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The Irish Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Top Boy star Giacomo Mancini's wife welcomes couple's first child – admitting ‘we love you so much it hurts'
The actor revealed his newborn's beautiful name top news Top Boy star Giacomo Mancini's wife welcomes couple's first child – admitting 'we love you so much it hurts' A TOP Boy star has welcomed a child with his girlfriend. Giacomo Mancini took to social media on Saturday to share the very exciting news with his 7,000 followers. 6 A Top Boy star has welcomed a child with his girlfriend Credit: Instagram/giacomomancini8 6 Giacomo Mancini in Top Boy Credit: Channel 4 Advertisement 6 Giacomo shared a series of images with his followers Credit: Instagram/giacomomancini8 Posting a carousel of images of the tot, he told fans that they'd welcomed a baby girl and revealed her name to be Mia. Giacomo wrote: 'Mia Bella Mancini. August 9th day you captured our hearts. Mummy and Daddy love you so much it hurts!' The 30-year-old Top Boy star is best known for his first acting role as Gem in the Netflix award winning series. Advertisement He went on to star in Ripper Street in 2013, Pan in 2015, and Orthodox and Supacell in 2024. Among the images shared by the star was one of his daughter fast asleep. In another, little Mia was being carried out of the hospital by her happy parents, and he also gave a peek at her nursery. The happy dad was also pictured lying on the sofa with his bundle of joy, as well as popping out for a walk with her in the stroller. Advertisement Giacomo also made sure to buy his new addition a Chelsea football kit with her name on it. Fans flooded the comments with their messages of congratulations, as one person wrote: "Congratulations to you both. She is beautiful." Watch as Ashley Walters admits he was a functioning alcoholic on Top Boy A second penned: "Massive congratulations to you both," and a third echoed: "Congratulations 🩷 obsessed 😍. Can't wait to meet her." Two months ago, the actor posted some sweet photos from their baby shower. Standing with his stunning wife, he wrote: "The Family. 8 Weeks To Go. We Couldn't Be More Excited To Welcome You Into Our World. Thank You To Everyone For Showering Our Baby. Everyday You Continue To Amaze Me And I'm So So So Proud Of You." Advertisement The series that Giacomo stars in is one of the biggest shows on Netflix. The popular show tells the tale of rival drug-dealing gangs on a notorious London estate, leading some fans to wonder if it's based on a true story. Top Boy is not based on a true story and the characters are fictional. However, the topics the show addresses, the setting of the show and the issues they represent are very real. The Netflix series mainly focuses on the drug wars between Summerhouse, headed by Dushane, and other rival gangs, who fight for control of London's drug empire. Advertisement 6 He's got his daughter Mia a Chelsea football kit Credit: Instagram/giacomomancini8 6 Giacomo shared stunning photos from the baby shower Credit: Instagram/giacomomancini8
News18
5 days ago
- General
- News18
At least 27 migrants, refugees dead in shipwreck off Italys Lampedusa
Lampedusa [Italy], August 14 (ANI): At least 27 migrants and refugees drowned on Thursday following a tragic shipwreck off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, according to a statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, marking yet another deadly incident in the perilous Central Mediterranean migration a post on X, Grandi stated that over 700 refugees and migrants have lost their lives in the Central Mediterranean so far in 2025, while emphasising the urgent need to enhance all aspects of the response to deal with such situations.'At least 27 people have drowned in a tragic shipwreck near #Lampedusa. Over 700 refugees and migrants have now died in 2025 in the Central Mediterranean. All responses — rescue at sea, safe pathways, helping transit countries and addressing root causes — must be strengthened," Grandi stated in his to UNHCR Italy's Communication Officer, the agency is currently assisting survivors from the wreck.'Deep anguish over yet another shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa, where UNHCR is now assisting the survivors. Twenty bodies have reportedly been recovered, with an equal number of people missing," the officer said in a post on X.'So far this year, 675 deaths have been recorded in the Central Mediterranean. Strengthen legal pathways," he Di Giacomo, spokesperson for the Coordination Office for the Mediterranean of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), described the harrowing events that led to the to X, Giacomo stated that around 95 people had