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As she boardeers a private jet to Paris to begin her 26th birthday celebrations with her family, Molly-Mae Hague is once more putting herself in danger of getting criticism from fans.

Molly-Mae Hague has started her 26th birthday celebrations in style as she revealed she is taking a private jet with her family to Disneyland, risking the wrath of fans.

The influencer documented her time at the airport before boarding her private jet in a variety of photos on her Instagram accounts. Before moving on to the jet, with its personalised decorations, Molly first shared a photo of Bambi at the airport with the caption “Let’s go to Disney.”

The decorations included a banner of Molly’s face wearing the iconic Mickey Mouse ears and a delicious-looking cream cake. Shortly after, she confirmed she had arrived in Paris with a snap of their luggage going into a black cab.

Molly’s experience with flying hasn’t come without its backlash, with the former Love Island star claiming that she ‘can’t win’. She famously received copious amounts of backlash back in March 2023 when she went on a ski holiday to Courchevel in France to celebrate her friend’s 30th birthday, and another time when she took a solo trip to Ibiza.

The star received a number of negative comments, including “terrible,” “do better,” and “nowhere.” For using RyanAir for her sister’s hen do, Molly received a press release shortly after taking a private jet.

People complaining on Molly’s YouTube channel about how they thought it was crazy that I booked my sister a Ryanair flight to take her on her hen do, Molly responded. They say, “I can’t believe Molly booked a Ryanair flight for her and her sister’s friends when she just got her friend a jet,” and they’re right.

Molly continued, “I probably won’t ever do that again because of the amount of stick and the number of intense comments I received from doing that for Taylor’s birthday and getting the jet.” Because the reaction is unfair and therefore not worthwhile, it negates that speciality of that experience.

However, Molly’s most recent trip to Disneyland with her private jet appears to be putting her at risk for more backlash.

Following her disclosure of her health and details a recent incident that resulted in her being admitted to A&amp, E, Molly made the announcement during her YouTube video that she thought she had a blood clot. She referred to her symptoms, including a painful, swollen leg, and sought medical attention.

After spending hours in A& E and being seen by the doctors, the actress quickly established that she is “alright” and doesn’t have a blood clot.

Following rumors that Brooklyn Beckham had posted a message about his wife Nicola Peltz for his parents this morning, Victoria Beckham earlier shared an update with fans.

Amid yet more speculation about her family this weekend, Victoria Beckham brushed off the latest drama in a post today. The entrepreneur has shared an update with fans on social media as rumours of a rift continue to circulate.

It was reported earlier that her son Brooklyn Beckham, 26, shared a “damning message” for his parents this morning. Victoria, 51, has now revealed that amid the speculation she enjoyed spending time with her husband David Beckham, 50, and their daughter Harper Beckham, 13, this afternoon.

In a social media post, Victoria described their afternoon. She chose to promote one of her businesses while demonstrating that she enjoyed spending Sunday afternoon with her husband and youngest child while choosing not to address her son’s post or the most recent headlines about her family.

Through her brand Victoria Beckham Beauty, she shared that she watched as Harper put makeup on David. The post, which was later shared on Victoria’s personal account on Instagram too, had the caption: “Sunday afternoon makeup with Harper.” After some laughing emojis, her husband David was tagged in the caption beside text that read “kisses”.

Harper can be seen using a brush to apply makeup to her father’s face in the video. Victoria replies, “Okay, so Harper is applying some makeup to Daddy.” “Looking gorgeous.” She later states, “Looking very handsome.

Harper used concealer in the second clip, which appeared to promote brand products, while David teased Victoria after she mistaken it for contour. Victoria defended the product’s use, saying, “FL2 to cover up the sun spots. She is now buffing in the contour, too.

After some whispering from Harper, Victoria corrected herself and said, “Concealer, sorry. Then David made a joke about getting it right, “Come on, mom”! Before adding bronzer, Victoria joked and offered an apology once more before adding it.

