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Swiss freeze: Sophie, Edward and Louise look snug and happy as they set out.

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There’s no day like a snow day! The Earl and Countess of Wessex , along with their children Lady Louise (16) and James, Viscount Severn (12), hit the slopes at the exclusive St Moritz resort in Switzerland last week. The Wessexes have made their skiing holidays something of a tradition, jetting off every year around this time to glide down the slopes, with James especially showing a knack for snow sports. The trip will be a welcome break for Sophie (55) and Edward (55), who have had a busy year already as they’ve rallied to fill in for Edward’s nephew Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex , who have stepped back from royal engagements as they settle in to their equally wintry life in Canada. # IT’S SNOW HOLIDAY FOR THE WESSEXES!

The refreshingly down-to-earth couple enjoyed some quality time with their children, who were on a break from school.

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MARCH 2, 2020

10 PARENTING & THE PALACE Kate’s candid motherhood chat 14 BACK FOR SECONDS Jamie’s getting married again! 20 A DAME’S DARKEST HOUR Why Kristin’s making a comeback 36 COOKING WITH PASSION Nici’s tropical delights 52 HEALTHWATCH Don’t let snoring ruin your life CELEBS REVEAL: OUR WORST TV MOMENTS! ON THE COVER

STORIES 12 DIVORCE DOMINOES Another royal couple call it quits 13 SUSSEX TV SPECIAL Harry and Meghan’s news series 16 THE WRAP UP Why Fran Drescher’s just fine; Brad’s biggest win; Shannen’s toughest cancer battle yet 18 J-LO’S WEDDING JOY Why I’m going to go all out! 24 QUICK FICTION Part two of Love, Virtually WEEKLY PEOPLE 28 WORDS TO THE WISE Ann’s keeping the faith 30 GAINING TRACTION Cat and Phil’s trek of hope 32 FLORA’S BOOT CAMP She’s got her foot in the door! FOOD 40 FOOD EXTRA FASHION & BEAUTY 42 FASHION 46 BEAUTY LIFESTYLE 50 GREEN GODDESS 54 FAMILY

55 CONSUMER 56 GARDEN 59 CRAFT 60 TRAVEL 63 HEY JUDE TIMEOUT 64 PUZZLES 72 WEDDINGS & TEACUPS 73 HOROSCOPES 75 WEEKLY CONVERSATION 76 KERRE MCIVOR 77 COLIN HOGG 78 ENTERTAINMENT 79 BOOKS STAR WEEKLY 2 STAR NEWS 80 STAR WEEKLY

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thought of the fact that a million people were watching – until I couldn’t remember that Fergie is the Duchess of York. What was likely only a second or two felt like an eternity as I desperately wracked my brain for a word I knew as well as anything. In hindsight, I’m probably lucky that was the worst thing that happened. I absolutely loved hearing about the moments that have haunted some of my f faces from the telly –I enjoy reading about their confessions. Enjoy your week! I truly take my hat off to anyone who can make a career doing live telly. I immediately get a pit in my stomach and sweaty palms whenever I’m asked on and start imagining all the worst-case scenarios that could happen. What if I’m suddenly tongue-tied? What if I manage to fall backwards off my chair? What if I say something ridiculous and it goes up on YouTube and I’m forever known as that person? What if I look as afraid as I really am?! Thankfully, after experiencing pretty sensational nerves, when the camera turns to me something comes over me – maybe I’ve got them out of my system, or maybe it’s an acceptance that it’s too late to run away – and I’m fine. So far none of the above situations have ever played out (touch wood!) either. Time really seems to slow down though, and each second after you’re asked a question feels like it’s stretching on forever. A few years ago I was lucky enough to be asked to go on TVNZ’s live pre-show to Harry and Meghan’s big wedding. Probably due to the cold and flu tablet I’d taken to keep a raging temperature at bay, I was feeling remarkably calm about the whole thing and barely It l k FROM THE EDITOR h Alice O’Connell, Editor nzww@bauermedia.co.nz av ri hope you !

