Innholdsfortegnelse for 26-Oct-2020 i Woman's Own

‘I’ve got to take life by the balls’ Growing old is a daunting process for many women to face, and TV legend Sherrie Hewson is no different. After a turbulent year following the tragic death of her brother Brett, and the knock-on effect of the global pandemic, Sherrie – now 70 – admits it was time to treat herself. So what could be better than a non-invasive facelift, in a bid to battle her cripplingly low self-esteem? Having dabbled with fillers in the past, the actor and former Loose Women panellist reveals why she made the shock decision that upset her daughter Keeley, and how she’s trying to overcome her confidence issues to live life to the full… Tell us about your facelift… It’s called the ‘love handle facelift’ and…

Walking into the spare room, I gave the windowsill a dust and started pulling off the bed sheets. I’d just had my grandson, six, to stay but, as I changed the bedding, it wasn’t echoes of his laughter I could still hear, but the giggles of my two sons, Andrew and Chris. Sitting on the bed, I looked up at Andrew’s framed football posters. But as it always is, my smile was soon replaced by overwhelming sadness, knowing their laughter would never again bounce off those walls. Andrew and Chris had shared the room growing up. When Andrew was 14, and Chris 12, my husband, Andy, and I would hear them laughing from the living room downstairs as they watched endless episodes of Laurel and Hardy. It felt like yesterday,…

Lost weight but still need to take meds! Q I was started on a statin a few months ago. I made an effort to cut out fatty foods and eat healthily and have been walking every day, which resulted in me losing a stone. So, I was really disappointed when I phoned for my results, as I was told that I should increase my dose. How can that be? A First of all, congratulations on adopting a new healthy lifestyle. It will have significantly reduced your risks of developing conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Only 20% of cholesterol comes from diet, the rest is made in our bodies, so it is possible to eat healthily, but still have a raised level. My advice is to take the…

Why won’t my partner commit to me? Q My partner and I have been together for six years but after all this time together he won’t commit. We see each other daily but we don’t live together, and we’re not engaged. I feel so frustrated. I want to buy a flat with him, but he still lives like he’s in his 20s with lads’ holidays and impulse buys. Jade, Kent A Genuine commitment is a serious step. It means you have to consider another person in most, if not all, of your decisions, from deciding whether to go away with your friends to how you spend your money. It sounds like your partner doesn’t want to be the man who denies himself treats for the sake of a mortgage. You…

Have you heard about? Noise pollution and the link with obesity A new study* has found a link between long-term exposure to traffic noise and an increase in body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. Road-traffic noise may increase stress levels which can result in weight gain, say researchers. Optimise vitamin C in veg Over-boiling destroys vitamin C goodness. ‘By cooking foods that contain vitamin C this way, the vitamin molecules are lost into the water,’ says LloydsPharmacy pharmacist Anshu Kaura. Blanch or stir-fry veg instead to retain the nutrients. Get your BP checked 5% of Brits have never had their blood pressure checked, Benenden Health found. Untreated high blood pressure raises the risk of serious problems such as heart attacks and strokes. It worked for me Jane Loftus, 43,…

● Select the plan you think best suits you (see right), or find out what WW recommends via a self-assessment on the WW app. Here, you’ll find breakfasts, lunches, and dinners from zero SmartPoints to 10, along with some desserts, snacks and drinks ideas. Don’t worry if you don’t use them all; weekly SmartPoints and rollovers keep things flexible and liveable. ● Mix and match meals to create your own weekly meal plan based on the minimum daily budget for your chosen colour plan. ● There’s a variety of fresh fruit and veg throughout the plan to help you get your five a day, but feel free to switch them up for seasonal favourites. ● Make sure you drink plenty throughout the day – between six and eight glasses, including…

If you’re fair-haired… A light or medium blonde shade such as Clairol Natural Instincts Conditioning Colour in shade 8A or 9, £6.99, is a great colour option to help you through the transition. Apply the colour only to the grey hair no more than once every 10 weeks to help blend the regrowth into your natural hair colour. If you’re dark-haired… Blend the grey regrowth with some low lights one shade lighter than the colour at the end of your hair, but remember you will still have to grow out the natural non-grey colour too. Root make-up is a good way to disguise grey while growing it out, try Phil Smith Root Touch Up Root Concealer Spray, £6. How much regrowth do you need before hitting the salon? This will…

Barilla Spaghetti 500g (Asda) SPAGHETTI AND SALMON BOLOGNESE Serves 4 You will need ✽ 250g salmon fillet, sliced ✽ Finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon ✽ 2tbsp olive oil ✽ 1 vegetable stock pot or cube ✽ 250g spaghetti ✽ 150g Tenderstem broccoli ✽ 1 onion, chopped ✽ 2 garlic cloves, crushed ✽ 1 red pepper, deseeded and chopped ✽ 200g passata How to do it 1 Heat the oven to 200C/Gas 6. Put the salmon on a non-stick baking tray. Season and sprinkle over the lemon zest and juice and 1tsp olive oil. Bake for 10 mins. 2 Meanwhile, add the stock pot or cube to a pan of water, bring to the boil, add the spaghetti and cook for 10 mins, adding the broccoli for the…

