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Nick Cave has openly explained how the tragic deaths of his two sons caused him to find work repulsive, admitting that it seemed “indulgent” to put music to use.

The Australian musician, who is the composer of Red Right Hand, the soundtrack to Peaky Blinders, lost two of his children in seven years. In 2015, tragedy struck when his son Arthur fell from a cliff near the family’s home in Brighton, aged just 15.

Then, in 2022, Nick’s 31-year-old son Jethro Lazenby passed away days after he was released on bail after attacking his mother. The model, actor and photographer, who only learned that Cave was his father when he was eight years old, had been previously diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Since moving from Brighton to Los Angeles, Cave has since explained how he realized how quickly his grief following the sons’ deaths would be expressed publicly. The songwriter has another son, Earl, with his wife Susie, as well as a son, Luke, with his first wife Viviane Carneiro.

Speaking on Desert Island Discs with Lauren Laverne: “I haven’t had any choice in a way. It became common knowledge, when I started to go outside the house in Brighton, everyone knew. People began to write me letters in my Brighton home telling me about their experiences with the same issues. We are related by our loss, and it just served as inspiration for me to think that if these people could make me feel this way, I might as well.

The frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds said: “It has a lot to do with Arthur and Jethro… It has a lot to do with… I always just thought art was, kind of at the end of the day, everything. I mean, it’s a terrible thing to say, but it was, it was always there. It was always reliable”.

He continued: “And I think after Arthur died, I just shut the office, and I haven’t gone, I just locked it up. It simply turned me off in some way. It seems so indulgent. Although I still put in a lot of effort, I don’t think that’s the end all. I find my responsibility towards my children and my wife and to be a citizen, a husband, these things are the actual animating force behind our creativeness”.

During the interview, Cave reflected on how he handled his father’s death, who passed away when he was just 19 in a car accident. Confessing he used drugs to deal with the realities of losing his father, Cave told Lauren: “I was taking a lot of drugs, drinking a lot and felt ill-equipped to deal with my mother’s pain. I regret that… I was uninformed in these matters.

“I think my approach to things was quite immature. I don’t believe I ever had the ability to express the emotions I had when my father passed away in those days. I just flew away to London and blasted my way through the next 20 years, not sure if I’ve ever managed to figure that out.

Cave describes his 20 years as a heroin addict in the open interview, with isolation and his determination to stop them for the final 10 years. He added:” It in no way aided my creative potential. People frequently claim that they must be creative in order to continue doing what they are doing. This is absolutely untrue, I found at least. My life just opened up like a jack in the box once I stopped being so consumed by that drug.

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On a wild night out with her friend Rylan Clark in London on Saturday evening, Ruth Langsford and her friend enjoyed a lively atmosphere.

The 64-year-old Loose Women presenter was videoed by Rylan showing off her “saucy” moves as she sang along to Montell Jordan’s hit song, ‘ This Is How We Do It. ‘ As Ruth reciprocated by video of the Radio 2 DJ shimmering his hips as she danced to Shakira’s dance classic, “Hips Don’t Lie,” Rachel shared the clips on Instagram.

With the addition of TV personality Lizzie Cundy, who also appeared to be having a memorable night out, Ruth and Rylan both appeared to be having one of the nights of their lives.

Ruth’s weight has decreased by one stone and a half as she adjusts to a new exercise and diet since her split from Eamonn Holmes in May. In a chat with Woman Magazine, personal trainer Laurel Alper observed: “Ruth looks like she’s slimmed down from a size 16 to 14. She’s probably lost about 1st 7lb – you can really see she’s lost weight across her middle, thighs and face”.

Known for being open about her weight and diet, Ruth’s recent social media posts have given followers a peek at her “healthier” approach to the year, showcasing lunches filled with boiled eggs, turkey, and salad, along with her homemade green juice routine featuring ginger, spinach, cucumber, pineapple, apple, and water. “I take this to work most days”, Ruth explained to her followers, insisting it helps her avoid processed foods..

“]It] stops me grabbing unhealthy, processed food. Even when you make a healthy choice and buy a salad, in my experience, they’re mostly leaves! You also get to put everything you like in a good, respectable portion of salad! ENJOY”!

Meanwhile, Rylan started the New Year with a plea for romance on his radio show. With a nod to new beginnings, Rylan casually remarked: “If you’ve got anyone for me, just let me know, yeah? I’m in that mood, you know like new year, I wish I had a little texter”. His colleague Sally]Traffic] was baffled as to why Rylan, who split from Dan Neal in 2021, has yet to secure a partner: “Why can you not find yourself a lovely, lovely other half? Because you’re so lovely”!, reports the Daily Star.

Rylan jokingly replied: “I don’t know where they are! I smell nice, I try my hardest..”. only for Sally to promptly offer words of encouragement: “You look great, you’ve got fantastic clothes”.

