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Little Women is up for Best Picture but Greta Gerwig was snubbed for directing.

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Scarlett Johansson is nominated for Jojo Rabbit (right) and Marriage Story.

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Aussie star Margot Robbie is nominated for her work in Bombshell.

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The prince’s next steps revealed 16 FEARS FOR JUSTIN Bieber’s health crisis 18 ROCKET TO STARDOM Taron Egerton 20 PDA WITH NEW LOVE Liam Hemsworth’s moved on from Miley Cyrus 24 STARS ON HOLIDAY Celebs kick back 28 SURROGACY Inside the A-list trend 30 BOLD & BRIGHT Actress Aisha Dee 32 OUR LIFE SENTENCE Three victims of vaginal mesh share their harrowing stories 36 GWYNETH PALTROW Gets personal 38 CLUELESS TURNS 25 Film comes of age 40 INSIDE OUR HOUSE OF HORRORS Ariel Castro’s victims speak out 44 THE RIGHT DIRECTION A-list women step behind the scenes to produce and direct 48 THE TWO MARTINS Steve Martin and Martin Short get candid about their friendship 50 WHO KILLED MARIA JAMES? The 40-year cold case is reopened

Jennifer Lopez missed out this year for her work in Hustlers.

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Cynthia Erivo is up for her portrayal of Harriet Tubman in Harriet.

As we all watch the British royal family, completely gobsmacked by their continuing controversies and the mess of Megxit unfolding (you can read all about them on pages 4-11), awards season, which is usually the talk of the town, has almost taken a back seat. But noise of the Oscar nominations has begun causing a stir of its own with sensational snubs and Aussie glory. The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite has made a return after actress Cynthia Erivo was the only non-white nominee in the acting categories.

She is up for Best Actress in a Leading Role for playing the title role in Harriet, a film about Harriet Tubman, a slave who famously became an abolitionist. Jennifer Lopez who starred in Hustlers, Awkwafina who won a Golden Globe for her work in The Farewell and Eddie Murphy who was Globes nominated for Dolemite is My Name all missed out on nods.

There was also furore over no women receiving nominations in the Best Director

category – Greta Gerwig missed out as director of Little Women, meaning her nomination for Lady Bird in 2018 was the only one for a female director in the last 10 years.

Shockingly, there have only been five women nominated as Best Director in the awards’ 92-year history with only one winner: Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2010. Gerwig was however nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Little Women and the film is nominated for Best Picture.

Our very own Margot Robbie has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Bombshell, and Scarlett Johansson joins an elite list as only the 9th star to receive nods in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories for Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit respectively. Cate Blanchett last achieved this feat in 2007.

The Academy Awards will air in Australia on Monday, February 10 at 12noon.

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Royals IN CRISIS The prince is defiant as he and Meghan are ‘set to make hundreds of millions’ that William feels “heartbroken and he Queen was betrayed” that his relationship with left distraught Harry has broken down so badly. on Monday after “There is a lot of hurt. Harry isn’t Prince Harry interested in making up.” defiantly Royal commentator Richard insisted he Fitzwilliams told Express.co.uk the wasn’t changing Queen was humiliated by Harry his mind about and Meghan’s decision to step back quitting the as senior royals. He said their move umours that showed “a callous disregard for an he and Meghan are already institution Harry has been brought lining up a tell-all interview up to serve”. with Oprah Winfrey.

The Queen released During the tense, an emotional statement two-hour crisis talks at the after the summit, saying monarchy’s Sandringham she supported the couple’s estate in Norfolk, Prince desire to build a new life, Charles, Prince William splitting their time and the Queen reportedly between the UK and expressed their Canada. “Although we disappointment at the way — Royal insider would have preferred Harry and Meghan had them to remain full-time working handled the announcement, but members of the Royal Family, we reluctantly accepted their decision respect and understand their wish to give up their royal duties. Meghan to live a more independent life as had been due to phone into the a family while remaining a valued meeting, but the idea was rejected part of my family,” she said. The in case her call was intercepted and Queen and Harry had a private made public. one-to-one talk before the other When the bombshell news had royals arrived as the prince knew first broken five days earlier, William how upset she was and wanted to was said to be “incandescent with give her his side of the story. rage” and allegedly told a friend: “I’ve She later ordered royal aids to put my arm round my brother all our thrash out the details of their lives, but I can’t do that any more.” transition “within days”. A A royal insider told WHO this week

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The Queen’s statement indicates there is still much work to do on the ‘divorce deal’ in terms of taxation, security costs, and what, if any, royal duties they will still perform. The monarch will insist they don’t cash in or cheapen the monarchy.

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Eyebrows were raised when Harry’s conversation with Disney chief Bob Iger (meeting the prince, left) was made public. Insiders have said Meghan has already reached out to Oprah (above) for advice on securing lucrative media deals.

sticking point might be how much money response from both princes, who rushed they request from Prince Charles, and out an extraordinary joint statement: whether they can keep their rent-free “Despite clear denials, a false story ran in UK home, Frogmore Cottage. a UK newspaper today speculating about the Constitutional experts latched onto relationship between the Duke of Sussex and the fact that the statement twice used the the Duke of Cambridge. For brothers who couple’s first names as evidence they might care so deeply about the issues surrounding be stripped of their titles. “I do think it was mental health the use of inflammatory very striking, particularly in a statement language in this way is offensive and from the Queen,” royal commentator potentially harmful.”

Victoria Arbiter tweeted. “Are they having Privately, some senior royals blame to give up their titles? This would be an Meghan for pushing Harry to choose indication they are ...” After his parent’s between his family and her, and are worried divorce, Harry’s mother, Diana, had to give about his mental health. Royal author up her HRH title, but remained ‘Diana, Penny Junor thinks the Queen was anxious Princess of Wales’. to take some of the pressure off The statement also his shoulders. acknowledges they will be “They’re in a very vulnerable financially independent, seemingly state at the moment,” she said. allowing them to sign commercial “I think they’re unhappy, they feel deals that could be worth hundreds isolated and unloved, unappreciated of millions of dollars. Meghan’s and they needed careful handling. representatives are reportedly — Penny Junor My reading from that statement is already negotiating deals with TV that the family has been sensitive networks for in-depth interviews to their vulnerability.” and possible talk shows.

After reports broke that Meghan had Footage emerged this week of Prince begun discussions with US TV networks, Harry suggesting to Disney boss Bob Iger Oprah Winfrey, who attended the couple’s that he give Meghan a job. At last year’s Lion wedding and is friends with Meghan’s mum, King premiere, the prince is heard saying, Doria Ragland, was forced to deny that she “You know she does voice-overs?”. Iger had persuaded Meghan to quit. “Meghan and replies, “Oh, really?”. Harry then goes on, Harry do not need my help in figuring out “Did you know that?”, and Iger responds, what’s best for them,” she said. “I care about “I did not know that”. Harry then whispers, them both and support whatever decisions “You seemed surprised, but yeah, she’s they make for their family.” really interested”.

Oprah’s best friend, CBS anchor Gayle Hours before the Sandringham meeting, King, is another front-runner to land the The Times reported that Harry felt “pushed exclusive chat, but she is staying tight-lipped. away from the royal family by the bullying “Gayle says she has had absolutely no attitude of his brother, the Duke of conversations with Meghan and Harry Cambridge”. The article prompted an angry (or their representatives) about doing an

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HOW RICH ARE THEY?

Harry’s personal fortune is said to be between $36 million and $58 million, built on inheritances from his mum and great-grandmother.

Meghan is worth about $7.2 million. The couple currently live rent-free at Frogmore Cottage (below).

interview with them,” her representative told The Sun. The signs that the couple were going to take ‘the nuclear option’ were there. Meghan even alluded to it in her infamous interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby during their trip to South Africa in October last year. “It’s not enough just to survive something, right?

That’s not the point of life. You’ve got to thrive,” she said. “I really tried to adopt this British sensibility of a stiff upper lip. I tried, I really tried. But I think that what that does internally is probably really damaging.”

Speaking last week, Bradby said “there have been a lot of fallouts” since Meghan came into the picture. “A lot of harsh things were said around the time of the wedding.

And it’s gone a bit too far. Certainly, the rest of the family find Harry and Meghan very difficult and, from Harry and Meghan’s point of view, they’re just being driven out as they see it. It’s sad. My impression is they’re pretty philosophical about it. [It’s] ‘We are making a break for independence and freedom here. You wanted a slimmed-down monarchy. There’s no place for us in it. We need to learn to live on our own. We want to get on and do that’.”

He added ominously that if they did do a no-holds-barred interview, “I don’t think it would be pretty. This is a new war of the Windsors. It’s not over yet”.

Meghan’s happiness does indeed seem to be a key factor in their efforts to “carve out a progressive new role within this institution”, as the couple’s statement read. “She is the one who most wants to be back living in Canada and California, where she feels happy, and to bring their son up away from the restrictive and intrusive politics of Buckingham Palace,” a source previously close to Harry told the New York Post.

As for their working life, the couple could take up paid positions, but it seems more likely they’ll start their own empire, having already filed paperwork to trademark Sussex Royal for more than 100 items including magazines, calendars, posters, greeting cards, pyjamas, hoodies, gloves and socks.

“The possibilities right now are endless for them,” Fox Business Network’s Trish Regan tells WHO, noting they have the opportunity to make “millions and maybe hundreds of millions of dollars”.

Additionally, Regan says, a book deal or a talk show would be lucrative. The first details about what the media have dubbed ‘Megxit’ are expected to emerge in the next few days.

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As ‘petulant’ Harry and Meghan bow out, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge continue to show they are ready to step up and protect the Queen’s legacy what is expected and you only have to watch rince Harry’s erratic them working a room to see how effortlessly they behaviour over the last 12 charm people and earn their respect. By contrast, months, culminating in last Harry is seen as petulant and unpredictable.” week’s bombshell that he is A good example was the annual Buckingham quitting his official duties, Palace Diplomatic Reception just before has sent shockwaves Christmas. Think of it as the ultimate office party: through the royal family, with 1000 guests, all dressed to impress and awaiting Buckingham Palace officials an audience with The Boss, aka The Queen. The forced time and again into royal family entered the ballroom in order of desperate damage control. With Prince Andrew importance – Her Majesty came in first to the still mired in scandal and the 98-year-old Duke sound of trumpets, followed by Prince Charles of Edinburgh suffering continued poor health, the and Camilla, and then William and Kate. For Queen has endured possibly the toughest few the next 90 minutes, the Cambridges weeks of her nearly 68-year reign, spoke expertly to as many partygoers culminating in as they could.

Monday’s showdown “They are gracious and natural, with Harry. and able to really connect,” says a But as her family diplomatic source who attended the faces an uncertain future, party. “They have reinvented the art there is one very bright light at the end of the — Palace insider of small talk. They found something to say about each country as they tunnel: the man second chatted.” And with each careful step, the husband in line to the throne, and his dutiful and wife of eight years worked in subtle unison. wife. William, 37, and Kate, 38, have “They combine grace and regal presence with become model royals, hard-working, a lovely human touch,” says the guest. “It really dedicated to their causes and, unlike Prince Louis does feel like they’re a team.”

Harry and Meghan, able to cope with made his balcony Behind raising their children, the job of the immense pressures that come debut at last supporting the Queen, 93, is the most important with the job.

June’s Trooping the Colour. one the couple hold – and they’re doing so with Royal insiders told WHO this the kind of smooth assurance that only comes week that the Queen and her senior from years of study. “On that evening, they were courtiers now see the couple as the literally following the Queen,” says the guest. monarchy’s saviours. “They are so “They are learning on the job and it sort of impressive,” one palace insider tells seeps in, like osmosis.” us. “They work tirelessly, and never The training is constant and ever complain. Both of them understand

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“She is the rock he can always rely on,” a royal friend told WHO.

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HOW TO SERVE William (in a parachute regiment beret in 1986) joined the army in 2006 and briefly served with the Royal Navy before joining the air force.

HOW TO HAVE THE COMMON TOUCH Princess Diana (with William and Harry at a homeless shelter in ’93) showed her boys “that life happens beyond palace walls”, William said last month.

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evolving. “They are being prepared every day,” says royal author Ingrid Seward. “There was no school for princesses when Princess Di was around, and there’s no school today for monarchs. They learn by experience.”

As talk resurfaces of the Queen stepping aside in favour of Charles, 71, the couple are attending more events on her behalf, and are at the heart of the inner circle. William had a big say on the Queen’s decision to strip Andrew of his royal duties. “He is one of the decision makers in the family,” says another well-placed source. “He’s a thinker.”

In many ways, William was given a stronger foundation than his father. Charles grew up distant from his mother, and found himself in an unhappy marriage to Diana by the time he was William’s age. By contrast, even in the midst of his parents’ split, William had a nurturing childhood, and is treated like a much-loved son by Kate’s parents, Carole and Michael Middleton.

“He is better set and better grounded than any predecessor one can remember,” says royal historian Robert Lacey. He also has a strong partner, whose unwavering poise and calm balances her husband’s more intense side. He is known to be devastated that his relationship with Harry has broken down.

Reports have surfaced that William advised his brother against marrying Meghan, something Harry still resents. As the feud bubbled away, it was Kate who went into overdrive to support her husband. “She is the rock he can always rely on,” a friend told WHO this week. “They look after each other,

but in different ways. Some might say it’s an old-fashioned marriage, but it works.”

Are they equals in the marriage? “Yes and no – I think in a very traditional, British kind of way, yes,” says the friend. “They have different roles but come together as a team.”

That teamwork was on display on the couple’s triumphant tour of Pakistan last year. “They’re a great double act,” the friend adds. “People make much of William, but Kate is there too, asking questions of presidents and entertaining their wives.”

The British Foreign Office, which decides where royals travel, sees the couple as a massive asset. At least two major overseas tours are already in the works for this year.

The couple have also adopted a divide-and-conquer strategy, — a friend with Kate’s blossoming confidence allowing her to go her own way – as was the case on December 3, when she attended a NATO reception at Buckingham Palace while William completed a solo tour of Kuwait and Oman.

“Kate is in her element right now,” says the friend. “She knows the importance of the institution and her responsibilities within it and has more confidence than ever to gradually modernise it from within.”

As they near 40, both are keenly aware of how much closer they are getting to the throne. “The monarchy is approaching a very challenging period of change,” says Lacey.

“Charles is going to have his work cut out coping with the transitions. It’s good to have that reassurance in the new generation that there is someone stepping up to the plate.”•

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The Queen has formed a close bond with both Prince William and Kate, a royal insider old WHO. “Her Majesty knows how much pressure they’ll be under one day and is coaching them on matters they’ll need to understand when he is king.”

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William loved his three years as a helicopter pilot in the Royal Air Force. In 2011, he proudly showed around his grandmother, with whom he is close.

In 2013, he undertook his first investiture, with a ceremonial sword, on behalf of the Queen, something he had been coached on by dad Charles.

HOW TO STEP IN FOR THE QUEEN William took an audience – his first at Buckingham Palace – with President Danny Faure of the Seychelles on Oct. 22.

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Cooper (right) gave up alcohol 16 years ago and helped support Pitt (left) on his journey.

PITT’S TRIBUTE TO HIS MOVIE STAR MENTOR RAD PITT HAS SEEMED happy and healthy while racking up awards and an Oscar nomination for his performance in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, and now he’s revealed who is responsible.

Accepting his best supporting actor award from the National Board of Review on January 8, he began his speech with a shout-out to the presenter, Bradley Cooper.

“Bradley just put his daughter to bed and rushed over here to do this,” Pitt, 56, said of Cooper’s daughter Lea De Seine, 2. “He’s a sweetheart. I got sober because of this guy, and every day has been happier ever since.”

Pitt spent 18 months in Alcoholics Anonymous after Angelina Jolie filed for divorce in 2016 and has since been open about his decision to get sober.

“I was boozing too much. It’s just become a problem,” he told GQ in 2017. “And truthfully I could drink a Russian under the table with his own vodka. I was a professional. I was good.”

Last year, he told The New York Times about how AA meetings had helped him through. “I had taken things as far as I could take it, so I removed my drinking privileges,” said the father-of-six. “You had all these men sitting around being open and honest in a way I have never heard. It was this safe space where there was little judgement, and therefore little judgement of yourself.”

Cooper, 45, has kept his journey relatively private, but in 2015 he opened up about how his “beautiful” decision to stop drinking in his early twenties changed his life. “I would never be sitting here with you, no way, no chance,” he told interviewer Barbara Walters. “Because I wouldn’t have been able to have access to myself or other people or even take in other people if I hadn’t changed my life, no way.”

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THE ADVICE-SEEKING COMIC SHARES HER MOVING STORY

Schumer shared a photo of her abdomen (above right). With Fischer (right) after Gene’s birth.

After asking her followers for advice, Schumer said: “Your stories helped me more than you can imagine. I feel incredibly lucky. I’m really hoping this works and staying positive.

Much love!”

LEO RACES TO SAVE LIFE Fast-thinking actor helps in ‘one in a billion’ sea rescue

TITANIC STAR LEONARDO DICAPRIO LAST week rescued a drowning man who had fallen off a yacht 11 hours earlier.

The 45-year-old was holidaying with girlfriend Camila Morrone, 22, on a rented boat near St Barts when they received a mayday call and DiCaprio gave the order to rush to the man’s aid.

“Leo was having a day out with Camila and some friends when they joined the

search,” a source tells WHO. “They spotted and rescued the guy in rough water, about an hour before a heavy rainstorm set in.”

Theirs was the only boat in the area. The captain of the boat the man had been sailing on put his chances of survival at “one in a billion – like winning the lottery twice.“ After the dehydrated man was given water, he declared: “I should have died”, as the Oscar-winner looked on.

DiCaprio was holidaying in St Barts when the drama unfolded.

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AMY SCHUMER HAS BEEN HONEST AND AT TIMES hilarious about every part of becoming a mother – from sharing videos of herself vomiting while pregnant to revealing details of son Gene’s “really scary” C-section birth in May. On January 9, she revealed she’s not done yet, opening up about her bid for a second baby. “I’m a week into IVF and feeling really rundown and emotional,” she posted with a picture of her bruised and swollen abdomen.

“If anyone went through it and if you have any advice or wouldn’t mind sharing your experience with me, please do.” She added that she and husband Chris Fischer hadn’t yet planned their next step.

“We are freezing my eggs and figuring out what to do to give Gene a sibling,” she explained. A month earlier, Schumer, 38, shared details of Gene’s birth on Dr Berlin’s Informed Pregnancy Podcast. “I was throwing up through the whole first hour.

It’s supposed to take about an hour and a half or something but mine took over three because of my endometriosis.”

Schumer had also suffered such debilitating hyperemesis gravidarum that she was often bedridden. And yet, she says, it’s all worth it. “I didn’t know I could love someone that much, no offence to my husband,” she said. “I think were both shocked by the level of love that’s possible.”

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Lawson (right) plays Lachlan Murdoch in the movie Bombshell.

‘I HAD TO PUT SOMETHING ON PAPER’ Actor tells WHO the story behind his bushfire poem

WHEN FORMER NEIGHBOURS STAR BEN Lawson’s voice comes down the line from Vancouver, Canada, it’s clear he’s emotional.

Speaking from the set of upcoming Netflix show Firefly Lane, the proud Aussie is choking back tears as he reveals what led him to pen the heartfelt bushfire poem, which this week went viral.

“I was reading about everything that was happening and had feelings of anger, sadness and also pride. I’d just spend days on my couch choked up and I just felt …”

Breaking down in tears, the 39-year-old – who plays Lachlan Murdoch in Oscarnominated film Bombshell – pauses for a moment to collect his thoughts. He says his poem, ‘To my country, from an expat’, is a knot sitting in his gut. “I just had to put something on paper,” he says.

“I was writing it in between takes, running into the green room to pour the words out. It was a weird couple of days.”

The poem includes the lines: “I watch as ordinary Aussies rise to the occasion, feeding precious animals half-dead from dehydration.

“The sending in their clothes and food to those who’ve lost it all, the kids are even raising cash with cupcakes in a stall. And suddenly I

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get the pang of something deep inside, the one that starts down in my gut and rises like a tide.

“The same one that runs through me putting fire in my veins, now glows deep within and so much brighter than those flames.

“I know I’m far away from her, right now when she is ailing. I know I’ve never been so proud, to call myself Australian.”

Lawson recorded himself reading his poem on Instagram and within hours it was being shared worldwide and has been viewed over 180,000 times. “The response has been unlike anything I could have expected,” he says. “People have contacted me – Australians and non-Australians, expats, people who are living right in the middle of the fires. Someone said they watched it with a couple of fireys and they were moved to tears.”

He says he’s asked daily about the crisis.

“Someone will hear my accent in the grocery store and say, ‘How’s everything going at home?’ And what do you say? If I get into it, I’m just going to be here crying. “‘It’s bad, it’s really bad’. A few people have said that they’re going to forward my poem to anyone who asks about the bushfires. That’s very touching for me.”

Stars are digging deep CELESTE BARBER CONTINUES TO LEAD THE WAY FOR BUSHFIRE FUNDS T’S BEEN ANOTHER WEEK of phenomenal fundraising for firefighters still battling dozens of out-of-control blazes across areas of NSW and Victoria. Comedian Celeste Barber’s Facebook appeal has topped a staggering $51 million, at one point racking up $10,000 a minute, but she hasn’t stopped there.

Hosting a Make It Rain fundraising event in Byron Bay on January 9, she copped a hug from Hemsworth brothers Liam and Chris, who have pledged $1 million. Beyond her own efforts, Challenge Accepted!

Instagram star Barber has thrown down her own challenge to the uberwealthy. “I tell you what, every day people are donating $10 here, $10 there,” she posted, urging billionaires to donate “their version of $10”.

She targeted Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart directly in a tongue-in-cheek tweet: “Where the hell are you and all your money?”

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she posted. “If you’re in Hawaii on a family holiday I’m going to flip a f--king table.” Rinehart’s people replied in a statement: “Mrs Rinehart prefers to give privately. She added privately to the collection for firefighting raised at her home last night, at which approximately 150 guests were present.”

Elsewhere, Elton John pledged $1 million while touring the country with his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, Leonardo DiCaprio’s organisation Earth Alliance announced it would be donating $3 million, Pink and Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have also pledged $500,000. Other stars contributing include Hilary Duff, Rebel Wilson and Kylie Minogue. Shane Warne auctioned off one of his baggy green caps for over $1 million.

It hasn’t been all love and light.

Billionaire makeup mogul Kylie Jenner donated $1 million after

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“Anyone order a Hemsworth sandwich?” the comedian asked as she was embraced.

copping criticism for posing in a pair of mink slippers on social media right after saying the number of animal deaths in Australia “breaks my heart”.

Likewise, fans weren’t impressed that Kim Kardashian West had made no mention of a donation, despite raising awareness of the fires online.

“Nothing gets me more heated than to see the Kardashians/Jenners talk about climate change/wildfires & not donate even a penny,” one follower wrote. In response, on January 6, Kim tweeted: “Nothing gets me more heated than to see people think they know what we donated to and to think we have to publicize everything.”

Hours later, Kim’s Uber Eats ad co-star Magda Szubanski stood up for her. “The VERY FIRST THING she asked me was how we were going with the bushfires,” posted the Kath & Kim star. “She was concerned, informed & compassionate. Many ppl donate their money and time quietly.”

The superstar singer, who is touring Australia for the last time, donated $1 million.

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hen Justin screenshot of an article by TMZ, which broke Bieber was the news of Bieber’s diagnosis and said the IV photographed drip was a concoction of medicines to treat leaving a Beverly the pop star’s then unknown illness. The Hills medical singer, who rose to fame on the back of his centre on 2010 mega-hit, ‘Baby’, said he would explain multiple everything in his YouTube docuseries, Justin occasions in Bieber: Seasons, premiering January 27. concerns for “It’s been a rough couple years but getting the star, who looked drained and weary – the right treatment that will help treat this often carrying a portable IV hooked up to so far incurable disease and I will be back his arm. “Why is Justin walking around and better than ever,” he said.

LA with an IV attached to his arm? @ His recent diagnosis isn’t the only justinbieber please let me know if you’re OK…” obstacle the star has had to overcome. In one Belieber wrote on Twitter.

February 2019, a close source told However, others claimed there WHO Bieber was going through a was nothing to worry about, tough time. “Justin seems down and suggesting the singer was simply tired. He has been struggling a bit ... getting a vitamin infusion via the IV mentally,” the insider revealed. “He drip – a wellness trend used to has good help around him and is increase energy and boost the receiving some treatment.” immune system.

Before taking a hiatus from —Justin Bieber Now, the real reason for writing music, Bieber cancelled his medical visits has been revealed, with the the final 14 shows of his Purpose world tour singer taking to Instagram to announce his in 2017. At the time, an insider told WHO the battle with Lyme disease – a bacterial illness star was “super exhausted” after being on caused by tick bites. “While a lot of people the road for 18 months. kept saying Justin Bieber looks like s--t, Opening up to Vogue in March 2019, on meth etc. they failed to realise I’ve been Bieber addressed the impact his work recently diagnosed with Lyme disease,” the had on his mental health. “I got really 25-year-old wrote on January 9. “Not only depressed on tour,” he recalled. “I haven’t that but had a serious case of chronic mono talked about this, and I’m still processing [glandular fever] which affected my skin, so much stuff that I haven’t talked about. brain function, energy, and overall health.”

I was lonely. I needed some time.”

Bieber’s latest health crisis could In September last year, Bieber posted potentially throw his comeback plans a heartfelt note on Instagram about his life.

– which include a new single, album and “It’s hard to get out of bed in the morning future concerts – into disarray. with the right attitude when you are Accompanying Bieber’s post was a overwhelmed with your life,” he wrote.

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“I started doing pretty heavy drugs at 19 and abused all of my relationships … It’s taken me years to bounce back from all of these terrible decisions.”

The singer went on to reveal that he was now “navigating the best season of my life”.

That is, marriage.

On January 1, Bieber released a preview of his docuseries which features interviews with wife, Hailey Bieber, 23, and manager, Scooter Braun. “He’s taken a very long break and in that time, he’s found his wife, he’s grown a lot, and he’s ready to express himself through music again,” Braun says in the clip.

Planning a five-month nationwide tour this year, Bieber’s comeback isn’t off to a flying start. On January 3, he released his first solo track in four years, ‘Yummy’, which has divided critics.

Bieber’s unnamed new album will be the focus of his intense national tour, which will see him perform in 45 shows across the US, kicking off on May 14.

Only time will tell whether the artist will be well enough to cope with the pressure of being on the road again.

Bieber himself says, in his series preview: “I’m excited.

I’m just nervous.”

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In the preview for his YouTube series, wife Hailey says, “There’s a lot of pressure that I think people don’t see. Maybe by watching this people will kind of get a glimpse into his world.”

TMZ reports the IV medicine caused him to suffer severe acne.

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Egerton took home the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.

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SUPER SPY With Colin Firth in Kingsman: The Secret Service.

The spy movie was a $575 million worldwide hit.

Golden Globe-winning ‘Rocketman’ star Taron Egerton talks to WHO about his surprise at being catapulted onto Hollywood’s A-list hen Welsh actor Taron Egerton was auditioning to play Elton John in last year’s hit biopic Rocketman, there was just one man hn himself. “I mean, if Elton’s not into it, it’s not happening,” says the fast-rising leading man, who first earned rave reviews in 2014’s spy thriller Kingsman: The Secret Service, just two years after graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. “We immediately got on well,” he says of John. “But he hadn’t heard me sing, so we went to Abbey Road Studios to record a couple of songs. It was off to the races from there.”

Now it’s off to the awards races. Egerton, 30, was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, and last week won a Golden Globe.

Raised in a small seaside town in Wales with his three siblings by his single mother, a social worker (his parents divorced when he was young), he still can’t believe the way life has turned out. “It feels like something that happens to other people,” he says. “It’s very

surreal. But I’m very, very pleased to be part of those [awards] conversations.”

He feels he was meant to play the ‘Candle in the Wind’ singer. “While I don’t look particularly like him, I have a very instinctive sense of who I thought he was. I understood the extremes of who he is. I understood his ability to be tempestuous. I could see quite clearly beyond what people have said about him, which is that he’s a diva. He’s actually quite shy in some ways. It’s a weird kind of duality. He can be incredibly gregarious and confident, but in the same instance can seem very vulnerable and shy.”

Egerton, who starred in 2018’s Robin Hood, says he enjoyed pretending to be a rock star, but wouldn’t want to be one himself.

“I love to sing, but I don’t think I’ll be recording an album anytime soon. I’ve sung onstage with Elton a couple of times, and I went out and did a song for Hugh Jackman on his tour in front of 20,000 people, but that’s probably as near to it as I’ll get. It’s a great thrill and exhilarating, though.

“The music is a huge part of what I loved about the role. I got a copy of Elton John’s Greatest Hits in 2002 for Christmas, so his

music has always been there. I’ve always been passionate about him as an artist.”

When he’s not acting, he likes to spend time chilling in his campervan. “My life hasn’t changed much [since Rocketman].

I just spent the weekend at my mum’s house, where she made beef stew.

“My girlfriend [assistant director Emily Thomas] and I spend quite a lot of time in my RV camper. When I’m not filming, I don’t really have a life. Well, I don’t have an extraordinary life. But I do share my success with my friends and family.

I have incredible people in my life. Without them, I highly doubt I would have made anything of myself!”

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Liam’s Brooks’ cheeky smile gave it all away.

Brooks and Hemsworth have spent some quality time together during the Aussie summer.

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The couple couldn’t stay away from each other and kissed throughout the day.