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Just because you’re on telly, doesn’t mean you’re always happy about what you see yourself do! For many of our on-screen celebs, life in front of the camera can mostly be fun, always entertaining and occasionally a bit embarrassing. The Weekly talks to four TV personalities who aren’t afraid to admit that, sometimes, it really can go horribly wrong! FOUR LOCAL CELEBRITIES REVEAL THEIR ON-SCREEN SCREAMERS

Ihave never watched myself [on TV] even from the first advert I ever did because you never look and sound how you think you will. Right from the start I was highly criticised for my accent. Everywhere I went people would say, ‘Oh my God, you’re the lady with the strange voice and the weird accent.’ When I saw myself on the telly I had to agree. I do sound terrible and I don’t like the look of myself. When I did Dancing with the Stars my dance partner, Stefano Oliveri, and I sat down after the first week to watch the episode and I was mortified. “ SUZANNE PAUL INFOMERCIAL HOST & TELEVISION PRESENTER

Our terrible moments

I didn’t look how I felt.

In my head I was young and slim and gorgeous. When I saw myself I was distraught. Oh, look at my stomach! Oh, look how short my legs are! Even though I won the competition and everybody said I looked gorgeous I just couldn’t see it. I completely lost my confidence and thought I looked like a complete idiot. Stefano said I wasn’t to watch myself anymore because it wasn’t good for my confidence, so I didn’t.

With my adverts, the problem is I never know when they’re coming on. I was in a Sydney hotel room last year and always have the TV on in the background (I don’t like being in an empty room by myself) and an advert came on. I realised it was me and panicked. I was trying to change the channel as quickly as I could but there I was on that channel selling something else. Oh my God, it was a nightmare, so I switched again and there I was for a third time. I broke out in a cold sweat and had to switch the telly off in the end. I know I am too rough on myself. I did an interview with Anika Moa last year and everyone said it was hilarious but I’ve still never watched it. My lovely partner, Patrick, keeps saying to me, ‘Watch it, you’ll love it!’ But I’m not ready yet. Funnily enough, now, nearly 13 years later, I can watch myself on Dancing with the Stars. And when I look back at the show I don’t know what I was worried about. I looked lovely, I was amazing! I don’t know what was wrong with me.”

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Most of the telly I did was live, the sort where you can see yourself out the corner of your eye and watch your own slow death. When I hosted It’s in the Bag, I worked with Hilary Timmins as my co-host for six years. As you will recall, the show was about taking the money or the bag − which could include a brand machine, a trip to oby prize, such m the Two as in full flight to really ramp sm and shouting y voice, ‘The big ne, I’m offering London for two or you could finish up with one of Hilary’s boobies.’ There was a thunderous silence. Hilary just about fell out of her gear and could not sober up. I just wanted to kill myself. We were filming live though so I didn’t stop and kept on going, warts and all. Another time, when I was doing Top Half in the early 1980s, I was all set to interview a punk rocker called Wreckless Eric who’d had one hit called Whole Wide World. It was a live interview and in walks Eric during the commercial break, the archetypal punk rocker with more stuff in his nose, eyebrows and ears than I’d ever seen. He was a disgusting looking person and I don’t think he knew what deodorant was because the whole studio stunk. He looked at me with venom, as if I was the enemy. I thought I’d go straight to the heart with this guy, no pussyfooting around.

He sat on the couch between me and Judy Bailey and when the commercial was over I leapt in and welcomed him to the studio, then said, ‘Tell me, is it all drugs and sex on the rock’n’roll road?’ There was a pause as he looked at me, then replied, ‘Well if it was I wouldn’t be here would I?’ He then spat on the carpet and walked out. My favourite story is another day on Top Half with Judy. The UT! TV “ JOHN HAWKESBY BROADCASTER & AUTHOR

Rubik’s cube was the big new craze in the early 1980s, and some kid in Norway got the world record by doing it in 13 seconds. It was Judy’s story and she was holding up a cube, explaining how it all worked. She started turning it to demonstrate and every time she turned it, a piece flew off. There were bits flying off everywhere and I’m sitting next to her, off camera, wetting my pants as this thing disintegrates. Lovely Judy is all prim and proper trying to do it correctly and kicking me out of [view of the] camera to stop me laughing. Finally the thing is almost completely demolished and she beams down the camera, ‘My co-host John Hawkesby will continue to demonstrate,’ and hands me what’s left of the Rubik’s cube.

