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Liz and Billy, Katy and Justin: 2025 was the year of weird celebrity matches, hatches and dispatches

2025 was when celebrities stopped being famous for nothing or concentrating on wellness, and started living big, messy, operatic lives again.

02.01.2026 10

Kate Halfpenny

Liz and Billy, Katy and Justin: 2025 was the year of weird celebrity matches, hatches and dispatches

2025 was when celebrities stopped being famous for nothing or concentrating on wellness, and started living big, messy, operatic lives again.

02.01.2026 30

Kate Halfpenny

Liz and Billy, Katy and Justin: 2025 was the year of weird celebrity matches, hatches and dispatches

2025 was when celebrities stopped being famous for nothing or concentrating on wellness, and started living big, messy, operatic lives again.

02.01.2026 10

Kate Halfpenny

Liz and Billy, Katy and Justin: 2025 was the year of weird celebrity matches, hatches and dispatches

2025 was when celebrities stopped being famous for nothing or concentrating on wellness, and started living big, messy, operatic lives again.

02.01.2026 10

Kate Halfpenny

Can you make new friends in your 50s? I’ve found them in unexpected places

The best part about writing this column is what happens afterwards. The unexpected conversations that land in my inbox once the column stops being...

26.12.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

Can you make new friends in your 50s? I’ve found them in unexpected places

The best part about writing this column is what happens afterwards. The unexpected conversations that land in my inbox once the column stops being...

26.12.2025 20

Kate Halfpenny

Can you make new friends in your 50s? I’ve found them in unexpected places

The best part about writing this column is what happens afterwards. The unexpected conversations that land in my inbox once the column stops being...

26.12.2025 20

Kate Halfpenny

Can you make new friends in your 50s? I’ve found them in unexpected places

The best part about writing this column is what happens afterwards. The unexpected conversations that land in my inbox once the column stops being...

26.12.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

I’m jealous of anyone who hasn’t yet seen The Princess Bride. Some movies turn life up to 11

On a 1987 Sunday night at the Valhalla in Richmond, I first saw my first Rob Reiner film. For 82 perfect minutes, my BFF Pies and I laughed until we...

19.12.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

I’m jealous of anyone who hasn’t yet seen The Princess Bride. Some movies turn life up to 11

On a 1987 Sunday night at the Valhalla in Richmond, I first saw my first Rob Reiner film. For 82 perfect minutes, my BFF Pies and I laughed until we...

19.12.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

I’m jealous of anyone who hasn’t yet seen The Princess Bride. Some movies turn life up to 11

On a 1987 Sunday night at the Valhalla in Richmond, I first saw my first Rob Reiner film. For 82 perfect minutes, my BFF Pies and I laughed until we...

19.12.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

I’m jealous of anyone who hasn’t yet seen The Princess Bride. Some movies turn life up to 11

On a 1987 Sunday night at the Valhalla in Richmond, I first saw my first Rob Reiner film. For 82 perfect minutes, my BFF Pies and I laughed until we...

19.12.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

Hand over my social media accounts and pics? I’m cancelling my US trip

It’s a strange old time when a country that once symbolised freedom and the open road wants to poke through your social media posts.

12.12.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

Hand over my social media accounts and pics? I’m cancelling my US trip

It’s a strange old time when a country that once symbolised freedom and the open road wants to poke through your social media posts.

12.12.2025 20

Kate Halfpenny

Hand over my social media accounts and pics? I’m cancelling my US trip

It’s a strange old time when a country that once symbolised freedom and the open road wants to poke through your social media posts.

12.12.2025 20

Kate Halfpenny

Hand over my social media accounts and pics? I’m cancelling my US trip

It’s a strange old time when a country that once symbolised freedom and the open road wants to poke through your social media posts.

12.12.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

Fergie’s moving into Princess Beatrice’s cowshed? I want in

Amid the vulgarity, there are things about Sarah Ferguson I’ve long grudgingly appreciated. Her heaving jolly-hockey-sticks positivity....

05.12.2025 20

Kate Halfpenny

Fergie’s moving into Princess Beatrice’s cowshed? I want in

Amid the vulgarity, there are things about Sarah Ferguson I’ve long grudgingly appreciated. Her heaving jolly-hockey-sticks positivity....

05.12.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

Fergie’s moving into Princess Beatrice’s cowshed? I want in

Amid the vulgarity, there are things about Sarah Ferguson I’ve long grudgingly appreciated. Her heaving jolly-hockey-sticks positivity....

