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Last week, we announced the results of our budget anti-ageing awards, and I gave out two Editor’s Choice Awards for the products I use and love. One was to Saira Khan’s Saira Skin Anti-Ageing Face Oil, the other to our columnist Lesley Reynolds (above) for her Harley Street Skin Care Restorative Miracle Serum. And a fascinating conversation with Lesley’s husband, Dr Aamer Khan, led to me agreeing to change my lifestyle over the next six months to try to turn back my own biological clock. See best next week for my interview with him, and learn how you, too, can look younger, get slimmer and reduce your chances of dementia. What do we all have to lose? • Please let me know your thoughts, siobhan. wykes@hearst.co.uk EXECUTIVE EDITOR…

The figures speak for themselves. Recent research* shows that 60 per cent of women believe the menopause has impacted on their self-esteem, while 50 per cent say it’s put a strain on their closest relationships. But adjusting your diet may be able to ease the worst symptoms. 1 INCREASE ENERGY The menopause disrupts the thyroid hormones, which control your metabolic rate. A sluggish, or accelerated, rate can interfere with our energy levels. What to eat: Iodine (in tuna and eggs), selenium (in Brazil nuts and mushrooms), zinc (pumpkin seeds) and magnesium (cashew nuts, spinach) are used by the body to manufacture thyroid hormones. Sweet potatoes, carrots and other orange fruit and veg offer beta carotene, which the body converts to vitamin A. 2 BEAT BLOATING AND WATER RETENTION Many women…

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Judy Finnigan looked to be taking a leaf out of her daughter’s book as she stepped out showing off a significantly slimmer figure last week. The 69-year-old was snapped while walking with husband Richard Madeley, 61. Judy’s weight has fluctuated since she started presenting on TV with Richard in 1988. The mum-of-four looked to be at her biggest last year, but it seems she’s transformed herself. Daughter Chloe Madeley, 30, a fitness fanatic who works out six days a week, admitted earlier this year that she had tried to improve her parents’ diet, saying, ‘I tried to get them to stop eating mounds of white bread and it didn’t go down well at all. They were like, “No! Don’t bring that chat over here. We don’t want to hear it.”…

‘If there’s one thing I’ve learned’ ‘HG is incredibly tough, but with the right amount of support, you can get through it. Talking about your experiences helps others, too.’ Dear Kate, When I heard that you were pregnant for the third time, and suffering with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) yet again, my heart absolutely broke for you – because I’ve been there, too. I’m a 36-year-old mum-ofthree and I also went through the torture of the horrible condition, which affects just one per cent of women who get sick in pregnancy. In November 2007, I was six weeks along with my eldest son when it set in. I’d had a devastating miscarriage seven months earlier, and my husband, Rob, then 27, and I were thrilled that, this time, the pregnancy was…

Slimming WORLD White chocolate and redcurrant jelly creams Serves 4 Ready in: 30 minutes, plus cooling and chilling 6 small leaf gelatine sheets 5tbsp noadded- sugar red berry cordial 100g redcurrants, stripped from their stalks 100ml skimmed milk 50g white chocolate, broken into pieces 150g fat-free natural Greek yoghurt 1 Drop 3 leaf gelatine sheets into a large bowl of cold water and leave to soak for 5 mins. 2 Mix the cordial with 300ml boiling water. Scoop the gelatine out of the water, squeeze the excess water and stir the gelatine into the hot cordial until it has completely dissolved. Leave to cool and pour the mixture into 4 x 150ml moulds, mini loaf tins or ramekins. Divide the redcurrants between each mould and put in the fridge for…

