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News.com.au
10-05-2025
- Health
- News.com.au
‘It was a difficult time of shifting how I saw myself': Seven presenter Angela Cox reveals double heartbreak
As Angela Cox unclipped her microphone at the end of anchoring a Friday evening news bulletin, she had a strong sense she needed to return to the palliative care home where her mum's four-year battle with brain cancer was slowly coming to an end. 'I'd been with Mum all day,' she recounts of her final moments with her mum two years ago. 'Normally I'd go home after work because she would sleep but that evening something didn't feel right. I sat with her, taking her vital signs. 'My brother, sister and brother-in-law were there and we stayed with her all night.' The next morning Cox popped out to grab a round of coffees. Within two minutes of her return her 71-year-old mum Larelle took her last breath. 'It's very much my mother that she would be dramatic and die the day before Mother's Day so we'll never ever forget that. She had a flare for the drama,' says Cox, tears spilling as she laughs at the memory. But what viewers, who've watched Cox's assured rise from foreign correspondent and Spotlight reporter to host of evening news show, The Latest, and now the coveted position of co-anchor of the 6pm Sydney news, wouldn't know is that she was harbouring dual heartbreak. Because as she watched her mother's life ebb away, Cox was also confronting another painful reality – the fading possibility of becoming a mother herself. 'That period of time was also the period of time I realised that the fairy-tale I'd imagined of having the house, husband and two kids wasn't going to work out that way for me,' says Cox. 'When the window to motherhood closed it was a difficult time of shifting how I saw myself and my life and having to embrace the positives.' Cox's attempts to have a child are private but she's forthcoming about the unique grief landscape she traversed as she not only farewelled her mum but relinquished the dream of having children of her own. 'I felt like I had a ton of bricks on my chest when I was losing my mum but there was also a silver lining because it made me remember to live large and appreciate my life even if it wasn't quite what I planned,' she says. 'I refuse to be a person who becomes bitter, resentful, sad and joyless because I don't have what I thought I was going to have.' Her appointment seven months ago to co-host Sydney's prime time news alongside Mark Ferguson coincided with a tumultuous period for the commercial television networks but Cox's gravitas and warmth made her a natural for the role. She reveals that Ferguson took her aside and made clear they would be equal partners rather than veteran and newcomer. 'He was an ally from the start,' she says. But if Cox has the news anchor's poise she also possesses the newshound's playfulness. She was widely teased by her colleagues for taking a homemade cake to lunch with Seven Network chairman Kerry Stokes – 'I bake for billionaires,' she quips. She's also rather cross she didn't capitalise on meeting Prince Harry when they were both single (she'd divorced amicably after a short marriage in her early 30s). 'If I had known Harry had a soft spot for older divorced women …' she says mischievously. Born in Mackay, Cox, her twin sister Belinda and older brother Jason moved constantly during their childhood due to their dad's job and their mum's whimsy. It's made the trio close but also adaptable. While she spent four of her 25 years with the Seven Network as US correspondent, visiting the White House and covering terror attacks including the Boston bombing, Cox has also taken leave without pay to travel and enjoy new experiences. Indeed, her determination not to be defined by heartbreak or her job – an older colleague warned her to always nourish other elements – is part of the reason she's taken up surfing, hitting the waves at Sydney's Bondi before work. She's even booked a second surf camp in Indonesia where she plans to embrace her life's unexpected choreography by learning to dance up and down a longboard. 'I'm rebranding and this is going to be my rebel era,' she says, channelling the gratitude she now practises. 'I'm going to have the most adventurous, colourful life. I've experienced beautiful passionate love in my life and I want to keep having deep, meaningful connections until I die. Like my mum, I'm going to live my best life.'
