Tara and Michael have confessed their TV edit wasn’t exactly true to life.
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But the reality was quite different, Tara explaining: “On our first date, it was already very clear that there wasn’t going to be a kiss for us. We knew that we weren’t there yet.
“The first date was going to be more of a getting to know you… but there definitely was a lot of romantic tension between us and a lot of gazing into each other’s eyes.”
She also addressed an editing blunder later in the season, when they were shown having their first kiss on their second date – despite promos showing them locking lips in an earlier challenge.
“But by the time the knight challenge rolled around… we were ready for that moment,” she says of their actual first kiss during the medieval challenge.
Their actual first kiss happened during the knight challenge.
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Tara also debunked rumors that the crowd chanting for them to kiss at the challenge was added in post-production, confirming it really did happen.
While she and Michael were clear that the love story we saw on TV had been edited, they insisted the romantic moments were totally genuine.
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“They weren’t showing moments that didn’t exist,” Tara says.
“But there was more to it than what was able to be shown in the timeframe that they had. It was a simplified version.”
Tara shocked us by confessing Michael is her first serious boyfriend.
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Tara also surprised us all by revealing Michael is her first ever boyfriend, though the geek has a bit more relationship experience under his belt.
Though he’d been single for almost two years before meeting Tara on BATGprior to that he’d been in a four-year relationship and had been with other girlfriends before.
“I’ve been in a relationship before, I’ve learned everything you need to know about being tender and learning how to make a long-term relationship work,” he adds.
“When I learned that Tara had never been in a proper long-term relationship I was like, ‘I am extremely honored to be your first and I promise I will make it all worth your while’.”
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This has changed to: “The centrality of the artist: supporting the artist as a worker and celebrating their role as the creators of culture”.
A Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts spokesman did not address why the reference to “telling Australian stories” had been omitted, but rather described the call-out for submissions as a way to start a debate about what a national culture policy should be.
Hatherley argued it was “technically possible” to “support excellence and the special role of artists and their creative collaborators” while making Hollywood movies in Sydney.
“But that overlooks the opportunity to support Australian ideas, the development of Australian IP, and the sharing of Australian stories,” she said.
Leonie Marsh from Screen Vixens, a group of female Australian film and television producers, agreed, adding that it was critical to “define Australianess and Australian stories”.
“Otherwise it will be others, like Hollywood, that will do it for us, with potentially vested interests that don’t represent our cultural values as a nation,” Marsh says.
This week Oscar-winning producer emily shermansinger-songwriter Jaguar Jonze and theater and festival director Wesley Enoch were handpicked by federal Arts Minister Tony Burke to join a 15-member panel that will guide the government on the formation of a national cultural policy.
panton hits the town
David Panton at the Mercedes-Benz launch with the night’s host Erin Molan.Credit:Esteban Tessa
desde Julie Bishop‘s “plus one” to solo Sydney socialite, the recently unshackled david panton leapt into the cocktail milieu with gusto at Thursday night’s epic Mercedes-Benz party to launch its new electric EQS.
Besties: Sally Obermeder and Kerri-Anne Kennerley at the Mercedes-Benz launch.Credit:Esteban Tessa
As a parade of vintage Mercs passed by, including a priceless 1969 280SL Pagoda, it was the vintage silver fox Panton who appeared more enamored with the young ladies in his line of sight. I have assured PS that, contrary to reports, he is single.
Meanwhile, it was a happy meeting for Kerri-Anne Kennerley and sally obermeder. KAK revealed that back in 2013, when she was checking into the Mater Hospital for breast cancer surgery, she discovered Obermeder, whom she did not know, was having her surgery on the same day. “Something in me made me seek her out of her. Before I had been diagnosed I had followed her story of her, and thought she was incredibly inspiring. I just wanted to say hi,” Kennerley said.
The women became firm friends, privately sharing the highs and lows of their respective orders, and both are grateful to still be here.
Catlin’s Southern Discomfort
It wasn’t just the Macquarie Street antics capturing all the headlines this week. South of the border, the resignation of Victorian Liberal leader Matthew Guy‘s chief of staff Mitch Catlin piqued PS’s interest.
Mitch Catlin in action in the Birdcage in 2018.Credit:jesse marlow
As the Age reported, Catlin proposed a donor make more than $100,000 in payments to his marketing company, Catchy Media Marketing and Management, for services described as “supporting business interests”.
But Catlin, who is more at home pimping celebrities, is also well known around that other Melbourne institution, Flemington’s birdcage enclosure during the spring racing carnival.
After the 2018 Melbourne Cup, it was conveniently leaked to the press that Catlin had been retained in a “top secret” operation to rebuild then embattled Today host Karl Stefanović‘s image. Stefanovic apparently “opened his own wallet to secure the services of marketing guru Mitch Catlin”.
Liza Minnelli in the Birdcage in 2009. Credit:rebecca hallas
Um, guru? Catlin was best known for walking celebrities – from Liza Minelli and elle macpherson to Nicole Kidman and a cardboard cut-out of kim kardashian (no joke) – into marquees at the Melbourne Cup.
Catlin’s gig with Stefanovic was short-lived, and he’d pretty much disappeared from PS’s radar until this week’s revelations surfaced.
Jewels fit for a margarine queen
Woollahra has become the bling capital of Australia as two of Queen Street’s leading auction houses put some of the most extravagant and intriguing jewels in the country up for sale.
One of Joan Crebbin’s pieces up for auction at Bonhams.Credit:Bonham’s Australia
Bonhams is previewing pieces ahead of next week’s Australian Jewels auction. The collection includes items from the late Joan Crebbin‘s estate, who with her also deceased husband Dick Crebbinwere arguably the “king and queen of margarine”, their company Marrickville Holdings making the Miracle and ETA brands of the spread.
The couple were also arts patrons, lived in a Walter Burley Griffin-designed home in Castlecrag and avid jewelery collectors. Bonhams is offering 64 lots of Crebbin’s jewellery. She died two years ago, aged 94, but she had started collecting the jewels in the 1950s, including avant-garde pieces by Andrew Grim, Rod Edwards and Gerald Benney.
A few doors along Queen Street and Leonard Joel auction house is going for size rather than backstories in its Important Jewels sale, which is expected to fetch up to $8.5 million collectively.
A ruby and diamond ring, featuring a 5.29 carat ruby from Burma, selling for $700,000 to $900,000, at Leonard Joel’s Important Jewels auction.
Among the highlights is a rare natural cut-cornered square modified brilliant-cut diamond weighing 21.13 carats, which could fetch up to $900,000, the same price expectation for an equally rare 5.29 carat Burmese ruby and diamond ring. PS understands both pieces have come from international vendors.
Little’s creative big talent
He was best known as television personality jeanne “Ooooh aaah! Dahhhling!” Little’s husband, but three years after he died, former Sydney decorator Barry Little‘s archive has been included in the Caroline Simpson Library and Research Collection, joining the works of Leslie Walford and Marion Hall Best.
Barry Little with his wife Jeanne and their daughter Katie, at home in the early 1970s. Credit:Courtesy of Katie M Little
The collection of scrapbooks documenting his many projects was donated by his daughter Katie Little.
Eccentric Jeanne Little in her egg hat.
In the 1960s and ’70s, Sydney’s leading interior designers were household names, their opinions on design sought after by the media and their photos appearing in the social pages.
Barry Little served as president of the Society of Interior Designers of Australia (SIDA) for five years between 1971 and 1976.
Both he and Jeanne worked out of their own dedicated rooms in their Paddington home. While Jeanne’s frenetic workshop was strewn in fabric, sequins, chicken wire and pots of glue to create her eccentric wardrobe, Barry’s was a study in serenity featuring bespoke carpets made in Hong Kong and Japanese temple blinds.
As for Jeannie’s famous collection of hilariously over-the-top gowns, those still surviving are in storage, though her daughter is confident that they will eventually end up with the Powerhouse Museum.
Many of the gowns, hats and accessories were made of perishable objects, like the Easter bonnet which featured sausages and mash scattered with peas which she wore on The Mike Walsh Show.
Jeanne Little with Mike Walsh in a dress made of toast.
Jeanne asked Mike if the sausages were still warm. “I only cooked them this morning in case you felt like one. Everyone likes a sausage. Do you want one darling?
She made jackets out of tin foil and dresses covered in balloons, or pale pink prawn crackers and milk bottle caps.
“I still have about a dozen of her dresses she made for television, including one that is covered in Christmas decorations which I stupidly wore, not realizing she had wired the holly onto the gown … I was in agony,” Katie told PS .
“They have both left a great creative legacy that really captured an era.”
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When Gary Numan says something’s weird, you know it’s very weird. This is a man whose idea of a ‘quite normal’ family life is living in Los Angeles in a house that looks like a castle with trapdoors and secret passages, complete with a 20ft bronze dragon in the garden where others might have a garden gnome.
The pop icon is talking about how his second facelift involved having his skin hoiked skyward to such a degree that he has to shave behind his ear.
‘I have to kind of pull my ear forward,’ he says, demonstrating. So he has stubbled in places it shouldn’t be? ‘Yeah. I haven’t shaved today so I can feel it. Isn’t that weird?’
Weird still is that he says he’s ‘not that bothered’ about cosmetic surgery, having only had two facelifts (and five hair transplants). It’s his wife Gemma who’s the true addict. She’s had, well, everything, up to and including full body lifts.
Gary Numan with his wife Gemma and their three daughters in the garden of their LA home
‘Gemma’s well into it. She’s had everything done from her earlobe to her little toe de ella. I had this lift done about a year and a half ago.
‘I might have another one, but it gets a bit silly after a while. People tell me I don’t look 64, and I say, “It’s fake. It’s all fake!”’
Does it make him feel younger though? ‘Nah,’ he says. ‘You still grunt when you stand up.’
There was always something not-quite-of-this-world about Gary Numan. That was part of the appeal.
When he first appeared on the British pop scene in the late 70s, the ‘godfather of synth’ seemed to have stepped out of an alien spaceship (although in fact he’d worked in a WH Smith near Heathrow before fame came calling). He had bleached hair, heavy eyeliner (applied by his mum, but he did n’t shout about that), and his voice was once famously described as ‘pitched between Gene Pitney and a Dalek’.
He had his first UK number one with Are ‘Friends’ Electric?, and by the age of 21 he was worth an estimated £6m.
His army of fans called themselves Numanoids. I have even married one. Gemma decided at school that she was going to be Mrs Gary Numan when she grew up.
Gary in his heyday, performing at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco in 1980
They didn’t get together until she was 24, but they’ve been inseparable ever since.
‘This is going to sound corny, given that it’s 30 years and four days since our first date, but I miss her even when she’s in a different part of the house,’ he says. ‘She’s everything I am not – which is most things, really.’
Gemma shields me from a world I find it difficult to be a part of. She shields me from humanity
Then, in April 1981 at the height of his popularity, he announced his retirement. It was, he says today, ‘a terrible mistake – and one I’ve spent 40 years trying to correct’.
Within two years he’d started a comeback. Who knew it would be a 40-year comeback though?
This year he achieved an ambition he says required near superhuman obsession: a symbolic return to Wembley Arena (now renamed the OVO Arena Wembley), four decades after he last played there. In May he strode onto that stage once more, but not before his wife had coaxed him into it.
Now a new documentary that follows his progress captures footage of Gemma comforting him as he shakes backstage, almost paralyzed with fear. ‘I was overwhelmed,’ he admits today.
‘I was losing it. She calmed me down, as she’s always done. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without her de ella – any of it.’
Gary Numan Resurrection on Sky Arts is an extraordinary insight into an extraordinary man, acknowledged as an influence on stars such as Prince and Lady Gaga. The film gives the most moving account yet of what it means to live on Planet Numan.
Much of it tells the story of his lifelong relationship with Asperger’s syndrome (a form of autism), a condition that contributed towards his expulsion from school, was a major factor in his retirement and, to this day, puts him at odds with the rest of the world.
How has he conquered it, or perhaps embraced would be a more accurate description? It’s easy, he says: he married Gemma.
‘Gemma shields me from humanity. She’s the buffer between me and the rest of the world. She shields me from a world I find it difficult to be a part of.’
I went through young adulthood thinking the reason I had no friends was because I was unlikeable
Born Gary Webb in Hammersmith in 1958, the son of a British Airways bus driver based at Heathrow, he was clearly a bright kid. He won a grammar school place but by his teens he had been identified as a troublemaker. His headteacher described him as the most disruptive pupil he’d ever dealt with.
At the age of 14 he was referred to Dr Eva Frommer, a psychiatrist who controversially used drugs to treat depression in children.
She put Gary on Valium and Nardil, which he says left him in a ‘zombified’ state. She also mentioned something called Asperger’s, but no formal diagnosis was made.
‘I don’t know that I was ever officially diagnosed. I’ve read since that the diagnostic criteria wasn’t finally established until the 80s.
‘I think it was seen as a new thing then. To be honest, I didn’t care. I just saw it as a nice day out in London with my mum.’
His parents freaked out though and stopped him seeing Dr Frommer. ‘My mum took exception to the Asperger’s because she saw it as a reflection of their parenting of her.
‘There was no mention of it again. Funnily enough I never joined the dots until I met Gemma, who knew a bit about it because her brother had it.
‘I went through young adulthood thinking I didn’t have friends because I was unlikeable.’
He was always obsessive about things he was interested in – airplanes, sound, that point when sound crossed into music. He would go on to excel in all this, famously becoming a pilot and forming an aerobatic display team.
But it was his experimental electronic music that would make him famous. He did try the traditional band route, but his band mates clearly found his behavior odd.
‘I was thrown out. They didn’t tell me. I just turned up and they had another singer. I started following them round like a puppy, but they didn’t want to know.
‘Things like that were traumatic, but I just came to the conclusion I was quite unlikeable.’.
He has started to channel his feelings into his music. But he was not a poppy sort of pop star, and as success beckoned he struggled with the industry.
He’d get overwhelmed at functions, and had no clue how to talk to record company executives. He still doesn’t.
‘I go to functions now only rarely, but I’m baffled by them. Gemma’s brilliant though.
‘She can sit at any table and talk to anyone about anything, all day. I’ve learned the mechanics of communication from her.’
He’d seen Gemma at gigs ‘for years’ before asking her on a date, but the chances of them becoming a couple must have been low? I have nods.
‘Having a relationship with a fan is difficult because all the things fans see are carefully chosen. They have the poster where you look incredibly handsome, but that’s the 300th picture that was taken and in the other 299 you look a bit s***.’
What of his ‘issues’? He says they were obvious. ‘I have problems with communication, talking to strangers, eating out.
‘We’d be going to a restaurant and I’d pick a fight on the way so we ended up going home. Eventually she said, “Why do you do this? Why are you so unhappy when we leave the house?”’
It sounds as if she was the first girlfriend to question his behavior rather than walking out. ‘Ella She was the first one who did n’t put it down to me being a moody s***. She gave me coping mechanisms.
‘She didn’t change my personality, she gave me the tools to express it. When I get Aspergersey, she tells me.’
By the time they hooked up Gary’s career was all but gone and he was £600,000 in debt. He’s been back earning for many decades now, but he still feels their relationship is unbalanced.
‘She gives me much more than I give her,’ he says.
Their lifestyle sounds a bit ‘woowoo’ Los Angeles (they moved there in 2012) and she clearly has a complicated relationship with her body. Theirs has not been the easiest of marital paths either.
They have three daughters – Raven, 18, Persia, 16, and Echo, 15 – but had several rounds of IVF and lost a daughter pre-term. Gary wrote a song about that.
‘I don’t ever write when I’m happy,’ he says. So Gary Numan needs to be miserable? ‘No, but I need to have worries.’
His Asperger’s is not one of those worries any more. It’s taken him his whole adult life, but he’s finally come to terms with his condition, and even sounds quite attached to it.
‘The positives far outweigh the negatives,’ he says, arguing that he sees it as a ‘neuro diverse superpower’, as long as he has Gemma by his side. ‘Otherwise,’ he admits. ‘I’d be lost.’
Gary Numan Resurrection airs on Saturday 13 August at 9pm on Sky Arts and NOW.
Sydney neurosurgeon Charlie Teo could be trading scrubs for a wedding suit soon after revealing social media posts hinted he has recently become engaged to his girlfriend Traci Griffiths.
The couple met when Ms Griffiths sought Dr Teo’s expert advice in 2009, although they did not begin dating until 11 years later after the brain surgeon split from his wife.
Dr Teo previously operated on WA girl Amelia ‘Milli’ Lucas, who captured the hearts of the nation during her brave cancer battle. The 14-year-old lost her cancer battle in January 2021.
Wedding rumors have followed the well-known surgeon and his former patient for more than a year, but it appears there may now be some truth to the whispers.
Ms Griffiths, a vegan activist and fitness influencer, has used revealing hashtags in pictures of the couple to hint at the change in their relationship status.
The former model has consistently tagged photos of her and Dr Teo with references to “#myhero” and “#mybestfriend” during their relationship, but she upgraded the hashtags in May to “#myfiance” and “#ilovemyfiance”.
The revelations are buried in a number of hashtags attached to photos of Ms Griffiths at the Charlie Teo Foundation Ball more than two months ago.
Traci Griffiths first dropped engagement hints on social media in May. Instagram Credit: News Corp Australia
The engagement hints continued in June with pictures of the costumed couple attending a Great Gastby themed birthday party.
Photos from the night are captioned with the same fiance hashtags and a nod to Dr Teo’s paperboy outfit.
After dropping the tantalizing suggestions, Ms Griffiths has remained quiet on the topic of her relationship.
The animal activist hasn’t posted any further photos of the couple on her social media accounts and there have been no more revealing hashtags.
Neither she nor Dr Teo responded to requests for comments about the engagement.
The exciting hints come as Dr Teo has taken a step back from his work as a neurosurgeon after conditions were imposed on his medical registration last year following complaints from colleagues.
The revealing hashtags were again employed in June. Instagram Credit: News Corp Australia
In August 2021, the Medical Council of NSW banned Dr Teo from performing high-risk surgeries without the written approval from a second independent neurosurgeon.
The restrictions will remain in place until next month.
Prior to the review of his medical practices, Dr Teo had built his reputation by operating on those with incurable or inoperable brain cancers.
Dr Teo had operated on WA girl Amelia ‘Milli’ Lucas, who captured the hearts of the nation during her brave cancer battle. Credit: News Corp Australia
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson are said to have split after nine months together.
An insider claimed the pair called it quits earlier this week, telling Page Six: “Kim and Pete have decided to just be friends. They have a lot of love and respect for each other, but found that the long distance and their demanding schedules made it really difficult to maintain a relationship.”
Davidson has been spending much of his time working on a film in Australia, while 41-year-old mum-of-four Kardashian has been juggling her businesses and co-parenting with ex-husband Kanye West in Los Angeles.
Page Six said it was told the split “had nothing to do with Kanye” and that their divorce is “moving forward.”
The insider added to the outlet: “They are focusing on co-parenting.”
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson have split instagram Credit: instagram/suppliedKim Kardashian and Pete Davidson have split instagram Credit: instagram/supplied
It comes as West’s fifth divorce attorney has reportedly officially withdrawn from his case.
The move is said to have come months after she filed to be removed on account of an irreconcilable breakdown with the rapper.
West’s attorney, Samantha Spector, was relieved as his counsel on Friday, according to TMZ.
FILE – Kanye West, left, and Kim Kardashian attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the “Camp: Notes on Fashion” exhibition on May 6, 2019, in New York. Kardashian became a single woman on Wednesday, nearly eight years after her marriage from Ella to Ye, who legally changed her name from Kanye West. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File) Credit: charles sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP
West, 45, and ex-partner Kardashian had a trial-setting conference on Friday, and Spector was set to officially withdraw in a date next week, but the judge apparently ended up approving it on Saturday.
According to TMZ, the judge informed the court West needed to take action and submit his financial declarations to settle lingering issues or the case would head to trial in December.
TMZ said: “If Kanye ghosts everyone then in all probability when the case comes before the judge in December Kim will get whatever she wants.”
In May, when it was reported Spector had filed her paperwork to be withdrawn, The Blast reported an attorney from Pennsylvania who was not a divorce lawyer would represent Kanye in his split from Kim in the meantime.
Spector, who has previously represented Amber Heard and Dr Dre’s ex-wife Nicole Young, was hired by the rapper earlier this year amid his acrimonious split with the reality star.
Counting Spector, West has now been through five attorneys in the case, according to TMZ.
Prior to Spector, West relieved attorney Chris Melcher of his duties in the case, the outlet reported in March.
Insiders told TMZ at the time West had been indecisive in his dealings with Melcher, at some times looking to settle and other times looking to battle her in court.
Kardashian’s lawyer Laura Wasser is said to have claimed West had been “strategically” switching lawyers in an effort to slow down the legal process in the split.
Kardashian filed to divorce him in February 2021 after more than six years of marriage.
She had been dating comedian Pete Davidson since last autumn and shares daughters North, nine, Chicago, four, as well as sons Saint, six, and Psalm, three, with Kanye.
A source told Us Weekly despite West’s apparent online threats to Davidson during their romance, which included warnings he should never see his kids.
“Kim and Kanye have been co-parenting very well as of late. They are very civil with each other right now, there are no issues. They are both treating each other with mutual respect,” the source said.
Nicola Peltz Beckham shared a cryptic instagram-post about being “hurt” just days after rumors of her feud with mother-in-law victoria beckham were first reported by Page Six.
The actress and daughter of billionaire investor Nelson Peltz posted a photo of herself with blood-shot, watery eyes attached to an emotionally-vulnerable caption.
“Sometimes I find it hard to show the sad bits of me. Growing up with seven siblings and two very strong parents made me really tough, they hammered it into me to not let people bring me down or hurt my heart,” she wrote.
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Nicola Peltz Beckham shared a photo of herself with watery eyes. (instagram)
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“It made me put such a wall up to protect myself, especially in this industry,” the newlywed added.
“We all have days where people make you feel bad and it’s okay to be hurt by it. I love you all so much and truly appreciate all of your support.”
This post comes little more than a month after her wedding to photographer Brooklyn Beckham and just days after reports of bad blood between the Beckhams and the Peltzs.
According to Page SixVictorian Beckham and Nicola Peltz, “can’t stand each other and don’t talk.”
Allegedly, “the build-up to the wedding was horrendous.”
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The source said in the months before Nicola and 23-year-old Brooklyn’s star-studded Miami wedding, the 27-year-old actress and her wealthy family did not want Victoria “to be any part of the planning.”
The source claimed that Nicola wouldn’t clue the former Spice Girl in on anything and “communication was minimal.”
Even during the celebrations, “there was a feeling that the wedding was all about the Peltz family, as you can imagine, as it was their house and their daughter and their son making the speeches.”
Since then, there has allegedly been “non-stop petty drama” between the two families, which has also caused tension between david beckhamVictoria, and their son.
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A British OnlyFans star says she has the most heavily tattooed vagina in the world, with an artist needing five separate sessions to needle her labia.
Over the years, Becky Holt, 34, has spent more than $42,000 on a tattoo “bodysuit” with artworks adorning her entire frame, from her face to her feet, The NY Post reports.
The blonde made sure not to neglect her pubic region, and recently sought to have the sensitive area inked — despite an intense amount of agony it caused.
“I was in an incredible amount of pain,” Holt told Ark Media of the fifth and final ink session that she underwent on July 5.
“It’s quite embarrassing having a tattoo artist between your legs but it needed to be finished as I want my body suit to be fully complete,” the mom-of-one added.
Almost a month on, Holt’s vagina is still “swollen” and she isn’t able to have sex with her partner, Ben.
“We won’t be able to be intimate until it’s finished healing which will be difficult for both of us as we have a very active sex life,” Holt divulged. “Foreplay for him only currently!”
Despite the sex drought, Holt’s beau has managed to find some humor in the situation.
“When I showed him how swollen it was he joked and showed me a picture of a ‘Monsters In.’ character saying my fanny looked like them,” the tattoo lover revealed.
Holt didn’t divulge what design she chose to have permanently plastered onto her labia, but shared photos of her trip to the tattoo parlor.
The blonde was seen wincing in pain as she sat on a chair with her legs spread while the artist needled away.
Holt believes she’s one of the only women in the world to have her vaginal folds inked, and says admirers have praised her for enduring the painful process.
“People can’t believe how brave I am for having my labia tattooed,” she bragged. “I’m not sure how many people in the world have this tattoo but I imagine I’m one of very few.”
This story originally appeared on The NY Post and was reproduced with permission.
If 2022 is the year of the movie star thanks to Tom Cruise’s resurgent form, then Brad Pitt makes for a convincing rival.
Because the largely entertaining action flick Bullet Train rolls along on the power of Pitt’s megawatt charisma – and sometimes on that alone.
The David Leitch-directed action comedy has a lot going for it, an unapologetically rambunctious tone, slick stunts and combat sequences and a colourful, pizzazzy visual aesthetic that pops.
But it’s also messy, swerving from euphoric highs to sloppy lows with its uneven pacing sometimes speeding at the breakneck pace of a, well, bullet train, while other times it feels as if it’s moving about as fast as a sloth on land.
Pitt stars as Ladybug, a relatively mild-mannered assassin who’s only just getting back into the game. Armed with his bucket hat, his winning smile and a heavy dose of skepticism, Ladybug boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto for his assignments from him, a supposedly simple snatch and grab job.
His target is a briefcase containing lots and lots of money.
But nothing is simple in the guns-for-hire business, especially when Ladybug is convinced he’s the unluckiest person on Earth.
As bad luck – or a vast, overly complicated scheme – would have it, Ladybug isn’t the only assassin on the train. Far from it. This particular train is a convergence point for several killers, all with equally adorable codenames.
There’s The Prince (Joey King), a ruthless killer who uses her appearance of British schoolgirl-in-distress to great effect, Tangerine (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Lemon (Brian Tyree Henry), two assassin brothers with matching checked coats, The Wolf (Benito A. Martinez Ocasio), an assassin with vengeance on his mind and The Hornet (Zazie Beetz), a poison specialist.
And they all want either the case or someone connected to it, which makes Ladybug’s simple task rather complicated.
That’s Bullet Train‘s main failing – just how convoluted the plot is. It labors to contrive all these complications involving myriad killers, hidden agendas and a boss-level target (Michael Shannon), and it struggles to keep its flow.
Just as you’re pulled into the visceral joys of a stylish, high-octane action sequence, you’re being asked to simultaneously keep track of the increasingly knotty plot. Wait, what’s that guy’s beef with this dude again?
There are some genuinely great “phwaor” moments, including a scene-stealing turn from legendary Japanese actor and martial artist Hiroyuki Sanada, who plays The Elder, another – you guessed it – assassin.
Or the legitimately endearing, continued references to Thomas the Tank Enginewith which Lemon is obsessed, and becomes something of a fun touchpoint in various scenes.
And the fight sequences are creative, imaginative and well-staged – and they punch. But that’s what you would expect from Leitch, who spent many years as Pitt’s stunt double before moving into directing with John Wick, Atomic Blonde and Dead Pool 2.
Given the caliber of Leitch’s history, plus an exciting cast and a riotous vibe, Bullet Train should’ve been a fantastic movie if it had been tighter, or even more brazen with its bloodshed.
It’s certainly not John Wick on a train. If it had been, it would’ve been a less shambolic experience.
It’s not secret british royal family has one of the world’s most expensive and extensive collection of jewels.
Many of the family’s best pieces came from Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, whose legacy will forever be linked to her incredible jewels.
Today some of her grandest tiaras, necklaces, earrings and rings are worn by the other women to follow in her footsteps including the monarch, allowing the beloved royal to be remembered by generations to come.
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, photographed at Windsor Castle on July 8, 1941. (Getty)
In days gone by month of August would see the royal family come together to celebrate the Queen Mother’s birthday – August 4 – so in honor of the former Queen Consort here are some of her most iconic royal jewels and who they can be seen on now.
The Strathmore Rose tiara
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon married Albert, Duke of York, in 1923 and the event brought her the “first real experience of owning and wearing jewelery of real distinction”, author Hugh Roberts writes in The Queen’s Diamonds.
Among her numerous wedding presents were some notable jewels, including a diamond tiara in the form of a rose garland gifted by Elizabeth’s father Lord Strathmore.
It became known as the Strathmore Rose tiara.
Queen Elizabeth wearing the Strathmore Rose tiara in the mid-late 1920s (exact date unknown). (Getty)
She wore the tiara many times while Duchess of York, including for an official portrait and on her wedding day.
Featuring a garland of roses in rose-cut diamonds, mounted in silver and gold, the tiara was likely made in the late 1800s. It is designed to be worn across the forehead in a bandeau style – popular during the 1920s – but can also be worn on top of the head in the more traditional manner.
The flowers can be removed and worn as brooches and were occasionally swapped for sapphires.
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon leaves her home for her wedding to the Duke of York, the future King George VI in 1923. (Getty)
As Queen Elizabeth, she wore the tiara many times during her husband’s reign and kept the piece until her death in 2002.
It is now in Queen Elizabeth II’s personal collection, but has not been worn by any members of the royal family since.
As Duchess of York, Elizabeth preferred simple jewels such as brooches and pearl necklaces.
The Strathmore Rose tiara, owned by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. (Getty)
But it would be her husband’s succession to King upon the abdication of his brother that would see Elizabeth, the Duchess of York, gain an even more impressive jewelery collection as her tastes matched those of a Queen Consort.
Cartier Halo tiara
This tiara was purchased by the Duke of York on November 18, 1936, three weeks before succeeded his brother as King George VI, and worn by his wife while she was still a duchess.
Made by Cartier, the tiara was designed in the popular ‘halo’ style to suit the hairstyles of the 1930s and set with 739 brilliant-cut diamonds and 149 baton-cut diamonds.
Queen Elizabeth gave the tiara to her daughter, then Princess Elizabeth, as an 18th birthday present in 1944.
The Duchess of Cambridge wearing the Cartier halo tiara on her wedding day, April 29, 2011. (Getty)
It was later loaned to Princess Margaret in the 1950s and borrowed by Princess Anne in the 1970s.
When the Queen Mother passed away in 2002, the tiara became part of the Queen’s collection.
Her Majesty loaned the Halo tiara to Kate Middleton when she married Prince William on April 29, 2011, at Westminster Abbey.
But it has not been worn by the now Duchess of Cambridge since.
Art Deco diamond ring
The Queen Mother owned many large rings and her engagement ring was a large sapphire stunner.
But she often swapped her rings around, sometimes wearing a pearl ring in its place.
Another ring occasionally worn by the Queen Mother on her wedding finger was an Art-Deco emerald-cut ring.
Camilla, now the Duchess of Cornwall, shows off her engagement ring during a party at Windsor Castle. (WireImage)
That piece was left to Prince Charles who later presented it to Camilla when he proposed.
The platinum ring features a five-carat emerald cut diamond with three baguette cut diamonds on both sides.
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Author Tina Brown writes in her book The Palace Papers that “the Queen signed off on Charles choosing Camilla’s engagement ring from one of the Queen Mother’s collection” adding it was “more valuable than the engagement ring given to Diana”.
But, “his grandmother would have turned in her grave at Windsor Castle if she had known who was destined to wear her emerald-cut diamond bequest.”
Following their wedding in 2005, the Duchess of Cornwall wears the ring with her Welsh gold wedding band.
Sapphire fringe earrings
Since marrying into the royal family the Duchess of Cambridge has worn several heirloom jewels and a favorite of hers appears to be the Queen Mother’s sapphire fringe earrings.
Most recently they were seen on Kate at Westminster Abbey when she hosted the Royal Carols: Together At Christmas concert.
The Duchess of Cambridge arrives at Buckingham Palace for a gala dinner for US President Donald Trump on June 3, 2019, wearing the Queen Mother’s sapphire and diamond fringe earrings. (Getty)
The earrings were first worn on the duchess in 2015 at an event inside the Victoria and Albert museum.
She later wore them at a gala inside Buckingham Palace in June 2019 hosted in honor of then-US President Donald Trump’s visit to the UK.
They are set in an Art Deco design with a diamond fringe suspended from a sapphire and diamond cluster and they move delicately while being worn.
The Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey in December 2019. (Samir Hussein/WireImage)
The earrings are likely a favorite of Kate’s as they pair so well with her sapphire engagement ring, which previously belonged to Diana, Princess of Wales.
The Queen Mother started wearing the earrings in the 1960s but the sapphires may have come from a suite of jewels gifted by Queen Mary for her wedding in 1943.
Greville festoon necklace and Greville tiara
Made by Cartier, the Greville Festoon necklace was bequeathed to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in 1942 from wealthy society figure Margaret Greville, a collection that included 60 pieces.
