Get Me Out of Here Because I’m A Celebrity! Following a “traumatic” tour, singer-songwriter Martin Kemp discovered himself supporting wife Shirlie while she was performing for the pop group Wham!
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Martin Kemp supported wife Shirlie after a ‘traumtic’ trip away with Wham! (Image: Getty Images)
Martin Kemp’s wife Shirlie has opened up about a “traumatic” trip to China that left her needing therapy and a holiday in Florida. The singer, who performed as a backing vocalist for Wham! in Beijing and Guangzhou in 1985, described the visit as “the most shocking experience”.
The performances were a landmark moment for China, marking the first time a Western pop band had played in the country. However, Shirlie was deeply affected by the sight of the Great Wall of China, known as “the longest cemetery on Earth” due to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost during its construction.
Shirlie said, “Everything just upset me in a way, I thought, “Who built this wall?” in a conversation with Travel Secrets The Podcast. Building’s loss of lives was a culture that I was deeply saddened by.
Martin explained that as soon as he started paying for his wife’s therapy, the costs of the trip “mounted up.” He continued, “It cost me a lot in therapy when Shirlie returned from China.” The truth is that.
Shirlie continued, claiming that “something else that was quite traumatic” transpired during the trip, prompting her to demand that she go back. She said, “Martin, take me to Florida, I need to go somewhere brand-new.”
The trip to Florida was not just the therapy, according to Martin, but it was also. Everything was “mountaining up.”
Following Shirlie’s return to the country, the duo headed to America to attend a tennis camp. After spending ten days traveling with George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, she claims it helped her “reset” to normal life.
Wham! captured the historic visit. In China: Foreign Skies, George revealed that the Chinese Minister for Culture had issued a warning to fans to avoid imitating his provocative dance moves.
He continued, “He basically advised the youth that were present to attend the concert and watch it but not learn from it,” which he claimed was utterly absurd.
One of the group’s traveling guests, one of their backing musicians, was the subject of a disturbing incident. Portuguese trumpeter Raul D’Oliveira allegedly had a psychotic episode while Helen “Pepsi” DeMacque and Shirlie stood screamlessly in their path to their second performance.
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According to authorities, he then allegedly forced his way into the cockpit before being restrained by the pilot, who then performed an emergency nosedive. Support vocalist Janet Mooney said in an interview with the Independent: “It was very traumatic for all of us, mostly because we had to land a few times in bad weather, and that wasn’t great, and of course something not very nice was happening to a friend of ours.”
Shirlie reveals she hasn’t been back to China since Wham! ‘s groundbreaking tour. Martin is currently in Australia taking part in I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!
Get Me Out of Here Because I’m A Celebrity! Following a “traumatic” tour, singer-songwriter Martin Kemp discovered himself supporting wife Shirlie while she was performing for the pop group Wham!
3 images to be seen
Martin Kemp supported wife Shirlie after a ‘traumtic’ trip away with Wham! (Image: Getty Images)
Martin Kemp’s wife Shirlie has opened up about a “traumatic” trip to China that left her needing therapy and a holiday in Florida. The singer, who performed as a backing vocalist for Wham! in Beijing and Guangzhou in 1985, described the visit as “the most shocking experience”.
The performances were a landmark moment for China, marking the first time a Western pop band had played in the country. However, Shirlie was deeply affected by the sight of the Great Wall of China, known as “the longest cemetery on Earth” due to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost during its construction.
Shirlie said, “Everything just upset me in a way, I thought, “Who built this wall?” in a conversation with Travel Secrets The Podcast. Building’s loss of lives was a culture that I was deeply saddened by.
Martin explained that as soon as he started paying for his wife’s therapy, the costs of the trip “mounted up.” He continued, “It cost me a lot in therapy when Shirlie returned from China.” The truth is that.
Shirlie continued, claiming that “something else that was quite traumatic” transpired during the trip, prompting her to demand that she go back. She said, “Martin, take me to Florida, I need to go somewhere brand-new.”
The trip to Florida was not just the therapy, according to Martin, but it was also. Everything was “mountaining up.”
Following Shirlie’s return to the country, the duo headed to America to attend a tennis camp. After spending ten days traveling with George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, she claims it helped her “reset” to normal life.
