Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 6, 2024 i New Zealand Woman's Weekly

Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon all hold three Grammys for Album of the Year, but megastar Taylor Swift, 34, became the only person to ever win a fourth award, for her album Midnights. It’s the 13th Grammy for the singer, who was presented with the award by surprise guest Céline Dion, 55. In her acceptance speech, Taylor revealed she’s been keeping a secret for two years. “ My brand-new album comes out April 19, it’s called The Tortured Poets Department. I’m going to go and post the cover right now backstage. Thank you, I love you!” Other winners on the night included Miley Cyrus, 31, Billie Eilish, 22, and Kylie Minogue, 55. Jay-Z, 54, was honoured for his contribution to the industry and used his speech to speak…

ALL IS FORGIVEN! Emily regrets the pain she inflicted Thanks to their stellar performances, both Oppenheimer stars Emily Blunt and Cillian Murphy are contenders for awards at the upcoming Oscars. But despite all the fanfare, Emily has confessed she’s full of regret for her part in a brutal scene that viewers will never get to see! For a particularly tense scene in the movie about the race to develop a nuclear bomb, the star, 40, was instructed by director Christopher Nolan to repeatedly slap Cillian across the face. “Poor Cillian,” laments mum-of-two Emily. “Chris went, ‘Hit him.’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know.’ “And Cillian was like, ‘Do it, do it.’ Chris was like, ‘He’ll be fine… Do it.’ “I slapped him, then I grabbed him by the neck……

YOU WILL NEED ● Wreath form – ours was 350mm in diameter ● 30m braided natural cotton rope or similar – ours was 7mm in diameter and came in 15m-lengths ●Thinner natural cotton string/ rope – like the kind used for macramé ● Hot glue ● Scissors ● Resene testpot brush ● Resene testpot in Resene Raging Bull 1 Using hot glue, affix the end of your wider length of rope firmly to the top back of your wreath form. 2 Begin wrapping the rope around the wreath, passing the entire length of rope through the centre each time and tacking it with hot glue as you go. Work slowly, keeping the rope fairly taut, but also leaving slight gaps around the outside so that your coils stay straight and…

PISCES Feb 20 – Mar 20 You’re determined this week. If anyone crosses your path and tries to change your mind or change your plans, you’re not going to take it lying down. You’ll make sure everyone is aware of it. You’re independent and a very talented, creative person – you know what you can do. Stand up for yourself. ARIES Mar 21 – Apr 20 You’re on the brink of success – one more step and it’s all yours. Leave nothing to chance and whatever shape or form this step is, make it count. Don’t be afraid to ask family and friends to be an audience or your guinea pig – they’ll be more than happy. TAURUS Apr 21 – May 21 Something is about to capture your imagination…

My friend says I’m good at small talk. He’s wrong. Like 99 percent of the population, it’s not something I particularly enjoy or which comes naturally. Some time ago, I realised in my line of work I would be meeting and sitting next to people I barely knew. I had to make an effort to bring something to the table. I’ve heard various acronyms and techniques to help with small talk, but I find the most effective way is to make an effort. Think of a thing, say that thing, then listen and respond. Repeat like tennis. Don’t be scared to talk about the weather or your dog. People will be grateful you’re filling the void. All of this is to say that I don’t believe many people love small…

WAKE UP… I usually get up around 3.45am. I have a quick shower, then grab a banana on my way out the door – and sometimes there’s a brief panic if I can’t find the car keys! COFFEE TIME… I arrive at work about 4.20am. I turn the lights on and the coffee machine. I check the news websites, find any audio I may need and start putting the show together. MID-MORNING… After the show wraps at 9am, I have a chat with the boss and then plan the next day. If I was organised, this is where I’d eat the nutritious sandwich I’d prepared the night before. Instead, I have another coffee. LUNCH… About 11am, I head home, scoff leftovers from the fridge and then lie down for a…

