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Brigitte Bardot's foundation has hit out at "the spread of false information" about her health. (AP PHOTO)

Brigitte Bardot shares major health update with fans

Brigitte Bardot ‘invites everyone to calm down’ about her health after media reports that the 91-year-old French film legend was hospitalised again.

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Everything you need to watch on streaming services in December.

Everything you need to watch on streaming in December

The only thing you need to complement the holidays-induced food comas is something to watch while you wait for your appetite to come back. Behold, December’s releases.

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Taylor Swift's bachelorette party plans are set to take her and the girlies worldwide.

Taylor Swift’s epic bachelorette party plans revealed

The pop superstar’s hens is going to be HUGE, and nothing like yours.

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Guy Pearce has apologised over his distribution of anti-israel content online.

Actor quits social media over Israel ‘misinformation’

The Australian Oscar nominee has expressed regret over his extreme social media activity.

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Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” — defined as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative or offensive” — as its 2025 Word of the Year.

Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year will have you fuming

Jennifer Lawrence, World Series fans and right-wing influencers have all confessed to it. And now, the people behind the Oxford English Dictionary are getting into the act.

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Australian actor Alea O’Shea, 25, has shared a devastating health update, revealing she has been diagnosed with brain cancer.

Former Home and Away star diagnosed with brain cancer

Australian actor Alea O’Shea, 25, has shared a devastating health update, revealing she has been diagnosed with brain cancer. 

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Noah Schnapp’s Will Byers is spectacular in episode four of Stranger Things.

Will Byers in episode four of season five is all of us

This week our Screen Queen Clare Rigden is unpacking THAT final scene from Stranger Things episode four, getting her Meghan on, diving into the Bump Xmas special and feeling fed up watching Oh. What. Fun.

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He was part of the classic Skyhooks line up.

Tributes for Aussie rock legend dead at 73

Skyhooks guitarist Bob ‘Bongo’ Starkie has died aged 73 after losing his battle with cancer, the Aussie rock band has announced.

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Oh. What. Fun. is streaming on Prime Video.

Everything worth watching on TV this week

Michelle Pfeiffer’s Christmas movie, the Bump festive special, With Love, Meghan and the director’s cut of Picnic At Hanging Rock: here’s what we’re diving into on the box this week.

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Tales From Outer Suburbia will be released New Year’s Day on ABC and iview.

Upcoming TV series brings Perth suburbia to life

Shaun Tan brings the searing heat, cicada clack and dreamlike weirdness of his WA childhood to a stunning 10-part animated series for ABC.

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In the clip, Blue Wiggle Anthony Field and The Tree of Wisdom can be seen dancing behind the Peking Duk band member

Wiggles accused of endorsing drugs in ‘dangerous’ TikTok

The ‘disturbing’ video was removed from the musician’s account on Friday afternoon following questions from The West Australian. WATCH THE VIDEO

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Lurker, written and directed by Alex Russell.

The director making fun of Hollywood’s liars

Who are your real friends when everyone wants something from you? Lurker explores the murky dynamics of being famous.

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The movie star is dead, they’re all social media stars now.

How social media has killed the bankable Hollywood star

Even though videos of movie stars are clocking up millions of views, world-famous celebrities can’t do a critical part of their jobs - convert their popularity into tickets.

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Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in Stranger Things: Season 5. COURTESY OF NETFLIX

Stranger Things Season 5 goes high-concept

Can Stranger Things, a silly, warm, gory, surprising show, produce something genuinely original: a supernatural ecosystem capacious enough for all those different forms of evil to coherently coexist?

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Heartbroken Branson recalls wife’s last moments before death.

Branson shares wife’s final moments before her sudden death

Sir Richard Branson has shared a heartbreaking twist of fate that brought him to his wife Joan’s hospital bedside in her final hours, recalling their last moments together.

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