Edie Falco relies on a "surrogate family" to help her raise her two children.

We have all had the experience of meeting someone and - for reasons that are often completely unknown - an instant dislike develops.

Has a senior Labour politician won the heart of a woman whose partner suffered a debilitating stroke?

The firefighter at the centre of a blackmail love triangle has had crisis talks with her bosses.

Lily Allen's famous friends have been given an idea of what to expect from her upcoming nuptials after receiving their invites to her June wedding.

Networks are finalising plans for their coverage of the television event of the year, The Royal Wedding.

Many a time since this column first appeared have I used as a last sentence, "We reap what we sow".

Mia is enamoured with her mum's pregnant belly and she's started asking those sorts of questions.

As her son approaches school age, Dita De Boni wonders about the importance of a 'multi-cultural' education.

New Zealanders are rapidly joining HaveAnAffair.co.nz but the new dating website's owners deny members sign up to do as its name suggests.

The previous Government was much taken with the economic benefit of getting and keeping more women in work.

TV psychologist Nigel Latta is under fire for his use of the word mental.

New Zealand is a 25 to one shot of being the venue for Prince William's honeymoon.

I don't know what has happened to my formerly cherubic little girl of late.

Sexual tension, jealousy, crossing the line ... can men and women be just friends? Shelley Bridgeman discovers the dos and don'ts of platonic relationships.

As a dad, it makes me shiver with fear to think the exchanging of indecent images of children is so widespread.

Mel Gibson will counter sue Oksana Grigorieva if she launches legal action against him over their January 2010 domestic altercation.

Liz Dickinson steps on the dating treadmill and finds singles fitness events can be fun.

When my caregiver casually commented that "I appear to be a few days overdue in the gynaecological department," I responded by assuring her gruffly that it would be nothing more than business stress throwing her system around a bit.

From his days in the Mickey Mouse Club to playing a father in a failing marriage, Ryan Gosling's career is maturing nicely, writes Helen Barlow.

Kenny Goss has called time on their 15-year relationship.

The 45-year-old actor unveiled the etching on his wrist during his début hour-long radio show Sheen's Korner, in which he also denied claims he suffers from bi-polar disorder, proclaiming himself instead to be "bi-winning".

The REM frontman has enjoyed relationships with both men and women in the past but says it wasn't until meeting his current boyfriend that he realised he preferred men.

The actor is planning a "commitment marriage" to both porn star Bree Olsen and part-time model Natalie Kenly, whom he shares his Los Angeles home with.