1 week agoLatest NewsComments Off on ‘She looks like Kim K’ jokes Vogue Williams as she reveals son’s ‘obsession’ with swim instructor
VOGUE Williams has joked that her son’s swim instructor looks just like Kim Kardashian and revealed he’s “obsessed”.
The Irish model and her World Record holder husband Spencer Matthews share three kids together Theodore, five, Gigi, four and Otto, three.
Vogue Williams has gushed over her son’s love for swimmingVogue shared clips of her three-year-old Otto enjoying his swim lessonsOtto looked happy-as-ever with his celebrity lookalike swim instructor
Vogue and Spencer are renowned for sharing snippets of their little ones on social media.
Yesterday, the Dublin beauty took to Instagram to gush over her youngest son, Otto’s love for swimming.
The 39-year-old wrote in her caption: “Otto wouldn’t be the biggest fan of his scooter or bike but he has certainly nailed swimming and singing!”
And the doting mum revealed that the tot is “obsessed” with swim instructor and can’t get enough of his lessons with her.
However, the Irish star joked: “I’m obsessed with her too because she looks like Kim K.”
The popular presenter then attached a short clip of Otto having a blast with his swim guide as she taught him different techniques in the pool.
As Vogue pointed out, the teacher did in fact bare a drastic resemblance to reality star Kim Kardashian.
The mum-of-three then captured a video of Otto in high spirits after his exciting day of swim lessons.
The toddler jumped around their living room and sang: “B-I-N-G-O and Bingo was his name-o.”
Vogue cheered on her toddler as she beamed: “Yay!”
And fans and friends all rushed to gush over the youngster’s newest skill.
Michaela wrote: “Such an important skill that You (both) are passing onto your kids.”
Dawn said: “Otto is a superstar! And so cute.”
Nolene added: “Such a happy boy.”
And Deirde remarked: “Omg, she really does. Lucky mate!”
NOT SO VOGUE
Last week, Vogue admitted that she was recently inundated with messages from concerned fans.
The Howth native took to Instagram to assure fans that she was in good health.
Vogue explained that she shared a snap of herself wearing no makeup to her platform.
After posting the selfie, the mum-of-three received a number of worried messages from her fans.
Speaking on her Instagram stories, the 39-year-old admitted: “I don’t think I should post no makeup selfies anymore.”
She then added: “I’m literally getting messages off people asking me if I’m okay, ‘Is it something to do with my liver or kidneys?’.
“No I am in very good health I actually just got checked.
“I just have really black circles under my eyes, I always have so thank you for your concern but I’m okay.”
1 week agoLatest NewsComments Off on Man accused of beating Tristan Sherry to death ‘felt he was threat’ minutes after he was disarmed at steakhouse shooting
ONE of the men accused of beating Tristan Sherry to death after Sherry fatally shot a man at Browne’s steakhouse on Christmas Eve told gardai, “I felt he was a threat to me”, minutes after he had been disarmed.
In garda interviews read out at the three-judge, non-jury Special Criminal Court today, 18-year-old David Amah, who denies Sherry’s murder, said he was scared when Sherry came into the restaurant, shot Jason Hennessy Snr and pointed the gun at him.
Gardai at the scene in Blanchardstown, DublinNiall Carson/PA WireSherry, also pictured above, died last December
Mr Amah said his “head was f***ed”, women and children around him were crying and he felt Sherry was a threat to him.
When gardai put it to him that four or five minutes after the assault began Sherry was no longer a threat, Mr Amah replied: “I felt he was a threat to me.
“My head was f***ed, kids were screaming, women were screaming. I just felt that man was a threat to me.”
Gardai asked Mr Amah why he took out his phone to record Sherry lying on the ground.
Mr Amah replied: “I still felt that man was a threat to me. It may not look like it but I felt he was a threat. My head was f***ed.”
Noah Musueni, 18, also denies Sherry’s murder.
He told gardai that he was scared and when he struck Sherry with a chair he was acting in self-defence.
He said at one point he picked a butter knife off a table and accepted that he kicked and hit Sherry in the upper legs.
“I was scared that he was still going to hurt me,” he said.
The three men charged with Sherry’s murder are Musueni, 18, Corduff Park, Blanchardstown; Amah, 18, Hazel Grove, Portrane Road, Donabate, Dublin; and Michael Andrecut, 22, Sheephill Avenue, Blanchardstown.
Jonas Kabangu, 18, Corduff Park, Blanchardstown and 18-year-old Diarmuid O’Brien of Corduff Place, Blanchardstown are charged with violent disorder at the same location on that date.
Brandon Hennessy, 21, of Sheephill Avenue, Dublin 15 – the son of Jason Hennessy Snr – is also charged with violent disorder.
All the accused have pleaded not guilty.
The trial continues on Wednesday before Mr Justice Kerida Naidoo, Judge Elma Sheahan and Judge James Faughnan.
1 week agoLatest NewsComments Off on Fame can be the most corrosive drug of all… just ask Robbie Williams. As he said, boys in boybands always get sick
Thirty-two years ago, I sat in the back of a van with five young lads aged 18-23.
