WHO Issue 1, 2022

When it comes to couples who inspire, it’s hard to go past our very own Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman. Their frequent public declarations of love give me life and so I was pleased to feature Urban’s latest sweet comments about his wife to open WHO’s News – our brand new upfront section in the mag, kicking off on page 5. Supermodel Iman and her late husband David Bowie experienced a love for each other like no other, and now, almost six years since he passed away, I might’ve had something in my eye when I read the story of their incredibly enduring romance, starting on page 24. Our cover star Jules Merchant is also one half of an inspiring couple. She met husband Cam during the presssure cooker 2018 season of…

The influential and the inspirational gathered at the Sydney Opera House for The Australian Women’s Weekly La Trobe Financial Women of the Future lunch to celebrate and support the next generation of change-makers. Guests such as The Hon. Anna Bligh, Mahalia Barnes and Kylie Gillies listened as our finalists shared their passion for consent education, improving disability representation and domestic violence support, but in the end it was an innovative project to improve conservation efforts that took the big prize.…

THE A LISTERS ARE ALWAYS COUPLE GOALS Keith Urban has opened up in a very candid interview on Reba McEntire’s Living & Learning podcast. The country star readily admitted his “greatest achievement” is his life with Nicole Kidman.“There’s a lot of things. Marrying the right person, massive,” he said. “Marrying for the right reasons, getting sober 15 years ago, a big turning point in my life.” Kidman famously held an intervention four months into their marriage, when Urban spiralled back into drug and alcohol use. Fifteen years and two daughters – Sunday, 13, and Faith, 10 – later, the Urbans, both 54, are stronger than ever and back home in Australia for the holidays. But they don’t claim to have the perfect marriage.“We don’t want to be a pin-up couple. We just…

Ididn’t expect to find love in Australia, nor was I looking for it,” Rita Ora admits. But meeting Thor: Love and Thunder director Taika Waititi at one of Chris Hemsworth’s infamous parties back in March might just have been the highlight of her year! Almost 10 months into their relationship, Ora has already introduced the 46-year-old Kiwi director and actor to her family, including her sister Elena. Waititi is currently in Australia with the‘Hot Right Now’ singer, indicating that the romance is much more than a fling. And while their public displays of affection speak volumes, the 31-year-old star wants to protect this romance. “I think you’ve got to have a sense of privacy a little bit,” Ora, who has dated Rob Kardashian and Calvin Harris, told The Independent. Now, the singer and…

She’s lived in the UK for more than two decades, but Natalie Imbruglia will always call Australia home. The 46-year-old singer is back on Aussie shores with a little extra luggage, her 2-year-old son Max, who was last Down Under with his famous mum when he was just a baby. It’s been a huge 12 months for Imbruglia. Not only did she release her new album, Firebird, after a very long music hiatus, but the ‘Torn’ singer reconnected with her ex-husband, Daniel Johns, 13 years after they split. On the Who Is Daniel Johns? podcast, Imbruglia spoke about her devastation over the end of their four-year marriage while also reflecting on the good times. “He was the love of my life and I think in time you realise that’s a really special…

Oh, what could have been! Matthew McConaughey made a very juicy confession recently on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. While appearing on the daytime talk show to promote his new film Sing 2 with co-star Reese Witherspoon, McConaughey declared his very first celebrity crush to be none other than Ms Witherspoon! “I did have a little bit of a crush on the young lady sitting next to me from The Man in the Moon,” he revealed, 30 years after its release. McConaughey, 52, said the 45-year-old was “one of my early, early crushes. If you’ve seen the movie, you see … inevitable. I mean, what’s not to have a crush on?” To say Witherspoon was shocked is an understatement. “You’re so sweet,” she said, before joking they should make a movie about it. But…