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Time of India
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Who is Ann Kaplan Mulholland and why is her comment stirring controversy at Cannes?
Image credits: Getty Images Being famous has a string of perks, but it also has few drawbacks. You are on the internet almost 24/7, and while you may be appreciated for the good, you will definitely be called out for the bad. Ann Kaplan Mulholland , a 64-year-old entrepreneur, is currently attending the Cannes Film Festival, being held in the French city of Cannes from May 13-24, 2025. The Canadian millionaire entrepreneur recently debuted at the red carpet in a pink ensemble designed by Homolog, a Paris-based fashion house. Just like any other celebrity attending the festival, Mulholland went out and about in the coastal town, exploring its famous beauty. Now, a video of her poorly treating a restaurant server has been going viral on social media, along with the comment she made to him. Know all about this below! Who is Ann Kaplan Mulholland? Image credits: Getty Images Ann Kaplan Mulholland is famous for a variety of things. Firstly, she is a millionaire entrepreneur who is the CEO of iFinance Canada , the parent company to Medicard, Petcard, Dentalcard, iFinanceTech and iFinance Home Improvement. Secondly, she was a part of the reality TV show, 'The Real Housewives of Toronto ' and the author of the book 'How to Be Successful in Spite of Yourself'. She had a doctorate in finance and a whopping net worth of £500 million, according to the Daily Mail. Born in Winnipeg and raised in Victoria, the popular personality has been married to her surgeon and former ice hockey player husband, Stephen Mulholland, for the past 22 years, and the pair share eight children and two pets. In an interview with the HELLO! Magazine, the couple revealed that they met at a plastic surgery convention where Ann's company was financing U.S. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Elevate Business Writing With This Desktop App Grammarly Learn More Undo procedures and Stephen was attending as a surgeon. Stephen also shared that he instantly knew he was going to marry Ann, but it took him 14 months of "wooing" for him to convince her of the same. Over the years, Ann has become a known face in the media with her self-made career, which she uses to inspire young women, her stint on the reality TV and her and her husband's highly successful and popular professional careers. Why is Ann Kaplan Mulholland's comment stirring controversy at Cannes? Image credits: X/@OliLondonTV Mulholland, who debuted at the film festival recently, shared a video where she could be seen sitting at a table in a restaurant alongside her friends. In the now-deleted video, which she posted with the caption, "#SoClose", a waiter was helping the media personality to a slice of pizza when she looked at him with a serious expression and said, "Do I look like I eat carbs?" The member of the staff appeared visibly shocked at Mulholland's comment as he removed the pizza from her plate and awkwardly stepped away from the table. Mulholland then turned away from him and continued speaking to her friends. The socialite's behaviour with the staff has gone viral all over social media, where people have been condemning her rude comment to the waiter who was just doing his job. Influencer Joey Swoll shared Mulholland's viral video on X, condemning her behaviour, writing, "You can tell a lot about someone from how they treat the waitstaff at a restaurant." Internet personality Oli London, also reposted Swoll's reaction on X, calling out Mulholland for her rude behaviour. While Mulholland's video comes as a shocking and disturbing revelation of how she and many popular celebrities treat people, it also marks a stark contrast from the way she had earlier presented herself. In a 2018 interview with the HELLO! Magazine, she spoke on and on about being aware of how important each action is. "It's about living in the moment but being accountable. All the actions that you take, be accountable for them," she said. "When you do something, own up to it. Be aware of how important each action is. Even when you're getting a coffee, if you smile at someone, they can smile back. I like doing that- when I get my coffee, I smile back. It's a lot nicer to live that way," said the multimillionaire. However, her actions in the viral video seem to be completely opposite to the persona she portrayed. This marks the contrasting images that media personalities present in front of the media and people, and how they really are.
Hindustan Times
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Millionaire reality TV star mocks Cannes waiter in viral video: 'Do I look like I eat carbs?'
