Sandra Bullock has opened up about the extraordinary lengths she went to in order to shield her infant son Louis from paparazzi as her marriage to Jesse James unraveled amid his cheating scandal.

The Practical Magic 2 actress, 62, revisited the intense media storm of 2010 during a conversation with Jennifer Aniston, 57, for a new Interview Magazine profile.

Bullock said the situation became so overwhelming that she once hid Louis — whom she had quietly adopted at the end of 2009 — inside a hockey bag to keep photographers from discovering him.

“I was just cleaning out the closet, and I found these hockey bags for stuffing clothes in for travel,” the actress recalled in the magazine’s September issue, where she also appeared in a series of polished new photos.

“Child Protective Services, do not come after me,” she quipped, before explaining that once “the poop hit the fan,” she knew she had to leave home quickly because paparazzi were about to swarm — and at the time, the public had no idea she had a newborn.

‘So I put him in his car carrier, put it in the hockey bag, and zipped the hockey bag around him,’ she said. ‘Then I carried the hockey bag to the car, as though I was just carrying any random hockey bag.’

The actress – whose partner Bryan Randall died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2023 – noted that as a famous person ‘you have to operate like the CIA’ before sharing how someone near her recently ‘broke’ her heart by selling information about her.

‘If you’re surrounded by good people, you’ll be fine. But if people near you mean you harm, no matter how covert you are and how much pre-planning you do, your privacy is information that brings them cash. I had it happen recently and it broke my heart.’

Bullock’s marriage to West Coast Choppers founder James, which started in 2005, imploded following news of his infidelity in 2010 with tattooed model Michelle ‘Bombshell’ McGee, which led to their divorce that same year.

In April 2010, James checked himself into a rehab facility in Arizona for sex addiction after apologizing profusely to Bullock, although that wasn’t enough to save the marriage – they divorced the following June.

In her latest interview, Bullock also spoke about prioritizing Louis, 16, and her daughter Laila, 12 – whom she welcomed via adoption in 2015 – over her career. 

‘If the kids can’t be with me, I’m not going. The older they get, the bigger their schedules. And their schedules are more important than me telling a story, period.’

‘I don’t have that same drive to be in front of the camera. I get my fulfillment from the prep, the building of it, rather than the “Hey, I’m an actor and look at what I’ve done.” That scares me actually, because then the judgment comes,’ she added.

‘But unless the kids are with me, I’m lost, and I have to figure that out because kids always have to leave. Louis is going to leave the house soon,’ she went on. 

After Aniston asked if Bullock plans to do another film right away, the actress said, ‘No, I’m so burnt.’

‘Also, by the time we’re done with press, the kids are in school. The rule is, everything I do has to be here in L.A. If something requires travel, it’ll happen during the summer,’ she went on.

Bullock added that she should start preparing ‘for the fact that I’ll no longer have a job as a mother’ when her kids leave the house by building her social life and having ‘more fun’ outside of work.

Aniston joked that nowadays ‘kids don’t really leave.’

‘I’m praying that’s going to happen,’ Bullock replied. ‘I keep saying, “We’ll keep this house. I’ll do the laundry. You can stay here.”’

After Aniston quipped that ‘they all come back’ Bullock said that probably wouldn’t be the case for her daughter.

‘Not Laila. If she could be emancipated right now, she’d be gone. She just needs a small apartment downtown.’

Bullock went on to share that her daughter would probably make a good ‘horror film director.’

‘She loves the Scream movies. She directed a small film four years ago that she wrote in the backyard. It was so good. And then she’s also going to be a Formula 1 driver.’

Bullock also said her latest film project, Practical Magic 2, is a ‘love letter to Laila.’

‘My daughter is very much like Kylie, the character Joey King plays, and you know Laila, she is the fire,’ she said, while Aniston called the teen a ‘Wild child.’

‘I wanted to give her a love letter of my sorrys. If I failed, if I don’t know how to say the right thing, I apologize. I just want to do right by her, to help her be as brave as she already is, and that scares the s**t out of me. I’m a fearful person,’ she said, adding that her daughter ‘is not.’

‘She thinks nothing can happen to her because she’s already survived.’

Aniston concurred that Laila is ‘a survivor’ adding, ‘and that went into her neural pathways at a very early age.’

Bullock added that having a daughter has helped her learn more about who her own mother was.

