Is there something romantic between Barbie Forteza and Jameson Blake? Netizens talked about the holding hands photo of Kapuso Primetime Princess Barbie Forteza and actor Jameson Blake. It is known to many showbiz fans that Barbie was in a relationship with Kapuso actor Jak Roberto. After being together for seven years, they broke up. The ... Read more
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REUNITED group The Maccabees celebrated their return to the Glastonbury stage with a surprise appearance from a festival legend.
The band initially split in 2016, but reformed this year and cemented their comeback by headlining the Park Stage at Worthy Farm on Sunday night.
An hour into their set, the band stepped things up for fans, and revellers with Florence Welch, the iconic lead singer of Florence and The Machine.
Florence is a Glastonbury regular, headlining on the main Pyramid stage back in 2015 and famed for songs including Shake It Off, You’ve Got The Love and Kiss With A Fist.
Together, the group performed track Love You Better, before Florence and The Machine‘s iconic crowdpleaser, Dog Days Are Over.
Florence declared: “Do we have any Maccabees super-fans in the audience? Because you definitely have one on stage.”
The Maccabees headline slot closed out The Park Stage after a massive weekend – with The Prodigy headlining The Other Stage and Olivia Rodrigo taking to the Pyramid Stage.
The weekend has proven to be filled with surprise collaborations – with Olivia Rodrigo bringing out The Cure’s Robert Smith during her headline slot.
Rod Stewart, who took the Legends slot on Sunday night, reunited with his Faces bandmate – Rolling Stones legend Ronnie Wood – as well as Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall and Lulu.
DJ Fatboy Slim also surprised fans by bringing out his son, Woody Cook for a performance, who he shares with Radio DJ Zoe Ball.
Glastonbury made sure fans knew this weekend would be one full of surprises when Lorde kicked off the festival on Friday with a surprise set – performing her entire new album, Virgin, on stage.
This was followed shortly afterwards by confirmation that Lewis Capaldi would be making his Glastonbury return on the Pyramid stage in the mysterious ‘Secret Set’ slot.
In honour of this, and in one of the more unexpected performances, fellow Scottish band Franz Ferdinand brought out “The Original Capaldi” for their hit Take Me Out – Doctor Who’s Peter Capaldi.
Pulp made their comeback to the festival – 30 years since they headlined – after being revealed as the mysterious Patchwork which had been marked for a key spot on the Pyramid stage on Saturday.
Haim also had a surprise set on Saturday evening on the Park Stage.
However, the festival was dogged with crowding issues, with major stages having to lock off access ahead of major sets.
On Saturday alone, this included Charli XCX’ s headline slot on the Other Stage, Scissor Sisters’ headline slot on the Woodsies Stage, and Kneecap’s performance on West Holts.
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JOHN MCENROE once sparked a Wimbledon brawl by storming out of a post-match press conference.
The shocking incident occurred en route to his 1981 triumph at the All England Club.
McEnroe had just beaten Rod Frawley in the last four to set up a blockbuster final against Bjorn Borg.
The press room was packed full of journalists itching to quiz the American and there was chaos due to overcrowding.
McEnroe, 22 at the time, had already developed a reputation for being a fiery character with his on court outbursts.
And he furiously kicked off after being asked by The Mirror’s James Whittaker if he had split up with his tennis star girlfriend Stacey Margolin amid false rumours he had cheated.
McEnroe was used to ranting at line judges but this time launched an attack on the press before storming out the room.
Yet the drama had only just begun as the reporters then turned on each other.
Arguments erupted over whether the question was appropriate, with British journalists furiously debating their US counterparts.
But The Mirror’s Nigel Clarke and RKO Radio’s Charlie Steiner got physical as tempers flared.
Clarke jumped onto a chair and tried to punch Steiner.
There was then wrestling on the floor as colleagues had to separate them with papers and chairs flying.
Both were sent to the Wimbledon chairman’s office for a dressing down like naughty school boys.
Clarke and Steiner crossed paths 15 years later at a boxing event and apparently had a “good laugh” about their SW19 punch-up.
McEnroe beat Borg in a thrilling four-set final to win Wimbledon for the first time.
He went on to lift the trophy another two times and he now works as a pundit for the BBC.
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A MOTHER has shared a close-up look at the “reality” of having a new build home.
