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Daily Mirror
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Geordie Shore's Kyle Christie marries fiancée in stunning Italian ceremony
Geordie Shore star Kyle Christie and his partner, Vicky Turner, tied the knot in Italy. The couple shared glimpses of the big day with fans on social media Geordie Shore star Kyle Christie has officially tied the knot with wife, Vicky Turner, with his MTV co-stars attending the lavish bash in Italy, minus his ex-girlfriend. The TV personality and his model wife chose Rome as their destination wedding and invited a number of his co-stars to the capital to enjoy the ceremony. They legally got married back home in December. The likes of Nathan Henry, James Tindale, Sophie Kasaei, Chloe Ferry and Jordan Brook were in attendance. Kyle's pals shared multiple glimpses into the special day, with the reality star re-posting many moments onto his Instagram Stories for fans to witness. Kyle rocked a three-piece suit with a cream blazer and vest and black trousers. His new wife looked stunning in a low-cut mesh patterned gown with a simple veil. When they finally said their I do's, rainbow-coloured smoke shot up from behind them as they shared a kiss in front of a stunning floral arch. While walking back down the aisle, the guests threw petals over the happy couple before Kyle stopped to steal another smooch from his bride as the crowd cheered. The couple walked back up the steps of the gorgeous venue where round tables were set up ready for the festivites. A live band clapped and cheered for the couple as they went back inside. For the reception, Vicky changed into a form-fitting glittering backless gown with a low neckline. Kyle switched his cream vest and blazer for black ones. One friend filmed them huddled close together as they sliced the wedding cake while a Coldplay song played in the background. Of course, it wouldn't be a British event without the night ending with more drinks and an impromptu karaoke session, which saw the guests belting out the lyrics to Sweet Caroline. Kyle shared a number of professional shots to his page and his famous friends rushed to the comment section to congratulate the newly weds on their special day. "Oh wow congratulations both of you what a beautiful day!" Charlotte Crosby said and Sophie posting: "What an amazing day thank you for letting us be a part of it you are officially a Pinterest mood board." James commented: "The most perfect wedding to ever exist wow. Thank you for letting me be a part of your special day," and Holly Hagan added: "Congratulations to you both." Jordan, who was in attendance, posted: "What a day! So so happy for you, Congratulations, love you both." Holly, who previously dated Kyle, wasn't at the wedding. A source confirmed she wouldn't be there after rumours started swirling that the big day was being filmed for Geordie Shore. A source told The Sun at the time: "It's not that there is bad blood between them, as the relationship ended a long time ago, but they don't really have much to do with each other out of filming group scenes. "Holly wouldn't be someone Kyle would add to the guest list."
Sydney Morning Herald
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
‘A lot of wacky stuff goes on': Eric Bana goes wild, again, for Netflix murder mystery
A brooding cop, troubled by his past. Stunning wilderness. Long-held secrets in a tight-knit community. A murder investigation. Eric Bana. Share these details with an Identikit artist, and you'll probably get something that looks like The Dry, or its sequel Force of Nature, the Australian feature films in which Bana starred as Jane Harper's detective Aaron Falk. But that, insists the 56-year-old whose star turn on the other side of the law as Chopper Read is now, remarkably, 25 years old, would be wide of the mark. 'I just love working outdoors. It's been a pretty consistent theme, that I'm always drawn to big outdoor shows,' he says. 'But I don't think they have too much in common after that.' In Netflix's six-part crime series Untamed, Bana plays Kyle Turner, a detective with the Investigative Services Branch. 'It's kind of like the FBI of the National Park Service,' he explains of the real-life ISB. 'There aren't that many of them [investigators], and they move around from park to park, depending on the workload.' Kyle is based in Yosemite, where he's lived for years. His ex-wife Jill lives nearby, and though she has repartnered, they are bound – not especially healthily – by trauma. Neither of them can, or will, move on. When a young woman drops to her death from a cliff (almost collecting a couple of climbers along the way, in one of the more spectacular opening sequences in recent memory), Kyle suspects foul play rather than an accident. Soon, he realises the dead woman is linked to a case he had investigated many years earlier, and that the sprawling wilderness he holds dear also hides a whole range of nefarious activities besides illegal campfires. The spark for the show was lit when screenwriter Mark L. Smith read an article about a real-life crime in a park, and the ISB investigation that followed. 'And it was just like, 'We haven't seen this on film before, a murder mystery thriller investigation in a national park',' Bana says. 