1 day agoNews RoomComments Off on ‘How is this real?’ – Former Chelsea star in heartbreaking post after home is destroyed in LA wildfires
FORMER Chelsea star Ali Riley has voiced her dismay after her home was destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires.
The New Zealand captain, 37, played for the Blues’ women’s team six seasons ago.
Ali Riley played for Chelsea six years agoGettyShe also represents New Zealand on the international stageGettyAFPShe has shared a heartbreaking post about the Hollywood wildfires[/caption]
Instagram @rileythreeHer house was destroyed in the blaze[/caption]
Defender Ali made 16 appearances, scoring two goals, before leaving for Bayern Munich.
She has played for LA side Angel City since 2022, becoming club captain.
But her house was reduced to ashes earlier this week as uncontrollable blazes swept the upmarket Pacific Palisades suburb.
She posted a picture on social media of the fire-destroyed neighbourhood, with an arrow pointing out where her home used to be.
Los Angeles-born Ali wrote on X: “This was our home. How is this real. It can’t be real.”
The 163-cap international added on Instagram: “Our entire neighbourhood is gone. We are all safe.
“Holding on to that with my whole heart while we figure out what to do next.
“I keep looking at this to make myself understand that it is real.
“I was there Monday night eating dinner. Hanging with Mom and Dad.
“Watched the sunset. And now it’s gone forever.
“This rubble was our home.”
Ali received an outpouring of sympathy and support from friends and team-mates on social media.
Chelsea signed her in 2018 after she won nine trophies with Swedish club Rosengard.
At least five people have died, and 137,000 evacuated from their homes, since the devastating LA fires broke out earlier this week.
Ali’s club Angel City, founded in 2020, plays in America’s top-tier National Women’s Soccer League.
Its ownership structure includes actress Natalie Portman as well as tennis icons Venus Williams and Billie Jean King.
Gavin and Stacey star James Corden, a former US TV host, has also invested in the Californian club.
1 day agoNews RoomComments Off on Who is Richard Hammond’s wife Mindy Etheridge?
AMANDA “Mindy” Hammond and Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond have called it quits after 28 years together.
According to a source, newspaper columnist Mindy has reportedly had enough and is now demanding a divorce, saying she “wants him gone,” The Sun reveals. So who is Mindy Hammond?
Mindy Hammond, pictured here with husband Richard, has a career as a journalistPA: Press AssociationRichard Hammond, right, has presented Top Gear and The Grand Tour with Jeremy Clarkson, centre, and James May, leftNews Group UK Ltd
She has covered topics from life during the Covid-19 lockdown to giving her dog a haircut.
Richard married Mindy in 2002, but they had been inseparable from the moment they met each other in 1995.
Sadly, in January 2025, Richard announced that they had split after twenty years of marriage.
She is reportedly asking to keep the £7million Bollitree Castle estate as part of their split settlement.
The source said: “Richard is very upset about all this. It seems he has tried hard to rekindle the relationship but to no avail.
“There is no speculation that any third party is involved.”
The couple said: “A little update from us; this Christmas we were together as a family and this year we will still be a family but just structured a bit differently.
“Our marriage is coming to end, but we’ve had an amazing 28 years together and two incredible daughters.
“We will always be in each other’s lives and are proud of the family we created.
“We won’t be commenting further and sincerely hope that our privacy and that of our children will be respected at this time. With Love, Richard and Mindy.”
Richard and Mindy’s love story
In his book On The Edge: My Story, Richard had revealed there was an instant attraction between the couple.
He wrote: “In an instant, I fell in love with her and realised I had met my soul-mate and best friend for life.”
Richard had been racing at 288mph when the car flipped over at an RAF base in York, whilst the TV star was filming for Top Gear.
He spent two horrifying weeks in a coma, while his wife and the hospital nurses tried desperately to wake him.
Richard Hammond was involved in a horror crash in 2006 that nearly made him forget his wifeBBC
Mindy told The Telegraph: “It was disconcerting when, early after the crash, Richard looked at me from his hospital bed and said, ‘You’re lovely, but you’re not my wife’.
“When I corrected him, he responded, ‘No, you’re not my wife, my wife is French’.
“Indeed, when he was allowed home five weeks later, it became clear that Richard’s memory loss was no short-term affliction.”
1 day agoNews RoomComments Off on Wildest ever Jerry Springer guests – including man who married stepmum in front of dad and episode so sick it was BANNED
FROM horse brides to scrapping strippers, paternity tests to a woman who sawed off her own legs, the Jerry Springer Show prided itself as being the most outrageous thing on TV.
