Latest news with #MyNews
Courier-Mail
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- Courier-Mail
Katy Perry's dramatic move as Orlando Bloom parties in Italy following reported split
Don't miss out on the headlines from Hook Ups & Break Ups. Followed categories will be added to My News. Katy Perry has seemingly taken action to block out the noise as she enjoys some time off in Australia amid claims she and Orlando Bloom have broken up. It's been widely reported that the Roar singer, 40, has been telling her inner circle that their relationship of nearly 10 years is over. The pair share a daughter, Daisy Dove, four. Perry is currently performing her Lifetimes tour in Australia, and eagle-eyed fans have now noticed she's disabled comments on Instagram. Perry and Bloom have reportedly split. Picture:for Vanity Fair Perry has been posting pictures of her time Down Under. Picture: Instagram Bloom was also spotted in Australia recently, with a source telling People that it was in order to have some 'special dad and daughter time'. 'Daisy's very cute. Orlando was in a great mood and made every outing fun for her,' the insider told the publication. 'He looked like a very caring dad.' X SUBSCRIBER ONLY Despite being on the exclusive guest list for Lauren Sanchez's hen's party earlier this year, Perry will not be at her star-studded wedding to billionaire Jeff Bezos in Italy this weekend. Bloom, however, has been seen partying with A-listers, including Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Oprah Winfrey, and Leonardo DiCaprio, who are gathered in Venice for the multimillion-dollar nuptials. Bloom was spotted in Venice ahead of the glitzy wedding. Picture: AP Photo/Antonio Calanni The actor was seen chatting to Kardashian. Picture: Getty Images Speculation about Perry and Bloom's relationship has hit fever pitch in recent days, with The Sun reporting the singer had told friends it was over months ago. 'Katy confided in friends at the start of the year that their relationship was as good as done,' the source said. 'They decided to hold off on announcing anything in case things improved between them, because they are desperate to stay together for the sake of their daughter. 'But they have spent barely any time together this year, with Katy on tour and Orlando working on his upcoming film Bucking Fastard in Dublin. 'She knew that taking off her engagement ring would send a clear message. 'It's been a hard year so far. They wanted to wait until the tour is over before they made their split official, although Katy has grown tired of the situation.' The couple have dated on and off for nine years after first sparking up a romance in 2016. They got engaged in 2019, and welcomed their daughter the following year. Originally published as Katy Perry's dramatic move as Orlando Bloom parties in Italy following reported split
Courier-Mail
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- Courier-Mail
Erica Packer and celebrity chef boyfriend Shannon Bennett have ended their romance
Don't miss out on the headlines from Hook Ups & Break Ups. Followed categories will be added to My News. Erica Packer and her celebrity chef boyfriend Shannon Bennett have ended their romance. The mother of three and the part-time MasterChef judge are said to have split earlier this year. Friends say distance played a key role in the breakdown of the couple's 18-month union. Packer, the ex-wife of billionaire James Packer and the mother of his three children, lives in London having relocated to the UK with her children in 2023 to be closer to her sister. Melbourne-born Bennett, whose business Culinary Wonderland is based in Sydney, lives at Belongil Beach near Byron Bay. 'The distance was always going to be a challenge for them,' said one friend. Erica Packer and celebrity chef Shannon Bennett have called it quits. Picture: Media Mode. A year ago Bennett admitted the then 46-year-old Erica was spending a fair bit of time travelling. 'She's really good. (Erica is) going back and forwards a lot. It's a fun and amazing adventure. It's amazing we haven't met earlier. We're loving life. I'm a very lucky man.' According to sources the travel became less 'fun and amazing' with the passage of time. Further complicating matters was the couple's combined brood of nine children.. Bennett has six children with former partner, ex Neighbours actor Madeleine West. The couple welcomed five daughters, Phoenix, Xascha, Xanthe, Xahlia and Margaux and a son, Hendrix, during their 13-year relationship, which ended in 2018 when their youngest children, twin daughters, were just two. Erica Packer settles in for a stay with new love interest Shannon Bennett at his Belongil Beach home. Picture: Media Mode. The chef and onetime owner of Melbourne's Vue du Monde restaurant later told the Herald Sun the couple's six children live with him. Packer's three children, Indigo, Jackson and Emmanuelle are heirs to their businessman-investor father's billion-dollar fortune. The chef and the onetime model reportedly met at the wedding of Sydney chef Guillaume Brahimi and chicken heiress Tamie Ingham in Paris in June 2023. They managed to keep their love affair under the radar until photographers captured the entire clan cavorting together on a Byron Bay beach at Christmas in 2023. Originally published as Erica Packer and celebrity chef boyfriend Shannon Bennett have ended their romance
Herald Sun
4 hours ago
- Sport
- Herald Sun
Beau Webster's DRS pain, Travis Head unlucky on day three