CBC
29-04-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Jury viewing more video, photos in ex-world junior hockey players' sexual assault trial
This is 2nd day of London, Ont., proceedings with Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia presiding The Latest The trial against five former world junior hockey players continues this morning. Dillon Dubé, Cal Foote, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart and Michael McLeod have all pleaded not guilty. The complainant is only known as E.M. due to a publication ban. The jury is expected to see more videos from Jack's bar and Delta Armouries, the hotel where the sexual assault is alleged to have taken place on June 19, 2018. WARNING: Court proceedings include details of alleged sexual assault and might affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone who's been impacted by it. Updates April 29 17 minutes ago Videos from inside Jack's bar Kate Dubinski We're back and the detective is back in the witness box. The first video we saw today was of E.M. at an ATM toward the back of the bar. We'd previously seen a video of the same thing but from a different angle. We're also shown a video from a smaller bar within Jack's. 'That is Brett Howden,' Waque explains as a man talks to E.M. (He is now a centre with the Las Vegas Golden Nights). Howden leaves the small bar area and soon, he returns with McLeod. McLeod starts speaking to E.M. Howden and McLeod are both in baseball caps worn backwards in the video. When the videos play in court, the accused men watch them on the screens set up at each defence table. All the players are once again wearing dark suits except Hart, who is in his burgundy suit (yesterday, he wore a light grey one). Again, there's no sound on the videos, and it's pretty hushed in the courtroom as everyone watches the screens. The ones we've been watching today were taken between 11:40 p.m. and midnight. 37 minutes ago Katie Nicholson I'm Katie Nicholson, a CBC senior reporter usually based in Toronto but I'm here in London with my colleagues. We are recessed again. One thing the public probably isn't aware of is how many technical gremlins the court has been dealing with. Zoom is down this morning, there have been connectivity issues in the courtroom, and just now, a program's doorbell started dinging in the room before the witness could really get started. So, while IT once again races to the floor, we are taking a break. These issues also make it difficult for counsel to retrieve materials and exhibits that might be stored in a Cloud platform. I started my morning in the overflow court (it's easier to run outside and do live TV hits from that spot) where a lonely officer haplessly tried to connect us to Zoom a few times. Now, I am up in the main courtroom where I can watch things unfold live … once all these issues are ironed out. So far, everyone has been pretty good-natured about these technical glitches, but they sure do slow down what is supposed to be an already lengthy trial. 55 minutes ago Kate Dubinski We're back up and running this morning in London court. The jury is about to be brought in and we expect London police Det. Tiffany Waque (pronounced wah-kay, in case you're wondering) to get back in the witness box and continue showing surveillance video taken from Jack's bar the night of June 18, 2018, and into the early morning of June 19, 2018. More people are in the main courtroom because there's an issue with the Zoom link that beams the trial down to the overflow room (and to accredited media watching remotely). So people who are usually downstairs in the overflow room are here on the 14th floor in Courtroom 21. Carroccia told the jury there might be a longer break after Waque is done testifying to deal with the technical issues. 1 hour ago Karen Pauls I had an interesting conversation last night with Mark Lazerus, a senior NHL writer for The Athletic, based in Chicago. Two of his colleagues, Katie Strang and Dan Robson, are here covering the trial, but otherwise, Lazerus says the case doesn't seem to be on the radar of many sports journalists or fans in the U.S. 'It was a pretty big deal when the players' names came out, when we were able to put names to this, kind of like, mystery, because everybody knew who was on that roster. I felt like that was going to be a watershed moment,' he told me. 'I remember writing a column saying like, 'You can't hide from it anymore. You can't pretend this isn't real. … These are the players you've rooted for. These are players whose jerseys you've bought.'' And while the public interest and media coverage have continued in Canada, it has died down in the U.S. 'It doesn't seem to have had the impact that I thought it was going to have. … It was kind of moving on to the next thing.' Right now, Lazerus says, everyone is much more interested in the NHL playoffs than a trial about some then junior hockey players in Canada, even though the five have all had ties to NHL teams. Lazerus hopes this trial, no matter the verdict, will ultimately draw attention to problems within the junior hockey system — a culture many have criticized for creating an atmosphere of misogyny and homophobia — and maybe provide impetus for change. 'I don't know if there's been such a high-profile case involving such prominent players that were so young at the time,' he says. 'It feels like we've seen a lot more of it come out of the hockey world than we have in other sports at that age.' 1 hour ago Karen Pauls I'm Karen Pauls, a senior reporter for CBC, in London covering this trial. I popped over to the London Knights versus Kitchener Knights game Sunday afternoon to chat with folks about what they're paying more attention to: the playoffs (CHL and NHL) or this trial down the street. The streets were filled with fans wearing jerseys and carrying noisemakers. Not surprisingly, the focus here during the OHL playoffs is on the home team. 'For me, more attention to the playoffs, to be honest. I'll let what happen happens,' Tom Johnston told me (he's the guy on the right with the muscles). 'I'll let the courts deal with it.' Nancy Blackall has been a Knights fan since she was a young girl. She's not paying attention to the trial and believes the allegations 'shouldn't reflect on the game itself.' Paula DiDomenico says the case hasn't come up much in her circles. 'There was a lot of talk about it a little while ago when they first brought the charges to them, so we're just hearing a little bit on the news now,' DiDomenico said, adding she thinks hockey culture has changed — for the better — in recent years. I asked my CBC Manitoba colleague Gavin Axelrod to pose some of the same questions to Winnipeg Jets fans after a viewing party Sunday afternoon for their game against the St. Louis Blues. While most of the responses were similar, Josh Rempel said, 'The trials in London are just kind of the first step in beginning the change of that culture where it's all about protecting each other, and instead it's about doing the right thing. 'This is really starting to finally look like there might be some change on the horizon, which is a really big thing for me. I've got two young kids that I want to put into hockey myself, but the culture that exists right now is so bad in so many different places that it's not a really great place for anybody.' 2 hours ago Natalie Stechyson Good morning. I'm a writer and editor based in Kingston, Ont., and I'll be curating your live page updates today. Once again, we have multiple reporters at the Ontario Court of Justice in London where the sexual assault trial for five former Canadian world junior hockey players continues this morning. On Monday, the jury saw surveillance video outside Jack's bar on London's Richmond Row. You can read all about the first day of the trial and the evidence presented so far here. You can also listen to our radio story here (around the 10-minute mark). Today, the jury is expected to see more videos from Jack's bar and the Delta Armouries, the hotel where the sexual assault is alleged to have taken place in the early hours of June 19, 2018. Proceedings are expected to start around 10 a.m. ET. Stay with us as we bring the latest developments throughout the day.