'That's where the idea began, and then he just started fleshing it out. 'Well, who would this person be?' Loading 'He's not based on a real character,' he hastens to add of Kyle. 'It was just the germ of the idea.' Bana is a producer as well as star of the series, and as it was in development, a real-life story was unfolding in the Australian wilderness – the so-called High Country Murders of Russell Hill and Carol Clay, for which former Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn was ultimately convicted. For Bana, that duality of the remote wilderness was part of the appeal of the Untamed story. 'A lot of wacky stuff goes on, and that plays into the psyche,' he says. 'Even if you love the outdoors, there's the element that you always feel a little bit exposed.' There's the natural aspect – which, in Australia, often means the threat of bushfire or flooding or extreme heat or cold, or simply wandering off track and becoming hopelessly lost. 'But then there's also that thing of, well, what if there's someone else out here? What about the humans, you know? So on a subconscious level, I think everyone relates to that, and we definitely were trying to tap into that.' Bana read a script for the first episode in 2018, and was immediately onboard. But it took years to get it made. Why the delay? Loading 'COVID, strikes, trends, quality, making sure we had everything right. Just all the normal things – and the abnormal ones. I've lived with Kyle for a long, long time, probably one of the longest gestation periods I've had for a character.' ISB officers generally 'don't work as part of a massive team, and they are often highly skilled in their particular areas, used to working alone', Bana says. And Kyle has that lone-wolf vibe dialled up to 11. Basically, he just doesn't like people very much, himself included. Though the park is a major character too, the series was actually shot in Canada's Whistler, which Bana had previously visited on skiing holidays with his wife and kids a couple of times, but had never seen in the warmer months. 'In the middle of summer you can't get into Yosemite because of the tourists, and the restrictions,' he says. 'We just had more freedom of movement in British Columbia.' For Bana, much of that movement was done on the back of a horse. He first learnt to ride for Troy, more than 20 years ago. 'That was a pretty intensive training period because we were bareback, no stirrups for that film. So from there, everything's pretty easy afterwards.' Sometimes he'd get to set in the backwoods by car, sometimes by chairlift. And on one memorable day, he and co-star Sam Neill rode their horses to location. Loading 'They weren't in the scene, we were just using them as transpo,' he says of their trusty steeds. 'He's not even on camera today, my guy, but I'm using his saddlebag for packing some stuff. You'd just pinch yourself every day you were up on a horse on top of a mountain somewhere at the back of Whistler, and realise it was actually a job. It's just amazing.' Untamed marks Bana's second TV series out of the States, following Dirty John (based on the true-crime podcast) in 2018. Those with long memories will recall that he got his start as part of the cast of sketch-comedy show Full Frontal in the mid-1990s, had a brief eponymous solo show, Eric, from 1996, and played Joe Sabatini in the ABC's weeknight serial Something in the Air in the early 2000s. But post- Chopper, he has almost exclusively been a movie actor. Untamed doesn't represent a major shift, he insists. 'It doesn't feel that different. I mean, there are some days when you feel like, 'OK, we're really having to go quickly', but generally, there's not a huge difference between making a TV show and making a movie. ' On Dirty John, we had one director over the eight episodes, so that just felt like a big film. This, because I worked so closely with [creators] Mark and Elle, felt like a big film shoot, with three directors. It was amazing and incredible to work on and to put together an incredible cast for this.' That includes Rosemarie DeWitt (Mad Men, United States of Tara, The Boys) as Kyle's ex-wife, Jill, and Lily Santiago (La Brea) as Kyle's offsider Naya Vasquez. And, of course, it includes Sam Neill, aka The Prop (see the NZ actor and winemaker's prolific social media output for further detail). 'Sam Neill's a legend,' Bana proclaims happily. But, remarkably, this was the first time the pair had ever worked together. In fact, he adds, 'We'd never even met prior to this project, ever been in the same room. 'We have mutual friends, and the first day we met, we're both like, 'How is this possible?' 'He said, 'I feel like I've known you my whole life'. And I said, 'I feel the same'.' Of course, they got on like a house on fire. And, of course, Neill brought out a few bottles of his Two Paddocks pinot noir at the end of long shooting days. 'Absolutely, my word. He wasn't getting away from the job without some of that,' Bana says. But tell me, Eric – did he open the really good stuff, his top-of-the-line Fusilier, or First Paddock offerings? 'Oh,' Bana says with a laugh. 'I'm going to have to go through my picture library this afternoon and find out just how close a friend I am.'
