Sarah Jessica Parker tones it down on Oaks Day

Sarah Jessica Parker toned down her headwear for Oaks Day. Picture: Craig Borrow / Source: Herald Sun

The Herald Sun reports

SARAH Jessica Parker toned down her headwear for her Oaks Day appearance with an elegant jewelled design.

The Sex and the City star attended the biggest day for fashion during the Spring Racing Carnival yesterday after dazzling crowds in an oversized Philip Treacy hat at the Crown Oaks Lunch on Wednesday.

She presented the trophy to the winner of the $1 million VRC Oaks, Mosheen.

Meanwhile Shane Warne and Liz Hurley tweeted their arrival at Oaks Day with a picture, and Hurley thanking milliner to the stars Philip Treacy for her own "divine hat."

Joan Collins brought a touch of old-style Hollywood glamour to Flemington's famous Birdcage.

The actress had a few words of wisdom for the young girls on how to look glamorous on a day at the races.

"I think it takes effort and a little bit of mystery and certainly it helps if you wear makeup I think," Collins said.

"I don't think you can be glamorous without wearing makeup."

The 78-year-old English actress, still best known for her role on the 1980s TV soap Dynasty, admitted she wasn't really a horse racing fan, but thought it was "a jolly good day out".

"I'm not really into the horses that much.

"I just find it fun to look at everybody, to admire the hats and the clothes and to have a drink and to really have fun."

And her advice to the young girls at Flemington: "Don't drink too much otherwise you'll end up like they do at Ascot with your skirts over your head. That's not such a good look."

Wheelers Hill bride-to-be Lara Yachou and her entourage of 15 are among the 70,000-plus crowd, using the occasion for her hens party.

Her tips for the day were "colour, lots of flowers, having fun, a couple of horses".
Other famous faces in the crowd were Ashley Hart, Rebecca Judd, Jennifer Hawkins, Kris Smith, Ruby Rose, and Brynne and Geoffrey Edelsten.

Joan 'Superbitch' Collins all charm in Melbourne show

Joan "Superbitch" Collins entertained a Melbourne crowd last night. She hits Sydney on Monday. Source: Supplied

Daniel Ziffer, The Herald Sun, reports

SHE starred as super-bitch Alexis Carrington on Dynasty, but Joan Collins was all charm in her autobiographical show at the Melbourne Town Hall last night.

Encounters with Hollywood greats like Gene Kelly, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Richard Burton were woven into a warm, polished story that had fans swooning.

One example: “Watch out for the wolves in Hollywood,” Marilyn Monroe told her.

In fact, so many anecdotes were peppered through the show that it was almost ridiculous.

Only Joan Collins could finish a sentence with - “And then I ended my engagement to Warren Beatty, which I haven’t had time to talk about” - before gliding on.

The best was Collins fighting back against lecherous studio bosses but for the most part this was an event only for fans of Collins and Hollywood’s golden era.

The 78-year-old has been married five times and wasn’t afraid to poke fun at her often terrible roles.

Still as fiesty as her days on the 1980s soap Dynasty that cemented her fame, it would have been great to hear Collins’ opinion on current stars.

However, apart from pegging Dannii Minogue to play her in any autobiographical movie, this was a nostalgia session.

In a short question and answer session, Collins gave a little more, telling a 29-year-old woman seeking life advice to, “Get married before it’s too late!”

The crowd erupted. “Just joking,” she said.

You can catch a performance of A Night with Joan Collins at Sydney’s State Theatre on Monday 7 November.

Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker touches down in Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph reports

AN international airline crisis couldn't keep Sarah Jessica Parker away from visiting Australia for the first time.

The Sex And The City superstar touched down in Melbourne this morning after her flight was changed from Qantas to Emirates at the eleventh hour last night.

The 46-year-old, who is travelling without her family, arrived with a personal entourage of seven and headed straight to her suite at Crown Casino.

She will skip the Cup tomorrow to attend at a press conference for her new romcom I Don't Know How She Does It before attending Oaks Day on Thursday.

The fashion icon was looking decidedly un-Carrie upon arrival as she climbed from her plane and into a waiting limo wearing a black and white long-sleeved cotton T-shirt, lumpy grey woollen wrap and loose hair.

With her world-class fashion entourage at hand, we can expect a major transformation before her press conference tomorrow.

The Qantas shutdown also stranded a slew of other celebrities due to touch down in Australia this week.

But thanks to some quick-thinking tour managers and publicists - not to mention corporate credit cards capable of taking a $25,000 first class airfare - most of them made it into the air at last.

This is how the flight schedule for the big stars en route to Oz is faring:

Kim and Khloe Kardashian

Not due to leave New York until tonight, the ubiquitous reality TV sisters are on standby, with organisers of their Sydney trip hoping Qantas will revoke its flight freeze in time.

A "plan B'' is ready to be put into action.

The pair are to attend a party at Hugo's in Kings Cross on Wednesday night.

Joan Collins

The Golden Globe winner is due to appear at Melbourne Town Hall on Wednesday night for her A Night With Joan sell-out show, which is an intimate and anecdotal retelling of her life.

"Everything is on track,'' a source said yesterday. She will appear at Oaks Day on Thursday and in Sydney next Tuesday.

Sharni Vinson

The former Home And Away star is one lucky gal, having flown in from her LA home early to visit family. She was renegotiating her Qantas flight to Melbourne from Brisbane to attend the Swisse Marquee at tomorrow's Melbourne Cup.

Kings of Leon

Stranded in South Africa last night, where they were touring, the Tennessee rockers were hoping to get into Sydney early for a few days off before their first of nine Australian tour kicks off on Friday night at Allphones Arena.

The tour was originally slated for March but was pushed back after drummer Nathan Followill had surgery on a torn bicep, so a second postponement would be disastrous for fans.

A Night with Joan

By Lenny Ann Low, Sydney Morning Herald

Although no stranger to the stage, Joan Collins's one-woman show provides Dynasty's Alexis Marissa Morrell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan in the flesh. Ostensibly a memoir, A Night with Joan sold out in London and New York. Using clips and images, Collins, 78, reminisces about her 55 films, five husbands and many co-stars (including John Gielgud, Bette Davis, Richard Burton and Robert Mitchum).

November 7, 8.30pm, State Theatre, 49 Market Street, Sydney, 13 61 00, ticketmaster.com.au, $100-$160.

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