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Dylan Alcott at the 2016 <i>GQ</I> Men of the Year Awards proves wheelchairs are no obstacles to self-fulfilment.

PS: Winning men inspire at GQ bash

The annual magazine awards season is in full swing, and admittedly many of the gongs being bestowed are pretty meaningless. Occasionally, though, a recipient is recognised who really deserves it as various publications name their 'best', 'sexiest', 'most beautiful', 'most intriguing' and 'most fabulous' men and women of the year.

Korean opera singer Sumi Jo has seven shipping trunks full of gowns for her Australian tour.

Sumi Jo showing her true diva

Sumi Jo has been living up to the expectations of a diva, with no less than seven huge shipping trunks stuffed with elaborate gowns for her to wear on tour.

Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel at the 20th Annual Hollywood Film Awards in Beverly Hills, California, this month.

Patel has Aussie accent off pat

London-born and raised actor Dev Patel spent months "Skyping" with his Australian voice coach before shooting even began on the critically acclaimed new film Lion, in which he co-stars with Nicole Kidman and David Wenham.

Tiger Lily Hutchence as she appears on the House of Khadi website.

Michael Hutchence's daughter makes modelling debut for charity

The philanthropic influence of her adoptive father Sir Bob Geldof has clearly rubbed off on Tiger Lily Hutchence, the only daughter of the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, who is making her debut as a model in a Kickstarter campaign to build a Fairtrade-registered shirt factory in Southern India.

Julia Gillard and Delta Goodrem at the 10th annual <i>Cosmopolitan</I> Women of the Year Awards in Sydney.

Credlin, Gillard find rare common ground

It's been a hell of a week for women's empowerment, but just a day after Hillary Clinton was turfed onto the political scrap heap by President-elect Donald Trump, back in Sydney a chorus of applause was greeting girl power.

Seal and Erica Packer are bringing the three Packer children to Sydney in January.

Seal, Packer seek Sydney digs

When pop star Seal travels, he usually does so with a sizeable entourage in tow given his ever-growing family brood – which presently stands at nine.

Miranda Kerr – looking forward to a low-key engagement party with fiancee Evan Spiegel.

Caution: Maria Venuti Cup Day fascinator approaching

The Festival of the Fascinator is over for another year, but undoubtedly a highlight of this year's tour of the Birdcage marquees at Flemington was re-connecting with some of the original show ponies who make the event such a spectacle.