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STACEY Solomon’s Sort Your Life Out is back – and the DIY queen has been imparting her pearls of wisdom for her families.
On tonight’s show, the TV star helped Ben and Lynda, and their five-year-old daughter Charlotte, tackle their home that was overrun with items.
After laying out the contents of their three-bedroom home in a huge warehouse, Stacey found the Leed-based couple had 53 tool boxes and 619 pieces of wood, and Lynda had a staggering 239 scarves.
While the family were tasked with cutting down on their items, Stacey and her team of professionals cleaned and organised their home.
Cleaning expert Iwan Carrington was on hand to give a very handy hack if you want to leave your windows gleaming – coffee filters.
He explained: “These coffee filters are brilliant for cleaning windows because they’re really strong and they’re lint-free as well, so they don’t give any smears.
“If you’re a coffee drinker and you have a big sack of these in your kitchen, one goes a long way.”
Thankfully the hack doesn’t need to break the bank.
Tesco is currently selling a pack of 40 coffee filters for £1.30, which works out at 3p per one.
According to First For Women, coffee filters are better than paper towels because, as they’re lint-free, there will be no residue left on your windows.
You also won’t run the risk of having them fall apart on you since they’re made to withstand heavy water contact.
Just spray your glass surface with your choice of cleaner and wipe it with the coffee filter.
If you want to clean a bigger surface, purchase extra-large filters – and for really caked-on dirt, you might want to stack several at the same time.
For more caffeine-related ways to clean your windows, a cleaning fan shared a clever trick to clean windows.
You can use tea to clean really muddy windows, as the mild acidity of the tea is able to cut through nasty build-up of grease and grime leaving windows picture perfect.
The genius hack not only saves you money on pricey cleaning sprays but also there is no need for fancy clothes or sponges.
As well as cleaning their property, Stacey helped the couple – who were going through a tough time with Lynda’s cancer diagnosis – find a way to treasure their precious photo memories.
She added two big photo frames onto their lounge wall, which could swing open to reveal a makeshift projector cinema for them to watch their home videos together.
Stacey also made a DIY lampshade for Charlotte’s bedroom and helped to organise Ben’s garage to have organised boxes.
The family were thrilled with the finished result.
Lynda said: “I love it, it’s brilliant. It feels like someone else’s lounge.”
Ben added: “It feels like a show home.”
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WHEN Ana de Armas was spotted dining with Tom Cruise on Valentine’s Day, the rumour mill naturally started turning.
But there was nothing romantic about the late-night get-together in London.
Instead, insiders say the 62-year-old Mission: Impossible actor is just the latest Hollywood great keen to appear alongside the Cuban-born actress.
Ana, 36, is known as the Leading Man Whisperer for her ability to get A-listers to appear alongside her.
Keanu Reeves and Chris Evans have both worked with her three times, while Daniel Craig, Adrien Brody and Ryan Gosling have shared the screen with her twice.
The only co-star she has become romantically involved with though is Ben Affleck after the pair fell for each other while making 2022 erotic thriller Deep Water.
Having started her career in Spanish cinema, Ana came to global attention as secret agent Paloma in 2021 Bond film No Time To Die.
She then secured an Oscar nomination for a controversial portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in 2022 film Blonde.
When you hang out with Ana, you feel like you’re getting away with something, because she has this endlessly mischievous charm.
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This summer she is set to establish herself as an action star with the main role of an assassin in Ballerina, a spin-off to the John Wick series featuring Keanu.
A source who has worked with Ana tells The Sun: “Of course Tom Cruise wants to do a movie with her, she’s successfully worked with almost every one of his rivals just over the last five or six years.
“And Ana also has that personality quirk, similar to Tom’s exes Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz, where she doesn’t give a flying f*** what people say about her or think about her.”
Ana has certainly had to show guts and determination to get to this point.
