Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 42, 2025 i Woman's Day

Time has a funny way of speeding up as you get older. Can you believe it’s been 20 years since Kate DeAraugo won Australian Idol? We caught up with the singer and found out what she’s been up to in the past two decades – and what her future plans are. (p30). As this season of The Block comes to an end, Han and Can sat down with Associate Editor Wade at their home in Perth (p20). There was no bickering during the chat, in fact there was even talk of an engagement ring in the near future – depending on what happens at the auction! We’ve also got plenty of treats for Halloween (p76), from scary spider cakes to mini monster burgers, that will make your night truly frightful.…

The first MasterChef baby is on the way! Smitten couple Sarah Todd and Declan Cleary announced their “beautiful new chapter” ahead, sharing photos of her growing bump on Instagram. “These past months have been some of the most precious of our lives. A sacred time of holding this news close,” said the pair, who began living together in Melbourne soon after falling in love on the show last year. It will be the first child for Declan, 27, while Sarah, 38, shares son Phoenix, 14, with her ex-fiance. “We feel so deeply blessed knowing this little cherub will enter a world already brimming with so much love,” the couple add.…

Singer Natalie Bassingthwaighte is celebrating a special milestone, having recently become engaged to her partner, Pip Loth. The heartfelt proposal took place during a trip to Niagara Falls, Canada, a moment Natalie, 50, shared with fans in an emotional video posted to Instagram. The video opened with a touching dedication from Canadian actor Noah Reid, known for his role in Schitt’s Creek, who serenaded the couple with a rendition of Tina Turner’s Simply the Best. Against this backdrop, Natalie captured highlights of their getaway, including a scenic helicopter ride over the falls. A poetic touch to the proposal came courtesy of Canadian poet Hannah Monsour, who performed on a typewriter as the couple stood nearby. The moment then turned intimate as Natalie got down on one knee and presented Pip…

Britney Spears has accused her ex-husband Kevin Federline of “profiting off her” after he made “sensationalist” claims about her in his new memoir. In You Thought You Knew, Kevin, 47, makes shocking allegations about why their sons, Sean, 20, and Jayden, 19, wanted to be out of their mother’s care. “They would awaken sometimes at night to find her standing silently in the doorway, watching them sleep – ’Oh, you’re awake?’ – with a knife in her hand,” he reportedly wrote. A rep for Brit says “it comes after child support has ended… All she cares about are her kids.”…

Six years after her daughter Abbie Chatfield waltzed into the Bachelor mansion to try and win the heart of astrophysicist Matt Agnew, her mother Laura is set to walk the same path on Channel Nine’s new spin-off series The Golden Bachelor. And she’s going in knowing her famous daughter is right there behind her. “At first I thought she’d say, ‘No, don’t do it mummy,’” Laura, 65, tells Woman’s Day of the moment she told Abbie. “But then she went, ‘Oh mum, you’ve got to do it, Australia is going to love you,’ and it’s not like I could say no. I remember when she went on the show [in 2019] and she was standing there at the door, waiting for her taxi… and she turned to me and said,…

KEEP IN TOUCH WITH MITCHELL ONLINE! Visit mitchell coombes.com Q I’m about to reach a major milestone in my life, and wish more than anything that my mum was here to see it. I hope she’s proud of me and still beside me in some way. Does she know what’s happening in my life now? Anne-Marie MITCHELL SAYS I feel your beautiful mum stepping forward from spirit with so much love for you. She tells me she knows exactly what has been happening in your life and is so proud of the person you’ve become. I can hear your mum saying, “I’m always right there with you” and I sense she is especially close as you reach each milestone. Your mum wants you to know she has never missed a…

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JATZ MAKES 12 Place 12 Jatz on a tray. Top each Jatz with a scoop of ice-cream, smooth side and top, sandwich ice-cream with another Jatz and press firmly. Freeze for 20 mins. Dip each sandwich halfway into a bowl of melted dark chocolate, then dip the chocolate half into a bowl of 100s & 1000s sprinkles to coat. Freeze until ready to serve. MALT ‘O’ MILK MAKES 12 Line a 20cm square cake tin with baking paper. Spoon 1 litre softened Neapolitan ice-cream in distinct colour rows into tin. Place 12 Malt ‘O’ Milk biscuits of ice-cream in rows. Freeze until firm. Cut around the biscuits. Place another biscuit on the other side of ice-cream to form sandwiches, press firmly, place on a tray and freeze. Dip the end…