The post comes just hours after reports of Brooklyn’s apparent message for his parents surfaced. He shared a post about his wife Nicola Peltz, 30, on the platform this morning, with him vowing to “always choose” her amid rumours of tension between them and his parents lately. It’s been suggested that he “brutally” chose his wife in the apparent feud with the message.

Brooklyn’s post included footage of him and Nicola on a motorbike. He wrote in the caption: “My whole world x I will love you forever x I always choose you baby x you’re the most amazing person i know xx me and you forever baby.”

Nicola is thought to have reacted to his tribute, with her sharing the video on her page. Expressing solidarity with her husband Brooklyn, who she married three years ago, she wrote in the caption: “I’ve always got you baby.”

Brooklyn’s brother Cruz Beckham, 20, then defended their parents amid the apparent drama. He paid tribute to Victoria and David alongside a family photo that showed the couple beside their four kids, including eldest son Brooklyn.

Cruz told his parents that he felt “blessed” that they were there in his life in the caption of the post this morning. He continued, “I love my family, I love you guys, mum and dad, you gave us life and cared for us no matter what,” adding, “I can’t tell you how blessed we are to have you in our lives x.”

There has been much speculation of a potential rift within the Beckham family lately. There’s been reports of ‘snubs’ on social, whilst Brooklyn and Nicola are thought to have missed family celebrations in recent months.

Nicola has been blamed for the apparent tension by some people as part of the speculation, though she’s also been defended by others, with a source telling the Mirror previously that she “encourages” Brooklyn to see his family. There’s said to be “distance” between Brooklyn and his parents though, with Victoria expressing her love for her family, including Brooklyn, last week amid the ongoing speculation.

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Leigh-Anne Pinnock, the former Little Mix star, has teased exciting new music and revealed that her solo career has changed since leaving her record label.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock has asked fans to “stay with me” as she teased new solo music and hinted she has now left her record label to become an independent artist.

The 33-year-old former Little Mix star took to social media to post pics of herself in the studio as she prepares to release new tracks. The ex-girlband member was signed to Warner Music Group as a solo artist shortly after the band split in 2022.

However, it appears Leigh-Anne is now working with Virgin Music Group, who claim to be the world’s leading partner to independent artists, after reports that she “failed to impress” Warner with her solo music.

In an Instagram clip teasing her new music, Leigh-Anne wrote: “Control looks good on me” as Virgin posted in the comments with a string of heart emojis. Leigh-Anne replied back: “Let’s go.”

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The mother-of-two, who has twin girls with her football teammate Andre Gray, also posted a selfie to her Instagram accounts with the caption “Cheers to a Leigh-Anne summer” in a message to her 9.9 million followers that “something beautiful is on the way.” She said in another smiling selfie that it was “what freedom looks like.”

The singer expressed more behind-the-scenes images of her new album in her most recent grid post, and that she was “Thinking about how eager I can be to release this now – we’re so fricken]sic] close.”

Giving fans an update in a voice note to fans on the Discord platform, the Daily Mail reported her as saying: “Seriously guys I’ve been wanting to tell so much what was happening, but yeah obviously the process of changing over has been… yeah that’s what has obviously taken time. But yeah obviously we are here – need you guys to stay with me, it is coming. But I just wanted you guys to know it is going to be a Leigh-Anne summer and y’all better get ready.”

In March last year the Mirror revealed Warner Records had refused to fork out for a video shoot to accompany her track Stealin Love – after her previous solo singles Don’t Say Love and My Love got only a lukewarm response.

After failing to obtain the funds she needed, the singer was forced to put some of her own money into her solo career. One person said, “Leigh-Anne’s solo career generated a lot of excitement, but it seemed to wane after the first two tracks.”

They continued, “Warner heavily supported Don’t Say Love for her debut, but we were disappointed by how it performed.” Similar to My Love, it was true. Leigh-Anne is undoubtedly a gifted individual, and solo success can take time to develop.

She has recently struggled to obtain the financial support she needed, to the point where she has even made a campaign contribution herself. And now that her most recent song, Stealin Love, has no video, she has.

