Genevieve Gannon

The noble Spencer family is closely connected to the House of Windsor, not only through the marriage of its famous daughter, Diana. Both families also share histories of intrigue and scrutiny, which their new generations battle to leave behind.

Once only associated with glamorous A-listers, cocaine is now prevalent with the soccer-mum set – as likely to be imbibed at a school fundraiser as a nightclub. The Weekly looks inside this illegal, addictive, rising trend.

Returning to the set of MasterChef Australia to help steer a path through grief and spread happiness, the celebrity chef is also at a turning point – he opens up about failure, love, second chances and his endless reservoir of joie de vivre.

More than one-third of Kiwis don’t get enough sleep and the market has responded with a mind-boggling array of sleep aids. But do any of them actually work? The Weekly goes in search of slumber

Let technology guide you into a state of slumber

''There are moments when I find it's overwhelming. But you have to come back to your core. The core of me is not defined by the circumstance I found myself in.''

Scientists now believe there are fundamental differences in the brains of early risers and late sleepers.

Since the birth of her baby boy, ironwoman Turia Pitt has settled into a mellower pace – well, slightly.

The starting point is to accept it's neither possible nor desirable to be in a state of perpetual bliss.