In the women's mags: Brent on his Todd and Terri's hat-trick

This week's New Idea has the skinny on the big man.

Former league larrikin Brent Todd tells New Idea in its cover story how his children, Jessica, 10, and six-year-old Ethan, got him through his darkest days, which culminated in his recent conviction for arranging a drug deal.

Toddy admits to being a lonely man since the collapse of his marriage to Wendy Botha, "But when my kids come through that door and give me a cuddle, they don't judge you for what you may have done".

Two worrying revelations emerge from the New Idea piece, however:

Todd says he at one point contemplated "jumping off a cliff", and also admits a liking for the musical stylings of country crooner Garth Brooks.

Thankfully, he rejected his suicidal impulses for fear of the effect it would have on family members, but Brooks' song If Tomorrow Never Comes still gets a regular spin on Todd's CD player.

Crocodile widow Terri Irwin scores a hat-trick, with appearances in the Woman's Weekly, Woman's Day and New Idea.

She tells Woman's Day that she and Steve had been "arm wrestling" over having more children before his untimely death, mainly because the two they already have - Bindi, 8, and Bob, 2 - are such a "delight".

Bright-as-a-button Bindi won hearts when she delivered a touching eulogy at Steve's funeral, and his death has brought mother and daughter closer together, Terri says.

"We've come a lot closer in the last few weeks and now we're going to do our best to enthral both young and old alike with her show."

The Bindi Show is described by WD as "an all-singing, all-environmental production with Steve's spirit running through it". Crikey!

The New Zealand Woman's Weekly leads with news that the TomKat is at risk of being put down.

It turns out Katie Holmes is having "Arctic"-size cold feet at the thought of marrying couch-leaping fiance Tom Cruise.

Though the 27-year-old is apparently loving motherhood, and working hard to get herself wedding-dress slim, there are problems reconciling the demands of her Catholic faith with those of Scientologist Tom.

To compound matters, a friend of Katie's - enigmatically named "Source" - says the former Dawson's Creek star wonders whether she shouldn't still be with ex-beau Chris Klein.

In an interesting aside, the Weekly points out that daughter Suri was born to the couple exactly a year after their first date.

Most of us would be happy simply to mark such an auspicious occasion with a meal out.