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02-06-2025
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RHOBH's Erika Jayne Shows Off Her 'Sexy' Old Hollywood-Inspired Home: ‘What L.A. Living Is About' (Exclusive)
Erika Jayne redesigned her Los Angeles home with help from celebrity interior designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard The pair give a tour of the rooms' highlights in an exclusive PEOPLE Hollywood at Home video Some of Bullard's other clients have included Cher, Elton John and Kylie Jenner Erika Jayne is giving a peek inside her newly redesigned Los Angeles abode. In an exclusive PEOPLE Hollywood at Home video tour, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 53, shows off her house, which she says was inspired by '1920s glamour.' She explains that 'none of this would've been possible' without celebrity interior designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard, who's decorated for A-listers like Cher, Elton John and Kylie Jenner for the past three decades. The pair's home tour starts with the living room, which Bullard says captures the reality star's personality perfectly. 'It's got glamour, it's very comfortable, it's very approachable,' he tells her. 'But don't forget it's sexy.' 'At nighttime, especially, this is the sexiest room,' Erika agrees. The space's grounding piece is a cream-colored sofa from Coco Republic, in a cozy fabric. Erika also praises the luxurious rug, which she says 'did not disappoint' when she 'rolled around' on it. Bullard notes that he kept a statue from Erika's former decor for its 'character,' adding, 'The mix of the old and the new has really made this room feel extra special.' Other highlights include vaulted ceilings with full-height drapery, which the designer explains 'exemplify the high style of the 1920s and '30s' in Hollywood, and a 1960s bar cart from the South of France. Next is the dining room, which Bullard calls a 'main focal point' when people enter the house.'Every day I come in here I am thrilled,' Erika says. Bullard calls the palm wallpaper 'decorating magic,' explaining that it brings personality and drama to the space. 'Now, you bring a lot of drama into spaces, normally,' he jokes of his reality star client. 'I do,' Erika admits. 'But then you brought the right kind of drama, like the beautiful, artistic drama.' 'My son and I sit here almost every night and have dinner together,' she adds of Thomas "Tommy" Zizzo, whom she welcomed with her first husband in 1992. 'And it's very special for us.' The duo then enter Erika's bedroom, which Bullard calls a 'sexy, movie star experience.' 'This is a room that I feel it's like a little cocoon, in a way,' Erika just feels warm and luxurious in here, which is what you want in your bedroom.' The bedroom leads out into a garden with a cabana, which Erika refers to as 'the best part of the house.' 'This is so special,' she continues. 'Everyone that comes here is like 'Erika, this is the best part of this entire space.' Bullard explains the inspiration for the cabana's teal and white walls. 'The stripes are a real decorating trick,' he says. 'It's a way to add drama. It's a way to make the space feel bigger. It's a way to transport you.' 'I feel so serene, like I'm somewhere else right here,' Erika admits. Bullard then says what he loves most is that the outdoor space includes a DJ booth. 'We're ready for a dance party, we're ready for an impromptu cocktail party, we're ready for friends, we're ready for a dip in the pool,' Erika says. 'This is really what L.A. living is about.' In the season 14 premiere of RHOBH, Erika opened up about her decision to redesign the home, where she's lived since her 2020 split from ex-husband Tom Girardi. Tom's legal troubles began making headlines shortly after. The former couple listed their L.A. area mansion for $13 million before dropping it to $8.2 million six months later. It sold in 2022 for $8 million. "The house is tiny ... there's really a living room, a bedroom, and the two other bedrooms that are closets," Erika said on the episode, which aired in November 2024. "I spent 20-plus years in what some people will refer to as a mansion. When I left Pasadena, I took what would fit in the house." "It's time to, I think, let go of the past and let go of that furniture," she added. "Redoing the living room is a real step in the right direction." She first shared the redesign on the season's 14th episode, which aired in March. 'I feel like a new woman,' she said of taking in her updated surroundings. 'This is such a great new beginning, and it just feels like me.' Read the original article on People
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25-05-2025
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‘Sound of Falling' Review: Four Generations of German Girls Suffer the Same Growing Pains in Mascha Schilinski's Mesmerizing Stunner