Wham! captured the historic visit. In China: Foreign Skies, George revealed that the Chinese Minister for Culture had issued a warning to fans to avoid imitating his provocative dance moves.
He continued, “He basically advised the youth that were present to attend the concert and watch it but not learn from it,” which he claimed was utterly absurd.
One of the group’s traveling guests, one of their backing musicians, was the subject of a disturbing incident. Portuguese trumpeter Raul D’Oliveira allegedly had a psychotic episode while Helen “Pepsi” DeMacque and Shirlie stood screamlessly in their path to their second performance.
Continue reading the article.
According to authorities, he then allegedly forced his way into the cockpit before being restrained by the pilot, who then performed an emergency nosedive. Support vocalist Janet Mooney said in an interview with the Independent: “It was very traumatic for all of us, mostly because we had to land a few times in bad weather, and that wasn’t great, and of course something not very nice was happening to a friend of ours.”
Shirlie reveals she hasn’t been back to China since Wham! ‘s groundbreaking tour. Martin is currently in Australia taking part in I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serb-majority government, Republika Srpska, casts a snap presidential election on Sunday following the removal of separatist leader Milorad Dodik from office in August.
Dodik was removed after he was convicted for refusing to carry out decisions issued by Christian Schmidt, the international peace envoy who oversees implementation of the Dayton peace agreement that ended the 1992–95 Bosnian War.
Additionally, the court forbade him from running for president for six years and gave him a one-year prison sentence that he avoided by posting bail. The Supreme Court of Bosnia upheld that decision in early November.
In October, the National Assembly of Republika Srpska appointed Ana Trisic-Babic as an interim president until the Sunday election.
What is known about the vote and why it matters, as well.
When will there be a snap election in Republika Srpska?
According to Bosnia’s Central Election Commission (CIK), voting will be open on Sunday, November 23, between 7am (06: 00 GMT) and 7pm (18: 00 GMT). More than 1.2 million people, who come from Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs, are eligible to cast ballots. In previous presidential elections, turnout typically ranged between 50 and 55 percent.
Although Trisic-Babic was appointed as an interim president, the law still requires new elections within 90 days of a president’s removal.
The election resulted in a less than a year of service for Dodik’s successor until the general elections in October.
When will the results be made public?
Preliminary results are expected on election night, but the final official vote count by the Central Election Commission will be announced only after the body also validates all outcomes.
Republika Srpska: What is it?
Along with the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, each of Bosnia’s two main political parties enjoys significant autonomy, is Republika Srpska. The two share equal rights over a small, third self-governing administrative unit within the country, known as the Brcko District.
Bosnian Serb leaders formally established the post-war constitutional structure of Bosnia in 1992 with the signing of the Dayton peace agreement. In 1992, Republika Srpska was established.
The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina forms the majority of Bosnia’s territory, while the Republic of Srpska accounts for about 49% of that territory.
Republika Srpska has its own government, parliament, judiciary and police, but not its own army.
According to the most recent census, which was conducted more than a decade ago in 2013, Serbia accounts for roughly 82 percent of its residents, along with smaller Bosniak and Croat minorities.
Due to the ethnic cleansing of non-Serb communities, it’s demographics dramatically changed during and after the war. Before the conflict, Bosniaks and Croats made up about half of the population in the area that is now Republika Srpska, today, they account for less than 17 percent.
Radovan Karadzic, the country’s first president, was given a life sentence in The Hague for the 1995 genocide against Bosniaks in Srebrenica, a town within Republika Srpska.
What makes elections significant?
The elections come at a highly sensitive time for Bosnia. Republika Srpska has increased its rhetoric to secede from Bosnia in the wake of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, with Dodik, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, increasingly urging the country to secede, possibly joining Serbia.
After his removal from office and his longstanding rule over Republika Srpska’s politics, Dodik will be replaced by these elections. The vote is also a test of how much influence he can still exert, despite being banned from political activity.
The candidates are who?
Six candidates are running for president, four of whom are political parties, and two of whom are independents.
The main contenders are Sinisa Karan of Dodik’s ruling Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), who is directly backed by Dodik, and Branko Blanusa of the opposition Serb Democratic Party (SDS).
