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Maxie Oliver: “Could you make me look like Jacob Elordi? Like a Facetune?”

Melbourne crowns its Jacob Elordi lookalike: ‘The only one who’s tall’

Maxie Oliver, like the other four contestants at this underattended competition, was roped in to compete last minute. He politely asked the internet not to bully him.

  • Meg Watson

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Oscar, the winning contestant in a Harry Styles lookalike competition in London.

Why fake heartthrobs are descending on your city this weekend

First Timothée Chalamet and Harry Styles, now Heath Ledger and Jacob Elordi. The surreal global “celebrity lookalike” trend is coming to Melbourne and Sydney.

  • Meg Watson

Bondi has had a colourful history, but this is why it’s never lost its appeal

It’s an unruly coastal circus and that’s why we love it.

  • Chris Baker
The Frank E. Campbell funeral home, which recently undertook a $US20 million renovation.

Inside the funeral home for New York’s power brokers and celebrities

John Lennon, Heath Leader, Biggie Smalls and even Logan Roy. For more than a century, Frank E. Campbell has been the mortuary of choice for New York’s luminaries.

  • Alex Vadukul

Leeanna Walsman: ‘I look in the mirror and I see how old I am’

The 44-year-old actor may have been working for three decades, but she says every new job feels like the first.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Actor Hunter Page-Lochard stars in Critical Incident.

What makes a sweet guy turn mean? How Hunter Page-Lochard found his inner villain

The award-winning actor plays a drug dealer in new cop drama Critical Incident, and it’s a long way from Play School. “Even my dad couldn’t watch.”

  • Helen Pitt
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Ashley Zuckerman starring in the film, Invitro, shot in regional NSW.

Australian Succession star’s thriller to premiere at Sydney Film Festival

In Vitro, starring Ashley Zukerman, is a sci-fi thriller filmed in rural NSW.

  • Helen Pitt
Crazy Rich Asians, Notting Hill, You’ve Got Mail, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, When Harry Met Sally and 10 Things I Hate About You.

The nine romcoms we can’t stop falling in love with

We asked 10 well-known Australians to divulge their favourites. Some are classics, some might surprise you – and Love Actually is as divisive as ever.

  • Michael Lallo
Actor Rahel Romahn.

Bullied and ostracised growing up, now this actor is off to Hollywood

As a boy, Rahel Romahn would sit in his room for hours every day doing faces and accents. Now he’s the winner of the 2022 Heath Ledger Scholarship.

  • Michael Idato
Heath Ledger’s Ducati.

Scratches and all: Heath Ledger’s treasured possession to go on display at WA Museum

It has been more than a decade since the tragic death of Hollywood star Heath Ledger but his father is finding ways for his legacy to carry on in Perth.

  • Tracey Vo

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