Rather she went on rival show, Nine's A Current Affair, in yet another bizarre chapter, during which she appeared inside the opulent, all-white home with her two grandchildren, Bella and Dante, whom Hannaford claimed she adopted from her daughter Marquessa.

But it is the whereabouts of Hannford's mother, Norma Parry, who was actually listed as the owner of the Beverly Hills mansion, that remains a mystery.

When Seven's Sunday Night investigated, they tracked the then 96-year-old's address as being a car park in Texas.

Parry did not appear on the Current Affair story either, though Hannaford offered what she said was a recent photo of her, dressed like a hip hop Granny, saying it was proof her now 98-year-old mother was very much alive and kicking ... somewhere.

Concerns for Chambers

Friends of Joy Chambers-Grundy say they have grave concerns for the well being of the 73-year-old five months after she settled a bitter legal battle over the $900 million fortune left by her late husband, television pioneer Reg Grundy.

Some of those who have known Chambers-Grundy since she was a barrel girl on regional television in Queensland during the 1960s say she has not responded to phone calls, emails or letters in months.

When PS asked Chambers-Grundy's spokeswoman about her whereabouts, a firm "no comment" was all that was offered.

While it is understood Chambers-Grundy had been unwell with "stomach problems" in recent times amid claims she had sought treatment in Los Angeles, it was thought those health issues had been resolved and she had returned to the expansive estate she once shared with her husband in Bermuda.

Chambers-Grundy and her estranged step-daughter Viola La Valette had been trading blows over the Grundy estate since he died aged 92 in 2016.

His daughter claimed Grundy had suffered Alzheimer's during his final years, which caused him to reduce how much money he left her in the will. The two hadn't seen each other for 22 years before Grundy's death.

Chambers-Grundy and La Valette have reached a confidential settlement, however the very public ordeal left deep emotional wounds for Chambers-Grundy, wounds that have made her friends fearful for her wellbeing.

"It's just not like her to not respond at all, she has been through so much but she was always a formidable woman ... we are worried about her and we just can not find any answers," one of her oldest friends, who asked not to be named, told PS.

Reddy biopic gets thumbs up

The ravages of old age and memory loss were not going to stop Helen Reddy from taking a walk down memory lane on the eve of her life being immortalised on film.

During the final editing stages of the new biopic I Am Woman, which premieres on Stan on August 28, director Unjoo Moon and producer Rosemary Blight took a copy of the film to show Reddy and her immediate family at the Californian nursing facility where she has been living for several years. (Stan, is owned by Nine - also the owner of this masthead.)

Moon revealed Reddy's reaction to the film to the Herald's Garry Maddox, who visited the set during production when the Enmore Theatre was transformed into New York's fabled Carnegie Hall.

While nervous about how it would be received, Moon was happy to report Reddy, her two children Traci Donat and Jordan and granddaughter Lily, gave the film the thumbs up, along with a few tears.

Donat told PS from California: “Thank you for your concern. Helen is 78 years old and living in assisted living as she has some health and memory issues. She has seen the film and is thrilled to know this celebration of her life will soon be seen by audiences.”

Moon recalled her nervousness during the screening for Reddy: “It suddenly hit me. I thought 'my god, Helen is watching her story through my eyes’. Helen will say what she thinks so I thought ‘what's she going to think about it?’

“It's a drama. It's a work of fiction inspired by her life story. It's very true to a lot of the journey that she went on but some characters have been amalgamated together and things may be a little out of order to how she remembered them," she told Maddox.

“So I started to have a panic attack in the theatre. I thought 'what am I going to do if she actually doesn't like the film'.”

Moon says she began to relax when she realised Reddy was singing along to her songs and laughing.

“Then one moment, she was really upset about something,” she says. “I thought 'oh my god, she doesn't like that' but I realised she was so in the movie that she was just upset about what had happened [on screen].”

The end of the film features cards setting out the impact of Reddy, former manager and husband Jeff Wald and journalist Lillian Roxon, and noting that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the United States constitution that early feminists, inspired by Reddy's song I Am Woman, were fighting for in the 1970s, was yet to be passed.

Reddy, in the theatre, read out the title cards aloud.

“We were all in tears as she was reading them,” Moon revealed. “She read the last one about the Equal Rights Amendment then she started to cry. It was truly emotional. It wasn't because she was sad about the movie. I think she just felt the impact of the story. And I think she also felt it was very cathartic, this experience of watching it."

A 'set-up'

Alan Jones' protege, tennis buddy and aspiring media commentator Jake Thrupp has been telling friends he suspects he was "set up" last Saturday after photos were splashed across the racy Daily Mail website featuring the 23-year-old ignoring social distancing conventions by cosying up with pretty blonde law graduate Britt Dietrich. There were several guests at the group lunch, and Thrupp didn't let slip who might have been responsible.

Interestingly the paparazzo was able to get shots of smiling Thrupp, who is employed as Jones' social media manager, and Dietrich sashaying down the Woolloomooloo promenade en-route to lunch, then more images of Dietrich sitting on Thrupp's lap and the pair locking lips.

PS hears all was not as it appeared. Thrupp, who recently graduated from Sydney University where he was studying political science, says he had barely met Dietrich who plonked herself on his lap for all of 45 seconds - which was when the photos were taken. Thrupp says the pair spent the rest of the four-hour group lunch on separate tables.

Nor was Dietrich with Thrupp later that night when he had drinks with NSW state MP Gareth Ward.

All this must come as news to Dietrich herself, who happily informed PS: "It's very early days, I wouldn't say he was my boyfriend ... yet. But if things go well, he's a really sweet guy."

In fact a smitten Dietrich - who said she was equally shocked to see the photographer - was so helpful she sent PS a few extra photos, along with those in the Daily Mail she had already uploaded onto Instagram.