Ronaldo cleared over Las Vegas rape claims
Cristiano Ronaldo won’t face criminal charges after a woman accused the football superstar of raping her in his suite at a Las Vegas resort more than 10 years ago, the city’s top prosecutor says. Clark...
View ArticleMelania Trump has style dissed by Michelle Obama fan Anna Wintour
As she dropped off to sleep at the White House on Monday, Melania Trump may have reflected on her mixed day. She got to meet a world leader she clicked with, but also was caught up in a fashion spat...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood red carpet best and worst dressed
Fittingly for a movie that touches on the famous Manson killings, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood produced a red carpet premiere which saw stars murder fashion but also slay. Britney...
View ArticleCarrie Symonds: Terrifying past ordeal of the UK’s mysterious First Girlfriend
The first time most people heard about Carrie Symonds was when she and her boyfriend Boris Johnson’s June 20 fight – shouts of “get off me” and a wine-soaked couch, as the story goes – at her London...
View ArticleBlade Runner star Rutger Hauer dies aged 75
Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, best known for his role in science fiction classic Blade Runner, has died after a short illness at the age of 75, Dutch news agency ANP reports, citing his family. Hauer,...
View ArticleImage problem: Models want companies to confess when they retouch photos
Models around the world fed up with unrealistic beauty standards have thrown their support behind a push for companies to confess when they doctor images used in advertising campaigns. New Zealand...
View ArticleMeghan includes Jacinda Ardern among her British Vogue cover girls
Meghan Markle has chosen New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as one of 15 cover girl stars for the September issue of British Vogue. The Duchess of Sussex, who gave birth to son Archie in May,...
View ArticleRichard Roxburgh: What he teaches his kids and what The Hunting taught him
Richard Roxburgh has had his Sydney house taken over while his celebrity chef and author wife Silvia Colloca films a new TV food show, and it has thrown the actor into “a whirlwind of madness”. He’s...
View ArticleEx-MasterChef judge George Calombaris: ‘I’m sorry’ for underpaying staff’
Celebrity chef George Calombaris says he is sorry for underpaying his restaurant staff and hopes he can now be a “voice for change” in the hospitality industry. Speaking publicly for the first time...
View ArticleYouTube star King of Random dies in paragliding accident
YouTuber Grant Thompson – better known as the King of Random – has died in a paragliding accident. The 38-year-old, whose experiments and hands-on science tips had attracted 11 million subscribers, was...
View ArticleGoogle Camp: Prince Harry adds to hot air of world’s most top-secret...
Days after being revealed as a participant in his wife Meghan Markle’s astonishing British Vogue issue, Prince Harry reportedly gave a ‘barefoot’ speech about the environment at the annual Google Camp....
View ArticleMeghan Markle and the real problem with her Vogue edition
As a fan of what Meghan Markle stands for, this week has been tricky, with the complications thrown up by – seriously – a British Vogue cover. For those who haven’t heard, Meghan guest-edited the...
View ArticleCancer claims legendary Celibate Rifles rocker Damien Lovelock
There was no-one in the world like Damien Lovelock. He was the charismatic lead singer with one of Australia’s great live rock bands, the Celibate Rifles, and the man who taught Ryoho yoga to the NSW...
View ArticleSeaChange’s Sigrid Thornton answers 20 questions, 20 years on
It has been two decades since Sigrid Thornton’s star turn as SeaChange’s charmingly dysfunctional mother and magistrate Laura Gibson. With Channel Nine’s premiere of the series reboot set to air on...
View ArticleByron Bay ‘murfers’ have moved on one month after Vanity Fair takedown
Put it down to good karma. The Byron Bay ‘murfers’ – mothers who surf – taken down in a brutal Vanity Fair story that drew global attention and debate a month ago have all moved on, beautiful lives...
View Article‘Nobody wants to live like that’: Dick Smith weighs in on Newstart
Entrepreneur Dick Smith has joined the growing clamour for an increase to Newstart, urging the government to stop “dragging its heels”. Mr Smith, who is one of Australia’s richest men, used an opinion...
View ArticleThe Manson Family: 50 years on from the Sharon Tate murders, where they are now
It was 50 years ago that members of Californian cult the Manson ‘Family’ committed a series crimes so heinous they both horrify and fascinate the world to this day. Late on August 8, 1969, the Manson...
View ArticleNicolas Cage can’t go out any more because of a karaoke misfire
When Nicolas Cage sang Purple Rain at a karaoke bar a couple of months ago he thought he was doing “primal scream therapy” after his latest marriage breakdown. Instead, he was ruining his social life....
View ArticleThe Kennedy curse, from the president and his brother and son to Saoirse
On the last evening of her life, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the 22-year-old granddaughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, headed out with friends to sing karaoke at a local bar. Saoirse, who earlier in the...
View ArticleKate Middleton’s yachting day shows she knows some royal ropes better than...
Kate Middleton bowled up to the inaugural King’s Cup Regatta on the Isle of Wight in a striped Sandro top and wide-legged pant, but soon changed into a navy short and athletic jacket, her glossy...
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