Former Republika Srpska interior minister and long-time member of Dodik’s inner circle. In the current Republika Srpska government, he is minister for higher education and scientific and technological development.
According to Radio Free Europe, he was part of a group ‘ tasked ‘ to draft an SNSD plan for Republika Srpska to break away from Bosnia.
Dodik views Karan as an extension of his own authority, according to analysts. Dodik has frequently attended Karan’s rallies.
Blanusa, the SDS candidate, is a member of the party’s Banja Luka City Committee and a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Banja Luka.
Karadzic was the original leader of the SDS, which is now Republika Srpska’s main opposition party. It has long competed for the same electorate as Dodik’s SNSD and is a Serb nationalist party.
While it is critical of Dodik’s style of governance and allegations of corruption, it broadly shares similar positions on key political issues, including relations with the capital Sarajevo and scepticism towards the international overseer of the peace agreement.
Dragan Dokanovic of the Alliance for New Politics (SNP) and Nikola Lazarevic of the Ecological Party of Republika Srpska are the other party-backed candidates.
On the ballot are two independent candidates, Igor Gasevic and Slavko Dragicevic, who have largely remained unaudited.
Who is Milorad Dodik?
Former Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik, 66, is a.
He was supported by Western governments in the late 1990s when he became the organization’s prime minister in 1998. He was viewed as a promising alternative to Karadzic’s hardline nationalist government and the post-war regime’s ruling SDS. Then-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright described Dodik as “a breath of fresh air”, and both the United States and the United Kingdom placed their hopes in him as a more moderate future option.
He was one of the first Republika Srpska leaders to acknowledge the genocide at Srebrenica. Dodik, the head of SNSD since its formation, claimed in a 2007 interview that “there was a genocide in Srebrenica” that he “perfectly knew what took place.
“That judgement was made by the court in The Hague, and that is an undeniable legal fact”, he said.
He has won again in 2022 after serving three terms as Republika Srpska’s president, winning twice in two separate mandates from 2010 to 2018. He was elected to Bosnia’s three-member presidency in 2018 as the Serb candidate.
During this period, however, Dodik adopted a far more nationalist stance, repeatedly calling for the entity’s secession, and denying the Srebrenica genocide – going back on his own earlier admissions.
Dodik signed two contentious bills in 2023 that stated that Republika Srpska would not be able to apply the rulings of the Bosnian constitutional court and the Dayton Agreement peace envoy. Those bills were blocked by the constitutional court and the peace envoy.
In March 2025, the constitutional court issued arrest warrants for Milorad Dodik and several of his allies on charges of undermining the constitutional order. However, a month later, Republika Srpska police prevented State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) agents from entering the Republika Srpska government’s administrative center to arrest Dodik, escalating the conflict even further.
Dodik was removed from office and barred from politics in Bosnia in August. He, however, remains the president of the SNSD party and continues to be its most powerful figure.
On Thursday, April 24, 2019, a member of the police of Republika Srpska’s Special Anti-Terrorist Unit guards a rectory building in Istocno Sarajevo, Bosnia.
Does Bosnia as a whole suffer as a result of the Republika Srpska political crisis?
Yes. The two countries have a strong relationship, and Bosnia is a nation that relies on a power-sharing system. The national level of stability may be impacted by the opposition to state institutions and the rise of secessionist threats.
The early election also strains Bosnia’s economy. In a nation with one of Europe’s smallest economies, the vote is funded by the state budget rather than the organization’s own institutions. The Bosnian Central Election Commission has allocated close to $4 million to the election, or more than six million Bosnian marks.
The UK government, one of the guarantors of , the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords, said at a United Nations Security Council meeting on Bosnia in October that holding presidential elections in the Republika Srpska would give “an opportunity for formation of their new government”, insisting that “the constitutional order and rule of law in Bosnia and Herzegovina must be upheld”.
At the meeting, UK representative Jennifer MacNaughtan said, “We support a focus on constructive and cooperative politics, even between Bosnia and Herzegovina’s two entities.”
Russia, a staunch supporter of Republika Srpska, praised the interim president’s transition to Dodik in October, while also reaffirming Dodik’s position that the Office of the High Representative peace envoy (OHR) should be “permanently closed.”
