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Molly-Mae Hague turned down huge job for deeply personal reason – and it’s not Tommy
At the L’Oreal Paris show on Monday night, Molly-Mae, 26, made her catwalk debut along with Heidi Klum, Cara Delevingne, and Kendall Jenner. However, she turned down the opportunity last year for a somber reason.
Molly-Mae Hague has revealed the heartbreaking reason why she turned down the chance to walk alongside super models last year as she finally makes her debut in Paris.
The former Love Island contestant has been a L’Oreal ambassador for a year after signing a reported seven-figure deal with the make-up and skincare giant, walking down their catwalk in a silver satin gown and sparkling heels on Monday night. Molly-Mae, 26, had been asked to walk in the September 2024 Paris show but turned down the opportunity.
Spilling all in her Prime reality show Molly-Mae: Behind It All, she said: “They did ask me to walk but I said no. It’s just not my bag.” She was seen telling L’Oreal make-up artists backstage at the runway show. “These legs weren’t cut out for this.”
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Kendall Jenner and other top models were glancing at each other during rehearsals when she said, “I’m looking at everyone in here and they’re absolutely impeccable.
I just felt very out of place if I had seen all the models walking down and then there was me.
Molly explained that her self-assurance has declined since having her daughter. On the show, she said, “I think having Bambi made me go on a real journey with my body.”
I wake up on days without feeling great. My hips are now much wider, and I’ve had a lot of stretch marks. Every day, there is a need to appear certain ways.
I just felt like I wouldn’t have the confidence to walk on the catwalk, despite the fact that this show is all about empowering women and empowering people of all shapes and sizes.
However, it seems as though the mother has since found her self-assurance after posing alongside Heidi Klum, Cara Delevingne, and Kendall Jenner.
Molly has been open about her confidence struggles online since giving birth to her daughter Bambi in January, 2023. In a recent video on her YouTube channel, she told fans she could hardly look in the mirror after her NTAs appearance.
She said, “Honestly, I have been feeling so low in confidence in myself this weekend, like I can’t even tell it.”
“I’ve just been having one of those days where I’m like, Whoa, I can’t look in the mirror.” Literally feeling so bad about myself.
She thanked TV presenter and singer Rochelle Humes for supporting her on the night on Monday night. In 2021, Rochell first stepped into the shoes of L’Oréal Paris as brand ambassador.
As part of a three-day takeover, the program also streamed live to Covent Garden in London. A number of famous people are anticipated to be visiting the French capital for shows during Paris Fashion Week, which runs from September 29 to October 7.
Designers including Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Givenchy will showcase their latest collections, while Victoria Beckham will present her always-anticipated show in Paris on Friday.
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Gary Oldman’s life off-screen from famous wives to tragic childhood
What is the life of the British actor Gary Oldman like when he isn’t on screen? Gary Oldman has appeared in a number of well-known movies.
Sir Gary Oldman, the Oscar-winning actor, has been knighted at Windsor Castle for his contributions to drama. He is most recently known for his role as MI5 agent Jackson Lamb in Apple TV’s Slow Horses.
The versatile actor is adored for his wide range of roles, including Sirius Black in the Harry Potter films and James Gordon in The Dark Knight trilogy.
His father, former sailor Leonard Oldman, was born in New Cross, London. The actor has previously talked about his difficult childhood following the death of his father.
He revealed that Oldman’s father, who was alcoholic, left the family when he was just seven years old. He had already started drinking himself before he became a famous actor and was well-known worldwide.
His older sister, Maureen, also known as Laila Morse, is an actress. She starred in Oldman’s directorial debut Nil by Mouth in 1997, before landing her most well-known role as Mo Harris in EastEnders, reports the Manchester Evening News.
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After being inspired by Malcolm McDowell’s performance in the movie The Raging Moon, Oldman decided to pursue an acting career.
He took a variety of jobs while he was a student at the Young People’s Theatre in Greenwich, from beheading pigs in an abattoir to working as a porter in an operating room.
He received a scholarship to attend Rose Bruford College and received an acting degree despite initially being turned down by RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art).
The actor has a talent for film and music, and he even offers bass guitar lessons to Daniel Radcliffe from Harry Potter.
He also enjoys writing, and he signed a contract with Blood Riders, a vampire novel series, in 2015.
In terms of his personal life, he relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1990s after establishing a successful acting career.
He voluntarily entered rehab in 1994, and during this period he gained notoriety for his struggles with alcohol.
Since 1997, he has maintained his sobriety and has publicly thanked Alcoholics Anonymous for their assistance throughout his recovery.
In terms of romantic relationships, Oldman has five marriages, the first of which was in 1987, with English actress Lesley Manville.
The couple split when their son Alfie was just three months old, but they kept things friendly until he was three months old.
In 1990, Oldman and Uma Thurman wed, but they divorced in 1992.
He and his co-star in Immortal Beloved, Isabella Rossellini, were engaged to each other from 1994 to 1996, but they never got married.
The couple had two sons, Gulliver and Charlie, when Oldman wed American model Donya Fiorentino in 1997. After a turbulent relationship, their marriage ended in divorce in 2001.