A multi-millionaire reality TV actress has triggered outrage on social media after sharing a video of her 'rude' behaviour towards a waiter in a Cannes restaurant. Real Housewives of Toronto star and socialite Ann Kaplan Mulholland was seen dismissing a waiter trying to serve her pizza as she sat for a meal with her friends. Mulholland shared the video on her Instagram among a series of posts as she attended the Cannes Film Festival. In the now-deleted clip, the group can be seen sitting outside in a restaurant when one of the servers tries to serve the 64-year-old a slice of pizza. With a blank expression, she taunted the waiter, saying, 'Do I look like I eat carbs?' The waiter was baffled by her comment and quietly apologised before withdrawing the food. Her associate, who is recording the video, can be heard chuckling at the exchange. Fitness influencer Joey Swoll shared the video on social media and called out her "rude and arrogant" behaviour. "You can tell a lot about someone from how they treat the waitstaff at a restaurant," he wrote. Labelling her a "narcissist", he said that Mulholland did not know "how to act like an adult at a restaurant." He also accused her of thinking she was "better than people" because of her wealth and status. "For you to take a video of that man, to post it online, to try to shame and embarrass him, and all for what? Some likes and attention on social media? Seriously?" the bodybuilder said. The video went viral on social media, earning flak over Mulholland's behaviour. "Someone's father is just trying to do his job and feed his family, and she posted it on her social media. She saw nothing wrong with it," said one user. Another wrote, "It's weird how 'no thank you' has fewer syllables, but she just wanted to be nasty. One day, her outsides will look like her insides." With a reported net worth of £500 million, Mulholland moved to the UK with her husband to invest in a castle and has been a regular at European red carpet events.
Daily Mail
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Real Housewives star who owns £5.5m castle in Kent is blasted for 'rude and arrogant' comment to waiter in Cannes restaurant
A multi-millionaire reality TV star has been labelled 'rude and arrogant' after she dismissed a waiter in a restaurant in Cannes who tried to serve her pizza. Dr Ann Kaplan Mulholland - who has a reported net worth of £500million - moved to the UK with her husband three years ago to invest in a castle in Kent and has been attending some of the biggest European red carpet events. Last week, the Real Housewives of Toronto star attended the Cannes Film Festival in France with her friends and decided to go out for a meal. The group were sitting down outside in a restaurant when one of the waiters helped the socialite to a slice of pizza. Ann, 64, then looked at the waiter with a blank expression as he placed it down on her plate and said: 'Do I look like I eat carbs?' The member of staff appeared shocked as he removed the pizza from her plate before awkwardly walking away from her. The entrepreneur then turned her back to him and continued speaking to her pals, before later uploading the footage onto her own Instagram account, with the caption: '#SoClose'. Influencer Joey Swoll reposted her clip and said: 'You can tell a lot about someone from how they treat the waitstaff at a restaurant.' He went on to say that Ann was 'arrogant' and said that 'she did not know how to act like an adult at a restaurant'. Joey proceeded to accuse Ann of thinking that she was 'better than people' because of her wealth and status as a TV personality. The bodybuilder said: 'For you to take a video of that man, to post it online, to try to shame and embarrass him, and all for what? Some likes and attention on social media? Seriously?' The video of Ann - which has now been deleted from her Instagram page - racked up more than eight million views on Joey's TikTok and more than 10,000 people commented on the situation. One wrote: 'Someone's father just trying to do his job and feed his family.'' Another penned: 'And SHE posted it on her own social media. She really saw nothing wrong with it,' while a third said: 'How rude is she.' A fourth commented: 'I feel bad for that guy. Please be kind [to] everyone.' However, this is not the first time that Ann has posted videos of her speaking to restaurant staff while dining out. When she was at the The Royal Mansour - a five-star hotel in Casablanca - the multi-millionaire was sat at a table in an eatery when staff came to wash her hands - a Moroccan tradition. As soon as one of the men began pouring the water over Ann's hands, she seemingly pretended to scream in pain, which appeared to confuse the waiters. They giggled, apparently not knowing how to react to Ann, as her friends laughed at her joke before she took one of the towels to wipe her fingers. She captioned the clip, which was posted at the start of May: 'Hand cleaning hack. They even wash your hands for you at the table! Now that's hot! #greatservice #Finedining at #itsfinest at The Royal Mansour - Casablanca new 5-star hotel (and 'yes' the staff had fun taping this)' FEMAIL has contacted