Ailish Delaney

Bunbury, Western Australia

Journalist at MamaMia

digi journo at mamamia. always has too many tabs open. views are my own 📧 [email protected]

Articles

Like Tammy Hembrow, some of us are just bad at picking men.

4 days ago | mamamia.com.au | Ailish Delaney

Looking at Tammy Hembrow's dating history, it's easy to sit back and judge. Another failed engagement. Another public breakup. Another woman who "should have known better."But here's the uncomfortable truth: some of us are just bad at picking men. I can look back at my own dating history and rattle off the list of red flags I've ignored and signs of incompatibility I've looked past because I was in love or excited about what could be.
Celeste Barber got famous for being real. Then it got complicated.

5 days ago | mamamia.com.au | Ailish Delaney

Robin was 30 and had two young daughters, aged two and four. But Barber was in love and convinced she could manage it all. "I had big hopes and big dreams for myself, but my heart just exploded when I saw him and I went, 'I can make it all work. It'll be fine.'"Spoiler alert: it was complicated. When All Saints wrapped, Barber felt the pull of Hollywood. She wanted to chase her American dream, see how far her career could take her.
They came for music. Instead, 145 people were stabbed with syringes. Most of them were women.

5 days ago | mamamia.com.au | Ailish Delaney

It was meant to be a fun Saturday night. Drinking in the sun. Dancing in the street. Laughing with friends. Each year, Fête de la Musique draws millions to the streets of France in June to celebrate live music. This year was no different. Authorities reported "unprecedented crowds" in Paris. But for over a hundred people, what should have been a day of celebration quickly turned into a nightmare.
At nine months, Leo was still acting like a newborn. The truth broke his mum's heart.

5 days ago | mamamia.com.au | Ailish Delaney

CMV is the virus no one talks about. A member of the common herpes virus family, it is generally harmless to healthy individuals. But if a pregnant woman contracts it, especially in the first trimester, her unborn baby risks lifelong disabilities or even death. Sara thought she'd done everything right during pregnancy. "Don't drink and be careful with your cheese and don't eat this… but don't worry about this," she said. But no one ever warned her about CMV. It's 30 times more common than listeria.
Skye Wheatley just got candid about her surgeries. She told us the exact price tag.

1 week ago | mamamia.com.au | Ailish Delaney

Celebrities and influencers are opening up about their cosmetic procedures like never before. First, we had Kylie Jenner candidly detailing the specific details boob job — from the name of her surgeon to the exact measurement of her implant. Then reality star Kristin Cavallari admitted on a podcast that she had "her boobs done", not once, but twice. Now, I'm A Celebrity! winner Skye Wheatley has joined the trend, sharing exactly how much she's spent on cosmetic enhancements over the years.
Year 9 students were asked to debate tradwives. Then came the phone calls.

1 week ago | mamamia.com.au | Ailish Delaney

Ah, school debates. They offer the chance to show off your quick wit and critical thinking skills in front of a room full of your peers. It's supposed to be a formative experience — one that teaches kids how to respectfully argue both sides of a tricky issue. But this week, one topic being debated by Year 9 students in South Australia has sparked its own conversation, and controversy, amongst adults. The students haven't even stepped up to the podium yet. The topic?
'I thought my baby had a common cold. Within days, she stopped breathing.'

1 week ago | mamamia.com.au | Ailish Delaney

For Deanne, Winter's diagnosis meant navigating both emotional and practical challenges. With a two-year-old son also needing care, she found herself "ringing around frantically trying to get someone to pick him up, trying to work out where he was going to stay for the week". Winter required oxygen and a feeding tube during her week-long hospital stay. "I ended up staying there 24 hours a day, every day until she got discharged," Deanne said.
We don't know what happened to Leanne. But no woman should be left like this.

1 week ago | mamamia.com.au | Ailish Delaney

On Sunday, a woman's body was discovered in bushland in Sydney's west. She was lying next to clothes and rubbish at a reserve off Irwin Street in Werrington. Detectives said she appeared to have been there for some time before a passerby discovered her. Now, we know her name. Leanne Akrap. She was 47. Listen to The Quicky podcast. Post continues below.
He was Grey's Anatomy's McSteamy. Now Eric Dane is in the fight of his life.

1 week ago | mamamia.com.au | Ailish Delaney

Eric Dane captured our hearts as the ever-so-charming (and sometimes insufferable) plastic surgeon Mark Sloan on Grey's Anatomy. For years, we watched McSteamy help save lives on the hit drama with that trademark sly smile. But in April, the actor opened up about being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells controlling voluntary muscle movement. Now, he's spoken about it on television for the first time.
Vincent Fantauzzo on the trauma he hid from Asher Keddie.

1 week ago | mamamia.com.au | Ailish Delaney

For years, Vincent Fantauzzo has been haunted by ghosts. Not the supernatural kind, but the kind that live within — memories etched permanently into his mind, feelings he can't seem to shake, no matter how bright the spotlight shines. From the outside, his life is picture-perfect. A renowned portrait artist whose career skyrocketed with his haunting 2008 portrait of friend Heath Ledger, winning the People's Choice Award at the Archibald Prize — the first of many accolades that would follow.