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he met his parents in December and last week Aussie model Gabriella Brooks made it clear her romance with Liam Hemsworth was still in full swing.

The carefree pair cavorted in the surf at Byron Bay before sunbaking on the sand in front of beachgoers. At one point he lovingly bent down to plant a kiss on the back of her neck. Hemsworth, who turned 30 on Monday, later showed off his acrobatics by back-flipping over a giant wave.

Brooks, 21, who has been a model since

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the age of 14, previously dated The 1975 frontman Matt Healy for nearly four years.

She studied ancient history and archaeology at Sydney University, and is now signed with a number of top modelling agencies.

Hemsworth’s divorce hearing is this month, but rumours persist that he and Miley Cyrus will get back together, as they did several times in the past. He still has photos of her on his Instagram account, while she has deleted any showing them together from hers, and has flaunted her very public relationship with Aussie singer Cody Simpson on her social channels.

An insider told WHO this week: “Liam was shell-shocked when Miley left him, so he’s taking things slowly. He and Miley still parent their pets together, and the divorce isn’t settled so he and Gabriella are taking things slowly.”

Hemsworth’s career, meanwhile shows no signs of slowing. He’s completed filming a TV thriller series for new streaming service Quibi where he has the lead role of a man with a terminal illness trying to look after his pregnant wife before he dies, and has teamed up with Vince Vaughn to star in a movie, Arkansas, out later this year.

Liam and big brother Chris Hemsworth posted that the family were donating $1 million to bushfire relief. Liam and Cyrus lost their home to the California fires in 2018.

The pair shared many affectionate moments.

Hemsworth also showed off his athletic skills in the surf.

Genetically blessed and with chemistry galore, these two seemed very happy together.

The couple don’t hold back when it comes to PDA.

Brooks was previously in a relationship with The 1975’s Matt Healy.

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While Hemsworth has moved on with his love life, estranged wife Miley Cyrus is still happily dating Aussie singer Cody Simpson.

The pair, who have been seeing each other for three months, have been going from strength to strength, and took to Instagram on January 10 to announce Simpson’s new book Prince Neptune: Poetry and Prose, which he calls a ‘public collection of words’.

To show her support, Cyrus posted on her Instagram stories the early birthday presents she got for her beau to mark the momentous occasion, including a pocket watch she got him for Christmas to go with a doctor’s bag she bought for his birthday.

“ALL from the 1800s and inscribed with @princeneptunepoet trident.”

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What a handy man! Anwar Hadid rubbed sunscreen on to girlfriend Dua Lipa’s butt while they were on holiday. That’s sun safe.

Here’s how the world’s biggest celebrities spent their breaks this year

MIAMI NICE Singer Dua Lipa lapped up the attention from beau Anwar Hadid when the pair took time out for a holiday in the sun in Miami, Florida. The ‘New Rules’ singer wore a tiny blue bikini as she and Anwar showed plenty of PDA. Lipa also showed off her body in a bright pink bikini.

Anwar planted a juicy kiss on Lipa while they frolicked with friends by the pool in Miami.

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STTRAP BELLA BASKS IN BLUE Bella Hadid soaked up the sun aboard a yacht in St Barts, wearing a beautiful blue Chanel bikini.

The 23-year-old spent her vacay with famous friends Fai Khadra and Luka Sabbat, posting on Instagram: “Wow … can’t be more thankful for this life and friends intertwined … unbelievable.”

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Where does the cream of the world’s music talent holiday? In Miami, clearly. DJ Khaled, 44, hit the water for a spot of jet skiing with Diddy, 50, and a female friend. Khaled paused, of course, to take a snap of their day .

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Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon, 23, enjoyed a holiday in the magnificent Maldives with long-time boyfriend, Jonathan Puglia. Leon showed off her toned body while holding hands with her man. Also on the trip was Madonna and her beau, Ahlamalik Williams, and four of Lourdes’ five siblings.

Safety first for Hadid, who wore a helmet while jet skiing on her Caribbean holiday.

BLOOMIN’ COLD After spending Christmas in Hawaii, Katy Perry and fiancé Orlando Bloom swapped the sun for the slopes. The couple hit the snow at Aspen, Colorado, taking Flynn, Bloom’s 9-year-old son with ex Miranda Kerr, snowboarding. And yes, Bloom and Perry carried their pooches, Mighty and Nugget, under their arms.

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British singer Adele was barely recognisable while on holiday recently.

The 31-year-old ‘Set Fire to the Rain’ singer is said to have lost a staggering 45kg. How? Initially, Adele shed her post-baby weight through Pilates. But her instructor Camila Goodis told Us Weekly she thought Adele’s new body was “90 per cent” due to a better diet. Adele showed off her slimmed-down figure while in Anguilla with Harry Styles and talk-show host James Corden. Wearing a short black and white dress, Adele looked happier than ever as she walked along the beach.

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CELEBRITY SELENA WAS STUNG Selena Gomez’s Hawaiian holiday wasn’t without drama. The‘Lose You to Love Me’singer was stung by a bluebottle while vacaying in Honolulu.

Fortunately, Gomez, 27, was OK, with help from some friends.

DOTING DADDY The Real Housewives franchise executive producer Andy Cohen, 51, looked every bit the proud dad with 11-month-old son, Benjamin, while on a recent sojourn to Miami. “When I was growing up … I just never thought it would be possible as a gay man to grow up and have a family,” Cohen said previously.

READY FOR RIO Model and actress Cara Delevingne, 27, and actress Ashley Benson looked relaxed as they strolled the famous Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro recently. It was the loved-up couple’s latest trip, with the pair previously visiting Morocco and Disneyland, where they celebrated Benson’s 30th birthday.

Yep, that’s Gomez wincing in pain after being stung by a bluebottle.

Her friend comforted her on the beach. Nice.

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SURR It’s becoming increasingly popular with celebrities who have children later in life, but for some, there is a price to pay

B Benji Madden and Cameron Diaz have asked for privacy after the birth of their first child, Raddix.

eaming over the birth of their baby girl Raddix earlier this month, power couple Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden admitted their first-born had captured their hearts.

“We won’t be posting any photos or sharing any more details, other than the fact she is really really cute!!” Diaz posted on Instagram. Rumours were already circulating that the couple had used a surrogate, after eagle-eyed fans spotted the Charlie’s Angels star with no apparent baby bump in November. If that’s the case, they are just the latest in a string of famous faces to engage one, joining the likes of Nicole Kidman, Kim Kardashian West, Tyra Banks, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lucy Liu, Elizabeth Banks, Elton John and Jimmy Fallon.

But the laws on surrogacy – an arrangement where a woman agrees to carry a child for another person or couple who will became that child’s parent/s after birth –are complicated and often confusing.

They can be different from country to country and even between states, and legislation often changes unexpectedly.

Australia takes a tough stand over fears that vulnerable women may be exploited, and it’s therefore illegal to pay the surrogate, except to take care of any expenses she incurs. It means a childless couple have to find someone, usually a stranger, prepared to go through a pregnancy for nothing, a so-called ‘altruistic surrogate’. In WA, same sex couples are banned from using a

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friends threatened and family surrogate, while in Tasmania women have to threatened,” Parker, then 44, told be over 25 to volunteer.

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In the US, however, commercial surrogacy Similarly, Grey’s Anatomy star is legal and women can be paid upwards Ellen Pompeo, 50, and husband of $170,000 (including medical expenses) Chris Ivery, having been open for carrying the baby. Prospective parents Single mum Lucy Liu and about using a surrogate for their can choose the mother to give birth to her son Rockwell Lloyd. second daughter, then kept the their child from agencies, and can even third pregnancy a request the surrogate follows a secret and refused specific diet, takes pregnancy Sarah Jessica to name the surrogate te the ’d d supplements or takes part in Parker with twins, Tabitha used to shield her from certain exercise routines.

Hodge and harassment. “This is an California is recognised Marion Loretta Elwell. incredible thing to do with your as having some of the most life, to give the gift of carrying progressive laws to protect everyone involved. Surrogates — Ellen Pompeo someone’s child. I am forever grateful and feel very blessed are entitled to a monthly wage and grateful to her — she who will remain (the average base salary is $36,000) and can anonymous,” she said on Jimmy Kimmel Live. claim pregnancy expenses to buy maternity With so many stories of tabloid clothes, travel to doctor’s appointments, get exploitation, it’s obvious exactly why Diaz help with housekeeping and buy extra meals. and Madden are staying tight-lipped about For the Hollywood stars who pay for the birth of Raddix. surrogates, the expense may not be a consideration, but some have faced a cruel backlash when news leaks out.

At the age of 43, Nicole n Announcing the birth of her son Kidman joined Rockwell Lloyd in 2015, Lucy Liu, the list of celebs then 46, told Yahoo Celebrity she having children through received hurtful comments. “How surrogates. She can anyone have any discouraging had her first child with Keith words for a baby? For having had a Urban, Sunday d baby. I find that really shocking, and Rose, naturally.

I felt it was strange and odd in this day and age that people would have a negative slant on someone having a family, or having judgement on how someone had a family.”

When Sex and the City actress Parker revealed in 2009 that she In 2011 Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban revealed the birth of their and actor husband, Matthew daughter Faith via surrogate: “No Broderick, were expecting twins via words can adequately convey a surrogate, the press relentlessly the incredible gratitude that we feel for everyone who was so hounded the woman they chose, supportive throughout this snapping photographs of her almosst process, in particular our every day before the couple stepped d gestational carrier.” in and complained.

“She (the surrogate) has had

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Good friends on-screen and off, Dee plays Kat alongside Sutton (Meghann Fahy) and Jane (Katie Stevens).

In Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas, Dee’s Jess has the best date with Ben (Kendrick Sampson) – then dies on the way home!

The Australian actress is making waves Stateside ustralian actress Aisha Dee is on a rare holiday and enjoying some much-needed downtime with friends and family in her home country when WHO sits down with her to chat all things The Bold Type – the series about three girlfriends working at a magazine in New York City that proved her big break. The fourth season airs on Stan on January 24, but despite being one of Australia’s biggest success stories in recent years, Dee still can’t believe she’s on a show that’s lasted longer than a season.

“Right before the show was premiering, there were a lot of billboards around New York and the other two girls were like, ‘This is crazy’, and I was like, ‘Nah, no-one’s gonna watch it!’,” Dee, 26, says of playing Kat Edison, social media director extraordinaire at fictional Scarlet magazine. “I think it’s the Australian in me, always downplaying things.”

“These girls are like my second family”

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So you’re home for a holiday and then back to filming the rest of Season 4?

Yeah, this season we’re doing 18 episodes, so it’s been, like, my whole life. I’ll die in Montreal! But luckily we’re not fighting dinosaurs or killing zombies so it’s pretty low-key and fun. We get to hang out with our friends – they’re like my second family.

Does LA feel like home yet?

I feel like I’ve definitely found my tribe out there, which has been a

instruments. I wasn’t the cool kid in school!

So what’s in store for Kat this season?

Things are kind of getting shaken up in the workplace and for Kat, she’s trying to figure out how to use her influence and power to help people since she didn’t win the election. She still really wants to do the work to lift other people up.

Were you drawn to Kat because she’s such a strong woman?

I’ve definitely felt inspired by her. I’ve always gravitated towards characters that I could see myself in but also just the people I wanted to be. Playing her has made me feel more confident and empowered me to ask for what I want in my relationships and also in the workplace, to fight for storylines that I think are really important.

How was filming your movie, Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas?

When the script came through I was initially like, hell no, I’m exhausted, I just shot 20 episodes of The Bold Type this year, I’m about to go to sleep! [But] I read it and it was the most charming, weird Christmas movie!

Are you keen to do more films?

I just go with the flow most of the time. I really want to be able to be in a position where I can develop my own stuff – I’m a bit too opinionated to just take a back seat Dee plays bisexual Kat, whose love story all the time. I write a little bit, I’d and split with Adena love to produce. I have some ideas (Nikohl Boosheri, I’m working on ... it’s a slow process right) resonated with fans. “If I had my but I’m getting there! way, Kat and Adena ■ By Nikita Lee would

process, but I’m a bit of a loner by nature.

There’s been times where friends from Australia have moved to LA but I feel like no-one ever really stays very long. The first few years, especially, I was completely alone in LA – it’s a very intense city to be alone in.

What about the dating scene?

I definitely identify with Kat in that I find it hard to open up and be in relationships. I’m not really a relationship type!

How do you get past homesickness?

I’ve had to learn how to feel grounded in other ways. I always travel with my ukulele; it makes me feel like I’m coming back to myself.

My parents are musicians and I grew up with music always around, so I used to play violin and cello and piano – the bigger, nerdier

Andrea Walter, Justine Watson and Kim Blieschke refuse to stay silent

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ndrea Walter, Justine Watson and Kim Blieschke should never even have met.

They live in different states, are of different ages and have very different interests.

But these brave women are connected by one tragic commonality.

They have all had their lives destroyed by a 10-minute medical procedure which was promised to be an easy fix.

Mesh implants were hailed as the perfect way to treat an array of pelvic floor disorders such as incontinence, hernias and prolapsed organs – less invasive than most surgeries, quick to insert and with seemingly no side effects.

But they have had devastating impacts for hundreds of women across Australia, leading to chronic, unremitting pain, disfigurement, inability to have sex, debilitating depression and even suicide.

For years, sufferers were fobbed off and lied to about what they were experiencing until finally in 2017, the government stepped in and introduced a partial ban – 27 years

after the mesh had been introduced to the country. A class action was launched soon afterwards on behalf of 700 Australians.

At the forefront of the campaign to bring justice to the blighted lives were Watson, Walter and Blieschke – united in their pain – who wanted to make sure the company behind the mesh, Johnson & Johnson, was held accountable.

WHO sits down with them to hear how the mesh has left them physically and mentally maimed.

Kim Blieschke’s doctor first persuaded her to have the mesh after she had some common complications after childbirth. “I had some big babies,” she smiles. “Because it’s about vaginas, it’s very private and no-one wants to speak about it. A lot of women suffer in silence.”

But the procedure left her worse than before. She describes her life now as Russian roulette. “I could be in a shopping centre and my whole bladder would just release.

I can only wear dark colours now,” she says. “I have to

ENTENCE’ Vaginal mesh has blighted the lives of more than 1000 Australian women. WHO sits down with three brave victims who refuse to suffer in silence

Andrea Walter says: “There is a trust between you and your doctors, but I’ve got to the stage where I just don’t believe them.”

up his drawer and pulled out a strip of blue carry three or four changes of underwear. plastic which looked like … you know … when [I’ve since learned] the product was never you get a new fridge and it has straps around designed to go inside human bodies and it,” Blieschke remembers. “I didn’t know what especially not in the pelvis. You can’t sit, you it was, but he said it would take can’t stand, you can’t run, you about 10 to 20 minutes to put in and can’t walk, you can’t have the only problem would be if it intercourse, you can’t work.” didn’t work.”

