EXCLUSIVE Exposed: Filthy wedding secrets of Hollywood's worst ever couple... whose breakup went on to transfix the planet
It was meant to be the most magical day of their lives. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were getting married, tying the knot at his mother Betty Sue's Beverly Hills home in February 2015.
Yet his friends and family foresaw the nightmare that was to come. Stephen Deuters, Depp's assistant, admitted that the news of their engagement filled him not with joy but 'inevitable dread'. Punk rock pioneer Patti Smith, enlisted to give a reading, is said to have confessed to sharing Deuters's concern.
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41 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Expert reveals conversation habits that make people instantly hate you - including how you take compliments
Many people are guilty of five common habits that will make others instantly dislike them, according to a video by YouTube channel Charisma on Command. One of these key habits people should avoid, according to the clip, is jumping on every opportunity to call praise or attention to themselves. The video claims that if people do find themselves the subject of praise, a great way to handle this is to spread that praise to others. To illustrate the point, the video highlighted an interview from several years ago with Brie Larson and Chris Hemsworth. While the actress is popular with many thanks to her dry humour and sense of irony - something the video narrator pointed out - he suggested that her communication during this interchange may not have read well with the audience. 'I want to make this clear, there are interviews that I can show you where Brie is extremely likeable,' the video was keen to stress. During the Entertainment Tonight interview, in which the actors were promoting the movie Avengers: Endgame. According to the video: 'Chris Hemsworth is talking up his stunt double, and he's putting himself down to do it. This is a nice common move for somebody who is kind of on top. 'And in this case, Hemsworth is clearly athletic and powerful and famous. So it's kind of him to take that trainer and put him above him, even if it means denigrating himself.' The narrator added: 'The charismatic move, the confident move, is to spread the praise. Don't worry so much if you're getting yours. When you give it freely, it comes back to you freely.' According to the video, in this situation, in contrast to her many interviews in which she has come across as very likeable, during this conversation, noted that she did all her own stunts thinking 'this is what everyone does'. While the narrator noted this may have been an ironic comment that didn't quite land with the audience, the situation deteriorated when Tom Cruise was highlighted as an actor who does their own stunts, and it was suggested that Brie could be the next Tom Cruise. She commented that she would rather be 'the first me, not the next Tom Cruise'. A number of viewers agreed with the point, and went on to share their own thoughts in the comments section of the video. One wrote: 'Constantly redirecting the conversation on yourself makes people not want to talk to you.' Meanwhile, others revealed that they found this type of advice useful as they often struggled with how to behave. One YouTube user said: 'Watching these videos always reminds me how hard social life is. Another said: 'As a person with Aspergers who doesn't know how to converse. I think this channel is really helpful.' Meanwhile, another offered a suggestion as to why behaviours can somehow come across differently than intended. They wrote: 'One thing I've noticed about popular, successful people is that they rarely if ever seem to be triggered in public anyway. My guess is they either had stable, loving childhoods or have done trauma work. If you have unresolved trauma certain social things can be massively distressing and will trigger a trauma response, which most people won't understand and will interpret negatively. Brie seems either triggered from past put downs/abuse/bullying or she's trying to be funny and it's falling flat.' The video listed a number of other habits than can be off putting to other people, and are therefore worth trying to avoid during interactions. A number of viewers commented on how it can be difficult to know how they are coming across in social situations Among them were reading negative intent in an ambiguous situation, or in other words, assuming that when a comment is made, it is designed to insult. However, the next point related to this, with the video pointing out that sometimes when a person responds to a comment in a way that appears they took it as an insult, they can actually be just trying to be sarcastic. The narrator pointed out that 'sarcasm requires a "tell" - and noted there could be cultural differences when it comes to how sarcasm is communicated. He explained: 'I know that British people are going to hate this recommendation, but at least in America, a good rule of thumb is that when you are being tongue in cheek, do not be flat in your delivery. '[This is] especially if a literal interpretation of what you're saying would make you sound like a jerk. 'Go over the top and change your tone, your gestures or your facial expressions. This helps people distinguish between normal conversation and a character that you are playing for the purpose of joke.' Moving on, he suggested that people should 'not try to win every moment of banter' if they don't want to risk coming across as unlikeable. When banter can start to feel like a fight, he said: 'Sometimes it is better to stop fighting. Don't try to win every laugh from the audience. Instead, go with the joke, even if it feels like you are the butt of that joke, and then amplify it, not taking this kind of insulting joke seriously. 'You diffuse its power, and you turn the crowd from laughing at you to laughing with you.' The final of the five behaviours that can make people dislike others handling compliments improperly. 'You should avoid responding to compliments with banter that are put downs in nature,' the video said. 'Instead, you can give a sincere thank you, emphasised perhaps with sustained eye contact or a touch [...] Alternatively, you can spin it back around to the other person and playfully find a way to give them back an even bigger compliment.. It concluded: 'Whatever you do, do not punish people when they give you compliments. Otherwise, they will not be so forthcoming. When in doubt, a sincere thank you and a smile or just to return a compliment will take you much farther.'
