Kate Halfpenny

6 days ago | smh.com.au | Kate Halfpenny

Rebuilding trust after rehab with uncertainty, love and scrambled eggsWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Chris’s rehab stint had triggered something in me: a midlife crisis. Something I swore I’d never have. So dicky and clichéd.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Kate Halfpenny

Regular columnist June 20, 2025 — 11.32am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Now the paint-by-numbers fever dream has left me and there may be no more Mission Impossible films to look forward to, I’ve been trying to find the next diversion to get me through winter. And I think I’m onto something. Or rather, my friend Amy is. She lives in Boston, has great teeth a great sense of humour and, it turns, out, great life hacks.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Kate Halfpenny

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the June 15 edition of Sunday Life.See all 15 stories. B ang on time, Christina Hendricks Zooms in from her sunlit Los Angeles living room. Cheekbones like summer peaches. Famous hair loosely scraped back. Disarming smile. Oh, and there’s a small dog with its paws on her shoulder, a cockapoo named Triscuit.

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Kate Halfpenny

Regular columnist June 13, 2025 — 11.22am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When we discovered a shared love for Barry Manilow and vodka on our first date, I knew Chris was the one. Our courtship was fuelled by post-work rieslings, boozy beach getaways, splashing each other a glass while making dinner. We were endlessly drunk on each other and endlessly actually drunk.

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Kate Halfpenny

Regular columnist June 6, 2025 — 11.45am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Fidgety while my husband drove us to the airport last Friday, I checked my email. A bald message from Instagram: my personal account had been locked due to “suspicious activity”. Here’s a recovery link. Turned out the only thing vaguely suss was I’d changed a security setting the day before. That was enough to have Meta on full alert.