Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 46, 2023 i New Zealand Woman's Weekly

What’s better than being young, gifted and rich? Try young, gifted and super-rich! Hitmaker Harry Styles, who grew up singing karaoke in his family living room, has been named the UK’s wealthiest star under 30 for a second year running. The former One Direction heartthrob, 29, now has an estimated fortune of $364 million thanks to his Love on Tour roadshow. The Watermelon Sugar crooner, however, isn’t the only young star to be raking in big bucks. US star Selena Gomez – currently estimated to be worth $1.3 billion – is tipped to hit the $1.7 billion mark this year. While the 31-year-old’s fortune was initially made through singing and acting, it’s her hugely successful cosmetic venture, Rare Beauty, and other brand endorsements that have seen her bank balance bulge…

Matthew Perry 1969-2023 As Chandler on Friends, Matthew Perry was the master of the one-liner. The one who made fans laugh the most. But now the gags and the wisecracks are over. Hollywood is still reeling from the shock death of the Canadianborn star, 54, who was found unresponsive in the jacuzzi of his Los Angeles home on October 28. “This truly is The One Where Our Hearts Are Broken,” Friends co-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane shared after the news broke – a reference to the whimsical way in which each episode of the hugely successful sitcom was named. Despite his well-documented battle with alcohol and drug addiction, no one expected this year to be the one in which the beloved comic actor’s life abruptly ended. Friends stars Jennifer…

She’s known for playing a vain character who once had a monumental meltdown when a newspaper published her age. While Patsy Stone may have lost the plot over the media letting slip that she was 47 in an episode of Absolutely Fabulous, in real life Dame Joanna Lumley doesn’t care one bit about age or how it affects the fickle entertainment industry she’s part of. The 77-year-old actor is philosophical about there being fewer parts for women of her generation and says there’s no point chasing roles meant for much younger colleagues. And trying to turn back the clock with “tweakments” is a waste of time, she believes. “The truth is, it doesn’t matter what you do to yourself because you are old. So there’s no point in trying, trying,…

You’re not alone if you’ve shoved getting stronger in the too-hard basket. And yet, if you find the time, the wellbeing and longevity spoils make it worth the effort. The good news is, there are easy, straightforward moves for building upper-body strength, and all you need is a pair of dumbbells, a resistance band and 15 minutes two or three times a week. Even better, you can adjust this workout easily to meet your goals. To build strength, opt for heavier weights and fewer reps. On the other hand, for endurance, use lighter weights and do more reps. The beauty of small but effective dumbbells is that they work all of your arm muscles – including your delts (shoulders), biceps (fronts of your arms) and triceps (backs of your upper…

SCORPIO Oct 24 – Nov 22 Spend some time at home as you may have neglected some of those chores. But more than that, you miss your space. It’s always a good thing to come home and feel comfortable. Looking around, you’ll find that perhaps your home doesn’t reflect who you have become because you’ve been through a massive transition. Time to redecorate, accessorise and create an energy that suits who you have become. Then shut the doors and soak up the new look. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! We salute two top stars who send out feelgood vibes – one for her movies, including Mrs Doubtfire and Forrest Gump, and the other, a beloved Kiwi, for her hits Royals and Solar Power. Actor Sally Field turns 77 on November 6, then the…

I’m a little nervous about probably only a matter of bringing up that old sore point time before a chap might begin to do with men thoughtlessly encountering similar intimate leaving toilet seats up after instruction in the lavatories doing their business, which is, of of Aotearoa New Zealand. course, a business traditionally There will be a bit of masculine done standing up. But there is muttering about it I imagine, but a revolution underway on the research suggests we should just matter of men and the way we shut up and sit down. And then pee, and it’s heading our way. all those complaints about left-up The revolution seems to seats will cease forever, though have gained ground in Germany, there are other good reasons for where it isn’t…