departed from Libya on two boats, but after one vessel started taking on water, all passengers were forced to board the other. Unfortunately, this boat capsized due to severe overloading.'Tragic shipwreck off the coast of #Lampedusa. About 95 people departed from Libya on two boats; after one took on water, everyone boarded the other, which then capsized due to overloading," he stated in the post. Currently, 60 survivors have been rescued, while approximately 35 people are feared dead or missing, Giacomo to the data from the Coordination Office for the Mediterranean of IOM in Italy, at least 962 migrants had died so far this year as of August 13, along the Mediterranean routes, with 675 dead in the Central Mediterranean, 155 in the Western Mediterranean and 132 in the Eastern Mediterranean. As per Euronews, citing UNHCR data, in the first half of 2025, Italy received 30,060 refugees and migrants by sea, marking a 16 per cent rise compared to the same period last 2014, the Central Mediterranean route has been identified by the IOM as the deadliest in the world, with over 25,260 people reported dead or missing, with many lost at IOM warns the actual death toll could be higher, as numerous cases go unreported. Most fatalities involve small boats departing from Tunisia and per Euronews, one of the Mediterranean's deadliest shipwrecks occurred on October 3, 2013, when a boat leaving Libya capsized near Lampedusa, killing at least 368 people. The tragedy sparked widespread outrage, prompting Italy to establish an annual day of remembrance for victims of that disaster and other fatal maritime accidents that year. (ANI)
Motor 1
22-05-2025
- Automotive
- Motor 1
This Quad-Turbo V-12 Hypercar Aims To Take on Pagani
The R&D center of Giamaro Automobili smells like drying paint. In the small Emilia-Romagna town of Cavezzo, Italy, a half-hour from Modena, workers are busily preparing this former medical-supplies factory for the launch of the Katla, the first hypercar from a brand-new challenger to the Italian establishment. They're a week out, yet kindly opened the doors for Motor1 to see what they're up to. What they're up to is remarkable. A brand-new hypercar, with one of the craziest engines we've ever seen: A quad-turbocharged 7.0-liter V-12 capable of 2,128 horsepower and 1,481 pound-feet of torque. In a car with a seven-speed manual gearbox and only two driven wheels. Giamaro Automobili Katla Photo by: Giamaro Automobili On paper, it seems like it shouldn't be real. But in one room of Giamaro's facility, workers are prepping a yellow production-representative prototype that'll star in the reveal event, and in another, engineers fire up a naked Katla and drive it around the parking lot. Giamaro is the product of the Commendatore family. Father Giacomo runs a successful mattress business and is a prominent car collector. He was also one of the original backers of Pagani, helping make the Zonda a reality. His son Pierfranceso is an enthusiast, too, and he's running the day-to-day operations of the company. "We tried to give our car, our product, a specific identity, and create a deep connection between driver and machine, something that doesn't exist yet," Giacomo says through an interpreter. "We insisted a lot on this aspect because emotion is the key of it all," adds Pierfranceso. Photo by: Chris Perkins / Motor1 Photo by: Chris Perkins / Motor1 Photo by: Chris Perkins / Motor1 Heading up engineering is a supercar legend, Loris Bicocchi, who started his career at Lamborghini in the 1970s, joined the revived Italian-owned Bugatti in the 1990s, and went on to work as a hired gun for Pagani, Koenigsegg, Dallara, and once again, Bugatti. Bicocchi's credits include the Countach, Diablo, EB110, Zonda, CCX, Veyron, and Chiron. At the R&D center during my visit, he's in the trenches with other engineers, prepping the mule car to test the optional seven-speed dual-clutch. Photo by: Chris Perkins / Motor1 'We tried to give our car, our product, a specific identity, and create a deep connection between driver and machine, something that doesn't exist yet.' Giamaro is headquartered right in Italy's famous Motor Valley, home to Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Pagani, and Ducati. There's a wealth of talent to draw on, like Bicocchi, and suppliers to turn the Commendatores' dreams into reality. It's planning on building its first vehicles at the Cavezzo R&D center, but it also purchased a plot of land in Castlefranco Emilia—which sits about halfway between Modena and Bologna—for a larger, more permanent factory. The Katla is based around a carbon-fiber monocoque which, somewhat unusually, doesn't use a separate rear subframe for the suspension. Sizewise, it's longer, lower, and wider than