The devices are stitched into She initially suffered an the vaginal wall with a set of infection after the operation but hooks, like a canvas grocery bag, the first time she realised and left there permanently to something was wrong was during support the womb or strengthen — Kim Blieschke sex with her now ex-husband when the walls of the urethra. But a piece of the mesh cut his penis. “I thought it after weeks in the body, the mesh usually must be a loose stitch or something,” she said. shrinks, slicing through nerve endings, tissue But soon she felt a terrible pain which is and organs, and embedding itself so it can still with her to this day. never be removed.

As for Justine Watson, after going in for Walter didn’t think twice when a doctor the simple procedure, she wasn’t even aware recommended the treatment. “He opened

“You can’t sit, you can’t stand, you can’t work”

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“It’s a national disgrace. This is a tsunami and government resources are about to be flooded,” Justine Watson says.

that the mesh would be inside her body for life. “I had no idea it was even inserted, I’m like, ‘what is mesh?’”

In the years since she has spent over $50,000 desperately trying to ease the unbearable pain. Her body’s reaction to the plastic – the same type used in water bottles – led to extensive nerve damage down the whole right side of her body.

“The surgeon said, ‘You’re the only one who has come back in pain,’” she says. The

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Justine Watson says the fight to get help for mesh injury victims “is like going through one of those haunted houses at a show, things keep jumping out at you, the floor goes … What’s next?

You can’t keep passing us off. Mesh won’t just disappear”.

two other women nod in agreement as she talks. They were also told their cases were unique, even though thousands across the world were in exactly the same predicament.

As their pain worsened, the women sought answers and eventually uncovered the horrifying fact that there was no solution to the pain because the blood vessels and tissues intertwine around the tiny strands of the mesh so deeply that removing it would cause life-threatening damage.

“Because doctors couldn’t take it out, they tried trimming it, but it just recoils and embeds itself further into the vaginal wall,” Andrea Walter says.

After starting the Facebook group Mesh Injured Australia (MIA), the trio were contacted by hundreds of frantic women, all with their own terrifying stories. MIA Inc (meshinjuredaustralia.org.au) was soon formed to help give advice and counselling as well as campaigning for action against the manufacturer.

In one of the biggest health class actions in Australian history, the Federal Court heard that Johnson & Johnson had not adequately tested the mesh and “played down” the risks. In November, the judge ruled against the pharmaceutical giant, stating: “All the devices carried risks of complications … against which no adequate warnings were given.”

The three women were delighted with the victory, but Blieschke is furious that the government still hasn’t introduced a full ban.

“The partial ban was to stop the pelvic organ prolapse mesh being inserted through the vagina, but they can still insert it abdominally,” she argues. “It’s not a ban at all!”

The case further enraged victims when an email exchange between doctors was uncovered, claiming anal intercourse would be a solution to their ruined sex lives. “We are being gang-raped,” Watson rages.

“Something has been put in our vaginas involuntarily and all these people watched!”

Watson is also staggered that there has been no progress since the judgement.

“There were 13 recommendations, but nothing has been done. They mean diddly squat if they’re not met,” she says. “The court said it was not fit for purpose, yet there are crickets – utter silence! These are women, wives and mothers, and now men are having mesh implanted. We still don’t know how many people are out there suffering. The court case was validation, but these women now need help, and we are still not looking after the women who have been injured.”

Globally, mesh has been linked to numerous deaths from infection, and women who feel they cannot go on living in such intense pain. In 2015, an Australian sufferer took her own life after her doctor told her nothing could be done to ease her suffering.

Over 100,000 Americans have so far had the implant, and thousands more in the UK. Exhausted, Watson says: “People are dying all the time from this. It’s not good enough.”

Kim Blieschke says: “Australia is not a Third World country.

How is this still happening?”

If you need help, you can talk to trained counsellors who are mesh victims themselves by calling 1800 637 433.

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together,” Paltrow tells the he gave up being one magazine. “I think we put in all the of Hollywood’s leading hard work in the beginning … we’ve ladies to pursue her learnt how to communicate with calling as a health and each other. We love each other.” lifestyle guru, and That open-minded attitude has there’s no doubt that been a major driving force in her Gwyneth Paltrow Goop empire, which has aimed to be has also established “trailblazers” in cutting-edge health and herself as a global wellness advice since its inception in 2008. trendsetter.

The company has received its share of phrase “consciously backlash over “unsubstantiated” health uncoupled” to describe her split from claims and spruiking items too luxurious for first husband Chris Martin in 2014, many of its subscribers, but the desire for all Paltrow’s unconventional approach to her things Goop has now led to a six-part Netflix relationships has surprised many. series called The Goop Lab. In a Harper’s Bazaar interview last week, The series follows employees trying, and she even raves about her ex’s girlfriend, medical experts weighing in on, Fifty Shades star Dakota Johnson. everything from energy therapy “I love her,” Paltrow says of the and psychedelics to anti-ageing 30-year-old, who has been dating remedies and orgasms. In one Martin since 2017. “I can see how episode, four staffers jet off for it would seem weird because it’s a “healing trip” to Jamaica, where sort of unconventional. But I just they try out magic mushrooms! adore her.”

Paltrow recounts the time Proving that exes really can —Paltrow she took MDMA in Mexico with remain friends, Paltrow, 47, is still Falchuk, and her belief that “there’s so much close to Martin, 42, and the Coldplay singer to unearth” if it was taken as a form of is also friends with her new husband, director therapy, but decided not to take part in Brad Falchuk, 48. The modern family even the psychedelic segment of the show. went on a “familymoon” instead of a “I just felt like I can’t be doing that on TV honeymoon with Paltrow and Martin’s two because God knows what’s going to happen,” kids, Apple, 15, and Moses, 13, and Brad’s she says. “Having been a public person for two children from a previous marriage, such a long time, I’m quite guarded about Isabella and Brody. my private life.”

“It’s not like there’s a finish line: ‘Oh, we The Oscar winner has also opened up consciously uncoupled, we’re done.’ It’s a about her future as an actress, admitting that lifelong commitment to constantly reinvent she hates watching herself in her old films your relationship with your ex, which you do and doesn’t think she’ll ever get the acting presumably because you have children

“No-one’s going to f--k with me”

tin Paltrow and Mar d an e, os remain cl in le ro a ay pl both parenting Apple and Moses.

The couple met in 2010 when she guested on Glee, a show he produced.

Her Netflix show, The Politician, which is produced

by Falchuk, has received mixed reviews from critics.

The star was with Brad Pitt for three years, and they are still on friendly terms.

bug again, despite her recent role on Falchuk’s hit show, The Politician.

“When I was acting, I really burned myself out. When the flywheel kicked in, I was doing three to five movies a year,” she says.

Paltrow still holds clout in Hollywood thanks to her part in bringing down Harvey Weinstein and joining the MeToo movement.

“I think I’ve reached the status in that world where no-one’s going to f--k with me!” she says defiantly.

Consciously coupled: Paltrow and Falchuk (above left) holiday with Martin and Johnson.

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NEW SERIES

In 1996, Clueless was turned into a teen TV series, this time starring Rachel Blanchard as Cher. Now, there are plans to reboot the series, which will reportedly centre on Dionne’s attempts to look for Cher, who has gone missing.

hen Clueless first hit the silver screen in 1995, the classic teen movie instantly became a box-office sensation thanks to its quotable one-liners, trendy slang and undeniable style.

Loosely based on Jane Austen’s Emma, the movie followed the daily highs and lows of shopaholic and Beverly Hills teenager, Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone), on her road to self-discovery.

The film struck a chord with Gen X and Gen Y audiences thanks to its mash-up of glam and grunge, and launched the careers of its principal cast while catapulting minimalist-preppy style to the forefront of the fashion world and breathing new life into the high-school film genre.

From the first moment Cher walked the halls of Bronson Alcott High in her matching yellow plaid jacket and skirt, labels suddenly started stocking over-the-knee socks and tartan ensembles, while high-end designers such as Alaïa and Calvin Klein became household names.“We had no idea at the time how people would respond to the film, but we all enjoyed the process of working together and I especially loved the creative outlet,” says Clueless assistant costume designer, Leesa Evans.

As her first job on a Hollywood film, the movie provided Evans with the chance to leave her mark.

“I was given a huge opportunity to focus on the sourcing and design of all the girls’ looks,” she tells WHO.“The fashion felt like another character whom everyone adored and there was a huge amount of support from the cast, producers and director for everything we were doing and creating,” she adds.

While each costume was a statement piece on its own, Evans and her colleagues did their best to ensure the actors were wearing outfits that still allowed their characters to shine through.

“The cast loved unveiling all of the new looks on set each day,” Evans explains. “There were a ton of laughs at some of the more outrageous and silly hats and matching themed outfits.”

Evans was also tasked with sourcing pieces and making whatever she couldn’t find.“(Director) Amy Heckerling really had a clear vision of the fashion from the beginning and was a huge part of the inspiration for the costumes,” she explains.

“We really had carte blanche to try to do our very best work.”

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As if! This iconic ’90s teen flick may be all grown-up, but it’s just as fresh as ever

ANNIVERSARY

The Yearbook

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? ALICIA SILVERSTONE

CHER

Speaking to Vanity Fair in 2015, Silverstone reminisced about her audition for the part of Cher.

“I loved how seriously she took everything. That’s essentially how I played it … I felt like that was [who] Cher was.” Since Clueless, Silverstone has starred in series and films, published two books and become an activist in the sustainability and health sectors.

PAUL RUDD

JOSH

While Rudd was perfectly cast as the slightly older and wiser Josh, his role in Clueless almost didn’t come to pass. “When I auditioned for it, I had also asked to read for other parts [including Christian and Murray],” Rudd told Vanity Fair. Rudd has gone on to find epic success in a range of films including Role Model, I Love You, Man, Knocked Up, This Is 40 and Ant-Man.

STACEY DASH

DIONNE

Playing the role of Dionne, Cher’s feisty best friend, Dash saw her off-screen life become just as dramatic as her on-screen persona. Not only did the Republican candidate attempt (but ultimately give up) a bid to run for office in 2018, Dash was also arrested in September 2019 for domestic violence after an incident at her home in Florida.

The charges were later dropped.

DONALD FAISON

MURRAY

After capturing Dionne’s heart in Clueless, Faison became a television regular as Dr Christopher Turk on the longrunning series, Scrubs. During this time, Faison fell in love with Jessica Simpson’s best friend and former assistant, CaCee Cobb.

The two were married in 2012 and have two children, Rocco and Wilder.

BRITTANY MURPHY

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After Clueless, Murphy had Hollywood in the palm of her hand and went on to star in an array of popular films including Drop Dead Gorgeous, Girl, Interrupted, Just Married and 8 Mile. In 2009, at the age of 32, Murphy passed away in her Hollywood home as a result of anaemia, pneumonia and drug intoxication from over-thecounter prescription medication.

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TRUE CRIME Amanda Berry (right) and Gina DeJesus opened up about their horrifying kidnap ordeal.

Serial rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro’s traumatised victims reveal shocking new details about their horrifying decade in captivity

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veland women Michelle night, Amanda Berry and ina DeJesus will forever member May 6, 2013, as e day their decade-long ightmare at the hands of pist monster Ariel Castro ded. But even though their ptor has now been dead for g suicide in his cell just months after his arrest, the trio of brave women still bear the physical and emotional scars from years of horrendous abuse.

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Michelle Knight was only 21 when she became the first of his victims.

In one of the worst abduction and rape cases the world has ever seen, they were kidnapped between 2002 and 2004, and starved, tortured and raped for years. Castro admitted 937 cases of kidnapping and rape and was sentenced to life plus 1000 years.

Now, in a new interview with American ABC’s 20/20 program, his survivors have opened up in detail about life in captivity in Castro’s 130-square-metre home in Tremont, Ohio. From being chained up in darkness, sleeping on dirty mattresses, using buckets as toilets, showering once a week and being rationed to having just one meal a day.

Castro, then 42, was working as a primary school bus driver in August 2002 when he preyed on his first target, 21-year-old Knight.

She had already had a tough life of sexual abuse and living on the streets and was on her way to pick up her 2-year-old son, Joey, from foster care when she got lost. She bumped into Castro and trusted him as he was the father of one of her friends.

That moment of trust changed her life forever. Castro lured her to his

Castro shortly after his arrest.

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TRUE CRIME Forensic officers at the property shortly after Castro’s arrest.

BEFORE THEIR ORDEAL

Gina DeJesus

Amanda Berry

Michelle Knight

home, then his basement, where he tied an extension cord around her legs, arms and neck, forced a sock into her mouth and began raping her multiples times a day.

“He said, ‘You’re not gonna leave for a long time.’ And then he starts undressing himself,” Knight, who now goes by the name of Lily Rose Lee, told 20/20. “I dropped to the floor begging him to let me go. Begging him, saying, ‘I need to get to my son. This can’t happen’.”

In 2014, Knight wrote her memoir revealing horrific abuse such as the time Castro broke her jaw with a barbell, leaving her with permanent nerve damage, and starved and punched her until she miscarried a total of five times over the years.

“I felt like he hated me the most, because I was the one that stood my ground,” says Knight, who now cannot carry children.

In April 2003, Knight had been secretly locked up in Castro’s basement for nine months, when he chose his next victim. On m tthe eve of her 17th birthday, Amanda Berry was walking home from her job at Burger w King when Castro, the father of her classmate K Arlene, offered her a lift.

A Just like he had with Knight, the predator iinstead took the teenager to his home, where he guided her to “a big closet” and raped her. h “There was a little, like, a little room off of the bigger bedroom, kind of a big closet,” o Berry, now 33, says. “He took me in there, B aand he told me to pull down my pants. And

from there I knew, like, this was not going to be good.”

She continued: “I just started screaming and crying … ‘Somebody please help me’, you know? And nobody, nobody came. I was so scared that I was going to die. I didn’t think that I was going to ever make it home.”

Just a week after she was taken, Castro called Berry’s family from her mobile phone, taunting them and claiming, “She wants to be with me.” The FBI managed to track down the phone’s location to within a 30- to 40-block radius, but were unable to pinpoint her exact whereabouts.

Almost a year later, the last – and youngest – of Castro’s victims was abducted.

Just 14 years old, Gina DeJesus was another school friend of Castro’s daughter, Arlene, and the pair were walking home from school together until they went their separate ways – and DeJesus wound up a prisoner in her friend’s family home.

DeJesus, now 29, recalls how Castro asked her to help look for Arlene but then drove her to his home instead.

“He starts to, like, touch me and stuff, and then I’m like, ‘What are you doing? You could go to jail,’” she told 20/20. “He just switches up like, ‘Well, OK, we’re going to, you’re going to go home now,’ he said, ‘but you can’t go through the same door you came in.’”

Next thing she knew, she was in the basement and being chained up.

The pole Berry was chained to when she was first captured.

The front door was heavily alarmed.

The cramped room Berry shared with her baby girl Jocelyn.

“She loved him, and he loved her.