Five minutes with... The film I watch when I need a pick-me-up… The Martian. The best pickme-up is a bit of escapism and you can’t escape much further than the 400 million or so miles to Mars to watch Matt Damon growing potatoes and listening to ’70s disco music. My comfort food is... Good old childhood comfort food mac and cheese, although Saturday afternoon cheese beano (grilled cheese and baked beans on toast with Worcestershire sauce) comes close. The architect I admire the most is... Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. I particularly love his thermal baths building in Vals, Switzerland. If I had to pick one building in the world to give you an understanding of aweinspiring architecture, that would be it. The most innovative thing I’ve seen in a home…

Our cover star Robyn Malcolm keeps things real as she talks about her new drama series After the Party from page eight. She says that at a certain age, women are “supposed to be wise and sage, but often we’re not”. She also acknowledges that many women in their fifties feel invisible to the world. The opposite is true for my friend Cathy. She threw a party to celebrate turning 50 last week and surprised us all by jumping out of a cake! The Weekly team had a lovely photoshoot with Robyn at Eden Gardens in Auckland. It has a quaint café, a small waterfall and beautiful grounds to stroll – it really is a hidden gem that’s worth a visit. Elsewhere, Kiwi Olympic skier Anja Barugh is speaking out…

He’s no stranger to tough times, having gone through severe depression and the failure of several businesses. But now James Middleton is blissfully happy and a tiny little boy called Inigo can take the credit for much of that joy. James and his wife Alizee became parents a few weeks ago with the arrival of their first child, and the Princess of Wales’ brother admits becoming a dad has left him overwhelmed with emotion. “He has been in our lives for just a few weeks but they have been the most special of my life, getting to know our beautiful baby boy,” James, 36, shared. “No matter how prepared I thought I was, I was not prepared for the overwhelming emotion of meeting Inigo for the first time, and the…

COMPILED BY LEIGH MATHESON. A white dress in summer is timeless. Crisp cottons, luxurious silks, airy linens and broderie anglaise lace reign supreme. Try nipped-in waists or on hotter days, looser styles. Pair with natural-hued accessories, including raffia mules, wide-brimmed hats and woven bags. Choose a patterned dress in rich chocolatecolate colours, soft caramel hues and dusty earthy tones for a contemporary option. Both flowing and structuredred styles are trending, with sleeves of all lengths. Hemlineses move between midi and maxi, with some mini lengths too.…

Do you like saveloys? I love ’em! Haute cuisine they are not. They were originally made in Italy of pig brain (cervella) and are still called cervellato today, but I still love ’em. There’s mention of a saveloy in Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist. Fagin sits over a fire with “a saveloy and a small loaf in his hand”. Did you enjoy saveloys when you were young, steaming hot on a Saturday morning? Did you have them with tomato or Worcestershire sauce and nothing else? Well… maybe a slice of white bread and butter. One of the delights of saveloys as a kid was how you went about eating them. Others would eat them skin on. Not me, I peeledeled the skin off, the way my dadd taught me. I’d…

Letters to the Editor COURT HERO MABEL ● Winning letter What a joy your Pet Special was (NZWW, November 6)! Animals truly do bring joy to the world and right now, with everything going on around the globe, we need them more than ever. Dame Lisa Carrington’s pup Colin is simply gorgeous, but the clever canine that captured my heart was Mabel and her owner Gail. The golden retriever, who has found her calling as New Zealand’s second-ever court dog supporting children during trial, is quite simply remarkable. As well as earning nervous children’s trust, Mabel – the true professional she is – can even push the button on the lift and lead them to the secure witness room to room, during what one can only imagine being one of…

And just like that, it’s all over. It’s funny, our tour group was terribly excited and thrilled to be going to the Rugby World Cup final, and it was disappointing to lose the match – and for the All Blacks to have lost in such a fashion – but really, this trip was about so much more than rugby. The fun, the food, the exploration of military history and regions of France I hadn’t had the opportunity to visit before – for me, seeing the All Blacks play was just the fresh raspberry on my French custard tart. And now I’m sitting in a bar in Brussells, enjoying one last culinary experience before I head out to the airport to begin the long journey home. We’ve had our first goodbyes…

