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"Unbearable": Priscilla Presley breaks down mid-interview

<p>Priscilla Presley broke down mid-interview as she opened up about her grief, following the loss of her daughter <a href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/news/news/lisa-marie-presley-dies-at-age-54" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lisa Marie Presley</a>.</p> <p>In an interview with <em>Piers Morgan: Uncensored</em>, the star opened up about the pain from the loss of her loved ones, and how "it's like a large part of your life is taken away."</p> <p>"It was unbearable. I lost my mother, I lost my grandson, and I lost my daughter. It's still shocking that we don't have her," she told the host. </p> <p>She revealed that Lisa Marie was also struggling with the loss of her son Ben Keough, who took his own life in 2020 at the age of 27. </p> <p>"Losing Ben was the hardest thing for her," Priscilla explained. "He took his own life, and he was the love of her life, that child, she adored him. She would do anything for him, anything."</p> <p>She revealed that Lisa Marie herself had somewhat become suicidal just months before her passing, as she struggled to accept her son's death. </p> <p>"We were in Memphis, sitting up in the suite, and she said, 'Mum, I don't know if I want to be here,' and I go, 'What are you talking about?' 'You know, my Ben,' and she would go on about Ben and how she is still grieving,'" she said. </p> <p>"And this was a couple of months before." </p> <p>After revealing this information, Priscilla burst into tears and said "don't talk anymore about it" before requesting for a break. </p> <p>Priscilla did the interview in anticipation of the release of  Sofia Coppola's biopic about her life, <em>Priscilla, </em>which is set to release on November 3, 2023. </p> <p><em>Images: TalkTV</em></p>

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"This is terrible": Woman halts TV interview until her name is pronounced correctly

<p>Former editor and commentator Dawn Neesom was put on blast by Shola Mos-Shogbamimu for mispronouncing her name on TV.</p> <p>The exchange happened on Channel 5’s<em> Jeremy Vine</em> show where Ms Neesom was presenting as a host.</p> <p>Dr Shola appeared on the panel to talk about stories and current issues.</p> <p>When the introductions began, there was an error which was quickly highlighted.</p> <p>Dawn said, “I am absolutely thrilled to be joined by lawyer Dr Shola” but then struggled to pronounce her surname and asked her, “How do I pronounce your name Shola?”</p> <p>The lawyer replied, “'Read it my darling, read it.”</p> <p>Dawn made another attempt but appeared to have mispronounced it again.</p> <p>Dr Shola, appearing amused, said, “This is terrible, especially from a presenter.”</p> <p>Dawn was then instructed by her to pronounce it phonetically, saying “Shola Mos Shog Bam Imu.”</p> <p>Dr Shola responded, “Do it again.”</p> <p>Dawn went on to say “Oh come on, I got the Shola right” but Dr Shola said, "Do it again and do it phonetically.”</p> <p>When she again mispronounced it, Dr Shola said “You just missed the B try again”</p> <p>Dawn, proceeded to put her hand on her face said, “'Shola, Shola welcome to the show!”</p> <p>Dr Shola then told her, “No you will say my name and read it phonetically,”</p> <p>Dawn attempted to say her name again, this time nearly correct and Dr Shola said, “It's Shogbamimu but well done.”</p> <p>The exchange was posted online and both parties tweeted about it.</p> <p>Dawn explained, “The most fun with the best panel this morning. That's what three hours sleep does for you.”</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">The most fun with the best panel this morning <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyVineOn5?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JeremyVineOn5</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Extra?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Extra</a> 😂 That's what three hours sleep does for you🤪 Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/thecarolemalone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thecarolemalone</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SholaMos1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SholaMos1</a> for being such great sports &amp; to all the excellent callers today 🙏 Back from more fun &amp; games live tomorrow 9.15 sharp. The… <a href="https://t.co/dSVUvBrN3H">https://t.co/dSVUvBrN3H</a></p> <p>— Dawn Neesom (@DawnNeesom) <a href="https://twitter.com/DawnNeesom/status/1656286485547737088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2023</a></p></blockquote> <p>Dr Shola retweeted the video but added no comment.</p> <p>The lawyer, who recently wrote an anti-racism book called This Is Why I Resist, spoke about Meghan Markle’s decision to not attend the coronation.</p> <p>Speaking to <em>GMD</em>, she said, “I think Meghan's decision to say no to the most powerful family in Britain and to say no to the most talked about party in town is both admirable and inspiring.</p> <p>“What Meghan is doing is exercising the power of no that comes from a place of self-worth, growth, maturity and self preservation.”</p> <p>When asked if it was because Meghan “didn’t feel welcome” in the UK, she responded “I don't think that's the case here.</p> <p>"I think that any wife out there that has bad in-laws like Meghan has with the Royal Family can deduce that she has drawn a line in the sand. She is saying I will attend royal events, but on my own terms.</p> <p>“But what is more powerful is that Meghan is telling the whole world that I am rejecting any notion that because I married into the Royal Family I should be bait for toxicity, rage and abuse.</p> <p>“She is saying to society as a whole: you don't get to tell me who I should be as a woman, as a mother and as a wife."</p> <p><em>Image credit: Instagram</em></p>

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Schumacher’s family suing German magazine over fake interview

<p dir="ltr">Michael Schumacher’s family is preparing to take legal action against German tabloid magazine <em>Die Aktuelle</em>, for publishing an AI-generated “interview” with the star.</p> <p dir="ltr">The publication has been slammed for using Michael’s face on their April 15 front cover, promoting the piece as “the first interview” since the star’s skiing accident in December 2013.</p> <p dir="ltr">“No meagre, nebulous half-sentences from friends. But answers from him! By Michael Schumacher, 54!” read the text in the magazine.</p> <p dir="ltr">“It sounded deceptively real,” they added in the strapline, which was the only indicator that the piece was fake.</p> <p dir="ltr">The “interview” included quotes that insensitively described Schumacher’s recovery, following the accident where he suffered a serious brain injury.</p> <p dir="ltr">“I was so badly injured that I lay for months in a kind of artificial coma, because otherwise my body couldn’t have dealt with it all,” the quote read.</p> <p dir="ltr">“I’ve had a tough time but the hospital team has managed to bring me back to my family,” they added.</p> <p dir="ltr">It was only at the end of the article that the publication revealed that they used Character.ai, an AI chatbot, to create the interview.</p> <p dir="ltr">A spokesperson for Schumachers confirmed their intention to take legal action against <em>Die Aktuelle</em> to <em>Reuters</em> and <em>ESPN</em>.</p> <p dir="ltr">This isn’t the first time Schumacher’s family have taken action against <em>Die Aktuelle</em>.</p> <p dir="ltr">In 2015, Michael’s wife, Corinna Schumacher filed a lawsuit against the magazine after they used Corinna’s picture with the headline: “Corinna Schumacher – a new love makes her happy.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The story was actually about their daughter, Gina, but the lawsuit was dismissed.</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Getty Images</em></p>

