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Daily Record
2 days ago
- Sport
- Daily Record
Gary Anderson shows who he really is after Stephen Bunting misses out on nine-darter
Gary Anderson can sometimes be a prickly figure in the world of darts, but the Flying Scotsman's class was on full display when he faced Stephen Bunting at the World Matchplay Gary Anderson demonstrated true sportsmanship by willing Stephen Bunting on to complete a nine-dart finish at the World Matchplay. The Flying Scotsman came up against the beloved Liverpudlian in the second round at Blackpool. Their thrilling battle saw Bunting edge past the two-time PDC World Champion in a dramatic tie-break and book himself a place in the quarter-final. The most spectacular moment on the oche occurred in the 15th leg, with Bunting ahead 8-6 against Anderson in the first-to-11 contest. Having thrown eight perfect darts, Bunting needed just double 12 to secure a nine-dart finish. Despite the crucial nature of the leg, Anderson could be spotted behind Bunting, urging his rival to achieve the classic nine-dart finish that would have electrified the crowd. When Bunting's dart landed inside for a single 12 rather than the double, the Bullet placed both hands on his head and turned towards Anderson. The Musselburgh ace was grinning in anticipation of Bunting achieving perfection and gestured playfully with his hands and smiled when he missed the final dart. Reflecting on his nine-dart attempt, Bunting said: "It was close, to be fair. "If I had it back, I think it'd be further away! But I feel like I'm playing the best darts of my life. "Even in practice I'm hitting nines and constantly being on for the double. The game's in a great place." Bunting nearly threw away the leg when he squandered two attempts at a double on his subsequent visit, but finally clinched it with a double three. Following considerable back-and-forth action, Bunting secured a 12-10 triumph in the decider with a composed 112 checkout. The duo shared a heartfelt embrace at the conclusion of the match, with Anderson embracing and congratulating Bunting with a handshake. It represented a massive win for Bunting, who readily acknowledged he wasn't firing on all cylinders early in the contest. The world No. 4 said: "I'm not a village idiot anymore who comes here and has a laugh. I'm here to win this title. "I'd be fooling myself if I didn't believe I could win it. I know how good I can be – I've got three good games in the tank, and I've had a great season already." He added: "I think two years ago I'd have capitulated at 10-10. Now I've got that extra power to take a deep breath, relax, and get back to the oche and hit a big shot. "That mental strength is going to stand me in good stead – not just for this tournament, but for everything going forward."
Metro
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Billy Joel savagely slates 'half-assed' Beatles album
Billy Joel has slammed one of The Beatles most acclaimed albums (Pictures: Getty) Billy Joel has unexpectedly taken aim at The Beatles, calling one of their albums a 'collection of half-assed songs'. In 1968, five years after the release of their debut album Please Please Me, the Liverpudlian band dropped their self-titled album, which also came to become known as the White Album. The album featured 30 songs, including Blackbird, Helter Skelter and While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Topping record charts in Britain and the United States, the album has since been certified 24× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and labelled by some as one of the greatest albums of all time. However nearly 60 years on, one of the band's contemporaries Billy, 76, has made it clear he is not a fan. The White Album was written when the band – which included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – attended a Transcendental Meditation course in Rishikesh, India. The American singer said the band's 1968 The White Album was a 'collection of half-assed songs' (Picture: Angela Weiss/ AFP via Getty Images) The band's line up consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison (Picture: Jeff Hochberg/ Getty Images) Reflecting on the release Billy – best known for his 1973 song Piano Man – didn't mince his words. He suggested the Fab Four were 'too stoned' or 'didn't care anymore' when recording the string of songs. 'I hear it as a collection of half-assed songs they didn't finish writing because they were too stoned, or they didn't care anymore,' he said on Bill Maher's Club Random podcast, which was released this week. 'I think they had fragments and they put them on the album.' Win tickets to see Tom Jones and Sugababes at Camp Bestival worth £1,172 We've teamed up with Camp Bestival Dorset to give one lucky Metro reader and their family the chance to win family weekend tickets, worth up to £1,172! Created by families, for families, Camp Bestival combines all the fun of a fantastic family camping holiday with everything you would expect from a perfect and action-packed festival adventure. Headliners include music legend Sir Tom Jones, pop icons Sugababes, plus a carnival-filled live show from electronic music duo Basement Jaxx. Simply enter your details here to be in with a chance of winning four tickets to this epic experience. You have until midnight on 23 July to enter. Good luck! * Open to GB residents (excluding Northern Ireland) aged 18+. Promotion opens at 18:01 on 16/7/25 and closes at 23:59 on 23/7/25. Entrant must submit their first and last name, email address, date of birth and postcode when prompted via the entry form available on (available here). 1 prize available of a family weekend camping ticket, including two (2) adult tickets and up to four (4) child and/or teen tickets in any combination as chosen by the winner to attend Camp Bestival (Lulworth Castle, Dorset) from 31st July 2025 to 3rd August 2025. Maximum 1 entry per person. Attendance is governed by the Camp Bestival Terms and Conditions. Full T&Cs apply, see here. He went on to suggest that Lennon was 'disassociating at that point'. 'I think Paul was carrying the weight,' he said. The White Album was a critical and commercial success 'Sometimes they were more prolific and sometimes they weren't, and I hear that in some of those things.' During the recording of the album, the only Western instrument available to the band was an acoustic guitar, with the sound also scaled down and the band breaking with their tradition of incorporating several musical styles in one song. Lennon – who was killed in 1980 – once famously quipped that 'the break-up of The Beatles can be heard on that album'. The band split two years later. Meanwhile Sir Paul previously addressed criticism of the album, telling Radio Luxembourg: 'I'm not a great one for that whole, 'Y'know maybe it was too many of that'. What do you mean? It was great, it sold. It's the bloody Beatles White Album, shut up!' Before Billy slated one of The Beatle's most acclaimed releases, earlier this year Sir Paul spoke about his admiration of the singer-songwriter. Billy is best known for his 1973 hit Piano Man (Picture: Michael Putland/ Getty Images) Speaking in the Billy Joel: And So It Goes documentary, he spoke about wishing he had penned Billy's 1997 single Just the Way You Are. 'When I first heard Billy, it was like 'Oh, wait a minute. He's good. Who's this?',' he recalled. 'You know, like you do, your ears prick up. The song that really made me know that that was happening was Just the Way You Are. 'And where I get asked, 'Is there a song that you wish you'd written?'. And I always…that's the one I always say.' Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. Arrow MORE: Sir Tom Jones, 85, cancels gig hours before performance after sad health update Arrow MORE: Oasis reassures cheating fans they are 'safe' after Coldplay kiss-cam saga
Metro
3 days ago
- Metro
'I used a fake profile to hunt my aunt's murderer'
Lehanne Sergison was out for lunch with a friend when her phone buzzed with an international number. Assuming it was her aunt Christine, who lived in South Africa, she picked up, waiting to hear her cheerful Liverpudlian voice. 'Chris was adventurous and loved to travel,' Lehanne tells Metro from her London home. 'She loved to chat; she'd be next to somebody on the bus, and they'd know her whole life story. She was very much an open book.' Describing her aunt as 'warm and inspirational', while a little chaotic at times, Lehanne says that Chris, as she was known to family, was definitely someone who lived their life to the fullest. 'She was a great one for finding the good in life. She was fun-loving and had good energy,' Lehanne remembers. The popular school teacher had never had children of her own and so would treat Lehanne like the daughter she never had. 'I was very close with her,' she shares. So when a voice over the phone delivered the horrific news in 2014 that Chris had been raped, stabbed and strangled in her game lodge home in Thabazimbi, Lehanne was astounded. After making dazed calls to her family to let them know what happened, she later googled her aunt's name. Plastered across the internet was the excruciating reality that her lovely, generous aunt had been brutally murdered. Staff had found Christine Robinson's body on the floor, covered with a duvet and with a knife in her neck, and immediately called the police. Meanwhile, lodge gardener Andrew Ndlovu had vanished. Lehanne's first instinct was to travel from her London home to South Africa to help in some way. However, it wasn't possible as Lehanne, who hadn't flown for 20 years, was chronically ill with severe asthma, so she was in and out of the hospital. Instead, Lehanne, now 54, took to the phone, talking to the Foreign Office and the police, and was told that Ndlovu, who had fled over the border to Zimbabwe, would be caught. After three unsuccessful attempts from the South African judiciary to get an extradition order, weeks of waiting turned into months, and it started to look as if Ndlovu might get away with his terrible crime. South Africa is notoriously violent, and with detectives carrying an average of 300 cases each, eight out of ten murders remain unsolved. Growing increasingly frustrated, Lehanne, who was stuck at home after being medically retired from her job as a chartered surveyor, started to hunt online for any sign of the missing man. 