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Joy Behar comment made Meghan McCain quit The View

Meghan McCain revealed that Joy Behar served as the ultimate catalyst to quit The View.

The former morning show co-host explained on The Commentary Magazine Podcast on Thursday that Behar’s response to her returning from maternity leave in January 2021 after giving birth to her daughter, Liberty, made her realize the job was not worth it.

“I finally went back to the show, and the day I went back to the show, Joy Behar said on air, ‘Nobody missed you, we didn’t miss you, you shouldn’t have come back,’” McCain, 37 , recalled.

“And I just… I started hysterically crying. Sorry gentlemen, I know, I started lactating on air, and I started crying.”

McCain said she went back to her office and threw up before calling her brother, who convinced her to leave the ABC talk show.

“I didn’t feel supported when I had my baby, and I didn’t feel supported coming back, and that was ultimately it,” she added. “That was why I left!”

Since leaving in July 2021, the conservative personality has been vocal about her negative experience on the show, especially when it came to Behar, 79, and Whoopi Goldberg.

“The thing about Whoopi, though, is that she yields so much power in culture and television, and once she turns on you, it can create unfathomable tension at the table,” McCain said in her audio memoir, Bad Republican.

“I found her open disdain for me more and more difficult to manage as the years went on and it became more frequent. Occasionally, if the show’s political discourse veered into territory that she found disagreeable, Whoopi would cut me off, sometimes harshly.”

Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro have just been announced as McCain’s replacements on The View.

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Elle Macpherson’s son Flynn is the spitting image of his billionaire financier father Arpad Busson

Flynn Busson, the son of billionaire Arpad Busson and Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson, appears to be the spitting image of his father in new photos.

Flynn, 24, shared pictures on Instagram of himself the same speedboat that his financial father drove him around in as a toddler.

“22 years apart… 2022, 2012, 2000,” he posted alongside three photos of himself aboard the boat.

The first two images show Flynn driving the boat as an adult, the third from 2000, is a throwback to him as a child, sitting on his fathers lap at sea.

Elle and dated Arpad from 1996 until they spilled in 2005. But they remained friends and appeared together when Flynn graduated after studying finance and real estate at Boston University last year, with his mother sharing family photos to Instagram.

“Where did the time go? You boys are a credit to your selves, and your dad and I are so in awe of the men you have become,” she wrote at the time.

Flynn, who is also a licensed pilot, is the former couple’s oldest son. They also share another son, Cy, 19

According to both Elle and Flynn, the mother and son share a close relationship. In recent years, they’ve appeared at various events together, including the Christian Dior Haute Couture 2022/2023 fashion show in Paris, France.

The 58-year-old and her son wore complimentary Dior designs. Busson’s girlfriend Anna de Ferran was also in attendance.

The star, who is famously known as “The Body,” posted several snapshots of the outing on her Instagram account, Fox News reported.

“My favorite date,” she boasted in one post.

“Loved sharing these special moments with my sons,” she wrote in another, noting that her other son Aurelius Cy Andrea Busson, 19, was greatly missed.

Despite living in the public eye, the model previously revealed she has been determined to give her children a more low-key life. It was not until 2019 that Macpherson appeared alongside her sons de ella on the cover of Vogue Australia.

“We kept the children out of the public eye,” she explained to the outlet at the time. “It was a decision that their dad and I made. We didn’t think it was necessary for them to be recognized in public. Of course, you can’t stop paparazzi.”

Macpherson told the outlet that “for years” many asked her to model with her sons. But up until then, she had always said no.

“We had one experience where a family shot was used on the cover of a magazine without our permission, and at the time it was terrible, but actually I am strangely grateful now because it’s so beautiful,” she said.

“Now, with Instagram, the boys are public, and they make their own choices,” she continued. “[And] they are amazing company. Who wouldn’t love taking them places?”

In an interview with Vogue Australia in 2019, Flynn – who reportedly divides his time between London, New York and Miami – spoke glowingly of his mother: “I know everyone says that about their mum, but it really is true. My mother has always been so incredibly devoted to me and my brother.”

