New Zealand Woman’s Weekly Issue 4, 2023

Star news Who caught our eye this week After being pulled off air and boycotted by celebs last year due to the lack of diversity in their voting body, the embattled Golden Globes made their grand return last week with plenty of A-list stars in attendance. While the TV awards mostly went to up-and-coming stars, the movie gongs were won by longtime favourites. After 40 years in Hollywood, Michelle Yeoh, 60, finally won her first Golden Globe for her performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once. Wanting to soak up the moment, when the awards show’s producers tried to play her off the stage halfway through her acceptance speech, she joked, “Shut up, please. I can beat you up, okay? I’m dead serious.” Angela Bassett, 64, became the first person…

After being pulled off air and boycotted by celebs last year due to the lack of diversity in their voting body, the embattled Golden Globes made their grand return last week with plenty of A-list stars in attendance. While the TV awards mostly went to up-and-coming stars, the movie gongs were won by longtime favourites. After 40 years in Hollywood, Michelle Yeoh, 60, finally won her first Golden Globe for her performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once. Wanting to soak up the moment, when the awards show’s producers tried to play her off the stage halfway through her acceptance speech, she joked, “Shut up, please. I can beat you up, okay? I’m dead serious.” Angela Bassett, 64, became the first person to win an acting award for a Marvel film for Black…

If 2022 was a big year for our royal family, 2023 is showing no signs of slowing down. Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir has sent shockwaves around the world, with all sorts of allegations and memories. He wanted, he says, to tell his story in his own words because for 38 years it has been told by other people. As we prepared this issue, our royal reporter and I had a long conversation about everything that has happened in the last week – the television interviews, the release of Spare – and we both have come away with mixed feelings. He has clearly been hurt, with the death of his mother having such a huge impact on his life, and understand that he is keen for his own perspective to be…

If 2022 was a big year for our royal family, 2023 is showing no signs of slowing down. Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir has sent shockwaves around the world, with all sorts of allegations and memories. He wanted, he says, to tell his story in his own words because for 38 years it has been told by other people. As we prepared this issue, our royal reporter and I had a long conversation about everything that has happened in the last week – the television interviews, the release of Spare – and we both have come away with mixed feelings. He has clearly been hurt, with the death of his mother having such a huge impact on his life, and understand that he is keen for his own perspective to be…

Cover story All he wanted was to share his story in his own words. Prince Harry says his explosive memoir Spare was never intended to hurt any members of his family, only to give him the chance to tell the truth about his life as the royal “spare” to the heir. While he wishes it had never come to the point where sharing deeply personal insights was necessary, he says after 38 years of other people writing about him, he wrote his book because “it felt like a good time to own my story and tell it for myself”. He’s certainly been frank in the 416 pages of Spare, including making a string of damning accusations against The Firm, such as claiming they’ve planted negative stories about him and wife…

All he wanted was to share his story in his own words. Prince Harry says his explosive memoir Spare was never intended to hurt any members of his family, only to give him the chance to tell the truth about his life as the royal “spare” to the heir. While he wishes it had never come to the point where sharing deeply personal insights was necessary, he says after 38 years of other people writing about him, he wrote his book because “it felt like a good time to own my story and tell it for myself”. He’s certainly been frank in the 416 pages of Spare, including making a string of damning accusations against The Firm, such as claiming they’ve planted negative stories about him and wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex…