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“Dig a hole in my chest”: Supermodel reveals double cancer fight

<p>Supermodel icon Linda Evangelista has shared the devastating details of her cancer battle, after being diagnosed twice in five years. </p> <p>In a candid interview with <a href="https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/linda-evangelista-steven-meisel-32909b7b?mod=style_lead_story" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>WSJ magazine</em></a>, the 58-year-old revealed why she chose to "keep it quiet" and only tell a handful of people close to her about her health battle. </p> <p>Evangelista was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 after a routine mammogram, and decided to undergo a bilateral mastectomy: a surgical procedure to remove both breasts. </p> <p>"The margins were not good. [I chose this treatment] due to other health factors, without hesitation, because I wanted to put everything behind me and not to have to deal with this.</p> <p>"Thinking I was good and set for life. Breast cancer was not going to kill me."</p> <p>Four years later in 2022, Evangelista felt a lump on her chest and an MRI revealed cancer was present in her pectoral muscle.</p> <p>"I just went into this mode that I know how to do – just do what you've got to do and get through it," she said. "And that's what I did."</p> <p>"Dig a hole in my chest," she recalled telling her doctors.</p> <p>"I don't want it to look pretty. I want you to excavate. I want to see a hole in my chest when you're done. Do you understand me? I'm not dying from this."</p> <p>After another round of surgery, she was told the outlook was good for the future, but there is always a possibility the cancer could return. </p> <p>"Well, once it's come back, there's a chance," she recalled the oncologist's words.</p> <p>"I know I have one foot in the grave, but I'm totally in celebration mode."</p> <p><em>Image credits: Instagram / Getty Images</em></p>

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“How do you pay someone for 20 years?”: Folbigg’s big compensation question

<p>Since her <a href="https://www.oversixty.co.nz/news/news/kathleen-folbigg-pardoned-after-20-years-behind-bars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release from prison</a>, Kathleen Folbigg has been the centre of a media frenzy, with networks battling it out to secure an exclusive tell-all interview.</p> <p>Following a fierce bidding war, Seven Network has won the rights over Nine for the interview believed to have cost more than $400,000.</p> <p>A source from Seven said the exclusive interview will be aired on the Sunday evening current affairs show, <em>7News Spotlight</em>.</p> <p>Others have proposed the deal has cost the network close to $1 million.</p> <p>The deal could see her on the list of select few Australians awarded seven-figure sums in light of their wrongful convictions, including Linda Chamberlain.</p> <p>Chamberlain’s lawyer Stuart Tipple said Folbigg needs to be declared innocent and be given compensation for her years in prison, noting she had a solid case.</p> <p>“The sad thing is all she can get is money, how do you pay someone for 20 years?” he said.</p> <p>“And also, I think we need to reflect on an injustice just doesn’t affect Kathleen.</p> <p>“I feel tonight very much for her husband and the father of those children and the injustice that just affects so many people, so many lives.</p> <p>“I feel very, very badly for him tonight and I just think of the whole process of just how harmful it is to them and to our society and our confidence in the whole judicial system.”</p> <p>Robyn Blewer, director of the Griffith University Innocence Project, noted two recent cases to illustrate how Folbigg could be compensated for her 7,300 days in jail.</p> <p>West Australian man Scott Austic received $1.3 million in May 2023 on top of an earlier payment of $250,000 after serving nearly 13 years for murdering his pregnant secret lover.</p> <p>He had sought $8.5 million after being acquitted on appeal in 2020.</p> <p>Both payments were ex gratis, unlike David Eastman’s award of $7 million in damages by the ACT Supreme Court in 2019.</p> <p>Eastman served almost 19 years over the 1989 shooting murder of federal police assistance commissioner Colin Winchester, where he was acquitted at a second trial.</p> <p>"The difference is it was in ACT which has a human rights act and under that, there is an entitlement for compensation under human rights," Dr Blewer told AAP.</p> <p>"Mr Eastman was then able to sue because there was a right to compensation.</p> <p>"The court assessed his damages in the same way they would a tort ... the court went through every time he was injured.”</p> <p>Like Austic, Chamberlain was awarded an ex grata or grace payment. She was awarded $1.3 million in 1992 which now equates to about $3 million.</p> <p>Folbigg will need specific legal advice about whether a civil claim is possible due to NSW lacking a human rights act like that of the ACT.</p> <p>Dr Blewer said she could become reliant on what the government was willing to pay.</p> <p>"Twenty years is a substantial amount of time lost," she said.</p> <p>"It might depend on the good grace of the NSW government."</p> <p>No further steps can be taken until Folbigg’s lawyers obtain the final report of former Chief Justice Tom Bathurst.</p> <p>An application to the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal to quash her convictions will likely follow.</p> <p><em>Image credit: Facebook / Instagram</em></p>