The Sun reported Leigh-Anne’s debut album is “as good as complete now” and reported a source as saying: “Now it’s all about planning for the year ahead. She is hugely proud of the music she’s put out already, but she has taken a new direction when it comes to this record. Her debut single, Don’t Say Love, is unlikely to make it on to the tracklist.”

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Ana de Armas, a cuban-Spani actress, is a big fan of two big summer blockbusters that were shot in Australia, but she was afraid for her life on the set of one of them.

On the set of her most recent movie, Ana de Armas has revealed that she was left screaming and fleeing for her life. The 37-year-old Cuban-Spanish actress, who is playing the lead role in the newest action film Ballerina, which is based on the John Wick movie series starring Keanu Reeves, is playing the lead role.

The new movie sees Ana playing a character named Eve Macarro, who was training as a ballerina before falling into a world of espionage and peril. While promoting the new film, Ana also shared anecdotes from the set of another action film she stars in.

She is a member of the Eden cast, which was originally released in 2024 but is scheduled to debut in the UK in July.

The action flick, which also stars Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby and Sydney Sweeney, was filmed in Australia – but the set was frequently invaded by scaly visitors. Ana has explained that a snake catcher was on hand at all times to remove such unwanted pests.

Ana revealed to Stellar Magazine that the cast and crew would yell at reptiles if they were admonished. She recalled that, “At random times on set, people just scream “Snake!”

We literally dropped everything and ran away, waiting for the guy to come with the stick and take the snake out, stopping right away. “Whatever was happening, whoever was talking.

She continued, “But I believe we were safe; no accidents occurred.”

Despite having a busy summer ahead of her film debut, fans have been piqued even more by her in recent months thanks to rumors that she is dating Tom Cruise. Tom has even flown the actress around in helicopters after catching them out for dinner.

Ana is not a stranger to dating famous men; she has been married to Spanish model Marc Clotet from 2011 until 2013 and has dated Ben Affleck from early 2020 until late 2021. More recently, she has been linked to the stepson of Cuban President Miguel D’Az-Canel. However, rumors that she has been warned about posing as Tom, 62, have been true.

A source insisted to People that the pair were merely “disclosing potential collaborations down the line” after being caught apparently enjoying a Valentine’s meal together earlier this year. They added that the pair appeared to be friends rather than romantic partners.

Fans have been left skeptical, though, and many have taken to social media to express their disapproval of the apparent chemistry between the Hollywood stars while also fretting about Tom’s dramatic, attention-grabbing past.

He has been married three times, with each marriage leading to divorce, which is unfortunate. He has also been linked to Scientology, a contentious religion.

After allegedly being introduced by his first wife, Mimi Rogers, he allegedly joined the Church of Scientology in 1986. Many people have condemned the organization, which was created in 1954 by science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard.

Members of the secretive society allegedly give away personal information as well as unlocking various levels within the organization by paying a certain sum of money to advance in the organization. Many people who have fled the organization have alleged that other members have followed them and intimidated them.

Although it has been suggested that Tom’s devotion to the organization caused his marriage to Nicole Kidman’s second wife to fail, the Aussie star cited “unresolvable differences” as the cause of her divorce request when they split in 2001.

Following the death of legendary BBC executive Alan Yentob, the Mirror’s Jessica Boulton looks back on the life and career of a daring outsider remembered as a ‘cultural visionary’

It was 1968 when a 21-year-old Alan Yentob first joined the BBC – the only non-Oxbridge graduate on the trainee scheme that year.

His application had been borderline cocksure, tinged with sarcasm.

Asked about his experience, he had famously replied: “My dramatic debut at the age of nine in The Merry Wives of Windsor was greeted with a gratifying critique: ‘You ought to be a film star, cos you’ve got smashing legs’.”

It was a daring and leftfield response for the then-notoriously-straight-laced Auntie. But it was one that worked.

East Londoner Alan, a Leeds graduate and son of Iraqi Jewish immigrants, turned his back on the family textile business, broke through the cliques of his Oxbridge colleagues and began his mission: to shake up the BBC.