I had to hold that damn thing until we could end the show and re-join the network.”

KERRE MCIVOR NEWSTALK ZB RADIO HOST

Celebrity Squares was not a great show for me. You may remember it was based on the game noughts and crosses, and in each box was a different celebrity. The host would ask each celebrity a question and the contestant had to guess whether the answer was right or wrong. I was cast as the dumb, blonde bimbo. The host was Richard Wilkins, who is a really handsome New Zealand-born, Australian celebrity. In those days game shows gave away a lot of household stuff, and in this case it was a lovely queen-sized bedroom suite with a headboard and matching bedside tables. Richard announced it and then said, ‘Here’s something Kerre would love, you must have worn a few of these out over the years Kerre.’ I replied, sitting up in my little square, ‘Ha, ha, ha Richard.’ There were no hard feelings because all our lines were scripted, so he wasn’t being mean − he was just doing his job. It was a different time in the early 1990s − what are you going to do? I turned up for the gig and played the dumb blonde, that wasn’t really me. I was waitressing at the time and got $600 for doing it, so it was very useful. Another show I worked on was Ready Steady Cook, which I actually hosted in the late 1990s. It was one of the first cooking-game shows and we worked really hard, filming five shows in one day. On this one day cricketer Martin Crowe was busily chopping tomatoes when I realised, with horror, that he had chopped the tops of his fingers off. I was looking at them and saying, ‘Gosh, these tomatoes look nice and juicy,’ and then noticed all this blood spurting everywhere and he was looking really pale. Like a trooper, Martin kept talking to the camera but I eventually had to tell them to stop filming. It was too much. I have done so much terrible TV in the past, such as turning up for the Pascal Celebrity Challenge dressed as Wonder Woman and sliding down poles. Horrendous. Jude Dobson was very good at all that! But I’ve escaped the worst TV humiliation because I said no to Celebrity Treasure Island every year from the age of 32 to 54. I say no to quite a few reality shows. I’m not great real − I’m much better packaged.” “

TEXT: WENDYL NISSEN

Curiously, the worst thing I remember of my early TV appearances on the Christchurch edition of Town and Around was my really (really!) strong Belfast (Northern Ireland) accent. I recall [publisher] Christine Cole Catley in an early review referring to me as ‘a newcomer’ and singling out my ‘intriguing Irish accent’. To me, this intended compliment was an insult and a slap in the face. I hated my accent and, over the years, worked hard to lose it. I think I was reasonably successful in that effort. I’d like to think of my current accent as more of a ‘brogue’ − soft and lilting. In the 1960s I headed off to the West Coast of the South Island to file some stories for Town and Around. I discovered they had a new PR officer so I thought, ‘This is a good idea, who better to talk to for a story.’ We thought we’d do some colour stuff, maybe in a pub. Down I go to the West Coast, and the weather is unbelievably awful, pouring with drenching rain. The new PR man was happy to do an interview so I did it outside. There was an unbelievable amount of rain coming down and this man was wearing an English-style hat which had a rim. He’s standing in the rain and could barely see “ BRIAN EDWARDS BROADCASTER & AUTHOR

me, and the rim of his hat kept gradually collecting water so that every time he leaned forward the water would pour down his face and his front. All the while, I’m saying, ‘So tell me, what is so good about this place?’ It was awful and so naughty and evil and bad to do to the poor fellow, who’d only been there a few days. That night we went down to the pub in Greymouth for the second story and there was a marvellous woman there who got up to sing. She had a fantastic voice and sang this song which was so plaintive, with the words, ‘It’s dark as a dungeon down in the mine,’ and she was standing on the table, having had a few drinks. So my two stories were the crucifixion of the new PR man down on the West Coast and the drunken woman singing dark-as-a-dungeon-down-inthe-mine on a table. The people on the West Coast didn’t like it and wrote unpleasant letters to me saying extremely nasty things and making extraordinary suggestions about what I could do with myself. I felt I could never go back there for fear of what they would do to me. But last year my wife, Judy, and I did venture there and had a lovely time in lovely weather.” #

