Al Pacino’s incredible age range of four children as Hollywood icon turns 85

Legendary Hollywood icon Al Pacino shared an indepth look into his life where he opened up about his chilhood struggles and death of his close friends growing up

Al Pacino shared an indepth look into his life (Image: Getty Images)

After a career spanning 50 years, legendary Godfather actor Al Pacino will be thanking his lucky stars at turning 85 today. The kid from the wrong side of the tracks calls his entire life a “moon shot” – having survived a tough childhood in the Bronx, where three of his closest gang friends ended up “dead by 30 from heroin”.

After he began drinking at nine, he says even surviving the 1940s was a miracle – crediting his mum for his longevity, after she banned him from roaming the streets after dark with hoods. He says: “I loathed her at the time. But I’m still here because of my mother. I never thanked her for… keeping me away from the path that led to delinquency, danger and violence, to the needle that killed Petey, Cliffy and Bruce.”

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Al Pacino opened up about his struggles growing up(Image: Getty Images)
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The method actor’s awards shelf boasts an Oscar for Scent of a Woman in 1992, four Golden Globes, three Tonys and two Emmys, but his path to success from street kid to one of the greatest actors of all time is the very stuff of Hollywood epics.

The star, who has never married, shares daughter Julie Marie, 34, with acting coach Jan Tarrant, and twins Anton and Olivia, 22, with Beverly D’Angelo. Then, in 2023, Pacino shocked Hollywood by becoming a father for the fourth time to son, Roman, with ex partner Noor Alfallah, 31.

Calling parenthood a “mini miracle”, the doting father says he wrote his memoir, Sonny Boy, to share his extraordinary life story with his brood. Alfredo James Pacino was born the only child of Italian immigrants in New York’s East Harlem ghetto, on April 25, 1940.

Al and his daughter
Al and his daughter (Image: FilmMagic, Inc)

Abandoned by his dad Salvatore Pacino, when he was just two-years-old, Pacino – nicknamed Sonny Boy after an Al Jolson song – and his mum, Rose, lived in a series of cheap furnished rooms, before moving into her parents’ tiny South Bronx tenement apartment.

“I slept between my grandparents,” says Pacino, recalling the poverty. “I never had playmates in our apartment and we didn’t have television.” Instead, his pretty factory worker mum smuggled him into the movies, where they found a bit of glamour to lift their bleak lives.

Five-year-old Al Pacino with his father Salvatore Pacino
Five-year-old Al Pacino with his father Salvatore Pacino(Image: Alamy Stock Photo)

“I learned at an early age to make friends with my imagination,” he recalls. His father barely paid any support and went off to war – not coming back into his son’s life until he’d remarried, going on to have three daughters.

Too late to save their relationship. Pacino says, simply: “He was absent.” But a chance conversation with his father’s relatives revealed a family secret about his mother’s fragile mental health which left him reeling. “When I was a young actor, the Pacinos came backstage to see me,” he recalls.

“It came out that I had been taken away from my mother for eight months while my father was at war and sent to live with my father’s mother.” Pacino called his grandmother Josephine “a gift from God” and one the “first of the lifesavers” for saving him from the care system and keeping him out of the gutters.

His mother’s father, James, a plasterer, had come, possibly illegally, to New York from a Sicilian town, Corleone. “He was the first real father figure I had,” says Pacino.

His granny, Kate, was a great storyteller, and he would sit with her and listen as she peeled potatoes. “I’d eat the skins raw – I loved the way they tasted.”

One day, aged six, while out playing in the street, he saw an ambulance pull up. “Coming out of the doors on a stretcher was my mother. She had attempted suicide,” he says. While his mother was in a psychiatric hospital, Pacino climbed tenement rooftops and smoked cigarettes in alleys with his street gang.

Rose Gelardi, Al Pacino's mum battled with mental health
Rose Gelardi, Al Pacino’s mum battled with mental health(Image: Alamy Stock Photo)

“Every day was an adventure with Cliffy, Bruce and Petey,” he says. But the love he received at home saved him from a downward spiral.

“I think that made the difference. I made it out alive, they didn’t,” he reflects. As a 10-year-old toughie, Pacino says he was like “a cat with many more than nine lives” the way he cheated death – from falling through ice in the freezing Bronx river to impaling his groin on a fence.

“I remember my mother, aunt and grandmother poking my penis in a panic,” he says. “But it remained attached, along with the trauma.” Recalling the wild freedom of opening hydrants on hot summer days and fishing for lost dimes in street grates, he says: “If we wanted food, we’d steal it. We never paid for anything.”

Athletic Pacino got into sport. “It was like I lived two lives – my life with the gang, and the guys I played baseball with,” he writes. Meanwhile, his mother got engaged again, but was crushed after being dumped.

“Doctors said she had anxiety neurosis, and she needed costly electroshock treatment and barbiturates,” the actor shares. At New York’s High School of Performing Arts, Pacino’s talent was being noticed. “A guy came up to me after a show and said, “Hey kid, you’re going to be the next Marlon Brando.”

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Al’s talent was getting noticed at New York’s High School of Performing Arts(Image: Warner Brothers)

He had to leave at 16 and took odd jobs as an errand boy, removals and even bus boy. “They caught me eating leftovers off the tables – that’s how hungry I was,” he admits. Seeing acting as an escape route from poverty, he enrolled in acting classes, where he met fellow student Martin Sheen.

Dreaming of being a stage actor, Pacino would recite Shakespeare aloud in vacant lots. “Marty moved in with me so we could split the rent,” he says, adding they both worked cleaning toilets.

Aged 22, Pacino was performing in off-Broadway productions to mixed reviews. Then the news came that his mother was sick and he rushed to see her. “I was too late. She had died choking on her own pills.”

Within a year, he also lost his beloved grandfather and used alcohol and pills to dull the pain. “It was my lowest point,” he admits. “But drinking saved my life. I was able to self-medicate.”

At 26, he learned his famous method acting skills from Lee Strasberg’s Actors’ Studio in New York, before going to Boston to do rep theatre and appeared in his screen debut in TV cop drama N.Y.P.D. with first love Jill Clayburgh. “My relationship with the director who would change my life began oddly,” he writes. “Frances Ford Coppola offered me a part in a film that never got made.

“Months later, I got a call from Francis who was going to be directing The Godfather. He offered me the role of Michael Corleone. This was a hundred-to-million-to-one-shot.”

Al Pacino as Don Michael Corleone
Al Pacino as Don Michael Corleone(Image: CBS via Getty Images)

Coppola got his way and Pacino met the love of his life, Diane Keaton, on the set of The Godfather. “We just hit it off,” he says. “She was easy to talk to and funny.”

He would also go on to have love affairs with Tuesday Weld while working on his next film Serpico, and Kathleen Quinlan during Scarface in the 1980s. When Pacino finally met Marlon Brando – the man he’d been compared to years earlier – he was mesmerised.

“When I had lunch with Marlon Brando he was eating chicken cacciatore with his hands. His hands were full of red sauce,” he says. The first time Pacino ever visited his home country Sicily was to shoot the wedding scene in the gangster epic.

“Francis asked me to speak to extras in the scene, dance the waltz with my bride, then drive off with her,” he says. “I told him, ‘I don’t speak Italian, I don’t know how to waltz… and I can’t drive’!”

But the time the film hit cinemas in 1972, directors were falling over themselves to have Pacino play their leading tough guys. The stratospheric rise to fame sent him hurtling for the drink and drugs again. But having seen what happened to his childhood friends, the star has been sober since 1977.

After making over 70 films, including critically acclaimed crime movies like Serpico (1973) and Scarface (1983), two Godfather sequels,Carlito’s Way (1993), Heat (1995) and Donnie Brasco (1997), still a stage actor at heart, Pacino will be back next year starring in the film adaptation of King Lear.

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Copa del Rey 2025 final: Real Madrid vs Barcelona – start, teams, favourite

Real Madrid and Barcelona will square off in the Copa del Rey (King’s Cup) final for the third time this year.

After defeating Real 5-2 in the Spanish Super Cup final in January and 4-0 in a LaLiga game in October, Barcelona will be looking to record a hat-trick of victories on Saturday against fierce foes this 2024-2025 season.

Barcelona, the Copa’s most successful club, hasn’t reached the final since 2021 when they defeated Athletic Bilbao, the most successful club in the competition. In 2023, Madrid won their 20th title against Osasuna, which they will play in their second final in three years.

The 260th competitive match between Barcelona and Real Madrid will take place on Saturday in a blockbuster showdown that will be the first time the two teams have met in a Copa final in 11 years.

Before the clash between Spain’s two football titans, find out everything you need to know:

The 2025 Copa Final will be held when?

Saturday night at 10 p.m. (20:00 GMT) will host the Copa del Rey final.

Follow Al Jazeera Sport’s live text and photo commentary stream.

Where is the location of the Copa final?

The 2025 Copa del Rey final will take place at the Estadio de La Cartuja in Seville.

One of the 11 stadiums used in the multi-country Euro 2020 tournament, the fifth-largest stadium in Spain, has a capacity of 57,600 people.

The 2024 Copa del Rey final between Athletic Bilbao and Osasuna was also held at Estadio de La Cartuja.

The 2025 Copa del Rey final will be held at the Estadio de La Cartuja in Seville.
Interior shot of Estadio La Cartuja.
[File: Jon Nazca/Reuters] A general view of the Estadio de La Cartuja

Who will win the Copa 2025, and by what team?

Barcelona are the favorite to win the Copa del Rey in light of their recent form and dominance at the top of the table.

Borussia Dortmund defeated 3-1 in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals, but Hansi Flick’s side have lost just once this year across all competitions.

Barcelona has been rated as the shorter-odds favorite to win the Copa by numerous bookmakers using the Oddschecker platform, paying out an average of $2.10 for the victory over Real Madrid at $3.10.

The Catalan giant’s goal of winning the Copa del Rey, UEFA Champions League, and LaLiga treble is still unmet despite winning the Cup final.

The champion of the competition is Barcelona, Spain’s last hope in the Champions League.

With only five games left in the season, Barcelona holds a four-point lead over Real Madrid in LaLiga, Spain’s top league competition.

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Only one match has Barcelona lost in 2025, under the leadership of several famous players like Lamine Yamal.

How did Barcelona and Real Madrid reach the 2025 final?

Real Madrid defeated Real Sociedad 5-4 on aggregate in the semifinals to reach the Copa final, while Barcelona defeated Atletico Madrid in the semis with the same score to secure their spot in the title match.

Who is the Copa champion in a row?

Athletic Bilbao are the current Copa champions, but Osasuna knocked them out in the round of 16. Since Barcelona won it four years straight from 2015 to 2018, Bolivia’s exit made it impossible for the club to repeat.

What transpired when Real last faced Barca in the Copa title game?

In a Copa final last year, Real Madrid and Barcelona defeated Real 2-1 thanks to goals from Gareth Bale and Angel di Maria.

Gareth Bale in action.
On April 16, 2014, Real’s Gareth Bale, left, celebrates with Xabi Alonso after scoring his team’s second goal in the Copa del Rey final against Barcelona in Valencia.

How many Copa final encounters have Real and Barcelona had?

In the span of the competition’s history, Real Madrid and Barcelona have faced off 38 times.

In their final four games, Los Blancos are 2-0 up against Barca thanks to their slight advantage.

  • 2014: Real Madrid 2-1 Barcelona
  • 2011: Real Madrid 1-0 Barcelona
  • 1990: Barcelona 2-0 Real Madrid
  • 1983: Barcelona 2-1 Real Madrid
  • 1974: Real Madrid 4-0 Barcelona
  • 1968: Barcelona 1-0 Real Madrid
  • 1936: Real Madrid 2-1 Barcelona

Who has won the most Copa del Rey titles overall?

  • Barcelona: 31
  • Athletic Bilbao: 24
  • Real Madrid: 20
  • Madrid, Atletico: 10
  • Valencia: eight

Lewandowski’s participation in the Copa final is uncertain.

Robert Lewandowski, the star striker for Barcelona, was diagnosed with a hamstring injury on Sunday, and he will miss the Copa del Rey final and Champions League semifinal, according to Spanish media reports.

The 36-year-old Polish forward came off during his team’s 4-3 LaLiga win over Celta Vigo on Saturday, making it Barcelona’s top goal scorer with 40 goals in all competitions.

Robert Lewandowski has a semitendinosus injury in his left thigh, according to a statement from Barcelona, who released the statement without specifying how long he would be sidelined.

Lewandowski could be out for three weeks, according to Spanish media.