Tell us about the new book, Gravity Let Me Go… It’s a story about a true crime journalist called Noah Cork who’s so obsessed with the true crime scoop of his lifetime that he’s in danger of missing an even bigger scoop and that’s the one unfolding inside his very own home. It’s a marriage story buried inside a murder mystery. What inspired you to write this story? Stories come from the weirdest places and I was thinking about the moon and the idea that it’s trapped inside the earth’s gravitational pull and it’s trying to get away from earth. But if it did then it would mean the earth’s destruction. And it got me vaguely excited to write a story about marriage and to apply that big principle. Are…

According to Todd Lasance, “If you thought the first two seasons were epic, you have not seen anything yet” when it comes to the third instalment of NCIS: Sydney. The 40-year-old actor, who plays Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey in the hit series, adds, “This season is really going above and beyond, and the scale is like nothing we’ve really ever seen in Australia.” Has the show grown a decent audience in the US? It’s absolutely exploded, both in the US and around the world. It’s blown me away. Being part of a series of this scale, but then seeing the way it’s been received across the planet has been such an incredible experience. Has that brought you a whole new group of fans? I don’t think I had truly appreciated…

QUEEN OF HEARTS LAURA DERN From Jurassic Park to the roulette table, Laura looked like a jackpot prize in this deck-of-cards inspired dress at the premiere of her latest comedy film. BEN’S FRIEND! BEN MENDELSOHN Rather than party with all his A-list co-stars like Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst, Aussie actor Ben spent time with a furry friend at the premiere of his latest flick, Roofman, instead! Mad hatter DOMINIC COOPER You can say what you want about Dominic’s singing in Mamma Mia!, but there’s no denying he’s sun safe! The English actor channelled his inner mad hatter by wearing two caps while in New York. Tie-riffic moments! JULIA ROBERTS “We love our bread, we love our butter, but most importantly we love each other,” we imagine Julia tells her…

H.K home phone... Forget the Met Gala, the most frighteningly important night in these celebs’ calendar is October 31st! And when it comes to Halloween, they’re not afraid to go the extra mile with some terrifyingly good costumes. Anne Hathaway and her son were spooktacularly cute as they took to New York’s streets for trick or treating, while Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka were unrecognisable as the Olsen twins. But Heidi Klum deserves the top prize – transforming into E.T. If you’ve got it, haunt it!…

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have had fans wondering if they’ll rekindle their love yet again, but an insider says their recent PDAs are “business as usual”! Well, mostly. “Some friends really believe we’ve not seen the end of Bennifer but, also, Jen’s got a movie to promote,” the source tells Woman’s Day of the exes’ film Kiss of the Spider Woman, which Ben produced. “He promised to guide her to Oscar-friendly content, and he owes her.”…

Nearly a month has passed since “shy but adventurous” Gus Lamont was last seen playing on a mound of red dirt on his family’s remote sheep station on the edge of South Australia’s Red Centre. Dressed in a blue T-shirt with a yellow Minion on the front, and with his distinctive curly blonde hair, four-year-old Gus was outside the homestead on his grandparent’s 60,000 hectare sheep station at around 5pm when his grandmother went to check on him. Thirty minutes later, she went to call him inside for dinner and he had vanished. For the next three hours, as the light began to fade, the family frantically searched the Oak Park Station property for Gus, but there was no sign of him. At 8.30pm on Saturday 27 September they called…

Keith’s guitarist Maggie Baugh has only fuelled the speculation she could be his new love interest, releasing a new song with the telling lyrics, “I don’t know how to heal my soul, or how to fight this feeling.” But behind the scenes, an insider says Maggie, 25, and Keith’s close friend, newly single country singer Kelsea Ballerini, are “horrified” at being linked to him amid his divorce. “It’s made things uncomfortable for everyone, but Maggie and Kelsea know to keep their heads down and get on with it and that’s exactly what they’re doing,” the source says. However, things could get awkward for Kelsea, 32, when she heads to Australia for her tour later this year… The insider says, “She’s hoping everyone will have moved on by the time she…

