Amateur referee and author of Your Show on Rennie, Ashley Hickson-Lovence, says Uriah Rennie was an inspiration and a “selfless figure who put the community first” after he passed away aged 65.
Rennie was the Premier League’s first black referee and officiated more than 300 games between 1997 and 2008, including 175 Premier League matches.
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Katie Price has worried fans again after taking to the stage showing off her tiny frame and eye-popping bum lift. The mum-of-five, 46, has admitted to losing weight recently, saying it’s something she ‘wanted to do’.
However, in Saturday’s snaps, the Pricey, who has admitted she suffers from body dysmorphia, sparked concern among her legion of loyal fans when she rocked up to sing at a Pride event in Portsmouth, sporting a tiny black thong leotard, fishnet tights, ankle boots and a sparkly crown with ‘Pricey’ encrusted on it in pink diamonds as the glamour icon belted out her favourite songs.
Addressing the excitable crowd, who she told she was not wearing any underwear, she said: “I could have put some more clothes on couldn’t I! It’s bloody freezing out here. The next song is one of my favourite karaoke songs, you’ll all know it, it’s energetic but sing along.
She continued: “I’ve got no knickers on, so keep checking that nothing’s on show. I keep doing that in case a lip hangs out.”
After that bombshell, Katie also commented on her gravity-defying bottom, promising: “I’m going to get some more in it this week, I want a bigger, better butt.”
Katie spoke candidly about her weight loss last month after fans expressed their concern over her appearance. Admitting that she had lost weight because she wanted to, she said on Rob Moore’s Disruptors podcast: “Yes I’ve lost weight. Yes that what I’ve wanted to do, I’ve wanted to lose weight.”
Explaining why she felt she needed to drop a dress size, she continued: “Because the past three, four years ago when I broke my feet and I was in a wheelchair for 10 months because they said I’d never walk again, and obviously you put weight on being in a wheelchair.
“And then I did all the IVF stuff, that also puts on weight. So yeah I did put on weight and I hated it, I felt uncomfortable and it wasn’t me.
“Now I’ve gone back, now the IVF that’s all come out, and I’m more active because I could do more because of my feet, and I’m horse riding again, then naturally, I’m going back athletic again.”
Praising the star’s figure, Married At First Sight, Ella Morgan, was brought out on stage by Katie in Portsmouth as the two women insisted they ‘loved’ each other despite their connection to JJ Slater. Ella dated JJ, who is now Katie’s boyfriend, when the pair appeared on the Channel 4 show two years ago.
Complimenting each other’s bodies, including their bums and boobs, the pair giggled as Katie joked Ella may have a “designer vagina”.
Katie has raised eyebrows among followers after showcasing her noticeably slimmer appearance on social media, with many expressing concern for her well-being. Since her transformation, she’s been questioned about whether she’s been using Ozempic injections or similar treatments to achieve her appearance, which she has repeatedly denied.
The Mucky Mansion star stressed that her weight loss was achieved by natural methods, revealing she pays close attention to her diet and incorporates more physical activity into her routine.
However, some fans aren’t convinced and begged the self-confessed surgery addict to leave herself alone, insisting Katie is ‘naturally beautiful’ and ‘doesn’t need anything’.
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Russia is working to enhance its economic and military ties in Africa, Moscow has outlined.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declared on Monday that Russia’s presence in Africa is “growing”. The move is part of an ongoing bid by Moscow to step into a geopolitical vacuum in West Africa as Western powers retreat amid a series of military coups in the region.
“We really intend to comprehensively develop our interaction with African countries, focusing primarily on economic and investment interaction,” Peskov told reporters.
“This also corresponds to and extends to such sensitive areas as defence and security,” he added.
Russia’s growing security role in parts of Africa, including in countries such as Mali, Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea, is viewed with concern by the West, and has come at the expense of former colonial power France, whose forces have departed or been expelled from several West African countries over recent years, and the United States.
The Kremlin’s ambition appears undimmed by recent reports that Russian paramilitary group Wagner is leaving Mali after helping the military government fight armed groups.
The Africa Corps, a Kremlin-controlled paramilitary force, said it will remain in the West African country in Wagner’s place.
Mali, ruled by a military government that seized power in coups in 2020 and 2021, has never officially admitted Wagner’s presence, insisting only that it was working with Russian instructors.
During the same period, however, the government broke ties with France and pivoted towards Russia for political and military support.