The Age
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
‘A lot of wacky stuff goes on': Eric Bana goes wild, again, for Netflix murder mystery
A brooding cop, troubled by his past. Stunning wilderness. Long-held secrets in a tight-knit community. A murder investigation. Eric Bana. Share these details with an Identikit artist, and you'll probably get something that looks like The Dry, or its sequel Force of Nature, the Australian feature films in which Bana starred as Jane Harper's detective Aaron Falk. But that, insists the 56-year-old whose star turn on the other side of the law as Chopper Read is now, remarkably, 25 years old, would be wide of the mark. 'I just love working outdoors. It's been a pretty consistent theme, that I'm always drawn to big outdoor shows,' he says. 'But I don't think they have too much in common after that.' In Netflix's six-part crime series Untamed, Bana plays Kyle Turner, a detective with the Investigative Services Branch. 'It's kind of like the FBI of the National Park Service,' he explains of the real-life ISB. 'There aren't that many of them [investigators], and they move around from park to park, depending on the workload.' Kyle is based in Yosemite, where he's lived for years. His ex-wife Jill lives nearby, and though she has repartnered, they are bound – not especially healthily – by trauma. Neither of them can, or will, move on. When a young woman drops to her death from a cliff (almost collecting a couple of climbers along the way, in one of the more spectacular opening sequences in recent memory), Kyle suspects foul play rather than an accident. Soon, he realises the dead woman is linked to a case he had investigated many years earlier, and that the sprawling wilderness he holds dear also hides a whole range of nefarious activities besides illegal campfires. The spark for the show was lit when screenwriter Mark L. Smith read an article about a real-life crime in a park, and the ISB investigation that followed. 'And it was just like, 'We haven't seen this on film before, a murder mystery thriller investigation in a national park',' Bana says. 'That's where the idea began, and then he just started fleshing it out. 'Well, who would this person be?' Loading 'He's not based on a real character,' he hastens to add of Kyle. 'It was just the germ of the idea.' Bana is a producer as well as star of the series, and as it was in development, a real-life story was unfolding in the Australian wilderness – the so-called High Country Murders of Russell Hill and Carol Clay, for which former Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn was ultimately convicted. For Bana, that duality of the remote wilderness was part of the appeal of the Untamed story. 'A lot of wacky stuff goes on, and that plays into the psyche,' he says. 'Even if you love the outdoors, there's the element that you always feel a little bit exposed.' There's the natural aspect – which, in Australia, often means the threat of bushfire or flooding or extreme heat or cold, or simply wandering off track and becoming hopelessly lost. 'But then there's also that thing of, well, what if there's someone else out here? What about the humans, you know? So on a subconscious level, I think everyone relates to that, and we definitely were trying to tap into that.' Bana read a script for the first episode in 2018, and was immediately onboard. But it took years to get it made. Why the delay? Loading 'COVID, strikes, trends, quality, making sure we had everything right. Just all the normal things – and the abnormal ones. I've lived with Kyle for a long, long time, probably one of the longest gestation periods I've had for a character.' ISB officers generally 'don't work as part of a massive team, and they are often highly skilled in their particular areas, used to working alone', Bana says. And Kyle has that lone-wolf vibe dialled up to 11. Basically, he just doesn't like people very much, himself included. Though the park is a major character too, the series was actually shot in Canada's Whistler, which Bana had previously visited on skiing holidays with his wife and kids a couple of times, but had never seen in the warmer months. 