It has been a remarkably challenging time for the royal family, with three members, including Sarah, Duchess of York and Catherine, Princess of Wales, facing a medical crisis. So it was all the more shocking when the palace announced King Charles has been diagnosed with cancer following treatment for an enlarged prostate. He personally called his two sons to share the news, and Harry, Duke of Sussex, quickly jumped on a plane from America to be by his father’s side. Meanwhile, Queen Camilla continues to be his beacon of light. We send the King our best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery, and as Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said, “Kia kaha”! Elsewhere, we catch up with Hilary Timmins, who was a household name for many years – as well…

When Hilary Timmins pops over to New Zealand for a visit from her home in the United Kingdom, she’ll often spot people looking at her as if to say, “You’re familiar… How do I know you?” It usually dawns on them pretty quickly that Hilary, who has lived on the other side of the world for the past 12 years, was one of our best-known TV personalities for more than two decades. And despite the fact she was the “Lotto Lady”, presenting the lottery draw on television for 15 years, often it’s as the co-host on It’s in the Bag that they remember her best. “I still find it funny that people recognise me more for It’s in the Bag than Lotto,” muses Hilary on a Zoom call from her…

They’ve won countless accolades and cooked for the world’s biggest names, but top Australasian chefs Monique Fiso and Mark Olive still get a thrill from seeing the impact their food has on people. Pioneers of the indigenous food movement in their respective countries – Monique in New Zealand and Mark in Australia – they showcase ingredients that natives of both countries have eaten for centuries. Wellington-based Monique’s CV is impressive. A seasoned forager for local ingredients, the Māori/Samoan author is one of New Zealand’s most decorated chefs. She worked in Michelin-starred restaurants in New York, features on Netflix’s The Final Table, and she’s taught Gordon Ramsay how to find and eat a huhu grub! In 2018, she opened multiaward-winning restaurant Hiakai – also the name of her cookbook – which…

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As soon as we wake, our brains are bombarded with information from news platforms and social media, which has a negative impact on our focus, concentration and productivity. Add lack of sleep, a poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle, and it’s hardly surprising that our From improving your diet to ditching unhealthy vices, there are plenty of ways to boost your grey matter brain health is suffering as a result. Global events and the cost of living crisis hasn’t helped either. In fact, research shows that stress accelerates cognitive decline, leading to difficulties with memory and problemsolving. So, how well are you looking after your brain? Take our test to find out. 1. How do you sleep? A Like a baby B I’m an insomniac C I like an afternoon…

Christmas is but a distant memory already. I’m grateful for that. My performance on the day wasn’t memorable. But lessons have been learned. Like, if you’re in charge of the barbecued-aged standing rib roast (fat on), then don’t get distracted. After all, it’s the centrepiece of the Christmas dinner. For a gift, I’d presented Linda with a large, bright, ceramic bird bath. I found it online and had it sent down from the Morris & James factory in Matakana. She’d wanted a bird bath for years. One job remained though. The bowl had to be glued to the stand. It’s a critical job because, as you can imagine, the ceramic’s heavy and if the bowl’s not dead centre, it looks silly. Once the glue’s on, there’s 20 minutes to make…

It’s been a long summer for many working parents. Gone are the days when Mum could spend six weeks at the bach with the kids while Dad went back to work after Christmas and made the commute from the city to the beach every weekend until the end of January. These days, you don’t see vast tribes of kids of all ages heading off on their bikes, going who knows where and doing heaven knows what, until the sun starts to set and they get hungry. During the holidays when we lived in Tūrangi, a group of us kids from my neighbourhood, Rangipoia Place, would head down to the Tongariro River on bikes, by foot or in trolleys, spending the day by the water building dams, catching tadpoles and playing…

Secrets, lies and alibis! Aseduction doesn’t go to plan for two flatmates This novel made me so nostalgic for my twenties and that stage of life where you’re an adult, but only just... The messiness and chaos of it, the intensity and excitement. It all makes for a fun, thoughtful and fairly racy story about friendship and love. Rachel is living in London, pregnant and working as a journalist. On assignment, she meets someone she was at university with, back in Ireland, and he happens to mention that her former tutor, Dr Byrne, is in a coma. This news takes Rachel straight back to 2010, when she is living in Cork, in her final year as a student, and trying to support herself with a part-time job in a bookstore.…

