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Courier-Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Courier-Mail
Sarah Roberts: Home And Away star discusses divorce, sex scenes
Don't miss out on the headlines from Celebrity Life. Followed categories will be added to My News. Former Home And Away actor Sarah Roberts says shooting sex scenes on a TV set is in 'no way glamorous', as she confirms she has found love again after her high-profile divorce from ex-husband, James Stewart. In a new interview with the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, Roberts discusses the role intimacy co-ordinators play in racy scenes – and how it's nothing like real sex. As she unveils Make It Look Real (a documentary about the topic), Robert recalls one instance where 'there weren't any crazy sex scenes; they were more kissing scenes with an actor that I hadn't worked with before,' Roberts tells Something To Talk About, in a new episode out today. 'It was about, 'How are we going to film this kiss? Do you want to use tongue? Do you not want to use tongue? Where are you going to put your hands? Where should I put my hands?' Sarah Roberts has revealed the weird reality of shooting TV sex scenes on a new episode of the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About. Picture: Steven Chee for Stellar Listen to Sarah Roberts on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, below: 'There's absolutely nothing glamorous about shooting intimate sex scenes or kissing scenes in front of a massive crew,' she adds. 'My first kissing scene on Home And Away was with my now ex-husband [James Stewart, whom she married in 2019]. 'No-one had walked us through what we were doing. It's hard. Having an intimacy co-ordinator just make it all so much cleaner; it takes the stress away.' Former couple James Stewart and Sarah Roberts pictured together in 2023, prior to their divorce. Picture: Getty Images Meantime, after a turbulent period of her life – including the loss of her beloved brother in 2019 and her divorce from Stewart last year – Roberts has some happy news: she's found love again. 'I love two people now: I've finally found a love for myself, which I know now in retrospect I didn't have for so long,' Roberts told Something To Talk About. 'I am still finding myself, but I have beaten myself up for a long time because I stayed in something that wasn't healthy. But now I have found this love for myself – and also fallen in love with a man. I'm so in love.' The actor and DJ also revealed she used to be a 'yes girl' with 'absolutely no boundaries.' 'Now that I'm 40, I look back on my life so far and it would have been great to have some boundaries and some respect for myself as well,' she said reflectively. 'I would sometimes bend over backwards so far that I would break my back and I got very sick for a moment in time. 'Now I feel very confident walking onto sets. I feel more confident in my day-to-day life as well in relationships. I know what I'll stand and what I won't stand for.' Listen to Sarah Roberts on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, below: In terms of her personal life, Roberts and Stewart met in 2017 on the set of Home and Away and married two years later. Stewart is now dating his co-star, Ada Nicodemou. Speaking to Stellar, Roberts said it was difficult to navigate heartbreak and her marriage breakdown in the public eye. 'I imagine dealing with a divorce is hard enough,' she said. 'Dealing with it all in the spotlight – and then everything that came out in the media after – absolutely ripped my heart in a million little pieces,.' Make It Look Real premieres at the 2025 Sydney Film Festival, June 4-15. For details, visit Listen to the full interview with Sarah Roberts on the latest episode of the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, wherever you get your podcasts. See the shoot with her inside the latest issue of Stellar, out in the Sunday papers today. Originally published as 'Nothing glamorous about shooting sex scenes!' Former Home And Away star Sarah Roberts addresses reality of on-screen sex
Mercury
17-05-2025
- Mercury
William Tyrrell case: Witness podcast reveals new information in toddler's disappearance
Don't miss out on the headlines from Celebrity Life. Followed categories will be added to My News. Shock new details are about to come to light in the case of missing boy William Tyrrell – a case that has gripped Australia and left the public demanding answers. In an interview with the Stellar podcast Something To Talk About, journalists Dan Box and Nina Young reveal groundbreaking information they've uncovered during their lengthy investigation into Tyrrell's disappearance. 'We've found new witnesses, we found some potential connections between this person of interest and some other unsolved cases on the New South Wales mid North Coast that are not William Tyrrell,' Young told Something To Talk About. Box and Young uncovered some 'utterly shocking' information that has never been reported before. 'What struck me throughout, is the evidence we've uncovered, a lot of it was known to police or could have been known to the police if they went asking questions. And time and time again, it seems that they haven't,' Box said. William Tyrrell remains missing without a trace. Picture: News Corp Australia Listen to an interview with the hosts of Witness: William Tyrrell on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About: The investigative reporters have been covering the three-year-old boy's disappearance since he vanished from his foster grandmother's backyard wearing a Spider-Man suit on 12 September 2014. In October, they launched the chart-topping podcast Witness: William Tyrrell, revealing which questions are still needing to be answered. Four new episodes of the podcast will be released on Monday. Along the way, they've uncovered dark and deeply confronting material, adding to the heavy personal toll. 'It's a darkness that I never expected to [find],' Box said. 'I really struggle with the transition from work to family, and I'm not very good at it. 'Most of my work is murder at the moment: writing scripts, writing articles … so when you're working from home then flip from that to dinner time, it's rolling chaos. 'It does affect your sleep. Nina's had dreams about William Tyrrell. I've got to the point where before I go to sleep, I tell myself, don't think about him, 'cause I won't go to sleep otherwise.' The three-year-old boy vanished from his foster grandmother's backyard in 2014. Picture: Supplied The podcast Witness: William Tyrrell explores the disappearance of the toddler. Picture: Supplied Listen to an interview with the hosts of Witness: William Tyrrell on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About: Tyrrell's disappearance shocked the nation, destroyed lives and ended careers, and Box reveals that after 20 years of crime reporting, the case has also broken him. Box said: 'It takes a toll. I don't know if I'll do crime reporting again after this.' For Box and Young, it's not just about bringing William home, it's about finding answers to the hundreds of unsolved homicides across New South Wales. 'There are hundreds and hundreds of families whose loved ones were murdered or went missing and have no answers,' Box said. 'I would love for there to be a proper investigation, firstly, into what went wrong with the William Tyrrell investigation, but also an investigation into what went wrong with all these other unsolved homicides. Because the closer you look at them, you realise that things were done wrong in a lot of them.' For more from Stellar and the podcast, Something To Talk About, click here. Listen to the four new episodes of Witness: William Tyrrell, out this week.
Herald Sun
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Herald Sun
Candice Warner: Marriage to David Warner and why couple are putting daughters on Instagram
Candice Warner reveals why she and husband David have set up a dedicated social media page for their three daughters. Stellar: Happy Mother's Day. You're on the cover of Stellar with your husband, David Warner, and your daughters, Ivy, 10, Indi, 9, and Isla, 5. Three children and lots of props … How was the shoot? Candice Warner: It was so much fun and suited our family to a tee. We had bikes, tennis racquets, balls, hula hoops. That's no different to what our house is like, except I put my foot down because there are no skateboards or bikes in our house. Stellar: You're an extremely close-knit family. Is that shifting as the girls start getting older? Candice Warner: We're still incredibly close. [David] retired from playing cricket for Australia [in 2024] but he's still away a lot. So the girls are my best friends. We do everything together. I'm one of those mothers that loves to be there. I'm present. I'm at school pick-up and I try to do it all because I love that and I had parents like that. The girls are so different. Ivy, she's the sensitive one. I can rely on her for absolutely anything and everything. Indi is the joker, always making us laugh. And then we have Isla, who is the spitting image of David and full of energy. Listen to a new episode of Something To Talk About featuring Candice Warner below: Stellar: One of the biggest hot-button issues this past year has been the conversation surrounding social media and children. Your daughters have a shared Instagram account called The Warner Sisters, managed by yourself and David, which you started in late 2023 – it now has almost 200,000 followers. Tell me about your decision to open an account for them, especially when so many parents are evaluating their kids' relationship with social media? Candice Warner: During Covid, David was really big on TikTok. He loved doing all the dances and the girls would often get involved. I saw how much fun we were having as a family. It brought us together on the weekends. So I started the Instagram account and it was a way for us to teach the girls how to use social media responsibly. Before we post anything, we show them, they can read the comments, it's all about teaching them, guiding them. Our kids are no different to any other kid. They play sport, they like to do dances. Yes, they've got parents with a high profile, but for us, it was all about putting out a positive image… At the moment, it's fun. They're not influencers. They're just young girls living their life, having fun, being sporty, and I capture it and I put it on a page. The Federal Government passed the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act last year, which introduced a minimum age of 16 for accounts on certain social media platforms, noting the link between