05.12.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

Fergie’s moving into Princess Beatrice’s cowshed? I want in

Amid the vulgarity, there are things about Sarah Ferguson I’ve long grudgingly appreciated. Her heaving jolly-hockey-sticks positivity....

05.12.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

Take a bow, Terri Irwin. You’re an inspiration to single mothers everywhere

I could barely get all my children in the car with socks on, let alone create kids who understand that their responsibilities – to nature, to their...

28.11.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

Take a bow, Terri Irwin. You’re an inspiration to single mothers everywhere

I could barely get all my children in the car with socks on, let alone create kids who understand that their responsibilities – to nature, to their...

28.11.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

Take a bow, Terri Irwin. You’re an inspiration to single mothers everywhere

I could barely get all my children in the car with socks on, let alone create kids who understand that their responsibilities – to nature, to their...

28.11.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

Take a bow, Terri Irwin. You’re an inspiration to single mothers everywhere

I could barely get all my children in the car with socks on, let alone create kids who understand that their responsibilities – to nature, to their...

28.11.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

‘Piggy’ insults and bananas as gifts? Women’s cool professionalism should have a limit

The first humiliation in my career was also the most low-key. Almost inconsequential. It was just that it kept happening, and I did nothing about it....

21.11.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

‘Piggy’ insults and bananas as gifts? Women’s cool professionalism should have a limit

The first humiliation in my career was also the most low-key. Almost inconsequential. It was just that it kept happening, and I did nothing about it....

21.11.2025 30

Kate Halfpenny

‘Piggy’ insults and bananas as gifts? Women’s cool professionalism should have a limit

The first humiliation in my career was also the most low-key. Almost inconsequential. It was just that it kept happening, and I did nothing about it....

21.11.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

‘Piggy’ insults and bananas as gifts? Women’s cool professionalism should have a limit

The first humiliation in my career was also the most low-key. Almost inconsequential. It was just that it kept happening, and I did nothing about it....

21.11.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

Just so we’re clear, the Duchess of Sussex is a chancer, a phony and insufferably earnest in my book. But she deserves a break.

14.11.2025 60

Kate Halfpenny

The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

Just so we’re clear, the Duchess of Sussex is a chancer, a phony and insufferably earnest in my book. But she deserves a break.

14.11.2025 20

Kate Halfpenny

The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

Just so we’re clear, the Duchess of Sussex is a chancer, a phony and insufferably earnest in my book. But she deserves a break.

14.11.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

Just so we’re clear, the Duchess of Sussex is a chancer, a phony and insufferably earnest in my book. But she deserves a break.

14.11.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

This week jockey Jamie Melham won the Melbourne Cup and David Beckham received a knighthood. When your greatest wish is realised, you have to readjust...

07.11.2025 30

Kate Halfpenny

From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

This week jockey Jamie Melham won the Melbourne Cup and David Beckham received a knighthood. When your greatest wish is realised, you have to readjust...

07.11.2025 8

Kate Halfpenny

From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

This week jockey Jamie Melham won the Melbourne Cup and David Beckham received a knighthood. When your greatest wish is realised, you have to readjust...

07.11.2025 7

Kate Halfpenny

From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

This week jockey Jamie Melham won the Melbourne Cup and David Beckham received a knighthood. When your greatest wish is realised, you have to readjust...

07.11.2025 6

Kate Halfpenny

I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was

My holiday mates in Bali were a tattooed “contract killer” who spent the day braiding his daughter’s hair and a woman who looked like she’d...

31.10.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was

My holiday mates in Bali were a tattooed “contract killer” who spent the day braiding his daughter’s hair and a woman who looked like she’d...

31.10.2025 9

Kate Halfpenny

I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was

My holiday mates in Bali were a tattooed “contract killer” who spent the day braiding his daughter’s hair and a woman who looked like she’d...

31.10.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was

My holiday mates in Bali were a tattooed “contract killer” who spent the day braiding his daughter’s hair and a woman who looked like she’d...

31.10.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

It was time for a purge. I had no idea how much those trinkets would be worth

The price of gold has gone through the roof. But when friends told me to take my old jewellery to a gold guy in a Collins Street office, I did not...

17.10.2025 3

Kate Halfpenny

It was time for a purge. I had no idea how much those trinkets would be worth

The price of gold has gone through the roof. But when friends told me to take my old jewellery to a gold guy in a Collins Street office, I did not...

