Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 47, 2023 i Woman's Day

Woman’s Day was afforded a special invitation to the hugely popular Sons And Daughters reunion last weekend and it was a thrill pulling together our feature on page 62. From Ally Fowler to Tom Richards, the cast sat down to remember what was truly such a cornerstone of Australian television. Speaking of great TV, is anyone else excited for the last season of The Crown? I’d love to hear your thoughts on it all. Elsewhere, we bring you a very emotional but poignant interview with Adam Bray, the father of Zach Bray, who was one of 10 who tragically died in the Hunter Valley bus crash in June. I am so honoured that Adam offered this magazine the privilege of sharing his journey through his heartbreak and what he plans…

Her how ill go on! A new day has come! Celine Dion delighted fans by making her first public appearance in three and a half years at a hockey game in Las Vegas. The 55-year-old singer – who has been battling a neurological disorder called stiff-person syndrome – looked happy and healthy as she met players and posed for pictures with her three sons, Rene-Charles, 22, and twins Eddy and Nelson, 13. “My boys and I had such a fun time,” Celine wrote on social media. Excitingly, Chantal Machabee, a rep for the Montreal Canadiens hockey team, revealed the songstress “sang a few notes” during the visit. “It was an incredible moment. She’s an amazing woman.” “She’s been through a lot, and to see her like this and smiling…

From music royalty to a British aristocrat! Sophie Turner’s moved on from Joe Jonas with Peregrine Pearson, whose family has ties to the royals. The pair were spotted passionately kissing in Paris. “They stood there for a few minutes and were chatting and laughing a lot,” says an onlooker. “He then took his hat off and leaned in to give her a big kiss.” After going their separate ways, the new couple later reunited at the Stade de France where Sophie, 27, unveiled the Rugby World Cup trophy. Peregrine, 29, last dated Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece, and his family are said to be worth $429 million and mix with royalty.…

Music legend Dolly Parton has added another career to her list of achievements – agony aunt! The 77-year-old’s recorded a new advice series for Apple Music called What Would Dolly Do?, and insiders say the star’s keen to add to the venture by writing an advice column too. “She figures it’s one thing she’s never tried her hand at,” says a spy about the icon. However, sources say there’s a sad reason behind the singer’s latest gig. “Dolly’s always looking for new projects she can do at home,” says an insider, who adds that the singer’s been forced to quit touring to stay home in Tennessee and care for her ailing husband Carl Dean, 81, who is reportedly suffering from Alzheimer’s. “I kind of need to be with him,” says…

By the time she turned 40, 60 Minutes star Liz Hayes wasn’t just a household name, she also had three failed marriages behind her. Now, the TV host – whose autobiography I’m Liz Hayes: A Memoir is out this week – is finally opening up about her tumultuous relationship history. “It was a crap time. Let’s face it, these things are not great. And it’s magnified. It becomes bigger than Ben Hur,” says the star, who married her first husband, builder Brian Hayes, in the late ’70s when she was just 21. They split in the mid-’80s around the time she scored the gig as co-host on the Today show in 1986. “You’re looking at yourself. You’re reading about yourself. You’re noting that the view of you is pretty grim,…

Just weeks after being dropped from the network to make way for hunk Chris Brown, Daryl Somers has sensationally filed a lawsuit against Seven! The former Hey Hey It’s Saturday host, 72, has launched legal action after he claimed the channel aired footage of John Farnham and Tom Jones singing on the variety show – which his company Somers Enterprises Australia has held copyright to since 2010 – without his permission. Seven has denied it infringed copyright but removed the episode from its online platform. The lawsuit comes just weeks after Daryl dropped a bombshell by saying he was being replaced by Chris as co-host on Dancing With The Stars before Seven made its official announcement. “I am happy to hand the Mirror Ball over to Chris and wish him…

DANNY ROBERTS AS ANDY GREEN “It’s just so beautiful to catch up with people I haven’t seen for 40 years – it’s been that long!” says Danny. “Rowie [Rowena Wallace] looks beautiful, and dear Tom [Richards] what a wonderful man. He, Rowie and Pat McDonald played major roles in my apprenticeship as an actor, [I’m] so thankful to them. I was 18 then and I’m 58 now. Celebrity was a novelty back then, but it had its downside. It can poison you.” CAROLE SKINNER AS DORIS HUDSON “I loved my time on Sons And Daughters – acting has been kind to me. Instead of hanging out for the big roles, I just loved playing the small roles as long as the character was interesting, and Doris certainly was,” says Carole,…

