New Zealand Woman’s Weekly Issue 12, 2023

Star news Who caught our eye this week It may have been a rare chilly day in Los Angeles, but the cast and crew of Everything Everywhere All At Once didn’t notice as their winning streak continued at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. The juggernaut action flick won seven of the eight gongs it was nominated for, with Michelle Yeoh, 60, and Ke Huy Quan, 51, once again celebrated for their work and further cementing their future Oscar odds. Their movie daughter Stephanie Hsu, 32, also joined in the excitement, picking up her first-ever individual award for Best Breakthrough Performance. She may be an Oscar nominee, but The Marvelous Mrs Maisel star shared, “I hope this can act as a talisman to protect that freak flag, that desire to help…

He’s well-known for his hard-hitting questions as a journalist, but Jack Tame reveals his adventurous side in this week’s issue. Knowing it’s a big year ahead with the election in October, he and a mate headed overseas, where he scaled mountains, scuba-dived with sharks and visited a reserve where an elephant wandered past just metres from their car. As someone who is not a fan of heights (to put it mildly), the photos of him standing on the edge of a mountain make me feel dizzy just looking at them and I had to laugh when he told our writer Fleur that it’s a good thing his mum isn’t on Instagram, where he posts his adventures. I can definitely relate – if that were one of my children, I’d be…

For years, he wasn’t able to tell his story in his own words. But now that Prince Harry has started talking – in both his memoir Spare and the docuseries he made with wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex – it seems he can’t stop. And after Harry stirred up more controversy in a live-streamed therapy session with a trauma specialist, royal experts say the time has come for the prince to stop playing the blame game and moaning about his family. Comments Harry made in the online interview to further promote Spare, which was released two months ago, have led to more backlash against him, with many commentators pointing out that the King’s second son is digging a deeper hole for himself by continuing to talk about his problems with…

The wrap up... Ed Sheeran has kept quiet since revealing that he went into a spiral of “fear, depression and anxiety” last year. The Shivers singer, 32, gave fans on social media an insight into his annus horribilis with a post in which he shared that his wife Cherry Seaborn, 30, was diagnosed with a tumour during her pregnancy with their second child in 2022. In addition, the hitmaker said he was grief-stricken by the loss of his best friend Jamal Edwards, 31, who died of a heart attack in February last year after imbibing cocaine and alcohol. The star also touched on the highly publicised copyright trial in which he was accused of plagiarising parts of his 2017 hit song Shape of You. He won the High Court battle…

The wrap up... It’s been a year since Will Smith caused outrage around the world for assaulting Chris Rock on stage at the Academy Awards. Now, Chris has delivered some blows of his own. The comedian, 58, has taken aim at Will, 54, Will’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith, 51, and also Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, 41, in his Netflix comedy show Chris Rock: Selective Outrage. “Will Smith practises selective outrage,” Chris says in his stand-up routine. “Everybody that really knows, knows I had nothing to do with that s**t. I didn’t have any ‘entanglements’.” The star is referring to Jada’s confession that she had an ‘entanglement’ with singer August Alsina when she and Will had temporarily broken up. In 2020, the actress had Will on her Red Table Talk chat…

Three years after American basketball hero Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna were killed in a California helicopter accident, Kobe’s wife Vanessa has won a lawsuit over photographs taken at the crash site. Twenty months after the tragedy, in which nine people were killed, Vanessa, 40, learned that first responders had taken photos with their cell phones of her dead husband and daughter, then shared them with colleagues. One responder also showed the photos to a stranger in a bar. Vanessa sued the LA County, the LA County Sheriff’s Department and also the Fire Department for pain, suffering and emotional distress and this month she agreed to a $46 million settlement. Philanthropist and model Vanessa was pregnant with the couple’s fourth child, daughter Capri, now aged three, when Kobe, 41,…