10 to give a way! best birthday giveaway Whether you’re decorating your home in time for hibernation season or making the most of your garden before the winter evenings, B&Q has all you need for inside and outside the house. As part of our big birthday giveaway, we’re giving 10 lucky readers the chance to win a £50 – and all you need to do is find out how to enter below! HOW TO ENTER POST: Send a postcard with your name, address, phone number and email address to B&Q Giveaway, GVBSTN17619, Hearst Magazines UK, The Data Solutions Centre, Worksop S80 2RT. Closing date for postal entries is 6 October 2017. PHONE: Call 0901 027 2726 by midnight on 3 October 2017. Calls cost 30p per minute, plus your telephone company’s…

CORONATION STREET It’s the day of the double wedding for Eva and Aidan and Johnny and Jenny. But when Aidan confesses all to Eva, and Jenny struggles with the idea that Rita will not be there, will the Connor men tie the knot? EMMERDALE After Liv confronts Robert and Rebecca about their baby news, she steals Robert’s car keys and swigs brandy, before being rushed to hospital. Aaron tells Robert he’ll kill him if anything happens to his sister. EASTENDERS Kathy comforts Ian as he struggles to come to terms with Steven’s death. Lauren also crumbles, and turns to the bottle. Elsewhere, Linda and Mick have their first marriage counselling session.…

As well as being a regular on the BBC news, Fiona Bruce, 53, has presented Antiques Roadshow for 10 years. She has two children, Sam and Mia, and lives in London with her husband Nigel Sharrocks. Let’s start by wishing a very happy birthday to Antiques Roadshow! Thank you! It is amazing to think it’s just getting more popular. We regularly get six million viewers, so we’re thrilled people like it and come to the show. In Edinburgh, we stopped counting at 5,000 and they had to close the Forth Bridge because the traffic was backing up! Why do you think the show is still so popular? Well, we all hope we have something gathering dust on the mantelpiece or in the attic that either turns out to be very…

Tony Cowell BEST’S CELEB INSIDER TALKS TO GINO D’ACAMPO If being Italian were an Olympic sport, TV chef Gino D’Acampo, 41, well known for his saucy innuendoes and fiery personality, would definitely win some kind of medal. The I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! 2009 winner – who first rose to fame on This Morning before branching out on shows like Gino’s Italian Escape, There’s No Taste Like Home and, of course, Celebrity Juice – has been married to his British wife Jessica since 2002, and the couple have three children, Luciano, 15, Rocco, 12, and Mia, five. Here, the Neapolitan, who is back with a new series of Celebrity Juice, talks about the ups and downs of fame, the joy of food, and the importance of family.…

On Friday 23 September 2016, Corrie McKeague did what many young men do; he went on a night out, enjoyed a few drinks and got a takeaway on his way home. Yet, in the early hours of the next morning, something went horribly wrong. Despite a £1.2 million police investigation, he hasn’t been seen since, leaving his family and loved ones distraught. ‘I can’t even begin to describe it,’ said his mother, Nicola Urquhart. ‘It’s all you think about; about Corrie, what we’re going to do, how we’re going to cope.’ Without a trace Corrie, 23, from Fife, was a member of the RAF. His mum describes him as ‘gregarious’, ‘funny’ and someone who ‘loves to be the centre of attention’. On the night he went missing, he’d driven 10…

The holiday season can throw skin totally off balance. If your skin is suffering from a post-summer hangover, here’s my advice on how to deal with it… THIRSTY SANDPAPER SKIN Sunscreen and airconditioning, pressurised air in plane cabins, and a hot, humid environment can leave skin scaly and dehydrated. New no-pain TCA peels are suitable for all skin types –a simple, fast and effective way to revive skin. Medical-grade ingredients are used, but the peels are pain-free and can be adjusted to suit your skin tone. Expect to pay around £120 per peel, plus a week’s downtime, when you’ll experience flaky skin. BROKEN BLOOD CAPILLARIES Continued and prolonged exposure to the sun’s harmful UV rays can cause your blood vessels to rise to the surface and burst. This creates red,…