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Marvel star gives chilling first interview

<p>Jeremy Renner has given his first interview since his tragic near-death snow plough accident on New Year’s Day 2023 which left him with 30 broken bones.</p> <p>A trailer has been released for his exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer for ABC America’s 20/20.</p> <p>The hourlong special, <em>Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview — A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph</em>, will feature the Marvel star’s nephew, whose life was saved by the actor before he was pulled under a 6.35-tonne snowplough.</p> <p>"Yeah, I'd do it again, cause it was going right at my nephew,” Renner told Diane.</p> <p>The one-on-one will feature the distressing emergency service calls from Renner accompanied by a voiceover saying, "this is the sound of someone that was dying”.</p> <p>His nephew, describing a pool of blood around the actor’s neck, told Sawyer, "I ran up to him and I didn't think he was alive”.</p> <p>Renner recalled the pain that the machinery caused him.</p> <p>"Oh, all of it, yeah, I was awake through every moment," he said.</p> <p>The Avengers hero appeared to be flooded with emotion as he reflected on the moment in hospital where he signed “I’m sorry” to members of his family as he desperately fought for his life.</p> <p>Renner is recovering at home after an 18-day hospital stay and the trailer for the interview saw him in a wheelchair.</p> <p>The Hawkeye star has kept fans up to date on his recovery through social media and told Sawyer he hopes to get back into the action scenes soon.</p> <p>"I've lost a lot of flesh and bone in this experience but I've been refuelled and refilled with love and titanium."</p> <p><em>Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview — A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph</em>, is set to air on April 7.</p> <p><em>Image credit: Instagram</em></p>

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Camilla "astounded" by Prince Harry's latest attack

<p>Camilla has reportedly been left reeling after Prince Harry's latest attack on the royal family in two high profile interviews. </p> <p>The Duke of Sussex's latest onslaught of allegations include that his stepmother leaked stories to the British tabloids in an attempt to rehabilitate her image after her marriage to King Charles, following a highly publicised affair.</p> <p>Camilla’s close friend told <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/01/what-palace-insiders-think-of-prince-harrys-latest-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Vanity Fai</em>r</a> that the former Duchess of Cornwall is “just astounded by the whole thing.”</p> <p>Sources close to King Charles III also told the magazine that the monarch refuses to tolerate any comments made about his wife and believes his son crossed a line when mentioning her. </p> <p>In an interview with Britain's <em>ITV</em>, Harry said, “Certain members have got in bed with the devil to rehabilitate their image, but that rehabilitation has come at the detriment of others.”</p> <p>Prince Harry also took aim at Camilla in his autobiography <em>Spare</em>, writing that he and his brother, Prince William, urged their father not to marry their “wicked stepmother.”</p> <p>“Despite Willy and me urging him not to, Pa was going ahead. We pumped his hand, wished him well. No hard feelings,” he wrote.</p> <p>“We recognised that he was finally going to be with the woman he loved, the woman he’d always loved.”</p> <p>The Duke of Sussex said he has not spoken with Camilla, or his other family members, in “a long time.”</p> <p>“I love every member of my family, despite the differences,” he said on Good Morning America on Monday.</p> <p>“When I see [Camilla], we’re perfectly pleasant with each other. … I don’t look at her as an evil stepmother. I see someone who married into this institution and has done everything that she can to improve her own reputation and her own image for her own sake.”</p> <p><em>Image credits: Getty Images</em></p>

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“I believe Prince Andrew”: Fergie’s ex speaks in bombshell interview

<p dir="ltr">Sarah Ferguson’s former partner has made bombshell allegations about Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew and the late Queen, including claims that the convicted sex offender planned to blackmail the monarch.</p> <p dir="ltr">John Bryan, who was in a relationship with Ferguson for four years in the 1990s, made the claims in his first tell-all interview, per <em>The Sun</em>.</p> <p dir="ltr">The US businessman said that Epstein earned some of his wealth by blackmailing others in powerful positions into giving him money in exchange for his silence over their illicit behaviours.</p> <p dir="ltr">“People always ask how Epstein made his money. He was supposed to be this tax wizard. But it was all a con,” Bryan told the <em>Mail on Sunday</em>.</p> <p dir="ltr">“He blackmailed rich men and then made them pay to avoid scandal. He made hundreds of millions of dollars this way.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Bryan also claimed he was secretly drafted for crisis talks with Prince Andrew after the royal’s disastrous 2019 Newsnight interview, including that he was smuggled into the Royal Lodge to advise the royal in the wake of the Epstein scandal and amid claims he had sex with then-teenager Virginia Giuffre.</p> <p dir="ltr">He said the conversation involved probing Andrew about his relationship with Epstein and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Andrew’s television interview had been a catastrophe so they needed an honest strategic plan that everyone could buy into,” Bryan recalled.</p> <p dir="ltr">“[Fergie] invited me to come over. She was desperate. She told me that Andrew was in terrible shape.</p> <p dir="ltr">“He was distraught. They were distraught.”</p> <p dir="ltr">He claimed that he helped the family come up with a “long term strategy” called “House of Kroy”, a backwards spelling of York.</p> <p dir="ltr">During the interview, Bryan said Epstein’s “ultimate” aim was to blackmail the Queen using the allegations of child sexual abuse and other sexual activities made against Andrew.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Epstein tried to lure Andrew into his web, but I believe his ultimate mark was the Queen,” Bryan said, adding that Epstein’s plan to target the Queen supported his belief that the allegations against Andrew were unfounded.</p> <p dir="ltr">“I believe Andrew is innocent. If he genuinely was involved in ‘orgies’ as has been alleged, then Epstein would have used that to try and bribe the Queen into paying out millions to protect her family,” he said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Andrew has never had any money. The Queen was the one with money.</p> <p dir="ltr">“I truly believe Epstein was going after her but Andrew never gave him the ammunition to do so.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The financial advisor recalled another meeting with the royals, including Andrew, Princess Beatrice, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank.</p> <p dir="ltr">Bryan claimed Princess Beatrice told Andrew, “you’ve hurt our family”, and that Andrew was “downcast” and yelling: “I don’t care anymore, I don’t care. I am being treated unfairly.”</p> <p dir="ltr">He added that the Duke was in a state he had never seen him in before after the interview.</p> <p dir="ltr">“In the four years I dated Sarah I never once heard him raise his voice or lose his temper,” he said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“It showed what strain he was under, how much he cared about the damage this was doing to the Royal Family.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Bryan added that he had only seen Andrew with women aged in their mid-20s while he was dating Fergie, and that he believed there was “no hint” of “anything untoward going on”.</p> <p dir="ltr">“I truly believe if there was anything untoward going on I would have known about it, Sarah would have known about it,” he said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“But there was never a hint of that. I remain and will always remain an outsider, so let me be the first outsider to say that I believe Prince Andrew – and I don’t say it lightly.</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-373a09ae-7fff-0a73-c907-818fd09b7e40"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">“This outsider has a lot of inside knowledge.”</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Getty Images</em></p>