Telegraph
an hour ago
- Telegraph
I was sexually frustrated in my 20-year marriage. Now I'm dating younger men and feeling alive
My wedding day should have been the best day of my life. I was 32 and marrying a dream man, after all. Lloyd was extremely good-looking, could make me cry laughing, and remains the nicest person I've ever met. I loved him so much, and yet, as I walked down the aisle, I felt sick with the jitters, because I knew we were sexually incompatible. A week earlier, I'd been listening to a programme on Woman's Hour about the secrets of successful marriages. A lady in her 90s was saying, 'if he doesn't make you weak at the knees, then don't marry him' and I thought, what am I doing? Still, I presumed I could get over the lack of sexual chemistry because he ticked literally every other box. It turned out, I couldn't. Lloyd* and I met in 1991, when I was a student at Nottingham University, and he was going out with my housemate, so he'd come and visit her all the time – then he moved in too. I was also in a relationship at that point, but I was always attracted to Lloyd. He was hot. All my female friends agreed: beautifully toned body, great bone structure, just very handsome. He was also just the loveliest person – not like the headcases I always seemed to go for. In 2000, a year after both our relationships had ended, Lloyd was coming from London, where he lived, to Manchester, where I lived at the time, for a work event and asked if he could stay at mine. We went for a meal, drank way too much red wine and ended up in bed. Lloyd was a great kisser. He was a really good dancer too, and shares my dark sense of humour. I thought we had this great chemistry… but that night, we slept together, and I thought 'wow, I didn't think it was going to feel like that'. I knew instantly that we weren't sexually compatible. Alarm bells There was no spark at all. I'm quite an uninhibited, adventurous person and have always liked kinky sex: role-play, toys, dress-up – all of that. Most of all, however, I need sexual communication and yet there was none. It wasn't bad sex, it was just very vanilla and nothing like I'd expected. I didn't ask for what I needed at the beginning though, because at 26 I didn't have the confidence. Also, it was a long-distance relationship at first, so we didn't think it was going to be anything serious. We got on like a house on fire – we still do; sex-wise though, alarm bells rang. For example, we'd have sex and then he'd turn over and light a cigarette. It felt transactional, and I told him so – he was completely unaware he was doing it. When he didn't perform oral sex on me, I told him this was a deal-breaker. 'It's not something I really know how to do,' he said, and so I literally taught him, and he would do it, but I was always somewhere else in my head and never in the moment. I'd be playing out endless scenarios in my head, just to reach orgasm. That animalistic magnetism just wasn't there, but I made the call: this guy will make the best husband and father – and I was completely right. I was pregnant with our daughter when we got married in 2006. Lloyd was ecstatic about the baby but not that bothered about getting married. I was the other way round – I wasn't even sure I wanted to become a mother. I wanted the stability of marriage, though and realised I'd have a fantastic quality of life. I didn't overthink the sex thing until right before the wedding. I just thought 'finally, I'm in a relationship with a man who makes me feel safe, who I love and who makes me laugh – you can't have everything'. And things did improve, but he could never let go sexually, despite me trying to encourage him. It always felt like he was doing it to me, not with me, and I ended up feeling like a receptacle for his pent-up stresses at work. 'I felt powerless' Even when I was the giver, he didn't seem to enjoy it. It felt perfunctory. Lloyd is very self-contained and it was as if he couldn't relinquish control, he couldn't surrender to pleasure. When you're giving someone oral sex and they seem to want it over with, it doesn't make you feel brilliant about yourself. I felt utterly powerless sexually. It wasn't just the actual sex itself though, it was the fact he didn't make me feel desired. For example, during the whole of our relationship, he never grabbed my hand, pulled me towards him and kissed me once, whereas I did it to him all the time. I'd remind him, I'd say, 'You haven't kissed me for two weeks.' 'Oh sorry, haven't I?' he'd say. He just didn't have the urge. He couldn't tell me what he enjoyed either, because he didn't know. Basically, I had quite a high libido and his was hardly there at all – it was a total mismatch. I didn't want to make him feel inadequate though, so I'd only bring it up every few months, telling him I needed more, that a quickie once a week just didn't cut it. He wanted to satisfy me and he'd be better for a bit, but then standard practice would resume and the subject would be pushed under the carpet. The lack of sexual chemistry became more difficult for me as time progressed. I was massively bored. I felt like a pressure cooker. We were always great friends, so we enjoyed travelling together and going to gigs and restaurants etc, but I talked endlessly about my sexual frustration to my friends and to therapists. The problem was, I loved him, and leaving him just didn't seem like a good option because he was so great in every other respect. The turning point My stage three cancer diagnosis in 2017 was a turning point, even though it took us many more years to get divorced. The stats were bad. I thought I was going to die. When I didn't, I was looking at a future I wasn't sure I was going to have and I thought, you get one shot. You can't spend it in a marriage where there's no sexual chemistry. Over Covid, it came to a head, and I said I was leaving him. Initially, Lloyd was devastated. 