In the midst of a furious backlash from trolls, some Josie Gibson shares her thoughts on Olivia Attwood’s most recent role as host of This Morning.
Josie Gibson Olivia Attwood over This Morning job(Image: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Josie Gibson has hit back at trolls in defence of Olivia Attwood after she became the victim of cruel jibes following her new presenting role on This Morning. Fans of the ITV daytime TV show have even threatened to boycott the show reportedly due to her rise to fame from Love Island, in 2017.
The 34 year old TV personality, who has since gone on to be a panellist on Loose Women and host her own podcast, had appeared on the third series of the reality TV show. But Olivia is not the first person to have a reality TV background, so too has Josie Gibson, Alison Hammond and Rylan Clark.
Both women were on Big Brother and Rylan shot to fame from X Factor. So it’s perhaps understandable why Josie, 40, has decided to break her silence. It comes after it was announced that Olivia had landed yet another huge TV job.
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In an interview with The Sun, the mum of one who appeared on Big Brother in 2010, said: “Oh my God she’s brilliant. It’s brilliant she gets to do this and I think she’s really good. Yeah, really good. Honestly, you get some backlash like that in this industry and I really don’t know why people do it.”
You know, I’ll never understand why people do it, she continued. I’ve always enjoyed seeing people succeed, and I genuinely enjoy it. Do you know what I mean when I say, “I love it when people succeed, and I want to make sure everyone has a go on the horses?”
While on This Morning to discuss her new TV show The Price of Perfection in June, Olivia revealed her news to hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shepherd.
Olivia Attwood accepts a new role on This Morning as the anchor.
Ben elicited the former Love Island star with the statement, “We have some big news about This Morning and you in the summer.”
Olivia responded, “Yes, I have some news, it’s very exciting. On the other side of the sofa, I’ll be joining you guys as the host.
The TV duo then made a gesture to Olivia to “feel what it’s like” by reclining on their side of the couch.
The newbie said, “This is even more surreal,” as she climbed up to change her seat.
Cat thanked the newcomer to the presenting team, saying, “We look amazing together.” Olivia then asked Cat, “Shall we do a show together?”
The panelist for Loose Women gives more information about her announcement, saying, “I’m very excited, it’s a huge honor. It’s a couple of shows. This just seems like a very natural progression because I’ve grown up watching this show and being a member of the Loose Women ITV presenting team has been a great experience.
When Ben and Cat take a break for their six-week vacation, Olivia was hired.
But her new role divided fans. One person wrote: “So Attwood is going to be co-hosting #ThisMorning over the summer. FFS like we don’t get enough of her on #Loosewomen, surprised they haven’t asked that talentless Sam Thompson to step in as well!”
Another questioned, “How many viewers do they want to lose?” It was a terrible choice for Attwood to join the team.
The presenters decide to take on Olivia Attwood just when you think they can’t get any worse, according to another.
Meanwhile, a fourth song, “Well done… That’s another step downhill for this show!” was written in the background. Who else will host over the summer, I wonder?
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Not everyone, however, thought that her inclusion was a bad idea. Olivia Attwood will be fantastic, according to a fan of the ITV show.
And a second later said, “Love Olivia, will undoubtedly be tuning in.”
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Last of Us actor Pedro Pascal made an appearance at a screening of the reboot of the 80s parody film Naked Gun, which was made fun of by Liam Neeson.
Naked Gun star Liam Neeson’s cheeky dig at man-of-of-the-moment Pedro Pascal(Image: Variety via Getty Images)
The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal is one of the most prolific actors in Hollywood at the moment, with the Chilean-American actor about to take on one of his biggest roles to date in the new Marvel movie Fantastic Four.
And even Liam Neeson couldn’t help himself, with the Naked Gun star making a cheeky dig about him at an early screening for his new movie.
Neeson, 73, is starring as Frank Drebin Jr in the 80s parody’s reboot, which is out in cinemas today, with r eviewers hailing it a “masterclass”. Speaking at the New York screening, a video of the star has done the rounds on social media.
Posted by entertainment reporter Jonathan Sim, the clips shows Neeson thanking his audience for going to see the movie. He jokes that the needs them to “please laugh out loud” at the funny moments. It comes after Taylor Swift sparks engagement rumours as fans spot Travis Kelce’s lock screen
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Fans are laughing at Neeson’s quip, “There are no zombies, no superheroes, and Pedro Pascal isn’t in this movie.”
His joke makes it clear that Pascal’s career seems to be on the upswing after 20 years of playing smaller roles on TV and stage. The 50-year-old cast has appeared in numerous new productions.
Those roles however have included the lead in Netflix series Narcos as well as Star Wars series The Mandalorian and HBO’s hit show The Last of Us. He has also featured in films such as Wonder Woman 1984, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and Gladiator II.
Every director wants a piece of man-of-the-moment Pascal(Image: Variety via Getty Images)
Along with Dakota Johnson, he will appear in the romantic comedy Materialists and Modern Western Eddington this year. His net worth, according to Parade magazine, is around $10 million based on his recent success.
Pascal has managed to keep his private life largely a secret despite his high profile. In March, he made headlines after being spotted tying up with Jennifer Aniston, a former Friends star.
The pair were spotted together in Los Angeles at a dinner that “lasted three hours”, as reported by The Mirror. They then spent the night at the Tower Bar at the Sunset Hotel in West Hollywood.
According to photos taken by the Daily Mail, Aniston and Pascal arrived separately at 8 p.m. and left separately three hours later. After engaging in conversation outside the parking valet area, the two quickly parted ways.
Pascal and Aniston’s dinner date comes amid rumors that he might join her Apple TV show, The Morning Show. Pascal is reportedly single despite dating rumors.
Neeson is rumoured to be romantically linked to former co-star Pamela Anderson(Image: Getty Images for SiriusXM)
Liam and Pamela Anderson have remained unmarried, but they are also keeping their relationship status a secret. Natasha Richardson, a British actress, and Neeson were married from 1994 until she tragically passed away in 2009 due to a head injury.
The close bond between Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson has been the topic of conversation around the world as the pair continue to remain silent over whether or not they’re in a relationship. But it looks as though the writing was on the wall as far back as last year when the Taken star declared his love for the former Baywatch icon.
Liam, 73, openly admitted to being “madly in love” with the mother of two in an interview with People magazine.
He stated to the publication at the time, “First of all, I’m madly in love with her.” She is simply fantastic to work with, he continued. I’ll be open and honest with you about how much I can recommend her. No soaring egos. She simply arrives to do the work. She is incredibly simple to work with and funny. She’ll do a fantastic job in the movie.
According to reports, Newcastle have rejected Liverpool’s initial offer to sign tense Swedish striker Alexander Isak.
After reportedly telling Newcastle he wanted to leave St James’ Park, Isak has been training at his former club Real Sociedad this week.
The Premier League champions are now believed to have formalized their interest with an offer of about 110 million pounds ($146 million) plus potential add-ons after the 25-year-old has been linked with Liverpool since the end of last season.
However, Newcastle, who reportedly valued Isak at 150 million pounds ($199 million), have rebuffed Liverpool’s initial offer.
Isak, who moved from Real Sociedad to Newcastle in a 60-million-pound ($80m) deal in 2022, scored 23 Premier League goals last year to help them advance to the Champions League.
He has three more years on his Newcastle contract, but the club reported that he had a minor thigh injury and did not travel to Asia for the Magpies’ preseason tour.
Real Sociedad confirmed on Thursday that he and his trainers were at Zubieta.
Newcastle reportedly told Isak he could agree to a new deal with a clause for the following year, but he insisted he wanted to move right away when it was reported on Friday.
In the wake of the current transfer window, Liverpool manager Arne Slot has already increased his attacking options by signing Bayer Leverkusen playmaker Florian Wirtz and Eintracht Frankfurt striker Hugo Ekitike.
In order to win back-to-back English titles for the first time since the 1980s, the Reds are eager to add Isak to their forward line, which will only make it stronger.
Eddie Howe, the manager of Newcastle, made a defiant statement earlier this week, saying: “He is still our player. He has a contract with us.
We have some control over what comes next for him, to some extent. I’d like to think that we have every chance still.
“I want him to stay, but I don’t have complete control over that.”
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According to official reports from both sides, fighting broke out between the long-ago armies of Uganda and the neighboring South Sudan, which are both long-time allies.
Thousands of civilians have since been displaced in affected areas as people fled to safety amid the rare outbreak of violence.
A gunfight broke out on Monday as South Sudan, one of the youngest nations in the world, resumed fighting due to a government fracturing that has prompted fighting between South Sudanese troops and a rebel-armed group.
By deploying troops to support Kiir’s forces, Uganda has played a key role in containing that issue. However, the latest conflict between the two countries ‘ armies is raising questions regarding the state of that alliance.
In May 2020, a truck approaches a checkpoint at the Uganda-South Sudan border. [Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images]
What has occurred?
There are conflicting accounts of the events that began at about 4: 25pm local time (13: 25 GMT) on Monday, making it hard to pinpoint which side struck first.
Although the two parties acknowledge that the location of the fighting is their own, each party asserts that the location is unique.
Major-General Felix Kulayigye, a spokesman for the Ugandan military, claimed that fighting broke out when West Nile state soldiers entered Ugandan territory and set up camp there. The South Sudanese soldiers refused to leave after being told to do so, Kulayigye said, resulting in the Ugandan side having “to apply force”.
According to Kulayigye, a Ugandan soldier was killed in the skirmish that followed, and the Ugandan side then retaliated and opened fire, killing three South Sudanese soldiers.
However, Major-General Lul Ruai Koang, a spokesman for the South Sudanese military, reported earlier on Tuesday that the “two sisterly republics” had engaged in combat on the South Sudanese side in Central Equatoria’s Kajo Keji County. Both sides suffered casualties, he said, without giving more details.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Kajo-Keji County’s Wani Jackson Mule added that Ugandan forces had launched a “surprise attack” on South Sudanese territory to support this claim. Five South Sudanese officers’ bodies were reportedly counted by local authorities, according to Mulle.
