WHO Issue 25, 2022

Australia is brimming with local talent and it has felt almost criminal these past two years not to be able to celebrate them properly, so I loved spending my Sunday night tuned in to the TV Week Logies. While I secretly hoped the gold gong might go to one of the first-timers, it was good to hear winner Hamish Blake acknowledge the support he gets from his wife Zoë, describing her as the“most amazing of people”. TV’s‘night of nights’ isn’t just about awards, so check out the best red carpet moments in our special coverage from page 4. It’s one thing to pay tribute to your current spouse, but it’s quite another to recognise past loves, yet that’s what one of our favourite couples from the ’90s has done. Gwyneth…

The TV Week Logie Awards made its triumphant return at The Star on the Gold Coast after two years on the bench — and the frocks, shocks and winners didn’t disappoint for the red carpet revival. The night’s big winner was Hamish Blake, who took home his second Gold Logie at the 62nd annual awards night, a whole decade after his first. He used his moment on the stage to thank his wife, Zoë and their two children, Sonny and Rudy. “[To] my beautiful wife, you don’t get to stand up here unless you have amazing people standing behind you, and you are the most amazing of people,” he gushed, as his Gucci-clad, beauty mogul wife watched on. Blake joked: “You stole my look for tonight, and I had to quickly…

Ryan Gosling is dividing the internet after the first image of him as Mattel icon Ken was released this month ahead of Barbie’s release in 2023. Social media lit-up with hilarious commentary, from criticising Gosling’s peroxide blonde hair, to his muscley physique, his likeness to a Scooby Doo character, and even his age! “I love Ryan Gosling, but 40-year-old Ken is insane. I’m sorry,” wrote one person on Twitter, forgetting that Gos is actually 41. Another commented on Instagram, “He looks more like Fred from Scooby Doo,” to which another replied: “Freddie Prinze Jr’s Fred walked so Ryan Gosling’s Ken could run.”The more savage social media warriors made comments such as, “Why does he look like he did plastic surgery for his chest?” and “He looks kinda old to be Ken.” Another…

Living the Aussie dream sure suits actor Orlando Bloom and his fiancée, singer Katy Perry. The Hollywood power couple touched down in Oz this month for Bloom to start filming his new movie project Wizards! and headed straight to Port Douglas in Far North Queensland, where they’ve been soaking up the sun, shopping and dining out with Bloom’s son Flynn, 11, and their 22-month-old daughter Daisy. In fact, the Bloom-Perry clan are practically locals. The 37-year-old spent her first week in Australia immersing herself in the culture of the upmarket holiday destination, albeit behind her oversized sunglasses and bucket hat, between beach catch-ups with Bloom and even a visit to the circus. Family means everything to the‘Firework’ singer, who never dreamt of starting one until she met her handsome Brit.“I wasn’t…

Little Harper Wood’s first few weeks earthside have been a bit rough. After arriving a month early, she spent 24 days in NICU because she and her mum, Snezana, picked up an infection. Then, after returning home to meet her big sisters, she was back in the hospital battling a virus less than a month later. Dad Sam took to Instagram this month to update fans on his baby girl’s situation, explaining that Snezana had taken Harper to Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital after she caught a bug from her older sisters, Willow, 4, and Charlie, 2. “Back again. Oh you’re a little trooper Harper and … super mum,” he shared in his Instagram stories, with a snap of Snez holding their newborn bub. “She has some sort of a virus and can’t keep her…

The doyenne of the ABC was the belle of the ball at the 62nd annual TV WEEK Logie Awards, ahead of her final episode anchoring 7.30 on June 30, after 11 years in the job. But in the words of Leigh Sales, sitting on the couch “seems like heaven”. The super-private TV star sat down with Stellar to discuss her departure from the politically focused news program, where she admitted she’s thrilled to take a long break before making her next career move. “I’ve got six months of long-service leave, so I’ll take that. I need a break to have some time to figure it out but I love working at the ABC and I know that whatever I do next here, it will be interesting and meaningful,”she told the publication, revealing…