Spellbinding and heartbreaking, you can tell from the beginning that this novel is set to be something special. It starts out as one thing and ends as quite another, just like the era it covers. The writing is rich and wonderful, the characters so vivid they might be real and the story ranges between love, loss and laughter. At times, it’s an eccentric read, at others descriptive and dramatic. By the end, it feels like a big novel but much of its power is in its small details. The story opens in 1919 with a lonely little girl called Cristabel Seagrave growing up in a ramshackle manor house on England’s Dorset coast. Her father is about to bring home his beautiful and rather vain new wife Rosalind, who has only…

Actors don’t usually get to create their own roles. Instead, as our very own Robyn Malcolm will tell you, they turn up and do their best to interpret someone else’s vision for their character. But all that has changed for Robyn now that she has co-created the tense drama After the Party, which is receiving rave reviews after its first episodes screened on TVNZ 1. “I’ve never had an experience like this where you sit down with a friend and create something fresh together that I can portray,” says Robyn. “We knew we wanted to put a woman in her fifties at the centre of it. And we knew we wanted to make sure she was somebody that we’ve not seen on screen before.” Robyn co-created the drama with her…

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck arrived arm-in-arm for the celebration for their Aussie actress pal Pia Miller’s 40th birthday in Los Angeles recently. The glam pair, who tied the knot in a secret ceremony in July last year, looked grim-faced as they alighted from their vehicle for the lavish bash, but once the music started, L.Lo was all action! The Let’s Get Loud hitmaker, 54, later uploaded a video of herself holding a pair of palm fronds and dancing the night away. Earlier in the evening, the mum of twins Emme and Max, 15, shared a snap of herself looking stunning in her lime-green satin dress, captioning it with the words “Date Night” and adding a white heart emoji. The pair’s big night out comes hot on the heels of…

In the past, she’s been mocked for her quirky fashion choices. But with a little bit of help from a professional, Princess Beatrice is rapidly becoming one of the royal family’s most stylish members. Beatrice, 35, has hired a stylist who has been encouraging her to swap eclectic outfits for more elegant options. Olivia Buckingham, who also dresses socialites Poppy Delevingne and Nicky Hilton Rothschild, has been recommending designers like Monique Lhuillier and Kiwi Emilia Wickstead, who are known for their sleek and flattering fashions. Gone are overly fussy ensembles and bold patterns, replaced with simple and more streamlined pieces. “The whole process is collaborative when it comes down to choosing the final look,” says Olivia, explaining that she and Beatrice discuss the event the princess will be attending and…

Kiwi Olympic skier Anja Barugh was only 11 when she first started to experience crippling abdominal and back pain that would often cause her to run out of the classroom to vomit. She thought it was a normal adjustment to having periods. But for more than a decade, the athlete secretly battled an insidious enemy within her own body every month, which at times made her question if it was just “all in her head”. After being diagnosed with endometriosis in April 2022 – mere months after her debut on the world stage at the Beijing Winter Olympics – Anja is now exclusively sharing her story with the Weekly to inspire other young women with it. This month the 24-year-old is running the Queenstown Marathon to show it’s possible to…

There was no doubt about the destiny of Charles Philip Arthur GeorgeMountbatten-Windsor from the moment he was born in 1948. His mother, then Princess Elizabeth, was next in line to the British throne. As her first child – and a boy – it was a foregone conclusion that as long as he outlived the Queen, he would inherit the title of Monarch from her. Young Charles was born to be king. But when he was crowned Charles III on May 6 this year, he became the first sovereign in four generations to officially step into the job he was fated to do since birth. Apart from Edward VIII – who was king for less than a year before abdicating and never crowned – Charles is the first British monarch in…

Note For top tips on how to become a “flexible cook” to reduce your waste and make the food in your fridge go further, see page 58. Tips Store fresh courgettes in a bag or a produce drawer in the refrigerator. To freeze, blanch courgettes in boiling water for 1-2 minutes, then immediately plunge into ice water. Drain well and pat dry. Package courgette slices in airtight containers. Use in soups, stews and casseroles. Edited extract from Every Night of the Week Veg by Lucy Tweed (Murdoch Books, rrp $45). Notes You can use any cheese, but I suggest you find one that wants to be both cream and butter. Fancy, but without any willpower. Any leftover green goddess can be kept in the fridge for a week in an…

Just in time for warm, sunny days and long nights, a raft of new beauty releases have hit the shelves with fun, festivity and the sun in mind. Read on for some of the hottest available right now, with many more on the way! MADE IN JAPAN Japan’s number-one skincare brand, Hada Labo, is finally available in New Zealand – and well worth checking out! Great for all skin types, the products deliver intense hydration by harnessing the water-binding power of super-powered hyaluronic acid, so they’re ideal for dealing with post-winter dermis woes. Hydrating Skin Plumping Gel, $37.99, is a delicious mix of a cream and a serum in one, and the perfect texture for use over the warmer months. ONE FOR THE MUMS-TO-BE Harnessing the power of nature and…

Grief wants sugar, carbs and a new dress. Also an afternoon nap and a party. To be distracted and be left alone. A cup of herbal tea and a bottle of wine. I appreciate this is not a terribly useful list if you’re not good at managing contradictions, but at some point in our lives, we have to give that a crack, right? One of the great things about being older is you know how to handle some of the hard things life throws at you, and that you will survive. The shocks still shock you, but there’s a familiarity to them now. A challenging part of being young is that you’re experiencing everything for the first time. Of course, lots of that is exciting. If you’ve ever watched a…

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She lives in a village near the sea in Dorset, England, and has worked in journalism and the charity sector. She also writes short stories. This is her first novel. This novel was inspired by… Primarily, my love of reading. Books have been a friend to me all my life and I always wanted to write my own, to give to other people what novels have given to me: comfort and entertainment, and recognition and solace. Also, a nerdy love of history and old houses, an interest in war and social change, a love of the theatre and story-telling, and a desire to capture the place where I live. The most challenging thing about writing it was… Keeping going. I wrote the book when my daughter was very small and I…

SHEER BEAUTY Not everyone can pull off grey socks, heels and a sheer blouse, but Charlize Theron can! The Bombshell actor, 48, had a great time at the Hollywood Reporter Beauty Dinner in LA. Twinning! Self-confessed “dog lady” Reese Witherspoon, 47, plays “Who wore it better” with her pup Minnie Pearl in matching sweaters from the actor’s Draper James clothing brand. Jackson action Queen of Pop Janet Jackson kicked off ONE Music Fest in Atlanta with a bang. The 57-year-old wowed the crowd with songs from her chart-topping album Unbreakable, including the hit No Sleeep. Carey cuties Vision of love All Mariah Carey wants for Christmas is cuddles with her fur babies! The 54-year-old shared a cute snap with her Jack Russell terriers Cha Cha and Jill E Beans. Gourd…

He may be 78, but nothing stops Forever Young Sir Rod Stewart from hosting a rowdy starstudded party. The legendary rocker and his police officer wife Penny Lancaster, 52, were celebrating the launch of the Scotsman’s new Wolfie’s Whisky, which went on sale earlier this year. Naturally, the Do Ya Think I’m Sexy crooner got behind the mic on stage with his band, at one point rocking along with jazz fusion guitarist John McLaughlin. Rod’s known for being light on his feet, but even he had to hang on tight when Lord of the Dance creator Michael Flatley, 65, got up on stage to bring a touch of the Irish to the bash – not just with his fancy footwork, but also by playing the flute. In true Rod style,…