Nicole Kidman really, really doesn't like surprises

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Nicole Kidman really, really doesn't like surprises
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Nicole Kidman talked about her impending 50th birthday on the Graham Norton Show on Friday night, and she had a warning for her husband and party-planner-in-chief Keith Urban.

"I actually break out in a coldsore if I have a surprise," says Kidman. Urban says he has a lot of stuff planned, but he's aware of her dislike of surprises.

"I did have a surprise party once when I was 30 and it was so shocking to me because people had come from overseas and they'd set it all up and people walked in and I broke out in a coldsore [...] Like, on the spot," she said.

Kidman explained that she had been speaking on the phone to her father who said her mother was "in the garden" in Australia, but moments later she walked into a room in Montana, U.S.

"I was like, I gotta go, I feel revolting," Kidman added.

No surprise parties for you then, Nicole.

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Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.


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