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Robert Lewandowski, a player for Barcelona, leaves the field on April 19, 2025, at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys in Barcelona with an injury.

Real Madrid team news

Carlo Ancelotti, the coach of Real Madrid, stated Kylian Mbappe is expected to start playing against Barcelona on a return from injury.

The French international missed the previous two LaLiga games due to an ankle issue that caused him to miss last week’s Champions League defeat against Arsenal.

Ferland Mendy and the forward should both be fit for the Clasico.

However, knee injuries keep Eder Militao and Dani Carvajal out of action.

news from the Barcelona team

Due to a hamstring issue, Lewandowski is the big-name absentee for Barcelona.

Due to injuries, only Alejandro Balde, Marc Casado, Marc Bernal, and Marc-Andre ter Stegen are all available for Barcelona.

lineups that might exist

Thibaut Courtois, Lucas Vazquez, Antonio Rudiger, Raul Asencio, Raul Asencio, Fran Garcia, Federico Valverde, Aurelien Tchouameni, Rodrygo, Jude Bellingham, Vinicius Jr, Kylian Mbappe, and Lucas Vazquez start for Real Madrid.

Wojciech Szczesny, Jules Kounde, Ronald Araujo, Pau Curbasi, Gerard Martin, Frenkie de Jong, Pedri, Fermin Lopez, Lamine Yamal, Raphinha, and Ferran Torres start for Barcelona.

Is the Copa del Rey the oldest Spanish competition?

Yes . The Copa del Rey is the oldest national football competition in Spain, organized by the Royal Spanish Football Federation in 1903.

The Copa del Rey champions advance to the UEFA Europa League for the following season. The winner of the Europa League is given the opportunity to advance to the next highest-placed team without qualification if the winner has already qualified for Europe through their LaLiga ladder position.

Copa del Rey trophy.
[Photo: Fran Santiago/Getty Images] The Copa del Rey trophy

King Charles’ ‘greatest sadness’ amid Prince Harry feud as special day approaches

King Charles and Prince Harry’s icy feud has shown no sign of thawing and as a special day family day approaches for Harry, it will highlight a ‘great loss’ for the monarch, according to royal expert Jennie Bond

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Prince Harry’s bitter feud with his estranged father King Charles shows no sign of being resolved – and it’s having a heartbreaking knock-on effect. It means that Harry’s young children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet have barely got to know their grandfather Charles, who is still undergoing cancer treatment.

The monarch previously told friends he is not content with only seeing his youngest grandchildren on video calls after meeting Archie only a handful of times and Lilibet once. In the coming weeks, the Sussexes will celebrate a special day when Archie turns six on May 6 – but it’s unlikely that the youngster’s royal relatives will be on hand to celebrate with him.

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Harry and Meghan with their children Archie and Lilibet (Image: ARCHWELL)
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And amid the feud, royal expert Jennie Bond believes it is still a “great sadness” for the King to be a stranger to his two grandchildren – as well as it seems these days to his youngest son, Harry. The former BBC royal correspondent told the Mirror : “He always loved Harry – he called him ‘darling boy’. And I’m sure he still does love Harry and would love even more to be able to spend time with Archie and Lilibet.

“Charles is a sentimental man and a doting grandfather to George, Charlotte and Louis. And I’m sure as his struggle with cancer continues, he thinks more about the great loss of not being able to spend time with Harry’s children.”

But it’s not just Charles who looks set to miss out, Harry’s estranged brother Prince William will also be distant. Harry and his older brother are not believed to have talked in years. And Jennie added: “I always imagined Harry and William remaining close and enjoying watching their children grow up together.

“And I guess there must be times when they both think the same. But there is absolutely no sign of the cousins ever getting to know one another.

Prince Harry pictured with Prince William in 2022
Harry is also estranged from brother Prince William (Image: In Pictures via Getty Images)

“Harry probably has more time and reason than William to think about the rift that he has caused and I’m sure it is a great sadness to him. But he has chosen a different life in a different country, and that looks as if it is where he will stay.

“However, it would be very nice if the King, and William and Catherine, marked young Archie‘s sixth birthday in some way. After all, it’s not the poor little lad’s fault that all this has happened. So I hope that, either publicly or privately, they do at least send the little boy their good wishes.”