And not only did others claim to have experienced the same with their “awful” new build properties, but people think the builders did this woman “dirty”.
Posting on social media, Kez, a single mother from the UK who recently moved into a social housing new build property and is currently on a mission to kit out her home whilst on a budget, gave her followers an insight into the “snags” in her garden.
During a seven-second clip that was shared online just days ago, the savvy mum lifted up a patch of grass in her garden, only to reveal a layer of stones and rubble.
Alongside the clip, the bargain-hunter wrote: “New build life be like…”
Not only this, but as she showed off the “new build snags”, she then explained: “Reality of having a new build house… lawn laid on literal stone.”
She also added: “Then they tell you to keep watering it so it doesn’t die.”
According to Haywood Landscapes, a number of factors can cause water-logging of your garden and particularly in new build gardens, there are two common causes – soil compaction and shallow topsoil over clay subsoil.
The experts suggest that topsoil should be at least 15cm thick for satisfactory lawn growth, 30cm for shrubs and ideally deeper still for trees. If less, plant growth may be adversely affected.
Having 15cm as standard will ensure healthy root development, water retention and nutrient availability, which are all essential for plant survival and growth.
Kez’s TikTok clip, which shows a clear lack of topsoil, was posted under the username @kez1643 and has clearly left many open-mouthed, as it has quickly racked up 431,300 views.
Not only this, but it’s also amassed 2,354 likes, 112 comments and 282 shares.
Social media users were gobsmacked by Kez’s garden find and many eagerly flocked to the comments to share their thoughts.
One person said: “New builds are required to have 30cm of topsoil… they did you dirty.”
Oh my god same!!! Mine’s awful
TikTok user
Another added: “I used to clean new builds… I wouldn’t live in one. My friend got given one from the council, nothing but problems.”
A third commented: “This happened to us with our new build a few years ago.
“The builders put turf on top of builders rubble in the back garden. The turf lasted a few weeks!”
Not only this, but someone else wrote: “Oh my god same!!! Mine’s awful.”
At the same time, another user gasped: “It’s crazy how many people fall for the trap of buying a new build.”
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CONTROVERSIAL rap act Bob Vylan should be “arrested and prosecuted immediately”, says the shadow home secretary.
The punk duo – who perform as Bobby Vylan and Bobbie Vylan – chanted “death to the IDF” and other alleged anti-semitic slurs during their Glastonbury appearance on Saturday.
Chris Philp has called for them to be treated in a similar fashion to Lucy Connolly, the Tory councillor’s wife who was jailed for tweets in the aftermath of the Southport murders last summer.
The former minister told the Daily Telegraph: “It seems very clear that this man was directly inciting violence.
“He should receive the same treatment under the law as others, such as Lucy Connolly.
“He should be arrested and prosecuted immediately. A failure to do so would be a clear example of two-tier justice under Sir Keir Starmer and his attorney general, Lord Hermer.”
Connolly posted comments on her X account just hours after evil Axel Rudakubana murdered three girls in the Merseyside town on July 29 last year.
Connolly, 41, shared a call to arms following the deaths of Bebe King, six, nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, last July.
Posts wrongly claimed monster Rudakubana was a Muslim asylum seeker when he was actually born in Cardiff and raised Christian.
However, her punishment sparked fury across the political divide.
Furious Brits noted that despite the former child minder quickly deleting her post, she remains in prison while paedos such as Hugh Edwards escaped jail time.
It comes after PM Keir Starmer last night blasted the BBC for allowing little-known punk act Bob Vylan’s hate-filled rant to be broadcast on live TV.
They led the crowd in chants of “death, death to the IDF (Israeli Defence Force)”.
Demanding an explanation from director-general Tim Davie, the Prime Minister said: “There is no excuse for this kind of appalling hate speech.”
He was joined by a raft of MPs and Jewish groups condemning the failure to pull the gig from the air, with Lord Astin calling it a “very dark day” for the corporation.
Glastonbury Festival organisers said they were “appalled” and said it “crossed the line”.
Avon and Somerset Police said yesterday it was investigating.
The PM had previously said that controversial act Kneecap should be taken off the bill with one member facing a terror charge for allegedly waving a Hezbollah flag at a concert.
Sir Keir last night said: “I said that Kneecap should not be given a platform and that goes for any other performers making threats or inciting violence.
“The BBC needs to explain how these scenes came to be broadcast.”