I was nervous”

MONSTER’S DAY IN COURT

Months after his arrest, Castro pleaded guilty to 937 counts of rape, murder and kidnapping in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, but showed no remorse. He played the victim and insisted he was really a “very emotional” person and that the women were not only lying about the abuse they suffered, but there was “harmony” in the “happy household”.

“I’m not a monster. I’m just sick. I have an addiction, just like an alcoholic has an addiction,” Castro told the court. “God as my witness, I never beat these women like they’re trying to say that I did. I never tortured them.”

Knight was the only survivor who faced her captor in court, telling him she had “cried every night” of her “11 years in hell”. His sentence was life plus 1000 years.

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the dynamics changed for the better when “He didn’t make it tight enough, so I threw Berry gave birth to Castro’s daughter, with it over, and then I tried to run, but he sat on Knight forced to help deliver her safely. my back. And then I just start kicking him.

“This is his kid, you know. How do I feel I kicked him and I bruised him really bad.” about that? And she resembled him a lot, and But any chances of her escaping were slim.

I would look at her, and I just felt, like, she’s Castro had gone to great measures to hide his mine,” Berry says of her daughter, Jocelyn. prisoners from the outside world, fitting the The little girl also softened her evil father back door with an alarm, putting up curtains somewhat, with Castro treating her well and to cover parts of the home and blocking the taking the shackles off each of the women stairs leading to the hostage rooms with a when Jocelyn started to notice. swing from the balcony.

“She loved him, and he loved her. I was “He was always there watching every nervous, like, would he touch her?” Berry move, it was like he knew everything, says. “Would he ever think every move that we did,” about touching her because, DeJesus remembers. you know, he had problems?”

In the heartbreaking It was also Jocelyn, then 6, interview, the three women who helped the women escape explain how they were mostly when Castro slipped up and isolated from one another forgot to lock the door to the during their years in captivity, but all had to live by Castro’s — Amanda Berry room where Berry, her daughter and DeJesus were strict, and bizarre, set of house then living together. rules. They were often only allowed out of “Jocelyn goes downstairs, and then she their rooms to perform chores, and Berry runs back up, and says, ‘I don’t find Daddy. says they were given a “little sliver of soap” Daddy’s nowhere around’,” DeJesus says. to shower with and “just a tiny drop of dish Berry adds, “My heart immediately soap to wash a full sink of dishes”. started pounding. I’m like, ‘Should I chance Castro would also play mind games, it? If I’m going to do it, I need to do it now’.” creating jealousy among them and picking She ran to neighbours for help and, after favourites to get better food and clothes. At some confusion over her identity, the police first, DeJesus says she was his favourite, but came to the aid of the kidnapped women and eventually he started to treat Berry better took Castro into custody. than the other two. On Christmas Day 2006,

The r t’s no secret that women are having a moment in Hollywood after years of fighting to be heard. They are battling to be paid the same as their male counterparts and want more meaty roles instead of the ‘pretty girlfriend’.

And with growing support and encouragement for women to pursue their creative dreams, more and more female stars are turning to producing and directing in a bid to pave the way for future women in the still male-dominated industry.

“We gotta have these models for the next generation, so someone can grow up and say, ‘I want to be the next Liz Banks’, and not say, ‘I want to be Steven Spielberg’,” producer and director Elizabeth Banks insists.

ELIZABETH BANKS

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T Hunger Games star has never been short The of acting roles, but since trying her hand at o producing and directing, she’s made her p mark on Hollywood. m “I was a frustrated actor,” she told The Guardian. “I didn’t have enough to do. The G industry wasn’t offering me enough. It wasn’t permitting me to tell the stories w I wanted to tell … you have to make your o own opportunities.” After producing Pitch Perfect in 2012, the 45-year-old made her P d directorial debut with Pitch Perfect 2, which became the highest-grossing music comedy b ffilm of all time. It also gave Banks, she says, sserious “leeway” as not just a female director, but a very successful filmmaker. d She set her sights on the Charlie’s Angels rreboot, writing, producing and directing actresses such as Kristen Stewart. While a it hasn’t been a huge box-office success, ffeminist Banks hasn’t been put off her goal of becoming one of the industry’s great o directors. “I think I have like 80 credits on d IMDB and I’ve been directed by two women,” sshe points out.

EVA LONGORIA

The Desperate Housewives star has had her production company, UnbeliEVAble Entertainment, since 2005. After directing episodes of TV shows Black-ish and Grand Hotel, the 44-year-old will make her feature directorial debut with 24-7, a comedy starring Kerry Washington, before taking on Flamin’ Hot, a biopic.

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CELEBRITY These female stars are making major waves as Hollywood’s hottest producers and directors

ECTION JENNIFER LOPEZ

The triple-threat star has always been one of the hardest working people in the business, but she’s taken it to the next level with her recent list of producing credits, including TV show World of Dance and films Second Act and Hustlers.

“I didn’t get paid a whole bunch of money for Hustlers,” Lopez told GQ about the film, which is based on a true story.

“I did it for free and produced it.

Like Jenny from the Block, I do what I love.”

That passion has certainly paid off, with some critics predicting the 50-year-old could earn her first Oscar nod for her role as hustling stripper Ramona. But it’s pushing the envelope on gender equality in Hollywood that really drives Lopez. “Having all women on the set – in front of the camera, behind the camera, behind the scenes with producers – it’s definitely a different experience. It’s not something that happens every day in Hollywood,” she says.

(From left) Lili Reinhart, Lopez, Keke Palmer and Constance Wu in a scene from Hustlers.

OLIVIA WILDE

“Refreshing”, “witty”, “funny”, “electric” … are just some of the words of praise teen comedy Booksmart received on its release. A lot of that approval was heaped on its first-time director, one-time The OC actress Wilde, who earned a Director To Watch accolade at the Palm Springs International Film Festival for the film.

Wilde, 35, says it was a “slow burn” to make the move from acting. “What I really enjoyed about making movies was the process of collaborating,” she says. “A director does that more than anything on set, interacting with every single department … For actors, the work process is uneven. It’s stop and start.

I found that exhausting and isolating. With directing, I was plugged in 100 per cent of the time.” Wilde’s next step is deciding whether to star in a movie she’ll direct. “Before this, I never would have said I’d be OK acting in my own movies, but now I think I could do it,” she says.

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CELEBRITY

(From left) Shailene Woodley, Zoë Kravitz, Witherspoon, Kidman and Laura Dern in Big Little Lies.

REESE WITHERSPOON

Aniston and Witherspoon in Morning Wars.

AMY POEHLER Poehler, 48, put her directorial talents to work with this year’s Netflix comedy series Wine Country, having honed her skills on episodes of Parks and Recreation and Broad City.

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SELENA GOMEZ

Although she chose not to star in it, the 27-year-old singer was a huge driving force as executive producer for her “passion project”, 13 Reasons Why, which hit Netflix in 2017.

It’s no small feat to be one of the world’s most in-demand leading ladies and a producing powerhouse, but Witherspoon has managed to achieve that status through years of hard graft.

Her company, Hello Sunshine, has produced hits like Gone Girl, but when her show, Big Little Lies, won eight Emmys in 2017, people started paying attention. “It opened a lot of doors for me,” Witherspoon says. “People wanted to be in business with me as a producer in the TV space.

My mission was to create television for other women, for other female storytellers that are actresses, other directors and other writers.

I think it just clicked in people’s minds.” She’s now producing and starring in Morning Wars with Jennifer Aniston, and getting set to revisit bubbly lawyer Elle Woods in Legally Blonde 3.

QUEEN LATIFAH

AVA DUVERNAY

Latifah, 49, founded her production company Flavor Unit Entertainment in 1995, and it recently joined forces with Procter & Gamble to fund independent projects by women.

DuVernay, 47, became the first black female director whose movie grossed more than $143 million in the US with A Wrinkle in Time. She also directed Netflix’s When They See Us.

(From left) Theron, Kidman and Robbie in a scene from the film.

CHARLIZE THERON, MARGOT ROBBIE & NICOLE KIDMAN

(From left) Kidman, Robbie and Theron attended a screening of Bombshell on Dec. 10, 2019.

The actresses play ambitious, headstrong women trying to make it in a man’s world in Bombshell, and in real life, they’re just as determined. Theron’s production company, Denver + Delilah Films, has been running successfully since the early 2000s, bringing out major films like Monster and more recently, Atomic Blonde and the buzzed-about Bombshell – a real-life story about sexual harassment struggles that Theron, 44, felt particularly passionate about. As producer, it was on her to find $32 million in funding when the initial backer dropped out.

Meanwhile, co-star Robbie and her husband, Tom Ackerley, founded LuckyChap Entertainment in 2014, and were responsible for her Oscar-nominated hit I, Tonya.

“When I was trying to make my name as an actress, creative roles for women were limited,” Robbie, 29, told Harper’s Bazaar. “I didn’t want to pick up another script where I was the wife or the girlfriend.” And while 52-year-old Kidman is still deep in the acting scene, she’s also inspired to add to her production projects, which include co-producing Big Little Lies with Witherspoon.

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SALMA HAYEK

The 53-year-old actress has been quietly producing projects for the past 20 years, with the biggest commercial success being TV comedy series Ugly Betty.

SANDRA BULLOCK

The 55-year-old Oscar winningactress created Fortis Films and put out hit Hollywood movies including Hope Floats, Two Weeks Notice and Miss Congeniality.

ROSE BYRNE The 40-year-old Aussie actress and a group of friends – including actresses Krew Boylan and Gracie Otto – founded The Dollhouse production company for female-driven projects.

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LENA DUNHAM Dunham, 33, made a huge impact with Girls, the HBO show she wrote, directed, starred in and produced.

She has a new production company called Good Thing Going.

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STEVE MARTIN & MARTIN SHORT

THE TWO As friends for 35 years, the veteran comedy icons are having a blast touring together – and making fun of each other

MART

INTERVIEW DYNAMIC DUO

“There are very few people that I truly admire, and Steve Martin is very close to being one of them,” Short (on their tour) has joked.

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here are few friends in Hollywood who seem to have as much fun working together as Steve Martin, 74, and Martin Short, 69. In 2018 they decided to blend their individual comedy and musical tours into a joint show now called The Funniest Show in Town at the Moment that they’ve taken on the road. The performance is a mix of anecdotes from 35 years of friendship, funny songs and just riffing off each other. “We adore the show because of the reaction that we get from it, which is just full of laughs,” says Short, who lives in Los Angeles and has three grown children. (His wife, Nancy Dolman, died of ovarian cancer in 2010.) There are also few friends who admire each other as much as they do, both as people and as actors. “I loved Marty in LA Story. Oh, sorry, you weren’t in that,” says Martin, who also lives in LA with his wife, Anne Stringfield, 47, and their 7-year-old daughter. “And I loved you in The Jerk. Oh no, you weren’t in that either.” Jokes aside, they clearly couldn’t be closer. Says Martin of Short: “He’s pretty much the perfect person.”

Do you remember the first time you met?

STEVE MARTIN We met at my house when Marty came by to pick up a copy of the script for The Three Amigos [in the mid-’80s].

MARTIN SHORT I looked around at Steve’s beautiful house, covered with spectacular paintings like Picassos, and said, “Steve, how did you get this rich? Because I’ve seen your work”.

MARTIN And I said, “You’re perfect to be my cat’s new chew toy”.

TINS

MARTIN No, he’s smart, he’s funny, he What is it about touring together that has many friends. He’s the most popular you both love so much? guy at your dinner party. If he’s coming, MARTIN We have a goal when we do it’s a better dinner party. If he can’t it, and that is for the audience to leave come, cancel it! thinking, “That was the funniest show What are the weird habits you’ve noticed I ever saw!” Now, whether we succeed in each other? or not is the question, but I think we do MARTIN Well, I have to listen to Marty sometimes. We love doing it, and we try warm up his voice because our dressing to get as many laughs – sincere, good rooms are usually side by side. So I’m laughs – as we can and do a really big hearing him go ‘E-E-E-E-E’ for about an hour show. We’ve got a band, we’ve got before each show. musicians, we’ve got costumes!

SHORT Right. And Steve’s tradition is to SHORT Oh, I’m just in it for the money. knock on my dressing room [door] about But no, we do this because of how much a half hour before we go on to remind me fun we have. We have a dinner the night how he got started as a writer with the before, rehearse the next day, finish a Smothers Brothers. show and then discuss it over a glass of MARTIN Want me to tell you again now? wine. It’s very harmonious. There are no SHORT No, no, it’s OK. The trick is to not jerks in the group – it’s just as much fun as accidentally mouth the story along you can have while getting paid money. with him.

You’ve been friends for so What do you both like to long. Do you ever get sick of do in your downtime? spending so much time in MARTIN Well, I have a child, each other’s company? so that’s pretty much it.

SHORT No! SHORT And I tend to just sit MARTIN We never do. When in a darkened room and we’re not on the road, we don’t screen old prints. Very hang out all the time or see — Steve Martin Sunset Boulevard. each other every day. We don’t Does it get confusing when people are talk every day. So when we do see each saying your names out loud? other, we’re very happy. We do call SHORT It is bizarre that we’ve been lifelong each other when we have gossip, though. friends, formed this comedy thing, and he’s Martin, what is Steve’s best quality? And Steve Martin, I’m Martin Short. It is odd.

Steve, what do you like about Martin?

MARTIN It seems to bother others more SHORT Steve’s best quality is who he is than it bothers us. They’re always saying, as a man. He’s very moral, he’s very loyal, “Why don’t you call it The Steve Martin he’s very, very ethical. This is beyond all the Short Show?”. talent. You can be working with the most How long do you think you’ll keep touring talented, funniest human being in the with the show? world, but if they don’t have those qualities, MARTIN If the audience will keep having us, you don’t want to tour with them. we’d love to keep doing it.

MARTIN Martin’s best quality? There’s SHORT As long as we’re having this kind of nothing. fun, why would we ever stop?

SHORT Can I change what I said?

“Martin’s best quality?

There’s nothing”

THEIR CL ASSIC MOVIES TOGETHER

THE THREE AMIGOS, 1986

The duo starred with Chevy Chase in the comedy (written by Martin and Lorne Michaels) about silent-film stars mistaken for real-life gunfighters.

FATHER OF THE BRIDE, 1991

Martin was an emotional dad marrying off his daughter (with Diane Keaton as his wife), and Short played their flamboyant wedding planner.

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WHO KILLED

MARIA JAMES?

The 40-year old cold case of the murder of Maria James has been reopened and looks set to be investigated in a new coronial inquest

s Mark James got ready for school on a Tuesday mornin in 1980, a random comment from his mother Maria was seared into his memory. “If anything ever happens to me, be sure to take care of your brother,” Mark, now 53 recalled last year in the Foxtel doco series The Good ersation 40 years ago, when Mark was just 13, was the last he would ever have with his mother. Hours later, Maria James, 38, would be dead, the result of a frenzied attack inside her home in the Melbourne suburb of Thornbury. She had been tied up and stabbed 68 times.