When it comes to Harry and his dad the King, their relationship too seems to be at a low ebb with their relationship described as “distant”. Harry’s calls and letters are said to have gone unanswered and the King is said to be keeping his distance to avoid being drawn into discussions about security, with his youngest son.

The security issue has long been considered to be a sticking point towards improving family relations between the Sussexes and the rest of the Royal Family, especially the King.

And Jennie explained: “Harry must realise by now that he has put his father in an extraordinarily difficult position – suing the King’s own government. And that makes life – or indeed any conversation at all with Harry – very difficult for Charles.

“I wonder whether Harry realised at the start of this case just how hard it would make any communication with his father. Once the appeal judges have handed down their verdict, it will presumably be time for all those concerned to reassess the situation and see whether family relations can be improved. Harry certainly hasn’t made things any easier by insisting on taking this court case to the highest level.”

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Jodie Marsh’s unrecognisable new look as she forks out £24k a month to run farm

Former Page Three model Jodie Marsh, who has since become famous, has left the world of showbiz for a simpler life on Fripps Farm as she pursues her passion for animal welfare.

Jodie Marsh may have risen to fame in the early noughties as a Page Three glamour model, but more than two decades on, she lives a very different life away from the world of red carpets and paparazzi. Back in the noughties, the 46-year-old TV personality was known for her outlandish outfits and rivalry with fellow lads’ mags heavyweight Katie Price, though now she can be found living a simpler life on her beloved farm.

As part of her new lifestyle, Essex-born Jodie has poured her passion for helping animals into her dedicated sanctuary Fripps Farm, which she opened in 2020, and gives fans a peek inside her work over on Instagram. Today, Jodie’s sanctuary has come under the spotlight as she is set to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court to appeal against a decision of Uttlesford District Council to refuse an application to keep lemurs at her private sanctuary. With that in mind, here the Mirror takes a look at the Celebrity Big Brother star’s life now away from the cameras…

Former model Jodie Marsh arrives at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court
Former model Jodie Marsh arrives at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court(Image: PA)
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Relaxed look

The staunch animal rights activist is now enjoying life on her farm after launching her own animal sanctuary Fripps Farm in Great Dunmow, Essex. In a snap from last year, Jodie looked unrecognisable as she posed at her sanctuary with pals including EastEnders star Jessie Wallace.

Jodie was seen make-up-free with her bleached hair tied back into a ponytail while wearing a jumper which read: “Stop Eating Dead Animals”. Jodie used OnlyFans and glamour modeling to pay the rent when the farm first started operating.

She told Mail Online: “Before we became a C.I.C (Community Interest Company) I was funding it all myself and I did it by doing OnlyFans. The perimeter fence alone for securing the animals cost £60,000 so I had to pay for that with OnlyFans. My boobs paid for the fences and they also paid the staff’s wages!”

Jodie pictured with pals including EastEnders' Jessie Wallace at her animal sanctuary
Jodie pictured with pals including EastEnders’ Jessie Wallace at her animal sanctuary(Image: Instagram)

Going skint

In a chat with MailOnline in November 2024, Jodie revealed more about her finances, admitting that work dried up when she was forced to step back from the limelight. She said she became sick of trolls ‘being nasty’, but then she reached a point where she could no longer afford her mortgage.

I was unable to pay any bills. I had a skin-tight finish. I was really in a mess”, she said. She began keeping a gratitude journal after reading the self-help book The Secret. Two years later, she wrote that she wanted to purchase a brand-new Audi Q7. She started making her money with American bodybuilding, and was soon named champion as she competed for cash.

to pay for her farm with £24k per month.

After swapping glitzy parties and showbiz spats for a more peaceful life running Fripps Farm Animal Sanctuary, she reportedly rakes in thousands through her OnlyFans account to keep her passion afloat.

Jodie explained: “We needed to put perimeter fencing around the whole entire farm, and that cost £65, 000. That was the entire project I funded with OnlyFans. My OnlyFans also paid my entire staff for the first year. I never took a penny for myself.