ROYAL UPDATE

PARENTING CANDID KATE OPENS UP! & the palace

It’s her most personal interview ever. And just when it seemed she couldn’t endear herself to the public any more than she already has, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge has impressed people by talking honestly about the challenges of pregnancy and motherhood. The mum-of-three spoke for 30 minutes on UK podcast Happy Mum, Happy Baby about moments all other parents can relate to, such as the guilt she feels about times when she can’t be there for Prince George (6), Princess Charlotte (4) and Prince Louis (22 months). But Kate (38) also opened up about the demands being a member of the royal family puts on her parenting, including being expected to present her babies to the world just hours after giving birth. In the nine years since she married Prince William (37) and became a fully-fledged royal, Kate has only spoken publicly a few times, in short interviews THE DUCHESS REVEALS ALL ON MUM GUILT AND MOTHERHOOD

Posing for pictures with William and George just a day after giving birth in 2013 (left) was “terrifying”, Kate admitted to Giovanna (above).

and prepared speeches. So her half-hour chat with host Giovanna Fletcher (35) –partly to publicise a survey on early childhood that she’s promoting –was groundbreaking. Kate’s admissions about pregnancy and parenthood provided a real insight into her life and the kind of person she is. The duchess admitted that presenting her newborns to the world outside the Lindo Wing of London’s St Mary’s Hospital shortly after giving birth was “terrifying”. When George was born in 2013, both she and William were keen to do the obligatory shot with their new addition in front of the media and gathered crowds, just as William’s parents Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, had done with him and Prince Harry, but it was stressful. “Everyone had been so supportive and both William and I were really conscious that this was something everyone was excited about, and you know we’re hugely grateful for the support the public had shown us. “For us to be able to share that joy and appreciation with the public, I felt was important. “But, equally, it was coupled with a newborn baby, and inexperienced parents, and the uncertainty of what that held, so there were all sorts of mixed emotions.” Kate also confessed that she preferred labour to pregnancy, thanks to suffering from a severe form of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidarum with each of her babies. “I’m not the happiest of pregnant people,” she revealed. “It was definitely a challenge, not just for me but also for loved ones around me. William didn’t feel he could do much to help and it’s hard [for loved ones] to see you suffering without actually being able to do anything about it.” She added, “[It was] utterly rotten. I was really sick. I wasn’t eating the things I should’ve been eating and yet the body was able to take the goodness from my body and grow a new life, which I think is fascinating.” Because pregnancy had been so awful, labour was much easier in comparison. “I actually really quite liked labour… because actually it was an event that I knew there was going to be an ending to!” Kate also talked about how she tried hypnobirthing during labour, after realising during bad days of her pregnancy how effective harnessing the power of the mind could be. “It was through hyperemesis that I realised the power of the mind over the body because I really had to try everything to help me through it. I’m not going to say that William was there chanting sweet nothings at me –he definitely wasn’t, I didn’t even ask him about it –but it was just something I wanted to do for myself. I realised that this was something that I could take control of, I suppose, during labour.” The moment she held George in her arms f r t first time was magic. “It is extraordinary. How can the human body do that? It is utterly extraordinary, actually. And he was very sweet. And [we were] relieved he was a happy, healthy boy.” Kate was keen to get home from hospital because sh associated it with being horribly ill wit morning sickness. “It wasn’t a place I wanted to hang around in. So I was really desperate to get home and get back to normality. But you think, particularly with your firstborn baby, that everything is going to go back to how it was. “I totally underestimated the impact and the change that it had on us from that moment really. No amount of planning and preparation can get you ready for that moment.” When asked whether she struggles with “mum guilt”, Kate’s response was an emphatic, “Yes, absolutely, and anyone who doesn’t as a mother is actually lying! Even coming here this morning… George and Charlotte were like, ‘Mummy, how could you possibly not be dropping us off at school this morning?’ It’s a constant challenge.” If she could give her younger self advice, it would be that spending quality time with your children is what matters. “It’s not whether you’ve done every single drop off and every single pick up but actually it’s those quality moments when you’re properly listening to them, properly understanding what they feel.” And what she’d like George, Charlotte and Louis to most remember about their childhood are the ordinary but special moments such as, “the family going to the beach, getting soaking wet, filling our boots full of water.” # Kate often spends quality time with her children, snapping moments such as this one of Charlotte smelling a bluebell.