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The Masked Singer’s Mo Gilligan’s slammed as ‘deadbeat dad’ by mother of secret baby

A model who claims he has never seen their 18-month-old son as he prepares to welcome another child with his current partner has labeled the Masked Singer star Mo Gilligan a “deadbeat dad.”

Mo Gilligan has been accused of being a deadbeat dad(Image: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)

Mo Gilligan has reportedly secretly fathered a child – and currently has another kid on the way. The Masked Singer star is currently getting ready to welcome his first child with current partner Taia Tulher, 28.

The mother of his first child has called him a “deadbeat dad” and said he doesn’t see his first born, despite Mo, 37, being excited for his new arrival with his model partner.

Although comedian Mo never made the announcement that he would become a father, it’s believed that he met model Selina Christoforou, 35, online and had a child. She learned about her pregnancy in May of 2023, and the two women were shocked by how cautiously things turned out, according to a source.

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 Taia Tulher and Mo Gilligan
Taia Tulher and Mo Gilligan are expecting their first child together(Image: Hoda Davaine/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

Speaking to the Sun they added: “She found out she was pregnant in May 2023 and it was quite a shock for them both because they’d been fairly careful. But she wanted to have the baby, despite the fact they weren’t actually a couple.

She and Mo see their son semi-regularly, and she adores him. He is excited about becoming a father for the second time and is excited about it. He feels comfortable with Taia and has been with her for a while.

Selina hit out at Mo on social media
Selina hit out at Mo on social media(Image: Semc/Instagram)

However, in a TikTok post that Selina shared on Instagram has added her take – and she is less than complimentary about the TV host’s involvement in their child’s life. Taking to social media, she fumed: “I just finally posted on Instagram about my son’s dad so for your information, if you don’t follow my Instagram I don’t blame you. Um, Mo Gilligan is his dad. Very much in quotation marks.

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Selina Christoforou
Selina says Mo has rarely seen their child(Image: Semc/Instagram)

She continued, claiming that she has met the star’s son a “unbelievable” number of times and that things will improve. She claimed Mo had made it very clear he wasn’t interested in being a father and that she understood that you “can’t make someone be a father.”

Real life Emmerdale couple’s wedding date confirmed three years after engagement

Max Parker and Kris Mochrie are engaged to a couple who first met on Emmerdale’s set when they played on-screen siblings. The couple will get married very soon, and they will get married next week.

Kris Mochrie and Max Parker are set to get married next week(Image: INSTAGRAM)

Former Emmerdale star Max Parker has announced the date of his wedding to former co-star Kris Mochrie. Max, who began a romance with Kris after meeting on the set, has teased that their nuptials are now just days away.

Kris, 40, and Max, 33, who played brothers Lee Posner and Luke Posner respectively on the ITV soap opera, have been together since 2020 after meeting behind-the-scenes. Although on-screen siblings, the two actors, who have both since left Emmerdale, didn’t share any scenes together.

They got engaged just over three years ago, with Max having proposed to his partner Kris in January 2022. They are now preparing to get married next week. The news comes after Corrie star Jack P. Shepherd married his fiancée in a star-studded wedding in Manchester over the weekend.

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Max Parker and Kris Mochrie, both in suits, with a caption about them getting married in a week.
Former Emmerdale cast members Max Parker (left) and Kris Mochrie (right) are set to get married next week(Image: Instagram)

Max announced yesterday that it’s just a week until he married Kris. The actor shared posts on Instagram that confirmed that they are just days away from exchanging vows, three years on from the couple’s engagement.

Max wrote, “7 days and we’re married,” along with a photo of them both donned in suits. In the post that his followers on the platform saw this week, he tagged his fiance Kris, whose tie he was changing.

In addition, Max and Max shared a photo of them toasting to one another in the lead-up to their upcoming wedding. A caption read, “One week til we get HITCHED,” was included in the background photo, which featured a fire.

