New Idea 29 May 2017

We’ve had our puppy Barney for seven months now, and while he’s adorable, cuddly and fun, he’s also far more work than he was when we first got him! Nothing is safe from him stealing it, chewing it and burying it in the backyard. We’ve lost socks, sunglasses, netball skirts, school hats... and his latest obsession is my daughter’s Beanie Boos. Beanie Boos are cuddly, little toy animals that you collect, and Ivy has about 20 living in her bedroom. And although we tell her to keep her bedroom door closed, Barney finds his way in and grabs them. This morning as Ivy was being picked up by a friend’s dad for netball training, he found me in my pyjamas running around the front yard, trying to save yet another Beanie Boo…

BRIDAL BEAUTY Wow! MARGOT ROBBIE looks stunning, performing bridesmaid duties for friend JULIA KOENIG’s big day in Hawaii. Although you have to praise (or question?!) a brave bride who’s happy to have the beautiful Aussie actress walking down the aisle beside her! Admitting she now cringes at her naked Wrecking Ball video, MILEY CYRUS put on a more demure performance p onstage in LA, handing out flowers to the audience! A pregnant MEGAN GALE (she’s the one in black!) was all smiles while posing with her waxwork figure at Madame Tussauds Sydney, despite suffering a bout of food poisoning hours earlier. Ahoy, mateys! JOHNNY DEPP was bombarded by fans as he sailed into the premiere of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Di in Disneyland alongside co-stars GEOFFREY RUSH, JAVIER BARDEM and…

Only in New Idea Karl Stefanovic’s hidden heartbreak has been exposed, with his father shockingly revealing that he’s cut all ties with his famous son. Alex Stefanovic says he doesn’t believe he will talk to Karl and his brother Peter ever again. Alex, 70, further claims Today host Karl refuses to call him ‘Dad’, is ‘ashamed’ of him and has not let two of his kids meet their grandfather. ‘There is no way back. Things are beyond repair. We’re done. I won’t see Karl or his brother Peter again in this life, maybe the next,’ says Alex, who despite these claims was invited to and sat in the third row at Peter’s wedding to Today co-host Sylvia Jeffreys. ‘I have nothing to do with either of them. ‘They walked away from me 25 years ago following my…

The battler reveals the terrifying events that still haunt him today Australia has fallen in love with battlers Troy and Bec, but Troy’s life before House Rules was less than charmed. ‘We’re definitely battlers. That’s the title we’ve got from day one and we’re happy to have it,’ he says. Now, Troy opens up to New Idea about the terrifying moment he feared for his life. Just over a year ago, Troy was the victim of two armed robberies at a club where he worked as a supervisor. ‘I was working seven days a week in two clubs. I worked my way up to supervisor and there were two robberies and because I was the supervisor they came after me. It’s a quiet little club and we were easy targets,’ Troy painfully recalls. ‘It was…

For gorgeous young couple Kate and Harry, their son Xavier is their world, so being away from him while filming House Rules is incredibly difficult for them. When New Idea chats to them about the separation, Harry immediately tears up. ‘Don’t talk about it or I’ll cry,’ Harry, 32, wells up. ‘I’m quite sensitive so I get teary really easily. We really struggled with it.’ Adds Kate, 28: ‘It’s such a fun age. You really feel like you’re missing out, but he was in such good hands with my parents.’ With a freshly renovated house, baby number two is finally a possibility for the SA pair. ‘We might actually be able to start planning for number two now,’ Harry excitedly says. Kate nods: ‘The first thing we’ll do after this is to start trying for another…

Caught with cocaine in Colombia, the Adelaide woman’s shocking life is revealed The fiance of alleged Colombian drug mule Cassie Sainsbury has made a series of shock confessions about his jailed lover. In an explosive tell-all with Sunday Night, Scott Broadbridge has revealed that he had seen secret payments from mystery men and believes she was lured into the cocaine smuggling scandal by a group of Australians. Before he spoke to Channel Seven, an emotional Scott told a press conference: ‘[I know Cass] was not deliberately taking drugs or carrying drugs anywhere.’ The shocking TV interview comes five weeks after the 22-year-old Adelaide woman was arrested at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota with 5.8kg of cocaine. The former personal trainer claims she was duped into carrying the drugs in her luggage, believing that…