You’ve finally packed away your summer wardrobe, but what about your makeup bag? If it needs a little overhaul, start dabbling in the newest colours for autumn. We translate the trends to make them more wearable for you… 1 YOU GLOW, GIRL! It comes as no surprise that healthy, glowing skin is still desirable, but achieving it without going overboard is another matter. If you found contouring tricky then breathe a sigh of relief, as the focus is now on highlighting. Just one drop of Barry M Liquid Chrome Highlighter Drops in At First Light, £6.99, is needed for a sheen. ‘Dab on to cheekbones with a flat brush,’ advises make-up artist Adam Burrell. 2 LASH ATTACK Let’s face it, mascara will never go out of style, but new formulas…

A recovering alcoholic, actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers has had some serious ups and downs over the years – including a bad relapse in 2015, when he was seen alone on a street in London, swigging from a bottle of vodka. The Dublin-born star, who is based in Los Angeles, has previously said of his addiction, ‘When I drink, I’m like Bambi. I’m all over the place, like a 16-year-old kid.’ And, sadly, the troubled star is clearly struggling again, after his actress wife, Mara Lane, revealed last week she had suffered a miscarriage. She also shared video footage of a doctor telling the couple, ‘Unfortunately, the foetus has no heartbeat.’ The Tudors actor, 40, was subsequently pictured staggering around Dublin Airport, and being cared for by passing police. The lost…

Nice as pie A creamy fish pie is always a winner but, thanks to Asda, you don’t have to spend hours making your own from scratch. The Extra Special Luxury Fish Pie, £2.50, is packed full of salmon, smoked haddock and juicy king prawns with a tasty, rich, fishy sauce. Simply heat and serve. TRIPLE CHOCOLATE! Dreamy dessert Move over chocolate brownies and make way for the new Co-op Triple Chocolate Cookie Dough, ?2.99, as the most indulgent dessert this autumn! The combo of cookie dough and layers of milk chocolate sauce tastes heavenly warmed in the microwave then served with a dollop of vanilla ice cream. Yum in 50 seconds Satisfy your sweet tooth in under a minute, thanks to Dr Oetker Pud in a Mug, ?85p. Our fave…

… what fans can expect from this series We’ve just been on a fabulous trip to Gibraltar and it was amazing. We stayed in a lovely hotel, and we had a great time. … her daughters’ thoughts on her being on the show My older girls were dubious at first, and sometimes they get upset when people are falling out. But this show’s been amazing for my family. … unusual fan encounters I recently had a family from Wales come to visit me. Their 15-year-old boy was being bullied at school. The parents said to him, ‘Do you want to go to Twickenham, or do you want to go to find Dawn at home?’ So they turned up at my house, I let them in, and took a picture with…

LEARN HOW TO SALSA IN THE FRENCH RIVIERA Best for… combining luxury with Latin dancing Imagine swaying to the sexy beats of the salsa in the beautiful surroundings of a castle on the French Riviera… Well, you could be doing just that if you sign up for a luxurious ‘Let’s Salsa’ retreat, led by two-time European and UK Salsa champion Laith Sami. On this four-day, all-inclusive retreat, which caters for beginners as well as more experienced dancers, you’ll be learning salsa, as well as the merengue and the cha-cha-cha – spicy! There’ll also be a range of activities available, from tennis to aerobics, all in the grand setting of a historic house near St Tropez, once used by Simon Cowell as a Judges’ House on The X Factor. BOOK IT:…

Suranne Jones is the face of BBC smash hit Doctor Foster, which is back for series two. Her character, Gemma Foster, is the epitome of the woman scorned. She wants revenge, and is feeling positively murderous! The TV star may have found fame as bigmouth Karen McDonald in Corrie, but the critical acclaim she won for the first series of Doctor Foster in 2015, which drew in 10 million viewers, led to a career high, bagging her a best-actress BAFTA award. That was the same year the Oldham actress married magazine editor Laurence Akers. The couple celebrated their second wedding anniversary on 4 August. In 2016, she gave birth to their first child, now 17 months old. Entering the magical – if exhausting – world of motherhood, she looked more…