Ann Kaplan Mulholland's agent for comment. Ann and her husband Stephen, a former plastic surgeon, have claimed non-dom status in the UK for the past three years, during which they bought a medieval castle and invested a purported £25m to transform it into a luxury wedding venue. Speaking to MailOnline at the start of the month, the CEO of iFinance Canada, attacked 'reckless' Rachel Reeves over the 'astronomical error' of trying to extract more tax from the ultra-wealthy who are domiciled abroad for tax purposes. The couple intend to keep Lympne Castle in Kent, where around 100 people are employed, but plans for future British ventures including a new credit finance business have gone up in smoke along with their tax exemptions. Instead of remaining in Britain and being forced to pay UK tax on their foreign income under a new tax regime, millionaires and billionaires are thought to be fleeing abroad, after Labour pushed ahead with a proposal first tabled by Conservative chancellor Jeremy Hunt. Speaking to MailOnline from her Las Vegas penthouse, Ann said the decision to leave the UK had been motivated 'purely' by the end of the regime alongside changes to inheritance tax (IHT) that would have sapped millions from her children's fortune. She said of the change: 'It doesn't make any sense. It's not that we're not willing to pay taxes: we do pay taxes in the UK, we employ over 100 people. 'We bring clean capital to the UK, we've invested in businesses in the UK, we pay tax in the UK. But it's like they don't really want the wealthy in the UK, which I think is a big error. 'There's an opportunity for 'Reckless' Reeves, as I call her, to try to save this.' Late last year, she mulled over writing to King Charles III seeking permission to create her own nation state in the grounds of the castle, so she could escape the non-dom clampdown. She ditched it when she realised it was an impossible ask. Instead, she and Stephen plan to move to Italy's swanky fashion capital Milan by next year - following in the footsteps of Aston Villa owner Nassef Sawiris, who left London earlier this year. The European country has an attractive non-dom regime where the super-wealthy are charged a flat annual rate of 200,000 EUR (£171,500) plus 25,000 EUR (£21,400) per family member in order to shield their foreign assets. Ann and her husband attracted widespread media attention when they snapped up crumbling Lympne Castle in Kent for a steal at £5.5million in 2023 after the last of their children flew the nest. The price tag was snipped amid concerns over the huge amount of investment needed to bring it up to scratch - a brief on which she was more than able to deliver. She has since invested around £25million in revitalising the castle and opening a restaurant, the Naughty Dog, on site. She says she now employs around 100 people on the site, and has filmed a new reality series currently airing in the US that follows the renovation journey, entitled Queen of the Castle. 'I felt so at home in the UK: I joined the church, joined the community, I play Scrabble with people - we love living here,' Ann continued. Ann started loan firm iFinance in 1996 and sold it in 2022 after growing it into one of the country's biggest lenders. She boasts a doctorate in finance as well as an MBA and other industry qualifications. The businesswoman says she is bothered by the fact that she has to leave the UK to avoid 'demolishing' her businesses - as she has grown fond of her new home. 'I would do anything to stay but not demolish my businesses globally at the same time. I love it here, and I'm part of a community,' Ann said. 'I love my life in England. It's a beautiful country - who wouldn't love it there? 'It was a big decision to move to the UK. We could have gone anywhere but we chose the UK, and we chose to invest in it and make it our home, and part of that choice was because of the non-dom regime. 'But the government is not listening, or are not recognising the impact this is going to have on the economy.'
Bloomberg
09-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
The Ultra-Rich Move in Herds. Just Ask London.
Milan is the place to be these days if you're rich and can stand the pizza. Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s Richard Gnodde, who leads the firm's businesses outside North America, is among financial executives relocating from London after the UK changed its tax rules for foreign residents. Ann Kaplan Mulholland, a Canadian reality-TV star who owns a castle in Kent with her husband, is also making the move, though she bemoans the lack of culinary options in Italy for non-carbohydrate-eating immigrants. If the campaign against abolition of the 'non-dom' regime is measured by the volume of noise on each side, then the verdict is already in: Britain has made a giant mistake and will rue driving away ultra-wealthy individuals who pay (on average) large amounts of tax, enrich the economy with their entrepreneurial talents and fund philanthropic works. A drumbeat of reports of notable departures has grown louder after the non-dom privileges ended in early April, along with predictions of the resulting fiscal damage.