She was born in 1988 in communist Cuba, where she was not allowed to watch Hollywood movies and did not have a telephone, DVD player or access to the internet.
Having decided to become an actress, she joined Cuba’s National Theatre aged 14.
Travelling abroad is re-stricted in the repressive dictatorship, but thanks to her Spanish grandparents she was able to head for Madrid at the age of 18.
She became a celebrity in Spain thanks to her long-running part in popular TV series The Boarding School.
But it was after moving to Los Angeles in 2014 that she hit the big time
Our insider says: “Anna’s been on a rocket ship in the business over the last ten years, primarily due to her easygoing personality and her incredible ability to work with these middle-aged, A-list leading men who just become totally captivated by her.
“You can legitimately call her The Leading Man Whisperer because she connects so well with these men, and some of them are 20 years older than she is.”
Her first A-lister leading man was Keanu in 2015 thriller Knock Knock, which included the pair in a threesome.
The following year she was working with The Matrix actor again in detective movie Exposed — and he will be making a cameo in her John Wick spin-off.
Before arriving in the States, Ana had been married — and divorced — to Spanish actor Marc Clotet, 44. Their union lasted two years from 2011.
It looked like Ana might walk down the aisle again quickly when she got engaged to Hollywood talent agent Franklin Latt in 2015, but the relationship ended before any vows were exchanged.
Her first genuine blockbuster came in 2017, playing Ryan Gosling’s love interest in Blade Runner 2049.
The pair teamed up again in 2023 for Netflix action movie The Gray Man. She starred opposite Daniel Craig in 2019 comedy murder mystery Knives Out.
He praised her, saying “She’s got the chops. She can do it all,” which led to a part being written specifically for her in No Time To Die, Daniel’s last outing as 007.
Ben Affleck, 52, wanted to be more than just a co-star after working with her on Deep Water in 2019.
The couple holed up together during the Covid lockdown, with the pair spotted kissing through their face masks during a romantic stroll.
By 2021 it was over and in 2023 she was seeing Paul Boukadakis, an executive at dating app Tinder.
Part of Ana’s attraction — romantically and professionally in Tinseltown, is her down-to-earth attitude. She is not a prima donna and likes to have a laugh.
Our source says: “When you hang out with Ana, you feel like you’re getting away with something, because she has this endlessly mischievous charm and a sense of humour. And she always lets you in on the joke.
“In real life, she’s just not the femme fatale she sometimes plays in movies and has a very healthy attitude about all the Hollywood stuff going on around her.
“Even now as things seem to be moving towards a big new peak for her this year, she refuses to take herself too seriously and is the opposite of a control freak when she’s on set.”
Ana, who is an ambassador for Louis Vuitton jewellery, rarely posts messages on social media about her personal life and has largely avoided negative headlines.
The only time her choices have been questioned are when Monroe fans complained about the obsession with Marilyn’s sex life in the graphic 2022 movie Blonde, produced by Brad Pitt, and again now over her current choice of boyfriend.
Some Cubans are not impressed that Ana has been seen out with lawyer Manuel Anido Cuesta, 27, who is the stepson of her homeland’s President, Miguel Diaz-Canel.
In 2018 Manuel was seen dancing at a party with dictator Diaz-Canel, whose regime is said to have locked up hundreds of protesters since he took power in 2019.
On Monday Ana was spotted walking arm in arm with Manuel in Madrid, who would have been her true Valentine rather than Tom.
The fact she was sharing a platonic date with the Top Gun actor on that day gives a clue to how dedicated she is to networking.
There are few more powerful actors than Cruise.
Our source says: “Daniel Craig gives Ana a ton of credit for helping him find his comedic footing in Knives Out and I’m sure Tom Cruise wants some of that mojo to rub off on him.”
However, there is no news of a formal collaboration between Tom and Ana.
And there is plenty of demand from elsewhere for her big-screen presence. Disney’s Marvel studios are said to be keen for Ana to have a major role in their reboot of the Avengers superhero series.
If John Wick spin-off Ballerina is a hit when it is released in cinemas in June, even more producers will be after her.
Our insider adds: “Ballerina is going to be a big deal for her. She’s never been the lead of a summer action blockbuster before, and the filmmakers have spent the year and a half since they shot the movie to tweak the action sequences to absolute perfection.
“There’s a reason Keanu Reeves is making a guest appearance in that movie
“He’s absolutely blown away by Ana’s work and he insisted on showing up on camera to give her his John Wick seal of approval.”
HARRY KANE’S Champions League dream is alive and kicking – just – as Bayern Munich scraped past brave Celtic.
Alphonso Davies bundled home from a yard out at the death to keep their hopes of lifting the famous trophy for a seventh time in their own city intact.
However, it was heartbreak for Brendan Rodgers and his side after they missed a host of glorious chances.
England’s top goalscorer barely had a touch before he was taken off at the break amid fears the facial injury that kept him out of training on Monday had flared up again.
He still managed to hit the woodwork – but he and his team-mates were the fortunate ones not to be trailing at the break as they were almost caught cold.
Celtic made a flying start in trying to secure a first knockout tie in this competition for 36 years and should have been at least two up inside the opening 20 minutes.
Captain Callum McGregor sliced over after being sent clean through early on.
The Bhoys carved the hosts wide open again when Jota flew past Josip Stanisic and pulled it from the left to the unmarked Nicolas Kuhn.
The ex-Bayern ace met it left footed at the far post and beat Manuel Neuer, but Raphael Guerreiro was able to clear on the line.
Vincent Kompany’s side were struggling and alarm bells started to ring as Celtic came close once more.
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This time Kuhn flashed a ball along the front of goal but team-mate Daizen Maeda was just unable to reach.
Bayern looked completely rattled, but once more the visitors failed to take advantage when Maeda shot wide with a first-time effort to leave Brendan Rodgers tearing his hair out.
Kane, chasing his 30th goal of the season, almost punished Celtic as he forced his ex-Leicester City team-mate Kasper Schmeichel into action.
Bayern were now starting to get a grip of the game with Joshua Kimmich shooting wide from 20 yards.
And Kane, who only had ten touches during the opening period, almost broke the deadlock with the last kick of the half as he rattled the crossbar from 12 yards.
That would be the hotshot’s final act as he was replaced by Kingsley Coman.
Schmeichel produced a vital save to deny Leon Goretzka after the restart and it proved to be crucial as Celtic soon stunned the Allianz Arena.
Maeda’s throughball should have been bread and butter for Kim Min-jae, but his poor defending was pounced on by Kuhn as the winger coolly drilled a low shot past Neuer.
Celtic were level on aggregate but they missed another huge opportunity to lead the tie for the first time when Japanese ace Maeda’s diving header was straight at the keeper.
Goretzka and Leroy Sane were both off target as Bayern desperately tried to fight back.
Schmeichel then produced an acrobatic flying save to push away Kimmich’s long-ranger.
Though there was a cruel twist in the fourth minute of added time when Schmeichel brilliantly saved from Goretzka’s header, Canadian Davies reacted quickest to smash home and win 3-2 on aggregate.
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BRIAN Laundrie’s dad has broken his cover for the first time since a new series investigated his son’s murder of his fiancée Gabby Petito.
Christopher Laundrie, 65, was seen out and about in Florida in exclusive photos obtained by The U.S. Sun one day after American Murder: Gabby Petito premiered on Netflix.
The three-part series dives into Brian’s relationship with Gabby, 22, before he strangled the vlogger to death on their cross-country road trip in August 2021.
Just one day after the docuseries premiered, Brian’s dad was seen outside his home in North Port, which is about 88 miles south of Tampa, Florida.
Christopher looked stoic as he walked up his driveway in the exclusive photos.
