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South China Morning Post
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Meet Eric McCormack and Janet Holden's musical son Finnigan: the 22-year-old Northeastern University student works for his college record label and has never watched Will & Grace
Will & Grace will always hold a special place in Eric McCormack's heart – but his son, Finnigan Holden McCormack, has poked fun at him for watching reruns of the show. Will & Grace star Eric McCormack, his son Finnigan, and his wife Janet Holden. Photo: @faithanne1985/Instagram 'I remember once, I think it was Thanksgiving, and he walked in and we were sitting there, and an old rerun had come up,' McCormack, 61, told Us Weekly in March. '[Finnigan] looked at us and he looked at the screen and he looked back and he said, 'Are you just going to sit and watch yourself on television all day? This is appalling!'' Advertisement His son has never seen the show his dad starred in for 11 seasons. Finnigan Holden McCormack can often be seen rocking a moustache in photos. Photo: @ Here's what we know about Finnigan Holden McCormack. Finnigan Holden McCormack has famous parents Actors Eric McCormack and Janet Holden split in 2023 after 26 years. Finnigan, 22, was born to the actors Eric McCormack and Janet Holden, on July 1, 2002. In November 2023, Holden filed for divorce from McCormack after 26 years of marriage, notes People magazine. In February 2025, the Travelers star was spotted holding hands with a woman called Sue Conder, 50, in New York City, per Hello! He's in college Finnigan Holden McCormack is currently studying at university in Boston, Massachusetts. Photo: @ Finnigan is currently a senior at Northeastern University's College of Arts, Media and Design.
BBC News
28-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
'Scunthorpe could become a disaster town if the steelworks close'
Steelworks employees are still digesting the news of the launch of a consultation process that could result in the closure of two blast Steel said this week that the blast furnaces in Scunthorpe were "no longer financially sustainable" due to market conditions, tariffs and environmental closure of the Chinese-owned company could put up to 2,700 jobs at risk out of a workforce of 3, Finnigan, 30, who has worked at the steelworks for 10 years, said it had been "difficult trying to process the news" that he might lose his job. "We got an email yesterday about the consultation, but we had already seen a news notification about how this was coming into fruition before any of us had been informed," he said."It is disappointing to find out like that [and] doesn't make it any easier to digest."I could lose my job, livelihood and everything I've known for the last 10 years. I only got married six months ago and now have to think about the future. It's not ideal."Mr Finnigan said there had been rumours the company would receive investment from the government, which had given people hope, and to hear the news of the consultation came as a "massive shock". He added: "It's still difficult to digest but we will just keep going, doing our bit and seeing what happens."The BBC previously reported that British Steel was expecting a £1bn injection from the government to keep the business going, but it was offered £500m and rejected Steel chief executive Zengwei An said the launch of the consultation process was "a necessary decision given the hugely challenging circumstances the business faces". The consultation will look at the options of ending operations by early June, in September, or at a later date. Sandra Donnelly, from alterations shop Sew Easie, said the closure would affect every business and could lead to Scunthorpe becoming a "disaster town".She said: "People will be out of work – where are they going to get their jobs from?"There's just not the jobs here to jump into."The steelworks are our main way of employing people. We've got nothing left – we've lost everything."Patricia Fox, owner of Vanity Fayre hairdressers, is also said: "We are a small business [which cuts] people's hair who work there. If people won't be able to afford to come to us, everyone is going to suffer."Scunthorpe United FC chairwoman Michelle Harness described the news as "devastating".She said: "I'm sure the town will rally round the steelworkers."We have a large percentage of fans who are steelworkers and families of steelworkers, and there is a lot of history in the town."The town has to now find future jobs as it will affect so many other businesses – there will be a ripple effect from this closure."Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
Boston Globe
25-03-2025
- Boston Globe
Online harm gangs pose ‘unprecedented risk' to teens, says UK crime agency
He added, 'These groups are not lurking on the dark web, they exist in the same online world and platforms young people use on a daily basis,' and noted that young girls were being 'groomed into hurting themselves and in some cases, even encouraged to attempt suicide.' The groups have reached young people using gaming platforms such as Roblox as well as messaging apps such as Discord and Telegram. Advertisement The agency's National Strategic Assessment for 2024 said that while adults were involved in these communities or networks, it was especially concerned about teenage boys often sharing sadistic and misogynistic material and targeting girls as young as 11. Described as 'Com' networks, the forums have become vehicles for sharing images of extreme violence, gore, and child sexual abuse. They are also used to apply 'extreme coercion' to manipulate young people into harming or abusing themselves, their siblings or pets, the agency said. 