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Rumours swirl over legitimacy of Meghan Markle’s podcast

<p dir="ltr">One of the guests on Meghan Markle’s <em>Archetypes </em>podcast has sparked rumours that she wasn’t actually interviewed by the former royal for the episode.</p> <p dir="ltr">Allison Yarrow, who appeared on the episode titled “To ‘B’ or not to ‘B’”, spoke about the history of the “B” word (b***h) in feminist culture and was interviewed along with makeup mogul and medical advocate Victoria Jackson and Mellody Hobson, the co-CEO of Ariel Investments and chairwoman of Starbucks.</p> <p dir="ltr">But, one of Yarrow’s posts about the podcast has resurfaced and seems to imply that the author and journalist was actually interviewed by Markle’s producer.</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-b81c4517-7fff-92e8-d43c-207495805895"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">"Excited to be included in the visionary series Archetypes hosted by Meghan the Duchess of Sussex that aims to dissect and subvert the archetypes that hold women back," Yarrow wrote in a post dating back to August.</p> <blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/ChpF5BiucGX/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"> </div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"> </div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;"> <div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 8px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"> </div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: auto;"> <div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"> </div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"> </div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/ChpF5BiucGX/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A post shared by Allison Yarrow (@aliyarrow)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p dir="ltr">"The first episode (out now, link in bio) features a timely interview with another legend Serena Williams. Cheers to producer @farrahsafari (an excellent interviewer) and the folks at @Gimlet @spotify who get it done!"</p> <p dir="ltr">The post prompted some to speculate how much work Markle puts into interviewing her guests.</p> <p dir="ltr">While some podcast guests are clearly interviewed in-person, including actress Mindy Kaling and Serena Williams, others such as Yarrow have their comments and answers weaved into the episode.</p> <p dir="ltr">The podcast also includes audio clips from interviews with other experts, including sociologist Nancy Wang Yuen and Dr Laura Kay.</p> <p dir="ltr">It comes after the latest <em>Archetypes </em>episode featured <em>The Good Plac</em>e star Jameela Jamil, who defended Markle against the slew of criticism she has received since marrying Prince Harry.</p> <p dir="ltr">"I know you have a very similar dynamic with Harry and actually, when the four of us met that one time, it was a really sweet dynamic of two very like, sort of, similar relationships," Jameel said, referring to her partner, singer James Blake.</p> <p dir="ltr">"It was very nice for me to see that you have that in your home because you need it, because it's just, it's an unfathomable amount of shit that you take, Meghan, I can't believe it.</p> <p dir="ltr">"And I fought back on your behalf for years before I'd ever met you because I was so outraged. I was so outraged with the twisting of this very normal, very kind, very civilised woman. That demonization just shows how afraid they are of you."</p> <p dir="ltr">Jamil said Meghan’s treatment “re-highlighted for us the intense unkindness and bigotry and misogyny of our media and I think and I hope and I feel faith that tides are changing because so many of us are fighting back”.</p> <p dir="ltr">"Well, thank you for fighting back," Markle responded, admitting that “all of that criticism can feel really attacking or uncomfortable or scary”.</p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8f584ce2-7fff-b2b5-ace4-89cc332a4c24"></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Images: Instagram</em></p>

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Chris Dawson tries to overturn guilty verdict ahead of tell-all interview

<p>Chris Dawson has lodged the paperwork to begin the process of overturning his guilty conviction for the murder of his wife Lynette 40 years ago.</p> <p>The 74-year-old has spent the last five weeks in Sydney's Silverwater Jail, as he awaits his sentencing day in court on November 11.</p> <p>Despite the high-profile case producing a guilty verdict, Dawson has always maintained his innocence over the disappearance of Lynette, whose body still hasn't been found.</p> <p>Sources told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11279117/Chris-Dawson-lodges-appeal-against-conviction-murdering-wife-Lynette-daughter-breaks-silence.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail Australia</a> last month that Dawson's legal team had recently lodged a notice of intention to appeal with the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal.</p> <p><em>Nine News</em> also reported on Tuesday night the paperwork flagging Dawson's intention to appeal his conviction has now been formally submitted, as the network prepares to air an interview with one of his daughters.</p> <p>Shanelle Dawson is preparing to open up about growing up without her mother, along with the torment and confusion that arose form her disappearance in a tell-all interview with <em>60 Minutes</em>.</p> <p>Shanelle, who was just four years old when her mum Lynette vanished in 1982, said she was always told by her father that her mother left because she didn't love her and her other sisters.</p> <p>"I feel a lot of rage and anger towards him," Shanelle says in the <em>60 Minutes</em> preview.</p> <p>"It was manipulative and gaslighting us."</p> <p>"Whatever he said or threatened me kept me quiet for the next 40 years."</p> <p><em>Image credits: Getty Images / 60 Minutes</em></p>

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Meghan Markle gets candid in groundbreaking interview

