BusyBee

What do you think walking stick Kate Bosworth and Melbourne Cup jockey Chris Munce were talking about? What not to eat? How to break the 45 kilo barrier without fainting? Why water is a complete meal? Actually, Kate looks like she has been nobbled - either that or the diuretics have kicked in…

Print or plain? Long or short? Feathers or straw? So many questions, so few answers! Yet again, I have left until the last minute vital decisions regarding my attire for the First Tuesday of November, and I am feeling the pain. Firstly, I haven’t fake tanned it, which means I am now having the white fat/brown fat dilemma. Secondly, do I hat up or not? This is not an easy question to answer. Hats bring with them the issue of hat hair. Major drama, particularly as Busy Bee is backing up her Melbourne Cup luncheon with the Billy Joel concert at Burswood Dome tomorrow night. No hat therefore is winning the debate, yet one still feels some pressure to make a token effort. Which is why I may be spending the rest of the evening rifling through my daughters craft draw and attempting not to hot-glue gun myself to feathers.

Availability of said feathers may in turn determine what dress I wear, to avoid an unsightly clash of colours. Pastel or print? Floral or plain? Perfect fitting old dress, or slightly tight and uncomfortable new dress that I haven’t quite lost the three kilo’s I promised I would before wearing it? Beauty is pain right? Bugger it, a couple of glasses of champagne should numb the pain.

Talking of pain brings me to shoes. Sensible, comfortable and therefore ugly would probably be the most practical, given my gruelling schedule. But as a recent convert to gorgeous yet ridiculously high heeled shoes, I really should wear some of my recent purchases just to justify their cost. Why is it that the less there is to a shoe, the more expensive it is? Anyway, lets be honest, shoes never hurt until you are just far enough away from home that you can’t turn back and change them. Then they turn into razor blades, cutting deeply into your skin and making you reach for more medicinal glasses of champagne. It is a vicious circle…I think the whole day may be masterminded by the makers of Nurofen and Berocca, who will surely do their biggest day of business outside New Years Day on the day after the First Tuesday in November. And the hilarious thing is - I wouldn’t know one end of a horse from another. I bet on the jockey’s colours and whatever horse I drew in the sweep. Tragic.

Let us know your Melbourne Cup story tomorrow - Who did you see? What were they wearing? What were they doing? E-mail your tips to busybee@perthnorg.com.au and share the agony and the ecstasy of everyone’s favourite day out.

Busy Bee has been alerted to a scandal following the Annual WA Media Awards.  Whilst our local papers were keen to let you know how many prizes they won on Saturday’s Media Night of Nights, they didn’t tell the juciest story anywhere… However, Busy bee has seen an e-mail requesting that the person or persons unknown who “inadvertantly” ended up with one of two missing cocktail glass table centrepieces worth $60 each please return them immediately to David Cohen, WA Branch President of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, who hosted the soiree and will have to foot the bill if the said items are not returned.  I told you, we break the big stories here….

Well, it’s official.  Us Weekly says so.  Reese Witherspoon found out about her husband Ryan Phillipe’s less than discrete affair with Australian actress Abbie Cornish and ended the marriage. He had been seen out and about with  co-star Cornish while they were filming “Stop Loss” in Texas, snogging in restaurants and being photographed together in compromising situations.  It was, apparently, the last straw in what we now know to be a fragile marriage. How terribly sad for them and their children, daughter Ava, aged 7 and son Deacon, aged 3.

Poor Anna Nicole. She can’t cut a break. She has just been admitted with pneumonia, of all things, to the same hospital  in the Bahama’s where her daughter was born and her son died just days later. Her spokesman is blaming ‘a change in the weather’ for Ms Smith’s poor health. I wonder if it has any connection to the fact the poor thing is so whacked out on drugs and What-ever-the-hell-it-is that she uses to get through her soap-opera life.

Apparently, Nicole Richie and her ‘peeps’ have heard my desperate plea to get some serious help and to wake up to the fact that the girl HAS AN EATING DISORDER. According to an interview in US magazine Us Weekly:

“I’m not in rehab, and I don’t have an eating disorder,” Richie tells Us. “I’m getting the help I need and taking care of my health.”

Both Nicole’s dad, Lionel Richie, and mom, Brenda Harvey Richie, have been concerned for some time, say family insiders, and the 25-year-old starlet was deeply affected by her relatives’ shock when she arrived in Alabama to attend her grandmother’s October 21 funeral.

“They told her she was too skinny and it really hit home,” says a friend who attended the memorial. “It was a turning point.”

Though Richie won’t confirm the nature of her treatment, Us has learned that she is being seen at a Newport Beach, California, facility, where she is undergoing doctor consultations and blood tests.

Nicole has apparently gained 6 lbs in the past few weeks and is bragging about it to everyone. Well done Nicole! However, it seems I am not the only one who agrees that anorexics are often in denial and will resort to anything, like a bogus ‘thyroid condition’ to avoid admitting to themselves and others that they are starving themselves to death.

Us Weekly again:

Denial, of course, is “very common” among people with eating disorders, says Dr. James Lock, director of Eating Disorders Program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and professor of psychiatry at Stanford University.

Nicole is telling friends that a medical condition may be preventing her from gaining weight.

“She doesn’t know if she has a thyroid problem or some blood issue,” says a pal. Some pal.

During a September 27th lunch at Beverly Hills eatery La Scala, Richie went to the bathroom as soon as her pasta Bolognese arrived, reports Us. “While she was up, her friends poured half onto their own plates,” says a fellow diner. “When Nicole returned, she took three bites before deciding she was done.” Indeed, says a friend, “It’s an up and down struggle.”

They haven’t even been separated for 48 hours, and theories abound as to why Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillipe have decided to dissolve their marriage. First cab off the rank was the character assasinations - she was too frigid/demanding/successful/controlling, he was gay/a druggie/unfaithful. The most recent news is that Ryan was actually having an affair with his Australian co-star Abbie Cornish whilst on location in Austin, Texas, this summer, Reese found out after finding his Blackberry, and they resolved to split just as soon as his new movie “Flags of our Fathers” premiered.
Abbie Cornish has received considerable acclaim and been nominated for an AFI for her role in the movie “Candy” which she co-starred with Heath Ledger.