Photo of glasses raised together with a caption about a couple getting married in a week.
Max posted about their upcoming nuptials recently, three years on from their engagement(Image: INSTAGRAM)

It comes after Kris announced last year that the couple would be getting married in August this year. Alongside an engagement ring emoji, Kris wrote in a post on the platform almost a year ago: “365 days to go & 365 things to do.”

After Max, whom he described as his “best friend,” proposed on a beach in 2022, Kris shared the news with the couple. He claimed he was a “very lucky boy” and that the proposal had been “perfect.”

Kris Mochrie and Max Parker in a selfie.
The couple have been together for five years, after having met on the set of the ITV show(Image: INSTAGRAM)

My best friend’s beautiful soul asked me to marry him yesterday, according to Kris. I can’t even begin to express my happiness. We laugh incessantly, and I’m so grateful that he entered my life because I love him beyond words.

He continued, “I had no idea at all!” But the movie really does speak for itself. My Gran’s mother had inquired about any jewelry that Max had. My grandmother’s locket was still present, and his inside engagement ring has been carved in the middle. What a unique thing.

Kris wrote, “Thank you for the work that brought us together, our incredible family and friends,” as he said at the time. And you all show such incredible love. I have a great chance. OUR MARRIED IS COMING SOON!!! “!

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Court Sentences Ex-Guard, Cook To Death For Killing Ex-Katsina Commissioner

The Katsina State High Court 9, headed by Justice I. Mashi, has sentenced two men to death for the murder of Rabe Nasir, a former commissioner of science and technology.

According to reports, Nasir was killed by hired assassins on December 8, 2021, at his residence in Katsina State’s Fatima Shema Housing Estate.

The former commissioner was poisoned by Tasi’u Rabi’u and Shamsu Lawal, who was the deceased’s former guard, after they failed to steal from him.

Due to medical examination revealing poison in the deceased’s body, police evidence revealed that he had been poisoned.

The court also sentenced another former guard, Sani Sa’adu, to five years in prison for omitting the truth about the murder, in addition to the two convicts’ death sentences.

Additionally, the court found Gift Bako guilty of the crime despite the lack of conclusive evidence.

Her lawyer praised the court’s decision, stating that it was based on the truth.

Meanwhile, both the defense and prosecution attorneys pleased with the outcome of the trial.

Ahmad Kankia, the convicts’ attorney, pleaded for leniency, citing the fact that they had dependents and families.

The prosecution’s attorney, however, claimed that the verdict was fair and that justice had been rendered and that it was in line with the law.

After the court’s decision, it was discovered that the prisoners’ security personnel reportedly shook them in the face.

After her acquittal, Gift Bako’s family and attorneys saw both smiles and relief.

During the 2021 administration of former governor Aminu Masari, Nasir held the position of Commissioner for Science and Technology in Katsina State.

Prior to joining the Department of State Services, he had previously served as an officer in the House of Representatives for Mani and Bindawa Federal Constituency in 2003.

In December of this year, he was killed when he returned to his Katsina home, where the police immediately launched an investigation and detained a suspect in connection with the crime.

Brady queries Rooney’s ‘work ethic’ at Birmingham

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During Wayne Rooney’s time as Birmingham City manager, where Brady is a minority owner, NFL legend Tom Brady has questioned Wayne Rooney’s attitude.

In a new Amazon Prime documentary series that will debut on Friday, Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl champion, says, “I’m a little worried about our head coach’s work ethic,” before adding, “I don’t have great instincts on that.

Following a visit to the club’s training facility in November 2023, Brady made his comments about Rooney. He also refers to Blues players as “lazy and entitled” in the series.

The former quarterback and his manager, Rooney, appear awkward on camera.

The former Manchester United and Everton striker tells his employer about some of the club’s cultural issues in one exchange.

Because we’ve all passed a ball, kicked the ball, and ran, Rooney claims, but it’s a focus that lasts 90 minutes. “They’re playing in the Championship, not the Premier League,” he says.

Brady is filmed watching a training session during the subsequent scenes, saying, “We have a long way to go.”