Hours before the exclusive photos were taken, Christopher and his wife Roberta Laundrie’s family lawyer lashed out at the new series and slammed it as “inaccurate” in a statement.
The project, which features previously unseen texts, diary entries, and footage from Gabby’s family and friends, features damning scenes about the Laundries, who refused to help Gabby’s family search for her when she went missing.
Brian’s family has stayed out of the public eye since the case and declined to participate in the new series.
The doc has reignited public interest in the case, which garnered nationwide attention when Gabby was first reported missing after Brian, 23, returned home from their trip without his fiancée.
He refused to speak about Gabby’s whereabouts, which prompted her family to publicly beg for her return, even pleading with Brian’s family to help them find their daughter.
However, Brian wasn’t the only one who stayed quiet about Gabby’s disappearance – his family stuck by his side when they were confronted by cops.
Christopher and Roberta became on edge and defensive when cops knocked on their door on September 11, 2021, the day Gabby was reported missing, according to resurfaced body camera footage.
The video, obtained by Fox News at the time, showed Brian’s dad answering the door barefoot and immediately saying, “I’m not talking to anybody.”
The officer then told Christopher he was on the phone with a New York detective who was looking for Gabby.
When the officer asked Christopher about the last time he saw his son and Gabby, the dad responded, “Well, Brian is here.”
When the cop tried to confirm Brian was present at the home, Christopher quickly shut down the conversation.
Brian Laundrie's family has spoken out about the new docuseries examining their son and Gabby Petito's troubled relationship. They told The U.S. Sun through their lawyer:
“The documentary was what we expected. One perspective depicted as the ‘truth’ as seen through their lens. Similar to Republicans and Democrats fighting it out lately. Each side believes their perspective is correct. Hard to see through the lens of the other with all the noise and distrust.
“To be clear though, there were no contradictions by my clients Chris and Roberta Laundrie. The documentary contained many inaccuracies, incorrect juxtapositions of timelines, and misstatements and omissions of fact – perhaps deliberate to capture their ‘truth,’ perhaps due to simple error.
“We all know Brian took Gabby’s life and Brian then took his own as well. Let the parents of both Gabby and Brian mourn them in peace.”
“Yeah, and that’s all I’m going to say,” he fired back.
He then gave the officer his attorney’s contact information.
After returning to the cop car for a moment, the officer then returned to the front door for a second round of questioning.
“I hate to bother you. I know you said already you don’t want to speak or don’t want to help us,” the cop told Christopher and Roberta.
“I’m trying to figure out something for [Gabby’s] parents, you guys as parents, and all they want is to know that their daughter is safe.
“So, I don’t know where it all started before, I don’t know what has transpired. I don’t know anything about that.
“I’m here to know if you guys know anything. It would put the family at ease, and it will go from there.”
But Christopher remained defiant and said, “We don’t know anything.”
When the cop tried to speak with Brian, his dad quickly interrupted and said, “He’s not going to talk to you. He’s not going to talk to anybody.”
The police officer then told the family he was going to seize Gabby’s van, which her family recently revealed has been destroyed, after Brian brought it home from the trip.
The conversation concluded with a cold response from Christopher.
“Goodnight. Don’t knock on my door anymore,” the dad said before shutting his front door.
When Brian and his family wouldn’t speak about Gabby’s whereabouts, online investigators scoured Gabby’s social media posts and her YouTube video looking for clues in the disappearance.
Weeks after Gabby first went missing, a horrifying piece of the puzzle fell into place when cops released disturbing bodycam footage showing cops responding to a domestic abuse call involving Gabby and Brian in Moab, Utah, weeks before her death.
Gabby Petito, 22, was last seen on August 24, leaving a hotel in Utah. Here is a timeline of Gabby Petito's disappearance:
Gabby’s body was found in Grand Teton National Forest on September 19, 2021. She had been strangled to death.
After her body was found, the FBI issued an arrest warrant for Brian for illegally using Gabby’s debit card after her death.
