Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 43, 2025 i Woman's Day Magazine NZ

ANGELS AMONG US Icon Award winner Penélope Cruz (left) was sitting pretty with Zoë Saldaña, while Demi Moore and Lucy Liu had a colourful Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle reunion. FLOWER POWER White Lotus co-stars Leslie Bibb (left) and Michelle Monaghan caught up on the goss. Left: An almost unrecognisable Kristen Wiig (left) cuddled up to Olivia Wilde. POUT & ABOUT! Glamour girls Nicole Richie and Sydney Sweeney smouldered for photographers, while Kate Hudson (left) was her usual sunny self in Stella McCartney’s finest.…

New York’s famed theatre district is fast becoming the new Hollywood, with big stars from Jennifer Aniston to Julia Roberts eager to have their time on stage! For Jen, who’s currently back in TV land with The Morning Show, being in a Broadway play would fulfil a lifelong dream she’s never had the courage to try. “I haven’t done theatre yet because it terrifies me, but I grew up in New York and loved going to the theatre, so I think it’d be fun,” says the 56-year-old, who went to the Big Apple’s “Fame school”. As for mum of three Julia, becoming an empty-nester has reignited her passion for plays. She last starred on Broadway in 2006’s Three Days Of Rain. “Now my kids are out of the house, I…

Kevin Costner’s love dramas and legal battles came to a head last week, starting with his ex-wife’s lavish wedding! A year and a half after their messy divorce, Christine Baumgartner tied the knot with financier Josh Connor, a former friend of the Yellowstone star. Christine and Josh, both 51, were romantically linked just weeks after her public split from Kevin, 70, in 2023. And it’s been bad news on the work front too, with the actor last week losing his bid to have a sexual harassment lawsuit thrown out – after stuntwoman Devyn LaBella alleged she was made to do an unscripted rape scene on the set of Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2. Afterwards, Kevin’s lawyer Marty Singer said, “We will continue to fight for the truth.” It’s…

VIRGINIA GIUFFRE Years of abuse ultimately became too “unbearable” for Virginia Roberts Giuffre to live with, but in her death, she’s finally able to share her full story with the world. The late whistleblower’s posthumous memoir, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir Of Surviving Abuse And Fighting For Justice, has hit shelves, detailing a life that started with alleged childhood abuse and took her to Florida’s Mar-A-Lago spa – and subsequently into the hands of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Virginia died in April at age 41 at her Western Australian property, leaving behind her kids Christian, Noah and Emily. She had spent four years writing her memoir with the hopes of helping fellow sexual abuse survivors and to finally hold those who wronged her accountable. Virginia had long alleged that she…

She’s been in the music biz for more than 35 years, but Mariah Carey says she still gets a kick out of releasing new tunes. “I’m really proud of it,” the 56-year-old superstar says of her 16th studio album, Here For It All. And we’re here to chat about it all – her career, her kids and how she sneaks out in public incognito... Your first single from the album, Type Dangerous, suggests that you’re attracted to danger. Is that true? Kind of. I mean, the song and the video are really me playing a character, but there is obviously some of me in there. Am I attracted to the dangerous type? Maybe a little. I like the rollercoaster kind of danger... Maybe! You’ve achieved so much in your career…

WARNING SIGNS On Halloween in 1964, Elsie Drucker, 13, was looking at her trick-or-treat spoils at her home in Long Island, New York, when she noticed two large round tablets. Printed on each was a warning: “Poison. Keep away from children and animals.” Worried that other trick-or-treaters had received the potent pesticide, Elsie’s dad called the police, and Elsie and her sister Irene, 15, helped them pinpoint who’d given them the tablets, arresting 47-year-old Helen Pfeil. Police found empty ant poison boxes in her kitchen. Pfeil said she wasn’t malicious but felt some kids who demanded candy were “a little old to be trick-or-treating”, so she’d handed them arsenic-laced pills, steel wool or dog biscuits instead. Ironically, that night, Pfeil’s husband was out trick-or-treating with their sons. Pfeil was found…

To get leaner for summer, start jumping barefoot at the beach, learn to squat and practise holding your own body weight. By coupling jump training (three to five times a week, for two to five minutes per workout) with strength training, we can improve the health of our muscles and bones. That’s the advice from exercise physiologist Dr Tracey Clissold and strength training expert Loretta Hogg, both from Mount Maunganui. Tracey is a women’s bone health researcher based at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology. After experiencing stress fractures herself, the former elite athlete, who ran marathons for New Zealand for more than two decades, decided to develop 10+ years of research into a programme to increase women’s bone density. Over a 12-month period, participants in the clinical trials showed 2…