At the time, I was editing The Sun’s Bizarre column, and they were an up-and-coming boyband desperate for their first hit.
Me with the Take That boys who I helped hit the big timeWith Robbie who impressed me so much this weekPiers MorganI was stung by the revelations in Boyband
So desperate, in fact, that they’d offered to come and pick me up from my office and take me to a nearby photographic studio so I could interview them while they did a promo shoot for their new single.
In the van that day, they were bright, cheeky, curious and enthralled by my job.
‘Do you know Paul McCartney?’ one of them asked, wide-eyed.
‘Yes,’ I replied.
‘Do you think we’ll ever be as famous as him?” another giggled.
‘Why not?’ I laughed. ‘He started off just like you.’
The interview was engaging, and I liked them.
They performed their new song for me, and I liked that too.
So, I vowed then and there to help them make it by promoting them in my column.
The band was Take That, the lads were Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams.
The single was It Only Takes A Minute Girl, and with my enthusiastic backing, it became the hit which propelled them to pop stardom.
It was the kind of massive success, fame and riches which would have made their eyes pop out with excitement in the back of that van if I’d told them that would come their way so soon.
I thought of that van ride this week when I watched the new BBC documentary ‘Boybands Forever’ and the fall-out that followed its airing.
After the show, Robbie posted a lengthy Instagram message to the band’s old manager Nigel Martin-Smith, chastising him for saying this in the film: ‘He’s smart, is Robbie, and it’s quite clever, you know.. “I did drugs because I was in this band where I couldn’t have girlfriends, or I couldn’t go out. That evil t**t, Nigel, it’s his fault that I’m behaving like a w**ker”.’
BBCRobbie’s eloquent response to the issues was bang on[/caption]
BBCRobbie had choice words for former Take That manager Nigel Martin Smith[/caption]
Robbie’s response was one of the most powerful things I’ve ever read from a celebrity, an extraordinarily heartfelt, emotional, self-aware, respectful but also very pointed retort that shone a vivid light on what it’s really like to achieve overnight pop stardom when you’re a starry-eyed youngster.
He didn’t blame Martin-Smith for his drug abuse, but he did point out that ‘nearly all members of boybands it seems have at some point a mental breakdown’.
“You can’t help but notice a pattern emerge,” he wrote. “Boys join a boyband. The band becomes huge. Boys get sick. Some are fortunate through a series of self-examinations and help to overcome their experience.
“Some never quite manage to untangle the mess of the wreckage of the past. I’m not breaking anyone’s anonymity by sharing the side effects of boyband dysphoria that relate to just us lads.
“Howard – Contemplated suicide when the band ended. Mark – Addiction, alcoholism, rehab. Gaz – Bulimia. Me – I think that one is well-documented. Jason – Whatever effect Take That had on him is so painful he can’t even be part of it.”
Wow.
As someone who’d been there from the start of their journey, this shocking litany of what it did to them all really stung me.
Robbie reminded Martin-Smith he was just 16 when he joined the band, and 21 when he left.
“Instead of a stern word and a pointed finger an arm around the shoulder and a kind word would have been the best tact,” he added. “I hope I have more grace and understanding when and if any of my own 4 children at such a vulnerable age behave in the same manner.”
As a father of four myself, including three sons who’ve come through that challenging life-shaping age group, and – thankfully – all come happily and healthily out the other side, this resonated strongly with me.
The truth is that fame can be the most corrosive drug of all because it’s very addictive, but the more you have of it, the more restrictive on your life and freedom it becomes.
PAJason Orange gave me an insight into the cost of fame[/caption]
For the biggest boybands like Take That, the early flush of excitement is often quickly replaced by anxiety-ridden self-imprisonment in soulless hotel suites, in a different city every night.
The temptation to resort to booze, drugs or other illicit pleasures to escape the constant frenzied attention, loss of privacy, intense media scrutiny, and ferocious work schedule, becomes overwhelming.
As Simon Cowell says in the Boyband series, it’s what they sign up for so they can’t complain. But it can still be a lonely, stressful, and permanently damaging lifestyle.
We don’t know what really went down with poor Liam Payne in Argentina, but friends say he never got over the demons acquired during his crazy days with One Direction, an experience that Robbie brilliantly described in his Instagram post as ‘the turbulence of pop stardom’s matrix-bending washing machine.’
A few years ago, I bumped into Jason Orange and asked him: ‘If you could go back to the anonymity you enjoyed before Take That, would you take it?’
“I would,” he replied unhesitatingly. “Fame corrupts people’s lives.”
When we were in that van together, 32 years ago, I should have told them all then to be very careful what they wish for.
GettyAnd tragic Liam Payne clearly had demons from his similar experiences[/caption]
When I interviewed him for my Life Stories show back in 2015, Prunella was in the audience for the recording, and I was concerned she might find us discussing her illness distressing.
‘Sadly, I doubt she will remember any of it the moment it’s over,’ Timothy said.
AlamyMy heart goes out to Prunella Scales after the death of devoted husband Timothy West[/caption]
During our 2-hour interview, he spoke incredibly honestly and emotionally about her condition which had destroyed her memory.
In the green room afterwards, I asked a very happy and friendly Prunella if she had enjoyed the show.