No-one has been convicted of the heinous crime, which left Mark and his little brother Adam, 50, grief-stricken, but a review by Victoria Police will be handed to the coroner 50l Who

Father Antonio Bongiorno is a suspect in Maria’s murder.

this month, ahead of a fresh inquest.

Suspects under review include two local paedophile priests, as well as a former lover and a disgruntled neighbour. The new inquest holds the possibility the case might finally be solved.

At 11.30am on the morning she was killed, Maria telephoned her ex-husband, John James. She told him: “There’s someone here”, and John then overheard a muffled argument in the background. He quickly drove to her home behind the bookshop she

A police van parked outside the crime scene on High Street, Thornbury.

ran, but discovered all the doors locked and had to climb in through a window.

Entering her bedroom, he saw Maria dead on the floor, and raced out to call the police.

John might have narrowly escaped death himself as it’s thought the killer was hiding behind the bedroom door when he arrived, and then slipped out of the house.

For veteran detective Ron Iddles, Maria’s

CRIME

Maria James with her two sons, Mark (top left) and Adam.

murder was his first-ever homicide case. “It’s the one that still troubles me,” he reveals in The Good Cop. Iddles is still convinced the murderer was someone Maria knew. At the time, he investigated her ex-husband, another man she had been romantically involved with, a former customer, and a neighbour named Mario, who she’d argued with that morning.

John was quickly ruled out, but then the focus fell on Mario, who was found to be in possession of the same type of twine that had bound Maria’s hands. Additionally, on the day after the attack, he had taken bloodstained pants to a dry cleaner.

Despite the leads, the case went cold until 2000, when Iddles thought he had a breakthrough thanks to burgeoning DNA technology. A pillowcase yielded blood splatters thought to be from Maria’s killer.

Detectives took samples from the suspects

in the case, but none matched.

In 2013, the case took a new direction when a family friend told Mark about prior Maria, 38, was stabbed to death sexual abuse allegations made against Father behind her Melbourne Anthony Bongiorno, who had been the bookshop in 1980. family’s parish priest, and had even conducted the service at Maria’s funeral.

Bongiorno – were now back in the frame.

It turned out Bongiorno had stood trial Astonishingly, crucial bloodied exhibits and for abusing three young boys in 1996. He was documents relating to the case had acquitted in two of the cases and the third mysteriously disappeared. was abandoned due to lack of evidence, but In November 2018, Trace’s shocking the Catholic Church later accepted the revelations prompted the Victorian Coroner victims’ stories to be true. Bongiorno had to announce a new inquest. also trained in the same seminary as One of the people Brown had tracked convicted paedophile Cardinal George Pell. down was Allan Hircoe, an electrician who When Mark asked his brother, who has was working at the church on the morning of cerebral palsy, if Bongiorno had ever touched Maria’s murder, and he recalled in vivid him, Adam broke down and revealed details detail Bongiorno rushing back to St Mary’s of sexual abuse and told Mark he’d confessed Church covered in blood. Maria’s shop was the details to his mother, who’d promised to only about 50 metres away. confront Bongiorno. One morning after “And that’s the smoking Adam’s conversation with gun we need,” Iddles said.

Maria, Adam had overhead “On the balance of all his mum on the phone to the probabilities, I believe Father church authorities. Just four Bongiorno was responsible.” hours later, she was dead.

But Bongiorno had died in “After Adam came 2002 and O’Keeffe in 1984. forward with his allegation, we at last had a motive – ‘let’s —Rachael Brown Maria’s ex-husband, John James, died in 1996. silence Maria’,” Iddles said.

Brown is hopeful this might be the year In 2016, ABC journalist Rachael Brown the case is finally solved. “Victoria Police’s began her own investigations, which resulted review, including investigation into further in the Walkley Award-winning 2017 podcast avenues, will be handed to the Coroner later Trace, and the book Trace: Who Killed Maria this month,” Brown says.

James? During the course of the podcast, she “There could be other suspects in Maria’s made many discoveries including that Adam cold case who also have compelling motives,” had been abused by a second local priest, she says. “I’m so grateful for the new inquest.

Father Thomas O’Keeffe. It also turned out It might finally bring the James brothers the the blood-splattered pillowcase was from a answers they’ve been longing for.” completely different crime scene, so all

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Almost 2.5 million Australians now have diets where almost all the food is vegetarian, according to Roy Morgan.

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next to ground beef in the meat aisle. The latest crop of burgers, like Harvest Gourmet’s Incredible Burger are imitating meat so well, they even ‘bleed’. “It’s great because it maintains a similar texture to a meat patty but is made with soy and wheat protein – it also contains carrot, beetroot and red capsicum natural plant extracts – which help give the patty its vibrant raw meat appearance, just like a beef burger,” says Hurlston.

If you like your vegie burgers to taste as far away from meat as possible there are also lots of good options. “You can find anything from traditional vegetarian products like falafels and vegie patties right through to the new generation of products that actually transform during the cooking process,” says Czepl. Sophie’s Kitchen is an emerging brand that makes plant-based seafood products such as Crabless Cakes using konjac, an ancient superfood that’s a staple across South-East Asia – and does not involve depleting ocean fish from the ocean. “We believe the better plant-based foods taste, the more people will choose to prepare healthy meals for themselves, their family and their community,” says Adrian Gastevski, director of Future Farm Co, the company that brought Sophie’s Kitchen to Australia.

Some plant-based burgers have come under fire for being made using genetically modified ingredients (there is debate about whether GMOs are good for our health and the planet), but many of them don’t. Check the label as it’s likely that a brand will use its GMO-free status as a selling point. While you’re there reading labels, check the ingredients’ list – a long list of strange sounding ingredients is probably not as healthy as one that contains real vegetables, and remember that some fake-meat burgers contain as much saturated fat as a real one, making them a sometimes food.

HOW TO MAKE A VEGIE BURGER TASTE GOOD D Tips from Jimmy Hurlston, co-owner of burger institute Easey’s in Melbourne

1 Always use top quality and fresh ingredients.

2 Have a good quality bun. I prefer potato rolls. (Google recipes or sub with brioche buns).

3 Experiment with sauces and other additions.

4 Always keep in mind d: texture, temperature e and flavour.

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ou’ve no doubt seen them in the news – burgers that look and taste like meat, but are plant-based, are big news.

Going under various names such as the Incredible Burger, Impossible Burger and Beyond Burger, even Hungry Jack’s is on board with its new vegan cheeseburger. The CSIRO projects the emerging plant-based ‘meat’ industry will be worth more than $6 billion by 2030, and we seemingly can’t get enough.

Meat alternatives in the form of everything from burgers to fake smoked salmon are becoming widely available in grocery stores, fast food stores and restaurants alike.

“The number of Australians reducing their meat intake is continuously growing, but I think the motivations for why people are eating alternative proteins differs [from other countries]. In Australia, health is the primary driver. Environmental and animal welfare concerns are drivers, but seen as secondary,” says Kristina Czepl, Head of Foods Nestlé Oceania.

Data from search engine Google revealed that in early 2019, Aussies searched for the word ‘vegan’ more than anywhere else in the world, and certainly our love affair with the vegan lifestyle is one reason for the spike in this food category, but even die-hard meat fans are curious. “Consumers are far more conscious of what they’re putting into their body and are generally more aware of the impacts of farming animal proteins.

Customers also want to reduce meat and/or add in a bit of variety,” says Jimmy Hurlston, co-owner of popular burger joint Easey’s in Melbourne, where meat-free options are on the menu. “People are asking questions: what do they taste like, what are they made of, are they healthy?” he says.

Plant-based ‘meats’ have come a long way in the last two years and have moved from being questionable ‘vegie patties’ to sitting

“I’ve never understood when people would say ‘the weight just dropped off’ – but now I do.”

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el Pritchard, 42, thought she ate reasonably well, but her portions were always out of control. “I’d eat the same size dinner as my husband every night plus my 4-year-old’s leftovers,” she says. Tired of feeling bloated with no energy, Mel decided to take on an 8-week Keto-Fit challenge, hoping to lose weight and find foods that worked better for her body.

Keto is a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet that tricks the body into a fat-burning process called ketosis. Using a structured meal plan with the help of Keto-Fit products appealed to Mel to take the stress out of having to think about what to eat every day.

“My weak spots were always carbrelated [bread, pasta, biscuits etc]. I would drink wine every night with my husband and I would never take leftovers from dinner for lunch the next day, so would spend unnecessary money.”

The Keto-Fit challenge has now opened her eyes to new recipes and foods she didn’t typically eat but now loves.

In the beginning Mel found it hard to stick to the challenge at weekends, but her fast results motivated her to stick with it.

“I’ve never understood when people would say ‘the weight just dropped off’ – but now I do. I lost over 3kg in the first two weeks and people began to notice so that was a huge motivator. I also felt really good – not bloated, overly full and uncomfortable all the time, but I was satiated by what I was eating. Feeling good like that all the time is addictive!”

After years of trying different eating plans, Mel is finally happy to have found one that works for her. “I’m 100 per cent happy with the results. I will stick to this way of eating, although I will reintroduce a wider variety of fruit back into my diet and some wholegrains [quinoa, brown rice, n is

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MEL PRITCHARD • BEFORE 70.4KG • AFTER 63.6KG “My [food] weak spots were always carb related.”

“I’m 100 per cent happy with the results.”

TYPICAL DAY’S EATING Breakfast Eggs with bacon & spinach. Keto-Fit Coffee with cream.

Snack 50G blueberries.

Lunch Salmon with green vegies.

Snack Keto-Fit Plant Protein shake.

Dinner Chicken salad with eggs and avocado.

Head to pharmacare.lpages.co/keto-fit-sign-up-meal-plan/ to download the 7 day Keto meal plan.

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Mel and her husband before she embarked on the keto diet.

MEXICAN BARBEC Mexican Steak with Corn & Slaw SERVES 4, PREP & COOK: 40 MINS INGREDIENTS ¼ cup Mexican seasoning 2 tblsps olive oil 4 x 200g beef sirloin steaks 425g corn cobs

SLAW 350g packet kaleslaw salad kit 400g can kidney beans, drained, rinsed

1 tblsp chipotle aioli

250g punnet cherry tomatoes, halved

½ cup finely grated parmesan

1⁄ cup chipotle 3 aioli 2 tblsps lime juice

METHOD

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Combine seasoning with oil in a large bowl. Add beef. Toss to coat.

Heat an oiled, large, barbecue grill plate over a medium to high heat. Add corn. Cook, turning occasionally for about 8 minutes, or until charred. Transfer to a large bowl. Add aioli. Toss to coat. Add parmesan. Toss to coat. Lightly cover to keep warm.

Add beef to same, hot grill plate. Cook, for about 5 minutes on each side, or until cooked to your liking. Remove.

Rest, loosely covered with foil for 3 minutes.

Meanwhile, place salad kit, including seeds into a large bowl. Reserve dressing from kit for another use. Add beans, tomatoes, aioli and juice to slaw. Toss well.

Cut beef into thick slices. Add to slaw. Toss to combine.

Serve with corn.

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Chilli & Lime Chicken with Olive Salad

A SPIN ON GIN?

SERVES 4, PREP & COOK: 50 MINS

• 30ml Two-Fold Double Grain Whisky • 80-100ml Fever-Tree Indian Tonic Water • Generous serving of ice • Slice of pink grapefruit

INGREDIENTS 8 chicken thigh fillets (1.25kg), trimmed Barbecued soft corn tortillas and lime wedges, to serve MARINADE 2 tblsps olive oil

2 tsps ground cumin 1 tsp dried oregano leaves

Fill a tall glass with ice, add whisky, top with tonic water and garnish with a slice of grapefruit.

GREEN OLIVE SALAD 100g baby rocket leaves, washed

2 tblsps honey

5 red radish bulbs, trimmed, shredded

3 cloves garlic, crushed

¾ cup marinated split green olives

2 tsps Mexican chilli powder

100g feta, crumbled

2 tblsps lime juice

G&T is a new pairing which is bold, fun and approachable – plus it’s a great way to introduce whisky to people who may have previously been non-whisky drinkers.

Hailing from Melbourne, Two-Fold is a versatile whisky that can be consumed neat, in cocktails or in highball served with tonic.

It’s well rounded and fully matured in Australian red wine barrels with the result being a lighter style whisky that has the ability to work with a tonic.

Enjoy!

New beginnings – that’s what 2020 is all about. And what better way to start than with a trendsetting new drink?

We’ve all heard of whisky and soda or gin and tonic ... but how about a whisky and tonic?

I received a bottle of this Starward Two-Fold at the end of December and I’m embarrassed to admit it’s almost all gone. I did as recommended with the recipe below, however I used a 50/50 ratio of tonic water to soda as that is just my preference.

This spin by Starward on the classic

Serves 1

METHOD

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To make marinade, combine all ingredients in a large bowl.

Mix well.

Cut two deep slits, diagonally, on one side of each chicken fillet.

Add to marinade. Toss well to coat.

Refrigerate, covered for 20 minutes.

Heat an oiled, large, barbecue grill plate over a medium heat.

Add chicken. Cook, turning occasionally for about 15 minutes, or until cooked through. Remove.

Meanwhile, to make salad, combine all ingredients in a bowl. Toss well.

Serve chicken with tortillas, salad and lime wedges.

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HOTTEST HOTEL OPENINGS FOR 2020 From luxe desert hideaways to contemporary urban escapes, be the first to stay at these inspiring spaces this year

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The five-star hotel’s spa fills three storeys and has a 20m indoor pool.

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DESERT DREAMING CAMP SARIKA BY AMANGIRI To mark the 10th birthday of Utah’s five-star Amangiri resort, Aman, will open Camp Sarika by Amangiri in April this year.

This is no ordinary glamping experience. The idyllic, all-seasons escape is set on 55 hectares overlooking iconic flat-topped mesa rock formations and offers just 10 luxury one or two-bedroom tented pavilions with private plunge pools, a restaurant and unique, intimate access to the surrounding desert landscape. aman.com/resorts/amangiri/camp-sarika

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South Australia will be home to a luxe boutique accommodation offering when the $15 million Sequoia opens in the Adelaide Hills wine region in September.

Named after three giant Californian Redwood trees on the property, this upscale lodge, which is separate to the iconic Mount Lofty House, boasts just 14 spacious contemporary, open-plan guest suites with king-sized beds, a gas fireplace and 180-degree vistas of the patchwork Piccadilly Valley.

Offering unrivalled, personalised service from a dedicated guest services team, Sequoia guests will have access to the property’s lavish amenities including the three-hatted Hardy’s Verandah Restaurant, Arthur Waterhouse Lounge & Bar and the Stables Day Spa. sequoialodge.com.au

The suites offer uninterrupted views across the Piccadilly Valley.

URBAN SANCTUARY AMAN NEW YORK The highly anticipated Aman New York is set to blend the urban pulse of the Big Apple with the soul of Aman.