<p dir="ltr">Before marrying Prince Harry, Meghan Markle wasn’t exactly a household name except for the few that knew her from the TV series <em>Suits</em>.</p> <p dir="ltr">She soon became Duchess of Sussex, announced that she and Prince Harry will be “leaving” the Royal Family for a normal life, and had two children, Archie and Lilibet. </p> <p dir="ltr">The pair married St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle back on May 19, 2018 and have since then caused what many describe, a headache, for the Royals. </p> <p dir="ltr">But this was not their intention with the Duchess now coming out in a groundbreaking interview with <a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/meghan-markle-profile-interview.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cut</a>, revealing her upcoming projects, how she’s teaching their kids manners, to the troubles she had with the monarchy's restrictions on her life, and of course, her love for Harry. </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Back on Instagram</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Meghan revealed that when she joined the Royal Family she could not have her own social media. </p> <p dir="ltr">But now that she’s putting her foot down, almost four years later, she announced excitedly: “I'm getting back … on Instagram”. </p> <p dir="ltr">“It was a big adjustment—a huge adjustment to go from that kind of autonomy to a different life.”</p> <p dir="ltr">She said this is an important step to getting her voice back and defending herself from media stories who are attacking her. </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>The red flags</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">When Meghan gave birth to her first child, baby Archie, she was not allowed to share photos with her loved ones.</p> <p dir="ltr">Instead, she had to wait for a rota approved by the monarch for when she was allowed to release photos of him. </p> <p dir="ltr">"There's literally a structure by which if you want to release photos of your child, as a member of the family, you first have to give them to the Royal Rota," she explained. </p> <p dir="ltr">“Why would I give the very people that are calling my children the N-word a photo of my child before I can share it with the people that love my child?" she went on. </p> <p dir="ltr">"You tell me how that makes sense and then I'll play that game."</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>How she moved to California</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Filmmaker Tyler Perry reached out to Meghan and Harry when the drama with the Royal Family got a bit too much.</p> <p dir="ltr">The trio did not know each other, and the Sussexes were living in Canada at the time with Tyler offering them his home in Beverly Hills as Covid-19 struck. </p> <p dir="ltr">Tyler’s home came with complete security detail which gave them their privacy before they found their dream home in Montecito, boasting Oprah as a neighbour. </p> <p dir="ltr">She revealed that without Tyler it would have been harder as they didn’t have enough money because they left the Royal Family, but soon they signed a deal with Netflix and Spotify. </p> <p dir="ltr">"We did everything we could to get this house," she said. "Because you walk in and go … Joy. And exhale. And calm. It's healing. You feel free."</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>First time going back to London</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">It was in June 2022 when both Meghan and Harry appeared in public in London for the first time for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. </p> <p dir="ltr">This was Meghan’s opportunity to also pack the rest of the family’s belongings which were left behind before they left for Canada.</p> <p dir="ltr">"You go back and you open drawers and you’re like, 'Oh my gosh. This is what I was writing in my journal there? And here’s all my socks from this time?',” she said.</p> <p dir="ltr">"It was bittersweet, you know? Knowing none of it had to be this way.”</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Meghan and Harry tried to stay with the Royal Family</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">The Duchess was an actress and was always told what to do when it came to working, but soon the UK media was bashing her for her job. </p> <p dir="ltr">“My entire job was, 'Tell me where to stand. Tell me what to say. Tell me how to say it. Tell me what to wear, and I'll do it.' And I'll show up early, and I'll probably bake something for the crew,” she said. </p> <p dir="ltr">Soon the pressure from the press was too much, Duchess Kate making her cry, the racist comments over baby Archie’s skin colour. </p> <p dir="ltr">The pair offered to move to another Commonwealth and make their own money while still working for the Queen but the Monarch was just not having any of it. </p> <p dir="ltr">“Anything to just … because just by existing, we were upsetting the dynamic of the hierarchy. So we go, 'Okay, fine, let's get out of here. Happy to,' Meghan revealed.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Their upcoming projects</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Not wanting to reveal too much, Meghan and Harry enjoy working together explaining that it is fun and exciting. </p> <p dir="ltr">The pair are currently working on their new podcast <em>Archetypes</em> with the first episode out with her best friend and professional tennis player, Serena Williams. </p> <p dir="ltr">Meghan said this was an opportunity to share things she never could before and give the public a glimpse into her life. </p> <p dir="ltr">"The piece of my life I haven't been able to share, that people haven't been able to see, is our love story.” </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Losing their fathers</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Meghan’s father Thomas Markle bore the brunt of the press when she was dating Prince Harry. </p> <p dir="ltr">He however could not push them away and instead said hurtful things about his daughter and did not attend their wedding.</p> <p dir="ltr">Harry also revealed that his father Prince Charles stopped speaking to him when they moved to California.</p> <p dir="ltr">"Harry said to me, 'I lost my dad in this process.' It doesn't have to be the same for them as it was for me, but that's his decision," Meghan said.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Making peace with the Royals</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Meghan admits and hopes that one day the family could put their differences aside and come together as one</p> <p dir="ltr">"I think forgiveness is really important. It takes a lot more energy to not forgive," she said. </p> <p dir="ltr">"But it takes a lot of effort to forgive. I've really made an active effort, especially knowing that I can say anything.</p> <p dir="ltr">"I can talk about my whole experience and make a choice not to," she said.</p> <p dir="ltr">When asked why, she simply said, “Still healing”.</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Getty</em></p>

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Controversial Diana interview to air in new documentary

