BREAKING NEWS Lauren Sanchez appears in terrifyingly tight corset alongside Jeff Bezos for star-studded Venice wedding party
has stepped out in a terrifyingly tight corset as she continues her wedding celebrations in Venice.
The bride-to-be, who is set to tie the knot with Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos on Friday, emerged in a striking ensemble on Thursday.
She boarded a water taxi in the one-piece by Schiaparelli.
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11 minutes ago
- Times
Like Succession meets Spinal Tap: how Britain's best record label collapsed
Early in 2008 Mick Jagger had lunch with the City mogul Guy Hands, the new owner of the Rolling Stones' record label, EMI. The Stones' contract was up and Hands presented the band's frontman with a PowerPoint of innovative ideas to retain the biggest rock band in the world. It included a Rolling Stones-themed board game, a Rolling Stones Guitar Hero video game and a reality TV show called Stones Idol. Hands suggested that Mick and Keith would host their own wild version of The X Factor, judging clueless wannabe rock stars. The best part? Contestants would stay in a Rolling Stones-themed hotel, complete with pre-trashed rooms. Recollections differ about what happened next. Hands insists the meeting ended cordially, while an EMI staffer claims that Jagger went to the loo and never came back. What isn't in doubt is that the Stones ditched EMI shortly afterwards and signed with its arch-rival Universal, one of a slew of mega-artists to abandon EMI shortly after Hands's takeover in 2007. • Read our music reviews, interviews and guides on what to listen to next A couple of years later the entire company collapsed. My new BBC podcast, Music, Money and Mayhem, exposes the carnage that unfolded when the City suits seized Britain's most successful record label and faced an uprising of furious artists. I've interviewed Hands, several household name musicians and more than a dozen former executives, who spill the beans on a saga that feels like Succession meets Spinal Tap. It's a cautionary tale of money versus art, which reveals why one of the UK's most prized cultural jewels exploded for ever. Johnny Marr viewed EMI as the Buckingham Palace of record companies, and for decades it had been the label that every band wanted to join. It was behind the Beatles, Queen, Pink Floyd, David Bowie and Duran Duran, and in the 1990s EMI rode the Britpop wave with Blur, then took on the world with Radiohead, Coldplay and Robbie Williams. Meanwhile, the CD boom enabled the company toresell its classic albums to fans all over again, generating an avalanche of cash. This colossal windfall fuelled a bacchanalian corporate decadence, from the infamous 'fruit and flowers' budgets (a euphemism for company spend on alcohol and drugs) to the notorious 'sex lift' in Virgin's head office, stuffed with poppers and dildos. But at the turn of the millennium the music suddenly stopped, as the emerging internet ravaged the record business. I was one of millions of fans who stopped buying CDs and instead downloaded tracks for free on illicit file-sharing services such as Napster. By 2007 EMI was facing oblivion and was saved at the eleventh hour by a private equity firm, Terra Firma, which bought the company outright. Its owner was Hands, widely viewed as a ruthless City financier with a reputation for slashing costs and brutal restructuring. He had no experience in the music business, having previously made millions turning around German service stations by upgrading their toilets. His surprise takeover set off alarm bells with EMI's nervous artists. 'It was a bit like when the Khmer Rouge took over Phnom Penh,' Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys says. 'Everyone thinks, well, at least the war's over … And then a few days later the massacre starts.' Hands immediately installed himself as EMI's chief executive, which was a bold move given he had never run a record company before. Even more surprisingly, he had no auditory memory. 'Every time I hear music I'm effectively hearing it for the first time,' he admits. He had just bought the most valuable songs in the world, from Penny Lane to Bohemian Rhapsody, and couldn't remember a note. 'I was coming in there with a very hard-nosed view about where we were going to make money,' says Hands, who set about monetising the company's huge back catalogue. This led to EMI's biggest names being pitched some very bizarre ideas, including a novelty Coldplay toothbrush that played Yellow as it brushed. Another brainwave was for the famously anti-consumerist band Radiohead to do a marketing tie-in with the bland department store Next. • The best albums of 2025 so far This was merely a skirmish in the bitter feud that unfolded between Hands and Radiohead, which has been exclusively revealed to us by their guitarist Ed O'Brien. Radiohead had enjoyed a hugely successful partnership with EMI for more than 15 years, during which they released the seminal Nineties albums The Bends and OK Computer, but by the mid-Noughties their contract was up. O'Brien recalls the City takeover as their 'biggest nightmare' as Hands epitomised the financial system that their music railed against: 'We're interested in the dark side of global capitalism, and this is part of it.' Hostilities were inflamed by Hands' unshakeable belief that bands should be viewed as brands.'Brands is like the dirtiest word for artists,' O'Brien says. 'We're not a f***ing brand. Those financial guys, they just don't get it.' The EMI brass remained hopeful that they could still release Radiohead's next album, but in October 2007 the band ambushed their corporate owners and released In Rainbows free online, asking fans to pay whatever they felt it was worth. It set off a bomb across the music business as it completely bypassed their record label and delivered a massive two fingers up to Hands. He retaliated by releasing an unauthorised box set of their studio albums in December, leading Radiohead's singer Thom Yorke to sulk to Word magazine that it 'f***ing ruined his Christmas'. It was soon open warfare between the City suits and EMI's artists, as Queen followed Radiohead out the door after negotiations with Terra Firma executives collapsed. Robbie Williams's manager lambasted Hands in The Times as a 'plantation owner'. The spat followed the catastrophic sales of Williams's Rudebox album, and Hands revealed that the unsold CDs ended up getting crushed and used for surfacing roads in China. Joss Stone was told that her £12 million advance was being slashed to the bone, leading to a tearful confrontation in Hands's executive office. Hands remained unmoved, so Stone's dog, Dusty Springfield, performed a dirty protest on his carpet. 'I'd like to think it was accidental, but if it was deliberate, more power toher,' he says ruefully. • The boys got sex. I got poetry': what Britpop was like for women Lily Allen spotted Hands in the audience at one of her concerts and changed the lyrics to F*** You to 'f*** you, EMI!' in his honour. Hands had never been in the spotlight and became overwhelmed with stress. 'I couldn't go into a restaurant in London without someone coming up to me and wanting to talk to me about EMI. My kids were finding it difficult because all their friends would do was talk about your dad and EMI.' He suffered panic attacks, became a recluse and describes himself as an 'unkempt-hair, overweight, burger-eating monster'. But lurking in the shadows was a darker danger than hectoring pop stars. Hands had bet the farm on EMI and borrowed billions from Citigroup on an astonishingly thin contract. 'Frankly, I can find more information on a fag packet than was in that document,' he says. The financial crash had decimated the financial markets and the investment bank wanted its money back. Against all the odds, Hands returned EMI to profit in 2009 but it wasn't enough to save the label. The bank foreclosed in 2011 and EMI was broken up and sold off for parts. Hands looks back on these as the darkest days of his life: 'I wasn't really relieved. I just wanted to go to sleep for as long as possible and frankly not wake up again.' Hands stepped down from Terra Firma in 2023 and now lives in Guernsey. It was the biggest financial disaster in the history of British music but it would be unfair to tar Hands as a corporate vandal who destroyed a golden goose. Tacky toothbrushes aside, some of his reforms were years ahead of their time. He introduced a revolution in market insights, which was fiercely resisted by the EMI old guard at the time but has now been adopted across the music business. Handsembraced digital distribution and even invested in a start-up called Spotify. He lost everything when EMI collapsed, but if he had clung on to the company until the market in recorded music rebounded (as it did later in the 2010s), he would have made billions. It would also be wrong to paint EMI executives in the 2000s as coke-guzzling soaks who ran the label into the ground. The internet capsized the entire music industry at that time, and EMI only fell further because it was a standalone company, unlike Sony and Universal. EMI had cultivated 'magic ears' in its A&R department who had a golden touch for finding the best British artists, starting with four plucky lads from Liverpool in 1962. EMI's music has been the soundtrack to my life. It's a great loss to us all that this once great cultural powerhouse is no Money and Mayhem is on BBC Sounds from July 7
Daily Mail
21 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Love Island fans brand Ben 'immature' and 'disgusting' after explosive row with Yasmin and call for him to be kicked out of the villa: 'Alexa play Manchild by Sabrina Carpenter'
Love Island fans have branded Ben 'the biggest child' and demanded 'someone get him out of the villa' after he locked horns with Yasmin on Thursday night. The 23-year-old taxi driver had been coupled up with Yasmin, 24, with the pair seen getting close under the covers in bed. But, the latest episode saw him confess to the boys that he was no longer interested in getting to know her, pulling her for a chat to say: 'I feel like we went from 0 to 100 real quick and I'm going to be taking a step back.' However, Ben later told Shakira that he had never really been feeling things with Yasmin, claiming she had initiated intimacy between them in bed and had been 'all over him'. Shakira promptly relayed the information to her friend, who was left furious, with Toni encouraging her to confront him, saying: 'Someone needs to give Ben a piece of their mind and you're the perfect one.' The banking executive marched over and things quickly became heated, as Ben repeatedly put her down and interrupted to say: 'Are you done ranting?' Love Island fans have branded Ben 'the biggest child' and demanded 'someone get him out of the villa' after he locked