“I always knew we were her number-one priority.

“It has shone through everything from the way she chooses her jobs to the way she cooks dinner.”

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Elle Macpherson’s son Flynn is the spitting image of his billionaire financier father Arpad Busson

Flynn Busson, the son of billionaire Arpad Busson and Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson, appears to be the spitting image of his father in new photos.

Flynn, 24, shared pictures on Instagram of himself the same speedboat that his financial father drove him around in as a toddler.

“22 years apart… 2022, 2012, 2000,” he posted alongside three photos of himself aboard the boat.

The first two images show Flynn driving the boat as an adult, the third from 2000, is a throwback to him as a child, sitting on his fathers lap at sea.

Elle and dated Arpad from 1996 until they spilled in 2005. But they remained friends and appeared together when Flynn graduated after studying finance and real estate at Boston University last year, with his mother sharing family photos to Instagram.

“Where did the time go? You boys are a credit to your selves, and your dad and I are so in awe of the men you have become,” she wrote at the time.

Flynn, who is also a licensed pilot, is the former couple’s oldest son. They also share another son, Cy, 19

According to both Elle and Flynn, the mother and son share a close relationship. In recent years, they’ve appeared at various events together, including the Christian Dior Haute Couture 2022/2023 fashion show in Paris, France.

The 58-year-old and her son wore complimentary Dior designs. Busson’s girlfriend Anna de Ferran was also in attendance.

The star, who is famously known as “The Body,” posted several snapshots of the outing on her Instagram account, Fox News reported.

“My favorite date,” she boasted in one post.

“Loved sharing these special moments with my sons,” she wrote in another, noting that her other son Aurelius Cy Andrea Busson, 19, was greatly missed.

Despite living in the public eye, the model previously revealed she has been determined to give her children a more low-key life. It was not until 2019 that Macpherson appeared alongside her sons de ella on the cover of Vogue Australia.

“We kept the children out of the public eye,” she explained to the outlet at the time. “It was a decision that their dad and I made. We didn’t think it was necessary for them to be recognized in public. Of course, you can’t stop paparazzi.”

Macpherson told the outlet that “for years” many asked her to model with her sons. But up until then, she had always said no.

“We had one experience where a family shot was used on the cover of a magazine without our permission, and at the time it was terrible, but actually I am strangely grateful now because it’s so beautiful,” she said.

“Now, with Instagram, the boys are public, and they make their own choices,” she continued. “[And] they are amazing company. Who wouldn’t love taking them places?”

In an interview with Vogue Australia in 2019, Flynn – who reportedly divides his time between London, New York and Miami – spoke glowingly of his mother: “I know everyone says that about their mum, but it really is true. My mother has always been so incredibly devoted to me and my brother.”

“I always knew we were her number-one priority.

“It has shone through everything from the way she chooses her jobs to the way she cooks dinner.”

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Married At First Sight’s Ella Ding is left red-faced after airport security make SHOCK discovery

Married At First Sight’s Ella Ding is left red-faced after airport security rifle through her carry-on luggage and make SHOCK discovery

Married At First Sight’s Ella Ding has had an unpleasant brush with airport security.

The reality star revealed on Wednesday she suffered an embarrassing drama after her luggage set off metal detectors on the way to Los Angeles.

‘When you go through security – and your bag has to get searched – I remembered I had my vibrator in my carry on,’ Ella, 28, wrote, sharing her tale of woe to Instagram.

Married At First Sight's Ella Ding was left red-faced on Wednesday after an embarrassing security blunder at the airport

Married At First Sight’s Ella Ding was left red-faced on Wednesday after an embarrassing security blunder at the airport

The brunette bombshell went on to explain she decided to tell security she was carrying a self-care device, prior to them investigating her luggage.

‘Kid you not, I thought it was that, so I said, ”I have my vibes in there sir,”‘ she recalled.

Ella was left red-faced when her luggage was opened and it was revealed her podcasting microphone had set off the detector.

The reality star finished her social media purge by saying she clearly didn’t need to mention her vibrator in the first place.