<p dir="ltr">A new documentary about Princess Diana will air snippets of her 1995 Panorama interview with BBC journalist Martin Bashir once again, despite Prince William insisting it “should never be shown again”.</p> <p dir="ltr">The HBO documentary, titled <em>The Princess</em>, uses archival audio and video footage as part of its exploration of Diana’s complex relationship with the media, including how she often used the press to her advantage with dire consequences.</p> <p dir="ltr">Its release in select Australian and New Zealand cinemas in August comes a year after William made a forceful statement condemning the 1995 interview and describing it as a “major contribution to making my parent’s relationship worse”.</p> <p dir="ltr">Snippets from the interview show the late Princess of Wales speaking about her marriage to Prince Charles, her extramarital affair, and her belief that a campaign was being “waged against” her for her refusal to “go quietly”.</p> <p dir="ltr">“It is my firm view that this Panorama program holds no legitimacy and should never be aired again,” William said in May 2021.</p> <p dir="ltr">“It effectively established a false narrative which, for over a quarter of a century, has been commercialised by the BBC and others.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Prince Harry later echoed William’s statements, saying that “our mother lost her life because of this and nothing has changed”.</p> <p dir="ltr">The BBC has distanced itself from the documentary, saying licences allowing for “any or all” of the interview to be aired had not been granted, per <em><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/07/28/dianas-disgraced-panorama-interview-aired-sky-against-prince/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Telegraph UK</a></em>.</p> <p dir="ltr">It has since emerged that Bahir lied to Diana to gain her trust prior to the interview, showing her forged bank statements and other documents as proof that her most-trusted advisors and staff were spying on her in order to get her to agree to the interview.</p> <p dir="ltr">Tim Davie, the BBC’s director-general, vowed last week to never show the interview in its entirety or in parts ever again, saying there would only be “few and far between” reasons to use extracts for journalistic purposes and urging other broadcasters to “exercise similar restraint”.</p> <p dir="ltr">He also apologised to Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry for “the way in which Princess Diana was deceived and the subsequent impact on all their lives”.</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>The Princess</em> isn’t expected to provide context for the BBC interview, as segments from it will be shown alongside other news bulletins and footage of some members of the public - out of an estimated 23 million people who watched it at the time - watching it in a pub and reacting to it.</p> <p dir="ltr">In a statement, HBO described the film as “intensely emotional” and a “visceral submersion” into Diana’s life under the spotlight of the media.</p> <p dir="ltr">“The film unfolds as if it were in the present, allowing viewers to experience the overwhelming adoration, but also intense scrutiny of Diana's every move and the constant judgement of her character,” the statement reads.</p> <p dir="ltr">"Through archival material, the film is also a reflection of society at the time, revealing the public's own preoccupations, fears, aspirations and desires."</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ea73afec-7fff-008f-91a2-935b7a7cd4f1"></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Getty Images</em></p>

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Prince Harry discusses his mental health journey in candid interview

<p dir="ltr">Prince Harry has shared a rare insight into his mental health journey in a candid interview. </p> <p dir="ltr">The interview, which has been published on YouTube for Silicon Valley tech start-up BetterUp, shows the Duke of Sussex taking on the role of interviewer as he declared "we all have greatness within us".</p> <p dir="ltr">"Mental fitness helps us unlock it. It's an ongoing practice, one where you approach your mind as something to flex, not fix," Prince Harry said.</p> <p dir="ltr">Harry joined BetterUp in March last year as its chief impact officer, in what is believed to be one of the duke's first paying roles in his new life of "financial freedom" away from the royal family.</p> <p dir="ltr">"Throughout the years of travelling around the world, what I saw was the similarities of experiences of trauma, of loss, of grief, of being human," Prince Harry said in the clip.</p> <p dir="ltr">"That building up of resilience is absolutely critical."</p> <p dir="ltr">Prince Harry spoke with Olympic gold medallist snowboarder Chloe Kim, BetterUp member Blu Mendoza and psychologist Adam Grant in the video, as he quizzed them about building their own “mental fitness”. </p> <p dir="ltr">"What does the term mental fitness mean to you?" Harry asked.</p> <p dir="ltr">Grant said, "Everyone is aware that if they don't take care of their bodies, that their functioning is going to suffer. I don't think we have the same awareness around mental fitness."</p> <p dir="ltr">Speaking to Grant, Harry asked: "How can we create more resilience for people, not just a better version of themselves at work but a better version for their partners, their families and their whole community?"</p> <p dir="ltr">"We all want to grow, but it's hard to do that on our own," Grant said.</p> <p dir="ltr">The interview was given as part of his work for BetterUp, with Harry saying the world was on the cusp of a "mental health awakening" and people are realising they should resign if their work "didn't bring them joy".</p> <p dir="ltr">You can check out the entire interview below. </p> <p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iW65lB1IuSM" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> <p><em><span id="docs-internal-guid-5c547d7c-7fff-9c0a-074b-6ac057d40295">Image credits: YouTube - BetterUp</span></em></p>

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Camilla opens up in tell-all interview

<p dir="ltr">Ahead of her 75th birthday, the Duchess of Cambridge has opened up about her family life, her future role as Queen Consort, her love for Australia and her fear of public speaking.</p> <p dir="ltr">In a wide-ranging interview with <em><a href="https://www.nowtolove.com.au/royals/british-royal-family/camilla-parker-bowles-family-73924" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Woman’s Weekly</a></em>, accompanied by a sweet series of photos <a href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/lifestyle/family-pets/behind-the-scenes-photos-of-camilla-s-cover-shoot-snapped-by-duchess-kate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken by her stepdaughter-in-law Kate Middleton</a>, Camilla said it was “a great honour” to be granted the title of Queen Consort by Queen Elizabeth II earlier this year.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Obviously it’s a great honour and I was deeply touched for Her Majesty to have given me this role,” Camilla told the publication.</p> <p dir="ltr">The Duchess will be following in the footsteps of the late Prince Philip, who she revealed was someone she often turned to for counsel while learning the ropes of royal life.</p> <p dir="ltr">“The Duke of Edinburgh was always a very good ear. He was a role model to me and a very good person to take advice from because he always told me what he thought, which was very helpful, especially with things about the army because I took over the Rifles [regiment] from him,” she said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“He was always two steps behind the Queen, which for a man must be much more difficult than for a woman - and somebody as maccho as he was, who commanded ships. So I think I learned [from the Duke] that your place is several feet behind the monarch. You’re there as a back-up.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Having grown up in rural England with her brother, sister, and their ponies, it was a role Camilla never would have imagined she would be tasked with.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Life was very laid-back,” Camilla recalled.</p> <p dir="ltr">“It certainly gave us all a very good grounding, because we could start off with a smile on our face. As far as I remember it was perfect."</p> <p dir="ltr">Their mother, Rosalind Shand (née Cubitt), was a well-connected woman from a wealthy aristocratic family who taught her children the art of small talk, a skill that has been critical for Camilla’s royal life.</p> <p dir="ltr">“My mother was absolutely brilliant at making us speak to people,” she recalled. </p> <p dir="ltr">"She used to have people to dinner; it didn't matter who it was, old or young, some of them we thought were incredibly boring, but she used to sit at the end of the table and say: 'Talk! I don't care whether you're talking about your pony or your homework, just talk!'”</p> <p dir="ltr">Despite this, the Duchess admitted she finds delivering speeches - a task she has been called to do more often in recent times - is terrifying.</p> <p dir="ltr">"I get petrified making speeches," Camilla said. </p> <p dir="ltr">"I hate every moment of it. People always say it'll get better and sometimes I find it's all right if I really know my subject, but sometimes [I get] that awful thing beforehand of really shaking and feeling seriously sick.</p> <p dir="ltr">"My husband is very good; he loves it. Because he's a very good actor, I think. </p> <p dir="ltr">“I was the worst actor in the whole school. If I was given one line to say, it always came out backwards. So I think speeches – no, they're never going to be my favourite things."</p> <p dir="ltr">Though she doesn’t share his passion for public speaking, Camilla does share his love of Australia that developed after the couple’s inaugural visit in 2012.</p> <p dir="ltr">"I think he [the Prince of Wales] always wanted to take me there and show me what it was like,” Camilla said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“He was proved right. I love Australia.”</p> <p dir="ltr">She added that they both appreciated what she calls the “take it or leave it” spirit of Australians, as well the Australian sense of humour.</p> <p dir="ltr">"I like that everybody's down to earth and they say what they think,” she continued. </p> <p dir="ltr">“I'd much rather people were out there saying what they think than beating round the bush, telling you a lot of porkies.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Though she had hoped to return for a visit this year, Camilla said their schedules, filled with events celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, have prevented them.</p> <p dir="ltr">“This year we were ready to go back again, but we just couldn’t fit it into the Jubilee schedules,” she explained.</p> <p dir="ltr">“But we’ll be back soon, I hope.”</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-09a875fd-7fff-68f0-0e9a-499ce58bd948"></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: @womansweeklymag (Instagram)</em></p>

