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CBS News
7 days ago
- CBS News
Man arrested after threatening Colorado campers with axe
A 36-year-old man was arrested last month on several charges after campers in southwestern Colorado discovered him rummaging through their belongings and were then threatened with an axe. Steven Sanguinetti was taken into custody by Saguache County sheriff's deputies who responded to calls to 9-1-1 on July 19. Two campers told the deputies they had confronted a man who was going through their campsite. That man left but watched them from a distance, per the sheriff's office. When the campers tried to leave in their vehicle, the man, later identified as Sanguinetti, approached them with an axe and began swinging it. Deputies found Sanguinetti a short time after arriving at the scene and took him into custody. Sanguinetti faces felony menacing, harassment, assault, and criminal impersonation charges. The incident happened at the Penitente Campground about 10 miles northeast of Del Norte. Sanguinetti was taken to the Rio Grande County Jail in Del Norte by Saguache deputies. Rio Grande County Sheriff Anne Robinson said Sanguinetti fought with detention deputies at the facility. He now faces felony charges in another case filed as a result of the altercation. Public records show Sanguinetti currently resides in Aurora.
Times
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Times
Political correctness is damaging our language
Correcting the self-censoring autocue has become an act of resistance. The formidable BBC newsreader Martine Croxall discovered as much when she amended a gender-neutral teleprompter line about 'pregnant people' to say 'women' during a live broadcast. Her quick-thinking was enthusiastically picked up on social media, praised by no less than JK Rowling, the Harry Potter author, and hailed as a fightback against the creeping encroachment of woke language. For very new readers, it behoves us to point out that only females become pregnant. True, there was once a well-regarded Saatchi & Saatchi advertising campaign featuring men disguised as expectant mothers but this was making a political point about men making decisions about women's bodies. The fundamental biological differences have not been changed either by BBC News style guides or National Health Service gender self-identification rules (which render expectant women as 'birthing persons'). What has changed is that language is becoming increasingly caged, for fear of causing offence. Anne Robinson, former presenter of The Weakest Link quiz show, found that language once seen as funny or edgy ('I never let a thought go unsaid') was later viewed as cruel or bullishly blunt. The hypersensitivity of a few is constraining language and creating a pablum of double-speak. • BBC bosses back Martine Croxall over 'pregnant people' correction The result is that the likes of Ms Croxall must add paralinguistic signals, such as the arching of a brow or the rolling of an eyeball, to distance themselves from the prepared text on the autocue. There is charm in these subversive gestures; few have forgotten the interviewer Jeremy Paxman's curled lip as he struggled to remain courteous. But too much ground has been surrendered in the name of political correctness. The result is damaging our language and clouding our expression.
The Sun
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
BBC quiz show renewed for FIFTH series with slew of celebrities poised to star
A HUGE BBC quiz show has been renewed for a fifth series with a slew of celebrities poised to star. The corporation has given the green light for the popular Saturday night quiz show. 6 6 6 Romesh Ranganathan, 47, is the current host of The Weakest Link after the show was revived in 2020. Anne Robinson, 80, famously hosted the hit general knowledge show from August 2000 for 12 years. Her contract ended in March 2012 before the beeb rebooted the show eight years later. Now bosses at the publicly funded corporation have given the go-ahead for yet another instalment. Pre-production is underway at BBC Studios Entertainment Productions which makes the show. The fifth series promises to have yet another star-studded lineup of celebrity contestants. Like the last edition, the new run of episodes is set to feature a number of themed episodes. Previous specials have included comedians, Gladiators, duos and Strictly Come Dancing personalities. On the show, the group will battle it out on the iconic quiz as they have to work as a team to build up a cash pot prize for charity. However, they have to get questions right to avoid getting voted as 'The Weakest Link' by their fellow contestants. Mel B takes swipe at Eamonn Holmes during feisty appearance on The Weakest Link At all costs, they want to avoid the walk of shame across the studio as they get eliminated. Only one player will secure the cash prize for their chosen charity and be crowned as The Strongest Link . This comes after the host opened up on his previous battles with mental health in a new interview with Runners World UK. "I just couldn't see the point in carrying on. I was super depressed. "Then I started to do suicide ideation, where you start to fantasise about it. "The best way I can describe it, when I thought about taking my own life, it felt like a weight was being lifted. " Mental health is something I'm still aware of, and it's been a battle for me. "I think once you come close to something like that, it's a bit like being an ex-smoker: you have to stay on top of it.' 6 6 6
Daily Mail
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Anne Robinson doubles down on vicious comments about The Weakest Link contestants' looks - just as Countdown feud with Rachel Riley kicks off AGAIN