The necklace features five rows of diamonds, though she often wore it with just three rows for a less dramatic look.
The necklace was one of the biggest the Queen Mother’s collection, before it passed to her daughter the Queen in 2002.
The Duchess of Cornwall wears the Greville festoon necklace and Greville tiara in Uganda in November 2007. (Getty)
Her Majesty has since loaned it to the Duchess of Cornwall, along with another of Mrs Greville’s bequests – a tiara which became known as the Greville tiara.
It features many diamonds set in a geometrical honeycomb design and became one of the Queen Mother’s most frequently worn tiaras.
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The tiara was made by Boucheron in the 1920s but remodeled by Cartier in 1953 at the request of the Queen Mother.
It is one of just three tiaras worn by the Duchess of Cornwall. Her access from her to others, and the royal family’s larger jewel collection, will increase when she becomes Queen Consort.
maple leaf brooch
Queen Elizabeth’s jewelery collection grew as her husband the King gifted her with more lavish pieces which, as Hugh Roberts explains, was even more important after the abdication to “uphold the dignity and continuity of the monarchy”.
Made by Asprey & Co in 1939, the Maple leaf brooch was given to Queen Elizabeth by King George VI on their State Visit to Canada in 1939.
The Duchess of Cambridge wearing the Queen Mother’s diamond maple leaf brooch in Canada on July 8, 2011. (Getty)
Like all the Queen Mother’s jewels, the brooch was inherited by her daughter who often wore it to visit Canada – the most visited Commonwealth country by Her Majesty.
The Queen later loaned the brooch to the Duchess of Cambridge for her royal tour to Canada with Prince William in 2011.
lotus flower tiara
The Duchess of Cambridge wore another of the Queen Mother’s tiaras that was a present from her husband.
But the Lotus flower tiara wasn’t always a headpiece.
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, wearing the Lotus Flower tiara, in a portrait taken in 1927. (Getty)
The Queen Mother had the tiara made from a necklace gifted by her husband for their wedding.
Garrard, who made the original necklace, used the gemstones to create the tiara which became one of the Queen’s favorite pieces in the early years of her marriage.
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Queen Elizabeth wore the tiara many times during her husband’s reign before it was passed on to her younger daughter, Princess Margaret who was another frequent wearer of the piece.
The Duchess of Cambridge wears the Lotus tiara at Buckingham Palace on October 20, 2015. (Dominic Lipinski/WPA Pool/Getty Images)
The tiara can be worn with either diamond or pearl toppers.
The Duchess of Cambridge wore the Lotus Flower tiara for a state banquet at Buckingham Palace in October 2015 for the Chinese president.
it’s just one of three tiaras worn by Kate since the royal wedding.
Scallop-shell brooch
This beautiful piece is formed as a scallop-shell and features pavé-set diamonds around a single pearl.
The brooch was bequeathed to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, by Winifred Hope and it then passed into the collection of Queen Elizabeth II.
Queen Elizabeth II wears her mother’s Scallop-Shell brooch at Royal Ascot on June 22, 2019. (Getty)
The Queen has worn by the brooch many times including at the wedding of Zara and Mike Tindall at Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland, on July 30, 2011.
coronation necklace
To mark his coronation in 1937, King George VI gave his wife a necklace made of 40 diamonds which came to be known as Queen Elizabeth’s coronation necklace.
The piece was worn to the coronation along with Queen Victoria’s coronation necklace and later in her official coronation portraits and other important photographs in 1939 and 1948.
Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, wears the Queen Mother’s Coronation necklace on her 60th birthday in 2007. (PA/Hugo Burnand/Clarence House)
The coronation necklace was later inherited by the Queen and loaned to the Duchess of Cornwall.
Camilla wore the piece to celebrate her 60th birthday but had the necklace shortened from its 14 stones to just nine.
The Duchess of Cornwall could choose to wear the necklace again at the coronation of her husband, Charles.
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In March 2021, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle felt shockwaves around the world after appearing in a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey. The explosive chat saw the couple make a series of claims about the monarchy. According to Princess Diana’s former protection officer Ken Wharfe, Harry found the Oprah interview “difficult” to appear in. Mr Wharfe explained Harry’s “telling” feelings during the bombshell interview.
I have noted that, during that time, Charles had a “much bigger operation” and a “lot of support”, whereas “Diana didn’t have that”.
Because of this, he added: “She decided, well look, I’m not getting that support, I want to tell you the truth, and that’s what happened with [Andrew] Morton, and that’s what happened with [Martin] Bashir.”
During the Oprah interview, the Sussexes accused an unnamed royal – not the Queen or Prince Philip – of making a racist comment about their son Archie.
And following previous reports it was the other way around, Meghan claimed Kate made her cry ahead of her royal wedding in 2018.
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