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Perth Now
28-05-2025
- Perth Now
Search for missing teen bound for WA grinds to a halt
The search for missing teenager Pheobe Bishop in Good Night Scrub National Park has been suspended after five days. The teen was last seen on May 15, travelling towards Bundaberg airport, however, she failed to board the plane and has not been seen since. Police began their search of the national park on May 23, and expanded the operation after they found evidence may have been moved from the Good Night Scrub area prior to their arrival. Some items of interest have been located during the search and will undergo forensic examination. Police said on Wednesday the investigation was 'ongoing' and that 'police are continuing to run out several lines of enquiry'. 'In addition to investigative work, physical searches will continue as needed and as information is provided,' a spokesman said. 'The greater Gin Gin area remains the focus of the investigation.' The search for Pheobe Bishop has been suspended. Credit: News Corp Australia The 17-year-old was last seen on May 15. Picture facebook Credit: Supplied More to come. Pheobe's tragic final posts emerged this week, revealing she had decided to not return to her family home. A post on missing Gin Gin teenager Pheobe Bishop's TikTok has given insight into the 17-year-old's outlook on life before she disappeared. In a post timestamped March 31 – just two weeks before the teenager mysteriously vanished – Pheobe revealed that she had been 'in and out' of home for years, but 'this time we're not going back'. Pheobe was living with two housemates at a property in Gin Gin before her disappearance. Her post was part of a wider trend dubbed 'coffee with my younger self', where people shared a hypothetical conversation between their current and younger self to demonstrate personal growth and development. The last social media post from missing teen Pheobe Bishop. TikTok Credit: Supplied In the post, she references that she had an estranged relationship with her mother, writing that 'we don't see nor talk to her but it's better like this'. She wrote that she was a proud sibling and aunty but felt she had to leave home to prioritise herself. 'Baby we will always need them, but we need to find us more then (sic) anything or anyone,' she wrote The long text concludes with the line, 'I really hope I meet my younger self for coffee again soon', while Adele's Hometown Glory plays in the background. The post has been flooded with comments from concerned friends and followers, with many writing that they are praying that Pheobe returns home safe. The account also shows that Pheobe recently reposted a video published by a different user captioned 'my roman empire is how people who go 'missing' are still somewhere here on this earth, and just no one knows where'. A post Pheobe Bishop re-shared before her disappearance. TikTok Credit: Supplied Pheobe spoke candidly about her experiences and challenges on her TikTok account, including alluding to a break-up. Police said the teen had been booked to travel to Western Australia via Brisbane to visit her boyfriend, but she never checked in for the flight. She posted a video to the song The Man Who Can't Be Moved by The Script in December 2024, captioned 'i miss seeing ur face, and i miss seeing you in random places'. 'I'm not built for this town, these aren't my people. So b4 [before] you try n get close to me jus (sic) don't. I refuse to rot,' she wrote in a separate post on March 25. In another TikTok, she wrote 'life teaching me a lot right now'. Pheobe's mother Kylie Johnson wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday that the family was waiting for her daughter to come home. 'Finding it hard to get out of bed today. To find the strength to put one foot in front of the other and know what to do, what to think or what to say,' she wrote. 'People have judgements, accusations and continue say untruths. I'm not going to correct you or be investing what little strength I have to be correcting these statements or people. 'We as a family are just trying to go through the motions of waiting for Phee to come home.' Police and SES continue to search Good Night Scrub National Park for the missing teen. Adam Head/ NewsWire Credit: News Corp Australia
West Australian
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Haunting last posts by missing teen Pheobe Bishop emerge
Missing teenager Pheobe Bishop's tragic final posts have emerged, revealing she had decided to not return to her family home. A post on missing Gin Gin teenager Pheobe Bishop's TikTok has given insight into the 17-year-old's outlook on life before she disappeared. In a post timestamped March 31 – just two weeks before the teenager mysteriously vanished – Pheobe revealed that she had been 'in and out' of home for years, but 'this time we're not going back'. Pheobe was living with two housemates at a property in Gin Gin before her disappearance. Her post was part of a wider trend dubbed 'coffee with my younger self', where people shared a hypothetical conversation between their current and younger self to demonstrate personal growth and development. In the post, she references that she had an estranged relationship with her mother, writing that 'we don't see nor talk to her but it's better like this'. She wrote that she was a proud sibling and aunty but felt she had to leave home to prioritise herself. 'Baby we will always need them, but we need to find us more then (sic) anything or anyone,' she wrote The long text concludes with the line, 'I really hope I meet my younger self for coffee again soon', while Adele's Hometown Glory plays in the background. The post has been flooded with comments from concerned friends and followers, with many writing that they are praying that Pheobe returns home safe. The account also shows that Pheobe recently reposted a video published by a different user captioned 'my roman empire is how people who go 'missing' are still somewhere here on this earth, and just no one knows where'. Pheobe spoke candidly about her experiences and challenges on her TikTok account, including alluding to a break-up. Police said the teen had been booked to travel to Western Australia via Brisbane to visit her boyfriend, but she never checked in for the flight. She posted a video to the song The Man Who Can't Be Moved by The Script in December 2024, captioned 'i miss seeing ur face, and i miss seeing you in random places'. 'I'm not built for this town, these aren't my people. So b4 [before] you try n get close to me jus (sic) don't. I refuse to rot,' she wrote in a separate post on March 25. In another TikTok, she wrote 'life teaching me a lot right now'. Pheobe's mother Kylie Johnson wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday that the family was waiting for her daughter to come home. 'Finding it hard to get out of bed today. To find the strength to put one foot in front of the other and know what to do, what to think or what to say,' she wrote. 'People have judgements, accusations and continue say untruths. I'm not going to correct you or be investing what little strength I have to be correcting these statements or people. 'We as a family are just trying to go through the motions of waiting for Phee to come home.' The posts have emerged as police continue to search the greater Good Night Scrub National Park and the Gin Gin areas for Pheobe Some items of interest have been located during the search and will undergo forensic examination.