‘What show?’ she replied.
The thought of her now on her own, aged 92, without her extraordinarily devoted rock of a husband, is heart-breaking.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
If Donald Trump really is a fascist, the new Hitler, and an existential threat to democracy – as liberals kept saying during the US presidential race – then why have there been no protest marches since he won, and why did President Biden welcome him to the White House to put on a show of chummy camaraderie for the cameras?
It’s almost as if none of them believed what they were saying!
APThe liberals were frozen out by Biden’s warm White House welcome to Trump[/caption]
And talking of bullsh*t, Vladimir Putin has once again threatened the West with nuclear weapons for finally, shamefully late, giving Ukraine long-range missiles that can fire into Russia.
Yet every time we’ve crossed one of the dictator’s numerous supposed ‘red lines’, and ignored his dire nuke warnings, he hasn’t used them.
And he’s never going to, because he knows if he did, he’d be instantly vaporised.
SOCK IT TO THEM, JEZZA
I’m backing Jeremy Clarkson and the farmers – even after our bloody bust-upPA
I still have a 3-inch scar on my forehead from Jeremy Clarkson’s fist, and he still has a gnarled, bent finger which broke as it hit my granite-like cranium.
1 week agoLatest NewsComments Off on Hero dad ran into burning bedroom to save son, 3, after house erupted into flames but both tragically died, inquest told
A BRAVE dad ran into a burning bedroom to save his son but they both tragically died, an inquest heard.
Naemat Esmael rushed into the fire to rescue three-year-old Muhammad after their house, in Swansea, South Wales, erupted into flames.
WNSNaemat Esmael, 51, bravely ran into a burning bedroom to save his son[/caption]
Three-year-old Muhammad and his father both tragically diedWNSWNSThe house fire tore through the Swansea property, in South Wales, in July last year[/caption]
The blaze broke out while the toddler, who loved Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig, was sleeping.
Naemat, 51, had been having a shower at the time but raced to save his son when he discovered the flames.
He was eventually forced to jump from an upstairs window and died in hospital two days later having suffered 81 per cent burns to his body, multiple organ failure, and severe inhalation injuries.
Tragic toddler Muhammad was found dead inside the house, from exposure to the flames, the inquest heard.
Assistant Coroner Kirsten Heaven said wife Sharmeen Ahmed, 40, raised the alarm when she saw the fire spreading but “did not know” her son was sleeping the room.
She said: “The door to the room was closed, Mrs Ahmed shouted to alert Naemet and her daughter and her daughter ran out of the property.
“Naemat came straight out of the shower and ran into the bedroom where Muhammad was located and the door banged shut behind him.
“Naemat was unable to save Muhammad and was forced to jump out of the bedroom window. Tragically both Naemat and Muhammad died because of the fire.”
The Assistant Coroner told the inquest two smoke alarms had not been triggered.
This was either because the door was closed, or the electric circuit to the house had tripped and their batteries were too low.
The inquest also heard investigators couldn’t determine the exact cause of the fire but “on the balance of probabilities” believe it was sparked in a cabinet drawer containing an extension lead with plugs for a TV and Playstation.
Ms Heaven said: “There was no evidence of any electrical fault by any of these items.
“However I do find that the fire probably started in or around the console unit and was probably electrical in origin because there is also no other explanation for the fire.”
The coroner said Ms Ahmed had heard a “thud”, which was most likely a switch tripping to cut the power supply.
She added: “I am unable to determine the precise electrical fault which caused the fire.”
The inquest also heard how Naemat, a builder, had rewired a lightswitch in a downstairs room.
He had not been qualified to do so, in the council-owned house.
But Wife Mrs Ahmed, said he had “never” done any electrical work where the fire began, despite some evidence of unauthorised changes.
She told the hearing in a heartbreaking statement: “I thought and was expecting that Naemat would get into the room to grab Muhammad to come outside.
“If I had known that this incident would have happened I would have gone there myself first thing first.
“It would have been much easier for me to lose my life there and then than to go through all this sorrow.”
The inquest heard the distraught mum had tried to run back into the house and had to be restrained by neighbours.
Her daughter suffered smoke inhalation but escaped the blaze.
Their other son was not home at the time of the fire.
Mrs Ahmed her children cry “every single night” since the tragedy.
“I always go through sorrow every single day,” she said.
“When I go to town centre to see things that Muhammed used to enjoy or like or to see a mother holding their son’s hand – all to me this is another death.
“I am living a death every single day experiencing this.”
Ms Heaven said she would write to the Welsh Government and Mid and West Wales Fire Service warning there was ” a continuing risk to life” over the inadequacy of fire alarms.
She said sprinkler systems, despite being “very expensive”, were far more effective.
She added: “I am concerned that only mandating two smoke alarms in rented accommodation means there is a continuing risk to life from fire.”
WNSMuhammad’s heartbroken mother said she wishes she would have died instead[/caption]
WNSThe Assistant Coroner told the inquest two smoke alarms had not been triggered[/caption]
The inquest also heard how Naemat, a builder, had rewired a lightswitch in a downstairs room despite not being qualified to do soWNS
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