Kajo-Keji County army commander Brigadier General Henry Buri, in the same statement as Mule, said the Ugandan forces had been “heavily armed with tanks and artillery”, and that they had targeted a joint security force unit stationed to protect civilians, who are often attacked by criminal groups in the area. Two South Sudanese soldiers, two police officers, and one prison officer were among the deceased men, according to the army general.
Residents who spoke to the media claimed that the fighting had affected border villages and that panic was eerily present when people fled the area and loaded their belongings quickly onto their backs. Children were lost in the chaos. As local priests supervised the removal and transportation of remains, photos of crowds gathered on social media.
[Al Jazeera] Map of Uganda and South Sudan
What is the border conflict about?
Although there have been few such instances of conflict between Uganda and South Sudan, their previous clashes have been minor. The fighting frequently features tension and violence, just like the Monday clash. However, heavy artillery fighting, which occurred on Monday, is rare.
The border disputes date back to the delimitations made during the British colonial period between Uganda and Sudan, which South Sudan was once a part of. The two nations have failed to come to terms on border points despite establishing a joint demarcation committee (unknown when).
A representative of the South Sudanese army refuted the allegations and suggested the forestry commission was responsible for the attack. A few days later, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni and South Sudan’s Kiir met and promised to work through the border dispute, but that was a foregone conclusion.
Little was reported on the matter for several years after that, but in October 2020, two Ugandan soldiers and two South Sudanese soldiers were killed when the two sides attacked each other in Pogee, Magwi County of South Sudan, which connects to Gulu district of northern Uganda. Territories in the region are at odds with. Three South Sudanese people were reported dead, according to some reports. Each side blamed the other for starting the fight.
The Ugandan parliament urged the government to speed up the demarcation process in September 2024, noting that in parts of rural Uganda, insufficient clarity was preventing Ugandan forces from successfully pursuing criminal cattle rustling organizations operating in the border region.
The nations have pledged to form a new joint committee to investigate the clashes following the most recent uprising this week, according to South Sudan’s military spokesman General Koang in a statement on Tuesday. The committee will also investigate any recurring issues along the border in a bid to resolve them, the statement read.
On Sunday, February 5, 2023, President Salva Kiir, right, and Vice President Riek Machar, left, attend a mass led by Pope Francis at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan.
Why does Uganda support President Kiir of South Sudan militarily?
Uganda’s Museveni has been a staunch ally of South Sudan’s independence leader, Kiir, and his Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party for many years.
Following allegations of collusion between former Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group that was established in Uganda but regularly attacks both Ugandan and South Sudanese locations as part of its efforts to overthrow the Ugandan government, Museveni backed South Sudan’s liberation struggle.
In January 2011, South Sudan was granted independence. In 2013, Uganda sent troops to support Kiir after a civil war broke out in the new country.
Before and after independence, Riek Machar, Kiir’s longtime rival, and the two parties’ allies, had engaged in conflict over allegations that Machar planned a coup.
The tensions were also exacerbated by ethnic differences between the two (Makar is Nuer and Kiir is Dinka). Machar fled the capital, Juba, to form his own Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO).
Before coming to a peace agreement in August 2018, the SPLM and SPLM-IO fought for five years. In the war, 400 000 people were killed, or so. Uganda deployed troops to fight alongside Kiir’s SPLM, while the United Nations peacekeeping mission (UNMISS), which was in place following independence, worked to protect civilians.
However, a power-sharing agreement that the government claims is supported by Machar has been broken, and fighting has erupted between South Sudanese forces and the White Army, an armed group in Nasir County, northeast of the nation.
As fears of a new civil war grew, Uganda once more deployed special forces to fight alongside Kiir’s forces in March. Kiir ordered Machar to be placed under house arrest and also detained several of his allies in the government.
During the country’s civil war, Jikany Nuer White Army fighters were armed in Upper Nile State, South Sudan, on February 10, 2014.
Are there concerns about South Sudan’s influence from Uganda?
Some South Sudanese who support Vice President Machar, who is still under house arrest, are opposed to Uganda’s deployment of troops in the country, and say Kampala is overreaching.
Some South Sudanese have taken to Facebook to criticize the army for not condemning alleged territorial violations committed by Ugandan soldiers and mock the spokesman Koang for calling the countries “sisterly.”
One poster wrote, “I wish the escalation would continue.” “The reason why South Sudan is not peaceful is because of Uganda’s interference in our country’s affairs”.
What did South Sudan anticipate when they subsided with Uganda’s cheap sale of their sovereignty? Added a second commenter.
Since joining forces to fight the rebel White Army, South Sudanese forces and the Ugandan Army have been accused by Machar and local authorities in Nasir State of using chemical weapons, namely barrel bombs containing a flammable liquid that they say has burned and killed civilians. The UN mission’s head, Nicholas Haysom, confirmed that the bombs had been used in airstrikes. Uganda has, however, refuted these claims. The South Sudan army has not commented.
The White Army and other Machar-area forces have been accused of also attempting to kill civilians. Since March, at least 100, 000 people have fled northeastern South Sudan and died.
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