Jacintha Field
Jacintha Field brings a family counsellor’s eye to Mamamia’s entertainment and lifestyle coverage, writing directly about the emotional mechanics of family breakdown. She writes as a family counsellor, using plain, direct language to explain what happens inside families before an adult child cuts contact. Her work sits at the point where service journalism and lived clinical experience meet, turning complex relational patterns into clear, usable guidance for readers.
Family counsellor lens on parent–child estrangement
Field’s standout work centres on the rupture between parents and adult children, and what precedes a complete break in contact. In her piece on the signs parents miss before a child cuts contact, she organises the story around 10 specific blind spots, such as dismissing a young person’s emotional reality or minimising earlier hurts. She writes from inside the counselling room, distilling recurring patterns she sees in families rather than treating estrangement as a sudden or inexplicable event.
The emphasis is on accountability as much as empathy: she spells out the behaviours that push a child away while still acknowledging how frightening and confusing the loss of contact feels for parents. That combination of clinical distance and human detail distinguishes her coverage from more generic relationship commentary.
Structured, practical service pieces for parents
Field favours tightly structured, list-based formats that make emotionally dense material easier to absorb.
The “10 things” framing gives readers clear entry points into each idea and invites them to test their own behaviour against each example rather than passively consuming a narrative about someone else’s family. Within that structure, she focuses on specific moments and phrases - what was said, what was dismissed, what was repeated - that accumulate into a pattern of disconnection. Her advice is action-oriented: the piece is written so parents can recognise themselves, name what went wrong, and begin to repair, rather than simply diagnosing a problem after the fact.
The tone is steady and non-theatrical, which keeps the focus on practical change rather than blame.
Emotionally literate stories within entertainment coverage
Within Mamamia’s broader entertainment offering, Field carves out space for the quieter, interior stories that sit behind more visible family drama. Her work treats estrangement and rupture not as headline fodder but as complex processes shaped by history, power, and communication style. She writes in a way that aligns with the outlet’s popular tone while insisting on psychological accuracy, making concepts from counselling feel accessible without diluting them.
The result is coverage that feels closer to a counselling session on the page than a typical lifestyle column, and that is where her work is distinct on the entertainment beat.
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Ailish Delaney
Ailish Delaney is a news writer at Mamamia who turns entertainment, news, crime and lifestyle stories into emotionally driven narratives that keep women at the centre. She works where hard news, pop culture and everyday life intersect, using clear reporting and vivid detail to show how events and trends land in real people’s lives. Her beat spans women-centred news, crime, safety, social affairs, entertainment and practical lifestyle advice. She profiles women making high-stakes choices, covers relationship dilemmas and revisits stories of resilience and mortality. Her entertainment work translates awards seasons, policy and self-help into everyday terms, including podcast segments and lived experiments. Drawing on experience in regional newsrooms and at 7NEWS.com.au, she reports court, crime and safety incidents with disciplined timelines and verified detail, balancing empathy, practical warnings and accessible, solutions-focused guidance.
Alexandra Del Rosario
Alexandra Del Rosario anchors fast-turn entertainment and culture coverage at the Los Angeles Times Fast Break Desk. She reports breaking news across film, television, music and online celebrity culture, with a real beat at the intersection of celebrities, courts and controversies. Her work covers legal filings, arrests, lawsuits, allegations, social media posts, ratings, casting news and personal milestones, and she also writes on video games and Asian American and Pacific Islander representation in media. She reports in clear, compact summaries that put the key facts first, then add context from a subject’s career, roles or industry trends. Before the Los Angeles Times, she covered TV ratings, casting and development at Deadline and served as an associate editor, with additional experience at The Hollywood Reporter and TheWrap.
Amy Lyall
Amy Lyall combines fast-paced celebrity and reality TV coverage with first-person lifestyle and money writing across Nine’s digital platforms. She is an associate entertainment editor at Nine, setting the daily agenda for celebrity, reality formats and movie stories while also reporting. Her beat centres on celebrity relationships, rumours and personal milestones, tracking long-running speculation through to confirmed updates and public discussions of grief and loss. Reality TV is a second focus, following couples and personalities beyond the shows themselves. Alongside this she writes Spend Less, Live More, a recurring lifestyle money series for 9Honey that uses her own budgeting and household habits to show practical ways to save. Her archive also includes wellbeing and relationships pieces and explainer features on language and everyday culture, including terms, names and how people use them.