'Members of 'Com' networks are usually young men who are motivated by status, power, control, misogyny, sexual gratification, or an obsession with extreme or violent material,' said the report, which added that the emergence of these types of online groups 'are almost certainly causing some individuals, especially younger people, to develop a dangerous propensity for extreme violence.' It added that the networks typically attract young males promoting nihilistic views, who 'attempt to gain status with other users by committing or encouraging harmful acts across a broad spectrum of offending.' Advertisement Users in Britain and other Western countries 'had exchanged millions of messages online relating to sexual and physical abuse,' it noted. The crime agency gave the example of Cameron Finnigan, a British teenager who was sentenced to jail in January after being part of an online satanist group that blackmails other children into filming or livestreaming self-harm, violence, and sexual abuse. Finnigan, 19, used the Telegram app to encourage contacts to commit murder and suicide. In his statement, Biggar said police were collaborating with technology companies and psychologists to better understand the behavior of young people but added that he encouraged parents 'to have regular conversations with their child about what they do online.' Jess Phillips, a government minister who has responsibility for tackling violence against women and girls, described the scale of abuse outlined in the report as 'absolutely horrific,' and also urged open conversations within families. 'My message to tech companies is simple: This is your responsibility, too,' she said. 'You must ensure your platforms are safe for children, so that we can protect the most vulnerable and put predators behind bars.' The agency's latest survey focused heavily on the use of technology and online platforms in crimes including fraud, extremism, and sexual abuse. Citing statistics from the Internet Watch Foundation, a nonprofit organization, it said that 291,273 webpages had contained indecent images of children in 2024, a 6 percent increase since 2023. Of these, 91 percent were classified as self-generated indecent imagery, either shared consensually, or elicited through manipulation. This article originally appeared in .
The Guardian
25-03-2025
- The Guardian
Young British men convicted for crimes as online gang members: two case studies
Online gangs of young men sharing violent and misogynistic material and collaborating on online and offline crimes are an emerging threat, the UK's national crime agency has warned. Here are two recent examples of people who have been convicted for crimes perpetrated as a result of their membership of dangerous online groups. Cameron Finnigan, 19, was given a nine-year extended sentence in January for possessing a terrorist document and indecent images of children, and encouraging someone online to take her own life. Finnigan, from West Sussex, was arrested last year following a number of posts online identified by police, who established that he was a member of an extreme Satanic group named '764'. The group subscribed to militant accelerationist ideology, which is an extreme rightwing view that believes in rapid capitalist growth, technological advancement and radical social change. Officers found in Finnigan's bedroom a large tapestry depicting the satanic beast or Baphomet goat head, a defaced Bible with red writing on referencing 764, a black notebook containing an assortment of statements, pentagrams and swastikas and red writing on the floor and door, referencing his internet persona ACID. One Telegram chat recovered from Finnigan's Chromebook showed communication with an individual believed to be a young female, who told him she was considering suicide, which he encouraged her to carry out. He asked her to stream it so he could share it with '764', then boasted about this in his chat group. Finnigan was also found in possession of an 11-page PDF document outlining how to carry out 'truck attacks', which gave information on attack planning including knife and firearm mass casualty attacks. He had also filmed himself damaging a nearby parked car. On a Telegram group chat Finnigan posted a photo of a red tent in a field near his home with messaging suggesting he wanted to kill a homeless person. The tent was found with graffiti associated with the 764 group at both entrances to the field, matching the red spray paint found in his room. Detective Chf Supt Claire Finlay, head of CTPSE, said it was a 'complex case interlinking terrorism and serious criminal offences'. Although Finnigan claimed the statements he made online were fantasy, his actions had real world implications, she added. Richard Ehiemere, 21, was convicted in February for two fraud offences and three offences related to possessing and sharing indecent images of children, linked to his membership of an online criminal group that blackmailed young teenage girls. He is due to be sentenced in May. Ehiemere, from Hackney in east London, was convicted four years after an initial referral from online platform Discord, which was concerned about the activities of the CVLT group he belonged to. CVLT is a form of 'Com' network, where young men share harmful content and commit online offences. The investigation into Ehiemere established that his online moniker 'Retaliate#1337' had logged on to Discord channels connected to CVLT 383 times, where he had disclosed stolen email addresses and passwords. The profile is also believed to have shared indecent images of children. Police also found conversations relating to hacking, selling unlawfully obtained material and how to avoid detection on his mobile phone. Steve Laval, senior investigating officer at the NCA's National Cyber Crime Unit, said: 'Ehiemere was a key enabler for this harmful online group, providing stolen data which they could use to defraud hundreds of victims.'