the rise of social media and the harm to the mental health of young Australians. To be clear, the girls don't manage the account themselves, yourself and David post on their behalf. But how do you navigate issues such as trolling? [Of all the comments we've received] 99.9 per cent have been positive. If there have ever been any negative comments, it's about us as parents, not so much about the kids. In regards to [last year's change in legislation], I definitely support that. Suicide happens from all this online trolling and that's very serious. Our girls don't have [personal social media] accounts because I don't believe that young kids have the mental capacity to deal with trolls. But for us, their joint social media is about teaching our girls how to use it responsibly. They have an input in what we show. I teach them about ignoring negativity. We have experienced trolling. We still experience it… But if you completely block [social media] out and say it doesn't exist, then I don't think you're teaching your kids how to use it properly. If you want to protect your kids in a way where you're not teaching them any life skills, then you're letting your kids down. The Danish royal family recently released an official portrait of Princess Isabella, the 18-year-old daughter of King Frederik and Queen Mary, in which she was holding an iPhone. It sparked huge debate. What do you think that discussion says about us as a society? Everyone is really quick to judge and to point the finger, but let's face it, you might be sitting at the traffic lights and every single person on that bus has their head down on their phone. You go to a park and are playing with your kids [and] the majority of the mums and dads are sitting there on their phones. They're a part of our life, phones aren't going anywhere. Social media isn't going anywhere, but it's about limiting it and using it in a positive way. In speaking about this to Stellar today are you bracing yourselves for potentially negative responses from some people? I don't care what people say about me, about my husband, about us as a family – it's their opinion, it's not fact. They don't know us. I'm not here to defend [the girls' social media] page, but I'm here to say that, yes, it can be dangerous. I truly believe what [Prime Minister] Anthony Albanese is doing is the right thing to protect young adults. But we also have an obligation as a parent – most parents have social media – to teach our kids how to use it in a positive way. Let's not be all doom and gloom about social media. It can be wonderful if we know how to use it correctly and if we can empower or educate or make people smile or laugh. Listen to a new episode of Something To Talk About featuring Candice Warner below: A lot of other high-profile Australians blank out the faces of their children or don't post them on social media, but you and David haven't chosen to do that? We've never found a need to blank our kids' faces out. We're incredibly protective of our girls, don't get us wrong. But I don't feel like someone is going to come and kidnap my daughter if they know what school she's at. I'm not that type of parent. You've got to live a little bit. Just because we have a profile and my husband plays cricket, are we supposed to just live behind four walls and never leave there and never let our kids be seen or heard? If it's good for us, it's good for our kids. And they're very happy. They're thriving. They're really happy young girls. Yes, we're protective but we're also realistic in the world that we live in. You appeared in the newspaper at the age of 14, when you were beginning your ironwoman career. Do you think the pressure you felt as a result of that kind of exposure at a young age differs from your three daughters' experience of living a public life? I know with myself at such a young age, I didn't start putting pressure on myself because my photo was in the paper. I put pressure on myself because I worked really hard and I wanted to achieve at a high level. So pressure is sometimes a good thing. And my girls understand pressure. They play tennis five, six times a week. Most of the time in tennis, you lose; in a tournament, there's only ever going to be one winner. So tennis teaches you how to lose. It teaches you to be resilient, how to keep turning up week after week when you may not have had a win. Almost every parent wants to teach resilience to their children. What's your hack? The best way to teach resilience is to not wrap your kids in cotton wool. A bit of tough love. How can you teach resilience if they've never failed? How can you tell your kids to get back up when they've never fallen? We love our kids and we support them but we also need to let them learn for themselves sometimes. And losing or failing, it doesn't mean that's the end. It means there's going to be growth. Listen to a new episode of Something To Talk About featuring Candice Warner below: You and David celebrated your 10th wedding anniversary last month. How do you reflect on your time together? I'm incredibly proud of where we're at in life, where our kids are at and the parents that we've become. Our relationship is very strong, but it always has been. Certain situations that we've overcome together have made us even stronger. We look at our kids and we see them as our biggest achievements. We're really proud of how far we've come and that we didn't give up along the way. Read the full interview with Candice Warner and see the shoot with the Warner family inside today's Stellar via The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Herald Sun (VIC), The Sunday Mail (QLD) and Sunday Mail (SA). And listen to Candice on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, wherever you get your podcasts. For more from Stellar and the podcast, Something To Talk About, click here. Originally published as 'I'm proud of where we're at in life': Candice Warner on marriage to David Warner and why their daughters are on social media