Daily Mail
06-05-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE I'm a millionaire reality TV star and moved to the UK to buy a castle. But after three years, Rachel Reeves' non-dom tax raid is forcing us to leave - Labour's made an astronomical error
Britain risks sending a signal that it 'doesn't want the wealthy', a Canadian multimillionaire entrepreneur and reality TV star has warned - after packing her bags and fleeing the UK following the abolition of the non-dom status. Dr Ann Kaplan Mulholland - who has a purported net worth of £500million - has attacked 'Reckless' Rachel Reeves over the 'astronomical error' of trying to extract more tax from the ultra-wealthy who are domiciled abroad for tax purposes. Instead of remaining in Britain and being forced to pay UK tax on their foreign income under a new tax regime, millionaires and billionaires are thought to be fleeing abroad, taking their spending and investing power with them after Labour pushed ahead with a proposal first tabled by Conservative chancellor Jeremy Hunt. Real Housewives star Ann and her husband Stephen, a former plastic surgeon, claimed non-dom status for three years, during which they bought a medieval castle and invested a purported £25m to transform it into a luxury wedding venue. They intend to keep Lympne Castle in Kent, where around 100 people are employed, but plans for future British ventures including a new credit finance business have gone up in smoke along with their tax exemptions. Speaking to MailOnline from her Las Vegas penthouse, Ann said the decision to leave the UK had been motivated 'purely' by the end of the regime alongside changes to inheritance tax (IHT) that would have sapped millions from her children's fortune. She said of the change: 'It doesn't make any sense. It's not that we're not willing to pay taxes: we do pay taxes in the UK, we employ over 100 people. 'We bring clean capital to the UK, we've invested in businesses in the UK, we pay tax in the UK. But it's like they don't really want the wealthy in the UK, which I think is a big error. 'There's an opportunity for 'Reckless' Reeves, as I call her, to try to save this.' She estimates her estate would have been liable for a bill running into hundreds of millions of pounds if she had remained in the UK for more than half of the next 20-years - the point at which non-doms have to pay IHT. And the requirement after a short amnesty period to pay tax on all earnings would have 'demolished' her other interests abroad. Stephen also owns a manufacturing plant employing 3,000 people overseas - the tax bill on which would have been substantive. 'We have businesses we've built from scratch that we pay tax on in other countries, we own multiple properties,' she said. 'Our children wouldn't be protected by trusts and they would be subject to exorbitant inheritance tax It makes no sense to give the Government all of that money.' Late last year, she mulled over writing to King Charles III seeking permission to create her own nation state in the grounds of the castle, so she could escape the non-dom clampdown. She ditched it when she realised it was an impossible ask. Instead, she and Stephen plan to move to Italy's swanky fashion capital Milan by next year - following in the footsteps of Aston Villa owner Nassef Sawiris, who left London earlier this year. The European country has an attractive non-dom regime where the super-wealthy are charged a flat annual rate of 200,000 EUR (£171,500) plus 25,000 EUR (£21,400) per family member in order to shield their foreign assets. In the UK, 74,000 people claimed non-dom status as of 2022-23, and were liable for £8.9bn of income tax and national insurance. Another 6,800 were 'deemed domiciled', having spent 15 of the 20 previous years living in the UK - making them liable to pay tax on foreign income. The medieval Lympne Castle in Kent, which Ann and Stephen acquired for £5.5million and have since sunk millions into to reopen it as a wedding venue and hotel The OBR estimates that the number of non-doms could fall by 12 per cent this year, and the number of 'deemed doms' will fall by a quarter. And there are already signs Britain is hemorrhaging its wealthy population. A report from New World Wealth suggested some 11,300 dollar millionaires left London in the last year - joining Moscow as one of only two top 50 cities beloved by the rich to have recorded a net dip in wealthy residents in the last decade. Ann argues that if the UK brought in an Italy-style regime, those 74,000 non-doms would bring in a hypothetical £14bn a year in flat taxes. What does the end of the non-dom regime mean? The non-dom regime has its roots in the laws that created income tax in 1799 - first drafted to fund Britain's fight in the Napoleonic Wars. Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger taxed UK properties and land, as well as income from British trading - but exempted wealthy aristocrats from being taxed on their properties elsewhere in the British Empire. Since then, the scheme has evolved to give attractive tax status to the super wealthy that want to live in Britain while protecting their assets abroad. Under the old non-dom regime, non-UK-domiciled residents would pay £30,000 a year to shield foreign income from HMRC. This applied to those living in the UK for seven out of the previous nine years, after which the charge doubled to £60,000 for those living in the UK for 12 of the previous 14 years. The rules were then changed in 2017 to create 'deemed domiciled' status for those who had lived in the UK for 15 of the previous 20 years - forcing them to pay UK tax on their global earnings. Labour has scrapped these statuses, and instead introduced a residency-based scheme that gives the wealthy three years to bring foreign income into the UK at a low tax rate. There will be a four year period in which they do not pay any tax on overseas earnings - after which all earnings will be taxed. Estates will also be liable for inheritance tax, including any wealth held in offshore trusts. 