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It was one he would continue for six decades, as he became the man responsible for introducing some of television’s most iconic and groundbreaking shows—from Absolutely Fabulous, Have I Got News For You, Ballykissangel, and the documentary series Imagine to Colin Firth’s Pride and Prejudice and Wallace and Gromit.

He launched the dedicated CBBC and CBeebies channels and (rightly or wrongly) championed a then-unknown Jeremy Clarkson for a little show called…Top Gear.

Now, after his death on Saturday at the age of 78, one word is dominating the tributes: “Visionary.”

His actress wife, Phillipa Walker, mother of his children, Jacob and Isabella, said: “Every day with Alan held the promise of something unexpected. Our life was exciting, he was exciting.

“He was curious, funny, annoying, late and creative in every cell of his body. But more than that, he was the kindest of men and a profoundly moral man. He leaves in his wake a trail of love a mile wide.”

BBC director-general Tim Davie said: “Alan Yentob was a towering figure in British broadcasting and the arts. A creative force and a cultural visionary, he shaped decades of programming at the BBC and beyond. He had a rare gift for identifying talent and lifting others up.”

Among those he elevated was the duo French and Saunders, as Dawn French recognised last night. “We’ve lost a top chap. He was our advocate from the start,” she said on social media.

David Baddiel, who starred in Alan’s series The Art Of Stand-Up, posted a picture of them together. “Here he is backstage after one of my shows, being incredibly supportive, as he always was,” said David. “A lovely man, and a king of TV.”

The Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe were the subject of one of Alan’s Imagine documentaries, which aired last year.

“Alan was a legend in British TV, responsible for some of the BBC’s finest programmes,” the duo said in a joint statement. “He was a stimulating person to spend time with.”

He certainly had some stories to tell.

Alan and his twin brother Robert were born in Stepney, east London, in 1947. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Iraq, who had built up a profitable textile company in the UK. The family spent a few years in Manchester before settling in a flat in London’s prestigious Park Lane. His parents gave the boys the best start possible, sending them to private school.

Alan would go on to graduate from Leeds University with a 2:2 in law but armed with a new passion – for drama. So while his brother went into the family business, Alan joined the BBC and worked his way from the ground up.

It was in 1975 that his talent for interviews and documentaries really emerged. In his now legendary Omnibus episode, Cracked Actor, Alan chronicled the vulnerability of the cocaine-addicted David Bowie in a way that had never been seen.

“He was fragile and exhausted, but also prepared to open up and talk in a way he had never really done before,” Alan once recalled. “Our encounters tended to take place in hotel rooms in the early hours of the morning.”

His work was recognised on both sides of the pond, with US music magazine Rolling Stone calling it the “greatest rockumentary ever”.

After that, Alan’s eye soon caught management’s attention: He became the youngest ever controller of BBC 2 in 1988, followed by BBC One controller in 1993 and then, via other roles, BBC Creative Director in 2004.

His path allowed him a chance to champion many of the standout shows of the past 35 years, including Middlemarch, the 2005 revival of Doctor Who, and Ballykissangel. Perhaps most welcome of all, he was also the man who decided to axe the much-hated soap Eldorado.

Alan was not just in management. He also continued in front of the camera, mainly in his mission to make the arts accessible for all, with his documentaries for Arena and Imagine and The Late Show, a chat show devoted to art and literature. His interviewees included everyone from Billy Connolly and Mel Brooks to Maya Angelou.

Such was his appeal that sometimes it wasn’t clear who should be most grateful for the interview – Alan or his subjects.

Richard Osman once shared this telling anecdote: “Alan Yentob once walked into a TV green room I was in, looked around, then said ‘if you see Jay-Z, tell him Alan was looking for him’.”

It sums up Alan’s status to a tee.

But Alan’s was not a life without scandal. In 2007, Imagine was accused of inserting clips of him nodding into interviews where he hadn’t been present. An investigation later ruled that none of these made it to air.

Alan also faced pressure after buying a £3,381 London to New York business class while filming.

But his biggest controversy, by far, involved the 2015 collapse of Kids Company, the charity of which he was chairman. He was questioned over a £3m government loan that had been issued shortly before it folded and criticised for not properly overseeing its finances.