Perth Now
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
‘Not going back': Missing teen's last posts
Missing teenager Pheobe Bishop's tragic final posts have emerged, revealing she had decided to not return to her family home. A post on missing Gin Gin teenager Pheobe Bishop's TikTok has given insight into the 17-year-old's outlook on life before she disappeared. In a post timestamped March 31 – just two weeks before the teenager mysteriously vanished – Pheobe revealed that she had been 'in and out' of home for years, but 'this time we're not going back'. Pheobe was living with two housemates at a property in Gin Gin before her disappearance. Her post was part of a wider trend dubbed 'coffee with my younger self', where people shared a hypothetical conversation between their current and younger self to demonstrate personal growth and development. The last social media post from missing teen Pheobe Bishop. TikTok Credit: Supplied In the post, she references that she had an estranged relationship with her mother, writing that 'we don't see nor talk to her but it's better like this'. She wrote that she was a proud sibling and aunty but felt she had to leave home to prioritise herself. 'Baby we will always need them, but we need to find us more then (sic) anything or anyone,' she wrote The long text concludes with the line, 'I really hope I meet my younger self for coffee again soon', while Adele's Hometown Glory plays in the background. The post has been flooded with comments from concerned friends and followers, with many writing that they are praying that Pheobe returns home safe. The account also shows that Pheobe recently reposted a video published by a different user captioned 'my roman empire is how people who go 'missing' are still somewhere here on this earth, and just no one knows where'. A post Pheobe Bishop re-shared before her disappearance. TikTok Credit: Supplied Pheobe spoke candidly about her experiences and challenges on her TikTok account, including alluding to a break-up. Police said the teen had been booked to travel to Western Australia via Brisbane to visit her boyfriend, but she never checked in for the flight. She posted a video to the song The Man Who Can't Be Moved by The Script in December 2024, captioned 'i miss seeing ur face, and i miss seeing you in random places'. 'I'm not built for this town, these aren't my people. So b4 [before] you try n get close to me jus (sic) don't. I refuse to rot,' she wrote in a separate post on March 25. In another TikTok, she wrote 'life teaching me a lot right now'. Pheobe's mother Kylie Johnson wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday that the family was waiting for her daughter to come home. 'Finding it hard to get out of bed today. To find the strength to put one foot in front of the other and know what to do, what to think or what to say,' she wrote. 'People have judgements, accusations and continue say untruths. I'm not going to correct you or be investing what little strength I have to be correcting these statements or people. 'We as a family are just trying to go through the motions of waiting for Phee to come home.' Police and SES continue to search Good Night Scrub National Park for the missing teen. Adam Head/ NewsWire Credit: News Corp Australia The posts have emerged as police continue to search the greater Good Night Scrub National Park and the Gin Gin areas for Pheobe Some items of interest have been located during the search and will undergo forensic examination.