'In the middle of summer you can't get into Yosemite because of the tourists, and the restrictions,' he says. 'We just had more freedom of movement in British Columbia.' For Bana, much of that movement was done on the back of a horse. He first learnt to ride for Troy, more than 20 years ago. 'That was a pretty intensive training period because we were bareback, no stirrups for that film. So from there, everything's pretty easy afterwards.' Sometimes he'd get to set in the backwoods by car, sometimes by chairlift. And on one memorable day, he and co-star Sam Neill rode their horses to location. Loading 'They weren't in the scene, we were just using them as transpo,' he says of their trusty steeds. 'He's not even on camera today, my guy, but I'm using his saddlebag for packing some stuff. You'd just pinch yourself every day you were up on a horse on top of a mountain somewhere at the back of Whistler, and realise it was actually a job. It's just amazing.' Untamed marks Bana's second TV series out of the States, following Dirty John (based on the true-crime podcast) in 2018. Those with long memories will recall that he got his start as part of the cast of sketch-comedy show Full Frontal in the mid-1990s, had a brief eponymous solo show, Eric, from 1996, and played Joe Sabatini in the ABC's weeknight serial Something in the Air in the early 2000s. But post- Chopper, he has almost exclusively been a movie actor. Untamed doesn't represent a major shift, he insists. 'It doesn't feel that different. I mean, there are some days when you feel like, 'OK, we're really having to go quickly', but generally, there's not a huge difference between making a TV show and making a movie. ' On Dirty John, we had one director over the eight episodes, so that just felt like a big film. This, because I worked so closely with [creators] Mark and Elle, felt like a big film shoot, with three directors. It was amazing and incredible to work on and to put together an incredible cast for this.' That includes Rosemarie DeWitt (Mad Men, United States of Tara, The Boys) as Kyle's ex-wife, Jill, and Lily Santiago (La Brea) as Kyle's offsider Naya Vasquez. And, of course, it includes Sam Neill, aka The Prop (see the NZ actor and winemaker's prolific social media output for further detail). 'Sam Neill's a legend,' Bana proclaims happily. But, remarkably, this was the first time the pair had ever worked together. In fact, he adds, 'We'd never even met prior to this project, ever been in the same room. 'We have mutual friends, and the first day we met, we're both like, 'How is this possible?' 'He said, 'I feel like I've known you my whole life'. And I said, 'I feel the same'.' Of course, they got on like a house on fire. And, of course, Neill brought out a few bottles of his Two Paddocks pinot noir at the end of long shooting days. 'Absolutely, my word. He wasn't getting away from the job without some of that,' Bana says. But tell me, Eric – did he open the really good stuff, his top-of-the-line Fusilier, or First Paddock offerings? 'Oh,' Bana says with a laugh. 'I'm going to have to go through my picture library this afternoon and find out just how close a friend I am.'
