New Zealand Woman’s Weekly Issue 28, 2022

The last time festival-goers spent five days slopping through the mud at Glastonbury, no one had even heard the word Covid. So, it was only fitting music legends Sir Paul McCartney and Diana Ross welcomed back the iconic event after two years. Paul, who made history as Glastonbury’s oldest solo headliner, taking to the stage a week after his 80th birthday, gave a show-stopping performance with guests Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl, and did a moving virtual duet with his late former Beatles bandmate John Lennon. Meanwhile, Diana brought the disco vibe, playing a collection of her greatest hits. It was a special moment for the 78-year-old as all five of her children made the trip from the US to watch. As the shocking news that the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe…

My husband and I spent three nights on Waiheke Island to celebrate Matariki last weekend. Although it is only less than an hour’s ferry ride, there is something about hopping on a boat and watching the city get smaller, then soaking up the relaxed vibe of the island that made it feel as though we had travelled overseas. There is so much to do on Waiheke, but we took things slowly, allowing plenty of time for reflection about the past year, conversations about the future, taking long beach strolls and reading good books. It was a lovely break and I felt refreshed coming to work on Monday to put together this week’s magazine. Our cover star Suzanne Paul, who is always so positive, shares the details of her new project,…

She once travelled the world in luxury private jets and yachts, but it was a very subdued Ghislaine Maxwell who was led into a New York court last week wearing prison scrubs and ankle shackles that rattled as she walked. The 60-year-old former socialite remained unemotional as she stood before the judge to learn her fate after being found guilty of five sex-trafficking charges relating to her previous life as the right-hand woman of sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein. She was fined $1.2m and sentenced to 20 years in prison – and any hopes she harboured of resuming her life of prestige and glamour were gone forever. Before the judge passed down his sentence, many of Maxwell’s victims – women who say as teenagers they were forced by her into becoming the sexual playthings…

We all know Suzanne Paul as the woman who could sell us anything but also provide a lot of entertainment while she was doing it. She made her name selling products like Natural Glow and the Suzanne Clip, making famous forever her phrase “But wait! There’s more!” But it’s been a while since we’ve seen her on screen and many of us have missed her. There isn’t a shopping channel any more and there are no morning TV shows where Suzanne, 65, could pop up selling her wares. “I’m back!” announces Suzanne grinning from ear to ear on an online video call. Suzanne is looking terrific after a brief health scare last November when she fainted during a motivational talk to 250 people over Zoom. Suzanne spent two days in hospital and was diagnosed…

Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone has revealed her heartbreak at losing nine babies through miscarriage. “We, as females, don’t have a forum to discuss the profundity of this loss,” the 64-year-old actress shared recently. “It is no small thing, physically nor emotionally, yet we are made to feel it is something to bear alone and secretly with some kind of sense of failure.” It’s not the first time Sharon has opened up about her painful experiences with losing a baby, but until now she has not revealed just how many losses she endured. Last year, the Golden Globe award-winner told of the trauma of losing a child when she was five-and-a-half months pregnant and how she had to go through 36 hours of labour, knowing she would not have a baby to cradle in…

Six years after George Michael died of heart disease, aged 53, his ex-boyfriend Kenny Goss has opened up about his feelings for the singer. Art dealer Kenny, 63, has revealed that George’s death did not come as a surprise to his loved ones. “We all expected him to die,” shares Kenny, who split from the Faith singer in 2009. “I had spent so much time when we lived together being worried about him. I was worried about him all the time.” The pair had an open relationship and their split was partly due to substance abuse and alcoholism, which they both suffered from. Kenny says George was “truly the love of my life” and revealed that George never considered himself handsome, but he did know he was a “talented man and a good songwriter”. After…