'Why don't you go and get what you need from other men and we stay married?' he suggested, during one really emotional drive home from dinner with friends. But that's not living authentically to me. That's sleeping around. Very quickly, he realised that he wouldn't be able to live like that either, but that this thing would keep resurfacing. Friends said, why don't you rekindle what you had in the first place? But there was nothing to rekindle. I realised that although I loved him madly, I'd never desired him sexually. Some people judged me; even some of my closest friends couldn't understand why I was walking away from such a good man. But I was deeply unfulfilled and hiding a part of myself just felt unsustainable – damaging, even. Basically, given the choice between the wrong thing and nothing, I'd choose nothing every time. That said, we were both heartbroken but once we'd made the decision, we got divorced within the year. Of course I felt guilty for breaking up the family unit, but if I'd stayed, the frustration would have built up and I didn't want our child to witness the inevitable decline of our relationship. I've never understood people who stay together for the sake of their children. In my opinion, you do far more damage by modelling poor behaviour. Our daughter spends time between our two houses and has her own partner now, and we all still spend time as family and probably always will. Moving on Soon after our divorce, I got involved with a man I'd met at my gym. I was 50 and he was 52 and extremely sexually confident. He matched my energy in a way that Lloyd never had, and the sex was incredible. We were just so attuned, and he indulged every sexual fantasy I had, without question. The sex was long-lasting and frequent, but it was the sexual communication that made me fall for him. That simmering tension I'd yearned for for years. He would text me throughout the day telling me in great detail what he was going to do to me, and exactly what turned him on, whereas Lloyd had not been able to communicate that whatsoever – even at the beginning. It made me feel utterly alive and desired, so when Alex ended that relationship abruptly, I was devastated. Looking back, the person I thought I'd fallen in love with never actually existed. He'd love-bombed me – showering me with adoration which, because I was vulnerable, I'd been flattered by – but ultimately, he wasn't available. I didn't date or sleep with anyone for a while after that. I needed to figure out what I wanted. I am well aware I've taken a huge gamble giving up a man like Lloyd, but I am confident it'll pay off in time. I need to be with someone who desires me and who I desire. I know that wanes in time, but for us it was never there. And I am not one of these women who thinks there are no good men in the world, because I think the world is full of them. It's just that finding them in your 50s is very, very hard. But recently I joined a dating app and have been dating and sleeping with much younger men, which is a new one on me. I put on my profile that I was looking for something monogamous but casual – someone I could hang out with a couple of times a week and I have hot sex with, and I'm having a lot of fun. Next week I have a date with a man half my age. I think their generation are just a lot more sex positive, there's less shame involved. They communicate more effectively and are willing to take the time to make sure I orgasm. They enjoy being with a woman who isn't self-conscious and knows exactly what she wants. In turn I find them like a breath of fresh air. These young guys have got an edge, whereas men my age can be a bit past their prime. They can struggle to maintain an erection. I don't mind if a man needs Viagra – but you've got to be willing to take it! Newfound freedom I'm not sure I'd want to settle down with someone younger, but for now, I'm enjoying the freedom of good sex with no agenda. There has to be some connection though, I don't sleep with men just because they're young. Last week, for example I went on a date with a man who was 33. He was gorgeous, had an amazing body and was desperate to have a sexual relationship with me. When I said I didn't want a second date, he said, 'I'm gutted. I really fancied you.' Part of me thought, Christ, I am turning this down? But the fact I can and I did is empowering in itself. I don't rely on sex – if it's not for me then I don't have to say yes. Plus, I don't want to get emotionally involved with a younger guy for him to say, 'Oh, actually, I've met this person, and we're having a baby.' Because that happens all the time. So, I don't think this is something I'll do for long – I'm just getting my rocks off. Eventually, I'd like to get married again, although I feel like I'm going to have to kiss a lot of frogs before I do. I'll be very hard-pressed to find someone like Lloyd who I also fancy like mad, but it's a risk I have to take.