The reality star revealed she suffered an embarrassing drama after her luggage set off metal detectors on the way to Los Angeles

The reality star revealed she suffered an embarrassing drama after her luggage set off metal detectors on the way to Los Angeles

Ella’s run in comes after she warned women not to get too attached to their sex toys.

She discussed her former ‘obsession’ with her favorite vibrator in the latest episode of her podcast, Sit With Us, alongside fellow MAFS star Domenica Calarco.

‘It was like a secret obsession of mine. I used to get so excited to get into bed and spend time with it,’ she explained.

‘Before I would go on a date I would get off. I became addicted to it, heavily reliant on it. And the settings heavily increased,’ she continued.

The Married At First Sight bride discussed her 'obsession' with her favorite vibrator in the latest episode of her podcast, Sit With Us, alongside Domenica Calarco (right)

The Married At First Sight bride discussed her ‘obsession’ with her favorite vibrator in the latest episode of her podcast, Sit With Us, alongside Domenica Calarco (right)

‘So you gotta be careful, because I basically made my clit desensitized to anything from a man,’ Ella admitted.

‘It just wasn’t feeling good because I got so used to the pressure and strength from the vibrator. I used it religiously for five years straight, six times a night.

‘I had to put it away. I said to myself, you have to stop using this, because it was making it harder to be with a man with no toy.’

Ella says she then had to train herself to return to old fashioned methods of achieving orgasm.

'It was like a secret obsession of mine.  I used to get so excited to get into bed and spend time with it,' she explained.  'Before I would go on a date I would get off.  I became addicted to it'

‘It was like a secret obsession of mine. I used to get so excited to get into bed and spend time with it,’ she explained. ‘Before I would go on a date I would get off. I became addicted to it’

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Elle Macpherson’s son Flynn, 24, is the spitting image of his billionaire father Arpad Busson

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree for Flynn Busson, the son of billionaire Arpad Busson and supermodel Elle Macpherson.

Flynn, 24, was the spitting image of his financier father, 59, as he shared a picture of himself steering the same speedboat that Arpad, drove him around in as a toddler.

Supermodel Elle, 58, dated Arpad from 1996 until they spilled in 2005, they also share another son, Cy, 19.

Taking to the sea: Elle Macpherson's son Flynn, 24, is the spitting image of his billionaire financier father Arpad Busson, 59, as he drove a speedboat on Instagram

Taking to the sea: Elle Macpherson’s son Flynn, 24, is the spitting image of his billionaire financier father Arpad Busson, 59, as he drove a speedboat on Instagram

Good genes: Flynn and his father in his younger years

Need for speed: Flynn driving the boat now

Good genes: Flynn shared a picture of himself steering the same speedboat as Arpad, drove him around in as a toddler (pictured left as a toddler with his father and right this month)

Taking to Instagram, Flynn penned: ’22 years apart… 2022, 2012, 2000,’ alongside three photos of himself aboard the boat.

While the first two images were of Flynn driving the boat himself, the third from 2000, showed him sat on his father’s lap as they took to the sea together.

Arpad has recently been seen looking cozy with the Countess of Mornington Jemma Kidd while holidaying in St Moritz, however he has remained friends with Elle after their split.

Family: Supermodel Elle, 58, dated Arpad from 1996 until they spilled in 2005, the pair have remained friends

Family: Supermodel Elle, 58, dated Arpad from 1996 until they spilled in 2005, the pair have remained friends

Both Elle and Arpad were present when Flynn graduated from Boston University last year after studying finance and real estate, with the model sharing family photos to Instagram.

‘Where did the time go? You boys are a credit to your selves, and your dad and I are so in awe of the men you have become,’ she penned at the time.

Licensed pilot, Flynn divides his time between London, New York and Miami and has a very close relationship with his mum.

Expert: Taking to Instagram, Flynn penned: '22 years apart… 2022, 2012, 2000,' alongside three photos of himself aboard the boat

Expert: Taking to Instagram, Flynn penned: ’22 years apart… 2022, 2012, 2000,’ alongside three photos of himself aboard the boat

In an interview with Vogue Australia in 2019, he detailed: ‘I know everyone says that about their mum, but it really is true. My mother has always been so incredibly devoted to me and my brother.’

