New Idea 5 February 2018

What’s your emergency dinner? You know, that dinner that you always make when you’re stumped for anything else to cook? Now school has gone back, I seem to be relying on spaghetti with sauce or eggs on toast waaay too much, which is why I’m very happy our food team have put together their favourite, fail-safe dinners – ready in just minutes on page 52. They’re the perfect meals to eat during this new season of MKR. This year, what goes on in the kitchen, is overshadowed by the dramas that you’ll see. I cannot wait!…

Every ingredient was perfect – sunshine, blue sky, family, friends, fine food and fun – when My Kitchen Rules favourite Manu Feildel finally married his longtime love, Clarissa Weerasena. ‘Of course I cried but it was happiness, not nerves,’ laughs the handsome groom, speaking exclusively to New Idea after the emotion-filled ceremony last Monday. ‘I could not hold onto my feelings. I’m a big, soft bear!’ The happy couple’s nuptials had been put on the backburner for several years while life, work and the birth of beautiful daughter Charlee, now three, postponed their big day. But at last the stars aligned, allowing Manu and Clarissa to cook up their whirlwind wedding surprise in just three months of hectic planning. ‘It was on the cards for a very long time. We were engaged for four…

In a wedding bombshell no-one saw coming, Delta Goodrem has revealed plans to wed her new rock ’n’ roll lover Matthew Copley after just six weeks of dating. Close friends of the adored Aussie singer tell New Idea that the lovebirds want to walk down the aisle ‘as soon as possible’, after deciding to take their whirlwind romance to the next level. It’s believed Delta is ‘sick of waiting for her happily ever after’ and has jumped at Matthew’s suggestion that they marry. They’re now said to be planning a small, intimate wedding for close friends and family in country Victoria – possibly at a five-star winery. But while details are still coming to light, one thing is for sure: this wedding is going to happen sooner rather than later. ‘Matthew and Delta may…

With Jen Aniston and Brad Pitt spending more and more time together in the wake of his divorce from Angelina Jolie, it seems there are two people dead against the former couple’s renewed closeness – Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox. The ‘furious’ actresses have lashed out at their former Friends co-star over her new relationship with Brad, angry that she’s putting her marriage to Justin Theroux at risk by allowing her A-list ex back into her life. Lisa and Courteney are also said to be disappointed that Jen seems to have ‘completely forgotten’ about the pain Brad caused her after their marriage ended, and the lengths they went to in helping their broken friend rebuild her life after her 2005 split from Brad. ‘For years, Courteney and Lisa were there for Jen morning,…

As wedding speculation continues to mount amid rumours that Karl Stefanovic has proposed to Jasmine Yarbrough, it’s been claimed that the pair threw an exclusive engagement party for close friends and family last week. Well-wishers and partygoers were heard cheering, applauding and offering congratulations during the nine-hour party on January 20, which was held at brother Peter Stefanovic’s luxurious mansion in the ritzy Sydney suburb of Double Bay. Karl and Jasmine – who controversially started dating just a few months after his 21-year marriage to ex-wife Cassandra Thorburn ended – had just returned from a five-star holiday at Fiji’s private Kokomo Island less than 24 hours before the celebration. Sources confirm to New Idea that Karl got down on bended knee on January 14, asking Jasmine to marry him in a romantic island…

While the palace prepares for two royal weddings after last week’s shock announcement of Princess Eugenie’s engagement, it seems tensions are already rising between Prince Harry and his cousin after a string of battles over their rival ceremonies. Royal insiders tell New Idea that a ‘wedding war’ has erupted between the royals, with Princess Eugenie going ‘all out’ in her attempt to outshine Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s big day. It’s been claimed that Eugenie and new fiance Jack Brooksbank, 29, in fact got engaged before Harry and Meghan, but were forced by senior royals to ‘keep it quiet’ for months. Since then a ‘ropable Eugenie’ has been stewing in the shadows, plotting her revenge against Harry and his bride-to-be – vowing to ‘blow them out of the water’ with a bigger, better…