horns with Yasmin on Thursday night The 23-year-old taxi driver had been coupled up with Yasmin, 24, with the pair seen getting close under the covers in bed, but, the latest episode saw him confess to the boys that he was no longer interested in getting to know her Yasmin hit back that it 'wasn't the Ben show and the world didn't revolve around Ben', before admitting: 'It's taking everything in me not to snap'. As she walked away, Ben shouted after her: 'This is amazing content... You've just given Love Island three weeks of content', as Yasmin called him 'immature'. But even after the argument was over, a fuming Ben continued to throw out insults, saying that 'no man wants you in here' and adding: 'Yasmin is the most irrelevant girl I've ever met'. And viewers watching the explosive scenes were appalled at his behaviour, calling it 'disgusting', 'immature' and 'disturbing', while referencing Sabrina Carpenter's recent hit single Manchild, as an apt description for Ben. They took to social media to call him out and demand that he be dumped from the villa, writing: 'Ben resorting to insults. Immature. Bye Felicia.'; 'Ben needs to get out. How old is he?' 'The way Ben speaks to women is scary'; 'Is Ben okay? Someone get him out of my villa now!!!'; 'Ben where has this come from? This is so random…. Just picking a fight… like what….' 'ben is genuinely disturbing, like his behaviour is horrible'; 'GET BEN OUT OF MY VILLA'; 'Ben is the biggest child, get him out'. 'Love island gods…. Play … 'manchild by Sabrina carpenter''; 'Insulting Yasmin like that just to look like a bigman is actually disgusting GET OUT'. Yasmin hit back that it 'wasn't the Ben show and the world didn't revolve around Ben', before admitting: 'It's taking everything in me not to snap' And viewers watching the explosive scenes were appalled at his behaviour, calling it 'disgusting', 'immature' and 'disturbing', while referencing Sabrina Carpenter's recent hit single Manchild, as an apt description for Ben 'Print the boarding passes for Ben and Remmell, I'm tired of their a**es'; 'Ben is absolutely disgusting'; 'Ben is actually not okay. I need him, Gone!!!!!! NOW!!!' 'Alexa play man child by Sabrina carpenter'; 'Nah Ben is actually mentally not OK. I do not know where he's got this level of confidence from'. 'How Ben speaks to women is alarming'; 'Get Ben out! Cannot stand him'; 'Ben is AWFUL! Sorry Yasmin is soooooo out of his league wtf' 'Ben is such a little boy'; 'I'm tired of Ben, I just want him gone'; 'Yasmin even did Ben a kindness sticking around that long. Ben is awful.' 'I'm still raging at disgusting Mr Misogyny Ben, but surely he's f'cked it now cos any future bombshell will have seen that & I pray no self respecting woman would be interested in that?! Let's just get him gone.' NAME: Dejon Noel Williams AGE: 26 FROM: London OCCUPATION: Semi-pro footballer and personal trainer WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? Someone who is beautiful on the inside and out, looks after themselves and is healthy CLAIM TO FAME? My dad being an ex-professional footballer. I've met all kinds of famous people through him. When I was younger it was weird because he was just my dad, but we'd go to a game and fans were asking for photos. I've met David Beckham, he was really nice. NAME: Megan Moore AGE: 25 FROM: Southampton OCCUPATION: Payroll specialist WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? I'd like to meet someone who is tall, with a nice tan, nice eyes and a nice smile. He needs to have a good fashion sense and a really good, funny personality that I can get on with HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR LOVE LIFE? Bankrupt, right now. But we're going to make sales and get on that corporate ladder and be booming. Profits, profits, profits! NAME: Tommy Bradley AGE: 22 FROM: Hertfordshire OCCUPATION: Landscape Gardener WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? A girl who is very ambitious, with a big personality, caring, but also someone that doesn't take themselves too seriously. I don't know if that's asking for too much, but I want a bit of everything. I haven't got a specific type in terms of looks, though. WHAT WOULD YOU BE CEO OF? Taking hours to do my hair NAME: Alima Gagio AGE: 23 FROM: Glasgow OCCUPATION: Wealth Management Client Services Executive WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? A tall man with a handsome face. You know when you just look at a guy and they have that Disney prince look to them? That's it WOULD MAYA HIRE YOU FOR YOUR FLIRTING SKILLS? I think she'd hire me because I'm a good flirt. I always ask guys on a night out to guess which country I'm originally from. If they get it right, they can get my number. But they never guess correctly so it works really well if you don't want to give a guy your number. I'm originally from Guinea Bissau. If they're close and I really fancy them, I'll give them my number anyway. NAME: Ben Holbrough AGE: 23 FROM: Gloucester OCCUPATION: Private Hire Taxi driver WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? Someone sexy, good looking, good chat, good vibes, nice teeth and good eye contact - they're all the traits I look for. Oh, and also a cute smile, I just look at you and know I can be around you all day, every day. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR LOVE LIFE? Bankrupt. I'd have been out of business a long time ago. That's exactly why I'm here. NAME: Helena Ford AGE: 29 FROM: London OCCUPATION: Cabin Crew WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? Somebody funny or Northern. I feel like Northern people have much more banter than Southerners. If you look through my previous dating history, you'll see I clearly go for personality. You can pretty much laugh me into bed. WOULD MAYA HIRE YOU FOR YOUR FLIRTING SKILLS? I would say hire but then quickly fire soon after. It would only be a temporary contract. NAME: Megan Forte Clarke AGE: 24 FROM: Dublin OCCUPATION: Musical theatre performer and energy broker WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? Someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously and has a sense of humour. If they're not bad looking, that's always a plus. I love a boy that's a bit pasty, like Timothée Chalamet. I don't mind scrawny, or a bit of a 'dad bod'. I'm 5ft1 so any height really. CLAIM TO FAME? Me and my friends made a Derry Girls TikTok for Halloween and it went a bit viral around Brighton. Sometimes I get stopped in the street about it. I've also done Panto. NAME: Shakira Khan AGE: 26 FROM: London OCCUPATION: Construction Project Manager WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? Someone who is tall, charming, witty, with big arms, a good smile and just really funny. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR LOVE LIFE? Booming, but they're all frogs. It's a busy love life but I've not found 'the husband', I'm looking for 'the one'. I'm looking for the ring. NAME: Harry Cooksley AGE: 30 FROM: Guildford OCCUPATION: Gold trader, semi-professional footballer and model WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? The girl next door that makes me laugh and can hold eye contact with me. I don't think I'd go for the most obvious girl, I like a real sweet girl. CLAIM TO FAME? I'm the body double for Declan Rice. So when he does a shoot, any body close ups will actually be me. You'll never see my face, but you'll see my shoulder or chest, that kind of thing. 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I love a good sense of humour but I basically need to keep them grounded, but for them to keep me on my toes. I do get bored quickly. NAME: Will AGE: 25 OCCUPATION: Personal trainer WHAT'S YOUR TYPE? Sporty and up for a laugh, someone who doesn't take life too seriously but is driven and wants to do stuff in life. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT BEING A BOMBSHELL? You have to stir the pot a bit. You're not here to make friends, I'm not afraid to do that.
The Sun
31 minutes ago
- The Sun
Jamie Laing turns pop star as he releases new track to help wake the nation
JAMIE Laing is known for his stint on Made In Chelsea, his role as a radio presenter alongside Vick Hope and as a podcaster with his wife Sophie Habboo. Now the media personality is trying his hand at becoming a pop star as he released a new track. 5 5 Instead of trying his luck on something like breakfast television, Jamie, 36, has released a track to help Brits with their bleary-eyed mornings. He wants to switch the dreaded alarm clocks with a new turbocharged triumph track. The star ran five ultramarathons in five days in the ultimate challenge of endurance and strength. Now, he wants to spread his motivational message to the nation with a spoken word anthem called Morning People. The track has been described as 'a bold, synth-driven battle cry' for better mornings, smarter sleep, and screen-savvy starts. With this new content, Jamie delivers actionable advice which is designed to help a sleep-deprived nation build better habits. The star has also released an accompanying music video with bright visuals in a bid to boost levels of dopamine. In the new clip, a cartoon Jamie is seen leaping into action ready to start his day. In order to make his music dream a reality, he's teamed up with Samsung Health to encourage more morning activity. This is combined with AI-powered sleep tracking and personalised energy scores that is available on its Galaxy Watch & Ring series. Jamie explained: "If you can beat the morning, you can win the day. "That's why I love what Samsung Health is doing – helping people understand the body and the mind, and tech can empower you to live your best day." Jamie and his wife Sophie, 30, recently caused controversy as they mocked Meghan and Harry's dancing video - from inside Buckingham Palace. They recreated the Sussexes' infamous 'Baby Mama' dance on the Grand Staircase in what was seen as a huge swipe at the aspiring A-list Montecito couple. Sophie Habboo and Jamie Laing - relationship timeline MADE In Chelsea stars Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo said I Do in 2023. Here's their love story. The couple first met while appearing in the E4 show Made In Chelsea. During a trip to South Africa, which aired towards the end of MIC series 17, Jamie began to realise he had feelings for Sophie. The couple first got together in 2019 but endured a number of obstacles including a cheating scandal during the same year, as he slept with Rosi Mai Waldon while the pair were exclusively dating. Jamie and Sophie managed to successfully put the past behind them and announced their engagement in 2021. They had a London wedding in April 2023. Shortly after, Jamie and Sophie flew to Spain to get married at the Marbella Club surrounded by 200 guests. In June 2025, the happy couple announced they were expecting their first child together. 5 5 5