Unfolding like 100 years of home video footage that were shot by the family ghosts, Mascha Schilinski's rich and mesmeric 'Sound of Falling' glimpses four generation of young women as they live, die, and suffuse their memories into the walls of a rural farmhouse in the north German region of Altmark. In the 1940s, after some of the local boys are maimed by their parents in order to avoid fighting Hitler's war, teenage Erika (Lea Drinda) hobbles through the halls with one of her tied legs up in string, eager to know what losing a limb might feel like. Unbeknownst to her, cherubic little Alma (Hanna Heckt) expressed a similar curiosity some 30 years earlier when she played dead on the parlor room couch, posing in the same position that her late grandmother's corpse had been placed for a post-mortem daugerreotype. More from IndieWire Here's How to Find Work When Entertainment Jobs Are Scarce Documentarian Sacha Jenkins Has Died: 'Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues' Filmmaker Started as a Journalist And yet, coming of age in the German Democratic Republic of the 1980s, Angelika (Lena Urzendowsky) might think she's inventing her girlish impulse towards self-negation when she fantasizes about lying down in front of her father's tank-sized land imprinter as it mulches her body into the earth, just as Lenka (Laeni Geiseler) — living in our present — wonders if she's the first person to be looked at in a way that burns under her skin. We rarely see these characters overlap in a literal sense, and their specific relationships to one another remain hard to define (it would take a professional arborist to untangle the roots of this movie's family tree, at least on first watch), but 'Sound of Falling' is deeply attuned to the echoes between them. Somehow both hyper-subjective and hauntingly disembodied all at once, Schilinski's recursive second feature floats through the decades like an errant thought hoping to find someone who might recognize it as one of their own. The film lopes forwards and backwards in time without notice or warning, Fabian Gamper's camera often peering through keyholes and floorboards in order to reconcile the tunnel vision of being alive with a quietly Teutonic awe at the vastness of having lived. Some eye-level shots are clearly tethered to the perspective of a certain character, while others seem to stem from the POV of an invisible spirit crouching next to them, as if assigning physical dimension to the third-person of our remembered pasts. Intimate and infinite in equal measure, the movie's freeform structure and emotional tonality might evoke everything from 'The Hours' and 'The Virgin Suicides' to Robert Zemeckis' 'Here,' and Charli XCX's 'Girl, so confusing' (why not), but its style found me returning to Edward Yang's magnificent 'Yi Yi' as the most immediate point of reference. Specifically, the character of eight-year-old Yang-Yang, who photographs the backs of people's heads in order to show them the parts of themselves they can't see on their own. 'You always see things from the outside, but never yourself,' one of Schilinski's characters muses in a snippet of the diaristic voiceover that holds this film together. She rues the fact that blushing externalizes the exact emotion that someone is trying to hide, just as Angelika — who's cannonballing into her sexuality, and rumored to be sleeping with her uncle — resents that she can will her legs to move, but not her heart to stop beating. Do our brains flip the world rightside up, or do they force us to see it upside down? 'Sound of Falling' isn't disinterested in personal drama, but that drama is reliably sublimated into the perspective through which it's experienced. So tenderly in touch with the shared but unspoken traumas that are visited upon her cast of young women, Schilinski mines tremendous sorrow from the secret poetics of girlhood; she weaponizes cinema's ability to access the deepest interiors of human feeling, and swirls her characters together in a way that tortures them for their subjectivity. The more intimately we come to understand the hurt and heartache that Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka all experience in their own ways, the more it kills us that they aren't able to commiserate with each other (the film's temporal porousness is heightened by its glancing attention to various social and political borders, some of which are more easily crossed than others). Nothing is new in this world, but pain turns us all into pioneers. If only the film's characters had the chance to compare notes, perhaps they might not share the same affinity for self-erasure. But they do feel one another (intangibly, the way that an amputee might scratch at a phantom limb), and the 150-minute 'Sound of Falling' is held aloft by its compelling attention to sense memory. As one of the girls puts it: 'It's funny how something can hurt that's no longer there,' and that hurt accrues an ethereal power of its own as Schilinski doubles back to flesh it out. Her film is piloted by sense memory, its story (a lot) less concerned with conflict or incident than it is with the buzz of a housefly, the bite of a fish, or the beat of that one pop song that Lenka and her only friend listen to all summer long. Brittle silences give way to an ominous hum, and occasionally to the fuzz of a record needle in search of the groove it needs to know its purpose. It's the perfect soundtrack for a reverie that spins in smaller and smaller circles until its attention grows focused enough to observe a single mote of sublime transcendence — and to defy the gravity that's been accumulated from almost 100 years of solitude. 'It's too bad you never know when you're at your happiest,' one of the girls laments, and it's true that none of these characters may ever be able to contextualize their emotions with the perspective necessary to survive them. But Schilinski's arrestingly prismatic film — so hazy and dense with detail that it feels almost impossible to fully absorb the first time through — keeps sloshing its way through the years until those blind spots begin to seem revelatory in their own right. These girls can only see so much of themselves on their own, but 'Sound of Falling' so vividly renders the blank space between them that it comes to feel like a lucid window into the stuff of our world that only the movies could ever hope to show us. 'Sound of Falling' premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. It is currently seeking U.S. distribution. Want to stay up to date on IndieWire's film and critical thoughts? to our newly launched newsletter, In Review by David Ehrlich, in which our Chief Film Critic and Head Reviews Editor rounds up the best new reviews and streaming picks along with some exclusive musings — all only available to subscribers. Best of IndieWire The 25 Best Alfred Hitchcock Movies, Ranked Every IndieWire TV Review from 2020, Ranked by Grade from Best to Worst
Irish Daily Mirror
20-05-2025
- Irish Daily Mirror
Passenger on Ibiza flight blasts 'plane full of English animals' for 'real hell'
A woman has laid into English tourists after she was stuck on a flight to Ibiza with unruly passengers. The Ibiza resident shared footage of the boisterous Brits online, insisting that they shouldn't have been allowed on the easyJet plane in the first place. In a no-holds-barred message alongside a video of the packed plane where passengers could be seen banging on luggage compartments above them and yelling 'Come on Ibiza', the Spanish speaker said: "My flight from London to Ibiza was absolutely horrible. I was scared.... a plane full of real English animals!" reports The Mirror. She added that people were "standing, screaming, guys hitting each other, drinking bottles of alcohol one after the other and stopping the flight attendants from doing their job. Real hell. This video is just the end because I couldn't film what happened during the journey". "It was a really wild 2.5 hour flight. This shouldn't be allowed," Erika added, saying that those who had drunk too much alcohol should not be allowed on flights. "We don't want this type of tourism in Ibiza, they should stay at home. I had a very bad time and the flight attendants (were) unable to do anything," she added. The woman added in comments to a local Ibizan newspaper that she had complained to the flight attendants. "I'm not afraid of flying because I've flown around the world but I had a panic attack because it was like being in a pub, in a nightclub, but in the air," she continued. She claimed the two male air stewards and an air stewardess on board had asked some passengers for their documentation, but were met with shouts of 'f** off'. A spokesperson for easyJet said: "We can confirm that flight EZY2307 from Luton to Ibiza on 16 May was met by police on arrival due to a group of passengers behaving in a disruptive manner. The safety and wellbeing of passengers and crew is always easyJet's priority. Whilst such incidents are rare we take them very seriously and do not tolerate disruptive behaviour onboard." The footage was posted on Saturday, a day before thousands of people marched in the Canary Islands' cities as part of a new anti-mass tourism protest. Locals in the Balearic Islands, which include Ibiza, are due to stage their protest on June 15. Over the weekend, fed-up locals made their frustrations clear in the Canary Islands as peak tourism season nears, with an estimated 7,000 people marching through the streets and promenades in Santa Cruz, the capital of Tenerife, alone. The massive protests have been echoed on each of the territory's six other islands, including Lanzarote, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura, with organisers saying the sun-kissed Spanish islands, which are extremely popular, especially with Irish tourists, "have a limit". There have been long-running tensions in holiday destinations across Spain due to the pressure large numbers of tourists put on local resources and property prices.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
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RHOBH's Erika Jayne Lawsuit Update — Could Head to Jury