REDBACK SPIDERS SERVES 12 PREP 1 HOUR COOK 1 HOUR 40 MINS • 2 x 440g packets chocolate cake mix • 400g tub chocolate frosting • 1 packet chocolate sprinkles • 1 liquorice strap, cut into thin strips • 1 milk bottle lolly, cut into fangs • 2 red M&M’s • 22 red M&M’s Minis • 200g packet red fondant 1 Lightly grease a 7-cup pudding basin, a 19cm round cake pan, 1 hole of a ¹/³ -cup muffin tray and line a 12-hole mini muffin tray with black paper patty cases. 2 Prepare cake mixes following packet instructions. Divide one between mini muffin tray and pudding basin. 3 Cook in a 180°C preheated oven, mini muffins 12-15 mins and pudding cake 50-55 mins until cooked when tested. Stand all…

Meghan Markle is getting her ducks in a row ahead of a UK return, California insiders reveal, and a source says she’s planning to invite the Princess of Wales to a clear-the-air meeting that she’s hoping will pave the way for peace at last between warring brothers William and Harry. “Meghan has asked her people to reach out to Kate and organise a call,” an insider tells. “She hopes this will be the first step towards reconciliation.” CAN SHE WIN KATE OVER? Just this month, Meghan, 44, made a surprise appearance at Paris Fashion Week and according to royal reporter Richard Eden, it’s all part of a masterplan to rebuild relations with the royal family. “It’s known as ‘Project Thaw’ because the aim is to ‘warm up’ the duke and…

Shake-up on Today? Samantha Armytage’s new show The Golden Bachelor has only just hit our screens, but already the former brekky show queen has been tipped to move across to the Today show. Reports are rife that Nine’s newest recruit Sam, 49, is in “secret talks” to replace Sarah Abo as co-host of the morning show, in a bid to win the ratings war against Sam’s former show, Sunrise. Industry insiders claim Sarah, 39, is currently negotiating her contract and a potential pay rise, though senior Nine executives believe Sam and Today’s Karl Stefanovic could be the “dream team”. “Sarah is absolutely gutted and feels if it is true that management have been the driving force behind getting Sam to replace her, then she feels all her hard work to…

Court battle continues! Angelina Jolie is revealing more painful details of her split from Brad Pitt, as their ongoing legal battle over their home in France, Chateau Miraval, rages on. “The events leading to my need to separate from my ex-husband were emotionally difficult for me and our children,” says Angelina, who has accused Brad of abuse in the past, alleged in court documents obtained by Page Six. “Upon filing for divorce, I left him control (and full residency) of our family homes in Los Angeles and at Miraval, without compensation, which I hoped would make him calmer in his dealings with me after a difficult and traumatic period.” Brad is fighting for Angelina to turn over private messages about their chateau dispute, after he claims she sold her share…

DIANE KEATON 1946-2025 She lit up the screen in more than 100 films in her time, but legendary actress Diane Keaton is being remembered most for her vibrant spirit and effortless originality after her sudden death at 79. Diane’s peers and fans were in mourning last week when the actress passed away at her home in Los Angeles, following a private and rapid decline in her health. Kooky, charming, humble and with a natural ability to make others laugh, the outpouring of tributes for Diane all echoed the same sentiment – she had a heart of gold and talent in spades. The other members of 1996 hit The First Wives Club, Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler, were among the first to share their heartbreak. Bette described their friend as “hilarious,…

For decades, high-profile British TV couple Fiona Phillips and Martin Frizell led busy, exciting lives. Fiona was the bubbly, long-time host of popular breakfast show GMTV (Good Morning Television), while Martin, a reporter whose stories often appeared on Seven’s Sunrise, was also a successful TV executive. Both loved their jobs, and were recognised by millions across the UK and beyond. Sadly, those days are in the past, and tragically, Fiona, 64, can no longer even recall them. She can no longer get dressed unaided, or brush her teeth without Martin’s help. The couple’s lives came crashing down in 2022, when doctors delivered Fiona with a devastating diagnosis, she had early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Since then, the progressive brain disorder has been gradually destroying her memory and eroding her ability to…

Create a cosy retreat for your cat by placing this house in the Kallax shelving unit – complete with a view and optional soft cushion for added comfort (sold separately). Made from safe, animal-friendly materials, it’s quick to set up with no tools required. When not in use, simply unzip the bottom and fold it flat to save space. Part of the Utsadd range, designed to make life more comfortable and fun for your furry family members. Utsadd Cat House $12 ikea. com/au MAKE A SPLASH Blue Planet aquatic products are designed to be affordable and easy to use, making them ideal for both beginner and experienced fish owners to maintain and enhance the health and environment of aquatic pets. This mini aquarium is both stylish and a perfect way…