He was backed by his Health Secretary Wes Streeting who said the corporation had “questions to answer”.
The pro-Palestine duo Bob Vylan also declared “from the river to the sea Palestine…will be free” seen by the Jewish community as calling for Israel’s elimination.
BBC bosses had already said that Kneecap’s performance wouldn’t be shown live on Saturday afternoon but act Bob Vylan – on stage before them – caught them unawares.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy contacted Mr Davie asking for an “urgent explanation” into what checks had been made in advance of their appearance.
Critics last night said BBC chiefs must be fired for broadcasting anti-Israel jibes which descended into a “sickening hate rally”.
Corporation bosses have been ordered to explain why licence fee cash was spent on the shameful outburst to viewers watching at home on the BBC iPlayer.
Lord Austin said: “Glastonbury was turned into a sickening hate rally.
“You have to ask just what on earth the BBC is doing with our licence fee?
“They send hundreds of BBC staff to cover Glastonbury, but no one no one did anything to stop this easily foreseeable incident being broadcast?”
He urged Director-General Tim Davie to launch an urgent probe and swing the axe at those who are responsible.
He called the incident that totally overshadowed the three-day event as a “very dark day” for the corporation.
He added that the incident “calls its very purpose and future into question, if it can’t stand up for British values and instead gives a platform to extremists”.
Meanwhile, shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel said the whole incident calls into raises the prospect of whether the BBC should call itself the national broadcaster.
She said: “Glastonbury and the BBC are inciting murder and terrorist violence against Jewish people.
“We are witnessing dangerous extremes in our country of intolerance towards the Jewish community which is unacceptable and should never ever be tolerated.
“This display of invective and hatred has highlighted again, the BBC’s editorial failings on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias which are now so consistently widespread we need change at the BBC – they no longer hold the respectability to claim the mantle of our national broadcaster.”
Members of the Commons’ Culture select committee will meet tomorrow (Tues) to discuss when BBC bosses come before members to be quizzed.
Chair Caroline Dinenage said the matter raises “questions about live broadcast/delays and editorial decision making on the fly”.
Telly personality and criminal barrister Rob Rinder said: “You can stand for Palestinian rights without denying Jewish ones.
“You can oppose a government without wishing away a people.
“If your activism leaves no room for someone else’s safety, grief or history it’s not activism. It’s hate.”
But former Cabinet Minister Lord Hain said it wasn’t a time to “fret” over the performance and the language used.
But Glastonbury and organiser Emily Eavis said it was also “urgently reminding” everyone involved in the festival there was no room for “anti-Semitism, hate speech or incitement to violence”.
They added in a statement that they stood against all forms of war and terrorism.
Former BBC executive Danny Cohen said regulator OFCOM should intervene and an investigation led by the corporations’s Board led by Chairman Samir Shah.
But Avon and Somerset Police said video evidence is being assessed “to determine whether any offences may have been committed that would require a criminal investigation”.
Former Cabinet Minister Lord Hain insisted it wasn’t a time to “fret” over the performance and the language used.
He said: “I don’t think we should fret too much about this, I think we should simply be grown up about it and say, yeah, people are saying things that we don’t agree with, but that’s music, it’s said and it’s gone amidst a few loud drum beats.”
The controversy came after one member of Kneecap also used their performance on the West Holts stage to suggest fans “start a riot” at bandmate Liam O’Hanna’s next court date.
But there will be no charges brought in relation to a November 2023 appearance by the group where they say “the only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP” which was caught on video.
A BBC spokesperson last night said: “Some of the comments made during Bob Vylan’s set were deeply offensive.
“During this live stream on iPlayer, which reflected what was happening on stage, a warning was issued on screen about the very strong and discriminatory language. We have no plans to make the performance available on demand.”
By Rod Liddle
THE law is not an ass – but judges frequently are. And they are at their most stupid when they appear to have been politically co-opted.
Lucy Connolly’s appeal has been rejected by a pompous, public school trio in the appeal courts.
She is the woman with no previous convictions who was sentenced to 31 months for tweeting something horrible about asylum seekers.
That was during those riots last summer. When an awful lot of people received very peremptory justice for saying stuff online.
Everybody could see that Connolly’s sentence was ludicrously severe. Utterly inappropriate for the crime.
Everybody, that is, except Sir Keir Starmer, who tried to claim he didn’t know the details of the case.