1 Now’s the time to plant tulip bulbs in sheltered, free-draining beds or pots. Cover with soil or compost at least twice their depth and bear in mind flowering time and height. 2 Raise containers onto pot feet. You’ll prevent waterlogging that can make plant roots rot and if your pots are on wooden decking it will prevent damp spots damaging the wood. 3 Tidy up beds: clear annual climbers from their supports, chop up faded bedding plants, annuals and old crops, and add to the compost bin.…

1 The Undoing, Sky Atlantic This six-part psychological thriller stars Nicole Kidman as Grace Sachs, a career woman, wife and mother whose seemingly perfect life is turned upside down overnight when her husband Jonathan (Hugh Grant) goes missing and terrible revelations begin to surface. Donald Sutherland also stars. 2 Who Do You Think You Are? BBC1 As the latest series of the genealogy show continues, Gavin and Stacey star Ruth Jones looks into her family history and finds a link between her paternal grandfather Henry and government minister Aneurin Bevan, who founded the NHS. 3 The Wine Show, Amazon Prime Video What’s not to love about this show featuring actors talking about wine? Dominic West joins Matthew Goode, Matthew Rhys and James Purefoy for the third series from a working…

‘There are trials that everybody has to go through’ Richard Blackwood has been on our screens since the mid-1990s when he presented on MTV and Channel 5. He even had a hit single in 2000 with Mama Who Da Man? . But, while he was known as a party animal back in the day, these days the 48-year-old actor couldn’t be more different. A single father to his 19-year-old son, Keaun, Richard also stars in Hollyoaks as Felix Westwood, alongside his close friend Kelle Bryan. Here, as the iconic soap celebrates its 25th birthday this week, Richard talks about working with his pal, staying young and how his teenage son is less interested in social media than he is… What’s it been like on the Hollyoaks set post-lockdown? We’ve got…

Corrie’s Sally Ann Matthews reveals all about her real-life terror on the Cobbles… Jenny is confronted by a gun-toting Scott, Johnny’s villainous pal, this week… She’s terrified! She might live on Coronation Street and of course her dad tried to kill Rita years ago, but in reality when someone pulls a gun on you, you’d be cacking yourself! And she is! I didn’t like the filming. I don’t like guns, even though it was only a replica. I kept going, ‘There’s nothing in that, is there?’ Could this be the end of the road for Jenny and Johnny? She’s put up with a lot and gone along with all of it, but Johnny’s never really told her the full story. She knew he wasn’t whiter-than-white, but the idea that he…

CHA CHA, JACKIE, JILL, SQUEAK AND JJ CAREY Mariah Carey is said to spend at least $45,000 (around £35,000) per year on spa treatments for her pooches, and reportedly once sent them to Bristol on a private jet for a $25,000 (£19,500) luxury doggy holiday. HENRY HINCH While most pooches are lucky if they get a dog bed, Mrs Hinch’s canine Henry has his own bedroom, complete with a full-sized bed and duvet, a chest of drawers, chandelier, cushions and wall art! MAX CLOONEY George Clooney’s 300lb pig Max sadly died in 2006 after 18 years together, but he used to cuddle up in bed next to the Hollywood actor most nights. The lucky porker! OLIVE BECKHAM It’s no surprise that the Beckhams’ dogs have a £5,000 Louis Vuitton blanket.…

Hands up, we got it wrong. All this snowflake nonsense was just being mean to young people who appeared to waft around in a cloud of permanent offence and overactive hormones. We should have listened to them because if us ‘oldies’ had, we’d have stopped global warming, never got involved in Brexit and probably cured COVID-19. So back in your box grey-haired folk, #bekind. That’s according to head teacher Sally-Anne Huang, who reckons youngsters shouldn’t be damned with the snowflake insult because they are among the most resilient generation since the Second World War. ‘They think we have a sell-by date’ ‘I cannot think of a group of young people, out of war time, of whom more has been asked or from whom more has been taken,’ she told the…

Q My daughter has just returned from a prolonged trip to Australia and she has a mole on her back which I really don’t like the look of. It is very dark and raised. She insists I am making a fuss and is refusing to take up an appointment. What should I do? I am very concerned. A Speak to your surgery who may be able to give you an email address so that she could send a photograph of the mole for one of the doctors to look at. They, of course, won’t be able to discuss your daughter’s details with you, but if the doctor has any doubts after looking at the image, he can arrange for her to be seen.…