a C8 Corvette Z06, and Giamaro claims a weight of just 3,200 pounds. The suspension is beautiful, CNC-milled aluminum double wishbones all around and inboard coil springs with adaptive dampers. Giamaro also employs a heave spring, which further helps control vertical body motion. It's actually an electronically adjustable heave spring, which we've never seen before in a road car. Giamaro Katla Prototype Photo by: Chris Perkins / Motor1 Giamaro Katla Prototype Photo by: Chris Perkins / Motor1 Giamaro has some serious partners lined up. One of the most important is Bridgestone, which the company is working with to develop a bespoke set of Potenza Sport tires measuring 265/35ZR20 front and 345/30ZR21 rear. Still, it's the engine that's the highlight here. Giamaro developed it in tandem with engineering firm Italtecnica, which it owns a stake in. The Turin shop is best known for making engines for a variety of restomod cars, like the Kimero EVO37 and Nardone Automotives' reinterpretation of the Porsche 928. It uses gear-driven camshafts and a hot-vee arrangement, with four turbos arranged within the 120-degree valley of the vee. This hot-vee setup helps with throttle response, as does the fact that each turbo works on just three cylinders of the V-12. Photo by: Chris Perkins / Motor1 The Katla will have three keys, each corresponding to a different power level. The white key is a sort of valet key, limiting power to between 394 and 789 horsepower; the black key is for daily use, limiting power to just 1,647 horsepower; the red key unlocks the full potential. Color and trim personalization is big in supercars/hypercars today, but Giamaro wants to offer an even deeper level of customization. The customer will work with Bicocchi and his team to define exactly how their Katla drives. Photo by: Chris Perkins / Motor1 "Every single detail of the car is completely personalizable and adjustable," Giacomo says. "So if you want a car that feels like a Ferrari, then slightly changes and gets to the feeling of a Porsche and then of a Bugatti, we can make it happen because every single component allows us to adjust suspensions, the dampers, the balance, the steering. And with the [heave spring], it enables us to have pretty much infinite regulations of the setup." We don't know pricing, but Giamaro has deposits for the first year of production, plans to build 30 cars per year, and more products in the pipeline. Naturally, there's an open-top version of the Katla, and more intriguingly, the Albor, a high-riding, rear-drive two-door coupe. And the product plan extends into the 2030s. 46 Source: Giamaro Automobili The Latest From Italy Horacio Pagani Makes the Impossible, Possible Driving the Pagani Utopia Share this Story Facebook X LinkedIn Flipboard Reddit WhatsApp E-Mail Got a tip for us? Email: tips@ Join the conversation ( )
Business Mayor
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Mayor
Rachel Roddy's recipe for courgette, onion and chickpea flour bake, or scarpaccia
L ike millions of people all over the world, ideas are often planted in my head by a couple called Alessandro Vitale and Iasmina P, whose fast-paced videos document recipes they have developed based on the vegetables they grow, with the objective of using absolutely everything. Edited for social media, their videos are designed not just to attract, but to trap attention in a TikTok spell, then communicate a rush of information in a matter of seconds. However, within the well-calculated rush of decisive movements and fishbowl close-ups, Alessandro (otherwise known as Spicy Moustache) is a hugely likable, calm and good teacher. For months now, his enthusiastic and entertaining approach to a vegetable or process has sent me into the kitchen to grate something and rub it with salt, to turn into a fritter or cake. 'Such a vivid thing for us today,' is what Jane Grigson said about the ideas of Giacomo Castelvetro, the 16th-century proponent of vegetables and author of The Fruit, Herbs and Vegetables of Italy (1614), and I think the same can be said about Alessandro. In fact, Giacomo and Alessandro have a huge amount in common. Born almost four centuries apart, as well as 100 miles apart in Modena and Verona, they both developed a love of vegetables at a young age; moved to England; and became keen gardeners determined to share practical, simple and elegant ways of preparing vegetables. I have long been a fan of Giacomo, even more so now that I have put him in a complementary relationship with Alessandro; the two provide me with multi-dimensional inspiration. I am just sorry they can't co-present a TV show. Their double act inspiration this week is scarpaccia , which means old shoe, apparently – a clear image for the thickness of the