And the Appeal Court judges, led by Lord Justice Tim Nice-But-Dim Holroyde. Well, actually not that nice.
Connolly got a longer sentence than has been doled out recently to sex offenders, domestic abusers, robbers, burglars, stabbers . . . and everybody knows why.
It’s because the new Labour government wanted swift justice handed down to these “racists”. So these were political crimes, then.
And as Boris Johnson said, it is as if we were in a police state.
The judges concluded: “There is no arguable basis on which it could be said that the sentence imposed by the judge was manifestly excessive.”
For the rest of us, watching these proceedings in mounting fury, the precise reverse was the case.
There seems no arguable basis on which it could be said that the sentence imposed WASN’T manifestly excessive.
Lucy’s distraught husband, Conservative councillor Ray Connolly, fumed: “The court had the opportunity to reduce her cruelly long and disproportionate sentence, but they refused.”
And Lucy’s barrister said: “They have basically deemed her racist and they’ve decided that that is the ultimate moral sin. Perhaps it is in their world.
“We now have a Labour-supporting establishment and it is their inherent moral evil that the minute you can get painted as a racist, even though you’re obviously not a racist, you become a second-rate citizen.”
This is precisely the case and it is hugely damaging to our society.
It means we lose all faith in our legal system — if we ever had any in the first place — when such outrageous miscarriages of justice occur.
For a long while now, the courts have operated a two-tier system for sentencing. And they do that because, just as the right-wingers say, we live in a two-tier country.
There are the asylum seekers who judges will seemingly not deport, no matter what heinous crimes they may have committed.
And similarly the eco-protestors who cause misery and mayhem, but are praised by idiot judges for their commitment to the cause.
And then, while people who tweeted nasty stuff about those asylum seekers get banged up in Starmer’s state without so much as a by-your-leave, the Government refuses to hold an inquiry into the rape-gangs scandal which implicated so many Asian- Muslim men up and down the country.
What has happened to Lucy Connolly is a scandal.
And it is a scandal which involves the judges AND the Government. In collusion. When that happens, we are no longer living in a free country.
LEGENDARY horse trainer D Wayne Lukas has died aged 89.
His grieving family say the iconic handler is now ‘at peace’ and reunited with his beloved late son.
Lukas, who passed away surrounded by loved ones in Kentucky, US, was rushed to hospital last week with a ‘worsening’ serious illness.
He refused all treatment because he wanted to spend his final days at home.
A statement from his family read: “It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of our beloved husband, grandfather, and great-grandfather, D. Wayne Lukas, who left this world peacefully on Saturday evening at the age of 89, surrounded by family.
“Wayne devoted his life not only to horses but to the industry – developing generations of horsemen and horsewomen and growing the game by inviting unsuspecting fans into the winner’s circle.
“Whether he was boasting about a maiden 2-year-old as the next Kentucky Derby winner or offering quiet words of advice before a big race, Wayne brought heart, grace, and grit to every corner of the sport.
“His final days were spent at home in Kentucky, where he chose peace, family, and faith.
“As we grieve at his passing, we find peace in knowing he is now reunited with his beloved son, Jeff, whose memory he carried in his heart always.”
Jeff suffered horrendous injuries when trying to stop a loose colt at Santa Anita in December 1993.
The horse smashed into him, shattered his skull and left him in a coma for several weeks, resulting in permanent brain damage.
Although he showed enough signs of recovery to work again, it was short lived.
Jeff, who was his dad’s best mate and favourite assistant trainer over the years, passed away aged 58 in March 2016.
Lukas, 89, trained some of the biggest names in the sport including previous Horses of the Year Charismatic and Criminal Type.
He won the Kentucky Derby four times and dominated the Triple Crown races, winning six in a row in the mid-Nineties.
He shares the record alongside Aidan O’Brien for most Breeders’ Cup wins with 20.
His incredible career has seen him amass prize money earnings of £225million from a jaw-dropping 4,967 winners.
Lukas, whose first given name was Darrell, had his final at Churchill Downs, home of the Derby, earlier this month.
Lukas was pictured riding out at Belmont racetrack just last month and his rapid decline from a ‘severe infection’ shocked the sport.
The horses in his yard will now be trained by his British assistant and former Army veteran Sebastian ‘Bas’ Nicholl.
More to follow.
