Andrew Hornery

Andrew Hornery

Senior journalist Andrew Hornery is the man behind The Sydney Morning Herald's Private Sydney column, keeping tabs on everyone from socialites to social climbers. If they are worth knowing about, you can bet they are on the PS radar.

Secret surgery

How did Angelina keep it a secret?

Andrew Hornery That the woman dubbed 'St Angelina' in the showbiz press managed to keep her surgery a secret, in the era of the 24-hour, all-consuming news cycle, is verging on the miraculous.

Private Sydney

Good line for bodice ripper

Fiona Handbury and William Legge

Andrew Hornery It's a dramatic love story which reads like a chapter from one of her late grandmother-in-law Dame Barbara Cartland's racy pot boilers, but former Sydney socialite turned British aristocrat, Lady...

Private Sydney

A-listers dust off hangovers to party into the New Year

Ricki Lee Coulter at NYE lord mayors party Photo by Scott Weston

Andrew Hornery As the northern hemisphere shivered in the new year, Sydney's biggest annual party continued on Tuesday across a series of extravagant parties attracting celebrities, the beautiful people and...

Private Sydney

Accent on affected

George

Andrew Hornery Actor Melissa George was accused of treason this week when she declared she would rather nibble on a croissant and sip espresso in Paris than return home to Australia to be constantly asked about the...

Tour tirade

Mutiny aboard Rihanna's 777 jet

rihanna

Andrew Hornery Aussie journalist's mid air antics raise blood pressure on Rihanna tour.

Glam rock

Look out, another Jagger's in town

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Andrew Hornery Georgia May Jagger intends to party up a storm in Sydney this weekend.

Celebrity latest

Pink touches down in Sydney

Pink

Andrew Hornery She stepped off a flight from Los Angeles just after 6am, but it didn't take long for international pop star Pink to be hunted down by Sydney's local paparazzi.

Elevator not quite the lift needed

Andrew Hornery MOBILE phones went into meltdown last Saturday morning across Sydney's glittering harbourfront mansions as news broke on the Herald's front page that one of their own - style queen Karin Upton Baker...

Fancy seeing you here today, Karin

Andrew Hornery SYDNEY can be such a small town. Sometimes a little too small, as PS discovered on Thursday.

Fashionable? Or just flashy and feral?

Andrew Hornery THE good, the bad and the very, very ugly. That would best describe the passing parade of fashions at this year's spring racing carnival.

Mum-in-law's the word for Minogue

Dannii Minogue

Andrew Hornery NEVER speak ill of the dead, unless, of course, you are a celebrity and your late former mother-in-law is a lady.