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Daily Mail
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Made In Chelsea's Olivia Bentley shows off her chiseled abs in a tiny bikini for racy snap
Olivia Bentley ensured all eyes were on her with her latest Instagram post on Thursday. The former Made In Chelsea star, 29, posed up a storm in a tiny paisley-print bikini that showed off her incredible figure. The daring two-piece featured a baby blue waist and strap detailing and she accessorised with dainty jewellery. Olivia shielded her eyes with a pair of black sunglasses as she struck a pose for the sexy snap. She simply captioned the post with a sun emoji. Last month, Olivia showcased her washboard abs in a skimpy bikini as she shared an album of snaps to Instagram. The reality star wowed in a khaki two-piece which featured a golden ring design. To accessorise, Olivia kept it simple with a dainty gold chain necklace which matched her thick gold bangle. She finished her beachy look with a pair of large aviator spectacles and opted for a sun kissed no-makeup look. Olivia showcased her natural beauty as she lifted her luminous blonde tresses into a chic middle-parted up-do. It appeared to remind her fans of her time on Made In Chelsea as they flocked to her comments to say they miss her on the show. One penned: 'Beautiful women so much on MIC'; 'Miss you on made in chelsea'. And while her fans may have confessed that they miss the reality star on the show, she recently revealed the 'real reason' why she left. She found fame on the reality programme back in 2016 and has decided to take a break from filming the E4 show after eight years. A spokesperson said Olivia wanted to focus on her own business Jomo after her relationship breakdown with Tristan Phipps last year. However, the TV personality has now said one factor played a major role in her realise it was time for a break. Speaking with Pop Sugar, Olivia said: 'I was struggling with deciding whether to stay on the show or not. 'The last series was really hard and speaking honestly, I was drinking a lot more than I normally do. I was drinking unnecessarily and to mask sadness. 'I was relying on booze to give me energy, make me feel happier, give me confidence — all the wrong reasons. 'I was trying to bring the energy to be the Liv that everyone thought I was but inside, I was really unhappy, and that's why I stopped drinking. 'But I'm still close with my friends who are on the show and our friendships have stayed the same.' Earlier this year, a source told The Sun that Olivia was tired of being at the front of all the drama on the hit reality show. They said: 'Liv has been at the forefront of all the drama for years - she's been there the longest out of everyone. 'It's been hard-going in recent series with her relationship with Tristan breaking down and she realised she needs to take a step back for her own good. 'She's in a really great place and still loves the show so is taking a step back for now. There's some new stars joining the cast who are ready and raring to shake things up a bit.' A Channel 4 spokesman confirmed earlier this year: 'Liv Bentley has been sharing her life with Made in Chelsea audiences for the past eight years and is now taking a short but well-earned break from the series to focus on her business – JOMO. 'We look forward to welcoming her back to the show later this year.' Liv has been on the show since series 11 back in 2016, starting off as a previous fling of Sam Thompson. She went on to be a central character on the show, with her on-and-off relationship with Tristan, 28, being a hugely dramatic storyline. She is believed to be currently single after the couple split once and for all last year, with the messy breakup was documented on the Channel 4 show. Both stars moved on with other partners, with Liv dating David Templer before realising she wasn't ready for another relationship.
Irish Examiner
26-04-2025
- Lifestyle
- Irish Examiner
Colin Sheridan: My son's Fomo is so strong, he wants to attend Pope's funeral
I learned a new phrase this week. One that perfectly reflects my current zeitgeist. Jomo — or joy of missing out. It is the antonym of Fomo (fear of missing out), a term which aptly applies to my 10-year-old son, and, if anecdotal evidence is anything to go by, 10-year-olds generally. He chooses to live life like he's the human embodiment of a Hemingway sentence, wanting to do everything, all the time, and all at once. Experiencing life to the fullest, etc. If his life was a book, he's adamant it'll be a bestseller, especially on a mundane Monday in March when there's nothing going on, but he's absolutely convinced there is, and we are missing out on it. In that context, we had a difficult conversation this week when I explained to him, we wouldn't be flying to Rome for Pope Francis's funeral but would be cutting grass instead. He loves nothing more than a gathering and the thoughts that other people are having craic in the Vatican will drive him nuts until the white smoke appears and the crowds disperse. That said, he will placate his need for speed and find some good in the grass cutting. Though I'm now reformed, I think I'm to blame for his Fomo, because I too was crippled as a kid with wanting to be everywhere, all the time, all at once. If my brothers were at the bog with my dad, I wanted to be with them. If, on the way to the bog, I passed my friends on the green kicking ball, I'd execute a combat roll out of a moving car to ditch my brothers and join in the football. I'd beg for hours to have sleepovers with my cousins, and the moment after my parents would call my bluff and leave, I'd run out the gate to give chase lest they go and have some fun without me. I think it's one of the reasons I liked school so much. I was no star pupil, but, because everyone I knew was there, I was content that nothing of any consequence could be going on anywhere else. Mercifully, it has softened to the point that social gatherings now represent an opportunity to experience — not Fomo, but Jomo — a very bespoke joy in not being where everyone else is. It may sound antisocial and introverted, but I revel in the notion that people are going places to do things, and I am not. I realise the invitations may dry up after this, but when they are first issued (especially by way of hastily convened WhatsApp groups), I don't even get anxious about turning them down. I feel excited about all the ways I won't go to things. I enjoy plotting my own version of the Irish Exit, one where I don't even show up in the first place. Maybe I've tested and tasted too much. Maybe, like my son, I went too hard, too fast, too soon, and was burned out by my late 20s. I consider myself lucky that social media was not for me the narcotic it now is for kids, because Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, are all fuelled by FoMO and the notion that everybody else's life is better than yours, and everyone is having fun in the place you are not. For me it may have been my brothers at the bog, for teenagers today, it's their friends on a phone screen, seemingly having fun without them. Recently, Peruvian journalist Guillermo Galdos travelled to the Amazon to document the effect the arrival of the internet (through Elon Musk's Starlink) was having on young indigenous kids, who, until then, had never been online. Peruvian journalist Guillermo Galdos travelled to the Amazon to document the effect the arrival of the internet was having on young indigenous kids. The footage of one boy rocking on his hammock scrolling absentmindedly, is oddly jarring. Of course, we need not travel to the Brazilian rainforest to see evidence of abject brain-rot, but there's something profoundly unsettling in watching a child become hooked on a drug in real time. I only came to learn in writing this column that FoMO has been a widely discussed phenomenon in medicine and mental health for over 20 years. Though we make light of it, its worst manifestations present as a range of negative emotions and feelings related to the need to belong. With social media now so nefariously ubiquitous, maybe it's time we took Jomo more seriously, and intentionally set about equipping our children to seek the joy that can be found in missing out on stuff. Nothing beats being there, so the catchphrase goes, but, depending on the 'there,' I'd beg to differ.