I’ve been really lax about it because I’m so preoccupied with the animals, so I’m probably only going to make a few thousand dollars a month on it. However, since I’m posting once more, things should be up once more at this time. Back when I was paying the staff wages I was earning around £10, 000 a month. “

The TV personality revealed that the monthly expenses are staggeringly high ($24, 000) before vet bills. Jodie claims she once spent £20,000 alone on rescuing Maximus, who had been left to die on the side of the road. Frequently, this expense comes with operating a farm.

Luckily, her fans and followers of the farm have stepped up in their time of need, with them often relying on donations. “We couldn’t have done it without them,” she told MailOnline.

Single life

Last year Jodie revealed she’d split from her builder boyfriend Mark, just three months after claiming he was her “first adult” relationship. In March 2024, she posted a series of modelling photos to Instagram, writing: “I think this sums up why I’ll never find a life partner.

I want to rescue animals and lead a lovely, peaceful, and calm life. I want to lay on the sofa and read books and listen to music. I’m bored, but I want to plant rosebushes in my garden. I need a man who comprehends that my life is more than just glitz and wack. Someone who wants to chill with me and realises that I can be quite boring but who enjoys the quiet times. I need a man who comprehends that my rural lifestyle is simple. “

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Jodie was known for her belt dresses back in her glamour model heydey(Image: PA)
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Now she enjoys a more peaceful life on the farm with rescue animals(Image: jodiemarshtv/Instagram)

Mark worked as a builder at her animal sanctuary and Jodie previously told Mail Online she was in her first “adult relationship”. “I’ve had a lot of ag with boyfriends. I’ve not had a good time in the past with men. I’ve been targeted by con men who have pretended to be one thing and then, and then actually their true colours have shown and they’re not who they say they are at all. But also I’ve made bad choices in the past, but we all do when it’s matters of the heart,” she said.

Her split comes after two failed marriages. After meeting on the reality series Totally Jodie Marsh: Who’ll Take Her Up the Aisle, she and James Peacock first got married in 2007? However, they abruptly split up two months later.

In 2016, she was then married for eight months to James Placido. The former model was also engaged to DJ David Doyle in 2006 after just 11 days of dating, but the couple called it quits just weeks later.

traumatic passing of my mother

Jodie was devastated by the death of her mum Kristina
Jodie was devastated by the death of her mum Kristina(Image: Jodie Marsh/Instagram)

It was with a heavy heart that Jodie announced the death of her beloved mum Kristina in September 2020 from cancer. Taking to Twitter, she wrote: “My beautiful, classy, kind, generous, clever, incredible mum passed away this morning. She was my best friend and the strongest woman I know.

“She was the best mum in the world and the best human you could ever wish to know. I love you so so much mum. How do I do this without you?” Just four months before, Jodie told how her mum had been ‘turfed out of hospital’ because of the coronavirus pandemic despite battling an aggressive form of cancer, and admitted she was ‘fading fast’ at home.

She bravely revealed to fans that she was struggling to cope with the weight of the grief in January 2021. Today has been a rough day for me. I spent the entire day feeling angry and frustrated before finally having a meltdown or outburst followed by deep crying sobs. She told her Instagram followers, “I am really struggling today.”

” I miss mum so much and it feels like as the world carries on, I’m supposed to just be normal and fine when I don’t feel it at all. Inside, I’m broken and working to keep it together every day. I’m also attempting to protect those I care about. I know I don’t have to be but I WANT to be. I just wanted to let you know how you’re feeling, so I don’t want sympathy either.

The reality guru continued, “I’ve been crying ever since 3 o’clock at night.” And that’s ok. It’s normal to cry, and it’s normal to do so. It’s a good idea to discuss it.

Katie Price olive branch

When her ex, Scott Sullivan, left Jodie Marsh, Katie Price was furious.
When her ex, Scott Sullivan, left Jodie Marsh, Katie Price was furious.
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After two decades, their feud has been put to bed(Image: Getty Images)

In 2021, Katie Price reignited her decades-old feud with Jodie by branding her a ‘nobody’ in her bombshell book, Harvey And Me. The former glamour model took aim at her longtime nemesis in the pages of her autobiography, calling her ‘the lowest of the low’ for dating Katie’s ex after she met Peter Andre on I’m A Celebrity.

When I was in the jungle, I met my first husband, Peter Andre, Patie wrote. I had a couple of relationships when Harvey was a baby, and I was with a guy called Scott Sullivan at the time. However, as you may well be aware, there is always drama. I actually broke up with him just before I started the show, so it wasn’t just like I bunny-hopped to another man.