1 REDUCE YOUR STRESS. The constant feeling of stress can play a huge role in reducing your confidence. Take time out of your day to do something relaxing. 2 DOWNLOAD BOOST YOUR SELF-CONFIDENCE. This app (free on android) gives you a whole host of strategies from the benefits of using positive self-talk to dispelling fears for a more positive outlook on life. 3 CHALLENGE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS. Always ask yourself: Is there another way of looking at things? What advice would you give to a friend who was having similar negative feelings about themselves?…

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‘I swapped aeroplanes for pizzas’ Hannah Gaiger lives with her boyfriend, Joshua in Faversham, Kent. Turning over on my sunlounger, I looked out past the sand dunes to the glistening Caribbean sea and felt the sun on my body. After working a long shift, I wanted to enjoy every bit of sunshine I could. As an air hostess working for British Airways, I was always flying off somewhere exotic, sometimes even getting to treat Joshua or my mum to a discounted trip. I really did love my job and, after six years, I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. So when I was told in April that I was being put on furlough, I found it hard to adjust to the new reality of staying at home day after day. Due…

Pitchfork’s DNA matched crime-scene samples Before September 1984, the idea we’d be able to pinpoint an individual from a fleck of sweat or blood was implausible. Then a geneticist at University of Leicester, Professor Alec Jeffreys, discovered a fragment of DNA that acted like a unique personal barcode – and that could be identified with precision. DNA profiling was born. In 1987, it was used to solve the Leicestershire murders of 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth. In the first investigation of its kind, Professor Jeffreys tested the blood of local men, and 27-year-old Colin Pitchfork’s DNA matched samples from both crime scenes. He was jailed for life. Advancements continued, and now, all detectives need is for an offender's family member to commit a much more minor crime, have their…

‘I’d be fine with ghosts!’ Nick Frost stars as a paranormal investigator in new comedy Truth Seekers … Nick Frost and Simon Pegg are known for starring together in C4 comedy Spaced and hit films including Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Now they have reunited to create, write and star in Truth Seekers. ‘It’s a mix of horror and comedy’ In the eight-part series, Nick plays broadband installation engineer Gus, who spends his spare time investigating the paranormal and then posting videos of his findings on YouTube. Meanwhile, Simon plays his boss Dave, who gets Gus to mentor a new trainee called Elton John (Samson Kayo). But when the pair go out on jobs together, dodgy WiFi is the least of their problems as they encounter some strange…

MOSTLY As Soft touch You love rewarding your child when they’ve done well, which is great – but sometimes you become a bit of a pushover, and your honesty begins to weaken. Stop ignoring problems and try to solve them with your offspring – as a team. You’ll start to be respected so much more. MOSTLY Bs Always angry We get it, parenting is super tough, but is the constant anger necessary for most situations? It’s okay to be angry when it’s needed, but otherwise, you don’t tend to trust your child’s judgement – and it shows. It’s okay for you both to make mistakes, but you need to make compromises too. You got this! MOSTLY Cs Great mum You really are a good mum. You’re a good listener, you…

Kylie Minogue, 52 The pop star looks fabulous in this bold Louis Vuitton dress. The neckline, puff sleeves and added blue eye make-up give Kylie’s look an 80s vibe, which was a huge hit with her fans. This outfit post received over 25,000 likes on her Instagram account. Rebel Wilson, 40 Australian actor Rebel was smiling ear-to-ear as she posed for the camera wearing a figure-hugging wrap dress by Jason Wu. The New York-based designer seems to be her latest go-to guy when it comes to dressing for the red carpet. Jennifer Hudson, 39 Wearing Tom Ford, Jennifer adds a touch of sparkle with statement diamond earrings and a silver bracelet. The draped cape detail and deep V neckline add just the right amount of drama to this super-glamorous outfit,…

Rummaging through the bathroom cabinet, I pulled out a box I’d shoved to the back, not expecting to need it so soon. It was a pregnancy test. My husband Peter, then 32, and I had only just started trying for a baby, but I’d been feeling out of sorts the last few days. Several minutes later, the positive test confirmed my suspicions. By the time Peter arrived home from a cycle ride a couple of hours later, I was flapping around the kitchen, full of nervous energy. ‘I took a test while you were out – I’m pregnant,’ I told him. ‘Without the surgery, I could lose them both’ ‘Gosh, this is really happening!’ he said, mirroring my strange mix of elated apprehension. ‘Are we going to be any good…

Testing my breath to see if it stinks! Q I think I may have smelly breath. I live on my own so don’t have anyone to ask, but I am becoming self-conscious and am avoiding social occasions. Please help. A A simple test is to use a teaspoon to scrape the back of your tongue and then smell the spoon. If your concerns are confirmed, your first port of call should be your dentist and hygienist. If they give you the all clear, speak to your GP, as it can be a side effect of some medicines, or linked to other conditions such as diabetes, liver or kidney problems.…

