WORLD / Newsmaker

Celebrities in Sydney for Kidman wedding
(AP)
Updated: 2006-06-22 13:09

SYDNEY, Australia - Actress Naomi Watts jetted into Sydney early Wednesday for her longtime friend Nicole Kidman's hotly anticipated weekend nuptials to country music star Keith Urban.

The Oscar-winning Kidman is set to marry Urban in a lavish wedding this weekend. Details have been carefully guarded, but local media have widely tipped Sunday night for the big event.


Actress Nicole Kidman sits in the front seat of her car while her son Connor sits in the back seat (R) as they leave their house in Sydney June 22, 2006. Kidman and country music star Keith Urban arrived in Australia on Monday saying they had returned to Australia to be married. [Reuters]
Watts - who was born in Britain but raised in Australia - is a close friend of Kidman, who she met when the pair were young actresses in Sydney. The "King Kong" star arrived on a flight from New York early Wednesday wearing a gray sweater and black pants, her hair pulled back with a purple head band.

Watts, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in 2003's "21 Grams," is expected to attend a pre-wedding bachelorette party for Kidman later Wednesday at the 4 million Australian dollar (US$3 million; euro2.39 million) mansion of Kidman's sister, Antonia, local media reported.

"I'm very excited for my friend," Watts told reporters after saying she wasn't "at liberty to discuss" any details of the event.

Others reportedly on the guest list are Oscar winner Russell Crowe, "X-Men" star Hugh Jackman, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendi Deng, and Murdoch's Sydney-based son Lachlan and his wife, model Sarah O'Hare.

The two children Kidman adopted with former husband Tom Cruise - Isabella, 13, and Connor, 11 - are due to fly into Sydney later this week, local media reported.


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