Q I lost my husband five years ago. I’ve done the best I can to go on, but the silence in the house is hard to accept. I talk to him every night. Has he heard me? Is he still near or has he moved on? Beverley MITCHELL SAYS I feel your lovely husband stepping forward straightaway. He is holding a rose and tells me it’s for you. He says he hears you every night when you speak to him and those words mean so much. He wants you to know he has not gone far away. He’s still very close and watching over you with love. The silence you feel in the house is only on the surface because he visits you often. He tells me he tries to…

BACK IN ACTION! ANGELINA JOLIE Business in the front, tattoo party at the back! The Eternals star looked timeless in an Alberta Ferretti LBD at the Rome premiere of Couture, but it was the rear view that really gave us something to ink about. MISSING HOME? ROBERT IRWIN Crikey! The homesick star brought a taste of Australia Zoo with him to his Dancing With The Stars rehearsals in LA. Will Bob use a real reptile for the actual show? Good clean fun SABRINA CARPENTER The Busy Woman popstar played a singing washing machine alongside funnylady Veronika Slowikowska in a Saturday Night Live skit in NYC. Nic’s plan NICOLE KIDMAN Hinting at a dark plot? The actress celebrated the 30th anniversary of her movie To Die For – a film where…

At just seven months old, Nadine Higgins’ baby boy Ari has already shown a remarkable fighting spirit. Arriving almost two months premature, he spent his first three weeks in the neonatal intensive care (NICU) before finally joining his parents and big brother Frankie at home. A few months later, however, Ari was back in hospital battling a serious illness. Yet through it all, this little miracle has met every challenge thrown at him – and his broadcaster mum and film producer dad Dan, who battled years of infertility, still have to pinch themselves at how lucky they are to have not one but two beautiful boys. “It has been the most intense seven months of my life, but also the most incredible,” says Nadine, 39, as she introduces her newest…

BRITNEY ‘SCARED’ HER YOUNG SONS Britney Spears lost custody of her sons Sean and Jayden after her public breakdown in 2007 – but her behaviour afterwards was even scarier, claims ex-husband Kevin Federline in his new book You Thought You Knew. The father of six, 47, claims the boys woke up on several occasions to find their mum standing in the doorway to their bedrooms with a knife in her hand, only to “turn around and pad off without explanation”. Other disturbing claims include Sean saying Britney, 43, once punched him in the face and she bleached the young boys’ hair to the point where their scalps were burnt. Kevin also says Britney once phoned Sean to say “she wished he, his brother and me were all dead”. CHEATING, COCAINE…

Standing in front of a mirror with her daughters for this week’s episode of Parental Guidance brought back some painful memories for Sofia Dimi. “When I was younger, I had a hard time looking at magazines and seeing all the blonde, blue-eyed, skinny girls,” shares Sofia, 42. “Here I was, this European girl with fluffy hair, thighs and hips. When I was at school and was teased about my legs, that just intensified everything.” ‘When I was at school, I was teased about my legs’ The show’s so-called “Positivity Parents”, Sofia and her husband Nick, 34, take part in a challenge related to body-image issues for kids, with the whole family – who are based in Wollongong but have Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian heritage – standing in front of a…

Jade Hart always knew she wanted to be a mum. As one of three kids, the respected Auckland PR guru had such a happy childhood growing up with two siblings, she always imagined she’d also have three children. Romance blossomed early on. Jade was just 15 when she met her future husband James, then 17, at a teenage party. She recalls, “James and I were introduced by one of our mutual best mates who we’re still friends with today. We got him and his wife together too!” After 10 years, James proposed to Jade at his mum Beverly’s house. “Beverly had sadly passed away a few years earlier and James invited both our families to witness him getting down on one knee,” shares Jade. “We felt Bevvy there that day.…

HARISSA LAMB SLOPPY JOES SERVES 4 PREP & COOK 20 MINS • 500g lamb mince (see tip) • 1 onion, finely chopped • 2 tbsp harissa spice blend • ¹/³ cup tomato paste • 400g can chickpeas, drained, rinsed • 200g tub hummus • 4 Turkish rolls, split, toasted • 100g Greek-style feta, crumbled • 250g (small tub) tabouleh (see tip) • hot chilli sauce, lemon wedges, to serve 1 Heat a large, nonstick frying pan over medium-high heat. Add lamb and onion. Cook, stirring to break up mince, for 8-10 mins or until evenly browned. 2 Add spice blend, tomato paste and chickpeas. Cook, stirring, for 2 mins. Stir in 1½ cups water and bring to the boil. Gently boil for 5-10 mins or until thickened. 3 To serve,…