‘I always knew we were her number-one priority,’ Flynn added. ‘It has shone through everything from the way she chooses her jobs from her to the way she cooks dinner.’

He said he was grateful for how his mother was always there for him growing up, despite her extremely busy schedule.

Throwback: In an interview with Vogue Australia in 2019, Flynn said: 'My mother has always been so incredibly devoted to me and my brother' (Elle, Flynn and Arpad)

Throwback: In an interview with Vogue Australia in 2019, Flynn said: ‘My mother has always been so incredibly devoted to me and my brother’ (Elle, Flynn and Arpad)

Brood: Supermodel Elle and Arpad also share another son, Cy, 19 (pictured here with their sons in 2006)

Brood: Supermodel Elle and Arpad also share another son, Cy, 19 (pictured here with their sons in 2006)

‘Just from the conversations I’ve had with friends [about their parents]I know that she’s special, in the way she prioritizes us,’ he said.

According to Flynn, his mother would regularly pick him up from school regardless of her work commitments and was a constant source of support and guidance.

Last month, the Aussie stunner brought a very handsome date to the Dior show during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week – her son Flynn.

Chips off the old block: Both Elle and Arpad were present when Flynn graduated from Boston University last year, with the model sharing family photos to Instagram (Flynn, Arpad, Cy, LR)

Chips off the old block: Both Elle and Arpad were present when Flynn graduated from Boston University last year, with the model sharing family photos to Instagram (Flynn, Arpad, Cy, LR)

The hunky pilot looked dapper in a black suit with an open neck white shirt and flashed his perfect pearly whites as he proudly posed next to his gorgeous mother.

Supermodel Elle meanwhile cut a glamorous figure for the event as she donned a beige long-sleeved dress with a sheer detail and high collar.

Styling her blonde tresses into voluminous curls, the beauty complimented her outfit with a pair of sunglasses.

Close bond: Last month, the Aussie stunner brought a very handsome date to the Dior show during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week - her son Flynn

Close bond: Last month, the Aussie stunner brought a very handsome date to the Dior show during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week – her son Flynn

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Prey ending explained – how it links to Predator mystery

Prey ending spoilers follow.

Taking predator back to the 18th century, Prey revitalizes the series with the best movie since the iconic original.

The new movie centers on Naru (Amber Midthunder), a young Comanche warrior who dreams of being a hunter, only to be denied the chance as she’s a woman. However, the arrival of the Predator near her home gives Naru the ideal opportunity to provide her worth.

While it is set in 1719, Prey does feature references and Easter eggs to the predator franchise and the biggest one comes in the finale. It’s a nod to a long-running mystery in the series that goes all the way back to predator 2.

But if you weren’t aware of the significance, we’re here to help. We need to go into some major spoilers to do that though, so don’t read on if you haven’t seen the movie yet.

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Prey ending explained

During the hunt for the Predator, Naru and her brother Taabe (Dakota Beevers) get captured by a group of fur trappers. The trappers intend to use the two as bait to lure the Predator so they can kill it, but that turns out as well as expected.

Naru and Taabe escape, and when she goes back to the trappers’ camp to fetch her dog, she comes across one of the trappers. He’s still alive, but barely, and he gives her a pistol to protect them both. Again, it doesn’t go well and the trapper is killed.

Unfortunately for Naru, Taabe is also killed by the Predator. However, she’s worked out a way to outwit the predator. Using an orange flower that cools her blood, Naru sneaks up on the Predator and lures it into a trap where she manages to remove its helmet, which she then uses to get the Predator to target itself. Bye-bye Predator.

Naru returns to her camp, reunites with her mother and is made a hunter after she presents the War Chief with the Predator’s head and the pistol. As the War Chief looks at it, we see an important inscription “Raphael Adolini 1715” on it that tells us this is no ordinary pistol.

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predator fans will know it has a history in the series, but we’ll refresh your memory if you weren’t aware.

At the end of predator 2Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) is given a flintlock pistol, inscribed with “Raphael Adolini 1715”, by Greyback after he’s provided himself by killing the City Hunter.

It wasn’t quite clear how the Predator got its hands on an ancient pistol or why it was treasured enough to be given as a gift to a worthy foe. Prey adds another interesting element into the mystery, which was addressed in a comic book short story released in July 1996 called predator: 1718.

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The story – set in 1718, obviously – seemingly solved the mystery about how Greyback ended up with the pistol. In it, Adolini faced a mutiny over a case of gold that his crew stole from a church, much to his anger.

Adolini battled his crew, and a watching Predator decided to join the battle and fight with Adolini. With most of the crew dead, the Predator turned his attention to Adolini and prepared to find out if he was a worthy warrior, only for the last alive member of Adolini’s crew to shoot him in the back.

The Predator killed the remaining crew member and as Adolini was dying, he gave the Predator his flintlock pistol. It’s how two centuries later, the pistol ended up in Greyback’s possession to give to Harrigan.

However, it now seems unclear whether this story is officially canon in the predator franchise. We’d assume the pistols are one-and-the-same (after all, that’s a big coincidence if not), so it’s unlikely a fur trapper would have possession of it in 1719 in order to give it to Naru.

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It’s possible that the trappers came across the same Predator who fought with Adolini, killing him and taking the pistol. The trappers didn’t seem to be much use against the Predator in Preyso if they knew how to kill a Predator, then how come they struggled so much in the movie?

A cleaner explanation would be that the story is no longer canon and the trappers got it from Adolini in 1718 or earlier (either gifted or stolen, doesn’t matter). But whichever story you believe, it doesn’t bode well for Naru’s future.

If it was the same pistol, it would mean that a Predator gets its hands on it after the events of Preyin order for Greyback to give it to Harrigan in 1997. The bleakest answer would be that another Predator returned to Earth in the 18th century, battled with Naru and killed her, taking the pistol back.

We’d prefer to think that a Predator just comes across the pistol long after Naru has lived a healthy and long life. But perhaps that’s a story a potential Prey sequel can tell…

Prey is available to watch now on Disney+ in the UK and on Hulu in the US.

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Batgirl farce: Warner Bros’ decision to scrap DC film defies history of releasing duds

This week the news broke that Warner Bros had “shelved” the upcoming comic book film batgirl.

The surprise move means the $100 million movie, which had already been filmed, will never be released on streaming services as previously planned.

Initial reports suggested the problem was the film’s quality – supposedly, it was so bad that it had been declared “irredeemable”.

Subsequent reports have suggested the study actually ditched it for cynical tax reasons.

A Warner Bros spokesperson said in an official statement that the choice to scrap batgirl was due to a “strategic shift as it relates to the DC universe and HBO Max”.

Whatever the true reason, the sudden axing has left the cast and crew of the DC flick stunned and moviegoers outraged.

“We are saddened and shocked by the news,” directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah wrote in their response to the film being cancelled.

“We still can’t believe it. As directors, it is critical that our work be shown to audiences, and while the film was far from finished, we wish that fans all over the world would have had the opportunity to see and embrace the final film themselves.

“Maybe one day they will.”

As a DC fan and film buff, I hope the directors are right. Let us watch the film, judge it for ourselves, and perhaps even enjoy it. Honestly, how bad can it be?

It’s not as though the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) has a track record of only releasing certified masterpieces. Unlike its Marvel counterpart, the DCEU has included some absolute dud movies, all of them released quite happily by Warner Bros.

You may recall, for example, 1997’s batman and robin.

Considered the lowest rated Batman flick (12 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes), it’s filled with terrible dialogue (Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Mr. Freeze one-liner “Who killed the dinosaurs? The ice age!), awful costumes (nipples on the Batsuit!) and horrendous production designs.

Coincidentally, it also featured the cinematic debut of Batgirl, played by Alicia Silverstone in a supporting role.

How about 2004’s cat woman? The movie was a cat-astrophe, and its lead star Halle Berry was so poor that she won a Razzie.

Or how about 2011’s Green Lantern? The film that was meant to launch the DCEU was visually overwhelming, overproduced and badly written.

All three of these films had glaringly obvious flaws, and have gone down in history as being among the worst superhero films of all time. No one at Warner Bros stopped them from being released to the public.

How many different iterations of Batman have we seen, of wildly varying quality, over the years? The studio has never stopped making them.

This was the first time we were going to see Batgirl in the lead role – an intriguing premise. The movie had already been filmed. If any subpar flick were going to be saved, this was it.

yet Este is the film, rather than any of the duds above, that has fallen victim to Warner Bros’ apparent quality standards.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, batgirl had landed a score in the low 60s at its only test screening.

That is not a stellar rating, but as THR noted, test screenings are not the final judgment for a movie – and other films with comparable test scores have gone on to be successful at the box office. Wildly successful, in some cases. The Stephen King adaptation Itemfor example, grossed more than $US700 million globally.

If the studio was so concerned about batgirl and wanted to save the DCEU, why not postpone the movie and do reshoots?

It’s happened with other comic book films: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (almost $US1 billion at the box office), 2019’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix ($US250 million) and 2015’s Fantastic Four ($US168 million) to name a few.

None of these were masterpieces, but they got released, and DCEU fans got to judge them on their merits.

That’s all the directors of batgirl SE busca. They’ve been robbed of that chance, for reasons that increasing and sound as though they have more to do with money than passion or concern for the source material.

Maybe batgirl is the disaster it was first described as. Let’s find out. Put it on the streaming services. Give us a chance to watch it and decide for ourselves.

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Nana Thai Style Hotpot and BBQ review Melbourne Review 2022

169 Bourke St
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opening hours dinner nightly
Features Licensed, Groups
Prices Cheap (mains under $20)
Phone 0452 645 165

I’ve heard it said by snarky locals and visitors alike: people in Melbourne love to queue up. Shoes, croissants, nightclubs – if there’s a queue, let’s get in it and see what’s at the end when we arrive. I usually have the opposite reaction. If I must stand in line to get something, it’s unlikely I want that thing.

But, occasionally, the reason for the line is valid. Sometimes, the thing at the end of the queue is so good – and so exclusive – that an hour spent standing on the footpath is a small price to pay.

If you’ve taken the tram along Bourke Street after 5pm in the past year, it’s likely you’ve seen just such a queue outside Nana Thai Style Hotpot and BBQ. The crowd is mainly young and mainly Asian, a demographic which might be more food-obsessed than any other in our gloriously diverse and food-infatuated city.

The gold-domed barbecue is surrounded by a well that's filled with bone broth.

The gold-domed barbecue is surrounded by a well that’s filled with bone broth. Photo: Bonnie Savage



The line begins to form in the late afternoon every day for the 5.30pm opening; its presence alone was enough to pique my interest. What was behind the small storefront that you couldn’t get elsewhere without standing outside in the cold?

The answer is a fantastic hybrid of barbecue and hotpot called mu kratha or mookata that owners Nuttanan Lohayanjaree and Panta Thanapaisan looked for in vain when they moved to Melbourne from Thailand. Nana Thai was originally a pop-up, but Lohayanjaree and Thanapaisan opened the permanent location on Bourke Street in 2020. The queues were almost immediate.

The barbecue comes as a set for two people ($39), and includes a mix of meat and seafood – pork neck, pork belly, squid, prawns, pork liver – that you grill on a gold-domed barbecue heated from beneath with a gas grill. Around the dome is a well that’s filled with bone broth; a pot with extra broth comes on the side. How you proceed from there is entirely up to you. There are no instructions given by the efficient but rushed staff, and there’s really no wrong way to go about it.

Raw ingredients ready for the hotpot-barbecue hybrid.

Raw ingredients ready for the hotpot-barbecue hybrid. Photo: Bonnie Savage



Some prefer to grill their meat slowly and carefully, seasoning the grill with the hunk of pork fat provided, adding each element one at a time, allowing it to cook and swiping it through the broth and the provided sweet and spicy barbecue sauce, before moving on to the next protein.

Others cram as much stuff onto the grill as possible, moving it into the soup as it’s done, adding mushrooms and noodles and cabbage from a second platter to create a barbecue-hotpot amalgam, then scooping it into soup bowls before eating it. There’s a raw egg to add to the mix, and a spicy and tangy sauce to add to your soup bowl that’s shot through with onions.

Nana Thai also offers a straightforward hotpot for two ($39) that comes without the barbecue element. If you’re in the mood for soup and soup alone – and if you crave intestine and marinated chicken, which the barbecue doesn’t have, but the hotpot does – this is a lovely option. But there’s all manner of hotpot in Melbourne, and I probably wouldn’t wait in line just for the version at Nana’s. For a big group with people who are happy sharing, it’s a nice thing to add to the mix, though.

Crab papaya salad.

Crab papaya salad. Photo: Bonnie Savage



Nana’s also has a huge menu of Northern Thai dishes, most of them larbs, salads and soups of various sorts. If you don’t want the barbecue or hotpot and you don’t want to wait in line, these other dishes are available to pre-order and take away, as well as via various delivery apps.

They are mostly intensely spicy – ​​prepared, as the menu warns, to Thai-taste heat levels. And they’re fantastic: raw blue crab and green papaya salad with fermented fish ($20) comes swimming in lime, fish sauce, chillies and funk.

The Mama tom yum soup ($20) is not the often-miserly offering found at your neighborhood Thai joint: broth with a few carrots and celery. Here, it combines instant noodles, deep-fried pork belly, prawns, calamari, pork balls and egg in a bright and fragrant bowlful.

Mama tom yum soup.

Mama tom yum soup. Photo: Bonnie Savage



The line might seem like a lot to deal with – even on a recent freezing Tuesday night at 6pm, the wait was over an hour – but the staff do everything they can to streamline the process. Menus are handed out and orders taken while you’re standing on the street; by the time you make it to your stools and no-frills table, your food will already be waiting for you, the grill hot, the broth bubbling.

Stumbling out an hour later, full and happy, someone passed me to the crowd and asked, “Is it worth the wait?” Without hesitation, I replied, “Absolutely.”

Vibes: Bright, colourful, crowded, utilitarian

Pork and basil stir-fry.

Pork and basil stir-fry. Photo: Bonnie Savage



Go to dish: BBQ set for two ($39)

Drinks: Soda, milk tea, a handful of basic beers

Cost: $39 for two, excluding drinks

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Haotian Qi and Esther Song, principals with Opera Australia

We both love eating. She cooks Korean food, I cook Chinese food. Sometimes I try cooking Korean food but no, no. Something is not right. I put in everything according to the YouTube tutorial but it’s just different. I say, ‘Okay, fine.’

Singing together is great fun. We can really feel each other when we sing. It’s a couple thing. I know when she’s going to breathe, and when she’s going to need to sing very high, and I will follow her. Some people want to show off themselves, but I love to be an accompanist for my wife.

Esther: I noticed Haotian at the conservatorium because he was tall, quite handsome, good at singing. And he was very nice. I really liked hanging around with him. After we started going out in 2018, it just flowed like water to marriage. We knew we were meant for each other.

“Haotian loves books. I like sports. When I said to him, ‘Let’s play tennis,’ he was like, ‘Isn’t it dangerous?’ ”

Before meeting Haotian, I once asked my mum, ‘Is there such a thing as real love, like I’ve seen on TV, in dramas and movies? The kind where you would die for them? Does this happen?’ Because I’d never felt that. I didn’t think I could live with one person for my whole life because everyone has flaws, and you would always think about them. Haotian has flaws, of course. He’s very stubborn. That’s one of the first that comes to my mind. But when I was going out with him, I was ready to embrace everything. I loved everything about him.

I came to Australia from Korea with my parents when I was six. Like Haotian, I don’t have siblings. I’ve never felt loneliness, though. My parents never left me. Haotian was often by himself, looking at TV, or with his grandma, because his parents were busy. My mum and dad are very encouraging, whereas Haotian’s dad was saying to him, ‘You’re not good enough.’ So he is always doubting himself.

But Haotian is a person who gives a lot. When someone is in trouble or needs help, he will give it. I think that’s what I love most about him. I saw that quality in his parents from him too. My mother-in-law is so nice. She treats me like a real daughter. Apparently she really wanted a daughter and was upset that she had a boy.

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I’m kind of an in-your-face, excited girl. I’m quite fiery and bouncy. Haotian is calmer. He’s a thinker and a reader. He loves books. He i like sports. When I first said to him, ‘Let’s play tennis,’ he was like, ‘Isn’t it dangerous?’ He didn’t want to play, but he ended up loving it. Afterwards I said, ‘Let’s play golf.’ He was like, ‘That’s not really a sport, is it?’ I dragged him to a lesson and he was so good. That’s his favorite sport of him now.

Koreans like to do everything fast. We’re a fast nation. But the Chinese people do things slowly. In a 60kph zone, Haotian is driving at 40. I’m like, ‘why?’. He says, ‘We have to be safe.’ We’ve had a lot of those arguments. When I went to China, they were eating and having tea the whole day. Koreans don’t like that. We just eat and finish. When Haotian came to Korea, we went to a buffet. After 30 minutes, he had just started eating and everyone else was finished, looking at him.

We both get so nervous before we perform. We’re nervous for the whole day, though with him you can never tell. Backstage, right before we go on, we’re still nervous. But when we start, we forget. We have an amazing duet in The Barber of Seville [touring regional Australia until mid-September]. If he’s not nice to me, I’m going to sing SW fast. I’m a coloratura soprano and he’s a baritone, so it’s going to be very hard for him to keep up.

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Kate Middleton meeting outside train toilet on way to Commonwealth games stuns dad

Proving she’s a Duchess for the people, Kate Middleton took a train to the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham when she got talking to a young boy outside the toilets, thinking he was lost.

It turns out the eight-year-old’s dad, journalist Matthew Syed, was on the train with him – but had just popped to the loo.

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When he got out, he was shocked and delighted to discover his son in conversation with royalty, noticing the two were “chatting merrily” as he approached.

The incident unfolded on Tuesday in a first-class carriage heading to the Games.

His son was having “a whale of a time,” Syed said.

“As I am doing my thing, I hear him talking to a woman in the vestibule,” Syed wrote for The Times.

“’Are you here alone?’ she asks.

“’No, my dad is in there,’ he says, pointing to the lavatory.”

Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge leaves the Women’s Hockey Group Stage games on day five of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Credit: Stephen Pond/Getty Images

Syed and his son, named Ted, were on their way to watch a table tennis event, the journalist explained, saying he “stopped in his tracks” when he realized Ted was talking to the Duchess of Cambridge.

“’Kate?’ I blurted out,” he revealed.

“There are no security guards in the vestibule; not armed guards.

“But here is the Duchess of Cambridge, chatting with my son.”

Journalist Matthew Syed, pictured, wrote about his son meeting Kate Middleton. Credit: Getty

‘really nice’

Later, Ted told him he thought she was “really nice.”

“She had no idea she was chatting to the son of a journalist,” Syed wrote.

“The monarchy is in consummate hands.”

Sharing his story on social media, the dad revealed he “almost fell over” when he came out of the toilet to find the royal.

The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and daughter Charlotte, seven, spent the day in Birmingham attending official engagements.

An animated Princess Charlotte was seen sitting in the audience of the swimming and later hockey with her parents.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with their daughter Princess Charlotte of Cambridge as they watch the gymnastics at the Arena Birmingham. Credit: David Davies – PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images

They also made an appearance at the gymnastics, watching the ends of the men’s horizontal bar and women’s floor exercise.

Similar to younger brother Prince Louis’ memorable appearance during the Queen’s Jubilee weekend, Charlotte was seen pulling animated faces as she watched the competition.

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