Forbes
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Probably Needed A Hug' Trends On TikTok. Here's What It Shows
People have been posting videos on TikTok using the catchphrase 'probably needed a hug' to show ... More times when they probably needed said hug but instead ended up getting or doing something else. (Photo: Getty) In the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer, one of the characters Sammy explained, 'What I'm saying is all I really want is someone to hold me and tell me that everything is going to be all right.' Well, there's a TikTok trend and hashtag, #probablyneededahug, that's sort of in line with that. People have been posting videos using the catchphrase 'probably needed a hug' to show times when they probably needed said hug but instead ended up getting or doing something else. Many of these video posts have Adele's "Hometown Glory" blaring as background music and do highlight the glory of the warm embrace. They also do shed some more light on how people are doing in their hometowns and everywhere else these days. The hug replacements in the TikTok videos do range from the simple to the sensitive to the satirical to the sarcastic. Some of the videos have showcased stuff that people are doing to bring themselves comfort and joy like traveling, dancing, running or shopping, the last of which should make many businesses smile. For example, it looks like @amayacrichton got something to 'matcha' her mood, so to speak, here: From TikTok Another example from @theogsnail was very bunny: From TikTok Alternatively, there were those hug-alternatives that seemed to bring some 'pressions,' not impressions but more like suppression or repression of what people really wanted. For example, @fiftyshadesofmomlife stated that she probably needed a hug 'but put on fake smile instead and continued pretending I was OK,' here: From TikTok Others followed the 'probably needed a hug' catchphrase with things like 'detached and learnt to never need someone else instead' and 'doesn't like talking about her feelings so always pretends that everything is OK.' This just in: people tend to like hugs. That's as long as it isn't a bear hug to keep them away from their smartphones. Hugs can make you feel closer to someone else. After all, you you kind of have to be in close physical proximity to hug each other unless it is one of those fake 'air hugs.' Plus, when you hug someone, you tend to do so in an affectionate manner with other accompanying signs of affection, rather than saying, 'I am going to knock all your teeth out as soon as we are done this hug.' Moreover, studies have shown hugs to be associated with increased levels of oxytocin, the so-called 'cuddle hormone,' in your blood. Oxytocin is a chemical messenger that originates in your hypothalamus and remains stored in your posterior pituitary gland, until it is ready to be released into your bloodstream. Since your hypothalamus and pituitary gland are located in your head in your brain and oxytocin is also one of the so-called 'happiness hormones,' it can be accurate in a way to say that happiness is all in your head. Oxytocin can play a range of different roles in your body. For example, it can help your uterus contract during labor and childbirth and your breasts produce milk. But that doesn't mean that you have to have a baby to benefit from the secretion of oxytocin. This chemical messenger seems to play a key role in the whole recognition-trust-bonding-attachment thing. For example, a study published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology found new lovers tended to have higher blood oxytocin levels than singles. Moreover, oxytocin levels were higher among those in relationships with higher versus lower amounts of affection and reciprocity. Other studies have shown that higher oxytocin levels correlate with drops in blood pressure and levels of the stress hormone norepinephrine. There are also studies that have shown how hugs can be protective against things like fear, pain and illness. For example, a study published in the journal Psychological Science found that people who reported getting more hugs were less likely to have had upper respiratory illnesses. Now, this doesn't mean that you should replace vaccinations and hand-washing with hugs. But it does suggest that one's susceptibility to infection could be associated in some way with social support or the lack thereof. With all of the above, the question then is how many people these days are actually getting all the hugs that they want or need. I've written in Forbes in 2018 and again in 2023 about how loneliness has been a major, growing and under-addressed problem since the 1980s. When he was the U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy. MD, MBA, published in May 2022 a report entitled, 'Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community' The report provided a lot of evidence that people are feeling less and less socially connected with others nowadays. And in this case, socially connected doesn't refer to the number of followers you have on social media or the number of likes that the post of you dropping heavy items on your foot got on TikTok. This may be leaving a lot of people wanting true real-life social connection but then having to suppress or repress that desire because they feel like only skeletons are around, with 'no-body' around to hug, so to speak. Suppression is when you consciously bury a desire, feeling or need. Repression is when you unconsciously do so. Both are not great ways to proceed in the long run. Burying your true feelings can be like having your cat do your taxes. Sure, your cat may look rather nonchalant about it. But who knows what problems may emerge in the future. So, while the 'probably needed a hug' trend might be offering some interesting and neat things to do for fun and entertainment, many of these cannot truly replace genuine human connection like a hug.
Forbes
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Adele's First Hit Reaches A New All-Time Peak
Adele's debut single 'Hometown Glory' returns to the U.K. top 40 nearly two decades after its ... More release, thanks to renewed streaming and fan interest. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 05: Adele attends the 65th GRAMMY Awards at Arena on February 05, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo byfor The Recording Academy) Adele isn't in any rush to release new music. The singer has made it clear that she's focusing on other aspects of her life, and fans likely won't hear a brand new album from her anytime soon. Still, her followers haven't stopped listening. In fact, they're digging into her earliest work, and one song from the very beginning of her career is suddenly taking off once more. Nearly two decades after its initial release, 'Hometown Glory' is a hit again in Adele's home country. The cut, which introduced her to the world and kicked off what would become one of the most impressive careers in modern music, is growing across multiple rankings in the United Kingdom this week. The biggest moment for Adele and her debut single this week comes on the Official Singles chart, which ranks the most-consumed songs in the U.K. using a formula that blends sales and streaming data. 'Hometown Glory' reappears on the 100-spot list at No. 31, surging back into the top 40 after years away. While the track is performing best on the Official Singles chart, it's also doing especially well on another important list. 'Hometown Glory' climbs on the Official Streaming chart, which only looks at the most-played tracks on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music throughout the U.K. Last week, the title was already present at No. 97. This frame, it rockets to No. 52. That new placement now ranks as the track's highest position ever on the streaming-only roster. 'Hometown Glory' originally peaked at No. 19 on the Official Singles chart, back when Adele was still introducing herself to the British public. It spent 30 weeks on that tally, while the composition has only managed three weeks on the streaming chart so far, but its latest rise could extend that stay considerably. 'Hometown Glory' was released in October 2007, meaning it's not far away from celebrating its twentieth anniversary. At the time, Adele was a teenager, and the song served as the first official taste of what would become her debut album, 19 — a set that would go on to change everything for her.
