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Indian Express
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
‘It's a brawl world after all': Disneyland Shanghai turns chaotic over line-cutting dispute
Disneyland is often described as the happiest place on earth; certainly not a place where you'd expect a physical fight. But that's exactly what unfolded at Disneyland Park in Shanghai, China. According to local media reports via Viral Press, a heated argument between two couples waiting at the Crazy Animal City attraction escalated into a physical altercation. The couple, reportedly with a child in tow, were said to be arguing over line-cutting. One couple was also attempting to take a photo together when they were allegedly blocked by the other family, the New York Post reported. In the now-viral clip, two men, one dressed in black, the other in white, can be seen grappling with each other as a woman in a bunny-ear hat tries desperately to separate them. Park-goers, including several children, can be seen watching in shock. The same woman then turns and aggressively shoves a mother holding a child. The video shows the mother screaming and crouching to the ground, clutching her child tightly to her chest in fear. Moments later, the same woman returns to wedge herself between the fighting men once again, this time, grabbing one of them by the throat. The X handle of the New York Post – @nypost – shared the video on Instagram with the caption, 'It's a brawl world after all. A wild fight erupted at Disneyland after a couple and another couple with their child got into a heated argument over line-cutting.' The video has since gained 260 thousand views and 6.2 thousand likes on the social media platform. A post shared by New York Post (@nypost) The viewers were sort of entertained and kind of shocked seeing the brawl. One user commented, 'Don't ask why but the volume was muted but I had the Benny Hill theme song playing on my phone. Absolute cinema.' Another user commented, 'As a mother— why would you even let your kid be exposed enough to get hit.' A third user wrote, 'Doesn't seem like the happiest place on earth.' A fourth user said, 'Gawd, literally the only normal person in this video is the kind woman who took the child out of the crying moms arm to keep her from getting hit (again).' While the New York Post reported that only minor injuries were sustained, both couples could be facing a lifetime ban from Disneyland under the park's strict rules against any form of violence.
Irish Examiner
18-05-2025
- General
- Irish Examiner
Suzanne Harrington: Stop embarrassing the diaspora with this skorts nonsense
It's not often a Father Ted episode makes its way into the news cycle, but here we are. Skorts. Like a historical re-enactment, a kind of collective flashback to the bad trip that was the status of women in Ireland in the not-distant-enough past. An Ireland where real life Father Jacks were still in charge and real life Mrs Doyles — and their camogie-playing daughters — were required to make babies and sandwiches and avoid having opinions. While wearing nice frocks. Maybe it was an oversight. Did the camogie committee not get the memo about how these days men can no longer go around telling women what to wear? That we have done away with this practice? Because they've ended up looking a bit silly. A bit dated, like salad cream or Benny Hill. Also, and perhaps even more unforgivably, the camogie committee has jammed the word 'skort' firmly into our temporal lobes. A word you may have blissfully avoided your entire life until now, both as a concept and an ugly sound — like something a malevolent JK Rowling character might snarl at you. Skorticus Riddikulus! As portmanteaus go, it's up there with Brexit, jeggings, and frappuccino in terms of pointlessness. The sartorial equivalent of a spork. The skort itself is not the point. Some people might quite like them, might find them practical, perhaps even aesthetically pleasing. Whatever. It's the 83% of camogie players who do not find skorts practical, comfortable, or fit for purpose who are the point. Their decision to not wear garments they dislike while playing their sport of choice seems like a fairly basic right, an unremarkable no-brainer. These players are not suggesting anything controversial, like playing camogie naked or using flamingos as camogie sticks. No. They would just like to exercise their right to dress themselves, like adult humans, rather than being told what to wear by men. This tired custom of women-being-told-what-to-wear-by-men stubbornly persists, extending far beyond the camogie fields of Ireland — whether it's women not covering their entire bodies in Saudi Arabia or covering their entire bodies in burqinis on French beaches or having a non-state approved hairdo in North Korea or showing their hair in Iran or exposing their shoulders in swathes of South Asia. But Ireland is not like Saudi Arabia or North Korea or Iran. Nor do we ban wearing items related to religious belief, like France. We are a small, progressive country that everyone likes, because we don't colonise or start wars, and are generally regarded as the best away fans at international sporting events. So when you see BBC headlines about skorts and shorts asking How Did We Get Here?, your toes might slightly curl as your brain involuntarily flashes back to the days of illegal Durex and the Abortion Express to England. Come on, camogie committee. Have a word with yourselves. Obviously the comfort of the camogie players — physical and psychological — is paramount, but the secondary comfort of the rest of us — culturally — counts for something too. Stop embarrassing the diaspora as we are forced to explain words like camogie and skort to non-Irish people, then watch as their eyes widen. It's cringe.
