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Daily Mail
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Elizabeth Taylor's son reveals how he REALLY feels about Taylor Swift name-dropping his mother on new album
Christopher Wilding, the youngest son of Dame Elizabeth Taylor, just revealed how he really feels about Taylor Swift naming the second song off her 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl after his late mother. The 70-year-old retired sound editor told TMZ on Thursday that the 35-year-old billionaire pop star is a 'rare, positive role model for young girls' and he 'admired her philanthropy and courage to stand up for what she believes.' Christopher believes that Taylor would've gotten along with the former child star who died, age 79, in 2011 from congestive heart failure. Wilding is excited and intrigued to listen to to the song, and hopes it introduces a whole new generation of fans to Elizabeth's amfAR legacy and acting career. Taylor welcomed Christopher and her 72-year-old son Michael during her four-year marriage to her Conspirator co-star turned second ex-husband Michael Wilding, which ended in 1957. Keeping with the showgirl theme, the two-time Oscar winner once portrayed aging Las Vegas chorus girl Fran Walker, who has an affair with a compulsive gambler (Warren Beatty), in George Stevens' 1970 dramedy The Only Game in Town. Swift previously sang about Elizabeth's scandalous on/off marriage to her Cleopatra leading man Richard Burton in her 2017 hit song, ...Ready for It: 'And he can be jailor / Burton to this Taylor.' The 14-time Grammy winner announced Wednesday on her boyfriend Travis Kelce's podcast New Heights that she will release The Life of a Showgirl on October 3. 'Every single song is on this album for hundreds of reasons. It is just right,' Taylor said. 'This album isn't really about what happened to me onstage [during my 149-date Eras Tour]. It's about what I was going through offstage. This, to me, tells more of what the actual contents lyrically of the album are.' The Life of a Showgirl reunited Swift with producers Max Martin and Shellback, who helped mastermind her albums Red (2012), 1989 (2014), and Reputation (2017). The Pennsylvania-born belter's 12-track record includes two songs - Ruin the Friendship and CANCELLED! - which many predict to be about the deterioration of her friendship with Blake Lively. The canceled 37-year-old allegedly blackmailed Taylor in February by threatening to release a decade of private text messages if she didn't issue a statement of support amid her Justin Baldoni legal war. On May 30, Swift regained the masters to her first six studio albums - Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, and Reputation. Billboard reported that the How Does It End singer spent around $360M to buy back her music catalog from Shamrock Capital after 'bully' Scooter Braun sold her masters to the private equity firm in 2020 (a year after buying them from Big Machine). '[My mother Andrea and brother Austin] sat down with Shamrock Capital and they told them what this meant for me. They told them the whole story of all the times we've tried to buy it, all the times it's fallen through,' Taylor recalled, tearing up. 'I get a call from my mom and she's like, "You got your music." It's literally been so long since this happened, and it's every time I talk about it...I just like very dramatically hit the floor for real. Honestly, just started like bawling my eyes out, and I'm just like weeping.'
BBC News
06-08-2025
- BBC News
Poulton mum and sons kept dogs in cramped, dirty cages, say RSPCA
A mother and her two sons, who kept dogs in cages described as so soiled with urine the smell "burned" the nose and throat of an RSPCA inspector, have been banned from keeping dogs were found in metal cages, some stacked on top of each other with no water or bedding at Michelle Wilding's home in Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire, the RSPCA inspector said Christopher Wilding, 41, told investigators the 22 dogs would spend up to 18 hours a day in cages in an outhouse, even when temperatures were just Wilding, 60, and elder son Christopher were given suspended jail terms, while Jack Wilding, 29, was fined £270 at Lancaster Magistrates Court. All three pleaded guilty. All three family members, of Mains Lane, admitted to offences under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 between 8 October 2023 and 8 November and Christopher were banned from keeping all animals for 15 years and given 27-week jail terms suspended for two were also ordered to pay a £187 victim surcharge, with Michelle told to complete 20 rehabilitation activity requirement was banned from keeping animals for 10 years and was ordered to pay a £108 victim surcharge, on top of the stipulated RSPCA first visited the site in January 2021 and advised Michelle the dogs' housing was unsuitable after finding "piles of rubbish bags in the doorway of the garage full of dog excrement and shavings".One Pocket Bully was found in a cage which was too small, while other dogs had no access to water, the inspector stated at the the officer returned later the same month, she was refused returned in February and met Christopher, who admitted the dogs spent up to 18 hours per day in the "small cages" in an outside measured the temperature around the kennels and found it was between 3-7C. "I advised it would drop even colder at night, and that this was far too cold for the dogs."She also gave advice on how to improve the situation and care for the dogs properly. An animal rescue officer returned to the property in November a statement, she described the outhouse as "dirty and smelly"."The building had a strong smell of ammonia that burned my nose and throat," she said."There were metal cages round the outside edge of the building, and then more towards the door piled on top of each other."Each pen had no food or water or bedding available, and contained urine and faeces."Some dogs were very cramped and unable to stand or turn around due to lack of space. "Some dogs looked like they had pressure type sores, some were constantly spinning and chewing at the metal bars."I placed each dog on a lead for the vet to examine... some had to be carried as would not walk on a lead."A vet's report said 12 of the dogs found on the site were described as having "thin body condition", two had heart murmurs, two had eye infections and two had ear infections. Many had dental disease and tooth wear "likely from bar biting".After the hearing, RSPCA Inspector Will Lamping, said: "These dogs were kept in conditions which no animal should suffer. They were confined in tight spaces, surrounded by dirt and denied food, water and medical aid."He said it was a "relief to have been able to take those animals to a place of safety and get them the veterinary care they needed".The RSPCA said it was looking to rehome the dogs it had recovered from the property. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Lancashire on Sounds and follow BBC Lancashire on Facebook, X and Instagram. You can also send story ideas via Whatsapp to 0808 100 2230.
