DJ FALLS INTO RHYTHM OF A SLOWER LIFE
Tennis world mourns Australian great Ashley Cooper
GOLD Coast model turned international DJ
admits she’s happy to have downtime after years spent on the road. The 34-year-old and her husband
left Los Angeles at the end of March to return home. This will be her first Australian winter in six years.
“We are usually in Europe at this time,” she says. “I’m so excited. I love winter here, it’s so freaking beautiful. I’m enjoying that.
“I had a lot of trouble adapting to being inside and not leaving the house as we were in a 14-day isolation. I’m such an active, outdoors person so it was very unpleasant.
“For the first few weeks I just caught up on years of no sleep. I’ve been DJing on the road now for over five years so the downtime was much needed.”
She shared with ATG the things she loves and loathes about isolation.
“I just miss DJing. Like physically DJing ... like at a club, not in my room.
“I don’t miss travelling or whatever. I don’t miss anything else. I went into a hotel room the other day to see friends and hotels have this smell. I don’t know if it’s just me but just the thought: ‘Oh god, it smells like a hotel.’
“I’ve been living in hotels for a good eight to 10 years. So yeah, I’m really happy being home.”
Evers, who has more than 600,000 Instagram followers, said “cooking has probably been the highlight of iso”.
“I have really enjoyed learning new things in the kitchen and spending a lot more time with the husband, which never really happens as we are always away from each other working.
“I’ve also been working on another little business that I’ve put off for years just because I never really had the energy after big weeks travelling.”
Brooke Evers Stafford
ROD Laver has led the tributes for fellow Australian tennis great Ashley Cooper AO following the former world No.1’s passing after a long battle with illness.
A four-time grand slam singles
Matt
champion and Davis Cup winner, Cooper died yesterday aged 83.
Competing in Australia’s halcyon days against legends like Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall and Neale Fraser, Cooper won three of the four slams in 1958 – the Australian, Wimbledon and US championships.
He collected two Australian titles, as well as four grand slam doubles crowns.
In 1957, he led Australia’s
Davis Cup team that defeated the United States in the Challenge Round at Kooyong.
The following year the result was reversed and Cooper was so upset by the loss he tried to withdraw from a professional contract he had signed with Jack Kramer because he felt he owed Australia. His public profile rose even higher when he married Helen Wood, the reigning Miss Australia in 1959.
After a back injury cut short his professional career, Cooper returned to Brisbane where he had a successful business career and then served Tennis Queensland and Tennis Australia as an administrator.