Jerry, who died last year, had such a cult following that his own show even introduced him as the “eighth wonder of the world.”
GettyJerry Springer’s talk show quickly established the host as a cultural icon[/caption]
GettyThe show was often chaotic and had some of the wildest guests ever seen on reality TV[/caption]
YouTubeThis episode was so disturbing that it has been banned[/caption]
But the notorious host would be nothing without his guests and their outrageous stories, which played out live on his stage.
As a new Netflix documentary looks back at the phenomenon, here are some of the wildest guests ever to grace the Jerry Springer Show.
I married a horse
In 2004, Springer guest Mark, a Missouri farmer and zoophile, introduced a truly disgusted audience to his ‘wife’, a horse named Pixel.
“I had to earn her love and respect,” Mark said in a voiceover, while showing off photos he had taken of Pixel wearing women’s underwear.
Springer later told chat show host Meredith Viera that he did not know what Mark was going to reveal on the show and was just as shocked as the audience when the horse arrived on stage.
Mark told Jerry that his neighbours didn’t like his wife – and then admitted she was a horse.
He said they had been together for ten years and married for five – and, most controversially, had had sexual relations.
Springer staff member Kim Nelson was given the task of leading the pony on to the stage to meet her husband.
She recalled: “When I led the horse into the studio, the cheers turned to gasps and shrieks of shock.
“At the end of her lead line, the poor pony ambled along behind me.
Mark disgusted the audience when he revealed that he had married a horse
“She trusted me. I felt like a traitor to her, leading her into the pit. It was like the Crusades but instead of lions, I was feeding her to a sleaze-loving audience and a creepy pervert.”
At the end of the episode, Jerry said: “You can love and admire the beauty and grace of a horse, you can pet it, you can even bet on it. But if you’re going to ride it, make sure you’re up in the saddle.”
His jokes fell flat when the 1998 episode sparked outrage across the world and was banned for breaching bestiality laws.
My stepmom is also my wife
Cory shocked viewers when he brought his step mum on the show to marry herNBCThe episode featured an intense confrontation between Cory, his step mum, and his fatherNBC
Wedding bells were ringing on the show back in 2010 when Cory married his stepmom live on air – in front of his dad.
Cory told Jerry he was madly in love with his stepmom Kimberley – even though he knew it was wrong. He said: “It is not something I planned to happen, I was striving to do in spite of my dad, go against him or whatever.”
Cory had been married with a child himself but had moved back to live with his dad and stepmom after his relationship fell apart.
And he admitted to Jerry that he and his stepmom had been intimate.
I never told you to live in that box
Wife of a man who lived in a cardboard box to win her back
Cory said: “One day we were lay in bed watching a movie and she said her back was hurting. So I offered to give her a back massage and one thing led to another and we had sex.”
Jerry then brought out Cory’s dad Richard who came on stage shouting: “Man you ruined my family, you took my wife away.”
He then added: “How could you ever have intercourse with your mother?”
Next, Jerry brought out stepmom Kimberley in a full bridal gown who then went on to passionately kiss Cory on stage in front of husband Richard and the horrified studio audience.
Kimberley told everyone that Richard had treated her badly during their marriage and destroyed her self-esteem.
But despite the fact they were still legally wed, Kimberley went on to exchange vows with Cory on stage – in front of her husband, his father.
I’m happy I cut off my legs
Sandra said she did not want her legs anymore so chose to cut them off
Jerry introduced this guest to a whooping and cheering audience by claiming: “This is the most bizarre story we have done in our 15 year history.”
Transgender woman Sandra had begun wearing women’s clothes at the age of 12 but then two years later decided she didn’t want her legs.
She began living as a woman at the age of 35 and eventually at the age of 47 she took a circular saw and cut off her own legs.
Sandra wheeled herself onto the stage with the remaining stumps of her legs uncovered.
She told Springer: “I didn’t want them. My brain kept saying get rid of them so I had to get rid of them.”
I live in a box
NBCIn a bid to get his ex back, Kurt lived outside a box in front of her home[/caption]
Back in 2001 guest Lynne told Jerry that her relationship with her husband was over, but he refused to think out of the box. Quite literally.
Lynne threw husband Kurt out after three years of marriage due to his lying and cheating.
But he refused to believe the split was final and in protest had been living outside her house for weeks dressed in nothing but a giant cardboard box.
He said: “You have put me out here and everything I own is in that house. I don’t want any of it if I can’t have it with you.”
To which Lynne replied: “I never told you to live in that box.”