Washington Post
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Readers critique The Post: An unholy assessment of Monty Python
Every week, The Post runs a collection of letters of readers' grievances — pointing out grammatical mistakes, missing coverage and inconsistencies. These letters tell us what we did wrong and, occasionally, offer praise. Here, we present this week's Free for All letters. The May 4 Arts & Style essay ''Holy Grail' left more than a flesh wound' concluded that 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail,' now age 50, 'changed comedy forever.' Nope. British humor ranged from goofy to dry (think Noël Coward) for ages; 'Holy Grail' carried on a tradition of out-of-reality skit comedy started long before. Examples include 'The Benny Hill Show,' from 1955; 'The Goon Show' (radio), 1951; 'Life With the Lyons' (radio), 1950; 'Till Death Do Us Part' (the inspiration for 'All in the Family'), 1965; plus radio series that started in the 1930s. What the Pythons did, perhaps, is make that wacky approach to everyday goofiness available to world audiences.
Daily Mail
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
The horrifying truth about how China could cripple Britain in just seconds - by barely lifting a finger... as former MI6 boss makes desperate plea to end our reliance on Beijing: IAN WILLIAMS
The Italian Job is giving Britain's intelligence agencies sleepless nights. In the classic movie, the gang of cockneys led by Charlie Croker (played by Michael Caine) hijacks a truck full of stolen gold after disabling Turin's traffic lights. The lights are manipulated by a bungling boffin played by Benny Hill, who somehow manages to hack a clunky central computer and cause city-wide traffic jams, allowing Croker's crew to intercept the consignment of bullion.
Scottish Sun
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Bitter rift over Benny Hill's £7.5million fortune revealed after racy comedian's ‘2nd will for stars and pals rejected'
PRICE TO PAY Bitter rift over Benny Hill's £7.5million fortune revealed after racy comedian's '2nd will for stars and pals rejected' Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A BITTER feud has erupted over Benny Hill's £7.5million fortune, after claims his dying wish to leave cash to close friends and TV co-stars was binned – and the entire pot handed to family members he barely knew. The legendary comic, once one of Britain's most-loved entertainers, died alone in his rented Teddington flat in 1992 – aged 68 – with piles of uncashed cheques and leftover food beside him. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 1 Comedy legend Benny Hill in his prime during the heyday of his iconic TV show Credit: Alamy Despite global fame and enormous wealth, Hill was a notorious penny-pincher who glued his shoes back together, bought discounted groceries and left behind a modest flat instead of a mansion. And while his official 1961 will named now-deceased family members, close pals insist he later penned a second, informal version, giving specific sums to longtime colleagues and friends including Sue Upton, Dennis Kirkland, Louise English, Bob Todd and Henry McGee. But the document never made it through probate – either rejected for not being signed and witnessed properly, or simply lost by the star. 'It's a very sad state of affairs,' said Upton, 70, a former Hill's Angel, who worked with him for more than a decade and became one of his dearest friends. 'Benny never saw his family, he wasn't close to them at all. The people who he worked with for many many years on the show, we were his family.' 'He used to say to me 'you haven't got to worry about money Little Sausage, you're in my will'… but Benny was the world's worst person for paperwork.' She added: 'I was told there was a piece of paper with people's names and amounts and I was on that list… but it wouldn't stand up in court so that was that.' Instead, Hill's £7.5million estate – worth over £20million today – went to seven nieces and nephews, most of whom had little or no relationship with him, the Daily Mail reports. One niece, Madeleine Sailani, 68, who lives in a plush £1.3million pad near the sea in Hove, told reporters: 'I think there's been some confusion,' and refused to speak about the inheritance or an upcoming Channel 5 documentary on her famous uncle. Another, Jonathan Hill, 62, resides in a £1million top-floor flat on one of Edinburgh's most exclusive streets. His sister, Caroline Hill, 70, was last listed at a £1.6million house in Wandsworth, South West London. The rest of the beneficiaries remain in Australia, where Hill's sister Diana lived until her death. More to follow... For the latest news on this story keep checking back at The Sun Online is your go-to destination for the best celebrity news, real-life stories, jaw-dropping pictures and must-see video. Like us on Facebook at and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSun.
