to the family business. It seems that his mum is the only relative standing by Prince Andrew as he faces the worst crisis of his life. The Queen has agreed to cough up the exorbitant legal fees – expected to run to millions of dollars – for Andrew to fight allegations that he had sex with an underage girl traffi cked to him by his late pal Jeffrey Epstein. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, now 38, is suing Andrew for rape and sexual assault she says happened when she was 17. The Duke of York vehemently denies the claims. Her Majesty, 95, also provided a haven for her second son when a New York court was trying to serve him with…

It was a relationship that raised more than its fair share of eyebrows when it first came to light 26 years ago. Emma Thompson – who had recently split up from husband Kenneth Branagh – was revealed to be dating actor Greg Wise at the end of 1995. She was seven years older than Greg, who’d worked with her on the period drama Sense and Sensibility earlier that year, and had only just ended her six-year marriage to Kenneth, touted at the time as the next Sir Laurence Olivier. Emma and Kenneth had been the golden couple of British cinema, and her romance with Greg came as a surprise to many people. It was generally assumed theirs was a rebound relationship unlikely to last long. But nearly three decades later,…

HARRISON FORD When he’s not starring in movies, Harrison Ford likes taking to the skies in his own helicopter. The Star Wars hero put his flying skills to good use back in 2001 when a 13-year-old Boy Scout went missing in the wilderness. Harrison, 79, who was at the time living nearby in Jackson, Wyoming, offered to help with the search and after two hours, he found young Cody Clawson, cold, tired and hungry. Cody was astonished to find himself being rescued by one of his movie heroes. “He said, ‘Good morning’ and I recognised his voice because he said it just like he did in Star Wars,” remembers Cody. “He asked how I was doing and said, ‘You certainly should have earned a merit badge for this!’” TINA FEY…

Pork fillet salad with miso maple dressing SERVES 4 PREP + COOK TIME 30 MINS 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon mirin 800g pork fillets 200g kale, stems removed, leaves sliced thinly 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 500g shredded red cabbage 1 large fennel bulb sliced thinly (see tips) 2 tablespoons sesame seeds, toasted ¼ cup micro herbs (see tips) MISO MAPLE DRESSING 1 tablespoon white miso paste 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 Preheat oven to 200°C. Combine ginger, 1 tablespoon of the oil and mirin in a medium bowl. Add pork and turn to coat. 2 Heat a non-stick frying pan over high heat. Cook pork for 3 minutes or until golden brown all…

Lab experiments PREP TIME 10 MINUTES (+ CHILLING) SERVES 4 12 snake lollies 85g packet blueberry jelly 12 black jelly beans 12 canned lychees, drained 85g packet lime green jelly crystals 1 Place three snakes in each jug or cup. Prepare blue jelly following packet instructions. Pour evenly between jars. Chill for 2 hours or until firm. 2 Push a jelly bean into each lychee. Place 3 lychees in each jug or cup. Prepare green jelly following packet instructions. Cool slightly, then pour over eyeballs. Chill for 2 hours before serving. Melting witch cakes PREP + COOK TIME 1 HOUR 30 MINUTES MAKES 12 125g butter, softened ¾ cup (165g) caster sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 eggs 1 cup (150g) self-raising flour 1/3 cup (35g) cocoa powder ½ cup…

1 How many female Prime Ministers has New Zealand had? 2 The 12 Apostles are a series of limestone stacks in which Australian state? A. Western Australia B. Tasmania C. Victoria D. Queensland 3 In the TV show House, Olivia Wilde played a character who was known by what number? 4 What’s the two-digit country calling code for New Zealand? 5 How old were singers Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse when they died? A. 25 B. 27 C. 30 D. 32 6 If you have a rugby league team, a basketball team and an ice-hockey team, how many players will there be in total? 7 A dodecagon has how many sides? 8 How many more stars are there on an Australian flag than a New Zealand…

The label on one of the pills I’m taking says I’m not to operate heavy machinery, but I’m not sure if my laptop qualifies as “heavy”, but I am diving in regardless. Also, full disclosure, two of the medicine labels warn drowsiness is a risk, so forgive me if I wander off mid-thought. Though wait! We’re not doing this in real time, so I can go back and fix things before you read it, right? I had a spot of ear surgery a few days ago, initially delayed by level 4 lockdown, then rescheduled at level 3. By now, I expected to be firing on all cylinders, but I’ve done that thing women often do which is to underestimate the gravity of a personal health situation. You’ve probably done it…

The other day, I washed the wooden floor in our hallway to see if it looked any better afterwards. As I suspected, the difference was marginal. And please don’t think I have anything against housework. I don’t have anything against it. No, no, no. I have everything against it. I do not like housework and, the more of it that I do, the less I like it. But also, the more of it I do, the less of it I actually carry out. I have no timetable. There might have been one, but I threw it away and now I never vacuum on the same day of the week twice. This is quite a large confession I’m making here and one that’s likely to get me in a spot of…

She lives in Washington DC and used to be a political reporter. Her book The Gilded Years is being turned into a film by Reese Witherspoon. This is her sixth novel. This novel was inspired by… First, I was inspired by my own experience as a mother. I felt like I’d read very few books that gave an honest look at the diffi cult parts of motherhood—the isolation, the anger, the loss of sense of self. I was determined to write honestly about that. It was also inspired by a woman named Elizabeth Bentley, who served as a spy for the Soviets in the ’40s, smuggling top-secret government documents from Washington to New York. I put those two thoughts together and felt like I had a good idea for a…

Got talent! Heidi Klum, 48, designed a clothing collection inspired by Disney’s best villains. Love boat Actor John Stamos, 58, proposed to now-wife Caitlin McHugh, 35, at Disneyland, then honeymooned there, too. Holla grrrrl! Gwen Stefani, 52, is a regular visitor along with her sons Kingston, 15, Zuma, 13, and Apollo, seven. Star power Serena Williams, 40, swapped her racket for a lightsaber at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Walt Disney World Resort. Jolly Justin Justin Bieber, 27, had the most magical Christmas of all while performing at Disney’s annual holiday concert. Spot the true fan Katy Perry, 36, is such a big Disney fan, she was asked to help present Minnie Mouse with her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Royal ride Princess Diana made a splash when…