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“I am grateful”: Linda Evangelista returns to modelling

<p dir="ltr">After sharing the story of the “nightmare” beauty procedure that left her “brutally disfigured” earlier this year, Linda Evangelista has made her return to modelling for a special occasion in the world of fashion.</p> <p dir="ltr">On Sunday, Evangelista took to Instagram to share a photo of her upcoming collaboration with Italian luxury fashion house Fendi with her fans.</p> <p dir="ltr">In the photo, the Canadian supermodel is holding two silver Fendi Baguette bags, wearing a grey top, pink-rimmed sunglasses and multiple pink caps.</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-eaab2c67-7fff-6c51-3c61-e36ca2970887"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">“On September 9 2022 Fendi will host a special fashion show in New York City to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Fendi baguette … and two years since Kim Jones joined the Maison as artistic director of couture and womenswear,” Evangelista captioned the photo, adding that she was “so grateful” to those involved in the photoshoot.</p> <blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CgE3cyTLoFN/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"> </div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; 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height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: auto;"> <div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"> </div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"> </div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CgE3cyTLoFN/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A post shared by Linda Evangelista (@lindaevangelista)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p dir="ltr">The collaboration marks the first time Evangelista has modelled after a fat-freezing procedure she had several years ago went horribly wrong, and comes several months after she went public with her story.</p> <p dir="ltr">After a CoolSculpting procedure, Evangelista experienced Paradoxical Adipose Hyperplasia (PAH), a rare side-effect that she said left her with hard, fatty lumps all over her body.</p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9b071cc8-7fff-92f5-037e-cc70fda09dd1"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">“To my followers who have wondered why I have not been working while my peers’ careers have been thriving, the reason is that I was brutally disfigured by Zeltiq’s CoolSculpting procedure which did the opposite of what it promised,” she shared on Instagram in September 2021.</p> <blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; 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margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"> </div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;"> <div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 8px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"> </div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: auto;"> <div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"> </div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"> </div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CaDMK_RJx3-/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A post shared by Linda Evangelista (@lindaevangelista)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p dir="ltr">In <a href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/lifestyle/beauty-style/linda-evangelistas-first-photoshoot-in-five-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an interview with <em>People</em></a><em> </em>earlier this year, the 57-year-old said she was “done hiding in shame”, having lived reclusively in New York for several years.</p> <p dir="ltr">"I can't live like this anymore, in hiding and shame. I just couldn't live in this pain any longer. I'm willing to finally speak," she told the publication.</p> <p dir="ltr">Evangelista has filed a lawsuit against Zeltiq Aesthetics, the parent company of CoolSculpting, for $50 million in damages, claiming she has been unable to work since undergoing the treatment between 2015 and 2016.</p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e7029d66-7fff-af38-d230-87482b4cc4a0"></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: @lindaevangelista (Instagram)</em></p>

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Jimmy Barnes reveals family tragedy

<p>Jimmy Barnes has announced that his beloved sister, Linda, has passed away. </p> <p>The legendary singer confirmed the news online, while also thanking fans for their love and support during the difficult family time. </p> <p>"Thank you for all your messages of condolence for my beautiful sister Linda's passing," he said.</p> <p>"This week has been tough and overwhelming. Your support is appreciated."</p> <p>While Linda's cause of death has not been publicly revealed, Jimmy's older rockstar brother John Swan – better known as Swanee – announced her passing on Facebook last week and said she had Multiple Sclerosis.</p> <p>"It is with great sadness I have to tell you," John's post, which featured a photo of Linda smiling, began. "My little sister Linda passed away this morning, she fought so hard. God I love her to Kim, James, Katie, and Ali you guys rest in the knowledge she is at peace ❤️🙏".</p> <p>John shared a black-and-white photo of Linda on stage with a microphone in her hand, saying he wanted to "refresh memories" of his late sister. </p> <p>"This is Linda when she did backing vocals with Stevie Wright and Jimmy's first solo band. First song I ever sung was with her as a duet theres a hole in the bucket dear Liza."</p> <p>"She was such a champion she knew long ago and only told us recently she was sick. Saying that she had MS and was in wheelchair but that never slowed her down. Warrior."</p> <p><em>Image credits: Getty Images / Facebook</em></p>

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Linda Evangelista's first photoshoot in five years

<p>Linda Evangelista has debuted her first photo shoot since saying her face had been "permanently deformed" and her “life destroyed” after a botched surgery.</p><p>The 56-year-old supermodel has been living in seclusion for nearly five years after once being one of the most photographed women in the world.</p><p>Now, in a new interview with People where she also graces the cover, Evangelista said she is "done hiding in shame".</p><p>"I loved being up on the catwalk. Now I dread running into someone I know," the model tearfully told the publication.</p><p>"I can't live like this anymore, in hiding and shame. I just couldn't live in this pain any longer. I'm willing to finally speak."</p><p>Late last year, Evangelista said she had been left "brutally disfigured" after undergoing a CoolSculpting fat-freezing procedure. She later filed a lawsuit against the company that owns the procedure for negligence and misleading advertising. It is alleged that the company failed to warn customers of the possible side effects.</p><p>Evangelista said that three months after the procedure, she noticed bulges in her chin, bra area and thighs.</p><p>"I tried to fix it myself, thinking I was doing something wrong," the supermodel said. "I got to where I wasn't eating at all. I thought I was losing my mind."</p><p>Evangelista said she went to a doctor about the issue in 2016, and recalled "dropping her robe" for him and "bawling".</p><p>"I said, 'I haven't eaten, I'm starving. What am I doing wrong?'" she recalled.</p><p>She had been diagnosed with Paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH), which is a side effect for less than 1% of CoolSculpting patients where the fat-freezing process causes fatty tissue to expand and thicken.</p><p>Evangelista was told that no amount of exercise or dieting would fix it. She is seeking US$50 million (approx. $69.4 million) in damages as she alleges she has been unable to work due to the rare side effect.</p><p>She claims that Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc, CoolSculpting's parent company — did offer to pay for liposuction to "make it right", but only if she signed a confidentiality agreement. Evangelista refused, and paid for two full-body liposuction surgeries herself.</p><p>Evangelista had to wear compression garments, girdles and a chin strap for eight weeks after the surgery in 2016 to prevent the PAH from returning, but she says it came back again anyway, and in July 2017, she underwent a second liposuction.</p><p>"I don't look in the mirror," she said. "It doesn't look like me."</p><p>The supermodel said that in making her lawsuit public and sharing her story, she is recovering her sense of self.</p><p>"I always knew I would age. And I know that there are things a body goes through. But I just didn't think I would look like this," she confided to People, saying she feels like the supermodel Linda Evangelista is gone.</p><p>She said she hopes she can shed the shame she feels and help others who may find themselves in the same situation as she did.</p><p><em>Images: Getty &amp; People Magazine </em></p>

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Rare photos from dingo expert unearthed that show Lindy Chamberlain’s innocence

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lindy Chamberlain’s world was turned upside down in August 1980, when she was jailed for the disappearance of her nine-month-old daughter Azaria.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lindy insisted a dingo took her daughter from their camping spot at Uluru, but many refused to believe the lack of evidence that pointed to a wild dog attack. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lindy served three years in jail over Azaria’s death, before being pardoned and set free when new evidence arose. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite many doubting Lindy’s story, one man named Les Harris, an </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">aeronautical engineer and part-time dingo expert, repeatedly tried to give the courts valuable evidence that would clear Lindy’s name. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, 30 years on, a trove of material he collected throughout the case proceedings, including </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10079223/Dingo-expert-shown-Lindy-Chamberlain-did-not-kill-baby-Azaria-Uluru.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">photographs and a dingo skull</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, will go under the hammer at an auction house. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Among the valuable documents are statements he made explaining how dingoes can easily hold the weight of a baby without dragging it, could have removed clothes using their teeth, and eat their prey whole - with not even bones remaining.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Les Harris was the president of The Dingo Foundation in the early 1980s and based his evidence on his extensive knowledge of Australia’s wild dog. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He was interviewed for a documentary produced by Network Ten and screened in 1984 called <em>Azaria: A Question of Evidence. </em></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Based on the factual evidence available at the very time that this happened, we believe that the probability that a dingo, took, killed and carried off Azaria Chamberlain, is of such a high order as to be nearly a certainty,” Harris said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During Lindy’s court proceedings, Les was constantly rebuffed as he tried to share this valuable information. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He wrote to magistrates and judges explaining why a dingo was almost certainly responsible for Azaria's death but his efforts were largely ignored.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Harris’s collection of valuable material on Azaria’s death will be sold by </span><a href="https://sydneyrarebookauctions.com.au/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sydney Rare Book Auctions</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, some years after his death in the New England region of New South Wales.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Harris was firmly among those who believed the Chamberlains had nothing to do with the tragic death of their daughter, which became one of the most high-profile cases in Australia. </span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image credits: Getty Images</span></em></p>

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The one person Lindy Chamberlain cannot forgive

<p>Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton has been wronged by many people, but there’s one person in particular that she says she can never forgive.</p> <p>The 68-year-old revealed at the National Christian Family Conference in Sydney on Monday that she struggles to forgive her ex-husband Michael Chamberlain.</p> <p>Three decades ago Lindy was wrongfully jailed for life over the murder of her newborn baby, Azaria, after a dingo had snatched her from a tent.</p> <p><img width="258" height="344" src="http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/1c96d640850da512f570f8c696cf5a1d" alt="Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton has learned to forgive." style="float: left;"/>Lindy told the audience she tried not to “get stuck on bitterness and resentment”, <strong><a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/you-cant-get-away-from-it-the-person-lindy-chamberlaincreighton-struggles-to-forgive/news-story/cb9f61e19af2487d566f3bbb74171640">news.com.au</a></strong> reports.</p> <p>“You can’t get away from it. It sleeps with you at night. It goes to the bathroom with you. It showers with you. It has parties with friends with you. It’s always there. You need to choose your battles wisely. You don’t have to attend every argument you’re invited to. A fight without a foe - where’s the battle?</p> <p>“If you’re holding the anger… you’re not hurting them at all. They’re succeeding well beyond their wildest dreams. It’s you that’s dying.”</p> <p>The publication asked Lindy who she struggled most to forgives: the Northern Territory Police, the media, the judicial system or the public – all of whom screamed murder when Azaria went missing from a camp site at Uluru in 1980.</p> <p>“No, it’s my ex-husband,” Lindy replied. “That’s private.”</p> <p>Lindy, who divorced Michael in 1991, also revealed the scars from her past are slowly healing after 32 years. She said it was the Australian public's “responsibility” to “carry the pain” after many wrongly accused her of murdering her baby daughter.</p> <p>“People often get involved in things and take sides with no knowledge,” she said.</p> <p>“I’ve never felt I had to carry that pain. That’s their responsibility. God and I knew the truth and that was enough for me. Because all the way through I felt absolutely positive that at some stage He would make sure that it all came out right.”</p> <p>Lindy, who had always maintained that a dingo snatched her baby, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison in 1982. In 1986, a crucial piece of evidence was found – Azaria’s jacket – after an English tourist David Brett fell to his death from Uluru. His body was recovered from an area of dingoes, where police discovered the baby jacket. Lindy was released from prison in 1998, the Supreme Court of Darwin quashed all convictions and declared the Chamberlains innocent.</p> <p>But it wasn’t until 2012 that Azaria’s death was officially ruled as a result of her being taken by a dingo.</p> <p>Lindy told the audience in order to be happy she had to forgive, focus on positives and let the past go.</p> <p>“It’s not what happens that counts. It’s how you choose to deal with what happens,” she said.</p> <p>“You can choose if you’re going to live with anger, regret and revenge and miserably think yourself a victim. Or you can choose to be a hero in your own life and forgive the past and move on.</p> <p>“It doesn’t happen immediately. Sometimes I go back and have to remind myself to start all over again. It isn’t easy.”</p> <p><strong>Related links: </strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="/news/news/2016/05/parliament-house-architect-romaldo-giurgola-dies/"><em>Parliament House architect Romaldo Giurgola dies aged 95</em></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="/travel/domestic-travel/2016/04/10-images-canberra-unique-hotel/"><em>10 images from Canberra’s most unique hotel</em></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="/travel/travel-tips/2016/05/tripadvisor-reveals-favourite-landmarks-australia/"><em>Sydney Opera House not Australia’s favourite landmark</em></a></strong></span></p>

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Sir Tom Jones breaks silence following wife’s death

<p>Sir Tom Jones has broken his silence following the death of his wife, Lady Melinda Rose Woodward, and thanked fans for their support.</p> <p>The Welsh singer has been mourning his wife of 59 years since she passed away from her battle with cancer on April 10.</p> <p>The 75-year-old music icon posted a heartfelt message to his fans on Twitter on Thursday.</p> <p>"A heartfelt Thank You to all who sent notes of their sympathy and support to me and my family over the last couple of weeks," it read. "So many beautiful and meaningful things were said and reading these genuine and lovely messages has lifted us all. See you soon."</p> <p>Tom and Linda, as she was known, married in 1957 when they were just 16. The couple had a complicated marriage, with Jones admitting he had a number of affairs. He maintained, however, that Linda was always the love of his life. </p> <p><strong>Related links: </strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/entertainment/music/2016/04/paul-mccartney-and-john-lennon-secret-fight/"><em>Paul McCartney and John Lennon’s secret feud</em></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/entertainment/music/2016/03/surprising-facts-about-the-beatles/"><em>8 facts about The Beatles most people don’t know</em></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/entertainment/music/2016/03/video-of-the-last-time-the-beatles-played-together/"><em>Video of the last time The Beatles played together</em></a></strong></span></p>

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