Alan was then accused of trying to influence the BBC’s coverage of the scandal, claims he strongly denied. But he eventually resigned from his post as Creative Director six months later, only, he said, because the story was becoming “a serious distraction” from the BBC’s other work.

By last year, it was a distant memory as Alan was appointed a CBE in the 2024 New Year Honours List for services to arts and media, before conducting what would be one of his last major interviews – the exclusive with his old friend and Godfather to his children, Sir Salman Rushdie, about his 2022 assasination attempt.

The pair had once arm-wrestled in the BBC satirical comedy W1A.

Rushdie had yet to find the words for what will surely be a very difficult tribute last night.

Yet BBC Radio 4 presenter Amol Rajan gave an unusually candid insight that Alan himself would no doubt have approved of.

Amol said: “He had his foibles and failures, but Alan Yentob was one of the most generous, influential, singular, passionate, supportive, creative and loved men of his generation.

“His shows were always brilliant, often masterpieces, sometimes seminal. That was public Alan. In private, he was magnetic, zealous, and very funny, with a mesmerising voice and mischievous chuckle. He oozed fortitude until the very last.”

Perhaps – at a time when terrestrial TV faces a fight for its survival – there’s one last legacy which Alan leaves the corporation – the drive to keep shaking things up.

Tim Davie added: “To work with Alan was to be inspired and encouraged to think bigger.”

It’s true: the trainee who began with little to boast of but his “smashing legs” could never be accused of thinking small.

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JoJo Siwa and Chris Hughes reunited at Heathrow Airport earlier ahead of her concerts in London next week, with the former Celebrity Big Brother stars now together again

Former Celebrity Big Brother housemates JoJo Siwa and Chris Hughes have reunited once again now that she has returned to the UK this weekend. JoJo arrived in London earlier today and she was met by Chris at the airport.

JoJo, 22, and Chris, 32, met in the Big Brother house last month before reuniting recently when they spent time together in the US and Mexico. It proved to be emotional saying goodbye to Chris when he returned home though, with JoJo sharing that she was in tears ahead of him leaving.

She’s now back in the UK though ahead of concerts in the capital next week. The former Dance Moms star landed in Heathrow Airport earlier with her mother Jessalynn Siwa, 50, by her side and Chris was there ready to greet them.

Photos show the Love Island finalist with his arm around JoJo as they walked through the airport. He’s seen in a blue hoodie, grey trousers and a white baseball cap, whilst JoJo opted for a blue jacket and dark trousers for her flight.

JoJo was met with a bouquet of red and pink roses upon her return this weekend, after last being in the UK for Celebrity Big Brother. One photo taken at the airport shows her and Chris stood next to some luggage with the flowers.

Another shows Chris hugging JoJo whilst stood behind her, with Jessalynn seen in the background with a suitcase. Others show the former housemates holding hands.

JoJo – who split from her partner Kath Ebbs shortly after leaving the Big Brother house – expressed excitement over reuniting with Chris. She shared footage of him talking to Jessalynn inside the airport on her Instagram Story this afternoon.

In the video, JoJo was heard saying as Chris and her mother interacted in front of her: “Aww! God that makes my heart happy.” Further sharing her thoughts, she added in the caption of the post: “My entire [white heart emoji].”

The reunion comes after it was reported earlier this week that JoJo and Chris were spotted kissing whilst in Mexico together. The news came following speculation over their relationship in recent weeks after they grew close on Celebrity Big Brother.

Chris’ time abroad with JoJo coincided with her 22nd birthday on Monday. Whilst he was away, she paid tribute to him during a performance at Tecate Emblema festival in Mexico City and it was thought she ‘confirmed’ a romance.

JoJo reflected on her “birthday week” a few days ago. She told fans on Wednesday that it had been “more magical than anything” and said she “wouldn’t change a single thing”.

She wrote: “This years birthday week was more magical than anything. Full of surprises, family time, performing, chilling, laughing, loving, smiling, and good meaningful cries. Absolutely beautiful, wouldn’t change a single thing. A week I’ll remember for the rest of my life.”

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