'I followed him [on Facebook] for a while, but there wasn't a lot of activity. But then it turned out that he had three other accounts, and he was advertising on dating sites, quite crudely, saying he wanted a woman; any woman, of any colour, any age – and that sickened me,' she recalls. Frightened that Ndlovu could go on to commit more harm, Lehanne impulsively made a Facebook profile for a flirty, Christian air steward who she named 'Missy Falcao' — a combination of her two dogs' names. She liked his friends' posts, adding little comments, and befriending his contacts to build a history. Then she started liking his photos until one day she messaged him: 'Hello handsome. You've got sexy eyes.' Ndlovu replied: 'Thanks. Hey. You are one in a million.' 'I was elated that there was a contact, but anxious about what may come of it. Although it gave me hope that something could be done,' Lehanne explains. She struck up a relationship with the man, which sickened her to her core. Lehanne, as Missy, told him that she lived in Johannesburg, where Ndlovu had been spotted, and that she travelled a lot through work, implying that they might meet one day. 'I was very much, very freaked out by it. It was surreal. My husband, Simon, thought I was nuts and worried about the consequences, but I just persevered. My two focuses were obviously getting justice, but also not allowing him to hurt anybody else,' remembers Lehanne. She would chat to Ndlovu regularly, often at night. Every time he got in touch, calling her 'Princess' and asking her more about herself, Lehanne felt compelled to reply, fearful that she would lose him. But she hated it. 'It was sickening. Really quite disturbing. Often, it would result in nightmares, and they could be quite traumatic. I'm very good at boxing things away, but the emotion and the trauma came quite badly, and it was very vivid,' she recalls. 'All I wanted to do was tell him I knew who he was and what he had done, but I couldn't say that. It was frustrating. There was a whole raft of emotions involved.' To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Around six months after Lehanne had set up the Missy Falcao account, she told the Foreign Office about her amateur investigation, and they passed on the information to the consulate and the police in South Africa. But then she found Ndlovu's phone number online. With little happening, she got in touch with Detective Sakkie Louwrens, who had been on the case at the time of the murder, but had since retired and was working as a private detective. He offered to help Lehanne, contacting police officers and arranging an arrest. Ndlovu had told Lehanne that he lived in a dangerous area of Joburg, so the team needed to get the right resources together to make the arrest overnight. Leanne was excited, worried and hopeful – it was the first time something positive seemed to be happening in the investigation in months. However, once again, the trail went cold and officers were unable to trace Ndlovu. 'I contacted him a day or two later, and he said that his phone had been stolen,' says Lehanne. 'Everything fell away at that point, and it was frustrating. It was a long time getting there for it all to end up with nothing. Two days later, we continued the conversation, but he was getting frustrated because he wanted to speak to Missy and wanted to meet up.' With relief, Lehanne gave control of the Missy Falcao account to the South African police, who tried to organise another sting, but Ndlovu went quiet and stopped replying. For a third time, the trail went cold. As the years passed, Lehanne tried to get on with her life, believing that Ndlovu would never be brought to justice. That was until one day in 2020, on the sixth anniversary of Christine's death, when Lehanne hadn't been able to sleep and was trawling for information on Ndlovu on Facebook again. Glaring at the screen, she spotted a new image of him in front of a Ferris wheel in Johannesburg. Infuriated that he was still out there and living his life, Lehanne posted the picture on her aunt's memorial page, stating: 'This man is wanted for the rape and murder.' Within an hour of posting, Ian Cameron, who had been working on Christine's case as part of a civil rights organisation, got in touch. He asked Lehanne to send him the pictures that she'd collected and wrote his own post. From there, it went viral, with Ian's post being shared thousands of times. Within a few hours, a woman called Mellissa contacted Ian, saying Andrew worked for her husband and chillingly, was living on her family's property. Another attempt was made at an arrest, and this time, Lehanne watched the whole thing on Ian's FaceTime. 'It was quite distressing, and it became very real. While I was grateful for everybody's involvement, there was always that worry that it might not have been him. I was apprehensive. 'I also knew that in South Africa, even when people do get arrested, it doesn't mean it goes to trial because there's such a backlog. It was no foregone conclusion,' she explains. However, the terrified-looking suspect who held his hands up for the police was Ndlovu – also known as Andrea Imbayarwo, among other aliases. He looked like he'd seen a ghost in the illumination of the officers' torchlight, and when Ian Cameron asked if he knew why they were there, he simply replied, 'Yes'. Footage from the arrest shows him being handcuffed and taken away to a police car. More Trending Ndlovu pleaded not guilty, but in 2022, he was convicted and handed two life sentences for the rape and murder of Christine Robinson. Now, Lehanne is sharing her story in the documentary The Facebook Honeytrap: Catching a Killer to honour the memory of her 'amazing' aunt and to highlight the issue of femicide around the world. She tells Metro that she was relieved to have finally got justice for her aunt, who no longer had a voice. 'We were very lucky that we had a very good prosecutor and a female judge – we achieved justice,' she says. 'It was never going to bring Chris back, but the most important thing is that he couldn't do it again. I didn't want him to hurt anyone ever again.' The Facebook Honeytrap: Catching a Killer is out on Prime Video on 27 July View More » MORE: The reaction to Ulrika Jonsson's face has made me terrified of ageing MORE: Charli XCX has made smoking cool again – I wish she hadn't MORE: I'm 30 with no kids, but I'm absolutely obsessed with Bluey
Daily Mirror
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Love Island's Lucy finally admits truth over leaked voicenotes as she's confronted by Maya Jama
Love Island star Lucy Quinn has addressed the infamous voicenote that was leaked before she entered the ITV2 villa in which she seemingly laid out her plan to win. Lucy Quinn has finally addressed her viral voicenote following her exit from the Love Island villa. The makeup artist, 21, was dumped from the Island last week alongside Tommy Bradley but faced backlash when a message she had sent to a friend before entering the ITV2 reality show as a Bombshell was leaked. In the 37-second recording, fans heard her plan to couple up with Tommy - who at that point had just finished dating Megan Forte Clarke - as a supposedly guaranteed way to make it to the final, and was grilled by host Maya Jama on the incident during an appearance on Sunday's Aftersun. She explained: "So obviously, like, we probably have all done it, like, sent voice notes to friends and obviously, I really did trust that friend. So, with the Tommy situation, I was just saying that he's a very nice boy and, like, that's why I wanted to get to know him." Insisting that she did not intend for the message to come across as a game plan to win, she said: "I did say 'Til the end', but it weren't like, the final, obviously, I was meaning, like, I wanted to be with him in the future. Someone with really good morals and stuff like that. The Liverpudlian also used her airtime to insist that Tommy is a boy her father approved of, and profusely apologised to Megan, whom she had labelled a "f***king little slapper" but insisted she is not normally the type of person who would say that. She added: "And, also, before going on the show, my dad did say to me, like, 'He's the kind of boy I'd like you to bring home because he's just very respectful. And then, obviously, talking about Meghan as well, I should never have commented on someone who I've never met before. So I do really apologise about that, I'm actually not that type of girl. " Lucy claimed that the whole scandal has "been blown out of proportion" and that she didn't expect everyone to hear the voice note in the first place. In response, Maya told her: "That's definitely not a good friend, I hope you blocked her after that" and Lucy confirmed that she is no longer in contact with the person who leaked the voice note. In the original message, obtained by The Sun, Lucy is explained that her appearance on Love Island was likely to be happening within the next couple of days, and that she had been asked by producers to name her top three boys but only named Tommy. She said: "Because everyone loves him. I don't know if you've been watching it but that Megan's being sent home and I'm f**king made up. And she's being sent home because of the way she's treated Tommy. And do you know what, I'm made up that I've been watching it because I know how to act." Prior to Lucy's entrance into the villa, Megan, 24, herself entangled in a love triangle with Conor Philips despite being initially paired with Tommy Bradley, was seen locking lips with Conor on the terrace - later spilling to the other girls: "I kissed Conor on the terrace... I was like 'just f**king kiss me then... he was itching to do it." Following a dramatic confrontation, Tommy washed his hands of the romantic tug-of-war, leaving Conor free to pursue Megan - but fate had other plans as a surprise public vote saw her leave the villa soon after. In the days after her exit, Tommy became involved with Emily Moran before Lucy came on the scene Speaking candidly to Ode Entertainment post-villa life, Megan opened up about the tensions between herself, Tommy, and Conor, revealing an impulsive side she now regrets. On TikTok, the lass from Dublin divulged: "I wish I'd taken a breath", adding a frank admission: "You know when you hear something and you just see red, and I saw red for about four days." She lamented the poorly timed intervention by Conor, stating: "And then obviously while I was seeing red, Conor swooped in so it was just really bad timing. Of course, you only see the hour out of the 24." Confirming her and Tommy parted ways amicably, the musical theatre star stated: "When you see red like that, someone needs to sit you down and say like 'girl'." She elaborated: "I felt like the girls were seeing where I was coming from, so I think that's why I got more wound up."
