India Mullen rocketed to stardom overnight with her role in one of the biggest TV shows of recent years - but was unprepared for the mania that ensued, as she tells Julia Llewellyn Smith
She may be the world s most in-demand actress, but at home in Sydney with her family, it takes a curry and a lift home to really impress, as she tells Julia Llewellyn Smith
She’s the comedian with fans that include Madonna and Jennifer Aniston. But having her first child left ELLIE TAYLOR with little to find funny. She tells Julia Llewellyn Smith why she wrote the parenting book that no one else dared to
Ellie Taylor
Five years ago, comedian Ellie Taylor decided she was going to join in with the latest Facebook craze: the Motherhood Challenge. Women were being asked to post five images that made them proud to be mothers. Ellie’s contribution, as a happy ‘non-mother’, was to put up photos of herself asleep cradling a wine bottle, captioned ‘such special memories’. The reaction was phenomenal. Among a number of ‘likes’ there was worldwide fury. ‘No wonder it [sic] does not have children. Look at its big teeth,’ one person from Mexico wrote, summing up the prevailing mood.
Chaotic but cool… LEAH WELLER tells Julia Llewellyn Smith what it’s like being part of Paul Weller’s extended clan – and how he changed her life with a heart-shaped guitar
Leah Weller: ‘Dad can be blunt with me. He wasn’t afraid to give constructive criticism, but he did it nicely’
Leah Weller laughs as she describes family gatherings with her seven siblings –aged between 33 and three – and all children of The Jam and Style Council legend Paul Weller.
‘It’s hard to get us all together, but when we do it’s just chaotic,’ she says. ‘We tried to go to a restaurant once and I thought, “Please! I’m nothing to do with these kids running around and things being smashed.”’