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Man rejected from interview through accidental email to management

<p dir="ltr">Alexander Wood was refused an opportunity to be interviewed for a position he applied for thanks to an accidental HR email.</p> <p dir="ltr">This was the third time Alexander applied for a barista position at Utica Coffee Roasting Company in New York. </p> <p dir="ltr">He was interviewed by the company in April 2021 and was offered the role but was unable to accept due to his living circumstances. </p> <p dir="ltr">In December 2021, after reapplying, HR got in touch with Alexander saying they will set up a time for an interview…but no one got back to him.</p> <p dir="ltr">After applying again recently in March 2022, Alexander was rejected from any interview after he was CC’d in an email from HR saying he never showed up last time. </p> <p dir="ltr">“Well, today is the first time I got CC'ed on an email I should not have been,” he wrote on Facebook on March 15. </p> <p dir="ltr">“It was an email an HR employee meant to send to management about how I never showed up for an interview and I was CC'd into their responses.”</p> <p dir="ltr">He explained that he was at an “all-time low in my life, I had just left downstate after being rendered homeless for over a week, I had left my toxic relationship, and I was legally tied to an apartment that I did not feel safe living in.” </p> <p dir="ltr">After sorting out his life, Alexander applied once again, only to randomly check his phone and saw the “triggering email” from the company. </p> <p dir="ltr">“I got hopeful and checked when I could only to find out it was an email meant for the other managers talking about how I never showed up for an interview,” he continued.</p> <p dir="ltr">Sharing a screenshot of the email thread, HR had informed management that Alexander had allegedly not shown up for a previous interview.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Well that’s interesting ok so lets reject him…” management responded. </p> <p dir="ltr">Alexander said he would “never no-call, no-show an interview, especially at that point in my life.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Shocked at their unprofessionalism, Alexander responded with proof of their emails showing that someone from HR would get in contact with him but didn’t. </p> <p dir="ltr">“I am absolutely astonished at the carelessness in this situation. Needless to say, I will not get a job there and will most likely never step foot in the establishment again. </p> <p dir="ltr">“I'm confident in my skills and I hold enough pride not to put up with this kind of absolute garbage. These are the things you don’t do with your business.”</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Facebook</em></p>

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Paul McCartney takes a dig at the Rolling Stones in candid new interview

<p dir="ltr">Legendary musician Sir Paul McCartney has reignited the rivalry between The Beatles and The Rolling Stones with a brutal burn in a recent interview.</p> <p dir="ltr">In an interview with<span> </span><em>The New Yorker</em><span> </span>this week, Sir McCartney said of the Stones, “I’m not sure I should say it, but they’re a blues cover band, that’s sort of what the Stones are.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Of his own band, he said, ”I think our net was cast a bit wider than theirs.”</p> <p dir="ltr">This isn’t the first time McCartney, 79, has described the Stones this way; in an interview with Howard Stern last year, he said that he thought the Beatles were the better band, adding that the Stones, “are rooted in the blues. When they are writing stuff, it has to do with the blues.</p> <p dir="ltr">”We had a little more influences... There’s a lot of differences and I love the Stones, but I’m with you. The Beatles were better.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Responding to his comments, Stones frontman Mick Jagger, 78, said in an interview with Zane Lowe, that there was “obviously no competition” between the two groups, and called McCartney a “sweetheart”.</p> <p dir="ltr">Jagger went on to describe what he saw as the fundamental difference between the two bands, saying, “The big difference, though, is, and sort of slightly seriously, is that the Rolling Stones is a big concert band in other decades and other areas when the Beatles never even did an arena tour, or Madison Square Garden with a decent sound system.</p> <p dir="ltr">“They broke up before that business started, the touring business for real.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The Beatles performed together from 1960 to 1970, while The Rolling Stones have been together for almost six decades since forming in 1962.</p> <p dir="ltr">Both being iconic 1960s rock bands, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones have always been compared, despite having vastly different sounds and career trajectories. Writing for<span> </span><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-artists-147446/" target="_blank"><em>Rolling Stone</em></a><em>,<span> </span></em>musician, Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band guitarist and<span> </span><em>Sopranos<span> </span></em>actor Steve Van Zandt said of the two bands, “In '64, the Beatles were perfect: the hair, the harmonies, the suits. They bowed together. Their music was extraordinarily sophisticated. The whole thing was exciting and alien but very distant in its perfection.</p> <p dir="ltr">“The Stones were alien and exciting, too. But with the Stones, the message was, "Maybe you can do this." The hair was sloppier. The harmonies were a bit off. And I don't remember them smiling at all. They had the R&amp;B traditionalist's attitude: "We are not in show business. We are not pop music."</p> <p dir="ltr">Fellow musician Elvis Costello described The Stones as “R&amp;B evangelists”, and said that compared to them, The Beatles sounded like “nothing else”, and made writing your own material “expected, rather than exceptional”.</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Mike Marsland/WireImage/Getty Images, Jeff Curry/Getty Images</em></p>