Tom Girardi isn't known because of his marriage to star Erika Jayne. He worked as an attorney for decades, and was co-founder of the once esteemed law firm Girardi Keese. But, after over 50 years of handling cases, the business was forced into bankruptcy, and ultimately went defunct. Tom was later convicted of wire fraud and was disbarred from ever practicing law again, at least in the United States. What does this have to do with his RHOBH ex? Well, Erika is being accused of using over $25 million dollars for personal use, all of which came from the firm's funding. Attorney Ronald Richards and his legal team are seeking financial justice, which would mean making the reality TV star pay back the money. The case is picking up steam, and the next step could lead it straight to a jury trial. Ronald recently took to social media to share an update regarding the case. He also provided official documents outlining the next court date, and what could be ruled by the judge. 'We are hopeful that on June 4, 2025, the Court will set a jury trial. Erika believes it will be a ten-day jury trial,' he wrote in the Twitter caption. The attorney continued, revealing that if a jury trial is indeed granted in June, that it wouldn't take long to get the ball rolling. 'We believe a trial will be set before the end of the year. This is clearly the greatest imminent threat facing Erika today.' Erika hasn't addressed the potential jury trial order just yet. Either way, if a RHOBH Season 15 is coming, her storyline is already secured. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is available to stream on Peacock and Hayu in the UK and Ireland. TELL US – DO YOU THINK THE CASE WILL GET A JURY TRIAL? The post RHOBH's Erika Jayne Lawsuit Update — Could Head to Jury appeared first on Reality Tea.
Daily Mirror
19-05-2025
- Daily Mirror
EasyJet passenger slams boozy lads who turned flight into 'hell' with antics
The Ibiza resident posted a video of unruly passengers aboard an easyJet flight from Luton to the Spanish island which ended with police meeting the plane on the runway Loud English tourists branded 'animals' on Ibiza easyJet flight A woman has laid into English tourists after she was stuck on a flight to Ibiza with unruly passengers. Posting online, the Ibiza resident shared footage of the boisterous Brits online, insisting that they shouldn't have been allowed on the easyJet plane in the first place. In a no-holds-barred message alongside a video of the packed plane where passengers could be seen banging on luggage compartments above them and yelling 'Come on Ibiza', the Spanish speaker said: 'My flight from London to Ibiza was absolutely horrible. I was scared." She added that people were "standing, screaming, guys hitting each other, drinking bottles of alcohol one after the other and stopping the flight attendants from doing their job. Real hell. This video is just the end because I couldn't film what happened during the journey. "It was a really wild 2.5 hour flight. This shouldn't be allowed." Erika said that those who had drunk too much alcohol should not be allowed on flights. 'We don't want this type of tourism in Ibiza, they should stay at home. I had a very bad time and the flight attendants unable to do anything," she added. The woman added in comments to a local Ibizan newspaper that she had complained to the flight attendants: 'I'm not afraid of flying because I've flown around the world but I had a panic attack because it was like being in a pub, in a nightclub, but in the air," she continued. She claimed the two male air stewards and an air stewardess on board had asked some passengers for their documentation, but were met with shouts of 'f** off.' A spokesperson for easyJet said: "We can confirm that flight EZY2307 from Luton to Ibiza on 16 May was met by police on arrival due to a group of passengers behaving in a disruptive manner. The safety and wellbeing of passengers and crew is always easyJet's priority. Whilst such incidents are rare we take them very seriously and do not tolerate disruptive behaviour onboard." The footage was posted on Saturday, a day before thousands of people marched in the Canary Islands' cities as part of a new anti-mass tourism protest. Locals in the Balearic Islands, which include Ibiza, are due to stage their protest on June 15. Over the weekend, fed-up locals made their frustrations clear in the Canary Islands as peak tourism season nears, with an estimated 7,000 people marching through the streets and promenades in Santa Cruz, the capital of Tenerife, alone. The massive protests have been echoed on each of the territory's six other islands, including Lanzarote, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura, with organisers saying the sun-kissed Spanish islands, which are extremely popular, especially with British tourists, "have a limit". There have been long-running tensions in holiday destinations across Spain due to the pressure large numbers of tourists put on local resources and property prices.