The manhunt for Brian ended when they found his body at a Florida park near his parent’s house on October 21, 2021. He died by suicide.
Brian took responsibility for Gabby’s death in a note in his journal, which was found near his body in a bag.
The bag also included a letter stating, “Please do not make life harder for my family, they lost a son and a daughter.”
Gabby’s family sued Brian’s family for her wrongful death in 2022 and was awarded $3 million.
In 2023, Gabby’s parents sued the Laundries and their attorney, Steven Bertolino, for intentional infliction of emotional stress for their behavior after their daughter disappeared.
During the deposition for the case, the Laundries admitted what they knew about Gabby’s disappearance after they received a “frantic” phone call from their son two days after she disappeared.
Chris and Roberta said Brian called them on August 29, 2021 and told them Gabby was “gone” and he needed a lawyer.
Brian’s parents didn’t admit they knew Gabby was dead and only said Brian reported she was “gone,” Petito family attorney Pat Reilly told local NBC affiliate WFLA at the time.
Gabby and Brian’s families eventually reached a confidential agreement to their civil lawsuit weeks before the case was set to be tried.
The Laundries have stayed silent about the case over the years, only speaking through Bertolino.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or chat at thehotline.org.
COPS are probing whether a man charged over the possession of a loaded gun in another jurisdiction was the second shooter in the infamous Xmas Eve steakhouse attack.
The Irish Sun has learned the thug is suspected to have been sourcing weapons for the so-called Gucci Gang, based in Finglas, Dublin.
Senior sources say he had been embroiled in a feud with slain Jason Hennessy Snr and his associates as far back as 2019.
He was blasted at Browne’s Steakhouse in Blanchardstown on December 24, 2023 — before dying in hospital 11 days later, aged 48.
Bungling assassin Tristan Sherry, 26, was disarmed at the restaurant before he was savagely beaten and stabbed to death.
This week the Special Criminal Court found Michael Andrecut, 23, Noah Musueni, 18, and David Amah, 19, guilty of his murder and now face mandatory life sentences.
Three others — Jonas Kabangu, 19, Diarmuid O’Brien, 18, and Hennessy’s son, Brandon, 21 — were convicted of violent disorder.
But despite the success of the investigation, Gardai are still “very much” pressing on with IDing the second shooter with Sherry.
That gunman fired shots on the night before he fled and left Sherry behind to be slaughtered.
Officers believe the man, in his 30s, who was later nabbed armed with a loaded firearm outside of the State remains a strong suspect.
He is well known by cops in the capital and has been involved in serious and organised crime, including drug dealing in west Dublin, for a number of years.
The suspect became embroiled in a dispute with Hennessy Snr’s mob in 2019 by weighing in behind the rival Gucci Gang, which Sherry was part of.
He had been spotted a number of times following Hennessy Snr’s associates and detectives had info that he was plotting attacks.
One one occasion he was stopped by cops near Hennessy Snr’s house, with an associate, and was found to have jerry cans full of petrol and gloves in his car.
Investigators believed at the time that they had foiled a planned feud operation.
The dangerous individual — who has a long rap sheet — is also suspected to have been sourcing firearms for his Finglas associates.
A source told us: “This man is very well known to Gardai for his involvement with organised crime over a number of years.
“Gardai have no doubt that he had key knowledge of the steakhouse attack and he remains in the frame as the second shooter. The fact this man was caught with a loaded gun highlights how serious and active a criminal he is.”
The six men convicted over the horror will be sentenced in April.
In its ruling, the SCC noted Sherry died from multiple blows to the head and 27 sharp force wounds.
Mr Justice Kerida Naidoo said the actions of killers Andrecut, Amah and Musueni were “considered, composed and showed they had not lost any self-control”.
And he told how Andrecut took a pause from beating Sherry “to take a picture of him with a mobile phone as he lay on the ground”.
