MONDAY NOVEMBER 30 2015 ENTERTAINMENT 17 Oprah’s ‘girls’ lead the way

BILLIONAIRE TV icon She starts her tour in Mel- opened in January 2007 and ance in Australia in coming Oprah Winfrey will land in bourne on Wednesday night at now serves grades 7 through 12. days will make amends for her Australia today after an emo- Rod Laver arena. In Henley on Klip, the lead- speech at Melbourne’s Feder- tional stopover on the week- The South Africa event ership academy is a state-of- ation Square which she said end in South Africa. marks the fifth graduating the-art independent school left her with a feeling of The 61-year-old celebrated class from the school which that engenders “high stan- “emptiness”. the valedictory ceremony for opened in 2007 to serve under- dards of academic achieve- She said after the appear- 51 young students on Saturday, privileged girls. ment and service leadership” ance in December 2010 she from the Oprah Winfrey Lead- Winfrey posed for pictures for girls from all nine South Af- wished she had left the 10,000 ership Academy for Girls. with the delighted students at rican provinces. fans who gathered with a The presenter-turned-TV the event held on the 28-build- Winfrey hopes the academy “kernel of teaching.” network owner is en route to ing campus. will help develop the future Winfrey will tour cities in- Australia to tour several cities She has contributed more women leaders of South Africa. cluding Melbourne, , Ad- with her An evening with Oprah than $40 million toward the Yesterday it was revealed elaide, Brisbane, Sydney, and Oprah Winfrey speaks during the valedictory ceremony at the show. creation of the school which Oprah hopes that her appear- Auckland in New Zealand. Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, South Africa All-Aussie Mauboy film crew defies her to work on critics as next Alien style stays

HOLLYWOOD director Ri- WHEN it comes to fashion, dley Scott has announced the can’t seem to next Alien movie will be filmed escape controversy. in Australia with an all-Austra- Her shocking ARIA outfit lian crew. has taken on a life of its own on Alien: Covenant, which will social media with widespread bring Michael Fassbender criticism of the ill-fitting over- back to the role he played in sized coat ensemble. Prometheus (2012), will employ Mauboy opted to stick with a local crew of 600. stylist Mikey Ayoubi for the Announcing the news in ARIA Awards last week Sydney on Friday, Scott said despite the Melbourne Cup he loves Australia. controversy in which the sing- “I discovered I get on with er was replaced to sing the Aussies, I’ve worked with one national anthem after being of the hardest ones, the tough- dressed in an outfit reportedly est one, five times called Mr deemed inappropriate. Crowe,” Scott said. Days earlier Ayoubi had Scott first directed actor dressed Hollywood actor Hila- Russell Crowe on the epic ry Swank in a Christopher movie Gladiator, where they Esber pant suit, a label stocked famously clashed. But accord- at David Jones not Myer, the ing to the director they’ve official fashion partner of the since made up. Spring Racing Carnival. “And we’re now friends. On Her ARIAs outing provided the first one we weren’t friends an opportunity for Ayoubi to but by now we’re really, we’re hit back at his critics after kind of buddies, so I think I weeks of speculation over understand Aussies and the whether Mauboy would part marvellous Cate Blanchett,” ways with the stylist. Scott said. But the opportunity back- Filming for the next Alien fired as the choice of outfit was blockbuster is set to begin in widely condemned. mid-March when the Oscar- “I guess the worst outfit of nominated Fassbender is due the night,” one Instagram user to arrive. Alien: Covenant will wrote. Another added: “That’s serve as a prequel to the orig- a shocker.” inal Alien movie from 1979, Another compared Maub- starring Sigourney Weaver, oy’s outfit to that of Draco explaining who made the orig- Malfoy in his school robes in inal alien and why. the Harry Potter films. Scott started scouting loca- “Sorry but that outfit is just tions on Thursday and will plain dreadful.” need monumental forests and Mauboy’s publicist Danielle rocks, while the rest will be in McEwan did not return calls the studio using CGI. Jessica Mauboy caused a social media storm with her ARIAs outfit by Mikey Ayoubi for comment. Set to play Jade-d mum Facebook likes dad time Adele will tour Europe POP star Samantha Jade do it, just to do it. Me WITH Facebook co- minimum of four weeks’ BRITISH singer Adele is Tickets for the British will play a frazzled playing a mother is a founder Mark Zuck- paternity leave, with to go on tour in Eu- shows go on sale to- mother with two real role. erberg (pictured) more time offered rope next year, her morrow and on kids on Home And “I’m not play- about to become a in locations where first live dates in Wednesday for Away. ing a singer, I’m dad, the social required. five years. the rest of Europe. Jade, 28, filmed not playing my- network boosted Same-sex part- The Hello star, Adele has pre- her scenes in self. I’m playing a the amount of ners who are not whose smash hit viously spoken of Summer Bay last mum – and a crazy time fathers can primary caregivers album 25 was re- suffering from month, with pro- mum at that!” take off to bond with for babies get the leased earlier this stage fright, while posed air dates in 2016. Jade, who released their new babies. same paid leave time month, will play 36 some media reports “I’m playing a mother her debut album Nine ear- Beginning with the new as dads. dates from February to had suggested she would with two kids,” Jade (pictured) lier this month, won rave noti- year, dads working full-time The change, effective Janu- June 2016. The shows will be in not tour her latest album as she said. “She’s totally different to ces, and a Logies nomination for Facebook anywhere in the ary 1, essentially raises parental Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Nor- does not like leaving son Ange- me. She’s nuts, actually. That’s for her portrayal of Kylie Min- world will have the option of leave time for dads and non- way, Denmark, Germany, lo, 3. But in a post, she why I took the role. I’d been of- ogue in the INXS telemovie, taking four months’ paid leave. custodial same-sex partners Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, said: “I am, of course, coming fered two other roles on Home Never Tear Us Apart. All new dads working for from four weeks to four Italy, The Netherlands, France on tour and I can’t wait to see And Away, and I didn’t want to “I love acting,” she said. Facebook outside the US get a months. and Belgium. all of you there.”

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