The Africa Corps was created with support from the Russian Ministry of Defence after Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and commander Dmitry Utkin led a failed mutiny against the Russian army leadership in June 2023 and were killed two months later in a plane crash.
According to several Telegram chats used by Russian mercenaries seen by the Reuters news agency, about 70 to 80 percent of the Africa Corps is made up of former Wagner members.
Replacing Wagner with Africa Corps troops would likely shift Russia’s focus in Mali from fighting alongside the Malian army to training, said Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel programme at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ex-girlfriend ‘Jane’ returned to court for the third time today to resume her testimony for day 18 of the media mogul’s trial.
The rapper’s ex – who has been testifying under pseudonym ‘Jane Doe’ – last week claimed that she and Diddy entered into a “love contract” after their “make-up” trip to Turks and Caicos.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, 55, is currently facing a number of serious charges, including racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution.
He was arrested in September and strongly denies all allegations made against him. He has been in prison since his arrest, and a number of bail requests have been rejected.
Diddy’s defense team called for a mistrial at the weekend based on Bryana Bongolan’s testimony, which they have argued is “demonstrably” false.
Judge Arun Subramanian has responded by saying that he will pick up the motion tomorrow and has granted the government a day to respond.
‘Jane’ told the court on Friday that she and Diddy agreed on a $10,000 monthly allowance, with Jane saying she moved into a house where the rapper paid the rent. When asked by the prosecution who is paying the rent now, Jane confirmed Combs is currently paying it.
Diddy’s ex also claimed that she pleaded with him to stop having freak-offs, telling the court that she took drugs during them because she “didn’t want to feel like it was too real.” She testified that she felt “obligated” at one point to perform those nights and that she was scared that he would stop paying for her house if she didn’t.
She also broke down in tears as she spoke of a traumatising ‘freak-off’ that lasted 18 hours.
‘Jane’ claimed that early in their relationship, she believed that they were going to have a private date night – just the two of them. But Combs told her an “entertainer” would be joining them, assuring her it would be brief. Instead, she testified, the encounter lasted 18 hours.
When it was over, Combs told her he had to leave. That’s when she began to cry. “I just went through all that and was feeling terrible that he was going to leave me alone,” she said.
Prince Harry’s bitter feud with King Charles shows no signs of being healed with their relationship still thought to be at an all-time low. And when it comes to Harry’s fallout with his royal relatives, it seems that his wife Meghan views the row differently than her husband.
While Harry gave a recent bombshell interview, confirming he is no longer speaking to his father, Meghan has remained quiet on the family fallout. Instead, she has appeared to be focused on building her As Ever lifestyle business and lining up new products as well as working on her Netflix show and podcast.
And according to a source close to the couple, despite Meghan firmly standing by Harry’s side, she reportedly wishes he would feel “less burdened” by the past and instead “more present in the life they’ve built together”. The source told PEOPLE that Meghan is focused on the future and is “very business about it” while Harry reportedly has “one foot in the past”.
It comes after Palace insiders revealed one of the key factors that could be stopping the King from making the first move in reconciling with his estranged son.
The feud between father and son is believed to have gone from bad to worse in recent weeks after Harry gave an explosive interview to the BBC after losing another court battle over his security arrangements in the UK.
In that interview, he confirmed that things had got so bad between him and his father, that the King, who is still having cancer treatment, will not speak to him and he does not know “how much longer my father has” left.
It comes after Harry railed against his family in his memoir Spare, where he criticised his father, branded his stepmother Queen Camilla dangerous and claimed older brother Prince William physically attacked him.
Some have suggested that if father and son are to get their relationship back on track, it should be the King to reach out and make the first move. However, a palace insider told PEOPLE magazine one of the reasons why this has not been the case so far – and they claimed it is because those around the King have not “encouraged reconciliation”.
According to the publication, William has shown “no interest” in repairing the rift, Camilla “stays out of it” while even the King’s most personal aide, private secretary Sir Clive Alderton, is “unlikely to push for a personal outreach”.
Respected royal correspondent and author Valentine Low told the publication of Charles: “There is not a good angel in his ear to say, ‘Be a good dad and make the first move’.”
Talking about Harry’s bombshell BBC interview, he added: “It wasn’t meant to be an attack, but it would be seen as one. It makes Charles reach out even harder.”
In his shock interview after losing his security case at the Court of Appeal, Harry admitted: “Of course, some members of my family will never forgive me for writing a book. Of course, they will never forgive me for lots of things.”