Don't miss out on the headlines from Sport. Followed categories will be added to My News. Australia have fought their way back into the first Test in Barbados with a trio of half-centuries to Alex Carey, Beau Webster and Travis Head. But, as has been the case throughout this Test, there was plenty happening at Bridgetown. Here's what you missed while you were sleeping. FOLLOW LIVE: Australia hunt wickets late on day three SEVENTH HELL West Indies coach Daren Sammy said after day two that his team needed a 'bollocking' after dropping six catches over the first two days of the Test. The hosts practised work in the cordon before play. And yet Justin Greaves still couldn't hang onto a chance gifted by Travis Head on 21, denying Alzarri Joseph a wicket and continuing the pain for the Windies. AS PLUMB AS IT GETS The Kensington Oval pitch had been playing tricks since day one, and balls had started to keep low. Sensing that a ball would have his name on it, Head sought to attack, and did successfully, getting to 62. It was a sensible call, because that ball duly arrived, with Shamar Joseph shooting one through that trapped the left-hander stone cold in front as he lost his balance. Joseph didn't need to appeal, with Head walking off before the finger was raised. HOLDING COURT Third umpire Adrian Holdstock had been in Sammy's sights at the end of day two following a string of contentious calls that went the way of the tourists. Well there was finally some good news for the Windies on an UltraEdge front when Beau Webster departed on review with a spike showing he had nicked one down the leg side on 63. HIT THE ROOF Alex Carey played a classic punchy wicketkeeper's innings at No.7, blasting his way to 50 from just 40 balls including two sixes. The second six brought up his half-century as he danced down the wicket and launched Justin Greaves over deep mid-off and onto the roof of the Cricket West Indies hospitality building. Originally published as What you missed overnight: Travis Head undone by day three pitch, Beau Webster's DRS pain
Herald Sun
4 hours ago
- Health
- Herald Sun
‘Don't want to do it': Jason King's commitment after daughter Jordan Liberty's suicide death
Don't miss out on the headlines from Health. Followed categories will be added to My News. Jason King would give anything to have those difficult, awkward conversations with his daughter. Even the toughest talk is easier than facing the silence of her death. Mr King lost his daughter Jordan Liberty to suicide and while he would prefer to keep his grief to himself, he knows talking about it can save others. Within hours of posting on social media about his plan to make a documentary honouring Jordan, Mr King received a very special message. 'It was from a young person who saw my post just at the right time,' he told 'That person was about to go off social media, delete accounts, preparing for the end but seeing the post stopped it. 'Knowing it has already helped one person is motivating, as hard as it is for me. I really don't want to do it but the more we talk about it, the more we can make change.' Jordan Liberty died by suicide. Now her dad Jason King is making a documentary about it to help others. Mr King said there are so many things he wishes he could go back and say to 18-year-old Jordan. 'I would say I love you, I miss you every day. I'm doing this for you. I'm making this film because your life mattered,' he said. 'I want others to feel the love you couldn't always feel for yourself. You couldn't stay but your story can still help others.' He wishes he could say 'tomorrow will be better' but he knows Jordan must have had many of those better tomorrows, just not enough to keep her alive. The documentary will explore Jordan's journal notes, her friendships, her trials and triumphs. 'The doco is inspired by a desire to find out more about who she was, unpack what happened to her and really focus on how we can find joy and hope in the aftermath of something like this,' said her grieving dad who has learnt to be kind to himself. Jordan was 18. Jordan's dad's documentary will focus on 'who she was'. 'That has meant being sober for the last 18 months,' he said. 'Like so many Australians, especially blokes, I self-medicated in unhealthy ways to try to get through hard times. This increased as I grieved Jordan, and I realised that if I was going to honour her life, make it count, I needed to get real about howI was turning up in my own life. 'The difference has been profound. By being more present and having a better relationship with myself, it has improved all my other relationships, including with my two other children now aged 12 and 15, and the one I now have with Jordan's memory and how I deal with the ongoing grief. It's made the difficult talks I still have to have so much easier.' New research by News Corp's Growth Distillery with Medibank found two thirds of 18- to 30-year-olds say they would find it hard to tell their parents or older close family members that they are struggling with mental wellbeing. For that age group, parents are the number one relationship that they wish they could talk to more, with almost half saying so. Half of all parents of 16- to 30-year-olds said they would find it hard to tell their children they were having challenges or struggling with mental wellbeing. Jason King is making a documentary to help other parents and vulnerable young people. Picture: Adam Edwards He will make sure Jordan's death was not in vain. Mr King says for people living in regional Australia, the problems seem to be amplified. 'Being in a remote area or small town when we lose someone, particularly a young person, it can impact the whole community,' he said. Mr King wants other parents and young people to know it's never too late. He will make sure Jordan's death is not in vain. To support the Jordan Liberty Project visit Originally published as 'Don't want to do it': Jason King's commitment after daughter Jordan Liberty's suicide death
Courier-Mail
5 hours ago
- Health
- Courier-Mail
3am ‘curse' plaguing Aussie mums
