Woman’s Day invaded privacy of Chrissie Swan’s children with Maccas drive through pics, rules press watchdog

A series of photos published in Woman’s Day of radio presenter Chrissie Swan and her children at a McDonald’s drive through were not in public interest and caused substantial distress, the Press Council has ruled.

The article in question, published on March 27 last year, showed Nova FM’s breakfast show co-host and her children at a McDonald’s franchise in Melbourne. The pictures were taken by a hidden photographer. Mumbrella has chosen not to feature images of the article here.

Woman’s Day is Australia’s highest circulating weekly magazine title. Prior to Bauer Media withdrawing it from the print circulation audit, it had a distribution of just under 250,000 copies a week.

According to the APC ruling: