Woman's Day November 16, 2015

I was lucky enough to be trackside with some of the Woman’s Day team during last week’s Melbourne Cup Carnival, but truth be known I didn’t see a single horse! There was way too much fun going on in the famous Birdcage, where the nation’s hottest stars whooped it up in the hot-ticket Myer, Lavazza, Mumm, Swisse and Lexus marquees. Speaking of hot, we had lots of fun with our new favourite fellas (the Bachies, of course!). Let’s just say they did not let us down in the party-hard stakes. This week we bring you all the fun and games, frocks and shocks, hook-ups and dust-ups from the famous carnival (p6). PS. News just in, Princess Mary is heading home for her first Aussie Christmas with her children! Check out…

FIFI BOX Oaks Day at the races was a bit of a washout, with Fifi no exception. Her crisply starched floral applique ’50s frock offered a thrill at the plunging neckline – but nowhere else! Nude heels and a red feathered confection for a headdress fail to get this outfit past the finishing post. But at least there’s no faulting Fifi’s million-dollar smile, offset with scarlet lippie. SAMANTHA ARMYTAGE Scratch! Cup Day had barely begun but this filly’s fashion sense had already faltered. The usually impeccably dressed Sunrise sweetheart stumbles in an underperforming red lace Karen Gee and woeful wedges. Topping it off, her straw gondolier’s hat looks like it has been dragged out of a canal. SAM FROST Meanwhile, that other Sam is causing a crazy commotion in the…

Sam Wood & Snezana Markoski Drunk in love Bachelor Sam and his lady love Snez, both 36, were in high spirits as they left the Myer Marquee. “I didn’t think double gins were that bad,” joked Snez, after turning the dial to high in Kyle & Jackie O’s celeb breath test challenge. Dave Billsborrow Working the field After a big day of racing, 31-year-old Bachelor contestant Dave stumbled out of Flemington on the arm of a mystery blonde. Sam Frost & Sasha Mielczarek PDA alert ! Love was the winner when Bachelorette Sam, 26, and her man Sasha, 30, stepped out for their first official outing at the Cup. “We’re having the best time!” Sam said. Michael Turnbull Join the s…

Walking hand-in-hand and smiling broadly when they arrived at the Melbourne Cup’s celebrity marquees on Tuesday, Bec and Lleyton Hewitt appeared to have put their marriage woes firmly behind them. The glamour couple looked to be tanned and relaxed, and were happy to greet fans as they walked through the Birdcage at Flemington Racecourse, smiling and even stopping to take selfies with starstruck punters. “Bec was looking fantastic and seemed to be totally in charge as they made their entrance ” one social commentator says. “She was so confident and beautiful – not at all stressed out, like she appears to be at the tennis ” Turning sour But it was a different story just a few hours later in the upmarket Swisse tent, where a tearful Bec was seen…

Paddy Payne looked down at his seriously injured daughter lying sick in her bed at Victoria’s Epworth Hospital – 18-year-old Michelle had fractured her skull and had bleeding on the brain, after a heavy fall from a horse during a race at Sandown. “Is it worth it?” the concerned father asked his daughter softly. Paddy was a jockey himself, but the thought of losing his youngest child – after the family already lost their mother in a car accident – was too painful to bear. He begged his daughter to quit riding, but Michelle wouldn’t hear of it. “I told him I loved doing what I was doing, and that both he and I knew the risks,” says Michelle. And though doctors warned she may never be able to race…

Three months into her marriage to Richard Harrison, and singer Ricki-Lee Coulter ought to be a happy newlywed. But the pop diva has been unwittingly thrust into a grisly criminal case, with one of her family members charged with murder. Ricki-Lee’s cousin Aaron John Crawford, 27, along with his cousin Lionel Patea, 24, was last week charged with killing Gold Coast man Greg Dufty. Shocking details reveal that Crawford, a former porn star, was extradited from New Zealand to Brisbane by Australian Federal Police last week, then faced Brisbane Magistrate Court for a brief hearing, charged with misconduct of a corpse and murder. Police allege the two were contracted to settle a drug debt owed by Dufty, 37, who went missing on July 6 after spending the day with his…