Former glamour model Katie Price has revealed that she’d support daughter Princess if she wanted to follow in her footsteps on OnlyFans. It comes as the glamour model mum-of-five prepares to bring back her X-rated alter ego Jordan with the help of new AI technology.
Katie built her career in the 1990s as Jordan, however, after nearly 20 years as her alter-ego, Katie ditched her moniker and career went in a different direction.
Now, mum-of-five Katie has declared ‘Jordan has never gone away’ and is making a comeback. Entrepreneur Katie, 47, has partnered with OChat to resurrect Jordan so that fans will be able to ‘chat’ with the busty model online thanks to AI.
In an exclusive interview with the Mirror, Katie tells us: “The thing is, Jordan has never gone away it’s the media that turned Jordan to Kate, I never did that. But that’s why I do the OnlyFans because I still love posing in front of the camera, posing how I did in the Jordan days. But there’s no magazines and there’s no platforms for that anymore, like in the print world.”
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She adds: “I’m so excited because, like I say, things must have happened for a reason. Because who would’ve thought, three decades ago when I started off as Jordan, that 30 years on there would be such thing as AI so all of the archive I’ve got has been so amazing to use on this platform.” Meanwhile, Katie says she’s excited for the younger generation to meet Jordan for the first time.
“I’m so excited and the younger generation – because I always get asked when I’m live on TikTok and stuff, people are like, ‘Who’s Jordan’ now they’ll get to see who Jordan is, yes, bring her back,” she says.
Although Katie has been taking a trip down memory lane through her archive of Jordan snaps recently, she still feels as sexy as ever at the age of 47. When asked what her secret is, she spills: “Age, for me, is just a number. Yes, I know I have surgery and stuff like that but I don’t have surgery to look younger – I just look fresher. But age doesn’t bother me at all because I still feel as if I’m young. I’m still young-hearted and I still do the things that I want to do, nothing has changed just because I’ve got older and I’m looking forward to turning 50 because I’ll be even sexier at 50!”
As well as her career, Katie also juggles being a mum to her five children; Harvey, 23, Junior, 19, Princess, 17, Jett, 11, and Bunny, 10. And Junior and Princess, who she shares with her ex Peter Andre, have been carving out their own careers in the showbiz industry in recent years. Junior has released his own music while Princess is embarking on an flourishing career in influencing – and even managed to buy herself a £10,000 Audi car from her earnings in recent weeks.
Katie makes her pride of her children no secret as, when asked what she’s most proud of Princess and Junior for she gushes: “How talented they are, how beautiful they are. Beautiful humans inside and out. How well mannered they are.”
The mum is supportive of both their flourishing careers, and revealed that she would support Princess if she wishes to follow down her own career path and join OnlyFans. She teases: “Who knows, Princess may end up doing an AI or OnlyFans platform – but when I ask her – she’s 18 next month – she’s all busy doing her skincare and stuff like that so she… although she’s in the industry and doing her own thing, I was a bit more ballsy and I was more extrovert, does that make sense? [She’s] no exhibitionist like me.
“We’re very alike but she’s more reserved. I think anybody, if you’re 18, can do OnlyFans or this new AI thing because, yeah, anything goes for anyone out there. I think people have got this stigma with the OChat or OnlyFans that it has to be all sexual and it doesn’t at all. All I do on OnlyFans is what they’re basically going to be showing on the AI. Anything I used to do in the Jordan days will be on the AI.”
Whatever path any of her children choose to pursue, Katie will always be there to support and provide advice. When asked what advice she’d give her kids, she reveals: “I speak to them everyday and see them everyday. I would never stop them, they’ve got to work things out themselves.
“All I’d say is, don’t have all your eggs in one basket with management because, you know, it doesn’t work like that. And I think there would be people out there who just want to try and turn them into me but I want her… there’s only one me and there will be only one Princess, I want them to be individuals because the last thing I want is them to say [is], ‘oh you’re just copying your mum, haven’t you got your own identity’.
“But the good thing is Princess has got her own identity. There’s things that she turns down and I’m like, ‘why would you turn that down?’ We are different like that, which is good.
“Junior is an amazing musician, dancer, singer. I’ve got no doubt in him he will make it as a pop star. And Princess, she’s turning 18 next month, just let them enjoy it I don’t want them to feel pressured and they’re doing good, really proud of them.”