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Adele gets candid about weight loss and divorce in new Vogue interview

<p>Adele has broken her silence on the heartbreak of her divorce, being a single parent and her incredible weight-loss in a candid interview with Vogue.</p> <p>Appearing on the front cover of the November issues of both <a rel="noopener" href="/Adele%20makes stunning appearance in Vogue magazine" target="_blank">British</a> and <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.vogue.com/article/adele-cover-november-2021" target="_blank">American Vogue</a>, the 33-year-old songstress has bared her soul ahead of the much anticipated release of her fourth studio album next month.</p> <p>It's her first music release since her divorce form Simon Konecki, who she <span>split from in April 2019 after seven years together.</span><span></span></p> <p>The pair share eight-year-old son Angelo, and used her new music to answer a lot of his emotional questions.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUvEZs2MZcE/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUvEZs2MZcE/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by British Vogue (@britishvogue)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p>“My son has had a lot of questions. Really good questions, really innocent questions, that I just don’t have an answer for."</p> <p>“’Why can’t you still live together?’ I just felt like I wanted to explain to him, through this record, when he’s in his twenties or thirties, who I am and why I voluntarily chose to dismantle his entire life in the pursuit of my own happiness," she said.</p> <p>“It made him really unhappy sometimes. And that’s a real wound for me that I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to heal.”</p> <p>The loving mother went on to clarify that her and her ex-husband "<span>never fought over him or anything like that, Angelo’s just like, ‘I don’t get it.’"</span></p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUu_IFDs5dR/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUu_IFDs5dR/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by British Vogue (@britishvogue)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p><span>Adele also shared that she felt "embarrassed" her marriage didn't work out so publicly, </span>saying, <span>“That thing of not being able to make something work. We’ve been trained as women to keep trying, even by the movies we watched when we were little." </span></p> <p><span>"At the time it broke my heart, but I actually find it so interesting now. How we’re told to suck it up. Well, f**k that."</span></p> <p><span>Despite admitting she thought her entire album would inevitably become about her divorce, she said it covers many other things and she hopes to teach Angelo some valuable life lessons through her music. </span></p> <p><span>“I wanted to put it on the album to show Angelo what I expect him to treat his partner like, whether it be a woman or a man or whatever." </span></p> <p><span>"After going through a divorce, my requirements are sky-high. There’s a very big pair of shoes to fill.”</span></p> <p><span>The singer also discussed her impressive 45kg weight-loss, saying she had </span>inadvertently gotten in shape after turning to exercise to deal with stress.</p> <p>“It was because of my anxiety. Working out, I would just feel better,” Adele said.</p> <p>“It was never about losing weight, it was always about becoming strong and giving myself as much time every day without my phone. I got quite addicted to it. I work out two or three times a day.”</p> <p>The honest interview comes just days after Adele announced her brand new single to the world.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUpkLl3g0nx/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUpkLl3g0nx/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Adele (@adele)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p>After posting a sneak peek on Instagram, she revealed that Easy On Me would be released on October 15th.</p> <p><em>Image credits: Vogue - Steven Meisel</em></p>

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Lost John Lennon interview recording up for auction

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 1970, four Danish teenagers interviewed music legend John Lennon for their school paper. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, half a century later, a recording of their 33-minute interview, which also includes an unpublished Beatles song, will be auctioned off in Denmark. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The cassette tape is expected to sell for up to $42,000, as the unique item is in high demand from music memorabilia collectors. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When the 16-year-old teens interviewed Lennon in northern Denmark on January 5th 1970, they said they weren’t starstruck. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono had </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">"a message of peace, and that was what was important to us," recalled Karsten Hoejen, who made the recording on a tape recorder borrowed from the local hi-fi shop.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The tape recording largely features Lennon and Ono speaking about their time in Denmark and world peace, as the interview took place at the height of the Vietnam War and the Cold War. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"Their peace message was what we came for," Mr Hoejen told The Associated Press.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"There was a very relaxed atmosphere, a cozy atmosphere. Lennon and Ono had their feet on the (coffee) table."</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The teenagers originally wanted to interview Lennon for their school newspaper, but turned up late for the official press conference. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"We knocked on the door" and moments later they sat next to Lennon and Ono.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mr Hoejen held the microphone, and his friend Jesper Jungersen photographed.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At some point, "someone ... I cannot recall who ... asked Lennon if could play the guitar for us." </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He played and sang with Ono "Give Peace a Chance" and then "Radio Peace".</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to Mr Hoejen, it was made for a radio station in The Netherlands but was never aired.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The items up for sale at the auction include the tape, 23 still photos and a copy of the school newspaper, and are expected to be worth at least $42,000.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7844673/john-tape.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/dbd1d9654d564ff99c19ede5173ed501" /></span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image credit: Getty Images</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"What also makes (the tape) interesting is that it is a time pocket. It was recorded on an old-fashioned tape recorder," Alexa Bruun Rasmussen of Denmark's main auction house Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneer said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"When listening to the tape, you realise that they talk straight from their hearts. This is not a staged press conference."</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The four boys behind the interview eventually found out that they "were sitting on a treasure. So the cassette was put in a bank vault," Mr Hoejen said, and they wondered what to do with it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"A collector or a museum would likely get more of it than us having it in a bank vault," he said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"So we decided to sell it."</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image credits: Getty Images</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>

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Son interrupts Zoom interview with X-rated carrot

