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Sarah Wilson, the journalist and broadcaster known for her best-selling range of I Quit Sugar cookbooks (left), has revealed why she left her home country for a new life in France (right, in Paris with a friend recently) following the sale of her business to fellow media identity Sam Wood. In a wide-ranging interview, she spoke of her decision to leave Australia and alluded to why she never got another high-profile TV role following her brief stint as a host of MasterChef for just one season (centre and inset, with original judges Matt Preston, Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris).

A week-long inquest is investigating the deaths of Mona Lisa Smith, 16, and Jacinta Rose Smith, 15, on a highway outside Bourke in northwestern NSW in December, 1987. The cousins died after accepting a lift with excavator driver Alexander Ian Grant, then 40, in his Toyota HiLux ute after he had been drinking in four Bourke hotels. What happened next will make your blood run cold.

The airline has cancelled flights between the two major hubs for all of December, making the announcement Thursday in what will no doubt be devastating news for many Aussies, who now have to rethink their Christmas travel plans.

Franks, known as the Kaftan Queen, first met Jones in London more than 25 years ago before reuniting and beginning a relationship in 2016. The couple (left) went on to have a daughter, Luna (right), now five, but were unable to conceive a second child after five unsuccessful rounds of IVF. Franks and Jones first planned to marry in 2017 in India, but they put their wedding on hold when they learned the designer was pregnant. Jones supported Camilla as she battled breast cancer just four months after giving birth to their daughter. 

Deborah Knight stepped out in Sydney on Saturday, two weeks after signing off on the last-ever episode of her 2GB afternoons show. The 50-year-old broadcaster looked downcast as she went for a solo stroll, dressed casually in a pink T-shirt, denim skirt and a pair of khaki sandals.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been urged to speak out and back King Charles and Princess Catherine amid suggestions Buckingham Palace could take legal action amid the Omid Scobie race row. The Duke and Duchess and Sussex have been told to end their 'deafening silence' after the King himself and his daughter-in-law were named as the royals alleged to have made remarks about the skin colour of Prince Archie.

AMANDA PLATELL: Almost three years ago Meghan told Oprah Winfrey, without naming names, that senior members of the Royal Family had raised 'concerns' about the skin colour of her and Harry's son, Archie, before he was born. The Sussexes implied, and their supporters cried, this proved the House of Windsor was racist: that poor mixed-race Meghan had been marginalised. The shocking allegations threatened to shake many people's faith in the monarchy itself. Now, thanks to her risible mouthpiece, Omid Scobie - who collaborated with her on his first book Finding Freedom - we know Meghan also wrote the King a 'private' letter, setting out her concerns about the supposed racism in the Royal Family.

Ina, 75, who grew up in Stamford, Connecticut, with her surgeon father Charles and her dietician mother Florence, has long been open about how her 'obsessive' mother restricted her eating as a child, and didn't let her cook - despite her falling in love with the activity from a young age. Now, she has revealed how the negative things that she endured as a kid ultimately lead to her not wanting to become a mother herself while speaking to Katty Kay in a new BBC interview.

Tourists and native New Yorkers can reach new heights for a limited time on an all-new ride called The Beam. Located in Rockefeller Center, The Beam Experience opened today for visitors looking to recreate an iconic New York photo of 11 ironworkers taken 91 years ago at the same building. The 1932 black and white picture shows all the men sitting on a steel beam during their lunch break 69 stories high with a spectacular view of Central Park in the background. The lucky visitors who try this new ride at the Top of the Rock are guaranteed a picture while sitting on a steel beam that raises them 12 feet above the Observation Deck.

Mackenzie, 64, has opened up to sister Chynna, 55, about the 10-year incestuous affair she had with their father, The Mamas & the Papas frontman John. Mackenzie, who is the daughter of John and first wife Susan Stuart Adams, made a  bombshell revelation in her 2009 memoir, High On Arrival, claiming that her father first raped her when she was 19 - on the night before her wedding to Jeff Sessler. But as her life began to spiral out of control on drugs, the sex became consensual for almost a decade, she said. In a new chat with her sister, Mackenzie described her father as 'dark' and also revealed she had been trolled online for 'having forgiveness in her heart,' but 'forgiving doesn't mean that I co-sign or agree with what I'm forgiving... him for.'

