BIZARRE: 2 | Mind Blowing Facts

Buck up, Michelle Obama – nothing is more fabulous than an empty nest

The former US first lady says she’s in counselling after her daughters left home. She and Barack should be running around the house naked. Yodelling. With antlers on their heads, says comedy writer Kathy Lette

The Guardian - UK · May 10, 2025

'Why I'm banning bucket lists – and you should too' says our columnist Kathy Lette

Our ever-entertaining woman&home columnist argues why she's happier without taking up wild new hobbies

Woman & Home · May 7, 2025

A moment that changed me: I found my first grey pubic hair

While women in their 50s are dismissed as hags, bags or crones, men get to be silver foxes. Suddenly I realised why women try so hard to fend off signs of ageing

The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2025

Puberty Blues co-author Gabrielle Carey dies, aged 64

Gabrielle Carey was an academic and the author of 10 books, including the groundbreaking Puberty Blues.

ABC News · May 5, 2023

Gabrielle Carey, co-author of Puberty Blues, dies aged 64

The novel, written with Kathy Lette in the 1970s when both were teenagers, was a landmark in Australian fiction

The Guardian - AU · May 4, 2023

Londoner’s Diary: Will Jeremy Clarkson’s new pub bring some timely cheer?

In today’s Diary: Jeremy Clarkson’s new pub / Kathy Lette and the Queen / Sir Tom Jones soldiers on / The struggles of Charles’s biographer / Lord of the Rings returns

Evening Standard · Aug 31, 2022

Kathy Lette threatens to sue after being mistaken for chef’s killer

British-Australian author confirms her former and second husbands are still alive amid mix-up

The Independent UK · Aug 8, 2022

Comedian Kathy Lette talks writing, ageing and why she's putting the 'sex' into sexagenarian

When Kathy Lette co-wrote Puberty Blues in the late 1970s, she never imagined she'd become the go-to guide on teenage life. Three decades on, she's ready to put the ‘sex’ into sexagenarian, reflecting on post-menopause life and her mission to age disgracefully.

ABC News · May 22, 2022

Londoner’s Diary: Stanley Johnson’s China trip is stumbling block for Boris

In today’s Diary: Stanley Johnson heading to China / Queen’s gardener on why he sometimes wishes he was a dog / Eddie Marsan takes pop at upper crust theatre world / Ed Balls enjoys an oyster feast courtesy of Gordon Brown

Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2022

Morning mail: Morrison says he was ‘standing up for women’, Australia to develop hypersonic weapons, Kathy Lette’s regrets

Wednesday: PM defends his contentious captain’s picks. Plus: first homebuyers warned of possible interest rate rise

The Guardian - AU · Apr 5, 2022