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CAROL McGIFFIN THE WAY I SEE IT... Wise words from our feisty, fearless and funny columnist ‘PETA is an organisation that has undoubtedly done good work. But it’s also capable of really stupid, nonsensical stuff that can be damaging – as in the case of the ‘monkey selfie’, a snap taken by a macaque on a camera belonging to British photographer David Slater. The charity only got involved after the US copyright office had ruled that a monkey couldn’t own copyright. Two years of court rulings (against PETA) didn’t stop it, either, as it forged ahead with its ‘cause’. Slater, exhausted and severely financially stretched by the legal battles, has agreed to donate 25 per cent of all future royalties to monkey conservation charities, which is great, but what a…

We’re ALL TALKING about JOIN THE CONVERSATION As one of the most famous faces to come out of scripted reality TV show The Only Way is Essex, it’s been nearly impossible to avoid knowing about loud-and-proud, supersized-and-sassy Gemma Collins, 36. Her popularity increased when she starred (albeit very briefly) in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! in 2014, and Celebrity Big Brother in 2016. This year, Gemma seems to have been bigger than ever, particularly when it comes to memes. For those of you not in the know, a meme is a picture tagged with a witty caption or saying that is shared on social media – and the eternal singleton has been the face of hundreds. Whether it’s about showing people how to get through the week,…

‘My dog warns me if I’m going to faint’ Katie Purcell, 27, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire I’ve had Archie for less than two years, and I have no idea how I coped without him. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always experienced blackouts. But when I hit 16, they increased from once or twice a year to about 10 times a day. I ended up visiting A&E continuously with various broken bones. At first, I thought I was just clumsy. But after I passed out in a school choir rehearsal, doctors discovered I was suffering from a collection of conditions. These made my heart rate rise and fall when I sat down or stood up, causing me to pass out. I was also diagnosed with Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, which…

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Dreading my son going to university My youngest son is about to go off to university, and I’m terrified about the thought of not seeing him every day. I know he’s excited to go, but I feel like I will lack purpose once he’s gone. My husband says I am mothering him too much and we’ll be fine, but when I think about him moving out it makes me anxious. Rachel, Manchester You have to let your son live his own life. You and your husband have been preparing him for this moment – you must feel so proud that he is going to uni. Of course, there will be a touch of emptiness – I was devastated when two of my kids went off to uni at the same time.…

MY STRICTLY WIFE I had an inkling I’d be partnered with Charlotte Hawkins – she’s the tallest girl, I’m the tallest boy! I’ve known her for years and she’s always been a nice, genuine person. Just as well – I’ll be seeing more of Charlotte in the next four months than my wife! Where are the wallflowers? I’m already pleasantly surprised by the fun-loving nature of this year’s celebs! Reverend Richard Coles is very funny. Nobody’s a wallflower. We have a big WhatsApp group and the banter on there is hilarious – but unprintable! SAME-SEX COUPLES There’s been lots of debate about same-sex couples on Strictly. Obviously, that’s a decision that would have to be discussed with both the pro and celeb; my personal choice would always be to lead…

£1.40 PER SERVING Salmon pasties Light and fragrant with a hint of spice, these salmon and broccoli pasties taste delicious straight out of the oven. Alternatively, let them cool down to room temperature for a great (but messy!) packed lunch. 2tbsp olive oil ½ medium onion, diced 75g broccoli, chopped 2 cloves garlic, chopped 2tbsp butter 1tbsp plain flour 1tbsp curry powder 240ml milk 400g pre-made puff pastry 2tbsp Greek yoghurt 280g salmon, skinned and diced into 1in cubes 3tbsp fresh parsley, chopped Salt & pepper 1 egg and a dash of water 1 Preheat the oven to 200?C. Heat the olive oil and fry the onion for 3-4 mins until soft, then add the broccoli, garlic and butter. Fry for another minute, then add the flour and curry powder…