In conversation with the media, the spokesperson of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said the Russian Federation “wholeheartedly supports” the struggle of the leadership of Republika Srpska against “eroding fundamental principles” of the Dayton peace treaty.
The US has not made an official comment on the elections, but the Department of Treasury has recently lifted sanctions against Dodik, his family, and his allies, including SNDS candidate Karan, for tampering with the Dayton peace agreement. Serb officials in Bosnia have suggested that they were pursuing a more cooperative relationship with the US while still maintaining their close ties with Russia.
Republika Srpska’s strongest ally, Serbia, has taken a more cautious stance than usual. Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vucic, who has been a subject of anti-government protests for almost a year, avoided directly commenting on the elections in an interview with the state-owned Radio Television of Serbia. He stated that he hoped for the Republic of Srpska’s “peaceful” outcome and that everything would “pass peacefully.” He added that Serbia would always be there to help with “infrastructure”.
What might occur following the election?
Dodik’s influence on the SNSD’s Karan would likely continue if he were to win. Speaking to Euronews Serbia, Karan said the vote had been “forced” onto Republika Srpska by the peace envoy Schmidt and that a vote for him is “a vote for President Dodik”.
The Republika Srpska National Assembly also has a sizable majority, thanks to the ruling SNSD.
Under the current leadership, Republika Srpska has become “impoverished, displaced, and isolated,” according to Blanusa of the opposition’s SDS party, and has pledged to make combating corruption in the organization its top priority.
Indeed, the entity faces deep economic challenges. Total gross domestic product (GDP) for the year 2023 was approximately 16 billion Bosnian marks (roughly $9 billion), making up a third of the country’s GDP, according to the Republika Srpska’s Database of Economic Indicators.
Date: Saturday, November 22nd, 2018 at ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Sam Noakes has since resurrected his career to win the world title. He used to work on the railroads and do marathons on whim.
And it is all at the hands of mother Sharon, who sent him to the gym when he was a young adult with too much energy.
This weekend in Saudi Arabia, Maidstone’s Noakes, 28, takes on unbeaten American Abdullah Mason for the vacant WBO lightweight title.
Noakes hopes that Mason’s mother won’t be able to contact the Ohio southpaw if he extends his own unbeaten run and suffers his first defeat in the match-up with the Kent boxer, but it’s his chance to fulfill his ambition to become a world champion.
Noakes’s mother, who is also a professional fighter, has a few more fans than his older brother Sean, who also watches his opponents.
Sharon searched for the Plymouth journeyman on Facebook after he defeated Chris Adaway in his professional debut.
Noakes tells BBC Sport that she and Chris bumped into him again around the middle of their fight and he responded, “Your mum messaged me.”
I called my mother and said, “You can’t be doing this, but I didn’t know what he was talking about.” She witnessed his most recent conflict.
She is undoubtedly a Chris Adaway fan because they have become close friends. possibly more powerful than she is a fan of me.
She has, thankfully, stopped doing it. I don’t want her messaging Mason, even if I win the world title against him.
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Running, railroads, and roofing
Sharon encouraged her sons to box, and she will be at the ringside in Riyadh alongside Noakes’ father John. Soon after graduating from Westree Boxing Club in Maidstone, Noakes won the ABAs in April 2019.
He was invited to Billy Joe Saunders’ WBO super-middleweight title match with Shefat Isufi in Stevenage a month later when Francis Warren, the son of hall of fame promoter Frank, told him he wanted to manage his career.
Noakes turned his attention away from his workdays, working as a roofer, and in fast-food restaurants, to become a professional.
Noakes remarked, “Thinking about those jobs is what keeps me working hard in the gym.” I’m not interested in returning to that.
“It was hard graft, but I did it in fair weather.” You wouldn’t see me if it rained.
When it rains on a roof, you can get back in the van, but you can’t when it’s tough.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020, Noakes had three professional fights and had to temporarily return to work, helping out his brother as a “strapper’s assistant” on the railroad when power was cut to allow electrical line maintenance.
Noakes claimed that the van spent a lot of time.
He would consume snacks and devised a plan to run a marathon the following day to burn them off after one night with a few too many treats.
He said, “I was going to run 20 miles because I felt bad after consuming a lot of garbage.”