Daily Telegraph
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Telegraph
Strife: Mary Coustas stars in series based on Mia Freedman, Mamamia
Don't miss out on the headlines from Stellar. Followed categories will be added to My News. From the moment that Mary Coustas first stepped on stage in 1987 as Effie Stephanidis – a second-generation Greek woman with a personality as big as her wig – she knew she had struck a cultural chord. 'As soon as I opened my mouth, I felt something shift,' the actor tells The Binge Guide of introducing Australia to the proud dynamo, whose fierceness carried over to the hit 1989-1992 TV series Acropolis Now. 'I felt like I birthed the biggest baby in the hospital that year – hair and all.' Now the actor known best for comedy is making a return to television in dramatic fashion. In the second season of Strife, the breakout Binge show about the messy but exhilarating life of digital publisher Evelyn Jones (Asher Keddie), Coustas plays psychologist Sylvie, whose ear Evelyn needs to bend, especially when friend Christine (Maria Angelico) decides to launch a rival website. 'I know what it's like for any woman that juggles a lot.' Mary Coustas pictured in character as Sylvie in Strife. Picture: Binge 'I love that this [show] is about a woman trying to do something that hadn't been done before on a very large scale,' Coustas says of Mia Freedman, the real-life Mamamia co-founder whose 2017 memoir, Work Strife Balance, became the jump-off point for the series, which offers an edgy examination of celebrity and popular culture in the early 2010s. 'I know Mia. I was around when that was all happening for her at the beginning,' Coustas recalls. 'I know what it's like for any woman that juggles a lot. To just get through the day is a miracle, let alone pull off something miraculous, like an online platform with a million people working for you and getting into trouble a lot.' Coustas, who says she was initially tapped to work with the writers on Strife, appreciates that the dramedy takes a potentially serious subject like financial strain and makes it funny and watchable. Listen to the full interview with Tanya Hennessy on Something To Talk About below: And when she considers the diversity of the cast and crew, she can't help but reflect on how far Australian television has come since 1989, when Acropolis Now made its debut. Created by Nick Giannopoulos, George Kapiniaris and Simon Palomares, the five-season comedy set in a fictional Melbourne cafe was a pioneering showcase of authentic Greek-Australian culture. 'I do feel very proud of the work that we did and we opened a big door, but I felt it took forever for more people to walk through it,' Coustas, 60, says now. 'Maybe if social media was around back then, it would have been different. We could have put more of us on the map.' Growing up, Coustas recalls with a laugh, she would 'make fun of my mum, who would watch the credits of everything and look for Greek names. 'When you say the word 'nostalgia', you know it's going to fail.' Picture: David Clark Strife is loosely based on the life of Mia Freedman – with Asher Keddie portraying a character inspired by her. Picture: Getty Images Asher Keddie as Evelyn on set of the new series of Binge's Strife. Picture: John Platt 'I was a bit like that, but with faces. I remember thinking, Oh, how am I going to succeed in an industry where there aren't people that look like me in it, or certainly not in any significant way?' The solution, she explains, was to become the role model she wanted to see. 'I was lucky to find the boys – Nick, George and Simon,' Coustas says. 'They had the same hunger that I did to do something impactful, to have a presence and a career. And the '80s were good to us.' Not all comedy has aged well, though. Even hit 2000s-era series such as Little Britain and Summer Heights High have been criticised for using racial stereotypes. For her part, Coustas isn't in a rush to see an Acropolis Now reboot. 'When you say the word 'nostalgia', you know it's going to fail,' she offers with a shrug. 'I love it when it works. And Heartbreak High is a great example of that. But mostly, it doesn't.' But far from being cancelled, Effie still draws a crowd when Coustas performs as the character in sellout shows around Australia. 'Her hair might be a bit '80s,' she says, 'but her point of view is current.' Season 2 of Strife premieres on Thursday on Binge. See the full interview and cover story with Mary in The Binge Guide today, via The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Herald Sun (VIC), The Sunday Mail (QLD) and Sunday Mail (SA). For more from Stellar and the podcast Something to Talk About, click here.
