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Lady Gaga has been the reigning queen of pop for over a decade now, but many fans still don’t know the true meaning behind her unique stage name and why she ditched her birth name

Lady Gaga is once again the talk of the town following the release of her latest album, Mayhem. She’s also been hitting headlines due to her accompanying tour, which saw fans desperately scrambling for tickets. Her new tracks ‘Abracadabra,’ ‘Disease,’ and ‘Garden of Eden’ have been a hit with her fanbase, affectionately known as Little Monsters.

Her performance at Coachella was another highlight, despite technical difficulties with her microphone. The incident led to the festival being humorously dubbed ‘Gagachella’, as she dominated conversations. When her mic failed, she simply quipped: “At least you know I sing live.”

But despite everyone going gaga for Gaga recently – there’s some trivia people are only just learning about the star. They’ve been interested to learn how she got her stage name.

Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, Lady Gaga shot to fame in 2008 with her debut album ‘The Fame,’ featuring hits like ‘Just Dance,’ ‘Poker Face,’ and ‘LoveGame. ‘ Her popularity has only grown since then.

She further cemented her status in pop culture with ‘Born This Way,’ an anthem for the LGBTQIA+ community, using its lyrics to foster inclusivity. But where did the stage name ‘Lady Gaga’ originate?

While there’s some debate over the exact story, it’s thought that the name was born out of an autocorrect mishap by her ex-partner and music producer, Rob Fusari. He reportedly began calling her ‘Gaga’ after she reminded him of the 1984 Queen song ‘Radio Gaga’.

Later, when he tried to text ‘Radio Gaga,’ autocorrect changed it to ‘Lady Gaga’. Since then, she’s adopted the name with pride, and in a 2010 tell-all, she revealed her desire to “reinvent” herself.

In that interview, she reportedly stated: “So I said, ‘What about Lady Gaga?’ because Gaga is sort of crazy and Lady has such connotations.”

So why not stick with her distinctive real name, Stefani Germanotta?

Speaking with Rolling Stone, Gaga expressed a deep connection to her stage persona, admitting her childhood wasn’t a walk in the park.

She confessed: “I’ve always been Gaga… I suppressed all those eccentricities about myself so I could fit in. Once I was free, I was able to be myself.”

It was at the tender age of four that Lady Gaga, displaying early signs of her musical genius, self-taught piano by ear and composed ‘Dollar Bills’ using “Mickey Mouse staff paper”.

In another heartfelt admission during an interview, she recounted: “I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn’t fit in, and I felt like a freak.”

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are back for the fourth instalment of their cross-country adventure series, riding vintage motorcycles through more than 15 countries in Scandinavia, the Baltics and continental Europe

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are back for another cross-country road trip in a new season of their ‘Long Way’ series. Streaming May 9, Long Way Home sees the duo hit the road more than 20 years after the first instalment of their epic motorcycle adventure.

Across 10 episodes, the latest series will see the two best friends ride refurbished vintage motorbikes from McGregor’s home in Scotland to Boorman’s in England – but rather than take the shortest route, they go the long way. They head across the North Sea to Scandinavia, all the way up to the Arctic Circle and then down to the Baltics and through continental Europe, before eventually hopping back over the English Channel two months later.

The nine-week adventure takes them to 17 countries and along some of the greatest driving roads in the world. It marks the fourth iteration of the Emmy-nominated series, following Long Way Round, Long Way Down and Long Way Up.

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Long Way Home will launch exclusively on Apple TV+, which costs £8.99 per month after a seven-day-free trial. It joins the three previous seasons, all of which are available to stream on Apple TV+.

It comes as Disney+ launches a raft of its own docuseries, with National Geographic titles including Secrets of the Penguins, Tucci in Italy debuting May 19 and Limitless with Chris Hemsworth returning later this year. Throughout Long Way Home, McGregor rides a 1974 Moto Guzzi 850 El Dorado – previously used as a California police bike – while Boorman revives a 1972 BMW R75/5 once described as a ‘rust heap’.

The bikes take them to countries including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, where they immerse themselves in each country’s culture, meet the locals and try their hand at unique and eclectic activities.

“For the last 20 years, my best friend Charley Boorman and I have travelled to some of the farthest corners of the world,” McGregor says in the series trailer. “Yet, we’ve never properly explored the countries on our own doorstep, so this time, Europe is our playground.”

Long Way Home is executive produced by McGregor and Boorman, alongside longtime collaborators David Alexanian and Russ Malkin, who also direct. Writing on X ahead of the series premiere, one Long Way fan said: “I’m soooo excited for this. Feels like just the other day we were watching the first one.”

Another said: “Looking forward to this. Put it in the calendar.”

A third said: “Sold. Great story and authentic people. I’ll take adventure stuff like this all day!

Prince Harry is haunted by “the ghosts” of royal life, and a fortune teller known as the “Living Nostradamus” has shared his predictions for him, along with some “dangerous” events in his future.

The ‘Living Nostradamus’ has made some worrying predictions for Prince Harry’s future. The clairvoyant has said the Duke of Sussex since moving to California has lived under “constant hurricane” of family tension, but beyond this is a “deeper energetic layer” that is going to bring an “unexpected” and “disturbing” future.

Athos Salomé has been dubbed as the ‘living Nostradamus’ thanks to his countless corrected predictions over the years, and has now spoken out about the future for the prince who seems “trapped” between his new life in America with Meghan Markle and his “ghosts of royalty”.

He claimed there would be “painful” truths that would emerge in six areas where change was going to take place, from becoming a royal target to achieving reconciliation with his father.

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A royal target

Salomé claimed that “secret documents” emerging that show “negligence” on the part of the UK. Harry should postpone his engagements until September 2025 in order to prevent a “serious” security lapse while on a humanitarian mission. The prince was declared unharmed by the psychic, but that the situation would be severe enough to prompt a public review of his vulnerability.

A resolution with the King

The expert claimed a “silent reconciliation” will take place between father and son which will be “intimate” and “away from cameras” as it will be motivated by a sense of urgency – in the midst of King Charles’ health crisis. However Salomé said Prince William will remain “distant” and bound by “duty and resentment”.

A painful truth

According to the fortune teller: “A former employee of the Sussex family intends to reveal compromising recordings and documents in the second half of this year or next, negotiations are underway. This revelation will bring a new wave of empathy to the prince, but also an irreversible reputational loss for Meghan,” he told The Sun.

He claimed that the information will suggest that Meghan had a “strong influence” over his conflicts, which were frequently “conflict” with his values.

The Legacy of a Warrior

Salomé stated that the prince would work on a humanitarian project to improve veterans’ mental health. Harry’s “life mission,” he said, will receive the “informal support” of the monarchy, a nod to a subtle and strategic reunification, or “the beginning of redemption.”

Spiritual exile

The expert predicted Harry will relocate, and can see him settling in either South Africa or New Zealand and said: “The prince will leave California. Neither Hollywood nor Buckingham: his new home will be a third country. At 42, a number that symbolises Kabbalistic maturity, he will find a new purpose in life.”

book on transformation

“Harry is writing a new book – completely different from the controversial ‘Spare’. Due to be released in 2027, the book will be more introspective, philosophical and critical. It won’t be an attack on the monarchy, but a profound reflection on identity and mission. The book could be the turning point for him to regain global respect as an individual – not as a royal figure,” he insisted.

Salomé claimed that Harry’s future presents “intense trials” but also offers the chance for rebirth. Salomé claimed that the throne’s weight “still haunts him” despite the fact that he may have abdicated from the monarchy.

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After making significant diet changes, celebrity chef James Martin has lost three stone, but he hasn’t lost his favorite food group.

James Martin, the renowned chef and presenter of ITV’s James Martin’s Saturday Morning, has revealed his favourite two-ingredient breakfast following his recent three-stone weight loss journey, describing it as “simple and very tasty”.

Recently he visited Spain for inspiration and compiled some of his favourite regional dishes for a new book, titled ‘James Martin’s Spanish Adventure’. He shared that the recipes in the his books had been “specifically created” using the ingredients they discovered while travelling.

Following his impressive weight loss at the age of 52, Martin observes that fish now accounts for a predominant 80% of his diet, yet he still indulges in his beloved butter.

James explained in an interview with Hello! that the dishes in his new book were “specifically created” from ingredients he had come across while traveling.

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However, it seems his favourite recipe remains a simple dish that anyone can whip up at home using just two basic ingredients, reports Devon Live.

“Grilled tomatoes on toast,” James raving about it as his go-to meal. It’s very easy to follow and delicious. Additionally, the lardons and hazelnuts that were used to barbecue leeks.

James explained on the Spooning with Mark Wogan podcast how his passion for motor racing led to a significant weight loss because he had to “get out of them” trying to get out of them.

He continued, “It’s down to the fact that I race cars, or that I still try to race a few cars and that I actually struggle to get out of them.” You kind of fall into them after entering them, but you have to leave because it doesn’t look very good.

However, the famous chef continues to make use of butter, one of his favorite foods. The well-known TV personality and author has authored “Butter: Comforting, Delicious, Versatile – Over 130 Recipes Celebrating Butter” and has published a 517-page book in its own right.

James made a humorous observation about the era when healthy cookbooks were in fashion, claiming to have “brought out a book on butter” in the process.

James attributes his weight loss to his background as a “farmer’s kid,” acknowledging his love for “simple food” and “great ingredients” rather than laborious gym sessions.

He openly admits to skipping the gym and jokes, “I don’t go,” that he does it because he “gets my a**e in and out of a car.”

I’m a farmer’s kid, enjoy simple food, and adore great ingredients, James said. I enjoy simple cooking, but more important than anything else is to bring out the flavor of the ingredients.

With a portfolio of restaurants and bakeries under his belt, James honed his trade from home cooks and further refined his craft in France, later gracing our screens with his participation in various BBC and ITV cooking programs.

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Meghan, a writer for shopping, claims that her laptop, folders, fileofax, and other essentials all fit perfectly in this Dune tote bag.