‘I look up and go, “I’m so sorry. I didn’t know you felt lost. I didn’t know you were yearning for something you knew you would never get. I didn’t know you didn’t have the blessings we have as modern women.” I’m a very fearful person, and I’m trying not to let my fear clip the wings of the kids I know are just flying.’

Bullock jokingly added, ‘I told them, “I’m just going to be following you everywhere. You guys are it for me. I have nothing else. I have to find my purpose outside of stupid kids.”’ 

In her latest interview the actress posed in a number of avant-garde looks, including an oversized black Loewe coat and checkered dress on the cover.

Another portrait saw her model an extravagant Saint Laurent coat with a fur collar. There was also a moody snap of her in a short Bottega Veneta fur coat, with painted black cats surrounding her.

Bullock’s new film, Practical Magic 2, is set to hit the theaters on September 10. 

Israel responded sharply to Labour last night, shutting the UK consulate in East Jerusalem and removing British military personnel from peacebuilding operations.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar warned that British trade sanctions “will not go unanswered”, while also barring a dozen left-wing politicians from entering Israel.

Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott, Zarah Sultana and John McDonnell are among those banned, alongside all five Green MPs, over what Israel described as “anti-Semitic and anti-Israel activities”.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not yet issued a public statement, although Mr Sa’ar said the retaliatory steps had been agreed after consultation with him.

Mr Sa’ar condemned Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband’s announcement in Parliament as “outrageous lies”, as UK-Israel relations sank to one of their most serious lows.

He said: ‘Unfortunately, a hostile Labour Government is in office, systematically acting against the State of Israel and it has left us with no choice but to finally respond to its hostile actions.’ 

Mr Sa’ar’s countermeasures blocked the British military from working alongside US and Israeli forces in the International Gaza Support Centre which oversees peace operations in the Strip.

The UK’s training of Palestinian Authority forces in the West Bank has also been terminated.

While Britain retains its embassy in Tel Aviv, the closure of its East Jerusalem consulate dramatically reduces its diplomatic footprint.

The development underlines the erosion of British influence in Israel – a nation where London once commanded unique soft power and political goodwill forged through decades of historic connections. 

There are also serious concerns that Israel could reduce its intelligence sharing with the UK in response.

Israel’s spy agency Mossad has thwarted countless terror attacks on British soil and the move risks undermining Britain’s relationship with the organisation at a time when the threat level is ‘severe’.

Coming just weeks ahead of Israeli elections, Mr Sa’ar described UK policy as ‘morally distorted’, adding that it ‘constitutes blatant interference in the affairs of a sovereign state and its electoral process’. 

He said: ‘The move by the Labour Government in Britain is particularly absurd given that, more than a century ago, it was the Balfour Declaration of the British Government that formally recognised the historic right of the Jewish people to re-establish their national home in the Land of Israel, including in Judea and Samaria.’ 

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid also hit out at the policy, saying it was designed to appeal to Labour’s base while risking emboldening Israel’s extreme Right. 

He said: ‘The British Government’s decision to impose boycotts and sanctions on Israel is a grave mistake. 

‘It is a wrong and dangerous policy, at the wrong time and for the wrong reasons. The decision will strengthen the extremist voices in Israel just before the Knesset elections and provide encouragement to Hamas and the terrorist organisations.’

The UK co-ordinated the sanctions with France and Canada and declared they were a ‘turning point’ despite the Israelis’ fury.

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In a joint statement, Prime Minister Andy Burnham, French president Emmanuel Macron and Canadian leader Mark Carney said they wanted to continue their ‘unwavering commitment to Israel’s security’.

But they said it must exist alongside a ‘safe and secure Palestine’. 

The leaders said: ‘A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is critical for peace, stability and security in the Middle East and beyond.

‘It is a fundamental national interest for the UK, France and Canada to protect and secure this outcome. 

‘Systematic settlement expansion in the West Bank, including the Government of Israel’s latest decision to progress the E1 settlement, as well as the dramatic increase in settler violence, pose a direct and urgent threat to that vision for peace.

‘One year ago, we recognised the State of Palestine. The time has come to take further action to uphold our commitment to protect the two-state solution, our interests and to stand up for our values, before it is too late.’

The three leaders also announced they would co-chair a meeting at the United Nations General Assembly later this month.

Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Poland, Portugal and Sweden have also said they will support trade restrictions.

Blanche D’Alpuget, the acclaimed author and widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke, has died at the age of 82, decades after her relationship with Hawke made her one of the most talked-about women in Australia.

