Hold on to your mousepads, everybody. A year after the death of his beloved wife New Zealand's favourite Australian, Rove McManus, has a new girlfriend. And there's no women's magazine-like wild speculation on this one - it's straight from the horse's mouth. Well, the horse's manager, Kevin Whyte.

Said manager confirms the Aussie pocket rocket is stepping out with former Blue Heelers star Tasma Walton, an event so momentous that Woman's Day and New Idea have both dedicated their covers to the blossoming romance.

The Day has pictures of the pair leaving the gym, and word is that the actress has moved some of her belongings into Rove's Melbourne home. Day says in a storage-only capacity, the New Idea says they're living together after four months of dating.

Rove took a self-imposed hiatus from TV after the death of his wife Belinda from cancer almost a year ago, with doubts that he would ever return to telly. But he has enjoyed great success since his return to the box in Australia and the States. Tasma, which sound part-Tasman, part-plasma, has 'been working on developing a writing career and an acting career in the US,' according to New Idea.

We love us some Rove here at Gossip Mags, so I'm wishing these two the best of luck down romance's rocky road. I know, me being nice doesn't happen very often, so you best savour it.

Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are snapped in the New Idea and Woman's Day getting up close in public in Rome. There have been rumours about the state of this relationship, or lack of, for months, but I smell a rat. The movie they made together starts tanking at the US box office, and suddenly they're getting affectionate in front of the cameras?

I could be wrong, and I'm the first to admit they make quite a striking couple. The coincidence is just too neat - and I'm a conspiracy theorist at heart.

Woman's Weekly editor Sido Kitchin is very excited about Sally Ridge and Adam Parore's engagement, her lead story this week. Me, not so much. Not that I'm bagging the romance, remember, I'm still sending the warm fuzzies out to Rove - it's just that the engagement of the toothsome twosome after six years and two kids together is hardly earth-shattering news.

Especially when you find out they've been secretly betrothed for four of the six years they've been together. Sally dodged the bullet from a nosy public by wearing her ring around her neck, and is now angling for a re-engagement ring. The four page spread has plenty of pictures of the happy couple and their gaggle of gorgeous kids.

As if Courteney Cox Arquette doesn't have enough on her plate sorting out all Jennifer Aniston's problems, the actress has hit early menopause at 43. I do apologise if you're eating your lunch. Courteney is determined for a brother or sister for daughter Coco and doesn't seem to want a little thing like nature get in the way turning to holistic treatment to halt the rampant onslaught of biological ageing.

Stars and their flaws are pointed out in New Idea - one photo spread that would make you glad you're not a celebrity. Apparently Katie Holmes has claw-like toes, Scarlett Johansson has stretch-marked boobs, Britney Spears has zits (aren't they the least of her worries?), and Cameron Diaz has sweaty pits.

New Idea and Day both have pap photos of bikini-clad super-doopermodel Gisele Bundchen frolicking on Miami Beach with boyfriend Tom Brady, with a body so crazy you'd just weep with jealousy. Sigh! And we're done with the pineapple lumps.

The Thinking Woman's Fraggle, Donatella Versace, met up with Iggy Pop at a London fashion event - and the mingling of genes if they ever reproduced is too hideous to contemplate. Imagine the sheer quantity of substances these two have ingested between them. If they threw Pete Doherty in the mix they'd be the holy trinity of drug abuse.

There's a tribute to Heidi Klum's Halloween costumes in the New Idea - among them a gold plated alien, part-Cher, part bat, a skeleton straddling her back and last year's effort, an apple/snake combo. Heidi's German, which counts for a lot in my book, but she's also willing to get into the spirit of Halloween. It's supposed to be about outlandish costumes and spooky type things.

If there's one thing that does grind my gears it's Hollywood starlets who use Halloween as an excuse to dress as skanks. It's supposed to be ghouls and goblins, not a chance to walk around in public in your knickers. That's not scary. Unless it's Paris Hilton we're talking about - who knows what could make a break for freedom out of the confines of those undergarments.

Is Lindsay Lohan skint? Apparently the 21-year-old squandered her $7.7m fortune before she checked into rehab and has been forced to sell up property to get some much-needed cash. If the NW is to be believed she's squandered half a million dollars on living at the swanky Chateau Marmont, chauffeurs on standby cost her $500,000, despite her drink driving offences, and a million dollars on shopping. Better get back to work, Lindsay. You don't want your mama to run out of fake tan.

Is Pamela Anderson's marriage over after four days? That would be a spectacular failure, even by her standards. Still, what do you expect from a wedding where the bride wore white denim. Meanwhile, their respective exes plan payback by hooking up in a Toronto club. More fool you, Paris Hilton. Kid Rock is a fine catch - if you're into pimped-out weasels.

In Brangelina watch this week the Weekly has the star pair in crisis talks about breaking up, while the New Idea takes a more hardline approach, calling out Angelina on the untruths she may or may not have told in the press.

'Angie's Web Of lies' delves into dubious claims made by the star. The one where she claimed she'd only ever slept with four people stank to high heaven - conveniently forgetting the teenage boyfriend who took her virginity, her lesbian lovers, and statements she's made saying she preferred no strings attached sex to normal relationships.

Apparently she's also telling porkies about burying the hatchet with Jennifer Aniston and committing to settling her family down in one place.

NW focuses on muscle-bound stars that are addicted to exercise. Known medically as anorexia atheltica, these women tackle harrowing workouts in order to stay slim. Jessica Simpson looks like she could pack down at the back of the Hurricanes scrum with Jerry Collins. See Jada Pinkett Smith's scary six pack, Madonna's bulging veins, and Sarah Jessica Parker's sinewy biceps.

It's not a good week for SJP, also being named the World's Unsexiest Woman by men's mag Maxim - beating the likes of Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse to the dubious title.

And that's all from the mags this week!