He waited 73 long years to be able to do the job into which he was born. And since he became the Monarch in September 2022, the King has thrown himself into his role, working tirelessly, despite being well past the age of retirement. He was happy to be finally fulfilling his destiny, say friends, so to be handed a shocking cancer diagnosis just over a year into his new life seems cruel and unfair. But cancer is a cruel and unfair disease, no matter who it strikes, and His Majesty has shown that he’s going to face the challenge of dealing with it head on, while carrying on with his job as best he can. “One can’t help but feel great sympathy for King Charles, who has been in…

The twenty twenties are turning out to be quite the decade for Emma Stone. In just a few short years, the Cruella star has secretly tied the knot, quietly welcomed a baby daughter – and this month she won her second Golden Globe award for her role in the sci-fi black comedy Poor Things. For Emma, her screen success is all the sweeter considering the mental health battles she fought as a child and then again as a young adult. Emma was just seven when she began suffering from crippling anxiety and panic attacks. “The first time I had a panic attack, I was sitting in my friend’s house and I thought the house was burning down,” shares Emma, 35. “I called my mum and she brought me home, and…

He turned 70 on February 18 and there’s no doubt about it. Life has been a wild ride for John Travolta. The Pulp Fiction star has gone from Hollywood sensation to Hollywood has-been and then back to A-lister once again. He enjoyed one of the acting world’s most successful marriages and then endured the loss of both his wife, Kelly Preston, and his eldest son Jett, who was 16. Through it all, the acting legend has kept his dignity and sense of humour – and three-and-a-half years after Kelly lost her cancer battle, those close to John say he’s once again finding his feet. The key to his recovery has been his two surviving kids, Ella, 23, and Ben,13. “The kids are everything to him,” shares a source. “If it…

Got an appetite for change? Beauty brands are bringing their A-game this year, with a deluge of enticing new launches – but, of course, they’re not all worth the hype. We’ve picked apart which just-landed products are actually worth your time – and money! Lush lashes Lash serums aren’t for everyone, but if they are, this enhancing serum is for you. Formulated with provitamin B5 to help lashes look shiny Perfectly plump SugarBaby Lip Lover Nourishing Lip Treatment, $22.99, can be used as the finishing touch to your beauty routine or overnight as a lip mask. The hydrating formula is also infused with plumping peptides to gently create the appearance of fuller-looking lips. and healthy, and rice protein for length, apply Benefit Whoop Lash, $98, to your upper lash line…

One rainy afternoon with nothing better to do, I made the mistake of clicking on one of those “What to Wear When You’re Over 50” articles. This means, of course – you know how the internet works – I am now bombarded with endless pieces offering tips on how an old trout might fill her wardrobe. I must wear jeans, they tell me (I don’t own jeans), shapewear (I hate anything tight), kitten heels (do I look like someone who likes to totter?) and a general reprimand: “Don’t be afraid of colour!” (The only colour that scares me is beige.) I have never responded well to rules, which is tricky because getting dressed comes with an abundance of these regulations and decrees. We have grown up with them, like the…

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Udderly cute! Jennifer Garner, 51, has made the moove into dairy! The Switch actor, 51, is now making milkshakes on her century-old family farm in Oklahoma in the US. Great Scot Sir Rod Stewart really wants to talk about it... His whisky line, that is! The rocker, 79, popped into his local Tesco store in the UK to promote Wolfie, which is made in Rod’s beloved Scotland. Born to sing Jon Bon Jovi, 61, teamed up with fellow rock legend Bruce Springsteen, 74, to celebrate becoming this year’s MusiCares Person of the Year for his contribution to music. Kylie Minogue, 55, was there to cheer him on too. SAY CHEESE! Nicola Peltz Beckham, 29, was all smiles as she posed in an outfit created by her mother-in-law Victoria Beckham, 49,…