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BE TRUE TO YOURSELF “Work out what you really want, not what other people think you should do. Early on in my career, I worked in finance because I believed that’s what my father thought I should do. I hated it. The sooner you can get to what makes you want to get out of bed in the morning, the better. Then work out how you’re going to move from here to there, and plan every step.” Trinny Woodall might appear confident and bubbly, but the 59-yearold admits it’s taken her up until this stage in her life to overcome many of her fears. “We can be fearless in some things and fearful in others,” she tells Woman’s Day. “I think everyone feels fear in different areas, whether it’s the…

He’s long been heralded as Australia’s king of sweets. Conjuring up culture defining-delicacies like the croquembouche tower and V8 cake on MasterChef. But now, Adriano Zumbo is returning to our screens as a contestant, and he’s doing it all for his new baby son. “I wanted to join the series for a different challenge and see if I could win the prize money to help my new little family,” he told Woman’s Day of his turn on the MasterChef spin-off Dessert Masters. Adriano, 42, and his reality TV star wife Nelly Riggio, 33, announced the arrival of their son through an Instagram post on October 10 with a simple black and white photo, but they didn’t reveal any further details. Talking to us prior to the birth, Adriano gave some…

Lunch date Jennifer Garner and boyfriend John Miller proved they’re still going strong, looking cosy on a stroll through Santa Monica. Wheely hot Nearly 60... and smoking! Brad Pitt showed off his new bike – a gift from Sony Pictures – ahead of his big birthday on December 18. Lowe on a high Proud dad Rob Lowe was left carrying the balloons after celebrating son John Owen’s 28th birthday in Los Angeles. Little Olympia(n)! Former swim champ Grant Hackett is now a dad of four after he and wife Sharlene welcomed their second child, daughter Olympia, here with Edward, four, and Jagger, 14. Oh, what a night! A sea of stars, including Eva Longoria, A$AP Rocky, Kathy and Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Heidi Klum, Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard descended…

She is a Mexican-born socialite who was once married to Spanish equestrian Cayetano Martinez de Irujo, son of the late Duchess of Alba, one of Europe’s wealthiest aristocrats. The former actress has appeared in various Spanish reality TV shows, including their celebrity versions of MasterChef, The Masked Singer and The Chase. Genoveva has had relationships with high-profile Spanish men, including singers and politicians, and is reportedly “old friends” with Fred – the pair share “several mutual acquaintances”. Her Instagram profile features her at events, working out and, in August, photos of her in hospital recovering after a stroke.…

She’s brought so much joy to her fans for years, but in her new memoir, My Name Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand has opened up about the sadness she’s hidden behind her famous smile. The 81-year-old writes that her late mother Diana was unloving and cold. “I grew up without her approval, with no support for my dreams,” she wrote. “I don’t remember her ever giving me a compliment.” She also writes about the pain of losing her dad Emanuel, to a seizure when she was just 15 months old. “I never knew my father,” she wrote. “Years later, my mother told me that for months after my father died, I would still climb up on the window ledge to wait for him to come home. In some ways, I’m still…

Aussie Olympian Cathy Freeman popped to the shops in Melbourne’s Hampton and surprised onlookers by needing the aid of a walking stick. The 50-year-old former athlete – who was the face of the Sydney 2000 Olympics – is recovering from surgery after rupturing her Achilles tendon during an accident at her home in the Melbourne bayside suburb of Brighton. The star sprinter, who quit sport in 2003, largely stays out of the spotlight now. “I’m certainly not a serious athlete [any more],” Cathy said last year. In September she was honoured by the NSW Government when they renamed the Eastern Grandstand at Accor Stadium in Sydney Olympic Park the Cathy Freeman Stand.…