Yahoo
09-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Boomers are setting up a showdown with millennials, aging in place and plunking down hundreds of thousands on renovating their homes
The housing world is a bit of a generational war zone, mostly between baby boomers and millennials. Baby boomers make up more than a third of all homeowners, and more than half don't even have a mortgage, Eric Finnigan, vice president of demographics for John Burns Research and Consulting, previously told Fortune. So in our current environment, where mortgage rates skyrocketed from historic lows throughout the pandemic to a more than two-decade high in October 2023, being mortgage-free is like hitting the mother lode. It's partly why boomers aren't moving—because why give up no mortgage rate, or a substantially lower one, for one that's in the 6% to 7% range, plus a higher monthly payment? On the other hand, some millennials, who haven't even bought their first home, are looking at a much different housing market than before the start of the pandemic—one where the salary needed to buy a starter home has almost doubled, the cost of owning a home is the highest on record, and low inventory levels are much more dire. And baby boomers are sitting on particularly large homes that millennials who are starting families need. A 2024 Redfin analysis from found empty-nest boomers own 28% of the country's largest homes, those with three bedrooms or more; and millennials with kids own only 14%. As mentioned earlier, there's simply no financial incentive for the former group to let go of their homes. But it wasn't always this way. 'The landscape has transformed over the last decade: 10 years ago, young families were just as likely as empty nesters to own large homes,' the analysis read. Last year, existing home sales fell to their lowest level in almost three decades; nobody was selling their home or buying. And apart from there being no financial incentive to sell, boomers are aging in place because they can. In doing so, they're remodeling and improving their current homes—not only for safety but to live comfortably and luxuriously, Finnigan previously explained. For some baby boomers, the idea of renovating their family home—albeit likely too big for their empty nesting—is much more appealing than moving. Plus, there's a housing crisis for baby boomers who try to move with a shortage of retirement homes. More than half of them have no plans to move, although the majority of them have lived in their current homes for more than a decade, according to a 2024 report by home improvement company Leaf Home and Morning Consult. And some baby boomers have spent tens of thousands of dollars—and in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars—on home renovations to make their homes feel more updated, comfortable, and safe for aging. A Californian couple in their seventies, Brenda Edwards and her husband, spent more than $100,000 on home renovations to accommodate a wheelchair in case they ever need one. 'We felt comfortable,' Edwards told the Associated Press about why they wanted to stay instead of move. 'We have a pool. We have a spa. We just put a lot of love and effort into this yard. We want to stay.' Plus, 'it would be too hard to purchase anything else' since their house was nearly completely paid off, she said. Many baby boomer homeowners are 'opting to upgrade their current homes for the long haul,' Marine Sargsyan, chief economist at home renovation and design site Houzz, told Fortune, rather than deal with higher mortgage rates. So much so that baby boomers lead renovation activity across all generations, according to the site's 2024 Houzz & Home Study released in March. 'We're seeing a growing trend toward universal design elements in kitchens and bathrooms specifically as homeowners ready their homes to age in place,' Sargsyan said. 'Changes include wheelchair-accessible pathways, additional lighting, pull-out cabinets, rounded countertops, non-slip flooring, and grab bars.' Leaf Home also reports seeing an uptick in demand for walk-in showers and tubs as well as stairlifts, making homes more accessible for aging generations. 'We expect to see an increase in boomers' desire to make improvements for their homes to remain comfortable and safe,' Nina George, chief growth officer at Leaf Home, told Fortune. But some baby boomers are selling and some millennials are buying homes. Millennials surpassed baby boomers as the largest generation of homebuyers, according to the National Association of Realtors. 'The generational tug-of-war between millennials and baby boomers continued this year, with millennials rebounding to capture the largest share of homebuyers,' NAR's deputy chief economist and vice president of research, Jessica Lautz, said alongside a recent generational trends report. A version of this story was published on on June 6, 2024. This story was originally featured on