Anne Robinson has doubled down on her famously vicious comments about The Weakest Link contestants' looks just days after her feud with Countdown star Rachel Riley kicked was reignited. The 80-year-old - who presented the popular BBC show between 2000 and 2012, and again in 2017 - became known for some of her harsh words aimed at those who appeared on the programme. Now, 25 years on from the first time she hosted The Weakest Link, she conceded that she probably wouldn't be able to get away with it anymore, but insisted that she was just vocalising widely held opinions. Speaking to the Metro, Anne said: 'On The Weakest Link, what I was saying on television was exactly what your mum and your dad and your grandparents were saying to each other… 'I was just saying it out loud to millions of people, and you can't say that now. 'I mean, I used to be able to say to someone who was overweight, 'What do you do when you're not eating?', and you can't do that anymore. 'It's just a different time, isn't it?' It comes after Rachel Riley took a brutal swipe at Anne. The TV presenter, 39, spoke out about her rumoured rift with the quiz show veteran, 80. After Anne recently admitted to telling Rachel to 'shut up' on the show's set, Rachel told The Sun: 'If Anne needs to mention me for publicity then good luck to her. 'I have the same opinion of her as most people do.' Rachel went on to reveal she doesn't 'pay any attention to what she says'. The presenter first joined Countdown back in 2009 at just 22 years old when she took over from Carol Vordman. Almost 16 years on, Rachel is the show's resident mathematician. Rachel's comments come after Anne opened up to the Telegraph last month about what really happened during her time hosting Countdown when the presenter quit the show after just a year back in 2022. Anne was rumoured to have been involved in a rift with the show's other presenters Rachel Riley and Susie Dent, but attempted to shut down such speculation. Speaking in an interview with the Telegraph, Anne denied a proper fall out between the pair as she explained: 'It's just a story. Rachel was a bit talkative when I was interviewing the contestants but once we shut her up it was fine.' Anne also spoke bluntly on her thoughts on woke culture as she admitted: 'I loathe the woke terrorists who are sucking the life blood out of the country.' Insisting that if she was still in comedy she would find a way around the 'woke restrictions', she added: 'Because if you're funny – properly funny – you can get away with a great deal, although there's not a lot of funny sharp women on TV anymore.' Taking a jibe at presenter Stacey Solomon, the star also shared her views on the calibre of TV shows currently on air. She added: 'I'm disappointed that by 9 O'clock, someone called Stacy [sic] is usually telling me how to tidy my wardrobe, I don't want to watch some semi famous person take me round the Scottish isles, there is a lot of TV that is c**p.' The Weakest Link star previously revealed she quit Countdown over a pay dispute and confessed she insisted on 'noisy' Susie Dent and Rachel Riley 's mics being switched off. She explained that despite being offered a pay rise, she did not want to join Channel 4 's payroll and so decided to walk away from her role as host. Of the rift with her co-stars Rachel and Susie she admitted that she had been annoyed by their time-keeping and noisiness. But she later said: 'They're both brilliant at what they do. I mean they really, really are. Channel 4 are incredibly lucky to have them. And there isn't a rift. 'It was me wanting everyone to be quiet in the studio. I like everyone turning up on time and quiet, quiet, quiet. So we did have to iron that out. But that's it.' Meanwhile, Rachel seemed to acknowledge the feud between herself and Anne a fter she said the presenter 'might make you cry.' Previously the maths whizz had said that Anne was 'not the cuddliest,' and after she left the show she admitted the atmosphere changed and became more fun once she was replaced by Colin Murray. Rachel said: 'It's very different. Each presenter has their own style, and you don't always gel with everybody that you work with. 'Well, you're not going to get a sympathetic shoulder to cry on from Anne, but she might make you cry.' The feud rumours were further fueled when Rachel took to Instagram to share a selfie smiling to the camera, while holding a glass of wine after Anne's departure was announced. 'Drinking a toast to the next chapter in Countdown history. I think you're going to like it,' she captioned the image. Later while appearing on Piers Morgan's Uncensored, Anne shared: 'Susie Dent is great, Rachel Riley is completely brilliant at the maths.'
Daily Mail
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS gives his verdict on You Be The Judge: Crime & Punishment
You Be The Judge: Crime & Punishment (Ch5) Hypocrisy is not a criminal offence. If it were, Britain's jails would be overflowing with self-righteous eco-activists who think they're better than everyone else. Just Stop Oil protester Morgan Trowland boasted smugly, on You Be The Judge: Crime & Punishment, how he'd closed the Dartford Bridge for 36 hours by scaling its cables and climbing into a hammock. Big-nosed and bony, the archetype of a ginger-bearded Leftie, Trowland ranted about his mission to save the world by blackmailing the government until it banned oil and gas extraction. Down below, traffic tailed back for miles, creating far more pollution than usual. Thousands missed hospital appointments, crucial meetings, exams, funerals and who knows what else. But as presenter Anne Robinson said, 'Mr Trowland plainly believed that he knew better. In short, to hell with everyone else.' His double standards were exposed when he tearfully explained how he was inspired to fight climate change during a trip to India. Here, he met people whose lives were affected by, 'extreme heat because the weather has been ruined, in part by British people on motorways'. And how did he get to India? On his pushbike, perhaps, or on foot? Or was it on a passenger jet burning tons of fossil fuel, I wonder? Anne's one-off show, part of a week of programmes on Channel 5 about the justice system, encouraged us to think about fair sentencing. Trowland served 14 months in prison for causing a public nuisance, which seems an ineffectual sentence. To salve his own conscience, he was willing to inflict financial losses on countless unlucky businesses and private individuals. The moral remedy would be for Trowland to repay as many of them as possible. Any property he owns should be sold, and a swathe of his income used to reimburse his victims. And to make sure he doesn't use the penalty as an excuse to sponge off the taxpayer, he should be barred from claiming benefits for ten years. Let's see if he's still as keen to pose and preen about 'saving the world' when it's his own money he's wasting. The other case studies in this gimmicky programme were rushed and depressing. Reconstructions of court hearings laid out the bare facts of three grim trials. In one, a teenager pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-girlfriend in her family home. In another, a thug on a drunken night out punched a stranger to death in an unprovoked attack. The third was a horrific story of death by dangerous driving. Panels of retired detectives, former judges and ex-prisoners gave their opinions on what the punishment should be. Members of the public who'd lost family members to crime also weighed in. In every instance, the killer's sentence was shorter than anyone expected. Unbelievably, the drunk who admitted manslaughter spent just nine months in prison. He even claimed he was suffering post-traumatic stress disorder — because he'd killed a man. Where's the justice?
