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Aussie comic Rove McManus' heartbreak over the death of wife Belinda Emmett from cancer is the big story in the women's mags this week, along with weddings, may-be babies and reignited romances.
Pictures of Rove and Belinda are splashed on the cover and inside pages of Woman's Day, which calls the pair's relationship "our greatest love story", forgetting for a moment that we live in New Zealand, not Australia.
While much gnashing of teeth must have been audible in the editorial offices of the women's mags in the lead-up to deadline this week, what with "TomKat's" wedding just that teensy weensy bit too late for this week's edition, the Woman's Weekly for one refused to be beaten.
It chose to go big on the wedding of Shortland St star Nicola Kawana and theatre technician Ian Flynn, and while it's not quite the same as the biggest superstar wedding of the year being held in a medieval castle in Italy, at least it's a wedding.
Woman's Day got round the problem by running pics of the wedding preparations while New Idea has pics of Katie's midriff along with wild speculation there is another baby on the way.
While pre-wedding jitters are supposed to be the preserve of the bride, apparently it's Tom who's been so difficult in the lead-up to the big day that friends nicknamed him "groomzilla". What really upset him was discovering the tux he ordered weeks ago no longer seemed to fit after he had "relaxed into family life" for a few weeks. Family life relaxed? Who knew?
No week in the mags is complete without pics of Brad and Ange and the Day has a double-page spread on whether they are about to adopt another child. A couple of weeks ago they weren't speaking, so things appear to have moved on quickly.
Not moving so quickly is Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman's marriage with country music star Keith Urban. Nicole is obviously willing to put a big effort into reigniting the romance, says the Day, "dashing to be by [Urban's] side" in the Californian drug rehab clinic he's in after the couple hadn't seen each other for four weeks.
If the pair were trying to dodge the cameras and have some private time together, they didn't do a good job, what with the same pics of the lovey-dovey stars appearing in the Day and the Woman's Weekly and Nicole subtly posing for the camera while appearing not to pose at all.
On the local front, rugby star and former All Black Troy Flavell tells New Idea of his "brush with death" when he contracted meningitis, while in the Weekly, former marketing supremo Suzanne Paul "faces up to her 50th birthday".
Happily, hubby Duncan Wilson hasn't abandoned her because of her advanced age and bankruptcy.
After she lost her business empire last year in a failed "cabaret meets kapa haka" tourism venture, Dunc chose to stick around.
"Not only did he still love me when I had nothing, he still loved me when I had worse than nothing." He proved it by coming home with her name tattooed up his arm. That's the stuff, Dunc.
But story of the week goes to the far from reignited romance of Renee Zellweger and country singer Kenny Chesney, who split this year after just 128 days of marriage.
Beautiful, talented and rich, do we really want the Bridget Jones star to be blissfully happy in her love life? We think not.
Speaking of the split for the first time after ending the union with an annulment citing "fraud", Zellweger calls the marriage "the biggest personal mistake of her life", says Woman's Day.
Looking at the pics of Kenny in his cowboy hat, one wonders how it lasted 128 days.