Who will she choose? Looking match fit and beaming from ear to ear, it seems tennis legend and new mum Ash Barty, who turned 27 in April, may well be “keeping mum” when it comes to what’s next for her, both on and off the court! Spotted recently with Aussie surfing sensation Steph Gilmore at a tennis and surfing clinic for school children in Northern NSW, it seems the two former world No. 1 superstars were a real hit with the kids and Ash talked passionately about her love of the game. And as mounting speculation around a possible comeback continues to bubble away, a well-placed source reveals there are plenty of reasons to think that the three-time grand slam champ is not quite done yet! “It’s been very telling…

She’s known for her witty humour and suggestive innuendos, but it seems Big Brother’s raunchy new direction is too much, even for Sonia Kruger! A source close to the star tells Woman’s Day that 58-year-old Sonia “feels like a bit of a prude at her age” and has managed to avoid narrating the Uncut episodes, which see full frontal nudity and unfiltered language air on the network at 8.30pm on Thursdays. “It really is off brand [for her],” says the spy. “She finds it all a bit uncomfortable to watch, never mind narrate.”…

Woman's Day CRAFTERNOON SPECIAL PAPER GIFT BOX LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY EASY TIME NEEDED 15 MINS Surprise your guests with a small gift they can open when sitting down for dinner or coffee. Why not place some chocolate pralines on a bed of confetti? This paper gift box is guaranteed to be appreciated at your table. YOU WILL NEED ✦ Thicker paper in a colour and/or pattern of your choosing INSTRUCTIONS 1 Cut a square of paper. The finished gift box will be about half the size. Here, we have used a square that is 22cm x 22cm, which means that the gift box will be 11cm x 11cm. 2 Fold the paper into a triangle by aligning two opposite corners. 3 Fold the triangle in half. 4 Cut one…

BARGAIN BODY CHEVY CHASE Hollywood stars can buy just about anything these days – including the perfect body! Funnyman Chevy almost had us fooled with his ripped muscle T-shirt. The Price is right KATIE PRICE We all know the painstaking process of getting ready for a night out, but Katie left it a little too late! She was snapped in rollers at her podcast show in Manchester. NOT A-PEELING! KIM KARDASHIAN & NORTH Someone tell North that’s an onion, not an apple! Kim’s daughter, 10, went viral when she gnawed on the garden bulb in a recent episode. It’s one way to stop your mum kissing you! CROP TOP ANTHONY KIEDIS It was a little too “red hot” for the Chili Peppers frontman as he strolled through the streets…

Elvis Presley’s life is about to hit the big screen once again in Sofia Coppola’s upcoming biopic Priscilla. But this new take on the legendary singer’s life couldn’t be more different to Baz Luhrmann’s recent hit Elvis – and granddaughter Riley Keough is “not coping at all”. Leaked emails reveal her late mother Lisa Marie Presley was unhappy about the movie, calling the script “shockingly vengeful and contemptuous” and revealing how she feared the retelling of her parents’ meeting when Elvis was 24 and Priscilla just 14. In messages sent four months before her death, Lisa said she did not understand Sofia’s “need to attempt to take my father down on the heels of such an incredible film using the excuse that you are trying to tell my mother’s story,…

Talk about awkward! Jade Yarbrough was forced to try and dodge former love rival Pip Edwards at a pre-Melbourne Cup bash at the Beverly rooftop bar. While Pip, 43, tried to go incognito by wearing sunglasses on the dancefloor, Jade, 31, stayed on the other side of the venue to avoid bumping into the P.E Nation founder. It’s believed to be the first time the pair – who both dated cricketer Michael Clarke (inset) – have been in the same room since their feud in January, after Pip claimed her ex, 42, was sending her flirty texts behind current girlfriend Jade’s back. The spat culminated in an infamous bust-up between Jade, Michael and Karl Stefanovic in Noosa.…

A birthday celebration would normally be a time for a family to come together, but not so for warring princes William and Harry with their father King Charles’ 75th reigniting the pair’s bitter war of words. “Their father’s milestone birthday unfortunately triggered a swathe of messages that got worse in a very short space of time,” a royal insider tells Woman’s Day amid reports – which Harry, 39, has denied – that he and Meghan, 42, snubbed an invite to Clarence House to celebrate Charles’ big day. “Harry sparked it all by demanding William find out who leaked to the press the allegation he’d rebuffed the invitation. Harry was furious about the leak. Whether he was there on the actual date or not, he still wants to see his father…