The award-winning writer had asked her family to release a final message to the country after her death.

‘Our highest calling and greatest achievement is love, the rule of life. Love one another,’ the message said.

D’Alpuget is survived by her son, artist and sculptor Louis Pratt, her daughter-in-law Brianna and her granddaughter Sienna. She also remained close to Hawke’s children, Sue Pieters-Hawke, Rosslyn Dillon and Stephen Hawke, along with their families.

‘Blanche wrote and lived entirely on her own terms,’ her family said.

‘She was full of vitality, generosity and curiosity, with an extraordinary appetite for beauty, ideas, history, new places and spirited conversation. 

‘She refused to be confined by convention or by other people’s expectations of who she should be.’ 

D’Alpuget died seven years after Hawke, Australia’s longest-serving Labor prime minister, who she first met in Jakarta in 1970.

The pair, who were nicknamed B1 and B2 as shorthand, reconnected in the 1990s and began a long-running affair after Hawke enlisted her to write his biography.

When Hawke left his first wife Hazel after years of the secret romance, D’Alpuget faced severe public backlash and was labelled the ‘most hated woman in Australia’. 

‘People called her a home-wrecker,’ her son previously recalled about the public after Hawke’s divorce from Hazel. 

The couple married in 1995 and were together until the former Prime Minister’s death in 2019.

D’Alpuget refused to hide from the public eye, despite criticism over her affair with Hawke, and spoke openly about her sex life with Hawke.

‘With mutual, wordless consent it was agreed we would become lovers as soon as possible,’ she told the Sydney Morning Herald.

‘He was charming, funny and straightforward: he liked me and enjoyed talking to me; what he loved was sex.’ 

She also said she was not under the illusion that she was his only affair and wrote in one instance that she realised Hawke was ‘having affairs with women all over the country’.

D’Alpuget told the Herald that she was under ‘intense judgmentalism’ and said it was ‘really very unfair’. 

‘But I still don’t blog, or Facebook, or Link-In or any of that, because I know I’d be trolled to death,’ she said. 

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‘But I must also say that I don’t worry about what people think – or things in general, very much.’

While speaking to The Sydney Institute in 2018, she said that she thought she would die in a light plane crash in Far North Queensland in 1993 and the incident drove Hawke to take their relationship more seriously.

‘I was in a light plane crash in North Queensland. A friend who was our go-between rang him up and told him,’ she said. 

‘Bob said he felt himself die and that was it. 

‘At that moment, he decided. He suddenly took the relationship extraordinarily seriously and made it clear to me. But it was timing. It was an angel, holy angels.’ 

D’Alpuget grew up as an only child in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and first worked as a journalist before travelling the world.

A rebellious teenager, she ran away at 17 years old with a married Polish immigrant and previously described their whirlwind romance in detail.

‘In one three-day stretch, we made love 21 times, stopping only to bathe and eat rye bread, csabai and cucumbers,’ she said

She returned to Australia at the age of 30 to begin working as a novelist.

The author also spoke candidly about how she was preparing for death in her final media interview earlier this year.

‘I think if you’re at a certain age, and you don’t start informing yourself, you’re foolish,’ she told News Corp.

‘Just as we prepare ourselves for life, by learning a language, reading, writing, and arithmetic, I think we should prepare ourselves for death. 

‘But I do believe in the afterlife. Our soul lives on. I don’t know in what form, but this life in the body is not the end of your life. Maybe we are reborn. I don’t know, but it could be a huge, exciting adventure.’

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was among the first to pay tribute, hailing D’Alpuget as a one-off. 

‘As a writer, she was at home in fiction as she was in non-fiction, working in each realm with a keen eye for every telling detail that opened up the humanity of her subject to her readers,’ he said.

Blanche’s novels were compelling works of verve and originality, and her biographies comprehensive and definitive – most famously those she wrote of Bob Hawke, who became her great love and ultimately her husband.

Derek Rielly, who wrote the Hawke biography Wednesdays With Bob, shared a heartfelt tribute with the Daily Mail.

‘Blanche believed that the pain of death is temporary, that it’s a fiery door and it will burn you but it’s a transient pain that will vanish,’ he said.

‘She lived a beautiful, complete and electric life and to her very last breath radiated a love for all humanity.

‘As she told me, ‘The more humans there are, the more love there is. Love is what distinguishes humans from the rest of creation’.’