Woman's Day insiders recall amazing and bizarre celebrity moments from 2000 and beyond.
Angelina and Brad first pics
— Di Blackwell, London bureau chief
Probably the biggest scoop that has happened from the London office in the noughties was the first pictures of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in Africa that actually proved they were definitely an item.
The picture agency, Big Pictures, had the exclusive and while it's not as exciting as getting a scoop when you're in the hub of the magazine, it certainly was exciting that I could secure those pictures for
Woman's Day.
Meeting Robert De Niro in Vegas
— Glen Williams, staff writer
Robert de Niro was so eccentric. I was in Las Vegas for the opening of the Queen musical
We Will Rock You. De Niro is a huge fan of Queen and had funded the show.
I was with Channel 10 reporter Angela Bishop and we were told we could interview De Niro and we were really excited about that. But De Niro said he didn't like interviews. So he decided to throw a party.
We had to be guests at his party and just wander around mingling with his guests and when the mood struck him he would talk to us and give us our interviews. We weren't allowed to take any notes or record him.
I asked, "What am I meant to do? Run to the toilet and take down notes there?"
And his minders said, "If that's what it takes!"
I found myself chatting to De Niro and then running behind a hedge where I kept a note pad. And then running back to the party and talking to him again. It was so bizarre!
Wouldn't it have been simpler for him to just sit down and have a chat? But he wanted to go through this whole role play. The party would have cost him a bomb because he booked out the pool area of the Paris Hotel to throw this party just so he could stage an interview.
It was really surreal and a definite insight into the man, I think! It was just too weird but I loved every minute of it.
Jane Fonda's gender crisis
— Glen Williams, staff writer
Jane Fonda spent a lot of her life thinking she was a man. I got that out of her during our chat and I found the fact really quite bizarre. She spent a lot of time thinking Mother Nature had made a mistake and she ended up being so tormented she told me she'd sleep walk and move furniture in the middle of the night just trying to find a way out — she felt trapped.
She didn't stop moving the furniture in her sleep until she was 54 and married to Ted Turner.
Liza Minnelli's wedding
— Alana House, former editor
One of my most favourite covers was Liza Minnelli's wedding to David Gest in March 2002. It was my second issue as editor, and people in the office were shocked when I said we should put the picture on the cover.
But I thought it was just priceless. Not only was Liza standing there with that strange-looking man, but she also had Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson as witnesses.
It was truly a hoot to work on that edition, and an entertaining way to enter the
Woman's Day world.
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