She has used her new Dune London handbag every day since I gave her the gift. Although I initially thought it would be a little too small for her to use it as a work bag because it was smaller than the bags she had previously used to carry her laptop, iPad, fileofax, and folders, she was relieved to discover that she could easily fit everything she needed for work into it, and she now uses it every day.

The Dune London Dorry Tote Bag has a classic silhouette and an understated design that look chic and expensive without the high cost. This handbag, which has handles and a crossbody strap for easy carrying, has unquestionably earned its place in my mother’s (extensive) handbag collection because it looks the best without sacrificing practicality.

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This precise foldable treadmill, which “gets your steps in at home,” keeps Rochelle Humes in shape.

The colorway I selected when I purchased this bag is no longer available, but Dune London still has it available in three different colorways. The Dune Dorry tote bag is the best option for a luxurious appearance and endless use at an affordable price of £89. This Dorry tote is adored by more than just my mother, who has received 5-star reviews from satisfied customers who have described it as “Perfect in every way.” You can also steal a stylish and sophisticated look from head to toe with this touted bag collection, which also includes shoes.

The Dorry bag is a chic, all-purpose bag that transcends seasons, outfits, and occasions. It is a contemporary take on the timeless classic that everyone needs in their closet. Happy customers who are excited to say that this bag can be dressed up or down are “very versatile.”

The three inner compartments in my mother’s go-to work bag are ideal for organizing things. Because of its large size and ample storage space, it is a great travel companion for tablets, books, and up to 13-inch laptops. When the weather gets warmer, my mother can easily fit a cardigan or jumper with room left over for easily putting a cardigan or jumper on. She also has room for her MacBook, her filofax, her pencil case, her MacBook, her MacBook, her MacBook, her glasses, her MacBook, and more.

This beauty has gold-branded hardware that is understated but still visually appealing for that extra-classy touch of class. There’s no need to worry about your essentials’ safety or security when you’re moving, and this essential bag has a zip across the top.

This Dorry tote is beloved by more than just my mother, who is constantly receiving 5-star reviews. One customer writes, “Lovely bag, looks more expensive. ” As shoppers line up to sing the praises of this stunning bag. had a lot of lovely comments that were ideal for work.

Another customer remarks, “My mum loved it, so I bought this for her.” It’s a gorgeous bag of exceptional quality. beautiful color

Another Dorry fan says, “I adore the way this bag looks!” The texture really makes the design look so sophisticated and elevates it. It appears to be very well-made, which is always important. The aesthetic is also very versatile, and it can be dressed up or down. It appears to be a great bag for any occasion.

Available in muted beige, timeless black, berry, an elegant neutral ivory, or versatile brown, the handbag has got you covered. It costs 89 pounds here.

Due to the ongoing conflict between his brother Romeo and his father David Beckham, who is also a member of the family, who was absent from his father’s milestone birthday celebration, Brooklyn Beckham was unable to attend his father’s birthday celebration.

The feud between Brooklyn Beckham and his brother Romeo appears to have taken a new low as the eldest child of David and Victoria Beckham failed to attend his father’s 50th birthday celebration. The tense stand-off between the brothers is believed to be over Romeo’s girlfriend Kim Turnbull, who reportedly dated Brooklyn back in 2016.

Brooklyn has questioned Kim’s intentions and “motives” toward his brother, according to reports from American online news sources.

The aspiring chef has reportedly informed his family that he won’t attend any family gatherings that Kim is also invited to.

And this explains why both Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz were a no-show at David’s 50th birthday party.

Since none of Brooklyn’s family publicly acknowledged his third wedding anniversary, it seems like the feud has spread to everyone in the Beckham clan.

Brooklyn shared a picture of a bouquet of flowers he received to honor his wedding anniversary last month.

Dear Nicola and Brooklyn, I wish you a very happy anniversary, both on the card! Love all the children, including my mom and dad.

Brooklyn simply wrote “thank you” when he first shared a picture of the flowers, leaving out the fact that either of his parents or his in-laws had delivered them.

Then he recovered the photo and posted it again. “Thank you so much for these incredible flowers from my in-laws [red love heart emoji]” was the new message’s title. I adore you all.

Social media detectives at the time noticed that no one in his family liked or commented on the post, which is unusual for a family that regularly shares its lives with fans.

Dispelling rumours that Brooklyn dated Kim, Cruz Beckham recently weighed in on the discussion. In a now deleted post, a fan wrote: “It’s appropriate to date your brother’s ex too? Cool.”

This was incorporated into Romeo and Kim’s photo. Additionally, according to reports, “Brooklyn and Kim never dated.”

Brooklyn and his wife Nicola were not present at Victoria’s Paris Fashion Week, and Kim, according to the news outlet, was just a coincidence.

Before dating Romeo, Kim’s ex-boyfriends include Madonna’s son Rocco Ritchie who she dated in 2017, a year after she reportedly dated Brooklyn.

Despite his feud with his younger brother, Brooklyn’s relationship with his wife, who they both put on during the Coachella festival, does not appear to have changed as a result.

At the annual music festival, the pair were pictured kissing without noticing the crowd.

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