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Kirstie Allsopp, renowned for co-presenting Location, Location, Location, has secretly married property tycoon partner Ben Andersen more than 20 years after they first met at a party. Their relationship, spanning over two decades, culminated in a private wedding ceremony in Mayfair, London, earlier this month.

According to The Mail on Sunday, Kirstie and Ben, both 64, planned their wedding until the last minute. The majority of their guests were unaware of the event, and Kirstie wanted to keep the ceremony as private as she could.

The 53-year-old TV personality, who once declared herself “happily unmarried”, previously admitted their children were all the commitment the pair needed. We take a look back at their romantic relationship now that the couple has officially tied the knot.

Controversial first introduction

At a party a potential Conservative MP was attending in 2004, Kirstie and Ben first met. At that time, Ben had recently separated from his wife, Theresa, an Oxford graduate.

Interestingly, Kirstie and Theresa had attended the same school, Bedales, and it was Theresa who introduced them. This connection led to the blossoming of their relationship, but some accused the presenter of “stealing” Ben from his ex-wife.

“I did not]steal him]. Orlando Fraser, a potential Tory MP friend, and I met Ben at a party. Ben’s wife, whom I knew at school and whom he was already separated from, introduced us”, she told the Evening Standard in 2012.

Expanding the family

The couple welcomed their first son, Bay Atlas Andersen, in 2006, followed by their second son, Oscar Hercules Andersen, in 2008. Kirstie also accepted the role of stepmother to Hal and Orion, Ben’s two sons, from his previous union.

In a previous interview, Kirstie revealed that she had put a lot of effort into her relationship with her stepsons. She had previously admitted to being a stepmother in 2021. She wrote, “I can honestly say that I have put more thought and effort into my relationship with my stepsons than anything else in my life,” in a letter to the Daily Mail.

Bay Atlas Andersen is now 18-years-old, while Oscar Hercules Andersen is 16-years-old. Kirstie was criticized last year for allowing her then-15-year-old son to travel interrailing across Europe for three weeks.

Kirstie defended her choice, claiming that the nine-stop tour of Europe was independently planned by him and his friend. In this increasingly risk-averse world, it’s crucial that we find any ways to give our children the confidence that only comes from trusting them, according to her. “Interrailing isn’t on the cards for everyone, but in this increasingly risk-averse world, is’s vital that we find any ways to give them that,” she wrote.

A new home in Devon

In rural Devon, Kirstie and Ben made the purchase and restoration of the home Meadowgate in 2009. The restoration of the property, which had been unused for 39 years, was a part of the television series “Kirstie’s Homemade Home.”

The couple manages both their Devon home and their luxurious residence in West London’s Notting Hill. This Devon abode can be rented for a whopping £2,200 per week for holidays thanks to Kirstie’s Homemade Home and Kirstie’s Handmade Britain.

In a chat with West London Living, Kirstie revealed that she splits her time between Devon and Notting Hill, stating: “Because basically, I think they’re the nicest places to live”.

Happy being unmarried

Kirstie had previously rekindled her relationship with her after rumors surfaced about their lengthy union. Kirstie reportedly stated in an interview that she had no intention of marrying Ben and that they were deeply committed to one another.

“Ben has been married before and so I don’t think he’s in a hurry to do it again”, she previously spilled. “Our child]children] is our commitment to each other. ‘”

She had also admitted that someone she had dated called her “not girlfriend material.” She previously told Stylist magazine: “No one was interested in me in my twenties.

” I had ‘ please marry me ‘ tattooed on my forehead. I needed to get married and have children so badly. “She then, at a later date, told The Mirror:” One chap said, ‘ Kirstie, you will make someone a fantastic wife but you are not girlfriend material’. “

A private union

But despite seemingly being uninterested in marriage, the couple exchanged vows at a discreet ceremony in Mayfair, London. The event was kept private, with most guests unaware until it occurred.

The choice of location held personal significance, as it was where a memorial service for Kirstie’s late father, Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, had been held.

After the “happily unmarried” TV presenter had long claimed marrying her partner Ben Andersen was against the grain, Kirstie Allsopp’s secret wedding came as a surprise.

But this week, mother-of-two Kirstie, 53, shocked fans by announcing she and property tycoon Ben had tied the knot after 22 years together. Kirstie has claimed that she tried to keep the wedding private, but the paparazzi discovered her engagement and waited outside the Mayfair residence.

The Location, Location, Location, Location star took matters into her own hands and released some of their own images of the couple’s unexpected big day after Kirstie and Ben exchanged vows in a Love Actually inspired do. Kirstie and her new husband were captured in a stunning gold sequinned dress in a photo that she shared on social media.

Writing alongside the sweet photo, Kirstie said: “It’s a huge privilege listening to your son give a speech at your wedding, which is one reason Ben &amp, I are looking so cheery in this picture taken by @catherinebradleyphotography.

I appreciate all the kind and interesting comments, but I also felt our wedding should be private, which is luckily the case. Unfortunately, it turned out there was a hidden pap, so I’ve since shared a few of our own photos.

“The upside is that at least I get to thank some of the lovely people who worked so hard, on such a short notice, to make our wedding pretty special.” Kirstie thanked a number of people for helping her dream come true on the day, including the dress designers who added sleeves to her gown after she purchased it during a sale two weeks prior.

I always wanted to marry in the same church as my parents and grandparents, and luckily I already know that we lived happily ever after.

Kirstie’s love life before Ben

Like all couples, Kirstie and Ben have had ups and downs in their story, with Kirstie initially believing she wasn’t “girlfriend material”, after a man she dated made the rude comment. She had a dream job and was ready to start a family before their first meeting. Speaking to Stylist mag previously, she said: “No one was interested in me in my twenties. I had ‘ please marry me ‘ tattooed on my forehead. I needed to get married and have children so badly.

She told the Mirror separately: “One chap said, ‘ Kirstie, you will make someone a fantastic wife but you are not girlfriend material. ‘ I kept going for good-looking s***s”. Despite having bad luck in love, Kirstie had a choice to have a child of her own, declaring in 2014, “I had planned to have a date in mind that I was going to try for a baby and I had lined up a couple of people who I had asked if I could have their child and they said yes.”

Homewrecker rumours

But in 2004, Kirstie’s luck changed, when she met Ben at a party for prospective Tory MP Orlando Fraser. His ex-wife and his ex-friend, Theresa, who he had been separated from for five months, introduced him to him through her former bedales school.

She refuted rumors that she had “stole” Ben from his ex, telling the Mirror in 2009, “Of course people fall in love with other people’s husbands, but luckily when I met Ben and fell in love with him, he was no longer anybody else’s husband.”

Speaking to the Mail at the time, Ben’s ex-wife Theresa, with whom he shares two sons, said: “I love Ben very much and I am terrifically sad that our marriage is over”.

Ben’s refusal to marry again

Just 10 days into Kirstie and Ben’s relationship, he told her he has no plans to get married again, following the breakdown of his first. However, despite telling her it wasn’t his thing, he did say he wanted to have children with her.

Kirstie told the Mirror: “It was almost like a proposal. I thought it was appropriate to say “OK. Ben is a wonderful person who I adore a lot.” In their relationship, Kirstie has acknowledged that Ben still enjoys wearing the trousers, telling Easy Living magazine in November 2011 that “he is happy and the kids have a great time too.” Your marriage to your partner will last a lot longer than your homecoming children will. When your children are young, that relationship might collapse, and you might not be able to save it. So I let Ben decide what we do over the weekend.

She added: “It’s got nothing to do with feminism, it’s to do with consideration, Happiness is about making the people that you love happy. I do put Ben first, but he also puts me first”.

Commitment to stepsons

Kirstie has hit out at stereotypes about step-parents, saying traditionally, stepmothers are seen as “bad news”. But despite negative connotations, she has put “more thought and effort” into her stepchildren than she has anything else in her life.

The presenter says she is a “loving and love” stepmother, having been in her stepsons Orion and Hal’s lives since they were five and two. Writing for the Mail, Kirstie said in 2021: “And it’s not just being a stepmother that is seen as a negative. Some people, in contrast to my own sons, seem to be quite keen to leave off bad reviews about my stepchildren. They seem to believe that I’ll somehow want to hear negative things about my stepsons because they are my brothers, which I most certainly don’t. If anything, I’m more protective of them than I am the younger two”.

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There were two noticeable absences at Jocelyn Wildenstein’s prestigious funeral in Paris last week – the former billionaire’s two children.

One of her closest and dearest members, the Swiss socialite and tycoon’s fiance Lloyd Klein, was present for the private ceremony at Père Lachaise Cemetery. Before making his first public appearance since her passing on Friday at Paris Fashion Week, Klein, 57, joined mourners. He previously disclosed to the media that her children would deliver her ashes to her Kenyan ranch where she would be cremated. Now. He intends to either bury them in a cemetery or keep them close to him, though.

However, her two children, Alec Jnr and Diane, both in their forties, had avoided the funeral following a decades-long feud. During the touching ceremony, there were reportedly no mention of her role as a mother, nor mention of her children, who she had with art dealer ex-husband Alec Wildenstein.

Following the funeral, her partner-of-22-years Klein – who has not spoken to her children since she died – addressed their absence: “Everyone is wondering why they were not at the funeral…They were fully welcome. I sent the details to them, and I prayed that you would pay your mother the last respect. But there was no reply”.

He continued to the MailOnline: “I never heard in my entire life, even if there is some grief between the parents and the children, even if there was a divorce, of children not attending their mother’s funeral”.

Klein controversially claimed: “It’s all about money, of course…At the end of the day, that’s all it is ever about”.

Jocelyn’s high-profile divorce from their father, Alec Sr, a billionaire art dealer, in 1998 appeared to be the catalyst for the fallout between herself and her children. In 1978, the pair eloped to a Russian model’s bed, but she abruptly broke up with her husband when they both realized they were getting married.

After a number of obscene claims, including one that Jocelyn was a wealthy prostitute, their explosive divorce, which resulted in her receiving a $ 2 billion settlement and an annual $100 million from the Wildenstein family, was a success.

Klein contends that Alec Jr., age 17, was subjected to pressure from his grandfather to end ties with his mother or face losing his fortune. Jocelyn’s partner claimed that he had a “teach relationship” with her and that they would never be able to truly reconnect even though he did not completely comply. However, Alec Jr does still run his mother’s ranch, the Ol Jogi Wildlife Conserve, in Kenya.

Meanwhile, according to reports, the conflict with her daughter began years later than her father’s 2008 passing. After his death, Jocelyn stopped receiving the regular payments, which sparked “awkwardness ‘ between mother and daughter.

She allegedly discovered that her daughter had a romantic relationship with the model who her father had allegedly cheated on her with. It is said that their last encounter occurred in 2010 and 2011 and dates back.

According to her partner, the socialite was “almost left” after being “so upset and depressed” by her partner’s claim that she had forced herself to distance herself from her children. Klein claimed she no longer wanted to see them, branding it” terrible “and calling them” monsters”.

According to legend, Jocelyn allegedly spent millions on facelifts that produced high cheekbones and “cat-eyes” that resembled felines. However, she often rejected the claims.

The mother-of-two recently shocked her Instagram followers in September by posting a throwback image that almost made her look disregarded despite the denial. She looked like a Hollywood star in it, and her pose was flawless. Her beautiful blonde hair and on point makeup stunned fans as she held her daughter, Diana, on her lap. Jocelyn was depicted in the photo sporting a fashionable kaftan and smiling contentedly. The woman who allegedly fell under the knife made a world of difference in the event that she made the headlines.

Since 2003, Jocelyn and Klein have been dating. Four years after her messy divorce from French billionaire businessman and art dealer Alec Wildenstein, their romance blossomed.

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Just before the scheduled start of Dancing On Ice, Josh Jones was forced to resign.

The comedian, who had been paired with professional skater Tippy Packard, has quit the competition after sustaining a nasty injury during rehearsals.

Josh Jones was forced to resign from Dancing on Ice after suffering an injury while practicing, according to a message on the official Dancing On Ice Instagram page. Josh and Tippy’s partnership will be greatly missed. We’ll be supporting Josh and wishing him the best of recovery.

Fans were left heartbroken over the news, with one commenting: “Oh that’s so sad. He performed so well last week and had greatly improved. Hope he’s better soon”. While another wrote that dancing on ice is dangerous because many celebrities don’t take the risk. Josh Jones and this series are in bad shape as a result. Although I am aware that DOI won’t do that, I would like to see Chelsee Healey back.

Others agreed, suggesting that Chelsee Healey should be reinstated after he left the sport. One commented: “Aww that’s a shame. I hope he recovers, but then they could always bring back @chelseehealey”.

It comes just after Dame Sarah Storey’s painful injury forced her to leave the show. After breaking her left ankle weeks before the show even began, the cyclist and swimmer shared photos of her leg in a cast on Instagram. She wrote, “Absolutely gutted to have my Dancing on Ice training interrupted in this way, just as my first routine with @slongchambon was really coming together!

Unfortunately, I fracturing my left ankle as a result of an awkward stumble and fall with my left foot stuck on the ice. I’m so fortunate that Sylvain and Coach Stephen Pickavance were there for me, and that the show’s medical staff is truly world-class.

“The Head of Medical @sharonmorrisonuk rushed right away to find me the best surgeon, leaving me with rehab in progress”! Sarah, who has won numerous gold medals at the Paralympics, continued, “I’m working with the ITV team to come up with a plan for what’s going to happen in January and I’ll always be the biggest cheerleader of the awesome group that is the Class of 2025.

In the interim, I’ll be completely focused on all the strength and mobility exercises I need to complete in order to return to full power and, of course, to my bike before the following season! I’ve had to adjust because my career has had so many ups and downs due to both getting hurt and getting sick, and having two babies since then.

“Thankfully, the surgeon said I have strong bones, otherwise things could have been much worse.” I’m so happy I got to start learning to skate with the most amazing people (see photos 4-7). I could not have asked for a more qualified coach and professional partner. So for now my plans might be interrupted….. but you better believe there’s more news to come”!

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