Issue 32: This week in New Idea
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KATE STANDS UP TO CAMILLA
After months of griping about Kate’s rising status in the House of Windsor, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is at last facing a reaction she won’t forget from the young duchess. Camilla, 67, has been seething since Clarence House confirmed that Kate, 32, will make her first solo royal tour in September, representing the Queen in Malta – the kind of high- status assignment Camilla feels she’s been long overlooked for. Find out about the ramifications for the royals in New Idea this week.
X FACTOR EXCLUSIVE: ROCHELLE’S HOT MAKEOVER
Single mum Rochelle Pitt-Watson, 41, is stepping into the spotlight with her new look following New Idea’s makeover shoot – and loving every minute! The X Factor contestant is blowing away the judges with her powerful voice, but had to overcome major life obstacles including her marriage breakdown and a battle with polycystic ovarian syndrome to get there. Check out Rochelle’s hot new look in New Idea this week.
PLEASE COME HOME, MUM
As we mark National Missing Persons Week around the country, four families beg for help in their search for answers. New Idea shares the stories of four missing Australian mothers – Patricia Gay, Sandrine Jourdan, Lorrin Whitehead and Sylvia Pajuczok – in the hope they will be reunited with their beloved children.
GINA VERSUS BEVERLY HILLS HOUSEWIVES
She hasn’t even moved to Beverly Hills yet, but Real Housewives of Melbourne’s glam barrister Gina Liano is already ruffling feathers! Her burgeoning alliance with LA socialite Lisa Vanderpump has the other Real Housewives of Beverly Hills stars seeing red that yet another high-powered diva may soon steal their limelight. New Idea reports exclusively as The Real Housewives of Melbourne airs on American screens this week.
SCHOOLYARD HORROR: ‘I SPENT ON $2000 ON NIT TREATMENTS’
One angry Queensland mum is breaking the code of silence on the taboo that every school mum knows about – the horror of kids coming home with lice, time and time again. After spending $2000 in one year on lice products and treating her daughter every second night following continual re-infestations apparently spread by other kids, Queensland mum Kathryn Forster has publicly slammed her daughter’s school.