In the women's mags: Saint Jude finds life after news

Our greatest living former newsreader is back on the covers this week, hocking off the jacket she wore on her last night reading the news.

But Our Jude is only selling the "gorgeous baby blue Adrienne Winkelmann jacket" to raise funds for charity, not because she's missing that big fat Television New Zealand salary, says New Idea.

Judy Bailey has been busy since she disappeared from the nation's living rooms. Rather than sit around eating chocolates and watching daytime TV, she has been writing her memoirs and taking on the role of ambassador for Preventing Violence in the Home.

The group is holding a gigantic "Get Organised" garage sale based on a similar concept overseas where celebs are asked to clean out their wardrobes and donate to the cause.

Judy is, unsurprisingly, "really excited" to be working on Get Organised.

She also makes it on to the cover of Woman's Weekly because of that impending autobiography, due for publication in October. With anyone else we could expect a bit of dirt to be dished on various TVNZ head honchos, but as it's Saint Jude doing the writing, we can keep breathing normally.

The Woman's Weekly's cover story this week is how former Good Morning host Mary Lambie is coping with 2-year-old twins Elizabeth and Jack as they hit the "terrible twos".

Well she's not young and apparently it helps to have National Radio host and hubby Jim Mora pitching in, plus a nanny, for those mornings when she fills in for Simon Dallow on radio station Viva 98.2 or does a spot of training for those marathons she likes so much.

Also in the Weekly, Britney Spears likens herself to Princess Di, expressing fears she will be hounded to her death just like the People's Princess. The paparazzi-plagued Spears has a room full of Di memorabilia.

"She truly believes she and Diana share the same path of destiny," says an assistant.

Pics of a skeletal Victoria Beckham on the cover of Woman's Day are shocking, almost as scary as the tea cosy husband David is wearing on his head.

"Frail Posh breaks David's heart," the story says, but there's definitely something familiar about those photos - has someone run them before?

Amazing how quickly "wedded bliss" can turn to "stormy bust-up", according to the Day, with Angelina Jolie walking out on Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt. The luscious-lipped one stormed out of the couple's LA home and holed up in a nearby hotel after an argument over who should be looking after the kids. Perhaps she should consult mother Mary.

The pair eventually kissed and made up, but "insiders speculate it won't be long before the next Brad and Ange bust-up".

Also in the Day, a salutary example for Brad and Ange - Sir Paul McCartney and wife Heather in what's shaping up to be the ugliest and most entertaining divorce of the decade.

Britons have been entranced with stories of changed locks and frozen bank accounts, but the Day has the pics of a furious Heather trying to get into Paul's London home after the locks were switched. She looks very cross.