If I get another life, I’m coming back as Dina Broadhurst.
At 50, the celebrity ‘nude’ artist is still the undisputed ‘Body of the East’ – all sun-kissed skin, effortless style and toned legs that go on for days.
But Dina isn’t just a body; she’s warm, charming and – in my experience – genuinely lovely. We’ve exchanged a few messages and she’s always been nothing short of very sweet.
Anytime I need motivation to exercise, eat clean or to just sigh longingly at her body and style, I just scroll through her Instagram and drool (don’t worry Dina, in a non-weird way I promise – I like men).
So this isn’t going to be one of my more savage columns as Dina has never given me a reason to sharpen my knife – unlike some of my regular subjects in my past columns (I didn’t say Abbie Chatfield or Constance Hall but I know you were thinking it…).
But – and there’s always a but – even the most inoffensive of women fall prey to the gentle – but vicious – hum of eastern suburbs gossip, and as your trusty columnist, it is simply my role to relay what the mean girls are saying.
And by golly Miss Molly, they’re mean.
Call it bitterness or downright jealousy, but the whispers on Transvaal Avenue are rife. No, they’re not bitching about the length of Dina’s skirts, or her latest G string bikini, but something a little more pointed – and that is her relationship with her new partner, Danny Tchalaby, the German entrepreneur, founder of investment angel syndicate Maverick Founders.
Amanda Goff has weighed in on Dina Broadhurst’s new toyboy
And no wonder the locals are gossiping – he’s gorgeous. Younger, (Dina loves a toyboy – we have that in common at least), fit, tanned and European, and clearly totally smitten. One source tells me: ‘Danny treats Dina very well and isn’t intimidated by her success, unlike some of the men she has dated’.
That is blindingly obvious – he even sported a T-shirt with Dina splashed on the front in a red swimsuit holding a book called Lovers.
I mean, nothing reeks more of devotion than that, does it, ladies? Right back smack in the middle of Double Bay and all!
But here’s the stickler: the smoochy photos, the posing, the very public canoodling, the headline-making holiday snaps (G string bikini included naturally, even a golf day with Dina’s handsome son) – the mean girls are circling one idea and one idea only say my spies.
This isn’t about her devotion to the hunky Danny as much as it is about making her on-again off-again ex and white goods heir, John Winning Jr, just a little bit jealous.
John ‘Herman’ Winning Jr, wealthy heir to Winning Appliances (and who hasn’t bought a washing machine off him…) is one of Sydney’s hottest catches, and he was Dina’s man for a few years now, off and on. One source even called it an ‘uncomfortable display of desperation.’ Ouch.
Dina has had a few gorgeous men hanging off her arm – property developer Max Shepherd, sexy model Kengi Meert, but it was always John she would go back to. We all have that ‘one’ don’t we? The one we can’t let go entirely.
And look, they were a good, no – great, couple. They looked good together and Dina always looked pleased as punch with him.
The Sydney socialite ‘mean girls’ are talking about Dina’s relationship with her new partner, Danny Tchalaby, the German entrepreneur, founder of investment angel syndicate Maverick Founders
Danny was even spotted wearing a T-shirt with Dina’s face emblazoned across it
Their relationship was temperamental, on-again, off-again in the two years they were together, but for some reason, they worked.
When they called it off finally in December, I heard Dina was heartbroken, especially when John found love quickly with Big Brother Australia star Holly Young, not only younger but one of Dina’s girlfriends – the duo had been pictured at various parties.
How’s that for loyalty, eh ladies? That would have stung – some friend!
So Dina, if your very public displays of affection are a ploy to make John jealous, girl I get it, I truly do. I’ve done it myself. I’ve done it all, the public displays of affection, the posts that scream ‘I AM SO MUCH HAPPIER NOW LOOK!’, the carefully curated shots of my new squeeze looking gorgeous and devoted (albeit I couldn’t get him to wear a T-shirt with my face on it).
I made sure certain people would ‘happen’ to hear I was doing just fine. I’d happen to be at the same function, same venue, once even in his local Woolies (how embarrassing), just so he could see the happier new me.
And if I’m really honest, it wasn’t about my new man at all. It was about the old one.
And more to the point, it didn’t work. In fact, last I heard, he had got married so my cringefest of comebacks was a waste of time.
‘This isn’t about her devotion to the hunky Danny as much as it is about making her on-again off-again ex and white goods heir, John Winning Jr, just a little bit jealous,’ writes Goff
It rarely works.
Because when something is done, when someone decides it is truly well and done, it’s over and nothing you can do, say or post will make them want you anymore, and in my opinion, it comes across as trying not thriving.
And worse than that, it just sets the mean girls off – and Dina – you are too far good for that.
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