In August 2023, the retired quarterback, who is regarded as the best player in NFL history, became a minority owner of the organization following Knighthead Capital Management LLC’s (now owned by Tom Wagner) takeover of the same company last month.

After working with seven managers in ten months, the club was relegated to League One in its first year.

The Blues were ranked sixth in the Championship two months after Brady arrived in 2023 when John Eustace was controversiously replaced as manager.

Rooney only lasted 83 days in charge of St Andrew’s, the club then dropping to 20th in the table.

Fans of the Blues speculated during the series that the ownership wanted to “put a load of eyes on Birmingham City” by claiming that the appointment had been motivated by a desire to hire “one of the most recognisable English footballers of the last generation.”

What makes Wayne a good manager of Birmingham City, Collins asks? Nothing”.

Brady also considers the owners’ disastrous first season in charge.

He said, “You guys have time, listen, don’t go in there and make these big, sweeping changes,” according to the good advice I received.

Relegated players Brady: “lazy and entitled”

Birmingham dropped out of English football’s top two tiers for only the third time in their history as a result of their championship demise at the end of 2023-24.

Brady blames the players for the errors he makes throughout the series.

The players are actually the ones who are being affected, he says, “because we’ve already changed the coach.”

They were entitled, and when you’re lazy and entitled, you don’t have much of a chance to succeed.

There will be a lot of people leaving this summer, according to the saying, “We have to change all the people that are associated with losing.”

The club made an unprecedented $30 million in transfers during the summer, making it the highest transfer budget in League One.

Brady struggles to locate the Blues’ training facility.

Brady’s manager Ben Rawitz makes fun of the NFL legend trying to locate the Elite Performance and Innovation Centre on a map while traveling to Birmingham’s training facility during one scene.

Rapwitz later compared the facilities to a “high school,” saying, “That’s the owner right there, he doesn’t know where his training facility is.

Wagner’s ambition is “larger” than Wrexham’s.

Wrexham co-owner Rob McElhenney and Birmingham City minority owner Tom BradyImages courtesy of Getty
The series makes comparisons to rival Championship club Wrexham, who have won three straight titles since Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney took control of the Welsh club for a fee in February 2021.

Wagner refutes the notion that the two clubs belong to the same class.

He claims that they did a fantastic job of bringing attention to a small club.

From our perspective, the club we have is a bit smaller than what we currently have because it’s already a very large club. More ambitious goals are being put forth for us in relation to what we’ll construct than Wrexham’s plans.

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Trump’s tariffs forge ‘feeling of big betrayal’ in Canada’s manufacturing

At the Windsor, Ontario engine plant of Ford Motor Company of Canada, where she has spent the past 30 years, Kristin Lawton, 53, has worked for the company for 30 years in health and safety.

In Windsor, a major industrial hub close to the US border near Detroit, Laurie is a fourth-generation auto worker.

Her husband, her son, and both of her great-grandfather worked for Ford, which employs them today.

According to Lawton, who currently works in health and safety at the factory, “these are really well-paying jobs.”

For employees at this place, it will change their lives. ”

More people work in manufacturing jobs at Windsor than anyone else, or 19% of the workforce. Tariff threats are currently affecting those workers and employers in Canada’s industrial heartland.

President Donald Trump imposed 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum in March, and the same tariffs on automobiles weeks later. He increased the duties on steel and aluminum in June. He is also threatening to tax copper at a 50% ; beginning on Friday.

Trump has until May 30 to reach a deal with Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney. or pay 35 percent tariffs on all products deemed to be incompatible with the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) by 2020, in addition to previous duties.

Trump slammed Canadians’ hopes for a reprieve last Friday.

Trump said that Canada might just pay tariffs. Not really a negotiation, she says. ”

The European Union agreed to pay 15% duties on the majority of European exports on Sunday following the same deadline.

Long-established US and Canadian manufacturers are anticipating the worst, just like industry-dependent communities.

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s senior director of manufacturing, Alex Greco, said, “Volatility continues to be the new certainty.”