Lizzie Ens, 36, from Ohio, ran away from her Amish community and has now revealed what dating looked like in the Amish world. She fled the lifestyle when she was 19 years old, and hasn't ever looked back. The nutrition coach now shares fascinating insights into her childhood to her more than 172,000 followers.

A woman has revealed a 'bizarre' theory for why Australians are 'aggressive' and swear all the time - and many agree with her hypothesis. Julz Alex has spent her whole life in Australia and observed several 'occurrences' that might explain an Aussie's short temper.

Macaulay Culkin was honoured on Friday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. He was supported by his fiancée, actress Brenda Song, and their two sons, Dakota, two, and Carson, who was born sometime before Christmas 2022. The ceremony marks the first time they have stepped out at a public event with both of their children.

Karyna Diaz shared a clip to her TikTok account in which she revealed how much she made per day with her side hustle of completing orders as an Uber Eats driver. 

A moment from David and Victoria Beckham's documentary has gone viral and inspired couples on social media to put their partners to the 'Beckham test'. Find out what it's all about...

When Kylie McDevitt swiped on a Tinder profile in her college days, she thought she was getting cat fished. After looking up the person in the pictures, she realized that profile claimed to belong to a football player for the Philadelphia Eagles. Kylie accepted an invitation from the Tinder match to meet up at a bar, and that's when she was first introduced to Jason Kelce. The date went horribly.

It's December 1 - and you know what that means - the nation will be counting down every day until we reach December 25. A new Christmas brainteaser is leaving the nation well and truly puzzled, as they try to find Father Christmas, his sleigh, and the five presents he lost along the way. The festive puzzle has been created in time for the lead-up and it turns out that 80 per cent of people can't solve it in less than a minute - can you?

Talk about a desperate housewife! Felicity Huffman, apparently tired of sitting at home and nursing her long-dead acting career, has put on her best I'm Sorry face and tried for a relaunch. Here was Huffman, of Varsity Blues Scandal fame and former Hollywood C-lister, donning the cloak of 'white guilt' as she broke her four-year silence on the college bribery debacle, describing to ABC the moment of her arrest in 2019: '[The FBI] came into my home, they woke my daughters up at gunpoint - again, nothing new to the black and brown community - then they put my hands behind my back and handcuffed me.' Reader, don't be fooled by the perfectly sculpted blow-dry, the freshly bleached hair, Felicity suffered during her 11-day imprisonment - and she wants us to know about it. 'I asked [the investigators] if I could get dressed. I thought it was a hoax,' she says as her no-makeup makeup glistens under the TV studio lights. 'I literally turned to one of the FBI people in a flak jacket and a gun and I go 'is this a joke?'

Sanna Hakala, a two-time Olympic hockey player for Finland, has been left paralysed from the chest down with limited function in her arms and hands after crashing into the net during a recent game for her Swedish club team.

A young Mexican women learned that all love stories don't come with happy ending. Kary Santana spent the last two years chatting online and over the phone with a man, who sold her on the dream of spending their lives together before she discovered he already had a girlfriend.

The jaw-dropping winning photo was taken by Canadian photographer Tara Lilly, who captured the jaw-dropping moment a bird landed on the bride's head and made itself comfortable while the groom read his vows. More than 1,700 stunning wedding photos were entered into the seventh International Wedding Photographer of the Year Awards by 300 wedding photographers, spanning across 11 categories. The unbelievable picture was entered into the Single Capture category, where it won first prize.

British fashionista, Daphne Selfe, 95, from Baldock, Hertfordshire, is living proof of the benefits of ageing gracefully. She started her modelling career at the age of 20, and some 70 years later it's still going strong. Career highlights include runway shows for the likes of Dolce & Gabbana, Tate-Naka and Nichiko Koshino, not to mention cameo appearances in numerous Bond films. But age she must, and this year marks a transition for Daphne because she has moved into a care home- but it's anything but bleak. Funded by the Royal Variety Charity, the living space is as glam as Daphne. To mark her new chapter, the 95-year-old met with The Telegraph- and in doing so, revealed the secrets behind her youthful glow.