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Daily Mirror
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Rumoured Love Island bombshell caught drink-driving three times over limit
Gabriella had tried to navigate her Audi through the scene of a crash which was being blocked off by police while she was more than three times the legal drink drive limit Rumoured Love Island bombshell Gabriella Bardsley has admitted drink-driving after she was caught more than three times over the limit. The 23-year-old daughter of ex-Sunderland defender Phil Bardsley and Real Housewives of Cheshire star Tanya Bardsley, was pulled over in her Audi A3 last month. Bardsley, who was tipped to appear on the latest instalment of hit reality TV show Love Island, had tried to drive through a police blockade at the scene of a crash in Wilmslow, Cheshire, a court heard. When officers approached her car she was visibly intoxicated, 'slurring her words' and 'struggling' to stand on her feet, Charlie Hayward, prosecuting, told South Cheshire Magistrates' Court. After refusing a road-side breath test, Bardsley was taken to a nearby police station and found to have 122 micrograms (mcg) of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath - more than three times over the legal limit of 35mcg per 100ml. Wearing a black jacket and white pants, she pleaded guilty to one charge drink-driving Her lawyer Gary Hughes told the court that until now she was of 'good character'. He asked for a pre-sentence report to be prepared by a female probation officer due to 'matters that are sensitive to the defendant'. 'These are issues that can be ventilated at sentencing,' he said, adding that he hoped the author of the report would have a community order at the 'forefront of their mind' when recommending a sentence. Magistrates adjourned the case until Bardsley's sentencing on July 14. But the glamorous brunette sobbed and had to be comforted by her dad as she was slapped with an interim driving ban. The former footballer also tangled with a waiting journalist as he walked with his daughter from the building. Bardsley could face an unlimited fine and/or disqualification from driving following her guilty plea. The influencer was rumoured to be a new Love Island contestant with bosses keen to introduce her as a bombshell on the series which started this week. Her mum Tanya Bardsley revealed in April that her daughter had turned down the show multiple times in the past. 'Gabriella's already said no to Love Island and we do need to get her a boyfriend. Gabriella just lives in fairy land anyway. So it's just another nice thing, you know, a little fairy land', Tanya told Closer Magazine. But her brush with the law may spark the end of the road for her Love Island hopes, after bosses axed fellow hopeful Kyle Ashman following his arrest on suspicion of a machete attack in February.
Otago Daily Times
16-05-2025
- Sport
- Otago Daily Times
Bardsley bringing up 100th game
Matthew Bardsley is a hustler. The Otago Nuggets bring him on when they need some energy. It is his role to disrupt, spoil, agitate and just generally do whatever it takes to force a turnover, create a mistake and change the momentum of the match. The 29-year-old guard is perfectly cast in that role. He is quick, he has great reactions, and he is tenacious. They are all attributes that do not always show up on the stats sheet. But he has made a huge contribution since the Nuggets re-entered the league in 2020 following a five-year absence. He added energy from the bench during the championship runs in 2020 and 2022. And tomorrow evening, he will bring up his 100th game for the franchise when they head south to play the Southland Sharks in Invercargill. "It has been a pretty cool journey since 2020, and to reach 100 games is something I'm pretty proud of," Bardsley said. Bardsley is the second player to reach the milestone this season. Josh Aitcheson brought up his 100th game late last month and point guard Darcy Knox is poised on 97 games and will also reach the mark, all going well. The trio has played a lot of basketball together, and just that simple joy has been one of Bardsley's highlights. He moved south from Palmerston North in 2017 and linked up with Aitcheson and Knox in the University of Otago basketball team. "We won a couple of national championships with Otago University, and then it kind of went from there. Our basketball journeys have been pretty aligned since then." The 2020 National Basketball League Showdown was a huge highlight in his career. The league was reworked that season because of Covid, and the entire tournament was played in Auckland. All the players stayed at the same hotel and formed their own Covid bubble. The Nuggets got lucky in the player draft. They were able to secure the services of the likes of Jordan Ngatai and Jarrod Kenny. "As a kick start to my Nuggets' career, it was quite an intense seven weeks up in Auckland. "But it was such a great experience for me and to play alongside some of New Zealand's best basketball players in JK and Jordan Ngatai ... was pretty cool. "And the championship in 2022 was special as well." It has been an unusual week for Bardsley. He has been in Christchurch for work and has not been around the team. But he was not expecting to be any more nervous than usual for the milestone match. "I'll be just treating it like another game. "In the context of our season, we probably need to get a win. Well, not probably, we definitely need to get a win, so that will be the main focus, not the 100th game per se." His wife, Sophie, and her family will travel to Invercargill to watch him play. His 100th was supposed to be against the beleaguered Indian Panthers in Dunedin last night, but that game has been postponed. The other major distraction this week has been the departure of Jose Perez. The American small forward and the Nuggets parted ways. "I don't think it has been a distraction. The club has made moves that it has to make, and we are just continuing to try and build together and make a late playoff push, I suppose. "The group is still very connected despite what has been going on."