Located in the heart of Manhattan at the crossroads of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, Aman New York will occupy the entire Crown Building and comprise 83 guest rooms and suites – each with a functioning fireplace – 19 private Aman Residences and a one-of-a-kind, five-storey penthouse.

The three-storey spa will cover a staggering 2000 square metres while the 20-metre indoor swimming pool flanked by luxe daybeds will provide a soothing escape from the vibrant metropolis.

The luxury hotel’s lively communal spaces and social venues, including the 10th-floor wraparound Garden Terrace, are set to be a hit with guests and New Yorkers alike. www.aman.com/newyork

The Mauna Lainu Resort is on 13 hectares of coastline.

Melbourne’s W hotel will open its doors in June.

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CITY SLICK W MELBOURNE Marriott International’s bold, ultra-hip W Hotels brand is to open its second Australian hotel in the heart of the Victorian capital in June. Following on from the success of the Brisbane property, which opened in 2018, the contemporary W Melbourne, located in Collins Arch precinct – the block of Collins, Williams, Market Streets and Flinders Lane – is set to embody the city’s creative spirit. The W’s unique take on luxury offers 294 guest rooms, three restaurants, a vibrant bar and the pièce de résistance, an Extreme WOW Suite. marriott.com.au/hotels/travel/melwh-w-melbourne

Few would argue that a holiday in Hawaii is always a good idea.

Now, there’s an even better reason to visit the much-loved US destination.

After closing its doors in October 2018 after joining Auberge Resorts Collection, the former Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows has undergone a $100 million makeover.

Set to open this month, the reimagined oceanfront resort, on 13 hectares of the Big Island’s Kona Coast, is the stuff that island holiday dreams are made of.

From the lush tropical gardens to the 333 contemporary guest rooms, suites and private bungalow residences, three swimming pools, Auberge Spa, plus five restaurants and lounges each with an emphasis on seasonality and sustainability, this property offers a luxurious island holiday in a naturally beautiful setting. aubergeresorts.com/maunalani

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FLOATING CHIC ARCTIC BATH Those seeking a truly unique travel experience in 2020 shouldn’t miss a trip to this floating hotel located in Swedish Lapland opening this month.

The year-round spa and wellness hotel will float on top of the Lule River in summer and freeze into the ice in winter boasting the highest environmental standards and leaving zero impact on the environment.

Offering a luxurious overnight spa experience based on four cornerstones: proper nutrition, regular exercise, peace of mind and care of face and body, guests can opt to stay in one of six floating cabins or six cabins on land. arcticbath.se

LEAN LUXURY RUBY LUCY, LONDON German hotel brand Ruby Hotels is launching its first UK property in London’s creative South Bank.

Inspired by the bustling markets and theatre scene in its vibrant locale, the 76-room hotel has a carnival theme throughout. There’s a 24-hour bar and all rooms are fitted with full soundproofing as well as quirky touches and a personal tablet with PC pre-loaded with a London city guide. ruby-hotels.com/Lucy/London

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HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR THE GODFREY HOTEL HOLLYWOOD Discerning modern travellers will appreciate Los Angeles’ high-end newcomer when it opens its doors this month.

Designed for the contemporary jet-setting professional, the design-led boutique property, located a block south of Sunset Boulevard, will offer 220 rooms, four on-site bars, indoor-outdoor events spaces and a gastro pub-meets-steakhouse, About Last Knife.

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WHAT YOUR STARS SAY THIS WEEK

ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

MAR. 20–APR. 18

APR. 19–MAY 20

MAY 21–JUN. 20

You are mentally tired and restless, concentrating on your immediate duties and familiar tasks may be difficult or confusing. You are not inclined to discipline your mind or focus on practical matters unless there is an element of risk-taking involved. You are ready to take time off and enjoy a little R&R. Communication brings good news regarding career and travel.

Creative work, study, or mental meditation may relax your mind from your usual routine.

A new emotional attraction may catch you by surprise, or you may renew an old flame.

The early bird will catch the financial worm and your wallet may be filled unexpectedly.

Watch over-indulgences – you seem to be lacking judgement at social functions or friendly get-togethers.

A new job opportunity or a change of direction may be a blessing in disguise. A piece of confidential information may also bring a surprise or two, don’t let an opportunity go by.

Launching a new project or personal relationship may require a new method of communication to maintain greater harmony. Past problems can now be solved through positive effort.

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Lady luck will smile on you Schedules are full, as you plan a directional responsibilities increase, and change. You are showing time is at a premium. You have a different side of your so many things to organise you personality and others will be will find it difficult to attend all surprised with the decisions you your social invitations. Business make. A lifestyle change will relationships are in for a do wonders and you may fascinating turn for the better, contemplate a change of new projects become reality. residence. An emotional Fictitious things may bother situation could upset you and eavesdropping may your partner or friend – and score a few points. Enjoy the it’s not before time. changes ahead.

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You will be active and busy.

Stretch yourself and test your limits; new creative ideas, or something secret or hidden may take your interest. Be daring, adventurous and competitive, as you are entering an industrious cycle of change.

Organising money and securities is a necessity.

Travel brings advantages and you may reunite with old friends. Have fun.

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SEP. 23–OCT. 22

OCT. 23–NOV. 21

NOV. 22–DEC. 21

Social relationships, friendships and supportive alliances are strengthened. Your energy and confidence are extraordinary and you can accomplish much in a harmonious and flowing manner. Increased physical courage makes this a very interesting time. You need to do something daring and challenging. You may be fascinated by the strange and unusual.

A change of lifestyle is in the offering. Exciting information brings new challenges for business or career. Personal relationships grow deeper through understanding, and long-term commitment is important to you. Voluntary humanitarian duties may be asked of you. It’s an excellent time to begin new projects, plan travel or commence a new destiny trend.

Pay attention to rules and regulations and think twice before acting. It’s time to lay the cornerstone regarding an important project; you are heading in a new direction.

Take care of your home and family needs, as security is becoming more important to you. A crucial communication brings exciting news. Time to start a new health and fitness program, and watch your diet.

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AQUARIUS

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You have an abundance of Taking a tough stand or striking Employment changes are in the physical energy and selfout in some manner is likely to wind. Making new friends or confidence to succeed in any work out well for you. Financial speaking publicly may win you endeavour. Your career, arrangements or negotiations favours from those you wish to reputation or personal goals gain bring profitable gains and travel impress. A concert, attending momentum now. Your superiors generates happiness. A family the theatre or having a beauty or those in a position to support matter may cause concern over treatment will relax your mind. your or further your aims are an emotional issue and the A special planned holiday is disposed toward you. A good problem seems to be through a top priority and you could not period for communication, selfishness or a lack of have picked a better time to travel, holidays and family fun judgement by a family member. enjoy some relaxation with times. Enjoy the good times.

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YOUR GUIDE TO THE BIGGEST ENTERTAINMENT RELEASES EACH WEEK

Pick of the week

From left: Ncuti Gatwa, Asa Butterfield, Patricia Allison and Tanya Reynolds.

Aimee (Aimee Lou Wood, left, with Emma Mackey as Maeve) has a more serious storyline this season.

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Jean (Gillian Anderson) faces personal and professional upheaval – and does so looking as fabulous as ever.

SEX EDUCATION S2

STARRING: Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey In Season 1 of this British comedy, virgin Otis (Butterfield) started dishing out sex advice to his fellow students at Moordale Secondary School – what he lacked in practical experience, he made up for by being the son of an actual sex therapist, glamorous one-night-stand fan Dr Jean Milburn (Anderson). And although that case-of-the-week premise is maintained to an extent in this second batch of eight episodes – with Otis’ ‘practice’ encountering some quite unexpected competition on campus – Sex Education dives much deeper into the main ensemble’s personalities and relationships. That involves, of course, all the sex they are – and, in some cases, aren’t – having with each other.

And it is a fantastic ensemble of young actors the producers have amassed. Besides the core trio of awkward Otis, loyal best friend Eric (Gatwa) and love interest/business partner Maeve (Mackey), the series has a deep well of supporting characters to draw from, so much so that you’re often left wishing we’d see even

more of bitchy mean girl Ruby (Mimi Keene) or tortured swim star Jackson (Kedar Williams-Stirling).

For the most part, however, Sex Education does a great job of juggling its multiple characters and various inter-connected storylines, and injecting both humour and heart into its tales of teenagers actually being teenagers. That is one of the best parts of the series – that the characters feel like kids rather than adults.

They might act self-assured, but, without exception, they harbour insecurities and doubts, with their uncertainties, masked by bravado, giving rise to some really compelling conflict and comedy.

The adults don’t have things much more together, either. And besides Jean, who just happens to be dating the father of Otis’ girlfriend, Ola (Patricia Allison), more time this season is spent fleshing out some of Moordale’s teachers and other parents – mostly time well spent. All that and one of the most bizarre school musicals ever seen in a TV series.

(On Netflix from Fri., Jan. 17)

THREE NEW CHARACTERS MEET THE TRIO T OF FRESH FACES JOINING THE CAST THIS SEASON

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Viv (Chinenye Ezeudu)

Isaac (George Robinson)

His arrival at school turns quite a few heads, but with whom will the charming French student become romantically involved?

This brainiac is a member of Moordale’s trivia team, The Quiz Heads, and tutors Jackson, who in turn gives her love-life advice.

Wheelchair-bound Isaac moves into a caravan in the park where Maeve lives – and keeps a close eye on her and her recently returned mother.

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THAT FEELING WHEN YOU REALLY WANT TO LOVE A SHOW BUT DON’T

have long been a fan of Josh Thomas. From his time as part of the original panel on Talkin’ ’Bout Your Generation to his work in Please Like Me to his stand-up performances, he has always impressed me as an effortlessly funny guy with a unique voice – and I’m not just talking about his accent. In a country where the straight, middle-aged, white male is the predominant perspective given air time, Thomas offered something different in two of those respects.

In Please Like Me specifically, he gave twenty-somethings and gay men representation, and did so without it feeling like that’s what he was doing. In other words, the ABC comedy series didn’t hit you over the head with the issues it was tackling or the sometimes marginalised communities – also including those suffering mental health issues – it was representing. Instead, it just got on with the job of being a genuinely funny show that just happened to address those things.

So when I heard Thomas was returning to TV with a new show, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay (on Stan from Fri., Jan. 17), I was looking forward to seeing it. But – and you knew there

was a ‘but’ coming, right? – based on the two episodes I have seen so far, I’m not sold on it.

In Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, Thomas plays Australian entomologist Nicholas, who, while visiting his father and his two teenage half-sisters in America, learns his widowed dad is dying from a fast-acting terminal cancer and agrees to take on the role of the girls’ guardian. The elder, Matilda (Kayla Cromer), is on the autism spectrum, while Genevieve (Maeve Press) is a late developer navigating the pressures of high school cliques.

It’s not that the show isn’t funny – there is a smattering of Thomas’ distinctive clever dialogue throughout. And once again, it includes characters and communities not seen all the time, and deals with them sensitively.

It’s just feels more contrived than Please Like Me, like it is making a statement, underlining it and putting two exclamation marks at the end.

Perhaps my expectations were too high or perhaps I just didn’t enjoy it – I’ll give it a few more episodes to work that out. But there really is nothing worse when it comes to TV shows than sitting down to watch something you had already decided was going to be your new favourite and have it dawn

on you that that’s not going to be the case.

It’s like when all your friends tell you that you must watch a specific show or you read a bunch of glowing reviews and you build a series up in your mind only to have it not live up to the hype. Except in this case, the hype was all mine. •

Nicholas with his soon-to-be late father (Christopher May).

MATTHEW RHYS The Welsh actor, 45, stars in new film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (out Thu., Jan. 23) and tells WHO about the last … … time he stayed up too late Wales was in the semifinals of the Rugby World Cup, and I looked up stats until 1am. It sounds deathly boring, but to me it was like discovering electricity. … perfect day off he had I just spent the day with Keri [Russell, his girlfriend] and our son, Sam [age 3], and we biked around Brooklyn and stopped for pizza and ice-cream.

That’s as perfect as it gets for me. … DIY project he tackled I bought this wooden boat in ruins and promptly set about not restoring but destroying it. No-one should think that’s a good idea.

Last word

… recurring dream he had There’s a pin, and I have to balance this enormous tree trunk on it. It’s terrible! I think it means I’m juggling too much. … thing he took from a set In doing this movie with Tom Hanks, I’ve never met a kinder person, so I took that with me. It’s something I’m trying to live by.

Rhys plays a journalist who interviews kids’ TV show host Fred Rogers (Hanks).

Moment in time

Staff picks CELEBRITY EX ON THE BEACH

With a cast boasting reality royalty Joey Essex (from The Only Way Is Essex), original Love Island star Calum Best and Marissa Jade (Mob Wives), this celeb version of Ex on the Beach promises fireworks, feuds and fit bodies galore (starts Wed., Jan. 22 at 9am (AEDT); MTV).

LITTLE AMERICA

This new anthology series (on Apple TV+ from Fri., Jan. 17), which has already been renewed for a second season, features eight stories about the diverse experiences of immigrants in the United States. Especially timely, Little America stars Zachary Quinto, Kumail Nanjiani (who is also one of the executive producers) and Sherilyn Fenn.

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM S10 Jan. 20, 2006: the original High School Musical debuted on Disney Channel in the US, making stars of (from left) Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron (pictured launching the TV movie in Dec. 2005).

Larry David is back to whine and irritate once more in the new season of the HBO comedy series (starts Mon., Jan. 20 at 8.30pm (AEDT); Comedy Channel). As well as the returning cast, guests stars this season include Jon Hamm, Laverne Cox, Isla Fisher and Jane Krakowski.

Next, Rhys will N play the title character in a reboot of Perry M Mason for HBO.

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n a spring morning in 2018, Robert Downey Jr is winding his way through an extras-filled marketplace set on the back lot of London’s Pinewood Studios, filming a scene for his latest movie, Dolittle (out now). In the course of the complicated shot he will chat with a gorilla-playing actor wearing a specialeffects-assisting green leotard while also conversing with a non-existent parrot that will be computer-generated onto Downey’s shoulder at a later date and voiced by Emma Thompson.

For most movie stars, this sequence would be a trying experience. But after a decade playing Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Downey admits today’s labours seem positively down-toearth. “The Marvel films are literally on this other dimension,” says the actor, 54. “[Dolittle] is essentially a period comedy with a lot of heart.”

Downey is, of course, playing the film’s titular character whose famous ability to communicate with animals was previously depicted in 1967’s Rex Harrison-starring Doctor Dolittle and two more recent, modern-day Eddie Murphy vehicles (1998’s Dr Dolittle and 2001’s Dr Dolittle 2, both box office hits).

Downey’s version takes place in the

Robert Downey Jr, Harry Collett and a few of their feathered friends in Dolittle.