“And then Scott reached Jodie Marsh and went to the lowest of the low.” Over the years there has been some major mud-slinging between the two women, with Katie once claiming Jodie slept with “nearly all my leftovers and not one of them wanted you”.

She also made fun of Jodie’s appearance, referring to her rival’s nose as “a builder’s elbow.” Jodie retweeted a meme featuring Katie’s gnashers with a number of laughing emojis in retaliation for her “Bond villain teeth.”

But in a turn of events, earlier this year in April 2024, Jodie showed her support to the mum-of-five in one of her latest Instagram posts. Katie shared a video where she talked about a product that helps her cope with stress.

Jodie commented: “I use it too it’s amazing.” Fans flooded her comment with likes as they appeared to take the remark as a sign they could become friends. It was the first time Jodie broke her silence after Katie appeared to extend an olive branch.

Speaking on her Katie Price Show podcast, she said: “I’ve never had a problem with her [Jodie] and I always say to people, we’d probably get on because we both love animals, horses. We’ve both been through the mill. I don’t actually have a problem with her and never had and if she reached out. Imagine if me and her did an OnlyFans shoot, that would be one for the thing wouldn’t it. I wouldn’t rule that out, if Jodie wanted to do an OnlyFans shoot.”

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Jodie pleaded with Katie to “stop spending money” as her former ally has been declared bankrupt for the second time in an interview with the Mail Online. She can still make money, Jodie urged. Go out and graft and keep the money. Just stop spending, especially on cosmetic procedures.

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‘Nothing You Cannot Do,’ Gbemi O-O Shares Story Behind Her Entrepreneurial Drive

Gbemi Olateru-Olagbegi, a media personality and entrepreneur, has examined her career path and the motivations behind her business ventures.

The Morning Brief, a flagship program on Channels Television, featured the entrepreneur, better known as Gbemi O-O.

Before moving to radio, Gbemi O-O recalled her early years in broadcasting, beginning with a stint at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), a position she would hold as a star witness in Nigeria’s media landscape.

She revealed her desire to diversify her income sources in response to a pressing need to make ends meet. She co-founded a film production company after making this choice, which she proudly acknowledged had gained success on the international stage.

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Gbemi Olateru-Olagbegi

Tosin Bucknor, a multi-talented figure known for her work as an actor, lawyer, writer, on-air personality, and entrepreneur, is one of her many influences, she said, “I’m just trying to do as much as I can while I’m still here.”

The mother of a four-year-old daughter says she believes in unlimited potential and how she manages her family and career.

You just have to apply yourself, she said, “There is nothing you can do.”

She also narrated her first foray into the fashion sector, revealing that she spent every penny on the 2014 launch of her shoe company in Oniru, Lagos.

Gbemi-O read a news bulletin live on air in a humorous way during the interview, which nods to her earlier aspirations to work as a newscaster for Channels Television.

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Howe is ‘OK’ but ‘not 100%’ after hospital stay

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Eddie Howe, who has pneumonia, says he is “OK” but “not 100%” as he steps back to lead Newcastle United.

The 47-year-old has missed three Magpies games and has been feeling unwell for a while since being admitted to a hospital on April 11.

The club announced on Thursday that he was recovering from work.

I’ve gone through a lot of emotions, but I feel like I’m on the verge of recovery, Howe said on Friday.

Although I’m not entirely in my body, I prefer to believe that my mind is almost entirely in focus.

Ipswich host Newcastle, who are fifth in the Premier League, on Saturday at St James’ Park.

Howe compared the strain of the illness to his own personal experience, saying he tries to “leave a positive out of every experience.”

He continued, “You take [your health] for granted – I certainly do, and it can be very difficult when you don’t have the luxury of feeling normal.”

In Howe’s absence, assistant manager Jason Tindall and fellow coach Graeme Jones won the Premier League twice and one lost.

The Newcastle manager claimed that while away from home, he had “no” involvement with the games.

When I wasn’t feeling well enough to concentrate on the football, he said, “I made a conscious decision to give Jason and the coaches full responsibility.”

You’re either in or out, and I couldn’t contribute, for me. So I immediately said to Jason, “It’s over to you.” And how did he not succeed?

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