The Irish Sun
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Love Island's Lucy reveals truth behind voicenote as she admits she DID send message to ex pal
LOVE Island's Lucy has finally revealed the truth behind the mystery voicenote that exposed her as a "gameplayer". The Sun revealed last week a where she as a surefire way to make the final. Advertisement 3 Lucy revealed the truth behind the voicenote that exposed her game plan Credit: Shutterstock Editorial 3 The Liverpudlian admitted she DID send it to an ex pal Credit: Shutterstock Editorial from the villa last Monday. The pair joined Maya Jama on Love Island Aftersun tonight to address the infamous voicenote that has gone viral on social media. Lucy explained: "So obviously, like, we've probably all done it... sent voicenotes to friends and obviously I really did trust that friend and with the Tommy situation, I was obviously saying he's a very nice boy and that's why I wanted to get to know him. "I did say till the end, but it weren't the final, I meant the end... I would like to be with him in the future. Advertisement READ MORE ON LOVE ISLAND "Someone with really good morals and also before going on the show, my dad did say to me he's the kind of boy he'd like me to bring home because he's very respectful." The Liverpudlian then apologised for her "rude" comments about Megan after she branded her a "f**king little slapper". Lucy continued: "Obviously to talk about Megan as well, I should never have commented on someone I'd never met before, so I do really apologise about that because I'm not that type of girl and it was very rude of me to do that as well." Tommy then tried to defend Lucy following the backlash she's since received. Advertisement Most read in News TV He told Maya: "You said as well, at the time, we're all just characters on the screen to her. "I know you were very excited to be going on one of the biggest reality show's in the country... emotions were high and you were speaking to one of your close friends. Watch Love Island Helena's fuming reaction as Harry rates ex Emma's kiss better than hers in saucy challenge "I think it's been blown out of proportion a little bit because I've said things to my friends in group chats, which if got leaked, it might have made me look like a bad person, but it's just to your mate, you never expect everyone to listen to it." Maya insisted: "That's definitely not a good friend, I hope you blocked her after that." Advertisement Lucy admitted she's no longer pals with the person who leaked it. The "So they said to me on Sunday they'll let me know for 100 percent, but looks like I'm f**king going on one of those days. So they were like, get your stuff packed basically. "I was like, I'm already packed love. They asked me for my top three boys. Advertisement "I said, Tommy, I want Tommy. I feel like if I'm with Tommy I feel like I'll get all the way to the end. "Because everyone loves him. I don't know if you've been watching it but that "And she's being sent home because of the "And do you know what, I'm made up that I've been watching it because I know how to act. Advertisement "Because she's being a f**king little slapper in there. "The public have voted her out. So I just need to be left a nice girl and just f**king stick with Tommy." Irish beauty The contestants then chose to evict her, along with Remell Mullins as the least popular boy. Advertisement After Casa Amor, Lucy walked into the main villa holding hands with smitten Tommy, who Emily was left shell-shocked having stayed loyal to Tommy and given a heartfelt speech in which she said she couldn't wait to see him. Tommy told the gathered Islanders how he had a better connection with Lucy; the pair had spent the past few days glued together sharing lots of kisses. Sheepish Lucy admitted it was difficult entering the villa in such a "s****y situation". Advertisement When host 3 Lucy apologised for her 'rude' comment about ex-Islander Megan Credit: Eroteme