Don't miss out on the headlines from Health. Followed categories will be added to My News. It was a tiny, crescent-shaped birthmark on the inside of my five-month-old's thigh that started it all. Until that point, new motherhood had for me, mostly been the kind of oxytocin-fuelled, soft-lit montage of bliss you see in Huggies ads. I had a 'good' sleeper, a great support network and a new parents group who got together for champagne brunches. We were killing it, my baby and I. Then the birthmark. Surely it had been there since he was born, but for whatever reason, I noticed it one morning and couldn't stop fixating on what it meant. Convinced it was a sign of some sinister illness, I followed the Reddit-Mumsnet-Web MD rabbit hole down to the most obscure depths of Dr Google. X SUBSCRIBER ONLY By nightfall I'd diagnosed him with a serious, degenerative neurodevelopmental disorder. My mother was staying with us at the time; she found me in the bathtub with my baby, sobbing and panicked while he stared up at me, bewildered by the fuss. A GP visit, ostensibly booked to confirm my baby's diagnosis, morphed into a referral to a psychologist and a diagnosis of health anxiety. Health anxiety, also known as illness anxiety disorder or hypochondria, is a form of anxiety that manifests as intense fear of having or developing an illness, even when there is little evidence to support the belief. Bek Day's went to the doctor worried about her baby's birthmark, but left with a referral to a psychologist for herself. Except rather than worrying about my own health, I was fixated on that of my baby. 'It's called health anxiety by proxy,' explains psychologist Anoushka Dowling, of the lesser-known condition. 'And it is the same fear and preoccupation, but this time directed at the health of your children. It is fearing the worst from minor symptoms, for example: 'what if this headache is actually a brain tumour?' According to Dowling, there are several telltale signs a person might be experiencing health anxiety by proxy. 'They will likely be constantly thinking about or talking about a particular illness or health related worry,' she says. 'They also may be checking for signs and symptoms, and usually turning to online sources to find more information. A person with health anxiety may either repeatedly seek assurance from health professionals, (oftentimes more than once because of a fear of signs being missed) OR they will avoid health professionals altogether out of fear that their worries will be validated.' Dowling says that while worrying about your child's health is, to some extent, a normal part of parenthood, fixating to the point that it causes you distress or is without evidence means there could be a problem. The advent of 'Dr Google' (where every headache is a tumour and every bruise is leukaemia) has exacerbated things she says, as has, more recently, Covid. It all sounds very familiar. While that first acute episode of health anxiety by proxy was by far the worst, there have been other periods in my nine years as a mother where it has raised its ugly head. And while therapy has helped mostly overcome the 3am curse that would keep me awake, googling in a cold sweat, it's also been a numbers game: the sheer volume of times I've assumed the worst, only to be proven wrong. On the surface, some of my more dramatic moments have been laughable, were it not for the real panic underpinning them. The time I took my second newborn to the child health nurse over concerns she yawned too much, for example. Or the ultrasound I demanded of my son's skull because I was sure it was 'too bumpy'. Bek's experience is common among parents. Health anxiety has increased in the past decade. And yes, Covid, with all its uncertainty and hand-washing and invisible threat, left me grappling for a time with a rising dread every time a runny nose or a fever spiked. It's an experience borne out in the numbers: studies clearly show that health anxiety has increased in the past decade (with a decent boost delivered by the pandemic), and while, as a relatively new condition, there aren't a lot of epidemiological data on health anxiety by proxy, experts say anecdotally they're encountering it more frequently as well. 'The sheer volume of information on the internet means that we can find something to confirm almost any fear we have,' explains Dowling. 'Increased feelings of anxiety can inhibit our brain's ability to critically analyse information and increase our tendency to look for information that confirms our fears rather than alleviates them. The internet is great for many things, but self-diagnosis is not one of them! We're way too biased about ourselves, and particularly about our children to gather and interpret information effectively.' Plus Created with Sketch. Plus Created with Sketch. Plus Created with Sketch. Plus Created with Sketch. Plus Created with Sketch. Plus Created with Sketch. Plus Created with Sketch. Plus Created with Sketch. Instead, Dowling suggests reaching out to speak to your GP or a psychologist if you suspect you might be suffering from health anxiety by proxy. 'Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is generally the most effective form of treatment for health anxiety, as it involves identifying distorted thinking and uses evidence-based reasoning to challenge the thoughts,' she explains. 'It will also include relaxation techniques, exposure therapy and behavioural activation to ensure that a person is still able to fully participate in life, because one of the major impacts of leaving health anxiety or healthy anxiety by proxy untreated is the risk of disengaging from everyday activities. 'You may stop socialising, take your child out of school or daycare, or simply stop engaging in activities that once bought you or your child joy, out of fear of serious illness. The excessive worry and preoccupation about illness makes it challenging to enjoy life - which is something that it is definitely possible to treat.' Originally published as Health anxiety is the 3am curse plaguing Aussie mums