19th-century setting of Hugh Lofting’s original children’s books and finds Dolittle setting sail on an adventure with a young apprentice (Harry Collett) to find a cure for the gravely ill Queen Victoria (Jessie Buckley). Along the way, he encounters Michael Sheen’s villainous character, Mudfly, and Antonio Banderas’ Pirate King Rassouli, who rules the fictional island of Monteverdi on which today’s action takes place. Needless to say, Dolittle also spends time chatting it up with a host of animals, voiced by the stellar likes of Rami Malek, Kumail Nanjiani, John Cena, Marion Cotillard and Downey’s MCU co-star Tom Holland.

Like the 1967 original, which was notoriously beset with production woes, this iteration has been a bit of a real-life jungle cruise – following WHO’s set visit of the film, originally titled The Voyage of Dr Dolittle, Downey and his producer wife, Susan, saw director Stephen Gaghan’s cut and decided additional shooting was required. Gaghan, best known for directing the geopolitical thriller Syriana, is a newbie to the world of big-budget family-friendly filmmaking, and directors Chris McKay (The Lego Batman Movie) and Jonathan Liebesman (Wrath of the Titans) were both recruited to help rework the project. Meanwhile, the movie’s

Tom Holland provides the voice for glasseswearing dog Jip.

release date was pushed from last April to its eventual January 16 debut.

The Downeys put a positive spin on the reshoots. “We realised we just wanted more with Dolittle and the animals,” Susan Downey explains. “We brought consultants, but Gaghan was there – it was pretty much the same team.” If Dolittle proves a success, Downey says he would be more than happy to continue talking to the animals for some time to come. “There are so many ideas and thoughts and iterations that were racing through my mind from day one,” recalls the actor. “Even more now that we’re seeing [the finished result]. Once you start seeing something you like, you start thinking about how you could get it to the next level.”

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ALL SYSTEMS GO

THANKS TO THEIR ROLES IN NEW GO-KARTING FILM ‘GO!’, THESE THREE YOUNG ACTORS ARE ON THE FAST TRACK WILLIAM LODDER, 19

How similar are you to your character, Jack?

He was weirdly a lot like me. Jack moves to Perth and is introduced to this world of go-karting, which he’s never done before, and I was making a movie in Perth – something I don’t have a huge amount of experience in. It definitely made it easier to connect with the character. But I’m not as cheeky as Jack – he’s such a rebellious character.

How much of the racing did you get to do yourself?

About 40 per cent. I wish it was all me, but no. I had an awesome stunt double – a professional who knows what he’s doing and makes Jack look good.

ANASTASIA BAMPOS, 19

Your character, Mandy, has the know-how to build Jack a go-kart. Did you love playing someone who shows girls they can do whatever boys can?

I don’t have words to explain how excited I am to portray a character like this. If Go! came out when I was younger, I would have looked up to Mandy.

Women can be underestimated, and having Mandy as a role model is proof things are changing.

This is your first film role. How was the experience?

Yeah, there were a lot of firsts for me in this movie.

There were surprises and not one day was like another, and I loved that and how fast-paced it is.

DARIUS AMARFIO-JEFFERSON, 16

From left: AmarfioJefferson, Lodder and Bampos.

Your character, Colin, forms a fast friendship with newcomer Jack. How would you describe him?

At the start, he’s very introverted, but with Jack and Mandy’s help, he comes out of his shell and learns how to be comfortable in his own skin. The film is as much of a development story for Colin as it is for Jack. He becomes more impulsive.

He provides the comic relief. Are you a joker, too?

I like to think I am. Others may beg to differ.

Colin is a victim of bullying. Could you relate at all?

Growing up being African-American, there was always a bit of bullying. It’s something you learn to live with, and how to stand up for your mates.

ALSO OUT THIS WEEK

MOVIE

BAD BOYS FOR LIFE

THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM

Seventeen years after Bad Boys II, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence revisit their buddy cop duo. The police veterans, whose careers have taken them in different directions, unite for one last job taking on a criminal with a score to settle.

More than just a film about the challenges faced by John and Molly Chester as they relocated from the city to try their hands at running a farm, this offers a guide for how to live a more eco-friendly life and features some cute animals, too.

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THE ALBUMS

MANIC Halsey

The first track on Halsey’s third album is titled ‘Ashley’ – the singer’s real name, with the song setting the tone for what is an intensely personal and confessional collection. As she sings about “spilling her guts” on that opener and describes herself as having “spent a long time substituting honest with sarcastic” on ‘Forever … (is a long time)’, you get the sense that this is the real deal, with the colourful haired persona stripped back. Musically, Manic is as varied as its title suggests, taking in a range of styles and feels – from the punchy rock of ‘3am’ to the minimalist ‘More’.

(Out Fri., Jan 17)

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STARRING: Hugh Laurie, Josh Gad After years playing a surly – but brilliant!

– doctor on House, Laurie went back to his comedy roots in a hilarious recurring role on Veep. That worked out so well that the British actor has taken on the lead in the new series from Veep creator Armando Iannucci – a show that is literally millions of miles away from the political satire. Set mostly on board a space cruise ship called Avenue 5, the show of the same name follows what happens when the vessel ends up way off course.

Laurie is perfectly cast as the dashing captain of the ship, which is the outer space

equivalent of an ocean liner – all-you-can-eat buffets and all – while the other characters range from Avenue 5’s eccentric billionaire owner (Gad) to the disgruntled passengers suddenly facing a much longer trip than they anticipated.

Not as brilliant as Veep, the series does have moments of great comedy, but it’s mostly a clever line here or there rather than consistent laughs, and while some of the absurdity lands, there are moments that just feel a bit silly instead.

(Starts Tue., Jan. 21 at 8.30pm (AEDT); Fox Showcase)

DEAR HAPPY

Gabrielle Aplin

Back in 2014, YouTube performer turned major label recording artist Gabrielle Aplin scored back-to-back Top 5 hits on the ARIA chart, but has failed to generate that same level of interest in the years since. Her third album, Dear Happy, is full to the brim with tunes that showcase both the Brit’s pretty vocals and ability to belt out a powerhouse chorus, sometimes in the same song. Maintaining her more recent shift towards synth-based production, rather than the acoustic sound with which she launched herself, the album is an easy listen that is maybe too inoffensive for its own good.

(Out Fri., Jan. 17)

TROOP ZERO

STARRING: Viola Davis, Mckenna Grace

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Vatican officials angle to replace him with

Although this 1977-set family movie is a by-thenumbers tale of a group of misfits, it has plenty of Southern charm, and Oscar winners Davis and Allison Janney clearly have a ball as they face off playing rival Birdie scout troop leaders. Davis’ group are the underdogs, pulled together by the tenacious Christmas Flint (Grace), who has her heart set on winning a talent competition at the Birdie Jamboree. But can Troop Zero unite as a team and unearth whatever their talent may be?

No prizes for guessing the answer, but there’s some unexpected fun to be had along the way.

(On Amazon Prime Video from Fri., Jan. 17)

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a sorrowful, eccentric English aristocrat (Malkovich). (He’s friends with Meghan Markle: “I’m adamant – wear the yellow Dior,” he tells her on the phone.) In its peculiar way, the show is much more serious about faith and ambition than Netflix’s amiable film The Two Popes.

(On SBS On Demand from Thu., Jan. 16, with double episodes releasing weekly)

BOOK

DEAR EDWARD Ann Napolitano

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DIARY OF A FUTURE PRESIDENT STARRING: Tess Romero, Selenis Leyva The important word in this new comedy’s title is ‘future’, with the focus on 12-year-old Elena (Romero) as she navigates the trials of middle school. There are brief flash-forwards to grown-up Elena (played by Gina Rodriguez, who also executive produces the show), but her eventual political career is merely the framing device for a look back to

where her ambition began, as recorded in young Elena’s diary. Newcomer Romero is a capable young star and anchors the show, which in its first episode deals with broken friendships and periods in a relatable way.

It’s also nice to see Orange is the New Black’s Leyva in a lighter role, as Elena’s mum.

(On Disney+ from Fri., Jan. 17)

When a flight from New York to Los Angeles crashes in a Colorado field, there is only one survivor: 12-year-old Edward Adler. After weeks in hospital, he goes to live with his uncle and aunt, and begins the slow process of coming to terms with why he survived when 191 perished. Solace comes in the form of his friendship with Shay, who lives next door, and helps Edward navigate school and provides comforting reminders of the sibling he’s lost. Together, they also embark on a mission of sorts when they find sacks of letters, addressed to Edward but hidden in his uncle’s garage, from the relatives of the other passengers.

Although it tugs unashamedly at the heartstrings, this book is tender, beautifully written and ultimately uplifting.

(Out now)

THE Charlize Theron (left) on acting with Nicole Kidman (centre) and Margot Robbie: “Every day was pretty special.”

BOMB SQUAD CHARLIZE THERON ON THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL TRANSFORMATION REQUIRED TO PORTRAY A CONTROVERSIAL MEDIA FIGURE IN ‘BOMBSHELL’

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harlize Theron has built her career on metamorphosis. The 44-year-old actress gained 13kg to play a serial killer in 2003’s Monster and shaved her head to play the battle-scarred Furiosa in 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road. But her latest shape-shift is perhaps her most uncanny yet – Theron stars as Megyn Kelly in Bombshell (out now), Jay Roach’s drama about the downfall of notorious news titan Roger Ailes (John Lithgow).

With a bleached-blonde bob, pursed lips and a few well-placed prosthetics, Theron’s transformation is eerily accurate as Kelly, who in 2016 joined multiple Fox News employees to accuse Ailes of sexual harassment. But when Theron first read Charles Randolph’s script, she was reluctant to play such a polarising figure.

“Everyone [in America] knows exactly who you’re talking about when you say ‘Megyn

Kelly,’ ” she explains. “It’s not like when I played Aileen Wuornos [in Monster] and people were like, ‘Oh, who is that?’”

Her friend Roach, who directed HBO’s Game Change, helped sway her, and the two set out to tell a story not about Ailes but the women around him. In addition to Theron’s Kelly, Nicole Kidman stars as Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox & Friends co-host who first filed a lawsuit against Ailes alleging years of sexual harassment. Margot Robbie plays the fictional Kayla Pospisil, an amalgamation born of the actual testimonies from Ailes’ accusers. (Ailes denied all allegations before his death in 2017.)

Roach acknowledges that his perspective was limited as a man telling a story about women, so he and Theron spoke to “dozens” of people close to the real-life scandal for insight.

“We felt such a sense of responsibility since it’s

a story about women speaking up and being heard,” the director says.

“My responsibility was to listen and to talk to as many as I could so that people could empathise [with] what they went through.”

Roach notes that the Ailes scandal came more than a year before the #MeToo movement swept through Hollywood and before sexual harassment allegations brought down media juggernauts such as Harvey Weinstein, Les Moonves and Matt Lauer (each of whom denied the accusations against them). There’s also the fascination with Fox News itself, and how Ailes and his employees helped shape the United States’ conservative ideology. “These were women who would not have necessarily called themselves feminists and sometimes even were anti-politically correct,” Roach says. “And they ended up being the people that spoke up.”

The real deal: Kelly in 2016.

Blonde ambition: Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly.

“All of my other issues that I have with that world, I had to put all of that aside because the story is worth telling,” adds Theron, who also serves as a producer. “It doesn’t have anything to do with how I feel about Fox News or how I feel about Republicans. That’s not what this film is about at all.”

To fully transform into Kelly, Theron recruited renowned makeup artist Kazu Hiro, who won an Oscar for Darkest Hour. He’s technically retired from makeup artistry, but Mindhunter Season 2 (a show that Theron executive produces) coaxed him back to sculpt some serial killers, and Theron begged Hiro to suspend his retirement again for Bombshell.

The actress also immersed herself in footage of Kelly, particularly her unscripted interviews. “She’s pretty hard, and she comes across in a certain way that feels very strong and very much like you can’t break through

any of that wall,”Theron says. “But there are moments where you watch her – especially after [the events in Bombshell] take place – where you can see some of her vulnerability.”

Even with all that preparation, things didn’t always go as planned. “The prosthetics on the eyes were [especially] tricky,” Theron says with a laugh. “We were all cracking up because only one eye would blink, and it looked like I had a glass eye.”

Once the prosthetics were in place, however, Theron says she simply had to approach Kelly not as a crusading hero nor a controversial villain, but as a human being.

“You can’t tell a story like this if you’re not empathetic,” she says. “You don’t have to be sympathetic, but if you don’t understand or you’re not willing to for a second stand in their shoes, you can’t tell this story.”

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Retired actor Jack Nicholson enjoyed quality father-son bonding time at the basketball with Ray, watching the Los Angeles Lakers go head to head with the New York Knicks.

Brad Pitt swapped his clean-cut Golden Globes look for something more casual.

Speaking on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, Pitt joked the paparazzi never follow him anymore because of his“disaster of a personal life�.

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Like a Boss co-stars Salma Hayek, Rose Byrne and Tiffany Haddish posed on the red carpet at the film’s world premiere in New York. Hayek Instagrammed a snap with her“profoundly talented cast”.

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Drew Barrymore presented her lo ongtime friend Adam Sandler with th he Best Actor award at the National Board of Review gala. In his acceptance sp peech, Sandler gushed,“I love you, budd dy.”

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Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz have made their relationship Instagram official, posting snaps of each other in early January.

A few days later, the happy couple went out for dinner for Peltz’s birthday at Craig’s in West Hollywood.

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The pair first met when Irwin was just a baby.

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Princess Diana’s niece, Lady Kitty Spencer, is reportedly engaged to multi-millionaire fashion designer Michael Lewis, who is 31 years her senior. Model Lady Kitty, 29 – the eldest child of Diana’s brother Earl Charles Spencer – and Lewis, 60, are thought to have got engaged prior to Christmas. Lewis, a South African-born English businessman, is five years older than Earl Spencer. It has been reported Lady Kitty was visiting her family in Cape Town in South Africa over the holidays, when Lewis popped the question. The couple was first spotted together walking in New York in May last year. They were later seen in the Hamptons. Lady Kitty attended the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in 2018, after which, she said, her Instagram account ballooned.“I thought I was in someone else’s account,” she told marie claire last year.“I turned off my phone – it was a bit overwhelming.

I felt like someone was watching me!”

DEATH on January 4. Morgan, 27, who plays Toni Topaz in the series, exchanged vows with Kopech, 23, during a reception at a historic homestead in Florida. Co-star Madelaine Petsch was in her bridal party.

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Big Love actress Chloë Sevigny is reportedly five months pregnant with her first child.

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DATING Pussycat Dolls singer and The X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger, 41, appeared on the red carpet at a Golden Glob bes afterparty on January 5 with former f Scotland rugby player, Th hom Evans, 34.

They met while filming the UK version of The X Factor. ● Rachel Bilson n and Bill Hader confirmed their relationship when they made their red carpet c debut together at a this year’s Golden Globes.

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Ugly Betty creator Silvio Horta died on January 7, aged 45.

According to reports, Horta took his own life. “He was a kind and beautiful man,” his family said in a statement. “He may be gone but his light will shine on.” Ugly Betty star America Ferrera said: “His talent and creativity brought me and so many others such joy and light.”

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