NOT TRULY LOVED! After four failed marriages, unlucky-in-love Jennifer Lopez declared she believes her exes were simply “not capable” of loving her. However, this comment has prompted her first husband Ojani Noa to come out with some shocking claims of his own – including she cheated! “The problem is not us and not me,” Ojani, 51, posted on Instagram. “The problem is you. You’re the one who couldn’t keep it in your pants. You have been ‘loved’ a few times. You’ve had good relationships… Me, for example.” J.Lo, now 56, went on to marry dancer Cris Judd, 56, singer Marc Anthony, 57, and more recently actor Ben Affleck, 53, but she insists she never felt she was “truly loved” by any of her exes. “What I learnt, it’s not that…

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The Spice Girls used to be all about girl power, but now they’re about majority rules! Geri Halliwell-Horner has been outnumbered by her former bandmates as they forge ahead with a Netflix biopic about their journey. “Geri has been dragging her heels for almost a year now and the rest of the band is keen to plough ahead as next year marks the 30th anniversary of the release of their debut single Wannabe,” dishes an insider. To get the project moving without Geri’s wishes, Mel B, Melanie C, Emma Bunton and Victoria Beckham invoked the band’s “rule of four”, which allowed the girls to tour in 2019 without Posh. Geri could miss out on big bucks if she doesn’t jump on board as the girls are expected to bank $2…

They say the best revenge is living well and sources close to Nicole Kidman reveal the actress isn’t wallowing following her split from Keith Urban after 19 years of marriage. An insider admits the Oscar winner is “sad but moving on”, while another adds Nicole is “staying positive” and “isn’t someone who dwells on regrets – she believes everything happens for a reason”. Instead, the 58-year-old star has been spending quality time with her and Keith’s daughters Sunday, 17, and Faith, 14. She’s also throwing herself back into her work, happily posting on social media about all her new projects, including being back on the set of her hit series Lioness. “Love being back together,” she wrote alongside a photo of the cast, who are now filming season three. On…

When Stephen Peacocke first swaggered on to the Home And Away set as Darryl “Brax” Braxton, the leader of the infamous River Boys, in 2011, he became a household name almost overnight. Now nearly a decade after leaving the long-running soap, the actor’s returning to the world of Summer Bay – older, wiser and with an international resumé that cements his star quality. But for Stephen, 43, the decision to keep working at home in Australia has been nothing but rewarding. “I’ve been lucky to have had 10 years of really good jobs,” he shares. “I don’t take for granted how fortunate I am to be in this industry in this country – and to have worked overseas on some great things.” After wrapping up on Home And Away in…

Keara Tyler was watching American Idol at age 10 when popstar Adam Lambert changed her life. “I was blown away by his stage presence and charisma,” the 26-year-old actress recalls as her two-year-old son Wolfe babbles away in the background. “And I went, ‘I want to do that!’ He said he’d done drama as a kid, so I begged my parents for drama classes.” Her mum Phyllisann and dad Ant obliged, having moved with Keara’s older sister Cassie from South Africa to Auckland, where Keara was born. Before that, Phyllisann had also acted. However, she turned down gigs like modelling lingerie and one role she rejected – which required partial nudity – went to Charlize Theron. Keara laughs, “Mum says, ‘If I’d done it, I might still be acting!’ But…

VIETNAMESE-STYLE LEMONGRASS ROLLS SERVES 6 PREP 25 MINS COOK 6 MINS • ¼ cup light soy sauce • 1 ½ tbsp lemongrass paste • 3 cloves garlic, crushed • 750g beef rump steak, trimmed • 6 x 20cm long white rolls • ¼ cup chicken pate (optional) • 1 cup fresh coriander leaves • hot chilli sauce and Kewpie mayonnaise, to serve PICKLED VEGETABLES • ¼ cup rice wine vinegar • 3 tsp caster sugar • 2 tsp lemongrass paste • 2 Lebanese cucumbers, trimmed, thinly sliced diagonally • 1 large carrot, peeled, coarsely shredded 1 Combine soy sauce, lemongrass paste and garlic in a large bowl. Add beef. Toss to coat. Refrigerate, covered, for 30 mins. 2 PICKLED VEGETABLES Place vinegar, sugar and lemongrass paste in a shallow dish.…

What can you tell us about your characters? Ben: I play Anna Osborne’s son Rob, who lost his father Milton in the disaster. He cares so deeply for his family and would do anything for them, so I really wanted to honour how emotional and confusing that time must have been for him. He’s just your typical, down-to-earth Kiwi guy. Madeleine: And I’m his sister Alisha, who carries the emotional weight of growing up without her dad and trying to make sense of that loss. What was it like working with Melanie Lynskey, Robyn Malcolm and Lucy Lawless? Ben: They’re true New Zealand icons. I got close with Mel, who played my mum, and she’s such a special human. She’s one of those people who was born to be a…