He told the Springer show that he spent his days outside Lynne’s house doodling love messages and her picture on to his cardboard box.
Kurt also ate food out of the rubbish bags that Lynne put into the bin outside her house.
And despite Lynne making it clear she no longer loved him, Kurt spent his nights serenading her on his guitar outside her house – come hail or rain.
Kurt had one more trick up his sleeve – he vowed to sit it out on Jerry’s stage until Lynne agreed to take him back.
I cut off my manhood
Earl cut off his own manhood with the help of a pair of garden shears
In an episode to make every man wince, guest Earl Zea took to the stage to tell Jerry about his decision to cut off his own penis – with a pair of garden shears.
He told the TV host that it was a move he “regretted more than anything” but he had taken the extreme step because a guy called Ronnie was stalking him and he wanted him to lose interest.
He explained that he had frozen his genitals to make the process easier before flushing it down the toilet.
However, in a twist to the tale, Jerry then brought Ronnie on to the stage on the 1997 episode.
And he claimed that the pair had enjoyed a five-year relationship.
600lb angry mum
NBCDonna had one of the most intense confrontations with her family on the show[/caption]
NBCShe blamed her weight on the fact that she had kids and took care of them[/caption]
Mum-of-two Donna was so overweight that she couldn’t go to the toilet or shower by herself – instead relying on her blind husband to assist her.
She told the show that she was angry that they couldn’t have a full sex life because of her obesity and felt guilty that he had to do everything for her.
But she also admitted to gorging on ice cream, doughnuts, French fries and crisps.
She was helped onto the Springer stage where she promptly lifted up her skirts to reveal her rolls of fat to the audience – and then blamed her kids for making her obese saying: “I had my children, I gained weight and this is what they damn did to me.”
She told Jerry: “I took care of those kids from the time they came into the world, every time they loved, every time they walked, I was there. And they can’t take care of me?”
But son Derek hit back saying: “I didn’t force you to eat mum, I took care of you.”
He added: “I did not force feed you. That is not my fault that you are fat mum.”
Springer secrets
New Netflix documentary, Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, reveals how the show was meticulously staged by producers who did everything possible to rile up guests.
Producer Toby Yoshimura says: “You’d be living in the office six days a week, days and nights working for 10, 12, 14 hours a day.
“And that sort of pressure cooker was really difficult because there are some stories that probably went too far. If the show did not contain fighting it didn’t rate.
“These were big fights. Teeth were knocked out, some people literally lost chunks of scalp. Women would pull each other’s nails off. They were brutal. Like, to the death fights.
“We started pushing the needle ever so slowly towards red. It was like, ‘Let’s see how far we can push this.’”
In contrast, everyone loved Jerry’s laid-back, good humoured nature but in the studio green room, where guests were held before walking on stage, they were shamelessly incited to anger by producers, rehearsing possible scenes with them.
“The guests get their energy level from you as the producer,” says Yoshimura. “It’s called ‘being Springered.’ You’re being produced.
“I would throw the door of the green room open, pick up a chair and hurl it and start screaming. You’ve got to wake them up.
“You had to reach into their brain and tap on the thing that would make them laugh, cry, scream or fight. You rev them up to tornado level and then send them out on stage.”
And he told the audience that he had had to quit school to look after his mum – cooking, cleaning and even wiping her bottom after she had been to the loo.
Daughter Tabitha backed her brother telling Donna: “I don’t have any respect for you right now.”
While Donna’s ex-husband, the kids’ dad, Harry exploded on to the stage, calling her fat and ugly and claiming she was lying and had deserted the kids.
Jerry struggled to get a word in edgeways between the warring pair.
But the final word went to former Jerry Springer guest Marie who had also weighed 600lb last time she appeared on the show.
But she had since lost 357lb and told Donna: “Either fix it or shut up.”
Klanfrontation
Jerry’s decision to have a serious debate about race did not go as planned
In 1997 Jerry decided to host a debate on race and religion – featuring guests from the Ku Klux Klan and the Jewish Defence League.
This was never going to be a serious religious discussion and one KKK member mockingly revealed a Jewish kippah beneath his hood to JDL chairman Irv Rubin.
It soon descended into an all-out brawl with members of Springer’s security and even audience members getting involved.
The Kung Fu Hillbilly
NBCDiemon Dave was so confident in his martial arts skills he proclaimed himself to be the Kung Fu Hillbilly[/caption]
Diemon Dave was so confident in his martial arts skills he proclaimed himself to be the “Kung Fu hillbilly”.