17.10.2025 5

Kate Halfpenny

It was time for a purge. I had no idea how much those trinkets would be worth

The price of gold has gone through the roof. But when friends told me to take my old jewellery to a gold guy in a Collins Street office, I did not...

17.10.2025 3

Kate Halfpenny

It was time for a purge. I had no idea how much those trinkets would be worth

The price of gold has gone through the roof. But when friends told me to take my old jewellery to a gold guy in a Collins Street office, I did not...

17.10.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

Is six weeks too soon to fall in love after a breakup? Nicole has nailed the optics of divorce

I’ve done a bunch of bad things during my life, and was widely judged for my behaviour after my 23-year marriage ended.

10.10.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

Is six weeks too soon to fall in love after a breakup? Nicole has nailed the optics of divorce

I’ve done a bunch of bad things during my life, and was widely judged for my behaviour after my 23-year marriage ended.

10.10.2025 20

Kate Halfpenny

Is six weeks too soon to fall in love after a breakup? Nicole has nailed the optics of divorce

I’ve done a bunch of bad things during my life, and was widely judged for my behaviour after my 23-year marriage ended.

10.10.2025 30

Kate Halfpenny

Is six weeks too soon to fall in love after a breakup? Nicole has nailed the optics of divorce

I’ve done a bunch of bad things during my life, and was widely judged for my behaviour after my 23-year marriage ended.

10.10.2025 10

Kate Halfpenny

My dad went to an 86-year-old’s funeral. She was carried out to Rod Stewart’s ‘Hot Legs’

How many funerals have you been to where the eulogy has been a wild mismatch with the dearly departed? When they die, everyone becomes a goody-goody....

03.10.2025 9

Kate Halfpenny

My dad went to an 86-year-old’s funeral. She was carried out to Rod Stewart’s ‘Hot Legs’

How many funerals have you been to where the eulogy has been a wild mismatch with the dearly departed? When they die, everyone becomes a goody-goody....

03.10.2025 10

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Liz and Billy, Katy and Justin: 2025 was the year of weird celebrity matches, hatches and dispatches

Kate Halfpenny

Liz and Billy, Katy and Justin: 2025 was the year of weird celebrity matches, hatches and dispatches

Kate Halfpenny

Liz and Billy, Katy and Justin: 2025 was the year of weird celebrity matches, hatches and dispatches

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Liz and Billy, Katy and Justin: 2025 was the year of weird celebrity matches, hatches and dispatches

Kate Halfpenny

Can you make new friends in your 50s? I’ve found them in unexpected places

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Can you make new friends in your 50s? I’ve found them in unexpected places

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Can you make new friends in your 50s? I’ve found them in unexpected places

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Can you make new friends in your 50s? I’ve found them in unexpected places

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I’m jealous of anyone who hasn’t yet seen The Princess Bride. Some movies turn life up to 11

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I’m jealous of anyone who hasn’t yet seen The Princess Bride. Some movies turn life up to 11

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I’m jealous of anyone who hasn’t yet seen The Princess Bride. Some movies turn life up to 11

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Hand over my social media accounts and pics? I’m cancelling my US trip

Kate Halfpenny

Hand over my social media accounts and pics? I’m cancelling my US trip

Kate Halfpenny

Hand over my social media accounts and pics? I’m cancelling my US trip

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Hand over my social media accounts and pics? I’m cancelling my US trip

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Fergie’s moving into Princess Beatrice’s cowshed? I want in

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Fergie’s moving into Princess Beatrice’s cowshed? I want in

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Fergie’s moving into Princess Beatrice’s cowshed? I want in

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Take a bow, Terri Irwin. You’re an inspiration to single mothers everywhere

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Take a bow, Terri Irwin. You’re an inspiration to single mothers everywhere

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Take a bow, Terri Irwin. You’re an inspiration to single mothers everywhere

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Take a bow, Terri Irwin. You’re an inspiration to single mothers everywhere

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‘Piggy’ insults and bananas as gifts? Women’s cool professionalism should have a limit

Kate Halfpenny

‘Piggy’ insults and bananas as gifts? Women’s cool professionalism should have a limit

Kate Halfpenny

‘Piggy’ insults and bananas as gifts? Women’s cool professionalism should have a limit

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‘Piggy’ insults and bananas as gifts? Women’s cool professionalism should have a limit

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The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

Kate Halfpenny

The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

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The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

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The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

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From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

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From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

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From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

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From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

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I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was

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I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was

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I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was