Provan is showing me around her home, a $3-million waterfront she bought last year with her second husband, Ross. (Her first husband, Peter, died in 2010.) The three-bedroom house in Burraneer Bay is done out in a French-provincial theme, with white walls and lots of polished mirrors, large glass-topped tables and a remote-control bar with a drinks cabinet that pops up at the push of a button. ("Isn't it fun?" Provan giggles.) In the absence of reading material - there isn't a magazine, newspaper or book to be seen - a colossal 65-inch flat-screen TV dominates the living room. The whole place is serenely clean and clutter-free, with floor-to-ceiling windows that look out onto a tiny private beach and a jetty.
"Ross is a waterskier," Provan says, walking me outside. "He keeps his powerboat, a Malibu, in the garage." She then points to houses around the bay - "Ricky Ponting lives just over there ... and Glenn McGrath, he's over there ... And just down there" - she waves her hand along the waterfront - "are some Italians and a Greek family. It's very multicultural."
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