Herald Sun
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Herald Sun
Jackie O: Tanya Hennessy, former I'm A Celebrity star, discusses body image
Content creator, author and radio host Tanya Hennessy opens up about the joy of loving herself and the pain of infertility. Stellar: When you were last in Stellar in 2018, we called you a 'radio host, comedian and YouTube sensation'. How should we describe you in 2025? Tanya Hennessy: Hot as! [Laughs]. Stellar: That goes without saying. Tanya Hennessy: I'm really humble … Look, the cover is unbelievable and I'm obsessed with myself. You know, I've been doing social media 10 years, which is crazy. I started in 2015 and I remember life changing so radically. I have a Before Viral and After Viral Tanya. They're such different people. I'm a slashie, and people have a real problem with it. I work in comedy, I write TV scripts, I do columns, I'm an author, I do radio shows, and I make social media content. I would say I'm a social media creator. I used to write the word 'influencer' out of all my contracts because what it really means is to influence sales. If the word was to influence joy, positivity or positive change, I'd be like: great, but it's to influence sales and being aligned as a commodity didn't feel comfortable. It still doesn't. That's why I don't like the word 'influencer' for me. Some people do identify with it. I hate it, actually. Listen to the full interview with Tanya Hennessy on Something To Talk About below: Stellar: What has been your experience in this era of the splintered algorithm between mainstream and social media? Tanya Hennessy: I'm lucky that I'm able to do both traditional and social media, but I feel like a fraud in both scenarios. If I'm doing TV, I feel like the social media girl. If I'm doing social media, I feel like the commercial radio/TV girl. It's really weird. I never know which place I sit. I always feel a little bit of neither. But I also know I'm kind of fierce because no-one can do what I can do. It's taken me a really long time, like 39 years, to admit that … I'm really trying to get on Dancing With The Stars, but they won't let me on. Because I think the audience that are watching it aren't on social. So I don't know if I'm ever going to get on that show. And so help me God, I will, because I'm very determined and I want to wear a leotard and rhinestone pants. That feels like my destiny. I feel I could body roll very intensely. I'm really willing to move my hips in a sexual way – but not too sexual for PG, Channel Seven timeslots. Stellar: Talking about weight in a sensitive way is always fraught, but you've also been open about losing weight as part of your fertility journey. Can I ask about the reaction to your body changing? Tanya Hennessy: People are really curious about it. I lost a lot of weight, because I needed to, and I needed to quite quickly, because I've been doing IVF since I was 34 and now I'm 39. I feel different, but I also understand why people want to comment on it, because I look different. I get it. But also, this is the shape and size I was when I started creating. I gained 50kg within a couple of years because I was prioritising work. I was eating really badly, I was very stressed. I gained a lot of weight in the media, and then I was like, can we just not talk about my body? Can I just be a creative being who isn't their body? I guess that's how I want people to see me, because I will fluctuate, and I will continue to fluctuate my whole life. I'm going to be big and small … But I'm tenacious. I'm smart. I'm really creative. And I want you to see that. I want you to see my soul and my heart before you see the way I look. Stellar: Whenever a high-profile woman's body changes, there is always such unnecessary commentary and scrutiny directed at them. I recall discussing this exact issue with Jackie O on the Stellar podcast a couple of years ago. Tanya Hennessy: As a radio person, Jackie O is my mecca and I don't care what weight she is – her brain, and her ability to create radio, is exceptional. And that is all I care about. I guess that's how I want people to see me because I will fluctuate and I am going to continue to fluctuate my whole life. I'm going to be big and small and I have been that – [and that] is my that is my M.O. That is who I am. I am emotionally eating … I have a weird relationship with food. I'm going to struggle with food for my whole life. I am going to be up and down. But I am really tenacious … And I want you to see that. I want to see my soul and my heart before you see the way I look. Please. And not just me. Like, every other person out there. We are more than … the bag of skin that we are walking around in. Listen to the full interview with Tanya Hennessy on Something To Talk About below: Stellar: You married your husband Tom Poole last September. How is married life? Tanya Hennessy: He's seven years younger than me, which is kind of crazy because sometimes I'll be like, 'Oh, do you know that song 'Never Ever' by the All Saints?' And he's like, 'Who are the All Saints?' When I was in uni, he was in Year 5. Don't bring that up too often because it's harrowing to think. Like, good Lord, I'm having Vodka Cruisers while he's having a Paddle Pop. No, look, I loved getting married. The whole day I was so present, which is really rare for me because I'm always so in my head. And I gave myself permission to be in it and it just be about us. I had the best day. Stellar: You're currently undergoing your seventh round of IVF. Why did you decide to reveal your fertility story publicly, and what has the response been? Tanya Hennessy: I spoke about it because I was so feral on hormones. And I truly thought that after the first two rounds, it would just work. So I was like, oh, so we'll talk about this and then I'll just be pregnant, and then I'll have a kid and then that'll be the end of the story. But the story is more of a chapter book than a picture book. So it's been a long, drawn out, mentally draining process. I feel like it's robbed me of a lot of my personality. I miss my old, dirty, downright funny self. Now I'm sad and complex [laughs]. But it's exhausting getting blood tests almost every single day and changing so much of your food. I've got to keep warm and I've got to have hot drinks and I can't have coffee and I used to be addicted to Red Bull, sugar-free. Now I have to eat all these friggin' fibre foods and high protein, and da da da. And it's fine, but it doesn't work. And it's fine, but it doesn't work. And it's fine, but it doesn't f*cking work. Tanya Hennessy (continued): As someone who's so attuned to working hard and getting what they want, it's really hard. I can't outwork infertility. And it's so humanising and painful because [a baby] is something everyone seems to get so easily and I'm here just like, what? So there's a part of me that goes I'm glad I shared it because you can see the exhaustion of it. It's not solved, it's a process. It's not 'Oh, Tanya said she had infertility struggles, and two weeks later she's pregnant.' It's 'Tanya says she had an infertility problem – and five years later, she's still experiencing it.' That's important to see. Working is really hard. I've been on shoots while miscarrying. I've been on shoots bleeding. Listen to the full interview with Tanya Hennessy on Something To Talk About below: I've been on shoots crying because the hormones take over and people ask you questions and you're like, ugh. It's the worst thing I've ever had to go through. I've had two endo[metriosis] surgeries that have been so hard and, yeah, I just don't get anywhere. And it's expensive. I'm only able to do seven rounds because [of my income from] sponsored content. It's a privilege. Not everyone has this privilege to be able to afford it. And I don't know where to draw the line to stop. Because in the dark soul of the night, when you're by yourself, all I want to do is see my baby. And if I draw the line, I will never see them. And other people get to be grandparents and I won't. I'll go through a grief again. Will I always live with a grief? Read the full interview and see the cover shoot with Tanya Hennessy in the new issue of Stellar out today inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Herald Sun (VIC), The Sunday Mail (QLD) and Sunday Mail (SA). For more from Stellar and the podcast, Something To Talk About, click here. Originally published as Reality star Tanya Hennessy on body image, being called an 'influencer' – and why her weight is none of your business