South Wales Argus
a day ago
- Business
- South Wales Argus
Goose and Cuckoo nominated for Best Pub or Bar 2025 award
The Goose and Cuckoo Inn, in Llanover, Abergavenny, has been nominated in the "Best Pub or Bar 2025" category in the Best of Southeast Wales Business Awards. A spokesperson on their Facebook page said: "WOOOHOOOO!! NOMINATED AGAIN!! Thank you to everyone who has voted for us! "Keep voting please!!" The Goose and Cuckoo Inn is up against several other nominees, including The Ship Inn Caerleon, Ponthir House Inn, and The Victoria. The pub has a rich history and a strong family connection. Current owners Kyle and Haf Williams have family ties in the village dating back more than 100 years. Originally called the New Inn, it is believed the pub acquired its current name following a disagreement between the two sisters who ran it in the 1880s. One of the sisters was called a "silly old goose" by her sibling and responded by calling her sister a "silly old cuckoo." The story was passed down through the years, and in 1947, the pub's name changed from the New Inn to the Goose and Cuckoo. As a supporter of the Temperance Movement, Lady Llanover closed every pub on her estate during the late 19th century. However, the 300-year-old Goose and Cuckoo Inn survived as it lies outside the Llanover estate boundary. The Goose and Cuckoo offers a wide variety of real ales on tap, which vary to ensure customers get top quality and choice. The Goose and Cuckoo is an award-winning pub, having been named Gwent County winner at the National Pub and Bar Awards in April and Country Pub of the Year by CAMRA for Gwent in February. Alongside its ever-growing array of awards, the Goose and Cuckoo Inn is situated in one of the most desirable places in Wales, the heart of Monmouthshire. The Goose and Cuckoo Inn is situated in one of the most desirable places in Wales, the heart of Monmouthshire. From Bridge 81, it's a decent climb up to the Goose and Cuckoo, but you'll be rewarded with magnificent views. The Best of Southeast Business Awards will be held on September 7, 2025, at The Maes Manor Hotel, Blackwood.
Daily Mirror
a day ago
- Politics
- Daily Mirror
Peter Kyle warns racists there's 'nowhere to hide' after Lioness Jess Carter faces vile abuse
Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has warned racists they have 'nowhere to hide on the internet' after England player Jess Carter faced a torrent of abuse online during the Euros Peter Kyle has warned racists they have "nowhere to hide on the internet' after England player Jess Carter faced a torrent of abuse online. The Technology Secretary told cowardly perpetrators to 'pipe down' until they're representing their country on the international stage, adding: 'At which point, maybe your voice will be worth a bit more.' He described Carter as a 'national hero' and said he was 'deeply regretful' she had faced sickening messages online. 'I'm deeply regretful she's had to experience this. It's an ugly facet of modern online life that some parts of social media incentivise the worst in people and society, not the best,' he said. Asked for his message to the abusers, Mr Kyle added: 'How about you just pipe down until you're representing England on the international stage? At which point, maybe your voice will be worth a bit more.' Over the weekend, Carter spoke out about the racial abuse she has received during the Lionesses' Euro 2025 campaign. Her teammates rallied around her, saying in a statement: "No one should have to endure such vile abuse." The team also confirmed it would ditch taking the knee before kick-off in their semi-final match against Italy today, as they said it is "clear" football needs another way to tackle racism. The FA confirmed it has contacted the police over the abuse, with officers now in touch with the relevant social media platform. Speaking to The Mirror on Monday, Mr Kyle said racism is illegal online, as it is offline, as race is a protected characteristic under the Equalities Act. But he admitted the Tories watering down the Online Safety Act hadn't helped the situation on the internet. He took aim at now-Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch, who in 2022 warned against 'legislating for hurt feelings' in criticism of the proposed law. But Mr Kyle said police have the power to track down those who are racist online - often to the surprise of abusers when they receive a knock on the door from an officer. He said: 'Race is a protected characteristic under the Equalities Act. Racism is illegal online and offline. 'There is nowhere to hide on the internet. People think there is, but there's not. So if you think that you can keep quiet about your racism in the street but propagate it online, you are wrong and this department and this government expects racism to be tackled whenever and wherever it expresses itself.' He continued: 'Some people think that life online is consequence free and that's what we have to change. Platforms have to do better but there's a lot of human beings who need to do better as they're the ones generating this content." Elsewhere Reform UK Nigel Farage earlier suggested punishment for racism should be weakened. Asked by The Mirror whether racism on social media should be taken seriously, Mr Farage said: "Abuse on social media is rife... you can have my account for a day if you like." He continued: "Of course there's a limit to free speech, people should have their wrist slapped if they behave like that." Meanwhile Reform councillor Laila Cunningham, who joined Mr Farage at a press conference yesterday, said: "Once you're a public figure, once you speak out - whether you're public or not - it just comes with the game sadly. But it's not a crime."