Autumn is here and with it comes a desire to eat comforting, filling foods. However, while you might think this is a recipe for weight gain, you couldn’t be more wrong! We’ve teamed up with WW to help you stay trim, while eating the foods you love, and never feeling deprived... Stay well this autumn with my WW 1 programme, 3 ways to live it Building on the success of SmartPoints®* and ZeroPoint™ foods – the foods that form the basis of healthy eating habits – WW is introducing myWW, its most customised programme ever. Research shows everyone’s weight loss needs are different. With three ways to follow the programme based on preferences and lifestyle, myWW gives your body what it needs without you going hungry. Green: 100+ ZeroPoint foods,…

Get shorty A great hairstyle can really enhance grey hair, case in point: Jamie Lee Curtis and her fun crop. Amplify the natural tones in short silver hair with a texturising putty, like Shu Uemura Art of Hair Ishi Sculpt Sculpting Paste, £27.20. It’s pricey, but you only need a small amount to work through shorter styles. It won’t make hair crispy or sticky like some waxes, and creates long-lasting definition and texture. Wash and glow Sun exposure, chlorine, pollutants and heated styling tools can all blight grey hair with a yellow tinge. Reinstate a cool, crisp tone, just like Pink’s, with a violet shampoo. Charles Worthington ColourPlex Toning Ultra Violet Shampoo, £7.99, is infused with purple pigment to neutralise unwanted warm tones. Have some fun Grey hair needn’t mean…

Crispy salmon tacos Serves 2 Cajun spice, mango, sweet cherry tomatoes & lime You will need ✽ 160g ripe mixed-colour cherry tomatoes ✽ 1 small ripe mango ✽ ½ a small ripe avocado ✽ 2 spring onions ✽ 2 x 130g salmon fillets, skin on, scaled, pin-boned, from sustainable sources ✽ 2 heaped tsps Cajun seasoning ✽ 4 small tortillas ✽ 2 limes How to do it 1 Quarter the cherry tomatoes. Destone, peel and roughly chop the mango. Scoop out the avocado and finely slice. Trim and finely slice the spring onions. Carefully cut the skin off the salmon and place it in a non-stick frying pan on a medium-high heat to crisp up on both sides. Pat the Cajun seasoning all over the salmon fillets, then fry for…

HAVE YOU HEARD? Nearly five million consumers have suffered from broadband outages of three hours or more in the past year with the average affected home experiencing more than a day – 29 hours – offline in total, according to research by comparison site Uswitch. com. Some 28% of people affected were using the internet for work when the outages hit, the study found. IF YOU DO ONE THING THIS WEEK… BE CASH SAVVY Christmas is now only a couple of months away so if you haven’t already begun saving for it, it’s time to start. Go through your finances and work out how much you can afford to start putting away each month so you’ll have cash set aside to spend on presents and food. 3 easy ways to…

Winter scent Looking for something special to plant by your front door? Sarcococca hookeriana ‘Winter Gem’ – also known as sweet or Christmas box – is perfect. It’s a compact evergreen shrub with a jasmine-like scent and glossy dark green leaves. Happy in a pot or border in shade or partial shade, it has creamy flowers that last until February, then berries appear in summer that may persist until next winter. £13.99 for a 9cm potted plant, thompson-morgan.com. Buy of the week Fancy a 70s-style macrame plant hanger but can’t quite face the YouTube tutorials? The RHS Shop has come up trumps with this chic graphite number for £23, shop.rhs.org.uk. Heavenly hellebores They’re beautiful, evergreen, perennial... and flower all winter long, so give it up for hellebores, aka Christmas roses.…

Will Tudor The Game of Thrones star is among the cast of BBC2’s new eight-part series Industry, which follows five ambitious graduates as they enter the cut-throat world of international finance at a London investment bank. But in the wake of the 2008 crash, the competition for a permanent job is tougher than ever. Jill Halfpenny In Channel 5’s four-part thriller The Drowning, the former Waterloo Road actress plays Jodie, who spots a teenage boy and becomes convinced she’s found her son who went missing eight years earlier and sets off down a dangerous path that takes her to the edge of reason.…

Aries 21 Mar – 20 Apr The sky’s the limit, and you’ll find your ambitions reach the ears of someone who can help you realise them. Your intense energy rubs off on friends and family. Taurus 21 Apr – 20 May Work disagreements may erupt, as people are only interested in their view. Return to the discussion calmer and clearer, then progress can be made despite the challenge. Gemini 21 May – 20 Jun If you’re planning your next big travel adventure, check your partner agrees with your choices before you put down the deposit. Then look forward to it! Cancer 21 Jun – 22 Jul You need to pay more attention to partners and loved ones, but stay in control of your romantic passions. Wine and dine your partner,…