NICOLE Kidman returned home yesterday with husband Keith Urban for a much anticipated family reunion.

The couple, still very much the newlyweds, spent yesterday surrounded by family, with Kidman meeting new-born niece Sybella for the first time.

“Easter is very important to me, and spending Easter with my parents at home is a special treat,” Kidman said.

“When I was growing up my parents always made a special Easter lunch: it was always a big family occasion and it’s wonderful that I can share that experience with Keith now.

“It is important for me just to be here with my family for Easter because I’m away so much . . .”

Her publicist later denied a London newspaper report that Kidman was pregnant.

It said Kidman had been told of the pregnancy by St John’s Health Centre in Santa Monica, California, last week.

However her publicist, Wendy Day, yesterday said the report was “incorrect”.

Kidman and her urban cowboy are in Sydney as she prepares to film Baz Lurhmann’s much-vaunted epic Australia, with Hugh Jackman and David Wenham.

Rehearsals for Australia will begin tomorrow at Sydney’s Fox Studios, with filming in north Queensland expected to start later this month.

The star couple are expected to be based in Sydney for the next 10 months — Kidman’s longest stint there since filming Moulin Rouge in 2000.

However their stay together this time will be brief, with Urban jetting off to Europe for a series of concerts later this month before heading back to Australia for his national tour which begins next month.

Kidman said yesterday she could not wait to team up again with Moulin Rouge director Lurhmann for their new project.

“I have not spent much time in the Outback and working with Baz (Lurhmann) and CM (Lurhmann’s wife, Catherine Martin) will mean I will be able to see parts of Australia I haven’t seen before,” she said.

Never far from her yesterday was Urban — whom she married in a fairytale ceremony in Sydney last June. The pair yesterday spent much of the time holding hands.

Two months shy of their first anniversary, the couple have bounced back after Urban’s stint in a US rehab centre for treatment for the singer’s alcoholism.

The pair yesterday smiled broadly in the sunshine.

Minders unloaded at least 10 bags and suitcases at the couple’s Darling Point mansion.