Then someone said, “Why don’t you run if you’re going to go that far?”
So I set out for the 26.2 miles with a friend. “I completed it in three and a half hours.
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Noakes has won the British, Commonwealth, and European titles after climbing the ladder using the traditional route. He is unbeaten in 17 fights.
He now takes on the highly regarded Mason, who has a remarkable record of 17 stoppage victories in his 19 victories, while Noakes has stopped 15 of his 17 opponents at the international level.
When the pair sparred earlier this year in London, Noakes and WBC champion Shakur Stevenson have already shared the ring.
Noakes now has the assurance that he belongs with the elite before his chance to win the world title on Saturday night in Riyadh, which will feature David Benavidez’s WBC light-heavyweight showdown with Anthony Yarde.
Noakes remarked, “It was brilliant to get the feedback we received from Stevenson [a person who knows what they’re talking about.”
They were also good, lively rounds. Really, it couldn’t have come at a better time for me. It gave me the assurance that I could combine it with the very best.
As the release of documents about the deceased convicted paedophile financier approaches, a group of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse have spoken out about receiving death threats, which they anticipate will grow.
The survivors of Epstein have demanded accountability and legal support in a statement with the title “What we’re bracing for” that was made public on Thursday.
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“Many of us have already been the subject of death threats and other harm threats. They said, “We are anticipating these to escalate.”
We request that every state and federal law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over these threats conduct an investigation and protect us.
Additionally, they cautioned against repeating accusations of abuse against the victims.
Some of the survivors have recently made strides in their campaigning efforts to make their stories known in public.
President Donald Trump has backpedaled on his opposition to the Justice Department’s release of the files with a sudden about-face last week, dominating the country’s national agenda.
On Wednesday, Trump authorized the Justice Department to release all of the financial records related to the scandalized financier.
The US Senate unanimously approved the legislation one day later.
The department has 30 days to make them public after he passes the legislation.
“Keep fighting,”
Following weeks of heated political debate over whether or not to release Epstein-related records, the development comes.
Some of the most well-known figures in politics, entertainment, and business could be identified from the release.
According to the survivors’ statement demanding full disclosure of the files, “Years ago, Epstein got away with abusing us by portraying us as flawed and bad girls.”
The appeal, signed by 18 named survivors and 10 Jane Does, was written, “We cannot let his enablers use this tactic to escape accountability now.”
We urge our supporters in Congress and the general public to continue fighting to release all available information, not just selected information.
Marina Lacerda, a survivor, says the upcoming release of the files is more than just a chance to win justice.
Lacerda claims that Epstein began sexually abusing her at the age of 14 when she first encountered him at his New York mansion, but she is unable to recall much of what transpired because her life was so turbulent. She now hopes that the records will provide more information about the trauma that so severely altered her adolescence.
She told The Associated Press news agency, “I think the government and the FBI know more than I do, and that scares me because it’s my life and my past.”
In New York City jail cells where Epstein was awaiting trial, he was discovered dead in 2019. He admitted guilt and was found guilty in 2008 of prostitution-related procuring.
Virginia Giuffre, a survivor of the Epstein virus, was reportedly the subject of a campaign of intimidation and threats before she committed suicide in April. Her painful story has been one of the most well-known cases.
As Scotland’s men celebrated their first World Cup appearance in 28 years, the Tartan Army shook the world.
After Kenny McLean lobbed Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel 4-2, the British Geological Survey (BGS) recorded an “extremely small earthquake.”
Moments later, on Wednesday night, the final whistle blew, and there was still a lot of seismic activity.
Three minutes into the third minute of Kieran Tierney’s third goal, a small surge was also discovered just before the final whistle.
British Geological Survey
The game had a formal attendance of 49 and 587.
According to the BGS, the activity produced 200kW of power, enough to power between 25 and 40 car batteries, at a range between magnitude -1 and zero on the Richter scale.
It’s comparable to blasting a football at 900 m/s (2 013 mph) twice.
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Fans of Taylor Swift were also spotted moving during the Murrayfield Stadium trio’s Edinburgh performances last summer.
The BGS claimed that “different site conditions” prevented it from directly comparing the two events.
According to the BGS, there are about 300 natural earthquakes in the UK each year, but only 30 of those have a significant impact on people.