ROBERT DE NIRO DRAGGED TO COURT Oscar winner Robert De Niro was forced to apologise for his outburst in a New York courtroom after he shouted, “Shame on you!” at his former executive assistant Graham Robinson. The 41-year-old is countersuing Robert, 80, for $19 million after accusing her former employee of creating a toxic workplace for women. She claims the actor sometimes urinated while on the phone to her, called her a “bitch” to her face and asked her to scratch his back. While Robert conceded on the witness stand he may have asked Graham to scratch his back once or twice, it was never “with disrespect or lewdness”. “I was never abusive, ever,” the actor told the court. The legal spat began after Robert initially sued his former employee…

The ink on Mark Beretta’s curiously short two-year Sunrise contract hasn’t even dried yet but young gun reporter Katie Brown is said to be preparing to take over from him when his contract expires in 2025! Katie has been impressing network bosses as she covers for weatherman Sam Mac during his paternity leave, and sources point out she has a history of standing out. “It didn’t take her long to be promoted from the Brisbane newsroom, where she went from sports reporter to a full-time gig as a Sunrise reporter,” says an insider. With the arrival of new co-host Matt Shirvington, who took over from veteran David Koch earlier this year, the Seven decision-makers are said to be testing the waters to see whether it’s time to put a fresh…

Only in Woman’s Day Zachary Bray had the world at his feet. Bright-eyed with big dreams, he was a much-loved son, stepson, wonderfully kind brother, loyal friend and steadfast teammate. For Zach’s dad Adam, there’s a moment every morning before he opens his eyes that he wishes the tragic events of the past months were nothing more than a terrible nightmare. The father-of-four, 60, openly weeps as he recalls to Woman’s Day the moment he knew his beloved son was among the 10 wedding guests killed in the NSW Hunter Valley bus crash on June 11 earlier this year. “It’s the call no parent ever wants to be on the receiving end of. My ex-wife Jacqui, Zachy’s mum, said she was watching TV and there’d been a bus crash in…

KEEP IN TOUCH WITH MITCHELL ONLINE! Visit mitchell coombes.com Q Will my brother-in-law ever come home, or will he stay in a nursing home? He can’t walk any more but my sister wants him home to look after him and I’m worried it will be too much for her. Unsure MITCHELL SAYS I feel your sister is a very kind-hearted and caring lady. I know she’s determined to look after him at home. I feel your brother-in-law will return home for a period of time and your sister will look after him for as long as she can manage. A lovely lady in Spirit from your mother’s side tells me your sister’s heart is in the right place, but the level of care he will need as time goes on…

Rowena Wallace’s face brightens the moment she lays eyes on Ally Fowler. The sight of her former Sons And Daughters co-star causes a spontaneous eruption of giggles and merriment. Ally and Rowena are catching up at a Sydney Sons And Daughters reunion. For them, it’s a celebration of a beautiful friendship spanning 41 years. To see the two friends reunited amid a swirl of “tears of joy and happiness”, to loosely conjure the Sons And Daughters theme song, is a delight. It could be 1982 all over again. Yes, 41 years have passed, but Ally and Rowena look suspended in time. ‘A brilliant, lasting friendship was formed’ “Ally and I lived together for a while,” says a beaming Rowena, 76. “That was a hysterical time. I’ll never forget the day…

Time to whip out the sprinkles – Fairy Bread Day is back on November 24 and for the entire month of November, Dollar Sweets will donate 10 cents from every pack of 100s & 1000s sold to support The Pyjama Foundation and provide assistance for youth in care. Head to fairybreadday.com for more info. Chocolate meringues Get baking with this colourful treat! MAKES 24 Preheat conventional oven to 120ºC. Line two large baking trays with baking paper. Over a double boiler, in a large glass bowl, whisk together 300g granulated sugar and 180g fresh egg whites (about 6 large eggs), stirring constantly until mixture reaches approximately 46ºC and sugar grains have dissolved and are not longer gritty to the touch. Pour this mixture into the metal bowl of an…