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though many parents have experienced unexpected interruptions with working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, one New Zealand politician’s experience has taken the cake.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carmel Sepuloni shared a clip from her live interview on Twitter of a moment that many can relate to.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the video, Ms Sepuloni is giving an interview for Radio Samoa when the door opens and her son appears, holding an unusually-shaped carrot in view of the camera.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Hang on, my son is in the room,” she says, turning to see her son with the vegetable in hand.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though she attempts to grab the carrot off him, he manages to hold onto it, and the moderator starts to laugh off camera.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The segment then cuts away, as Ms Sepuloni can be heard saying “Sorry!” off camera.</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">That moment when you’re doing a LIVE interview via Zoom &amp; your son walks into the room shouting &amp; holding a deformed carrot shaped like a male body part. 🙄🤦🏽‍♀️ Yes, we were almost wrestling over a carrot on camera, and yes, I’m laughing about it now but wasn’t at the time! 🥴 <a href="https://t.co/oUbcpt8tSu">pic.twitter.com/oUbcpt8tSu</a></p> — Carmel Sepuloni (@CarmelSepuloni) <a href="https://twitter.com/CarmelSepuloni/status/1432178595112251401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“That moment when you’re doing a LIVE interview via Zoom &amp; your son walks into the room shouting &amp; holding a deformed carrot shaped like a male body part,” Ms Sepuloni captioned the clip.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Yes, we were almost wrestling over a carrot on camera, and yes, I’m laughing about it now but wasn’t at the time!”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Others were quick to share the sympathy and understanding for the mother and politician.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“OMG I’ve taken to jamming my door shut as no one reads the sign that says I’m in video calls,” one person wrote. “My worst was a giant teddy bear attacking me whilst I was on a work zoom.”</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"> <p dir="ltr">A big up’s to all our parents working from home and parenting at the same time — I see you! ❤️ <br /><br />*Note to self: I will never buy the odd shaped carrot pack again. 🙅🏽‍♀️🥕</p> — Carmel Sepuloni (@CarmelSepuloni) <a href="https://twitter.com/CarmelSepuloni/status/1432178774305509379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ms Sepuloni followed up the tweet, writing: “A big up’s to all our parents working from home and parenting at the same time - I see you!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Note to self: I will never buy the odd shaped carrot pack again.”</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: Radio Samoa</span></em></p>

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"My English is not good": Roger Federer stumped by interview question

<p>Roger Federer has proved he is human after all.</p> <p>The Swiss athlete was involved in a hilarious moment during his on-court interview following his first-round clash with Adrian Mannarino at Wimbledon.</p> <p>Federer moved on to the second round after France's Mannarino was forced to retire from their match after slipping and injuring his knee with the match level at two sets all.</p> <p>In his post-match interview on centre court, the 39-year-old was left completely stumped by a question you would usually expect him to answer easily.</p> <p>“Roger, is it true what they say about absence making the heart grow fonder, being back here?” the interviewer asked.</p> <p>“Sorry, I didn’t understand it,” Federer replied with a puzzled look on his face.</p> <p>“I heard something absence and then I don’t know my mind went blank.”</p> <p>The interviewer repeated the question: “Is it true what they say about absence making the heart grow fonder and being back on centre court?”</p> <p>“I don’t understand that saying. My English is not good enough,” Federer laughed, clearly stumped by the old proverb.</p> <p>The interviewer pressed on, asking: “Basically, having missed out last year, having been away for two years, how special is it to be back here on centre court?”</p> <p>“Yes, there you go. A good reminder my English is not very good,” Federer said, much to the amusement of the packed crowd.</p> <p>The comedic exchange was a nice reminder that English is not Federer's first language.</p> <p>He is fluent in Swiss German, standard German, English and French. He can also speak functional Italian and Swedish.</p>

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Meghan Markle appears in first interview since Lillibet’s birth

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meghan Markle has used her first interview since the birth of her and Prince Harry’s daughter, Lillibet Diana, to promote her new book </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Bench</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Duchess of Sussex spoke with NPR’s </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Weekend Edition Sunday: Picture This</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> radio show and revealed that the book was inspired by a gift she gave her husband for his first Father’s Day - a garden bench.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“As most of us do, you go, what am I going to get them as a gift? And I thought I just wanted something sentimental and a place for him to have as a bit of a home base with our son,” she said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 39-year-old said she made a plaque for the bench with a short poem she wrote on it, which sparked the initial idea for her book.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This is your bench, Where life will begin, For you and our son, Our baby, our kin,” it reads.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Bench</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> depicts different types of fathers and sons bonding over activities on or near a bench.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I really hope that people can see this as a love story that transcends the story of my family,” she said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I often find, and especially in this past year, I think so many of us realised how much happens in the quiet.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It was definitely moments like that, watching them from out of the window and watching [my husband] just, you know, rock him to sleep or carry him or, you know … those lived experiences, from my observation, are the things that I infused in this poem.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meghan also said her and Harry’s son Archie is a “voracious” reader and “loves” the book.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I knew our son would notice all of those elements, and he loves the book, which is great because he has a voracious appetite for books and constantly when we read him a boko he goes ‘again, again, again’.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“But now the fact he loves </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Bench</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and we can say ‘Mumm wrote this for you’ feels amazing,” the duchess said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meghan also shared that the book contains several personal and family details hidden throughout the book, including Princess Diana’s favourite flower and the Sussexes’ rescue chickens.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think you can find sweet little moments that we hid in there - of my favourite flower, even my husband’s mum’s favourite flower, forget-me-nots,” she said</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We wanted to make sure those were included in there. There are many, many special details and love that went into this book.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: Duke of Sussex / Instagram</span></p>

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Prince Edward's wife breaks down mid-interview

<p>Prince Edward's wife Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, revealed that Prince Philip's death has left a "giant-sized hole" in the royal family.</p> <p>She also spoke about the pandemic has "slightly skewed things", which means that the royal family haven't been able to grieve properly.</p> <p>Despite the Duke of Edinburgh passing away "peacefully" at Windsor Castle on April 9th, the family aren't coping properly two months on from his death.</p> <p>She spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live and said that Prince Philip's death left a "giant-sized hole in our lives".</p> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"><iframe class="embed-responsive-item" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qrc-By4JnSY"></iframe></div> <p>“Well he has left a giant-sized hole in our lives," she began.</p> <p>“I think the pandemic has unfortunately slightly skewed things in as much as it’s hard to spend as much time with the Queen as we would like to.</p> <p>“We’ve been trying to, but of course it’s still not that easy.</p> <p>“And of course the normal way of things isn’t normal yet so we’re not necessarily doing the things that we would normally have done with him.</p> <p>“So I think the whole grieving process is probably likely for us to take a lot longer. It may be the same for many other families out there.</p> <p>“Because if you’re not living with somebody, 24/7, the immediate loss isn’t necessarily felt in the same way, as if somebody was in the house with you all the time.”</p> <p>Interviewer Naga Munchetty saw that Sophie's eyes began to fill with tears and asked her if she was okay.</p> <p>Sophie responded: “It’s only when you would do the normal things that you would have done with them, and you suddenly realise that they are not there, that you really start to have an ‘oh my goodness’ moment.</p> <p>“Just talking to you now, it’s a bit of an ‘oh my goodness’ moment. I think they’ll come and go. But you have to let them come and go.”</p>

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