When Hollywood fails to deliver explosive news - weddings, divorces and baby bumps - the Australian gossip magazines have two choices.This week Woman's Day and New Idea choose to focus on Australian sporting couples, both going into raptures with the news that Grant Hackett and his sometime pop-singer wife, Candice Alley, are expecting twins.
WD proudly champions its story as an exclusive (read, paid) interview, leaving NI scrambling to stake a claim on the story - sans interview - quoting a "friend" of the couple.
The two titles also run photos of Bec Hewitt with her children at a hotel pool. Just weeks after hinting that the Hewitt marriage was on the rocks, WD now says Bec finds motherhood "a breeze".
The same cannot be said for Nicole Kidman. According to WD, the celebrity mum's fears for the safety of baby Sunday Rose are "controlling her life". Kidman's "crippling" case of mother-worry is evidenced by photos of her carrying Sunday on her hip.
As WD and NI settle for close-to-home stars, Famous and NW take the opposite tack.
For these titles, a slow news week in Hollywood means just one thing: time to dig out another photo gallery of waifs and fatties.
In Famous, an emaciated Mischa Barton is pictured getting out of a car - a sign that "eating seems to have taken a back seat" in her life. Meanwhile NW runs a gallery of figures helpfully accompanied by the number they weigh on the bathroom scales, from 44kg for Victoria Beckham to 100kg for Beth Ditto.
NW also has a "baby surprise". Nicole Ritchie, pictured, is having twins, a close friend claims.
A waif with two buns in the oven? It's a gossip magazine editor's dream.
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