Telegraph
an hour ago
- Telegraph
Rory McIlroy has become golf's new diva-in-chief
The joy of Rory McIlroy is that he is unlike so many of the charmless androids populating professional golf, that he treats his craft with a passion and a sincerity impossible to fake. Where US Ryder Cup players strong-arm the PGA of America into paying them £370,000 each for deigning to turn up, he believes so fervently in the European cause that he ends up in tears. And where several of his former team-mates exclude themselves from future captaincy by accepting the Saudi bounty at LIV, he holds firm as the game's moral conscience, reminding his peers that money need not be their lodestar. In a sport that can seem awash with greed and entitlement, he so often brings a reminder of its soul. All of which makes his behaviour since winning the Masters so difficult to accept. Out of nowhere, McIlroy has morphed into the diva-in-chief, hurling clubs, smashing tee-boxes, and treating America's national championship with such disdain that he claims to be unbothered about even making the cut. That is before we address him brushing off reporters after six consecutive rounds at majors, breaking this pattern only to give a few petulant remarks about 'frustration with you guys' and shrug that he has 'earned the right to do whatever I want'. It is one of the strangest comedowns witnessed at this level. The diminished motivation that comes with scaling one's personal Everest is well-documented in sport: Nico Rosberg won his solitary Formula One world title in 2016 and promptly retired, exhausted by the psychological needle with Lewis Hamilton, while Pete Sampras lifted a then record 14th men's major singles title at the 2002 US Open and walked away, never to play a competitive tennis match again. The change in McIlroy, though, is something more troubling. It is not just his outlook that has shifted, but his personality, too. His behaviour during the US Open at Oakmont, just as at Quail Hollow for last month's US PGA, was cold, tetchy, hubristic, all traits antithetical to the compassionate character we are used to seeing. More frustration from Rory McIlroy on the 17th 😬 — Sky Sports Golf (@SkySportsGolf) June 13, 2025 Paul McGinley understands McIlroy better than most. He mentored him as Europe's captain in the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, tellingly noting in the build-up: 'Rory's not arrogant.' But even he has been unsettled by McIlroy's latest conduct, alarmed by the distant and dismissive attitude on display. 'I didn't enjoy them,' McGinley said, in response to the off-hand answers McIlroy gave at Oakmont when he eventually decided to speak. 'I don't like to see that. Rory's better than that. He looks fed up to me, like he has had enough of everything. He's not himself. Something is eating at him. He hasn't let us know what it is, but there's something that's not right.' The idea that it is just a natural cooling-off period, a reaction to the overwhelming emotional release of completing the career grand slam, does not quite hold water. McIlroy has savoured moments of profound catharsis before and soared immediately to even greater heights. His encore after lifting the Claret Jug at Hoylake in 2014? Winning a World Golf Championship in Akron a fortnight later, and a second US PGA at Valhalla the following week. This time, the upshot is not simply ragged golf – his recent nine-over-par total for 36 holes at the Canadian Open counted among the worst performances of his career – but a peculiarly contemptuous demeanour. You wondered, for example, what all the US Open volunteers felt when, asked what his hopes were for his final round, he shot back: 'Hopefully a round in under 4½ hours and get out of here.' This mentality is hardly unusual in McIlroy's realm. The finest golfers are such a pampered breed that their entire existence consists of riding in courtesy limousines, staying at seven-star resorts, then firing up the private jets back to Florida. But there are reasons why McIlroy is held to a higher standard. For a start, he has long been unmoved by money: his father Gerry once told me he never had any cash on him, a claim later backed up by his admission that he had bought a huge mansion near the Bear's Club, Jack Nicklaus' Florida enclave, but only lived in four of its rooms. But it is also the fact that he has earned a reputation for sparing time for anybody. He reflected how, growing up, the memory of being snubbed for an autograph by Roy Keane had never left him. As such, he has tended to stay uncommonly long after range sessions to sign whatever a young fan thrusts in front of him. Now, he is in the mood to disregard everyone. Never mind snubbing the press pack of late, he has even neglected his manners towards the great Nicklaus, skipping the Golden Bear's Memorial Tournament in Ohio and failing to give any advance notice. 'I didn't have a conversation with him,' Nicklaus said. And did that surprise him? 'A little bit.' You wonder if the time has come for him to offer McIlroy a pep talk. After all, Nicklaus made it his habit to talk with humility even on the rare occasions when his form deserted him. He also had zero tolerance of poor etiquette, recalling how tossing a club as a child had earned him ferocious dressing-down from his father. McIlroy threw not one club at Oakmont but two, while totalling a tee-box for good measure. A sincere hope is that McIlroy rediscovers his irrepressible spirit soon, that he is energised by his imminent relocation to Wentworth with his wife Erica and their four-year-old daughter, Poppy. It is wise not to put anything past him: his abundance of talent is so vast that he could conjure a victory at this week's Travelers Championship in Connecticut, or even an Open triumph for the ages at Royal Portrush next month, in front of the people who remember the boy wonder who would become an icon. But as it stands, the evidence is undeniable: something is very wrong.