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He wed English singer and actress Alexandra Edenborough in 2008, but she divorced in 2015.
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Starvation is a war crime. So why is it so rarely prosecuted?
“There were 1, 319 deaths in the week ending September 18; since August 16, 4, 338 people have been admitted to the city’s hospitals, of which 972 have died. Since August 1st, the police Corpse Disposal Squad and the two non-official agencies have removed corpses of starving people from the streets and hospitals.
– September 23, 1943, The Statesman
A man-made famine that claimed thousands of lives each week in Bengal in September 1943. India entered World War II in 1939 as a military, export, and credit-giving country as a strategic theater in the Allied offensive against Japan, still ruled by British colonial rule. The colonial government imposed a modified “scorched earth” policy in parts of Madras, Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, and Assam in 1942, mandating that the army halt food stocks and halt transportation routes by road, rail, river, and sea. Millions of civilians were left without food as a result of the policy, which was purportedly intended to restrict Japanese access to resources.
Secretary of State for India Leo Amery pleaded with Bengal’s war cabinet, which is located more than 5, 000 miles away in London, to send 500, 000 tons of grain to save the country’s starving people. Less than a quarter of the request was given to the cabinet, which rejected the appeal. Amery later observed that “the Cabinet generally handled the matter on India’s part.” Within a few years, there will be three million more deaths from starvation and famine-related epidemics.
Despite censorship rules prohibiting “casual references to incidents calculated to arouse horror or alarm,” The Statesman, an English-language newspaper in India, published the above-quoted editorial. Instead, the colonial government promoted positive stories that stressed relief efforts and promoted the concept of a long-standing “beggar problem.” While concealing the magnitude of famine and portraying British rule as benevolent, this narrative naturalized hunger as an inevitable feature of poverty. Later, Ian Stephens, the then-editor of The Statesman, recalled that officials had used “starvation” in Bengal fatalities reports to replace it with “sick destitutes.” The distinction was more complicated by the fact that being “sick destitute” implied misfortune and forces beyond human control, whereas being starved implied both a victim and intended recipient.
Although some media outlets, like The Statesman, attempted to accurately report on the famine both in India and Britain, the journalists’ efforts did not have any significant legal repercussions. The authors of post-war international law themselves used food restrictions and poverty as tools for colonial and military dominance, which was not incidental. They were therefore unwilling to make a weapon that they themselves had used illegal. According to academics Nicholas Mulder and Boyd van Dijk, Britain and France were favoring blockades as a “potentially negative material intervention with low public visibility and high pay-off as a war-fighting strategy” in the 20th century. International law has a lot to do with the lack of compassion for starvation as a tool of violence, which affects how it is still treated.
It’s still difficult to bring charges despite international law’s clear prohibition of intentionally starving civilians as a means of combat. The Geneva Conventions’ 1977 Additional Protocols forbid the use of civilian starvation as a means of combat. The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Rome Statute expands its definition of a war crime that can be prosecuted. Why does the crime of starvation continue to be so challenging despite this clarity?
Starvation cases present unique legal challenges. Different from bombing or massacres, starvation operates. It moves slowly, dissipates, and frequently hides behind policies. Instead of ignoring shortages or failing to protect supply chains, the prosecution must establish the intent. The picture is muddy by sieges, sanctions, and blockades, which are defended as “legitimate” military measures. It’s notoriously challenging to hold individuals accountable for such structural violence.
But there is no justification for difficulty. As the recent upheaval in Gaza demonstrates, starvation causes destruction on a scale comparable to conventional weapons. It destroys societies, leaving behind long-lasting scars in both the physical, psychological, and economic systems. Its structural nature, which allows it to operate invisibly, over time, and under the pretext of a policy, is precisely why it needs to be prosecuted, not ignored.
Starvation has been viewed as a side effect of war for too long. It was a deliberate strategy that was banned for decades but hardly ever enforced. Powerful actors will continue to use hunger as a weapon against civilians with impunity as long as courts and prosecutors don’t recognize it as a crime.
The first step is to properly name it, and the second is to prosecute it.
PDP Sacks Akwa Ibom Exco, Sets Up Caretaker Committee
The People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) has approved the party’s Akwa Ibom State Executive’s dissolution.
At its Tuesday meeting, it made the decision.
In response, the NWC approved the creation of a 31-member caretaker committee to oversee the affairs of the Akwa Ibom State Chapter starting on September 30th, 2025, or until a new state executive committee is elected.
Igwat Umoren, the chairman, Harrison Ekpo, the deputy chairman, Borono Bassey, the secretary, and Ewa Okpo, a lawyer, serve as the publicity secretary, among the members of the Akwa Ibom State PDP Caretaker Committee.
Emman Mbong, the organizing secretary, Aniekan Asuquo, the youth leader, Mary Silvia Abara, the woman leader, and Enoch Enoch, the attorney acting as legal counsel are also present.
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Among others, members include: Aniebiet Cornelius, Member, Udim Peters, Member, Ayanime Obot, Member, Ofon Michael, Member, Esther Bassey Effiong, Member, David Umanah, Member, Usenmfon Ibanga, Member, and Unwana Assam, Member.