final dish. It was Alessandro's quick-paced video that taught me about this baked courgette dish, of which there are endless variations, but two broad forms. First, a sweet version, often called torta dolce di verdura , a sweet cake of vegetables made from equal quantities of flour and courgettes, along with basil, sugar and yeast. Thenthere is the savoury scarpaccia, typical of the province of Lucca (and in particular the town of Camaiore), for which thinly sliced courgettes and their flowers are baked for about an hour in a batter of egg, flour and cheese. I have taken inspiration from all the above, plus Castelvetro's fritters, for this version that tastes like a cross between chickpea flour pancakes (I am thinking here of Italian farinata or Indian besan ka chilla ) and vegetable and chickpea flour fritters, such as pakoras. Looking again to Giacomo and Alessandro for inspiration, a grated cabbage, beetroot and apple salad with feta would be good here, as would a green salad dressed according to Castelvetro's sacred law of salads: plenty of salt, generous amounts of oil and a little vinegar. Courgette, onion and chickpea flour bake ( la scarpaccia camaiorese) 1kg courgettes, with flowers, if possible 1 bunch spring onions 2 heaped tbsp chickpea (gram) flour 1 heaped tbsp grated parmesan Salt and freshly ground black pepper Extra-virgin olive oil You need a nonstick, roughly 36cm x 20cm baking tray, with a lip. Using a mandoline, the cheese slicer of a box grater or a sharp knife, slice the courgettes and onions (both white and green parts) into thin rounds. If you have courgette flowers, roughly chop them. Put the sliced vegetables (but not the flowers) in a colander or sieve sitting on a plate and sprinkle over two teaspoons of salt. Use your hands to scrunch the salt into the vegetables, then leave them to sit for two hours. The vegetables will release liquid as they sit, but it pays to press down, so as much liquid as possible is released on to the plate (reserve the liquid for now). Put the sliced vegetables and flowers in a bowl and add the chickpea flour, parmesan, some salt and a few grinds of pepper, and toss everything together. It may be that there is still enough moisture in the vegetables that the flour coats them with a sticky, batter-like texture; if not, add a little of the reserved liquid and toss again. Tip the mixture into the tray and level with your hand – it should be about 1cm deep. Zigzag the top with olive oil and bake at 200C (180C fan)/390F/gas 6 for 20 minutes.
Zawya
15-04-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Grand Millennium Hotel Dubai appoints Giacomo Puntel as General Manager
Dubai, UAE: Grand Millennium Hotel Dubai is pleased to announce the appointment of Giacomo Puntel as its new General Manager. With more than three decades of international hospitality experience, Giacomo brings exceptional leadership, operational expertise, and strategic vision to the role. Giacomo has held senior management positions with globally recognized hospitality brands such as IHG Hotels & Resorts, Rixos Hotels & Resorts, Anantara Hotels & Resorts, and Grosvenor House Dubai. He is renowned for his hands-on leadership style, operational excellence, and a consistent focus on enhancing guest satisfaction and experience. Most recently, Giacomo served as General Manager at Voco Bonnington Dubai, where he successfully led a team of over 200 employees. Under his leadership, the property achieved strong performance improvements and elevated guest satisfaction scores. His earlier roles include Resort Manager and Director of Food & Beverage at various prestigious properties across the UAE. He also brings extensive experience in hotel pre-openings, concept development, and profitability management. 'It is a privilege to join Grand Millennium Hotel Dubai, a property with a strong reputation in the city's vibrant hospitality scene,' said Giacomo Puntel. 'I look forward to working closely with the team to build on its legacy of excellence, drive innovation across all touchpoints, and create memorable guest experiences that reflect the warmth and spirit of true hospitality.' Giacomo holds a Master's degree in Hotel Management from Università Bocconi di Milano and has completed executive programs at Cornell University, focusing on strategic decision-making, innovation, and competitive advantage. His contributions to the industry have earned him several awards, including 'Hospitality Heavyweight of the Year' and 'Leading Food & Beverage Director' at regional hospitality award ceremonies. With his appointment, Grand Millennium Hotel Dubai is confident in its continued commitment to delivering outstanding guest service and operational excellence under Giacomo's leadership.
