New Idea 9 April 2018

My eldest daughter is a really keen swimmer who is more than happy to get up at 5.30am to do laps in the cold and dark – and I have no idea where it comes from. I’m a pretty bad swimmer who loves bobbing around in the ocean but can’t swim properly with my face in the water (much to my daughter’s horror!). That’s why we’ll be glued to the swimming at this year’s Commonwealth Games. She’ll be watching to see if Mack, Bronte and her other heroes can win, whereas I’ll be watching and thinking of those poor parents who have to get their kids up and drive them to swim training every morning at 5am! I hope you enjoy the Games – c’mon Aussies!…

They’re getting into the swing of things! HEIDI KLUM and MEL B were a bit green after they were chosen to be the recipients of a sliming at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards in California last week. A SIGN OF TRUE LOVE? DREW BARRYMORE arrived at the season two premiere of Santa Clarita Diet holding a sign declaring her love for JAKE GYLLENHAAL (inset). Unfortunately, it’s not a new romance. The actress is making up for naming Jake as her ‘least talented’ co-star while playing Spill Your Guts Or Fill Your Guts on The Late Late Show With James Corden . MIA, four, is set to become a big sister later this year. Parents ZARA and MIKE TINDALL are expecting their second child together. The happy news comes after Zara revealed she suffered…

‘SHILOH EVEN ASKED BRAD IF SHE COULD CALL JEN “MUMMY”... IT FELT LIKE A NATURAL NEXT STEP’ While Jennifer Aniston has been reconnecting with her old flame Brad Pitt, the Friends star has also found herself enjoying a blossoming new friendship with his daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt. As Hollywood’s golden couple’s relationship deepens and they spend more and more time together, 11-year-old Shiloh has found herself won over by Jen’s fun and loving personality. ‘Shiloh has been spending a lot of time with Jen in recent weeks and they really have developed a very special bond now,’ a source tells New Idea. ‘Brad loves seeing how close they have become – always laughing and smiling, and Shiloh has become the closest to Jen out of all of Brad’s kids.’ ‘Shiloh even asked Brad if she could…

SET AND MATCH FOR KARL? CONSIDERING THE FEUDING PAIR ARE BARELY SPEAKING, THE CHANCE MEETING WOULD’VE BEEN AWKWARD It’s just blow after blow for the fallen TV presenter Karl Stefanovic at the moment! In a shocking turn of events, Karl, Jasmine and Cass have recently been spotted at the same venue. With the Uber-gate scandal still hanging over his head – in which New Idea broke the exclusive on the driver who overheard Karl’s conversation with brother Peter slating fellow colleagues and the Nine Network – TV’s ‘golden boy’ is now having close encounters with none other than ex-wife Cassandra Thorburn! While enjoying a leisurely game of tennis with his younger wife Jasmine near their North Sydney home recently, unbeknown to Karl, 43, Cass was snapped in her car in the tennis club car…

‘THEY HAVE A LUXURY HOME, CARS, THEY TRAVEL THE WORLD... AND MONEY IS NEVER AN ISSUE’ It’s the bombshell cricket scandal that’s rocked Australia – and, it seems, Dave and Candice Warner’s marriage as well. Sources close to celebrity WAG Candice reveal that she’s ‘absolutely livid’ over the Australian cricket team’s shocking cheating bombshell, which has seen her vice captain husband Dave accused of ball tampering alongside captain Steve Smith during the third test match in South Africa. Dave has already been stripped of his vice captaincy and faces calls to be sacked from the team, as well as facing controversy as fellow team members reportedly ‘turned’ on him after he ‘went rogue’ and was spotted sipping champagne with non-cricket friends just a day after the scandal broke. But it seems his biggest battle…

‘IN PUBLIC, THEY ARE ALL SMILES, BUT BEHIND THE SCENES THEY DO NOT LIKE CAMILLA’ Behind palace doors, there is an explosive feud brewing – and it seems that Camilla’s meddling ways have finally gone too far! All the rows have reached breaking point and it’s now beyond repair. Kate and Wills have fled, Beatrice and Eugenie have been banished, and Meghan has been publicly slammed. In an extraordinary exclusive interview with New Idea, Tom Bower – the author of an explosive tell-all about Prince Charles – has spilled the details. ‘There’s no doubt that William and Kate moved to Sandringham to get away from Charles and his friends,’ said Tom, whose book Rebel Prince: The Power Passion And Defiance Of Prince Charles is out now. He claims William and his brother Harry have a ‘difficult’…