Confidence loss

Lawton’s coworkers were “all on edge,” according to her. Trump’s first tariffs were the result of her efforts.

Her plant produces engines for US-based companies in Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan, with some of its components coming from abroad.

It definitely has a real human impact, she said, not least of which is in our region, which is the center of all Canadian manufacturing. ”

Krysten Lawton, one of Canada’s auto workers, is concerned about the impact of tariffs on their jobs.

1. of Canadian manufacturers are employed. 7 million people, or one-tenth of the nation’s gross domestic product, exported 356 billion dollars ($257 billion US) of goods to the US last year, with 530,000 manufacturing jobs directly tied to exports.

Over 30,000 direct export-dependent jobs were created out of 62 billion Canadian dollars ($45 billion) of that. Nearly 10,000 jobs were created in Canada thanks to exports of 13 billion Canadian dollars ($9 billion) of domestically produced aluminum. Steel and iron costing 4 billion Canadian dollars ($6 billion), creating nearly 6,000 jobs.

Trump’s volatile approach, according to Greco, “just lowers overall investment confidence, lowering confidence in cross-border supply chains,” stifling many businesses’ expansion plans.

Job impacts are delayed by official data. However, this year, thousands of people have been laid off in the metal and automotive industries.

According to Centre for Future Work director and economist Jim Stanford, Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) decreased in April, primarily in manufacturing, which has already had a significant impact.

He said, “The tariffs themselves, and probably more importantly, the uncertainty surrounding the tariffs, are definitely hitting home.”

Only 11% of voters believe Trump will negotiate in “good faith” amid the tariff whims that he has implemented have caused concern among workers, employers, and voters.

The harm could be worse, according to Catherine Connelly, the director of McMaster University’s Center for Research on Employment and Work.

She noted that employment is actually rising without widespread layoffs or inflationary changes.

The business professor in Hamilton, Ontario, said, “We are in the point where anything can happen.” However, it appears that there will be some sort of tariffs.

No company has ever desired this, according to the statement. ”

If tariffs are kept, the auto industry will suffer.

Since the Canada-US Auto Pact of 1965, car factories along the Michigan-Ontario border have grown increasingly congested.

Julian Vikan Karaguesian, a professor of economics at McGill University and a member of the Canadian finance ministry, praised the country’s 60 years of integration as a source of information on trade issues, including those at the US embassy.

It will hurt if these tariffs continue, according to the statement. ”

Workers are concerned, especially younger ones, who have less seniority protections and are paying more, according to John D’Agnolo, chair of Unifor’s Auto Industry Council.

The long-time Ford employee and unionist called it “funny.” They are concerned, they say.

They must ensure that their families are looked after. ”

Greco predicted that industry slowdowns would “ripen” across auto-dependent regions.

He said that companies will have to make difficult choices. There is still a chance of a recession, according to the article. ”

There are exceptions for North American-made parts, according to experts.

According to Stanford, the US tariff on cars is supposed to adjust for the car’s US-made content, Stanford said. However, industry is actually just scratching their heads. ”

‘Cascading impacts ‘

Tariffs on raw metals for cars will have “cascading impacts,” according to Greco, even for USMCA-compliant auto parts.

Canadian steel accounts for a quarter of the country’s imported steel, and aluminum accounts for more than half.

Steel coils and a flag of Canada are seen in the factory before Canada's Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney visits the ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel mill in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
[File: Carlos Osorio/Reuters] The US imports a quarter of its steel from Canada.

One region houses one-third of the workforce in Ontario, “the heart” of the metal industry.

Nearly 12,000 people work in the metal manufacturing industry on the peninsula that surrounds Hamilton, Canada’s “steel capital.”

Steel is particularly important to Hamiltonians; It’s a sizable sector, Connelly said. The businesses are extraordinarily resilient, according to the company.

No one, however, ever imagined that a situation like this might arise. It’s undoubtedly a shock. ”

Zehns of thousands of metalworkers are represented by the United Steelworkers. Marty Warren, its national union director for Canada, warns that “a lot is at stake” for members who produce goods “from the moment you are born caskets for your final day.”