He’d been having issues with his house mate Lil Wayne – no relation to the superstar rapper – and was ready for a full-on fight to settle the score.
But he hadn’t been practising his art for years with a Kung Fu master – no, he had been watching videos of Chuck Norris and Jean Claude Van Damme in his trailer and practising in the mirror.
“If he comes out here acting a fool, I’m gon’ kung fu him,” he told the crowd through an extremely thick Southern drawl.
So confident was he in his skills he told Springer security not to get involved.
But when the pair came to blows it quickly became clear that Dave was no Bruce Lee.
Dominatrix Duo in the family
NBCThe family awkwardly spoke about their unconventional family business[/caption]
In 2012 mum and daughter Lady Ice Queen and Princess came on to the show to boast about their small family business – as a dominatrix duo.
The pair talked about how they physically dominated their clients together.
So ever the one for the full audience experience, Jerry invited one of their sex slaves on to the stage for a demonstration.
And they proceeded to make him crawl around the floor and bark like a dog while Princess rode on his back.
But Jerry’s final flourish was to bring the man’s wife out on stage to publicly berate him for his fetish.
GettyOver the years, many guests had to be separated after huge brawls[/caption]
1 day agoNews RoomComments Off on Meet the Wags of Premier League surprise package Nottingham Forest, from a hot fashion designer to a social media beauty
NOTTINGHAM Forest are this year’s surprise outfit in the Premier League.
Tipped by many pundits to be relegation fodder, they have defied the odds and sit level on points with second-placed Arsenal.
Glam Britney De Villiers has been cheering on Nottingham Forest this seasonInstagramBritney is one of Forest’s most popular Wags with a over 270,000 followersInstagramMorgan Gibbs-White has dated Britney since 2019Instagram
They have also recorded famous wins over Liverpool and Manchester United, away from the City Ground, as they (whisper it quietly, Nuno Espirito Santo) mount a title challenge.
Of course, they would probably be delighted with finishing in the Champions League places – but they should also be allowed to dream.
Helping keep the players grounded will be their supportive and gorgeous Wags.
From a fashion designer to a social media influencer, let SunSport introduce you to the beauties.
Britney De Villiers
Stunning Britney is the most popular of Forest’s Wags – with over 270,000 followers on Instagram.
China and Elanga appear to have met in Manchester, where he came through the ranks at Man Utd.
She showed her support when he signed for Forest – joining him on his unveiling at the club for pictures.
China Navana is close pals with Gibbs-White’s girlfriend BritneyInstagramInstagramChina joined Britney on a glam ski trip to ring in the New Year[/caption]
China dates flying winger Anthony ElangaInstagram
The pair tied the knot at a lavish ceremony on Italy’s Amalfi Coast.
They shared the images on Instagram – with Forest’s instagram account wishing them: “Many congratulations”.
Emma is a solicitor, and she is expecting the couple’s first baby.
Emma Wood shows off her envious lifestyle as a WagInstagramInstagramSolicitor Emma and Wood are expecting their first child together[/caption]
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Carolina Rubino
Rubino is the wife of Forest’s Argentina midfielder, Nicolas Dominguez.
She studied law and graduated in Buenos Aires, so like Emma Wood is a qualified lawyer.
However, she appears to be have shunned her career for life as a Wag and mother.
They have a daughter called Allegra.
Carolina Rubino hails from Argentina like her footballing partnerInstagramInstagramCarolina Rubino is a qualified lawyer who graduated in Buenos Aires[/caption]
Nicolas Dominguez and Carolina pose together on a sightseeing trip to LondonInstagram
Mabili Santiago
Brazilian beauty Mabili and her partner Murillo are also expecting their first child together in 2025.
The occasion was supported by pyrotechnics, balloons, streamers and a whole stage for the happy couple to stand on during the moment it was announced.
She is a digital creator who lives and breathes fashion.
Mabili Santiago shows off her incredibly bikini bodyInstagramInstagramMabili Santiago is married to Forest defender Murillo[/caption]
Murillo and Mabili revealed they were expecting a baby girl at a gender reveal ceremony at the City Ground
Rita Ribeiro
Rita is the resident fashion designer among Forest’s Wags.
She got her qualifications by completing a course at the Lisbon School of Design
She now has her own label, Rita Ribeiro and creates her own designs – picking up the latest designer trends, from oversized blazers to faux leather skirts.
Rita Ribeiro is originally from Portugal – like her footballing other halfInstagramInstagramStunning Rita runs her own fashion label that is named after her[/caption]
InstagramRita poses for a loved up snap with Jota Silva[/caption]
