New Idea 3 September 2018

Chezzi Denyer has embarked on a detox after confessing to a relapse. ‘Life gets hard. We get busy. We revert back to our old habits,’ the mother-of-two confessed in an emotional Instagram post. ‘It takes courage to fight those old habits. It takes strength and determination to power on when things are hard,’ she added. Chezzi went on to say she has seen ‘many people down and out lately, battling to survive’. ‘RELYING ON CHOCOLATE LICORICE TO GET ME THROUGH TOUGH DAYS... I FELT GROSS’ ‘I am so honoured and so impressed by the resilience I’ve witnessed, but more than that, I’m in total awe of everyone I’ve met so far doing it tough,’ she went on. ‘And not for one second do I feel my journey compares with theirs at all, most of…

Ben Affleck, 46, has gone off the rails yet again. His ex-wife Jennifer Garner recently staged an intervention and the star has agreed to go back into rehab, according to TMZ . Jen drove to his home last week to take him to the rehab unit. This is his third time, after he fell off the wagon last December, and also in 2001 when he suffered from alcohol abuse. Ben is also rumoured to have dumped girlfriend of one year Lindsay Shookus for the 22-year-old Playboy model Shauna Sexton, who recently admitted her go-to beverage was ‘whiskey all day’. A source spilled that Jen was not happy with him hanging out with a Playboy model, adding: ‘Her concern right now is not who he is dating. What she ultimately cares about is his…

Just three weeks after its announcement, Olivia Newton-John has cancelled her spoken word tour. Olivia was due to speak at an ‘In Conversation With’ event in Melbourne and Sydney in September. The promoters said the cancellation was due to ‘reasons beyond their control’. Turning 70 next month, the Los Angeles-based singer was due to head to Australia for her annual Wellness Walk to raise valuable funds for her cancer centre. But despite appearing radiant recently during a 40th anniversary celebration of the film Grease, alongside co-star John Travolta, it’s been a tough time for the Aussie star. The actress continues to deal privately with the ongoing mental health issues of her daughter Chloe Lattanzi, who has been vocal about her battles with depression in the past. The 32-year-old recently informing her 47,000 Instagram followers…

After taking some time out of the spotlight, former Home And Away golden girl, Bonnie Sveen – and partner of three-and-a-half years, Nathan Gooley – has quietly been working away on her biggest and most exciting project to date – her pregnancy with identical twins! When New Idea sits down with the mum-to-be, she’s understandably a bundle of nerves and excitement as she anticipates the big day. ‘I’m 30 weeks pregnant now and I’m due in about six weeks, so the first week of October. We wanted to fall pregnant in 2018, we both wanted to start a family but then it happened super quick – you can do the math!’ she laughs. ‘So unconsciously we were both manifesting these babies, and we both very ready.’ Here, in this exclusive interview, Bonnie,…

After the sad announcement recently that The Block’s Shaynna Blaze and personal trainer husband Steve Vaughan had separated, reports have emerged that Fifi Box is caught up in it all. An insider has told New Idea that while Fifi is still recovering from her recent split with on-again, off-again boyfriend Damien Richardson, and her relationship with Steve is strictly platonic, they are becoming increasingly close as they support each other through their respective break-ups. ‘Fifi and Steve have been great friends for some time, ever since he started training her last year,’ says a source. ‘They have a lot of laughs together and for the first time in a long time, workouts have been fun for Fifi – something to look forward to.’ Shaynna went public with the breakdown of her 18-year marriage on…

It was meant to be an olive branch – but the Queen’s invitation to Sarah, Duchess of York to join the royal family during their annual summer retreat at Balmoral has turned into a right royal disaster. New Idea has learned that the weekend turned to chaos as an explosive row erupted between Fergie and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. ‘Fergie and Camilla came to blows at Balmoral last week, it was an enormous row that absolutely no-one saw coming,’ a palace source tells New Idea. According to insiders, the Queen had invited the disgraced former wife of Prince Andrew to Scotland ahead of her daughter Princess Eugenie’s wedding in the hope that all the family could get used to the duchess being back in the royal fold. But despite the Queen putting her differences…