Many of his members are concerned about their chances of finding “great-paying jobs” that “support communities”.

He noted that it definitely sparked some anxiety. The membership is frightened of the fact that, “Should I be saving my money for the dark times?” ’”

Carney imposed his own steel tariffs on a number of nations on July 16 to “ensure Canadian steel producers are more competitive.”

The Canadian Prime Minister should take more steps to safeguard domestic industries, according to unions.

What would be a nation without a domestic steel industry, Warren remarked. ”

The labor movement was polarized.

One thorn in the highly unionized manufacturing sector of Canada: US labor leaders support Trump’s “America First” economic agenda. The head of the United Auto Workers endorsed “restoring American jobs”.

Do we find it shocking? D’Agnolo remarked. We work well together, of course, so we’re proud of ourselves. ”

Lawton, a Ford employee, uses less diplomatic language to refer to pro-tariff leaders as “chameleons” for their resolute criticism of Trump.

You have people who will support him one day and oppose him the next, according to her. It would actually have a much greater impact on the US than it would ours.

Lawton objected to Ford’s decision to relocate US workers to Canada in 1905.

She claimed, “We have never taken any American jobs.” But once you hear it repeatedly, you begin to believe it. ”

After decades of declining manufacturing, Trump allegedly sparked a “hearing of big betrayal” among blue-collar Americans. He said, “It’s not clear he’ll be able to tariff his way back to America because he’s a major manufacturer.” Shortcuts are hardly ever effective. ”

U.S. President Donald Trump walks with North American Flat-Rolled Segment Senior Vice President and Chief Manufacturing Officer Scott Buckiso, Plant manager of Irvin and Fairless Plant Donald German and Mon Valley Works United Steel Corporation Vice President Kurt Barshick, as he visits U.S. Steel Corporation–Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Trump’s administration claims that tariffs will bring jobs back to his nation [File: Leah Millis/Reuters]

You must be able to bounce, the saying goes.

Before becoming the Bank of Canada, Karaguesian held the position of head of Carney’s finance department.

Even though he has been dealt a very difficult hand of cards, he considers Carney to be “very clever economically, politically, and strategically”

Carney will have to make a compromise, but not without cost.

We will have to draw a line in the sand, Karaguesian said, if we want to remain a sovereign nation. ”

According to a poll, two-thirds of Canadians favor Carney making “hard concessions” and refusing them.

Lawton describes manufacturing as a “roll coaster” in Windsor, an auto-dependent community.

You get a layoff after buying your first home, thinking about starting a family, and then bang, she said.

Young workers worry the most about her. She urges her children to diversify their skills and not rely on one source of income to weather the storms of manufacturing.

Similar advice would she offer Carney.

She said, “You have to be able to bounce.” Because of the roller coaster ride, I don’t want to give cars to my boys.

Gov Alia Dissolves Exco, Appoints New Chief Of Staff

The Benue State Executive Council has been disbanded, according to the governor of Benue State, Hyacinth Alia.

Moses Atagher, a former two-term attorney general of the state and justice commissioner, was also appointed as the new chief of staff.

Atagher, a seasoned administrator, was also a former acting managing director of the Federal Mortgage Bank, according to a statement released by the governor’s chief press secretary, Tersoo Kula, on Wednesday.

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His appointment comes into effect right away, according to a statement.

At the conclusion of the Benue State Executive Council’s 12th meeting (2025), the governor made the announcement.

He (Alia) thanks all the former commissioners who have served under his watch for two years. They are only acting as a bridge between the system and the party, allowing candidates to be chosen to contribute their quota.

The governor stated that the dissolution only affects commissioners, aside from the Chief of Staff.

Bemsen Mnyim applauds the governor for giving the dissolved commissioners the opportunity to serve the state by expressing his gratitude to the governor.

Everywhere you are called to serve is a school, he says, “at every stage of life.” Working with you has taught us a lot. “