'I don't know why the Government hasn't chosen a path like that,' Ann says. 'But for us, it's easy. We'll leave. 'We're not here to save the country. My concern is that this is an astronomical error for the UK Government to make. 'I would love to hear from Rachel Reeves where she expects to make that £13billion, because we're all leaving. They don't want us. 'They just say, you know: 'Goodbye, don't slam the door on the way out.'' The Treasury estimates that the changes to the non-dom regime will bring in £12.7bn in the next five years - a figure the Office of Budget Responsibility has warned is 'very' uncertain and could be shaken by the mass exodus of the rich and powerful. Others have thrown out bigger, scarier numbers: neoliberal think tank the Adam Smith Institute has suggested the abolition of non-dom status will cost Britain £111bn by 2035. The Treasury has rejected this suggestion as 'incorrect'. Among those reported to have left the UK ahead of the new tax year are steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal - net worth, £14.9bn, per the Sunday Times Rich List - and Frederic de Mevius, a member of the founding families of brewery giant AB InBev. 'The projections Rachel Reeves has are probably based on not expecting non-doms to leave - I don't think she expected that exodus,' Ann added. 'She expected us to stay and pay tax on our worldwide income but there is a reason why, for over 200 years, people have come to the UK: it has a preferable tax structure for very wealthy people to live here, invest here and pay taxes here. 'But their businesses, while they're still operating their businesses, are not subject to a double tax (in the UK as well as the country they are based in). 'There are many countries that recognise this and they want to attract wealthy people. Countries that really want to prosper should attract the wealthy. 'We could go to Switzerland, we could go to Dubai... Italy rolled out the red carpet.' Ann and her husband attracted widespread media attention when they snapped up crumbling Lympne Castle in Kent for a steal at £5.5million in 2023 after the last of their children flew the nest. The price tag was snipped amid concerns over the huge amount of investment needed to bring it up to scratch - a brief on which she was more than able to deliver. She has since invested around £25million in revitalising the castle and opening a restaurant, the Naughty Dog, on site. She says she now employs around 100 people on the site, and has filmed a new reality series currently airing in the US that follows the renovation journey, entitled Queen of the Castle. 'I felt so at home in the UK: I joined the church, joined the community, I play Scrabble with people - we love living here,' Ann continued. With wealth comes spending and Ann spends in the UK: she invests in charities, invests in businesses, and splashes out on luxury goods and top restaurants, all of which incur taxes. The one thing she hasn't bought, however, is a flash car - because she can't bear the idea of driving on the left. 'This is money that we have spent, that we have paid taxes on,' she says. 'We're not dodging anything. 'But many people that live in England do not have manufacturing plants that many of us millionaires and billionaires have worldwide. They don't have the assets to be concerned about because they are from here. 'If they built a company in another country they would likely do the same thing and take measures to protect themselves being double-taxed. 'We do pay our fair share of taxes. But why pay it on worldwide income? That does not make sense, and we do pay our fair share of taxes, and, I'm suggesting, have us do what the other countries are doing, pay 200,000 a year plus invest in infrastructure.' And while she's a reality TV star, there is a business brain behind her success: she started loan firm iFinance in 1996 and sold it in 2022 after growing it into one of the country's biggest lenders. She boasts a doctorate in finance as well as an MBA and other industry qualifications. That hasn't stopped her from being targeted with hate online: recent interviews have blasted her looks, calling her a 'ghoul' and 'plastic'. The attacks don't bother her. What does bother her is having to leave the UK to avoid 'demolishing' her businesses - as she has grown fond of her new home. 'I would do anything to stay but not demolish my businesses globally at the same time. I love it here, and I'm part of a community. 'I love my life in England. It's a beautiful country - who wouldn't love it there? 'It was a big decision to move to the UK. We could have gone anywhere but we chose the UK, and we chose to invest in it and make it our home, and part of that choice was because of the non-dom regime. 'But the government is not listening, or are not recognising the impact this is going to have on the economy.' The Treasury insists the end of the non-dom scheme will not send the super-rich packing. 'Our tax system is fair and progressive, and keeps the UK an attractive place to live while ensuring everyone who is a long-term resident in the UK pays their taxes here,' a spokesperson said. 'The UK's main capital gains tax rate is lower than any other G7 European country – including Italy, France and Germany – and our new residence-based regime is simpler and more attractive to new arrivals than the non-dom regime it replaces.'
